| # Enterprise planning typologies 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. 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. 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. 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. |