Capacity Requirement Planning

in SAP PP: CM01, CM21

The main function of capacity planning is to check the load at
Work Center and do the capacity leveling i.e. balance the load at
Work Center. It helps to calculate the production capacity based
on the requirement of the product against the available capacity
of the work center.

 MRP works with infinite capacity and creates planned orders

at the Work Center at the same time since it assumes that
Work Center is available all the time. So, it creates planned
orders on the same date based on the requirements despite
capacity shortages. You can execute those orders on that
Work Center in the system which is not practically feasible in
the shop floor.
 The main objective of the capacity leveling includes leveling
overloads at Work Center and to achieve optimum utilization
of Work Centers.

 MRP generated planned orders are converted to production

orders which determine which Work Center is to be used,
and accordingly the capacity requirements are generated on
that Work Center.

 Capacity leveling at production order level is used for

detailed production planning purpose. This is done through
planning table which is used to carry detailed planning of
capacity requirements over time in future.

 The capacity load needs to be checked at Work Center, and

if it is overloaded, then we need to shift the orders ahead to
the same Work Center or plan it in different Work Center to
eliminate any capacity constraints.

In this tutorial- you will learn,

 How to check capacity loads

 How to do capacity leveling

How to check capacity loads

Capacity evaluation is used to analyse the load at Work Center,
and you can see the load % (in step 2), available capacities and
the requirements. You can also see the orders which have
generated capacity requirements.

Step 1) From SAP easy access screen, open transaction CM01.

1. Enter your manufacturing Plant for which you want to check

capacity load.

After filling in all the fields, click to go to the next screen.

Step 2) In this screen, the capacity situation at Work Center can

be seen.

1. Check the capacity requirement (generated from production

orders), available capacity (determined from Work Center
master data) and capacity load % at the Work Center.
How to do Capacity leveling
Capacity leveling is done through planning table, and you need to
dispatch the orders to the Work Center in the sequence in which
they are supposed to be processed at shop floor.

Step 1) From SAP easy access screen, open Transaction CM21

1. Input the plant for which you want to level capacity

After filling in all the fields, click execute button on top to go to

the next screen.

Step 2) In this screen, you can see orders pool at the bottom and
Work Center pool at the upper half of the screen in the planning
table.

1. Check the several orders in the orders pool.

 2. Check the list of Work Centers in Work Centers pool.

Step 3) In the same screen of planning table, select the data as

given below.

1. Select one order from orders pool.

2. Click on dispatch button to assign that order to the Work

Center.

Step 4) In the same screen,

 1. Check the dispatched order in the Work Center pool.
Similarly, you can dispatch the others orders to the Work
Center pool which would shift adjacent to the previously
dispatched orders.

This is how you can do the capacity levelling.

Troubleshooting

 Ensure that right control key with "capacity requirement"

indicator is placed in operation data in routing.
 Ensure that in the capacity tab of the Work Center, "finite
scheduling" indicator in flagged.