Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning Profile Options (MRP and Supply Chain Planning Help)


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Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning Profile Options

MRP:ATP Assignment Set

Indicate the name of the assignment set to use for Supply Chain ATP.

You can update this profile at the site level.

MRP:Calculate Excess Exceptions on Time Fence

Indicate whether to calculate excess exceptions at the time fence, instead of up to the time fence.

This profile has a predefined a value of No upon installation.

MRP:Compute Sales Order Changes

Indicate whether to calculate and use sales order demand to perform forecast consumption and track sales order information. Available values are listed below:

Yes Calculate and use sales order information.

No Do not calculate and use sales order information.

Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP predefines a value of Yes for this profile for the site upon installation. You may set this value to No if you wish to disable forecast consumption and sales order tracking in Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP permanently.

This profile has a predefined a value of Yes for this profile for the site upon installation.

You can update this profile at the site level.

MRP:Consume Forecast

Indicate whether to enable or temporarily disable forecast consumption. Forecast consumption is the process that replaces forecasted demand with actual demand and is handled by the Planning Manager process. Available values are listed below:

Yes Enable forecast consumption. Update the forecast set when you place sales order demand.

No Disable forecast consumption. Do not update the forecast set when you place sales order demand.

The planning manager verifies the setting of this option before performing forecast consumption. If it is set to No, the planning manager does not update forecast entries. The planning manager processes any sales order demand occurring while this profile is set to No when you set the profile option back to Yes.

This profile has a predefined a value of Yes upon installation.

You can update this profile at the site level.

MRP:Consume MDS

Indicate whether to enable or temporarily disable shipment relief of a master demand schedule. Available values are listed below:

Yes Enable shipment relief.

No Disable shipment relief.

The planning manager verifies the setting of this option before performing shipment relief. If it is set to No, the planning manager does not update MDS entries. The planning manager processes any sales order shipments occurring while this profile is set to No when you set the profile option back to Yes.

This profile has a predefined a value of Yes upon installation.

You can update this profile at the site level.

MRP:Consume MPS

Indicate whether to enable or temporarily disable production relief of a master production schedule. Available values are listed below:

Yes Enable production relief.

No Disable production relief.

The planning manager verifies the setting of this option before performing production relief. If it is set to No, the planning manager does not update MPS entries. The planning manager processes any purchase requisitions and discrete jobs occurring while this profile is set to No when you set the profile option back to Yes.

This profile has a predefined a value of Yes upon installation.

You can update this profile at the site level.

MRP:Cutoff Date Offset Months

Specify the number of months from today to default the cutoff date for all forecasting, scheduling and planning forms. Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP loads the forecast, master scheduling, and material requirement entries from the current date up to and including this date.

You can update this profile at the site and user levels.

MRP:Debug Mode

Indicate whether to enable debug messages within Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP. Available values are listed below:

Yes Enable debug messages.

No Do not enable debug messages.

This profile has a predefined a value of No upon installation.

You can update this profile at all levels.

MRP:Default DRP Plan Name

Specify the DRP plan name that defaults when navigating to the Plan Options window, Plan Status window, or the Planner Workbench.

You can update this profile at the user level.

MRP:Default Forecast Date

Indicate whether to default the forecast date to the next valid day/week/period in the Enter Forecast Entries window. Available values are listed below:

Yes Default the forecast date to the next valid day/week/period in the Enter Forecast Entries form.

No Do not default the forecast date to the next valid day/week/period in the Enter Forecast Entries form.

This profile has a predefined a value of Yes upon installation.

You can update this profile at all levels.

MRP:Default Forecast Name

Specify the forecast name that defaults when navigating to any of the forecasting forms.

You can update this profile at the user level.

MRP:Default Plan Name

Specify the MRP or MPS plan name that defaults when navigating to any of the planning forms.

You can update this profile at the user level.

MRP:Default Schedule Name

Specify the schedule name that defaults when navigating to any of the scheduling forms.

You can update this profile at the user level.

MRP:Default Sourcing Assignment Set

Determine the sourcing assignment set that Oracle Purchasing uses to assign sources to requisitions

You can update this profile at the site and user level.

MRP:Demand Time Fence Days

Indicate the number of time fence days for forecast set consumption and MDS (sales order) load.

You can update this profile at the site level.

MRP: Environment variable to set path for MRP files

Specify the appropriate path for the MRP files. If this profile is not used, the files are written to $MRP_TOP/$APPLOUT.

This profile contains no pathname following the installation.

You can update this profile at the site level.

MRP:Firm Planned Order Time Fence

Indicate whether to form natural time fences for your MRP firm planned orders when launching the planning process. A MRP firm planned order is an order that is frozen in quantity and time (unavailable for rescheduling). Available values are listed below:

Yes Form natural time fences for your MRP firm planned orders when launching the planning process.

No Do not form natural time fences for your MRP firm planned orders when launching the planning process.

This profile has a predefined a value of Yes upon installation.

You can update this profile at site level.

MRP:Include Scheduled Receipts in Use-up Calculation

Enable the Memory-based Planning Engine to include scheduled receipts in calculating use-up date. The scheduled receipts included will be Discrete Jobs, Approved Purchase Orders, Receipts, and Shipments. Purchase Requisitions and Non-Standard Jobs will be excluded.

This profile has a predefined a value of No upon installation.

You can update this profile at site level.

MRP:Interface Table History Days

Indicate the number of days that Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP saves rows in the forecast, schedule, and workbench temporary interface tables after they have been processed.

This profile has a predefined a value of 5 upon installation.

You can update this profile at the site level.

MRP:Maintain Original Schedule Version

Indicate whether to maintain the original master schedule version. The original schedule version is the earliest copy of schedule dates and quantities, and often may not serve a useful purpose. This gives you the ability to disable the original schedule version if you do not intend to use it as part of your business procedures and do not want to contend with the additional overhead required by Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP to maintain it.

If you change this profile option, you must start the concurrent manager and the planning manager so that the new setting of the profile option is detected.

Available values are listed below:

Yes Maintain the original master schedule version.

No Do not maintain the original master schedule version.

Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP predefines a value of No for this profile for the site upon installation.

This profile has a predefined a value of No upon installation.

You can update this profile at the site level.

MRP:MPS Relief Direction

Indicate the direction in which the production relief takes place when relieving master production schedule entries. Available values are listed below:

Backward, then forward Oracle Master Scheduling relieves master production schedule entries backwards from the discrete job due date then forwards until it finds enough schedule quantity to relieve.

Forward only Oracle Master Scheduling relieves master production schedule entries only forward from the discrete job due date until it finds enough schedule quantity to relieve.

Attention: When you change any of these profile options you must restart the planning manager to activate the new profile option.

This profile has a predefined a value of Backward, then forward upon installation.

You can update this profile at the site, application, and responsibility levels.

Note: The name of this profile option in Release 10 is MRP:Relief Directional Control.

MRP:Perform Planning Manager Functions in Loads

Ensures that the forecast and master schedule load programs perform all planning manager functions: compute sales order changes, forecast consumption, and MDS relief.

This profile has a predefined a value of Yes upon installation.

You can update this profile at the site level.

MRP:Planning Manager Batch Size

Indicate the batch size for the number of rows in a set that the planning manager processes. You use this profile option during a forecast and master schedule load to determine the number of rows to process in batch. Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP also uses this profile option during forecast consumption and master schedule relief to determine the number of items to process.

A larger batch size is more efficient, because a process needs to make fewer database hits. For example, if there are 1000 rows or items to process, and you have set the profile to 100, the process needs to access the database 10 times to retrieve information on all 1000 rows or items. Setting the profile to 200 means that the process needs to access the database only 5 times.

A smaller batch size means that the work may be divided across more workers. Using the example above, a value of 100 means that the Planning Manager could divide the work across 10 processes, while a value of 200 means that only 5 processes could operate simultaneously.

You can update this profile at the site level.

MRP:Planning Manager Max Workers

Indicate the maximum number of workers to be launched by the planning manager. If there are many rows processing, the planning manager continues to spawn more workers, until all rows have been processed, or the number of Planning Manager Workers running or pending matches or exceeds the value of MRP:Planning Manager Workers.

A larger value for this profile means that the Planning Manager can use more workers to process tasks. However, a larger value could also mean that the concurrent manager queue becomes filled with workers, and other processes do not run.

In general, do not define a value that exceeds the maximum number of concurrent programs that can run simultaneously.

This profile has a predefined a value of 10 upon installation.

You can update this profile at the site level.

MRP:Purchasing by Revision

Indicate whether to pass on item revision to the purchase requisition.

You can update this profile at the site level.

MRP:Purge Batch Size

Indicate the batch size for the number of rows that the planning purge process deletes between commits. The larger the number, the faster the purge processes performs. The lower the number, the smaller the rollback segments required.

This profile has a predefined a value of 25000 upon installation.

You can update this profile at the site level.

MRP:Requisition Load Group Option

Indicate the group by option used when loading requisitions using the Planner Workbench form. Available values are listed below:

All on one Create one purchase requisition for all recommended orders.

Buyer Create one purchase requisition for buyer. Within each requisition, create one line for each planned order for the buyer.

Category Create one purchase requisition for each category of items. Within each requisition, create one line for each planned order for the category.

Inventory item Create one purchase requisition for each inventory item. Within each requisition, create one line for each planned order for the item.

One each Create one purchase requisition for recommended order.

Planner Create one purchase requisition for each planner. Within each requisition, create one line for each planned order for the planner.

Supplier Create one purchase requisition for each supplier. Within each requisition, create one line for each planned order for the supplier.

This profile has a predefined a value of supplier upon installation.

You can update this profile is at the site, responsibility, and user levels.

MRP:Retain Dates within Calendar Boundary

Ensures that dates stay within the calendar boundary.

This profile has a predefined a value of Yes upon installation.

You can update this profile at the site level.

MRP:Snapshot Pause for Lock (Minutes)

Indicate the number of minutes to pause execution of the Snapshot process while waiting to acquire locks on tables.

This profile has a predefined a value of 5 upon installation.

You can update this profile at the site level.

MRP:Snapshot Workers

Indicate the number of workers that are launched during the execution of the Snapshot process. A larger value means that more tasks are performed in parallel. Too many workers, however, can result in system degradation and diminishing performance benefits.

In general, do not define a value for this profile that exceeds the maximum number of concurrent programs that can run simultaneously.

This profile has a predefined a value of 5 upon installation.

You can update this profile at the site level.

MRP:Sourcing Rule Category Set

Indicate the category set used when Oracle Supply Chain Planning creates sourcing assignments at category-org or category level.

You can update this profile at the site and user level.

MRP:Time Fence Warning

Indicate whether to receive a warning if you modify a master production schedule within the planning time fence or master demand schedule within the demand time fence. Available values are listed below:

Yes Receive a warning modify a master production schedule within the planning time fence or master demand schedule within the demand time fence.

No Do not receive a warning if you modify a master schedule within the planning or demand time fence.

This profile has a predefined a value of Yes upon installation.

You can update this profile at all levels.

MRP:Trace Mode

Indicate whether to enable the trace option within Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning. Available values are listed below:

Yes Enable the trace option within Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning.

No Do not enable the trace option within Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning.

This profile has a predefined a value of No upon installation.

You can update this profile at all levels.

MRP:Use Direct Load Option

Enables the Loader Worker to use the direct load option instead of conventional loads.

This profile has a predefined a value of No upon installation. You can update this profile at all levels.

MRP:Using Ship Arrived Flag

Indicate how to treat sales orders shipped to customers. You can automatically treat sales orders as "arrived" at a customer site after the intransit lead time has expired, or you can manually update the ARRIVED_FLAG in SO_PICKING_HEADERS.

This profile is used by the Memory-based Planning Engine when a customer is modelled as an organization.

Available values are listed below:

Yes Use arrived flag in SO_PICKING_HEADERS.

No Use intransit time between source and the destination organizations.

Yes	Calculate and use sales order information.
No	Do not calculate and use sales order information.

Yes	Enable forecast consumption. Update the forecast set when you place sales order demand.
No	Disable forecast consumption. Do not update the forecast set when you place sales order demand.

Yes	Enable production relief.
No	Disable production relief.

Yes	Enable debug messages.
No	Do not enable debug messages.

Yes	Default the forecast date to the next valid day/week/period in the Enter Forecast Entries form.
No	Do not default the forecast date to the next valid day/week/period in the Enter Forecast Entries form.

Yes	Form natural time fences for your MRP firm planned orders when launching the planning process.
No	Do not form natural time fences for your MRP firm planned orders when launching the planning process.

Yes	Maintain the original master schedule version.
No	Do not maintain the original master schedule version.

Backward, then forward	Oracle Master Scheduling relieves master production schedule entries backwards from the discrete job due date then forwards until it finds enough schedule quantity to relieve.
Forward only	Oracle Master Scheduling relieves master production schedule entries only forward from the discrete job due date until it finds enough schedule quantity to relieve.

All on one	Create one purchase requisition for all recommended orders.
Buyer	Create one purchase requisition for buyer. Within each requisition, create one line for each planned order for the buyer.
Category	Create one purchase requisition for each category of items. Within each requisition, create one line for each planned order for the category.
Inventory item	Create one purchase requisition for each inventory item. Within each requisition, create one line for each planned order for the item.
One each	Create one purchase requisition for recommended order.
Planner	Create one purchase requisition for each planner. Within each requisition, create one line for each planned order for the planner.
Supplier	Create one purchase requisition for each supplier. Within each requisition, create one line for each planned order for the supplier.

Yes	Receive a warning modify a master production schedule within the planning time fence or master demand schedule within the demand time fence.
No	Do not receive a warning if you modify a master schedule within the planning or demand time fence.

Yes	Enable the trace option within Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning.
No	Do not enable the trace option within Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning.

Yes	Use arrived flag in SO_PICKING_HEADERS.
No	Use intransit time between source and the destination organizations.

Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning Profile Options

MRP:ATP Assignment Set

MRP:Calculate Excess Exceptions on Time Fence

MRP:Compute Sales Order Changes

MRP:Consume Forecast

MRP:Consume MDS

MRP:Consume MPS

MRP:Cutoff Date Offset Months

MRP:Debug Mode

MRP:Default DRP Plan Name

MRP:Default Forecast Date

MRP:Default Forecast Name

MRP:Default Plan Name

MRP:Default Schedule Name

MRP:Default Sourcing Assignment Set

MRP:Demand Time Fence Days

MRP: Environment variable to set path for MRP files

MRP:Firm Planned Order Time Fence

MRP:Include Scheduled Receipts in Use-up Calculation

MRP:Interface Table History Days

MRP:Maintain Original Schedule Version

MRP:MPS Relief Direction

MRP:Perform Planning Manager Functions in Loads

MRP:Planning Manager Batch Size

MRP:Planning Manager Max Workers

MRP:Purchasing by Revision

MRP:Purge Batch Size

MRP:Requisition Load Group Option

MRP:Retain Dates within Calendar Boundary

MRP:Snapshot Pause for Lock (Minutes)

MRP:Snapshot Workers

MRP:Sourcing Rule Category Set

MRP:Time Fence Warning

MRP:Trace Mode

MRP:Use Direct Load Option

MRP:Using Ship Arrived Flag

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