Preface

Intended Audience

Welcome to Release 12.2 of the Oracle Advanced Planning Command Center User's Guide.

Casual User and Implementer

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Structure

1  Advanced Planning Command Center Overview
2  Managing Scenarios
3  Understanding Service - Enablement Planning Processes
4  Understanding the Advanced Planning Analytical Framework
5  Using the Supply Chain Analyst Dashboard
6  Using the Sales and Operations Planning Analyst Dashboard
7  Using the Supply Chain Risk Management Dashboard
8  Using the Service Parts Planning Dashboard
9  Understanding the APCC Policy Planning Dashboard
10  Understanding the Trade Analysis Dashboard
A  BPEL Processes
B  APCC Standalone and Backport
C  Operation Data Store

Related Information Sources

Integration Repository

The Oracle Integration Repository is a compilation of information about the service endpoints exposed by the Oracle E-Business Suite of applications. It provides a complete catalog of Oracle E-Business Suite's business service interfaces. The tool lets users easily discover and deploy the appropriate business service interface for integration with any system, application, or business partner.

The Oracle Integration Repository is shipped as part of the Oracle E-Business Suite. As your instance is patched, the repository is automatically updated with content appropriate for the precise revisions of interfaces in your environment.

Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning Implementation and User's Guide

This guide describes Internet-based planning solutions that decide when and where supplies, such as inventory, purchase orders, and work orders, should be deployed within an extended supply chain.

Oracle Collaborative Planning Implementation and User's Guide

This guide describes the information that you need to understand and use Oracle Collaborative Planning to communicate, plan, and optimize supply and demand information for trading partners across the supply chain.

Oracle Demand Planning User's Guide

This guide describes how to use Oracle Demand Planning, an Internet-based solution for creating and managing forecasts.

Oracle Global Order Promising Implementation and User's Guide

This guide describes how to use Oracle Global Order Promising for sophisticated, fast, accurate, and flexible order promising.

Oracle Inventory Optimization User's Guide

This guide describes the comprehensive Internet-based inventory planning solution that enables you to determine when and where to hold your inventories across the supply chain to achieve the desired customer service levels.

Oracle Order Management User's Guide

This guide describes the necessary information that you need to use and comprehend managing your orders.

Oracle Production Scheduling Implementation Guide

This guide describes how to use Production Scheduling to create detailed finite capacity and materially constrained optimized production schedules to drive shop floor operations and material planning.

Oracle Rapid Planning Implementation and User's Guide

This guide describes how you can copy and regenerate plans to create fast, what-if simulations, run alternative scenarios, and compare plan metrics to help you select the best solution for your scenario.

Oracle Service Parts Planning Implementation and User's Guide

Oracle Service Parts Planning is used by repair service operations to ensure that the right parts are available at the right locations and at the right times, in usable condition. It enables planners to forecast and manage the distribution of individual parts in the most efficient manner possible.

Oracle Strategic Network Optimization Implementation Guide

This guide describes how to use Strategic Network Optimization to model and optimize your supply chain network, from obtaining raw materials through delivering end products.

Do Not Use Database Tools to Modify Oracle E-Business Suite Data

Oracle STRONGLY RECOMMENDS that you never use SQL*Plus, Oracle Data Browser, database triggers, or any other tool to modify Oracle E-Business Suite data unless otherwise instructed.

Oracle provides powerful tools you can use to create, store, change, retrieve, and maintain information in an Oracle database. But if you use Oracle tools such as SQL*Plus to modify Oracle E-Business Suite data, you risk destroying the integrity of your data and you lose the ability to audit changes to your data.

Because Oracle E-Business Suite tables are interrelated, any change you make using an Oracle E-Business Suite form can update many tables at once. But when you modify Oracle E-Business Suite data using anything other than Oracle E-Business Suite, you may change a row in one table without making corresponding changes in related tables. If your tables get out of synchronization with each other, you risk retrieving erroneous information and you risk unpredictable results throughout Oracle E-Business Suite.

When you use Oracle E-Business Suite to modify your data, Oracle E-Business Suite automatically checks that your changes are valid. Oracle E-Business Suite also keeps track of who changes information. If you enter information into database tables using database tools, you may store invalid information. You also lose the ability to track who has changed your information because SQL*Plus and other database tools do not keep a record of changes.