Introduction to Capacity Planning

Includes topics,
00:00 Overview
00:28 Capacity planning
02:05 Importance of capacity decisions
05:21 Defining design capacity, effective capacity and actual capacity
07:31 Measuring capacity - efficiency & utilization
07:54 Efficiency and utilization calculation example
08:35 Determinants of effective capacity
11:22 Key decisions of capacity planning
13:03 Steps for capacity planning
13:49 Forecasting capacity requirements
14:26 Calculating processing requirements example
15:13 Planning service capacity
16:28 In-house or outsourcing?
19:06 Developing capacity alternatives
20:24 Bottleneck operation
22:46 Optimal rate of output
23:27 Economies of scale
24:29 Evaluating capacity alternatives
25:13 Cost volume relationships
28:06 Break-even problems with step fixed costs
32:24 Assumptions of cost volume analysis
33:11 Financial analysis
33:42 Decision theory
34:14 Waiting line analysis