Reducing Split Capacity Requirements 

Use

Generally capacity requirements are reduced in a (partial) confirmation of an operation or of the splits.

Splits are partial capacity requirements of an operation, that are assigned to individual capacities or people. Capacity requirements can be split in:

  • Production orders
  • Maintenance orders
  • Networks

Scope of functions

The confirmation can take place for a capacity category for individual splits using the split number. You should take the following points into consideration:

  • Summary confirmation of splits is possible in percentage terms. However, that is only the case for splits that have not already been partly or wholly confirmed. If a split has been partly confirmed manually then a further confirmation can only take place manually. If you cancel the confirmation of the manually partly or wholly confirmed splits then they can be confirmed again using a summary confirmation.
  • The capacity requirements of the splits that have not been partly or wholly confirmed are reduced when the operation is finally confirmed. This is useful, for example, for splits with very small capacity requirements where a confirmation would mean too much work.
  • If the requirements of the operation are only partly distributed on splits then the reduction of capacity requirements of the splits occurs when the split is confirmed. The remaining requirements that were not distributed to splits are only reduced when the operation is confirmed.

If an operation has capacity requirements of 10 hours and if 4 hours each are allocated to two individual capacities then the capacity requirements (2 hours) that have not been allocated are reduced when the operation is confirmed. The reduction of the capacity requirements of the individual capacities (2 times 4 hours) takes place when the individual capacities are confirmed.

  • In Customizing for work centers you can specify, depending on the capacity category, whether the capacity requirements of the operation are to be reduced when the splits are confirmed. To do this use the indicator "Actual values not updated when confirming ind. capacity". If the indicator is set then only the capacity requirements of the splits are reduced. If it is not set then both the capacity requirements of the splits and the requirements of the operation are reduced.
  • If the indicator "Actual values not updated when confirming ind. capacity" is not set, then when the splits are confirmed both the actual values of the split as well as those of the operation are updated. You should take account of the fact that in this case with standard value splits the quantity
    • should either be confirmed only for one split or
    • is not confirmed for any of the splits, but instead there is an additional confirmation of the operation for the quantity.

When the quantity is confirmed both in the individual splits and in the operation, the confirmed quantities are added together. That has the following consequences:

    • because the quantity confirmed was too large, the capacity requirements were reduced too much
    • too many components were taken during the backflush
    • Too many items were posted as inward stock movement during automatic goods receipt posting