Oracle Supply Planning

Plan and manage material and capacity across your plants, distribution centers, suppliers, and contract manufacturer partners in discrete, process, and project-based manufacturing operations.

Improve operational efficiency with Oracle Supply Planning.

Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Planning

Use a single application to plan supply, production, and inventory

Make better decisions—faster

Identify demand risk and evaluate the impact of demand changes on supply.

Balance global demand and supply

Proactively revise plans to address shortages and overloads based on the latest data from across the supply chain.

Align enterprise business segments

Reduce cost to serve, buffer variability, and stockouts by aligning business segment plans using a common supply network.

Honor customer commitments

Prioritize, simulate, and reschedule open orders based on the latest supply availability.

Maximize shop floor throughput

Develop high-quality, executable intraday factory schedules for your daily supply plans that maximize asset and component utilization.


Strategically plan across your supply chain

Plan across all supply chain tiers

Manage material and capacity across plants, distribution centers, suppliers, and contract manufacturers.

Develop constrained plans

Automatically select alternate resources and components to reduce lead time and capacity constraints.

Handle diverse production planning and fulfillment needs

Plan process, discrete, configure-to-order, and outsourced production, as well as drop-ship and back-to-back fulfillment.


Understand supply planning performance

Analyze overall plan performance

Get at-a-glance aggregate and detailed summaries of revenue, margin, demand, supply, resource utilization, changeover time, and other metrics.

Diagnose root causes

Use guided navigation to drill down to details and perform cause-and-effect analysis of problems.

Answer ad hoc questions

Easily configure analytics to visualize issues, highlight exceptions, and focus on what matters.


Respond to changing business conditions

Simulate solutions to critical problems

Simulate the impact of demand, supply, capacity, and item structure changes to prevent disruptions.

Identify plan changes

Review and collaborate on plan changes with internal and external stakeholders.

Instantly execute the new plan

Execute ready-to-build orders, and release purchase and transfer recommendations.

Efficiently manage the order backlog

Minimize the cost of fulfilling the most urgent demand while maximizing shipments to meet revenue targets.

Dynamically reschedule production to reduce delays

Instantly respond to machine outages, labor shortages, material delays, and changing order priorities. Release adjusted schedules for shop floor execution as needed throughout the day.


Maximize throughput with effective production scheduling

Improve production planning efficiency

Maximize use of resources and available components, reducing work-in-process inventory, waste, and expedites. Release schedules for execution in real time.

Create executable production schedules

Create feasible production schedules that take the latest material, capacity, and calendar constraints into account.

Optimize changeovers to minimize downtime

Increase throughput and asset utilization with schedules that make efficient changeovers based on your industry attributes, minimizing idle time.

Resolve shop floor bottlenecks

Schedule work order operations with your desired attribute sequence to maximize the efficiency of your production planning process.

Simulate the impact of schedule changes

Run quick, in-line simulations and what-if scenarios to resolve production scheduling issues, make drag-and-drop adjustments, and edit dispatch lists as necessary.

Minimize the effect of unplanned downtime

Run, repair, and release production schedules dynamically to deal with unexpected machine outages, labor shortages, material delays, and changes in order priorities.

Proactively monitor your shop floor

Monitor changeover time, resource utilization, and late orders with prebuilt analytics for production scheduling.


Manage your sales order backlog with strategic fulfillment

Intelligently manage open orders

Prioritize your open orders to reduce delivery delays, increase sales, or achieve margin targets when supply or demand changes. Simulate multiple fulfillment alternatives, and select those that best meet your business objectives.

React intelligently to supply and demand changes

Use available supply to schedule new orders and reduce delays while respecting existing promise dates.

Fulfill the most important orders first

Prioritize orders in the backlog using flexible business rules that maximize order revenue, margin, and service.

Solve sourcing and fulfillment problems

Model what-if changes to sourcing, transit mode, and shipping constraints to respond quickly and find the best solutions.

Perform what-if order planning

Simulate the scheduling and availability impact of a potential order on the rest of the backlog.


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Customers across a wide range of industries use Oracle Supply Planning to improve operational efficiency and reduce costs.

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Plan for multiple manufacturing and fulfillment methods

Oracle Supply Planning delivers robust planning features for a wide variety of manufacturing strategies—from build-to-forecast to engineer-to-order—and any type of fulfillment method.

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Manage your order backlog

Fill your most important orders first. Dynamically prioritize and reschedule your open orders to reduce your delivery delays, achieve your margin targets, and keep your customers happy.

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Collaborate with internally and external suppliers and partners

Effectively plan across today’s complex, multi-tiered supply chains. Align your plan with external suppliers and contract manufactures to execute your operations strategy.

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Understand the impact of proposed plan changes

Determine the global impact of changes and reduce disruptions. Evaluate the impact of changes, automatically considering business urgency and ease of execution.

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Plan global supply across complex Networks

Today's supply chains are more global, complex, and volatile than ever. To stay competitive, you need to respond quickly and effectively when supply and demand conditions change. Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Planning is an end-to-end supply planning solution that allows you to seamlessly identify and plan for potential supply issues and opportunities.

Leverage all potential sources of supply

Oracle Supply Planning evaluates numerous possible ways to fulfill demand, including alternate suppliers, manufacturing plants, distribution centers, manufacturing routes, equipment, and substitute items and components. It also provides feedback on sales order and forecast demand at risk of late fulfillment, so you can prioritize and address the most critical issues.

Manage complex manufacturing, distribution, project, and service operations

Oracle Supply Planning drives planning in discrete, process, and mixed-mode manufacturing environments, including configure-to-order and contract manufacturing. In distribution-oriented supply chains, it plans regularly stocked, back-to-back, and drop-ship items. Project-based and service-oriented organizations can also use Oracle Supply Planning to balance supply and demand.

Plan based on your unique supply chain constraints

Some markets have specific country of origin requirements for supply, or Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) regulations that must be honored. Similarly, project-oriented organizations can only use designated supplies to meet demand for the same project or project family. Configure planning attributes and setup rules to help ensure that only qualified supplies can meet demands in these cases, as well as many others.

Hedge for supply chain variability

Forecasts can be inaccurate; supply chains can break down. With Oracle Supply Planning, you can configure various safety stock policies, such as those based on desired service levels, to help ensure you have the inventory—be it finished goods or components—to respond to unexpected demand or other supply chain events.

Visualize supply planning issues and opportunities

Once the system has recommended a plan, you can check to see where the issues and opportunities lie. Oracle Supply Planning provides rich visualization of key metrics and trends to highlight issues, present available options, and assess potential tradeoffs so you can make the right decisions faster.

Plan aggregate and detailed supply together

Oracle Supply Planning puts all the information you need to make informed decisions in one place. For example, you can review resource requirements by day, along with a Gantt chart of the work orders that consume that resource’s capacity. You can also see the earliest potential start times and material availability dates so you can assess the upstream and downstream impact of any changes without analyzing data across multiple screens.

Manage by exception

Oracle Supply Planning automates routine planning processes so you can you focus on the exceptions. View exceptions by count or value to prioritize the most important issues, then drill into the details. You can define your own thresholds and augment existing exceptions with your own exception rules so that only relevant and important exceptions are generated.

Visualize constraints

In addition, Oracle Supply Planning analytics uses highlighting to identify constraints within your supply chain. The supply chain planning model accurately reflects the physical supply chain, so you can easily spot resource and material constraints that could prevent timely demand fulfillment and take corrective action as needed.

Simulate and compare plan alternatives

To overcome problems, you need to quickly simulate adjustments to your plan and determine the most effective course of action. A comprehensive simulation framework can estimate the impact of a one-time change, while simulation sets define a broader set of plan assumptions that you can apply to multiple simulations. Compare plan metrics side by side in just a couple of clicks to assess whether the simulation outperforms your baseline plan.

Collaborate on planning solutions

Easily communicate plan changes to others within your enterprise, as well as trading partners. Planners can add notes to individual order levels or at the aggregate level—such as the supply for a time bucket . Supply chain orchestration processes communicate decisions to the execution team, including notes to buyers. Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Collaboration shares order forecasts with suppliers and contract manufacturers and uses their commitments to update available capacity for the next planning cycle.

Strategically replan your open order backlog

When demand exceeds supply, you can reschedule your open sales orders to prioritize your most important customers or channels. The Backlog Management component of Oracle Supply Planning sequences sales orders based on business objectives and assigns available supply accordingly .

Plan detailed production activities

You can also control shop floor tasks down to the second via the production scheduling capabilities included with Oracle Supply Planning. Using real-time information from Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Execution and the planned orders from your tactical planning processes, you can sequence production tasks to optimize asset utilization. Scheduling takes sequence-dependent setups into account, so you can minimize changeovers and meet order due dates.

Integrate supply planning from end to end

Oracle Supply Planning is seamlessly integrated out of the box with Oracle Supply Chain Execution, Oracle Fusion Cloud Order Management, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, and Oracle Fusion Cloud Product Management. It’s also built on a flexible architecture that easily connects with other execution systems, including prebuilt integration for Oracle E-Business Suite. Planners automatically receive demand and supply updates and can either auto-release or manually release planned orders for execution if they prefer.

May 9, 2022

Moving your supply chain planning to the cloud? Consider these 5 key areas

Daniel Bachar, Director of Product Marketing, Oracle

Organizations are taking big steps ahead of their competitors, investing in new supply chain planning solutions to help them improve their operations and processes.

Moving supply chain planning to the cloud is a shift that every organization is either thinking about, or already doing. No matter how synchronized your supply chain planning is on-premises, having your supply chain planning solution in the cloud will provide many new benefits.

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