Creating Rough Cut Capacity Planning
Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCP) is a long term process that helps planners verify that the required capacity is available to meet production priorities.
Advanced Manufacturing RCP evaluates production demand against resource availability to report work center percentage use over a planning period. It can also compile data over that period to report on a work center’s remaining capacity and labor and equipment resource demand estimates.
RCP plans reflect supply and demand based on the NetSuite data at a specified time. Plans can then be modified to create scenarios that show how revisions affect the outcome around changes in supply, demand, or both. For more information, see Creating Manufacturing Work Centers or Groups.
To create a new RCP plan:
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Go to Advanced Manufacturing > Capacity Planning > Capacity Planning.
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Click Create Plan.
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Select the Location you want to create this plan for.
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Enter a descriptive Plan Name. This field does not support special characters.
For example, Planned Production Wk23.
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Select a Plan Type from the list to establish demand by evaluating:
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Work Orders – Open work orders in planned or released status.
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Sales Orders – Open sales orders.
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Demand Plan – The active defined demand plan.
If you select sales orders or demand plan, capacity planning does not expand the plan to include child work orders.
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Click the calendar icon to select Horizon Start date. Horizon start date must be a Monday.
Note:To reduce processing time, keep horizon periods as short as possible. For example, less than one week.
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Click the calendar icon to select a Horizon End date.
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Select Week from the Time Fence list.
A time fence is a boundary between planning horizon periods that helps minimize shop floor and supplier schedule disruptions.
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Click Save The Plan.
The data may take a few minutes to compile.
For information about the Planned Demand subtab, see Adding Planned Demand Details.
For information about the Resource Supply subtab, see Adding or Editing Resource Supply Details.