New Rough-Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP) Feature for Manufacturing Work Centers

What changed

A new Rough-Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP) feature is now available under Setup > Company > Enable Features > Items & Inventory. RCCP gives manufacturing planners a mid- to long-term view of machine and labor capacity at work centers versus the demand generated by work orders and planned work orders.

Prerequisites

• Features: Manufacturing Routing and Work Center, Advanced Bill of Materials.
• Permissions: Manufacturing Routing: View, Work Order: View, and (if MRP is enabled) Material Requirements Plan: View.
• RCCP must first be provisioned for your account before the checkbox appears. The source does not document how provisioning is requested — confirm with your account manager or NetSuite support.

Key record and field changes

• Supply Plan Definition record — new Include in RCCP checkbox. Planned work orders only appear in RCCP results when this box is checked and Planned Time entries have been generated.
• Planned Time entries — generated for planned work orders to feed RCCP calculations. These entries are deleted if RCCP is subsequently disabled and are not automatically regenerated if the feature is re-enabled.

New UI: Capacity Planning page

Accessible at Transactions > Manufacturing > Capacity Planning. The page exposes the following filters and controls:

• Filters: Subsidiary, Location, Manufacturing Work Center, Date Range, Assembly Item, Supply Plan Definition.
• Include flags: Include Unfirmed Work Orders, Include MRP Items (visible only when MRP is enabled), Include Planned Orders.
• Toolbar controls: Work Center Resources selector (Machine Only, Labor Only, Both, Either), Utilization Range filter (under/over-utilized or custom range), Time Bucket selector (daily/weekly/monthly), Customize Columns, Export/Print, Refresh Data.

Results table columns

Each row represents one work center + location + time bucket combination:

• Manufacturing Work Center, Location, Time Bucket
• Total Machine Capacity, Required Machine Capacity, Machine Utilization
• Total Labor Capacity, Required Labor Capacity, Labor Utilization

Expanding a row reveals transaction-level detail: Assembly Item, Transaction Number, Operation, Operation Quantity, Start/End Date, and per-operation capacity and utilization values.

When results are filtered by Assembly Item or Supply Plan Definition, capacity and utilization columns show filtered values compared against overall values — useful for isolating a single product's impact on a shared work center.

What to do

1. Verify provisioning. RCCP must be provisioned for your account before the feature toggle appears. The release notes do not specify how to request provisioning — contact your NetSuite account representative.
2. Enable prerequisite features if not already active: Manufacturing Routing and Work Center, Advanced Bill of Materials.
3. Assign permissions: Manufacturing Routing: View, Work Order: View, and Material Requirements Plan: View (if MRP is used) to relevant roles.
4. Enable RCCP: Setup > Company > Enable Features > Items & Inventory > Rough-Cut Capacity Planning.
5. Configure Supply Plan Definitions: Check Include in RCCP on each Supply Plan Definition whose planned work orders should appear in the capacity report. Generate Planned Time entries via the supply planning schedule.
6. Caution on disable/re-enable: Disabling RCCP deletes all Planned Time entries for planned work orders and clears Include in RCCP on every Supply Plan Definition. Re-enabling does not restore these. You would need to re-check the boxes and regenerate planned time data.

Integration notes

The source does not document any new REST or SOAP endpoints, SuiteScript modules, or SuiteAnalytics datasets for RCCP. If you need to query RCCP data programmatically (e.g., via N/query, N/search, or REST record API), verify whether the Planned Time and capacity result records are exposed by checking the Records Catalog (Setup > Records Catalog) after enabling the feature. At this time, RCCP appears to be a UI-only reporting tool with no documented scripting surface.