Practice - Working with Optimized Plans

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Practice - Working with Optimized Plans
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Overview
This practice covers working with optimized plans.

Tasks
Responsibility: Advanced Supply Chain Planner

Instance:Organization = TST:M1

Make a Copy of the Constrained Plan

1. Navigate to the Supply Chain Plan Names form.

2. View the optimized plan options.

3. Which type of plan is this?

4. Find and note the two tabbed regions that have differences in plan options between this plan
and your xx_ECC plan.

5. View sales orders for item AS66311 in organization D2.

6. Compare the exception messages between your enforce capacity constraints plan and your
optimized plan.

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Solution – Working with Optimized Plans
Responsibility: Advanced Supply Chain Planner

Instance:Organization = TST:M1

Make a Copy of the Constrained Plan

1. Navigate to the Supply Chain Plan Names form.

 (N) Supply Chain Plan > Names
 Copy Plan Name Optimized as XX_Opt

2. View the optimized plan options.

 Select plan XX_Opt
 Click Plan Options

3. Which type of plan is this?

 Navigate to the Constraints tabbed region

 Constrained Plan is selected
 Enforce Capacity Constraints is selected

 Navigate to the Decision rules tabbed region

 Decision rules are selected
 Navigate to the Optimized tabbed region

 Optimize is selected
 It is an optimized plan

4. Find and note the two tabbed regions that have differences in plan options between this plan
and your XX_ECC plan.
 In the Aggregation tabbed region, the plans have different days/weeks/periods
 In the Optimization tabbed region, this plan has optimization objectives specified

5. View sales orders for item AS66311 in organization D2.

 Navigate to the Planner Workbench Navigator
 View by = Organizations
 Expand plan Optimized
 Expand organization D2
 Expand item category COMPUTER.HANDHELD
 Select item AS66311
 Click the Supply/Demand icon
 (M) View > Find…
 Criteria = Order Type
 Condition = Equals
 From = Sales Orders

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6. Compare the exception messages between your enforce capacity constraints plan and your
optimized plan.
 Navigate to Planner Workbench Navigator
 In the Navigator, select the Plans tabbed region
 View By = Actions
 Expand directory Plans
 Multi-select plans XX_ECC (not XX_EDD) and XX_Opt
 Navigate to the right-click menu and select Exceptions > Summary. Note the
columns Plan and Version
 Browse the exception summary and find the exception messages that are prevalent
in each plan type

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