Process flow

  • Generate forecasts for the period/s, if purchase planning is based on the forecast definition.
  • Setup the purchase plan definition.

How to generate the suggested order?

Which warehouses are to be included/excluded?

Minimum/Maximum stocks

Shipping method

Which stocks, actual and projected, to be included?

Which demand, actual and projected, to be considered?

  • Reset the suggested order cycle via suggested order cycle reset

Cleans out any old purchase planning cycles still active but are no longer required to be generated.

  • Generate the purchase plan matrix if there are unapproved new items or if the factors affecting the purchase plan profile have changed drastically since the last profile update or if the matrix definition has been modified.
  • Generate the suggested order requirements via requirements generation

What are the requirements?

Sequence to print in

Are orders for a particular item hierarchy?

Include a particular warehouse?

  • Print the suggested orders report via suggested orders report
  • Edit the suggested orders via suggested order maintenance

Change, delete the suggested quantities and add new items.

  • Generate the purchase orders via purchase order creation

Generates the purchase order file

  • Print the purchase orders via purchase orders forms print

Print out the hard copies

Purchase planning matrix

The Purchase Plan Classification can be automatically updated based on the volumetric weight, average monthly sales, or unit cost.

Table 1

 

AVG SALES QTY

UNIT COST

                                                                                                                            Default              Low                  Average                High                        Expensive

 

 

$0.00 – $0.01

$0.01 – $1.00

$1.00 – $5.00

$5.00 – $1000.00

> $1000.00

Low

0 – 5

990

100

200

300

400

Avg.

5 – 50

990

100

500

600

950

High

> 50

990

100

800

900

960

 

Table 2

TMSDS/PPCU-MD set-up:

 

X Axis (Unit Cost)

Y Axis (Avg.Sales)

Profile

1

999999999

990

100

5

100

100

50

100

100

999999999

100

5000

5

200

5000

50

500

5000

999999999

800

100000

5

300

100000

50

600

100000

999999999

900

999999999

5

400

999999999

50

950

999999999

999999999

960

The data setup in the X and Y axis are defined in TMSDS/PPCU-DFN. These can be cost, sales quantity, or volumetric weight.

 

X Axis: Enter the value to be used

Y Axis: Enter the value to be used

Profile: Enter the Profile IDs relating to your companies purchase plan matrix

  • The profile (Item classification code) must be a valid IC-TYPE as defined in TMSDS/PPCU-DFN.
  • The profile ID must also be setup as a valid purchase plan definition.

 

Table 3

PPCU-DFN Purchase plan class update – definition

Forecast ID

B/

F/

C

Mths to Avg

Whse for cost

Title Class

Levels

 

1 2 3 4 5

1=Cost

2=Avg qty

3=Vol weight

002

C

6

0001

IC-PP

     2 2 2 2 2

              1    2

 

Forecast ID: This is the forecast ID used to determine the min/max quantity if purchase plan method is by forecast.

PSI type: This must be the same as the PSI type of the forecast, which has been entered in TMSDS/PSI-TYPE.

Mths to Average: This is the number of months to average in computing the average quantity. The average quantity may be defined as one of the axes in the definition.

Warehouse for Costing: If National Costing is used leave blank. If method is by warehouse enter the main Warehouse ID.

Item Class: Enter the User defined Item Classification holding the profile IDs.

Item Levels: Enter 2 against all Item levels if using a high level definition. For multiple levels enter the item levels to be used.

Cost/Avg mth qty/Vol weight: Enter the two factors to be used. The matrix is a two dimensional table of any two of the three factors of cost, volume, quantity.

 

Table 4

TMSDS/IC-PP Profile

Group Code

Description

100

LOW VALUE TITLES

200

AVG VAL/LOW VOL

300

HIGH VAL/LOW VOL

400

EXPENSIVE /LOW VOL

500

AVG VAL/AVG VOL

600

HIGH VAL/AVG VOL

800

AVG VAL/HIGH VOL

900

HIGH VAL/HIGH VOL

950

EXPENSIVE/AVG VOL

960

EXPENSIVE/HIGH VOL

990

NO COST/ANY  VOL

 

Group Code: Enter your Company Group codes to be used to update the IC-type used in the Title masterfile.

Description: Enter the description relating to each of the Group codes.

 

Table 5

TMSDS/IC-TYPES – Classification types

Type

Description

Validate

Multiple

Mandatory

IC-PP

Purchase Plan Profile

Y

0

N

 

Type:  Enter the IC-PP in TMSDS/IC-TYPES