Welcome to Release 12.2 of the Oracle Process Manufacturing Process Planning User's Guide.
This guide assumes that you have working knowledge of your business area's processes, tools, principles, and customary practices. It also assumes that you are familiar with Oracle Process Manufacturing. If you have never used Oracle Process Manufacturing, we suggest you attend one or more of the Oracle Process Manufacturing training classes available through Oracle University.
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Oracle Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) includes the following applications:
Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning (ASCP)
Oracle Global Order Promising
Oracle Inventory Optimization
Oracle Demand Planning
Oracle Collaborative Planning
Oracle Manufacturing Scheduler
Oracle Strategic Network Optimization (SNO)
Oracle Production Scheduling (PS)
Oracle Process Manufacturing (OPM) integrates with all of the APS applications. OPM users can use Global Order Promising, Inventory Optimization, and Demand Planning by following the same steps as discrete manufacturing users. This topic focuses on using OPM with ASCP. For more information about the Advanced Planning and Scheduling suite of applications, refer to the Oracle Advanced Planning and Scheduling Implementation and User's Guide.
The integration of OPM with ASCP helps in increasing the planning efficiency, which gives you a competitive edge. The integration consists of the following features:
Constraint-based planning, which ensures that the plan is feasible and acknowledges all of your constraints.
Performance management enabled through the integration of ASCP with Oracle Workflow. This lets you:
Easily and quickly evaluate a plan based on its impact to target Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Manage by exception - receive notifications when corrective actions are required
The ability to collect data from multiple instances.
Planning is an integral and critical part of the present day business. Oracle Process Manufacturing (OPM) offers an effective solution to efficiently plan your process planning requirements.
The Master Production Scheduling (MPS) application lets you shorten the long-term views of material demands and projected supply actions to a narrow and immediate time horizon to see the immediate effects of demand and supply actions.
OPM uses Oracle Forecasting to predict future demand for items over time.
If you are using Oracle Advanced Planning Scheduler (ASCP), you must set up Oracle Process Manufacturing (OPM) data so that it can be properly processed. You must understand the differences in data structure between Oracle Applications and OPM in order to properly set up and use the OPM data with ASCP.
The relationship between Oracle Process Manufacturing and Advanced Supply Chain Planning (ASCP) involves data setup in OPM, the use of this data in ASCP for planning, and the flow of suggestions from ASCP to OPM. This chapter considers data setup, use, and feedback.
The topic describes the Process Planning reports.
The Oracle Integration Repository is a compilation of information about the service endpoints exposed by the Oracle E-Business Suite of applications. It provides a complete catalog of Oracle E-Business Suite's business service interfaces. The tool lets users easily discover and deploy the appropriate business service interface for integration with any system, application, or business partner.
The Oracle Integration Repository is shipped as part of the Oracle E-Business Suite. As your instance is patched, the repository is automatically updated with content appropriate for the precise revisions of interfaces in your environment.
Oracle 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.