Validating sites and clusters

The Sites and Clusters option validates the fields and field settings that have been generated for external sites and external clusters when setting the Resources by Site concept to In Preparation.

The new check boxes Customer Site and Subcontractor Site for external sites could not be selected during the generation process in these cases:

  • The site is external, but no subcontractor or sold-to business partner is linked to the site.
  • The site is external and administrative. This is not allowed if the Resources by Site concept is activated.

The new check box Holds Subcontractor Sites for planning clusters is not selected during the generation process because the option to model subcontractors in an external cluster is new.

The new check box Customer Site is selected for all external planning clusters.

The settings resulting from the generation process may not be correct for all planning clusters. To specify the correct settings for a planning clusters, create a new planning cluster and specify the correct settings.

The validation process checks if product subcontracting models and Job Shop routings that use subcontracting have links to external sites that are not linked to a subcontractor. If yes, these errors are reported:

  • A subcontracting work center is linked to an external site that is not linked to a subcontractor.
  • A product subcontracting model has a subcontractor warehouse that is linked to an external site that is not linked to a subcontractor.

A subcontracting site cannot have an internal department. If this is found during the validation, this error is reported: “A subcontracting site has a department other than a subcontracting work center.”