SNP Bucket Capacity 

Use

You define the capacity data and planning parameters for the bucket resources, vehicle resources, and mixed resources on this tab page. These data form the basis for planning in Supply Network Planning (SNP).

Features

SNP Available Bucket Capacity

You can determine the available bucket capacity of mixed resources and vehicle resources from the time-continuous capacity, specify a loss factor, or determine the capacity using certain parameters. You can only define the available bucket capacity for bucket resources using parameters.

You display the input fields of these capacity parameters by choosing the setting Maintain in the Bucket Definition field.

●     Dimensions in which the resource is planned (bucket-oriented), such as time.

●     Period type, such as day

●     Bucket capacity

Here you enter the number of days in the bucket, for example.

●     Rate of resource utilization

●     In the case of transportation resources, you specify the measurements or the volume of the resource.

Planning Parameters

Planning Parameters	Meaning	Resource Types
Overload (in %)	Percentage by which the resource load can exceed the resource capacity. The system interprets any resource load above this percentage as a resource overload and generates an alert if necessary.	●     Single-Mixed Resources ●     Multimixed Resources ●     Bucket Resources ●     Transportation Resource
Minimum utilization (%)	Percentage by which the capacity load can fall below the resource capacity.	●     Single-Mixed Resources ●     Multimixed Resources ●     Bucket Resources ●     Transportation Resource
Planning on grid	Activities must begin at the start of a bucket.	●     Single-Mixed Resources ●     Multimixed Resources ●     Bucket Resources ●     Transportation Resource
Cross-period activities	Activities on the resource can start in one bucket (for example, on one day) and end in another (for example, on another day).	●     Single-Mixed Resources ●     Multimixed Resources ●     Bucket Resources ●     Transportation Resource
Cross-period lot size	SNP optimization executes cross-period lot size planning on this resource.	●     Single-Mixed Resources ●     Bucket Resources

Cross-period

●     You can display the available capacity of the SNP bucket capacity by choosing the Bucket Capacity function key. The system creates a list that displays the available capacity for each bucket in hours.

●     You can display the source of the available capacity using the  function key.