Including Restrictions in Planning
Restrictions are taken into account in planning depending on the procedure you select and the profile you have defined for this procedure.
Procedure for Planning Individual Lines
If you use a procedure for planning individual lines , such as the prioritized equal distribution procedure, for example, the system only uses the restrictions you have maintained for the planning segment . Note that the system only uses the restrictions you have also entered in the procedure profile and only if you entered the procedure profile in the procedure package. Restrictions you created for the other lines are not taken into account.
LP Procedure
If you use the
LP procedure,
which you can use for planning
linear line networks
as well as for
line networks with groups of alternative lines
, the system takes the
restrictions of all lines
into account for planning. This means the system does not only take the restrictions for the planning segment into account in planning but it also observes all the restrictions for all the lines in the line network. A prerequisite for this is that you have defined a profile for the LP procedure that contains all possible restrictions and that you have entered this profile in the procedure package. For restrictions which are not quantity restrictions, you have to set the conversion into a quantity restriction in the
Conversion
field so that the LP procedure can take these restrictions into account.
Sequencing
The system does not only execute sequencing for one day or one shift but for the complete planning period. This means, for example, that the system also tries to respect the restriction between the last product of one day and the first product of the following day.
Evaluation of the Planning Results
After the planning run, you want to check whether and how the restrictions were taken into account and the number of "restriction hits" there were (orders whose characteristic value assignment fulfills the object dependencies saved as value assignments in the restriction). To do this, you use the restriction hit view in the product planning table. See also: Display Restriction Hits