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<ManualTopic ID="/baanerp/cp/onlinemanual/cl000420" xml:lang="en">
   <Header>
      <Title>Purchase planning</Title>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e173163">
         <Level1>Clustered items</Level1>
         <Level2>purchase planning</Level2>
      </Keyword>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e173168">
         <Level1>purchase planning</Level1>
         <Level2>clustered items</Level2>
      </Keyword>
   </Header>
   <GeneralSection>
      <Paragraph>The purchase planning process for clustered items is identical
		to that of the non-clustered items, because these items share item purchase
		business partner information. Only the supply strategy can be defined
		separately for a clustered item. However, to select suppliers based on the
		cluster (local purchasing), you can use the warehouse on the Ship-from role of
		the business partner.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>If you entered a particular warehouse here for a supplier, that
		supplier can only deliver goods to this warehouse. As a result, the purchase
		planning process takes that supplier into account only when a plan item passes
		for which the default warehouse equals the warehouse on the Ship-from
		role.</Paragraph>
   </GeneralSection>
   <ExampleSection>
      <SectionTitle>Example</SectionTitle>
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                   SRC="../images/tr_graph_cl_clusters_purchase_planning.png"
                   alt="[...]"/>
      </Figure>
      <Paragraph>The item is for 70 percent supplied to cluster 2 by means of
		distribution from the central production site. However, the cluster also
		purchases the same item locally (30 percent of supply). A sourcing strategy is
		defined for this item. You can also purchase the item centrally from another
		supplier. You can model this with the following setup:</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>In the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp/rpd/cprpd1100m000" role="session">Items - Planning (cprpd1100m000)</GUIRef> session, set the following fields:</Paragraph>
      <TABLE width="100%" border="1" borderstyle="default"
             space-and-orientation="indented-estimated">
         <THEAD noTR="2">
            <TR no="1" isLast="false">
               <TH colspan="3" rowspan="1">Setup for local purchasing (Plan items)</TH>
            </TR>
            <TR no="2" isLast="true">
               <TH rowspan="1" colspan="1">Field</TH>
               <TH rowspan="1" colspan="1">Non-clustered item</TH>
               <TH rowspan="1" colspan="1">Clustered item</TH>
            </TR>
         </THEAD>
         <TBODY noTR="4">
            <TR no="1" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Plan Item</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">JOSCOM</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">USA JOSCOM</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="2" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Cluster</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">(None)</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">USA</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="3" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Default Supply Source</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Production/Purchase</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Distribution</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="4" isLast="true">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Default Warehouse</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">DUB (Dublin)</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">NY (New York)</TD>
            </TR>
         </TBODY>
      </TABLE>
      <Paragraph>In the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/com/tccom4121s000" role="session">Ship-from Business Partner (tccom4121s000)</GUIRef> session, which you can access from the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/com/tccom4500m000" role="session">Business Partners (tccom4500m000)</GUIRef> session, set the following fields:</Paragraph>
      <TABLE width="100%" border="1" borderstyle="default"
             space-and-orientation="indented-estimated">
         <THEAD noTR="2">
            <TR no="1" isLast="false">
               <TD colspan="3" rowspan="1">Setup for local purchasing (Suppliers)</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="2" isLast="true">
               <TH rowspan="1" colspan="1">Field</TH>
               <TH rowspan="1" colspan="1">Supplier for USA</TH>
               <TH rowspan="1" colspan="1">Supplier for non-clustered warehouse</TH>
            </TR>
         </THEAD>
         <TBODY noTR="2">
            <TR no="1" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Supplier</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">SUP000002</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">SUP000003</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="2" isLast="true">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Warehouse</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">NY (New York)</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">DUB (Dublin)</TD>
            </TR>
         </TBODY>
      </TABLE>
      <Paragraph>According to these settings, supplier SUP000002 can only deliver
		to the cluster and warehouse in New York.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>Supplier SUP000003 only delivers to the warehouse in
		Dublin.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>If a sales order is accepted in the New York sales office, the
		planning run automatically includes only the suppliers that have the New York
		warehouse connected, and suppliers that do not have any warehouse
		connected.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>In this case, the planning run takes only SUP000002 into account
		to plan the clustered item USA_JOSCOM. The planning run selects clustered
		warehouse NY for the planned purchase order. You can transfer the planned
		purchase orders to the purchase department.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>The goods are then received on the clustered
		warehouse.</Paragraph>
   </ExampleSection>
</ManualTopic>