Redwood: Analyze Late Demands Using a New User Experience

In a constraint-based supply plan, orders can be late due to material and capacity constraints. With this update, a dedicated page in Redwood user experience is available to facilitate your understanding on why an order is scheduled late. It lets you identify the components, materials, resources, or lead times that prevent a demand from being fulfilled on time. You can also drill to other views to address the constraints.

With this update, you can use Redwood user experience to analyze late demands. The algorithm for identifying the root cause of lateness remains unchanged.

Opening the Late Demand Analysis table

You can either open a Redwood Late Demand Analysis table directly or you can drill into it from another table such as Supplies and Demands or Exceptions.

You can navigate to the Late Demand Analysis table from the following tables after selecting one or more late end demands or exceptions related to late demand fulfillment:

• Supplies and Demands
• Exceptions
• Build Plan
• Material Plan

You can drill from following exceptions to the Late Demand Analysis table:

• Late Replenishment for Sales Order
• Late Replenishment for Forecast
• Late Supply Pegged to Sales Order
• Late Supply Pegged to Forecast
• Demand at Risk Due to Insufficient Lead Time

Opening the Late Demand Analysis table directly

To open the table directly,

1. Select a constrained supply plan from the plan selector.
2. Click the ‘+’ sign to open Pages.
3. Select the Visualizations tab.
4. Search for the Late Demand Analysis table.
5. Select the table to open it.

Open Late Demand Analysis Table

Late Demand Analysis Table

Opening the Late Demand Analysis table through Supplies and Demands table

To open the table through Supplies and Demands view,

1. Create or open a page with Supplies and Demands table.
2. Identify the demands that are satisfied late.

Open Supplies and Demands Table

3.  Select one or more late demands, and then drill to the Late Demand Analysis table.

Drill to Late Demand Analysis Table from Supplies and Demands

If the Late Demand Analysis table is part of the same page, then the context of the late demand is passed within the same page, and the focus shifts to the Late Demand Analysis table.

Supplies and Demands and Late Demand Analysis Tables on The Same Page

If the Late Demand Analysis table is not part of the same page, then it opens in a new temporary tab. The context of the late demand is passed to the new tab. The Late Demand Analysis table shows the constrained supply path of the late demand.

Late Demand Analysis Table in a New Tab

Late Demand Analysis Type

You can analyze a late demand using one of the two options:

• Identify the most constrained supply path (the path causing the maximum delay). Resolve the lateness and repeat the process. 
• Identify all the potential supplies that can cause demand lateness.

Use the Late Demand Analysis Type Filter

Viewing the Late Demand Analysis table

You can customize the view of your Late Demand Analysis table by rearranging the order or toggling the visibility using the Columns option.

Rearrange Columns

Toggle the Visibility of the Columns

After you've rearranged the columns, save the updated table view.

Save Late Demand Analysis Table View

You can open an existing table view through the View menu.

Select an Existing View

You can also modify an existing table view.

Modify Existing Late Demand Table View

Using Filters

You can analyze late demands based on different attributes using filters. For example, you can analyze the late forecasts of a finished good for a time-range of end demand due dates.

Use Search and Filters to analyze late demands

You can provide additional filters by clicking the Filters option.

Use More Filters to Analyze Late Demands

You can apply a filter to an individual column. Hover over the column header, click the filter icon and select the required criteria.

Filter Individual Columns

You can sort the data in any column by hovering over it and then clicking the sort icon.

Sort Columns

After you’ve filtered and sorted the table, you can save your search criteria and name it.

Save the Search Criteria

You can share the saved table containing your search criteria with others or mark it as a default search.

Save Table with Search Criteria for Quick Access and Reuse

You can drill to different tables from the Late Demand Analysis table to further analyze and resolve the root cause of lateness.

Drill to Another Table from Late Demand Analysis Table

Managing Links

 You can add dynamic links to and from the Late Demand Analysis table. Click Manage Links on the Actions menu.

Manage Links in Late Demand Analysis Table

  Provide the link details and click Save.

Create a link in Late Demand Analysis Table

REST Resource:

You can use the REST API to get the late demand analysis. The REST resource name is AnalyzingLateDemands.

For more details, see the Supply Chain Planning task on the Analyzing Late Demands REST Endpoints page.

Steps to Enable

To enable the Redwood Supply Planning pages, you need to set the profile Redwood Supply Planning Pages Enabled to Yes. 

Manage Planning Profile Option

Navigation: Supply Chain Planning -> Supply Planning -> Tasks -> Manage Planning Profile Options

Tips And Considerations

• This feature applies to constrained supply plans only.
• While querying the Late Demand Analysis table independently, limit the number of records by using various filter criteria.
• Review the constrained supply path for late demands and expedite lead times, resources, or material as appropriate to reduce the lateness. You can choose alternate resources or alternate ship methods to minimize the lateness.

Key Resources

• Refer to the following features for earlier updates:
  • Identify Which Supplies are Causing Demands At Risk (Update 22-A).
  • Pinpoint Root Cause of Late Demands Due to Material and Capacity Constraints (Update 24-B).

Access Requirements

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

• Monitor Supply Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_SUPPLY_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
• Run Plan with Snapshot (MSC_RUN_PLAN_WITH_SNAPSHOT_PRIV)
• Exceptions view (MSC_MANAGE_PLANNING_EXCEPTIONS_PRIV)
• Edit Plans (MSC_EDIT_PLANS_PRIV)
• View Demands and Supplies (MSC_VIEW_DEMANDS_AND_SUPPLIES_PRIV)

These privileges were available prior to this update.