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CRP is a shorter term capacity planning tool than rough cut capacity planning (RCCP). Like RCCP, CRP is used by marketing and production to balance required and available capacity, and to negotiate changes to the master schedule and/or capacity requirements.

CRP is a more detailed capacity planning tool than rough cut capacity planning in that it considers scheduled receipts and on-hand inventory quantities when calculating capacity requirements. Your detailed capacity plans are therefore a statement of the capacity required to meet your net production requirements.

As with RCCP, you can perform detailed capacity planning at two levels. If you want to plan detailed capacity by resource, then you should use routing-based CRP. Required and available capacity are stated in hours per week per resource.

If you prefer to plan your detailed capacity by production line, use rate-based CRP. Required and available capacity are stated by production rate per week per line.

If you wish to use CRP, but would like to restrict the process to key or critical resources, you can define groups of selected resources and review CRP plans for specific resource groups only. You can define your resource groups in Oracle Capacity and Oracle Bills of Material. You can assign resources to resource groups in Oracle Bills of Material.

You can also create a routing for a product family item.