Understanding the Multifacility Planning Setup

You set up multifacility planning to track supply, demand, and movement of material among the individual facilities of the enterprise. Multifacility planning provides a flexible method for planning supply-and-resupply activities.

In multifacility planning, you must set up a table of supply-and-demand relationships among the facilities. The system uses these relationships to generate and maintain multifacility plans.

Set up supply-and-demand relationships for any level of detail that you select, including:

• Branch/plant

• Product group

• Master planning family

• Individual item number

This approach enables you to maintain supply-and-demand relationships in one central location and reduce inventory errors that are caused by complex facility relationships. In addition, when you set up supply-and-demand relationships, you can use these optional features:

• Markup

  You can have the system automatically mark up the cost of an item when you create a transfer order. The system can adjust the cost by a fixed amount or percentage.

• Availability checking

  You can ensure that the branch from which you are ordering has enough inventory in stock to fill the order. If the required quantity is not available, the system checks subsequent facilities in the sequence that you define.

• Effectivity dates

  Use effectivity dates to control the demands that are placed on the supply branches. If an effectivity date that was assigned to a supply branch has expired, the system checks for another facility.

  The MRP, DRP, and MPS versions of the Branch Relationships Revisions program use the same processing options. You can vary the settings in the processing options to accommodate the different requirements for a material requirements plan.

  Important: When you delete a supply-and-demand relationship, the system deletes the entire record.