How Plan Recommendations Are Processed

Supply chain planning can generate plan recommendations. These are suggestions to take actions that can create a balance between supply and demand. You can view these suggestions in the Supplies and Demands table.

The planning process can release two primary kinds of plan recommendations.

• It can suggest new planned orders: The planning process suggests that you order some new supply to meet the demand for a certain product. All of these supply suggestions are released by planning to Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration in the form of new planned orders. This new supply can be in the form of a manufacturing job, in which case the planned order is released to manufacturing. If the new supply suggestion is a purchase requisition, Supply Chain Orchestration releases the planned order to purchasing. If the new supply suggestion is a transfer, Supply Chain Orchestration releases the planned order to logistics.

• It can suggest rescheduling or cancellation of existing supplies: The planning process suggests that you reschedule or cancel a current supply because the total supply for a product might be in excess compared to the demand for it. You can cancel current planned orders that exist as discrete jobs or as purchase orders or transfer orders. Similarly, planning can also suggest that you reschedule some of the existing supply to meet future demand. The rescheduling is done for supplies that exist as discrete manufacturing jobs, purchase orders or transfer orders.

If the planning process suggests new supply, and the planner releases the planned order, the released planned order is sent to Supply Chain Orchestration. The planned order has the following details specified in it:

• Item

• Organization

• Start date, dock date and if applicable, ship date

• Source

  • If it's a make item, the organization remains the same.

  • If it's a transfer item, the source organization must be specified.

  • If it's a buy item, the supplier and supplier site must be specified.

You can open the Supplies and Demands table to view individual planned orders. You can also open the material plan to view the aggregate total supply for your plan.

You can't view rescheduled plan recommendations in the material plan. The material plan accepts the recommendations from supply chain planning and uses the rescheduled dates when aggregating supply. The planning calculations assume that the rescheduled recommendations are already incorporated within the aggregate supply calculations and use the rescheduled dates.