Capacity Planning

By Prabhakar Reddy

Capacity Planning& Process

Capacity Planning is the process of determining the
production capacity to meet product demands.
Capacity Evaluation:
Capacity evaluation is used to analyze capacity loads and
Available capacity and capacity requirements will be compared
with each other.
Capacity Leveling:
Capacity leveling function is used to Level overloads and under
loads at work centers to achieve optimum commitment .

Master Data Required For Capacity Planning

Material Master & BOM.
List of raw materials required

Work center.
Where all operations are carried out.

Routing.
List of operations required to produce a finish product.

Factory calendar .
To calculate available capacity.

Imp. T-Codes in Capacity Planning

CR01 MM01 CA01 OP03 MD04 -

Create Work Center

Create Material
Create Routing
Maintain factory calendar
Display Stock/Requirements Situation

Capacity Evaluation
CM01 - Work center load
CM02 - Work center orders
CM03 - Work center pool
CM04 - Work center backlog
CM05 - Work center overload
CM07 - Variable access
Capacity Levelling
CM50 - Work Center list
CM21 -Leveling Planning table
CM27 - Individual capacity graph

Capacity Planning for

our Requirement
Capacity Planning is the process of determining the
production capacity to meet product demands.
Capacity Evaluation:
Capacity evaluation is used to analyze capacity loads and
Available capacity and capacity requirements will be compared
with each other.
Capacity Leveling:
Capacity leveling function is used to Level overloads and under
loads at work centers to achieve optimum commitment .