Capacity Planning for Scalable Growth

Capacity Planning helps manufacturers and supply chain organizations align labor, equipment, suppliers, and logistics resources with current and future demand. Effective capacity planning improves customer service, supports scalable growth, and helps companies proactively identify constraints before they impact performance. As a key component of SIOP (Sales Inventory Operations Planning), capacity planning provides the visibility needed to balance demand and supply while maximizing profitability. Explore articles, insights, and best practices on workforce planning, production capacity, supplier capacity, bottleneck management, and strategies for supporting predictable business growth.

Building a Foundation for Growth
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Building a Foundation for Growth

Supply Chain Planning, Capacity & Resource Planning

Building a Foundation for Growth

Avtron Power Solutions partnered with LMA Consulting Group to improve capacity planning, optimize SAP Business One, strengthen MRP capabilities, and implement a proactive SIOP process. The result was greater visibility into future demand, improved customer commitments, right-sized inventory, and a scalable foundation that supported record revenue growth.

admin2026-06-13T12:46:11-07:00June 5, 2026|Categories: Supply Chain Planning, Capacity & Resource Planning|Tags: capacity planning, client success story video, customer service, demand planning, ERP, Industrial Manufacturing, MRP, predictability, Production & Materials Planning, Production scheduling, S&OP, scalability, SIOP, supply chain planning, video, workforce planning|

Capacity Planning Case Study to Secure Reliable Delivery Dates At Order Entry
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Capacity Planning Case Study to Secure Reliable Delivery Dates At Order Entry

Supply Chain Planning, Capacity & Resource Planning

Capacity Planning Case Study to Secure Reliable Delivery Dates At Order Entry

One of the most common issues executives raise is the inability to secure reliable delivery dates upfront when communicating with customers and taking orders. Clearly, this bottleneck results in frustration and the potential for lost orders as customers demand reliable delivery dates, stable lead times, and expedited performance.

admin2026-06-19T18:35:16-07:00April 2, 2025|Categories: Supply Chain Planning, Capacity & Resource Planning|Tags: Best of, capacity planning, case study, CRM, customer service, Data & Analytics, ERP, Industrial Manufacturing, MRP, predictability, Revenue growth, S&OP, SAP, scalability, SIOP, supply chain planning, Visibility, workforce planning|

Production & Labor Scheduling Case Study to Maximize Productivity
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Production & Labor Scheduling Case Study to Maximize Productivity

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Production & Labor Scheduling Case Study to Maximize Productivity

As geopolitical and economic risks rise, executives become more concerned. Proactive clients are taking action to boldly invest where it makes sense while aggressively focusing on inventory and cost reduction of non-value added items/ work and also ensuring high customer service levels.

admin2026-06-20T11:55:32-07:00August 9, 2024|Categories: Supply Chain Planning, Capacity & Resource Planning|Tags: Best of, capacity planning, case study, customer service, Data & Analytics, ERP, Industrial Manufacturing, predictability, Production & Materials Planning, Production scheduling, productivity, profitability, scalability, supply chain planning, workforce planning|

Reallocating Manufacturing & Supply Chain Capacity to Mitigate Risk & Ensure Success
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Reallocating Manufacturing & Supply Chain Capacity to Mitigate Risk & Ensure Success

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Reallocating Manufacturing & Supply Chain Capacity to Mitigate Risk & Ensure Success

The supply chain is in a constant state of disruption. As we discussed on Supply Chain Chats, simple backup plans are no longer enough. In fact, you can look at recent events and determine if a backup is sufficient. Starting with the pandemic, of course, most if not all companies didn't have a sufficient enough backup plan.

admin2026-06-10T20:29:14-07:00April 29, 2024|Categories: Supply Chain Planning, Capacity & Resource Planning|Tags: backup sources of supply, geopolitical risk, global trade, Risk Management, S&OP, SIOP, supply chain chokepoints, supply chain disruptions, supply chain optimization, transportation|

Proactive Approach to Maximizing Production Output & Capacity
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Proactive Approach to Maximizing Production Output & Capacity

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Proactive Approach to Maximizing Production Output & Capacity

Clients are struggling to keep up with customer's changing requests. Order backlogs remain relatively high (depending on the industry), but customers are pushing orders out at the last minute, pulling orders in without notice, adding future potential orders, and changing requirements on the fly. Production is scrambling to keep up.

admin2026-06-20T19:26:00-07:00January 5, 2024|Categories: Supply Chain Planning, Capacity & Resource Planning|Tags: Best of, capacity planning, case study, customer service, ERP, Industrial Manufacturing, On-Time Delivery, predictability, Production & Materials Planning, profitability, Revenue growth, S&OP, scalability, SIOP, supply chain planning, Throughput|

Using Capacity Planning to Increase Revenue & Profitability
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Using Capacity Planning to Increase Revenue & Profitability

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Using Capacity Planning to Increase Revenue & Profitability

Manufacturing is on a downward trend after eight months of PMI (purchasing manager's index) below 50. It dropped to 46 in June. China's manufacturing also shrank for a third month in a row to a PMI of 49. Yet manufacturers backlogs remain relatively robust in many industries, leading executives perplexed on what to do about capacity shortfalls.

admin2026-06-20T14:26:54-07:00July 6, 2023|Categories: Supply Chain Planning, Capacity & Resource Planning|Tags: Best of, capacity planning, case study, customer service, demand planning, Industrial Manufacturing, predictability, Production & Materials Planning, profitability, Revenue growth, S&OP, scalability, SIOP, supply chain planning, workforce planning|

Labor Scheduling: Maximize Operational Performance & Serve Customers
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Labor Scheduling: Maximize Operational Performance & Serve Customers

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Labor Scheduling: Maximize Operational Performance & Serve Customers

At its simplest, labor scheduling is determining which people (and which skills) you should have at which sites at which work centers at what time (shift) to ensure the right products can be delivered to the right customer at the right time.

admin2026-06-20T15:33:01-07:00December 30, 2022|Categories: Supply Chain Planning, Capacity & Resource Planning|Tags: Best of, capacity planning, customer service, predictability, Production & Materials Planning, Production scheduling, productivity, profitability, Resiliency, scalability, supply chain planning, workforce planning|

NESCON: Managing Capacity in a Complex & Volatile Long-Lead Environment
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NESCON: Managing Capacity in a Complex & Volatile Long-Lead Environment

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NESCON: Managing Capacity in a Complex & Volatile Long-Lead Environment

Lisa Anderson facilitated a panel discussion at the New England Supply Chain Conference and Exposition on managing capacity in complex and volatile environments with Shari Ruelas General Manager of Commercial Products Chevron, Alejandro Bustamante Senior Advisor to CEO & Board of Directors of Poly/HP, and Dan Raatjes SVP & COO King's Hawaiian Holding Co.

admin2026-06-07T21:36:04-07:00October 23, 2022|Categories: In The News, Supply Chain Planning, Capacity & Resource Planning|Tags: capacity planning, leadership, VUCA|

Managing Capacity in Complex, Volatile, Long-Lead Environment
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Managing Capacity in Complex, Volatile, Long-Lead Environment

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Managing Capacity in Complex, Volatile, Long-Lead Environment

Managing capacity during these turbulent times in a complex, volatile, long-lead time environment has proven quite the challenge. During the pandemic, sales volumes either dropped like a rock or skyrocketed with no middle ground. Most manufacturers have not been able to keep up with demand in the last [...]

admin2026-06-22T16:11:56-07:00October 5, 2022|Categories: Supply Chain Planning, Capacity & Resource Planning|Tags: capacity planning, customer service, digital transformation, nearshoring, predictability, Resiliency, scalability, supply chain disruptions, supply chain planning, workforce planning|

Capacity Planning Best Practices to Support Sales Growth
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Capacity Planning Best Practices to Support Sales Growth

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Capacity Planning Best Practices to Support Sales Growth

Capacity planning is the structured process of determining whether your organization has the resources required to meet your demand plan and support your revenue growth goals. Capacity plans analyze machinery and equipment, labor and skills, facilities and space, and suppliers and supply chain partner capabilities to ensure you can [...]