ASCP - 101

A Beginners Guide to
Implementing ASCP
Sandeep Gandhi
Independent Consultant

Agenda

Scope
ASCP v/s MRP
ASCP Data Flow
Setups
Item Attributes
Plan Options
Execute Plan
Q&A
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Advanced Supply Chain

Planning
Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning (ASCP) is a
comprehensive planning solution that decides when and where
supplies should be deployed within an extended supply chain.

Key Capabilities

Plan all supply chain facilities simultaneously

Short-term detailed scheduling and long-term aggregate
planning are supported within a single plan
Plans that consider both resource and material constraints
Configure Oracle ASCP to optimize specific business criteria
Allows many types of changes to supply, demand and
resources to simulate changing business conditions
Integrated solution

ASCP v/s MRP

Oracles focus product

Productivity enhancing UI

QOH shown in supply/demand screen

Multi-level pegging
Ability to define queries and publish to planners
Vertical Plan / Gnatt Chart

Plan alt. sources and alt. resources

Plan with optimization rules (inv turns / ontime delivery) and
penalty factors
Constrained plan (ECC / EDD / lead time constraints)
VMI Support
New reports
Powerful simulations
Different calendars for shipping / manufacturing / receiving
Multiple instance planning
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ASCP Data Flow

Initial Setups
Decide
configuration

Centralized v/s Distributed

Apply latest
Collections RUP #25 (patch
Rollup Patches
#6751704)
(Note 223026.1) Planning Engine RUP #30
(patch # 7286961)
Get
responsibilities

Advanced Supply Chain

Planner
Advanced Planning
Administrator

Initial Setups Contd.

Define Instance

Define Orgs
Assign
Collection
Groups
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Initial Setups contd.

Run full data collection

Initial Setups contd.

Gather schema stats on MSC

Grant Org access

Key Item Attributes

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Key Item Attributes Contd.

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Collecting Sales Orders

Define Demand class

Define Master Demand Schedule
(MDS)
Refresh
MDS

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Define Plan

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Plan Options Main Tab

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Plan Options Org tab

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Plan Options Constraints

Tab

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Execute Plan

Refresh MDS
Run Data Collection
Run Custom Data Cleanup Programs
Run plan
Consider creating request set
Access Planners workbench
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Planners Workbench

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Release

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Gotchyas

Sales order demand duplicated

Inactive items coming over to plan
Can not release configured items
Planning Data Pull very slow

ODS Load takes a long time

Set MSC: Share Plan Partitions to No

File space issues

Set MSC:Purge Stg Tbl Cntrl to Yes

Plan takes a long time to run

Run Refresh Collection Snapshots often

Run Net change collection

Set MSC:Write MBP Flat Files to Yes

Schema stats

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Q&A

Sandeep Gandhi
sandeep.gandhi@usa.net
513-325-9026

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