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 illustration shows the supply collaboration components](images/vcs_plan_collab_flow_20058093.png)
Based on the process and actions performed, the supply collaboration components are:
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Decomposition
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Orchestration
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Execution systems
The following table describes the supply collaboration components, the internal processes, and the corresponding actions.
Supply Collaboration Components |
Internal Process |
Actions |
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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:
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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:
Order forecast quantities are sent and stored in daily time buckets. However, they're displayed in weekly, monthly, or period aggregations. |
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Orchestration |
Orchestrates supply by:
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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. |
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The entities that are created and managed during collaboration are:
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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.
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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.
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Order forecasts: Contain the forecast and commit quantities by the suggested date that's used to create the time bucket.