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What is Capacity Planning? Meaning.

Capacity Planning is the process of determining the amount of capacity required to produce in the future. This process may be performed at an aggregate or product-line level (resource requirements planning), at the master-scheduling level (rough-cut capacity planning), and at the material requirements planning level (capacity requirements planning).

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	Capacity Management: Planning Resource Capacity Capacity Planning, Capacity Management, Capacity Utilization This presentation provides a clear explanation of capacity planning and its related concepts, definitions and capacity s...
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