Supply Collaboration Components

The supply collaboration process provides you with a seamless flow of information by bringing together supply planning, order forecasts, and supplier commits.

This figure provides an overview of the supply collaboration components:

Based on the process and actions performed, the supply collaboration components are:

• Decomposition

• Orchestration

• Execution systems

The following table describes the supply collaboration components, the internal processes, and the corresponding actions.

Supply Collaboration Components	Internal Process	Actions
Supply plan creation applications	Supply plans are created in Oracle Supply Planning or Oracle Planning Central. The Publish Order Forecast scheduled process filters the supply plan data by: Supply plan Organization for supply planning Planner, which is the Supply Demand Planner ID Category Item, which is the enterprise item ID Supplier Supplier site	Record the supply plans in the Supply Planning tables Record the supply plan data in the Supply Chain Collaboration interface tables after the scheduled process is run
Interface Tables	The data is ready for collaboration.	Store supply forecast and commit data in the Supply Chain Collaboration interface tables
Decomposition	The Supply Collaboration Decomposition scheduled process: Reads the payloads from the interface tables Evaluates forecast exceptions Creates or updates an order forecast, used by Supply Chain Collaboration to publish to suppliers Assigns and launches the orchestration process Order forecast quantities are sent and stored in daily time buckets. However, they're displayed in weekly, monthly, or period aggregations.	Create order forecasts Update order forecast mid-cycle Launch orchestration process
Orchestration	Orchestrates supply by: Assigning an orchestration process and starting orchestration Running the determined business process Grouping Business to Business (B2B) messages by supplier site per plan	Publish forecasts to Oracle Supplier Portal and Supply Chain Collaboration Send B2B messages
Execution systems	Suppliers use the Supplier Portal to process commits for the order forecasts received from Supply Chain Collaboration. Collaboration planners use the Supply Chain Collaboration to process commits on behalf of suppliers.	Supplier provides commits Contract Manufacturer reviews order forecasts for their upstream suppliers Collaboration planner reviews order forecasts and provides commits

The entities that are created and managed during collaboration are:

• Supply plans: Contain the supply orders created for a supply request, which are published to Supply Chain Collaboration. These plans are created in Supply Planning or Planning Central.

• Collaboration plans: Contain the order forecasts based on the supply plans that are eligible for collaboration for a specified collaboration period. These plans are created in Supply Chain Collaboration.

• Order forecasts: Contain the forecast and commit quantities by the suggested date that's used to create the time bucket.