Workcenter capacity based on total hours on a period

[mxlecanu]

Dear experts,

We are currently in the middle of our SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition implementation project, and we are exploring solutions for a precise need described as follow :

Our industry is mainly based on manual assembly, where many of our operations are not constrainted by a precise sequence and can be performed in parallel by multiple people or one after the other regarding the day-to-day priorities of each individual project.

In this context, we need to be able to manage a global capacity for our people workcenters, based on the sum of hours described in our routing operations (regardless of the fact that they are sequential or parallel) and a start/stop date for each production order. Assuming that hours are equally spread for each workcenter inside a PO.

Is there a way in our version of S/4HANA to manage global workcenter capacity based on total hours spread inside our production orders VS workcenter total capacity ? In order to detect workcenters overload.

Our production managers expect this capacity management to be available directly inside the ERP, instead of having to extract theorical hours from our orders and put it in MS Project for this particular purpose.

I thank you very much for your help and time.

Best regards,

Maxime

[Johannes_Schulte]

Hello Maxime,

there are a lot of possibilities you can use. I am not 100% sure to understand all your requirements but here are some topics, that might help you.

You can use a reference capacity to be able to maintain one capacity to be used in several workcenter capacities (see screenshot):

If some of your employees work on different workcenters you can use pooled capacities:

In this case it is typical to have two capacities defined in a workcenter: 1: Maschine; 2: Person with pool

I hope this helps but there are a lot more possibilities using standard values keys and formulas.

Regards Johannes

[mxlecanu]

Hello Johannes,

Thank you very much for your help, we also discovered the "capacity requirement only" feature which seems to meet our requirements.
Official documentation about this feature not easy to find or very detailed based on what I found, so it was a bit of luck finding it.

I'm pretty sure, as you said, taht multiple solutions can be found, however finding it when you are new to SAP can be quite a challenge !

Best regards,
Maxime