Overview of Waterfall Reports

Supply Chain Collaboration Planners need to understand the order forecasts and supplier commitment changes over time to address supply volatility and ensure supplier accountability. Waterfall analysis is used to evaluate the cumulative effect of supplier commits against a forecast over time. The waterfall reports provide the Collaboration Planner an indicator of the quality of the supplier's forecast and commit adherence for a given item forecast across multiple versions. As Oracle Planning Central or Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Planning publish new versions of order forecasts, Oracle Supply Chain Collaboration saves the previous version and the associated commits for analysis and reporting. With complete visibility, versioning, and audit trail, enterprises can work to continuously improve the collaboration process with their trading partners.

In Supply Chain Collaboration, you can view the following waterfall reports:

• Relationship by item

• Supplier by item

• Supplier site by item

• Ship to by item

• Item

In waterfall reports, you can view order forecasts and commits in alternate units of measure (UOM) rather than just the item's primary UOM. Use the Reporting UOM Prompt in the Supply Chain Collaboration - Supply Planning Real Time subject area to update all waterfall reports to display the order forecasts and commits in the selected UOM.

For more information about subject areas, see the Subject Areas for Transactional Business Intelligence in SCM guide.