Requirements Planning

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

When creating or generating the Planned PRP purchase order, Infor LN defaults the Additional Information fields from the Contract Line, that is linked to the project peg of the planned order.

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.

When creating or generating the Planned PRP Warehouse order, Infor LN defaults the Additional Information fields from the Contract Line, that is linked to the project peg of the planned order. If you change the Planned PRP Warehouse order to Purchase order and vice versa, the Additional Information fields are also copied.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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).

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

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.

You can check the price, price origin, discount, and discount origin, if the BP is added or modified in the Planned PRP Purchase Order (Material) (tppss6110m000) and Purchase-Budget Detail Line (tpptc4120s000) sessions.

You can use the Alternative Items (tcibd0505m000) session, to replace the first item with an alternative item. This is applicable only if the alternative item is specified. When you add or modify an item, a message is displayed that an alternative item exists or the item must be replaced with the alternative item.

You can add the baseline when you create a new project procedure. The data of the user that last modified the baseline is also displayed.

To have a better control over the project order system, the PRP Purchase Order and PRP Warehouse Order options are included.

Element Relationships can be edited, so that customers can change the values of the fields when required.

The changes made to the elements are displayed in the Element History.

The changes made to the activities are displayed in the Activity History.

Specific fields in the Activities (tppss2100m000) session can be used for network planning.

You can update the Work Authorization Status of Elements/Activities from the current status to a new status.

You can also specify a reason for which the activity or element is On Hold. Based on this reason the status of a specific activity or element can be set to Free, Finished or Released.