APO SNP capacity levelling heuristic

[Former Member]

I am using APO V5 SNP.

I have a question about SNP capacity levelling heuristic.

As I understand it, the heuristic works on a resource by resource basis and will aim to capacity level across time buckets.

But suppose I have a product which has two different sources of supply (PDS/PPM) using different resources X and Y.

Suppose the capacity using resource X is overloaded for week n, but resource Y is not overloaded.

Can the levelling heuristic be used to move capacity from resource X to resource Y for week n, or would this have to be done manually via changing the PDS/PPM?

Thanks,

Bob Austin, Atos Origin

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Bob,

You can move the load from X to Y if Y is an alternative resource to X. This can be accomplished by going to the capacity levelling button and then in the options check the box for 'Consider Alternate Resources'. After that you can mention muliple alternate resources also to be considered.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Abhi