Requirements Planning

Use the Requirements Planning module to generate the planned orders for material, equipment, and subcontracting, using the data from the Budgeting and Planning modules and project planning.

  • Generate planned PRP orders

    A planned PRP order comes from a budget requirement and is an order advice that you can transfer to a purchase or a warehouse order.

  • Rescheduling messages

    Rescheduling messages are displayed when you change the planning or the delivery dates. You can specify whether to cancel or reschedule the orders.

  • Planned PRP purchase orders

    You can create and control planned purchase orders, purchase schedules, and requests for quotations in Procurement. You can use planned orders for material, equipment, and subcontracting (standard and project cost objects).

  • Planned PRP warehouse orders

    Planned warehouse orders are the recommended orders based on the projected budget and projected start date. You create or confirm a planned warehouse order to reserve inventory in any warehouse. If a customized item is manufactured using a production order, the item is stored in a warehouse after it is finished.

  • Warehouse order - Phantom item link

    You can view the details of phantom items that are linked to warehouse orders.

  • Order history

    In Project, you can examine the order history of a project's purchase and warehouse transactions. In addition, you can view the purchase transactions for equipment and subcontracting.

  • Delivered order lines (Material)

    You can view the cost-object transaction history for material. You can track all purchase orders in Procurement, and track transfer orders in Warehousing. These purchase and transfer orders are delivered to or taken from the project or project warehouse.

  • Generate service orders

    Service orders are generated in Project. These orders are based on the budget lines created based on the reference activity linked to the project activity.

  • Cost peg supplying relationships

    You can establish a link between the cost pegs of the project/ company that supplies and receives the project deliverables. This allows you to monitor all the related costs and transactions.

    To transfer the cost pegs from the project:

    • The status of the receiving project must be Free or Active.
    • The Project Pegging check box must be selected in the Implemented Software Components (tccom0100s000) session for the receiving company.
    • The item must be cost pegged. If the required item is not cost pegged, Infor LN generates an error message.
  • Integration of Project with Service

    Based on the contract, you may need to provide service requests associated with completed projects. To handle these requests, the project details such as the structure and the materials consumed during the project are transferred to the Service module.

  • Usability

    The default plan must be used, when you create a project or an activity is displayed, only if the plan is required.

  • You can utilize the Use Plan option to specify the default plan that must be used to create a project or an activity and view the Plan field where an activity is used. However, when you create a project with activities, Infor LN uses the default plan. This is required, as project data must be linked to a plan.

  • The functionality of the Repository Location field is enhanced.

  • Connection Node

    You can utilize the Connection Node option to connect the activity or node of the Infor LN Project with the activity or node of a project in the external scheduling package.

    You can view the project data linked to the external scheduling package. You can view the activity information, ownership and the project - connection node combinations. You can also view the projects that are scheduled for import/ export.

  • Using LN Calendars

    Using the Use LN Calendars option, you can export Infor LN Calendar data to the external scheduling interface and implement the planning in the External Scheduling Package (ESP).

  • Project Structure

    You can define the Start Percentage, End Percentage, and Milestone Percentage for the Activities, to calculate the Earned value of the project.

  • Project Selection

    You can manage multiple projects that are to be imported-exported from or to the external scheduling package (ESP). This allows the planner to update multiple projects simultaneously. You can also maintain the project – connection node combinations owned by you, which are scheduled for import/ export.