Rough Cut Capacity Planning

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  RCCP verifies that you have sufficient capacity available to meet the capacity requirements for your master schedules.

  It is a long-term capacity planning tool that is used to balance the required capacity and available capacity.  In many cases you will need to make changes to the master schedule and/or available capacity.  When changes are needed there are often only a few different options:

1. You can change your master schedule by changing master schedule dates.
2. Increasing or decreasing master schedule quantities.
3. Changing your available capacity by adding or removing shifts.
4. Using overtime or subcontracted labor, and adding or removing machines.  

​The process of converting the master production schedule into requirements for key resources often includes looking at:

• Labor.
• Machinery.
• Space.
• Capabilities.
• Money.

RCCP is a gross capacity planning technique that does not consider scheduled receipts or on-hand inventory quantities when calculating capacity requirements. Your rough cut capacity plans are therefore a statement of the capacity required to meet your gross production requirements.

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