EBS Plan Viewer - An excel based Planning workbench

An Excel based Planning Workbench

If you think ….
Oracle’s Planner’s workbench is not Planner friendly….

Then You are not Alone !
So many clicks – My fingers hurt
Why the demand is late
Oh Gosh
247,000 lines in pegging
Not for Planners !!
I wish I had my old excel

Most Planners don’t fully understand the plan
Capabilities of a powerful planning engine remain unused due to a poor User Interface
In turn, best planning systems in the world end up losing to

MS Excel
Workbench
Strengths

Single source of truth
Integrated
Secure

Strengths

Flexible to use
Easy to Share

Weaknesses

Complex
Time consuming
No flexibility

Weaknesses

Unsecure
No Control

The Historical battle

Taking the Best: The Old Approach
Create Reports to export to Excel spreadsheets
Development Cost
Maintenance cost
Non standard reports
Compatibility/Upgrade Issues

The new approach
1. Use Oracle Advanced Planning as Data Repository
2. Use Microsoft Excel as reporting tool
3. Apply the best in class reports designed for Planners

Introducing …
EBS’s Plan Viewer™
The Excel based Planning workbench
A tool for Planners ( and not developers)

Features
Works using Microsoft Excel at front end
Directly connects to database
Refreshes to get the latest planning data
Configurable KPIs for Constraint, Unconstraint & Optimized Plans
12 Inbuilt Planners reports – No Pre-processing required
Multi-level slicing and dicing capabilities
Powerful Planning Dashboard- Add your own reports

Head to Head
Partially Supported : a

Sneak Peek
The Summary View

Sneak Peek
Summary View –Cont.
Details of exceptions can be found by clicking the hyperlinks

Sneak Peek
Horizontal View-Weekly

Sneak Peek
Horizontal Value Plan -Weekly

Sneak Peek
Summary Pegging View
Pegging Pattern for a specific item including all make and buy components can be seen by Pegging report

Sneak Peek
Critical Path Analysis
Activities causing lateness are marked
Critical activities can be easily identified for any combination of demand and end item

Early Feedback collected
Participants:-
Planners
Planning Managers
Consultants

Feedback - Continued
Will you use EBS Plan Viewer™ for your plan:-
I like workbench
I already have tons of reports
Yes Definitely
Need more information

Feedback Continued
Which is the most useful feature:-
Easy horizontal Plan
Access through excel
$ Value inclusion
Critical Path Analysis

Feedback Continued
How much time you think will it take to go live with Plan Viewer™?
3 Months
2 Months
1 Month
Depends upon complexity
It actually takes less than a week to go live with Viewer 

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