How You Plan and Collaborate with Drop Ship Manufacturers

Using supply planning, you can plan and collaborate with your contract manufacturers in a configure-to-order environment. You can plan and collaborate with your contract manufacturers to drop ship customer orders directly from contract manufacturers to customers.

Add each contract manufacturer as an organization in the Product Information Management work area so that you can plan and collaborate with the contract manufacturers. You can add the contract manufacturers as item organizations, if you do not plan to enable transactions at these organizations. After you add the contract manufacturers as an organization, you can share the model and option forecast with your contract manufacturers and plan to fulfill the orders.

Using demand management, you can forecast demands for models and options at contract manufacturing locations. The planning percentages for an option can vary according to the top model, where the option is a part of the model. The planning percentages for an option can also vary by the demand class of the forecast.

You can consume forecasts for models and options in supply planning using the drop ship sales orders that the contract manufacturers fulfill. Supply planning also generates planned orders to fulfill the demand for models and options at contract manufacturing organizations. You can publish the planned order as an order forecast to Oracle Supply Chain Collaboration. You can collaborate with your contract manufacturers to receive supply commits for models and options.