Implementation: Rapid Planning and Advanced Supply Chain Planning

Implementation Decision

You can use either or both of Oracle e-Business Suite's products for supply planning--Rapid Planning and Advanced Supply Chain Planner (ASCP). Here is some information about the key features of each. Use it to make sure you have the capabilities that your business needs.

Questions Answers
Do you need supply planning that considers material and resource constraints to make a feasible supply plan? Yes
Can you work with day level planning and not detailed scheduling? Yes
Does your customer supply chain have many constraints and levels? No
Do you want to do multiple simulations to solve planning issues? Yes
Do you work to satisfy demands based on order priority? Yes

If your business answers are like these, Rapid Planning should suit. If not, consider using Advanced Supply Chain Planning for baseline planning and Rapid Planning for simulating solutions to pressing planning issues.

This table compares functions of Rapid Planning and Advanced Supply Chain Planning.

Business Requirement Rapid Planning Advanced Supply Chain Planning
Detailed scheduling, for example, process manufacturing Daily buckets Monthly to minute buckets
Distribution planning requirements, for example, fair share No Yes
Project netting No Yes
Customer specific sourcing rules Limited Yes
Shelf life requirements Does not exclude supply when expiration occurs within the plan horizon Yes
Plan comparisons Yes Limited
Simulation of alternate planning solutions Yes No
Editing plan inputs—demand, supply, and master data (Demand, Supply and Master Data) Yes Demand only
Analytics Yes No
Support for sales and operations planning process Yes No

These are features that are available to you in Advanced Supply Chain Planning but not Rapid Planning: