We have a requirement in our project which is very specific to capacity leveling in SAP APO. Suppose a factory have 15 production resources on which production takes place. But their is a constraint, and the constraint is man power capacity. Presently the factory is manned to run only 10 machines at a time.
So this means, even if we have available capacity on 15 production resources, in reality only 10 resources can be used for production purpose. This means that the capacity has to run on basically 2 categories of constraints, 1 production resource and the other human resource.
As far as I know, we cannot achieve this functionality using standard capacity leveling as SNP does not consider secondary resources in constraints. In R/3 we have the option to assign pooled capacity to a production resource and then we can CIF the same along with the production resource. But this pooled resource will not work in SNP ( Heuristic or Capacity leveling ).
Please share, if anyone of you have come across any such scenario, where you have mapped pooled capacity and then used the same in SNP capacity leveling ( with help of BADIs or custom function module ) in such a way that both primary and secondary resources are taken into account while planning.
Please feel free to share any other ideas where you have mapped such scenario within the SNP functionality. Any inputs regarding this is highly appreciated.
Regards,
Ayan Bishnu
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