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

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 ASCP v/s MRP
 Oracle’s 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

Application Data Store

Cleaned up
(ADS) Operation Data Planning Data
Planning ODS Operation Data
Items, BOM, Routing, Staging tables Store Custom programs Plan Run Store
Load Store
Sales Orders,MDS, (ODS) (PDS)
(ODS)
Forecast, Inventory

WIP Mass Load /

Requisition Import /
Reschedule PO /
Reschedule
Requisitions

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 Initial Setups
Decide Centralized v/s Distributed
configuration

Apply latest Rollup Collections RUP #25 (patch

Patches #6751704)
(Note 223026.1) Planning Engine RUP #30
(patch # 7286961)
Get responsibilities Advanced Supply Chain
Planner
Advanced Planning
Administrator 6
 Initial Setups – Contd.
Define Instance

Define Orgs
Assign Collection
Groups

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 Initial Setups – contd.
Run full data collection

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 Initial Setups – contd.
 Gather schema stats on MSC
 Grant Org access

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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 Planner’s workbench

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Planner’s 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
 Run Refresh Collection Snapshots often
 Run Net change collection
 ODS Load takes a long time
 Set MSC:Purge Stg Tbl Cntrl to Yes
 Plan takes a long time to run
 Set MSC: Share Plan Partitions to No
 File space issues
 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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