The document provides an overview of new and enhanced functionality in Oracle's Advanced Planning product family, including:
- Demand Planning now allows for global forecasting without specifying a shipping organization, and forecasting of service parts usage.
- The Planner Workbench in Advanced Supply Chain Planning has been enhanced with improved navigation, ability to save queries, and access to collaboration information.
- Inventory Optimization includes a new Analysis Workbench for analyzing inventory budgets, levels, costs, and revenue.
- Global Order Promising enhancements allow "freeing up" of supplies and resources when unscheduling configured product sales orders.
4. Key Takeaways
Advanced Planning is a Proven and Complete planning solution
with over 600 customers on multiple products, across a wide
variety of industries -Large-scale, complex, worldwide
deployments
Global Forecasting will add value to our Retail and Distribution
focused customers and prospects, helping them in improving their
forecast accuracy
Up taking of Demand Planning will require 9iR2 or higher of
database
Spare Parts Forecasting in now available to our customers using
Services. Allowing customers to include spares in the overall
forecasting function.
Customer facing VMI and Consignment VMI will allow our
customers to provide more services their customers
5. Quick look:
Advanced Planning
– Over 600 Customers using
multiple products
– Products being leveraged
across a wide variety of
industries
– Large-scale, complex,
worldwide deployments
9. Advanced Planning
Forecast Service Parts Usage
Forecast Returns
Supersession Forecasting
Round Fractional Quantities
Forecast by Demand Class
Support for Pick to Order Models
Forecasting of Key Configuration
Calculate Planning %
Enhancements
Oracle Database 9iR2 OLAP
Line of Business Specific DP
Consumable Mtl Planning for
CMRO
Acquire Sales History from Customer
Forecast Based on Scheduled Arrival
Date
Internal Collaboration Enhancements
New Product Intro Event Allocations
Up-sell / Cross-Sell Substitution items
Folders for Measures
Automate Submissions Process
Multiple Document Interface
Preserve Forecast Adjustments
Display Backcast
Global Forecasting
Demand Planning
Yellow = Highlighted Functionality Blue Circles = Industry Specific
Enhancements
= Totally New Functionality
10. Advanced Planning
Global Order Forecasting
Selection of Outbound Ship Method
Configure to Order Enhancements
Co-Product Planning
Enhancements
Incremental Supplies form Supplier
or Internal Org
Minimum Transfer Qty across Orgs
Consumable Materials Planning for
CMRO operations
Display of Suppliers Modeled as
Org
Purchase Order to Sales Order
Linking
Forecast Distribution Assignment
Set
Prevent Supplier Capacity spreading
Plan to Request, Promise or Schedule
Date
Master Scheduling Enhancement
Hub and Spoke Planning
Enhancements
OSFM integration – Phase 2
Time Phased Pricing
Personal Queries
Planner Workbench Enhancements
Organization Specific Conditions
Managing VMI Supplies in Planners
Workbench
Advanced Supply Chain Planning
Yellow = Highlighted Functionality Blue Circles = Industry Specific
Enhancements
= Totally New Functionality
11. Advanced Planning
Respect Safety Stock Targets
Safety Stock Calculation
Enhancements
Plan Start date in the Future
User Interface Enhancements
Analysis Workbench
Budget Constraints
Configure to Order Enhancements
Combined Item-Product Family ATP
Shipping/Receiving/Carrier/Supplier
Capacity Calendars
Honoring ASCP Sales Order
Rescheduling Recommendations
Improve ATP Performance Based on
Summarized Data
Honor Plan Option: Enforce
Purchasing Lead Time Constraints
Inventory
Optimization
Global Order
Promising
Yellow = Highlighted Functionality Blue Circles = Industry Specific
Enhancements
= Totally New Functionality
12. Advanced Planning
Customer – Facing VMI
Customer Consigned VMI
Supplier – Facing VMI
Enhancements
Collaboration for ATO Models
Publish Safety Stock to CP
Consider Ownership of Outbound
Logistics during Collaboration
Horizontal Plan Bucketing
Enhanced Flagging of Potential
Late Orders
Support for Multi-Company
Collaborative Planning
Export Data in Import Format
Accurate Supply / Demand
Exceptions with Non-uniform Time
Buckets
Notify Trading partners when
Publishing Suppliers and Demands
Replace Previous Supply Commits and
Order Forecasts
Support Search by Item Category or
Buyers Code
Collaborative Planning
Yellow = Highlighted Functionality Blue Circles = Industry Specific
Enhancements
= Totally New Functionality
13. Highlighted New Functionality
ASCP
Planner Workbench
Enhancements
Global Forecasting
Demand Planning
Forecast of Service Parts
Usage
Oracle 9iR2 OLAP
Inventory Optimization
Analysis Workbench
Global Order Promising
Configure to Order
enhancements
Collaborative Planning
Customer VMI / Consigned
15. DP: Global Forecasting
Definition
Global forecasting allows you to define forecasts without the context of a shipment organization.
Needs / Issues
Many businesses which have multiple
shipping facilities, distribution centers,
and manufacturing facilities do not
usually know the demand fulfilling
facility while they prepare and analyze
forecasts.
Solution
• Global forecasting allows you to define forecasts
without the context of a shipment organization. This is
done in Oracle Demand Planning. Forecasts can have
reference to ship-to entities such as customer site and
zone. You can choose a ship-to consumption level in
ASCP. The forecasts from Oracle Demand Planning fed
in as demand schedules can be consumed without any
reference to a shipment organization. You can use
sourcing rules to distribute consumed forecasts and
sales orders to appropriate shipment organizations.
Benefits
The demand fulfillment organization can be changed to take advantage of current supply
conditions and constraints which makes effective use of existing supplies across multiple
shipping organizations
More accurate forecast consumption.
16. Global Forecasting
Description
Assembly - Plant 1
Orlando
Assembly - Plant 2
San Francisco
Subassembly plant
Austin
Parts plant
Los Angeles
Contract manufacturer
Asia
Forecasts
Material flow
Forecasts
End items ship
from two assembly
plants
Forecasts in
assembly plants
cannot be
predetermined
Forecasts need to
be provided to
assembly plants
Customers
17. Global Forecasting
Prepare Forecasts without the
context of a shipping location
(org)
Forecasts are consumed at a
global level
Forecasts are assigned to
shipping orgs with a new
Forecast Distribution
assignment set
18. Global Forecast Definition
Description
Zone Customer Zone Customer Customer Site Demand Class Global (Item)
Global Forecast
Organization 1 Organization 2 Organization 3
Ship from
locations
Ship to
Forecast distribution
assignment set
Consume forecasts
with respect to ship to
Ship to and ship from for global forecasts
19. Ship To location set to “All Organizations”
Global Forecasting in Demand Planning
20. Global Forecast Consumption
is done in ASCP
Consumption level in plan options, choose Zone for Global consumption
Consumption
level based on
DP scenario
ZONE
21. Distribute Global Forecasts and Sales
Orders
The following levels of sourcing assignments are now
supported
– Item-Instance
– Instance
– Category-Instance
– Instance-Zone
– Instance-Customer-Zone
A new Forecast Distribution Assignment set is created to
hold sourcing scheme for distributing forecast
Sourcing rules to distribute the sales orders are specified
in regular assignment sets
23. ASCP: Planners Workbench Enhancements
Definition
The planners workbench has been enhanced to provide planners with increased visibility into all
the critical information at once.
Needs / Issues
Planners need the ability to look at
work in a way that makes sense to them.
Storing and reusing queries can
increase an employee productivity
Planners to need access collaboration
information while working in the Planner
Workbench:
Solution
Planner Workbench navigation improvements
View all information at once (removal of tabs)
Store multiple preferences to view Horizontal
Plan
Planner Workbench queries and improved analysis
Define personal queries to use as “to do” lists
Launch the workbench with a default to do list
Perform comprehensive pegging analysis (peg
up, peg down, backward, forward)
Planner Workbench collaboration enhancements
View VMI supply information
Benefits
Increase visibility of critical issues by the planner
By seeing all the critical issues better decisions can be made
By allowing customizations, planners can focus on specific parts of the business
24. Removal of Tabs
Previously, planners
could not view all
critical information
at the same time
Previously, planners
could not drill down
from windows like
the Supply Chain
Bill
Added key icons to
improve navigation
11i.10
11i.9
and
prior
25. Quick Navigation (Context Sensitive)
Query short cuts
Access Horizontal Plan
Access Supply-Demand
Access Exceptions
Access Item Details
Access Gantt Chart
Execute Other Actions
26. Horizontal Plan Preference Sets
Use Preference Sets to
quickly save and
display different views
of the Horizontal Plan
Designate one
Preference Set as your
default one
Not all users now share
the same pref set
Use right mouse click to
select a preference view
for the Horizontal Plan
drilldown
27. Personal and Public Queries
Description
Planners can define “to do” lists via queries
– When executing a query, a list is presented that a
planner can execute upon
Queries are grouped by type
– Item
– Resource
– Exception
– Supplier
Query results are persistent over multiple PWB
sessions, yet operate in the context of a plan
– Rerun queries only when plans have been rerun
– Select a plan when running a query
28. Create/Maintain Query
Save Query
Execute Query
Personal and Public Queries
The Queries tab can be set as the
default tab in the User Preferences
The PWB can automatically
execute one default query upon
launch, as defined in the User
Preferences
– Example: launch the PWB and show
the most critical items, resources, or
exceptions to work on
New: Queries tab
29. Demand Planning: 9iR2 of Database
Definition
9iR2 of the database is used to for the OLAP engine
Needs / Issues
Improve administration
Improve speed of data transfer
Solution
The Express Engine is embedded in the RDBMS as
Analytic Workspaces
OLAP engine is part of the standard application
installation and patching process
Architecture change requires upgrading to or
installation of the Oracle 9i Release 2 database
Tools are available to transfer data, plans, reports
Benefits
Easy to administer
Oracle RDBMS tools (Database Backup & Recovery, Real Application Clusters etc.) will work
with Oracle Demand Planning. Uses Oracle Enterprise manager
Improved data transfer performance
30. Oracle 9i Release 2 for OLAP
Description
The Express Engine is embedded in the RDBMS
as Analytic Workspaces
– No separate Express database
OLAP engine is part of the standard application
installation and patching process
Architecture change requires upgrading to or
installation of the Oracle 9i Release 2 database
Tools are available to transfer data, plans,
reports
31. DP: Forecasting Spare Parts
Definition
Original equipment manufacturers (OEM), field service organizations, asset operators, and part
distributors all must estimate future demand of service parts.
Needs / Issues
The demand of service parts is
dependent on several factors such as:
1. Service parts consumption or usage
history
2. Supersession and upgrade of service
parts
3. Products returned for repair or
replacement
Solution
• Oracle Field Service for Debrief to record item usage
• Oracle Depot repair for linking internal work to a
service request
• Oracle Order management to manage returns
• Oracle Demand planning to do the analysis
Benefits
Better forecasting improves parts availability while reducing the overall carrying cost of service
inventory
32. Service Parts Forecasting
1. Usage forecasting
Project historical consumption of service
parts
2. Returns forecasting
Project defective product returns
Project defective service part returns
3. Supersession forecasting
Estimate demand of new service part
which supersedes an existing service part
33. Service Parts Forecasting
Description – Onsite Repair
Demand
Planning
Inventory
Optimization
Customers
Plan service parts
inventory per service level
and budget constraints
Forecast service
parts demand
Debrief usage (consumption) of service
parts and return of defective parts
- Service parts usage history
- Service parts return history
Service request
Service parts demand
forecast and forecast errors
Advanced
Supply Chain
Planning
Plan supply of
service parts
Safety Stock
Field Service
Engineer
Service parts demand forecast
Field Service
34. Service Parts Forecasting
Description – Off-site Repair
Demand
Planning
Inventory
Optimization
Customers
Plan service parts
inventory per service level
and budget constraints
Forecast service parts demand to
repair estimated product returns
Record return of defective products and
service parts consumed for their repair
- Service parts usage history
- Product return history
Defective product returns
Service parts demand
forecast and forecast errors
Advanced
Supply Chain
Planning
Plan supply of
service parts
Safety Stock
Service parts demand forecast
Repaired product shipments
Depot Repair/
WIP/ Order
Management
35. Inventory Optimization Workbench
Definition
Analysis Workbench provides tactical managers the tools they need to analyze budgets, inventory
levels, costs and revenue to make inventory policy decisions
Needs / Issues
Customers need a way to quickly and
easily make the best tactical inventory
decisions possible.
Solution
• Analyze critical data to make inventory policy
decisions in a single Analysis Workbench
Analyze data at aggregate and detailed level
Compare multiple plans
Benefits
Ability to quickly analyze data
•Evaluate all aspects of the plan with drill downs
•Ability to view data in many dimensions
•Improved planner productivity
•Reduce inventory investment through postponement analysis and savings
36. Analysis Workbench
The Analysis Workbench provides
answers for the following key questions:
Profit versus Service Level
Analysis
Postponement Analysis
Service Level Breakdown
Revenue and Cost Breakdown
Safety Stock Analysis
Budget Analysis
What is my most profitable service level?
Am I achieving my target service levels?
How much inventory do I have to carry
for a target service level?
Where should I position my inventories?
How is my inventory budget allocated?
What is my cost breakdown?
Key Questions Answers
37.
38. Analysis Workbench
Sample Analysis Process Flow
How much budget
do I have? What is
planned inventory
value compared to
budget?
Are target service
levels met? Are
inventories targeted
for the right market
segment?
Are inventories allocated
to achieve target service
levels ?
How much will it cost
to achieve the target
service levels ?
Inventory Budget
Service Level
Breakdown
Safety Stock and
Service Level
Cost Breakdown
Are inventories
allocated to achieve
target service levels ?
Safety Stock and
Service Level
Planner
Workbench
Detailed supply and
demand analysis
39. GOP- CTO enhancements
Definition
GOP will now be able to “free up” supplies and
resources when unscheduling sales orders for
configurations
Needs / Issues
Configure to Order business
environments are characterized by
frequent changes in the product
configuration prior to shipment
The order promising systems must be
able to plan the availability of supplies
before and after configuration
If the customer changes the
configuration, Order Promising must be
able to unschedule the existing order
such that resources and materials can
be used by subsequent orders
Solution
• Real supplies (WIP jobs, purchase orders, on
hand) are available for subsequent orders
•Planned orders for configured items are de-
composed to “free up” critical resources and
components
Benefits
Improved order promising for configured products
Match existing supply of configurations
Restrict to valid sources
40. Change Management
Job 1
Job 2
Planned Order 1
Sales order
Table Top Model*19395
Planned Order 2
Planned Order 3
ASCP plans a sales order for a configuration by
pegging existing supplies and creating planned
orders based on material and resource
constraints
41. Change Management
Description
In scheduling new orders, GOP considers these
supplies and their associated component and
resource requirements committed to this sales
order
Inventory - Oval Table Top
Planned order 5
Leg Assembly Model*69321
Resource
R1 – 1 HR
Resource
R2 – 2 HR
Job 1
Job 2
Planned Order 1
Sales order
Table Top Model*19395
Planned Order 2
Planned Order 3
42. Change Management
Description
Inventory - Oval Table Top
Planned order 5
Leg Assembly Model*69321
Resource
R1 – 1 HR
Resource
R2 – 2 HR
Job 1
Job 2
Planned Order 1
Sales order
Table Top Model*19395
Planned Order 2
Planned Order 3
X
If you unschedule the sales order, GOP removes
it from the plan
Offset supply
Offset supply
Offset supply
R1 1 HR
R2 2 HR
GOP does not disrupt the original plan’s pegging or data,
but effectively adds equivalent supplies and resource
availability for new order scheduling
43. Customer VMI / Consignment
Definition
You manage inventory at your customer’s sites, monitor on-hand status
and issue replenishments. Material ownership transfers to the customer
upon receipt. As well as the ability to consign inventory at customer sites
(pay on use)
Needs / Issues
Monitor your customer’s inventory for
replenishment opportunities.
Support pay on delivery
Support consigned inventory Pay on
use.
Solution
• Oracle Order Management, Blanket Sales agreements
•Oracle Inventory for min-max levels as well as days of
supply
•Demand planning for forecasting
•Collaborative Planning
Benefits
Improved customer service levels (fill rates). Proactively manage replenishments for your
customers
Increased predictability, by reduce impact of bullwhip effect
Reduced lead times by Pre-position replenishment based on forecast
Increased customer loyalty by Reduce inventory and provide value-added services for your
customers
44. Supports execution for pay-on-receipt
Customer
You
VMI Agreement -
Receive
items
Pay on
receipt
Ship items
VMI Agreement
Post on hand
information
VMI with Customers
45. Define customer
organizations
Define blanket
agreements
Define VMI items
and parameters
SETUP
Run VMI plan to
generate
replenishment
orders
PROCESS
Release
authorization
required?
Approve
replenishment
orders
Pick and ship material
Create invoice
Customer
receives material
Customer provides
consumption advice
(updates on-hand)
Yes
No
Automated process
Create sales
orders
VMI with Customers
Setup and Process Flow
46. 1. Define customer
organization
– Create an inventory
organization to represent
each customer’s
inventory stocking
location
– For example:
Home Depot store
if you’re a supplier
to Home Depot
Dell’s hub if you’re
a disk-drive
manufacturer
VMI with Customers
Setup
47. 2. Define blanket
sales agreement
– Item specific
– Item category specific
– Customer specific
VMI with Customers
Setup
50. Consigned VMI with Customers
Supports execution for pay-on-use
Customer
You
VMI Agreement -
Receive
items
Pay on
use
Ship items
VMI Agreement
Post on hand
information
51. 1. Define customer
organization
– Create an inventory
organization to represent
each customer’s
inventory stocking
location
– For example:
Home Depot store
if you’re a supplier
to Home Depot
Dell’s hub if you’re
a disk-drive
manufacturer
Consigned VMI with Customers
Setup
52. 2. Define blanket
sales agreement
– Item specific
– Item category specific
– Customer specific
Consigned VMI with Customers
Setup
53. Assign items to
customer organization
Replenishment method
and parameters
Forecast
type
Consigned VMI with Customers
Setup
55. Internal sales
orders and
purchase
requisitions are
created
automatically
Consigned VMI with Customers
Process Flow
56. Run VMI plan (conc. program: VMI replenishment engine)
– If [on-hand + open orders + in transit] < minimum quantity
then replenishment orders are generated
– Optionally, generate VMI replenishment notifications
Automatically or manually release replenishment orders
– Create internal sales orders in Order Management
Run pick release and ship confirm
Receive material in customer organization
Customer enters consumption advice when material is used,
which triggers
– Creation of a sales order
Order Type = Bill only with inventory consumption
– Decrease of on-hand in customer organization
Consigned VMI with Customers
Process Flow
60. Competitive Attack Points
Competitor Attack Information
• Inventory Optimization
SAP has no peer product. IO should be introduced to any company that is trying to
eliminate inventory through postponement (pushing it back up the supply chain).
• Supply chain planning for to- order products
SAP has a poorly architected and complex product that has performance issues.
Oracle has strengths in ease of use, scalability and extended supply networks.
• Supplier collaboration and event management
SAP has 3 overlapping solutions all with different architectures. Oracle provides
collaboration and event management in one state of the art integrated solution.
62. Oracle Advanced Planning Cross-Sell
Messaging for Existing Oracle Customers
If Customer
has …
Sell them Planning
for …
Why – What is the
Benefit
Field Service Demand Planning for Spares
Forecasting
Customers having
problems is availability of
spare parts, or are carrying
too much buffer stock.
Manufacturing ASCP Unconstrained Provides Multi Plant
planning, more intuitive
interface
ACSP Demand Planning Would improve forecast
accuracy and Sales and
Operation planning.
ASCP / ODP Collaborative Planning CPFR with trading partners
Demand Planning Constraint Based Planning /
GOP
Strong order promising
Demand Planning Inventory Optimization Stock positioning strength
70. Key Takeaways
Advanced Planning is a Proven and Complete planning solution
with over 600 customers on multiple products, across a wide
variety of industries -Large-scale, complex, worldwide
deployments
Global Forecasting will add value to our Retail and Distribution
focused customers and prospects, helping them in improving their
forecast accuracy
Up taking of Demand Planning will require 9iR2 or higher of
database
Spare Parts Forecasting in now available to our customers using
Services. Allowing customers to include spares in the overall
forecasting function.
Customer facing VMI and Consignment VMI will allow our
customers to provide more services their customers