Capacity planning 3rd party TOOL

[former_member2091]

Hello All,

If you are using capacity planning/scheduling. Can you please comment on?

1. Are you using standard SAP ERP ?

2. If you have experience with other tools, which one will suit best for a chemical industry with a little complex business processes. ( APO/IBP/Preactor etc)

We are considering SAP IBP and some other vendors but it will help a lot if you folks can share your experience.

I have implemented it in SAP but the users feel it is very complex and they prefer EXCEL over it.

[jessica_li]

Hello Akash,

SAP ERP has many transaction codes for capacity planning.

Work Center View CM21 - Planning Table (Graphical) CM22 - Planning Table (Tabular) Individual Capacity View CM27 - Planning Table (Graphical) CM28 - Planning Table (Tabular) Order View CM31 - Planning Table (Graphical) CM23 - Planning Table (Tabular) Variable <<<!!! CM25 - Online Project View CM32 - Planning Table (Graphical) CM26 - Planning Table (Tabular) Plant Maintenance View Work Center View CM33 - Planning Table (Graphical) CM34 - Planning Table (Tabular) Individual Capacity View CM30 - Planning Table (Graphical) CM24 - Planning Table (Tabular)

best regards,

Jessica Li

[Caetano]

Hello

SAP S/4HANA offers Embedded PP/DS, which brings the same features available in APO plus Fiori Apps to run capacity leveling and analyze the capacity load.

If you are not using S/4HANA and you have already implemented CRP in SAP ECC, you can try to schedule capacity leveling as a background job, using the procedure highlighted in the document below. The challenge here is to find a suitable strategy profile, which would bring results that would fit into the user needs:

https://archive.sap.com/documents/docs/DOC-56310

Regards,

Caetano