Supply Chain Management
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Capacity Requirement Planning
Submitted to: Submitted by: Dr. Anwar Ali Section-B2C Group- Prayas Garg
Capacity Requirement Planning
Capacity Requirements Planning is a computerized system for projecting resource requirement for critical work stations. Several components are input into the system to effectively address the capacity and planning needs, including :
Inputs as:
Planned order releases - on forecasted orders - on customer orders
Routing file - Equipment - Labor
Open orders file
Outputs as:
Load profile for each work center
Capacity requirements planning is a computerized tool that is used to determine the available and required capacity to help alleviate bottlenecks and to help identify potential problems before they occur. It is a tool that measures
capacity to determine you have sufficient capacity to meet the requirements for the Material Requirements Planning. MRP is the computerized inventory system used for generating purchase orders and work orders of materials, components and assemblies.
Alleviating bottleneck work centres.
Definations:
To fully understand the definition of the information that goes into the capacity requirement planning, it is important to understand the
Bibliography: • Tony Arnold, Chapman S. and Ramakrishnan RV " Introduction to Materials Management" 5th ed. : Pearson Education 2007 • "Capacity Requirement Planning" MGT 651 –IV, Dr. Ozatalay • www.mitrol.com/html/capacityplanning.html • www.coalitioncomputing.com/cccweb/products/software/gp/eenterprise/modules/GP-CapacityRequirePlan.doc • http://sandbox.aiss.uiuc.edu/oracle/nca/crp/crp.htm