Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP) and Work Center Scheduling Features and Functions

• User-defined parameters for CRP runs


• Calculates CRP by contract or project


• Determines CRP by department, based on orders


• Infinite capacity loading and forward scheduling logic


• Finite capacity loading and backward scheduling logic


• Capacity calculations for machine and labor hours include future changes


• Cellular manufacturing calculations


• Maintains loads prior to manufacturing horizon


• Load requirements can be viewed by order and operation, in real time


• Customized views of order loads (planned, allocated, or released)


• User-defined load reporting and inquiry periods


• Released and planned orders and repetitive schedules are used to recalculate loads via back scheduling


• Work center load requirements displayed graphically


• Loads displayed by order type


• Capacity-load ratios for labor, machine, or set up


• Available hours or percent capacity display


• Cumulative available hours or percent capacity display


• Work center, department, and plant summaries


• Production requirements segmented into planned, firm planned, and released order categories


• Pegs calculated load


• Records partially completed items


• Creates load level what-if scenarios to measure load impact on production


• Creates load to capacity what-if scenarios


• Customizable planning periods and horizons


• Manufacturing calendar can be overridden for specific load centers


• More than one machine can be grouped and defined as a work center


• Work center load hours calculated for orders in progress


• Load hours are scheduled at a work center based on impending work/orders status


• Determines load capacities by machine utilization and labor efficiency


• User-defined CRP report horizons


• Uses order released rules to create due dates for unreleased orders


• Time period is used to calculate work center capacities


• Calculates date effectivity


• Work center resources can be included in CRP calculations


• Creates a resource profile with revision tracking


• Resources by work center or group


• Load reporting and inquiry (detailed and summary)


• Detailed load inquiries by planned, allocated, and released work orders


• Drill-down inquiries on load, by work center and time period


• Generates and summarizes horizontal reports on work center loads


• Generates detailed vertical reports on work center loads


• Work center data reports


• Generates reports on CRP batch options and parameters


• CRP report


• Generates summary or detail reports


• Generates detailed reports on load inquiries


• Generates reports on planned incoming orders and actual output of a work center


• Work center parameters can be set online


• Work center schedules include detailed load center sequencing and descriptions


• Work center schedule views include work order or operation number, item number, and item quantity


• Work center schedule includes order status, including released, in progress, and on hold


• Work center schedules include previous and next load center information


• Work center schedule includes tool information


• Work center schedules include load summaries and backlog


• Work center schedules displays capacity and resources by project


• Multiple UOM for scheduled quantities


• Categorizes work center schedules into groups


• Planner can stipulate the time horizon in the schedule


• Forward scheduling


• Back scheduling


• Combines forward and back scheduling


• Schedules particular orders via individual load centers


• Calculates average queue length and deviation


• Reschedules and deschedules tasks


• Sequencing based on start or due date


• Sequencing uses priority codes as well as start and due dates


• Queue compression used in sequencing


• Critical ratio is used to sequence work order operations


• Groups operation sequences


• Online sequencing modifications


• Work orders and work centers are displayed in a Gantt chart


• Displays current and expected capacity utilization by work center


• Queue management and input/output reporting parameters can be set online


• Reports on queue compression percentage by work center


• Displays planned queue against backlog (expressed in days) by load center, department, and plant


• Input/output analysis reports


• Generates reports on work center schedules


• Queue management reports


• Tracks part status via routing for products produced in-house and sub-contract parts