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<ManualTopic ID="/baanerp/tg/ebm/ff/ff003310" xml:lang="en">
   <Header>
      <Title>Enterprise planning typologies</Title>
   </Header>
   <GeneralSection>
      <Paragraph>As mentioned previously, the planning business function only
		deals with one logistics company. This limits the scope of the planning
		business function, which focuses mainly on capacity and materials rather than
		on order promising, such as the supply chain planning business function.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>Many aspects in the planning environment influence actual
		planning, such as CODP, the production environment, the cost of understock or
		overstock, and supplier lead-time.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>Despite this influence, the planning activities as carried out
		by the planner, are the same in all environments. The planner must optimize the
		same things, taking multiple environments and constraints into account.
		Although the planning algorithms used in the planning engine differ, based on
		the aspects as specified, the planner only works with the result of these
		algorithms.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>As a result, no separate planning typologies are distinguished.
		The influence of such aspects as CODP and the production environment are not
		taken into account either, since the assumption is made that they only
		influence the algorithms by means of parameter settings, rather than the
		process performed by the Planning business function.</Paragraph>
   </GeneralSection>
</ManualTopic>