What is capacity planning and what are its levels in Manufacturing Planning & Control (MPC) system?

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i believe it is a mothod and a process to control  and manage effeciently and effectively the manufacturing or delivery process through the well planned constant flow of material and components,man power,equipment and other resources to meet customers demand through the utilization of in house manufacturing,subcontracting,and sometime other sources.it has three stages short term,intermediate,and long term.

Right now I cannot give perfect answer and also do not want to copy paste answer from google, which I have not done till yet. I will get back to you, as right now I am integrating the same in manufactruing ERP for a company, let me get complete it, I will be get back to you,

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You Can Not Send A Production Plan - Or Any Kind Of Plans - To Any Deprtment Asking Them To Achieve It Without Being100% Sure That They Can Make It With The Available Tools They Have .. These Tools Could Be Equipments , Machins , Manpower , ... etc.

Therefore You Must Send Along With Your Plan Another Report Containing The Procedures Of How To Acheive This Plan With The Available Tools, This Report Is Called Capacity Planning.

Capacity planning is identifying the availability of production capacities required to implement the production plan. It is carried out at the five following levels ranging from large aggregation of capacity for long time periods to very detailed machine scheduling for time intervals of an hour or less:

·         Resource planning

·         Rough-cut capacity planning

·         Capacity requirements planning

·         Finite loading

·         Input/output analysis

i am sorry i cant understand the question

Its all about planing of resources and making it sure that these readily available during implementation of any that can be a  project for implementing softwares, setting up new sectors etc

Perfect and simple example for Capacity Planning is cooking food:

Example:Before Making a tea you should be ready with its all ingredients otherwise later as a result you can give a new name to it AND If u plan properly u can have a Nice tea for this evening.. Regarding with MPC i swear i dont know explain it.. I think this tea covers that to as an example.

I request you all please do correct me if am answering wrong as  am not that experienced am  just2 years old kid in proffession.. I never hesitate to tell the truth.

Question is:- What is capacity planning and what are its levels in Manufacturing Planning & Control (MPC) system?

For me simple answer is:

Capacity planning is what equipments, Process & Resources will permit to produce. (It depends based on your facility trend, what % you have to consider. In general it consider80% +).

And that to be linked with your procurement.

Manufacturing Planning & Control (MPC) system is: -

What is your sales forecast? And how to control or acheive it?

Both are corelated. If your Production is90%+ (Based on Capacity) and sales is more that100%+ then you have to think to expend your manufacturing or supply business.

Other way if your production / supply capacity is more and sales is less then you have to expand your sales area or reduce your manufacturing time / resource to save some money.

There are micro plan further as weekly, monthly, quarterly, half yearly and yearly.

And Production, Supply, Procurement, Maintenance, contingencies all are coorelated in this micro / macro plan for a professional business module.

I think i agree with M. : Amer & M. : Abubaker too

There are3 types of capacity planning in MPC:

1- Resources Planning on S&OP level.

2- Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP) on Master Planning Level.

3- Capacity Requirement Planning on MRP level