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		<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Distribution planning</Title>
		<Keyword><Level1>Distribution planning</Level1>
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		<Keyword><Level1>Distribution requirements planning</Level1>
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		<Keyword><Level1>DRP</Level1>
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	<GeneralSection><Paragraph>You can use <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef> for the logistic planning of items that you acquire from elsewhere in your company, or from an <Link href="/baanerp/tc/glossary/glossary#AffiliCompan.tc" role="glossary">affiliated company</Link>. In <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef>, this type of supply is known as distribution.</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>You can set up a structure for distribution planning by defining clusters, and by modeling the goods flow through your supply chain by <Link href="/baanerp/cp/glossary/glossary#000005" role="glossary">supplying relationships</Link> (in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp/rpd/cprpd7130m000" role="session">Supplying Relationships (cprpd7130m000)</GUIRef> session).</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>In <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef>, distribution volumes are planned in the form of <Link href="/baanerp/cp/glossary/glossary#000049" role="glossary">planned distribution orders</Link>. Within the <Link href="/baanerp/cp/glossary/glossary#000303" role="glossary">master-planning horizon</Link>, these planned distribution orders serve as a <Link href="/baanerp/cp/glossary/glossary#000300" role="glossary">distribution plan</Link>.</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>When a distribution volume is planned, the related requirement is passed on to the required item (at the appropriate site), so that SSA ERP can take this dependent demand into account when this item is planned.</Paragraph>
		<List><ListIntro>You can use the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp/pat/cppat1210m000" role="session">Transfer Planned Orders (cppat1210m000)</GUIRef> session to transfer planned distribution orders to the <Link href="/baanerp/cp/glossary/glossary#000027" role="glossary">execution level</Link> of SSA ERP. Here the planned orders become either:</ListIntro>
			<ListItem><Link href="/baanerp/wh/glossary/glossary#000388" role="glossary">Warehousing orders</Link> of the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/wh/domains/inh.oorg#transfer" role="enum">Transfer</GUIRef> type (if the supply is within a site).</ListItem>
			<ListItem><Link href="/baanerp/td/glossary/glossary#PurchaOrders.td" role="glossary">Purchase orders</Link> (if the supply is between sites).</ListItem>
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	<RelatedTopics><SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/cp/onlinemanual/000305" role="manual">Supply planning</Link>
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		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/cp/onlinemanual/000301" role="manual">Clusters in Enterprise Planning</Link>
		</RelTopic>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/cp/onlinemanual/000148" role="manual">Multisite planning</Link>
		</RelTopic>
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