Advanced Planning Solutions, Inc

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Oracle APS- An Implementers View
Raghu Manjunath President, 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

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Discussion Topic

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

Whats this guy smokin !!!
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Philosophy

• Lifes all about expectations

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Q A / Follow up

• Contact
• E-mail raghu_at_apscorp.net
• Ph 650-867-4876
• Internet site www.apscorp.net

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Thank You!