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
- 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.
- Define each planning entity as a plan unit in the Plan Unit (cprpd6100m000) session. Select the appropriate master-planning engine for the plan unit.
- Assign each item involved to a particular plan unit (in the Items - Planning (cprpd1100m000) session).