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<Session ID="/baanerp/cp/rpd/cprpd6100m000" xml:lang="en">
   <Header>
      <Title>Plan Unit (cprpd6100m000)</Title>
   </Header>
   <HelpTopic>
      <AimSection>
         <Paragraph>Use this session to display and maintain <Link href="/baanerp/cp/glossary/glossary#000004" role="glossary">plan units</Link>.</Paragraph>
      </AimSection>
      <GeneralSection>
         <Paragraph>Before you define <Link href="/baanerp/cp/glossary/glossary#000004" role="glossary">plan units</Link>, 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.</Paragraph>
         <Paragraph>You can assign a plan items to a
plan unit in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp/rpd/cprpd1100m000#cprpd100.mrpu" role="manual">Master Plan Unit</GUIRef> field
in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp/rpd/cprpd1100m000" role="session">Items - Planning (cprpd1100m000)</GUIRef> session.</Paragraph>
         <Paragraph>In the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp/rpd/cprpd6100m000#cprpd600.plme" role="manual">Master Planning Method</GUIRef> field you can select the <Link href="/baanerp/cp/glossary/glossary#000061" role="glossary">master-planning engine</Link> that LN must use to
plan the plan unit.</Paragraph>
         <Note>
            <SectionTitle>Note</SectionTitle>
            <Paragraph>LN does not take into account plan units for
order-based planning.</Paragraph>
         </Note>
      </GeneralSection>
      <RelatedTopics>
         <SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
         <RelTopic>
            <Link href="/baanerp/cp/onlinemanual/000025" role="manual">Plan units in Enterprise Planning</Link>
         </RelTopic>
         <RelTopic>
            <Link href="/baanerp/cp/onlinemanual/000156" role="manual">Planning sequence and phase numbers</Link>
         </RelTopic>
      </RelatedTopics>
   </HelpTopic>
   <Fields>
      <FieldHelp ID="cprpd600.rpun">
         <Header>
            <Title>Plan Unit</Title>
         </Header>
         <FuncDesc>A group of plan items that is planned as a single unit.</FuncDesc>
         <SimpleSection>
            <Paragraph>A plan unit groups a set of plan items that share the
		  production capacity of certain resources.</Paragraph>
            <Paragraph>A plan unit is planned with a specific planning engine. You
		  can specify a planning method and planning parameters for each plan unit.</Paragraph>
            <Paragraph>A plan unit often corresponds to a production department.
		  Usually, a production system distinguishes no more than three to five plan
		  units.</Paragraph>
         </SimpleSection>
      </FieldHelp>
      <FieldHelp ID="cprpd600.plme">
         <Header>
            <Title>Master Planning Method</Title>
         </Header>
         <FuncDesc>The master planning engine indicates which optimization algorithm will
be used to generate master plans for the plan items of a plan unit.</FuncDesc>
         <Note>
            <SectionTitle>Note</SectionTitle>
            <Paragraph>Specify the hosts and servers for the planning engine in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp/rpd/cprpd0100m000" role="session">EP Parameters (cprpd0100m000)</GUIRef> session.</Paragraph>
         </Note>
         <RelatedTopics>
            <SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
            <RelTopic>
               <Link href="/baanerp/cp/onlinemanual/000003" role="manual">Workload control</Link>
            </RelTopic>
            <RelTopic>
               <Link href="/baanerp/cp/onlinemanual/000142" role="manual">Infinite master planning</Link>
            </RelTopic>
         </RelatedTopics>
      </FieldHelp>
      <FieldHelp ID="cprpd600.phnu">
         <Header>
            <Title>Master Phase Number</Title>
         </Header>
         <FuncDesc>The <Link href="/baanerp/cp/glossary/glossary#000045" role="glossary">phase number</Link> for <Link href="/baanerp/cp/glossary/glossary#000059" role="glossary">master planning</Link>.</FuncDesc>
         <DefaultValue>
            <SectionTitle>Default value</SectionTitle>
            <Paragraph>By default, LN sets the phase number to zero.</Paragraph>
         </DefaultValue>
         <RelatedTopics>
            <SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
            <RelTopic>
               <Link href="/baanerp/cp/onlinemanual/000156" role="manual">Planning sequence and phase numbers</Link>
            </RelTopic>
            <RelTopic>
               <Link href="/baanerp/cp/onlinemanual/000053" role="manual">To recompute phase numbers</Link>
            </RelTopic>
         </RelatedTopics>
      </FieldHelp>
   </Fields>
</Session>