Capacity Planning Using Personnel in the Planning Table
Use
In the section of the screen entitled
Capacity data
, you can also display rows showing the
minimum
and
maximum number of employees
required per period.
The system then displays the number of employees you assigned in the routing or in the master recipe.
Prerequisites
In Customizing for Repetitive Manufacturing in the IMG activity
Maintain row selection
, you must set the indicator for the display of the maximum / minimum number of personnel.You must define the number of personnel required for an operation in the operation or sub-operation of the routing or in the phase or secondary resource of the master recipe.
Features
This function is clarified in the following example :
A production line works two shifts per day – from 6.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. and from 2.00 p.m. to 10.00 p.m. Two employees work in each shift. Three orders with the following data are to be produced:
Operation 1:
Duration 12 hours, requirement in number of personnel = 1, requirement in personnel hours = 12
Operation 2:
Duration 4 hours, requirement in number of personnel = ½, requirement in personnel hours = 2
Operation 3:
Duration 4 hours, requirement in number of personnel = 1, requirement in personnel hours = 4
Planning table display
All displays refer to one period. The period may be
month
,
day
or
shift
. You may choose an alternative to the time unit "hours".
Display:
Shift |
1 |
2 |
Available capacity in hours |
16 |
16 |
Capacity requirements in hours |
14 |
4 |
Load in % referring to available capacity and requirements in hours |
87,5 |
25 |
Minimum capacity requirements in number of employees |
1 |
0 |
Maximum capacity requirements in number of employees |
2,5 |
1 |
In this display, you can see that the total requirements in shift 1 can be covered, however, at certain times, there is not enough personnel available.