Vendor Capacity Planning

Hello Sir,
In Source Allocation, under Vendor Capacity Planning, I am trying to "Maintain Capacity Periods".
While entering the data at Material Level (the lowest level) in the Capacity subscreen.
I am getting the error message as
"Number ranges module termination:"
Could you please give me a clue of the possible problems or settings to be done.
Thanks in Advance, Ajay

Hi Ajay
I came across this issue yesterday and resolved it. You need to maintain 01 number range for Object J_3ACAPA in SNRO.
Thanks
Arindam

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External Vendor capacity

Here is some background on the last attempt of doing External vendor capacity evaluation in R/3 - 3.1.
<i>I have been loading independent demand into MD61 and created various planning scenarios in MS31. From there I ran the MRP on MS01. We developed two customized transactions ZVCAP and ZCAP. ZVCAP allows the user to load vendor capacities into monthly buckets. The fields that one is suppose to load is the vendor, capacity type (Available, Tooled, and Contracted), part number, year, and monthly capacities. ZCAP is a customized report that compares the capacities in ZVCAP against the dependent component requirements from transaction MD61.</i>
<b>Is there similar tools in standard R/3 v. 4.6 that can make this comparison?</b>

Hi Guy,
As per my understanding, capacity requirements check is only possible against the receipt elements not againts the issues like independent requirements or dependent requirements.
You can use CM07 /CM38 transaction. Once you have develop the Zreports then why do you again standard reports?
Regards
TAJUDDIN

Capacity planning for a 2 million hits / day site

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We need to do a capacity planning/sizing for DB

Can you please provide any template/suggestion for DB capacity planning

Dear dba,
Database capacity planning will be based on the volume of the data that you wanted to load to the database.
For instance you are planning to trace the performance on the fixed line circuits. Take some sample performance files from the vendors and see the files' sizes. According to those file sizes estimate the average load and see the SLA for the period that the files will be stored on the database.
I have never heard of any template or a suggestion methodology for database capacity planning rather than simple calculations like sum, multiply etc.
Can you please elaborate more and we may have some additional information on your concerns.
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SOA - EAM capacity planning

I have been handed an assignment to prepare "capacity planning documentation" for what is termed "Enterprise Application Messaging"(EAM). I am looking at the documentation for Oracle Fusion Middleware and in particular Oracle® Fusion Middleware Installation Guide for Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Release 1 (12.1.1) which has some basic installation prerequisites. This is a good start but I know that there is more to capacity planning in the context of this EAM notion like for instance a database to persist messages etc and then there are the "speeds and feeds" to consider.
My question is: Are there any white papers, best practices or Open World presentations that are more current than the 10g documentation and presentations I have found on searching that would cast the Oracle Fusion middleware more in a "generic EAM context" than this 12 C product installation documentation I am looking at?

Thank you for the quick reply and the great links you gave, I am reviewing them before proceeding.
I agree, the EAM is a mysterious acronym...I'm not sure who dreamed it up, but to me, it means SOA and OSB and that is what we will be building in a new datacenter. I believe it may be a "home grown" acronym to try to keep from becoming too vendor oriented with our high level documentation...we have a bunch of Microsoft afecianados here who would like to place something like "Biztalk" into the mix, so maybe they got the powers to be to invent a more generic acronym.
Yes, I have also found that I need to look at the 11g not 12C docs due to certification issues, hopefully resolved in a couple of weeks I'm told.
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Operations are not getting despatched in capacity planning table

Hi Experts,
I am using capacity planning table (Graphical) to level the capacities and sequence the process orders. The start date of my orders are very well in future and sufficient capacities also is available in resources. But when I go to CM25 and select one order and click on despatch, system is not despatching it. This is the case for almost all the overall profiles.
The surprising factor is, this function was working fine earlier without any issues. I havent done any changes in configs which will affect capacity planning.
What can be the reason for this? Any thoughts please?.
One more thing. Is there any option to avoid the capacity planning step if Iam using R/3 and manage it by some other way?
Appreciate your earlier reply
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Machine capacity planning and efficency

Dear Guru,
I have number of machines and i want there individual capacity and efficency can we see that by any report or any tcode to see all capacity of machine.What is capacity leveling.
Is thee any configuration for capacity planning.
Thanks in advance

Hi, the following configuration steps involved in the capacity planning: SPRO --> IMG --> PRODUCTION --> CAPACITY REQUIREMENT PLANNING Capacity Requirements Planning: 1) Define time units 2) Define Capacity Category 3) Set up Capacity Planner. 4) Define parameters 5) Define Standard value key. 6) Define Move time matrix. 7) Define Setup matrix. 8) Define Control Key. 9) Define Shift Sequence. 10) Define Key for performance efficiency rate. 11) Define Formula parameters. 12) Specify Scheduling type. 13) Set up Production scheduler group 14) Select Automatically. 15) Define Scheduling parameters for Production orders 16) Define Scheduling parameters for networks. 17) Define Reduction Strategies planned/ production orders. 18) Define Reduction Strategies for network/process orders. 19) Define Control Profile. 20) Define Selection profile. 21) Define time profile. 22) Define Evaluation profile. 23) Define Strategy Profile. You can follow these above configuration steps in capacity planning Yes you need to active your all work center for the finite scheduling at the bottom of capacity view. Use all standard SAP configurations, Capacity Leveling Profile. Define time profile in OPD2. Define the strategy profile in OPDB Define the Overall profiles in OPD0. Then only you need to to active your all work center for the finite scheduling at the bottom of capacity view in work center.(CR02) Then run MRP with scheduling- 2 Lead time scheduling and capacity planning.(MD02) You will get your capacity requirement in CM01, or CM25/CM21. In rem you can use MF50. -
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Capacity planning and schedulng production order based on availabe capacity

Hi Gurus,
I am trying to use capacity planning, when the production order is created it takes the order start date as the requirement date. Then when i do he capaity check it says capaity not available. After finite scheduling again it proposes to shift operations by certain days.
I need the capity to be check in MRP and the palled orders to have start dates based on aviable capity, currenty all the palled orders are starting on the requirement date irresptive of avaiabe capaity. I tried using finite scheduling option in MD02 still it does not take in to account exsting production orders for giving dates of the planned orders.
Regards
Abhi

Dear Abhishek,
1) This is Std SAP of MRP, only material Av check will be carried out in MRP & create procurement
Proposals
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Vendor capacity check when creating PO

Hello Friends.
We have a business process situation where we would like to check Vendor capacity at time of creating PO (NB) for raw materials to ensure that we do not place POs for more than Vendor capacity.
Ideally it would be great if there is any way to check all open PO qty and compare with Vendor capacity at time of placing PO - converting PR to PO or direct PO creation.
We are in ECC 6.00.
Appreciates your comments/suggestions.
Thanks,

Thanks all for your comments but option for contract will not work in our case and here is the reason.
We want to make sure that we do not have open PO qty more than what Vendor can supply at any point of time. Business reason is sometimes there is surge in finished goods demand and MRP will create new PRs for raw materials and planners will keep converting these PRs to PO withouth knowing how much open qty already Vendor has to supply. So if we have somewhere a check point in system where it checks and warn if open PO qty is more than particular limit set somewhere for example, PIR etc.
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Bandwidth Utilization Avg or Max for capacity Planning best practice

Hello All - This is a conceptual or Non-Cisco product question. Hope you can help me to get this best industry practice
I am doing a Capacity planning for the WAN Link Bandwidth. To study the last month bandwidth utilization in the MRTG graph, i am seeing two values
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To measure how much bandwidth my remote location is using which value i have to use. Average or Max?
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Hello.
It makes no sense to use average during whole day (or a month), as you do the capacity management to avoid business impact due to link utilization; and average does not help you to catch is the end-users experience any performance issues.
Typically your capacity management algorithm/thresholds are dependent on traffic patterns. As theses are really different cases if you run SAP+VoIP vs. youtube+Outlook. If you have any business critical traffic, you need to deploy QoS (unless you are allowed to increase link bandwidth infinitely).
So, I would recommend to use 95-percentile of maximum values on 5-15 minutes interval (your algorithm/thresholds will be really sensitive to pooling interval, so choose it carefully). After to collect baseline (for a month or so) - go and ask users about their experience and try to correlate poor experience with traffic bursts. This would help you to define thresholds for link upgrade triggers.
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Setting needed for Capacity Planning.

Hi PP Gurus,
I want to know what setting we have to do for capacity planning.
what I know is:
1. W/C should be set for finite scheduling.
2. In scheduling parameters for process order tick "Generate capacity Requirement".
This both setting are made in my scenario, but it is'nt loading the work center fot that week.
Any other setting nedded?
Thanks, in advance.

Dear ,
You need to have following set up at basic level frist before you perfomr the capacity requirement planning :
1.In OPKP-Define Production Scheduling parameter -Availability check -Confirm Capacity and also Finite Scheduling chekc box ticked .
2.In OPU3/OPU5-Define Scheduling Parametesr -you should mark the following
1.Automatic Scheduling check box should be marked
2.Scheduling Log check box should be marked -generate in case there is a scheduling error due to capacity over load .
3.Scedulinga and Generate Capcity should be ticked .
3.In OPJK Imaintain check capacity with SAPSFCG013 overall profile and set indicator -1 -Release Order -by user decision if capacity is insufficient
4.Work Center - Define the capcity planner group,activate checkbox Relevant for Finite sceduling,on the capacity header define the shift timings,break timings and unit of measure,no of individual capaity, enter formula for scheduling in capacity view.
5.Routing - enter the values for the standard values. Use control key with scheduling and CRP activated .
6. OPD0 and have the following set up : Overall profile : SFAPSFC015 --Inside the over all profile I have the following set up
1.Selection Profile -SAPSFCS013 SFC: Order view, standard overview
2.Control Profile : SAP___C004 : Gen Capacity Availability Check for 1.5 months
3.Time Profile : SAP___Z006 : Gen Capacity Availability Check for 1.5 months
4.Evalution Profile : SAPSFCA013 : Gen Capacity Availability Chek =3.0D
5.Strategy Profile : SAPSFCVER1-Gen Capacity availability Check
6.Period Profile : SAP___P001 -Weekly period
7.List Profile : SAPSFCI001-Production Planing
Check all of them in place .Then you can go ahead with Capacity Req.Planning -Evalution and Leveling -CM21/CM22/CM05/CM07 etc.
Refere the below theread for farther reference :
Capacity problem in production order
capacity planning
Hope this will be useful .
Regards
JH

How to go about capacity planning for storage ?

Hi Experts,
How to go about Capacity Planning? For instance if clients wants to upgrade to new server and new storage and asks us how much additional storage do you need for next 5 years, how can calculate the amount of storage.
I don't have any baseline info about the server of past years. Where can I start and any scripts you guys use for doing capacity planning?
Appreciate your help.
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Planned order splitting during capacity planning

Hello,
anybody plese help me during the capacity planning in T.code.CM31 i want to split a planned order and want to assign alternative sequence. how can i do this and the capacity should be reschedule automatically to my requirement date. i am using backward scheduling.
plese suggest immediately
Thanks and reagards
Bhakta

Dear Bhakta
MRP does not perfom any Capacity Requirement Planning .While you are executing MRP with Lead Time Scheduling , MRP proposes Planned Order Dates based on the Routing Operation Timing not based on the Work Centre available Capacity because in SAP Std R/3 we did not have scope to check the finite scheduling and capacity requirement chek .MRP assume that Work Centre has infinite available capacity .
In MRP run , it will give you Detail scheduling of the Operation in Planned Order -Detail Scheduling tab and copied the routing , BOM as master data .When you convert that Planned order to Production order , it will copy the Routing details based on the Order Type denpendt Parameters -OPL8-Routing -Alternative sequnce and Automatic selection -3 option
Thats why we have Capacity Requirement Planning for Detail Capcity check and production order scheduling .
Note : Earlier to my first reply , please note that you have option in CM21 enter sequence number at order level which may applicable to you .CM21-Work Centre -exectute -Select the Order from order pool -Goto Order -Sequence number maintainence
This number( sequence number operation /order ) that can be assigned to production orders or planned orders at the level of the task list header and is therefore valid for all the operations in an order.
Hope this is clear .Revert if you nees farther help
Regards
JH
Edited by: Jiaul Haque on Jul 5, 2010 3:32 PM
Edited by: Jiaul Haque on Jul 5, 2010 4:01 PM

How to use parallel sequence in capacity planning.

How we can use parallel seq in capacity planning?we have two machines which can be run parallel for production ,now how to distribute capacity load? suppose for the production of 100 km,we required 1000 min when it is produced through only one machine.Now if 2 machines are used simultaneously we required 500 min.How to see this in capacity planning?

Dear,
For calculating Available capacity you have options like minimum capacity, normal capacity and maximum capacity. You can select this option in work center-capacity tab for individual capacity category.
With parallel sequence and with both machines you can select maximum capacity option and plan your capacity.
Hope this is helpful.
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Constraint capacity planning for Un-Routed items in ASCP

Hi All,
Is there any possibility to create constraint capacity planning for items which do not have routings in ASCP?
I tried by setting Bill of Resources (BOR) in Aggregatin tabbed region in Plan option. But i could not get an expected result. Kindly help me out in this.
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Edited by: user10942922 on Mar 27, 2009 9:30 AM

Dear ,
To answer the question for Capacity requirement planning on sales order I would say that MRP does only materials planning based on demand and reciept but never does Capacity Requirement Plannig .MRP generates Planned Order and susequently , production order can be genreted and farther you can carry out capacity requirement planning based on the work cente available capacity , requirement and load for those MTO orders .
But there are SAP business suit like APO-SNP APO PPDS which carriy our details scheduleing and caapcity check based on the demand situation : Sales Order ,Independent Order and does capcaity vaialbality chek for those demands while planning .
Now , here is the answer of your question :
1) Can Capacities are Scheduled as per priority given in SO automatically. : Not possible through SAP MRP but in APO-PPDS, APO-SNP-CTM , Herustic model .
2) Can revised availability dates will be reflected in SO. : It can be reflected as per the ATP chekc , Replishmenet Lead Time and re-scheduling horizon maintained in OPPQ-Carry all overall plant parametres.
3) Which reports will be useful for understanding consolidated availability date of material for given sales order/s. : You can check through MD04/MD05 or in sales order -Availaibility check -Schedule Line -Availaibility date .
Hope your are clear about the requirememt .
Regards
JH
Edited by: Jiaul Haque on Jun 5, 2010 1:59 PM
Edited by: Jiaul Haque on Jun 5, 2010 1:59 PM

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