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Function documentationDefinition of Capacity Profiles

 

The capacity profile provides you with an overview of the available capacity of a handling resource per day from the current date to the end of the resource’s validity period for the following capacities:

  • Standard available capacity

  • Capacity variants

Prerequisites

If you want the capacities from capacity variants to be displayed in the capacity profile, you have to specify capacity variants for handling resources. For more information, see Creating Capacity Variants.

Features

You can manually change the standard available capacity for selected resources without having to define a new shift or a new interval in the capacity variant if, for example, the working time or the rate of resource utilization varies for individual days. The system saves these changes to the database in a capacity profile for the standard available capacity or for the selected capacity variant.

If, for example, you change the standard available capacity by changing the shift the system adjusts all unchanged data in the capacity profile. All variants entered manually are retained.

As soon as a capacity profile for the standard capacity or for the capacity variant exists in the database, the system takes the variants defined there into consideration - instead of the corresponding capacity – when determining the valid capacity.

Note Note

Depending on the validity period defined for the resource and the number of shifts, the overview may contain a large number of entries.

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Activities

Displaying the Capacity Profile

By choosing Capacity Profile on the Display Resources: Header Data screen, you can call an overview of the standard available capacity, and the available capacity generated from the capacity variants.

Changing the Available Capacity of a Shift

If you want to change the available capacity of a shift, proceed as follows:

  1. In the capacity profile, choose the Shifts (Change Shifts) pushbutton.

    A dialog box appears in which you can specify the period and shift for which you want to change the available capacity.

    Note Note

    You can also mark the period on the calendar. The system then automatically marks the corresponding shifts in the overview. The marked period is also shown in the dialog box.

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  2. Enter the changed capacity in the Available Capacity group box.