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Hi,
I need scripts/ documentation/ manual of the most importants functionalities of Capacity Planning (CP).

I also have a particular question related to CP is:

Can I divided an operation? Can I plan for example half of an operation? What I mean is to plan at the same moment, part of an operation in day 1 and another part in day 3.

For example, I have an operation from an order that takes 6 hours.
I need to plan 2 hours in day 1 and the rest 4 hours in day 3, but I want to plan these in one time. Can it be possible?

Thanks in advance,

Milagros

Mili pienso que tendras que dividir la tarea en mas de una operación para lograr lo que pides.

Sorry, english version: I think you will have to divide the task in more than one operation.

Better to separate/split operations if known beforehand but if not, can do time confirmation for job done only with remaining job hours.

Where do you do scheduling of work orders? Inside SAP PM or external software like Microsoft Project etc?

Eugene,

Muchas gracias por la respuesta. Entiendo lo que decís, pero el tema es que en el cliente donde trabajo, el programador es quien divide las operaciones (hoy lo realiza con el Project) y no la persona que crea la orden de Mantenimiento. Con lo cual es dificil poder dividir la tarea al momento de crear la orden.

En relación a la documentación o manuales con funcionalidades sobre CP sabés donde puedo consultar?

Saludos, Mili

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Originally posted by Eugene:
Mili pienso que tendras que dividir la tarea en mas de una operación para lograr lo que pides.

Sorry, english version: I think you will have to divide the task in more than one operation.

Hi Josh,

Thanks for your answer. The problem is that I don´t know it beforehand. Can you please explain me with more deatils the other option?

Today they client create the Orders in SAP PM and they program them in Project, where they use a function that allows to divide operations.

In order to documentation do you know where I can find the most important funcionalities of capacity planning?

Regards,
Mili

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Originally posted by Josh:
Better to separate/split operations if known beforehand but if not, can do time confirmation for job done only with remaining job hours.

Where do you do scheduling of work orders? Inside SAP PM or external software like Microsoft Project etc?

Hola Eugene,
Ante todo te pido disculpas por no responderte antes. Muchas gracias por la respuesta. Hasta el momento no encontramos la forma de programar de manera parcial.
La unica forma seria crear otra operacion, dado que la operacion es la minima unidad para Capacity Planning.
Saludos,
Milagros

Sorry for the delay, I think Capacity Planning deals with the operation as a whole, but an order can have multiple operations. The operation can have suboperations but Capacity Planning or time confirmations are not done at the suboperations level.

Perdona el retraso, pienso que Capacity Planning trabaja con la operacion como un todo, no parcial. Pero, puedes tener varias operaciones en una orden. Una operacion puede tener sub-operaciones, pero SAP no trabaja las suboperaciones en Capacity planning o realiza time confirmations a ese nivel.

You have to know how the Project wants to sequence and schedule their work beforehand during preparation ie to break down works into operations to get the base plan. If they wish to deviate or reschedule, then have to change or incorparate the new operations in the work order.

If Projects are scheduled in Microsoft Project, yes the users can split each operations with suspension in between to allow for another activity to take place. Is this what you want to achieve in SAP PM? Not sure how to achieve this splitting in SAP PM when dispatching the work order.

I think the real use of capacity planning is to set up and to optimize manning levels in your organization to cope with the amount of works.

If you are dispatching to an individual then you can split the operation in capacity planning. However, if you are only dispatching to a work center then you cannot split the work and would need to look for other work arounds.

But I have not seen dispatching to individuals. Is this a standard tcode?

In our system capacity leveling individual capacity views are transactions CM24 & CM30.

Note, we do not use these transactions so I am unable to provide any further advice on their usage.

Hi Josh,
Sorry for the delay.
Yes I need to reproduce projects that are scheduled in Microsoft Project into SAP PM.
Up to now we didn't find any solution to this issue.
Regards and thanks,
Milagros.

Ok David,
I read something about what you are saying in SAP Help.
Thanks for your answer.
Regards

I only use Tx CM25, but anyway I dispatched operations to workcenters not to an individual.

If using the planning board you can split the operations with or without assigning personell. just select the operation and Split functionality then put the Start Date/Time combination for each split

Where can I active that split functionality?
Is in customizing? or in the strategy profile?

Thanks for your answer.

I referred to an excellent presentation on SAP Capacity Planning in a posting last year. Unfortunately non-members of ASUG were unable to access. I have now found a link to this presentation in an open forum and have attached it below.
Implement Capacity Requirements Planning in SAP R/3 Enterprise

There are also links to other good presentations at the following site

Link to sap_pm_cookbooks site

Thanks very much for the information. Is it possible that the presentation refers in general to the planning in the Tabular Layout? What I need is this functionality in the other layout (the graphical one, not tabular).

Thanks again for your help.