Perform Resource Requirements Planning

Explanation

Use this activity to calculate Resource Requirement Planning (RRP). You can run RRP for one or all of the master schedule sets and for one or all sites to which you have access. RRP also lets you work with resources other than the usual machine capacity.

Prerequisites

• This activity requires that you have entered forecasts and had run Master Scheduling (MS), since RRP is based on the manufacturing plan that results from MS.
• The resources needed to manufacture a part must be entered.
• The shop calendar must be up-to-date. RRP plans the workload only for days included in the shop calendar. Only work days should exist in the shop calendar, so weekends and holidays are not counted in RRP.

System Effects

As a result of this activity:

• The system calculations show a plan indicating how well capacity meets demands.
• RRP shows how the manufacturing plan affects factors such as storage space, personnel, transport capacity, machine capacity, etc.

Window

Perform RRP

Related Window Descriptions

Perform RRP

Procedure

You can either calculate RRP by direct execution (procedure A) or by scheduling the task to execute as a background job (Procedure B). 

A.

1. Open the Perform RRP dialog box.
2. In the Site field, enter the site for which you want to run RRP or click List to select one from the List of Values.  If you leave the field blank, RRP is run for all sites to which you have access.
3. Enter the master scheduling set you want to plan, in the Master Scheduling Set field or click List to select one from the List of Values. If you leave the field blank, RRP is run for all the MS sets to which you have access.
4. Click OK.

Note: Click Default if you want to use the default settings.

B.

1. Open the Perform RRP dialog box.
2. Click Schedule and follow the steps in the assistant.