Update 23B

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	Module	Feature	Notes
03 MAR 2023			Created initial document.

Overview

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Optional Uptake of New Features (Opt In)

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• 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.
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1. Click Navigator > My Enterprise > Offerings.
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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 Chain Orchestration

Supply Chain Orchestration

Use REST API to Get Supply Sources for Internal Material Transfers

Use the availableSupplySources REST resource to get the supply sources that can fulfill a request for an internal material transfer. Get the one source that can most effectively fulfill the request, or get a list of up to six sources, ranked according to how effectively they can fulfill the request. Get the actual quantity that's currently on hand in each source.

Add flexibility to how you select and use the supply source for each of your internal material transfers.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• Use the findBestAvailableSupplySource finder to get the most effective source.

• Use the findAllAvailableSupplySources finder to get the list of all supply sources. This finder gets a maximum of 6 sources, ranked according to how effectively each one fulfills the request.

• Get the actual quantity that's currently on hand for each supply source.

• You can only read data, so you can use only the GET operation.

Key Resources

• Using Supply Chain Orchestration
• Supply Chain Orchestration
• availableSupplySources in REST API for Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud

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 Operations Manager (ORA_DOS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_OPERATIONS_MANAGER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
  • Process Supply Order Interface (DOS_PROCESS_SUPPLY_ORDER_INTERFACE_PRIV)
  • View Supply Orders (DOS_VIEW_SUPPLY_ORDERS_PRIV)
  • Manage Supply Request Exceptions (DOS_MANAGE_SUPPLY_REQUEST_EXCEPTIONS_PRIV)
  • View Supply Order Exceptions and Status (DOS_VIEW_SUPPLY_ORDER_EXCEPTIONS_AND_STATUS_PRIV)
  • Manage Inventory Transfer Order (INV_MANAGE_INVENTORY_TRANSFER_ORDER_PRIV)
  • Get Best Or All Available Supply Sources (DOS_GET_BEST_OR_ALL_AVAILABLE_SOURCES_PRIV)
  • View Total On Hand Quantity in Supply Source (DOS_VIEW_AVAILABLE_ONHAND_QTY_PRIV)

Include Reference Details for Supply Requests on REST API Error Messages

Add the value of the SupplyOrderReferenceNumber attribute and the SupplyOrderReferenceLineNumber attribute as a prefix on each error message that REST API returns when it processes a supply request. Use the prefix to troubleshoot problems with the request.

Reduce the amount of time you need to troubleshoot and fix problems when you import through REST API.

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: Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management  No Longer Optional From: Update 23D

Tips And Considerations

Here's an example of an error message that REST API returns.

{

  "title": "Bad Request",

  "status": "400",

  "o:errorDetails": [

  {

    "detail": "SupplyOrderReferenceNumber:A190102, SupplyOrderReferenceLineNumber:100, MessageType:ERROR, MessageText:The supply order wasn't created because the destination subinventory code, source subinventory code, or both aren't correct."

    },

  {

    "detail": "SupplyOrderReferenceNumber:A190102, SupplyOrderReferenceLineNumber:100, MessageType:ERROR, MessageText:The supply order wasn't created because the shipment priority isn't correct. Ensure that a valid shipment priority is specified in the supply request."

  }

  ]

}

Key Resources

• Using Supply Chain Orchestration
• Supply Chain Orchestration
• REST API for Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud

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 Operations Manager (ORA_DOS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_OPERATIONS_MANAGER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
  • Process Supply Order Interface (DOS_PROCESS_SUPPLY_ORDER_INTERFACE_PRIV)
  • View Supply Orders (DOS_VIEW_SUPPLY_ORDERS_PRIV)
  • Manage Supply Request Exceptions (DOS_MANAGE_SUPPLY_REQUEST_EXCEPTIONS_PRIV)
  • View Supply Order Exceptions and Status (DOS_VIEW_SUPPLY_ORDER_EXCEPTIONS_AND_STATUS_PRIV)
  • Manage Inventory Transfer Order (INV_MANAGE_INVENTORY_TRANSFER_ORDER_PRIV)

If you're maintaining your own job roles, no new privileges were introduced to support this feature.

Use Service Mappings to Extend Supply Chain Orchestration's Integration with Inventory

Use a service mapping to help integrate your Oracle applications. Use the service mapping to meet your specific integration requirements in your transfer order flow. Create a sales order in Oracle Order Management, orchestrate supply in Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration, then create a transfer order in Oracle Inventory Management. As an option, use an extensible flexfield to integrate data that's specific to your implementation. You can also use a service mapping to integrate data that travels from planning and purchasing, to supply chain orchestration, and then to inventory.

For example, here's a service mapping that uses the TransferOrderRequest entity in the TransferRequestSource service to send a request to create a transfer order from Supply Chain Orchestration to inventory:

Modify supply orchestration data so it meets your requirements.

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: Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management

1. Get the privileges that you need to manage service mappings and algorithms.

2. Go to the Supply Chain Orchestration work area, click Tasks, then click one of:

• Manage Service Mappings
• Manage Algorithms

Tips And Considerations

• Make sure your integration can send the validations that Inventory Management applies. Your request payload might be fine, but Inventory Management might not accept the request. 

• Check for empty values when you write expressions in your integration algorithm, especially when you for query more than one request line. A empty value at runtime might create errors.

• If you encounter an error, fix it, then use the Supply Chain Orchestration work area to resubmit your request.

Role And Privileges

• Use these predefined privileges to set up this feature:
  • Manage DOS Service Mappings
  • Manage DOS Algorithms
  • Administer Sandbox
  • View Modified Data, so you can view the runtime results

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.

Create Transfer Orders That Are Valid When You Import Through File-Based Data Import

Before update 23B, if you used the DosSupplyOrderImportTemplate.xlsm file to import a transfer request, and if the project details in your import weren't valid, then the Load Interface File for Import scheduled process finished successfully, reported the error in its error log, and the Process Supply Chain Orchestration Interface scheduled process created the transfer order without project details.  

After you update to 23B, if the project details in your import aren't valid, then the Process Supply Chain Orchestration Interface scheduled process won't create the transfer order but will instead report the error in its error log. 

Oracle reference: 34862468

Map the Project Organization ID from Supply Chain Orchestration to Procurement

Before update 23B, Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration ignored any mapping that you provided for the ProjectOrganizationId attribute to Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement. After you update to 23B, if you map the ProjectOrganizationId attribute to Oracle Procurement, then Supply Chain Orchestration will include it when it communicates supply details to Procurement.

Oracle reference: 34902854

Steps to Enable

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

Supply Planning

Supply Planning

Create Your Own Exceptions for Measures of Type Date

Due to the large volumes of data that are typical in the supply chain planning process, you may want to manage your plans using your own exceptions. This update enables you to add your own exceptions applicable to measures that are of the data type Date. For example, you can now create an exception where you can capture the items with an erroneously defined discontinuation date that is earlier than the launch date. With this feature, you can manage your plans by exceptions with more flexibility because you can define your own date conditions to be evaluated.

Example of an exception you can now create for measures of type date using the Configure Exceptions page:

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

These 3 actions can be performed for date type measure-based exceptions:

• Create
• Edit
• Duplicate

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 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

• There's no change to existing privileges needed to take advantage of this feature.

Use Additional Methods to Secure Your Supply Chain Plans

In some enterprises, it’s desirable to restrict the data access to plan data to a subset that a planner is authorized to handle. This restriction is possible in Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Planning when a data access set defines the data that's available to a particular role.

With this update, additional flexibility is available for defining data access sets.

• You can configure data access set conditions by segments with the Segment Group entity selected. This selection enables you to restrict access to plan data in the Plan Inputs, Supply Planning, Demand Planning, Demand and Supply Planning, Sales and Operations Planning, and Replenishment planning work areas based on the segments criteria.

• You can also configure data access sets by selecting user-defined customer hierarchies for the Customer entity.

• Additionally, you can now delete data access set conditions that aren't assigned to any data access sets.

Example of how you can select the Segment Group entity and assign segments as condition while configuring data access sets:

Example of how you can restrict data access by segments in the Supply Planning work area:

Example of how you can select a user-defined customer hierarchy for the Customer entity when configuring a data access set:

Example of how you can select and delete a condition defined through the Administer Planning Security task:

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• Create segment groups and run the segmentation scheduled process before you configure data access sets with the Segment Group entity
• You can include one or more segments in a condition for a segment group in a data access set
• You can include the Segment Group entity with other entities in a data access set configuration

Key Resources

• Watch Use Additional Methods to Secure Your Supply Chain Plans readiness training.

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 and Supply Planner (ORA_MSC_DEMAND_AND_SUPPLY_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Demand Planner (ORA_MSC_DEMAND_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Sales and Operations Planner (ORA_MSC_SALES_AND_OPERATIONS_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_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)
  • Manage Demand Planning (MSC_MONITOR_DEMAND_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
  • Manage Sales and Operations Planning (MSC_MONITOR_SALES_AND_OPERATIONS_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
  • Manage Replenishment Planning (MSC_MONITOR_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)

Gain Insights on Lead Times for Purchased Items

Due to the recent volatility in the supply chain environment, it’s becoming more and more important to monitor and ensure that the assumptions used for generating plans are accurate. One of the most important assumptions in planning calculations is the lead times for make, buy, and transfer.

With this update, you can enable automated monitoring of purchasing lead times and advising when there are large variances from your planning assumptions. The planning advisor framework enables you to quickly drill down and act upon recommendations to change the lead time assumptions for the item and supplier site combinations you select. New analytics enable you to focus on the most important item and supplier site combinations that have a variance in addition to monitoring the lead times using charts to see if there’s a consistent increasing or decreasing trend.

You can use this new capability to proactively manage your supply chain planning activities by ensuring that the lead times used for calculations are as accurate as possible.

You can review lead-time insights through new interfaces that present historical analysis and business impact through graphical and tabular views that provide an overview and detailed information on the insights.

The Planning Advisor user interface has a new Lead Time Insights recommendation type that you use to review the extent of lead-time anomalies and the impact of variances on your supply plan.

A new browser-based interface linked to the planning advisor takes you to an analytical summary that represents the lead-time variance in a range of low to high-impact nodes on a treemap view. As a planner, you can glean insights about your plan performance as compared to actuals and drill down into areas that need more attention.

The drill down associated with the treemap enables you to investigate deeper into details of the variances for a combination of Item, Supplier, and Supplier Site attributes alongside other planning attributes and performance metrics.

You can select a set of rows to further drill down and investigate order detail information and view variance performance in a tabular form and in a chart view that plots shipment variances over time in a plotted chart.

Steps to Enable

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

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)
  • Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_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:
  • MSC_MANAGE_LEAD_TIME_INSIGHTS_PRIV

Honor the Nettable Status of the Completion Subinventory for Work orders

In some situations, your work-in-process (WIP) work orders may have a completion subinventory that’s nonnettable for various business reasons. With this update, work orders where the subinventory that will receive the completed work order is nonnettable are considered as unavailable supply for supply planning purposes. This consideration will ensure accurate accounting of supply status when generating plans.

For example, you can now use the Subinventory Netting option from the Organizations and Schedules tab on the Edit Plan Options page to honor the nettable status of the work order supplies against the subinventory.

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:

• This feature is also supported for EBS-SCP integration.

• The Subinventory Code column in the source file can accept null value. 

• The netting of by-product and co-product work order supplies should be based on subinventory code irrespective of child-parent relationship.

• Component demand and resource requirements work orders will get filtered out during snapshot based on the select of the parent work order subinventory code.

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 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

• There's no change to existing privileges needed to take advantage of this feature.

Don't Plan Component Requirements for Operations When WIP Supply Type Is Supplier or Bulk

In some manufacturing environments, planning calculations don’t need to calculate the dependent demand for some components due to a variety of reasons. For example, it’s not necessary to calculate the component requirements for an outside processing operation where the subcontractor provides the components. With this update, Oracle Supply Planning doesn’t calculate the component requirements when the WIP Supply Type of the component is either Supplier or Bulk. This consideration ensures accurate planning for components in all types of manufacturing environments.

Prior to this update, Supply Planning disregarded the components with supply type = Supplier or Bulk as special components and always created dependent demands for these components, and subsequently, supplies were also recommended for these type of components. With this update, you can control the dependent demand creation via organization parameters.

Based on the selection made in the organization parameters, the Include in Planning option will be defaulted to either Yes or No in Oracle Manufacturing for components having supply type as Supplier or Bulk. For example, If the Supplier organization parameter isn't selected, then the Include in Planning option will be defaulted to No for components having supply type as Supplier in Oracle Manufacturing.

• If the Include in Planning option is set to No for the components having supply type either as Supplier or Bulk, then the work order demands won't be collected for those components in supply planning.

• If the Include in Planning option is set to Yes, then the work order demands are collected and planned for components.

Supply Planning also references the same organization parameters for planned make supplies.

• If an organization parameter is selected, then depending upon the selection, Supplier, Bulk, or both are selected, then Supply Planning explodes the planned order and creates dependent demands for components having supply type as supplier or bulk.

• If an organization parameter isn't selected, then dependent demands aren't created for such components. For example, if the organization parameter for Supplier isn't selected, then dependent demands aren't created for components having supply type as Supplier.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

By default, the organization parameters are selected. If you want Supply Planning to not recommend supplies for components having supply type either as Supplier or Bulk, or both, then you deselect the check box for the applicable organization parameter.

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)

Configure Rules to Display Resources and Suppliers Related to Selected End Item in Your Build Plan

The Build Plan UI enables you to do easy, top-down and bottom-up analysis of your supply chain across multiple levels by looking at various measures related to supply, demand, resource, and supplier capacity. This analysis enables you to readily identify problems and opportunities.

With this update, you can apply rule-driven filtering to resources and suppliers as well as to supply and demand. For example, you can configure a rule to show only the overloaded resources at any level of the supply chain for an item, thus enabling quick configuration of the build plan to be applicable to any item. Use this ability to configure the Build Plan UI to quickly identify the resources and supplier sites that are of interest to you.

Build Plan Rules

This feature enhances the rules capabilities that were added to Build Plan in update 23A. The Resources and Supplier Items sections, highlighted in the red box in the following screenshot, were added to the Create Rule dialog. You can now include resource criteria and supplier criteria when creating a rule to be applied to root nodes that are items. For example, you can specify to show bottleneck resources in addition to component information.

You can also select from additional levels to display when defining rules applicable to item root nodes. In addition to next level down and all levels down, which were included in the 23A update, you can also choose from All levels up, Next level up, Lowest level, End items, and Related output item. Previously, these values were available only in the configure build plan dialog.

You can also create rules that are applied to root nodes that are resources. The Rule Type field in the Create Rule dialog determines whether the rule applies to item or resource root nodes. For example, you can drill from the Resource Requirements measure in a pivot table to Build Plan, and then apply a rule to see all produced or end items that use that resource.

These enhancements to Build Plan rules round out the rules capability that were initially introduced in 23A.

Default Build Plan Criteria

Prior to update 23B, when you opened Build Plan in standalone mode using the page-level Open action, the no data to display message always displayed until you created or selected a named criteria. To reduce the number of clicks required to select a criteria, a user preference Default column was added to the Manage Criteria dialog. If you have defined a default criteria, then that criteria is automatically applied when you open a build plan in standalone mode.

Data Calculation Options

Previously, Data Calculation Options were only accessible from predefined and configured pivot tables. These options have been added to Build Plan. When you edit a measure value in Build Plan, you can select the Calculate Now or Enable Automatic Calculations option to update other measures whose expression includes the measure just edited. For example, if you edit the Manual Demand measure and select the Calculate Now action, then any measure that includes the Manual Demand measure in its expression is recalculated. Note that measures calculated during plan run that don't have an expression, such as Total Supply or Total Demand, aren't recalculated via the data calculation options.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

With the introduction of the Rule Type attribute, you can now specify a default rule for each rule type. Now you can have a default rule that's automatically applied when drilling into Build Plan using item context and a different default rule when drilling into Build Plan using resource context.

Key Resources

• Refer to the release readiness training for the Configure the Display of Your Build Plan with Additional Criteria feature (23A) for more information on creating Build Plan rules.

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)

Honor Model-Specific Planning Percentages for Options in an Option Class

When you have a configure-to-order manufacturing environment, the dependent demands for options are driven using planning percentages. With this update, the dependent demand calculations are driven using your model-specific planning percentages. Previously, the supply planning process used an average of the percentage across all the models that used the specific option. This change ensures you can derive the demand for options accurately using your model-specific planning percentages. Using your model-specific planning percentages improves the accuracy of your production forecasts for options which improves customer order fill rate and customer satisfaction.

This feature is supported for both constrained and unconstrained supply planning and for integrated demand and supply planning.

To use this feature, select the Use model-specific planning percentages for options plan option. Before you can select the Use model-specific planning percentages for options plan option, you have to have selected these plan options:

• Explode model forecasts
• Use forecasted planning percentages instead of collected data

Edit Plan Options - Forecast Allocation and Consumption Tab

When you select the Use model-specific planning percentages for options plan option, the Planning Percentage plan option in the Organizations and Schedules subtab of the Supply tab in the Plan Options UI is defaulted to the Model-Specific Planning Percentage value. Model-Specific Planning Percentage is the value that's required to have the correct planning percentages provided to the planning process.

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

• Watch Honor Model-Specific Planning Percentages for Options in an Option Class 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 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)
  • Monitor Demand and Supply Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_DEMAND_AND_SUPPLY_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
  • Edit Plan Options (MSC_EDIT_PLAN_OPTIONS_PRIV)

Filter on Multiple Time-Varying Measures

When you work with large volumes of multidimensional data, it’s important that you gain visibility to the subset of data that meets conditions you specify using AND conditions. Previously, you could include data conditions that included the time dimension as part of the query criteria, but not AND conditions for multiple time-varying measures.

You can now include multiple time-varying measures using AND conditions, and you can also filter measures that have complex calculations using AND conditions, such as the projected available balance. You can also use these multiple AND conditions to efficiently analyze plan data by looking for exception conditions at the intersection of multiple dimensions.

Example of using measure filters that include time-varying measures and AND conditions:

Measure Filter with AND Condition

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• You can use a specific measure only one time when you configure a measure filter with multiple time varying measures.
• You can impact performance of table and graphs when you use multiple time-varying measures.

Key Resources

• See the Include the Time Dimension in Multidimensional Filters (Update 22D) readiness training available on Oracle Cloud Application Update Readiness

Role And Privileges

There are no new roles or security privileges needed to access this enhancement. Users who currently have access to planning tables and graphs will automatically be able to use this feature.

You have a couple options for giving additional 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)
  • Sales and Operations Planner (ORA_MSC_SALES_AND_OPERATIONS_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Maintain Planning Tables (MSC_MAINTAIN_PLANNING_TABLES_PRIV)
  • Maintain Planning Graphs (MSC_MAINTAIN_PLANNING_GRAPHS_PRIV)

Selected Supply Planning Bug Fixes in This Update

This update includes some bug fixes that can change the way Oracle Supply Planning 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.

Consider Subinventory Transfers as Valid Supply

With this update, Oracle Supply Planning will consider subinventory transfer supplies that are in transit to the destination subinventory and not yet received within an inventory organization as valid supplies on the expected delivery date when balancing supply and demand. This approach avoids creation of excess planned orders and reduces overall inventory.

Oracle reference: 34039002

Steps to Enable

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

Constraint-Based Planning

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 feature described in this section.

Plan Process Work Definition Using Item Structures

In mixed-mode manufacturing environments, work definitions are created using item structures already defined in your product data management systems. With this update, you can create work definitions using item structures that were defined in Oracle Manufacturing. Oracle Supply Planning in the constrained mode now honors the item structure and considers substitute components as defined in the item structure.

You can use the item structures available for process manufacturing to manage the changes to the item structure through a tightly controlled Engineering Change Order process.

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 Plan Process Work Definition Using Item Structures 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

• The Plan Process Work Definition Using Item Structures readiness training available on Oracle Cloud Readiness for Supply Chain Planning.

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)
  • Monitor Demand and Supply Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_DEMAND_AND_SUPPLY_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
  • Run Plan with Snapshot (MSC_RUN_PLAN_WITH_SNAPSHOT_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.

View Resource Utilization by Day or Week

View utilization information for resources defined in your schedule to gain insights on utilization across the schedule horizon by day or week for any resource and resource group. Additionally, you can view idle time, calendar down time, changeover time, and run time. This info helps you make informed decisions on potential capacity adjustments as you inspect and refine your schedules and improve your shop floor utilization.

You can analyze utilization data for individual resources or resource groups. For resource groups, the aggregated utilization data is shown.

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Resource Utilization Display

While the stacked bars in the chart display time components runtime, changeover time, and downtime, the tooltips also show the idle time remaining in a given bucket.

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 View Resource Utilization by Day or Week 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

• Watch View Resource Utilization by Day or Week 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:
  • 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 Pegging Links Between Work Orders in Your Gantt Chart

Visualize pegging links in your Gantt chart between work order operations that produce and consume supply and analyze the impact of your schedule changes. You can now review which work orders depend on one another and where they’re scheduled. Previously, pegging display was limited to how work order operations within a single work order were linked to one another.

You can also review how inbound supplies (transfer and purchase orders) impact the schedule and how producing operations are matched to customer demands and outbound transfer orders. This info helps you understand upstream and downstream dependencies in your manufacturing processes and how well your production stages are synchronized.

Seeing upstream and downstream dependencies in the manufacturing process, how well production stages are synchronized, and which upstream work order a downstream work order operation depends on and vice versa, are valuable insights for a scheduler to consider when making manual scheduling decisions.

Work order to work order pegging relationships are indicated via dashed lines

You can turn on and off the display of pegging links in the Gantt chart using the button that toggles between Show Pegging Links and Hide Pegging Links for its name. This button precedes the Gantt chart. If you turned on pegging links, then the pegging links and routing links are displayed for all selected work order operations.

You can combine the pegging link visualization with already available table to Gantt pegging highlighting for on-hand inventory, supply, and demand records. Selecting a row in any of these tables highlights the pegged operations in the Gantt chart. After you select such highlighted operations, then you will see the upstream or downstream dependencies for the respective on-hand, supply, or demand record. 

Combine Table-to-Gantt pegging highlighting with pegging link visualization capabilities in your schedule analysis

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 Enhance Gantt Chart View with Pegging Information 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

• Watch View Pegging Links Between Work Orders in Your Gantt Chart 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:
  • 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)

Adjust Inbound Supply Data or Lead Time of an Item for Simulation Purposes

Simulate adjustments in inbound supplies to counter material shortages and make changes in your supply data and evaluate their impact on your schedule. For example, add new supplies for an item or change an item’s lead time if it has a shortage. These simulations help you understand the earliest dates when work orders can be scheduled to meet demands and make decisions for ordering extra supplies or expediting existing supplies.

The inbound supply data together with on-hand inventory influence when is the earliest that consuming work order operations can be scheduled. For example, you can simulate how the schedule is impacted if a supply must be pushed out or if a supply can be pulled in earlier. You can also evaluate whether your schedule would improve if you could get a critical material with a shortage earlier than by its regular lead time by entering a lead time override. After changing any supply data or an item's lead time, you have to run a solve to recalculate the production schedule.

Any supply data changes performed within Oracle Production Scheduling, namely the manually created supplies, the requested date overrides for purchase and transfer orders, and the lead time overrides for items with shortages, are used exclusively within a production schedule for simulation purposes, and they're not sent to supply chain execution. If such changes are to be implemented because they're deemed beneficial, then this work must be performed directly in Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain 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

If you want to use the Adjust Inbound Supply Data or Lead Time of an Item for Simulation Purposes 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

• Watch Adjust Inbound Supply Data or Lead Time of an Item for Simulation Purposes 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:
  • 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 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.

Use a REST Service to Override Selected Order Line Attributes in Bulk

To automate the periodic rescheduling of thousands of order lines, you need to update attributes that control how Oracle Backlog Management simulates each line. You can simplify this process by using the Demands REST service, which is a child of the Backlog Management Plans REST service, to update multiple lines. Your bulk updates can now include three additional attributes that drive more comprehensive automated rescheduling.

• Ship-from Organization: You can change the ship-from organization or clear it to enable Backlog Management to identify potential alternative supply sources that could reduce delay.

• Shipping Method: You can change the shipping method for a group of lines to expedite delivery or reduce logistics costs.

• Locked Status Indicator: You can unlock multiple lines to make them eligible for rescheduling.

Other important points for this feature:

• The attributes available for bulk update in this update are in addition to the Pull-In and Enforce Current Commit attributes that were already supported for bulk update using REST API

• Shipping method is a concatenation of 3 attributes: Carrier, Mode of Transport, and Service Level
  • To set the requested shipping method to null using the bulk update REST API, you must set all 3 attributes to null in the REST API, and then run your backlog management plan

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 a REST Service to Override Selected Order Line Attributes in Bulk 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:

• If the Requested Ship-From Organization attribute is set to null via REST, then the Requested Shipping Method attribute is automatically set to null also. This approach is consistent with the simulation behavior in the Backlog Analysis page

• If one line of a set or configure-to-order order is locked or unlocked using bulk update REST API, then all lines of that set or configure-to-order order are locked or unlocked

• You need to encode the demands required for bulk update using base64 format

• You need to add the base64 encoded string to the UpdateAsync field and run the Post command for the resource demands

• Combinations that can be used to update the Requested Ship-from Organization, Requested Shipping Method, and Locked Status 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 Requested Ship-from Organization, Requested Shipping Method, and Locked Status attributes for several Demand Ids via REST

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

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)

View Configure-to-Order Item Availability and Constraints on the Backlog Analysis Page

Configure-to-order item option selections can have a major impact on availability dates. To gain more information to diagnose the source of delays, you can now review the availability date for each option class and option in the item’s configuration on the Backlog Analysis page. Based on this information, you may be able to secure more capacity or supply to reduce the delay or work with the customer to order a configuration that you can deliver sooner.

With this update, you'll see the following on the Backlog Analysis page:

• In addition to the header or topmost model line for assemble-to-order or pick-to-order item, you'll also see all of the child lines corresponding to the option classes and option items associated with the order

• You'll also see header and all child lines for pick-to-order kit orders

• You'll also see additional attributes that will help you with constraint analysis:
  • Constraint Rank
  • Item Availability Date
  • Planned Date Without Item
  • Improvement Potential Without Item in Days

• The improvement potential without item in days for an order line is just an indicator that the constraint is available on that line, but it doesn't guarantee improvement in planned date exactly equal to the value indicated by the Improvement Potential without Item in Days attribute value, even if the supply constraint for that line is resolved and all supply is available on or before the Requested Date. To improve the planned date for a configure-to-order order, you need to resolve constraints for all the constraining items of a configure-to-order order

• To view the constraints graphically for configure-to-order order on the Backlog Analysis page, select any line of the order and click the View Constraints button
  • The View Constraints button is disabled when multiple lines are selected

• You can view a configure-to-order order in both normal table view or mode and tree table mode. The default mode is the normal table mode
  • In the tree table mode, you can see the configure-to-order order in a tree structure where you can expand the model line to show the option classes and further expand the option class line to show the option items
  • In the normal table, configure-to-order order lines will show without a tree structure

• When you release a configure-to-order order, all the child lines of the order are released, including model, option class, and option item lines

• If you mark any line of a configure-to-order order for release, then all lines of that order are marked for release

• Similarly if you release any line of the configure-to-order order, then all lines of that order will be released

With this update, you'll see the following on the Manage Backlog Planning Options page:

• A new check box to enable or disable the calculation of constraints
  • The name of the check box is Display constraints for configure-to-order items, shipment sets, and arrival sets
  • The check box is enabled by default, therefore constraints calculation for configure-to-order order is enabled by default
  • You can disable constraints calculation by deselecting the check box and then running your backlog plan

Example of the Backlog Analysis page in the default normal table mode:

Example of the Backlog Analysis page with a pick-to-order order in tree table mode:

Example of the Backlog Analysis page with a pick-to-order model and child lines as a tree structure:

 Example of the Manage Backlog Planning Options page with the Display constraints for configure-to-order items, shipment sets, and arrival sets option selected:

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 View Configure-To-Order Item Availability and Constraints on the Backlog Analysis Page 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:

• To improve the performance of your backlog plan run, you can deselect the check box in Manage Backlog Planning Options page and run your backlog plan

• You can edit simulation attributes for a configure-to-order order only at the header or the topmost model level in both tree view and normal table view

• You can override planned attributes for a configure-to-order order only at the header or the topmost model level both in tree view and normal table view

• The simulation or override attributes that you modified for a configure-to-order header lines won't reflect immediately on the child lines. After a backlog plan run, the attribute values will be updated for all the lines of the configure-to-order order

• You can toggle from normal table mode to tree table mode and vice versa

• In the normal table mode, the configure-to-order order will be sorted based on order number and then line number

• In the tree table model, the configure-to-order order may not be sorted

• Additional Information attributes aren't supported in tree table mode

• The Backlog Analysis UI can display up to 10,000 order lines in Normal mode and 500 top level order lines in Tree table mode

• If your search results in more order lines, then you will get a warning message. You need to apply more filter condition to narrow down your search results to the allowed limit noted in an earlier point

• The View Constraint button isn't enabled if you selects- standard order lines

• You can see all constrained lines in the constraining items graph except the configure-to-order header or topmost model line

• If the item availability date for a configure-to-order component line is the same as or earlier than the requested date, then the component item isn't considered as a constraining item

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)

Review the Order Lines Within a Shipment Set or Arrival Set on the Backlog Analysis Page

You can now view the order lines that are components of a shipment set or arrival set directly on the Backlog Analysis page, instead of drilling into another page to view them. You can readily filter, sort, select, and update these lines across orders to analyze availability issues and simulate rescheduling.

With this update, you'll see the following on the Backlog Analysis page:

• The Backlog Analysis page won't show the header line of a set
• The Backlog Analysis page will show you all the lines of a set
• To see the details of a set: Select any line of the set, and then select Manage Sets under the Actions menu

To use this feature:

• You can highlight any line of a set and click on the View Constraints button to view the improvement potential for all constraining items graphically. The Constraining Items graph will also display constraining item and order line number. For example, if constraining item is Item A and order line number is Line 1, then you'll see Item A:Line 1 where order line number is appended to constraining item

• The simulation for a set follows a group behavior. For example, if you set the Enforced Current Commit attribute to No for one line of a set, then it's automatically set to No for all lines of that set

• The planned attributes updated through manual override capability for a set follow a group behavior. For example, if you modify the Planned Shipped Date attribute for one line of a shipment set to 1/7/2030, then for all lines of that shipment set, the Planned Shipped Date will be modified to 1/7/2030

• Mark or unmark a line for release follows group behavior. For example, if you mark one line of a set for release, then all lines of that set are automatically marked for release

• Release planning results also follows group behavior. For example, if you release one line of a set, then all lines of that set are automatically released

• Lock or unlock a line of a set also follows group behavior For example if you lock one line of a set, then all lines of that set are automatically locked

Screenshot of order lines within a set on the Backlog Analysis page

Screenshot with the step to view constraints graphically

Screenshot with constraints shown graphically

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 Review the Order Lines Within a Shipment Set or Arrival Set on the Backlog Analysis Page 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:

• You can use the Set Type attribute on the Backlog Analysis page to identify if an order line belongs to a shipment set or arrival set

• You can use the Set Name attribute on the Backlog Analysis page to identify the name of set the order line belongs to because all lines of a set have the same set name

• If a set is delayed due to a constraining item, then you can search that constraining item on the Backlog Analysis page to find out which other sets are delayed due to the same constraining item

• You can view the Item Availability Date and other attributes related to constraint calculation directly on the Backlog Analysis page

• You can't add or remove lines of a set directly on Backlog Analysis page

• You can add or remove lines of a set only on the Manage Set page

• It's recommended that you do analysis of set and standard orders in the default normal table mode, and not in tree table mode

• You can change only set structures (Remove from Set, Add Back to Set) for external Order Management orders, not for Oracle Fusion Cloud orders

• You can see revenue for each line of the set only at the order line level, and not the total level revenue for the set

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)

IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations

Changes to File-Based Data Import (FBDI) Templates

Some Oracle Supply Planning FBDI templates have changed in this update. For details of the specific changes, refer to the Instructions tab of these FBDI templates:

• Available-to-Promise Rules (ScpATPRulesImportTemplate)
• Key Customer Options (ScpKeyCustomerOptionsImportTemplate)
• Organizations (ScpOrganizationImportTemplate)
• Purchase Order Shipments Receipt History (ScpPurchaseOrderRcvHistoryImportTemplate) – New Template
• Routings (ScpRoutingsImportTemplate)
• Work Order Supplies (ScpWorkOrderSuppliesImportTemplate)

You can find the latest templates in Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM: File-Based Data Import (FBDI) for SCM, available on the Oracle Help Center.