To use the capacity planning screen, StockIQ requires 3 data sets, which you can coordinate providing with StockIQ:
- Resources - A Resource is a generic term for a production resource. This can map to specific production lines on your shop floor, production lines at your vendor, or even just your overall vendor's production capacity. A resource is always associated with a supplier, be that a vendor code, or a manufacturing production facility code.
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Resource Capacity - To help with capacity planning, StockIQ must know about the capacity of your resources and how it changes over time.
- This can be represented in any UoM you wish, e.g. units, cubic volume, etc. Each bucket of capacity is specified in the capacity listing, and the UoM for each resource is shown in the header of the reosource capacity screen.
- Most commonly for rough-cut planning such as this, folks use weekly production buckets.
- The semantics of your resource capacity bucket is that the capacity is over a ship window, e.g. the end of the resource capacity bucket is when the inventory produced during the capacity bucket will ship. Phrased another way
- Resource Bill - This maps each item produced by/on that resource, and the amount of the capacity that producing one of those units costs, e.g. 0.5 machine hours, 100 cubic feet, etc. So, if you have a part number SIMPLE_PART which takes 15 minutes to produce, versus another COMPLEX_PART which takes 60 minutes to produce, these will consume the available minutes of your resource capacity at different rates.
Each of these files is used by StockIQ, in conjunction with purchasing plans, to show the resource load for capacity planning.