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Product capacity plans

Product capacity plans (PCPs) allow you to do just that: plan your capacity. It's best explained by means of an example: if you offer stitching as a service on t-shirts, this is in practice limited by two things:

  • How many t-shirts you can stitch per day
  • The quantity of t-shirts available

You can configure this easily in its namesake chapter in the Stock module. It is also possible however to do so via API, see Product capacity via API.

Authorization

To be able to make use of product capacity plans, you need to have the ProductCapacityPlans permission. Permissions are managed from the Roles and rights chapter namely, from the functionalities card of a users role.

Creating a PCP

The creation flow for a PCP consists of two cards, the first one of which contains the general information and the second one lets you include products.


By setting the Time frame, you can determine how to indicate your capacity: per Day or Week. The Capacity per *** field will automatically change based on that decision; this field lets you specify how many items you can actually produce per ***.

The Availability cut off entails how far in advance you want to calculate when the requested product would become available? To stay in the example, imagine you can stitch 5 t-shirts a day, and there's 20 currently being processed. If you'd like to order another one, it would take 5 days before the 21st would be ready. By setting this field to 4 days, you wouldn't be able to initiate this 21st t-shirt.

Adding products

The Products card lets you add the items to your PCP. You can do so either by selecting specific products, or by using filters to select products. Regardless of your choice, the product selection modals both work in the same way you'd add products or filters throughout Admin Suite.

Keep in mind that all products added in a PCP will share the capacity across those items. So to put it more clearly: if you can produce 5 per day and your filtering finds product A, B, C, you can still only produce 5 total. So if you produce 3 of product A then there will only be capacity for 2x product B or C.

This is done by not only taking the commitments for product A into account (when requesting availability for A) but also those from B and C.

Exceptions

After you've added some products, a new card will show up: Exceptions. By creating an exception on a PCP, you can alter the available capacity on a given date or on a returning basis for certain days of the week.


Settings

To prevent endless or inaccurate capacity calculations, the following setting defaults to 7 days and can be maximized to 14 days: FutureAvailability:ProductCapacityPlansPrefigureTimeSpan

This value can also be overwritten on the PCP itself by setting the Availability cut off. The value of this field can be set higher or lower than the setting value, but can not surpass the 14-day limit.