Understanding Available Capacity
You must determine how much production capacity the work centers have. You determine a work center's available capacity on a given day by entering resource units.
You can have the system generate resource units or you can enter them manually. Use the Work Center Resource Units Generation program to automatically recalculate the work center hours. The system generates resource units, based on an hour (HR) unit of measure. Revise units manually if you need to make adjustments.
You can assign resource units for different units of measure in different work centers. For example, you might want to estimate the square footage that you need to store items as well as the hours that you need to produce an item.
You can revise resource units manually if you need to make adjustments to them. For example, you might need to make adjustments to account for machine downtime or employee vacations. You can change the values on the Enter/Change Resource Units form to account for scheduled or unscheduled downtime, additional shifts, or vacation time.