ASCP - 103 Advanced Concepts in ASCP Sandeep Gandhi Independent Supply Chain Consultant 513-325-9026 NC-OAUG * Chicago * 26-Feb-2010

Review of ASCP-101 One Time Setups Recurring Activities 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. One Time Setups Define Instance and organizations Setup Responsibilities Define Plans Recurring Activities Refresh MDS Data Collection Plan Run Act upon recommendations Comprehensive : Planning, Scheduling, GOP, Inventory Optimization, Demand Planning

Review of ASCP-102 Safety Stock Item Substitution User Defined Forecast Based MRP planned Item Substitution Setups Sales Order substitution Planned order substitution Comprehensive : Planning, Scheduling, GOP, Inventory Optimization, Demand Planning

ASCP-103 Hub and Spoke planning Subset Plans Managing ASCP Performance Lights Out Procurement Q&A

Supply Chain Modeling Model all your organizations, suppliers and second tier suppliers Thumb rule - One Global plan for all participants Advantages Data Integrity Global Optimization Better response times

Exceptions Business rules Frequency Ownership Not all plants are ready for constrained planning Local optimization

Subset Planning - A tale of two plans MRP plan: Local, Optimized for resource utilization

A tale of two plans (contd.) MPP Plan: Global; optimized for inventory turns

Recommendations

Hub And Spoke Planning When plans need to run at different times/frequency You need to a small plan for FG / critical items Still need one global plan

Hub and Spoke Planning (contd.)

Managing ASCP Performance Inactive items Plan partitions (MSC: Share plan partitions) Msc table growth (esp. components) ODS load slow (MSC: Purge Staging Tables) ODS Load slow (Recalculate sourcing) Filespace growth (MSC: Write MBP Flat files = Yes)

Managing Performance (contd.) Peg only as needed Turn off resource calculations Reduce number of daily buckets

Managing Performance (contd.) Do we need to plan for ALL items? All items, supply /demand items only? Pitfalls for not planning all items

Lights Out Procurement Setting up your systems and processes such that the Plan-To-Procure process is completed automated. Buyers and planners can focus on more value add activities Intervention is needed to handle exceptions

Steps Setup blanket agreements with suppliers Setup sourcing rules Setup electronic communication methods to suppliers Modify Profile Options Modify workflow attributes

Steps (contd.) Setup a Production plan Update Item RTF

Take away Model supply chain participants in your plan Use global plan but exceptions exist Use subset planning or hub-n-spoke planning as needed Optimize performance Shoot for the moon (and turn off the lights in procurement)

Q&A Sandeep Gandhi ssgcinty@yahoo.com 513-325-9026