Departments
Departments group work centers for capacity requirements planning and general ledger (GL).
Similar to product lines, departments are used to determine the GL accounts on transactions and for summary capacity planning.
Department Maintenance
At least one department is required before entering work centers or routings.
• Every work center must belong to one department.
• A department is a grouping of work centers for purposes of reporting and accounting.
• CRP calculates capacity/load by work center/machine and can display a departmental summary.
• Labor, burden, and cost of production are tracked in the GL by department.
• Set up a department to group any subcontract work centers.
• Labor capacity can only be entered manually. It is helpful to enter because CRP uses it to determine over/under loads. Labor capacity equals the sum of the capacities of all work centers in the department, assuming the labor is transferable between work centers within the department.
Note: The labor and burden fields are for the absorption/cost centers.
