Supply Strategy (cprpd7120m000)

	Supply Strategy (cprpd7120m000) Use this session to define the supply strategy. Related topics Selecting External Suppliers Selecting internal suppliers To search sourcing strategies Project items in Enterprise Planning Sources of supply: production, purchase, or distribution 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. Related topics Scenarios in Enterprise Planning 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. Related topics Plan levels and product families Planning Cluster An object used to support business processes such as forecasting, inventory planning, or sales. A planning cluster represents one or more business locations for which these planning processes are performed. Various entities such as warehouses, work centers, sales offices, or purchase offices are grouped by planning clusters to accomplish that planning is performed for these groups of entities. If multisite is activated, and Enterprise Planning is implemented, a planning cluster must include one or more sites. The site or sites include the entities for which the planning processes are performed. Related topics Planning Clusters in Enterprise Planning Item Group A 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. Related topics To search sourcing strategies 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 planning 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 planning cluster level. Related topics To search sourcing strategies 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. Allowed values distribution-purchase 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. Allowed values possible priority rules Allocation Rule The allocation rule determines how LN distributes the requirements over the available suppliers of equal priority. Allowed values Possible Values 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 View Tree Structure Displays an overview in a tree format.