Independent Consultant ASCP - 101 A Beginners Guide to Implementing ASCP Sandeep Gandhi Independent Consultant

Agenda Scope ASCP v/s MRP ASCP Data Flow Setups Item Attributes Plan Options Execute Plan Q&A

Advanced Supply Chain Planning Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning (ASCP) is a comprehensive planning solution that decides when and where supplies should be deployed within an extended supply chain. Key Capabilities Plan all supply chain facilities simultaneously Short-term detailed scheduling and long-term aggregate planning are supported within a single plan Plans that consider both resource and material constraints Configure Oracle ASCP to optimize specific business criteria Allows many types of changes to supply, demand and resources to simulate changing business conditions Integrated solution Comprehensive : Planning, Scheduling, GOP, Inventory Optimization, Demand Planning

ASCP v/s MRP Oracle’s focus product Productivity enhancing UI QOH shown in supply/demand screen Multi-level pegging Ability to define queries and publish to planners Vertical Plan / Gnatt Chart Plan alt. sources and alt. resources Plan with optimization rules (inv turns / ontime delivery) and penalty factors Constrained plan (ECC / EDD / lead time constraints) VMI Support New reports Powerful simulations Different calendars for shipping / manufacturing / receiving Multiple instance planning

ASCP Data Flow

Initial Setups Decide configuration Centralized v/s Distributed Apply latest Rollup Patches (Note 223026.1) Collections RUP #25 (patch #6751704) Planning Engine RUP #30 (patch # 7286961) Get responsibilities Advanced Supply Chain Planner Advanced Planning Administrator Centralized => less overhead, licensing fees where as Distributed=> upgrade to R12, support multiple instances, can be optimized for ascp performance, no peak load

Initial Setups – Contd. Define Instance Define Orgs Assign Collection Groups Main instance types = Discrete, Process, Discrete & Process

Initial Setups – contd. Run full data collection

Initial Setups – contd. Gather schema stats on MSC Grant Org access

Key Item Attributes

Key Item Attributes – Contd. Source type – supplier / inventory . Order modifier => need 75 tomorrow, 50 day after tomorrow

Collecting Sales Orders Define Demand class Define Master Demand Schedule (MDS) Refresh MDS

Define Plan Plan types > Mfg plan, production plan, master plan

Plan Options – Main Tab

Plan Options – Org tab

Plan Options – Constraints Tab

Execute Plan Refresh MDS Run Data Collection Run Custom Data Cleanup Programs Run plan Consider creating request set Access Planner’s workbench

Planner’s Workbench

Release

Gotchyas Sales order demand duplicated Inactive items coming over to plan Can not release configured items Planning Data Pull very slow Run Refresh Collection Snapshots often Run Net change collection ODS Load takes a long time Set MSC:Purge Stg Tbl Cntrl to Yes Plan takes a long time to run Set MSC: Share Plan Partitions to No File space issues Set MSC:Write MBP Flat Files to Yes Schema stats

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