To use planning clusters for production planning

The supply source of the plan item is Job Shop, if you set the Supply Source field in the Items - Planning (cprpd1100m000) session to Item Source and the Default Supply Source in the Items (tcibd0501m000) session set to Job Shop. Or the current moment falls in a period for which you have defined a date effectivity line in the Date-Effective Supply Source (tcibd0510m000) session, with the Actual Supply Source field set to Job Shop.

For proper material flow in the bill of material of a clustered plan item, the warehouses on the bill of material (BOM) lines should be linked to the same planning cluster. If a production order in planning cluster X requests materials from planning cluster Y, while no planned distribution set up between the two planning clusters, the request will cause conflicts in the distribution logic of order planning, which can only process shipments between planning clusters via planned distribution orders, or warehouse transfers.

Similarly, the work centers linked in the Item - Routings (tirou1101m000) session, should use shop floor warehouses linked to the same planning cluster.

Example: distribution structure with clusters

In the following example, R is a resource, A through F are warehouses.

[...]
Cl XPlanning Cluster X
Cl YPlanning Cluster Y
Cl ZPlanning Cluster Z

Item BIKE is manufactured in resource R, with warehouse A

Warehouse A is part of planning cluster X

Planning cluster X has two supplying relations:

  • To planning cluster Y with two warehouses
  • To planning cluster Z with two warehouses

In Enterprise Planning, the item BIKE is represented by the following plan items:

  • Clustered item X BIKE represents the item stocked in warehouses B and C.
  • Clustered item Y BIKE represents the item stocked in warehouses D and E.
  • Clustered item Z BIKE represents the item stocked in warehouse F.

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