| Plan Unit (cprpd6100m000) |  |
| Use this session to display and maintain plan units. Before you define plan units, you must determine which plan items you want to group to a plan unit, because they must use the same critical materials and the same critical capacities. You can assign a plan items to a plan unit in the Master Plan Unit field in the Items - Planning (cprpd1100m000) session. In the Master Planning Method field you can select the master-planning engine that ERP LN must use to plan the plan unit. Note ERP LN does not take into account plan units for order-based planning. Related topics Plan units in Enterprise Planning To use an overview session To maintain records in an overview session Planning sequence and phase numbers
Fields | Description
Plan Unit | 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.
Master Planning Method | The master planning engine indicates which optimization algorithm will be used to generate master plans for the plan items of a plan unit. Note Specify the hosts and servers for the planning engine in the EP Parameters (cprpd0100m000) session. Related topics Workload control Infinite master planning
Master Phase Number | The phase number for master planning. Default value By default, ERP LN sets the phase number to zero. Related topics Planning sequence and phase numbers To recompute phase numbers