Daily Buckets in Supply Planning

The planning process always plans in daily buckets because it considers that demands are due at the end of the day. The planning process doesn't plan demands and supplies at weekly, period, or monthly level.

Demands and supplies are balanced at the end of the day. The shortages or excess in demand and supplies are carried over to the next day. However, tables and graphs can aggregate daily planning results into weekly, period, or monthly level.

Demands and supplies don't have time stamps. The planning process considers that the capacity during the day can be used for resource or supplier requirements scheduled for the same day. If a planned work order can be completed in less than a day, it's scheduled on the same day as the demand due date. Also, if the work order is less than a day, the start date and the end date are same.

The planning process supports three calendars for aggregation in the planning output:

• Manufacturing calendars: Supports aggregation by week and period.

• Fiscal calendars: Supports aggregation by week and period in the tables.

• Gregorian calendars: Supports daily bucketing and aggregation by calendar month. The Gregorian calendar doesn't support bucketing by week.