Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning

Forecasting • Accurate forecasting capabilities • Cholce of right forecasting technique •

Systematic contribution from all stakeholders on future demand Load Planning
Replenishment Planning • Reduce logistics costs • Eficient dellivery lead time • Ensure
increased service level to end customers • Increase retum on assets • Eliminate routine
replenishment activities • Reduce fulfilment costs/lead time Improve / Expand relationship
with supplying organization Supply Chain Planning Inventory Management Production
Planning • Protection against demand and lead time uncertainties Better manage production
costs • Lower inventory costs • Reduce production process time • Improve inventory
management by real-time Inventory visibility • Improve capacity utilization • Ensure balance
between demand and supply

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Following are the Advanced Planning Solutions:

 Oracle Strategic Network Optimization

o Helps in estimating impact on cost arising out of changed sourcing strategy
o Can assess the impact of Mergers & Acquisitions on supply network and
capital assets
o Can assess the real total cost of outsourcing, including the impact on Working
Capital in Cash flow
o Can help you formulate the response mechanism to the disruptions in supply
due to unforeseen events
o Help estimate the most profitable channels or products to invest in

 Oracle Production & Distribution Planning

o Can help reduce Inventory levels while improving customer service at the
same time
o Can reduce Supply Chain Planning cycle time to improve the responsiveness
of supply chain
o Optimize the day to day flow of goods from procurement, through
manufacturing to distribution with real time visibility and event management
o Help produce plans that respect constraints optimized around key cost drivers
while ensuring that plans remain synchronized and acted amongst all locations
within the supply chain network

 Oracle Production Scheduling

o Enables sequence orders to the best use production resources
o Helps to know when  to offload production to the alternate resources
o Minimize the effect of unplanned  production and down time
o Evaluate the impact of supply shortage on fill rates
o Supports revenue growth using existing production assets and maximize
customer service

 Oracle Order Promising

 o Improve Customer service through more accurate order date commitments to
the customers
o Determine feasible delivery dates
o Enables to make more accurate and profitable delivery commitments based on
Available-to-Promise (ATP), Capable-to-Promise (CTP) and Profitable-to-
Promise (PTP) capabilities

 Oracle Inventory Optimization

o To balance out customer service levels, budgets and inventory cost
o To plan for realistic inventory hold in terms of location and time line
o To account for Supply Chain variability when determining time phased safety
stocks
o Optimize  inventory investment decisions by considering the demand, supply,
constraints and variability
o Achieve higher level of customer service at significantly lower cost by
applying inventory postponement recommendations, while simultaneously
weighing the impacts on revenue, budgets, inventory policies and sourcing

 Oracle Supply Chain Business Modeler

o Out-of-the-box solution that answers the challenges posed by integrating
planning solutions that have heterogeneous data structures

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Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning

Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning (ASCP) is a comprehensive, Cloud-based planning

solution that initiates when and where supplies (for example, inventory, purchase orders, and
work orders) should be deployed within an extensive supply chain. This is the function of
supply planning.

Oracle ASCP provides the following key supply planning issues:

 How to plan my supply chain in the least amount of time possible?

 How to minimize the number of plans and iterations?
 How to plan my entire supply chain?
 How to involve my trading partners?
 How to access my plan from anywhere?
 How to keep improving my plans?
 How to plan all manufacturing methods?

The key capabilities of Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning are:

 Planning, Holistic Optimization, and Scheduling.

 Oracle ASCP is able to plan all supply chain facilities instantaneously. Short-term
scheduling and long-term aggregate planning are supported within a single plan. This single
plan also supports multiple manufacturing methods, flow, project, including discrete and
process manufacturing.

 Finite Capacity Planning and Scheduling. Oracle ASCP gives you feasible supply chain plans
that consider both resource and material constraints.
 Users can easily configure to optimize Oracle ASCP to specific business criteria. No
programming is necessary to access Oracle ASCP.
 Backward Compatibility.

Oracle ASCP’s component architecture allows it to be deployed with any version of Oracle
transaction systems.

 Workflow-Driven Exception Messaging.

 Oracle ASCP’s messages alert planners to critical issues across the extended supply chain.
Workflows that drive these exceptions route data and feedback from trading partners as
required, thus effectively involving them in the supply chain planning.

 Global Accessibility.

 Oracle ASCP’s database-centric architecture stores plan data in a central server database.
These data are accessible from anywhere, anytime via a simple browser. It is possible for
different planners to simultaneously access the ASCP data from a single plan.

 Integrated Planning and Execution.

 Oracle ASCP’s Advanced Planner Workbench user interface not only displays plan results,
but it also allows planners to execute planning recommendations. Planners do not have to
move to the transaction system to perform the plan execution.

 Simulation Capability. Oracle ASCP allows many types of changes to demand, supply, plan
options, and resource profiles to simulate changing business conditions. You can generate a
plan considering the changes that have been entered via the Planner’s Workbench. An
unlimited number of scenarios can be simulated and compared using the online planning
system, copy plans, and exceptions.

Distribution Planning

A business with multi-level supply chains has to fulfill demands from downstream
distribution locations and customers from supply plans for their manufacturing and stocking
locations. The rules that govern this distribution are different depending on whether the
supply is constrained or unconstrained

The process includes generating a:

 Detailed short term (daily) plan:

A movement plan for each lane of the distribution network system

  Longer-term, higher-level material distribution plan

The constraints impacting the two plans are the same but the level of detail modeled is
different.

 In both the short and long term, you must have global visibility to inventory positions in each
location in your distribution network (external and internal), fulfill demand requirements
rising at these locations, and be able to react to various specific consumption patterns
 In short, you have to maintain target and maximum inventory levels at each and every
destination location and safety stock levels at each source location to react to demand
uncertainties

In addition, you need fair share rules for supply-constrained items. These fair share rules
specify how to cover part of the needs at each of the receiving locations when all of the needs
cannot be fulfilled. This process can also be integrated with customers via agreements and
customer-managed inventory.

Key benefits of using distribution planning can be:

 Improved customer service levels and reduced overall cost of inventory through proactive
inventory rebalancing system
 Reduced cost shipping cost through load balancing
 Minimized inventory wastage and spoilage
 Improved service levels through fair share allocation
 Improved global visibility and enforcement of inventory and distribution policies

Distribution Planning and its features

Distribution planning focuses on the end items in distributed environments. As such, it does
not suggest the production of more supply neither it considers manufacturing capacity and
components. It mainly considers additional purchased supplies and supplier capacity models.

Distribution planning works with other Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning products
that can be used upstream and downstream of it:

 Oracle Demand Planning drives independent demands into different distribution plans.
 Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning manufacturing plans drive supplies into distribution
plans
 Oracle Inventory Optimization plans drive time-phased safety-stock information to
distribution plans.
 Distribution plans drive Oracle Transportation Planning through the release

Manufacturing Plan Relationships:

The manufacturing and distribution plan types are:

Master Production Plans (MPP):

The MPP typically include your distribution facilities and not manufacturing facilities. Use
the master production plan to summarize all the demands for production in your
manufacturing plants. Typically, independent demand drives this plan and this plan drives the
manufacturing and scheduling process.

Master Production Schedules (MPS):

They typically include your manufacturing facilities and not distribution facilities. Use the
master production schedule and material requirements to plan the entire production schedule.
Typically, the master production plan drives this plan and in turn, this plan drives the
distribution planning and the manufacturing execution. For manufacturing planning, you can
use either a two-level or a single-level planning approach.

Distribution Plans (DRP):

They typically include your distribution facilities and not the manufacturing facilities. A
supply schedule is the master production plan, a master production schedule, or a material
requirements plan.

Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning (ASCP) enables you to run holistic plans that range from long
term aggregate planning to short term detailed schedules. Planning for multiple manufacturing
processes are supported including lot based items, process manufacturing, discrete manufacturing,
configure-to-order items, and project based manufacturing. ASCP can cover all organizations across
the virtual supply chain. ASCP provides a single solution for distribution activities, for manufacturing
activities, and for all other supply chain activities. ASCP planning is based on one supply chain model,
one planning engine, and one setup. The configurability of ASCP enables users to define different
planning models that can co-exist and evolve as your organization grows. Reimplementation is not
required. Extensive defaulting logic, paired with a productivity enhancing user interface and strong
exception management enables planners to quickly use the tool to make planning decisions.