Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP)

Capacity Requirements Planning enables you to balance your production plans with your machine and manpower capacity. It gives you the visibility to optimize your production resources, and make knowledgeable overtime, subcontracting, and work transfer decisions. With CRP, planning is based on an accurate view of the released or planned shop load impact on work centers, departments, or the entire plant. It pinpoints potential production bottlenecks and improves decision making in determining when to expand or reorganize work flow. It measures and reports manpower and machine availability against the current or a simulated production plan. Use “rough-cut” planning to provide a rough validity check of the proposed plan. Simulate the impact of changing product demands on your available resources. Then schedule labor and machine resources for maximum efficiency and bottleneck avoidance before the plan is released.