Getting Started with PeopleSoft Supply Planning

This chapter provides an overview of PeopleSoft Supply Planning business processes and discusses:

• PeopleSoft Supply Planning business processes.

• PeopleSoft Supply Planning integrations.

• PeopleSoft Supply Planning implementation.

PeopleSoft Supply Planning Overview

PeopleSoft Supply Planning offers advanced planning and scheduling systems that use Web-based access to provide simultaneous responsiveness and optimization of enterprise-wide procurement, distribution, and production resources. PeopleSoft Supply Planning is made up of planning systems that streamline the enterprise's responsiveness to customers and maximizes decision support for the planners.

These robust applications are integrated, manufacturing and distribution planning solutions that reduce planning cycle time and enable the enterprise to respond to supply changes using a browser-based user interface.

These application's interface structures make it easy for you to follow a logical business process flow. PeopleSoft Supply Planning consists of rich functionality that simplifies, automates, and augments the business processes and data flow to provide a comprehensive supply chain planning solution.

PeopleSoft Supply Planning Business Processes

Provided is a list of the PeopleSoft Supply Planning business processes:

• Create supply plan.

• Solve the supply plan.

• Interact with and refine the supply plan.

• Commit supply plan.

We discuss these business processes in the business process chapters in this PeopleBook.

PeopleSoft Supply Planning Integrations

PeopleSoft Supply Planning integrates with these PeopleSoft applications and components:

PeopleSoft Supply Planning Integration with Other PeopleSoft Applications

PeopleSoft Supply Planning integrates with these PeopleSoft Supply Chain Management applications:

• Advanced Planning/Demantra: Oracle's Demantra Demand Management provides forecasts in PeopleSoft Publish Forecast tables that are available in SCM Integration's Advanced Planning component. PeopleSoft Supply Planning uses the forecasts to create a plan. You must specify the name and date of a published forecast.

  See Integrating with Oracle's Demantra Demand Management.

• PeopleSoft Inventory Policy Planning: PeopleSoft Inventory Policy Planning provides fine-tuned inventory policies, such as safety stock and order modifiers, to PeopleSoft Supply Planning for use in the creation of material replenishment plans.

• PeopleSoft Order Management:

  • If you maintain forecasts at the product level in PeopleSoft Order Management, the system sends the product forecast to PeopleSoft Supply Planning.

  • PeopleSoft Order Management sends demand (sales orders, quotations and buying agreements) to PeopleSoft Supply Planning.

  • If PeopleSoft Supply Planning changes a sales order, quotation or buying agreement, it sends a planning update to PeopleSoft Order Management. You must manually update the sales order, quotation or buying agreement in PeopleSoft Order Management.

• PeopleSoft Purchasing:

  • PeopleSoft Purchasing sends purchase orders, which are a source of supply in PeopleSoft Supply Planning.

  • After creating a plan, PeopleSoft Supply Planning sends planning updates for rescheduled purchase orders and planned purchase orders to PeopleSoft Purchasing. You can review and approve the updates before applying the updates to the database.

• PeopleSoft Manufacturing:

  • PeopleSoft Manufacturing sends bill of materials (BOMs), item routings, and resources to PeopleSoft Supply Planning.

  • PeopleSoft Manufacturing sends production orders, which are a source of supply in PeopleSoft Supply Planning.

  • After creating a plan, PeopleSoft Supply Planning sends planning updates for rescheduled production orders and planned production orders to PeopleSoft Manufacturing. You can review and approve the updates before applying the updates to the database.

• PeopleSoft Inventory:

  • PeopleSoft Inventory sends item information and inventory levels to PeopleSoft Supply Planning.

  • PeopleSoft Inventory sends material stock requests and transfer orders to PeopleSoft Supply Planning.

  • After creating a plan, PeopleSoft Supply Planning sends planning updates for rescheduled stock requests, rescheduled transfer orders and planned transfer orders to PeopleSoft Inventory. You can review and approve the updates before applying the updates to the database.

• PeopleSoft Collaborative Supply Management:

  • PeopleSoft Collaborative Supply Management sends collaborative schedules to PeopleSoft Supply Planning for use in the Buyer Workbench.

  • After using the Buyer Workbench in PeopleSoft Supply Planning to develop a material plan for a supplier, the system sends the plan to PeopleSoft Collaborative Supply Management. Then, you can dispatch the plan to the supplier.

• PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing: PeopleSoft Supply Planning sends material requirements for spot buy items to PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing. Then, you can accept competitive bidding for these items.

We cover detailed integration considerations in the implementation chapters in the PeopleBook.

PeopleSoft Supply Planning Implementation

PeopleSoft Setup Manager enables you to generate a list of setup tasks for the organization based on the features that you are implementing. The setup tasks include the components that you must set up, listed in the order in which you must enter date into the component tables, and links to the corresponding PeopleBook documentation.

Other Sources of Information

In the planning phase of the implementation, take advantage of all PeopleSoft sources of information, including the installation guides, table-loading sequences, data models, and business process maps. A complete list of these resources appears in the preface in the PeopleSoft Application Fundamentals 9.1 PeopleBook,with information about where to find the most current version of each.

See PeopleSoft Application Fundamentals PeopleBook Preface.