Release Planned Buy Orders for Execution with Status Firm

In some businesses, you may start engaging with suppliers using the output from the supply planning process prior to the release of planned orders to execution systems. If the supplier can come up with a date and quantity that’s agreeable to both parties, you can set the status of a planned order to Firm to indicate that this order shouldn’t be rescheduled.

You can release this planned order for execution to Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, and this firm status is carried over to the purchase requisition and then onto the resulting purchase order. You now have a closed loop process so that in subsequent planning cycles the purchase order isn’t eligible for rescheduling.

You can firm the planned order either before or after marking the planned order for release. If the planned order is firmed prior to marking the order for release, the firm status is defaulted into the implement status after the planned order is marked for release. Otherwise, you can update the Implement Firm field after the planned order is marked for release as shown in the following example.

Firm Planned Order

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

You aren't able to view the firm status field on a supply request or purchase requisition in the Oracle Fusion source system.

After collecting the Purchase Requisition entity into planning, you can view the firm status from the Plan Inputs work area.

You can see the firm status of a purchase order in Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement from the Manage Schedules page. The information icon is displayed, and after you click it, you'll see the following:

Firm status showing on the information icon

Access Requirements

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

Edit Supplies and Demands (MSC_EDIT_DEMANDS_AND_SUPPLIES_PRIV)
Mark Orders for Release (MSC_MARK_ORDERS_FOR_RELEASE_PRIV)
Release Planning Recommendations (MSC_RELEASE_PLANNING_RECOMMENDATIONS_PRIV)

These privileges were available prior to this update.