Plan items in Enterprise Planning

Each item that is planned using Enterprise Planning must not only be defined as an item in Common, but also as a plan item in Enterprise Planning.

When you define an item in Common, in the Items (tcibd0501m000) session, you can specify its order system in the Items - Ordering (tcibd2100m000) session. If the order system is Planned, LN automatically starts the Items - Planning (1100m000) session, where you can define or manage the corresponding plan items.

You can define default data for plan items in the Item Planning Defaults (cprpd1110m000) session.

Plan-item settings

The plan item's settings in the Items - Planning (cprpd1100m000) session determine, among other things:

  • Whether an item master plan is maintained for a plan item.
  • Which supply-planning method is used ( master planning, order planning, or both. )
  • Which types of ATP and CTP checks are applied.

Enterprise Planning uses the following data, some of which is stored in Manufacturing, and some of which in Enterprise Planning:

  • Bills of critical materials (BCM)
  • Bills of critical capacities (BCC)
  • Bills of material (Job Shop BOM)
  • Routings
  • Aggregation relationships
  • Supplying relationship
  • Production model
  • Subcontracting Models

You can maintain the data related to the BOM and the routings in the Bill of Material and Routing modules of Manufacturing.

The production models and subcontracting models are maintained in the Repetitive Manufacturing and Subcontracting modules of Manufacturing.

The bill of critical materials, bill of critical capacities, aggregation relationships and supplying relationships are maintained in Enterprise Planning.