ManualDoc:T800258

• Document Date: date the purchasing plan is entered
• Name: name of the purchasing plan
• Time Horizon: the number of days that are taking into account for the calculation of the purchasing plan
• Safety Lead Time: number of days that are added to the offset for the calcualtion of the planned order date of the suggested purchase order. For example the purchasing leadtime is used to indicate how long it will take for a product between being ordered and arriving in the warehouse and the safety lead time is added on for any time that it takes to put the product into stock (due to quality check or other internal processes).
• Planner: filter to select only products managed by a certain planner, as configured in the Org Specific tab of the product.
• Vendor: filter to select only products for a certain vendor as configured in the Purchasing tab of the product.
• Product: filter to select only a certain product
• Product Category: filter to select only products related to a certain product category
• Business Partner: filter to only select products ordered by a certain customer
• Business Partner Category: filter to only select business partners of a certain business partner category.
• Process Purchase Plan button: once the information is added in the main section, the lines are created by the Process Purchase Plan button. If necessary, the lines are deleted, changes are made to set ups and new lines are created by clicking the Process Purchase Plan button again.
• Create purchase order: Generates the corresponding purchase orders
• Create reservations: This button is only visible when Stock reservations feature is enabled. It reserves stock for the sales orders that are not reserved, if there is stock, and for the ones that cannot be reserved because there is not stock it creates the corresponding purchase orders and link to the sales order