Overview of Collecting Resources and the Resource Availability
This topic provides an overview of collecting resources and the resource availability from Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, Oracle E-Business Suite, or a third-party application.
When you collect information for resources in your organization, you collect their reference data. This information pertains to the names, codes, types, work centers, run rates, units of measure (UOMs), and shifts of the resources, among other attributes.
Regarding the availability of resources in your organization, you can collect this information or generate it during the collections process.
Sources and Methods for Collecting Resources and the Resource Availability
You collect resources and the resource availability from these sources:
- Oracle Fusion Cloud Manufacturing in Fusion Applications
- Oracle E-Business Suite
- A third-party application
If you're collecting resources and the resource availability from Oracle Manufacturing, you must use the Collect Planning Data page in the work area for your module in Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Planning. You can also use the Collection Job Set scheduled process.
- Supply Chain Planning Resources (ScpResourcesImportTemplate.xlsm), in which you define your resources and resource shifts, and that's used for generating the resource availability
- Supply Chain Planning Resource Availability (ScpResourceAvailabilityImportTemplate.xlsm), which you optionally use to calculate the resource availability
More Points About Collecting Resources and the Resource Availability
Note these points about collecting resources and the resource availability:
- After you collect resources and the resource availability, you need to recollect the data only when there's a change to your resources or their availability.
- When you're collecting resources and the resource availability from Oracle
Manufacturing, you can collect resources using the targeted or net change
collection type.
You can collect the resource availability using only the targeted collection type.
- When you're collecting resources and the resource availability from Oracle E-Business Suite or a third-party system, you can use the targeted or net change collection type.
- When you collect resources from Oracle Manufacturing, the resource types are
labor and equipment. Both primary and alternate resources are collected.
When you collect resources from Oracle E-Business Suite or a third-party system using the import template named Supply Chain Planning Resources, the resource types are person and machine. These resource types are reflected in Oracle Supply Chain Planning as labor and equipment.
- When you collect the resource availability from Oracle Manufacturing, you can choose to collect the data as is or have it regenerated by Oracle Manufacturing and then collect the data.
- Resources can be based on hours or units:
- The UOMs for hours used by Oracle Supply Chain Planning can vary by setup.
- Oracle Sales and Operations Planning considers both hour-based and
unit-based resources.
While the availability for some resources can be calculated in hours, the availability for other resources can be calculated in units.
Sales and operations plans consider only primary resources.
- Oracle Supply Planning considers only hour-based
resources.
Constrained supply plans use both primary and alternate resources, but unconstrained supply plans use only primary resources.
Constrained and unconstrained supply plans support resources that are available 24 hours a day or in shifts. The resource availability can also be collected for nonworking days of manufacturing calendars if resource exceptions or work center calendars are defined on those days.
- Oracle Demand Management and Oracle Replenishment Planning don't consider resources.
- You can collect unit-based resources only through the import template
named Supply Chain Planning Resources and from Oracle E-Business Suite
or a third-party system.
You can't collect unit-based resources from Oracle Manufacturing.