Single-Facility Versus Multifacility Planning

Single-facility planning encompasses the generation of a distribution or production plan for one facility. All supply-and-demand data must be within a single branch plant. If an item is available in other branch plants, it is not considered during single-facility planning.

In contrast, multifacility planning is set up to consider supply and demand for the same item across multiple facilities. The objective of multifacility planning is to coordinate the distribution or production plan of several plants that are part of an integrated company. This type of planning is used to provide a number of business solutions, including:

• Demand consolidation to support centralized procurement for multiple branch plants.

• Demand fulfillment from an alternate branch plant to minimize inventory.

• Demand integration, in which one plant produces semifinished items that are shipped to and assembled into end-item products at another plant.

You define supply-and-demand relationships between branch plants; the system transfers items among the plants using JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Sales Order Management and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Procurement.