| | Supply Strategy (cprpd7120m000) Scenario The identification of an overall planning solution. Each scenario represents one overall planning solution, and
involves particular settings for the planning of items and resources. You can
use scenarios to analyze and compare various planning options and to find the
best planning solution. For example, you can vary demand forecasts or sourcing
strategies. One of the scenarios is the actual scenario, which
corresponds with the actual planning situation. You can only transfer planned
orders and production plans from the actual scenario to the execution level of LN. Plan Level The level within a hierarchical planning structure. When you plan on a higher plan level, plans are general and
less detailed. Example Plan level 1 is the highest plan level; the higher the
number, the lower the plan level. You can carry out distribution planning with product families, because
each plan level has its own sourcing rules and supply rules. Cluster In Enterprise Planning, a grouping of warehouses connected to each other by
supplying relationships. A cluster represents a geographical location that consists of
one or more warehouses. Enterprise Planning considers these warehouses as one unit for planning
purposes. Item Group Group of items with similar characteristics. Each item belongs
to a particular item group. The item group is used in combination with the item
type to set up item defaults. Plan Item An item with the order system Planned. The production, distribution, or purchase of these items is
planned in Enterprise Planning based on the forecast or the actual demand. You can plan these items by means of the following: - Master-based planning, which is similar to master production
scheduling techniques.
- Order-based planning, which is similar to
material-requirements planning techniques.
- A combination of master-based planning and order-based
planning.
Plan items can be one of the following: - An actual manufactured or purchased item.
- A product family.
- A basic model, that is, a defined product variant of a
generic item.
A group of similar plan items or families is called a product
family. The items are aggregated to give a more general plan than the one
devised for individual items. A code displayed by the item code's cluster
segment shows that the plan item is a clustered item that is used for
distribution planning. Note - This is the item code without the cluster segment because
this segment is not used.
- If you leave this field empty, the supply strategy is
defined on item group level or on cluster level.
Supply Type In LN,
the type of supplier (internal or external) for which a supply strategy is
used. LN uses
internal suppliers to generate distribution orders, and external suppliers to
generate purchase orders. Effectivity Date The first day on which a record or a setting is valid. The
effective date often includes the effective time. Expiry Date The last day on which a record is valid. If you do not specify
an expiry time, the validity expires at the end of the expiry date, at 24:00
hours. Priority Rule The priority rule determines the
criteria based on which LN choses one (internal or external) supplier
before the other suppliers. Allocation Rule The allocation rule determines
how LN distributes the
requirements over the available suppliers of equal priority. One Supply per Requirement If this check box is selected, one requirement is
always covered by a single planned purchase order. LN alternates between the
available suppliers to realize the specified percentages as near as possible. effective date You can modify this check box only if the Allocation Rule is set to Historic Percentage Check Lead Time If this check box is selected, LN also checks whether
the supplier can deliver in time. You can modify this check box only if the Allocation Rule is set to Historic Percentage | |
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