Executing Capacity Leveling from the Material View 

  1. In the screen displaying the results of single-item planning or interactive single-item planning, choose Goto →   Capacity planning →   Capacity leveling →   For material.

You reach the dialog box Settings for capacity planning, if you have not previously specified parameters for capacity planning.

  1. Select the desired planning type and the period type for capacity planning. Choose a view period, if necessary. Press the function key Continue .

The system determines the work centers and the capacity categories affected and schedules them according to the chosen planning type.

  1. If errors arose during scheduling, you get an overview of the scheduling errors relating to the planned order in the dialog box Scheduling errors. From here, you can directly check the details of the scheduling errors in the scheduling log. To do this press the function key Log .
  2. Press the function key Continue. You branch to capacity leveling.

The system displays the capacity situation for one work center and one capacity category as well as the capacity unit from the work center. Note the following: If a planning work center is entered in the routing on the detail screen for the routing header then this work center is displayed first of all with the relevant capacity category, otherwise the selection takes place arbitrarily.
Besides, the system displays the following data:

    • material number, short text and plant of the material to be processed
    • the available capacity
    • the overall capacity requirements at the work center selected
    • the capacity requirements of the material

the system highlights periods with overload.