The runtime calendar used for scheduling and resource allocation.

The actual calendar is linked to a calendar code, and inherits all the details of the its parent calendar.

For example, the actual calendar for calendar code A consists of the calendar lines from A. It also consists of the lines from its parent calendars plus, the lines from the standard calendar.

The supply quantity that has already been received from the goods flow, that is, from actual orders.

The actual receipts are only recorded for the current plan period. These receipts have already been included in the inventory on hand.

The scenario that contains the operational master plan or order plan, as opposed to scenarios used only for simulation, that is, what-if analysis.

The actual scenario is the only scenario from which you can transfer planned orders to the execution level.

A full set of address-related details, which include the postal address, access to telephone, fax, telex numbers, and email, Internet address, identification for taxation purposes, and routing information.

A specification, expressed as a percentage, of how items are aggregated or disaggregated.

To aggregate items means that different items are grouped to form product families for planning purposes. This is also called a planning bill of material. To disaggregate items means that a product family is split up into smaller families, or into items.

Aggregation relationships can have the same structure as a single-level bill of material. However, similar to production bills of materials, also multilevel structures can be created.

Example

A specification, expressed as a percentage, how items are aggregated or disaggregated.

To aggregate items means that different items are grouped to form product families for planning purposes. This is also called a planning bill of material. To disaggregate items means that a product family is split up into smaller families, or into items.

Aggregation relationships can have the same structure as a single-level bill of material. However, similar to production bills of materials, also multilevel structures can be created.

Example

The reservation of inventory against a demand prior to the outbound process.

You can allocate a quantity of inventory to a business partner or a particular demand order.

The rule that defines how Enterprise Planning determines the quantity that must be supplied by a supplier or supplying planning cluster. For example, a percentage of the total supply or the supplier's capability to supply.

The maximum volume that you want to sell to customers in a particular channel. When this maximum is reached in a certain channel ATP period, you accept no more customer orders for that channel.

A substitute for a BOM material that the system can select in case the standard material is out of stock.

An alternative material is supposed to meet the same specifications, but only in the context of a BOM for a specific main item.

Commands are distributed across the Views, References, and Actions menus, or displayed as buttons. In previous LN and Web UI releases, these commands are located in the Specific menu.

A component used on an assembly line.

An assembly part forms the link between Configurator and Enterprise Planning. Configurator generates the requirements for assembly parts and Enterprise Planning plans the production or purchase of the item.

The date until which LN performs ATP and CTP checks.

The ATP horizon is expressed as a number of working days during which LN can carry out ATP and CTP checks. Beyond the ATP/CTP horizon, LN does not check ATP or CTP: all customer orders are accepted.

A group of planned orders, for which the criteria for inclusion are stored.

If you run the order planning process with the automatic-update feature activated, LN updates these order groups based on the stored selection criteria.

An indication of the type of activity for which a resource is available. With availability types, you can define multiple sets of working times for a single calendar.

For example, if a work center is available for production on Monday through Friday and available for service activities on Saturdays, you can define two availability types, one for production and one for service activities and link these availability types to the calendar for that work center.

The total capacity available, for either a day or a week, usually based on the work center calendar.

The time required for setting up or changing over a machine before you start running the machine. Setup time can be long, for example, if you change over from using black paint to using white paint. Setup time can be short, for example, if you change over from using white paint to using yellow paint. The setup time must indicate an average of all possible setup times.

All the customer's orders that are received but not yet shipped. Sometimes they are referred to as open orders on the order board. In assembly line production, orders which are behind schedule.

An unfilled customer order, or partial delivery at a later date. A demand for an item whose inventory is insufficient to satisfy demand.

The normal daily number of operation hours of the resource units of a work center (resource). A resource unit can be a machine or an employee.

The capacity on a work center is Week Capacity [Hours] * Available Labor Resources or Number of Machines. The basic week capacity, the number of operators, and the number of machines are defined in the Work Centers (tirou0101m000) session.

Bills of critical capacities (BCC) indicate the work centers that are regarded as critical in the Master Planning processes. Critical capacities are usually the bottlenecks in a routing.

Enterprise Planning uses the bill of critical capacities to generate the rough capacity requirements for critical capacities.

A list of all parts, raw materials, and subassemblies that go into a manufactured item and show the quantity of each of the parts required to make the item. The BOM shows the single-level product structure of a manufactured item.

When a product is manufactured, components are assembled into subassemblies, and those subassemblies are in turn assembled into the final product. The components that go together at each stage are described in a bill of material. Each stage is one level in the bill of material.

The listing of the wheel components is one level in the bill of material. The listing of the subassemblies of the bicycle is the highest level, and is frequently referred to as level zero.

Example

A bicycle has one frame and two wheels. The frame is made of three tubes. The wheels are each made of one rim, one hub, and 35 spokes.

A plan that includes the budgeted quantities and/or amounts by period for the sorts selected; the budgeted or expected sales or purchase figures.

An XML message used to exchange data between enterprises or enterprise applications. The BOD is composed of a noun, which identifies the message content, and a verb, which identifies the action to be taken with the document. The unique combination of the Noun and the Verb forms the name of the BOD. For example, noun ReceiveDelivery combined with verb Sync results in BOD SyncReceiveDelivery.

A party with whom you carry out business transactions, for example, a customer or a supplier. You can also define departments within your organization that act as customers or suppliers to your own department as business partners.

The business partner definition includes:

• The organization's name and main address.
• The language and currency used.
• Taxation and legal identification data.

You address the business partner in the person of the business partner's contact. The business partner's status determines if you can carry out transactions. The transactions type (sales orders, invoices, payments, shipments) is defined by the business partner's role.

The employee of your company who is the contact to the concerned buy-from business partner. The buyer is also known as the purchasing agent.

A work center of the type Costing that is used to determine the enterprise unit for a project, or production order and also has an administrative function.

A set of definitions, that are used to build a list of calendar working hours. A calendar is identified by a calendar code and availability type combination.

A list of workable days, that is used to build a calendar.

The capacity of a resource that is available in a plan period for additional production of a plan item in connection with a customer order.

The capacity CTP is used in capable-to-promise calculations.

An availability check on the capacity necessary to produce an extra quantity of an item to deliver a customer order on time.

The capacity CTP check is performed on resources in the item's bill of critical capacities or on the work centers of the item's routing, depending on the order horizon. Only the resources defined as CTP critical are checked.

Resource capacity reserved for the (as yet unplanned) production of items for which the demand could not be covered by the ATP of the items themselves.

This reservation is made in the following situation:

• There is a demand for item A that cannot be covered by this item's ATP.
• A capacity CTP check is carried out for item A.
• The bill of critical capacities for item A contains resource R.
• Resource R is defined as CTP critical.
• The capacity CTP of resource R is higher than zero.

If the demand for item A is recorded as a customer order, a capacity CTP reservation is recorded for resource R, and the resource's capacity CTP is reduced accordingly.

The number of hours that a resource is used for production.

Alternatively, a percentage indicating the capacity use as a proportion of the total available capacity.

A defined calendar that you can use to plan and calculate operations by different packages.

A sales or distribution channel used to assign goods to customer groups.

You can link channels to sold-to business partners and to items. Channels can be used in connection with available-to-promise (ATP).

You can assign a certain ATP volume to a channel. This volume limits the ATP for that channel to a maximum.

The item quantity that can still be promised to customers in a particular sales channel.

The channel ATP depends on the allowed demand for a channel. The total allowed demand for one channel ATP period forms the initial value of the channel ATP in that period. Every time a demand is recorded within this channel and within this channel ATP period, this demand is subtracted from the channel ATP.

Channel ATP is used to limit the supply that goes to specific channels, and to secure that enough quantity is left to supply other important customers.

A check on the quantity that can be promised to a customer based on the allowed demand for the channel to which the customer belongs.

Note that the main purpose of channel ATP is to reserve a certain quantity of the product for other channels, for example, for strategic reasons.

Example

A customer belongs to the direct marketing sales channel. The allowed demand for this channel is 50,000 piece per period. A quantity can be promised to the customer, as long as the total sales volume for that channel in that period does not exceed 50,000.

An item-specific logistic plan that contains sales targets and constraints for a specific combination of a sales channel and plan item.

A channel is a grouping of customers and items.

A channel master plan supports sales-related functions such as demand forecasting and due-date quoting, as well as aggregation.

A working environment in which you can carry out logistic or financial transactions. All the transaction data is stored in the company's database.

Depending on the type of data that the company controls, the company is:

• A logistic company.
• A financial company.
• A logistic and a financial company.

In a multicompany structure, some of the database tables can be unique for the company and the company can share other database tables with other companies.

An availability check on the components necessary to produce an extra quantity of an item to deliver a customer order on time.

The type of check that is performed on a component item itself depends on the CTP parameters for the component in question.

The component CTP check is performed on components in the bill of critical materials or the bill of material, depending on the order horizon. Only components defined as CTP critical are checked.

The item quantity reserved to be used as critical components for the (as yet unplanned) production of other items.

This reservation is made when the ATP data in an item master plan is updated and the following is true:

• The cumulative ATP for plan item A drops below zero.
• The plan item settings for item A are set to enable component CTP checks.
• The bill of critical material for item A contains item B.
• Item B is defined as CTP critical in the plan item settings.

In this case, a component CTP reservation is recorded for item B, and the ATP of item B is reduced accordingly. The quantity of item A that will be produced with the reserved quantity of the component is stored as CTP Reservation Receipts.

The part of the total forecast which the customer definitely expects to consume.

If the customer sends the forecast by period to the supplier that plans the supply, the customer can differentiate between confirmed and unconfirmed forecast.

Typically, confirmed forecast of a component is derived from actual sales orders and sales schedules of end item. The user can use various methods to determine how much of the forecast is confirmed forecast.

See also unconfirmed forecast.

The actual stock of a plan item in a VMI warehouse, as reported by the supplier to the customer.

In a vendor-managed-inventory situation, where the supplier is responsible for the supply planning of an item in a warehouse at the customer's site, the supplier keeps track of the inventory levels. In that case, the supplier informs the customer of the actual stock.

Quantity of the item the supplier has confirmed will be delivered to the customer on the planned delivery date.

The type of a confirmed-supply record that determines how that supply is handled.

Typical examples of confirmed supply types are:

• Stock

  Supply of type Stock is already present at the customer.

• Immediate

  Supply of type Immediate is used to bring the inventory level back to at least the agreed minimum inventory level.

• Planned

  Supply of type Planned is not to be transferred to the execution level until after a later planning run.

Other confirmed supply types are To Release and Released.

The part of the demand plan that has been consumed by the actual demand in a specific period.

As a rule, the demand forecast, extra demand, and special demand are gradually filled by actual orders. This process is referred to as consumption of forecast demand by actual demand.

An agreement of one customer with one supplier, about both commercial and logistic conditions, related to the supply of one item, during a period of time.

The production capacity of a resource, required by a plan item for the execution of that plan item's production plan.

The critical capacity requirements are based on a plan item's bill of critical capacities.

The critical capacity requirements are specified by plan period.

A plan item that is critical in CTP must be checked during a component CTP check for a higher level item in the bill of critical materials. A resource that is critical in CTP must be checked during a capacity CTP check for a plan item, if this resource is included in the plan item's bill of critical capacities.

The quantity of a plan item that is required to serve as critical components for the production of another plan item.

The critical material requirements are based on the production plan for an (end) item, and on its bill of critical materials.

The critical material requirements are specified by plan period. In the item master plan, critical material requirements are recorded as dependent material demand.

The number of working days from the current moment, during which LN does not perform CTP checks.

The CTP time fence must be smaller than the ATP/CTP horizon.

During the period of the CTP time fence, CTP is considered to be zero.

The total item quantity that you can promise to deliver in a particular plan period.

You can use the cumulative ATP to check the availability of an item when you receive a sales order or an inquiry.

The total resource capacity that is still available for additional production up to and including a particular plan period.

A generally accepted medium of exchange such as coins, treasury notes, and banknotes.

The following currency types are available in LN:

• Home currency, which is used internally by companies to calculate costs, record budgets, and register tax amounts
• Transaction currency, which is used in transactions with business partners, such as orders and invoices

The sales order quantities and the sales schedule quantities that have already been delivered to the customers involved.

The customer deliveries are part of the actual demand. These deliveries are used to consume the demand forecast, and to generate a new demand forecast.

An item supplied by the customer being used as material in the production of an end-item for that same customer.

The sales orders that have not yet been delivered to the customers involved.

The customer orders are part of the actual demand and are used to consume the demand forecast.

An item produced on a customer specification for a specific project. A customized item can have a customized BOM and/or a customized routing and is normally not available as a standard item. A customized item can, however, be derived from a standard item or a generic item.

The (average) time between completion of two separate units of production. For example, the cycle time of motors assembled at a rate of 120 per hour is 30 seconds.

The source that supplies an item by default. You can use purchase orders or schedules, production orders or schedules, assembly orders, or warehousing orders to supply an item.

The default supply source determines what type of order is used to supply the item, but in general, you can override the default and specify an alternate source.

The number of days late that a supplier can make a delivery.

The dates and quantities of an item that can be promised to a customer.

With this report you can determine how much volume can be delivered on time and how much is delivered late.

According to the item master plan, more chairs will be completed later that month. Some of those newly produced chairs have already been promised to other customers.

Example

A customer wants to order 80 office chairs, to be delivered on May 1. However, the CTP quantity on that day is only 30 chairs.

The item quantity that is forecast to be required in a plan period. A demand forecast can be generated based on seasonal patterns or historical demand data.

The demand forecast is part of the demand plan for a plan item or channel.

A relationship between a planned order, or an actual supply order, and an item requirement that represents a definite commitment.

You can only use the demand pegged supply for the pegged requirement, unless either of these conditions applies:

• The peg is deleted.
• Parameters allow issuing unallocated inventory or inventory of a different specification for a demand-pegged outbound order.

• Pegged supply

  The pegged supply can be a purchase order, a planned purchase order, a production order, a planned production order, a warehousing order with transaction type transfer, or a planned distribution order.

• Pegged requirement

  The pegged requirement can be, among other things, a sales order line or a required component for a production order.

Related term: soft peg

The expected demand for an item, specified by period.

The demand plan is the sum of

• demand forecast
• extra demand
• special demand

The demand plan belongs to the master plan for an item or channel.

A demand related to a demand for another item.

Two basic types of dependent demand exist:

• Demand for components that are used to manufacture an item.
• Demand that originates from another warehouse location or a related company.

With master planning, the dependent demand is equal to the sum of the following fields:

• dependent material demand
• dependent scheduled demand
• dependent distribution demand

LN explodes the ATP and the dependent demand of a main item to plan items that have the same planning cluster as the warehouse you specified on the bill of critical materials of the main item.

Demand that comprises the following:

• Demand arising when, at another warehouse location within the same plan company, or at a related plan company, a planned distribution order is generated.
• Demand which has the form of a customer order, and which is related to a multicompany requirement from another company. The customer order in question is generated when, at the other company, a planned distribution order is transferred to the execution level.

Demand for an item that results from the explosion of requirements of a production plan or a planned production order for another item.

In other words, when requirements for an item's production plan or planned production orders are exploded, this leads to dependent material demand for items that occur in the former item's bill of (critical) material.

Demand that comprises the following:

• Demand for an item resulting from the explosion of requirements of a production order for another item. In other words, when requirements for a shop-floor order for an item are exploded, this leads to dependent scheduled demand for the estimated materials of the shop-floor order.
• Demand for an item in the form of a warehousing order (transfer order) from another warehouse location within your company. In other words, when at the other location a planned distribution order is transferred to the execution level, this leads to dependent scheduled demand in your item's master plan.

The process in which a seller orders goods from a buy-from business partner, who must also deliver the goods directly to the sold-to business partner. By means of a purchase order that is linked to a sales order or a service order, the buy-from business partner delivers the goods directly to the sold-to business partner. The goods are not delivered from your own warehouse, so Warehousing is not involved.

In a Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) setup, a direct delivery is achieved by creating a purchase order for the customer warehouse.

A seller can decide for a direct delivery because:

• There is a shortage of available stock.
• The ordered quantity cannot be delivered in time.
• The ordered quantity cannot be transported by your company.
• Costs and time are saved.

The quantity that has been delivered to other companies to meet dependent distribution demand.

The item quantity that is planned to be delivered by internal or sister-company suppliers. These planned deliveries are shown in the item master plan as planned distribution orders (outside the order horizon).

The distribution plan belongs to the supply plan for a plan item.

The amount of an item to be purchased or manufactured at one time. This amount is the quantity for which the combined costs of acquiring and carrying inventory are the lowest. This is also referred to as the minimum cost order quantity.

The first day on which a record or a setting is valid. The effective date often includes the effective time.

A reference number, for example a sales order line or a project deliverable line, that is used to model deviations for a unit effective item.

A person who works at your company who has a specific function such as sales representative, production planner, buyer, or credit analyst.

A user-defined group of planned production orders.

A financially independent part of your organization that includes entities such as departments, work centers, warehouses, and projects. The enterprise unit's entities must all belong to the same logistic company, but a logistic company can contain multiple enterprise units. An enterprise unit is linked to a single financial company.

When you carry out logistic transactions between enterprise units, the resulting financial transactions are posted to the financial companies to which each enterprise unit is linked.

A deviation of an effective item's standard configuration. An exception indicates, for example, whether a specific BOM line or a specific routing operation is used for an effectivity unit. Exceptions are often created as a result of customer requirements, or technology upgrades.

A short standardized message that LN generates to advise the user to change or correct a specific planning parameter, value, or constraint to avoid undesired results or conflicts in planning.

The number of days for which Enterprise Planning generates exception messages of a certain type.

The exception message horizon is expressed as a number of working days from the date you carry out the simulation.

Beyond the exception message horizon, Enterprise Planning does not generate exception messages of the exception message type involved.

Within Enterprise Planning, the designation of the LN packages that control the execution of orders and the actual goods flow, such as:

• Manufacturing
• Order Management
• Warehousing

Enterprise Planning uses planning algorithms to carry out simulations and optimizations. The other packages control the execution of orders, and the goods flow.

The date from which a record or a setting is no longer valid. The expiry date often includes the expiry time.

The last day on which a record is valid. If you do not specify an expiry time, the validity expires at the end of the expiry date, at 24:00 hours.

A license required by the authorities before selling and/or shipping of items (high-tech, classified or potentially dangerous) which are regulated by law. Items requiring this license have restrictions applied to them in Enterprise Planning. Supply for export license required items or items containing an export licensed item can only be commingled with supply for the same project. Similar restrictions exist for cost transfer rules.

An extra item quantity that is expected to be sold in a plan period, on top of the regular demand forecast.

The extra demand is part of the demand plan for a plan item or channel.

Example

An extra demand can be defined for an unusual large customer order or an extra market demand because of sales promotions.

Time reserved for extra activities that are necessary to fully complete a planned order.

Enterprise Planning treats the extra lead time in the same way as the safety time: the order must be delivered earlier based on the extra lead time.

The extra lead time is expressed in days or in hours.

The logistic company in which an item family has been defined.

The family company makes it possible to redirect CTP checks to a central logistic company. When a customer order is received, the CTP is checked at the family level in the central company.

Example

A large manufacturer of sports articles produces baseball bats in several states. A central master plan is maintained at headquarters (the central company). Each company has the bat defined as an item, and aggregation relationships have been set up to a product family of baseball bats at the central company.

A CTP check that is carried out at a higher product-family level, instead of the level of the item itself.

Like the regular CTP check for an item, a family CTP check can involve several types of ATP and CTP checks.

In this case, you can configure LN so that, when the CTP of the mountain bike must be checked, LN will in fact check the CTP of the bicycle family.

Example

The mountain-bike item is part of the bicycle family.

The time period for which LN performs the capable-to-promise (CTP) check for an item on a higher product-family level, instead of the level of the item itself.

The start date of the family CTP horizon is defined in the plan-item settings. The end date coincides with the CTP time fence.

The application of family CTP depends on the plan period in which the delivery date of a customer order falls:

• If the plan period falls before the family CTP horizon, LN checks the CTP of the item itself.
• If the plan period falls within the family CTP horizon, LN checks the CTP on a higher product-family level.

A planned order that can no longer be modified by Enterprise Planning in an order-planning run. However, you can manually change a firm-planned order's start date and finish date, or the order quantity.

The first available number within a series. When you create orders, and so on, this number is offered by default. Series enable you to group orders of the same type by assigning order numbers starting with the same figures.

A code that identifies a collection of fixed dates and times on which external suppliers and internal suppliers are expected to make their deliveries to your address.

For each plan item you can select the appropriate fixed delivery code.

A specific date and time that you define as a firm and unchangeable time point on which goods must be delivered to you.

If you defined fixed delivery moments for a plan item, LN sets the unconstrained planned finish date back to the nearest fixed delivery moment.

You can define incidental fixed delivery moments, or define a pattern of recurring fixed delivery moments.

A schedule of recurring fixed delivery moments.

Enterprise Planning uses calendar recurrences to create fixed delivery patterns.

An indication whether the production time is fixed, or is dependent on the order quantity. If the production time has a fixed duration, then it equals the cycle time. If it is indicated that the production time does not have a fixed duration, the cycle time is multiplied by the order quantity.

For example, baking one bread in the oven takes one hour. Baking a hundred breads at once also takes a fixed duration of one hour.

The time period for which Enterprise Planning uses a fixed lead time to plan orders.

Planning with a fixed lead time is faster than planning on the basis of routing data, but the results are less precise.

The start date of the fixed lead-time horizon is defined in the plan-item settings. The end date coincides with the end of the order horizon.

Before the fixed lead-time horizon, Enterprise Planning plans on the basis of routing data. Within the fixed lead-time horizon, Enterprise Planning plans using a fixed lead time.

The demand for an item, calculated by the customer that purchases that item, and aggregated to forecast periods according to the agreed terms and conditions.

The customer sends the forecast to the supplier that plans the item supply.

The number of days into the future on which the calculation of the inventory plan is based.

The forecast horizon is expressed as a number of calendar days.

The forecast-based calculation of the inventory plan is based on the following principle: The inventory plan must be equal to the expected demand during a certain forecast horizon.

Example

If the forecast horizon is 10 days, LN aims at an inventory level for each plan period that is sufficient to cover the demand for the next 10 days.

The periods to which the customer aggregates forecast caused by multiple orders.

The forecast periods are based on the terms and conditions.

The date up until which Enterprise Planning ignores the demand forecast when generating master plans and planned orders. In the first few days after the current date, LN expects to receive no more sales orders than the actual sales orders that you already received.

A commission to transport a particular number of goods. A freight order includes an order header and one or more order lines.

A freight order header includes some general information, such as the delivery date and the name and address of the customer who is to receive the goods listed on the freight order.

A freight order line includes an item to be transported and some details about the item, such as the quantity and the dimensions.

A freight order entry. Freight order lines include information about an item to be transported entered on a freight order. A freight order line originates from a purchase-, sales-, warehouse-, or planned distribution order, or can be created manually.

The overlap period of the frozen zone+ and the frozen zone-. No changes to the purchase schedule line are permitted in this period.

The number of days, calculated from the current date, for which you can no longer reduce the quantity of required items.

The number of days, calculated from the current date, for which you can no longer increase the quantity of required items.

Set of components, per generic item, from which product variants can be composed. The generic bill of material forms the basis for the variant bill of material which arises during the configuration/generation of a product variant. For each BOM line (component) a constraint rule may apply.

An item that exists in multiple product variants. Before any manufacturing activities are performed on a generic item, the item must be configured to determine the desired product variant.

Example

Generic item: electric drill

Options:

• 3 power sources (batteries, 12 V or 220 V)
• 2 colors (blue, gray).

A total of 6 product variants can be produced with these options.

Forms the basis for the variant routing which arises during the configuration/generation of a product variant. For each operation line a constraint rule may apply.

A collective term for all transactions that influence the inventory of items, such as customer orders, production orders, and inventory adjustments.

Goods-flow data is recorded at the execution level of LN. When the goods-flow data in Enterprise Planning is updated, this data is loaded into Enterprise Planning as a basis for the planning. This data includes both historical and planned goods-flow transactions, as well as current inventory data.

For product families, LN generates the goods-flow data by aggregation through the aggregation relationships.

The time interval between the arrival of the items and the actual storage in the warehouse.

A demand that is unrelated to demand for other items.

Examples of independent demand:

• Demand for finished goods.
• Demand for components required for destructive testing.
• Service part requirements.

A supply-planning method that does not take any capacity constraints or material constraints into account.

Infinite planning starts from the assumption that there are no critical constraints. In other words, it assumes that it is always possible to find or arrange the necessary resource capacity and the necessary materials to produce an item.

Infinite planning is especially suitable in situations in which it is no problem to flexibly add resource capacity, and in which the supply of components is easy.

An event-driven and XML-based messaging engine. This is the standard message bus. The message bus and its message standards provide the infrastructure for transporting messages to other application modules in a secure way.

The quantity that has been delivered internally, that is, within the same company, to meet dependent demand.

The costs for holding an item (per inventory unit) in inventory, including costs for interest, storage space, and risk.

The desired inventory level, specified by period.

The inventory plan is part of the item master plan.

The inventory plan can also be a constant inventory level.

A classification that is used to indicate the type of inventory movement.

The following inventory transaction types are available:

• Issue

  From warehouse to other entity than warehouse.

• Receipt

  From other entity than warehouse to warehouse.

• Transfer

  From one warehouse to another.

• WIP Transfer

  From one costing work center to another.

The unit of measure in which the inventory of an item is recorded, such as piece, kilogram, box of 12, or meter.

The inventory unit is also used as the base unit in measure conversions, especially for conversions that concern the order unit and the price unit on a purchase order or a sales order. These conversions always use the inventory unit as the base unit. An inventory unit therefore applies to all item types, also to item types that cannot be kept in stock.

The raw materials, subassemblies, finished products, and tools that can be purchased, stored, manufactured, and sold.

An item can also represent a set of items handled as one kit, or which exist in multiple product variants.

You can also define nonphysical items, which are not retained in inventory but can be used to post costs or to invoice services to customers. The examples of nonphysical items:

• Cost items (for example, electricity)
• Service items
• Subcontracting services
• List items (menus/options)

A standard maintenance item.

A time-phased overview of the demand and supply for an item related to a specific customer.

LN provides item customer plans to work with vendor managed inventory. The item customer plan displays data such as the forecast your customer sent to you and the confirmed supply information you sent to your customer.

You can compare an item customer plan with an item order plan. The difference is, that the item order plan displays demand and supply from all suppliers or customers and the item customer plan displays demand and supply for a specific customer.

A group of items with similar characteristics. Each item belongs to a particular item group. The item group is used in combination with the item type to set up item defaults.

An item-specific, overall logistic plan that contains planning data and logistic targets for sales, internal and external supply, and inventory. All planning data in the item master plan is specified by plan period. Enterprise Planning uses this data to carry out master-planning simulations.

Within the item master plan, you can distinguish the following subplans:

• demand plan
• supply plan
• inventory plan

In addition, an item's master plan contains information about actual demand, actual supply, planned supply in the form of planned orders, and expected inventory.

If an item has a master plan and channels have been defined for this item, each channel usually has its own channel master plan. A channel master plan contains channel-specific information only, that is, demand data and information about sales restrictions.

Item master plans and channel master plans are defined within the context of a scenario. These scenarios can be used for what-if analyses. One of the scenarios is the actual plan.

A time-phased overview of your order planning.

The item order plan contains overview values for demand and forecast on one hand, and the other hand it provides information about scheduled receipts (actual orders) and planned supply (planned orders).

A time-phased overview of the demand and supply for an item related to a specific supplier.

LN provides item supplier plans to work with vendor managed inventory. The item supplier plan displays data such as the forecast you sent to the supplier and the confirmed supply information the supplier sent back to you.

You can compare an item supplier plan with an item order plan. The difference is, that the item order plan displays demand and supply from all suppliers and customers and the item supplier plan displays demand and supply for a specific supplier.

A classification of items used to identify if the item is, for example, a generic item, a service item, or an equipment item. Depending on the item's type, certain functions will only apply to that item.

A master planning method used by the workload-control planning engine to take into account material constraints and pass them on from the lower to the higher levels in the bill of critical materials (BCM).

An iteration consists of:

• A reverse planning pass during which LN plans items in order of decreasing phase number (first the components and than the end item).
• A normal planning run during which items are planned in order of increasing phase number, to recompute the consequences of material constraints for all parts of the BCM structure.

The time between the production start date and the delivery date. The lead time can include order preparation time, transportation time, and inspection time.

The cumulative lead time of the production process, calculated from the production stage where the relevant critical material or critical capacity is required to the final stage of the production process. The lead-time offset is a factor in determining the start date of the critical material or critical capacity requirement.

The lead-time offset can be expressed in days or hours.

A planning product for assembly-driven manufacturers, for example, the automotive industry. The main functionality of LAC is assembly line planning for generic FAS items.

In LAC, a fast MRP engine calculates the requirements for assembly parts that must be supplied to the assembly line. The planning of the assembly parts themselves is carried out by Enterprise Planning. LAC calculates the requirements, based on forecast and actual sales orders, and replicates the requirements to Enterprise Planning.

The specific conditions that can be established for lot items on order lines.

These conditions are:

• Any

  The goods to be received or shipped are not subject to specific lot conditions. You can use more than one lot.

• Same

  You can select any lot for receipt or shipment, but the entire receipt or shipment must have the same lot.

• Specific

  You can receive or ship only one, specific lot.

The number of items in a lot.

In LN, a mechanical object on which operations can be carried out to produce items.

Machines are linked to operation rates. The operation rate and the labor rate together form the basis for the actual costing of production orders.

The end result of a production order.

A main item is either be changed to an end item (for delivery to a warehouse), or delivered directly to the customer in bulk.

A schedule of maintenance activities.

A planning concept in which all planning data is accumulated into time buckets with predefined lengths.

In master planning, all demand, supply, and inventory data is handled in terms of these time buckets, and is stored in master plans.

In master planning, supply is planned in the form of a supply plan. This supply plan is calculated on the basis of demand forecasts, actual orders, and other information. For production planning, this planning method only considers critical requirements, as recorded in an item's bill of critical materials and bill of critical capacities.

The planning algorithm used in master planning to plan supply.

The master-planning engine generates a supply plan for each item involved.

The following master-planning engines are available:

• Infinite Planning
• Workload Control

For each plan unit, you can choose the appropriate planning engine. If an item has not been assigned to a plan unit, infinite planning is used by default.

That part of the planning horizon which falls outside the order horizon, and for which Enterprise Planning uses master planning to plan supply.

The master-planning horizon is not defined on its own, but depends on the definition of the order horizon and the planning horizon.

If the order horizon coincides with the planning horizon, there is no master horizon. In this case, Enterprise Planning plans all supply with order planning.

The maximum quantity of items to be purchased or produced at once.

When planned orders are generated, the quantity of items to be purchased or produced at once is never more than the maximum order quantity. The maximum order quantity prevents the purchase or production of an item in quantities that are too large.

The minimum quantity of items to be purchased or produced. When planned orders are generated, the quantity of items to be purchased or produced is never less than the minimum order quantity. The minimum order quantity prevents the purchase or production of this item in quantities that are too small.

The minimal price for obtaining 1 unit of an item.

A price limit that you can define for a exception message type in Enterprise Planning.

If you define a minimum standard cost for a certain exception message type, Enterprise Planning does not generate the corresponding exception message for items that cost less than the minimum standard cost.

A planning unit for a customized, manufactured, or purchased part, for which the logistical planning is related directly to the project network planning. A module may be a more or less complex compound part or a single part, such as a long delivery time part.

The time that a semifinished good is in transit from one operation to the next operation. After the last operation, the move time is the time required to transfer the finished good to the warehouse.

Move time is one of the lead-time elements LN plans according to a specific calendar.

The structure of several physical or logical companies between which transactions can be done.

A distribution order in which two separate logistical companies are involved.

In LN, the user can determine if the multicompany planned distribution must be transferred to either a purchase order, or a warehouse transfer. To do so, the user must define the order type for a specific company relation.

Refers to the management of multiple sites within a single (logistic) company.

In a multicompany structure, which includes several companies, multisite applies to each of the logistic companies.

The date on which something changes that affects the current master plan or the current planned orders. For example, a higher demand or a change in a BOM.

When a net-change simulation is performed, then items are selected based on the net-change date and flag. For example, when the flag is set and the date is outside the order horizon, then the item is skipped.

The quantity of a component or material that is theoretically required to manufacture a certain quantity of a product.

This quantity is referred to as the net quantity because in practice you may require more than this quantity to make up for certain losses of material or product during the production process.

The network planning includes all the activities required to carry out (plan and control) a project. The relations within the network show the interdependent activities.

The part of the forecast demand that has not yet been consumed by actual demand.

As a rule, the demand forecast, extra demand, and special demand are gradually filled by actual orders. This process is referred to as consumption of forecast demand by actual demand.

A group of first free number series that you can assign to a specific use.

For example, you can assign a number group to:

• Business partner codes
• Purchase contracts
• Sales orders
• Production orders
• Service orders
• Warehousing orders
• Freight orders

Within a number group you can define multiple series. Each series is identified by the series code. The series numbers that LN generates consist of the series code followed by the first free number in the series. Series codes of the same number group have the same length.

A step or a series of steps performed by an employee or a machine.

One of a series of steps in a routing that are carried out successively to produce an item.

The following data is collected during a routing operation:

• The task. For example, sawing.
• The machine used to carry out the task (optional). For example, sawing machine.
• The place where the task is carried out (work center). For example, woodwork.
• The number of employees required to carry out the task.

This data is used to compute order lead times, to plan production orders and to calculate standard cost.

A step in a master routing. Based on a reference activity, an operation is identified by a unique sequence number.

A rate that is determined by labor costs, machine costs, or overhead costs. The operation rate can be linked to work centers or tasks by an operation rate code.

The number of future working days for which LN stores the operations for planned orders.

For planned orders beyond the operation storage horizon, you cannot analyze the capacity use of planned orders and you cannot transfer the planned orders to the execution level.

The work on one or more operations in an item's production process is outsourced to a subcontractor.

A general term that covers all types of orders, such as:

• Purchase orders
• Sales orders
• Warehouse orders
• Production orders
• Subcontracting orders
• Freight orders
• Service orders

A planning concept in which planning data is handled in the form of orders.

In order planning, supply is planned in the form of planned orders. LN takes into account the start and finish dates of individual planned orders. For production planning, this method considers all material and capacity requirements, as recorded in an item's BOM and routing.

A collection of planned production orders, which you can use as a selection criterion to transfer planned production orders from Enterprise Planning to the Job Shop Control module of Manufacturing.

JSC can use the same collection of production orders to organize manufacturing tasks.

The time period for which Enterprise Planning uses order-based planning to plan supply.

The order horizon is expressed as a number of working days from the date you carry out the simulation.

If the order horizon is zero, Enterprise Planning does not use order-based planning for the item involved.

To calculate the order horizon, LN uses the calendar that you specified for the enterprise unit of the default warehouse to which the plan item belongs.

If you did not specify an enterprise unit for the default warehouse of the plan item, Enterprise Planning uses the company calendar to calculate the order horizon.

The number of workdays or working hours for which all the requirements of a specific item are bundled in one (planned) order, during an order planning run. LN calculates the order interval from the day when the first requirement occurs. Order intervals are used to prevent an excessive number of planned orders in one time period.

The production time of an item expressed in hours or days, based on the lead time elements as defined in the routing operations.

An order entry. It includes information about an item on an order.

The quantity for which the inspection is required. Consequently, the result of the inspection order concerns the quality of this quantity.

The status assigned to a planned order in Enterprise Planning.

The order status can either be:

• Planned
• Firm Planned
• Confirmed

A classification of sales and/or purchase orders with similar work flows.

Order types determine the character or function of an order and, consequently, of the message. Order types prescribe the chronological order of the sessions (order steps) in the order procedure. The main point is, that you must carry out order steps successively to process a purchase or sales order.

The time interval between taking the items out of the warehouse and the departure of the carrier on which the items are placed.

A warehouse-order line that is used to issue goods from a warehouse.

An outbound-order line gives detailed information about planned issues and actual issues, for example:

• Item data.
• Ordered quantity.
• Warehouse from where the goods are issued.

A scheme on which you can define the day of the week, day of the month, or day of the year, and the time of the day you want an activity, such as a release or a delivery, to be carried out.

The code used to identify the pattern for your activities. The pattern defines the date and time, such as the month or the day of the month, on which you want to carry out the activity.

A combination of project/budget, element and/or activity, which is used to identify costs, demand, and supply for a project.

A value that indicates how well a particular aspect of a certain scenario in Enterprise Planning performs. This figure concerns a specific resource, a range of resources, a specific plan item, or a range of plan items. The figure involved can represent a quantity, an amount of money, or a percentage.

Performance indicators are especially useful to compare different scenarios, resources, or plan items.

A number to identify a period in a year.

A number that determines the order in which plan units and plan items are planned.

As a rule, plan units and plan items are planned in order of increasing phase number: first phase number 0, then phase number 1, and so on.

An item has separate phase numbers for master planning and order planning. For items that belong to a plan unit, the master phase-number equals the plan unit's master phase-number.

A business location or logistic organization with its own logistic plan, which is centrally coordinated by a multicompany scenario.

An item with the order system Planned.

The production, distribution, or purchase of these items is planned in Enterprise Planning based on the forecast or the actual demand.

You can plan these items by means of the following:

• Master-based planning, which is similar to master production scheduling techniques.
• Order-based planning, which is similar to material-requirements planning techniques.
• A combination of master-based planning and order-based planning.

Plan items can be one of the following:

• An actual manufactured or purchased item.
• A product family.
• A basic model, that is, a defined product variant of a generic item.

A group of similar plan items or families is called a product family. The items are aggregated to give a more general plan than the one devised for individual items. A code displayed by the item code's cluster segment shows that the plan item is a clustered item that is used for distribution planning.

The level within a hierarchical planning structure.

When you plan on a higher plan level, plans are general and less detailed.

Example

Plan level 1 is the highest plan level; the higher the number, the lower the plan level.

The planned date on which the items on the order/schedule line must be delivered. The planned delivery date cannot occur before the order date/schedule generation date.

The date for which delivery of a shipment is planned.

An order in Enterprise Planning for an internal supplier or sister company to deliver a quantity of an item.

The expected changes in the inventory levels due to planned orders for items.

A supply order in Enterprise Planning that is created for planning purposes, but which is not an actual order yet.

Enterprise Planning works with planned orders of the following types:

• planned production order
• planned purchase order
• planned distribution order

Planned orders are generated in the context of a particular scenario. The planned orders of the actual scenario can be transferred to the execution level, where they become actual supply orders.

A planned order in Enterprise Planning to produce a certain quantity of an item.

A planned order in Enterprise Planning to purchase a certain quantity of an item from a supplier (buy-from business partner).

An anticipated receipt that corresponds to an open purchase order or open production order.

The date on which the goods are expected to arrive in the destination warehouse.

The date for which LN identifies a material requirement.

If the projected inventory at that date is less than the required quantity, the planning engine generates a planned order or a reschedule-in exception message.

The planned requirement date of a manually entered planned order is equal to the planned order's finish date.

The employee or department responsible for planning the production, purchase and distribution of items. The planner takes into account the inventory levels, availability of materials, and capacities of resources, and reacts on signals such as rescheduling messages that LN generates.

The person or organizational unit associated with a particular project plan.

An object used to group warehouses for which the inbound and outbound flow of goods and materials is planned collectively. For this purpose, the demand and supply of the warehouses of the planning cluster is aggregated. Within a planning cluster one supply source is used, such as production, purchasing or distribution.

If multisite is implemented, a planning cluster must include one or more sites. The site or sites include the warehouses for which the planning processes are performed. A site is linked to one planning cluster.

A planning group is used for segregation in planning for project specific demand and supply. Commingling rules and cost transfer rules can be defined at planning group level to control supply planning behavior of project pegged items within the planning group as well as with other planning groups.

The time period for which LN maintains planning data for an item.

The planning horizon is expressed as a number of working days from the date you carry out the simulation.

Enterprise Planning does not generate supply plans or planned orders that are after the item's planning horizon.

To calculate the planning horizon, Enterprise Planning uses the calendar that you specified for the enterprise unit of the default warehouse to which the plan item belongs.

One of a series of time buckets into which all planning data in a master plan is accumulated.

Plan periods are defined in the context of a scenario.

Plan periods are identified by a period number, and are defined in days, weeks, or months.

An indication of whether the data in a scenario can still be changed.

The plan status can be Open or Closed.

When a scenario has the Closed plan status, you can no longer modify it.

A group of plan items that is planned as a single unit.

A plan unit groups a set of plan items that share the production capacity of certain resources.

A plan unit is planned with a specific planning engine. You can specify a planning method and planning parameters for each plan unit.

A plan unit often corresponds to a production department. Usually, a production system distinguishes no more than three to five plan units.

An entity in which you can store price information that is valid for a given period of time.

A price book includes the following elements:

• A price book header, which contains the code, type, and use of the price book.
• One or more price book lines, which contain the items.

A quantity or value break discount schedule can be linked to a price book.

A work center that performs production for other companies. A primary work center cannot be modeled in a routing. It is used for capacity planning and displays the total capacity requirements of the related secondary work centers.

The production is administratively performed in the secondary work centers, which can be in the same or in a different logistic company than the primary work center.

This enables you to plan and carry out work in several different logistic companies (if you define several secondary work centers) without having to use sales orders and purchase orders.

An option that enables you to add a certain rating for suppliers. If the priority is defined, the item/supplier combinations are sorted according to descending priority.

The rule on which Enterprise Planning bases the choice of suppliers. For example, the costs, supply time, or the priority of the supplier.

User-definable item grouping data that is used to distinguish between different groups of items in a product line. The product class is mainly used as a selection criterion for reporting.

An item that represents a group of similar plan items (or families). The items are aggregated to give a more general plan than the one devised for individual items.

The aggregation relationships specify the percentage of each plan item in the product family.

Use product families with care. A product family does not normally have its own BOM or routing. However, you can create production orders or sales orders for a product family, though this can lead to inconsistencies in the planning.

A predefined configuration that specifies the production method, list of materials, time and capacity required and reporting method.

A production model contains the following:

• Production process
• Time and capacity required
• Production process reporting
• Materials supply process
• Item inspection method
• Required tools

If the Multi-Product Production check box on a production model for repetitive manufacturing is selected, a list of products is added to the production model that specifies which items are produced.

An order to produce a specified quantity of an item on a specified delivery date.

The status assigned to a production order, which indicates the process stage of a production order. For example, Created, Printed, or Released.

The planned receipts of manufactured items, specified by period.

These receipts are the quantity that must be produced internally.

Note that the production plan does not include the quantity of the plan item that is delivered by other companies or warehouse locations.

The production plan is part of the supply plan for a plan item.

A period of time in which product is manufactured in the Repetitive Manufacturing module for a specific reason and linked to a cost document. The period length can be defined by the user.

The period for which Enterprise Planning uses planned production schedules to plan the supply. The production schedule horizon is expressed as the number of working days. To calculate the production schedule horizon, use the calendar specified for the enterprise unit of the default warehouse of the plan item.

A group of products made by the same producer, that are similar but differ in details such as, size, shape, color, and so on. User-definable item grouping data, mainly used as an item selection criterion for reporting.

User-definable item grouping data that is used as a sorting and selecting criterion. The product type is intended for classifying items with similar characteristics for production purposes.

A unique configuration of a configurable item. The variant results from the configuration process and includes information such as feature options, components, and operations.

Example

Configurable item: electric drill

Options:

• 3 power sources (batteries, 12 V or 220 V)
• 2 colors (blue, gray).

A total of 6 product variants can be produced with these options.

An endeavour with a special objective to be met within the prescribed time and money limitations and that has been assigned for definition or execution.

A collection of manufacturing and purchasing actions that are performed for a particular customer order. A project is initiated to plan and coordinate the production of the to be manufactured items.

For a standard-to-order production, the project is only used to link the item with the customer order. A project can also include these:

• Customized item data (BOMs and routings)
• Project planning (activity planning)

An activity that is relevant for the (rough) planning of a project. Activities are used to plan the rough material and capacity requirements of the project. Activities are also used to control the (final) assembly planning of the project.

The expected inventory level at the end of a plan period.

Note that the projected inventory of plan periods that are entirely in the past equals the inventory on hand.

The way to characterize a project.

LN distinguishes these statuses:

• Free

  A project definition has been recorded, but the project has not yet been executed. Changes are still possible.

• Active

  During the execution of a project you can release, purchase, and register cost transactions.

• Finished

  The project is completed but it has not (yet) been financially closed. You can still register cost transactions. Actual purchase orders cannot be present for the project.

• Closed

  The project has been financially closed, the project definition can no longer be changed.

• Archived

  The project is stored in an archive company. The project archive company can be used as a repository for historical project data.

The project structure indicates the subprojects that belong to the main project. Project structures are especially important where there are extensive projects in an engineer-to-order situation.

Project structures can be important for network planning. This is because the start dates and finish dates of subprojects can depend on the computed start dates and finish dates of the main project's activities.

The costs of subprojects are aggregated to the relevant main project in the project calculation.

The project structure only applies to a project with a type other than Budget.

You can only delete a project structure if the main project has the Free or Archived status.

An item that is typically procured from an outside source. A bill of material and routing can be linked to a purchased item.

An agreement that indicates which items are delivered by a buy-from business partner according to certain terms and conditions.

A purchase order contains:

• A header with general order data, buy-from business partner data, payment terms, and delivery terms
• One or more order lines with more detailed information about the actual items to be delivered

The order type determines which sessions are part of the order procedure and how and in which sequence this procedure is executed.

The item quantity that is planned to be delivered by external suppliers, specified by period.

The purchase plan belongs to the supply plan for a plan item.

Note the distinction between purchase plan and distribution plan. The distribution plan covers the volume to be delivered by internal or sister-company suppliers.

A timetable of planned supply of materials. Purchase schedules support long-term purchasing with frequent deliveries and are usually backed by a purchase contract. All requirements for the same item, buy-from business partner, ship-from business partner, purchase office, and warehouse are stored in one schedule.

The amount of time that an order remains at a work center before setup, or work is performed.

The date on which the items are actually received in the destination warehouse.

The site (plant) on a receiving point of the supply chain.

A set of recurring dates for which exceptions are defined per calendar code/ availability type combination.

Example

Every last Friday of the month is a non-working day. This exception is used in the Update Calendar Working Hours (tcccp0226m000) session to generate calendar working hours.

A date that determines when a rolling scenario is shifted forward in time.

Example

On or after January 19, the scenario is shifted forward 14 days. The new reference date will be January 19.

An operation is an activity performed by a machine. A list of reference operations is a library of available operations for job shop production orders.

A reference operation may be defined on multiple levels:

• Operation Code

  The reference operation can be executed on all sites, in all work centers and on all machines linked to the company.

• Operation Code + Machine Type

  The reference operation can be executed on all sites that have one or more machines of the specified machine type.

• Operation Code + Site

  The reference operation can be used in all work centers and all machines linked to the specified site. Note: Recommended if a site has its own setup logic for specific operations. This type of reference operation can be used in a work center without machines.

• Operation Code + Machine Type + Site

  The reference operation can be used on all machines of a specific machine type and in all work centers and all sites which have the machine type present. Note: Recommended if the machine type has its own setup for specific operations.

• Operation Code + Site + Work Center

  The reference operation can be used for specific work center and site combination. Note: this operation can only for work centers without machines.

• Reference Operation + Machine Type + Site + Work Center

  The reference operation can only be used for one specific machine type on one work center/site combination.

A repetitive item (also called RPT item) is a manufactured item whose production is controlled by schedules. A schedule contains multiple schedule lines that can be viewed, released, reported as complete, and so on, in one session.

A repetitive item characteristics:

• Produced in large quantities
• Subject to repetitive demand
• Production is based on a rate
• Lead time is short

Anonymous items and to-order items can be repetitive. However, only to-order items that are Standard-to-Order can be used in RPT schedules. You cannot use generic items or Engineer-to-Order items in an RPT schedule.

An item with the default source Repetitive that are created based on a predefined configuration.

Items best suited for repetitive manufacture are:

• Standard items
• Low costing
• Have minimal variants
• Are complex
• The bill of material (BOM) is flat.

Both end items as sub-assemblies can be manufactured using repetitive manufacturing.

A schedule of dates, times, and quantities for the delivery of items.

The supplier creates the replenishment plan and sends the replenishment plan to the customer.

A purchasing document that is used as a request to bidders to submit their terms, such as price, discount, delivery time, and payment terms for delivering a (quantity of a) product.

You can send the RFQ to several bidders. A bidder can submit an RFQ response for the specified items.

You can record the responses, negotiate, and compare the prices and discounts that are offered by different bidders.

An accepted response can be copied to a contract, an order, or a price book.

An order signal that informs the planner whether an order must be expedited (rescheduled in), delayed (rescheduled out), or canceled.

A group of machines or employees in Enterprise Planning, corresponding to a work center in other LN packages.

Each operation performed to manufacture an item requires a certain capacity amount from a resource (for example, production hours). The capacity of the resource can be a constraint in the planning.

The availability of a resource can be specified by using the resource calendar.

A time-phased overview of the capacity use at a certain resource.

In a resource master plan, the following types of capacity use are recorded per plan period:

• Critical capacity requirements from master-based planning.
• Capacity use related to planned orders.
• Capacity use related to JSC (production) orders and service activities.
• Capacity use related to PCS (project) activities.

In addition, the resource master plan contains capacity CTP information.

A period based overview of the capacity utilization of a specific resource and of the orders that require resource capacity.

The resource order plan can contain the following order types/entities:

• Critical capacity requirements from Enterprise Planning
• Planned production orders from Enterprise Planning
• Production orders from the Job Shop Control module of Manufacturing
• Project activities from the Project Control module of Manufacturing
• Service order activities from the Service Order Control module or the Work Control System module of Service

The time period for which LN performs resource planning.

You can see the results of this planning in the resource master plan.

The revision number linked to the messages that communicate demand and supply data between customer and supplier.

A business partner can send multiple revised versions of messages with demand and supply data. Each revised version gets a revision number that has been incremented by one.

The customer generates the revision numbers. The supplier uses the same revision to mark a corresponding message to the customer.

The number of days after which a rolling scenario is shifted forward in time.

The number of days by which a plan is shifted forward equals the value of the scenario's rolling frequency.

Note that the rolling frequency is defined in calendar days.

Example

If the rolling frequency is seven days, the scenario will be shifted forward seven days, every seventh day.

A particular type of scenario that is shifted forward in time. You can specify a rolling frequency to determine the number of days after which LN must roll the scenario.

In the course of time, the current date will reach or exceed a certain reference date plus the rolling frequency. When this is the case, the scenario's start date and finish date, the plan period division, and the reference date itself are shifted forward.

The sequence of operations required to manufacture an item.

For each operation, the reference operation, machine, and work center are specified, as well as information about setup time and cycle time.

A group of items with similar routing attributes, for example, the same work center, routing operation, BOM, and so on. A routing group is defined by the user as a selection criterion for production orders.

A routing line that specifies the work center, the duration, and setup times of a Manufacturing task.

The time required to process a piece or lot at a specific operation.

Run time does not include setup time.

run time = production time - setup time

The buffer inventory necessary to meet fluctuations in demand and delivery lead time. In general, safety stock is a quantity of inventory planned to be in inventory to protect against fluctuations in demand or supply. In the context of master production scheduling, safety stock is the additional inventory and capacity planned as protection against forecast errors and short-term changes in the backlog.

The time that you can add to the normal lead time to protect delivery of goods against fluctuations in the lead time so that an order can be completed before the order's real need date.

An agreement that is used to sell items or services to a business partner according to certain terms and conditions. A sales order consists of a header and one or more order lines.

The general order data such as business partner data, payment terms, and delivery terms are stored in the header. The data about the actual items to be supplied, such as price agreements and delivery dates, is entered on the order lines.

A sales order contains items that are delivered to a customer, according to certain terms and conditions. The lines of a sale order are used to record the items ordered, as well as the associated price agreements and delivery dates.

A statement of price, the terms of sale, and a description of goods or services offered by a supplier to a prospective purchaser; a bid. The customer data, payment terms, and delivery terms are contained in the header; the data about the actual items is entered on the quotation lines. When given in response to a request for quotation, a bid is usually considered an offer to sell.

A timetable of planned supply of materials. Sales schedules support long-term sales with frequent deliveries. All requirements for the same item, sold-to business partner, ship-to business partner, and delivery parameter are stored in the same sales schedule.

The identification of an overall planning solution.

Each scenario represents one overall planning solution, and involves particular settings for the planning of items and resources. You can use scenarios to analyze and compare various planning options and to find the best planning solution. For example, you can vary demand forecasts or sourcing strategies.

One of the scenarios is the actual scenario, which corresponds with the actual planning situation. You can only transfer planned orders and production plans from the actual scenario to the execution level of LN.

The quantity scheduled to be received from the orders created when planned distribution orders are transferred to the execution level, (that is, transfer orders and/or purchase orders.

The quantity scheduled to be received from (actual) production orders.

The quantity scheduled to be received from (actual) purchase orders and purchase schedules.

Unusable material or rejects of intermediate products, for example, because of faulty components, or products lost in cutting or sawing operations. The gross material requirements and/or an operation's input quantity must be increased to account for anticipated scrap.

In the BOM, you can define scrap as a percentage of the net material requirements, which is the scrap factor, and as a fixed quantity, which is the scrap quantity. A scrap quantity is mostly used to define the amount of material that is lost every time when you start producing, for example, to test the equipment.

For an operation, you can only define the scrap as a fixed quantity.

A keyword that is used for searching. A search argument is usually linked to a description.

A fictional work center in which the production is performed administratively, whereas the actual production is performed in a different work center.

The secondary work center can be in a different logistic company than the primary work center to which it is linked.

This enables you to plan the work to a work center in your own logistic company, but have it physically carried out in a different logistic company without having to use sales orders and purchase orders. For each primary work center, you can define several secondary work centers.

A part of a schedule that defines a unit of time used for scheduling. A segment contains a requirement type, a segment time unit, and a segment length.

A subdivision of the item code in different logical parts, called segments.

These segments are visible in the sessions as separate fields. Examples of segments are:

• Project segment
• Cluster segment
• Item identification

User-definable item grouping data. Use selection codes to select items by color, diameter, product expiry date, and so on.

The number that identifies a data record or a step in a sequence of activities. Sequence numbers are used in many contexts. Usually LN generates the sequence number for the next item or step. Depending on the context, you can overwrite this number.

A group of order numbers or document numbers starting with the same series code.

Series identify orders with certain characteristics. For example, all sales orders handled by the large accounts department start with LA (LA0000001, LA0000002, LA0000003, and so on).

Orders that are used to plan, carry out, and control all repair and maintenance on configurations as present on customer locations or as present with the company.

The person responsible for printing, (re)scheduling and releasing production orders and managing workloads.

A warning message displayed if you enter or select an item to which a signal is linked. Item signals can also be used to block the issue and/or requisition of items.

Business-partner signal

A warning message displayed if you select a business partner to whom a signal is linked.

A business location of an enterprise that can maintain its own logistical data. It includes a collection of warehouses, departments and assembly lines at the same location. Sites are used to model the supply chain in a multisite environment.

These restrictions apply to sites:

• A site cannot cross countries. The warehouses and departments of the site must be in the same country as the site.
• A site is linked to one planning cluster. Consequently, all warehouses and work centers of a site must belong to the same planning cluster.
• A site is linked to one logistic company.

You can link a site to an enterprise unit or an enterprise unit to a site.

If an enterprise unit is linked to a site, the entities of the site belong to the enterprise unit. Conversely, if a site is linked to an enterprise unit, the entities of the enterprise unit belong to the site.

A relationship between an item supply and an item requirement that LN stores for informational purposes. If you replan an item, you lose the related soft pegs.

• Pegged supply

  The pegged supply can be a purchase order, a planned purchase order, a production order, a planned production order, a warehousing order with transaction type transfer, or a planned distribution order.

• Pegged requirement

  The pegged requirement can be, among other things, a sales order line or a required component for a production order.

In Enterprise Planning, the term pegging is generally used to denote soft pegs.

Related term: demand peg

The business partner who orders goods or services from your organization, who owns the configurations you maintain, or for whom you perform a project. Usually a customer's purchase department.

The agreement with the sold-to business partner can include:

• Default price and discount agreements
• Sales order defaults
• Delivery terms
• The related ship-to and invoice-to business partner

An identifying code and description of a set of data fields grouped in a sequence. These data fields are used in statistics reports and displays. When a report or display is generated, the fields are filled with data from the database and displayed in the report or display according to the sequence defined in the sort code.

The rule that defines how a required volume is divided over the following sources of supply:

• Job Shop
• Purchase
• Distribution

The source allocation rule is either Percentage or Priority.

A percentage used to calculate how orders are divided among suppliers.

The subdivision of the planned supply of a plan item over the following sources:

• Job Shop
• Purchase
• Distribution

Sourcing strategies are defined within the context of a scenario.

You can define sourcing strategies for planning cluster, item groups, and plan items.

An extra item quantity that is expected to be sold in a plan period, on top of the forecast demand, and for a specific reason. For example, a special sales action.

You can view and maintain special demand in the Special Demand by Item (cpdsp2100m000) session. Here you can also record a reason for each instance of special demand.

The assembly-part demand forecast from Configurator is also stored as special demand.

The special demand is part of the demand plan for a plan item or channel.

A collection of item-related data, for example, the business partner to which the item is allocated or ownership details.

LN uses the specification to match supply and demand.

A specification can belong to one or more of the following:

• an anticipated supply of a quantity of an item, such as a purchase order or production order
• a particular quantity of an item stored in a warehouse
• a requirement for a particular quantity of an item, for example a sales order

A collection of item-related data, for example, the business partner to whom the item is allocated or ownership details.

LN uses the specification to match supply and demand.

A specification can belong to one or more of the following:

• An anticipated supply of a quantity of an item, such as a sales order or production order
• A particular quantity of an item stored in a handling unit
• A requirement for a particular quantity of an item, for example a sales order

If an object (for example, a BOM line or a routing line) has a standard configuration, that object is selected when you are not using unit effectivity.

The sum of the following item costs as calculated by the standard cost calculation code:

• Material costs
• Operational costs
• Surcharges

Prices that are calculated against other price simulation codes are simulated prices. The standard cost is used for simulation purposes and in transactions when no actual price is available.

Standard cost is also an inventory valuation method for accounting purposes.

A purchased item, material, subassembly, or finished product that is normally available.

All items that are not built according to customer specification for a specific project are defined as standard items. Opposite term is customized item.

The production of non-customized items after receiving a customer order.

An intermediary product in a production process that is not stored or sold as an end product, but that is passed on to the next operation.

For subcontracting purposes, a manufacturer can send a subassembly to a subcontractor to carry out work on the subassembly. This subassembly has its own item code defined in the Item Base Data.

After work is finished, the subcontractor sends the subassembly back to the manufacturer. Also this reworked subassembly has its own item code defined in the Item Base Data.

A business partner that is hired to perform certain services, such as the execution of a part of a project or production order. The services are delivered via a purchase order.

The identification of a plan item at a lower plan level.

The company from which a plan item is delivered through the multicompany distribution structure.

A distribution link between a supplying planning cluster and a receiving planning cluster. The planning clusters involved can be in the same company, or in different companies.

Enterprise Planning uses supplying relationships for distribution planning: the supplying relationships represent valid supply paths for particular items or groups of items. You can specify supplying relationships at the level of individual items, but also at more general levels.

The supplying relationships also determine the costs of supply, lot size rules, and other parameters.

The total supply that is planned in master planning.

The supply plan of an item consists of:

• Production plan
• Purchase plan
• Distribution plan (shown in the item master plan as planned distribution orders)

The item master plan also takes into account the supply planned in order planning (planned orders). However, this type of supply is not part of the item's supply plan. In other words, a supply plan usually exists only outside the item's order horizon.

The methods by which the supply of plan items is divided over multiple suppliers.

The supply strategy defines the priority rules and allocation rules that direct the planning engines in the choice of suppliers. There are separate supply strategies for:

• External suppliers (planned purchase orders)
• Internal suppliers (planned distribution orders)

You can define supply strategies for planning cluster, item groups, and plan items.

The total time required to obtain an item that is forecasted. This time is used to calculate an item's order lead time, based on which a company takes commitment decisions and executes capacity planning and order management.

Example

For item A, the supplier communicated a supply time of 50 days. This is in fact a reduced lead time and is only possible because a three year forecast is sent to the supplier for this item. If additional quantities are needed, which are not included in the forecast, the supplier needs the full supply time, which is 300 days.

In LN, the type of supplier (internal or external) for which a supply strategy is used.

LN uses internal suppliers to generate distribution orders, and external suppliers to generate purchase orders.

An activity to manufacture or repair an item. For example, sawing, drilling, or painting.

A task is carried out on a work center, and can be related to a machine.

An agreement between business partners about the sale, purchase, or transfer of goods, in which you can define detailed terms and conditions about orders, schedules, planning, logistics, invoicing, and demand pegging, and define the search mechanism to retrieve the correct terms and conditions.

The agreement includes the following:

• A header with the type of agreement and the business partner(s).
• Search levels with a search priority and a selection of search attributes (fields) and linked terms and conditions groups.
• One or more lines with the values for the search levels’ search attributes.
• Terms and conditions groups with detailed terms and conditions about orders, schedules, planning, logistics, invoicing, and demand pegging for the lines.

Holds the values for the search attributes of a terms and conditions search level. Therefore, it specifies the fields to which the detailed terms and conditions, as stored in the terms and conditions groups, apply.

The date until which an item's supply plan and planned orders are frozen.

The time fence is expressed as a number of working days or working hours from the date you carry out the simulation.

As a rule, Enterprise Planning does not regenerate the supply plan or the planned orders within the time fence. However, you can overrule this behavior when you run a master-plan simulation or order simulation.

The time fence is meant to prevent:

• Disturbance of orders that have already started (at the shop-floor level).
• Generation of planned orders with start dates in the past (that is, orders that are late).

Usually, the lead time of an item's production process is a reasonable value for the time fence.

The unit that is used to specify the physical quantity time.

A set of specific tools required to perform a single task. A tool kit can be linked to a machine, a task, and/or a routing operation to specify the tool(s) required to perform the task and/or operation.

A number to identify a tool. The combination of a tool type, for example, hammer, and a tool serial number, for example, 1, results in a unique identification of a tool in LN.

The tool type is the first level that is used to identify the tool in the coding system for tools.

Some examples of tool types are:

• Hammer
• Screwdriver
• Wheelbarrows

Hammer 1, screwdriver 2 and wheelbarrow 3 are examples of tool types in combination with a tool serial number, and represent unique tools.

The part of the total forecast for which the customer desires a supply in addition to the confirmed forecast. Possibly, the customer is unsure whether this quantity will be needed.

The sum of the confirmed forecast and the unconfirmed forecast is the total forecast.

Typically, the total forecast includes not only the demand based on actual sales orders for the customer's end products, but also forecast demand based on estimated future sales of the customer's end products.

See also confirmed forecast.

A means to control the validity of variations by effectivity units.

Unit effectivity enables you to model changes for the following entities:

• Engineering bill of material
• Production bill of material
• Routing
• Routing operations
• Supplier selection
• Sourcing strategies

A group of unit codes that can be linked to standard or customized items, or to item defaults. In a unit set, you can indicate the physical quantities that can be used for the item, in which modules, and for what purposes.

A material that has been replaced by another item in all BOMs.

After the use-up material's last allowed order date elapses, any remaining stock is used up; then, the replacement material will be used.

The operating period between the effective date and the expiry date.

An inventory management method according to which the supplier usually manages the inventory of his customer or subcontractor. Sometimes, the supplier manages the supply planning as well. Alternatively, the customer manages the inventory but the supplier is responsible for supply planning. Inventory management or inventory planning can also be subcontracted to a logistics service provider (LSP).

The supplier or the customer may own the inventory delivered by the supplier. Often, the ownership of the inventory changes from the supplier to the customer when the customer consumes the inventory, but other ownership transfer moments occur, which are laid down by contract.

Vendor-managed inventory reduces internal costs associated with planning and procuring materials and enables the vendor to better manage his inventory through higher visibility to the supply chain.

The type and origin of the requirements on which LN can base an item supplier plan or an item customer plan in a vendor-managed-inventory situation. Depending on the requirement type, LN uses different demand data to calculate how much of an the item is planned to be available in each period.

The VMI requirement type can have the following values:

• Calculated Forecast to Supplier
• Sent Forecast to Supplier
• Received Forecast from Customer
• Calculated Confirmed Supply
• Sent Confirmed Supply
• Actual and Planned Demand

The supplier (buy-from business partner) that handles the inventory management and optionally the supply planning of a particular item for a customer. This term is used in a vendor managed inventory (VMI) setup.

A terms and conditions agreement can designate a particular supplier as the VMI supplier for an item.

A warehouse for which the supplier of the stored goods performs one or both of the following tasks: manage the warehouse, including activities surrounding inbound and outbound processes, or plan the supply of the goods in the warehouse. The supplier may also be the owner of the inventory in the warehouse. The warehouse is usually located at the customer's premises.

The time that an order remains at a work center after an operation is completed until it is moved to the next operation.

LN does not plan wait times according to a specific calendar. Planning of the wait time is based on a 7 * 24 hours week schedule.

A typical example is the time required for drying after the application of paint.

A place for storing goods. For each warehouse, you can enter address data and data relating to its type.

A code that identifies the type of a warehousing order. The default warehousing procedure that you link to a warehousing order type determines how the warehousing orders to which the order type is allocated are processed in the warehouse, although you can modify the default procedure for individual warehousing orders or order lines.

A production unit consisting of one or more work stations in a fixed sequence.

A work cell is used in repetitive manufacturing for the production of a repetitive item.

A specific production area consisting of one or more people and/or machines with identical capabilities, that can be considered as one unit for purposes of the capacity requirement planning and detailed scheduling.

A day on which work can be performed.

Lead times, horizons, and time fences in Enterprise Planning are defined in workdays (except for the forecast horizon).

Enterprise Planning converts workdays to working hours, minutes, and seconds on the basis of the basic day capacity.

The amount of work scheduled for a resource.

The term workload is used in the following contexts:

• In the Workload Control (WLC) module, workload is defined as the total capacity used in a certain plan period. For example: 50 hours of production in week 23.
• In the Transfer Order Planning (cppat1210m000) session, workload is the required capacity for the production orders that must still be carried out. For example: resource R has a total workload of 300 hours of production orders that must still be carried out.

The amount of work that must await execution in job shop for a resource.

If the workload is much lower than the workload norm, there is a risk that the resource becomes idle. If the workload is much higher, the production lead times can become unacceptably long.

The percentage by which the resource's workload is allowed to deviate from the workload norm.

Orders that are used to plan, carry out, and control all maintenance on items in a maintenance shop or in a repair shop. A work order consists of at least one work order header, and can have a number of activities that must be carried out on a repairable service item.

The usable output from a operation expressed as a percentage of its input.

Example 1: An operation in the production process for light bulbs has a yield of 98%. So, out of every 100 light bulbs produced, 98 are good on average. The remaining light bulbs are faulty, and will therefore be rejected.

Example 2: Steel wires are twisted together to produce a steel cable. Due to the twisting, the cable is 10% shorter than the wires from which it is produced. So, the yield is set to 90%.

Determines if and how lost products come out of production if the yield percentage is below 100%.

Two yield types are available:

• Discrete

  Lost products come out of production as rejected products.

• Continuous

  Lost products disappear completely, for example, through evaporation.