| # Production planning If the default supply source of a clustered item is Production, the planning run creates planned production orders for the clustered item and the clustered warehouse. However, the explosion of materials and operations proceeds according to the general bill of material and routing. For master planning, the planning process uses the general bill of critical material and bill of critical capacities to explode dependent demand to critical materials and capacities. A clustered item does not have a unique (critical) bill of material or (critical) routing. LN creates the planned production order for the clustered item and the clustered warehouse. You can transfer this planned production order to Shop Floor Control. The clustered warehouse receives the finished product. LN aggregates all the inventory transactions to the clustered item. Clustered components in the bill of material The bills of material of two items that are manufactured in two different production sites can contain the same component item and you might want to purchase that component from different suppliers, depending on the manufactured item for which you use the component. To model that situation, you can use the following setup: Define a cluster for each production site. Define the component as clustered plan item in the Items - Planning (cprpd1100m000) session: one clustered plan item for each cluster. You specify one of the warehouses linked to the cluster as the clustered item’s default warehouse. In the Bill of Material (tibom1110m000) session, on the BOM line for the component, enter the same warehouse as the default warehouse of the clustered plan item. In the Ship-from Business Partner (tccom4121s000) session, link the component’s local supplier to the same warehouse. If you run the planning process, LN automatically selects the correct supplier for each clustered plan item. A single mechanism supports several similar business cases. |