Overview of How You Plan Considering Process Manufacturing Work Definitions

In a constrained supply plan, you can plan supply based on the process manufacturing work definition as specified in Oracle Fusion Cloud Manufacturing or in other manufacturing applications. You can use a manufacturing plant to support production needs for process manufacturing and discrete manufacturing.

You can plan appropriate batch quantities and account for the creation of co-products and by-product supplies along with the primary product specified in the process work definition.

Process manufacturing environments are characterized by a set of unique planning challenges. These include products, co-products, and by-products that are generated at various steps in the manufacturing process, not all of which are at the end of the process. When using Oracle Manufacturing, you can specify a work definition that captures the batch quantity and the manufacturing process. You can also specify the work definition to take into account the steps and quantities at which products, by-products, and co-products are generated, in addition to the ingredients required for the manufacturing. Supply Planning honors these work definitions when the planning process generates the plan. Additionally, you can analyze the plan in the context of the co-products and by-products generated.

Use File-Based Data Imports to upload process manufacturing work definitions into Supply Planning for sources other than Oracle Manufacturing .

Use the Recalculate action to recalculate a subset of your plan output to quickly see the impact of changes to your constrained supply plan.