Use

You can access the capacity planning table from the planning table in repetitive manufacturing and use it for dispatching or deallocating planned orders, run schedule quantities and production orders.

The advantage of using the capacity planning table is that the system checks available capacity when dispatching the production quantities.

Integration

The capacity planning table is a key element of the Capacity Planning application.

Prerequisites

In Customizing for Capacity Planning, under capacity leveling, you must have defined the overall profile SAPREMG002. This is the standard profile used for setting up the capacity planning table. You can define your own user-specific profile under the user parameter KP2.

The profiles used for the capacity planning table must contain a profile for the capacity planning table and a strategy profile.

If you want to use the function, Rescheduling taking the production version into account, you must also set the indicator, Rescheduling in the strategy profile.

The overall profile is partially overwritten by the planning table. For example, you cannot select the grouping of charts as the capacity planning table has already been adjusted to work in parallel with the REM planning table.

Features

The production quantities entered in the planning table appear in the capacity planning table in the lower section of the screen from where they can be dispatched.

If a production line is overloaded, the system can automatically assign the production quantity to another production line taking the available production versions into account. The production quantity is then rescheduled using this new production line. Here, the production quantity is not dispatched to the new production line but remains in the pool.

Planned orders that you have already dispatched can be moved to another production line by selecting the bar that represents the planned order and then using the drag and drop technique. This rescheduling procedure triggers the system to search for the version that corresponds to the new production line. When you return to the REM planning table, the production quantity appears in the row of the newly assigned version.

Any changes you make in the capacity planning table are immediately reflected in the planning table and vice versa. You can switch from the one planning table to the other at any time.

For more information on dispatching and rescheduling planned orders taking the production version into account, refer to: Capacity Planning.