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The following post will show you how to define constraints parameters for your plans. Simulations based on constrained plans can help you to understand better the stakes of your supply chain. Plan constraints for materials and resources can be defined here: Advanced Supply Chain Planner: Supply Chain Plan > Options (select your plan) Plan considering…
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Planning is a key element in supply chain management. The manufacturing plan consists in creating work and material requirements based on product demand.Building an accurate plan is vital to satisfy customers’ requirements and reach equilibrium between supply and demand. Accurate plan means accurate forcast and reliable data… Demand is composed of: Sales Orders Sales forecast*…
This exception is displayed by the planning workbench. It simply means that supply for one project has been allocated to the demand of a different project. To resolve this issue, check the demand. If the demand is correct, you should: Perform project transfers if exception message is related to on hand quantities Update purchase and work orders if exception…
The planning engine issues exception messages to draw your attention to situations that may need you to perform an action. (e.g. check past due sales orders, release work orders or planned orders, etc.) The most frequently used exceptions are listed below and sorted by exception types. Projects/tasks related exceptions Items with a shortage in a…
Lead times is core element in supply chain management and optimization. Visit this page to understand better the lead-time concept. To set up lead times, please naviguate as follow: Oracle Inventory > Organization items form > Item attributes > Lead-time tabbed region Please note: In Oracle eBusiness Suite, these attributes are controlled at the Organization level only! Preprocessing Processing Postprocessing: This attribute…
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When running unconstrained plan, The MRP generates a supply plan based on the supposed infinite availability of materials and resources. When running a constrained plan, material and resources availability is limited, you can choose to enforce capacity constraints or to enforce demand due dates. Enforce capacity constraints: Your plan will not violate supplier, manufacturing and…
Lead Time is the time between the initiation of a process and its completion. In Supply Chain Management there are 2 types of lead times: Manufacturing Lead Time Information Lead Time Manufacturing lead times As shown above, there are 4 different types of lead times required to make an item or an item lot. Preprocessing…