Setting Up Planned Transfer Order Replication

The MRP and APS systems generate planned transfer supply orders (PLNs) for any components provided by remote supply sites. The due date on these PLNs will be based on each item's lead time and transit time. To generate the corresponding planned transfer demand, or TPLN, at the supply site (that is, for the supply site to "see" this demand), you must set up the system to replicate the planned transfer order to the supply site.

The Planning category is already set up for you on the Replication Categories form. You do not need to change the settings.

You must define the receiving site, supply site, and update frequency parameters for replicating the transfer orders. Follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to the Replication Rules form.
  2. Select Actions > Filter > Cancel in Place.
  3. Select Actions > New.
  4. In the Source Site field, select the ID of the receiving site (the site where the demand originates).
  5. In the To Site field, select the ID of the supply site that produces the component. This should be the same site defined as the Supply Site on the item record. The planned transfer order will be replicated at this site.
  6. In the Category field, select Planning.
  7. In the Interval Type field, select the interval at which you want the transfer orders to be replicated to the target site.
  8. See the help topics for the remaining fields on this form for additional options.
  9. Select Actions > Save to save the record.
  10. Repeat these steps to create replication rule records for every Source-Target site combination in which you want transfer orders to be replicated.
Note: 
  • Sites running MRP Planning can replicate transfer orders to sites running APS Planning. Sites running APS Planning (in single-site mode) can replicate transfer orders to sites running MRP Planning. However, sites running APS Planning in Global mode cannot replicate transfer orders to MRP sites.
  • Multiple planned transfer demands are consolidated before being replicated to the supply site.
  • At the supply site, the planned transfer demand is incrementally planned as soon as it arrives (automatically). However, the resulting projected date for the order is not replicated back to the receiving site that generated the demand. At the receiving site, when you firm the planned transfer supply order into an actual transfer order, the system replicates that transfer order to the supply site and deletes the planned transfer demand (TPLN). Replication always keeps supply and demand transfer orders synchronized (but it does not do this for planned transfer orders).
  • The due date on a planned transfer order reflects transit time.
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