| # Purchase planning The purchase planning process for clustered items is identical to that of the nonclustered 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. If you entered a particular warehouse cluster 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 to a cluster for which the default warehouse equals the warehouse on the Ship-from role. Example 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: In the Items - Planning (cprpd1100m000) session, specify the following fields:
Setup for local purchasing (Plan items)
Field | Nonclustered item | Clustered item
--- | --- | ---
Plan Item | JOSCOM | USA JOSCOM
Cluster | (None) | USA
Default Supply Source | Production/Purchase | Distribution
Default Warehouse | DUB (Dublin) | NY (New York)
In the Ship-from Business Partner (tccom4121s000) session, which you can access from the Business Partners (tccom4500m000) session, specify the following fields:
Setup for local purchasing (Suppliers)
Field | Supplier for USA | Supplier for nonclustered warehouse
--- | --- | ---
Supplier | SUP000002 | SUP000003
Warehouse | NY (New York) | DUB (Dublin)
According to these settings, supplier SUP000002 can only deliver to the cluster and warehouse in New York. Supplier SUP000003 only delivers to the warehouse in Dublin. 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. 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. The goods are then received on the clustered warehouse. |