Capacity Requirements Planning ( CRP )

Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP)

🔧 Occurs at the level of the material requirements plan.

🔧 It is the process of determining in detail the amount of labor and machine resources needed to achieve the required production.

Input

☆ Needed for a CRP : open shop orders, planned order releases, routings, time standards, lead times and work center capacities and can be obtained from the following :

🌺 open order file

1. An open shop order appears as a scheduled receipt on the material requirements plan.
2. It shows all relevant information such as quantities, due dates and operations.
3. It can be maintained manually or as a computer file.

  🌺 Material requirements plan

1. Determined by the computer's MRP logic based upon the gross requirements for a particular part.
2. In assessing the total capacity required in future time period.

          🌺 Routing File

1.        Specified on a route sheet , or in a company-based system.

          🌺 Work center file

1.        Composed of a number of machines or workers capable of doing the same work.
2.     .  Contains information on the capacity and move, wait and queue times associated with the center.

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