You can use Oracle Rapid Planning to copy and re-generate plans to:
Create fast, what-if simulations
Quickly run alternative scenarios
Compare plan metrics to help select the best solution
The source of rapid planning data is the Oracle e-Business Suite, releases 11i10 and 12.1.1.
It comes to Oracle Rapid Planning through a collections process.
After the collected data is in the planning server, you can use it unchanged for plans or you can change it individually or in a mass update. You store your changes in a simulation set and apply it to this plan or another plan.
You can perform logical operations on the collected data, for example, disabling a component and changing the working days on a calendar and store it in a simulation set.
The Rapid Planning solver is the engine that performs the planning process.
Using the Oracle Rapid Planning workbench, you can view plan inputs, quickly simulate changes, and create, manage, and launch plans. It contains analytic displays and drill-down capabilities.
More than one planner can work on the same plan at the same time.
You can see key performance indicators and metrics:
For one plan
Compared among multiple plans
For your favorites, for example, resources and suppliers
You use Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning and Oracle Rapid Planning together to respond to unanticipated events between Advanced Supply Chain Planning runs. Use Rapid Planning to simulate prospective changes that address these unanticipated issues. Choose a solution, then release it to the execution system and feed it back to Advanced Supply Chain Planning.
This table describes the simulation process.
| Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning | Oracle Rapid Planning |
|---|---|
| Run plan | - |
| Edit and firm order dates | -- |
| Release orders to execution | -- |
| There are unanticipated events that cause production issues before the next plan run. . . | -- |
| Copy Advanced Supply Chain Planning plan as Rapid Planning baseline plan (once, either from Advanced Supply Chain Planning or Rapid Planning) | Copy Advanced Supply Chain Planning plan as Rapid Planning baseline plan (once, either from Advanced Supply Chain Planning or Rapid Planning) |
| -- | Do this as many times as you need to simulate potential solutions and select a solution: |
| -- | - Copy the baseline plan to a simulation plan |
| -- | - Make potential changes to the simulation plan |
| -- | - Firm a portion of the simulation plan |
| -- | - Run the simulation plan |
| -- | - Compare the baseline and the simulation results |
| -- | Release orders to execution |
| -- | In the simulation plan that you use to solve the issue, firm the planned orders that you released. These become firm planned orders when you pass them to the next Advanced Supply Chain Planning run. |
| Run the plan and specify the Rapid Planning simulation plan that you used to solve the issue and released orders from. | -- |
See Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning Implementation and User’s Guide.
You can create the baseline Rapid Planning plan from an Advanced Supply Chain Planning plan using these methods:
In Advanced Supply Chain Planning: Menu, Open Simulation
In Rapid Planning: Process, Copy Plan
Supplies inside the simulation horizon that peg to demands outside the simulation horizon disappear from the baseline plan.
Baseline Entities
The baseline creation process replicates the Advanced Supply Chain Planning plan with these entities.
End demands
Supplies: Dates and quantities
Details for planned orders and their dependent demands
Make: Bill of material, routing, resources, operation start and end dates, resource requirement start and end dates, components, and component requirement dates
Buy: Supplier, supplier site, and ship method
Transfer: Source organization and ship method
Details for scheduled receipts and their dependent demands
Work orders: Bill of material, routing, resources, operation start and end dates, resource requirement start and end dates, components, and component requirement dates
External purchase orders and purchase requisitions: Supplier, supplier site, and ship method
Internal purchase orders and purchase requisitions: Source organization and ship method
Safety stock – The RP plan option “Safety stock lead time method” will be set to “Safety Stock Quantity” and the safety stock quantities will be snapshot from the ASCP plan. This will be the case if the org level plan option “Plan Safety Stock” in ASCP is checked for one or more orgs in the ASCP plan. If the org level plan option “Plan Safety Stock” is unchecked for all orgs in the ASCP plan then the RP plan option “Safety Stock Lead Time method” will be set to “Do not compute safety stock”. It is recommended that the ASCP plan option “Plan Safety Stock” be either checked or unchecked for all orgs in the ASCP plan.
It depends on how you select the Advanced Supply Chain Planning organization-level plan options Plan Safety Stock
You check it for at least one organization: The process sets Rapid Planning plan option Safety stock lead time method to Safety Stock Quantity and uses the safety stock quantities form the Advanced Supply Chain Planning plan.
You clear it for all organizations: The process sets Rapid Planning plan option Safety stock lead time method to Do not compute safety stock.
For setting Advanced Supply Chain Planning plan option Plan Safety Stock, Oracle recommends that you either select it for all organizations or clear it for all organizations.
See Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning Implementation and User’s Guide.
Navigate to Copy Plan.
In Copy From, select Plan Type ASCP
In Copy To, select Plan Type Rapid Planning. If it is a new plan, enter Description, Simulation Horizon (Days), and Category Set.
If the plan exists, you receive a warning.
See Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning Implementation and User’s Guide.
The Rapid Planning plan shows the name of the Advanced Supply Chain Planning plan.
In tab Main, you can change these plan options:
ATP Enabled
Category Set
Use for S&OP
Plan Security Attributes
In tab Organizations, the sections show the organizations and global demand, demand, and supply schedules from the Advanced Supply Chain Planning plan.
Tab Advanced shows the profile option values from the Advanced Supply Chain Planning plan.
This is how process Create Baseline Plans sets supply order attributes and what you can do with the supply orders in Rapid Planning.
For firm supplies, the process makes dependent component requirements and resource requirements firm as well.
| Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning Supply | Oracle Rapid Planning Supply |
|---|---|
| Scheduled receipt – No change recommended | It inherits firm status from Advanced Supply Chain Planning and has Action = None. You can plan it in a Rapid Planning simulation and release its recommendation. |
| Scheduled receipt – Change recommended and not released | It inherits Firm = No and Action = Release. You can either: - Release the Advanced Supply Chain Planning recommendation straightaway - Plan it in a Rapid Planning simulation and release its recommendation |
| Scheduled receipt – Change recommended and released | It inherits Implement Firm, Action = None, and Suggested Due Date = Implement Date You can either: - Leave it alone - Unfirm it, plan it in a Rapid Planning simulation, and release its recommendation |
| Planned order – Unreleased and unfirm | It inherits Firm = No and Action = Release. You can either: - Release the Advanced Supply Chain Planning recommendation straightaway - Replace it by planning it in a Rapid Planning simulation |
| Planned order – Unreleased and firm | It inherits Firm = Yes and Action = Release. You can either: - Leave it alone - Release it straightaway - Unfirm it, plan it in a Rapid Planning simulation, and release its recommendation |
| Planned order – Released | Inherits Firm = Yes, Suggested Due Date = Implement Date, and Action = None. You can modify the firm flag. When you plan a simulation, Rapid Planning removes it, unless it is part of the simulation scope. Oracle recommends that you do not do this--if you rerun the plan, it plans another, you might accidentally release it, and you order double production. |
You can’t run the snapshot for these plans (launch the plan without snapshot).
You must replan in mode Incremental Replan.
See Managing Plans > Workbench Actions > Define Incremental Replan Scope.
Use the Analytics view to compare supply orders between the baseline plan and the simulation plans. Navigate to tab Order Comparison Tab, subtab Supply Order Comparison.
The sorts of changes that it reports is:
Action: Different action status. For example, cancelled orders vs non-cancelled orders, rescheduled orders vs non-rescheduled orders, and have an action vs do not have an action.
Available Date + [Equal To, Less Than, or Greater Than]: Supply Due Dates between scheduled receipts are outside the range. For example, Available Date + greater than 10 = all supply order pairs with Supply Due Dates more than ten days apart.
This does not report for planned orders.
Feed back the results of your Rapid Planning simulation decision to the next Advanced Supply Chain Planning plan run.
See Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning Implementation and User’s Guide.
You can purge Advanced Supply Planning plans that have baseline and simulation Rapid Planning plans.
The Rapid Planning plans remain but don’t have reference to a baseline plan and don’t have any of the restrictions of a baseline plan.
Oracle Rapid Planning integrates with other Oracle e-Business Suite Value Chain Planning applications.
Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning and Oracle Value Chain Planning
You use the same collections processes to collect the e-Business Suite source data and Oracle Value Chain Planning data to Oracle Rapid Planning
Oracle Demand Planning and Oracle Demantra Demand Management
You can use consensus forecasts to drive the plans
However, you cannot do so if the plan is a baseline Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning plan. Use the consensus forecast to drive the Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning plan instead.
Oracle Demantra Sales and Operations Planning
You can use Rapid Planning plans that are simulations from baseline Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning plans as Sales and Operations Planning supply scenarios.
Oracle Advanced Planning Command Center
You can view Oracle Rapid Planning information in Oracle Advanced Planning Command Center for supply chain analysis. This includes plans that are simulations from baseline Advanced Supply Chain Planning plans.
See the Oracle Advanced Planning Command Center User's Guidefor information about:
Supply Chain Analyst Dashboard Pages
Supply Demand Plan Drilldowns
Resource Plan Drilldowns
Exceptions Reports Drilldowns
Measures
Oracle Global Order Promising
Oracle Global Order Promising works almost the same with Oracle Rapid Planning as it does with Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning.
See Oracle Global Order Promising Implementation and User's Guide.
Oracle Collaborative Planning
Oracle Collaborative Planning integrates with Oracle Rapid Planning in two ways. On the supplier collaboration side, you can publish order forecast and safety stock targets to suppliers from a Rapid Planning plan and receive supplier supply commits from suppliers. On the customer side, you can publish supply commit information from the RP plan to CP.
See the Setting Up and Integrating chapter in this document and Oracle Collaborative Planning Implementation and User's Guide.
You can release planned orders, reschedules, and cancellations to Oracle e-Business Suite. In addition, plans can be downloaded to Demantra Sales and Operations Planning where they can provide input into the consensus planning process. Once new consensus forecasts have been agreed upon, they can be uploaded to Rapid Planning for additional simulation and planning. This cycle can be repeated as many times as necessary until an operational plan has been achieved.
For more information about the integration between Rapid Planning and Demantra Sales and Operations Planning, please refer to "Demantra Sales and Operations Planning to Rapid Planning Integration", Oracle Demantra Implementation Guide.
You can use Oracle Rapid Planning in many situations, for example,
Hot demand
Engineering change cut-in
Yield bust
Resource downtime
This is a possible scenario for processing a hot demand.
You have a production plan.
You receive information on a hot demand.
Copy your production plan to a new plan named Hot Demand.
View the Supply Chain Bill for the demanded item.
Navigate to the Material Plan view. Note the supply, demand, and projected available balance.
Navigate to the Supply/Demand view, enter the hot demand, and assign it a high priority.
Re-navigate to the Material Plan view and notice the impact of the hot demand, including the negative projected available balance.
Save the Hot Demand plan.
Run plan Hot Demand without changing current orders.
Note that the planned date for the hot demand is unacceptably late.
Re-run plan Hot Demand with the ability to change current orders.
Review key performance indicators, favorites, and order comparison information between the production plan and the Hot Demand plan.
If the Hot Demand plan is the more acceptable plan, release planned orders from it.
This is a possible scenario for processing an engineering change order cut-in.
You have a production plan.
You receive information on a phase out-phase in bill of material change
Copy your production plan to a new plan named ECO Change 1.
Navigate to the Bill of Material view and modify the bill of material by changing the effectivity dates.
Run plan ECO Change 1.
Navigate to the Horizontal Plan screen and review the projected available balance for the two components. Check for a large final projected available balance on the phase-out component.
Compare key metrics, for example, excess inventory monetary value and late days, between the production plan and plan ECO Change 1.
If there is, for example, unacceptable excess inventory monetary value, copy your plan ECO Change 1 to a new plan named ECO Change 2.
Re-navigate to the Bill of Material Edit/Update screen and modify the bill of material with a new cut-in date.
Run plan ECO Change 2.
Navigate to the Material Plan view and review the projected available balance for the two components.
Compare key metrics, for example, excess inventory monetary value and late days, between the plan ECP Change 1 and plan ECO Change 2
Release planned orders from the more acceptable ECO Change plan.
This is a possible scenario for processing a yield bust.
You have a production plan.
You receive information on a reduction in inventory by 100 pieces due to a yield bust.
Copy your production plan to a new plan named Supply Change
Navigate to the Supply/Demand view and lower the inventory by 100 pieces.
Navigate to the Material Plan view and note the projected available balance change.
Run plan Supply Change.
Compare key metrics between the production plan and plan Supply Change.
If you find that the results from the Supply Change plan are unacceptable, check alternate components and find one with supplier capacity of 100 per day.
Negotiate with your supplier for supply of an alternate component.
Re-run plan Supply Change.
Re-compare key metrics between the production plan and plan Supply Change.
If the Supply Change plan is the more acceptable plan, release planned orders from it.
This is a possible scenario for processing a resource downtime.
You have a production plan.
You receive information on a down bottleneck resource for all of next week.
Copy your production plan to a new plan named Resource Downtime.
Navigate to the Resource Availability view and decrease the resource availability for next week to zero.
Run plan Resource Downtime
Compare key metrics between the production plan and plan Resource Downtime.
If you find that the results from the Resource Downtime plan are unacceptable, check alternate resources.
Negotiate for overtime on an alternate resource for next week.
Re-navigate to the Resource Capacity view and increase the alternate resource availability for next week by 20%.
Re-run plan Resource Downtime.
Re-compare key metrics between the production plan and plan Resource Downtime
If the Resource Downtime plan is the more acceptable plan, release planned orders from it.