Capacities can be created and edited in work centers (work center capacity)or independently (for example pooled capacities)
Capacity data is maintained on the following screens:
- Capacity overview (only for work center capacities)
- Header
- Interval of available capacity
- Available capacity profile
You can use Goto to switch between these screens.
As long as you do not save the capacity data, you can go back to the original state by resetting a capacity .
Initial Steps - Work Center Independent Capacity
- In the Work centers area menu choose Capacity → Create or Change.
The Initial screen appears.
- Enter either a work center capacity (only possible in change mode) or a work center independent capacity.
- Choose Enter.
The header screen appears
Initial Steps - Work Center Capacity
- In Work center maintenance choose Goto → Capacity → Overview.
The Capacity Overview screen appears.
Capacity Overview Screen
The Capacity Overview screen is only available in work center maintenance
Here
- assign or delete capacity categories to/from work center capacities
- you edit formulas for capacity categories so that the system can calculate capacity requirements

If you do not specify a formula, no capacity requirements are calculated during capacity planning
- you maintain the distribution key for capacity requirements.
- you can assign pooled capacities to capacity categories, if required.
Header Screen
Here
- you choose the capacity category to edit by choosing Goto → Another cap. cat.
- you determine whether a work center independent capacity should be a pooled capacity
- you maintain the standard avaialble capacity and planning details for capacity planning
- you maintain links to individual capacities or HR objects, for example people
- you determine the active version of the available capacity
Interval of Available Capacity Screen
Here
- you display standard available capacities and existing intervals of available capacity
- you can maintain further alternative available capacities in different available capacity versions, using intervals of available capacity.
- you change shifts or shift sequences in the intervals of available capacity .
- you can determine the available capacity for a capacity by cumulation (only for work center capacities).
Available Capacity Profile Screen
Here
- the available capacities of the various capacity categories or available capacity versions are displayed as a list.
- you can display graphically the available capacities in a available capacity version

