Capacity Planning in SAP PP – Reference guide

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

Contents of this Capacity Planning in SAP PP – Reference guide

Capacity Planning (PP-CRP)……..5
Calling up the Area Menu for Capacity Planning. 7
Capacity Planning (PP-CRP) …… 8
Available Capacity……. 10
Capacity Requirements ………… 12
Distribution of Capacity Requirements…… 14
Continuous and Discrete Distribution… 17
Distribution of Remaining Capacity Requirements ………. 19
Cumulation of Available Capacities and Capacity Requirements ……. 20
Static Cumulation ….. 21
Period Pattern Key … 23
Dynamic Cumulation 25
Cumulation of Available Capacities ….. 27
Reduction of Capacity Requirements…….. 29
Scheduling …. 31
Elements of Scheduling. 33
Scheduling Elements for Networks, Plant Maintenance Orders and Process Orders…………. 34
Elements of Scheduling for Planned Orders and Production Orders ………. 35
Duration of Operations .. 37
Operating Time…………. 38
How Scheduling is Carried Out … 39
Scheduling and Capacity Requirements Calculation ………… 40
Parameters for Scheduling and Calculating Capacity Requirements . 42
Scheduling Levels …. 43
Parameters for Detailed Scheduling …. 45
Reduction ……. 47
Scheduling Partially-Confirmed Operations ………… 49
Scheduling Log…………. 50

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