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   <Header>
      <Title>Distribution planning</Title>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e200480">
         <Level1>Distribution planning</Level1>
      </Keyword>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e200483">
         <Level1>Distribution requirements planning</Level1>
      </Keyword>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e200486">
         <Level1>DRP</Level1>
      </Keyword>
   </Header>
   <GeneralSection>
      <Paragraph>You can use <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef> for the logistic planning of items that you acquire from elsewhere in your
      company, or from an <Link href="/baanerp/tc/glossary/glossary#AffiliCompan_tc" role="glossary">affiliated company</Link>. In <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef>,
      this type of supply is known as distribution.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>You can set up a
      structure for distribution planning by defining clusters, and by modeling the
      goods flow through your supply chain by <Link href="/baanerp/cp/glossary/glossary#000005" role="glossary">supplying relationships</Link> (in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp/rpd/cprpd7130m000" role="session">Supplying Relationships (cprpd7130m000)</GUIRef> session).</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>In <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef>,
      distribution volumes are planned in the form of <Link href="/baanerp/cp/glossary/glossary#000049" role="glossary">planned distribution orders</Link>. Within the <Link href="/baanerp/cp/glossary/glossary#000303" role="glossary">master-planning horizon</Link>, these planned distribution orders
      serve as a <Link href="/baanerp/cp/glossary/glossary#000300" role="glossary">distribution plan</Link>.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>When a distribution
      volume is planned, the related requirement is passed on to the required item
      (at the appropriate site), so that ERP Enterprise can take this dependent demand into
      account when this item is planned.</Paragraph>
      <List>
         <ListIntro>You can use the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp/pat/cppat1210m000" role="session">Transfer Order Planning (cppat1210m000)</GUIRef> session to transfer planned distribution orders
        to the <Link href="/baanerp/cp/glossary/glossary#000027" role="glossary">execution level</Link> of ERP Enterprise.
        Here the planned orders become either:</ListIntro>
         <ListItem> 
            <Link href="/baanerp/wh/glossary/glossary#000388" role="glossary">Warehousing orders</Link> of the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/wh/domains/inh.oorg#transfer" role="option">Transfer</GUIRef> type (if the
        supply is within a site).</ListItem>
         <ListItem> 
            <Link href="/baanerp/td/glossary/glossary#PurchaOrders_td" role="glossary">Purchase orders</Link> (if the supply is between
        sites).</ListItem>
      </List>
   </GeneralSection>
   <RelatedTopics>
      <SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
      <RelTopic>
         <Link href="/baanerp/cp/onlinemanual/000305" role="manual">Supply planning</Link>
      </RelTopic>
      <RelTopic>
         <Link href="/baanerp/cp/onlinemanual/000301" role="manual">Clusters in Enterprise Planning</Link>
      </RelTopic>
      <RelTopic>
         <Link href="/baanerp/cp/onlinemanual/000148" role="manual">Multisite planning</Link>
      </RelTopic>
   </RelatedTopics>
</ManualTopic>