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Title: Capacity Planning: Work Center Load
Organization/Area: Production Planning
EUP Category:
File Name: Ecm01b40.doc Release: R/3 4.0B
Responsibility: Capacity Planner Status:

Overview
Trigger:
There is a need to analyze capacity loads at a given work center, for capacity planning purposes.

Business Process Procedure Overview

You can execute following functions with capacity evaluations:

1. You get an overview of the load situation of selected work centers using the standard overview.
2. You can use the detailed capacity list to display the orders that cause capacity requirements at work centers.
3. You can use the variable overview to display any capacity planning data you wish.
4. Various evaluations can be displayed both in tabular and graphical form. The SAP-Gantt diagram gives you an overview of
the dates of the operations at a work center.
5. From all evaluation lists you can either display or change work centers and capacities. From the detailed capacity
list you can also change orders and confirmations and display stock/requirements lists.
6. You can use the EXCEL interface to Export the evaluation list for working with MS EXCEL.

You cannot display the following capacity requirements in the capacity evaluation:
1. Split capacity requirements that are assigned to individual capacities of a capacity
2. SOP-requirements

Input – Required Fields Field Value/Comments

Work Center Type in the name of the work center that is being evaluated.
Capacity planner group Type in the number of the capacity planner group.
Plant Type in the plant id.
After inputting the above information, click on Enter.

Output - Results Comments

Standard Overview for the work center’s The resulting list screen offers follow-on functions for additional evaluation options
capacity load is displayed. such as graphical display.

Tips and Tricks

The list details are influenced by the settings specified under the Settings menu option in the Capacity Planning:Selection screen

Evaluation lists may be exported to an Excel file on your PC for further analysis, using Microsoft Excel. To do this, display the
required evaluation, and choose menu option Environment>EXCEL Interface>Export>…….

From any of the evaluation lists, choose menu option Environment>Input/output diagram, to graphically display the capacity
requirements, actual output, and available capacity of the work center, over the planning period.

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Created by BUSINESS PROCESS PROCEDURE
HANUMANTH
Title: Capacity Planning: Work Center Load
Organization/Area: Production Planning
EUP Category:
File Name: Ecm01b40.doc Release: R/3 4.0B
Responsibility: Capacity Planner Status:

Procedural Steps
1.1. Access transaction by:

Via Menus Logistics>Production>Capacity planning

Evaluation>Work center view>Load
Via Transaction Code CM01

1.2. On screen “Capacity Planning: Selection”, enter information in the fields

as specified in the table below:
<<< Screen print goes here >>>

Field Name Description R/O/C User Action and Values Comments

Work center 8 character name of existing work R Type in the work center name
center
Capacity 3 char id for capacity planner group O Type in planner group id.
planner group
Plant Key that uniquely identifies the plant R Type in the plant id.
Click on Enter, or “Standard Overview”
Button, to display the Standard
Overview.
You may also click on either:
“Detailed cap. List”, or
“Variable overview” buttons
(Note: On above table, in column “R/O/C” ; “R” = Required, “O” = Optional, “C” = Conditional)

1.3. If you clicked on Enter or “Standard Overview” button in step 1.2 above, a
standard overview of capacity loading is displayed on screen “Capacity
Planning: Standard Overview”. Details are influenced by the settings
under the Environment menu option. Follow-on evaluation functions are
possible, as described below:

1.3.1. Graphic Button [Shift+F2]: Clicking on this button will display the standard
overview information in graphical form.

1.3.2. Cap. Details/period [F8]: This button may be clicked after selecting line items
from the Standard Overview list. Clicking on this button will display for the chosen
items, the same information that would be displayed on the Detailed Capacity List .

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Title: Capacity Planning: Work Center Load
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EUP Category:
File Name: Ecm01b40.doc Release: R/3 4.0B
Responsibility: Capacity Planner Status:

1.4. If you clicked on “Detailed cap. list” button in step 1.2 above, the Detailed
Capacity List is displayed on screen “Capacity Planning: Detailed
Capacity List”. Details are influenced by the settings under the
Environment menu option. Follow-on evaluation functions are possible, as
described below:

1.4.1. Graphic Button [Shift+F4]: Clicking on this button will display the Detailed
Capacity List information in graphical form.

1.4.2. Order header [F6]: This button may be clicked after selecting line items from
the Detailed Capacity List. Clicking on this button will display the order header
information for the chosen line items.

1.4.3. Work Center Icon: Clicking on this icon will display the work center.

1.4.4. Capacity cat. Icon: Clicking on this icon will display the Capacity header.

1.4.5. Choose fields… [F5]: Clicking on this button will let you select the fields and field
sequence for the detailed capacity list.

1.4.6. Download [Shift+F8]: Click on this button to save the list in a specified format.

1.5. If you clicked on “Variable overview” button in step 1.2 above, an overview
of variables such as work orders per period, planned orders per period,
etc. are displayed. Details are influenced by the settings under the
Environment menu option. Follow-on evaluation functions are possible, as
described below:

1.5.1. Graphic Button [Shift+F2]: Clicking on this button will display the Variable
Overview information in graphical form.

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