Capacity Evaluation (PP-CRP-ALY)

Purpose

You can use capacity evaluations to analyze capacity loads in your company. You can adjust the analyses for each user according to the planning level, planning horizon and the area of responsibility. Available capacities and capacity requirements can be selected according to various criteria and cumulated using any period split you choose.

You can use work center hierarchies to cumulate the available capacities of production work centers and their capacity requirements to superior planning work centers.

Integration

The capacity evaluation is a part of the component Capacity Planning.

Features

You can execute various evaluations in the capacity evaluation online or in batch.

You get an overview of the load situation of selected work centers using the standard overview .
You can use the detailed capacity list to display the orders that cause the capacity requirements at work centers.
You can use the variable overview to display any capacity planning data you wish.

The various evaluations can be displayed both in tabular and graphical form. The SAP Gantt diagram gives you an overview of the dates of the operations at a work center.

From all of the evaluation lists you can either display or change work centers and capacities . From the detailed capacity list you can also process orders and confirmations and display stock/requirements lists .
You can use the EXCEL interface to export the evaluation lists and continue working with Microsoft Excel .

Constraints

In the capacity evaluation you can display the planned capacity requirements and the remaining capacity requirements.

You cannot display the following capacity requirements in the capacity evaluation.

Actual capacity requirements
Split capacity requirements that are assigned to individual capacities of a capacity
SOP requirements

You can display this data in the extended evaluation . However there are no change function available in the extended evaluation, for example changing work centers and orders.