Lead times and order planning

The planning of lead times is a part of order planning (RRP). Order planning includes the simulation of orders to meet demand. During the simulation, requirements for an item are determined, after which planned orders with their start and finish dates are generated.

The offsetting of an order’s start and finish date includes the planning of lead times.

These steps are completed to plan the lead times:

1. Definition of lead times components
2. Use of lead time components in the order planning
3. Offsetting of the dates based on the lead times

Parts of the planning and offsetting are related to, or shared with packages other than Enterprise Planning.