Capacity Requirements Planning

       The Capacity Planning system is a tool for creating and
       maintaining a picture of planned capacity and load for each work
       center.  Detail capacity requirements are generated and reported
       by combining the current shop schedule of released orders with
       the capacity requirements generated by future planned orders,
       highlighting potential capacity problems so that corrective
       action may be taken.  The master production schedule may also be
       extended through resource requirements planning to provide a
       rough cut picture of the capacity load imposed, and yielding
       important information as to whether the schedule can be executed.
       Detail capacity planning extends all master schedule entries,
       firm planned orders, and planned orders from MRP by their regular
       production routings.  This information is then combined with the
       current shop schedule to provide a picture of the total planned
       shop load.

       The resource requirements planning functions allow for rough cut
       capacity planning by using composite routings for items in the
       master production schedule. Once the composite resource routings
       are entered for the appropriate items, the master production
       schedule can be exploded to create a rough cut capacity picture.
       Net change and complete regeneration capabilities are provided
       for capacity planning and resource requirements planning.
       Detail inquiry and summary reports are available for both the
       detail capacity and resource requirements plans.  Detail
       inquiries show the individual operations planned for each work
       center by day, while summaries show the total load by day, week,
       or month.

       Planned order and resource routing listings are also provided so
       that the planned routing for a planned order or master schedule
       entry may be reported.

       Capacity Planning functions:
               File maintenance functions
               Capacity planning inquiry
               Capacity planning summary
               Capacity planning net change
               Capacity planning regeneration
               Planned order routing list
               Resource requirements inquiry
               Resource requirements summary
               Resource requirements net change
               Resource requirements regeneration
               Resource routing list
               System management