| Item – Purchase Business Partner |
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| Field | Description |
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| Item | The item segment of the plan items to which this record applies.
All plan items with the same item code as the item code in the item supplier
information, can use this record. In this way, there can be a one-to-many
relation between plan item and item-supplier information. |
| Item Group | You can leave the item code empty and fill this field. In this
way, you can define the item-supplier information on two levels: item and item
group. Enterprise Planning always searches for the item level first and then for the item-group
level. |
| Ship-from Business Partner | The business partner from where the ordered item is shipped. Note: if the warehouse in the Ship-from Business Partners (tccom4521m000) session is not equal to the warehouse on plan
item data, this supplier is ignored. An empty warehouse for the ship-from
business partner means the business partner can deliver to any
warehouse. |
| Effective date and expiry date | The dates between which the record is effective. If the supplier
is not effective, LN does not consider the supplier during simulation. |
| Preferred | The preferred supplier among a group of alternative suppliers. At
any single time, only one item supplier can be the preferred supplier. |
| Status | This field indicates whether the supplier is blocked. |
| Priority (Sourcing tab) | LN uses
the priority of the item-supplier record for the supplier choice during the
order generation process. Zero is the highest priority, 999 is lowest
priority. |
| Sourcing Percentage (Sourcing tab) | LN uses
the sourcing percentage of the item-supplier record for the supplier choice
during the order generation process. The sourcing percentage is always used as
a relative percentage compared to the other item supplier records with the same
priority |
| Order Quantities (Ordering tab) | Each item-supplier record has its own order-quantity settings. Enterprise Planning applies
the rules of the most detailed level. The order-quantity settings fulfil the
same role as the order-quantity settings on Item Ordering level. |
| Carrier (Receiving tab) | Determines the transportation time that is used for the lead time
calculation of the planned order. |
| Lead Time Horizon | Determines the date from where the planning of the order lead
time is done. Planning is done only on the calculated lead time and not the
individual lead-time components. The use of a lead-time horizon saves system
performance of the order generation process. This horizon fulfills the same
role as the fixed-lead-time horizon in Enterprise Planning for
planned production orders. |
| Calculated Lead Time (display only) | The calculated lead time that represents the lead time
components. The calculated lead time is a combination of internal processing
time, safety time, supply time, transportation time and warehouse inbound time.
The calculated lead time fulfills the same role for planned purchase orders as
the order lead time on plan item data for planned production orders |
| Supplier Capacity (Shipments tab) | Reflects what the supplier can ship during a predefined span of
time. The supplier capacity is a constraint for order generation. When the
total supply of all the orders that were generated for this item-supplier
combination within the capacity time unit exceeds the capacity, Enterprise Planning generates no more orders. The constraint is not only determined by the supplier
capacity, but also by the maximum capacity tolerance. |
| Maximum Capacity Tolerance | Tolerance that indicates how far the supplier capacity
can be exceeded for order generation. The constraint for order generation is
thus determined by the following formula: ∑ (order quantities of all supply orders) per capacity time unit ] <= [ Supplier capacity * (1 + Maximum Capacity Tolerance/100) |
| Capacity Time Unit | Defines the bucket length for supplier capacity. LN calculates the
bucket start dates starting from the scenario start date |