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		<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Time Zones in Enterprise Planning</Title>
		<Keyword><Level1>Time Zones</Level1>
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		<Keyword><Level1>Time</Level1>
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	<GeneralSection><Paragraph><GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef> uses timezones to convert delivery times to local times and to offset with lead times. It is important that <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef> considers these time zones when resources like service engineers or means of transport cross time zone borders. The use of a hierarchy of calendars provides another reason for the fact that <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef> must take into account Time Zones.</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>In SSA ERP 5.2a it is mandatory to specify a time zone for an <Link href="/baanerp/tc/glossary/glossary#Address.tc" role="glossary">address</Link> in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/com/tccom4530m000" role="session">Addresses (tccom4530m000)</GUIRef> session. The reason for this is that <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef> must look at the address field to take into account the appropriate time zone. When the time zones from one <Link href="/baanerp/tc/glossary/glossary#Address.tc" role="glossary">address</Link> to another are different, <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef> takes into account the difference when it offsets the lead time or the time.</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph><Emphasis>time zones and production planning</Emphasis> For production planning, <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef> takes into account the time zone lnked to the workcenter adress to which the resource belongs where the operations to produce the item are carried out. If there is no workcenter address available, <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef> retrieves the time zone from the address of the department to which the resource belongs.</Paragraph>
		<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Time zones and purchase planning</SectionTitle>
			<Paragraph>For purchase planning, <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef> considers the time zone that you specified for the address of the Ship-from Business Partner or the Ship-from Warehouse. When a time difference exists between the time zone of the Ship-to Warehouse and the time zone of the Ship-from Business Partner or the Ship-from Warehouse of, for example, two hours, <Link href="/baanerp/cp/onlinemanual/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</Link> adds/substracts this difference from/to the planned finish date.</Paragraph>
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		<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Time zones and distribution planning</SectionTitle>
			<Paragraph>For distribution planning, <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef> takes into account the time zone of the address of the Ship-to Warehouse and of the address of the Ship-from Warehouse. When a time difference exists between these two time zones, <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef> adds/substracts the difference to/from the planned finish date of the planned distribution order that <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef> created.</Paragraph>
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