Global Production System Planning in a Nutshell
Global Production System Planning provides
tools for supply chain definition and management. It includes the following capabilities:
- define the input and output materials for a system
- create the sourcing links between systems
- navigate on sourcing links to retrieve:
- all suppliers of a given customer
- all customers of a given supplier
- all materials required by a given customer (input materials)
- all materials provided by a given supplier (output materials)
- all suppliers providing a given material
- all customers requiring a given material
- define logistics information such as distances and durations on candidate transportation resources for describing networks of supplier and customer sites.

Before Reading this Guide
Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with basic Version 6 concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars. Therefore, we recommend that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide that describes generic capabilities common to all Version 6 products. It also describes the general layout of Version 6 and the interoperability between workbenches.
You should also be familiar with other Manufacturing Planning applications. You may also like to read the following complementary product guides, for which the appropriate license is required:
- Manufacturing System Definition User's Guide
- Process Definition User's Guide
- Resource Definition & Layout User's Guide
- PPR Navigator User's Guide

Getting the Most Out of this Guide
To get the most out of this guide, we suggest that you start reading and performing the step-by-step user tasks, which cover all product functionalities.
The Interface Description
section, which describes the Global Production System Planning
interface, will also certainly prove useful.