Oracle Rapid Planning Release Notes for Release 12.1.3.9
Part #: E21888-05, July 21013
This document provides delta information from Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 to Value Chain Planning Cumulative Patch 12.1.3.9, Patch 16974659.
The information included in this document assumes that you have already installed Oracle Rapid Planning Release 12.1.3.9, according to the instructions in the following document:
Oracle Rapid Planning Installation Guide,
Part No. E21578-06, January 2012
This guide also contains Rapid Planning system requirements information. HTML | PDF
Note: This document - especially Section 5, Known Issues - may be updated after initial release. Any changes are listed in Section 6, Change Record. If you print this document, periodically check to ensure you have the most recent version.
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Oracle Rapid Planning uses an in-memory engine that can very quickly react and recompute the impacts of any user changes and report, in real time, the consequences across the supply chain. It also re-calculates the exceptions, key performance indicators to reflect these impacts.
Rapid Planning supports input of simulation changes to master data like items, resources, bills of materials, routing operations in two ways:
Change the master data inside a particular plan and re-solve
Change the master data in a simulation set for repetitive use in more than one plan
The planning engine can be invoked in three different modes:
With snapshot and complete replan
Without snapshot, but complete replan
Without snapshot, but replan only incremental changes
This application enables a completely new, rich-client user interface built using 11gR1 Fusion Middleware technologies and supports configurable workspaces, flexible layouts, dynamic tabs, etc. to make the user experience very productive as well as easy to use.
Oracle Rapid Planning makes simulations very easy through the powerful feature of simulation sets. A simulation set is a collection of changes to the attributes of any of the following master data entities.
Items
Resources
Bill of Materials, components and substitutes
Resource Availability
Calendars
This feature enables planners to do "what-if" analysis without having to make these changes permanent or without the need to make these changes in the source ERP systems and re-collect to see their impacts. This saves a lot of time and effort for the planners.
These simulation sets can then be referenced in different plans through a plan option.
Users can make quickly make updates on a large number of rows (for example, increase the post-processing leadtime of all items in category 'ABC' by 10%) through the mass-edit feature.
This feature is supported for almost all entities like items, resources, supplies, demands, etc. Users can update using various operators like "set value to", "increase by", "decrease by", "increase by %", "decrease by %", etc.
Users can undo the simulation changes at an attribute-level by using "set value to original" operator to revert to the original value.
Oracle Rapid Planning allows users to quickly make multiple copies and then use them as alternatives for corrective actions. Once the plans are run, users can compare any two plans (or one plan with its previous run) inside any of the following four views:
All analytics - reports and graphs
All exception views
Supply and Demand view
Material and Resource horizontal plans
In addition, users can use order-by-order comparison view where they can compare any two plans (or a single plan with its previous run) and make the following comparisons:
The application supports a material plan with a layout wizard that lets the users to customize the layout including the measures displayed, time granularity, etc. Users can also specify two aggregation levels from a choice of Organization, Product Category, Product Family and Item.
The aggregations are done real-time and take into account all current user changes, firming, etc.
Users can also update the aggregate level horizontal plans. For example, users can update forecast quantity at the product category or even at a period level. The system will allocate the updates to individual items and days.
Oracle Rapid Planning enables an integrated view of supply/demand orders and their associated pegging. In a single view, users can drill either upstream or downstream to view the supply chain from a single order. This enables for a consolidated view of the entire tree without having to switch between multiple views.
Users can also focus on a single order upstream or downstream and then reverse direction to look at the "where-used" or the opposite views. They can then retrace the steps back to original state of the supply/demand view.
Oracle Rapid Planning comes with pre-built integration with Advanced Planning Command Center. Rapid Planning plans can be archived, published to Advanced Planning Command Center. These archived versions can then be viewed in all the related reports and dashboards.
The Advanced Planning Command Center's Supply Chain Analyst dashboard supports drill-down directly into the Rapid Planning Application.
All Rapid Planning Simulation plans can be used in the Process Automation functionality to build process flows in Advanced Planning Command Center.
Planners can run Rapid Planning in an unconstrained mode. The unconstrained option allows planners to see the required material availability and resource capacity to find what needs to be arranged in order to meet all demands on time. The unconstrained plan output can optionally respect the planning time fence to allow planners to freeze the plan for the initial period. Rapid Planning unconstrained planning can also calculate resource requirements to generate resource usage and resource overload data.
Rapid Planning unconstrained plans produce a full complement of exception messages to alert the planner to critical constraint violations. These exception messages include "Orders with Insufficient Lead Time", "Resource Overloaded", and "Supplier Capacity Violated". In addition, problems with specific demands are highlighted by the exception messages for sales orders and forecasts at risk due to material shortages or resource shortages.
Rapid Planning offers a full set of constrained planning features. Rapid Planning performs simultaneous material and resource capacity constraint based planning. Rapid Planning output is constrained by purchasing, distribution and transit lead times, by resource calendars and capacities, and by supplier capacity. Rapid Planning calculates the capacities consumed by existing WIP schedules and purchased supplies and allocates the remaining capacity to new planned orders.
Constrained planning allows planners to automate many types of planning decisions and focus on the critical issues. Rapid Planning constraint based planning includes the ability to search among many alternate supply types. Rapid Planning can automatically search for and find alternates and substitutes across the supply chain and create planned orders to meet demands on time. When the primary supply source is late, Rapid Planning searches for the entire supply chain for item substitutes, alternate organizations, alternate suppliers, alternate BOM and routing, alternate resources and substitute components to locate the supply source that provides the delivery date closest the demand due date.
Rapid Planning utilizes forecast and demand data from Oracle Demantra 7.2 and Oracle Demand Planning R11i10 and 12.1. Rapid Planning performs forecast consumption and allows the planner to optionally explode forecasts.
The forecast consumption features allow the planner to include both forecasts and actual sales orders without double counting demand. Planners can select the enforce demand time fence plan option and forecasts inside the demand time fence are not included as demands in the plan.
During plan definition, the planner can select forecast spreading option. For example, if the forecast is a weekly forecast, the planner can choose to spread the forecast to daily buckets and also optionally set the forecast consumption forward and backward day controls. This allows the planner to accept aggregate (weekly or period) forecasts and more accurately plan supplies in daily buckets.
Demand priority rules can be specified at the plan level, allowing the planner to easily compare results from two different plans using different demand prioritization approaches. Demand priority rules control the sequence of demand priorities assigned to all demands. The most urgent demands have the best chance of being satisfied on time. Alternatively, Rapid Planning can use externally specified demand priorities for sales orders and forecasts.
Rapid Planning pegging links supplies to demands so that the planner can easily identify demand impacts when supply dates change. The planner can use pegging to trace component or resource problems up to the affected sales orders. Pegging also enables the planner to identify which supplies are linked to critical demands and ensure that those supplies remain on schedule.
Rapid Planning is compatible with the sourcing rules, bills of distribution and assignment sets used by Oracle Purchasing or upload supply chain sourcing definitions via file loaders. Sourcing rules and bills of distribution determine the movement of materials between organizations in your global enterprise; these organizations include your suppliers and the materials include those items made at the manufacturing organizations.
Sourcing rules and bills of distribution specify date-effective sourcing strategies, combining replenishment sources with source rankings. Users can flexibly assign sourcing rules to individual items, categories, organizations and regions to define the complete supply chain from suppliers to customers.
Rapid Planning can select primary or alternate sources depending on supply constraints to provide the best demand satisfaction dates. If Rapid Planning selects an alternate organization to source an order, then the selection is reported by the exception message "Order Sourced from Alternate Facility".
You can specify time-phased capacity of individual suppliers to specific items in Oracle Purchasing or upload supplier capacity via file loaders. Rapid Planning can allocate planned orders based the constraints of the suppliers. Planned orders are assigned supplier sources in respect to their capacity. Rapid Planning uses the ranking information you specify in sourcing rules and first attempts to source the planned orders with the primary sources. If the capacity to fulfill the demand is not available, alternative sources are used. If the order is sourced from an alternate supplier, then the selection is reported by the exception message "Order Sourced from Alternate Supplier".
You can specify item-supplier lead times and supplier capacity calendars. Rapid Planning recognizes the item-supplier specific parameters and applies them as sources of supply are evaluated to find supply that meets a demand on time. Users can also enter item-supplier specific order modifiers.
The supplier capacity calendar governs how supplier capacity is accumulated over a period of time. Supplier capacity is only accumulated on the working days according to the supplier capacity calendar. The supplier capacity calendar also governs how the supplier processing time is calculated.
Rapid Planning is integrated with Oracle BOM or you can upload bills of material and routings via file loaders. It supports single-level and multi-level bills of material. Rapid Planning recognizes and recommends substitute components when primary components are delayed or not available. Substitute component selections are reported by the exception message "Planned Order uses Substitute Component".
If alternate bills of material are specified, then the alternate bill may be recommended if there are supply constraints on the primary bill of material and routing. Alternate bills of material selections are reported by the exception message "Planned Order uses Alternate BOM/Routing".
Rapid Planning respects BOM effectivity dates. The planning engine will calculate component requirements based on the BOM effectivity date and also considering component effectivity dates. Rapid Planning evaluates the engineering change orders as of their scheduled effective date. You can order material and plan resources that you need for new revisions ahead of time.
By-products and co-products specified on the BOM are evaluated by Rapid Planning. New planned orders include by-products and co-products which can be used as supply available on the completion dates. Rapid Planning also uses existing WIP standard and non-standard job by-products and co-products as available supply.
Rapid Planning constrained planning respects resource capacity and schedules new planned orders and existing discrete jobs to avoid resource capacity overloads. You can define routings, resources and resource capacity in Oracle BOM or upload via file loaders.
You can specify simultaneous resources and set the maximum assigned units for each resource requirement to control scheduling results. Rapid Planning respects prior and next operation scheduling controls. Resource efficiency and utilization are used by Rapid Planning resource requirement calculations.
If you can specify alternate resources, Rapid Planning selects alternates and schedules around constraints on primary resources to meet demands on time. Rapid Planning also chooses alternate routings when required because of constraints on the primary BOM and routing. Alternate selections reported with the exception messages "Planned Order uses Alternate Resource" and "Planned Order uses Alternate BOM/Routing".
Rapid Planning respects routing effectivity dates. Resource requirements are generated using routings which are effective on the start date of the planned order.
Planners can select certain bottleneck resources to perform constrained planning. Other resources are planned in an unconstrained mode using the resource lead time during scheduling. Rapid Planning creates schedules that do not overload the selected bottleneck resources and reports overloads on the non-bottleneck resources. This allows the planner to focus on the critical bottleneck resources.
Rapid Planning uses end item substitution rules to find acceptable substitute item supplies when the requested item is not available for the demand request date. Substitution is based on user-defined rules that can be effective either in one direction or in both directions; defining a chain of substitution relationships. Customer specific item substitution rules can also be specified which are respected by Rapid Planning when searching for supplies for that customer's demands. When item substitutes are selected, Rapid Planning alerts the planning with the exception message "Demand Satisfied Using End Item Substitution".
Rapid Planning respects manufacturing and purchasing lead times. Users can set pre-processing, processing and post-processing lead times. Rapid Planning constraint based planning respects these lead times. Rapid Planning respects planning time fences defined at the item organization level which allows the user to freeze the schedule during the initial periods of the plan.
Rapid Planning includes the user specified order modifiers at the item organization level and creates new planned orders respecting the order modifiers. Order modifiers respected include minimum order size, maximum order size, fixed order quantity, fixed lot multiplier and round order quantity. Additionally, users can specify supplier specific order modifiers which are respected by Rapid Planning when creating new planned orders sourced from the supplier.
Rapid Planning considers safety stock lead time that is user controllable at the item organization level. Safety stock lead time is a lead time that you add to the normal lead time of make and buy items. You use it to instruct the planning engine to schedule supplies in advance of the demand due dates that peg to them. This creates an inventory buffer to protect against fluctuations in lead time, demand (for example, forecast error), and supply (for example, variable supplier lead times and irregular operation yields).
Rapid Planning plans a variety of supply chain activities like manufacturing, inter facility shipments, purchases, and shipment to customers. Each of these activities is controlled by a set of calendars. Manufacturing, supplier, and customer facilities may be able to ship or receive goods on specific days. Rapid Planning schedules each type of supply or demand considering the working and non working days in the appropriate set of calendars.
The shipping calendar indicates the valid working days for shipment activities originating from suppliers and organizations. The planning engine does not recommend a shipment out from those facilities if the date is a non-working day.
The receiving calendar governs the receiving activities at the organizations or customer sites that receive goods. The planning engine allows organizations to receive shipments only on a working day.
The carrier calendar indicates the working and non-working days and times for material that is in transit using different means of transport. For example, certain methods of shipment such as parcel carriers may not work on weekends. This may cause the transit time to be stretched over the weekends.
Planners can review existing WIP jobs and purchase orders while comparing to the pegged demands. When required, the planner can pull in or push out the existing supply and firm it. Rapid Planning respects the firm flag by not changing the schedule dates and by consuming material and resource capacity before scheduling non-firm supplies. Rapid Planning reports any overload situations caused by firm supplies.
Planners can review new planned make and buy orders while comparing to the pegged demands. When required, the planner can pull in or push out the new planned orders and selectively firm the planned orders. Rapid Planning respects the firm flag by not changing the schedule dates and by consuming material and resource capacity before scheduling non-firm supplies. Rapid Planning reports any overload situations caused by firm planned orders.
Planners can easily release recommendations from Rapid Planning to execution systems. Planners can selectively release planning recommendations or choose to release all recommendations. Planners can adjust recommendation due dates and then release the new planned orders or the reschedule of existing planned orders.
New planned make orders are released with an alternate BOM/Routing recommendation. If Rapid Planning selects substitute components and alternate resources, these selections are also be released as part of the make order.
Rapid Planning allows the user to specify the auto-release of planned orders within the release time fence. Users can set the release time as the item organization attribute. Auto-release of planned orders occurs immediately after the Rapid Planning plan processes complete.
Rapid Planning release processes are fully integrated with Oracle Purchasing and Order WIP. The release processes also allow for integration to third party systems.
Rapid Planning generates the following 24 exception types, and are displayed within the "Exceptions" view in Rapid Planning.
Past Due Sales Orders
Late Replenishment for Sales Order
Late Replenishment for Forecast
Demand Quantity Not Satisfied
Resource Overloaded
Exception: Supplier Capacity Overloaded
Items with a Shortage
Items below Safety Stock
Items with Excess Inventory
Past Due Orders
Orders to be rescheduled out
Orders to be cancelled
Orders to be rescheduled in
Order with Insufficient Lead Time
Sales Order/Forecast at Risk due to a resource shortage
Sales Order/Forecast at Risk due to material shortage
Late Supply pegged to Forecast
Late supply pegged to Sales Order
Planned Order uses alternate BOM/Routing
Planned Order uses Substitute Component
Planned Order uses Alternate Resource
Order Sourced from Alternate Facility
Order sourced from Alternate Supplier
Demand Satisfied Using End Item Substitution
Exceptions are generated only when a plan run has completed, and are not regenerated when manual edits are made to a plan.
Users can choose to enable or disable the display of specific exception types, and specify their arrangement within the Exceptions view through a configuration mechanism.
Within an exception type, users can specify search criteria or filters to specify the exceptions that must be displayed. Search criteria can be saved with a user specified name for future use.
From an exception, navigation to other related Rapid Planning views has been provided in context of the exception's attributes (Item, Org, Resource, etc). Exceptions generated in Rapid Planning can be exported to MS Excel for further analysis.
When Plan Comparison is enabled in Rapid Planning, exceptions for the base plan and compared plan for an exception type are displayed in adjacent tabs. The name of the exception type also has the name of the associated plan to easily identify which plan the listed exceptions belong to.
KPI's/Metrics are displayed in Rapid Planning in a separate "Analytics" view. Rapid Planning can display the following plan metrics:
Stock Outs (in days)
Fill Rate (%)
Inventory Turns
Safety Stock violations (in days)
Revenue
Gross margin (%)
Manufacturing Cost
Purchasing Cost
On Time Orders (%)
Resource Utilization (%)
Supplier Capacity Utilization (%)
Clear to Build (% of orders)
Clear to Build Component Availability (%)
Ready to Build (%)
Top N Shortage Components (%)
In addition to the above metrics, Rapid Planning can also display different facts (Count, Quantity, Value, etc) for the supported exception types as metrics.
Selection of the metrics that must be displayed, their display levels, associated filter conditions, and their layout within the Analytics view can be configured at a user level.
In a Plan Comparison mode, values from both the base and the compared plans are shown together for easy visibility and comparison.
The Analytics view also enables the comparison of end order satisfaction across two plans within an Order Comparison region. To easily compare end demands planned differently across the base and compared plans, seeded comparison mechanisms (such as "Was On Time, Now Late") are provided. Search capabilities are also provided to restrict the comparison to a user defined selection.
Planners can review late demands and make the necessary adjustments. Oracle Rapid Planning can either push demands late or satisfy them partially making a part of the demand go unmet. In either case, the user would like to diagnose the problem, identify the root cause and potentially fix it by taking corrective actions like adding capacity.
A new view will be added to Rapid Planning UI called "Constraint Details" View to display all these constraints for any late or unmet demand. It will be accessible from the following places:
Supply and Demand View (from Late or Unmet End Demands)
Exceptions View
Late Replenishment for Forecast
Late Replenishment for Sales Order
Demand Quantity not Satisfied
From Supply and Demand View, it can be invoked by selected any late/unmet demands for any end items. If the user selects any row other than late/unmet demands for end items, the constraints view would not have any data.
From Exceptions views, it will open Constraint Details View with the context of those demands.
It can be invoked for a single demand or multiple demands.
For each late demand root cause, Rapid Planning generates information that can be viewed in a new late demand diagnosis screen. The screen informs the planner what material and resource constraints caused the demand to be satisfied late, as well as an assessment of how severe each constraint is.
Global forecasting allows you to define forecasts without the context of a shipment organization. This is done in Oracle Demantra (or Oracle Demand Planning). Forecasts can have reference to ship-to entities such as customer site and zone. You can choose a ship-to consumption level in Rapid Planning. The forecasts from Oracle Demantra fed in as demand schedules can be consumed without any reference to a shipment organization.
You can use sourcing rules to distribute consumed global forecasts to appropriate shipment organizations. Forecast distribution is performed in an unconstrained manner based on the user defined percentages in the sourcing rules. Rapid Planning issues exception messages when a distributed forecast demand at an organization cannot be met on time by supply in that organization.
Rapid Planning supports configure to order environments. Rapid Planning can accept forecasts for assemble to order (ATO) models and pick to order (PTO) models as demand schedules. ATO and PTO forecasts from Oracle Demantra, Oracle Demand Planning and EBS R12 and R11i10 are supported.
Single level and multi-level ATO models are supported by Rapid Planning. Multi-level ATO models include models at lower levels of the BOM structure. Configured to order sales orders consume model forecasts at each level of the multi-level model. Rapid Planning will plan for the unconsumed model, option and option class forecasts as well as planning for the configured items. Supplies are scheduled and created as needed for all lower levels.
You can provide pre-exploded forecast values of your ATO and PTO models and components to Rapid Planning. Configured sales orders consume the model and lower level forecasts. Rapid Planning supports forecast consumption at various levels such as customer, customer site, zone (global forecasts), demand class, and item organization.
Rapid Planning can also optionally explode the forecast for the top level model. Model forecasts are exploded to option, option class and component forecasts within Rapid Planning using the "Explode Forecast" plan option. After forecast explosion, Rapid Planning will consume and plan supplies for the unconsumed forecast demand at each level.
Multi-level multi-organization models are supported. A multi-organization model is one which contains top level or some lower-level models which are transferred between organizations. If you have multi-organization models you must use global forecasting for forecast consumption to be correct.
Rapid Planning distributes global forecasts for ATO and PTO models across organizations based on the user-specified sourcing rule percentages. The global forecasts can be consumed at different levels such as Global (Item), Organization, Customer, Customer Site, and Zone.
Rapid Planning plans only consider ATO sales orders after they have been progressed to include a linked configured item. This allows Rapid Planning to schedule these sales orders with all the capabilities provided for standard items - for example, to net existing supplies of pre-configured stock at any supply chain bill of material level.
A forecast for a lower level ATO configuration that will be stocked will be consumed by a sales order for the top level configured model. ASCP will consume the forecast for this specific configuration first. Any remaining demand will then consume the forecast for the associated ATO model.
For procured configurations, Rapid Planning allows you to plan based on the aggregate capacity of the supplier-supplier site to build the base model. A supplier capacity statement for the ATO model is consumed by the ATO items that are created based on this model. KPIs illustrating supplier capacity metrics, as well as exception messages are provided to help you make an informed decision.
Rapid Planning provides support for default order sizing to improve scheduling results. Smaller order sizes improve scheduling flexibility which leads to higher fill rates and on time supplies. In the absence of order modifiers, Rapid Planning sizes orders to daily production capacity. When some capacity is consumed on a day, Rapid Planning reduces the order size to fit within the remaining capacity in a day.
Users can override the default order sizing algorithm by specifying a new item-organization attribute called planning unit of work. The user can set planning unit of work to the number of hours for the duration of the maximum order size. For example, set planning unit of work to 8 hours and the resulting new planned orders will not exceed 8 hour shifts in duration.
User can set the planning unit of work to larger than daily capacities and Rapid Planning will create new planned orders that typically span several days up to the specified planning unit of work.
The default order sizing does not override existing item-organization order modifiers. For example, if the fixed order quantity is specified, then all order sizes equal fixed order quantity without regard to the planning unit of work. Default order sizing is only applied to new planned orders and does not affect the quantity of an existing supply.
Rapid Planning recognizes on hand inventory reservations to sales orders. The on hand supply that is reserved to a sales order cannot be used for any other demand. Reservations for both full and partial demand quantities are supported. In the case of a partial reservation, Rapid Planning schedules supplies for the unreserved quantity of the sales order.
Rapid Planning generates pegging of on-hand supply to sales orders that matches the reservations recorded in the source transaction system. In the supply and demand window, each sales order demand includes a new field which displays that quantity of on hand inventory which is reserved to the sales order.
A make order (planned make order, WIP job, etc) is "Clear to Build" if all its component requirements are pegged to on-hand supply.
Rapid Planning's Clear to Build functionality provides visibility for the Clear to Build status of Make Orders; both at the individual make order level as well as at aggregate levels through new KPI's. The Clear to Build status on make orders are visible through new order level attributes like "Clear to Build Status", "Ready to Build %", "Clear to Build Date", and "Clear to Build Component Availability %". Equivalent KPI's can be configured to view these attributes at aggregate levels.
Rapid Planning also allows user to simulate allocation of scarce on-hand component supply to make orders by explicitly prioritizing or deprioritizing Make Orders for Clear to Build. This can be achieved through a new Rapid Planning view, called the Clear to Build Dashboard. The dashboard allows a user to:
Search and focus on the make orders for which the user want the Clear to Build status to be improved
Prioritize specific make orders for Clear to Build - this results in on-hand being allocated to these make orders preferentially when the plan is launched next
View contentions for selected make orders - contentions are other make orders that share common components; these make orders could potentially contribute to the improvement of the clear to build status of the target orders
Selectively deprioritize certain make orders from allocation of on-hand - these selected orders will be given lesser priority when on-hand is allocated to Make Orders in the next plan run
View how a specific component is allocated to multiple make orders, and prioritize or deprioritize make orders for on-hand allocation based on this component allocation view
Rapid Planning plans will be visible in Demantra Sales and Operations planning as different supply streams. The integration between Rapid Planning and S&OP is similar to the existing S&OP ASCP integration. You can export consensus forecast data from Demantra S&OP to a specific Rapid Planning plan, and you will also be able to read the supply data from the Rapid Planning plan back into Demantra S&OP. This data from the Rapid Planning plan will now be visible in different worksheets in Demantra for the S&OP process.
Rapid Planning plans can now be used by EBS Global Order Promising to promise orders. The supply from this plan is considered by GOP when promising orders if GOP is enabled for promising orders off a plan output. If there are multiple plans that have supplies for an Item/Org, GOP accords the highest preference to supply from a Rapid Planning plan. Rapid Planning - GOP integration allows an enterprise to react much quickly to unforeseen events, by enabling quick integration between the simulation and the order promising process.
24 by 7 ATP is not enabled for Rapid Planning plans as of now. Also, any inserts that GOP makes into the plan (Sales Orders, Planned Orders, etc) will not be visible within the Rapid Planning plan itself. Any Rapid Planning plan that is enabled for ATP will not be editable - this is intentional and is to avoid inconsistencies between a Rapid Planning plan's version and the version against which GOP is promising orders.
In a Plan Comparison mode, Rapid Planning's Analytics view now has an additional tab that displays "Order Comparison" - this allows users to compare demand satisfaction of independent demand (sales orders, forecast) across two plans intelligently. Users can view which demands were planned on time in the base plan, but are delayed in the compared plan and vice versa, and which demands have increased or decreased their lateness in the current plan when compared with the base plan.
A search region allows users to view independent demands only for specific items, or at specific organizations, etc.
Rapid Planning allows a user to save changes made to data in Rapid Planning to a simulation set from within the plan itself. A user can save a specific record, multiple records within a Rapid Planning view, or changes across multiple Rapid Planning views to a named simulation set through a single click action.
Multiple planners can thus work on simulation copies of a base plan and save the results of their simulation to a common simulation set. When the base plan is launched against with reference to this simulation set, all the user changes will be considered in the next version of the Rapid Planning plan.
This enhancement provides Rapid Planning with the following capabilities:
Functional Security: Ability to dictate which functions (Create, Update / Edit, Delete, Launch, Save, Close, Load, Copy, and Release) a responsibility should have access to.
Data Security: Data access is controlled at two levels. Organization level and Plan level.
Organization: Ability to assign Organizations to a responsibility. Here, users within a responsibility will have access to (i) all Plans in which the Organization exists and (ii) all Items within that Organization.
Plan: A user creating a Plan can mark his Plan as Private or Public. A Public plan is accessible by all responsibilities (as a result by all users) provided they have the necessary Organization level security granted. A Private plan is only accessible by specific users to whom access has been granted (access is granted by the user who created the Plan and marked it as Private).
In case of Private plans, users will have access all Items and Organizations within that plan. However, the actions the user can take are controlled by Function Security of the user's responsibility.
This feature provides the ability to Rapid Planning users to add Demand Pull-ins (date, priority) and create Upsides.
Demand Pull-in can be created on forecast, sales order or manual demands by entering Revised Demand Date and Revised Demand Priority.
Upsides are defined in Rapid Planning as a new demand line with type as Manual Demand. The priority, due date and quantity can be assigned to this upside in Rapid Planning UI.
Oracle Rapid Planning previously modeled safety stock to buffer against unexpected demands using safety lead time. It was modeled using the following item attributes:
Safety Stock Method: This should be set to MRP PLANNED PERCENT for Rapid Planning to consider safety stock requirements.
Safety Stock Percent: This is a value field that should be populated.
This enhancement, in addition to the current approach, considers safety stock as a quantity. This quantity is a time-phased safety stock. This enhancement does not impact the planning logic since the planning logic input is Safety stock lead time (SSLT), which is a single value associated with an item. In the previous approach, Safety Stock Percent was used to calculate SSLT and then use this value to schedule Orders by buffering for Safety Stock using SSLT.
In the enhancement, this SSLT is computed as a weighted average for all the safety stock quantity values over the planning horizon. This enhancement ensures Oracle Rapid Planning will have the ability to read in time-phased safety stock quantity as an input. However, this quantity would be converted to an average SSLT and will be used by Rapid Planning engine.
Further, Rapid Planning users can change or override this average Safety Stock Quantity in Items window.
This feature involves creating a user-defined list of things that a planner is interested in. The list may include named set of Items, Resources or Suppliers. A user could have multiple lists. The lists are displayed in the left-hand navigation pane (regional area) in a new section called Favorites under the Plans section.
Based on the list selected by user in that session, the contents of the list are displayed in a tree. The tree is organized into three basic nodes as follows:
Items: Organization Code > Item Name
Resources: Department Code > Resource Code
Suppliers: Supplier Name > Supplier Site Name
The user can select either the individual leaf nodes or any parent node and use a context sensitive right-click navigation to various access other views within the workbench.
The Favorites feature is available in both Plan Inputs and Plan tabs. Among the right-click options shown here Material Plan, Resource Plan and Exceptions are applicable only in the Plan tab and not in the Plan inputs tab. However, in the Plan tab, the Favorites drop-down list is enabled only after a plan is selected. The Favorites lists are always private and owned by individual users. There is no concept of a shared or public favorites list.
Phantom Item representation is commonly used in the High-Tech industry to represent a logical grouping of parts.
A usability requirement in Clear to Build is that in the Component Allocation view of the Clear to Build Analysis/Simulation workbench (when users look at the components pegged to the make order) the phantom item must not be displayed. Instead, Rapid Planning must look through the phantom item and display the actual components required by that make order. In case of multi-level phantoms, Rapid Planning must look through the various phantom levels and only display the real components.
This enhancement allows a planner visibility into the real component availability and requirements during a Clear to Build analysis.
Ratios, Percentages (utilization %, fill rate %, load ratio, etc.)
This feature lets users control the maximum number of decimal digits displayed for the different types of numbers in the workbench using a set of responsibility-level profile options.
Following new features are enabled in the Rapid Planning Workbench:
Mass update relative to another attribute. Applies to both Supplies & Demands (update Firm date based on Sugg Due Date) and Resource Availability (From time based on To Time) views.
More consistent Query by Example search.
User defined display order of items in Material Plan (it is based on the display in the previous view that user has selected the items).
This feature enables a material plan enhancement for viewing global forecasts and planning results in Rapid Planning.
The material plan is a horizontal view of the supply and demand picture. With this enhancement to the material plan, the user obtains more visibility into the global forecast consumption process to enable better implementation of planned orders. The material plan displays the global forecast which was available prior to distribution as well as the amount of forecast distributed to a specific organization.
Rapid Planning users can make changes to Supplier attribute and Supplier capacity. These changes are considered by Rapid Planning and reflected in the planning results. The following attributes are now editable:
ASL
Processing Lead Time
Minimum Order Qty
Fixed Lot Multiplier
Supplier Capacity
From Date
To Date
Capacity
Users cannot add a new Supplier-Item/Org in this view. They can only add new capacity for an existing Supplier-Item/Org that is already available in the ASL.
Auto release of planned orders is enabled for RP plans with new plan options to control auto release. Auto release functions just like ASCP, which uses a concurrent process to automatically release planned orders that runs after the plan completes.
The planning engine decides whether to calculate Planning Time Fence (PTF) Date based on plan option Planning Time Fence Control. These profile options instruct the planning engine to create natural time fences and to change Planning Time Fence Date to the natural time fence date if the natural time fence date is later than the calculated Planning Time Fence Date.
With release 12.1.3.6, Oracle Rapid Planning supports component substitution and allows you to control how the substitution should occur and in which order.
With release 12.1.3.6, Oracle Rapid Planning and Collaborative Planning integration enables the forecast collaboration workflow between an enterprise and its trading partners.
The integration details between Rapid Planning and Collaborative Planning (CP) are identical to that between Advanced Supply Chain Planning and Collaborative Planning.
On the supplier-collaboration side, the integration enables users to publish an order forecast to suppliers from an RP plan, and receive supplier supply commits from suppliers.
On the customer-facing side, the integration enables Rapid Planning to publish supply commit information from the RP plan to CP.
Prior to Rapid Planning release 12.1.3.6, Oracle Rapid Planning supported safety stock planning by use of Safety Lead Time. It did not support planning directly using Safety Stock quantities that vary over time - either user-defined or generated by Oracle Inventory Optimization.
This enhancement enables the following methods of safety stock planning in Rapid Planning:
User-defined Safety Stock Quantities specified in Oracle Inventory.
Safety Stock Quantities generated in Oracle Inventory.
Safety Stock Quantities calculated in Oracle Rapid Planning.
Safety Stock Quantities fed into Oracle Rapid Planning from Inventory Optimization.
In release 12.1.3.8, users can specify whether Rapid Planning should be used as the simulation tool for ASCP by selecting the Enable Rapid Planning Simulations option on Other tab of the Preferences page.
In release 12.1.3.8, Rapid Planning displays warning messages for the following conditions:
When a user deletes a Rapid Planning plan that references a baseline ASCP plan.
When a user initiates a Copy plan from and the destination RP plan already exists. This message applies both when copying from ASCP to RP and from RP to RP. Note: Users can freely delete any references to RP Plans from within ASCP plan options.
If an ASCP plan that is a baseline plan for one or more RP plans is purged, then the linked RP plans will be updated so that they no longer show the Baseline ASCP Plan name in the Plan Options. These plans can continue to be run without a Launch Snapshot. The next time a copy plan process is run, the Baseline ASCP Plan name in plan options will be updated again.
In release 12.1.3.8, Rapid Planning provides a new RP Plan Option text field, Baseline ASCP Plan, is added to the RP Plan Options screen, and this displays the name of the ASCP plan that is the baseline for this RP plan.
In release 12.1.3.8, Rapid Planning provides a new batch launch plan for ASCP plans that allows ASCP plan output to be copied over to each Rapid Planning Plan that refers to this ASCP plan as a baseline plan.
In release 12.1.3.8, Rapid Planning allows user control the extent to which the ASCP plan output can be changed by Rapid Planning through a form called Incremental Replan Scope.
In release 12.1.3.8, Rapid Planning allows users to evaluate how the replan has changed the output of the ASCP plan after an incremental plan has been run. Users can compare plans on various metrics and measures to gain this understanding.
In release 12.1.3.8, Rapid Planning has been enhanced in its handling of how supply orders in ASCP are treated in the linked Rapid Planning Simulation Plan.
In release 12.1.3.8, Rapid Planning and ASCP integration has been improved to import key simulation outcomes back into ASCP when rerunning the ASCP plan.
The integration between Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning and Oracle Rapid Planning that was initially made available in Release 12.1.3.8 has been enhanced as follows in Release 12.1.3.9:
When copying the supply orders from ASCP to Rapid Planning, all the supply order details such as resource requirements, alternate resource selections, material requirements, substitute component and alternate BOM selections, will also be copied over from ASCP to Rapid Planning. This enhancement increases the degree to which the Rapid Planning plan and the baseline ASCP plan are aligned at the beginning of the simulation process.
If safety stock planning is enabled in ASCP, the safety stock quantities will be copied from ASCP to Rapid Planning and the Rapid Planning plan option Safety Stock lead time method will be set to "Safety Stock Quantity".
All supplies that are selected for freezing through criteria specified in the "Define Incremental Replan Scope" screen will be considered "Firm All". This means all the underlying resource and material requirements will also be considered firm. This enhancement enables planners to better preserve decisions made in the ASCP plan run while running simulations in Rapid Planning.
The copy process from ASCP to Rapid Planning can be invoked in a batch mode at the end of the ASCP plan run. This is controlled by a new ASCP Plan launch parameter, "Copy Plan Output to Simulation Plans". This enhancement improves planner productivity by eliminating the need to perform a manual copy process each time a simulation needs to be performed.
A Rapid Planning Simulation Set can be specified as an input to an ASCP plan through a new ASCP plan option "Rapid Planning Simulation Set". With this enhancement users are able to copy their plan changes into a simulation set within Rapid Planning and make those changes available to the next ASCP plan run. ASCP will consider the changes that are contained within the Rapid Planning Simulation Set. Changes contained within the Rapid Planning simulation set will override changes contained within the Item Simulation Set if both simulation sets are specified as inputs in ASCP Plan Options. This enhancement improves the degree of alignment between ASCP and Rapid Planning by providing a mechanism to communicate to ASCP all the plan input changes that were made during the simulation process in Rapid Planning.
Rapid Planning respects the order modifiers Fixed Order Quantity, Minimum Order Quantity, Maximum Order Quantity and Fixed Lot Multiple. In Release 12.1.3.9, Rapid Planning has been enhanced to also respect the Fixed Days Supply (FDS) order modifier. For items with the Fixed Days Supply order modifier, Rapid Planning will create planned orders that are spaced apart by the number of days corresponding to the fixed days of supply. Each of these planned orders will have a quantity that represents the sum of demand quantities within the fixed days of supply time window.
When creating planned orders for items with FDS, Rapid Planning takes into account existing on hands, firm and non firm scheduled receipts, and planning time fence. Rapid Planning will also calculate measures "Days of Supply" and "Average Days of Supply". Days of Supply represents the number of days of demand that is covered by the projected available balance at the end of each planning time bucket. An exception message will be generated if the Days of Supply exceeds the fixed days of supply. Planners can also perform simulations by changing the Fixed Days Supply for an item within the plan or using a simulation set.
FDS is fully supported in unconstrained plans. Constrained plans support FDS order modifiers only for purchased parts.
Supplier contracts or labor agreements might require that a company source its materials from suppliers or source internally based on specified allocation percentages. With Release 12.1.3.9, Rapid Planning has been enhanced to respect sourcing allocation percentages specified in sourcing rules when creating buy, transfer and make supplies.
This feature is available both in unconstrained and constrained plans and can be enabled by checking the Enforce Sourcing Splits plan option. Planners can also specify a sourcing allocation window as a number of days. Rapid Planning attempts to meet the prescribed sourcing splits, in a cumulative fashion, within each allocation window inside the planning horizon. The planning process also takes into account historical sourcing splits to date (based on plan option Start Date Offset for Sourcing History) when calculating the cumulative sourcing splits in the plan. Enforcement of sourcing splits is a lower priority compared to the enforcement of lead time and capacity constraints. These higher order constraints may cause a deviation between the planned and target sourcing splits. In such cases, an exception message, "Sourcing Split Percentage Violated," is generated. The exception message is generated only if the magnitude of the deviation exceeds a threshold (specified as a percentage value in the Sourcing Variance Tolerance plan option.)
There is no documentation patch for the 12.1.3.3 through 12.1.3.9 releases. The consolidated documentation patch for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 is Patch 9239095. For the product families that are included in Release 12.1.3, the consolidated documentation patches are listed below:
Oracle strongly recommends the installation of these patches.
In addition, the following Oracle Rapid Planning documentation is available as part of the Online Documentation Library on My Oracle Support (formerly MetaLink) and Oracle Technology Network for this release:
Oracle Rapid Planning Implementation and User's Guide,
Part No. E14573-08, July 2013 HTML | PDF
Oracle Rapid Planning Installation Guide,
Part No. E21578-06, January 2012
This guide also contains Rapid Planning system requirements information. HTML | PDF
The following technical documentation is available:
2.2.1 Data Model Comparison Report
The EBS Data Model Comparison Report lists the database object definition changes between two Oracle E-Business Suite releases to help users to preview the database object definition changes before upgrading their instances from one release to another and understand the impact of the database object changes that may affect the customization or business flows.
For more information about the EBS Data Model Comparison report, see Document 1290886.1, EBS Data Model Comparison Report Overview.
2.2.2 EBS ATG Seed Data Comparison Report
The EBS ATG Seed Data Comparison Report lists the differences between two Oracle E-Business Suite releases by documenting the seed data changes delivered by the product data loader files (.ldt extension) based on the ATG loader control files (.lct extension). This report enables advanced users to review changes prior to an upgrade.
For more information about the EBS ATG Seed Data Comparison Report, see Document 1327399.1, EBS ATG Seed Data Comparison Report.
2.2.3 EBS File Comparison Report
The EBS File Comparison Report provides a comprehensive comparison of file system artifacts between different Oracle E-Business Suite releases for important file types. As part of Oracle E-Business Suite upgrade planning, this report helps customers to get a clear idea of what is different in a new release (additions, removals and modifications for Oracle E-Business Suite delivered files). The report also covers some special artifacts that span the file system and database (for example, Oracle E-Business Suite delivered Oracle Application Framework (OAF) personalizations, Oracle Application Framework (OAF) based pages, Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher reports and so on).
For more information about the EBS File Comparison Report, see Document 1446430.1, EBS File Comparison Report Overview.
The Oracle Integration Repository is a compilation of information about the service endpoints displayed 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 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.
In this release, you can navigate to the Oracle Integration Repository through Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway.
3.1 Fast Simulation Based on an In-memory Planning Engine
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning uses an in-memory engine that can very quickly react and recompute the impacts of any user changes and report, in real time, the consequences across the supply chain. It also re-calculates the exceptions, key performance indicators to reflect these impacts.
Rapid Planning supports input of simulation changes to master data like items, resources, bills of materials, routing operations in two ways:
Change the master data inside a particular plan and re-solve
Change the master data in a simulation set for repetitive use in more than one plan
The planning engine can be invoked in three different modes:
With snapshot and complete replan
Without snapshot, but complete replan
Without snapshot, but replan only incremental changes
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
This table lists the new programs.
Program Name
Feature Area
Planning Engine
Create and update plan.
Changed Programs
The Memory Based Snapshot has been adapted to merge simulation set data from the ODS to produce the input data used by a plan.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
New Tables
This table lists the new tables.
Table Name
Description
MSC_PLAN_PROFILES
This table is used to store the data relative to plan specific profiles. These profiles can be edited in the "Advanced" tab of the plan options. The table contains plan specific key value pairs. It is populated with default values coming from profile options when a new plan is created.
MSC_RP_SIMULATION_SETS
This table contains Rapid Planning simulation sets.
MSC_RP_KPI
This table contains the KPI data, output by the planner.
MSC_ORP_MATERIAL_PLANS
This table contains the data for the material plan, output by the planner.
MMSC_ORP_RESOURCE_PLANS
This table contains the data for the resource plan, output by the planner.
Changed Tables
Modifications here preserve compatibility with existing programs in non RP plans. However, the use may differ within RP plans.
Table Name
Description
MSC_PLAN_PROFILES
Rapid Planning plans are stored in this table. This table was modified to add columns specific to RP. The plan types ranging from 101 to 105 are reserved for Rapid Planning. Base_plan_id designates the id of the base plan, from which a plan was copied (if any).
Msc_system_items
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
MSC_BOMS
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
Msc_bom_components
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
Msc_components_substitutes
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
Msc_process_effectivity
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
Msc_routing_operations
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
Msc_operation_resource_seqs
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
Msc_operation_resources
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
Msc_operation_networks
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
Msc_item_substitutes
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
Msc_department_resources
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
Msc_item_suppliers
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
Msc_supplier_capacities
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
Msc_net_resource_avail
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
The added columns are NEW_PLAN_ID, NEW_PLAN_LIST, and SIMULATION_SET_ID.
Obsolete Tables
There are no obsolete tables that are associated with this feature.
New Views
There are no new views that are associated with this feature.
Changed Views
There are no changed views that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Views
There are no obsolete views that are associated with this feature.
New Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no new Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
New SQL Loader Files
There are no new SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Changed SQL Loader Files
There are no changed SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete SQL Loader Files
There are no obsolete SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
New Flexfields
There are no new flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Changed Flexfields
There are no changed flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Flexfields
There are no obsolete flexfields that are associated with this feature.
New Profile Options
There are no new profile options that are associated with this feature.
Changed Profile Options
There are no changed profile options that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Profile Options
There are no obsolete profile options that are associated with this feature.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
There are no sizing considerations for this feature.
Table Space Considerations
There are no table space considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
This application enables a completely new rich-client user interface built using 11gR1 Fusion Middleware technologies and supports configurable workspaces, flexible layouts, dynamic tabs, etc. to make the user experience very productive as well as easy to use.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists windows and pages that are new.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning UI
RPMainUI
This is the user interface for Rapid Planning. It allows creating, running, and analyzing plans.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
New Tables
This table lists the new tables.
Table Name
Description
MSC_PLAN_PROFILES
This table is used to store the data relative to plan specific profiles. These profiles can be edited in the "Advanced" tab of the plan options. The table contains plan specific key value pairs. It is populated with default values coming from profile options when a new plan is created.
MSC_RP_SIMULATION_SETS
This table contains Rapid Planning simulation sets.
MSC_RP_USER_METRICS
This is the metric description as setup by the user.
MSC_RP_USER_METRIC_LAYOUT
This is the KPI layout description as setup by user.
MSC_RP_KPI
This table contains the KPI data, output by the planner.
MSC_ORP_MATERIAL_PLANS
This table contains the data for the material plan, output by the planner.
MSC_ORP_RESOURCE_PLANS
This table contains the data for the resource plan, output by the planner.
MSC_ORP_UI_LAYOUT_PREFERENCES
This table contains the horizontal plans layout setup by the user.
MSC_RP_CALENDAR_DATES
This table contains modified calendar data for simulation sets. The simulation set id is in column EXCEPTION_SET_ID. The UI is based on a union on msc_rp_calendar_dates and msc_calendar_dates.
Changed Tables
Modifications here preserve compatibility with existing programs in non RP plans. However, the use may differ within RP plans.
Table Name
Description
MSC_PLANS
Rapid Planning plans are stored in this table. This table was modified to add columns specific to RP. The plan types ranging from 101 to 105 are reserved for Rapid Planning. Base_plan_id designates the id of the base plan, from which a plan was copied (if any).
Msc_system_items
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
MSC_BOMS
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
Msc_bom_components
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
Msc_components_substitutes
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
Msc_process_effectivity
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
Msc_routing_operations
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
Msc_operation_resource_seqs
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
Msc_operation_resources
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
Msc_operation_networks
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
Msc_item_substitutes
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
Msc_department_resources
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
Msc_item_suppliers
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
Msc_supplier_capacities
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
Msc_net_resource_avail
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
The added columns are NEW_PLAN_ID, NEW_PLAN_LIST, and SIMULATION_SET_ID.
Obsolete Tables
There are no obsolete tables that are associated with this feature.
New Views
This table lists the new views.
View Name
Feature Area
Description
msc_orders_rp_v
Supplies and Demands view
This view selects the supplies and demands shown in the UI.
MSC_RP_CALENDAR_DATES_V
Calendars
This view is a union of msc_rp_calendar_dates and msc_calendar_dates.
MSC_PEGGING_SUPPLY_V
Supplies and Demands view
This view is used in the pegging drill down feature.
MSC_PEGGING_SUPPLY_V2
Supplies and Demands view
This view is used in the pegging drill down feature.
MSC_PEGGING_SUPPLY_V3
Supplies and Demands view
This view is used in the pegging drill down feature.
MSC_PEGGING_DEMAND_V
Supplies and Demands view
This view is used in the pegging drill down feature.
MSC_PEGGING_DEMAND_V2
Supplies and Demands view
This view is used in the pegging drill down feature.
Changed Views
There are no changed views that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Views
There are no obsolete views that are associated with this feature.
New Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no new Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
New SQL Loader Files
There are no new SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Changed SQL Loader Files
There are no changed SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete SQL Loader Files
There are no obsolete SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
New Flexfields
There are no new flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Changed Flexfields
There are no changed flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Flexfields
There are no obsolete flexfields that are associated with this feature.
New Profile Options
This table lists the new profile options.
Profile Option Name
Feature Area
Description
MSC: Rapid Planning maximum number of rows to be flushed
UI
This limits the number of rows the engine will flush to answer a query from the UI. If exceeded, the user is given the choice to execute the query anyway or cancel and add more criteria.
MSC: Default Category Set for Rapid Planning
UI
This is category set that is used in the UI when no more specific set is available. It is used in particular for plan input. For plans, category set is a parameters in the plan options
Changed Profile Options
There are no changed profile options that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Profile Options
There are no obsolete profile options that are associated with this feature.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Table Space Considerations
There are no table space considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
Oracle Rapid Planning makes simulations very easy through the powerful feature of simulation sets. A simulation set is a collection of changes to the attributes of any of the following master data entities.
Items
Resources
Bill of Materials, components and substitutes
Resource Availability
Calendars
This feature enables planners to do "what-if" analysis without having to make these changes permanent or without the need to make these changes in the source ERP systems and re-collect to see their impacts. This saves a lot of time and effort for the planners.
These simulation sets can then be referenced in different plans through a plan option.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists windows and pages that are new.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning UI
RPMainUI
This is the user interface for Rapid Planning. It allows creating, running, and analyzing plans.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
Users can make quickly make updates on a large number of rows (for example, increase the post-processing leadtime of all items in category 'ABC' by 10%) through the mass-edit feature.
This feature is supported for almost all entities like items, resources, supplies, demands, etc. Users can update using various operators like "set value to", "increase by", "decrease by", "increase by %", "decrease by %", etc.
Users can undo the simulation changes at an attribute-level by using "set value to original" operator to revert to the original value.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists windows and pages that are new.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning UI
RPMainUI
This is the user interface for Rapid Planning. It allows creating, running, and analyzing plans.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
Oracle Rapid Planning allows users to quickly make multiple copies and then use them as alternatives for corrective actions. Once the plans are run, users can compare any two plans (or one plan with its previous run) inside any of the following four views:
All analytics - reports and graphs
All exception views
Supply and Demand view
Material and Resource horizontal plans
In addition, users can use order-by-order comparison view where they can compare any two plans (or a single plan with its previous run) and make the following comparisons:
Was on-time, but now late
Was late, but now on-time
Was late, but now less late
Was late, but now more late
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists windows and pages that are new.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning UI
RPMainUI
This is the user interface for Rapid Planning. It allows creating, running, and analyzing plans.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
The application supports a material plan with a layout wizard that lets the users to customize the layout including the measures displayed, time granularity, etc. Users can also specify two aggregation levels from a choice of Organization, Product Category, Product Family and Item.
The aggregations are done real-time and take into account all current user changes, firming, etc.
Users can also update the aggregate level horizontal plans. For example, users can update forecast quantity at the product category or even at a period level. The system will allocate the updates to individual items and days.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists windows and pages that are new.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning UI
RPMainUI
This is the user interface for Rapid Planning. It allows creating, running, and analyzing plans.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
Oracle Rapid Planning enables an integrated view of supply/demand orders and their associated pegging. In a single view, users can drill either upstream or downstream to view the supply chain from a single order. This enables for a consolidated view of the entire tree without having to switch between multiple views.
Users can also focus on a single order upstream or downstream and then reverse direction to look at the "where-used" or the opposite views. They can then retrace the steps back to original state of the supply/demand view.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists windows and pages that are new.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning UI
RPMainUI
This is the user interface for Rapid Planning. It allows creating, running, and analyzing plans.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
3.8 Integration with Advanced Planning Command Center
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning comes with pre-built integration with Advanced Planning Command Center. Rapid Planning plans can be archived, published to Advanced Planning Command Center. These archived versions can then be viewed in all the related reports and dashboards.
The Advanced Planning Command Center's Supply Chain Analyst dashboard supports drill-down directly into the Rapid Planning Application.
All Rapid Planning Simulation plans can be used in the Process Automation functionality to build process flows in Advanced Planning Command Center.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists windows and pages that are new.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning UI
RPMainUI
This is the user interface for Rapid Planning. It allows creating, running, and analyzing plans.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
New Tables
There are no new tables that are associated with this feature.
Changed Tables
There are no changed tables that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Tables
There are no obsolete tables that are associated with this feature.
New Views
There are no new views that are associated with this feature.
Changed Views
There are no changed views that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Views
There are no obsolete views that are associated with this feature.
New Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no new Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
New SQL Loader Files
There are no new SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Changed SQL Loader Files
There are no changed SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete SQL Loader Files
There are no obsolete SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
New Flexfields
There are no new flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Changed Flexfields
There are no changed flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Flexfields
There are no obsolete flexfields that are associated with this feature.
New Profile Options
There are no new profile options that are associated with this feature.
Changed Profile Options
There are no changed profile options that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Profile Options
There are no obsolete profile options that are associated with this feature.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Table Space Considerations
There are no table space considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
Planners can run Rapid Planning in an unconstrained mode. The unconstrained option allows planners to see the required material availability and resource capacity to find what needs to be arranged in order to meet all demands on time. The unconstrained plan output can optionally respect the planning time fence to allow planners to freeze the plan for the initial period. Rapid Planning unconstrained planning can also calculate resource requirements to generate resource usage and resource overload data.
Rapid Planning unconstrained plans produce a full complement of exception messages to alert the planner to critical constraint violations. These exception messages include "Orders with Insufficient Lead Time", "Resource Overloaded", and "Supplier Capacity Violated". In addition, problems with specific demands are highlighted by the exception messages for sales orders and forecasts at risk due to material shortages or resource shortages.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Rapid Planning offers a full set of constrained planning features. Rapid Planning performs simultaneous material and resource capacity constraint based planning. Rapid Planning output is constrained by purchasing, distribution and transit lead times, by resource calendars and capacities, and by supplier capacity. Rapid Planning calculates the capacities consumed by existing WIP schedules and purchased supplies and allocates the remaining capacity to new planned orders.
Constrained planning allows planners to automate many types of planning decisions and focus on the critical issues. Rapid Planning constraint based planning includes the ability to search among many alternate supply types. Rapid Planning can automatically search for and find alternates and substitutes across the supply chain and create planned orders to meet demands on time. When the primary supply source is late, Rapid Planning searches for the entire supply chain for item substitutes, alternate organizations, alternate suppliers, alternate BOM and routing, alternate resources and substitute components to locate the supply source that provides the delivery date closest the demand due date.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
Rapid Planning utilizes forecast and demand data from Oracle Demantra 7.2 and Oracle Demand Planning R11i10 and 12.1. Rapid Planning performs forecast consumption and allows the planner to optionally explode forecasts.
The forecast consumption features allow the planner to include both forecasts and actual sales orders without double counting demand. Planners can select the enforce demand time fence plan option and forecasts inside the demand time fence are not included as demands in the plan.
During plan definition, the planner can select forecast spreading option. For example, if the forecast is a weekly forecast, the planner can choose to spread the forecast to daily buckets and also optionally set the forecast consumption forward and backward day controls. This allows the planner to accept aggregate (weekly or period) forecasts and more accurately plan supplies in daily buckets.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
New Tables
There are no new tables that are associated with this feature.
Changed Tables
There are no changed tables that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Tables
There are no obsolete tables that are associated with this feature.
New Views
There are no new views that are associated with this feature.
Changed Views
There are no changed views that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Views
There are no obsolete views that are associated with this feature.
New Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no new Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
New SQL Loader Files
There are no new SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Changed SQL Loader Files
There are no changed SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete SQL Loader Files
There are no obsolete SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
New Flexfields
There are no new flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Changed Flexfields
There are no changed flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Flexfields
There are no obsolete flexfields that are associated with this feature.
New Profile Options
There are no new profile options that are associated with this feature.
Changed Profile Options
There are no changed profile options that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Profile Options
There are no obsolete profile options that are associated with this feature.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Table Space Considerations
There are no table space considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
Demand priority rules can be specified at the plan level, allowing the planner to easily compare results from two different plans using different demand prioritization approaches. Demand priority rules control the sequence of demand priorities assigned to all demands. The most urgent demands have the best chance of being satisfied on time. Alternatively, Rapid Planning can use externally specified demand priorities for sales orders and forecasts.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
New Tables
There are no new tables that are associated with this feature.
Changed Tables
There are no changed tables that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Tables
There are no obsolete tables that are associated with this feature.
New Views
There are no new views that are associated with this feature.
Changed Views
There are no changed views that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Views
There are no obsolete views that are associated with this feature.
New Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no new Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
New SQL Loader Files
There are no new SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Changed SQL Loader Files
There are no changed SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete SQL Loader Files
There are no obsolete SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
New Flexfields
There are no new flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Changed Flexfields
There are no changed flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Flexfields
There are no obsolete flexfields that are associated with this feature.
New Profile Options
There are no new profile options that are associated with this feature.
Changed Profile Options
There are no changed profile options that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Profile Options
There are no obsolete profile options that are associated with this feature.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Table Space Considerations
There are no table space considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
Rapid Planning pegging links supplies to demands so that the planner can easily identify demand impacts when supply dates change. The planner can use pegging to trace component or resource problems up to the affected sales orders. Pegging also enables the planner to identify which supplies are linked to critical demands and ensure that those supplies remain on schedule.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists windows and pages that are new.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning UI
RPMainUI
This is the user interface for Rapid Planning. It allows creating, running, and analyzing plans.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Rapid Planning is compatible with the sourcing rules, bills of distribution and assignment sets used by Oracle Purchasing or upload supply chain sourcing definitions via file loaders. Sourcing rules and bills of distribution determine the movement of materials between organizations in your global enterprise; these organizations include your suppliers and the materials include those items made at the manufacturing organizations.
Sourcing rules and bills of distribution specify date-effective sourcing strategies, combining replenishment sources with source rankings. Users can flexibly assign sourcing rules to individual items, categories, organizations and regions to define the complete supply chain from suppliers to customers.
Rapid Planning can select primary or alternate sources depending on supply constraints to provide the best demand satisfaction dates. If Rapid Planning selects an alternate organization to source an order, then the selection is reported by the exception message "Order Sourced from Alternate Facility".
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
You can specify time-phased capacity of individual suppliers to specific items in Oracle Purchasing or upload supplier capacity via file loaders. Rapid Planning can allocate planned orders based the constraints of the suppliers. Planned orders are assigned supplier sources in respect to their capacity. Rapid Planning uses the ranking information you specify in sourcing rules and first attempts to source the planned orders with the primary sources. If the capacity to fulfill the demand is not available, alternative sources are used. If the order is sourced from an alternate supplier, then the selection is reported by the exception message "Order Sourced from Alternate Supplier".
You can specify item-supplier lead times and supplier capacity calendars. Rapid Planning recognizes the item-supplier specific parameters and applies them as sources of supply are evaluated to find supply that meets a demand on time. Users can also enter item-supplier specific order modifiers.
The supplier capacity calendar governs how supplier capacity is accumulated over a period of time. Supplier capacity is only accumulated on the working days according to the supplier capacity calendar. The supplier capacity calendar also governs how the supplier processing time is calculated.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Rapid Planning is integrated with Oracle BOM or you can upload bills of material and routings via file loaders. It supports single-level and multi-level bills of material. Rapid Planning recognizes and recommends substitute components when primary components are delayed or not available. Substitute component selections are reported by the exception message "Planned Order uses Substitute Component".
If alternate bills of material are specified, then the alternate bill may be recommended if there are supply constraints on the primary bill of material and routing. Alternate bills of material selections are reported by the exception message "Planned Order uses Alternate BOM/Routing".
Rapid Planning respects BOM effectivity dates. The planning engine will calculate component requirements based on the BOM effectivity date and also considering component effectivity dates. Rapid Planning evaluates the engineering change orders as of their scheduled effective date. You can order material and plan resources that you need for new revisions ahead of time.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists windows and pages that are new.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning UI
RPMainUI
This is the user interface for Rapid Planning. It allows creating, running, and analyzing plans.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
By-products and co-products specified on the BOM are evaluated by Rapid Planning. New planned orders include by-products and co-products which can be used as supply available on the completion dates. Rapid Planning also uses existing WIP standard and non-standard job by-products and co-products as available supply.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Rapid Planning constrained planning respects resource capacity and schedules new planned orders and existing discrete jobs to avoid resource capacity overloads. You can define routings, resources and resource capacity in Oracle BOM or upload via file loaders.
You can specify simultaneous resources and set the maximum assigned units for each resource requirement to control scheduling results. Rapid Planning respects prior and next operation scheduling controls. Resource efficiency and utilization are used by Rapid Planning resource requirement calculations.
If you can specify alternate resources, Rapid Planning selects alternates and schedules around constraints on primary resources to meet demands on time. Rapid Planning also chooses alternate routings when required because of constraints on the primary BOM and routing. Alternate selections reported with the exception messages "Planned Order uses Alternate Resource" and "Planned Order uses Alternate BOM/Routing".
Rapid Planning respects routing effectivity dates. Resource requirements are generated using routings which are effective on the start date of the planned order.
Planners can select certain bottleneck resources to perform constrained planning. Other resources are planned in an unconstrained mode using the resource lead time during scheduling. Rapid Planning creates schedules that do not overload the selected bottleneck resources and reports overloads on the non-bottleneck resources. This allows the planner to focus on the critical bottleneck resources.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Rapid Planning uses end item substitution rules to find acceptable substitute item supplies when the requested item is not available for the demand request date. Substitution is based on user-defined rules that can be effective either in one direction or in both directions; defining a chain of substitution relationships. Customer specific item substitution rules can also be specified which are respected by Rapid Planning when searching for supplies for that customer's demands. When item substitutes are selected, Rapid Planning alerts the planning with the exception message "Demand Satisfied Using End Item Substitution".
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Rapid Planning respects manufacturing and purchasing lead times. Users can set pre-processing, processing and post-processing lead times. Rapid Planning constraint based planning respects these lead times. Rapid Planning respects planning time fences defined at the item organization level which allows the user to freeze the schedule during the initial periods of the plan.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Rapid Planning includes the user specified order modifiers at the item organization level and creates new planned orders respecting the order modifiers. Order modifiers respected include minimum order size, maximum order size, fixed order quantity, fixed lot multiplier and round order quantity. Additionally, users can specify supplier specific order modifiers which are respected by Rapid Planning when creating new planned orders sourced from the supplier.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Rapid Planning considers safety stock lead time that is user controllable at the item organization level. Safety stock lead time is a lead time that you add to the normal lead time of make and buy items. You use it to instruct the planning engine to schedule supplies in advance of the demand due dates that peg to them. This creates an inventory buffer to protect against fluctuations in lead time, demand (for example, forecast error), and supply (for example, variable supplier lead times and irregular operation yields).
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Rapid Planning plans a variety of supply chain activities like manufacturing, inter facility shipments, purchases, and shipment to customers. Each of these activities is controlled by a set of calendars. Manufacturing, supplier, and customer facilities may be able to ship or receive goods on specific days. Rapid Planning schedules each type of supply or demand considering the working and non working days in the appropriate set of calendars.
The shipping calendar indicates the valid working days for shipment activities originating from suppliers and organizations. The planning engine does not recommend a shipment out from those facilities if the date is a non-working day.
The receiving calendar governs the receiving activities at the organizations or customer sites that receive goods. The planning engine allows organizations to receive shipments only on a working day.
The carrier calendar indicates the working and non-working days and times for material that is in transit using different means of transport. For example, certain methods of shipment such as parcel carriers may not work on weekends. This may cause the transit time to be stretched over the weekends.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Planners can review existing WIP jobs and purchase orders while comparing to the pegged demands. When required, the planner can pull in or push out the existing supply and firm it. Rapid Planning respects the firm flag by not changing the schedule dates and by consuming material and resource capacity before scheduling non-firm supplies. Rapid Planning reports any overload situations caused by firm supplies.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists windows and pages that are new.
Firming action is possible on the Supplies and Demands tab.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning UI
RPMainUI
This is the user interface for Rapid Planning. It allows creating, running, and analyzing plans.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
Planners can review new planned make and buy orders while comparing to the pegged demands. When required, the planner can pull in or push out the new planned orders and selectively firm the planned orders. Rapid Planning respects the firm flag by not changing the schedule dates and by consuming material and resource capacity before scheduling non-firm supplies. Rapid Planning reports any overload situations caused by firm planned orders.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists windows and pages that are new.
Firming planned supplies is possible from the Supplies and Demands tab.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning UI
RPMainUI
This is the user interface for Rapid Planning. It allows creating, running, and analyzing plans.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
3.26 Release New Planned Orders and Reschedule Recommendations
Description
Planners can easily release recommendations from Rapid Planning to execution systems. Planners can selectively release planning recommendations or choose to release all recommendations. Planners can adjust recommendation due dates and then release the new planned orders or the reschedule of existing planned orders.
New planned make orders are released with an alternate BOM/Routing recommendation. If Rapid Planning selects substitute components and alternate resources, these selections are also be released as part of the make order.
Rapid Planning allows the user to specify the auto-release of planned orders within the release time fence. Users can set the release time as the item organization attribute. Auto-release of planned orders occurs immediately after the Rapid Planning plan processes complete.
Rapid Planning release processes are fully integrated with Oracle Purchasing and Order WIP. The release processes also allow for integration to third party systems.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists windows and pages that are new.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning UI
RPMainUI
This is the user interface for Rapid Planning. It allows creating, running, and analyzing plans.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
Rapid Planning generates the following 24 exception types, and are displayed within the "Exceptions" view in Rapid Planning:
Past Due Sales Orders
Late Replenishment for Sales Order
Late Replenishment for Forecast
Demand Quantity Not Satisfied
Resource Overloaded
Exception: Supplier Capacity Overloaded
Items with a Shortage
Items below Safety Stock
Items with Excess Inventory
Past Due Orders
Orders to be rescheduled out
Orders to be cancelled
Orders to be rescheduled in
Order with Insufficient Lead Time
Sales Order/Forecast at Risk due to a resource shortage
Sales Order/Forecast at Risk due to material shortage
Late Supply pegged to Forecast
Late supply pegged to Sales Order
Planned Order uses alternate BOM/Routing
Planned Order uses Substitute Component
Planned Order uses Alternate Resource
Order Sourced from Alternate Facility
Order sourced from Alternate Supplier
Demand Satisfied Using End Item Substitution
Exceptions are generated only when a plan run has completed, and are not regenerated when manual edits are made to a plan.
Users can choose to enable or disable the display of specific exception types, and specify their arrangement within the Exceptions view through a configuration mechanism.
Within an exception type, users can specify search criteria or filters to specify the exceptions that must be displayed. Search criteria can be saved with a user specified name for future use.
From an exception, navigation to other related Rapid Planning views has been provided in context of the exception's attributes (Item, Org, Resource, etc). Exceptions generated in Rapid Planning can be exported to MS Excel for further analysis.
When Plan Comparison is enabled in Rapid Planning, exceptions for the base plan and compared plan for an exception type are displayed in adjacent tabs. The name of the exception type also has the name of the associated plan to easily identify which plan the listed exceptions belong to.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists windows and pages that are new.
Exceptions can be queried from the Exceptions tab.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning UI
RPMainUI
This is the user interface for Rapid Planning. It allows creating, running, and analyzing plans.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
KPI's/Metrics are displayed in Rapid Planning in a separate "Analytics" view. Rapid Planning can display the following plan metrics:
Stock Outs (in days)
Fill Rate (%)
Inventory Turns
Safety Stock violations (in days)
Revenue
Gross margin (%)
Manufacturing Cost
Purchasing Cost
On Time Orders (%)
Resource Utilization (%)
Supplier Capacity Utilization (%)
Clear to Build (% of orders)
Clear to Build Component Availability (%)
Ready to Build (%)
Top N Shortage Components (%)
In addition to the above metrics, Rapid Planning can also display different facts (Count, Quantity, Value, etc) for the supported exception types as metrics.
Selection of the metrics that must be displayed, their display levels, associated filter conditions, and their layout within the Analytics view can be configured at a user level.
In a Plan Comparison mode, values from both the base and the compared plans are shown together for easy visibility and comparison.
The Analytics view also enables the comparison of end order satisfaction across two plans within an Order Comparison region. To easily compare end demands planned differently across the base and compared plans, seeded comparison mechanisms (e.g. "Was On Time, Now Late") are provided. Search capabilities are also provided to restrict the comparison to a user defined selection.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists windows and pages that are new.
KPIs report can be accessed and created on the Analytics tab of the main page.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning UI
RPMainUI
This is the user interface for Rapid Planning. It allows creating, running, and analyzing plans.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
Planners can review late demands and make the necessary adjustments. Oracle Rapid Planning can either push demands late or satisfy them partially making a part of the demand go unmet. In either case, the user would like to diagnose the problem, identify the root cause and potentially fix it by taking corrective actions like adding capacity.
A new view will be added to Rapid Planning UI called "Constraint Details" view to display all these constraints for any late or unmet demand. It will be accessible from the following places:
Supply and Demand View (from Late or Unmet End Demands)
Exceptions View
Late Replenishment for Forecast
Late Replenishment for Sales Order
Demand Quantity not Satisfied
From Supply and Demand view, it can be invoked by selected any late/unmet demands for any end items. If the user selects any row other than late/unmet demands for end items, the constraints view would not have any data.
From Exceptions views, it will open Constraint Details view with the context of those demands.
It can be invoked for a single demand or multiple demands.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Release 12.1.3. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists windows and pages that are new. Late Demands can be analyzed through the Constraint Details tab in Rapid Planning.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning UI
RPMainUI
This is the user interface for Rapid Planning. It allows creating, run, and analyze plans.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature.
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
For each late demand root cause, Rapid Planning generates information that can be viewed in a new late demand diagnosis screen. The screen informs the planner what material and resource constraints caused the demand to be satisfied late, as well as an assessment of how severe each constraint is.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Release 12.1.3. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists windows and pages that are new. There are no table space considerations for this feature.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning UI
RPMainUI
This is the user interface for Rapid Planning. It allows creating, running, and analyzing plans.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature.
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
Global forecasting allows you to define forecasts without the context of a shipment organization. This is done in Oracle Demantra (or Oracle Demand Planning). Forecasts can have reference to ship-to entities such as customer site and zone. You can choose a ship-to consumption level in Rapid Planning. The forecasts from Oracle Demantra fed in as demand schedules can be consumed without any reference to a shipment organization.
You can use sourcing rules to distribute consumed global forecasts to appropriate shipment organizations. Forecast distribution is performed in an unconstrained manner based on the user defined percentages in the sourcing rules. Rapid Planning issues exception messages when a distributed forecast demand at an organization cannot be met on time by supply in that organization.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Release 12.1.3. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists windows and pages that are new. Forecast information after consumption and netting is visible in the Supply and Demand tab in Rapid Planning.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning UI
RPMainUI
This is the user interface for Rapid Planning. It allows creating, running, and analyzing plans.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature.
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
Rapid Planning supports configure to order environments. Rapid Planning can accept forecasts for assemble to order (ATO) models and pick to order (PTO) models as demand schedules. ATO and PTO forecasts from Oracle Demantra, Oracle Demand Planning and EBS R12 and R11i10 are supported.
Single level and multi-level ATO models are supported by Rapid Planning. Multi-level ATO models include models at lower levels of the BOM structure. Configured to order sales orders consume model forecasts at each level of the multi-level model. Rapid Planning will plan for the unconsumed model, option and option class forecasts as well as planning for the configured items. Supplies are scheduled and created as needed for all lower levels.
You can provide pre-exploded forecast values of your ATO and PTO models and components to Rapid Planning. Configured sales orders consume the model and lower level forecasts. Rapid Planning supports forecast consumption at various levels such as customer, customer site, zone (global forecasts), demand class, and item organization.
Rapid Planning can also optionally explode the forecast for the top level model. Model forecasts are exploded to option, option class and component forecasts within Rapid Planning using the "Explode Forecast" plan option. After forecast explosion, Rapid Planning will consume and plan supplies for the unconsumed forecast demand at each level.
Multi-level multi-organization models are supported. A multi-organization model is one which contains top level or some lower-level models which are transferred between organizations. If you have multi-organization models you must use global forecasting for forecast consumption to be correct.
Rapid Planning distributes global forecasts for ATO and PTO models across organizations based on the user-specified sourcing rule percentages. The global forecasts can be consumed at different levels such as Global (Item), Organization, Customer, Customer Site, and Zone.
Rapid Planning plans only consider ATO sales orders after they have been progressed to include a linked configured item. This allows Rapid Planning to schedule these sales orders with all the capabilities provided for standard items - for example, to net existing supplies of pre-configured stock at any supply chain bill of material level.
A forecast for a lower level ATO configuration that will be stocked will be consumed by a sales order for the top level configured model. ASCP will consume the forecast for this specific configuration first. Any remaining demand will then consume the forecast for the associated ATO model.
For procured configurations, Rapid Planning allows you to plan based on the aggregate capacity of the supplier-supplier site to build the base model. A supplier capacity statement for the ATO model is consumed by the ATO items that are created based on this model. KPIs illustrating supplier capacity metrics, as well as exception messages are provided to help you make an informed decision.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Release 12.1.3. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists windows and pages that are new.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning UI
RPMainUI
This is the user interface for Rapid Planning. It allows creating, running, and analyzing plans.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature.
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
Rapid Planning provides support for default order sizing to improve scheduling results. Smaller order sizes improve scheduling flexibility which leads to higher fill rates and on time supplies. In the absence of order modifiers, Rapid Planning sizes orders to daily production capacity. When some capacity is consumed on a day, Rapid Planning reduces the order size to fit within the remaining capacity in a day.
Users can override the default order sizing algorithm by specifying a new item-organization attribute called planning unit of work. The user can set planning unit of work to the number of hours for the duration of the maximum order size. For example, set planning unit of work to 8 hours and the resulting new planned orders will not exceed 8 hour shifts in duration.
User can set the planning unit of work to larger than daily capacities and Rapid Planning will create new planned orders that typically span several days up to the specified planning unit of work.
The default order sizing does not override existing item-organization order modifiers. For example, if the fixed order quantity is specified, then all order sizes equal fixed order quantity without regard to the planning unit of work. Default order sizing is only applied to new planned orders and does not affect the quantity of an existing supply.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Release 12.1.3. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists windows and pages that are new.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning UI
RPMainUI
This is the user interface for Rapid Planning. It allows creating, running, and analyzing plans.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature.
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
Rapid Planning recognizes on hand inventory reservations to sales orders. The on hand supply that is reserved to a sales order cannot be used for any other demand. Reservations for both full and partial demand quantities are supported. In the case of a partial reservation, Rapid Planning schedules supplies for the unreserved quantity of the sales order.
Rapid Planning generates pegging of on-hand supply to sales orders that matches the reservations recorded in the source transaction system. In the supply and demand window, each sales order demand includes a new field which displays that quantity of on hand inventory which is reserved to the sales order.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Release 12.1.3. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists windows and pages that are new.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning UI
RPMainUI
This is the user interface for Rapid Planning. It allows creating, running, and analyzing plans.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature.
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
A make order (planned make order, WIP job, etc) is "Clear to Build" if all its component requirements are pegged to on-hand supply.
Rapid Planning's Clear to Build functionality provides visibility for the Clear to Build status of Make Orders; both at the individual make order level as well as at aggregate levels through new KPI's. The Clear to Build status on make orders are visible through new order level attributes like "Clear to Build Status", "Ready to Build %", "Clear to Build Date", and "Clear to Build Component Availability %". Equivalent KPI's can be configured to view these attributes at aggregate levels.
Rapid Planning also allows user to simulate allocation of scarce on-hand component supply to make orders by explicitly prioritizing or deprioritizing Make Orders for Clear to Build. This can be achieved through a new Rapid Planning view, called the Clear to Build Dashboard. The dashboard allows a user to:
Search and focus on the make orders for which the user want the Clear to Build status to be improved.
Prioritize specific make orders for Clear to Build - this results in on-hand being allocated to these make orders preferentially when the plan is launched next.
View contentions for selected make orders - contentions are other make orders that share common components; these make orders could potentially contribute to the improvement of the clear to build status of the target orders.
Selectively deprioritize certain make orders from allocation of on-hand - these selected orders will be given lesser priority when on-hand is allocated to Make Orders in the next plan run.
View how a specific component is allocated to multiple make orders, and prioritize or deprioritize make orders for on-hand allocation based on this component allocation view.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Release 12.1.3. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists windows and pages that are new.
Clear to Build functionality is enabled through the Clear to Build Simulation workbench, which is a separate tab in Rapid Planning. Clear to Build attributes for make orders are visible as fields in the Supply and Demand tab of Rapid Planning.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning UI
RPMainUI
This is the user interface for Rapid Planning. It allows creating, running, and analyzing plans.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature.
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
3.36 Rapid Planning - Sales and Operations Planning Integration
Description
Rapid Planning plans will be visible in Demantra Sales and Operations planning as different supply streams. The integration between Rapid Planning and S&OP is similar to the existing S&OP ASCP integration. You can export consensus forecast data from Demantra S&OP to a specific Rapid Planning plan, and you will also be able to read the supply data from the Rapid Planning plan back into Demantra S&OP. This data from the Rapid Planning plan will now be visible in different worksheets in Demantra for the S&OP process.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Release 12.1.3. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists windows and pages that are new.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning UI
RPMainUI
This is the user interface for Rapid Planning. It allows creating, running, and analyzing plans.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature.
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
3.37 Rapid Planning - Global Order Promising Integration
Description
Rapid Planning plans can now be used by EBS Global Order Promising to promise orders. The supply from this plan is considered by GOP when promising orders if GOP is enabled for promising orders off a plan output. If there are multiple plans that have supplies for an Item/Org, GOP accords the highest preference to supply from a Rapid Planning plan. Rapid Planning - GOP integration allows an enterprise to react much quickly to unforeseen events, by enabling quick integration between the simulation and the order promising process.
24 by 7 ATP is not enabled for Rapid Planning plans as of now. Also, any inserts that GOP makes into the plan (Sales Orders, Planned Orders, etc) will not be visible within the Rapid Planning plan itself. Any Rapid Planning plan that is enabled for ATP will not be editable - this is intentional and is to avoid inconsistencies between a Rapid Planning plan's version and the version against which GOP is promising orders.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Release 12.1.3. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists windows and pages that are new.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning UI
RPMainUI
This is the user interface for Rapid Planning. It allows creating, running, and analyzing plans.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature.
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
In a Plan Comparison mode, Rapid Planning's Analytics view now has an additional tab that displays "Order Comparison" - this allows users to compare demand satisfaction of independent demand (sales orders, forecast) across two plans intelligently. Users can view which demands were planned on time in the base plan, but are delayed in the compared plan and vice versa, and which demands have increased or decreased their lateness in the current plan when compared with the base plan.
A search region allows users to view independent demands only for specific items, or at specific organizations, etc.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Release 12.1.3. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists windows and pages that are new.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning UI
RPMainUI
This is the user interface for Rapid Planning. It allows creating, running, and analyze plans.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature.
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
Rapid Planning allows a user to save changes made to data in Rapid Planning to a simulation set from within the plan itself. A user can save a specific record, multiple records within a Rapid Planning view, or changes across multiple Rapid Planning views to a named simulation set through a single click action.
Multiple planners can thus work on simulation copies of a base plan and save the results of their simulation to a common simulation set. When the base plan is launched against with reference to this simulation set, all the user changes will be considered in the next version of the Rapid Planning plan.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Release 12.1.3. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists windows and pages that are new.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning UI
RPMainUI
This is the user interface for Rapid Planning. It allows creating, running, and analyzing plans.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature.
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
Functional Security: Ability to dictate which functions (Create, Update / Edit, Delete, Launch, Save, Close, Load, Copy, and Release) a responsibility should have access to.
Data Security: Data access is controlled at two levels. Organization level and Plan level.
Organization: Ability to assign Organizations to a responsibility. Here, users within a responsibility will have access to (i) all Plans in which the Organization exists and (ii) all Items within that Organization.
Plan: A user creating a Plan can mark his Plan as Private or Public. A Public plan is accessible by all responsibilities (as a result by all users) provided they have the necessary Organization level security granted. A Private plan is only accessible by specific users to whom access has been granted (access is granted by the user who created the Plan and marked it as Private).
In case of Private plans, users will have access all Items and Organizations within that plan. However, the actions the user can take are controlled by Function Security of the user's responsibility.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Release 12.1.3. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists windows and pages that are new.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Oracle Rapid Planning UI
RPMainUI
This is the user interface for Rapid Planning. It allows creating, running, and analyzing plans.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature.
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
This feature provides the ability to Rapid Planning users to add Demand Pull-ins (date, priority) and create Upsides.
Demand Pull-in can be created on forecast, sales order or manual demands by entering Revised Demand Date and Revised Demand Priority.
Upsides are defined in Rapid Planning as a new demand line with type as Manual Demand. The priority, due date and quantity can be assigned to this upside in Rapid Planning UI.
These pull-ins and upsides can come in Rapid Planning through:
Snapshot process.
Through Mass Update in Rapid Planning UI by changing the revised date and priority of an existing demand.
Rapid Planning has the capability to analyze the impact of Pull-ins, Upsides in a Rapid Planning Plan. The specified Pull-ins and Upsides would be planned respecting the priority specified by the user.
An example of an Upside and a Pull-in created using the new fields Revised Demand Date and Revised Demand Priority are shown below.
As shown above, Order numbers WMT-1011, XYZ-1011 and XYZ-1212 have either been pulled-in or have an upside. Order numbers WMT-1011 and XYZ-1011 are pulled-in. Note the Revised Demand Date and Revised Demand Priority for these orders. Upside is planned for Order number XYZ-1212 by creating a new manual demand.
Rapid Planning considers Pull-ins and Upsides as described below:
Sort the list of Orders in Order of Priority (Highest to Lowest). For Each Order have
Firm Date
Firm Quantity
Priority
Revised Demand Date
Revised Demand Priority
Determine the Highest Priority of a Pull-in. Also, mark all Pull-in Orders.
Plan all orders with priority greater than that in Step 2 - Use Firm Date and Firm Quantity. The on-hand profile resulting from this run will dictate how much pull-ins and upsides can be planned.
Plan Orders Starting with the Priority determined in Step 2 to the Lowest Priority or till Supply is exhausted.
In Step 4 if the Order to be Planned is Pulled-in then:
Un-Plan the primary order. Keep track of the Date of Fulfillment for the order. Note that the entire Order is Pulled-in. Partial Pull-ins are not supported.
Plan the Pull-in Order on the Revised Demand Date with the Firm Quantity.
If Step B fails, then try to build ahead by searching for Firm Quantity between Revised Demand Date and Plan Current but ensuring lead times are respected.
If Step C also fails, then try to find supply to minimize lateness (search for supply between Revised Demand Date and Date of Fulfillment for Firm Quantity).
Once Planning is complete, using FIFO logic demands are pegged to supplies by sorting the demands in increasing order of demand satisfaction date.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Release 12.1.3.2. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature.
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
New Tables
There are no new tables that are associated with this feature.
Changed Tables
This table lists the changed tables.
Table Name
Description
msc_demands
revised_demand_date
msc_demands
revised_demand_priority
Obsolete Tables
There are no obsolete tables that are associated with this feature.
New Views
There are no new views that are associated with this feature.
Changed Views
There are no changed views that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Views
There are no obsolete views that are associated with this feature.
New Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no new Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
New SQL Loader Files
There are no new SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Changed SQL Loader Files
There are no changed SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete SQL Loader Files
There are no obsolete SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
New Flexfields
There are no new flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Changed Flexfields
There are no changed flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Flexfields
There are no obsolete flexfields that are associated with this feature.
New Profile Options
There are no new profile options that are associated with this feature.
Changed Profile Options
There are no changed profile options that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Profile Options
There are no obsolete profile options that are associated with this feature.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
This section lists the setup steps that were added or changed for Oracle Rapid Planning in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3. For additional details about performing the setup steps listed below, refer to the documentation described in the 2.1 Online Help and PDF Documentation section.
Demand Pull-in can be created on forecast, sales order or manual demands by entering Revised Demand Date and Revised Demand Priority in Supplies Demand window.
Upsides can be added as a new demand line with type as Manual Demand. The priority, due date and quantity can be assigned to this upside in Rapid Planning UI.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Table Space Considerations
There are no table space considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
These exceptions can be used to see demand pull-ins succeeded or failed:
Oracle Rapid Planning previously modeled safety stock to buffer against unexpected demands using safety lead time. It was modeled using the following item attributes:
Safety Stock Method: This should be set to MRP PLANNED PERCENT for Rapid Planning to consider safety stock requirements.
Safety Stock Percent: This is a value field that should be populated.
This enhancement, in addition to the current approach, considers safety stock as a quantity. This quantity is a time-phased safety stock. This enhancement does not impact the planning logic since the planning logic input is Safety stock lead time (SSLT), which is a single value associated with an item. In the previous approach, Safety Stock Percent was used to calculate SSLT and then use this value to schedule Orders by buffering for Safety Stock using SSLT.
In the enhancement, this SSLT is computed as a weighted average for all the safety stock quantity values over the planning horizon. This enhancement ensures Oracle Rapid Planning will have the ability to read in time-phased safety stock quantity as an input. However, this quantity would be converted to an average SSLT and will be used by Rapid Planning engine.
Further, Rapid Planning users can change or override this average Safety Stock Quantity in Items window.
Safety Stock Input defined as a Time Phased Safety Stock Quantity :
In this scenario, the following is the engine and UI behavior:
Rapid Planning Engine
Take Safety Stock Quantity as input - This is the Target Safety Stock.
Compute Safety Stock Lead Time as a weighted average (SSLT)
Compute Safety Stock Percent. Populate this as the Item attribute value.
Schedule Orders by buffering for Safety Stock using SSLT. Note here the SSLT used is a positive number (fractional value is permissible).
Computed Derived Safety Stock (DSSQ). Note here that SSLT used is a positive number (fractional value is Permissible)
Rapid Planning User Interface
Display both Target Safety Stock and Derived Safety Stock Quantities as computed above in Material Plan.
The following logic is used to convert a time phased quantity based safety stock to a single SSLT value that the engine will use in its safety stock computation. The following steps describe the conversion logic:
Time Phased Safety Stock Quantity (SSQi) is an input; where i refers to the occurrence in the time period.
Compute Safety Stock Lead Time (SSLTi)
Average Daily Demand is computed as an Average over the Planning Horizon.
Compute Safety Stock Percent
The derived safety stock quantity (DSSQ) will be re-computed from the average SSLT as shown above using average daily demand.
Example
The demands over a 7 days horizon are: 22, 28, 30, 33, 26, 31 and 25.
Assume a time phased safety stock quantity profile over the horizon is 4, 4, 4, 6, 6, 6, and 6.
Average Daily Demand over the planning horizon = 27.86
Safety Stock Lead Time is computed as 4/27.86 = 0.14 days and 6/27.86 = 0.22 days for 4 and 6 units safety stock quantities respectively.
Safety Stock Lead Time (SSLT) computed as weighted average = (0.14 * 3 + 0.22 * 4)/7 = 0.186
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Release 12.1.3.3. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature.
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
New Tables
This table lists the new tables.
Table Name
Description
MSC_RP_ITEM_UPDATES
This table carries the information on any item attribute that is changed during the plan run. Right now, two attributes can be changed in plan run: planning_time_fence_date (either due to item level edit or Natural time fence) and safety_stock_percent.
Changed Tables
There are no changed tables that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Tables
There are no obsolete tables that are associated with this feature.
New Views
There are no new views that are associated with this feature.
Changed Views
There are no changed views that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Views
There are no obsolete views that are associated with this feature.
New Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no new Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
New SQL Loader Files
There are no new SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Changed SQL Loader Files
There are no changed SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete SQL Loader Files
There are no obsolete SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
New Flexfields
There are no new flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Changed Flexfields
There are no changed flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Flexfields
There are no obsolete flexfields that are associated with this feature.
New Profile Options
This table lists the new profile options.
Profile Option Name
Feature Area
Description
Safety Stock Method
Rapid planning
This profile provides the following options:
Do not compute Safety Stock (currently exists)
Use Safety Stock Percent (currently exists)
Use Safety Stock Quantity (This modification changed in RP 12.1.3.6 and options is no longer available as an option from Safety Stock Planning Method list.) Refer to Safety Stock Quantity feature.
Changed Profile Options
There are no changed profile options that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Profile Options
This table lists the obsolete profile options.
Profile Option Name
Feature Area
Replaced By
Use Safety Stock
Rapid planning
Safety Stock Method
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Table Space Considerations
There are no table space considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
Set the value of profile option correctly - Safety Stock method.
This feature involves creating a user-defined list of things that a planner is interested in. The list may include named set of Items, Resources or Suppliers. A user could have multiple lists. The lists are displayed in the left-hand navigation pane (regional area) in a new section called Favorites under the Plans section.
Based on the list selected by user in that session, the contents of the list are displayed in a tree. The tree is organized into three basic nodes as follows:
Items: Organization Code > Item Name
Resources: Department Code > Resource Code
Suppliers: Supplier Name > Supplier Site Name
The user can select either the individual leaf nodes or any parent node and use a context sensitive right-click navigation to various access other views within the workbench.
The Favorites feature is available in both Plan Inputs and Plan tabs. Among the right-click options shown here Material Plan, Resource Plan and Exceptions are applicable only in the Plan tab and not in the Plan inputs tab. However, in the Plan tab, the Favorites drop-down list is enabled only after a plan is selected. The Favorites lists are always private and owned by individual users. There is no concept of a shared or public favorites list.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Release 12.1.3.3. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature.
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
New Tables
There are no new tables that are associated with this feature.
Changed Tables
There are no changed tables that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Tables
There are no obsolete tables that are associated with this feature.
New Views
There are no new views that are associated with this feature.
Changed Views
There are no changed views that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Views
There are no obsolete views that are associated with this feature.
New Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no new Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
New SQL Loader Files
There are no new SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Changed SQL Loader Files
There are no changed SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete SQL Loader Files
There are no obsolete SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
New Flexfields
There are no new flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Changed Flexfields
There are no changed flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Flexfields
There are no obsolete flexfields that are associated with this feature.
New Profile Options
There are no new profile options that are associated with this feature.
Changed Profile Options
There are no changed profile options that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Profile Options
There are no obsolete profile options that are associated with this feature.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Table Space Considerations
There are no table space considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
Phantom Item representation is commonly used in the High-Tech industry to represent a logical grouping of parts.
A usability requirement in Clear to Build is that in the Component Allocation view of the Clear to Build Analysis/Simulation workbench (when users look at the components pegged to the make order) the phantom item must not be displayed. Instead, Rapid Planning must look through the phantom item and display the actual components required by that make order. In case of multi-level phantoms, Rapid Planning must look through the various phantom levels and only display the real components.
This enhancement allows a planner visibility into the real component availability and requirements during a Clear to Build analysis.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Release 12.1.3.3. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature.
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
New Tables
There are no new tables that are associated with this feature.
Changed Tables
There are no changed tables that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Tables
There are no obsolete tables that are associated with this feature.
New Views
There are no new views that are associated with this feature.
Changed Views
There are no changed views that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Views
There are no obsolete views that are associated with this feature.
New Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no new Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
New SQL Loader Files
There are no new SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Changed SQL Loader Files
There are no changed SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete SQL Loader Files
There are no obsolete SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
New Flexfields
There are no new flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Changed Flexfields
There are no changed flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Flexfields
There are no obsolete flexfields that are associated with this feature.
New Profile Options
There are no new profile options that are associated with this feature.
Changed Profile Options
There are no changed profile options that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Profile Options
There are no obsolete profile options that are associated with this feature.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Table Space Considerations
There are no table space considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
Ratios, Percentages (utilization %, fill rate %, load ratio, etc.)
This feature lets users control the maximum number of decimal digits displayed for the different types of numbers in the workbench using a set of responsibility-level profile options.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Release 12.1.3.3. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature.
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
New Tables
There are no new tables that are associated with this feature.
Changed Tables
There are no changed tables that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Tables
There are no obsolete tables that are associated with this feature.
New Views
There are no new views that are associated with this feature.
Changed Views
There are no changed views that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Views
There are no obsolete views that are associated with this feature.
New Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no new Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
New SQL Loader Files
There are no new SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Changed SQL Loader Files
There are no changed SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete SQL Loader Files
There are no obsolete SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
New Flexfields
There are no new flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Changed Flexfields
There are no changed flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Flexfields
There are no obsolete flexfields that are associated with this feature.
New Profile Options
The following 6 different profiles will control the decimal places displayed for the above 5 types of number fields:
MSC: Max display decimals for Quantity
MSC: Max display decimals for Time
MSC: Max display decimals for Quantity (aggregates)
MSC: Max display decimals for Time (aggregates)
MSC: Max display decimals for Currency
MSC: Max display decimals for Ratios/Percentages
These profiles are enabled only at the site and responsibility level. Users will not be able to set them at user level.
The default value for all profiles (except 3 and 4) is 2. For profiles 3 and 4 above, the default value is 0. Any new site, responsibility or user where the profiles are not set will have the behavior as if these are set to the default values above.
Changed Profile Options
There are no changed profile options that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Profile Options
There are no obsolete profile options that are associated with this feature.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Table Space Considerations
There are no table space considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
The following item attributes shown below are now editable for simulation purpose.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Release 12.1.3.3. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature.
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
New Tables
This table lists the new tables.
Table Name
Description
MSC_RP_ITEM_UPDATES
This table carries the information on any item attribute that is changed during the plan run. Right now, two attributes can be changed in plan run: planning_time_fence_date (either due to item level edit or Natural time fence) and safety_stock_percent.
Changed Tables
There are no changed tables that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Tables
There are no obsolete tables that are associated with this feature.
New Views
There are no new views that are associated with this feature.
Changed Views
There are no changed views that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Views
There are no obsolete views that are associated with this feature.
New Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no new Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
New SQL Loader Files
There are no new SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Changed SQL Loader Files
There are no changed SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete SQL Loader Files
There are no obsolete SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
New Flexfields
There are no new flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Changed Flexfields
There are no changed flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Flexfields
There are no obsolete flexfields that are associated with this feature.
New Profile Options
There are no new profile options that are associated with this feature.
Changed Profile Options
There are no changed profile options that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Profile Options
There are no obsolete profile options that are associated with this feature.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Table Space Considerations
There are no table space considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
Following new features are enabled in the Rapid Planning Workbench:
Mass update relative to another attribute. Applies to both Supplies & Demands (update Firm date based on Sugg Due Date) and Resource Availability (From time based on To Time) views.
More consistent Query by Example search.
User defined display order of items in Material Plan (it is based on the display in the previous view that user has selected the items).
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Release 12.1.3.3. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature.
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
New Tables
There are no new tables that are associated with this feature.
Changed Tables
This table lists the changed tables.
Table Name
Description
MSC_PLANS
One new column is added:
SAVE_TO_DB - This column carries the "Save Option" value that user chooses from RP concurrent program. The values can be "Save", "Do nothing" and "Save and Close".
Obsolete Tables
There are no obsolete tables that are associated with this feature.
New Views
There are no new views that are associated with this feature.
Changed Views
There are no changed views that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Views
There are no obsolete views that are associated with this feature.
New Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no new Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
New SQL Loader Files
There are no new SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Changed SQL Loader Files
There are no changed SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete SQL Loader Files
There are no obsolete SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
New Flexfields
There are no new flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Changed Flexfields
There are no changed flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Flexfields
There are no obsolete flexfields that are associated with this feature.
New Profile Options
There are no new profile options that are associated with this feature.
Changed Profile Options
There are no changed profile options that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Profile Options
There are no obsolete profile options that are associated with this feature.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Table Space Considerations
There are no table space considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
This feature enables a material plan enhancement for viewing global forecasts and planning results in Rapid Planning.
The material plan is a horizontal view of the supply and demand picture. With this enhancement to the material plan, the user obtains more visibility into the global forecast consumption process to enable better implementation of planned orders. The material plan displays the global forecast which was available prior to distribution as well as the amount of forecast distributed to a specific organization.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Release 12.1.3.3. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature.
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
New Tables
There are no new tables that are associated with this feature.
Changed Tables
There are no changed tables that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Tables
There are no obsolete tables that are associated with this feature.
New Views
There are no new views that are associated with this feature.
Changed Views
There are no changed views that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Views
There are no obsolete views that are associated with this feature.
New Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no new Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
New SQL Loader Files
There are no new SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Changed SQL Loader Files
There are no changed SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete SQL Loader Files
There are no obsolete SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
New Flexfields
There are no new flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Changed Flexfields
There are no changed flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Flexfields
There are no obsolete flexfields that are associated with this feature.
New Profile Options
There are no new profile options that are associated with this feature.
Changed Profile Options
There are no changed profile options that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Profile Options
There are no obsolete profile options that are associated with this feature.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Table Space Considerations
There are no table space considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
Rapid Planning users can make changes to Supplier attribute and Supplier capacity. These changes are considered by Rapid Planning and reflected in the planning results. The following attributes are now editable:
ASL
Processing Lead Time
Minimum Order Qty
Fixed Lot Multiplier
Supplier Capacity
From Date
To Date
Capacity
Users cannot add a new Supplier-Item/Org in this view. They can only add new capacity for an existing Supplier-Item/Org that is already available in the ASL.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Release 12.1.3.3. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature.
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
New Tables
There are no new tables that are associated with this feature.
Changed Tables
This table lists the changed tables.
Table Name
Description
msc_supplier_capacities
Updates and addition of new capacity records.
msc_item_suppliers
Updates to existing attributes.
Obsolete Tables
There are no obsolete tables that are associated with this feature.
New Views
There are no new views that are associated with this feature.
Changed Views
There are no changed views that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Views
There are no obsolete views that are associated with this feature.
New Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no new Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
New SQL Loader Files
There are no new SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Changed SQL Loader Files
There are no changed SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete SQL Loader Files
There are no obsolete SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
New Flexfields
There are no new flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Changed Flexfields
There are no changed flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Flexfields
There are no obsolete flexfields that are associated with this feature.
New Profile Options
There are no new profile options that are associated with this feature.
Changed Profile Options
There are no changed profile options that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Profile Options
There are no obsolete profile options that are associated with this feature.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Table Space Considerations
There are no table space considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
Auto release of planned orders is enabled for RP plans with new plan options to control auto release. Auto release functions just like ASCP, which uses a concurrent process to automatically release planned orders that runs after the plan completes.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Release 12.1.3.3. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature.
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
New Tables
This table lists the new tables.
Table Name
Description
MSC_RP_RELEASED_ORDERS
This table carries the information about the orders that were released during manual or auto released of orders from RP. The information is populated by Release program.
Changed Tables
This table lists the changed tables.
Table Name
Description
MSC_PLANS
Two new columns are added:
AUTO_RELEASE_RP - Flag to indicate if Auto-release option is checked.
RP_USER_ID - user_id with which the auto-release concurrent request needs to be launched.
Obsolete Tables
There are no obsolete tables that are associated with this feature.
New Views
There are no new views that are associated with this feature.
Changed Views
There are no changed views that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Views
There are no obsolete views that are associated with this feature.
New Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no new Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
New SQL Loader Files
There are no new SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Changed SQL Loader Files
There are no changed SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete SQL Loader Files
There are no obsolete SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
New Flexfields
There are no new flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Changed Flexfields
There are no changed flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Flexfields
There are no obsolete flexfields that are associated with this feature.
New Profile Options
There are no new profile options that are associated with this feature.
Changed Profile Options
There are no changed profile options that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Profile Options
There are no obsolete profile options that are associated with this feature.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Table Space Considerations
There are no table space considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
The planning engine decides whether to calculate Planning Time Fence (PTF) Date based on plan option Planning Time Fence Control. These profile options instruct the planning engine to create natural time fences and to change Planning Time Fence Date to the natural time fence date if the natural time fence date is later than the calculated Planning Time Fence Date.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Release 12.1.3.3. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
There are no changed windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature.
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no changed programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
New Tables
This table lists the new tables.
Table Name
Description
MSC_RP_ITEM_UPDATES
This table carries the information on any item attribute that is changed during the plan run. Right now, two attributes can be changed in plan run: planning_time_fence_date (either due to item level edit or Natural time fence) and safety_stock_percent.
Changed Tables
There are no changed tables that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Tables
There are no obsolete tables that are associated with this feature.
New Views
There are no new views that are associated with this feature.
Changed Views
There are no changed views that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Views
There are no obsolete views that are associated with this feature.
New Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no new Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
New SQL Loader Files
There are no new SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Changed SQL Loader Files
There are no changed SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete SQL Loader Files
There are no obsolete SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
New Flexfields
There are no new flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Changed Flexfields
There are no changed flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Flexfields
There are no obsolete flexfields that are associated with this feature.
New Profile Options
This table lists the new profile options.
Profile Option Name
Feature Area
Description
Firm Planned Order Time Fence
-
Instructs the planning engine to create a natural time fence for an item at the completion date of the latest firm planned order. By completion date, we mean the suggested due date of the firm planned order.
Create Time Fence
-
Instructs the planning engine to create a natural time fence for an item at the completion date of the latest firm discrete job, purchase order, flow schedule, or shipment. By completion date refers to the due date of the supply.
Firm Internal Requisition Time Fence
-
Instructs the planning engine to create a natural time fence for an item at the completion date of the latest firm internal requisition. By completion date refers to the suggested due date of the internal requisition.
Changed Profile Options
There are no changed profile options that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Profile Options
There are no obsolete profile options that are associated with this feature.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Table Space Considerations
There are no table space considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
With release 12.1.3.6, Oracle Rapid Planning supports component substitution and allows you to control how the substitution should occur and in which order.
A new item attribute, Component Substitution Logic is available. It has the following values:
Use Primary, existing and new supplies, before using Substitute
Exhaust all existing supplies (Primary first)
Exhaust all existing supplies (Substitute first)
Note: This item attribute is available only on Value Chain Planning (VCP) instances through simulation sets. It is not available on the source system.
Refer to the Oracle Rapid Planning Implementation and User's Guide for additional details.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3.6. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs. Any new, changed, or obsolete components of any of these types are listed below.
Changed Tables
Modifications here preserve compatibility with existing programs in non RP plans. However, the use may differ within RP plans.
Table Name
Description
Msc_components_substitutes
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
Msc_item_substitutes
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
Msc_item_suppliers
Columns have been added to track editing within a plan and within a simulation set.
New Profile Options
This table lists the new profile options.
Profile Option Name
Feature Area
Description
MSO: RP - Component Substitution Logic
-
This will be a global setting that applies to the entire plan. Users can still override these settings at the individual item level (see below).
MSO: RP - Component Substitution Logic profile can be set to one of the following values:
Use Primary (existing and new supplies) before using Substitute
Exhaust all existing supplies (Primary first)
Exhaust all existing supplies (Substitute first)
Use Primary (existing and new supplies) before using Substitute is the default option. This will also be available as an Advanced Plan Option.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
This section lists the setup steps that were added or changed for Oracle Rapid Planning in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3.6. For additional details about performing the setup steps listed below, refer to the documentation described in 2.1 Online Help and PDF Documentation.
For more information on component substitution, refer to Oracle Rapid Planning Implementation and User's Guide.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Tablespace Considerations
There are no tablespace considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
With release 12.1.3.6, Oracle Rapid Planning and Collaborative Planning integration enables the forecast collaboration workflow between an enterprise and its trading partners.
The integration details between Rapid Planning and Collaborative Planning (CP) are identical to that between Advanced Supply Chain Planning and Collaborative Planning.
On the supplier-collaboration side, the integration enables users to publish an order forecast to suppliers from an RP plan, and receive supplier supply commits from suppliers.
On the customer-facing side, the integration enables Rapid Planning to publish supply commit information from the RP plan to CP.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3.6. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs. Any new, changed, or obsolete components of any of these types are listed below.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Tablespace Considerations
There are no tablespace considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
Prior to Rapid Planning release 12.1.3.6, Oracle Rapid Planning supported safety stock planning by use of Safety Lead Time. It did not support planning directly using Safety Stock quantities that vary over time - either user-defined or generated by Oracle Inventory Optimization.
This enhancement enables the following methods of safety stock planning in Rapid Planning:
User-defined Safety Stock Quantities specified in Oracle Inventory.
Safety Stock Quantities generated in Oracle Inventory.
Safety Stock Quantities calculated in Oracle Rapid Planning.
Safety Stock Quantities fed into Oracle Rapid Planning from Inventory Optimization.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3.6. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs. Any new, changed, or obsolete components of any of these types are listed below.
New Profile Options
This table lists the new profile options.
Profile Option Name
Feature Area
Description
Safety Stock Method
Rapid planning
This profile provides the following options:
Do not compute Safety Stock (currently exists)
Use Safety Stock Percent (currently exists)
Use Safety Stock Lead Time from Safety Stock Percent (This option replaces Time Use Safety Stock Quantity option that was in RP 12.1.3.3.)
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Tablespace Considerations
There are no tablespace considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
In release 12.1.3.8, users can specify whether Rapid Planning should be used as the simulation tool for ASCP by selecting the Enable Rapid Planning Simulations option on Other tab of the Preferences page.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3.8. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs. Any new, changed, or obsolete components of any of these types are listed below.
Changed Windows or Pages
This table lists the changed windows and pages.
Changed Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Preferences Page - Other Tab
-
A new option, Enable Rapid Planning Simulations, is used to launch Rapid Planning from ASCP. When selected, Open Simulation appears as an option in the Plan menu from ASCP, which when selected opens the plan in Rapid Planning. If Enable Rapid Planning Simulations is not selected, then the Plan menu displays the ASCP Online Planner menu options.
Open Simulation
-
This new dialog box appears when Open Simulation is selected from the Plan menu. This dialog is used to create a new Rapid Planning simulation or open an existing Rapid Planning simulation plan.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Tablespace Considerations
There are no tablespace considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
In release 12.1.3.8, Rapid Planning allows users to create a Rapid Planning plan with an ASCP plan reference from Rapid Planning.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3.8. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs. Any new, changed, or obsolete components of any of these types are listed below.
Changed Windows or Pages
This table lists the changed windows and pages.
Changed Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Copy Plan
-
The Copy Planning dialog has been modified to enable copy plan feature within Rapid Planning. The dialog provides two regions, Copy From and Copy To, to define the type of plan copy to create.
The Copy From region provides the following fields:
Plan Type - Available options include ASCP or Rapid Planning.
Plan Name - Select a plan name.
The Copy To region provides the following fields:
Plan Type
Plan Name
Description
Simulation Horizon (Days)
Category Set
Load and switch to copied plan
If the From Plan is an ASCP Plan and the To Plan is a new RP Plan (that is, user has not selected an existing plan from the drop down list), then three additional parameters: Description, Simulation Horizon (Days), Category Set need to be specified. These parameters are grayed out if the From Plan is a RP Plan or if the To Plan is an existing RP Plan.
If both Copy From and Copy To plans are RP Plans, then the RP to RP Plan copy process that exists today is run.
If the From Plan is an ASCP Plan and the To Plan is a new or existing RP Plan, then the process that baselines the RP plan based on the ASCP plan output is run.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Tablespace Considerations
There are no tablespace considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
3.57 Validations and Warning Messages within Rapid Planning
Description
In release 12.1.3.8, Rapid Planning displays warning messages for the following conditions:
When a user deletes a Rapid Planning plan that references a baseline ASCP plan.
When a user initiates a Copy plan from and the destination RP plan already exists. This message applies both when copying from ASCP to RP and from RP to RP. Note: Users can freely delete any references to RP Plans from within ASCP plan options.
If an ASCP plan that is a baseline plan for one or more RP plans is purged, then the linked RP plans are updated so that they no longer show the Baseline ASCP Plan name in the Plan Options. These plans can continue to be run without a Launch Snapshot. The next time a copy plan process is run, the Baseline ASCP Plan name in plan options is updated again.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3.8. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs. Any new, changed, or obsolete components of any of these types are listed below.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Tablespace Considerations
There are no tablespace considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
3.58 Plan Option Settings from a RP Plan that Refers to an ASCP Plan as a Baseline
Description
In release 12.1.3.8, Rapid Planning provides a new RP Plan Option text field, Baseline ASCP Plan, is added to the RP Plan Options screen, and this displays the name of the ASCP plan that is the baseline for this RP plan.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3.8. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs. Any new, changed, or obsolete components of any of these types are listed below.
Changed Windows or Pages
This table lists the changed windows and pages.
Changed Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Plan Options - Baseline ASCP Plan
-
Baseline ASCP Plan field now appears at the top of the Plan Options page. This field displays the name of the ASCP plan that is the baseline for this RP plan.
Plan Options Tabs
-
All the read-only plan options appear in a gray color, visually indicating to the user that they cannot edit them. Refer to the table below for information about the Plan options tabs.
Plan Options - Main Tab
For a plan that has a baseline ASCP plan reference, the table below displays the default values for the plan options. As noted below some of these options are read-only and users are not be allowed to change them.
Option
Allow Edit?
Default Value
Organization
No
Owning org for the RP Plan - Same as owning org for the Baseline ASCP Plan
Planned Item Type
No
If ASCP Plan is a "Manufacturing Plan" - Defaulted to MRP.
If ASCP Plan is a "Production Plan" - Assigned to MPS.
If ASCP Plan is a "Master Plan" - Assigned to MPP.
Planned Items
No
Will be set to "ASCP Planned Items Only". This LOV entry cannot be changed and it is only meaningful for RP plans that have a baseline ASCP plan reference. This LOV entry is not available for a Rapid Planning plan that does not have an ASCP plan reference.
Unconstrained Plan
No
Based on ASCP "Constrained Plan" flag.
Assignment Set
No
Same as ASCP.
End Item Substitution Set
No
Same as ASCP.
Simulation Set
No
Left Blank
Users cannot specify a simulation set as input for RP plans that have Baseline ASCP plan reference because these types of RP plan do not run a snapshot process but rather get all data from the parent ASCP plan.
Demand Priority Rule
No
Same as ASCP.
Overwrite
Yes
Defaulted to "None" (in order to retain the ASCP Firm Planned Orders).
Number of Planning Buckets (Daily)
Yes
If RP plan created as a result of process invoked from ASCP, then this is the simulation horizon specified in the Open Simulation page.
If the RP plan created through a Plan Copy invoked from within RP, then the parameter in the Copy Plan screen is used.
Planning Time Fence Control
No
Same as ASCP.
Demand Time Fence Control
No
Same as ASCP.
ATP Enabled
Yes
Defaulted to "Unchecked".
Category Set
Yes
If invoking the Copy from ASCP, the Category Set associated with the user's preference is used (this is the value specified in the Tools > Preferences screen in ASCP).
If invoking the Copy from within RP, then the parameter specified in the Copy Plan screen is used.
Use for S&OP
Yes
Unchecked.
Plan Security Attributes
Yes
Defaults to Public.
Forecast Allocation and Consumption Parameters
No
Defaults to parameters from ASCP Plan.
Auto Release parameters
No
Defaults to parameters from ASCP Plan.
Note: The values of any parameter that are marked as Allow Edit = Yes in the table above are retained when running a Copy Plan process from ASCP to Rapid Planning or when Opening an existing simulation plan from ASCP plan menu.
Organization Tab
The following table displays changes to the Organization tab.
Option
Allow Edit?
Default Value
Global Demand Schedules section
No
All the global demand schedules present in the baseline ASCP plan appear. This display is read only. Users cannot add, edit or delete these global demand schedules.
Organization section
No
All the organizations in the baseline ASCP plan will be displayed. This display is read only. Users cannot add, edit or delete these organizations. The sub-inventory button is disabled.
Demand Schedules section
No
All the demand schedules present for each org in the ASCP plan appear. This display is read only. Users cannot add, edit or delete demand schedules. Any hub and spoke planning related demand schedules also appear here. For example, if the baseline ASCP plan (Plan X) had another ASCP plan (Plan Y) being fed in as a demand schedule, then Plan Y also appears as a demand schedule on this screen.
Supply Schedules
No
A new section, Supply Schedules, is added to show the supply schedules that are fed into the ASCP plan. This section needs to be enabled only if the RP plan has a baseline ASCP plan reference. In the Supply Schedules section, all the supply schedules present for each org in the ASCP plan will be displayed. This display is read only. Users cannot add, edit or delete supply schedules. Any hub and spoke planning related supply schedules also appear here. For example, if the baseline ASCP plan (Plan X) had another ASCP plan (Plan Y) being fed in as a supply schedule, then Plan Y also appears as a supply schedule on this screen.
Advanced Tab
For a RP plan being created from scratch, the Advanced tab uses the current values of the profile options in creating the default values for these plan options. Subsequent to that users change the parameters in the Advanced tab and do not need to bother with setting the profile options.
In the case of an RP plan being created from an ASCP plan reference, the ASCP snapshot needs to be used as a reference in creating these default values. Even if users have changed some profile option value subsequent to running ASCP, the profile values assigned in the ASCP plan run are used as the basis for populating these defaults. Users are not be allowed to change these defaults.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Tablespace Considerations
There are no tablespace considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
In release 12.1.3.8, Rapid Planning uses a new process when the Copy Plan feature is used. Rapid Planning uses a new process when the following are performed:
From ASCP, when Open Simulation is selected.
From Rapid Planning, when the Copy Plan feature is used.
This process performs the following actions:
Purge the current plan output of the RP-Plan, if any.
Copy Plan Options from ASCP to RP and set defaults for some Plan Options that are not present in ASCP.
Run the RP-snapshot process to load the static data.
Load all end demands and supplies (both existing supplies and new planned orders) within the simulation horizon from the ASCP plan into the RP Plan.
Set the Firm Flag on all the supplies imported from the ASCP Plan to Yes.This ensures that when RP runs it will not change the dates of the ASCP orders. This is desirable from the perspective of establishing a baseline.
Set the planning timefence for each planned item to be end of the RP Planning horizon. This turns off creation of new supplies in RP which is not desirable at this time since we are just trying to create a baseline that mirrors the ASCP plan.
Run Rapid Planning to perform the following:
Generate Resource and Material Requirements for all the ASCP orders.
Peg demands to supplies.
Calculate Exceptions and KPIs.
Unfirm all artificially firmed supplies / re-set all artificially set planning timefences.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3.8. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs. Any new, changed, or obsolete components of any of these types are listed below.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists the new windows and pages.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Open Simulation - Status
-
If the baseline process is invoked from ASCP using the Open Simulation, a new forms-based progress screen, Open Simulation - Status,appears. Once the process is complete, the RP screen displays the RP plan loaded into the application page.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Tablespace Considerations
There are no tablespace considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
3.60 Copy ASCP Plan to Rapid Planning Plans in a Batch Mode
Description
In release 12.1.3.8, Rapid Planning provides a new batch launch plan for ASCP plans that allows ASCP plan output to be copied over to each Rapid Planning Plan that refers to this ASCP plan as a baseline plan.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3.8. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs. Any new, changed, or obsolete components of any of these types are listed below.
Changed Windows or Pages
This table lists the changed windows and pages.
Changed Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Parameters
-
A new Launch parameter, Copy Plan Output to Simulation Plans, is added for ASCP plans. This option allows the ASCP plan output to be copied over to each Rapid Planning plan that refers to this ASCP plan as a baseline plan.
Default value of this Plan Launch parameter is No.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Tablespace Considerations
There are no tablespace considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
In release 12.1.3.8, Rapid Planning allows the user to control the extent to which the ASCP plan output can be changed by Rapid Planning through a form called Incremental Replan Scope.
Note: Users will not be able to run RP with Launch Snapshot = Yes, if the RP plan has an associated ASCP baseline plan. Only launch with Snapshot = No or Incremental Planning are supported.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3.8. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs. Any new, changed, or obsolete components of any of these types are listed below.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists the new windows and pages.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Incremental Replan Scope
-
Select Define Incremental Replan Scope from the Plan Actions menu to display new form. The following options are available from the list at the top of the form:
Freeze existing plan / Replan new demands only (Default)
This is the mode in which incremental planning currently runs. This is the default value. If this value is chosen, the Supply selection criteria is grayed out since it is not applicable.
Freeze Selected Supplies / Replan all demands
In this mode, RP engine will execute a query based on the Supply Selection Criteria specified and "internally firm" all the supplies that are output by the query prior to running the engine. After the re-plan completes the supplies that were "internally firmed" need to be "internally unfirmed" before presenting the results to the users.
Freeze All Except Selected Supplies / Replan all demands
In this mode, RP engine will execute a query based on the Supply Selection Criteria specified and internally firm all the supplies except the ones that are output by the query prior to running the engine. After the re-plan completes the supplies that were "internally firmed" need to be "internally unfirmed" before presenting the results to the users.
Use the following fields to define the Supply Selection Criteria:
Criteria
Condition
Values
Include pegged upstream supplies
Include pegged downstream supplies
See the Rapid Planning Implementation and User's Guide for additional details on using the Incremental Replan Scope form.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Tablespace Considerations
There are no tablespace considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
In release 12.1.3.8, Rapid Planning allows users to evaluate how the replan has changed the output of the ASCP plan after an incremental plan has been run. Users can compare plans on various metrics and measures to gain this understanding.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3.8. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs. Any new, changed, or obsolete components of any of these types are listed below.
Changed Windows or Pages
This table lists the changed windows and pages.
Changed Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Sales Order Comparison
Renamed to Order Comparison
-
The current Sales Order Comparison screen has been renamed to be "Order Comparison". It contains two tabs, Sales Order Comparison (same as in previous release) and Supply Order Comparison (this is a new screen).
The Supply Order Comparison tab provides the following Search Criteria:
Item
Org
Category
Order Type
Supplier
Supplier Site
Source Org
Ship Method
Suggested Due Date
Type of Change
New Metrics
The following new metrics need to be added to Rapid Planning Analytics:
Total Supply Quantity
Planned Order Quantity
Make Planned Order Quantity
Transfer Planned Order Quantity
Buy Plan Order Quantity
Work Order Quantity
Purchase Orders / Requisition Quantity
Internal Purchase Orders / Requisitions Quantity
Total Demand Quantity
Forecast Quantity
Sales Order Quantity
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
This section lists the setup steps that were added or changed for Oracle Rapid Planning in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3.8. For additional details about performing the setup steps listed below, refer to the documentation described in 2.1 Online Help and PDF Documentation.
See the Rapid Planning Implementation and User's Guide for additional details on using the Order Comparison form and the new Supply Order Comparison tab.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Tablespace Considerations
There are no tablespace considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
3.63 Handling (within the Rapid Planning Simulation Plan) of Orders that are Firmed / Released in ASCP
Description
In release 12.1.3.8, Rapid Planning has been enhanced in its handling of how supply orders in ASCP are treated in the linked Rapid Planning Simulation Plan.
The following table explains how supply orders are treated in the Rapid Planning Simulation Plan.
Supply Type
Treatment in RP
Existing Supply - No changes recommended in ASCP
Snapshot from ASCP to RP with Firm Status inherited from ASCP (could be Firm or Unfirm) and with Action = None. RP may reschedule this supply when it re-plans and users can release the reschedule from RP.
Existing Supply - ASCP recommends changes but changes not released
Snapshot from ASCP to RP with Firm = No and Action = Release. Users may release this supply from RP as-is or RP may further reschedule it and users can release it after a further reschedule.
Existing Supply - ASCP recommends changes and changes released
Snapshot from ASCP to RP with Firm = the value of "Implement Firm" selection in ASCP and Action = None and the Suggested Due Date = "Implement Date".
If this supply was implemented as Firm, then users can modify the Firm flag and re-run RP. In that case RP may recommend additional reschedules, Action is set to Release and a further reschedule can be released from RP.
Planned Order - Unreleased and Unfirm
Snapshot from ASCP to RP with Firm = No and Action = Release. Users can release from RP. If simulation is run without firming these orders, they will be replacedwith new planned orders generated by RP.
Planned Order - Unreleased and Firm
Snapshot from ASCP to RP with Firm = Yes and Action = Release. Users can perform the following:
Unfirm this order - Will cease to exist if RP is rerun.
Release this order - Will have Action set to None.
Do nothing ( keep the order as-is).
Planned Order - Released
Snapshot from ASCP to RP with Firm = Yes (Note: In this case the value of Implement Firm is not used because if this planned order is not Firmed it will be lost when RP reruns), Suggested Due Date = "Implement Date" and Action = None. If the Planner modified the Firm flag and re-runs RP, it will remove this planned order from the plan and recommend a new one its place.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3.8. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs. Any new, changed, or obsolete components of any of these types are listed below.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Tablespace Considerations
There are no tablespace considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
In release 12.1.3.8, Rapid Planning and ASCP integration has been improved to import key simulation outcomes back into ASCP when rerunning the ASCP plan.
When the ASCP Plan is re-run, the user can specify the source for Firm Planned Orders. The source can be either ASCP or Rapid Planning. Users cannot mix and match planned orders across these two sources.
Specifications are made in the Plan Launch Parameters form.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3.8. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs. Any new, changed, or obsolete components of any of these types are listed below.
Changed Windows or Pages
This table lists the changed windows and pages.
Changed Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Parameters
-
A new field, Snapshot Source for Firm Planned Orders, is available in the Launch Parameters form. The List of Values in the field "Snapshot Source for Firm Planned Orders" includes the current ASCP Plan and all the Rapid Planning Simulation Plan which reference this ASCP Plan as input. This field should be enabled only when running with Launch Snapshot = Full Snapshot. Default value is the name of the current ASCP Plan.
If the value is chosen to be the name of the current ASCP Plan that is being launched (this is the default) then the behavior is the same as in previous releases (all firm planned orders from the PDS with a Plan ID equal to the current ASCP Plan are snapshot).
If the value is chosen to be the name of one of the Rapid Planning simulation plans, then the behavior is to snapshot all other entities (the same as before), but for firm planned orders, to snapshot them from the PDS with a Plan ID equal to the Plan ID of the Rapid Planning simulation plan that is specified.
As always, snapshot of Firm Planned Orders happens only if the plan is Launch Snapshot is Yes and if the Plan Option Overwrite is set to either None or Outside Planning Time Fence. Also, any firm planned orders that have been released will only be snapshot if the difference between the planned order quantity and the implement quantity is greater than zero.
Existing supplies, such as Work Orders and Purchase Orders, are not snapshot from the PDS (except while running online planner or Batch Re-plan). These entities will always be snapshot from the ODS. Therefore if planners make changes to existing supplies within Rapid Planning, they need to release them to the source and recollect to have those changes becomes visible in the next ASCP plan run.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Tablespace Considerations
There are no tablespace considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
In release 12.1.3.8, with the Rapid Planning simulation of Advanced Supply Chain Planning plans, there are these new base metrics, dimensioned by Item-Organization-Week:
Buy Planned Order Quantity
Forecast Quantity
Internal Purchase Orders / Requisitions Quantity
Make Planned Order Quantity
Planned Order Quantity
Purchase Orders / Requisition Quantity
Sales Order Quantity
Total Demand Quantity
Total Supply Quantity
Transfer Planned Order Quantity
Work Order Quantity
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3.8. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs. Any new, changed, or obsolete components of any of these types are listed below.
Changed Windows or Pages
This table lists the changed windows and pages.
Changed Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Analytics
-
The new base metrics appear in the Analytics window.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Tablespace Considerations
There are no tablespace considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
In release 12.1.3.8, with the Rapid Planning simulation of Advanced Supply Chain Planning plans, there is a Supply Comparison view.
It shows differences between:
Action statuses
Supply due dates
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3.8. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs. Any new, changed, or obsolete components of any of these types are listed below.
New Windows or Pages
This table lists the new windows and pages.
New Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Supply Order Comparison Tab - Order Comparison Window
-
This new tab appears in the Order Comparison window, which was named Sales Order Comparison prior to release 12.1.3.8. It is used to input search criteria for supply order comparison.
Changed Windows or Pages
This table lists the changed windows and pages.
Changed Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Analytics
-
The current Sales Order Comparison screen has been renamed to be "Order Comparison". It contains two tabs, Sales Order Comparison (same as in previous release) and Supply Order Comparison (this is a new screen).
Order Comparison
-
Order Comparison window, which was named Sales Order Comparison prior to release 12.1.3.8, now contains two tabs, Sales Order Comparison and Supply Order Comparison.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
Tablespace Considerations
There are no tablespace considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
3.67 Enhanced Integration to Advanced Supply Chain Planning
Description
The integration between Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning and Oracle Rapid Planning that was initially made available in Release 12.1.3.8 has been enhanced as follows in Release 12.1.3.9:
When copying the supply orders from ASCP to Rapid Planning, all the supply order details such as resource requirements, alternate resource selections, material requirements, substitute component and alternate BOM selections, will also be copied over from ASCP to Rapid Planning. This enhancement increases the degree to which the Rapid Planning plan and the baseline ASCP plan are aligned at the beginning of the simulation process.
If safety stock planning is enabled in ASCP, the safety stock quantities will be copied from ASCP to Rapid Planning and the Rapid Planning plan option Safety Stock lead time method will be set to "Safety Stock Quantity".
All supplies that are selected for freezing through criteria specified in the "Define Incremental Replan Scope" screen will be considered "Firm All". This means all the underlying resource and material requirements will also be considered firm. This enhancement enables planners to better preserve decisions made in the ASCP plan run while running simulations in Rapid Planning.
The copy process from ASCP to Rapid Planning can be invoked in a batch mode at the end of the ASCP plan run. This is controlled by a new ASCP Plan launch parameter, "Copy Plan Output to Simulation Plans". This enhancement improves planner productivity by eliminating the need to perform a manual copy process each time a simulation needs to be performed.
A Rapid Planning Simulation Set can be specified as an input to an ASCP plan through a new ASCP plan option "Rapid Planning Simulation Set". With this enhancement users are able to copy their plan changes into a simulation set within Rapid Planning and make those changes available to the next ASCP plan run. ASCP will consider the changes that are contained within the Rapid Planning Simulation Set. Changes contained within the Rapid Planning simulation set will override changes contained within the Item Simulation Set if both simulation sets are specified as inputs in ASCP Plan Options. This enhancement improves the degree of alignment between ASCP and Rapid Planning by providing a mechanism to communicate to ASCP all the plan input changes that were made during the simulation process in Rapid Planning.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
This table lists the changed windows and pages.
Changed Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
ASCP Plan Launch
Screen displays new parameter, Copy Plan Output to Simulation Plans. It allows the copy process from ASCP to Rapid Planning to be invoked in a batch mode at the end of the ASCP plan run.
ASCP Plan Option
Screen displays new option, Rapid Planning Simulation Set. Use this option to specifiy a Rapid Planning Simulation Set as an input to an ASCP plan. You are able to copy your plan changes into a simulation set within Rapid Planning and make those changes available to the next ASCP plan run. ASCP considers the changes that are contained within the Rapid Planning Simulation Set. Changes contained within the Rapid Planning simulation set override changes contained within the Item Simulation Set, if both simulation sets are specified as inputs in ASCP Plan Options. This enhancement improves the degree of alignment between ASCP and Rapid Planning by providing a mechanism to communicate to ASCP all the plan input changes that were made during the simulation process in Rapid Planning.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
This table lists the new workflows.
New Workflow Name
Technical Name
Description
ASCP Plan Launch
-
Provide the ability to invoke the simulation plans through the ASCP Plan Launch process.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature.
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
New Tables
There are no new tables that are associated with this feature.
Changed Tables
There are no changed tables that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Tables
There are no obsolete tables that are associated with this feature.
New Views
There are no new views that are associated with this feature.
Changed Views
There are no changed views that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Views
There are no obsolete views that are associated with this feature.
New Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no new Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
New SQL Loader Files
There are no new SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Changed SQL Loader Files
There are no changed SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete SQL Loader Files
There are no obsolete SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
New Flexfields
There are no new flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Changed Flexfields
There are no changed flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Flexfields
There are no obsolete flexfields that are associated with this feature.
New Profile Options
There are no new profiles that are associated with this feature.
Changed Profile Options
There are no changed profile options that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Profile Options
There are no obsolete profile options that are associated with this feature.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
There are no sizing considerations for this feature.
Table Space Considerations
There are no table space considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
There are no performance considerations for this feature.
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
Rapid Planning respects the order modifiers Fixed Order Quantity, Minimum Order Quantity, Maximum Order Quantity, and Fixed Lot Multiple. In Release 12.1.3.9, Rapid Planning has been enhanced to also respect the Fixed Days Supply (FDS) order modifier. For items with the Fixed Days Supply order modifier, Rapid Planning creates planned orders that are spaced apart by the number of days corresponding to the fixed days of supply. Each of these planned orders has a quantity that represents the sum of demand quantities within the fixed days of supply time window.
When creating planned orders for items with FDS, Rapid Planning takes into account existing on hands, firm and non firm scheduled receipts, and planning time fence. Rapid Planning will also calculate measures "Days of Supply" and "Average Days of Supply". Days of Supply represents the number of days of demand that is covered by the projected available balance at the end of each planning time bucket. An exception message will be generated if the Days of Supply exceeds the fixed days of supply. Planners can also perform simulations by changing the Fixed Days Supply for an item within the plan or using a simulation set.
FDS is fully supported in unconstrained plans. Constrained plans support FDS order modifiers only for purchased parts.
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
This table lists the changed windows and pages.
Changed Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Material Plan
-
Displays two additional measures "Days of Supply" and "Average Days of Supply".
Exception Details
-
Display the new exception, Days of Supply exceeds Fixed Days of Supply.
Items screen
-
Includes FDS as one of the item attributes that can be displayed and changed.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature.
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
New Tables
There are no new tables that are associated with this feature.
Changed Tables
There are no changed tables that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Tables
There are no obsolete tables that are associated with this feature.
New Views
There are no new views that are associated with this feature.
Changed Views
There are no changed views that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Views
There are no obsolete views that are associated with this feature.
New Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no new Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
New SQL Loader Files
There are no new SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Changed SQL Loader Files
There are no changed SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete SQL Loader Files
There are no obsolete SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
New Flexfields
There are no new flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Changed Flexfields
There are no changed flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Flexfields
There are no obsolete flexfields that are associated with this feature.
New Profile Options
There are no new profiles that are associated with this feature.
Changed Profile Options
There are no changed profile options that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Profile Options
There are no obsolete profile options that are associated with this feature.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
Set the FDS item attribute to enable the Fixed Days Supply Order Modifier feature.
Upgrade Considerations
Upon upgrading to 12.1.3.9, Rapid Pklanning will respect FDS. In prior releases, RP would have ignored the FDS parameter even if specified in the Item Master.
Sizing
There are no sizing considerations for this feature.
Table Space Considerations
There are no table space considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
There are no performance considerations for this feature.
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
Supplier contracts or labor agreements might require that a company source its materials from suppliers or source internally based on specified allocation percentages. With Release 12.1.3.9, Rapid Planning has been enhanced to respect sourcing allocation percentages specified in sourcing rules when creating buy, transfer, and make supplies.
This feature is available both in unconstrained and constrained plans and can be enabled by checking the Enforce Sourcing Splits plan option. You can also specify a sourcing allocation window as a number of days. Rapid Planning attempts to meet the prescribed sourcing splits, in a cumulative fashion, within each allocation window inside the planning horizon. The planning process also takes into account historical sourcing splits to date (based on plan option Start Date Offset for Sourcing History) when calculating the cumulative sourcing splits in the plan. Enforcement of sourcing splits is a lower priority compared to the enforcement of lead time and capacity constraints. These higher order constraints may cause a deviation between the planned and target sourcing splits. In such cases, an exception message, "Sourcing Split Percentage Violated," is generated. The exception message is generated only if the magnitude of the deviation exceeds a threshold (specified as a percentage value in the Sourcing Variance Tolerance plan option.)
New, Changed, Obsolete Components
This section lists the components that were added, changed, or made obsolete for this feature in Oracle Rapid Planning. These components may include the following: forms, windows, reports, C programs, SQL*Loader programs, workflows, alerts, tables, or APIs.
New Windows or Pages
There are no new windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
Changed Windows or Pages
This table lists the changed windows and pages.
Changed Window or Page Name
Technical Name
Description
Plan Options
-
This screen contains a new option, Enforce Sourcing Splits. Select this option to respect sourcing allocation percentages specified in sourcing rules when creating buy, transfer and make supplies. It is available both in unconstrained and constrained plans.
Two addition options also apear, Start Date offset for Sourcing History and Sourcing Variance Tolerance %.
Obsolete Windows or Pages
There are no obsolete windows or pages that are associated with this feature.
New Reports
There are no new reports that are associated with this feature.
Changed Reports
There are no changed reports that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Reports
There are no obsolete reports that are associated with this feature.
New Workflows
There are no new workflows that are associated with this feature.
Changed Workflows
There are no changed workflows that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Workflows
There are no obsolete workflows that are associated with this feature.
New Alerts
There are no new alerts that are associated with this feature.
Changed Alerts
There are no changed alerts that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Alerts
There are no obsolete alerts that are associated with this feature.
New Public APIs
There are no new public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Public APIs
There are no changed public APIs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Public APIs
There are no obsolete public APIs that are associated with this feature.
New Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Changed Programs
There are no new programs that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Programs
There are no obsolete programs that are associated with this feature.
New Tables
There are no new tables that are associated with this feature.
Changed Tables
There are no changed tables that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Tables
There are no obsolete tables that are associated with this feature.
New Views
There are no new views that are associated with this feature.
Changed Views
There are no changed views that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Views
There are no obsolete views that are associated with this feature.
New Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no new Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no changed Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components
There are no obsolete Business Intelligence Publisher Components that are associated with this feature.
New SQL Loader Files
There are no new SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Changed SQL Loader Files
There are no changed SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete SQL Loader Files
There are no obsolete SQL loader files that are associated with this feature.
New Flexfields
There are no new flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Changed Flexfields
There are no changed flexfields that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Flexfields
There are no obsolete flexfields that are associated with this feature.
New Profile Options
There are no new profiles that are associated with this feature.
Changed Profile Options
There are no changed profile options that are associated with this feature.
Obsolete Profile Options
There are no obsolete profile options that are associated with this feature.
Implementation Considerations
New and Changed Setup Steps
There are no new or changed setup steps for this feature.
Upgrade Considerations
There are no upgrade considerations for this feature.
Sizing
There are no sizing considerations for this feature.
Table Space Considerations
There are no table space considerations for this feature.
Performance Considerations
There are no performance considerations for this feature.
XMLDB Usage
There are no XMLDB usages for this feature.
Load Balancing
There is no load balancing information for this feature.
New Bulk Interfaces
There are no new bulk interfaces for this feature.
Customizations and Extensions
Customizations and extensions are not possible for this feature.
Minimum Level Requirements
There are no minimum level requirements for this feature.
Technology Stack Incompatibilities
There are no technology stack incompatibilities for this feature.
Technical Architecture Considerations
There are no technology architecture considerations for this feature.
Troubleshooting Tips
There are no troubleshooting tips for this feature.
This can happen if either of the Web services UI/Engine is down. Need to restart the WebLogic server (wls). Log in to the machine where application is installed. Go to the $ENGINE_DOMIAN/bin directory and issue the following command: >./startWebLogic.sh >log06&
If page still it doesn't appear, then restart the UI server. Go to $UI_DOMAIN/bin and issue the following commands: >./stopWeblogic.sh >./startWebLogic.sh > ../logs/wlsXXXX.log&
Getting the following error while loading the UI page, "error unable to access Web service engine"
Check the "msc.msc_web_services" table for whether any of the port/Web service is free or not. If none of the Web services are free, then close any unused plan from the UI and again load the new plan.
If plan load/launch throws error:
Check the "status" field in msc_plans table,
select status from msc.msc_plans where plan_id = $PLAN_ID.
Status should be 0 for a successful load/launch. If status is other than 0, then the check table 4.1 at the end of this section for more details.
Check the log file for more details.
Go to $ENGINE_DOMAIN/log/rpengineXXXX.log , XXXX is the port number on which that particular plan is running. select web_service_id, url from msc.msc_web_services where plan_id = $PLAN_ID*;
Get the port number XXXX from the "url" field in the above query.
*$PLAN_ID can be found from $PLAN_NAME by the following query: select compile_designator, plan_id from msc_plans where compile_designator like '%$PLAN_NAME%';
In case of plan launch with refresh snapshot, check the requestId in the spool from more details.
Advance Supply Chain Planner > in "Supply Chain" workbench > in "view" on the top go to "requests" > find the request by "requestId".
If launching a newly created plan, receiving error message "plan is running in engine".
Check the status in msc.msc_plans. If that is not 0, set it to 0, and then try to launch again.
"Unique Constraints violation" error message while loading the "Supply & Demand" or "Material Plan" window.
This happens because of inconsistency in the binary file and memory status. This sometimes occurs when a user bounces the server without closing the plan.
Workaround will be to replan without refresh snapshot.
While closing the plan, the plan status is not shown in UI.
This occurs when plan got stuck with some error in msc_plans table and released from the Web services. Set the status to 0, before loading the plan again.
Out of memory error, "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError" while launching the plan
This shows that plan needs more memory than allocated and is too large for the current memory configurations. Need to add more memory to the managed servers for some of the plan
Error in loading a saved plan after saving it from another plan.
Binary files are not updated, rerun the plan with refresh snapshot.
Error saving binary files, "Error saving engine to binary file"
Servers are restarted without closing/saving the plan properly, save and close the plan before bouncing the servers.
Also make sure that engine should have read and write permission to the binary files.
Table 4.1 Status Codes
General
0
COMPLETED
1
STARTED
50+
ERROR
97
ERROR_CONCURRENT
Server is performing other plan management operation. Please try to send request later.
98
RUNTIME_ERROR
Server runtime error. Check server log for more information.
99
UNKNOWN_ERROR
Server unknown error. Check server log for more information.
Launch Plan Refresh Snapshot
1
STARTED
5
DONE_LOAD_PLAN_INPUT
6
DONE_SOLVE_PLAN
7
DONE_WRITE_PLAN_OUTPUT
8
DONE_CREATE_CACHE_MANAGER
0
COMPLETED
51
UNABLE_TO_LOCATE_CONFIGURATION
Unable to locate server configuration file orp.properties.
52
INPUT_DIR_IS_NOT_VALID
Plan input directory is not a valid directory.
53
SCHEMA_DIR_IS_NOT_VALID
MBP schema directory is not a valid directory.
54
OUTPUT_DIR_IS_NOT_VALID
Plan output directory is not a valid directory.
55
ERROR_CREATE_CACHE_MANAGER
Error while creating cache manager. Check server log for more information.
56
ERROR_LOAD_PLAN_INPUT
Error while loading MBP files. Check server log for more information.
57
ERROR_APPLY_CHANGES
Error while applying changes to plan model. Check server log for more information.
58
ERROR_SOLVE_PLAN
Error while solving the plan. Check server log for more information.
59
ERROR_WRITE_PLAN_OUTPUT
Error while writing plan output. Check server log for more information.
60
ERROR_CREATE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
Error creating output directory. Check server log for more information.
Load Plan
1
STARTED
13
DONE_LOADING_BINARY_SAVED_DATA
8
DONE_CREATE_CACHE_MANAGER
0
COMPLETED
61
ERROR_LOADING_BINARY_SAVED_DATA
Error loading binary saved engine to memory. Check server log for more information.
Replan (Launch without snapshot)
1
STARTED
18
DONE_LOAD_PLAN
19
DONE_APPLY_USER_ACTIONS
20
DONE_RESOLVE_PLAN
21
DONE_GENERATE_OUTPUT
22
DONE_CLEAN_OUTPUT_TABLES
27
DONE_SAVING_BINARY_FILE
8
DONE_CREATE_CACHE_MANAGER
0
COMPLETED
58
ERROR_SOLVE_PLAN
Error while solving the plan. Check server log for more information.
71
ERROR_PARSING_USER_ACTIONS
Error parsing user actions.
Check server log for more information.
72
ERROR_CLEAN_OUTPUT_TABLES
Error purging output tables from database.
Check server log for more information.
81
ERROR_SAVING_BINARY_FILE
Error saving engine to binary file. Check server log for more information.
Save Plan
1
STARTED
27
DONE_SAVING_BINARY_FILE
28
DONE_SAVING_OUTPUT_OBJECTS
0
COMPLETED
81
ERROR_SAVING_BINARY_FILE
82
ERROR_SAVING_OUTPUT_OBJECTS
Error saving output objects to database. Check server log for more information.
Copy Plan
1
STARTED
33
DONE_COPY_BINARY_SAVED_FILE
0
COMPLETED
91
ERROR_COPY_BINARY_SAVED_FILE
Error copying engine binary file. Check server log for more information.
Delete Plan
1
STARTED
38
DONE_DELETE_BINARY_SAVED_FILE
22
DONE_CLEAN_OUTPUT_TABLES
0
COMPLETED
95
ERROR_DELETE_BINARY_SAVED_FILE
Error deleting engine binary file Check server log for more information.
Close Plan
1
STARTED
27
DONE_SAVING_BINARY_FILE
0
COMPLETED
81
ERROR_SAVING_BINARY_FILE
Incremental Plan
1
STARTED
18
DONE_LOAD_PLAN
19
DONE_APPLY_USER_ACTIONS
39
DONE_INCREMENTAL_SOLVE_PLAN
40
DONE_GENERATE_INCREMENTAL_OUTPUT
27
DONE_SAVING_BINARY_FILE
0
COMPLETED
58
ERROR_SOLVE_PLAN
Error while solving the plan. Check server log for more information.
71
ERROR_PARSING_USER_ACTIONS
Error parsing user actions.
Check server log for more information.
81
ERROR_SAVING_BINARY_FILE
Error saving engine to binary file.
Check server log for more information.
ReadyToExecuteQuery
101
CONCURRENT_EXECUTE_ERROR
Can't execute query. Server is performing plan management operation
102
PLAN_NOT_LOADED
Plan {0} is not loaded.
103
UNABLE_TO_CREATE_CACHEMANAGER
Unable to create cacheManager.
104
ERROR_FLUSH_DATA
Error flush selected data. Check server log for more information.
Oracle Rapid Planning utilizes Oracle E-Business Suite Diagnostics, a tool to help standardize data gathering and troubleshooting. This tool is delivered within the maintenance pack (product code IZU) and consists of two components:
The Oracle E-Business Suite Diagnostics framework (ODF)
Provides a place for product-specific tests to be processed and reported.
Is accessible using the 'Application Diagnostics' responsibility which is assigned through diagnostic roles within the RBAC security model.
Note: If no role is assigned using RBAC, and the "Application Diagnostics" responsibility is directly assigned to users (for example, via the System Administrator Users form), then all Diagnostics tabs open for those users. However, in the Diagnose tab, tests do not appear under any application except HTML platform, and users can neither run tests nor configure inputs for any other application.
Complete RBAC setup details for diagnostics are available through My Oracle Support Document 167000.1.
Product content (referred to as 'tests')
Primarily organized by functional groups
Provides data in a structured format
May include detailed error identification followed by actions to be taken when 'bad' data is detected
It is highly recommended that following the successful installation of the 12.1.1 maintenance pack for Oracle Rapid Planning, the following actions are taken:
Verify that the latest Oracle E-Business Suite Diagnostics patch is applied (see Document 167000.1 for latest patch information) as this will ensure that the latest tools are available.
Run the related product family pre-production test set(s) to verify existing product setups have not been compromised and all new, required setups are flagged for action.
Going forward, it is recommended to review the diagnostic catalog, Document 421245.1, to identify other helpful tests that can be used post installation for maintaining a healthy environment.
For questions about Oracle E-Business Suite Diagnostics or any issues using this tool, please consult the FAQ in My Oracle Support, Document 235307.1, for the latest answers and discussion.
Do you have a question about how Diagnostics works and what it can do for you? This Note is a great first-line resource to getting the information that you need.
Tests that are grouped together (known as test sets) by a product family, designed to aid in verifying that all included applications are set up correctly.
Designed to detect missing or incorrect setup and prevent corruption before implementation or usage of applications.
This is an open forum to discuss Oracle E-Business Suite Diagnostics, and is monitored by the Oracle E-Business Suite Diagnostics development team.
Oracle Rapid Planning uses the common diagnostics features in Oracle Applications. This enables users and system administrators to use a centralized set of options to control logging level, as well as output destination. To run diagnostics, use the following profile options:
FND: Debug Log Enabled
FND: Debug Log Module
FND: Debug Log Level
Setting the log level to Statement produces detail logging of code execution. To reduce the size of the output and make it more manageable, you can use rp% as a module to restrict messages to those coming from Oracle Rapid Planning code.
The preceding profile options can be turned on at the user, function, responsibility, or site level. It is preferable, however, to set profiles at the user level to restrict the overhead they add to the system. If issues are experienced, logging profiles should be set at the user level experiencing the issue. For authorization servlet-related issues, you must set the diagnostics profile at the user level to ANONYMOUS.
To diagnose user interface issues, you can use the filter iby%,fnd.framework%,jbo% and set the diagnostics go-to screen by clicking the Diagnostics Global button. To enable this functionality, you must set the following profile option:
FND: Diagnostics
The FND: Diagnostics profile option controls whether the Diagnostics button is rendered. It also controls the display of the About this Page link.
For system issues, such as exceptions, timeouts, or unexpected behavior, you can turn on logging, based on where you are experiencing the issues, as follows:
For a concurrent program, you can capture the log file for the program processed by turning on logging at the statement level.
For user interface, you can capture the logging shown on the screen by clicking the Diagnostics button, and full stack trace of any exceptions you see on the page.
You can also capture additional information about the system by printing the report from the About this Page link, as well as from the jsp: /OA_HTML/jsp/fnd/fndversion.jsp.
For more information on Logging, see the Oracle Applications System Administrator's Guide Documentation Set and the Oracle Applications Developer's Guide in the Release 12.1.3 Documentation Library.
5. Known Issues in Oracle Rapid Planning - Release 12.1.3.9
This section provides information about known issues with Oracle Rapid Planning in Release 12.1.3.9, and possible workarounds for those issues.
The information provided below applies to all Oracle Rapid Planning customers who are installing, or upgrading to, Oracle Rapid Planning Release 12.1.3.9. Use this document with Oracle Rapid Planning Documentation Resources, Release 12.1.3.9.
This section may be updated frequently. Always check My Oracle Support for the most current version of this document before you begin to install or upgrade your system.
The table below displays the Known Issues.
Date
Known Issue
Resolution
Fixed In
October 27, 2009
Internet Explorer sometimes errors out with Rapid Planning.
Restart Internet Explorer. The session will normally stay available including unsaved changes. Firefox is the recommended browser with Rapid Planning.
The session can usually continue after closing the popup.
Fix not yet available.
October 27, 2009
UI validation keeps throwing an error message after entering a new supply or demand.
The mandatory fields of new supplies or demands must be completely entered before a new row (supply or demand) is added. If this error happens, a new session must be started.
This is fixed by a new dialog in in 12.1.3.4 and later.
October 27, 2009
Blank screen appears instead of UI.
Web Logic Server log file shows: "java.util.MissingResourceException: unable to find bundle"
The server must be restarted.
Fixed in 12.1.3.4 and later.
October 27, 2009
Analytics tab is hanging.
If this happens after a new installation, it may be due to the configuration of the Xwindow server. Please verify that the following steps have been performed:
Open setDomainEnv.sh under domain home "bin" directory.
Add "-Djava.awt.headless=true" to EXTRA_JAVA_PROPERTIES
This is performed to tell JVM to use X client libraries in a headless mode, so it will not try to connect to a display to render the graphs for analytic pages.
Fix not yet available.
February 2011
PO Reschedules are not getting released to Source when the Source ERP system and RP are on the same instance
This could happen when the profile "MSC: Configuration" is set incorrectly. Set this profile to 'APS' and then reschedules would work.
To be fixed in a later roll-up patch.
February 2011
Top shortage supplier KPI with item filter has wrong results.
Workaround is to use the KPI without an item filter.
Fixed in 12.1.3.4 and later.
February 2011
The maximum Sugg Due Date of component supplies is beyond the Sugg.Start Date of Assembly Planned Order.
Issue Occurs only in Incremental Planning.
Fixed in 12.1.3.4 and later.
February 2011
Demands getting doubled in material plan after demand-pulling.
This is a display issue only. Actual demands in Supply/Demand view are displayed correctly. The material plan is correct after replan.
Fixed in 12.1.3.4 and later.
February 2011
Copied RP plan has incorrect status of released orders if base plan had auto-release turned on.
No workaround.
Fixed in 12.1.3.4 and later.
February 2011
Unable to add multiple manual demands in material plan in a single transaction.
Workaround is to save the changes after every edit.
Fixed in 12.1.3.4 and later.
February 2011
Edits in material plan at higher levels of category or period do not get allocated correctly due to decimal precision.
Ensure the decimal precision profiles are set with enough decimals.
Fixed in 12.1.3.4 and later.
February 2011
Unable to add multiple manual demands in supply/demand view in a single transaction without save.
Workaround is to save the changes after every edit.
Fixed in 12.1.3.4 and later.
October 2011
Customers using Rapid Planning on multiple EBS instances on the same server with different port could experience the following error message when accessing simultaneously Rapid Planning on both instances from the same browser:
"Because of inactivity, your session has timed out and is no longer active. Click OK to reload the page."
This situation can be worked around if necessary by using 2 separate browsers.
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