How You Plan Project-Specific Supply

Let's understand the high-level process flow of project-specific supply planning. You can find more details about these processes in different topics of this chapter.

1. You start your project-specific supply planning with the collection of these entities:

   • Project and task attribute values and their relationships from Project Portfolio Management

   • Supplies and demands with project and task values from Oracle Inventory Management, Oracle Order Management, Oracle Purchasing, and Oracle Manufacturing

   • Forecast and safety stock that are specific to project and task

   • Organization attribute with project references

   • Item attributes, such as Hard Pegging Level and Allow Use of Common Supplies, required for project-specific supply planning

2. You then create project groups and assign projects to the groups. Creating project groups enables the planning process to net supplies within a project group across multiple projects and their tasks.

3. The next step is to create attribute-based netting rules. The planning process uses the netting rule to net and share supplies at the project group, project, and task levels.

4. You create a plan and associate the netting rule to the plan. You then run the plan from the Supply Planning or the Demand and Supply Planning work area.

5. You review your plan output for project-specific supplies and demands and release planned orders with project and task attributes to Manufacturing, Purchasing, or Inventory.

Here's an illustration that explains the high-level process flow of project-specific supply planning: