How You Maintain Your Supply Network Model
Use the Maintain Supply Network Model page to view your collected data that includes details of organizations, customers, suppliers, carriers, and interlocation shipping networks.
To open the Maintain Network Model page, navigate to a Supply Chain Planning work area. Click the Tasks panel tab and then select the Maintain Supply Network Model link.
You use organizations to represent your business facilities or functions. Typically, if your business has a single physical facility that performs two different functions, then you model it as two organizations. For example, you have one facility that's a manufacturing plant and a distribution center. You can model them as two separate organizations. Additionally, if your business has one function located in two separate physical facilities, you can model those as one organization. If you modeled your facilities as one organization, you can create separate subinventories to represent inventory for each facility.
Review the Collected Data
Based on your search results, use the Organization tab to do the following:
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Review organizations, including the time zones associated with the organizations, for all source systems.
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Create customer and supplier associations to organizations. This is used when creating the buy-sell transfers.
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Select the drop ship validation organization. For each source system, you can select only one organization as the drop ship validation organization. You can also assign a calendar to a drop ship validation organization.
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Set past due parameters for each organization, which include:
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Past due forecast days
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Past due sales order days
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Past due supply days
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Set up organizations for subinventory-level replenishment planning by selecting Yes under Plan Subinventories.
Use the Customers and Supplier tabs to review collected data and assign time zones to customer sites and supplier sites. If the customer site or supplier site doesn't have an associated time zone, then the customer site or supplier site is assumed to be in the same time zone as the organization that's associated with the demand or supply.
Use the Carriers and Interlocation Shipping Networks tabs to review collected data on carriers, shipping methods, and transit times.
Manage Organization Groups
Click the Manage Organization Groups button on the Organizations tab to create and manage organization groups. Organization groups are managed within the source systems and are used to:
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Limit the net change data collection from a source system to specific organizations.
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Load planning data from files for a specific organization group when collection type is Targeted.
Enable Inventory Organization Tracking by Project
This parameter appears on the Maintain Supply Network Model page only when your organization is enabled for project-specific supply planning.
The Project Enabled parameter governs whether your inventory organization is enabled for inventory tracking by project. The value for this parameter can be Yes or No for an organization.
When the parameter value is Yes for an organization, the data collection process collects project-and-task-specific supplies and demands, and the project-specific planning releases planned orders to the organization. The value for this parameter is No for a supplier-modeled organization or a contract manufacturing organization.
Buy and Sell Transfers
You can conduct material transfers between two organizations in a single Oracle Fusion source system by using the purchase order and sales order documents. The sales order at the source organization is used to ship the transfer. The purchase order at the destination organization is used to receive the transfer.
In the supply network model for the purchase order supply at the receiver organization:
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Define the supplier to source organization relationship and for the sales order demand at the shipping organization.
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Define the customer to destination organization relationship.
To model an organization as a supplier, update the Supplier and Supplier Site columns of the associated organization.
To model an organization as a customer, update Customer and Customer Site columns of the associated organization.
Forecast and Consume Internal Orders
To forecast and consume internal orders, assign a customer and customer site to the organization that's the destination of the transfers. Use a customer name that makes sense for the destination organization, such as M1 Transfers. After you assign a customer and customer site on the Organizations tab, select the Use Customer and Customer Site for Interorganization Transfers check box for the organization.