Evaluating with the Work Center Load Report

Various evaluation reports can be called up using the transactions listed in the figure or using the corresponding tiles in the SAP Fiori launchpad. The figure also shows the overall profiles and SET/GET parameters assigned to the transactions.

If you want to flexibly assign your own suitable overall profile when accessing the evaluation, choose transaction CM07 Variable View.

If you want to assign user-specific overall profiles to the above transactions, assign these profiles to the corresponding user master records using the SET/GET parameters listed.

When you call up an evaluation report, an initial selection screen appears. Here, you can enter the selection conditions for selecting the capacity requirements to be evaluated.

You can combine the selection conditions of the initial selection screen with the selection conditions of one of four other selection screens for work center selection, capacity category selection, order selection, and combination selection.

The selected capacity requirements can be evaluated in three different views: in a Standard overview, in a Detailed capacity list, or in a user-specific Variable overview.

In the standard overview of the work center load report, capacity requirements and available capacities are compared.

The capacity requirements, available capacities, loads and free capacities of the selected work center capacities are displayed in a period split.

The settings for displaying the data can be changed interactively during the evaluation and individually adapted to your current requirements.

The evaluation period can be changed interactively during the evaluation.

The figure, Changing the Evaluation Interval (II), shows an example of the adjustment of the evaluation period.

Also, the period split can be adjusted interactively.

In the example above, the display of the evaluation report is changed from a weekly to a daily period split.

In the cumulated display, the capacity requirements and available capacities are cumulated over the evaluation period. This allows you to estimate the minimum period required for capacity leveling.

The figure, Cumulate Capacity Requirements and Available Capacities (II), shows an example of the cumulation of capacity requirements and available capacities.

You can maintain several versions of available capacity for a work center capacity. In the example, Work Center: Versions of the Available Capacity, a version 3 Maximum available capacity is maintained for capacity category 001 of work center T-BC300. For a certain time interval, this version defines an increased available capacity compared to the standard available capacity.

During the capacity evaluation, you can change the version of available capacity and check its effect on the capacity load.

The example, Changing the Version of Available Capacity (II), shows that changing the version of available capacity from normal to maximum available capacity would almost eliminate the capacity bottleneck.

If certain tasks can be performed on several alternative work centers, you can create a work center hierarchy for these work centers. In capacity evaluation, the capacity requirements and available capacities of the alternative work centers can be cumulated to the hierarchy work center.

In the example, Work Center Hierarchy, work centers T-BC300, T-BC300B, and T-BC300C are alternative work centers in the paint shop. They are represented by the hierarchy work center H-BC300.

The figure, Capacity Evaluation with Work Center Hierarchy, describes the following scenario:

There is an overload on work center T-BC300. If the requirements and available capacities of the alternative work centers T-BC300, T-BC300B and T-BC300C are cumulated to the hierarchy work center H-BC300, there is no overload situation. This means that rescheduling capacity requirements to the alternative work centers could eliminate the capacity bottleneck.

For selected periods, you can navigate from the standard overview to the detailed capacity list. In the detailed capacity list, the pegged requirements, that is, the operations of the individual orders, are displayed.

The figure, Detailed Capacity List Environment, shows which objects, overviews and functions you can navigate to, from the detailed capacity list. If you change capacities, operations or orders, or if you post goods receipts or confirmations, the changes are immediately taken into account in the evaluation.

The duration of an operation can extend over several periods. A distribution key determines how the total capacity requirement of the operation is distributed over the periods. The distribution key is the combination of a distribution strategy and a distribution function.

Distribution keys are used in the capacity evaluation reports and in the tabular planning table.

The figure, Distribution of Capacity Requirements Example 1, describes the capacity distribution of an operation in a simple example. The capacity requirements are distributed continuously over the operation duration according to the operating time of the work center. This type of distribution is normally used.

In this example, the capacity requirements are also distributed continuously over the operation duration. In contrast to the previous example, however, this work center has two individual capacities to which the operation was split. The duration of the operation is only half that of the previous example.

In special cases, the capacity requirements are not evenly distributed over the operation duration. Example 3 shows a discrete distribution in 5 equal portions.

The last example shows a situation in which the total capacity requirement occurs at the beginning of the operation.

Watch the following video to learn how to select Capacities in the Work Center Load Report.

Watch the following video to learn how to evaluate the Capacity Situation of Work Centers.