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- About supply planning
- Supply plan process
This document outlines the different process steps and the order in which these actions should be taken.
On this panel you specify the parameters of the supply plan calculation.
Specification
- Present SP period
- Displays the start date and the end date of the current supply plan period. The current supply plan period is always 1.
Note: If today’s date is not within the range of the start date and the end date of the current supply plan period, then you are not allowed to start the Supply plan calculation before re-generating the active Supply plan periods. This is done by running the Start job schedule batch program.
- SP version
- Displays the supply plan version code and description. When creating a new supply plan, enter a supply plan description.
- SP horizon
- Displays a period number indicating the supply plan horizon. This value is defaulted from the IC control file, but can be changed.
- Create workload
- Only shown if IBS Manufacturing is installed and activated. Indicate if workload should be created for the supply plan.
- Sim capacity version
- Only shown if IBS Manufacturing is installed and activated. Enter the version to be used when capacity creation is performed. Note: This is not allowed for the active supply plan version.
- Create lower levels
- Only shown if IBS Manufacturing is installed and activated. Indicate if lower levels should be created for the supply plan.
- Lead time adjustments
- Only shown if IBS Manufacturing is installed and activated. Mandatory entry if the Create lower levels field is set to YES. Indicate if lead time adjustment should be calculated.
- Variant
- Only shown if IBS Manufacturing is installed and activated, and if the Variant handling field is set to YES in the MFG control file. Enter the item structure to be used when lower level calculation is performed. If the entered structure is missing, the main variant (000) will be used instead.
- SST calc per period
- Indicates if safety stock should be calculated on period level based on the supply plan period requirement quantity.
Selection
- Item
- Warehouse
- Item group
- Supplier
- Planner
- Item class
- Item type
Only shown if IBS Manufacturing is installed and activated.
Note: The selection fields are not shown if you are working with the base version (*BASE). All selections that are made will be saved and are retrieved the next time the job is run.
- Only MPS
- Only shown if IBS Manufacturing is installed and activated. Indicate if only items for which the MPS level field is set to YES should be selected.