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Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Customer Support
• Review Patch Documentation
• Improved Process for Oracle Retail Documentation Corrections
• Oracle Retail Documentation on the Oracle Technology Network
• Conventions

1 Welcome to Oracle Retail Advanced Inventory Planning

2 Using AIP

• Getting Started
  • Logging on to Oracle Retail Advanced Inventory Planning (AIP)
    • Warning Message
  • Changing Your Password
  • Exiting AIP
• The AIP Workspace
• Navigating AIP
  • Using a Calendar Button
    • Select a Date
    • Move the Date
  • Using a Drop-down List
  • Field-Level Filtering in AIP
    • Clear a Selection
    • Sorting Rules
    • Demand Group
    • Profile
    • SKU
    • Class
    • Supplier
    • Order Source
    • Store Format
    • Warehouse
  • List of Values (LOV) Buttons
    • Using the LOV Button
    • Using a Multi-Select LOV Button
  • Transfer Boxes
    • Using a Transfer Box
    • Moving Top Level Folders and Folder Components
  • Sorting a Table
  • Paging through Records
    • Using the Paging Controls
• Using the Online Help
  • About the Online Help
  • Introduction
  • Formatting Conventions
  • Navigating the Online Help
  • Using the Table of Contents
  • Using the Search Feature

3 Order Management

• Introduction to Oracle Retail Order Management
  • Order Quantities
  • Security
• Create an Order
  • Conditions to Create a Purchase Order
  • Create a Purchase Order
• Maintain Orders
  • About Maintaining Your Orders
  • Purchase Orders
    • Release a Purchase Order
    • Move a Purchase Order
  • Transfers
  • Allocations
  • Cross-docked Orders
  • Search for Orders
  • Edit a Purchase Order Quantity
  • Change the Display Settings of Orders
  • View Cross-dock Details
  • Move an Un-received Order
  • Cancel Un-received Quantities on a Purchase Order
  • Release a Forecasted Purchase Order
  • Save a Purchase Order
• Review Orders
  • Search for Orders and Transfers
  • Refine Your Search Results
  • View Purchase Orders, Transfers, and Allocations
  • Edit and View Order Details
• Review Orders by Scaling Group
  • Viewing Orders
  • Smoothing Details Pop-up
    • Functions
  • Viewing Supplier Details
  • Viewing Container Details
  • Viewing SKU Details

4 Calculations

• Smoothing Overview
• Scaling Overview
• Scaling Prep
  • Derive Container Groups
  • Check Dimension Definitions
  • Save Original Order Quantity
• Smoothing
  • Calculate Dimensions
    • Pallets
    • Rounded Pallets
    • Cases
    • Units
    • Total Orders
    • Push Orders to Enforce Warehouse Receiving Capacity
    • Alerting
• Scaling
• Supplier Scaling
  • Calculate Dimensions
    • Volume
    • Weight
    • Cost
    • Pallets
    • Rounded Pallets
    • Cases
    • Units
    • Total Orders
    • Pull Forward Orders to Meet Minimum
• Container Scaling
  • Build Full Containers
    • Smallest Ordering Unit (SOU)
    • Build Container
  • Pull Forward Orders to Meet Minimum
    • Criteria
    • Least Common Multiple (LCM)
    • Remaining Need Percentage
    • Pull-forward Quantity (PFQ)
    • Order Selection