Distribution planning

You can use Enterprise Planning for the logistic planning of items that you acquire from elsewhere in your company, or from an affiliated company. In Enterprise Planning, this type of supply is known as distribution.

You can set up a structure for distribution planning by defining planning clusters, and by modeling the goods flow through your supply chain by supplying relationships (in the Supplying Relationships (cprpd7130m000) session).

In Enterprise Planning, distribution volumes are planned in the form of planned distribution orders. Within the master-planning horizon, these planned distribution orders serve as a distribution plan.

When a distribution volume is planned, the related requirement is passed on to the required item (at the appropriate site), so that LN can take this dependent demand into account when this item is planned.

You can use the Transfer Order Planning (cppat1210m000) session to transfer planned distribution orders to the execution level of LN. Here the planned orders become either:

• Warehousing orders of the Transfer type (if the supply is within a site).
• Purchase orders (if the supply is between sites).