Update 22C

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date	Product	Feature	Notes
17 JUN 2022			Created initial document.

Overview

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Optional Uptake of New Features (Opt In)

Oracle Cloud Applications delivers new updates every quarter. This means every three months you'll receive new functionality to help you efficiently and effectively manage your business. Some features are delivered Enabled meaning they are immediately available to end users. Other features are delivered Disabled meaning you have to take action to make available. Features delivered Disabled can be activated for end users by stepping through the following instructions using the following privileges:

• Review Applications Offering (ASM_REVIEW_APPLICATIONS_OFFERINGS_PRIV)
• Configure Oracle Fusion Applications Offering (ASM_CONFIGURE_OFFERING_PRIV)

Here’s how you opt in to new features:

1. Click Navigator > My Enterprise > New Features.
2. On the Features Overview page, select your offering to review new features specific to it. Or, you can leave the default selection All Enabled Offerings to review new features for all offerings.
3. On the New Features tab, review the new features and check the opt-in status of the feature in the Enabled column. If a feature has already been enabled, you will see a check mark. Otherwise, you will see an icon to enable the feature.
4. Click the icon in the Enabled column and complete the steps to enable the feature.

In some cases, you might want to opt in to a feature that's not listed in the New Features work area. Here's how to opt in:

1. Click Navigator > My Enterprise > Offerings.
2. On the Offerings page, select your offering, and then click Opt In Features.
3. On the Opt In page, click the Edit Features (pencil) icon for the offering, or for the functional area that includes your feature.
4. On the Edit Features page, complete the steps to enable the feature.

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Feature Summary

Supply Planning

Supply Planning

Net the Supplies and Demands Pooled Across Multiple Organizations

Some supply chain networks have a central warehouse and closely clustered ancillary warehouses that have been configured as separate inventory organizations in the execution systems. However, for planning purposes you want to treat these inventory organizations as one facility which means the demand and supply need to be pooled across the cluster. With this update, you can now designate one organization as a central organization where the supply and demand across a set of organizations is pooled for the purpose of supply and demand netting. It’s assumed that there’s no business need to physically transfer inventory across organizations in the pool.

Example of how you can configure parent and child organization relationship with modeled subinventory for child organization in Manage Planning Source Systems:

Example of how you can configure the plan option to net the supplies and demands pooled across multiple organizations:

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Example of netting of pooled supplies and demands pooled in parent organization in a supply plan:

Reduce excess and obsolete inventory by pooling inventory across a cluster of inventory organizations.

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Supply Chain Planning  No Longer Optional From: Update 23A

After opt in is enabled, perform these steps to net the supplies and demands pooled across multiple organizations:

1. Associate a parent organization to the organization and provide a modeled subinventory code for child organization via the Manage Planning Source Systems task in the Plan Inputs work area
2. Select parent and child organizations in the plan scope while defining plan options to pool supplies and demands across multiple organizations to the parent organization for netting
3. Enable the Net child organizations and parent organization as one plan option on the Scope tab
4. Assign an attribute-based netting rule with planning attributes if you're planning project-specific or attribute-specific supply
5. Select the Enable movement of supply between projects and tasks option in the General subtab of the Supply tab if you are releasing project transfer recommendations for project-specific plan
6. Run the plan and review results
7. Release recommendations from plan to either parent or child organizations

Tips And Considerations

• You can associate a parent organization to an organization via the Manage Planning Source Systems task for organizations which belong source system of SCM Cloud for which Locations of the Oracle Fusion Product Model and Oracle Fusion Trading Community Model is enabled.

• You can enable the Net child organizations and parent organization as one plan option only when a set of parent and child organization are included in the plan option scope.

• The Net the Supplies and Demands Pooled Across Multiple Organizations is supported for only the unconstrained supply planning mode.

Key Resources

• The Net the Supplies and Demands Pooled Across Multiple Organizations readiness training available on Oracle Cloud Readiness for Supply Planning.

Role Information

You have a couple options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Monitor Supply Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_SUPPLY_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)   
  • Monitor Demand and Supply Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_DEMAND_AND_SUPPLY_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)

Plan Items with Supply but No Demand

You may have supplies of a particular item, but there’s no direct demand for that item. You may want to include these items in the plan for a variety of reasons, such as making the supply eligible as a substitute for demand of another end item or for excess reporting. Previously, this wasn’t possible except by including all items in the plan, which had negative repercussions on planning cycle time.  With this update, items with supply but no demand can be included in the plan as long the plan scope includes this item. For example, if this item with no demand belongs to a product category being planned, then you would be able to analyze the item and associated supplies in the plan.

You can use the new Include items with only existing supplies, but no demand option to include these items in your plan.

Navigation: Supply Planning Work Area > Manage Plans task > Create Plan > Scope Tab

Reduce planning cycle times when items with supply but no demand need to be considered in a plan.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

• If the Include items with only existing supplies, but no demands option is selected, then the supply plan will additionally include those items in the plan that aren't part of existing selection criteria based on the selection made in the Supply Planned Items field (Navigation: Supply Planning Work Area > Manage Plans task > Create Plan > Scope Tab), and have existing supplies without any demand associated with them.

• The Include items with only existing supplies, but no demands option will be disabled, if the Supply Planned Items scope is set to All planned items.

• This feature is supported by both unconstrained and constrained supply plans.

Key Resources

• The Plan Items with Supply but No Demand readiness training available on Oracle Cloud Readiness for Supply Planning.

Role Information

You have a couple options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned the following job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain the following privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Monitor Supply Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_SUPPLY_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
  • View Demands and Supplies (MSC_VIEW_DEMANDS_AND_SUPPLIES_PRIV)

Analyze a Plan by Segment

As part of your planning process, you may need to analyze data using multiple dimensional segments. You can classify your business into different segments where each segment is comprised of various combinations of items, organizations, customer sites, and demand classes. These segments can be based on attributes, such as planner code, or on metrics, such as demand volume. Examples of how you might define segments:

• Segment item organization combinations by planner code
• Segment item customer site combinations by demand volume into various tiers

The ability to define segments was previously available in Oracle Demand Management and for defining attribute netting rules. With this update, you can analyze by attributes in Oracle Sales and Operations Planning and Oracle Supply Planning.

You can use these segments for analysis in tables and graphs. You can also use these segments in analysis sets. Segments that were previously created for use in Demand Management can be used in Oracle Sales and Operations Planning and Oracle Supply Planning.

Segment your supply chain and drive your planning analysis using segments

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

• Configure segment groups using the Manage Segment Groups and Criteria task. You define the granularity of the segment group. The granularity can be a combination of item, organization, customer site, and demand class. Then you define each of the segments within the segment group and the criteria for each segment. Segment criteria can be based on attributes of products or organizations or based on measure values from a specified plan.

• After configuring a segment group, you invoke the Execute Segmentation action to generate the individual segments and identify the combinations within each segment. You can view the results using the View Segmentation Summary option. Additionally, you can manually override the results using the Manage Segment Members action.

• After a segment group is created and successfully executed, you can use it for analysis and filtering in tables, graphs, and analysis sets. When configuring a table or graph, segment groups are listed on the Hierarchies tab. Select a segment group to include it as a level in the table or graph. Segment groups behave like any other hierarchy level, such as product family or month, except they are multidimensional. For example, if the granularity of a segment group is item and organization, then the segments within this segment group will be made up of item and organization combinations. Segment groups are also listed on the Members tab enabling you to filter on selected segments within a segment group.

Key Resources

• The Analyze a Plan by Segment readiness training available on Oracle Cloud Readiness for Supply Planning.

Role Information

You have a couple options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Sales and Operations Planner (ORA_MSC_SALES_AND_OPERATIONS_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privilege can access this feature:
  • Manage Segments (MSC_MANAGE_SEGMENTS_PRIV)
  • Save Plan Extract (MSC_SAVE_PLAN_EXTRACT_PRIV)
  • Edit Planning Analytics Configuration (MSC_EDIT_PLANNING_ANALYTICS_CONFIGURATION_PRIV)

Plan Work Orders for Items with Undercompletion Tolerance

In some manufacturing environments, a production operator may complete work orders even if the quantity output from the manufacturing process is less than the original intent. In Oracle Fusion Cloud Manufacturing, you can specify an undercompletion tolerance that allows for completion transactions on work orders when this situation is encountered. Corresponding with this enhancement in Oracle Manufacturing, Oracle Supply Planning will ensure that any remaining input components and subassemblies are appropriately planned and scheduled based on the status of the work order in Oracle Manufacturing.

Navigation: Supply Chain Planning  > Plan Inputs > Supplies and Demands table

Plan accurately for work orders with undercompletion tolerances.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

If the Undercompleted check box is selected for a discrete work order in Oracle Manufacturing, it means no more supplies are expected from that work order even if the quantity output from the manufacturing process is less than the original intent.

• In such cases, Supply Planning won't plan for the remaining work order quantity. For example, let's say there's a work order with start quantity=100 and undercompletion tolerance is set to 10%. If the completed quantity on the last operation of this work order is 92 and the  Undercompleted check box is selected in Oracle Manufacturing, then the order quantity will be 0 (because no more supplies are expected, Supply Planning won't plan for remaining quantity) and completed quantity will be 92 in Supply Planning.

• If there are any open material requirements, they will be planned as usual. 

For process work orders, Supply Planning doesn't consider the Undercompleted check box. Supply Planning will continue to consider the outputs as supply from the work order until it's closed. 

Key Resources

• The Plan Work Orders for Items with Undercompletion Tolerance readiness training available on Oracle Cloud Readiness for Supply Planning.

Role Information

You have a couple options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned the following job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain the following privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Monitor Supply Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_SUPPLY_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
  • View Demands and Supplies (MSC_VIEW_DEMANDS_AND_SUPPLIES_PRIV)

Treat In-Transit Supplies As Not Firm

The firm status for supply is an indicator that the quantity and date on the supply is inviolable, meaning there is no flexibility to change the date or quantity on the order. Previously, all in-transit supplies and shipments in-receiving were automatically considered firm. This approach led to potential for excess inventory because Oracle Supply Planning would recommend a supply order to avoid late demand fulfillment. With this update, you can use the new Don’t consider in-transit supplies as firm plan option to configure your plan to consider in-transit and in-receiving supplies as not firm so that additional supplies aren’t created, but instead the in-transit and in-receiving supply is used to fulfill the demand even if it might make the demand late.

Example of a constrained plan using the new plan options:

• Don’t consider in-transit supplies as firm
• Enforce lead times for in-transit supplies

Address your unique business scenarios by treating in-transits as firm or not firm.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

• Points to take into considerations when using this feature:
  • In-transit supplies and shipment-in-receiving supplies can't be rescheduled out.
  • The due date for in-transit supplies and shipment-in-receiving supplies can be rescheduled in only until the planning time fence date.
  • The Release Status value and Action value are set to Ineligible and None respectively.

• In constrained plans the Enforce lead time for in-transit supplies option will be enabled only if the Don’t consider in-transit supplies as firm option is selected.

• In unconstrained plans the Enforce lead time for in-transit supplies option is disabled even if the Don’t consider in-transit supplies as firm option is selected.

Key Resources

• The Treat In-Transit Supplies as Not Firm readiness training available on Oracle Cloud Readiness for Supply Planning.

Role Information

No new job roles or privileges are delivered with this feature.

Use a REST Service and Reference Plan to Extract the Use-Up Date for an Item

In Oracle Fusion Cloud Product Lifecycle Management, it’s important to understand the dates to phase-in or phase-out component supply when considering the current on-hand and on-order supply to avoid obsolete inventory write-offs. With this update, the Planning Items REST service is available from Oracle Supply Planning to query the use-up date for an item, which is the date on which all available on-hand and on-order supply will be exhausted. This date can then be used to guide the engineering change order process to phase out the old components which may be driven by other considerations in addition to potential obsolete inventory exposure. In a future update, Oracle Product Development will be enhanced to provide visibility to the use-up date in Product Development to the product manager or other user initiating the engineering change order (ECO) so that the component changeover dates are optimized to avoid obsolescence.

Reduce obsolete inventory by implementing engineering change orders to replace components on the date that existing demand will exhaust on-order and on-hand supply of the component to be replaced.

Steps to Enable

Review the REST service definition in the REST API guides, available from the Oracle Help Center > your apps service area of interest > REST API. If you're new to Oracle's REST services you may want to begin with the Quick Start section.

Tips And Considerations

• Ensure that at least one plan has the Reference Plan for Fulfillment Systems option selected on the Manage Plan Options page. The query for the use-up date refers to the most recently run plan that has the Reference Plans for Fulfillment option selected.

• Data security is enabled for the REST service. Only the use-up date for the item organization combinations to which the requesting user has access is returned.

Key Resources

• The Use a REST Service and Reference Plan to Extract the Use-Up Date for an Item readiness training available on Oracle Cloud Readiness for Supply Planning.
• The Supply Chain Planning section of the REST API for Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud guide on the Oracle Help Center.

Role Information

You have a couple options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privilege are able to access this feature:
  • View Item Privilege - MSC_VIEW_PLANNING_ITEMS_PRIV

Use Deep Links to Source Orders in Oracle Supply Chain Management

When analyzing order level data in Oracle Supply Planning, sometimes you need to understand all aspects of the order including real time status. This data is available in other Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Management applications, but not in Supply Planning. With this update, you can configure deep links to view additional information including real-time status of on-hand quantities, purchase orders, transfer orders, work orders, and sales orders in Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, Oracle Fusion Cloud Inventory Management, Oracle Fusion Cloud Manufacturing, and Oracle Fusion Cloud Order Management respectively.

For example, a user on the Supplies and Demands page in Supply Planning can drill to the Manage Item Quantities page in Oracle Inventory Management in a new browser tab.

Supplies and Demands Page in Supply Planning

Manage Item Quantities Page in Inventory Management

Use deep links to other applications in Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Management to understand supply and demand order-level information in real time.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

Points to take into consideration to use this feature: 

• This feature is applicable only for Oracle Fusion Source System.

• Users must have the needed data security access for each of the following entities:
  • Item Quantities
  • Work Orders
  • Purchase Orders

• Users should be of Associated Person Type of Worker to access Purchase Orders
  • Transfer Orders
  • Sales Orders

Key Resources

• The Use Deep Links to Source Orders in Oracle Supply Chain Management readiness training available on Oracle Cloud Readiness for Supply Planning

Role Information

• The following predefined job roles include the privileges needed to access deep links:
  • Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users must have the following privileges to access deep links for the following entities:
  • On Hand
    • INV_MANAGE_ONHAND_QUANTITY_PRIV
    • INV_MONITOR_INVENTORY_MANAGEMENT_WORK_AREA_PRIV
  • Work Order
    • WIP_VIEW_WORK_ORDERS_PRIV
    • WIP_MANAGE_WORK_EXECUTION_WORK_AREA_PRIV
    • WIP_MANAGE_WORK_ORDER_HEADERS_PRIV
    • WIP_MANAGE_WORK_ORDER_OPERATIONS_PRIV
    • WIP_MANAGE_WORK_ORDER_SERIALS_PRIV
    • WIP_MANAGE_WORK_ORDER_MATERIAL_RESERVATIONS_PRIV
    • WIP_MANAGE_WORK_ORDER_COMPONENT_PICKING_PRIV
    • WIP_MANAGE_SUPPLIER_OPERATIONS_PRIV
  • Purchase Order
    • PO_VIEW_PURCHASE_ORDER_PRIV
    • PO_VIEW_PURCHASING_WORKAREA_PRIV
  • Transfer Order
    • INV_MANAGE_INVENTORY_TRANSFER_ORDER_PRIV
    • INV_MONITOR_INVENTORY_MANAGEMENT_WORK_AREA_PRIV
  • Sales Order
    • FOM_VIEW_ORDERS_PRIV

Attribute-Based Planning

Plan and analyze your supply chain using configured attributes specific to your business needs, such as country of origin. Forecast for demand qualified by these attributes. Configure attributes and attribute netting rules in a supply plan so that only qualified supply, based on attributes of inventory, purchase orders, transfer orders, or work order supplies, is used to satisfy demand. Generate planned orders for these attributes at any level of your supply chain.

After you opt in to the feature named Attribute-Based Planning, you can use the features in this section.

Analyze Calculated Supply and Demand Measures Using Configured Attributes

Calculated measures, such as projected available balance and projected on hand, are critical aspects for analysis of a plan to understand projected shortages or excesses. In a plan using attribute-based netting rules, it’s important to have these calculated measures striped by configured attributes also be available for analysis. For example, you configured country of origin as an attribute so the projected available balance of an item by country of origin might be needed. Previously, measures for configured attributes had to be configured by your implementation team. With this update, predefined measures, such as projected available balance and safety stock, are available for analysis that takes into consideration the configured attributes used in your plans.

Example of how you can deploy planning attribute dimensions to supply and demand measures like Projected Available Balance in Manage Planning Measures:

Example of analyzing attribute-based plan output with supply and demand measures like Projected Available Balance by project dimension:

Example of analyzing attribute-based plan output with supply and demand measures like Projected Available Balance by configured planning attribute dimensions:

Enable granular identification of planning issues, such as shortages, by taking into consideration configured attributes for calculated measures.

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Supply Chain Planning

When you opt in to use this feature, you must opt in to the feature named: Attribute-Based Planning. Opting in to the Attribute-Based Planning feature also enables the feature described here. If you previously opted in to the Attribute-Based Planning feature, then this feature is automatically enabled.

Enable the Attribute-Based Planning feature as follows:

• In the Offerings work area, select the Supply Chain Planning offering. Click Opt In Features.
• On the Opt In: Supply Chain Planning page, click the Features icon for the Supply Chain Planning offering.
• Enable the Attribute-Based Planning  feature.

After opt in is enabled, perform these steps for analyzing calculated supply and demand Measures using configured attributes:

• Deploy planning attribute dimensions to measures, such as projected available balance, projected on hand, or safety stock, via the Manage Planning Measures task in Supply Planning or Demand and Supply Planning work area

• Create an unconstrained supply plan or demand and supply plan

• Assign dimension catalog with planning attribute dimensions to plan

• Assign measure catalog with planning measures deployed with planning attribute dimensions

• Assign a planning-attribute-based netting rule to the plan

• Run the plan

• Analyze calculated supply and demand measures with planning attributes in plan output

Tips And Considerations

• You need to rerun existing plans with planning attribute dimensions with complete refresh after deploying planning attribute dimensions to new measures.

• In addition to the predefined measures supported for deploying planing attribute dimensions added in prior updates, you can now deploy planning attribute dimensions including project to the following additional measures and analyze attribute-based plan output:
  • Projected Available Balance
  • Projected Available Balance Value
  • Projected On hand
  • Safety Stock
  • Safety Stock Value
  • Average Daily Demand
  • Project Available Balance Days of Cover
  • Safety Stock Days of Cover

Key Resources

• The Analyze Calculated Supply and Demand Measures Using Configured Attributes readiness training available on Oracle Cloud Readiness for Supply Planning.

Role Information

You have a couple options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Monitor Supply Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_SUPPLY_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)   
  • Monitor Demand and Supply Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_DEMAND_AND_SUPPLY_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)

Review Attribute-Based Transfer Recommendations

If your supply plan includes configured attributes and is set up to allow changes to the attribute values on a supply, you will often find it useful to review both the prior and new information for the attributes on the order. Previously, only the recommended attribution was available on the order. For example, if you set aside supplies for a particular demand channel, but in shortage situations the supply is available for higher priority orders, you may now change the supply with the new demand channel information in the system of record. With this update, the new Attribute-Based Transfer Recommendations page enables you to review both the old and new values for the set of attributes on the order. Use this information to fully understand the nature of the transfers before deciding to act on the recommendations.

Example of how you can review recommended transfers for orders for planning attributes, such as project and task, with drill to from the Supplies and Demands view to the Attribute-Based Transfer Recommendations view in Oracle Supply planning:

Example of how you can review recommended transfers for orders for planning attributes like project and task with drill to from a pivot table to Attribute-Based Transfer Recommendations view in supply planning:

Analyze all aspects of transfer recommendations including old and new attribute values prior to releasing the transfer recommendations to execution systems.

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Supply Chain Planning

When you opt in to use this feature, you must opt in to the feature named: Attribute-Based Planning. Opting in to the Attribute-Based Planning feature also enables the feature described here. If you previously opted in to the Attribute-Based Planning feature, then this feature is automatically enabled.

Enable the Attribute-Based Planning feature as follows:

• In the Offerings work area, select the Supply Chain Planning offering. Click Opt In Features.
• On the Opt In: Supply Chain Planning page, click the Features icon for the Supply Chain Planning offering.
• Enable the Attribute-Based Planning  feature.

After opt in is enabled, perform these steps to begin Plan Supplies and Demands

• Create an unconstrained supply plan or demand and supply plan
• Assign a planning-attribute-based netting rule to the plan
• Select planning attributes or project measure context for measure context plan option
• Run the plan

Tips And Considerations

Details displayed in Attribute-Based Transfer Recommendations view are dependent on pegging computed in the Supply Planning.

• Set the value for the Number of Days to Calculate Pegging plan option based on the time buckets until horizon that you would like to view the details in Attribute-Based Transfer Recommendations view. 

• You can retain the default null value for the Number of Days to Calculate Pegging plan option to compute pegging for entire plan horizon to view all the details in Attribute-Based Transfer Recommendations view.

Key Resources

• The Review Attribute-Based Transfer Recommendations readiness training available on Oracle Cloud Readiness for Supply Planning.

Role Information

You have a couple options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Monitor Supply Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_SUPPLY_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)   
  • Monitor Demand and Supply Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_DEMAND_AND_SUPPLY_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)

Project-Driven Supply Chain

Project-Driven Supply Chain is an end-to-end, integrated solution across the Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Management and Oracle Fusion Cloud Project Management applications. This solution is designed to support various business processes of manufacturing and asset-intensive companies.

You can use the Project-Driven Supply Chain solution to manage your supply chain processes in the context of projects without creating separate organizations for each project. You can also capture supply chain costs as project expenditures.

NOTE: Review the Attribute-Based Planning section of this document for additional updates related to project-driven supply chain.

After you opt in to the feature named Project-Driven Supply Chain, you can use the feature described in this section.

Review Transfer Recommendations for Project Supplies

If your supply plan includes configured attributes and is set up to allow changes to the attribute values on a supply, you will often find it useful to review both the prior and new information for the attributes on the order. Previously, only the recommended attribution was available on the order. For example, if you set aside supplies for a particular demand channel, but in shortage situations the supply is available for higher priority orders, you may now change the supply with the new demand channel information in the system of record. With this update, the new Attribute-Based Transfer Recommendations page enables you to review both the old and new values for the set of attributes on the order. Use this information to fully understand the nature of the transfers before deciding to act on the recommendations.

Example of how you can review recommended transfers for orders for planning attributes, such as project and task, with drill to from the Supplies and Demands view to the Attribute-Based Transfer Recommendations view in Oracle Supply planning:

Example of how you can review recommended transfers for orders for planning attributes like project and task with drill to from a pivot table to Attribute-Based Transfer Recommendations view in supply planning:

Analyze all aspects of transfer recommendations for project supplies prior to releasing the transfer recommendations to execution systems.

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Supply Chain Planning

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Enable the Plan Project-Specific Supply feature as follows:

• If your enterprise doesn’t use Oracle Supply Chain Execution Cloud:
  • In the Offerings work area, select the Supply Chain Planning offering. Click Opt In Features.
  • On the Opt In: Supply Chain Planning page, click the Features icon for the Supply Chain Planning offering.
  •  Enable the Project-Driven Supply Chain feature, and then enable the Plan Project-Specific Supply  feature.

• If your enterprise uses Oracle Supply Chain Execution and has already opted in to the Project-Driven Supply Chain feature:
  • In the Offerings work area, select either the Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management offering or the Supply Chain Planning offering. Click Opt In Features.
  • On the Opt In page, click the Features icon for the offering.
  •  Enable the Plan Project-Specific Supply feature.

• If your enterprise uses Oracle Supply Chain Execution and hasn't already opted in to the Project-Driven Supply Chain feature:
  • In the Offerings work area, select either the Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management offering or the Supply Chain Planning offering. Click Opt In Features.
  • On the Opt In page, click the Features icon for the offering.
  • Enable the Project-Driven Supply Chain feature, and then enable the Plan Project-Specific Supply feature.
  • Perform the required setup for the Project-Driven Supply Chain feature. For details, refer to the Project-Driven Supply Chain chapter in the Implementing Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management guide on the Oracle Help Center.
• After opt in is enabled, perform these steps to begin Plan Supplies and Demands
  • Create an unconstrained supply plan or demand and supply plan
  • Assign a planning-attribute-based netting rule to the plan
  • Select planning attributes or project measure context for measure context plan option
  • Run the plan

Tips And Considerations

Details displayed in Attribute-Based Transfer Recommendations view are dependent on pegging computed in the Supply Planning.

• Set the value for the Number of Days to Calculate Pegging plan option based on the time buckets until horizon that you would like to view the details in Attribute-Based Transfer Recommendations view. 

• You can retain the default null value for the Number of Days to Calculate Pegging plan option to compute pegging for entire plan horizon to view all the details in Attribute-Based Transfer Recommendations view.

Key Resources

• The Create Attribute-Based Netting Rules with Valid Associations readiness training available on Oracle Cloud Readiness for Supply Planning.

Role Information

You have a couple options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Monitor Supply Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_SUPPLY_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)   
  • Monitor Demand and Supply Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_DEMAND_AND_SUPPLY_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)

Analyze Calculated Supply and Demand Measures Using Project and Task Identifiers

Calculated measures, such as projected available balance and projected on hand, are critical aspects for analysis of a plan to understand projected shortages or excesses. In a plan using attribute-based netting rules, it’s important to have these calculated measures striped by configured attributes also be available for analysis. For example, you configured country of origin as an attribute so the projected available balance of an item by country of origin might be needed. Previously, measures for configured attributes had to be configured by your implementation team. With this update, predefined measures, such as projected available balance and safety stock, are available for analysis that takes into consideration the configured attributes used in your plans.

Example of how you can deploy planning attribute dimensions to supply and demand measures like Projected Available Balance in Manage Planning Measures:

Example of analyzing attribute-based plan output with supply and demand measures like Projected Available Balance by project dimension:

Example of analyzing attribute-based plan output with supply and demand measures like Projected Available Balance by configured planning attribute dimensions:

Enable granular identification of planning issues, such as shortages, by taking into consideration project group, project, and task for calculated measures.

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Supply Chain Planning

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Enable the Plan Project-Specific Supply feature as follows:

• If your enterprise doesn’t use Oracle Supply Chain Execution Cloud:
  • In the Offerings work area, select the Supply Chain Planning offering. Click Opt In Features.
  • On the Opt In: Supply Chain Planning page, click the Features icon for the Supply Chain Planning offering.
  •  Enable the Project-Driven Supply Chain feature, and then enable the Plan Project-Specific Supply  feature.

• If your enterprise uses Oracle Supply Chain Execution Cloud and has already opted in to the Project-Driven Supply Chain feature:
  • In the Offerings work area, select either the Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management offering or the Supply Chain Planning offering. Click Opt In Features.
  • On the Opt In page, click the Features icon for the offering.
  •  Enable the Plan Project-Specific Supply feature.

• If your enterprise uses Oracle Supply Chain Execution Cloud and hasn't already opted in to the Project-Driven Supply Chain feature:
  • In the Offerings work area, select either the Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management offering or the Supply Chain Planning offering. Click Opt In Features.
  • On the Opt In page, click the Features icon for the offering.
  • Enable the Project-Driven Supply Chain feature, and then enable the Plan Project-Specific Supply feature.
  • Perform the required setup for the Project-Driven Supply Chain feature. For details, refer to the Project-Driven Supply Chain chapter in the Implementing Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management guide on the Oracle Help Center.

• After opt in is enabled, perform these steps for analyzing calculated supply and demand Measures using configured attributes
  • Deploy planning attribute dimensions to measures, such as projected available balance, projected on hand, or safety stock, via the Manage Planning Measures task in Supply Planning or Demand and Supply Planning work area
  • Create an unconstrained supply plan or demand and supply plan
  • Assign dimension catalog with planning attribute dimensions to plan
  • Assign measure catalog with planning measures deployed with planning attribute dimensions
  • Assign a planning-attribute-based netting rule to the plan
  • Run the plan
  • Analyze calculated supply and demand measures with planning attributes in plan output

Tips And Considerations

• You need to rerun existing plans with planning attribute dimensions with complete refresh after deploying planning attribute dimensions to new measures.

• In addition to the predefined measures supported for deploying planing attribute dimensions added in prior updates, you can now deploy planning attribute dimensions including project to the following additional measures and analyze attribute-based plan output:
  • Projected Available Balance
  • Projected Available Balance Value
  • Projected On hand
  • Safety Stock
  • Safety Stock Value
  • Average Daily Demand
  • Project Available Balance Days of Cover
  • Safety Stock Days of Cover

Key Resources

• The Create Attribute-Based Netting Rules with Valid Associations readiness training available on Oracle Cloud Readiness for Supply Planning.

Role Information

You have a couple options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Monitor Supply Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_SUPPLY_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)   
  • Monitor Demand and Supply Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_DEMAND_AND_SUPPLY_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)

Production Scheduling

Generate feasible factory schedules that maximize shop floor throughput and return on investment in resources and labor. You can calculate, manage, and monitor realistic schedules that the shop floor can execute on, while optimizing the usage of critical resources and meeting customer demand on time as best as possible.

After you opt in to the feature named Production Scheduling, you can use the features in this section.

Analyze the Impact of an Item's Supply Shortage on the Schedule

Inventory shortages for an item may occur in a production schedule due to work order cancellations or scrapping of inventory, and then refreshing a schedule without rebalancing supply and demand, such as through a supply plan run. With this update, you can examine which work orders are impacted by such inventory shortages.

In addition to the shortage quantity itself, the On-hand inventory table now displays an item's lead time, when the shortage would be resolved based on this lead time, which corresponds to the schedule horizon start plus the lead time, and when the earliest work order operation that consumes the shortage quantity is scheduled to start. Via the connectivity between the table and the Gantt chart you can quickly see in the Gantt chart which work order operations are pegged to the shortage and are therefore at risk, and where exactly they are scheduled.

On-Hand Inventory Table with Shortage Information and Pegged Operation Highlighting in Gantt Chart

If the dates in the Shortage Resolution On and Earliest Shortage Usage columns are the same, then a potential lateness of a pegged work order might be due to this shortage because the consuming operation couldn't be scheduled before the shortage was resolved. However, there could also be other reasons why a late pegged work order is late, such as capacity or calendar constraints.

Easily analyze the impact of material availability on production schedules. The additional insights help you make informed decisions more efficiently regarding work orders that are pegged to shortages. 

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Supply Chain Planning

Tips And Considerations

When you opt in to use this feature, you must opt in to the feature named: Production Scheduling. Opting in to the Production Scheduling feature also enables the feature described here. If you previously opted in to the Production Scheduling feature, then this feature is automatically enabled.

Key Resources

• The Analyze the Impact of an Item's Supply Shortage on the Schedule readiness training available on Oracle Cloud Readiness for Supply Planning.

Role Information

You have a couple of options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles can access this feature:
  • Production Scheduler (ORA_MSC_PRODUCTION_SCHEDULER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
  • Edit Production Schedule (MSC_EDIT_PRODUCTION_SCHEDULE_PRIV)

View How Sales and Transfer Order Demands Are Satisfied

On the Gantt chart, you can now easily find work orders that are pegged to customer orders and outbound transfer orders. Conversely, you can also filter sales orders and outbound transfer orders in the Demands table view that are directly satisfied by work orders whose operations you select in the Gantt chart.

The Demands table displays key information about sales orders and outbound transfer orders. Using the provided deep links, you can get additional details on sales order and transfer order documents in the respective target pages within Order Management and Inventory Management.  

Demands Table 

While you're selecting a demand in the table, the work order operations that supply product to satisfy the selected demand are highlighted in the Gantt chart.

Demands Table with Highlighting of Directly Pegged Work Order Operations in the Gantt Chart

Vice versa, you can quickly determine which demands are impacted by specific work order operations that are selected in the Gantt chart by activating Filter by Gantt Chart Selection. Only the directly pegged demands are then shown in the table.

Filter Sales Order and Transfer Order Demands from Selected Operations in the Gantt Chart

Improve demand fulfillment by understanding relationships between demands and work orders and making informed schedule changes.

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Supply Chain Planning

Tips And Considerations

When you opt in to use this feature, you must opt in to the feature named: Production Scheduling. Opting in to the Production Scheduling feature also enables the feature described here. If you previously opted in to the Production Scheduling feature, then this feature is automatically enabled.

Key Resources

• The View How Sales and Transfer Order Demands Are Satisfied readiness training available on Oracle Cloud Readiness for Supply Planning.

Role Information

You have a couple of options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles can access this feature:
  • Production Scheduler (ORA_MSC_PRODUCTION_SCHEDULER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
  • Edit Production Schedule (MSC_EDIT_PRODUCTION_SCHEDULE_PRIV)

Configure Gantt Chart View

Use the new Default Display Horizon in Days schedule option to configure the initial Gantt chart to a specific horizon, focusing on the more relevant, earlier portion of the schedule. After initial load, you can still zoom out to a larger horizon to see more of the complete schedule.

Schedule View Settings

Use the zoom controls and horizontal scrollbar to view other portions of the schedule as needed.

Zoom Controls

  

Improve productivity by focusing on the near-term horizon to generate and release schedules that will be imminently executed.

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Supply Chain Planning

Tips And Considerations

When you opt in to use this feature, you must opt in to the feature named: Production Scheduling. Opting in to the Production Scheduling feature also enables the feature described here. If you previously opted in to the Production Scheduling feature, then this feature is automatically enabled.

Key Resources

• The Configure Gantt Chart View readiness training available on Oracle Cloud Readiness for Supply Chain Planning.

Role Information

You have a couple of options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles can access this feature:
  • Production Scheduler (ORA_MSC_PRODUCTION_SCHEDULER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
  • Edit Production Schedule (MSC_EDIT_PRODUCTION_SCHEDULE_PRIV)

Retain Work Order Status When Schedule Is Published

Currently, Oracle Production Scheduling releases all scheduled work orders for execution. With the new Retain current work order status option, you can determine whether the current status of work orders will remain unchanged after schedule generation and publish.

Specify the Release Status Setting Option As Needed for Your Business Rules

When sending the schedule to Oracle Fusion Cloud Manufacturing, the work order status will be set appropriately at that time:

• If the Retain current work order status option is selected, then the work order status remains as it was at time of schedule refresh
• if the Mark work orders as released option is selected, then the work order status will be set to released.

Efficiently manage how you release work orders for work execution.

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Supply Chain Planning

Tips And Considerations

When you opt in to use this feature, you must opt in to the feature named: Production Scheduling. Opting in to the Production Scheduling feature also enables the feature described here. If you previously opted in to the Production Scheduling feature, then this feature is automatically enabled.

Key Resources

• The Retain Work Order Status When Schedule Is Published readiness training available on Oracle Cloud Readiness for Supply Planning.

Role Information

You have a couple of options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles can access this feature:
  • Production Scheduler (ORA_MSC_PRODUCTION_SCHEDULER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
  • Edit Production Schedule (MSC_EDIT_PRODUCTION_SCHEDULE_PRIV)

Plan Work Orders for Items with Undercompletion Tolerance

In some manufacturing environments, a production operator may complete work orders even if the quantity output from the manufacturing process is less than the original intent. In Oracle Fusion Cloud Manufacturing, with this update, you can specify an undercompletion tolerance that allows for completion transactions on work orders when this situation is encountered. Completed work orders, including undercompleted work orders, aren’t brought into Oracle Production Scheduling because they aren’t eligible to be scheduled anymore. These completed work orders are indirectly considered via the on-hand quantities resulting from the work order completion.

Plan accurately for work orders with undercompletion tolerances.

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Supply Chain Planning

Tips And Considerations

When you opt in to use this feature, you must opt in to the feature named: Production Scheduling. Opting in to the Production Scheduling feature also enables the feature described here. If you previously opted in to the Production Scheduling feature, then this feature is automatically enabled.

Key Resources

• The Plan Work Orders for Items with Undercompletion Tolerance readiness training available on Oracle Cloud Readiness for Supply Planning.

Role Information

You have a couple of options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles can access this feature:
  • Production Scheduler (ORA_MSC_PRODUCTION_SCHEDULER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
  • Edit Production Schedule (MSC_EDIT_PRODUCTION_SCHEDULE_PRIV)

Backlog Management

Reschedule your order backlog by prioritizing orders based on flexible demand priority rules. You can simulate the effect of different rules to find the best combination of scheduled dates and sources based upon the latest supply information, and release the updated orders to order management systems for execution.

After you opt in to the feature named Order Backlog Management, you can use the features described in this section.

Delay the Availability of On-Hold Lots During Rescheduling

In a variety of industries, such as consumer goods or pharmaceuticals, newly transacted inventory needs to complete an inspection process or physically mature before being considered shippable to a customer. Your enterprise typically places these lots on-hold until quality management personnel release them. The release date of a lot may change depending on the actual length of the inspection or maturity process.

To prevent on-hold lots from being scheduled for shipment prematurely, backlog management will now use the hold-until date for a lot as its availability date.

Example of a Hold Date in the Supplies and Demand Table in Plan Inputs Work Area

Provide more feasible fulfillment dates for material that requires inspection or maturity before it can be shipped.

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Supply Chain Planning

Tips And Considerations

When you opt in to use this feature, you must opt in to the feature named: Order Backlog Management. Opting in to the Order Backlog Management feature also enables the feature described here. If you previously opted in to the Order Backlog Management feature, then this feature is automatically enabled.

Additional Tips and Considerations:

• The hold date on an inventory lot affects when the lot will be available for downstream use by Backlog Management planning.

• Inventory managers need to ensure hold dates on inventory lots are correct.

• Inventory lots for an item for which an allocation rule has been defined and with a future hold date, meaning the hold date is after the plan start date, are included in the Total weekly supply measure in Allocation Workbench in the appropriate weekly bucket.

• After the hold date is passed, inventory lots are part of the on hand.

Key Resources

• The Delay the Availability of On-Hold Lots During Rescheduling readiness training available on Oracle Cloud Readiness for Supply Planning.

Role Information

You have a couple of options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned this predefined job role are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Backlog Manager (ORA_MSC_BACKLOG_MANAGER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privilege are able to access this feature:
  • Monitor Backlog Management Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_BACKLOG_MANAGEMENT_WORK_AREA_PRIV)

Review Line-Specific Errors for a Shipment Set or Arrival Set

Shipment sets and arrival sets are groups of order lines that must ship from the same location on the same date or arrive at the same location on the same date, respectively. Rescheduling operations treat each shipment set or arrival set as a unit, represented by a single row in the Backlog Analysis UI. Nevertheless, any individual line within the set may have configuration or data integrity problems that cause rescheduling to fail for the entire shipment set or arrival set. To make it easier for you to determine the source of the problem, Order Backlog Management provides additional details to indicate the line number within the shipment set or arrival set that caused the rescheduling error.

The Backlog Analysis UI Showing the Set-Level Error Text (Supply Chain Planning > Backlog Management > Backlog Analysis)

The Backlog Analysis UI Showing the Line-Level Error Text in the Manage Set UI (Supply Chain Planning > Backlog Management > Backlog Analysis > Manage Set)

Diagnose and resolve rescheduling errors faster using additional line number details in shipment set and arrival set rescheduling error messages.

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Supply Chain Planning

Tips And Considerations

When you opt in to use this feature, you must opt in to the feature named: Order Backlog Management. Opting in to the Order Backlog Management feature also enables the feature described here. If you previously opted in to the Order Backlog Management feature, then this feature is automatically enabled.

Additional Tips and Considerations:

• You'll see a general error in a set header if one or more order lines in a shipment set or arrival set have an error. Use the Manage Set action to open the set to see detailed error text specific to order lines in the set.

• You can readily determine which order lines in the set are causing errors in the Manage Set UI. For each line subject to an error, you can review error text specific to the error.

• You can also use the demands REST resource to search for all demands by specific error text or reason code. The error text provided through the REST service is the same error text that's used in the Backlog Analysis UI.

Key Resources

• The Review Line-Specific Errors for a Shipment Set or Arrival Set readiness training available on Oracle Cloud Readiness for Supply Planning.

Role Information

You have a couple of options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned this predefined job role are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Backlog Manager (ORA_MSC_BACKLOG_MANAGER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privilege are able to access this feature:
  • Monitor Backlog Management Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_BACKLOG_MANAGEMENT_WORK_AREA_PRIV)

Update Simulation Attributes in Bulk for Backlog Management

You can select groups of lines and set simulation attributes for them through the Order Backlog Management user interface (UI). However, if you manage thousands of open order lines at a time, completing this volume of updates through the UI may not be viable. Making mass changes programmatically can also be faster and less error prone. With this update, you can call the demands REST API to set the Enforce Current Commit and Pull In indicators for many order lines in a single request.

Spend less time managing your backlog by calling a web service that updates line-level simulation attributes in bulk.

Steps to Enable

Review the REST service definition in the REST API guides, available from the Oracle Help Center > your apps service area of interest > REST API. If you're new to Oracle's REST services you may want to begin with the Quick Start section.

This REST service is delivered to support the Backlog Management feature, which requires opt in. You must opt in to the Order Backlog Management feature in the Supply Chain Planning offering to successfully perform the REST operations described here.

Tips And Considerations

• The unique identifier of demand is Demand Id and is used for getting one demand line and also updating the same demand line via REST.

• You need to encode the demands required for bulk update.

• You need to add the encoded data to the UpdateAsync field and run the Post command for the resource demands.

• The attributes that you can update using bulk update via REST are Pull-In and Enforce Current Commit.

• The following combinations can be used to update the Enforce Current Commit and Pull-In attributes: Demand Id, Item, Organization, Item and Organization.

• Only one of the preceding combinations needs to be used per REST bulk upload request, for example update Enforce Current Commit and Pull-In attributes for several Demand Ids via REST.

• You can have multiple attribute combinations for Item and Organization in multiple blocks, but with same attributes in all blocks.

Key Resources

• The Update Simulation Attributes in Bulk for Backlog Management readiness training available on Oracle Cloud Readiness for Supply Planning.

Role Information

You have a couple of options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned this predefined job role are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Backlog Manager (ORA_MSC_BACKLOG_MANAGER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privilege are able to access this feature:
  • Monitor Backlog Management Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_BACKLOG_MANAGEMENT_WORK_AREA_PRIV)