Advanced Planning, Scheduling & APS worked example

Capacity Leveling Savings at 99% available leveled capacity: a worked example

This scenario runs the capacity leveling savings calculation on the strong side: 99% available leveled capacity, with every other input held at its documented default. a capacity planner needs to evaluate whether leveling load creates enough usable capacity

The inputs for this scenario

  • Leveled hours per bucket: 14 hr/bucket (unchanged)
  • Leveled planning buckets: 12 buckets (unchanged)
  • Available leveled capacity: 99 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 90)
  • Leveling execution yield: 94 % (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Gross leveled capacity = leveled hours per bucket × leveled planning buckets) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 156 leveled capacity hr for usable leveled capacity, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 168 leveled capacity hr for gross leveled capacity.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 1.68 leveled capacity hr for capacity availability loss.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 9.98 leveled capacity hr for leveling execution loss.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where available leveled capacity sits at 90% and the headline result is 142 leveled capacity hr, this scenario comes in 10% above the baseline at 156 leveled capacity hr.
  • Use it when sizing realistic load for a leveled APS plan, before committing dates against smoothed capacity that has not yet been derated. Treat this as a target state: the delta against the baseline quantifies what the improvement is worth before you commit to chasing it.

Results at a glance

  • Usable leveled capacity: 156 leveled capacity hr (headline result)
  • Gross leveled capacity: 168 leveled capacity hr
  • Capacity availability loss: 1.68 leveled capacity hr
  • Leveling execution loss: 9.98 leveled capacity hr

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Capacity Leveling Savings calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.