Capacity levelling

Agenda
• General information
• Overall objective of capacity levelling
• Planning table in tabular form
• Capacity levelling procedure
• Current issues
 General information
• Functionality available on DE1 100 with CR
DE1K968808 INC0187705: FMM Capacity
levelling
• A couple of issues in place to have a basic
functionality
• Business reference is Vittorio Bossio –
Production planner in FFI
 Overall objective of capacity levelling
• The overall objective of this function is
leveling overloads and underloads at work
centers
 Planning table in tabular form
• Select custom overall profile ZFOX_FMM
designed togheter with Vittorio Bossio with T-
code CM25

• Select work center to be checked

Planning table in tabular form: Work center area

Work center code and Period

description
WC available capacity in minutes

Scheduled: production orders levelled (or dispacthed)

Pool/ Rqmts.: production orders not levelled (or dispatched)

In such a case wc available capacity = 540 MIN and requirements are 1637,6 MIN
OVERLOAD
 Planning table in tabular form: requirements area

Production of 100 PC of item 110.0285.791 with PO 2670202 will take 445 MIN
 Capacity levelling
• Since MRP propose requirements without
taking into account limited capacity of a work
center (e.g. 8H), it can be OVERLOAD
 Capacity levelling
• Select the list of requirements to be «dispatched»,
start date and press «Dispatch» button
 Capacity levelling
• After dispatching scheduled time will be
always less then 540 MIN (available capacity)
 Capacity Levelling
• It can be required to assign a user defined
sequence
Capacity Levelling
 Capacity levelling
• Custom Dispatch sequence is: sequence/start
date/prod.order
Capacity Levelling

Desiderata sequence

Scheduling according
to the sequence
 Current issues
Today only 2 issues. After those are fixed it’s
possible to release a basic capacity levelling
functionality
• Entire capacity is not saturate
• Automatic sequence assignment based on
production start date with user exit (oldest
production order with 001 etc.)
Entire capacity is not saturate

On 13/10 are available 540

MIN and 2 production
orders to be scheduled

Out of 540 MIN only 445

MIN are allocated on 13/10.
The remaining 95 MIN are
not used
Automatic sequence assignment
The sequence number
should be assigned
automatically based on
production order start date
and start time. After that,
production planner can
change manually