| # Item Business Partner Plan (Customer VMI Role) - Selection (cpvmi0531s000) Use this session to specify the scenario, plan item, VMI supplier and VMI requirement type for which you want to display the item-business-partner plan and then start the Item Supplier Plan-Find (cpvmi0530m000) session. Related topics Supply planning by supplier To let your supplier perform the supply planning - Setup Scenario 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. Related topics Scenarios in Enterprise Planning Plan Item 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. Allowed values You must select a plan item for which the VMI Role field in the Items - Planning (cprpd1100m000) session has the value Receive Customer Forecast. If you zoom from this field, only the applicable plan items will be displayed. Buy-from Business Partner buy-from business partner Allowed values You must select a business partner that is a VMI supplier for the plan item. A business partner is a VMI supplier for an item if an applicable terms and conditions agreement of type Purchase exists. If you zoom on this field, only the applicable business partners will be displayed. Note At any one moment in time, no more than one supplier can be the valid VMI supplier for a plan item. Requirement Type The VMI requirement type. For more information, refer to the Help of the Item Supplier Plan-Find (cpvmi0530m000) session. Allowed values The VMI requirement type can have one of the following values: Actual and Planned Demand The item-business-partner plan is based upon the actual demand data and planned demand data that you generated in the order-planning process. Calculated Business Partner Forecast The item-business-partner plan is based upon the demand data from the forecast that you have calculated in the most recent order-planning run. (This calculated forecast may or may not yet have been sent to your supplier). Sent Business Partner Forecast The item-business-partner plan is based upon the demand data from the most recent revision of the forecast sent to your supplier. (After LN calculates the forecast, you can modify the forecast before you send the forecast to your customer). Start Date The start date of the item-business-partner plan. LN uses this date as the date for the first transaction displayed in the item-business-partner plan. Hide 'Empty' Periods If this check box is selected, the empty periods are hidden when the results are displayed in the item-business-partner plan. An empty period is a period without any demand or supply. |