Multi-Site Planning
The multi-site planning feature plans a number of sites together as an internal supply chain. Internal supply chain execution is handled through distribution orders, which is a streamlined form of inter-site orders. The multi-site part structure expands upon planning features of a single site bill-of-material (BOM), to provide the information necessary for multi-site planning. The supplier part records for the parts distributed between a site and another internal supplier site define the connections. The multi-site planning connection is defined in Supplier for Purchase Part.
Multi-site planning can be performed only if the planning networks have been
defined. The multi-site planned parts definition is different from the planning
network definitions. Therefore, planning networks do not restrict multi-site
part definitions. When multi-site planning is performed for a planning network,
only the subsets of the multi-site part structure in the planning network are
planned. Distribution orders will be generated by multi-site planning systems
for internally sourced parts.
The supply parts can be sourced from a
mix of manufacturing, internal sites, and external suppliers. The multi-site
planned indicator defines internally sourced connections. These inventory parts
must have the same part number in all the different internal sites. For example,
Site A receives part X from sites B and C where it is manufactured. This relationship
is defined by multi-site planned internal suppliers for part X on site A, having
a supplier split of 50% to the internal supplier for Site B and 50% to the internal
supplier for Site C. This creates a multi-site part structure as follows.
When creating multi-site part connections, there will be a check to avoid creating loops in the multi-site part structures that are created. It is OK for one site to supply another with the same part. However, the relationships can only be in one direction. They cannot be bi-directional as shown in the example with Part Y.
Validation involves the following elements:
· A parent part cannot have a connection to itself, defined as a component part, in the multi-site part structure.
· Validations occur separately for different BOM types (e.g. Manufacturing, Repair, etc.), just as the loop validations in the current structure.
· Validations for multi-site structure loops are initiated from the following events:
o When adding or updating a structure record
o When adding a site to an inter-site part’s sourcing options
o Changing the Material Requirements Planning method K (Blow Through Planning), T (Master Scheduling Level 0 Phantom), or O (Master Scheduling Level 0 Part)
The Multi-Site Planned Part on the
Supplier for Purchased Part indicates the
part is Multi-Site Planned with the internal supplier. This multi-site planned
indicator defines the connections between internal sites establishing a Multi-site
Part Structure. The inventory part must exist at both sites for multi-site planning.
A multi-site planned part is considered by the order planning and sourcing features
such as Next Level Demand Calculations, Material Requirements Planning, Master
Scheduling, the Capability Check, and Costing. When an order proposal is created,
distribution orders are used to process the order for this part with the internal
supplier. The Multi-Site Planned Part is only for internal suppliers,
not external ones. If the Multi-Site Planned Part is not selected,
the planning processes stop at this level, and do not pass the requirements
to the internal supplier.
Multi-site cost rollups can be performed on
parts with supply sourcing rule definitions among internal sites. The standard
cost rollup procedures are used to perform the multi-site cost rollups. The
multi-site cost rollup only rolls up costs among the sites for the 510 Inter-site
Material Cost bucket. All other costs are still calculated on a site-by-site
basis.