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   <Header>
      <Title>About this guide</Title>
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         <Level1>Order planning</Level1>
         <Level2>about</Level2>
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      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e176904">
         <Level1>About</Level1>
         <Level2>order planning</Level2>
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   </Header>
   <GeneralSection>
      <Paragraph>This document addresses the general concepts and basic
		principles of order planning in ERP Enterprise <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef>. Technical details are left out.
		The document is intended for users of the Infor software and for Infor Global
		internal use.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>This document addresses the general concepts and basic
		principles of order planning in ERP Enterprise <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef>. Technical details are left out. The document is intended for
		users of the Infor software and for Infor Global internal use.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>
         <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef> 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.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>Many of the discussed concepts are addressed in more detail in a
		separate topic document (see also document references).</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>Chapter 1, "Order planning concept," explains the main concepts
		and describes how you can determine how each item is planned.</Paragraph>
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   <GeneralSection>
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            <TR no="1" isLast="false">
               <TH colspan="2" rowspan="1">Abbreviations</TH>
            </TR>
            <TR no="2" isLast="false">
               <TH rowspan="1" colspan="1">Abbreviation</TH>
               <TH rowspan="1" colspan="1">Definition</TH>
            </TR>
            <TR no="3" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">ATP</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Available to Promise</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="4" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">BCC</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Bill of Critical Capacities</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="5" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">BCM</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Bill of Critical Materials</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="6" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">BOM</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Bill of Material</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="7" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">BP</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Business Partner</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="8" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">COLT</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cumulative Order Lead Time</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="9" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">CTP</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Capable To Promise</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="10" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">DRP</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Distribution Requirements Planning</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="11" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">EP</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Enterprise Planning</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="12" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">EOQ</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Economic Order Quantity</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="13" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">ETO</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Engineer to Order</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="14" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">FOQ</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Fixed Order Quantity</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="15" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">L4L</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Lot for Lot</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="16" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">MPS</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Master Production Planning</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="17" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">MRP</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Materials Requirements Planning</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="18" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">OQ</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Order Quantity</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="19" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">PRP</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Project Requirements Planning</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="20" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">ROU</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Routing (module)</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="21" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">SFC</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Shop Floor Control (module)</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="22" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">SIC</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Statistical Inventory Control</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="23" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">SR</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Supplying Relation</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="24" isLast="true">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">STO</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Standard to Order</TD>
            </TR>
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             space-and-orientation="indented-estimated">
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            <TR no="1" isLast="false">
               <TH colspan="2" rowspan="1">Terms and definitions</TH>
            </TR>
            <TR no="2" isLast="false">
               <TH rowspan="1" colspan="1">Term</TH>
               <TH rowspan="1" colspan="1">Definition</TH>
            </TR>
            <TR no="3" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">EP-offset</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">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</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="4" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Simulation run</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">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</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="5" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Order planning</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">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.</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="6" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Order generation run</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">See simulation run</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="7" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Master planning</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">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</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="8" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Master-planned items</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Items that have a master plan. Items that have a master plan can
				be planned order based or master-plan based.</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="9" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Order-planned items</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">These are the items that are planned only by order planning and
				that do not have a master plan.</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="10" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Plan level</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Level of item definition with respect to definition of real items
				and families</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="11" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Execution level</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">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.</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="12" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">To order items</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Items with order policy "To Order". To order is the opposite of
				anonymous</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="13" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Anonymous items</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Items with order policy "Anonymous".</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="14" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Standard item</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Item without a project code. Opposite of project item</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="15" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Customized item</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Project item (item with a project code)</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="16" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Clustered item</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Plan item with the cluster code filled</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="17" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Non-clustered item</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Plan item with the cluster code empty. This item is also called
				the empty-cluster item.</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="18" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Planned finish date</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">The finish date of the planned order when the planned order has
				been generated</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="19" isLast="true">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Interim finish date</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">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.</TD>
            </TR>
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