Rough-cut Planning

[Former Member]

Hi,

What is rough-cut planning used for? is it basically for determining capacity requirements or there is more to it?

Thanks.

Regards,

Sue

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

It is used for resource levelling, i.e. capacity levelling. Rough-cut planning is based on time buckets and determines requirements of resources (machines, humans, production resource tools) and materials.

Following link gives you a good information. This may help you.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/8a/a5905c4adc11d189740000e8322d00/frameset.htm

[Former Member]

Thanks everyone!

[Former Member]

Hi,

Thanks for the helpful answers. I am one more question to add. Would rough-cut planning enable a planner to determine whether they can meet customer requirements - giving them the dates and quantities that can be fulfilled by each customer order? Is that possible?

Thanks.

Rgds,

Sue

[Former Member]

Rought Cut planning can not be used for giving promise to the customer.

You can use RCCP only for checking the feasibility of the sales plan.

cheers

[Former Member]

Hi,

How can you check the feasibility of sales plan with rough-cut planning? Is it based on the capacity?

Thanks.

Rgds,

Sue

[Former Member]

Yes Based on the capacity profile you define.

Rough cut capacity profile can contain number of workcenters and you can define the capacity requirement for the particular product/product group.

cheers

[Former Member]

Hi Sue,

Main Purpose of Rough cut planning is to see how realistic is our production plans.

We can check whether we have enough resources to complete the Prod plan .

Normally Capacity loads / utilisation (reqd vs available) are of high importance when we use rough cut planning.

Thanks and regards,

Rajesh

[Former Member]

Hi Su lin tan

Sales Order promising is usually done on the basis of the MPS (Master production schedule). The production plan from SOP is transferred to MPS.

REgards

Pragnesh

[Former Member]

Hi Sue,

Do u have any doubts if not close the issue.

Thanks and regards,

Rajesh

[Former Member]

hi,

Production planning enables the planner to create feasible production plans across the different production locations (also with subcontractors) to fulfill the (customer) demand in time and to the standard expected by the customer. For the long and medium-term time horizon,

rough-cut planning

is based on time buckets and determines requirements of resources (machines, humans, production resource tools) and materials. Solvers, real-time data, and high supply chain visibility (KPIs, alerts) support the planner´s decision-making process.

Hope this helps !!!

http://www.sap.com/solutions/business-suite/scm/featuresfunctions/planningkey.epx

Cheers

Alfred

[Former Member]

hi,

Production planning enables the planner to create feasible production plans across the different production locations (also with subcontractors) to fulfill the (customer) demand in time and to the standard expected by the customer. For the long and medium-term time horizon,

rough-cut planning

is based on time buckets and determines requirements of resources (machines, humans, production resource tools) and materials. Solvers, real-time data, and high supply chain visibility (KPIs, alerts) support the planner´s decision-making process.

Hope this helps !!!

http://www.sap.com/solutions/business-suite/scm/featuresfunctions/planningkey.epx

Cheers

Alfred