Plan units in Enterprise Planning

Plan units are used to manage interdependencies that exist in constraint-based production planning. A plan unit groups plan items that must be planned together because of capacity or material constraints.

Plan units are only necessary for workload control.

How to define plan units

  1. Identify the main planning entities in a manufacturing facility. A planning entity usually consists of items that share a particular (bottleneck) resource, or items that share a particular (critical) material.
  2. Define each planning entity as a plan unit in the Plan Unit (cprpd6100m000) session. Select the appropriate master-planning engine for the plan unit.
  3. Assign each item involved to a particular plan unit (in the Items - Planning (cprpd1100m000) session).