Capacity Planning (PP-CRP) 

Purpose

The economic use of resources is an objective for many areas of a company. The component "Capacity Planning" is available in the R/3 System for this purpose.

Capacity planning supports planning in all its phases:

  • long-term rough-cut planning
  • medium-term planning
  • short-term detailed planning

Integration

Capacity planning is integrated in the following applications:

  • Sales and Distribution (SD)
  • Production Planning and Control (PP)
  • Sales & Operations Planning (PP-SOP)
  • Requirements Planning (Master Production Scheduling and Material Requirements Planning PP-MRP/MPS)
  • Long-term Planning (PP-LTP)
  • Shop Floor Control (PP - SFC)
  • Repetitive Manufacturing (PP-REM)
  • Process Industries (PP-PI)
  • Plant Maintenance (PM) and Service Management (SM)
  • Project System (PS)

Capacity planning can be flexibly adjusted to planning demands and to the area of responsibility within the company.

Features

Capacity planning comprises the following partial components:

  • Capacity evaluation

In the capacity evaluation, available capacity and capacity requirements are determined and compared with each other in lists or graphics.

  • Capacity leveling

The objectives of capacity leveling are:

    • Optimal capacity commitment
    • Selection of appropriate resources

In most applications, you can use two types of planning table (graphical and tabular versions) to display the capacity situation and to carry out capacity leveling.

In some applications such as Repetitive Manufacturing (PP-REM) or Sales and Operations Planning (PP-SOP), there are application-specific planning tables for capacity leveling.