Resource Requirements Plans

When you generate a resource requirements plan, the system creates a time series that displays the load during each planning period for a work center. If you organize several work centers as a dispatch group according to common functions, similar operations, or steps in a routing, you can view the group to see how the production plan affects the capacity of the work centers as a group.

You can review summaries of each period to determine the load that is placed on a work center by each item or order. You can also review messages for each work center and delete, clear, or the hold messages.

If the system encounters over-capacity or under-capacity conditions, you can review the plan and identify the periods or work centers in which the conditions occur. You might have to adjust the forecast or capacity, and then generate the resource requirements plan again.