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Data Sheet ORACLE MANUFACTURING PLANNING 11i

Oracle® Manufacturing Planning is a comprehensive planning and simulation system that combines flexible
forecasting techniques, time-phased demand supply planning with a planner-based execution environment
that helps you respond quickly to changes in customer demand and operational requirements. Oracle
Manufacturing Planning is part of the Oracle E-Business Suite for the Mid Market, an integrated set of
applications, which is designed to transform your business to an e-business.

Streamlined Business Flows and Powerful Features

Oracle Manufacturing Planning business flows reduce your learning curve, improve your ability to research and
resolve problems, and increase your daily productivity.

Exceptions, with drill-down capabilities.

Improve your productivity dramatically with easier access to critical information. Oracle Manufacturing Planning's
feature-rich graphical user interface is easy to learn and is packed with accelerators for power users. The
intuitive windowing, mouse actions, icons, and built-in drilldowns allow transactions and inquiries to flow naturally
and quickly. Oracle Manufacturing Planning plans the requirements for each part based on demand and applies
your inventory replenishment policies with the objective of maintaining the absolute minimum on-hand inventory
required to meet current demand.

You can use different "what-if" scenarios to plan production of key products, and quickly simulate the impact of
changes in resources, purchasing assumptions, and product demand, either as a result of forecast changes or
changes in customer order mix and volume. Based on simulated supply and demand scenarios, you can set the
level of supply to satisfy your inventory management objectives--and your customers.

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Flexible Forecasting and Demand Management
Oracle Manufacturing Planning helps you effectively plan and manage your resources by analyzing all sources of
product demand. Using several forecasting methods, you can create forecast sets to group related entities, such
as geographic areas or product lines. You can then segment your market into classes of demand that reflect your
firm's distribution channels, geography, and customer types. You can utilize planning bills to facilitate product
family forecasting. Forecasts can be generated directly from inventory shipment or usage information. External
forecasts can be imported into Oracle Manufacturing Planning through the use of an existing application
interface.

Production Planning
Oracle Manufacturing Planning allows you to plan production at an aggregate level for items with similar design
and resource requirements. You can group like items into a product family and track forecasts and production
schedules by product family or by item. Sales orders booked for the member items consume the forecasted
quantities for the product family and for the item--giving planners and analysts the information needed to track
plan performance at the aggregate level.

Master Production Scheduling

Oracle Manufacturing Planning allows you to satisfy demand for master scheduled items with master production
scheduling. Using the demand from your master schedule, Oracle Manufacturing Planning explodes your bills of
material to determine which items are required, and when to manufacture each item. It then uses your inventory,
on-hand and on-order, to compute a time-phased schedule of replenishment orders for all your MPS planned
items.

Master Schedule Validation

Using Rough Cut Capacity Planning, Oracle Manufacturing Planning enables you to validate the adequate
availability of resources to meet the proposed master production schedule before committing to a final schedule
and releasing the plan for detailed planning. By validating the plan, you can have a higher level of confidence
when quoting shipment dates to customers. In addition, this will assist both the planners and buyers in
scheduling and procuring only material that is needed for current requirements.

Detailed Material Planning

Oracle Manufacturing Planning allows you to easily develop material plans that satisfy your demand. Using
demand from your master schedule, Oracle Manufacturing Planning explodes your bills of material to determine
which items are required, and when to manufacture, subcontract, or purchase each item. Oracle

Manufacturing Planning then uses your on-hand and on-order inventory to compute a time-phased schedule of
replenishment orders and provides detailed exception messages for planner action. Order modifiers, yield and
shrinkage factors, stocking policies, and time fences give Oracle Manufacturing Planning the flexibility to respond
to or simulate a variety of business conditions.

Simultaneous Material and Capacity Planning

Oracle Manufacturing Planning simultaneously plans material and capacity requirements using a third generation
memory-based planning engine. You can view both material and resource constraint violations in a single
window and drill down to see gross requirements, available supply (or capacity), and net requirements for the
related materials or resources.

Planner Workbenches
The Planner Workbenches are powerful, streamlined tools that provide material planners and operational
schedulers with easy and efficient methods of executing and controlling the MPS and MRP plans. The
Workbenches include exception messages, horizontal plan displays, where-used inquiries, and much more.
Planners and schedulers can review and firm planned orders, reschedule existing orders, or cancel orders. In
addition, through integration with the Oracle Internet Procurement™ and Oracle Work in Process™ applications,
planners can automatically convert planned orders to purchase requisitions or work orders. This can be
accomplished with the ease of pointing and clicking your mouse.

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Planner workbench control panel.

From the Planner Workbenches, you can view plan data as it was at the time the plan was generated, or at
current inventory levels. The Planner Workbenches also highlight all items, resources, exception messages, and
supply and demand orders that have changed since your last plan version.

Horizontal view of plan data from the Planner Workbench.

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Exception Messages
You can automate the processing of exceptions by using the workflow to route exception notifications and also
initiate appropriate corrective actions. Recipients can be suppliers and customers as well as internal recipients.
You can specify the actions available to the recipient of the notifications. In addition, you can specify frequency of
notifications and the time allowed to respond to notifications. You can also define conditions to include or exclude
certain notifications. This allows you to take corrective actions more quickly and efficiently, driving overhead cost
out of your process.

Advanced Simulation
As proposed or actual changes in your supply-demand environment occur, you can quickly and easily simulate
the impact of the changes to inventory position, supplier commitments, and production resources. You can
generate an unlimited number of MPS or MRP plans, and for each material plan, generate a detailed capacity
plan. Oracle Manufacturing Planning provides the flexibility to compare production simulated plans and select an
optimal resource and material plan.

You can use the Planner Workbenches to view and update your plan and run an online Net Change Simulation
to re-plan requirements and replenishments for only those items whose supply or demand schedule you
changed, and all items affected by those changes. Online Net Change Simulation re-plans only the items you
have changed and does not re-snapshot information from the transaction systems.

Therefore, you can run an Online Net Change Simulation in a fraction of the time required to run a new plan and
optionally choose to execute the simulated plan suggestions. You can see the impact of new supply or demand
orders or changes to existing orders in a matter of seconds, shortening the planning cycle time dramatically.

Memory Based Planner

Oracle Manufacturing Planning will generate plans quickly by using an in-memory architecture for exploding bills
of material and planning the requirements. The planning system also takes advantage of parallel processing in
the snapshot phase to get supply and demand information from all sources simultaneously.

Graphical Full Pegging

Oracle Manufacturing Planning optionally pegs planned and released supply orders directly to the top level
requirements (sales orders and forecasts) through any number of levels in the bill of materials. For example,
when a component shortage has been identified, you will be able to peg its impact through the bill of material to
end customer orders and forecasts. You can view the multi-level pegs graphically using the Object Navigator
which lets you expand and collapse each node in the hierarchy of supply and demand orders.

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Graphical full pegging.

Graphical View of Planning Data

From the Planner Workbenches, you will be able to view your horizontal plan including supply, demand, and
projected inventory levels, graphically.

Hybrid Manufacturing Support

Oracle Manufacturing Planning supports discrete, repetitive, assemble to order, and hybrid manufacturing
environments. You can select any manufacturing method for any level in your bill of material.

Multimedia Reference and Communications

Oracle Manufacturing Planning's multimedia capabilities can dramatically improve the communication across
your organization. You can store important original source documents, PC files, electronic mail, video training,
and voice annotations with key reference and transactional data. For example, a memorandum containing the
inventory stocking policies can be attached for the planner's guidance, or a key engineering change order
document may be viewed to assure that the purchase order receiving schedule is synchronized with the
production cut-in date.

Oracle E-Business Suite --The Total Solution

Transform the way you conduct business with Oracle's internet-enabled e-business suite. Put your demand
chain, supply chain, and internal operations online with Oracle's comprehensive and fully integrated solution.
Combine the wide reach of the internet with Oracle's fully globalized product to run your business consistently
and accurately worldwide. Reduce costs and complexity by running on corporate internets or the World Wide
Web.

As a provider of global consulting, education, and support services, Oracle provides the most
complete e-business solution available.

The Oracle E-Business Suite: transforming your business into an e-business

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RapidSTART Key Features
Flexibility to Support Your Business

 Design custom views of data for each user or workgroup

 User configurable

 Integrate with key applications

Order Management
Demand Planning
Work in Process
Purchasing

 Master schedule production at any bill of material level

 Load master demand schedules with forecasts, sales orders, or other master demand schedules

 Load master production schedules with master demand schedules, and other master production
schedules

 Overwrite or consolidate schedule information

 Specify item-based demand time fences, when only sales orders should be considered as demand

 Create new planned orders

 Plan discrete jobs and repetitive production

 Automatically allocate suggested repetitive schedules to production lines

 Plan for engineering changes, including use-up engineering change orders

 Use common and phantom bills of material

 Plan repetitive schedules with changing production rates

 Auto-Release planned orders within a release time fence

 Use planning time fences and firm planned orders in short-term plans

 Peg demand and supply orders graphically

 Relieve master production schedules automatically as you create work orders

 Relieve master demand schedules automatically as you ship sales orders

Material Requirements Planning

 Plan material requirements for master demand schedules and master production schedules

 Plan from all sources of demand, including manually entered demand schedules

 Generate suggested discrete jobs, repetitive schedules, and purchase requisitions

 Automatically suggest allocation of repetitive schedule to production lines

 Override inventory netting characteristics to optionally include on-hand items

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