Item Attributes and Order Modifiers for Supply Planning

Items represent the material that you use in manufacturing and distribution processes and store in inventory. Item attributes specify properties of each item. You set the item attributes for supply planning through the Product Information Management work area.

Use these steps to set item organization attributes for supply planning:

1. Navigate to the Product Information Management work area and open the Manage Items task from the Tasks drawer.

2. Search for your items.

3. Select an item and edit attributes on the specification tab. You can locate the Planning attributes under the planning section.

This table lists the attributes related to supply planning.

Item Attribute	Item Structure
Item Overview	Unit of Measure
Manufacturing	Structure Item Type
Manufacturing	Base Model
Manufacturing	Autocreated Configuration
Manufacturing	Assemble to Order
Manufacturing	Build in WIP
Manufacturing	Supply Type
Inventory	Inventory Item
Inventory	Stockable
Inventory	Transactable
Order Management	Customer Orders Enabled
Order Management	Transfer Orders Enabled
Planning	Make or Buy
Planning	Safety Stock Method
Planning	Planner Code
Planning	Planning Method
Planning	Forecast Control
Planning	Time Fences: Demand
Planning	Time Fences: Release
Planning	Time Fences: Planning
Planning	Cost
Planning	Carrying Percentage
Planning	Shrinkage Rate
Planning	Acceptable Early Days
Planning	Lead Times: Processing
Planning	Lead Times: Preprocessing
Planning	Lead Times: Postprocessing
Planning	Lead Times: Fixed
Planning	Lead Times: Variable
Planning	Minimum Order Quantity
Planning	Maximum Order Quantity
Planning	Fixed Order Quantity
Planning	Fixed Lot Multiplier
Planning	Fixed Days Supply
Planning	Rounding
Purchasing	Purchasable
Purchasing	Approved Supplier List

You can use these attributes for specific purposes:

• Make or Buy: This attribute is used by default if no sourcing rule is present.

• Planning Method: Use either MRP planned or MPS planned as the planning method.

• Time Fences: All are used by planning.

• Buy items use the processing lead times. Make items use fixed and variable.

• Make, buy, transfer all use preprocessing lead time. Buy and transfer use post processing lead time.

• Acceptable Early Days is used if you need to reschedule existing supplies. If the supply due date is within the acceptable early days, then no reschedule out recommendation is issued.

Order Modifiers

You use order modifiers to obtain planned orders that you're more likely to use in your environment. For example, you may purchase an item from a supplier who only provides it on pallets of quantity 100. If you're short in some quantity, say 72, you can set the planned order quantity to 100 instead of 72 to support your requirement. You can't apply order modifiers to phantoms and back-to-back items.

These are the order modifiers that you can use:

• Minimum Order Quantity

• Maximum Order Quantity

• Fixed Order Quantity

• Fixed Lot Multiplier

• Fixed Days Supply

• Rounding

Material planning uses a priority sequence (precedence) of order modifiers. It applies certain order modifiers before others and rules out certain order modifiers based on it using certain other order modifiers. The order modifier precedence is:

1. Fixed Days Supply: One planned order for this item must cover all the shortages for the number of days specified in the value. For example, if the net requirements are 50 on Monday, 100 on Wednesday, 70 on Thursday, and you've set Fixed Days Supply to 5, the planning process creates one planned order, with a quantity of 220 (50 + 100 + 70) and due on Monday. The period start dates aren't fixed. In the example, the next period of 5 days would not always start on the following Monday but would start on the next day after Friday that has net requirements. You can adjust the Fixed Days Supply value using the other order modifiers. Therefore, the next period of 5 days could be the following Wednesday through the second Tuesday.

   Note: In Supply Planning, if there's a Fixed Days Supply, then the application doesn't split supplies based on sourcing rule percentages.

2. Fixed Order Quantity: You must always set the planned order quantity with this value. For example, if the net requirements are 1 and you've set Fixed Order Quantity to 200, the planning process creates one planned order with a quantity of 200. If set, the planning process skips to the Rounding order modifier.

3. Fixed Lot Multiplier: You must always have the planned order quantity with this value. For example, if the net requirements are 400 and you've set Fixed Lot Multiplier to 150, the planning process creates one planned order with a quantity of 450.

4. Minimum Order Quantity: The planned order quantity may never be less than this value. For example, if the net requirements are 100 and you've set Minimum Order Quantity to 150, the planning process creates one planned order with a quantity of 150. If set, the planning process skips to the Rounding order modifier.

5. Maximum Order Quantity: One planned order for this item may not have a quantity more than this value. For example, if the net requirements are 200 and you've set Maximum Order Quantity to 150, the planning process creates two planned orders, one with a quantity of 150 and the other with a quantity of 50.

6. Rounding: The planned order quantity must always be a whole number; the planning process always rounds fractional quantities up to the next highest whole number. For example, if the net requirements are 99.2 and you've selected Rounding, the planning process creates one planned order with a quantity of 100.