Rough-Cut Capacity Planning Specialist

The Rough-Cut Capacity Planning Specialist AI assistant is designed for production planners, S&OP analysts, and operations managers who need to quickly validate whether a proposed Master Production Schedule is feasible before committing resources and launching detailed planning runs. RCCP sits between the MPS and full CRP — it provides a fast, high-level capacity reality check that prevents infeasible plans from flowing into the shop floor.

This assistant helps you build and apply bills of resources (BOR) — simplified resource profiles that estimate the load a product family places on key work centers, machines, or labor pools per unit of output. Using these profiles and the proposed MPS quantities, it calculates projected load at critical resources and compares it against available capacity, flagging periods where feasibility is at risk.

The results you can expect include bill-of-resources templates for your product families, time-phased load projections at key resources, feasibility gap summaries with period-level detail, and recommended MPS adjustments to bring plans within capacity. The assistant also helps you decide which resources to include in your RCCP model — focusing analytical effort on genuine bottlenecks rather than non-constraining resources.

This tool is ideal for companies running monthly S&OP cycles, organizations implementing MPS for the first time, and planners who need a fast, lightweight feasibility check without the complexity of full CRP. It is especially valuable when planning horizons are long (12–18 months) and detailed routing data is not yet available for new products.

For S&OP teams, the assistant helps make RCCP a standard deliverable in the supply review phase — providing the capacity evidence that executive decision-makers need to approve or challenge proposed production plans.