Prepare Plan for Buyer Planning
Use the Prepare Plan for Buyer Planning scheduled process to ensure that a replenishment plan is available in Buyer Planning, and that it contains the plan’s current planning recommendations.
All the given plan’s relevant orders that are associated with Buyer Planning suppliers will be available.
When the process completes, it executes the "ESS job to create index definition and perform initial ingest to OSCS" process that adds the order data to Oracle Search.
When to Use
Run the Prepare Plan for Buyer Planning scheduled process after you confirm that:
- The plan output meets expectations.
- Planning recommendations are ready to be released.
If you rerun a plan, also rerun the Prepare Plan for Buyer Planning scheduled process to ensure that orders displaying in Buyer Planning reflect the latest plan output.
These user actions automatically execute the Prepare Plan for Buyer Planning scheduled process:
- Selecting the Prepare for Buyer Planning check box in the replenishment plan’s Run Plan dialog.
- Clicking on the View Buyer Planning action from a replenishment plan’s Actions menu.
- Clicking on the Prepare Plan action link in the Buyer Planning dialog message
when it appears. Note: This dialog message appears if a replenishment plan is available in Buyer Planning but hasn’t been prepared for Buyer Planning since the last time the plan was run.
If you're making replenishment plan changes and don't use any of the options above, we recommend that you execute this process for the replenishment plan whose orders must be included in Buyer Planning.
Privileges Required
- Release Planning Recommendations (MSC_RELEASE_PLANNING_RECOMMENDATIONS_PRIV)
- Monitor Planning Schedules Processes (MSC_MONITOR_PLANNING_SCHEDULED_PROCESSES_PRIV)
- Edit Planning Recommendations (MSC_EDIT_SUPPLIES_BUYER_PLANNING_PRIV)
Specifications
| Specification | Description |
| Job Type | Can be run automatically based on specific user actions, or it can be submitted on a spontaneous basis, if required. |
| Frequency | Run on an as-needed basis |
| Time of Day | Can be run at any time. |
| Duration | Typically, less than 5 minutes. |
| Compatibility | Only one instance of the job should be running at any time. There’s no current functional need to run multiple instances of this process simultaneously. |
Parameters
| Parameter | Optional or Required | Description | Parameter Value | Special Combinations Required | Notes |
| Plan Name | Required | The name of the replenishment plan | Plan name | None | NA |
Troubleshooting Information
- You can view the status of the Prepare Plan for Buyer Planning process on the Scheduled Processes work area.
- The validation errors and warning messages that prevented the refresh forecast display in the error log.
- The given plan’s measure catalog must include the Updated Projected Available Balance measure in order for the Prepare Plan process to succeed. If the catalog doesn’t contain this measure, the process will produce an error and include a message about it in the log file.
- If the required Updated Projected Available Balance measure isn't included in the measure catalog for the plan, add the measure, rerun the plan, and try again.
- If the Buyer Planning Overview or Summary page is empty for a plan after running this scheduled process, ensure that participating suppliers have been defined and then run the process again.