Perform Capacity Requirements Planning

Explanation

Use this function to start calculating the expected future workload of machines and production groups. You can perform CRP for one site at a time or for all sites to which you have access.

Prerequisites

• The manufacturing plan from MRP or PMRP must already be complete.
• You must have entered the work centers you want to work with, specified the unit of measure in which their capacity is measured, and specified their actual capacity.
• You must have specified if operation scheduling is done with or without parallel operations.
• You must make sure the shop calendar is up to date. CRP makes sure that the workload is planned for only those days included in the shop calendar. Only workdays should exist in the shop calendar, so weekends and holidays are not counted in CRP.

System Effects

The result from CRP is presented as the total workload per day and work center.

Window

Perform CRP

Related Window Descriptions

Perform CRP

Procedure

You can execute CRP either by direct execution (Procedure A) or by scheduling the task to execute as a background job (Procedure B). 

Procedure A:

1. Enter the site for which you want to run CRP in the Site field. Use the List of Values for accessible sites. If you leave the field blank, CRP is run for all sites to which you have access.
2. If you want to stop the CRP process when an error occurs, you can select the Stop CRP On Error check box.
3. Click OK.

Procedure B:

Click Schedule to open the New Database Task Schedule window. Set the scheduling parameters as desired and save. Scheduled tasks can be seen in Scheduled Database Tasks window