Oracle Rapid Planning Implementation and User's Guide

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Preface

Overview: Rapid Planning

Rapid Planning Implementation and User's Guide: Parts
Value Chain Planning Suite
Planning Server Architecture
Rapid Planning
Planning Solver
Planning Process
Implementation Steps Summary

Implementation: Rapid Planning and Advanced Supply Chain Planning

Implementation Decision

Implementation: Architecture

Step 1: Architecture
Technical
Functional
Architecture and Deployment Configurations
Profile Options

Implementation: Sizing Template

Step 2: Sizing Template
Overview
Implementation
Input
Output

Implementation Installation and Configuration

Step 3 Installation and Configuration
Overview
Implementation

Implementation: Collections

Step 4: Collections
Overview
Implementation Decision
Implementation Steps

Implementation: Integrations

Step 5: Integrations
Overview
Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning
Oracle Demand Planning
Oracle Demantra Demand Management
Oracle Demantra Sales and Operations Planning
Oracle Advanced Planning Command Center
Oracle Inventory Optimization
Oracle Global Order Promising
Oracle Collaborative Planning

Implementation: Plan Definition and Modeling

Step 6: Plan Definition and Modeling
Responsibility and Menus
Unconstrained and Constrained Plans
Items to Plan
General Planning Solver Features
Lead-time
Supply Scheduling
Default Order Sizing and Planning Unit of Work
Key Plan Options
Plan Life Cycle Actions

Implementation: General Features

Step 7: General Features
Safety Stock
Fixed Days Supply
Enforcing Sourcing Splits
Clear To Build
Demand Pull-ins, Upside Processing, and Order Priorities
Phantoms
Flow Manufacturing
Daily Bucketing
Firm Supplies
Creating Supplies
Alternate Supplies
Bottleneck Resource Planning
Substitution
Component Substitution
Supplier Capacity
Planning Time Fence
Configure to Order
Ship Sets
Engineering Change Orders

Implementation: User Interface Modeling

Step 8: User Interface Modeling
Overview

Implementation & Plan Analysis: Simulations

Step 9: Simulations
Overview
Implementation
Editing Plan Input (Collected) Data
Editing Plan Input (Collected) Data – Direct Change
Editing Plan Input Data – Simulation Sets
Managing Simulation Sets
Plan Simulation Types
Multi-planner Collaboration
Simulating with Updated Demand Priorities
Simulating Advanced Supply Chain Planning Plans
Simulation Scenarios

Implementation: Best Practices

Step 10: Best Practices
Implementation
Installation and Configuration

Plan Analysis: Workbench

Responsibilities and Menus
Rapid Planning Workbench
Operating in Tabs
Mass Update

Plan Analysis: Inputs

Input Views
Plan Options
Basic Plan Actions

Plan Analysis: Output Exceptions and Metrics

Output Exceptions: Overview
Exception Messages
Output Metrics: Overview
Base Metrics

Plan Analysis: Outputs

Output Views
Output Plan Actions

Plan Analysis: Late Demand Diagnosis

Overview
Constraints
Process
Viewing
Troubleshooting

Index