Capacity Planning keypad Complementary to MRP, capacity planning looks at work order operations and the times set in process routes, along with job operations, to provide an analysis of detailed work centre activity. This forecasting tool enables you to view the loading of your production processes. Typically these would be machine or labour resources. The system assumes infinite capacity, so it does not impose changes to smooth loading, which may crucially affect customer commitments. Instead it provides a powerful graphical environment in which you can see where the bottlenecks occur and can move orders interactively to obtain the desired result. Infinite capacity planning provides for a kit-to listing, work centre loading charts (with pegging) and make-to listings. Option for work order scheduling to include MRP forecast orders up to a selected date. Analysis can be by work centre or department. Interactive windowing and work order re-scheduling. An advanced feature is provided to work interactively with other capacity scheduling applications such as the Preactor product family of finite scheduling and APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling) tools. 016 044