Oracle Apps ASCP Training

R12 Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning Functional Training

Required Prerequisites

R12 Oracle Inventory Management Fundamentals, R12 Oracle E-Business Suite Essentials for Implementers

Suggested Prerequisites

Basic Planning Knowledge, Basic knowledge of Bill of Material principles

Course Duration – 25-30 hrs

Overview to Advanced Supply Chain Planning

·         Identify planning business issues

·         Describe key capabilities of Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning 

·         Explain efficiencies achieved by implementing Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning 

·         Identify key constraints that influence distribution planning decisions and how to meet them 

·         Explain key benefits of using distribution planning 

·         Explain integration of distribution planning with other Oracle APS suite products 

·         Explain usefulness of different plan types 

·         Identify plan classes based on scenarios 

·         Identify differences in implementation progression by plan class 

·         Describe planning business flow 

·         Describe planning data flow

Unconstrained Plans 

·         Describe planning concepts

·         Create unconstrained plans 

·         Launch unconstrained plans

Constrained Plans

·         Create demand priority rules

·         Create and assign calendars 

·         Set constrained plan options 

·         Set aggregation levels 

·         Run constrained plan 

·         View material constraints 

·         View resource constraints

Constrained Plans - Enforce Capacity Constraints with Decision Rules 

·         Describe Enforce Capacity Constraints with Decision rule plans

·         Interpret End item substitution/Substitution components 

·         Setup and use Alternate resources/BOMs/Routings 

·         Planning Decision rule hierarchy

Global Forecasting

·         Describe global forecasting

·         Spreading Global Forecasts 

·         Consuming Global Forecasts 

·         Recommending Sales Order changes

Planning Information and Planner Workbench 

·         Explain the significance of various types of data used for planning 

·         Explain key functionalities of planner workbench 

·         Describe how to research data for planning 

·         Describe planning results 

·         Describe planner strategies 

·         Copy and manage plans

Modeling the Supply Chain 

·         Analyze enterprise data

·         Analyze organization structure 

·         Review planning approach 

·         Analyze item information 

·         View Bill of material data 

·         Explain types of BOM 

·         Create and Maintain BOM 

·         Create and maintain Routing & Resources 

·         Explain Engineering change order (ECO) and its process 

·         Analyze sourcing information 

·         View supplier data 

·         Define lead time 

·         Review organization relationship 

·         Model the supply chain 

·         Describe the usage of MRP plan versus Master Production Plan and Master Production Schedule 

·         Describe the benefits of Holistic Plans

Querying Supply Chain Plan Information

·         Create personal and public queries

·         Manage personal and public queries 

·         Create order queries 

·         Manage order queries

Constrained Plans - Enforce Demand Due Dates

·         Describe Enforce Demand Due Dates constrained plans

·         Describe exceptions out of Enforce Demand Due Date Plans

Integrating Advanced Supply Chain Planning with Other Oracle Applications

·         Describe the types of manufacturing environments that are integrated with ASCP

·         Describe the integration points between ASCP and Oracle Project Manufacturing 

·         Describe the integration points between ASCP and Oracle Process Manufacturing 

·         Describe the integration points between ASCP and Oracle Flow Manufacturing 

·         Describe the integration points between ASCP and Demantra demand Management 

·         Describe the integration points between ASCP and Production scheduling 

·         Describe the integration points between ASCP and SNO

Demand and Supply 

·         Explain Types of Demand sources

·         Describe sales orders 

·         Explain forecast and forecast consumption 

·         Analyze supply types 

·         Describe demand classes 

·         Analyze purchase orders 

·         Analyze manufacturing orders

Collections 

·         Analyze & Review collections strategy

·         Detail the types of collection exceptions 

·         Detail various Collection methods 

·         Analyze & Review collected data

Analyzing Unconstrained Plans

·         View unconstrained exceptions

·         Compare and manage unconstrained exception messages 

·         View recommendations 

·         Peg supply and demand 

·         Release recommendations

Constrained Plans - Enforce Capacity Constraints

·         Describe ECC plans

·         Analyze Sales order exceptions 

·         Analyze Forecast exceptions 

·         Analyze Late supply exceptions 

·         Describe causes of late demands 

·         View Gantt chart 

·         Run and Analyze Planning detail /Plan comparison reports 

·         View and Analyze Workflow notifications 

·         Analyze Bottleneck resources 

·         Review outcome of Network routings 

·         Firm work orders

Cost-Based Optimized Plans

·         Setting plan options for Cost Based Optimized Plan

·         Describe Optimized Plans 

·         Describe Desired Outcomes from Optimized Plan 

·         Setting Penalty factors for Optimized Plans 

·         Configuring targets for key performance indicators and reviewing results

Planning Strategies

·         Perform Net Change Plan simulation

·         Compare Simulation Plan results