Enterprise Planning

• Project Pegging

  Selected finished goods and components within a project need cost accountability. You can now indicate if project pegging is required for finished goods and components. During the life cycle of these items, the pegging policy can be changed or exceptions made for individual items.

• Project Group Planning

  You can use Planning groups to segregate the planning of project specific demand and supply. Commingling and cost transfer rules are defined on planning group level to control supply planning of project pegged items within the planning group or within several planning groups.

  Project excess inventory occurs if the actual consumption is less than originally planned, or lot size policies cause the ordering or production of more items than required. Unless the customer chooses to dispose of the excess inventory, it can be consumed by other projects. Transfer of excess inventories is accomplished by permanent cost transfer.

  A cost transfer is a project cost account change and not a physical transfer of items. Cost transfer rules determine under which conditions excess inventory on projects is made available for transfer to other projects or to allowed to receive excess inventory from other projects. Transfer rules for 'transfer out' and 'transfer in' can differ per project. You can define the rules for each direction separately.

  Commingling of project requirements for project pegged items is possible across project planning groups. Commingling can also be restricted to a specific planning group. You can exclude specific project cost accounts from commingling.

  Supply orders for cost pegged items have a project peg distribution. The peg distribution contains the following:

  • Item
  • Required quantity
  • Unit
  • Configuration

  • Project cost account elements

    The distribution line shows information related to the top demand order for example: customer, contract, program, prime contractor, top demand order data.

  Manual permanent project cost transfers can be preformed in case of the following exceptions:

  • Override a supply decision of the planning engine.
  • Avoidance of stagnation in production because of rejects or defective items by transferring items from other project.
  • Transfer of excess inventory from a project when the project needs to be closed. In this situation it is possible to transfer all items with excess at once.

The following modules include the new or changed functionality in Infor LN 10.2.1:

• Plan Transfer
• Resource Planning Data
• Order Planning