Oracle ASCP can generate planned orders for an entire supply chain within a single

multi-organization supply chain plan. This is illustrated below with a sample supply
chain

Sample Bill of Material

In this sample supply chain, SF1 and SF2 are subassembly facilities, AF1 is a final
assembly facility, DC1 and DC2 are distribution centers, C1, C2, C3 and C4 are
customers and S1, S2, S3 and S4 are suppliers.

A single plan of the entire supply chain has the following inputs:

 Demand quantity (forecast + actual sales orders) for A01 at DC1 for each of
the time buckets in the planning horizon. This is captured in a Master Demand
Schedule (MDS) for DC1.

 Demand quantity for A01 at DC2 for each of the time buckets in the planning
horizon. This is captured in an MDS for DC2.

The plan output contains planned order quantities, start dates, and completion dates
for A01 and all of its components and subcomponents.
1. Run a Master plan to generate planned orders for all items except for the
components and subcomponents of M12

This combination of plan type and MRP Planning Type item attribute values
creates cross-supply chain planned orders for A01, M11, B13, B21, and M12
and omits M22, B23, B31.

2. Use the Master plan as a demand schedule for a Production plan run. This
generates planned orders M12.

3. Manually modify the MPS for M12 as necessary.

Note: With Oracle ASCP, this step is less frequently necessary than before.
This is because the finite-capacity planning performed by Oracle ASCP takes
resource and material availability into account, and therefore eliminates much
of the need to manually smooth production via an MPS.

4. Run a Manufacturing plan, using the Production plan as an input demand

schedule. This generates planned orders for M12, M22, B23 and B31.