Object
Description
Planned Items This parameter and the Plan Type field in the Supply Chain Names window, control the items that are planned in the supply chain plan. An item must satisfy conditions imposed by both parameters before being included in the supply chain plan. Assignment Set
The assignment set that holds the sourcing rules and bills of distribution that define the rules for material flow within your supply chain.
Material Scheduling Method
Choose from Operation Start Date or Order Start Date scheduling methods. If you choose Operation Start Date, material is scheduled to arrive at the start of the operation for which it is required. If you choose Order Start Date, material is scheduled to arrive at the start of the order for which it is required. Order State Date is usually an earlier date than the Operation Start Date and therefore this selection represents the more conservative planning logic of the two options.
Demand Priority Rule
When ASCP does detailed scheduling, it schedules demands one by one. The rule specified here dictates the order in which demands will be considered during detailed scheduling, and thus which demands will get the
first opportunities to take up available materials and resource capacities. End Item Substitution Set
If Decision Rules tabbed region > Use End Item Substitution is selected, select a substitution set. You can use a set of substitution relationships to be effective for a given plan by selecting the substitution set as an option for the plan. This allows you to run simulations of possible substitutions and evaluate performance indicators given possible future substitutions.
Overwrite
Overwrite planned orders. For further details
Schedule By
Set this option to instruct the planning engine to: - Plan supplies based on sales order line request, promise, or schedule dates for either ship or arrival - Consume forecasts based on sales order line request, promise, or schedule dates. You must provide forecast dates that match your choice of this plan option; for example, if you select Promise Ship date for this plan option, make sure your forecast dates are in terms of promise ship dates. Select one of the following sales order line dates: - Schedule Ship Date - Schedule Arrival Date - Request Ship Date - Request Arrival Date - Promise Ship Date - Promise Arrival Date The default is Schedule Ship Date. For forecast consumption, the planning engine uses: Schedule Date: If you select Schedule Ship Date or Schedule Arrival Date Request Date: If you select Request Ship Date or Request Arrival Date Promise Date: If you select Promise Ship Date or Promise Arrival Date If you do not specify plan option Demand Priority Rule and have not specified a default demand priority rule (in the Define Priority Ruled form), the planning engine uses the value of this plan option as the demand priority rule.
Demand Class
If you want to limit a production plan to a demand class, enter it. This field is active only for a Production Plan/MPS schedule.
Demand Time Check this option to enforce demand time fence control. Fence Control
Append Planned Orders
Appends new planned orders to current plan. For further details.
Planning Time Check this option to enforce item attribute planning time Fence Control fence control. Move Work Orders to PIP
Check this option if you want to generate planned order supply even in the absence of demand in order to ensure that inventory is held on the manufacturing floor only for items designated as Planned Inventory Points.
Display Key Performance Indicators
Check this option to calculate key performance indicators for the plan.
Lot for Lot
Check this option to force the creation of a separate supply for each demand. This prevents creation of aggregate supplies that satisfy multiple demands.
Include Critical Components
Select this plan option to instruct the planning engine to plan considering critical components. Depending on the plan type and the planning item types, the planning engine may plan critical components and not plan other components or components of those components. To mark an item as a critical component, select its item attribute Critical Component.
Do Not Spread Forecast
The planning engine should use forecast entries as they exist for planning.
Spread Forecast Evenly
The planning engine should spread aggregate forecast demand evenly across the daily buckets from the workday calendar.
Consume by Forecast Bucket
The forecast consumption process does not search outside of the consumption bucket for forecasts and sales orders except in daily buckets.
Explode Forecast
Select this plan option to instruct the planning engine to explode forecasts as follows during the consumption process: - Product family forecasts to product family member item forecasts - Model forecasts to other model, option class, and item forecasts. This option applies to forecasts with forecast control Consume and derive. If you clear this plan option, you have arranged for this explosion to occur in the source instance or in Oracle
Demand Planning before the planning run. Backward Days
This parameter allows a sales order demand to consume forecast demand even if the forecast demand is up to the specified number of days earlier than the sales order demand. It applies only to the supply chain planning forecast and not to Oracle Demand Planning forecast scenarios.
Forward Days This parameter allows a sales order demand to consume forecast demand even if the forecast demand is up to the specified number of days later than the sales order demand. It applies only to the supply chain planning forecast and not to Oracle Demand Planning forecast scenarios Enable Pegging
Select this option (the default) to calculate pegging information. Oracle ASCP traces supply information for an item to its corresponding end demand details, which you can then view in a graphical display. This field is checked by default.
Peg Supplies by Demand Priority
If Enable Pegging is selected, select to instruct the planning engine to peg in demand priority order from Demand Priority Rule.
Reservation Level
If Enable Pegging is selected, choose a reservation level: Planning Group, Project, Project-Task, or None.
Hard Pegging Level
If Enable Pegging is selected, choose a hard pegging level: Project, Project-Task, or None.
Object
Description
Plan Start Date
If you have never run the plan, this field displays today's date. If you have run the plan, this field displays the planning horizon start date of the last run.
Plan End Date
Calculated planning horizon end date based on your entries in Buckets and the owning organization calendar.
Start Date
Calculated start date for each bucket based on your entries in Buckets and the owning organization calendar. The value for the Days column is the Plan Start Date.
Buckets
Number of buckets of this bucket type. Weekly buckets can only start on the week beginning day from the manufacturing calendar. If the daily horizon does not end on the day before a week beginning day, the planning engine extends it to the next day before a week beginning day. It plans the extended days in daily buckets, never minute or hourly buckets, regardless of any other settings.
Items
Choose to plan at either the Item level or Product Family level. If you select Items in the first bucket, the other buckets can be set to either Items or Product Family. However, if you select Product Family in the first bucket, the remaining buckets are set to Product Family by default.
Resource Choose to plan at either the Individual level or Aggregate s level. If you select Individual in the first bucket, the other buckets can be set to either Individual or Aggregate. If you select Aggregate in the first bucket, the remaining buckets are set to Aggregate by default. Routings
Choose to plan at either the routings or bill of resources level. Whatever level you select in any of the buckets, all the rest of the buckets are assigned that level by default.
Object
Description
Global Demand Schedules
Select the names of Oracle Demand Planning scenarios that drive this plan. You can select demand planning scenarios that do not reference an organization (organization dimension set to All Organization).
Ship To Consumption Level
Select a forecast consumption level for the Oracle Demand Planning scenario. The global forecasting process consumes forecast entries that have Ship To value the same as this plan option. You can select: - Customer - Customer Site
- Zone - Customer Zone - Demand Class - Item The choices in the list of values changes depending on the published level of the scenario. Org
An organization which this plan should plan.
Description
The name of the organization.
Net WIP
Select to consider discrete jobs and other production orders as supply in the planning demand/supply netting process.
Net Reservations
If checked, ASCP generates pegging of on-hand supply to sales orders that matches the reservations recorded in the source transaction system.
Net Purchases
Select to consider purchase orders, purchase requisitions, in-transit shipments and other nonproduction order scheduled receipts as supply in the planning demand/supply netting process. This option covers all scheduled receipts not covered by the Net WIP option.
Plan Safety Stock
Select to consider plan safety stock demand and supply in the planning demand/supply netting process.
Include Sales Order
Select to invoke forecast consumption within ASCP for the selected organization. Check this if the demand schedules for the organization are unconsumed forecasts. Uncheck this if the demand schedules for the organization are consumed forecasts plus sales orders in the form of master demand schedules.
Firm Planned Orders From Production Schedule
Select this check box to indicate that the organization can receive data from Production Scheduling to the schedule specified in the Schedule Name field. See Feeding a Production Schedule Back into ASCP.
Schedule Name Enter the name of the production schedule. Note that this production schedule should be referencing this ASCP plan within its schedule options. In other words, the schedule name that is entered should reference the ASCP plan on the Schedule Options page, Scope tab. See Feeding a Production Schedule Back into ASCP. Firm Horizon (Days)
Enter the number of days for which the planned orders from the feeding production schedule are considered by the ASCP plan. See Feeding a Production Schedule Back into ASCP.
Bill of Resource
Select Bill of Resources from the list of values.
Simulation Set
Select a Simulation Set from the list of values. A simulation set is a set of adjustments to the base availability calendar of a resource, and is defined via the Oracle Bills of Material Department Resources form. You can define different simulation sets to model different availability scenarios (for example, the base availability calendar reflects 5 day operations; simulation set 1 reflects working 6 day operations; simulation set 2 reflects 7 day operations). The planning engine applies the simulation set to all resources in the organization. Oracle Enterprise Asset Management plans maintenance activity and creates maintenance work orders which may specify shutdown of equipment resources. If you are using Oracle Enterprise Asset Management, you can pass your maintenance downtimes to the planning engine. To plan for these shutdowns in Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning, run the Oracle Enterprise Asset Management Load Equipment Maintenance Downtime concurrent process. The process creates a simulation set with the downtimes recorded as capacity changes for reduced hours. You can specify the simulation set in the Organizations tabbed region of the Plan Options window. When the plan is run, the planning engine uses this simulation set to calculate the reduction in the available capacity of resources due to maintenance downtime. The planning engine plans production activities for these resources after considering the reduction in available capacity. You can view the impact of this change on the resource availability and usage profiles in the Planner Workbench.
Demand Schedules
Select the names of demand schedules, forecasts, and plans that drive this plan.
Include Targets
You can select this option for a distribution plan that you are using as a demand schedule. Distribution plans may use target inventory levels and attempt to plan to meet the target inventory demands. However, when smoothing their production schedules and resolving constraints, they may choose to produce some amount less than required by the target inventory levels. In this case, distribution planning distributes according to safety stock inventory levels first and then allocates the remainder using the target inventory levels.
Ship To
Select a forecast consumption level for the local
Consumption Level
forecasts in the demand schedule. The forecast consumption process consumes forecast entries that have Ship To value the same as this plan option. You can select: - Customer - Customer Site - Demand Class - Item-org
Interplant
If selected, the planning engine uses only interorganization orders and demands from interorganization planned orders. If cleared, the planning engine uses demands from all planned orders.
Supply Schedules
Select the name of supply schedules that participate in this plan.
Subinventory Netting
Opens the Subinventory Netting window.
Object
Description
Constraints Mode
Specify the constrained planning mode for this plan; see Choosing Planning Modes. Valid values are:
Unconstrained: This is the default value. The options in the Scheduling region are grayed out. Constrained (Classic): The options in the Scheduling region are enabled. Constrained (Without Detailed Scheduling): The options in the Scheduling region are grayed out. You cannot use lot-for-lot planning in this planning mode. Constrained (With Detailed Scheduling): The options in the Scheduling region are enabled. You cannot set all Resource Constraints and Material Constraints to No. If you set any Resource Constraints to Yes, you cannot clear Calculate Resource Requirements. To enable pegging, select plan option Enable Pegging. Enforce Demand Due Dates
Select if you want demand due dates to be your hard constraint (that is, respected in lieu of material and resource capacity constraints if there is conflict).
Enforce Capacity Constraints
Select if you want material and resource capacity constraints to be respected in lieu of demand due date constraints if there is a conflict.
Start Date
Displays the start date for each bucket type.
Buckets
Displays the number of buckets of this bucket type.
Resource Constraints
Select Yes to consider resource constraints. If you select No, the planning engine assumes that resource capacity is infinite regardless of any simulation sets.
Supplier Capacity Constraints
Select Yes to consider supplier capacity constraints.
Enforce Purchasing Lead-time Constraints
Select this plan option to instruct the planning engine to constrain the plan by purchased item lead-times (item attributes or approved supplier list). Clear it to instruct the planning engine never to miss a demand due date because of a purchased item leadtime.
Minutes Bucket Size (in Days)
Specify the number of minute buckets in the Days bucket type. If the plan start time is not 00:00, the planning engine schedules the remainder of the first day in minutes even if the value for plan option Minutes is 0. For example if you start the plan on 01-Jan 14:00, the planning engine schedules in minutes from 01-Jan 14:00 to 02-Jan 00:00.
Hours Bucket Size (in Days)
Specify the number of hours buckets in the Days bucket type.
Days Bucket Size (in Days)
Specify the number of days buckets in the Days bucket type.
Calculate Resource Requirements
If selected, the program will calculate resource capacity utilization. Select in unconstrained plans to enable release of lot-based planned orders.
Planned Resources
Select All Resources or Bottleneck Resources. If you have defined bottleneck resource groups in Oracle Bills of Material and you want to detail schedule only the bottleneck resources, select Bottleneck Resources and enter a Bottleneck Resource Group.
Bottleneck If you have defined bottleneck resource groups in Resource Group Oracle Bills of Material and you want to detail schedule only the bottleneck resources, select its name.
Object
Description
Optimize
Select if you are running an optimized plan. Before selecting, verify that you selected Constraints tabbed region, Constrained Plan field. If you clear, you cannot enter any other information in this tabbed region.
Enforce Sourcing Constraints
Select if you want to enforce the sourcing splits in the item sourcing rules. For an optimized plan, the planning engine may override these sourcing splits if it results in less cost. For unconstrained and constrained plans, the planning engine respects these sourcing splits without regard to this option.
Maximize Specify a weighting percentage from 0 to 1. inventory turns Maximize plan profit
Specify a weighting percentage from 0 to 1.
Maximize ontime delivery
Specify a weighting percentage from 0 to 1.
Exceeding material capacity %
Enter a numerical value to quantify the impact of exceeding material capacity. For example, if you enter 50, the penalty factor is 50%.
Exceeding resource capacity %
Enter a numerical value to quantify the impact of exceeding resource capacity. For example, if you enter 50, the penalty factor is 50%.
Exceeding transportation capacity %
Enter a numerical value to quantify the impact of exceeding transportation capacity. For example, if you enter 50, the penalty factor is 50%.
Demand lateness %
Enter a numerical value to quantify the impact of late demand. For example, if you enter 50, the penalty factor is 50%.
Object
Description
Use End Item Substitution
If selected, use end item substitute prior to creating new planned orders. If cleared, use only the demanded item. Enter the End Item Substitution Set in the Main tabbed region.
Use Alternate Resources
If selected, use primary resource and use alternate resource only if necessary. If cleared, use only primary resources.
Use Substitute If selected, use primary components and use substitute Components components only if necessary. If cleared, use only primary components only. Use Alternate BOM/Routing
If selected, use primary routings and use alternates only if necessary. If cleared, use only primary bills of material and routings.
Use Alternate Sources
If selected, use primary sources and use alternate sources only if necessary. If cleared, use primary sources only. The planning engine does not use alternate sources (rank 2 or higher) as a sources of supply.
