Replicating planned transfer orders (Planning)

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.

In the Replication Rules form, you define the receiving site and supply site for replicating the transfer orders:

  • The Source Site must be the receiving site (the site where the demand originates).
  • The Target Site must be 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.

Additional notes:

  • Multiple planned transfer demands are consolidated before being replicated to the supply site.
  • When you replicate the Inventory/Transfers category, supply and demand transfer orders are synchronized; that is, a demand transaction at one site precedes the related supply transaction at the other site. However, if you also replicate the Planning category, planned transfer orders do not need to wait for a transfer order transaction from the other site, as demonstrated by this example:

    You run planning (either MRP or APS) at the receiving site. At the supply site, the planned transfer demand (TPLN) is automatically generated, with an XFD reference, as soon as it arrives – without having to firm a transfer order. In this way, the receiving site has immediate visibility of the TPLN ahead of the true Transfer Order. (With APS, the TPLN is incrementally planned.) 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 TPLN.

  • The due date on a planned transfer order reflects transit time.
  • 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.

This flow chart shows an example of Planned Transfer replication: