The starting point of any material-flow planning should be a well-founded basis of the planning data, which should moreover be broad, but at the same time free from redundancy. This includes of course a precise taking-down and presenting of all the processes that are relevant from an intralogistics point of view, as well as an analysis and assessment of the underlying data and information.

Therefore we will analyse all the courses of production and business-processes, as well as the data of items, orders, and stock. So we can have a future-orientated explanation of systems and organisational forms. Weak points in the present situation can be identified with this fundamental database.

It is from the planning basis gained in this analysis of the present situation that the planner gets a pool of meaningful key indicators as well as a model-like clear picture of the item under investigation, which meaningfully represents reality. From this the effective implementation and the logical combination of the three resources manpower, capital and information can be deduced. The planning-database is a fundamental milestone in the direction of a successful project realisation.