2 Location, one common Capacity - SNP Impact

[Former Member]

Hello APO Community,

We have a scenario, where physcially there is only ONE Capacity in SNP, but logically it's used in 2 manufacturing location. We are planning to use SNP Production Planning and also Capacity Planning.

What are the Disadvantages of this logical split.

What function do we need to do Capacity Planning and also Production planning. The planned orders will be generated in 2 seperate location with 2 different capacity names(but practically it's one capacity)

Thanks

Samson

[Former Member]

Hello,

As Satyajit as explained: We have a manufacturing location 'A' which is capable of producing 100 quantity per day. But on R/3 it's configured as two manufacturing plants representing the same, which is 'A' and 'B' with production capacity of 50 each. 'A' and 'B' with production capacity of 50 each. But in realtime scenario the capacity planning must be at aggregated level. We need to see the orders and Capacity simulatenously.

Basically question is, how do we do capacity planning, since orders are split in 2 locations for the same capacity and also how do we do scheduling. And are ther any more functions which gets effected by this logical split.

Regards

Samson

Edited by: sam son on Dec 18, 2008 3:16 PM

Edited by: sam son on Dec 18, 2008 3:16 PM

[Former Member]

Any more input/help.

Thanks in advance

Regards

Samson

[Former Member]

Hi Samson,

Here is a proposal. Maintain two different resources and 2 PPMs in one each. You can plan them as per your scenario whether they are open on only few days or do not overlap etc. and manage the capacity in SNP or PPDS what ever you use and you have to maintain the two resources in two different plants in R/3.

[Former Member]

How about this same scenario, but there are 2 R/3 systems? Can APO support combining the capacity from 2 different R/3 systems?

Thanks,

Mark

[nitin_thatte]

Hi,

Question is not clear. Can U elaborate?

Is the resource transferred from one plant to another?

Bye.

Nitin

[Former Member]

Hi Sam,

If I understand your question correctly, then I think you can use 'SNP Optimizer' functionility. Say you have a manufacturing location 'A' which is capable of producing 100 quantity per day. Now you can ddefine two manufacturing location 'A' and 'B' with production capacity of 50 each. Or you can define two PPM or PDS with total production capacity of 100. In both the cases you have to use define two resource. Those two resource's total working-hrs should be same as the working-hrs of the resource of the actual manufacturing locationt.

Thanks,

Satyajit