Preface

Intended Audience

Welcome to Release 12.2 of the Oracle Rapid Planning Implementation and User's Guide.

Casual User and Implementer

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Documentation Accessibility

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Access to Oracle Support

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Structure

1  Overview: Rapid Planning
2  Implementation: Rapid Planning and Advanced Supply Chain Planning
3  Implementation: Architecture
4  Implementation: Sizing Template
5  Implementation Installation and Configuration
6  Implementation: Collections
7  Implementation: Integrations
8  Implementation: Plan Definition and Modeling
9  Implementation: General Features
10  Implementation: User Interface Modeling
11  Implementation & Plan Analysis: Simulations
12  Implementation: Best Practices
13  Plan Analysis: Workbench
14  Plan Analysis: Inputs
15  Plan Analysis: Output Exceptions and Metrics
16  Plan Analysis: Outputs
17  Plan Analysis: Late Demand Diagnosis

Related Information Sources

Integration Repository

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

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

Online Documentation

All Oracle E-Business Suite documentation is available online (HTML or PDF).

Oracle Advanced Planning Command Center User's Guide

This guide describes Oracle Advanced Planning Command Center. It unifies all the Advanced Planning applications, such as Demand Management, Real-Time Sales and Operations Planning, Strategic Network Optimization, Advanced Supply Chain Planning, Distribution Requirements Planning, and Inventory Optimization. It provides a unified user interface and a single repository for all data. Its flexibility allows users to access data from external supply chain planning applications and make it available for reporting and analysis within a unified user interface based on Oracle Business Intelligence - Enterprise Edition (OBI-EE).

Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning Implementation and User's Guide

Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning provides information about supply chain planning. Oracle Rapid Planning and Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning share many features.

Oracle Bills of Material User's Guide

This guide describes how to create various bills of materials to maximize efficiency, improve quality and lower cost for the most sophisticated manufacturing environments. By detailing integrated product structures and processes, flexible product and process definition, and configuration management, this guide enables you to manage product details within and across multiple manufacturing sites.

Oracle Collaborative Planning Implementation and User's Guide

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

Oracle Configurator Developer User Guide

This guide contains product documentation for the Oracle Configurator Developer user, including an appendix of information about Oracle Configurator runtime user interface behavior. It describes how to build a configuration model by adding Model structure, defining rules, and creating a UI.

Oracle Demand Planning User's Guide

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

Oracle Demantra Demand Management User's Guide

This guide describes the information you need to understand and use Oracle Demantra Demand Management.

Oracle Demantra Integration Guide

This guide describes technical information about integrating Demantra with other software applications.

Oracle Demantra Sales and Operations Planning User's Guide

This guide describes the information you need to understand and use Oracle Demantra Sales and Operations Planning.

Oracle Demantra User's Guide

This guide describes the foundation information you need to understand and use Oracle Demantra products.

Oracle Global Order Promising Implementation and User's Guide

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

Oracle Inventory User's Guide

Oracle Inventory provides setup information for Oracle Rapid Planning.

Oracle Inventory Optimization User's Guide

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

Oracle Order Management User's Guide

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

Oracle Rapid Planning Installation Guide

This explains what you need to do to install Oracle Rapid Planning.

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

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

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

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

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