Capacity Workbench

The Capacity Workbench component shows the information that is required for planners or purchasers to make decisions. In the Capacity Workbench, you can make many decisions, perform simulations and view the consequences.

The Capacity Workbench component shows the aggregated data for the operations and the orders to which they belong. A hierarchical list shows up to five aggregation levels. The information is presented in user-defined time buckets, for example, using a two-week bucket. Critical materials can be displayed. Using the Planned and Latest tabs, you can display the list based on the Planned start or the Latest start.

A scout function allows focusing, for example, on customer number or delay.

To view the planned load, you can perform these operations:

• You can decide the number of levels to display.
• You can zoom in or out of the levels.
• You can scroll forward or backward in the time buckets.

You can allow overload. You can split orders. You can set and reset forced resources. From the Workbench, you can access the Work Center Resource, the Supply Chain Navigator, the Utilization, the Work Center Schedule and the Material Control.

From the Workbench - Selection panel, you can select this information:

• The work centers or the work center resources to include in the Capacity Workbench report
• The time frame
• The report type
• The grouping, sorting, output, and aggregations of the operations that are included in the report.

If you select grouping criteria for the operations, then only the operations that are distributed in the folders that match the grouping criterion are displayed. In this example, you select Work center resource. One folder for each of the selected Work center resources is displayed. For example, the folders Sew 1, Sew 2, and Sew 3 are displayed. Each folder contains the operations that are scheduled on it.

To apply a more specific grouping, you can combine up to five different grouping criteria. If you select several criteria, then the number of folders is increased and the report is more complicated. In this example, you have selected the criteria Work center resource and Due date. The operations are displayed in the folders that contain the operations that have both same Work center resource and due date. For example, the folders Sew 1 / 12 07, Sew 1 / 13 07, Sew 1 / 14 07, Sew 2 / 12 07, Sew 2 / 13 07, and Sew 2 / 14 07 are displayed.

You can choose to display the folders in ascending or descending order. Using several grouping criteria, you can select ascending or descending sorting for each of the criteria independently. Using the previous example, you can sort the work center resources "Sew 1", "Sew 2", and "Sew 3" in the ascending order. You can sort the due dates "14 07", "13 07", and "12 07" in the descending order.

The load of each operation is always displayed but, for the selected groupings, you can select the output to display. For example, you can the "Accumulated remaining capacity" for the selected work center resources. You can choose up to five different outputs to display as individual lines in the report. The selected output is aggregated for each of the selected groupings.

You can select the unit of measure (U/M) for all the outputs that use the Report U/M. You can select the U/M for individual outputs. The settings overview is facilitated by the display of the output types and the U/M as symbols.

To optimize the report readability, you can select the text style and coloring. To highlight delayed or too early operations and overload, you can use coloring. To distinguish operations according to their markings, for example, a changed due date, you can use normal order coloring.

From the Capacity Workbench, you can also run a selected workflow. For example, you can perform a simulation after several changes and view the consequences for the plan.