This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:
| Date | Module | Feature | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 FEB 2023 | Supply Planning | Improve Performance When Refreshing Measure Data Collected at an Aggregate Level | Updated document. Added feature. |
| 02 DEC 2022 | Created initial document. |
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Improve Supply Tracking for Sales Orders in Your Back-to-Back Flows
Keep up-to-date with the latest changes in supply and manage supply requests in your back-to-back flow even when you ship only part of the order line.
Assume only some of the quantity for your order line is available to ship, so Order Management splits the order line into two fulfillment lines, fulfillment line x and fulfillment line y. Line x has the quantity that is available to ship. Line y has the quantity that isn't yet available to ship.
If you enable this feature, then Supply Chain Orchestration doesn't close the supply order when Oracle Shipping ships line x. Instead, Orchestration keeps the supply order open until Shipping also ships line y, or until Oracle Order Management cancels the request. Orchestration continues to orchestrate changes in demand and supply for line y as long as the supply order remains open.
Realize these benefits:
- Save time and work more efficiently. You don't have to manually create a new line for supply that isn't yet available. Supply Chain Orchestration will automatically create new supply for you.
- Track how much supply you have used even when Shipping has shipped only line x.
- Get timely updates so you can accurately track the progress that Orchestration is making to create supply for line y.
- Reduce or eliminate supply disruptions for line y. Orchestration will automatically update supply so it has the latest details for your line.
- Modify line y, and Orchestration will manage that change in your purchasing, inventory, or manufacturing organization.
- Manage an interruption to supply on line y in the same way that you do when you haven't partially shipped the line.
- Manage supply recommendations even when you have partially shipped one or more of them.
- Manage any number of shipments.
- Track each partial or full cancellation.
Watch a Demo.
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: Order Management No Longer Optional From: Update 23C
Tips And Considerations
Consider these guidelines:
- If you need to take action on line y, then you must first use the Unschedule action on line y, and then use the Schedule action on line y. Orchestration will then create a new a supply order for the quantity on line y. For details, see Schedule Fulfillment Lines Manually.
- If you modify the warehouse or the item on line y, then Orchestration will cancel the supply order and make that supply available to other demand. It will also cancel any new supply that it's currently creating for line y. Orchestration will do this even if you enable the Defer Online Processing of Inventory Updates shipping parameter for the warehouse.
- If you enable the Defer Online Processing of Inventory Updates shipping parameter for the warehouse, then Supply Chain Orchestration won't use the Improve Supply Tracking for Sales Orders in Your Back-to-Back Flows feature for that warehouse.
- The split behavior in Order Management doesn't affect your purchase orders, work orders, or transfer orders.
Use This Feature with Other Features
You can enable only the Improve Supply Tracking for Sales Orders in Your Back-to-Back Flows feature, or you can also enable the Order Management's Update Attributes On Split Order Lines For Partial Shipments feature.
| Features That You Enable | Description |
|---|---|
| Enable only the Improve Supply Tracking for Sales Orders in Your Back-to-Back Flows feature. |
Orchestration keeps the supply order open, and it will track supply for line y until Shipping ships line y. You can modify the scheduled ship date or warehouse on line y, and Orchestration will automatically update supply so it has the latest details for line y. You can't modify the quantity on line y after Shipping ships line x. |
| Enable both features. | You can modify the quantity, scheduled ship date, or warehouse on line y even after Shipping ships line x. Order Management will use your revised values to fulfill the line and Orchestration will automatically update supply so it has the latest details for the line. If you enable the Update Attributes on Split Order Lines for Partial Shipments feature, then you also automatically enable the Improve Supply Tracking for Sales Orders in Your Back-to-Back Flows feature. For details, see Update Attributes on Split Order Lines for Partial Shipments. |
| Don't enable either feature. |
Orchestration will close the supply order as soon as Shipping ships any part of the order line, and Orchestration won't track any other modifications that you make on the line. You can't modify the quantity on line y after Shipping ships line x. |
Key Resources
- Watch Improve Supply Tracking for Sales Orders in your Back-to-Back Flows Readiness Training
- Implementing Order Management
- Using Supply Chain Orchestration
Role And Privileges
- Supply Chain Operations Manager (ORA_DOS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_OPERATIONS_MANAGER_JOB)
Selected Supply Chain Orchestration Bug Fixes in This Update
This update includes some bug fixes that can change the way Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration works. This isn't a full list of all the bug fixes in this update. This list includes the bug fixes that can cause a noticeable change in application behavior.
Display Your Own Work Order Status
The Supply Chain Orchestration work area displayed only predefined statuses prior to update 23A. For example, assume you created your own status named MyStatus. The work area displayed one of the predefined statuses even if the work order's run time status was MyStatus. With this update, the work area will display MyStatus.
Oracle reference: 34543645
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Search for Measure-Based Exceptions Using Additional Criteria
You can now search for measure-based exceptions by filtering on planners and item categories that are of interest to you. These filters are in addition to the attributes previously available for search. With these additions, you can manage the plans for your enterprise by focusing on the exceptions that matter the most to you.
For example, you can now filter measure-based exceptions using the fields highlighted in the following screenshot.
Watch a Demo.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Tips And Considerations
If a measure-based exception was created at the Category level, then the catalog selected for the Hierarchy field will be considered for that specific measure. On the Exceptions page, categories specific to that catalog will appear.
Key Resources
Role And Privileges
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)
- Demand and Supply Planner (ORA_MSC_DEMAND_AND_SUPPLY_PLANNER_JOB)
- Demand Planner (ORA_MSC_DEMAND_PLANNER_JOB)
- Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNER_JOB)
- Sales and Operations Planner (ORA_MSC_SALES_AND_OPERATIONS_PLANNER_JOB)
- Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_JOB) role is common for all the above work area
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There's no change to existing privileges needed to take advantage of this feature. If a user has access to the Exceptions tab, then the user will see the new fields for filtering.
Hover on a Value in a Pivot Table to Display Measure Description
With this update, your planner productivity is enhanced by the ability to display measure descriptions in planning tables with no clicks. When the intent of a particular measure isn’t clear to you, you can hover over the measure to see the associated description for the measure.
Example of the description for the Net Forecast measure appearing as a result of hovering over the measure in the Material Plan table.
This feature is available for any predefined or user-defined pivot table that is configured using the selector tool. This feature is also available in the Build Plan.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Role And Privileges
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)
- Demand Planner (ORA_MSC_DEMAND_PLANNER_JOB)
- Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNER_JOB)
- Sales and Operations Planner (ORA_MSC_SALES_AND_OPERATIONS_PLANNER_JOB)
- Users will need one of the following privileges in planning to access this feature:
- View Planning Tables (MSC_VIEW_PLANNING_TABLES_PRIV)
- Maintain Planning Tables (MSC_MAINTAIN_PLANNING_TABLES_PRIV)
Use Supplier Sites Codes That Are Up to 240 Characters
Supplier site codes are typically a short alphanumeric character set. However, in some business situations, it may be useful to have a longer site code to improve readability. In this update, the maximum length of the supplier site code has been increased to 240 characters in conjunction with the same capability in Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement. This change is applicable for both Oracle Fusion source systems and external source systems for which you can collect supplier site codes up to the new maximum using the Oracle file-based data import (FBDI) template for Supply Chain Planning Suppliers (ScpSupplierImportTemplate.xlsm.)
Here's an example of the Supply Network Model page showing supplier sites for Big Computers. Two of the sites have a supplier site code longer than 30 characters, which was the maximum supported by planning in previous updates.
Depending on the width of the column, the data may be truncated, in which case the ellipses are displayed. If you hover over the field, the full supplier site code is displayed in the hover text.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Tips And Considerations
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Whether a longer supplier site code can be entered in Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement is controlled through an opt in feature named Create Supplier Sites with Longer Names.
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Planning collects the full supplier site codes (up to 240 characters) that have been saved to the Oracle Fusion database regardless of whether the opt-in feature noted in the preceding bullet is enabled or not.
Role And Privileges
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)
- Demand Planner (ORA_MSC_DEMAND_PLANNER_JOB)
- Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNER_JOB)
- Sales and Operations Planner (ORA_MSC_SALES_AND_OPERATIONS_PLANNER_JOB)
- Backlog Manager (ORA_MSC_BACKLOG_MANAGER_JOB)
- Order Promising Manager (ORA_MSC_ORDER_PROMISING_MANAGER_JOB)
- There's no change to existing privileges needed to take advantage of this feature. If a user has access to a page that displays supplier site code, then the user will see the longer value for a supplier site code after it's collected into planning.
Plan Supplies for Forecasts That Are Based on Hybrid Calendars
Hybrid calendars enable you to plan for demand at a weekly level while still being able to aggregate up to a calendar month. With this update, you can use the forecast in a demand plan generated using hybrid calendars in a supply plan. Also, for a demand schedule in a supply plan, you can use forecasts generated in a demand plan that uses hybrid calendars.
Example of how you can select hybrid calendars and associated level in plan options for planning supplies for forecasts that are based on hybrid calendars in Oracle Supply Planning:
Example of forecast from a demand plan with hybrid calendar planned in a supply plan:
Watch a Demo.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Tips And Considerations
- List of values displaying hybrid calendars for time dimension in the Measure Levels window in supply plan options will be enabled only when a demand plan with hybrid calendar as planning calendar is selected as demand schedule.
- List of Hybrid calendars displayed in the Measure Levels window in supply plan options will be those which are related to the hybrid calendar selected as planning calendar for the demand plan assigned as demand schedule to the supply plan.
- Supply plan options enables selecting a Manufacturing hybrid calendar in measure level for a demand plan for planning supplies for demand plan forecasts whose planning calendar is a Gregorian hybrid calendar.
Key Resources
Role And Privileges
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)
Comparisons of plan to actuals is a keystone of the effectiveness of a plan. Previously, you could archive plan data using Oracle Supply Planning, but you couldn’t view the data for time periods in the past. When trying to understand the effectiveness of a plan, it’s critical to understand data, such as the recommended volumes for production, including for time periods in the past. With this update, the data for archived measures, including data for past time buckets, is now available for analysis.
Example of Past Time Periods Visible in the Planning View
The preceding illustration shows the conventional table view of a plan with the first time period being the plan start run date. With this update, as shown in the following illustration, past days are now also visible in the view, along with their respective measure values.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Key Resources
Role And Privileges
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:
- Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
- Supply Chain Planning Application Administrator (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNING_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)
- Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNER_JOB)
- Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_JOB)
- Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains this privilege can access this feature:
- MSC_VIEW_PLANNING_TABLES_PRIV
- MSC_MAINTAIN_PLANNING_TABLES_PRIV
- MSC_MANAGE_PLANNING_GRAPHS_PRIV
- MSC_EDIT_PLAN_OPTIONS_PRIV
Configure the Display of Your Build Plan with Additional Criteria
The Build Plan UI enables you to flexibly analyze the plan down the entire supply chain. Previously, you could configure the build plan for a particular end assembly item and the components and resources that were of interest. With this update, you can use additional configuration capabilities to pinpoint supply chain issues and opportunities by constructing your build plan to efficiently analyze the data of most interest to you. You can:
- Configure the number of time buckets to display.
- Configure reusable rules to display the components related to the selected top-level assembly. For example, you can configure your build plan to display the critical components for any end item that you want to analyze.
- Display any measure that conforms to the required dimensions for display in a build plan including configured measures.
Build Plan Layout
The Manage Layouts dialog box has been enhanced to enable you to specify the number of time buckets, from plan start date, that is displayed when the layout is selected. For example, you may be interested in seeing build plan results for only the first 6 weeks of the plan. By only displaying a portion of the plan horizon, the time that it takes to display the results is reduced.
In addition, you can select any predefined or user-defined measure that conforms to the required dimensions. Previously, only a predetermined number of predefined measures were available to be included in the build plan. Now, for example, you can create a user-defined measure that conforms to the product, organization, and time dimension and select that measure for inclusion in the build plan. Because of the increase in the number of measures available for selection, we've added a search field to enable you to find the desired measure quickly.
Build Plan Rules
With this update, you can choose whether to configure your build plan as you have done in the past, or you can create build plan rules that determine which child items are displayed in the build plan. A rule is applied at the moment you select it. For example, when you select a rule that shows only component items with a shortage, that rule is dynamically evaluated based on the latest plan output and only component items that currently have a shortage are displayed.
If you select a build plan criteria that includes the component items to be displayed, and then you select a rule, the build plan rule will override the criteria in determining which child nodes are displayed.
Build plan rules enable you to specify which child items to display. In this update, you can't configure rules for which supplier items or resources are displayed. You can configure rules based on selected item attributes, product category, or segment. If a rule has multiple criteria, for example where critical component is yes, and category is tablets, then both conditions must be met to be included in the build plan results. In the example below, the rule is configured to include components at all levels down in the item structure that belong to a specific category and are considered a critical component.
In the Manage Rules dialog box you can specify a default rule that is automatically applied when drilling into the build plan from another table or graph. This enables you to see the build plan results when using the drill to action without having to make any additional selections. If you open build plan in standalone mode, then you will need to select or create a criteria, before you can apply a rule. The Default Rule for Drill To check box is a user preference, meaning each planner can specify a different default, however only one default is allowed per planner.
Watch a Demo.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Tips And Considerations
- Specify the Number of Time Buckets to display in your build plan layout to improve performance by displaying only the portion of the plan horizon that is of interest.
- When a build plan criteria is already selected, selecting a rule will override the criteria to determine what child items are displayed.
- Leverage segmentation capabilities in Supply Planning to group item and organization combinations into segments for inclusion in build plan.
Key Resources
- Watch Configure the Display of your Build Plan with Additional Criteria Readiness Training
- Refer to the readiness training for the Analyze a Plan by Segment feature (22C) for more information on how to use segmentation in Supply Planning.
Role And Privileges
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)
- Users will need one of the following privileges in planning to access this feature:
- View Planning Items (MSC_VIEW_PLANNING_ITEMS_PRIV)
- Edit Planning Items (MSC_EDIT_PLANNING_ITEMS_PRIV)
Receive Detailed Responses When You Call the Planning Table Data REST Service
When you’re using the Planning Table Data REST service for large volumes of data, it’s likely that some of the rows of data being uploaded have errors. Typically, these errors require some human intervention to analyze the cause of the errors and then upload the corrected data. This update enables faster analysis by pinpointing the data rows that have errors and the cause for the errors.
Here's an example of the detailed responses received after the POST operation performed by the Planning Table Data REST Service.
In this example of the POST operation, one of the highlighted member combinations, abcd-KB-CSP-COND-VALVE, in the payload isn't valid. After the POST operation is completed, planning returns a message that provides information on the invalid combination that couldn't be found in the planning table data and informs the user to investigate further by reviewing the application log
Example of POST payload:
{
"TableHierarchies": "Product,Enterprise,APS Calendar,APS Calendar",
"TableDataHeader": "Item,Organization,Period,Week,Net Forecast,Manual Demand, Planned Orders",
"TableData": "abcd-KB-CSP-COND-VALVE,M3,12/10/29,12/31/29,11,0,0,1,1,1\r\nKB-CSP-COND-VALVE,M3,01/07/30,01/07/30,2,3,4\r\n"
}
2 combination points : abcd-KB-CSP-COND-VALVE,M3,12/10/29,12/31/29,11,0,0,1,1,1\r\n KB-CSP-COND-VALVE,M3,01/07/30,01/07/30,2,3,4\r\n
Message returned by POST operation:
"Message": "The service was completed. Refer to message details for diagnostic information.
(MSC-2806429)<br> Payload Combination Points = 2, Parsed Combination Points = 1, No Value Points = 0, Same Value Points = 0, Found Points = 3.
For more details check the application log at the ServiceServer_1 service server.",
Payload Combination Points = 2 - 2 combination points in payload
Parsed Combination Points = 1 - after validation, only 1 combination point is found in table data
....
To know exactly which combination point is invalid Log should be enabled at SEVERE level and check the application log at the ServiceServer_1
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 23C
Key Resources
- Watch Receive Detailed Responses when you Call the Planning Table Data REST Service Readiness Training
Role And Privileges
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:
- Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
- Supply Chain Planning Application Administrator (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNING_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)
- Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNER_JOB)
- Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_JOB)
- Order Promising Manager (ORA_MSC_ORDER_PROMISING_MANAGER_JOB)
- Sales & Operations Planner (ORA_MSC_SALES_AND_OPERATIONS_PLANNER_JOB)
- Demand Planner (ORA_MSC_DEMAND_PLANNER_JOB)
- Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains this privilege can access this feature:
- No new privileges are required for this feature to be used. Users who are assigned the Maintain Planning Tables privilege (MSC_MAINTAIN_PLANNING_TABLES) are automatically able to access this feature.
Improve Performance When Refreshing Measure Data Collected at an Aggregate Level
You can load data for stored measures in Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Planning at an aggregate level using the Supply Chain Planning Measures file-based data import (FBDI) template. For example, if a measure is configured with the stored dimension levels of Item, Organization, Customer Site, Demand Class, and Day, then you can load data for this measure either at these stored levels or at aggregate levels that are parents of these stored levels, such as product category, business unit, customer, demand class, and month.
Measure data that's collected at an aggregate level is disaggregated to the stored levels during the data refresh step in a plan run and when you incrementally refresh a plan after loading new measure data.
The process that disaggregates measure data is single-threaded. Consequently, long processing times can result when there's a large volume of measure data to disaggregate.
With this 23A update, you can reduce the run time by configuring disaggregation to run as a multithreaded process. In this case, the disaggregate measure process runs in parallel for different time ranges within the time range for the collected data.
When run as a multithreaded process, the disaggregate measure process groups the collected data into 90-day increments by default and processes each increment in parallel. For example, if you've collected measure data at an aggregate level for the past year (365 days), then the process runs five disaggregation jobs in parallel with four jobs each processing 90 days of data and the fifth job processing the remaining five days of data.
Steps to Enable
To enable multithreading for the process that disaggregates data for all plans in your work area, follow these steps:
- In the Demand Management, Demand and Supply Planning, Plan Inputs, Planning Central, Replenishment Planning, Sales and Operations Planning or Supply Planning work area, go to the Manage Planning Profile Options task.
- On the Manage Planning Profile Options page, search for the SCP_PARAMETER_OVERRIDES profile option code.
- If the SCP_PARAMETER_OVERRIDES profile option exists, then add a profile value as follows:
- Profile Level: Select Site to set the value globally for all users. Select User to set the value for a specific user, in which case you must then select a user. User-level values take precedence over the site-level value.
- Profile Value: Enter enableParallelDisaggMeasure=true. You can enter multiple profile values for a profile level provided you separate them with spaces.
- If the SCP_PARAMETER_OVERRIDES profile option doesn't exist, then follow these steps:
- In the Setup and Maintenance work area, search for and select the Manage Profile Options task.
- Create the profile option as follows:
- Profile Option Code: SCP_PARAMETER_OVERRIDES
- Profile Display Name: SCP_PARAMETER_OVERRIDES
- Application: Planning Common
- Module: Planning Common
- Start Date: current date
- Leave the remaining fields blank.
- Save the profile option.
- For the profile option levels, select the check boxes under the Enabled and Updatable columns for both the Site and User levels.
- Save the profile option.
- In the Demand Management, Demand and Supply Planning, Plan Inputs, Planning Central, Replenishment Planning, Sales and Operations Planning or Supply Planning work area, go to the Manage Planning Profile Options task.
- On the Manage Planning Profile Options page, search for the SCP_PARAMETER_OVERRIDES profile option code.
- Set the profile value as previously explained.
For more information, see the topics titled Set Profile Option Values and Create and Edit Profile Options.
To enable multithreading for the process that disaggregates data in a single plan that's enabled for demand forecasting, follow these steps:
- In the Demand Management, Demand and Supply Planning, Replenishment Planning, or Sales and Operations Planning work area, on the Plan Options page for the plan, click the Demand tab.
- Click the Select Advanced Options button.
- In the Demand: Advanced Options dialog box, in Forecasting Control Parameters, in the Parameter Overrides field, enter enableParallelDisaggMeasure=true. You can enter multiple values in the Parameter Overrides field provided you separate them with the number sign (#).
You can override the default of 90 days after you've enabled multithreading for the process that disaggregates data. To override the default for the multithreaded process, follow these steps:
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In the Setup and Maintenance work area, search for and select the Manage Profile Options task.
- Create a profile option as follows:
- Profile Option Code: MSC_DISAGG_PERF_BATCH_SIZE
- Profile Display Name: MSC_DISAGG_PERF_BATCH_SIZE
- Application: Planning Common
- Module: Planning Common
- Start Date: current date
- Leave the remaining fields blank.
- Save the profile option.
- For the profile option levels, select the check boxes under the Enabled and Updatable columns for both the Site and User levels.
- Save the profile option.
- In the Demand Management, Demand and Supply Planning, Plan Inputs, Planning Central, Replenishment Planning, Sales and Operations Planning or Supply Planning work area, go to the Manage Planning Profile Options task.
- On the Manage Planning Profile Options page, search for the MSC_DISAGG_PERF_BATCH_SIZE profile option code.
- Set the profile value as follows:
- Profile Level: Select Site to set the value globally for all users. Select User to set the value for a specific user, in which case you must then select a user. User-level values take precedence over the site-level value.
- Profile Value: Enter the number of days for processing in each parallel job. You can enter multiple profile values for a profile level provided you separate them with spaces.
You may need to work with someone who has administration privileges to make these profile-related changes.
Role And Privileges
There are no new roles or security privileges needed to access this enhancement. Users who currently have access to run plans will automatically be able to use this feature.
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:
- Demand Planner (ORA_MSC_DEMAND_PLANNER_JOB)
- Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
- Supply Chain Planning Application Administrator (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNING_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)
- Supply Chain Application Administrator (ORA_RCS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)
- Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privilege are able to access this feature:
- Run Plan with Snapshot (MSC_RUN_PLAN_WITH_SNAPSHOT_PRIV)
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 feature described in this section.
Manage User-Defined Text Attributes on Supply and Demand Entities
When you release planned orders for execution, you might want to communicate additional instructions to the personnel that execute the planned order. For example, you might want to type some free-form text to the buyer using the Note to Buyer attribute. This update enables you to enter free-form text on such attributes, including descriptive and extensible flexfields, and release it for execution.
Note: This feature is available for all supply plan types, not just those enabled for attribute-based planning.
Example of how you can define new planning attributes that support user-defined text for supply and demand entities:
Example of how you can map additional standard columns, such as Note to Buyer for purchase requisition, to collect and release user-entered text for user-defined planning attributes from SCM Cloud:
Example of how you can release buy planned orders with user-entered text from Supply Planning to create a purchase requisition with user-entered text details available in Note to Buyer in Procurement Cloud:
Watch a Demo.
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
If you want to use the Manage User-Defined Text Attributes on Supply and Demand Entities feature, then you must opt in to its parent feature: Attribute-Based Planning. If you’ve already opted in to this parent feature, then you don’t have to opt in again.
After opt in is enabled, perform these steps to begin planning supplies and demands:
- Create user-defined planning attributes with planning attribute type display and enable Allow user-entered attribute value.
- Create mapping for standard and flexfield columns for supply and demand entities for collecting and releasing user-entered text for user-defined planning attributes to SCM Cloud.
- Define service mapping for purchase requisition lines in Supply Chain Orchestration for releasing and mapping attribute values to Note to Buyer, Note to Receiver, and Note to Supplier from Supply Planning.
- Collect supplies and demands with user-entered attribute values from SCM Cloud and external source systems.
- Create a supply plan.
- Run your plan.
- Enter user-entered text for user-defined planning attribute values for planned orders and release to SCM Cloud or external source systems.
Tips And Considerations
- A display planning attribute enabled for Allow user-entered attribute value will always have its data type as character.
- Attribute values using value set of SCPPlanningAttributeValues.xlsm can't be used for display planning attributes enabled with Allow user-entered attribute value.
- Display planning attributes enabled with Allow user-entered attribute value support a maximum of 100 characters for collection and release of user-entered text from SCM Cloud and external source systems.
- Note to Buyer, Note to Receiver, Note to Supplier standard column mapping requires release override columns to allow release of user-entered text for buy planned orders to SCM Cloud using Supply Chain Orchestration Manage Service Mappings configuration for purchase requisition lines.
Key Resources
Role And Privileges
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)
Create and run supply plans that consider material and capacity constraints. Focus on meeting demand on time by evaluating all possible alternatives, such as using different sources, substitute components, or alternative work definitions.
After you opt in to the feature named Constraint-Based Planning, you can use the features described in this section.
Fill Demand with Supplies Only Within a User-Specified Time Window
In a variety of industries, such as fast-moving consumer goods, if you can’t satisfy the demand on the date requested, then you can’t add it to the backlog to be fulfilled late. This requirement is sometimes referred to as fill or kill to allude to the fact that you reduce the order quantity to only the quantity that can be fulfilled on time and the remaining demand quantity won’t be filled.
This update provides support for this business requirement with additional flexibility to specify the maximum number of days an order can be late. Any quantity remaining to be fulfilled even after this window will be unmet. Unmet quantity in the supplies and demands page can be queried to obtain all demands that include sales orders, forecasts, and manual demands where the order quantity couldn’t be fulfilled in full within the time window. With this new feature you can improve customer satisfaction by providing supplies for the most crucial demands.
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
If you want to use the Fill Demand with Supplies Only Within a User-Specified Window feature, then you must opt in to these two features:
- Constraint-Based Planning. If you’ve already opted in to Constraint-Based Planning, then you don’t have to opt in again
- Fill Demand with Supplies Only Within a User-Specified Window
After opt in is enabled, you must select a specific plan option for each plan to use this feature:
- Select one or more order types for the Applies-to Order Types plan option
Tips And Considerations
This feature is supported for only Constrained Supply Planning.
Constrained Supply Planning doesn't support All or Nothing demand fulfillment.
Planning may partially satisfy demand regardless of the source value for the Allow Partial Shipments of Lines field in Oracle Order Management.
Key Resources
Role And Privileges
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 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)
- Edit Plan Options (MSC_EDIT_PLAN_OPTIONS_PRIV)
- Edit Data in Planning Tables (MSC_EDIT_DATA_IN_PLANNING_TABLES_PRIV)
Reschedule Supply Orders with Component Reservations
When you reserve inventory to a supply, Oracle Supply Planning in the constrained mode previously treated the supply order (a work order or transfer order) as firmed supply meaning the planning system wouldn’t attempt to reschedule the supply order. In some scenarios, it’s desirable to reschedule the supply order to better align to the demand even if there are reservations.
With this update, you have the flexibility to have Supply Planning reschedule the reserved supply. For example, if you have a work order where an on-hand lot of a component is reserved to the work order, the planning system has the flexibility to reschedule the work order to align to demand better. Previously, the work order was treated as firm supply.
In other words, constrained supply planning won't firm a supply order if its dependent demand is reserved to on-hand. If the dependent demand is reserved to any other supply than on-hand, then the supply order will still be considered as firm.
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
If you want to use the Reschedule Supply Orders with Component Reservations feature, then you must opt in to its parent feature: Constraint-Based Planning. If you’ve already opted in to this parent feature, then you don’t have to opt in again.
Key Resources
Role And Privileges
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)
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.
Manage Schedule Administration Tasks
You can now use the Schedule Administration UI to download schedule files for sharing with Oracle Support when necessary. The ability to download schedule files directly within the application is a more efficient way to interact with Oracle Support. Previously, you had to use specific REST services that required more technical knowledge to perform these tasks.
You navigate to the Schedule Administration UI from the Action menu for a schedule.
Schedule Administration UI
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
If you want to use the Manage Schedule Administration Tasks feature, then you must opt in to its parent feature: Production Scheduling. If you’ve already opted in to this parent feature, then you don’t have to opt in again.
Key Resources
Role And Privileges
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)
Offload Resources in the Dispatch List
You can now offload a resource to an alternate resource within the dispatch list instead of using the drag and drop feature in the Gantt chart for this purpose. This capability enables you to offload a work order operation from a multiple capacity resource, which isn’t possible via drag and drop in the Gantt chart. Using this capability, you can fine-tune your factory schedule more easily as you finalize your schedules and release to execution.
Note: Resource offloading is prevented for currently transacting work order operations to ensure that the released schedule for the associated work order is published to supply chain execution.
You can offload a work order operation to an alternate resource if a work order isn't firm at time of schedule refresh and if the work order operation hasn't been transacted yet. If a work order operation has alternate resources and offloading is possible, then the dispatch list displays the current resource that this work order operation is scheduled on in the new Alternate Resource column. You view the resources that you can select as an alternate in a list of values for the column.
Move a Work Order Operation to a Different Resource Within the Dispatch List
After you select a different resource from the list of values, you need to run a repair to implement the offloading action.
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
If you want to use the Offload Resources in the Dispatch List feature, then you must opt in to its parent feature: Production Scheduling. If you’ve already opted in to this parent feature, then you don’t have to opt in again.
Key Resources
Role And Privileges
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)
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 then release the updated orders to order management systems for execution.
After you opt in to to the feature named Backlog Management, you can use the features in this section.
Reschedule Pick-to-Order Items
Previously Oracle Backlog Management only rescheduled pick-to-order (PTO) items that were planned as shipment sets and calculation of shipment and delivery dates was based solely on the lead time of their individual components. With this update, instead of using shipment sets, Backlog Management will include model-level availability details in rescheduling calculations to account for picking and option-dependent scheduling constraints.
When you use this feature, you'll see the following:
- On the Backlog Analysis page, you see only the PTO model line and not all the child lines corresponding to the option classes and option items associated with the order.
- In the Supplies and Demands table in the Plan Inputs work area, you can see all lines for a PTO model order.
- When a PTO model order is released, all the child lines of the order are released, including model, option class, and option item lines.
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
If you want to use the Reschedule Pick-to-Order Items feature, then you must opt in to its parent feature: Order Backlog Management. If you’ve already opted in to this parent feature, then you don’t have to opt in again.
Additional Tips and Considerations:
- Assemble-to-Order (ATO) model inside a PTO Model is a supported order structure.
- You can do a quick simulation for a PTO model order. For example, you can modify the Enforce Current Commit, Pull-In Enabled, and Override Priority attributes for the PTO model and run quick simulation.
- You can do planner overrides for specific attributes. For example, you can modify the Planned Ship-from Organization, Planned Shipping Method, and Planned Shipped Date attributes for the PTO model.
- Phantom subassembly isn't supported for a PTO or ATO item.
- The lead time of the PTO model is not considered in planning.
Key Resources
Role And Privileges
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)
Control Rescheduling of Order Lines with User-Defined Statuses
Since update 22B, Oracle Backlog Management has excluded order lines in Picked status from being released to an order management solution. You can can now also specify up to 2 additional order line status values that indicate when order lines have been sent to the warehouse management system, but haven’t yet completed the picking step. Oracle Backlog Management recognizes these new status values and filters those order lines from rescheduling to prevent any disruption of the fulfillment that’s in process.
For example, if your enterprise defined a specific status to interface orders with your warehouse management system, and have named that status Interfaced, then you can use this feature to also exclude orders in the Interfaced status from being released from Oracle Backlog Management to your Oracle Fusion Cloud Order Management system.
In Backlog Management, on the Backlog Analysis page, you will see the Frozen status to represent the user-defined statuses you created when enabling this feature. If you've configured 2 statuses, both of your user-defined statuses will show as Frozen on the Backlog Analysis page.
- Backlog Management won't release orders that are in the Frozen status.
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Orders lines with Picked or Frozen for the Order Line Status attribute will be locked at the scheduled date so these orders will be planned on the scheduled date.
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
If you want to use the Control Rescheduling of Order Lines with User-Defined Statuses feature, then you must do the following:
- Opt in to its parent feature: Order Backlog Management. If you’ve already opted in to this parent feature, then you don’t have to opt in again.
- Create a new site-level profile option in the Setup and Maintenance work area using the Manage Profile Options task and define the profile value per your business needs
- The name of the profile option must be exactly MSC_COLL_OM_SO_STATUS
- For the profile value for this profile option: you can define up to 2 comma-separated values. These values must be the same as the user-defined order line statuses that were defined in Oracle Fusion Cloud Order Management and interfaced with your warehouse management solution
Key Resources
Role And Privileges
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)
Use Supplier Sites Codes That Are up to 240 Characters
Supplier site codes typically are a short alphanumeric character set. However, in some business situations, it may be useful to have a longer site code to improve readability. In this update, the maximum length of the supplier site code has been increased to 240 characters in conjunction with the same capability in Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement. This change is applicable for both Oracle Fusion source systems and external source systems for which you can collect supplier site codes up to the new maximum using the Oracle file-based data import template for Supply Chain Planning Suppliers (ScpSupplierImportTemplate.xlsm).
Here's an example of the Supply Network Model page showing supplier sites for Big Computers. Two of the sites have a supplier site code longer than 30 characters, which was the maximum supported by planning in previous updates.
Depending on the width of the column, the data may be truncated, in which case the ellipses are displayed. If you hover over the field, the full supplier site code is displayed in the hover text.
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
If you want to use the Use Supplier Site Codes That Are up to 240 Characters feature, then you must opt in to its parent feature: Order Backlog Management. If you’ve already opted in to this parent feature, then you don’t have to opt in again
- Whether a longer supplier site code can be entered in Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement is controlled through an opt in feature named Create Supplier Sites with Longer Names.
- Planning collects the full supplier site codes (up to 240 characters) that have been saved to the Oracle Fusion database regardless of whether the opt-in feature noted in the preceding bullet is enabled or not.
Role And Privileges
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)
- Demand Planner (ORA_MSC_DEMAND_PLANNER_JOB)
- Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNER_JOB)
- Sales and Operations Planner (ORA_MSC_SALES_AND_OPERATIONS_PLANNER_JOB)
- Backlog Manager (ORA_MSC_BACKLOG_MANAGER_JOB)
- Order Promising Manager (ORA_MSC_ORDER_PROMISING_MANAGER_JOB)
There's no change to existing privileges needed to take advantage of this feature. If a user has access to a page that displays supplier site code, then the user will see the longer value for a supplier site code after it's collected into planning.
Selected Backlog Management Bug Fixes in This Update
This update includes some bug fixes that can change the way Oracle Backlog Management works. This isn't a full list of all the bug fixes in this update. This list includes the bug fixes that can cause a noticeable change in application behavior.
Select a Source System in the Start Backlog Planning Scheduled Process
With this update, you must run the Start Backlog Planning scheduled process for a single source system.
When you schedule a run of the Start Backlog Planning scheduled process from the Scheduled Processes work area, you are required to select a source system for the Source System field. This requirement improves backlog management rescheduling performance by limiting the scope of plan runs to a single source system at a time.
- If you try to submit the scheduled process without selecting a source system, then you will get an error message.
- If you need to run the plan for more than one source system, then you must schedule separate plan runs, one for each source system.
- If you use the Create Runs REST API to run the backlog management plan via REST, then you must now provide the source system in your input payload.
- After this update, you must modify your existing jobs or job sets to select the required Source System field.
You can run the Start Backlog Planning Scheduled process from the the Scheduled Processes work area for specific organizations, items, categories, or customers. In the Scheduled Processes work area, use the Parameters section of the Process Details dialog to set the appropriate parameters.
- To run the Start Backlog Planning scheduled process for specific organizations, select multiple organizations that belong to the source system you selected.
- To run the plan for a specific item, category, or customer, select your values for those fields. The backlog related to the selected item, category, or customer for the specific source system only will be planned. If no order lines are found for the combination of your selected attributes, then the scheduled process won't plan any order and will complete normally.
If you run the plan from the Backlog Analysis page in the Backlog Management work area, then we recommend that you select order lines belonging to the same source system by using the Demand Source System field. While the Demand Source System field isn't a required field on the page, you should select a value for it. Otherwise, while the process is running, a value for the source system will be selected for you if the values you selected for one or more of the required fields are applicable to multiple source systems.
There is no change to the Release Backlog Planning Results scheduled process, and the process can be run to release backlog across multiple source systems.
Oracle reference: 33205248
Run the Start Backlog Planning Scheduled Process in Parallel
With this update, you can run the Start Backlog Planning scheduled process multiple times in parallel for different subsets of the plan data. This approach can improve backlog management rescheduling performance by rescheduling more order lines in a given period of time. Your subsequent runs of the Start Backlog Planning process will run in parallel only if there are no shared components with other runs of the scheduled process that are still in progress. Otherwise, the subsequent runs of the scheduled process will error out.
We recommend that you run your backlog plan in parallel from the Scheduled Processes work area only, and not from the Backlog Analysis page in the Backlog Management work area.
Oracle reference: 33885192
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.