You will be able to identify when you will have the capacity to meet a customer’s order or if you need to increase capacity, increase overtime, increase the number of shifts, contract work out or acquire additional production facilities.  This will enable you to plan to achieve maximum efficiency from your organization.

The features provided in Abel Capacity Planning include:

• Determine the capacity plan for:
  
    o Work Groups and Work Centers
  
    o Labor skill groups by Work Centers
  
    o Quantity and Time capacity scheduling
• Provides for finite and infinite resource loadings
• Supports days/hours/minutes resource loading intervals
• Supports capacity planning variables:
  
    o Direct and indirect labor time standards
  
    o Current and modified plant order routings
  
    o Current and modified machine operating standards
  
    o Modify manufacturing operations and routings
  
    o Subcontracted manufacture and operations
  
    o Rescheduling by Work Group and Work Center

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