Buyer Planning for Administrators

As a Buyer Planning administrator, understand how it integrates with other modules and products, and what you need to do before your planners can use it.

Buyer planners take advantage of price breaks for larger quantity orders and reductions in delivery costs into fewer deliveries.

In the Buyer Planning work area, part of Oracle Replenishment Planning, buyer planners use recommendations from Replenishment Planning to evaluate ways to consolidate and group planned orders.

Application Integration

This graphic shows how the Buyer Planning work area interacts with other modules or products, such as Oracle Demand Management, Oracle Procurement, and Oracle Fusion Cloud Product Lifecycle Management through Oracle Replenishment Planning.

The graphic shows integration of Buyer Planning with other modules and products such as Oracle Procurement, Oracle Fusion Cloud Product Lifecycle Management

Oracle Replenishment Planning gets demand forecasts from Oracle Demand Management. Item attribute and order modifier information comes into Buyer Planning from Oracle Fusion Cloud Product Lifecycle Management. Price breaks, purchase orders, and supplier constraints come from Oracle Procurement. With all the required data gathered into a replenishment plan recommendation, Buyer Planning becomes a focused platform for the planners to plan purchasing better.

Planners can review planned orders and change implement quantities, consolidate orders for discounts, or group orders to save shipping costs. When they release a plan from Buyer Planning, purchase orders are generated in Oracle Procurement.

Prerequisites

You must complete certain prerequisites before buyer planners can start using Buyer Planning:

Prerequisite	Description
Opt in to Replenishment Planning	Ensure that your enterprise has opted in to Oracle Replenishment Planning.
Run the Prepare Plan for Buyer Planning scheduled Process	Run this scheduled process to copy buy orders of a replenishment plan into Buyer Planning's elastic index for quick retrieval. You can run this process: From the Scheduled Process work area. Using the View Buyer Planning action from the Actions menu of a replenishment plan in the Replenishment Planning work area. This action runs the process and also opens Buyer Planning for the plan. Automatically, by selecting Prepare for Buyer Planning in the Run Plan dialog.
Define Default Weight and Volume Measures	Define a default weight unit of measure and default volume unit of measure so that planners can view weight and volume totals in the Group Summaries view. Set the default values with the collaborationParameters REST service using these codes: ORA_MSC_BP_DEFAULT_WEIGHT_UOM ORA_MSC_BP_DEFAULT_VOLUME_UOM

Prerequisite

Description

Opt in to Replenishment Planning

Ensure that your enterprise has opted in to Oracle Replenishment Planning.

Run the Prepare Plan for Buyer Planning scheduled Process

Run this scheduled process to copy buy orders of a replenishment plan into Buyer Planning's elastic index for quick retrieval.

You can run this process:

From the Scheduled Process work area.
Using the View Buyer Planning action from the Actions menu of a replenishment plan in the Replenishment Planning work area. This action runs the process and also opens Buyer Planning for the plan.
Automatically, by selecting Prepare for Buyer Planning in the Run Plan dialog.

Define Default Weight and Volume Measures

Define a default weight unit of measure and default volume unit of measure so that planners can view weight and volume totals in the Group Summaries view. Set the default values with the collaborationParameters REST service using these codes:

ORA_MSC_BP_DEFAULT_WEIGHT_UOM
ORA_MSC_BP_DEFAULT_VOLUME_UOM

Note: Buyer Planning supports data security at the organization level only, data security by supplier isn't supported.

Privileges

Privileges required to use the Buyer Planning work area and its functionality:

Privilege	Privilege Code	Description
Monitor Buyer Planning Work Area	MSC_MONITOR_BUYER_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV	Allows monitoring of the Buyer Planning work area.
Edit Supplies in Buyer Planning	MSC_EDIT_SUPPLIES_BUYER_PLANNING_PRIV	Allows management of supplies in Buyer Planning.
Edit Buyer Planning Participating Suppliers	MSC_EDIT_BUYER_PLANNING_PARTICIPATING_SUPPLIERS_PRIV	Allows management of Buyer Planning suppliers from the Participating Suppliers page.