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   <Header>
      <Title>To enable planning by item and warehouse</Title>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e172707">
         <Level1>Cluster planning</Level1>
         <Level2>by item and warehouse</Level2>
      </Keyword>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e172712">
         <Level1>Item planning</Level1>
         <Level2>by item and warehouse</Level2>
      </Keyword>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e172717">
         <Level1>Warehouse planning</Level1>
         <Level2>by item and warehouse</Level2>
      </Keyword>
   </Header>
   <GeneralSection>
      <Paragraph>A cluster is a group of one or more warehouses in a particular
		geographical area. You can plan an item by cluster (geographical
		area).</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>To enable this, you can set up multiple plan items for one item.
		You always define one plan item without a cluster indication and multiple plan
		items with a cluster indication. From now on, a plan item with a cluster will
		be called a <Emphasis>clustered plan item</Emphasis>, and the plan item without
		cluster will be called the <Emphasis>non-clustered plan item</Emphasis>.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>The planning functions that ERP Enterprise supports for each
		item and cluster are described later.</Paragraph>
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      </Figure>
      <Paragraph>You can set up distribution relationships between the clustered
		and non-clustered plan items. This setup supports distribution requirements
		planning (DRP) in <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef> on individual warehouses as well as on a more aggregated
		level, such as a group of warehouses in one cluster.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>To perform DRP on planning level, you must use clusters. You can
		define distribution relationships in all directions, even from a clustered item
		to the non-clustered item.</Paragraph>
   </GeneralSection>
</ManualTopic>