Local production and purchasing

The plan items in the clusters can be supplied not only by distribution, but also through purchase and production. In this way, you can, for example, plan local purchasing in a cluster (geographical area). You can also plan supply from multiple sources.

Example

Eighty percent of an item’s required quantity is supplied by distribution from the central warehouse to the cluster (regional distribution center), and twenty percent of the item’s required quantity is purchased locally by the cluster.

The following figure shows the sourcing possibilities for clustered plan items:

You cannot use the source production for more than one of the clustered and nonclustered items, because only one bill of material and routing for each item is available.