SAP HELP R/3 4.70 extracts: PP-CRP

 Planning in Non-Work Periods 

Use

You can use this function in the capacity planning table to dispatch operations in non-work periods (for example, breaks, weekends, holidays) without first having to change the available capacity at the work centers.

During dispatching the system ignores the calendar, operating times and available capacities in the work centers and instead uses the following data:

Prerequisites

If you want to use this function, set the indicator Planning in non-work periods in the strategy profile.

You should not use Planning in non-work periods for planning with the capacity planning table: If you, for example, activate planning for the capacity planning table with periodic-continuous layout in non-working times, operations can be dispatched in non-working times. By using this layout, only the available capacities that correspond to regular working times are displayed. In addition, the system can only distribute the capacity requirements of an operation over the regular working times when it uses a

distribution on the basis of operating time.

Activities

You have to fix dispatched operations in non-work periods by using the appropriate user status if you want to use the functions Insert operation or Close gaps. Otherwise these functions with take the operations dispatched to non-work periods and move them to normal work periods.

You can define a user status in Define user profile in Customizing for production orders or in Maintain user status in Customizing for plant maintenance.