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Advanced Planning Solutions Confidential

Oracle APS- An Implementer’s View

Raghu ManjunathPresident, Advanced Planning Solutions, Inc.

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Introducing Advanced Planning Solutions, Inc.

• Headquartered in the San Mateo, California• Worldwide reach - North America, Europe and

Asia Pacific• A leader in implementing Oracle Supply Chain

Management solutions across industry verticals – Oracle APS, OSFM and Oracle Manufacturing modules– Expanding into new areas like Distribution and Logistics

• Types of Engagements– End-to-End implementations– Implementation Audits & fixes thereof– Solution Adoption– Advisory Roles


Discussion Topic

• Strategies for an easy and painless implementation of the Oracle APS modules

What’s this guy smokin’ !!!


Philosophy

• Life’s all about expectations


Oracle APS Characteristics

• Not the regular transactional application like Order Management or Purchasing – Not all black and white – More than one right answer – Balance conflicting priorities among planning,

allocations and customer service functions • Garbage-in Garbage-out nature

– Data inputs (especially forecasts) are not always pristine

• 80-20 rule for intermediary end-states • A journey, not a destination


Implementation Strategy – High Level

• Get business and user community involved starting day one• Draw parallels between what user community is used to and

what changes with APS– Unconstrained MRP Versus Constrained ASCP– Manually calculated customer commits to ASCP plan educated

customer commit dates returned by GOP

• Get to a solution prototype as quickly as possible and showcase the solution

• Tie down the supply chain model & stabilize ERP– Product structure (planning related item attributes)– BOMs, Routings/Resources, Sourcing Network– Demand and supply elements

• Validate solution design with a representative data set rather than rigging the data to stage the solution– For example penalties for optimization, sourcing networks, etc.


Implementation Strategy – High Level

• Keep data maintenance in mind while designing the solution– For example end-item substitution chains, time phased setups– User defined allocation versus system generated allocation

• Keep the model simple and go in bite-size chunks while adding complexity

• Give data cleanup the place it deserves– Garbage-in, Garbage-out

• Plan for a global implementation– Time zones, plan runtimes, downtimes, etc.– Fail-safe strategy for plan availability

• Pay special attention to training & documentation• Plan for a post go-live adoption phase • Make use of the relationship with Oracle Sales, Support and

Development– Strategic Accounts Program


Implementation Strategy – ASCP

• Understand Plan Options– EDD, ECC and Unconstrained plans

• EDD for long term aggregate planning• ECC for short term manufacturing planning and for Global Order

Promising– Demand Prioritization

• Based on schedule date• Sales orders ahead of forecasts• Combination of both• Custom prioritization

– Plan bucketing• Days, Weeks and Months• Understand that supply/demand get lumped to the end of the plan

bucket– Optimization and decision rules

• Turning on decision rules kicks in the optimization code• Optimization is based on cost only and not revenue

– Pegging types• Standard, Priority, FIFO, Priority + FIFO


Implementation Strategy – ASCP

• Understand Profile Options– 350+ MRP, MSC and MSO profile options that control plan behavior– Need to set only 60 – 100 of them; default values work for others

• Learn how to run small plans & isolate problems– Especially helpful while working with TARs

• Think ODS updates instead of customizations for planning• Evaluate planner workbench features before thinking custom reports

– Query feature in 11.5.10– Copy horizontal plan for multiple items and export to excel– Supply/demand query

• Evaluate custom reports based on data volumes and complexity of the model in the following areas

– Planned orders– Exceptions– Pegging

• Use request sets for automated plan run process• Regression test patches thoroughly• Back up code tree and the database before applying patches


Implementation Strategy – GOP

• Understand different options available– Simple ATP– Supply Chain ATP / CTP– Allocated ATP / Product family ATP

• Behavioral differences between ASCP and GOP– Backward versus forward scheduling differences in GOP

• GOP profile options– Set on both ERP and APS instances in a decentralized architecture

• Use Latest Acceptable Date and Latest Schedule Limit fields in Order Management

– Allows for GOP to come up with best possible scenario if not able to meet request date

• Manage handshake between planning and customer service– Request dates, Schedule ship dates, Promise dates, Material available

dates– Look for upcoming enhancements to ‘Changes recommended for Sales

Order’ exception – Evaluate need for custom form/report for bringing these dates together


Q & A / Follow up

• Contact– E-mail: [email protected]– Ph: 650-867-4876– Internet site: www.apscorp.net


Thank You!

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