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ASCP-3 Defining & Running Supply Chain Plans

Purpose The purpose of this Training Document is to define & run a Supply Chain Plan Trigger It is necessary to do data collection before plan run to get the latest picture of demand/Supply. Prerequisites Basic Oracle Navigation Menu Path Use the following menu path(s) to begin this task: Select Advanced Supply Chain Planner Responsibility, <XX Advanced Supply Chain Planner > Supply Chain Plan

Procedure0 1. Start the task using the menu path.

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1.1 Defining Plan Names From the Navigator, choose Supply Chain Plan > Names. You can create a new plan here.

The Various Filed names have following meaning. a. Name: Define a plan name. b. Description: Define a plan description. c. ATP: If this is checked, this means that this plan will be used for availability check. d. Production: If this is checked, this means that this is a product plan. Planned orders will be automatically released within their Release time fence (set on item Master). e. Plan Type: Valid values are Manufacturing Plan, Production Plan, and Distribution Plan. This setting interacts with the Planning Method item attribute to determine which subset of the items that pass the condition imposed by the Planned Items parameter will in fact be planned. Select Production Plan if you want to enable Auto release of Planned orders and planned requisitions. 1.2 Defining Plan Options Stage 3/Step 2: Define Supply Chain Plan Options This section describes how to set plan options. In the plan options forms, plan options are organized as follows: Main Aggregation Organizations Constraints Optimization 1.2.1 The Main Tab
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Meaning of various attributes is as follow. Planned Items: This parameter and the Plan Type field in the Supply Chain Names window, control the items that are planned in the Supply chain plan. An item must satisfy conditions imposed by both parameters before being included in the supply chain plan. Material scheduling Method: Choose from Operation Start Date or Order Start Date scheduling methods. If you choose Operation Start Date, material is scheduled to arrive at the start of the operation for which it is required. If you choose Order Start Date, material is scheduled to arrive at the start of the order for which it is required. Order State Date is usually an earlier date than the Operation Start Date and therefore this selection represents the more conservative planning logic of the two options. Assignment Set: The assignment set that holds the sourcing rules and bills of distribution that define the rules for material flow within your supply chain. Demand Priority Rule: When ASCP does detailed scheduling, it schedules demands one by one. The rule specified here dictates the order in which demands will be considered during detailed scheduling, and thus which demands will get the first opportunities to take up available materials and resource capacities. You can set up different Priority rules in the setup based scheduled date/Request date/promise date/Gross margins. Overwrite: Overwrite planned orders.
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Append Planned Orders: Appends new planned orders to current plan. Various combination of Overwrite and Append Planned orders and its impact is discussed separately at the end of the section Demand Class: If you are creating a Production Plan, enter the appropriate demand class. This field is active only for a Production Plan. Demand Time Fence control: Check this option to enforce demand time fence control. Planning Time Fence Control: Check this option to enforce planning time fence control. Lot for Lot: Check this option to force the creation of a separate supply for each demand. This prevents the creation of aggregate supplies that satisfy multiple demands, and overrides order quantity modifiers such as Minimum Lot Size and Fixed Lot Multiple. It is not advisable, as it will create multiple planned orders ignoring economies of scale Default Forecast backward Consumption days Default Forecast forward Consumption days Enable Pegging: Check this option to calculate pegging information. Oracle ASCP traces supply information for an item to its corresponding end demand details, which you can then view in a graphical display. This field is checked by default. Peg Supplies by Demand by Demand Priority: Priority Check this option to calculate pegging so that supplies are pegged to demands in demand priority order (as defined by you in a priority rule) within the time period set by the profile option MSO: Firm Supply Allocation Window (days). Pegging Reservation Level: None Pegging-Hard Pegging level: None

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Combination of Overwrite and Planned order options Consider a scenario when plan is run first time and following recommendation are made. Status after first Plan Run Schedule Date Quantity Planned Order status 1-May 100Planned 8-May 200Planned Firm 18-May 300Planned The latest Demand Schedule just before the plan Re-run is as follow. Latest MDS Schedule Date Quantity 2-May 110 9-May 220 16-May 330 Now lets see the see effect of various combinations of Overwrite/append orders on plan output. 1. Overwrite All, Append Planned Orders This option allows you to create a new material requirements plan for the plan name you specify, deleting all previous planned and firm planned entries while regenerating new planned orders. The planned output in this case would be Overwrite All, Append Planned Orders Schedule Date Quantity Planned Order status 5-May 110Planned 9-May 220Planned 16-May 330Planned 2. Overwrite Outside Planning Time Fence, Append Planned Orders This option allows you to delete planned and firm planned orders outside the planning time fence and delete all planned entries inside the planning time fence for each item. The planning process creates (appends) new planned orders after the planning time fence date. In this case, since you are overwriting after the planning time fence, you are also appending new planned orders after that date. You can use this combination to stabilize the shortterm plan and allow the longterm plan to react to new sources of demand. The planned output in this case would be Overwrite Outside Planning Time Fence, Append Planned Orders Schedule Date Quantity Planned Order status 5-May 110Planned 9-May 220Planned 16-May 330Planned 3. Overwrite None, Append Planned Orders When you choose not to overwrite an existing plan, the planning process does not overwrite existing firm planned orders, but deletes any suggested planned orders. The planning process then creates (appends) new planned orders after the planning time fence
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date. This is analogous to firming sections of your shortterm material requirements plan. Planned output will be Overwrite None, Append Planned Orders Schedule Date Quantity Planned Order status 5-May 110Planned 8-May 200MRP Firm Planned 9-May 20Planned 16-May 330Planned 4. Overwrite None, Do Not Append Planned Orders In this case, the planning process does not overwrite existing firm planned entries, but deletes any suggested planned orders. In addition, it does not append additional demand to the end of the plan. Instead, it reports the instances where the material requirements plan is out of balance with the master demand schedule, and allows you to solve these problems by manipulating the plan manually. This gives maximum control to the material planner. Planned output will be Overwrite None, Do Not Append Planned Orders Schedule Date Quantity Planned Order status 8-May 200MRP Firm Planned In this case, the projected quantity on hand would go negative since no planned orders were suggested to meet the additional demand. The material planner can use online inquiries and reports with exception messages to identify material shortages.

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1.2.2 The Aggregation Tab

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Various Attributes in this Form-tab are explained below. Plan Start date: This is a view-only field, whose value equals the start date of the plan if the plan has already been run. Otherwise, it defaults to the system date. Plan End Date: Shows the calculated end date for your plan. This is a view-only field, calculated based on the bucket sizes you specify. Bucket Start dates: These are calculated based the numbers you enter for Daily bucket/Weekly Bucket/Period Bucket Item: Choose to plan at either the Item level or Product Family level. If you select Items in the first bucket, the other buckets can be set to either Items or Product Family. However, if you select Product Family in the first bucket, the remaining buckets are set to Product Family by default. Choose Item. Resource: Choose to plan at either the Individual level or Aggregate level. You should select Resource if capacity planning needs to be done. Routing: Choose to plan at either the Routings or BOR (Bill of Resource) level. Routing should be selected if operation level scheduling needs to be done. 1.2.3 The Organization Tab
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Organization: Select the Inventory Organization, which you want to consider for planning. You can select more that one organization Demand Schedules: Select one or more demand Schedules as a source of demand for the Plan Supply Schedule: You can also include MPS (Master Production Schedule) as a Demand. Sub inventory Netting: This will include all the nettable sub inventories in the organization. You can check/Uncheck few sub-inventories for plan level control

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Net WIP: Select to consider discrete jobs and other production orders as supply in the planning demand/supply netting process. Net Reservations: If checked, ASCP generates pegging of on-hand supply to sales orders that matches the reservations recorded in the source transaction system. Net Purchases: Select to consider purchase orders, purchase requisitions, intransit shipments and other nonproduction order scheduled receipts as supply in the planning demand/supply netting process. This option covers all scheduled receipts not covered by the Net WIP option. Plan Safety Stock: Check if the planning for Safety stock is to be done Include Sales Order: Select to invoke forecast consumption within ASCP for the selected organization. Check this if the demand schedules for the organization are unconsumed forecasts. Uncheck this if the demand schedules for the organization are consumed forecasts plus sales orders in the form of master demand schedules. Uncheck this as GE sensing will be consuming forecast during MDS

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1.2.4 Constraints Tab This is important feature of ASCP, which allows Constraint planning. ASCP identifies two constraints. Various attributes are explained below.

Constrained Plan: If checked, Enforce Demand Due Date is checked as the default, all fields in the Constrained Plan region are updateable; all constraints are defaulted to Yes. This option is unchecked by default. Enforce Demand Due Date: Dates Check this option if you want demand due dates to be your hard constraint (that is, respected in lieu of material and resource capacity constraints, if there is conflict). Enforce Capacity Constraint: Constraints Check this option if you want material and resource capacity constraints to be respected in lieu of demand due date constraints. You can select either demand dates or capacity as a hard constraint. Other one becomes a soft constraint Resource Constraints: Select Yes to consider resource constraints in the respective bucket
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Material Constraints: Select Yes to consider material constraints. Constraint based planning will be discussed separately later Scheduling: Specify the number of days you want to schedule by minutes/hours/days Calculate Resource requirement: If this is checked, the program will calculate resource capacity utilization. Planned Resource: You can All the scheduled resources or Bottleneck resource group. If you define Bottleneck resource group in Bill of Material Module and designate it here, it will calculate requirement only for those resources.

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1.2.5 Optimization Tab To access the Optimization tab from the Navigator, choose Supply Chain Plan > Options > Optimization tab.

The Various options on this tab have following meaning. Optimize: Check this if you want to run constrained optimized plan. If this is checked on you can define various optimization objective. Enforce Sourcing constraint: Check this option if you want to enforce the sourcing splits as defined in the item sourcing rules. When used with an optimized plan, the effect of this parameter is that, by default, ASCP's optimization engine may override sourcing percentage splits suggested in sourcing rules if a less costly planning solution can be obtained by doing so. For unconstrained and constrained plans, ASCP will adhere to sourcing percentages specified in sourcing rules, regardless of the setting of this parameter. Objectives: Enter values between 0 and for various optimization objectives. The objective, which has highest business relevance, should be given higher weightage.

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Plan Level penalty Factors: Enter penalty factors for violation or exceeding the various constraints. This will be used by optimization engine to give optimized schedule.

3.1 Launching Supply Chain Plan Launching a supply chain plan is relatively a simple process once you finish Data collection and setup plan options as per Business requirement. Frequency of launching a plan is a business decision. Many businesses run a plan daily to capture daily changes in the supply and demand across the Supply Chain. To Launch the Plan Go to Supply Chain Plan> Launch Plan. Following Request window will open. Click OK>Submit to launch the plan. Running of Plan may take some time depending upon the volume of data and nature of plan. Once the plan run is finished, you can view the plan results in Planner Workbench.

Input Plan name. Launch Snapshot and Launch Planner should be set to yes Anchor Date is the Plan Start date
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