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   <Header>
      <Title>To use clusters in distribution planning</Title>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e165971">
         <Level1>Clusters</Level1>
         <Level2>Enterprise Planning</Level2>
      </Keyword>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e165976">
         <Level1>Distribution planning</Level1>
      </Keyword>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e165979">
         <Level1>Supplier</Level1>
      </Keyword>
   </Header>
   <GeneralSection>
      <Paragraph>If you define <Link href="/baanerp/cp/glossary/glossary#000005" role="glossary">supplying relationships</Link> between a supplying and a receiving warehouse in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp/rpd/cprpd7130m000" role="session">Supplying Relationships (cprpd7130m000)</GUIRef> session, the <Link href="/baanerp/cp/glossary/glossary#000054" role="glossary">clustered item</Link> can be supplied by an other warehouse / cluster through
		distribution. If so, Enterprise Planning generates <Link href="/baanerp/cp/glossary/glossary#000049" role="glossary">planned distribution orders</Link> to supply the clustered item.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>You must define
		supplying relationships between clusters, because for each supplying
		relationship, Enterprise Planning always plans on the same default warehouse of
		the cluster.</Paragraph>
      <List>
         <ListIntro>Distribution planning Enterprise Planning can plan
		  distribution in the following directions:</ListIntro>
         <ListItem>From a <Link href="/baanerp/cp/glossary/glossary#000055" role="glossary">nonclustered item</Link> to a <Link href="/baanerp/cp/glossary/glossary#000054" role="glossary">clustered item</Link>.</ListItem>
         <ListItem>From a clustered plan
		  item to a nonclustered plan item.</ListItem>
         <ListItem>Between clustered plan
		  items.</ListItem>
      </List>
      <Paragraph>You can set up the
		distribution relationships between plan items in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp/rpd/cprpd7130m000" role="session">Supplying Relationships (cprpd7130m000)</GUIRef> session. The possibility to set up
		distribution structures of <Link href="/baanerp/cp/glossary/glossary#000054" role="glossary">clustered items</Link> and <Link href="/baanerp/cp/glossary/glossary#000055" role="glossary">nonclustered items</Link> provides LN with the flexibility
		that is needed to support business cases such as, for example, regional
		distribution centers that perform sales order acceptance and aggregate the
		netted requirements to the central production site. The production site then
		replenishes the regional distribution centers. LN derives the proper
		cluster from the item/warehouse combination on the <Link href="/baanerp/td/glossary/glossary#SlsOrderLns_td" role="glossary">sales order line</Link>.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>Another business example
		is the situation in which sales order acceptance is performed in the local
		sales offices, and where the requirements are aggregated through the a regional
		distribution center to the central production site. The regional distribution
		center is subsequently replenished from the production site, and the local
		sales offices, for their part, are replenished from the regional distribution
		center.</Paragraph>
      <GeneralSection>
         <SectionTitle>Distribution in a cluster</SectionTitle>
         <Paragraph>Enterprise Planning
		  always plans on the default warehouse of a <Link href="/baanerp/cp/glossary/glossary#000054" role="glossary">clustered item</Link>. When you enter an other than the default
		  warehouses in the cluster on a sales order line, Enterprise Planning still
		  generates the planned sales orders for the default warehouse.</Paragraph>
         <Paragraph>However, if you want
		  to replenish a specific warehouse in a cluster that is not the default
		  warehouse, you can manually enter a warehouse transfer between two warehouses
		  in a cluster in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/wh/inh/whinh2100m000" role="session">Warehousing Orders (whinh2100m000)</GUIRef> session.</Paragraph>
         <Paragraph>An alternative way to
		  create <Link href="/baanerp/ti/glossary/glossary#000077" role="glossary">warehouse transfer</Link> orders is based on the <Link href="/baanerp/wh/glossary/glossary#000374" role="glossary">reorder point</Link>. In the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/wh/wmd/whwmd2510m000" role="session">Warehouse - Item (whwmd2510m000)</GUIRef> session, you can set the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/wh/wmd/whwmd2110s000#whwmd210.sups" role="manual">Supply System</GUIRef> field
		  to Time Phased Order Point and specify a quantity in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/wh/wmd/whwmd2110s000#whwmd210.reop" role="manual">Reorder Point</GUIRef> field. The result is that LN generates warehouse transfer orders if you
		  run the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/wh/ina/whina3200m000" role="session">Generate Order Advice (SIC) (whina3200m000)</GUIRef> session.</Paragraph>
      </GeneralSection>
      <GeneralSection ID="A">
         <SectionTitle>Example: distribution structure with
		  clusters</SectionTitle>
         <Paragraph>In the following
		  example, R is a resource, A through E are warehouses. The arrows represent
		  supplying relationships.</Paragraph>
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            <FigLegend>
               <LegendEntry>
                  <Symbol>Cl X</Symbol>
                  <Desc>Cluster X</Desc>
               </LegendEntry>
               <LegendEntry>
                  <Symbol>Cl Y</Symbol>
                  <Desc>Cluster Y</Desc>
               </LegendEntry>
               <LegendEntry>
                  <Symbol>Cl Z</Symbol>
                  <Desc>Cluster Z</Desc>
               </LegendEntry>
            </FigLegend>
         </Figure>
      </GeneralSection>
   </GeneralSection>
   <RelatedTopics>
      <SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
      <RelTopic>
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      </RelTopic>
      <RelTopic>
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      </RelTopic>
      <RelTopic>
         <Link href="/baanerp/cp/onlinemanual/000064" role="manual">Distribution planning</Link>
      </RelTopic>
   </RelatedTopics>
</ManualTopic>