Understanding Planning Problems

Planning Violations and Exceptions

PeopleSoft Supply Planning separates planning violations and planning exceptions into two main component categories:

• Planning violations: An exception or error that might be visible to the planning solvers.

  The solvers might attempt to correct the error. A solver execution should reduce the number of these violations.

• Planning exceptions: An exception or error that is not visible to the planning solver.

  Generally, exceptions preexist in the model data or are caused by manual interaction with the model data. A solver execution run may not reduce the number of exceptions, except where the exception is removed when a solver corrects a related error. A solver execution run should not increase the number of exceptions.

Supply and Demand Analysis Reporting

PeopleSoft Supply Planning offers a wide range of query and reporting possibilities. You can use any of our standard reports or alter them to suit specific business needs.

With PeopleSoft Supply Planning, you can:

• Identify items with on-hand quantity but little or no demand.

• Identify the quantity and value of on-hand stock levels above the excess and safety stock level at a period end.

• Calculate when inventory levels will fall to zero (or near zero) based on actual and planned demand, as well as actual supply.

• Report on all of the planned reschedules–including transfers, production, purchase orders (POs), and sales orders within a selected date range and for a specific planning instance.

• Report horizontal planning data by selecting and naming only row types that you want to view.

  Row types can include supply, demand, on-hand quantities, and available-to-promise. You can dynamically select the data to be reported.

• Report on detail resource usage–machines, crews, and tools–within a planning instance, based on scheduled and planned production.