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Capacity Planning

Capacity planning is done to balance the workload across work centers. It involves calculating production capacity based on product requirements and available capacity. The workload on each work center is monitored, and if any work center is overloaded, orders can be moved to different work centers. An example is provided of checking the capacity of work center PDLINE1 using transactions CM01 and CM05 to view overloaded days. Capacity leveling takes place through a planning table (CM21) to plan capacity requirements over time. Orders can be manually dispatched to different time periods to reduce overlapping and overloads below 100% capacity.

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Capacity Planning

Capacity planning is done to balance the workload across work centers. It involves calculating production capacity based on product requirements and available capacity. The workload on each work center is monitored, and if any work center is overloaded, orders can be moved to different work centers. An example is provided of checking the capacity of work center PDLINE1 using transactions CM01 and CM05 to view overloaded days. Capacity leveling takes place through a planning table (CM21) to plan capacity requirements over time. Orders can be manually dispatched to different time periods to reduce overlapping and overloads below 100% capacity.

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12/2/2021 Capacity Planning

Documentation

Natani, Saikrishna
ITELLIGENCE AG
Capacity Planning
Capacity planning is done to balance the load at the work center. You can calculate the production
capacity based on the requirement of the product as per the available capacity.

You need to check the capacity load on the work center. If any work center is overloaded, we need to
move orders to different work centers.

Example -

There are 3 Finished materials FGTEST-1, FGTEST-2 & FGTEST-3. All 3 materials use Work Center PDLINE1.
The Capacities of work center PDLINE1 is as follows,

Planned Independent requirements are created for all 3 FG materials as follows and MRP was run.
It created Stock/Requirements list for FGTEST-1 as follows,

We can see the scheduling in Detailed Scheduling tab in planned order.

As the Scheduling type is backwards the Scheduling happens backwards from End date. Since the
requirement is for 12.02.2021. The End date is determined as 24:00:00 on 11.02.2021 and since it requires
11.83 H to complete it the start time is determined as 12:40:00 on 11:02:2021.
We can see the load on Work Center using transaction code “CM01”

We can see it daily by changing settings in to Day format.


We can select one date and click on “Cap details/period” to see what is causing overload on that particular
date. On 11.02.2021 requirements are as follows,

Requirements are 29 H and Available capacity is only 24H hence the overload.
We can use Transaction Code CM05 to see only overload days of particular Work center or of any work
center in a particular plant.
Capacity Leveling
Capacity leveling takes place for detailed production planning purpose. This is done through a planning
table used for detailed planning of capacity requirements over time in future.

Planning Table (CM21)

We can select work center, plant and work center category. In Settings we select monthly, weekly, daily
and even hourly split.

Hourly Split for work center PDLINE1 is as follows

As you can see there are three orders which are being planned at same time hence the overload. The
timings for order 13297 are shown below,
Now we need to select orders and click on dispatch. Which will move them upper row. From there we can
move the orders to any time we need though we can’t move in to past date.

Now if we check the order the dates will be changed as follows and capacity dispatched indicator will be
turned on in Firming. Now if we run MRP again this order will not be changed.

Similarly, we can dispatch all the orders one after other so that there will be no overlapping of any orders.
This will reduce the load to less than 100%.

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