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   <Header>
      <Title>Time Zones in Enterprise Planning</Title>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e201829">
         <Level1>Time Zones</Level1>
      </Keyword>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e201832">
         <Level1>Time</Level1>
      </Keyword>
   </Header>
   <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 the current LN version, you must
		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="manual">Enterprise Planning</Link> adds/substracts this
		  difference from/to the planned finish date.</Paragraph>
      </GeneralSection>
      <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>
      </GeneralSection>
   </GeneralSection>
</ManualTopic>