Capacity Requirements Planning helps to determine your company’s ability to meet manufacturing demand. Powerful inquiries allow users to view soft, firm and planned demand, allowing a detailed analysis of both actual and projected capacity requirements. In addition, changes can be made which immediately affect the production schedule. The CRP module can be used as both a long range planning tool as well as a short-term production scheduling aid.

Capacity Requirements Planning provides the summary information you need to spot situations where capacity is short or long, making it easier for you to shift production and manage resources efficiently. Multiple views allow you to analyze machine, work center, and department capacities. Extensive capabilities exist to drill down into detailed scheduling data including orders making up the demand, as well as analysis of bottlenecks. Alternate routings allow automatic calculation of "available to promise" (ATP) dates for easy bottleneck resolutions.

The Finite Capacity Scheduler creates a finite capacity schedule based on the planned capacity stated in the shop calendar for each work center. The job selection rules are used to determine the order in which shop orders are loaded into the schedule. The shop orders can be sorted according to Due Date, Critical Ratio, or Priority job selection rules.

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