Definitions Flashcards
Resource Plan(-ning)
Level: PPL
Focus: product priorities (product families)
Horizon: long range
Purpose: to translate monthly, quarterly, or annual product priorities from the production plan into some total measure of capacity, such as gross labour hours.
Resource planning involves changes in staffing, capital equipment, product design, or other facility changes that take a long time to acquire and eliminate.
Rough-Cut Capacity Plan(-ning) (RCCP)
Level: MPS
Focus: critical resources (end items)
Horizon: medium range
Purpose: to check the feasibility of the MPS by checking whether critical resources are available, providing warnings of any bottlenecks, ensure utilisation of work centers, and advise vendors of capacity requirements.
Input: preliminary MPS
Output: finalised MPS
Capacity Requirements Plan(-ning) (CRP)
Level: MRP
Focus: component parts - individual orders at individual work centers
Horizon: short range
Purpose: to calculate work center
loads and labour requirements for each time period at each work center.
Capacity Control
Level: PAC
Focus: execution (orders and staff)
Purpose: to monitor production output, comparing it with
capacity plans, and taking corrective action when needed.
