Effective capacity is the maximum amount of work thatLevel capacity strategy The demand for any product is never constant It may change due to various reasons An operations manager has to plan in advance about the demand of the product He or she may have to use some strategies to meet this uneven and everchanging demand pattern These include pure strategies and strategy which uses a combination of various strategies Capacity planning should take place at both the aggregate and the disaggregated level Aggregate capacity planning looks at a longer timeframe – from 2 to 18 months – while disaggregated capacity planning focuses smaller time buckets based on the longer aggregate plan In order to plan capacity, first it must be determined This can be done by measuring your
Capacity Management Maturity Model Helpsystems