# Create capacity plans using forecasts and scenarios in Amazon Connect
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Before you can create a capacity plan, you must create a planning scenario and publish a long-term forecast. Amazon Connect uses the forecasts and planning scenarios as inputs for creating the capacity plan. If you haven't yet created a forecast and planning scenario, see [Getting started with forecasting](forecasting.md#getting-started-forecasting) and [Create capacity planning scenarios in Amazon Connect](capacity-planning-create-scenarios.md). 

## How to create a capacity plan
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1. Navigate to the **Capacity Plans** tab, and choose **Generate Plan**.

1. Provide the plan name, description, forecast group (which has published long-term and short-term forecasts), start/end date, and plan scenario. The following image shows example values for these fields.  
![\[The Generate Plan page, the Plan Inputs section, example values.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/connect/latest/adminguide/images/wfm-capacity-planning-create-plan.png)

1. Choose **Generate Capacity Plan**.

1. To quickly identify the plan that is in processing, choose **Last Computed** to sort the table list. In the following image, the status of the plan is **In Progress**.  
![\[The capacity planning page, the Status column set to In progress.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/connect/latest/adminguide/images/wfm-capacity-planning-in-progress.png)

   It usually takes between 5-10 minutes for the plan to be generated. If the plan generation fails, try publishing the selected long-term forecasts, and then generating the capacity plan again.