Import Planned Orders

You can import supply recommendations from one or more supply plans. It's helpful to do this when your supply chain has long lead times.

• You can import from Planning Central or Supply Planning.
• If you use database promising, then you can use the Order Promising Options page to add a plan name.
• Promising promises sales orders according to the supply that's currently available and to the supply that will become available at some point in the future, such as through make, buy, or transfer.
• Promising assumes that the imported supply is available-to-promise supply and that it's available on the plan's due date.
• You can import planned supply even when Planning Central or Supply Planning sent the plan to the execution system but the execution system hasn't yet created supply.

Assume you must import a plan named My Plan.

1. Go to the Planning Central work area or the Supply Planning work area.
2. Run the plan.
3. Make sure the plan doesn't have any exceptions.
4. Save the plan.

   If you modify the plan in Planning Central or Supply Planning at some later time, then you must redo this procedure.

Here's what Promising does:

• Reads planned orders from your plan
• Identifies the demand for each planned order
• Consumes supply for the demand

Assume Promising creates supply for a buy planned order and consumes supplier capacity according to the due date on the planned order. Promising also considers calendars and supplier lead times when it creates this supply.

If you update supply at run time, then Promising uses:

• Work orders for planned make orders
• Transfer orders for planned transfer orders
• Purchase orders or purchase requisitions for planned buy orders

If you import more than one plan, then make sure the plans don't import the same item. If you import the same item in more than one plan, then Promising aggregates supply across all plans for the item, and might count the same supply more than one time.