Oracle Advanced Supply chain Planning Setup

Oracle Advanced Supply chain Planning Setup

1. Planning APS
Required Responsibilities:
Advanced Planning Administrator
Advanced Supply Chain Planner
Material Planner

A- Advanced Planning Administrator
AdminInstance, Organization security


1- Instance

2. Add included Org


2- Organization Security

3. To grant access for Responsibilities on Which Org

4. Create Forecast Rule
From inventory  Setup Forecast Rule
لا عون اهللاخ نم ددحبBucket للhistory لاو هعمجه ىللا Forecast علطيه ىللا
لا عون للاخ نم اهعمجه ىللا اتادلا ددحبTransaction
عقوتلاب هصاخلا لماوعلاو ميقلا ددحب


Select Bucket type
Include “Sales Order Shipment” when Create Master Production Plan
At Forecast Select Max. Past Period  عيبلا رماوا خيرات نم عقوتلا عمجيه اهساسا ىلع ىللا هرتفلا “History”

Add factors for Statistical Forecast
• Focus forecasting which produces only single period forecasts
• Statistical forecasting which you can use to forecast any number of periods into the future

5. 1- Forecast Sets
Using Material Planner Res.
Make Sure to Set Only One Category for Each item (Planning)
Else Forecast Will Duplicate at Supply and demand

Forecast Sets  forecast
(Add in it items you need to
forecast)

Inventory Planning 
Forecast Sets



Open Sets  Container for Group of Forecast as below

6. Open Forecasted items (to List all Forecasted items)

Enter Forecasted Quantity for each item with Bucket Type Even “Days, Weeks, Period”
*Consumption Option*
To Control Consumption Percentage 100
لا كلهتست نكمم تاعيبملا نا اهانعمForecast هبسنب100 ش لا هلاح ىف هلكشم ىلببسي نكمم ادوabnormal Sales Demand
لا هميق ىلخي نكمم ىللاForecast by Zero or Negative “Over Consumption”

8. In case I need to Generate Forecast based on historical data “Statistical Method” based on Forecasting Rule


Generate Forecasting




Select Forecast Name , and rule (Based on it define past bucket and history type and forecast Method)
Selection Select Specific item , or all items or Specific category
Starting date- to Date  Horizon for forecast

9. Specify Sources of Demand You can drive the plan with:
• Sales order demand
• Forecast demand
• A combination: In this case, the sales order demand reduces (consumes) the forecast demand to avoid over-
demanding.

 The forecast demand comes from:
Demand from Oracle MRP
Create a new or use an existing master demand schedule Use the master demand schedule source list to
associate individual forecasts with your MDS Load the adjusted (unconstrained) forecasts into a master demand
schedule. You can load individual forecasts, for example, for customers and sales regions, into a single master
demand schedule and plan them all at once. See Oracle MRP User's Guide


Demand from Oracle Demand Planning
You do not have to run collections.
See Oracle Demand Planning Implementation and User's Guide


1- Run Collections Run collections to bring planning data from the source instance to the planning server, where
the data will be accessible to Oracle ASCP.
2- Create a Plan After an MDS has been defined, a Production, Manufacturing, or Distribution plan/schedule can be
created
3- Launch the Plan After you have created your MRP, MPS, or MPP plan/schedule and saved it, choose the plan
from [Production, Manufacturing, or Distribution Plan] > Names and select Launch Plan

10. MRP
Starting the Planning Manager
The Planning Manager controls a continuous background process that periodically activates for all organizations. It
differs from a normal process in that you need to start it only once. This process is activated based on the processing
interval you define. Once activated, the Planning Manager executes several maintenance tasks. For example, the
Planning Manager performs forecast consumption, MDS shipment relief, MPS schedule relief, and forecast and master
schedule imports. Note: You should activate the Planning Manager and leave it running. The Planning Manager performs
maintenance tasks vital to the proper operation of Oracle MRP.

Defining Planners
Creating Demand Classes:
You can group similar customers or sales orders by creating demand classes. Demand classes are a means of grouping
different sources of demand separately for consumption purposes.

Master Scheduling:
Master scheduling is used for:
 demand management “Demand”
 scheduling production “Supply”
You use the schedules generated by master scheduling as input to other manufacturing functions, such as
material requirements planning and rough-cut capacity planning.

Master Demand Schedule: “بلطلا رداصم لك هيف عمجيبو بلطلا هلاح” “Demand”
The MDS is a statement of demand and contains details of the anticipated shipment schedule. You can
consolidate all sources of demand into a master demand schedule to represent a statement of total
anticipated shipments

Some of the demand types that the MDS considers are:
• item forecasts
• spares demand
• sales orders
• internal requisitions


Master Production Schedule (MPS) “Supply”
The MPS is a statement of supply required to meet the demand for the items contained in the MDS.


Defining a Schedule Name
And Load on it Forecast

11. Material Requirements Planning MRP

Material requirements planning (MRP) calculates net requirements from gross requirements by evaluating:
• The master schedule • Bills of material • Scheduled receipts • On-hand inventory balances • Lead times •
Order modifiers
It then plans replenishments by creating a set of recommendations to release or reschedule orders for
material based on net material requirements.

Oracle MRP assumes infinite capacity is available to meet the material requirements plan. However, you can
use capacity planning to verify that sufficient capacity exists to support your material plan.

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MRP Planning Methods in Oracle Inventory
You can define an MRP planning method for an item when you define an item in Oracle
Inventory. Items that are considered by the planning process must have one of the following MRP planning
methods:
• MPS Planning
• MRP Planning

MPS Planning
Select MPS planning for items that you want to master schedule and maintain personal control. MPS
planning is most effective for: • planning items with independent demand • items that are critical to the
business • items that control critical resources

MRP Planning If your demand is smooth or predictable, you may not require master production scheduling.
Select MRP Planning for these items and use the master demand schedule to drive the material
requirements plan
Overview Oracle Supply Chain Planning
is a powerful tool that integrates manufacturing and distribution into a single planning process. With Oracle
Supply Chain Planning, you can generate plans that include the entire supply chain. In a single step you can
schedule and plan material and distribution requirements for multiple organizations, or centrally plan the
entire enterprise
Setting Up the Supply Chain
Sourcing rules and bills of distribution both specify date-effective sourcing strategies, combining
replenishment sources with split allocation percentages and rankings. A replenishment source is: • An inter-
organization transfer (Transfer From) • The replenished organization manufactures the item (Make At) • An
external supplier (Buy From) • An organization repairs the item (Repair at)

12. 1- Create Forecast
2- Create Sourcing Rule (Include all Make items)
3- Collect Data
4- Create Plan
5- Include forecast at Plan Option at Demand “Organization Tab”
6- Launch Plan and Check Supply/demand (For Make and Buy items )
7- Simulate
8- Release Planned Order Recommendations
9- Convert Planned Order to Batches

2-Sourcing Rules
“لكلا ع وا طقف هدحاو ىلع ءاوس هينزخملا هموظنملل ءلم هداعا اهيب لمعب يللا هقيرطلا”
Sourcing rules define inventory replenishment methods for either a single organization or all organizations
in your enterprise. Time-phasing in a sourcing rule determines when each group of shipping method - ship
org combinations is in effect

Current Project Only Single Org
Open Advanced Supply Chain Planner Res.


Select Sourcing Rule to Create New Sourcing Rule

13. We are Creating Rule for Sourcing all item produced or Make at GP Org, allocation Percentage 100%

Sourcing Types:



To add items to this Sourcing Rule  Assign Sourcing Rule

14. To find item at assigned to this Set  Click on Detail Lines then find

*We Must Assign All Make Items even intermediate items to Sourcing Rule if not
assigned will not be able to Drill Down to end item pegging *

15. Above image show no Pegging for Make item
At this Case this item even 1- not added to Sourcing Rule
2- No Approved Recipe , formula for this Item
3- Ingredients items are not Planned item
4- Validity Rule Expired

To solve this Issue Check above add to Sourcing Rule or check its Validations


Bills of Distribution:
Bills of distribution define the sourcing strategies of several organizations. In other words, a bill of distribution is library
of sourcing strategies. For instance, the sourcing strategy described in SR–C01 could apply to different organizations at
different periods. You cannot do this with sourcing rules because you have to apply the strategy to one organization or
all organizations.


3-Collect Data

16. ***************************************************************************************
Before Running Data Collection Make Sure Configure this Setting
Some time we face some issue at planning Data Collection regarding needing bigger table spaces for this request
At this Case we can use anew concurrent and add needed request on it to be used with Specific Requests as below
From system adminConcurrentManagerDefine

1- Exclude needed request from Standard Concurrent Manager as below


2-Create New Concurrent As Below and Include in it needed Requests

18. To set the processor No. for the New Concurrent
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Collection Types: Collections Oracle Systems

19. There is 2 Method of collection “Standard, Continues”

Continues  رصنع ىا نم لخدت ىا نودب ىرود لكشب متيباتاد يا عمجيب شم لا ول اتادلا عمجيب اهادعت ول...بسنو تلاداعم قيرط نع ىرشب
Standard لكش نم رتكاب اتادلا عمجا ردقاو نيعم تقو وا هرتف ىف هلودجا ردقا وا ىودي لكشب متيب ادو

We Always Use Standard Method

Make sure for the first Time to Set Time higher
Collection Types  “Complete, Targeted, Net change”
Based on Purge Previously Collected Data  Can Select Suitable Collection Method
If You Select Purge = Yes
Only Complete Refresh will be applicable

If NO
Then you will be Able to Select Even Target or Net

Target  You Select Specific Values to collect and All Other Fields well still as it
Net  Will Collect All Changes to Collected Data

20. IMPO Notes:

Technically, it retains the old data (doesn't delete from the MSC base tables) and append the new data (which is
being collected for the first time).
Target collections on the contrary will delete all the earlier collected data and collect the ENTIRE data again for
the entity that you are collecting.
Net change collections can be run only for transactional data, but not the setup data. Ex: If you have
added a new supplier, it can be collected only through a complete refresh or target collections.
Coming to the practical use, If your business does too many transactions during a day OR it needs to run
multiple plans based on the transactions done till that point in time, you really do not need to collect the entire
data set. All that you need to collect is the information of the transactions that happened after the last collection.
You use net change collections.
In a scenario where you have created or updated a sourcing rule OR you did a bulk update of some item
attribute or made mass updates to BOMs or Routings.. you really don't need to collect the ENTIRE data for all
entities, all that you need to collect are the entities which have been modified. You choose Target collections.
You may ask, if I have updated just the BOMs, why cant I use net change data collections. Yes, you can very
well use net change collections. But if the quantum of change is more (that's why I used the word MASS
UPDATE), it is suggested to run target collections as net change might take more time.
Hope that answers your query.
Preferred to use Targeted for setup change (Change in BOM, Recipe, and Routing)
Net change for Transactional Data
In Case New Setup for Material Status “Recommend to Run Complete Refresh”
View Collected Date:

21. To View Collect Validity Rule and Recipe Used

22. View Collected Component

At This Case System Collect Automatically Substitute item instead of Original Item
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ASCP Collect All Planned items and its substitute and Also All Approve Recipes “With Valid validity Rule”
ASCP Select Preferred Recipe or Substitute Based On Assigned Preferences at Validity Rule Def.

Smallest Preference highest priority
Pref. 1 is the Highest

23. (
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If not equal No Recipe will exist at collection because are not matched qty.
Also for Scalable make sure to Set Max Quantity to highest no.
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24. 4-Create Plan and Plan Options

Advanced Supply Chain Planner, Supply chain Plan Names (Name for Plan)

25. If you check Production: it means planned order will released automatically at its date
Create Plan and Set Type  Plan Type Manufacturing  Related to MRP “FG to material”
Production, Master Related to MPS “FG and Above *Planning Recipe, formulas till FG”

26. Master Plan & Production Plan - Starting from R12 these two plan types are one and the same. These types are
used for performing Master Scheduling - Planning of your finished goods and ABOVE (product families,
Planning BOMs etc.) ,Using this plan type, you arrive at a production schedule which you would like to
execute.
Manufacturing Plan - This plan type is used for performing the Materials Requirement Planning - Planning of
your finished goods and BELOW (Sub-assemblies and Raw material)
If we Select Production Check Box it will Automatically Release it Schedule it Also Need to Setup A Profile Option to allow Automatic Release













Open Plan Option:

27. Planned Items “What plan include in it ?”

هطخلا هوج ىقبته ىللا فانصلاا ددحيه اهساسا ىلع
لا فانصلاا لك لهPlanned
لا هوج ىللاForecast فانصلاا وا لا هوج اهعينصت متيب ىللاWIP
/all sales OrdersAt this Plan I Used Demand Schedule and WIP Component
If I need only forecasted “use Demand Schedule items only”
If needed to Plan Buy items “Supply Schedule items only”
Overwrite  ALL update generated orders after Each Launch

Forecast Allocation and consumption
-Do not spread Forecast
-Check on Consume by Forecast Bucket “Only Sales order at Current Bucket Consume Forecast”
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28. Aggregation Represent Horizon for Plan, I am Planning for 3 Future Periods هطخلا ىدم
Preferred to set it by Day to Show effect of Lead time for Buy items


OrganizationTo Select Used Forecast on it

If I need to include Sales Order to consume Forecast Check on it at organization

29. If I need to Plan for Safety Stock Check on it at Organization
You can also set Nettable (Sub-inventories Contained at Planning)
Sometimes it need Complete Refresh Collection to effect




Constrains
To specify if there is Capacity or Material Constrains

30. Launch Plan

31. Workbench: application from it we can manage all activities of planning Release
adjust Simulate etc…

To do all activates of Planning:

32. Always Make Sure Each item have only one Planning Category

33. Using Workbench
1- Find item and its component and Routing all Master Data for it

34. Master Data Attribute

Lead Time, Pegging, Min, Max Order Qty.




To Show Component

35. Show All Component and All approved for General use Formulas
Can Sea Each Formula from Alternate BOM

36. Can Also Show The Supply and Demand for Component
From Component  Select item and Open Supply and Demand

Lead-time and the Planning Time Fence:
Lead-times are portions of the span of time from recognizing the need for an order to receiving the goods to inventory

The planning time fence defines a time period within which the planning engine may not create planned orders. Use
planning time fence control for schedule stability during the initial periods of a plan.

The more realistic that your lead-times are, the more accurate the plan matches what will actually occur during execution


Safety Stock:
Safety Stock Must Collected by Targeted Collection
Safety stock is a quantity of stock you plan to remain in inventory to protect against fluctuations in demand
Safety stock is sometimes referred to as over planning.
Safety stock level can be made up of different types of safety stock levels:
 Non-transient safety stock levels are levels that you hold from their point of origination to the end of the
planning horizon. They are safety stock levels without ending effectivity dates

37.  Transient safety stock levels are levels that you hold for only a certain time during the planning horizon. They
are safety stock levels with ending effectivity dates.

• MRP Planned %: The planning engine calculates safety stock level for the item
• Non MRP Planned: The planning engine receives safety stock level for the item
from Oracle Inventory.

You Specify Safety Stock Levels
Navigate to the item attributes (Inventory > Items > Master Items or Inventory > Items >
Organization Items > tab General Planning > region Safety Stock > field Method.



Navigate to form Enter Item Safety Stocks (Inventory > Planning > Safety Stocks).
Enter Item, Quantity, and Effective Date.


If you specify only one safety stock level for an item, the planning engine considers the safety stock level as non-transient.
If you enter more than one safety stock level for an item, the planning engine generally considers the safety stock level as
transient.

38. Safety Stock Planning
Enabling Safety Stock Planning (Supply Chain Planning > Supply Chain Plan > Options)
In region Organizations, select field Plan Safety Stock for the organizations that you want. You can default this setting in
the Plan Parameters form (Supply Chain Planning > Setup > Parameters > Execution Defaults

Set Profile Option: MSC:Plan Items with Safety Stock in Demand Schedule = YES

And Profile Option: MSC: Include Safety Stocks in Priority Based Pegging to YES

Forecast Consumption:
Forecast consumption replaces forecasted demand with actual sales order demand
Each time you create a sales order line, you create actual demand. If the actual demand is already forecasted, the forecast
demand must be decremented by the sales order quantity to avoid counting the same demand twice.

39. Forecast Control
You control forecast consumption against each component by setting its organization item attribute Forecast control:
• Consume: Sales orders for this item consume forecasts for this item in the same.
• Consume and derive: Sales orders for this item consume forecasts for this item in the same organization. Select this
option if you will also do forecast explosion against the item; see Forecast Explosion, page 5-103.
• None: Sales orders for this item do not consume forecasts for this item.
Backward and Forward Consumption Days
Use consumption days if:
• You do not always have an exact match between the sales order line schedule dates and forecast entry dates.
• Your forecast entry quantity is not always sufficient to cover the sales order quantities.

Forecast consumption works as follows:
• It searches backward from the sales order line schedule date, workday by workday, for forecast quantities to consume.
• If that search is not successful in consuming the entire sales order line quantity, it searches forward from the sales order
line schedule date, workday by workday, for forecast quantities to consume.
• If that search is not successful in consuming the entire sales order line quantity, it creates an overconsumption (negative
demand) entry on the sales order line schedule date.

1- At standard planning Collection Make Sure to Include Sales order at collection
 The collection program requires the following
 visible_demand_flag = Y
 schedule ship date is not null
 shipped quantity is null
 deliver_to_org_id, sold_from_org_id and invoice_to_org_id is not null

2- Outlier Update Percent
Material Planner  At Forecast Set

40. This controls the effects of abnormal demand with a maximum percent of the original quantity forecast that a single sales
order can consume
عقوتلا نم هنيعم هبسن لاا شكلهتسيم هنا يعيبط ريغلا بلط لا ىف مكحتا ناشع هبسن



Daily Forecast at 2
nd day and 9
th day With 20 unit
There is Sales order at 9
th Day With 50 unit
For Specified forecast we Set outlier percent 50% SO Will only Consume 50% of forecast at 9
th day with Will be 10 unit
And Remaining unit (40) Will be over Consumption

41. IN Case Day bucket for consumption is 3 Day backward
It will Consume 20 and over-consumption with 5



Consumption with Weekly Buckets

At this scenario I plan weekly so no forward or backward days use and Sales order consumed With in Week

42. Consumption Rule
Current Week, then Previous Week “Backward”, Then Next Week “Forward”
Consumption with Periodic Buckets
Only Consume at the Current Period and remains convert to overconsumption
No Backward at period

Collection for Sales Order
To collect past due sales order demand, set the profile option MSC: Sales Orders Offset Days

43. Collect past due Sales order for 60 day before running Collection
The collection engine collects shipped sales order lines starting from 5 days before today. The default for this option is
99999.
The collection engine collects partially- or non-shipped sales orders regardless of this profile option.



Consumption Setup
1- On Item Master Level

2- Set up the following in the Plan Options level
At org level “Include Sales orders” to be considered at plan Launch

44. If you are using forecasts collected directly from Oracle Demand Planning, specify Forecast Consumption
Backward Days and Forecast Consumption Forward Days.
The planning engine applies this window to all Oracle Demand Planning forecasts driving the plan


The forecast consumption process occurs in the snapshot phase. When you launch a plan,

IF you want to Consume Forecast on its Period Make sure To select

45. Viewing Forecast Consumption:
 Planner Workbench

Select order type “Forecast ”on Forecast name Consumption Details



To show all Collected Sales order:
View collected Data  Demand filter by below Data


When the plan setup is Schedule By - Schedule Ship Date - then we will consume forecast based on that value
on the sales order.
There are no other option to exclude sales orders.

46. If Schedule By = Request Ship Date, then if that date is in the past, it will not consume current forecast as
long as the Request Date + Forward Days < Forecast bucket date

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Notes for Sales orders with ASCP
System Collect All Sales Orders but Only consume “Shipped” from Forecast
Other not Shipped Qty. Consume on-hand.
Entered will show as Demand but not Consume forecast , but will consume On-hand Qty., if available Quantity
not cover Demand , Will Suggest Planned Order to Supply Required Demand of SO
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Planner Activity:











Main Points:
A- For Make Item (FG)
1- Validate safety Stock
2- Validate Lead time
3-Validate Sales Order Consumption
4-Used Recipes/ formulas
5-Planned Orders Quantities
6-Simulation
B- For Buy item (MRP)
1- Validate Safety Stock “If Exist”
2-Lead Time
3-Planned Orders

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Min Order Qty.Max order Qty.Safety Stock
Fixed order
Qty.
33,333 9,999,999 623,945 33,333
Validate Make item
Batch Size = Fixed Order Qty

48. Planning Scenario
For item Substitute , Recipe , Packaging Recipes
“managed from Preferences”

64. Another Example

70. For Material

73. OPM Planning:
After Launch Plan and Validate Planned Order Even (Make or Buy)
Then Release + Firm Planned Order

ASCP to OPM Flow
The flow between ASCP and OPM is as follows:
1. Static and dynamic production planning data transfers from OPM to ASCP.
2. ASCP makes selected suggestion based on the data to meet the demands.
3. Through OPM you can reschedule, add, and cancel batches and firmed planned orders.
Defining Firmed Batches:
To Prevent ASCP Rescheduling or Cancel you have to Define Batch as firmed
Then collect data and Launch Plan


Analysis of Suggestions:
ASCP suggestions for production batches consist of the following:
• Create a new batch
• Reschedule an existing batch
• Cancel an existing batch

74. Implementing Planning Suggestions
Sending feedback from Advanced Supply Chain Planning (ASCP) to OPM includes implementing ASCP suggestions in
OPM. ASCP calculates the following types of planning suggestions based on the data collected from OPM: create
production and purchase orders; reschedule production orders; and cancel production and purchase orders. You can
release individual ASCP suggestions or release them in mass.


Manual Release and Implementation of Planning Suggestions
You can manually release ASCP suggestions in Advanced Planning Scheduling (APS) and manually accept some, all,
or none of the ASCP suggestions in OPM.

While Release Suggested Planned Orders (Even Production or Purchasing)they Send Automatically to even
Purchasing module or Production module
But it need first to Review (Accept, Reschedule, and Cancel) Sug.
Order
• Create new productions orders through the APS New Batch window
• Reschedule existing productions orders through the Reschedule Update
window
• Cancel existing productions orders through the Batch Cancellations
window
OPM Supply Chain Planner Res  Production Updates: APS New
Batch

75. Set Organization Access
For application Process Manufacturing Process Planning


Then from Advanced Supply Chain Planner
Give Permission to Res. To use Planned Organization

76. Open OPM Supply chain Planner

79. Fully Automatic Release and Implementation of Production Planning Suggestions
You can automatically release ASCP production order planning suggestions in Advanced Planning Scheduling (APS) and
automatically accept all of the ASCP production order planning suggestions in OPM without intervention.


Recommendation for Automatic Release and Approve

80. Simulation:
ASCP Provide you by Tool to simulate Changes at input and its effect on Planning Result (Output)
Simulations can be run by changing plan inputs and parameters rerunning the new, simulated plan. The new simulated
plan can be saved as a new plan and compared to the original (baseline) plan
Simulation Scenarios:
You can simulate changing in Material and Capacity and Changing Planned Orders
Simulation Modes:
Planner Workbench to simulate and evaluate changes to specific orders
Additions to demand and supplies can also be simulated

Net change re-plan simulation is a powerful What If analysis feature
, that lets you update a material plan by planning only the items you have changed in the Planner Workbench.
Net Change Re-plan
Net change re-plan generates only those plan outputs that have changed compared to a baseline plan. When you make
minor changes to a plan, it evaluates it in a time that depends on the plan size and complexity.
 Batch Mode Planner
Batch mode lets you communicate directly with the database while making and re-planning your changes.
While frequent re-planning can place an excessive load on system resources, batch mode gives other users
access to the plan while you are performing simulations.
Batch mode is particularly useful when you want to complete a single re-planning cycle

 Online Planner
Let you simulate and re-plan manual changes to supply and demand records without increasing database
traffic

1- Plan Loaded to Memory
2- Make Needed Change on the Plan
3- Re-plan the Change to see the effect on Result
4- You can re-plan and release your change or re-plan many time as you need

Running Net Change Re-plan Simulations
You have two options for running net change re-plan simulations:
• Batch plan
• Online re-plan
NOTE:
Run the online planner or batch re-plan process after making changes to supplies and demands in Planner Workbench,
for example, adding new supplies and demands, changing supply dates and quantities. If you do not run these, your next
complete regeneration may fail, especially if you set plan option Overwrite to None or Outside Planning Time Fence.

81. Running Online Re-plan:
1. Select a plan in the Planner Workbench Window.
2. Choose Plan > Start Online Planner.
3. Make a note of the concurrent request ID and choose OK.
4. When the status window informs you that the session is ready for planning, close the window to return to the Planner
Workbench. Your online planner session is now active.
5. Make the desired changes to your plan.
6. Save the plan.
7. Choose Plan > Online Re-plan.

83. You can simulate changing in Material and Capacity and Changing Planned Orders


To stop an online planner session
1. Choose Plan > Stop Online Planner
2. Click OK to confirm your choice.
Note: Do not stop the online planner until all simulations are complete.
To compare scenarios quantitatively
1. Navigate to the Planner Workbench.
2. Select the baseline plan.
3. While holding the shift key, select the simulated plan.
KPIs for both plans show side by side.

84. To Show Correct Qty. at Horizontal Plan
Make sure to be on the first item
At details right click and Open Horizontal Plan

85. Lead time:
Lead-times are portions of the span of time from recognizing the need for an order to receiving the goods to inventory.
Setting Lead-times
Set lead-time values for the planning engine to use in the following source system forms:
• Oracle Inventory > Organization items form > Item attributes > Lead-time tabbed region
• Oracle Purchasing > Approved Supplier List form
The planning engine does not use sub-inventory lead-times from Oracle Inventory.
These values are for the Oracle Inventory Min-Max planning process.
Lead-time Item Attributes Definition:
For Buy item I Need to Define 3 Fields:
Pre-processing: Refer to time taken by paper work “Preparing PO”
Processing: Time from issuing PO till Receive Materials
Post-Processing: Time from Receiving Material and inspect till be Ready for use
For Make items
Fixed: fixed period for item to be totally manufactured without considering Qty
Variable: based on Manufactured Qty.
Lead-times and Order Dates
The lead-times define dates that are associated with planned orders and scheduled receipts for these items:
• Order date: The beginning of Preprocessing the date you should begin the
processing to release the order.
• Start date: The end of Preprocessing and beginning of Processing; the date you,
your supplier, or your ship from facility should begin work on the order.
• Dock date: The end of Processing and the beginning of Postprocessing; the date that
the material should be on your receiving dock.
• Due date: The end of Postprocessing and the date that the material should be in
your inventory. For make orders, put the on-hand on hold to account for the post
processing lead time.

Example on Lead Time:

88. To produce correct Dates you have to set the Plan with Daily bucket at aggregation

Plan Output for Planned order with make item

For Buy item

89. Need Date = Due Date =1/Nov
Dock Date = Due – Post Processing  1/Nov - 5 Days = 27-Oct
Suggest start= Due-(processing + Post) = 1/Nov – (20+5) = 07/Oct
Suggest Order=Due-(Pre + Processing + Post) =1/Nov – (20+5+5) = 1/Oct


Notes
1- Make Sure to Add All Make item at Sourcing Rule to Be shown at end item
Pegging
2- Make Sure to Set Fixed order Qty. for Make Item to Shown on S/D

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