Capacity planning · The demand plan · Element

The volumes

Expected demand by period and by product family.

The part

What it is

Product family matters because different products consume the constraint differently, and a volume figure without mix tells you very little.

Committed and forecast demand should be distinguished, since only the first is a fact.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.