This document provides an overview of capacity planning in SAP PP. It discusses key capacity planning elements like available capacity, capacity requirements, capacity evaluation, and capacity leveling. Available capacity represents the work a resource can perform per day, while capacity requirements are calculated from planned order dates and quantities. Capacity evaluation compares requirements to available capacity. Capacity leveling aims to address shortfalls or overloads by dispatching operations to resources with sufficient capacity and achieving optimal loading. The document outlines how capacities and requirements are maintained and calculated in SAP PP.

1. Capacity Planning
SAP PP

2. Agenda: Capacity Planning
Capacity Planning Overview
Capacity Planning Elements
Settings for Capacity Planning
Maintaining available Capacity
Capacity Evaluation
Capacity Leveling
Mass Processing
Capacity Reduction

3. Capacity Planning Overview

4. Capacity Planning Overview
 A capacity availability check is not performed with Material Requirements
Planning (MRP).
 Capacity Planning must be executed separately in a second step.
 Master data, planned orders and production orders provide data that can be
used to represent available capacities and capacity requirements.
 The available capacity is a measure of the work that a capacity can perform per
workday.
 The capacity requirement is a measure of the work required by the individual
orders at a capacity at a certain point in time.
 Capacity requirements are created when the planned orders or production
orders are created.
 In the Capacity evaluations, these requirements can be compared with the
available capacities.
 In the Capacity leveling, capacity shortfalls and overloads can be leveled.You
can use alternative suitable resources for or you can use the sort criteria to plan
optimal loading.

5. Capacity Planning Elements
 The available capacity represents the capacity available for
production at a work center or resource.
 You can schedule the sequence of operations to determine the
times for the capacity requirements.
 To calculate the capacity requirements, the system uses formulas
containing the dates and quantities for production requirements.
 Capacity evaluation gives you an overview of the load and the
production requirements.
 Capacity leveling allows you to achieve optimal planning and an
optimal load.
 Capacity reduction occurs when operations are confirmed or order
quantities are reduced or cancelled.

6. Maintaining Available Capacities
 The available capacity is the work that can be done by a capacity
at a work center per working day.
 You can store the operating time and the daily available capacity
at a work center in a capacity in the work center.
 You identify a capacity at the work center using the capacity
category.
 Various capacity categories can be assigned to the work center, for
example, a machine capacity or a labor capacity, but each capacity
category can only be assigned once.
 The available capacity (see figure below) is determined by:
 Work start and work finish
 Length of breaks
 Rate of capacity utilization
 Number of individual capacities which the capacity consists of

7. Maintain Available Capacity

8. Capacity Requirement Calculation

9. Capacity Evaluation
 In the capacity evaluations, the capacity requirements are
compared with the available capacity.
 Capacity evaluation has to:
 Determine the available capacity
 Determine the capacity requirement
 Compare the available capacity with the capacity requirement
 The standard overview periodically compares the available
capacity with the capacity requirements for the selected work
centers for each capacity category.
 The loads and remaining available capacity are also listed.

10. Capacity Leveling
 In capacity leveling, capacity shortfalls and overloads can be
leveled.You can use alternative suitable resources for processing
or you can use the sort criteria to plan optimal loading.
 The main function of capacity leveling is to dispatch operations.
 Operations are dispatched in order to fix them at a point in time
when there is sufficient capacity for them to be carried out.
 The objectives of capacity leveling include:
 Leveling overloads and under loads at work centers
 Achieving optimum commitment of machines and production lines
 Selection of appropriate resources

11. Capacity Leveling

12. Tabular Capacity Planning Table

13. Dispatching

14. Capacity Reduction
Capacity requirements are reduced or deleted by order
confirmations, setting orders to one of the “Lock” or “Technical
completion” status, or by setting the deletion indicator.

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