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Procedure

You assign a production line to the production version of a material by specifying a production line when creating the production version in the material master record.

Capacity planning can be carried out for various levels of planning:

  • Detailed planning

    Detailed level for the individual work centers on the production line

  • Rate-based planning

    Aggregated for the production line

  • Rough-cut planning

In the production version fields, you define which routing is to be used for which planning level.

In the planning table of repetitive manufacturing, you can only display the values for detailed planning or the values for rate-based planning. You can plan several planning levels at the same time, however, you should note that this procedure is very performance intensive.

In contrast, detailed planning is significant for the Reporting Point Backflush.Therefore, you must define the routing or rate routing to be used in the line for detailed planning. However, the system has been set so that it will use the routing from the rate-based planning line if it does not find any routing in the detailed planning line.

Note Note

Generally speaking, in repetitive manufacturing, only one production line is used for the production of a material.However, you can use several production lines in parallel. If a material is actually produced on several production lines, you must select one production line for which line the system is to carry out capacity planning. Usually the bottleneck line is chosen.

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For more information about capacity planning and capacity leveling from the point of view of Repetitive Manufacturing, see Capacity Planning.