| # About this guide This document addresses the general concepts and basic principles of order planning in ERP Enterprise Enterprise Planning. Technical details are left out. The document is intended for users of the Infor software and for Infor Global internal use. This document addresses the general concepts and basic principles of order planning in ERP Enterprise Enterprise Planning. Technical details are left out. The document is intended for users of the Infor software and for Infor Global internal use. Enterprise Planning supports two types of planning process: order planning and master planning. The concepts of master planning are explained in a separate document. Some master planning concepts, for example, the plan-bucket definition, Bills of Critical Materials, and so on, that impact the order planning concept. This overlap will be addressed in this document. Many of the discussed concepts are addressed in more detail in a separate topic document (see also document references). Chapter 1, "Order planning concept," explains the main concepts and describes how you can determine how each item is planned. Send us your comments We continually review and improve our documentation. Any remarks/requests for information concerning this document or topic are appreciated. Please e-mail your comments to documentation@infor.com. In your e-mail, refer to the document code and title. More specific information will enable us to process feedback efficiently. In your e-mail, refer to the document number and title. More specific information will enable us to process feedback efficiently.
Abbreviations
Abbreviation | Definition
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ATP | Available to Promise
BCC | Bill of Critical Capacities
BCM | Bill of Critical Materials
BOM | Bill of Material
BP | Business Partner
COLT | Cumulative Order Lead Time
CTP | Capable To Promise
DRP | Distribution Requirements Planning
EP | Enterprise Planning
EOQ | Economic Order Quantity
ETO | Engineer to Order
FOQ | Fixed Order Quantity
L4L | Lot for Lot
MPS | Master Production Planning
MRP | Materials Requirements Planning
OQ | Order Quantity
PRP | Project Requirements Planning
ROU | Routing (module)
SFC | Shop Floor Control (module)
SIC | Statistical Inventory Control
SR | Supplying Relation
STO | Standard to Order
Terms and definitions
Term | Definition
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EP-offset | Time between the requirement date and the planned order finish date. This consists of outbound lead time, extra lead time, safety time. For purchase orders also inbound and item supplier safety time
Simulation run | The simulation run (or generate-order-planning run) is the process in which planned orders are generated. This concept can be compared with the MRP, PRP, DRP run in Infor Baan IV
Order planning | All actions that are done for order generation. These are the planning processes and actions that take place within the order horizon. Depending on the context the term order planning can also include order generation.
Order generation run | See simulation run
Master planning | All actions that are done for master plan generation (production plan, purchase plan and planned distribution orders). These are the planning processes and actions that take place within the master-planning order horizon
Master-planned items | Items that have a master plan. Items that have a master plan can be planned order based or master-plan based.
Order-planned items | These are the items that are planned only by order planning and that do not have a master plan.
Plan level | Level of item definition with respect to definition of real items and families
Execution level | Business control level where the real execution of the production, purchase or distribution process take place. In the ERP Enterprise application this is represented by SFC, Warehousing, Purchase, and so on.
To order items | Items with order policy "To Order". To order is the opposite of anonymous
Anonymous items | Items with order policy "Anonymous".
Standard item | Item without a project code. Opposite of project item
Customized item | Project item (item with a project code)
Clustered item | Plan item with the cluster code filled
Non-clustered item | Plan item with the cluster code empty. This item is also called the empty-cluster item.
Planned finish date | The finish date of the planned order when the planned order has been generated
Interim finish date | The interim finish date represents the planned finish date in advance of the order generation. This is used in several cases to determine how the order must be generated, for instance to determine the effectivity of item supplier information or to determine the applicability of fixed lead time planning. The real order finish date can deviate from the internal date. For more information, see the topic document on lead times.