Plan Considering Requirements for Same Component at Different Stages of Manufacturing Process

In Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Management, you can now enter a new Find Number attribute that models situations where the same component is used multiple times in the manufacturing process. With this update, Oracle Supply Planning honors the work definition that has the usage of the same component specified at different stages, including different substitution rules. You can now flexibly model and plan for complexities in your manufacturing process.

This feature is supported for plans in the constrained and unconstrained modes in these work areas:

• Supply Planning
• Demand and Supply Planning

This feature supports only the Fusion source.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

• This functionality isn't supported for work orders. As a result, the duplicate components are aggregated in a work order for the same operation.

• The Find Number attribute is defaulted to 1 in all existing Item structures.

• In Oracle Manufacturing, the Find Number attribute is editable in the item structure before it's saved. You can't edit the find number after it's saved.

• Similarly, the find number also isn't editable in Oracle Supply Planning.  

• The same component with different find numbers can have different substitute components. 

• If there's no work definition, the Operation Sequence Number attribute will be set to 1 during the collections process. Then it will be displayed as blank in the UI.

Access Requirements

Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:

• Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
• Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_JOB)

These privileges were available prior to this update.