One important distinction with respect to factory operations scheduling is that factory operations scheduling system also handles the sequencing of each operation over each workstation whereas capacity requirements planning module is not concerned with sequencing. This implies that capacity losses which depend on the sequence of operations such as sequence dependent changeover times are modeled only approximately by this module. If sequencing of each operation is required to check the sufficiency of capacity, then factory operations scheduling module must be used.

The module has supporting functionality such as dynamic material requirements view, warning generation mechanism, dashboards for KPIs and resource utilization charts to better interpret results and support decision making.