what is the capacity planner ?

Answer Posted / suryakiran akella

Capacity planning supports planning in all its phases:
long-term rough-cut planning
medium-term planning
short-term detailed planning


Capacity planning is integrated in the following applications:
Sales and Distribution (SD)
Production Planning and Control (PP)
Sales & Operations Planning (PP-SOP)
Requirements Planning (Master Production Scheduling and Material Requirements Planning PP-MRP/MPS)
Long-term Planning (PP-LTP)
Shop Floor Control (PP - SFC)
Repetitive Manufacturing (PP-REM)
Process Industries (PP-PI)
Plant Maintenance (PM) and Service Management (SM)
Project System (PS)
it is just like Capacity evaluation and balancing imblances in work center etc

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