Order planning, an overview

Order planning is a planning concept that has the following aspects:

  • A method for maintaining planning data (in various degrees of detail)
  • A method for supply planning (by generating planned orders)
Order-based planning view

Order planning works with the following types of order plans:

The item order plan is based on detailed planning data from various sources. The item order plan is not stored as such, but is composed online when you run the Item Order Plan (cprrp0520m000) session. You can choose between various levels of detail for the item order plan, ranging from 28-day periods to the level of individual orders.

Order-based supply planning

During an order simulation (RRP run), supply is planned in the form of planned orders. You can carry out an order simulation in the following sessions:

Enterprise Planning can generate three types of planned orders:

For planned production orders, Enterprise Planning uses:

  • BOMs to explode material requirements
  • Routings to calculate lead times and determine the necessary resource capacity

Instead of using routings, Enterprise Planning can also use fixed lead times for planned production orders.

Note
Planned supply orders

In the Planned Orders (cprrp1100m000) session you can:

  • Review existing planned orders
  • Modify existing planned orders
  • Manually create planned orders
Transfer to execution level

You can transfer planned orders to the execution level in the Transfer Order Planning (cppat1210m000) session, or transfer an order manually in the Transfer Planned Production Orders (cppat1211m000), which you can access via the appropriate menu of the Planned Orders (cprrp1100m000) session.