Use the Manage Product Launch Page

This topic explains how you use the Manage Product Launch page.

You can do the following on the Manage Product Launch page:

Specify a relationship between a source product and new product.

You can generate customer-organization combinations for the new product on the basis of those for the source product. If the products are similar, you can also copy measure data from the source product to the new product.

If you only generate combinations, you can manually enter historical data and forecast overrides for the new product after the combinations are generated.
Edit a relationship between a source product and new product.

For example, after the collection process, new combinations could be available for the source product, and you want to generate them for the new product. You may also want to change the process end date (launch date for the new product).

You can edit a relationship only if it's in the Active status.
Delete an existing relationship between a source product and new product.

When you delete the relationship, the combinations are also deleted unless you made changes to the generated combinations or copied measure data.

Create a Relationship Between a Source Product and New Product

To create a relationship between a source product and new product, perform these steps:

Note:

Before you begin, ensure that the new product exists in the Items table. You can add the product in Oracle Fusion Product Management and then perform a collection. Alternatively, you can add the product by using the file-based data import (FBDI) template for Supply Chain Planning items.

In the Demand Management, Demand and Supply Planning, Planning Central, or Sales and Operations Planning work area, open a demand, demand and supply, or sales and operations plan.
Do one of the following to open the Manage Product Launch page:
- In the plan, click Actions > Manage Product Launch.
- In a pivot table or graph, click Actions > Manage Product Launch.
- In a pivot table, right-click a cell, and select Manage Product Launch.
On the Manage Product Launch page, click Actions > Create.

A row with the In progress status is created for the new relationship.
1. Select the source product.
2. Select the new product.
On the Source Relation tab, do the following:
1. Select the customers and organizations of the source product that you want to use to drive the forecast for the new product.
2. Move the selected customers and organizations from Available Members to Selected Members.
3. Click Insert.
  
  Combinations for the selected members are displayed with the Include Selected check box selected and the process end date set to 30 days after the system date.
4. For the combinations that you want to generate for the new product, keep the Include Selected check box selected.
  
  For the combinations that you don't want to generate, deselect the check box.
5. Edit the process end date for each combination.
  
  Until the process end date, every time you run the plan, combinations are generated for the new product before the forecast is generated.
If you also want to copy measure data from the source product to the new product for all selected combinations, on the Measures tab, do the following:
1. Click Actions > Add.
2. In the new row, select the source measure for the source product and target measure for the new product.
  
  Alternatively, you can click Apply Measure Copy Set to open the Apply Measure Copy Set dialog box, and search for and add a previously defined measure copy set.
  
  The measures available for selection are from the measure catalog that's specified on the Scope tab on the Plan Options page for the plan. Only stored and editable measures are available for selection as source and target measures, and measures with expressions aren't available. The available target measures are filtered by the granularity (available dimensions) of the selected source measure.
3. Enter a factor to increase or decrease the measure data for the new product.
  
  For example, if you expect the new product to sell 1.5 times more than the source product, enter a factor of 150%.
4. Add more rows for source and target measures.
5. To save the selected rows for use in relationships that you create or edit in the future, click Save as Measure Copy Set.
  
  In the Save as Measure Copy Set dialog box, provide a name and description for the measure copy set, and specify if you want to overwrite an existing measure copy set or use the new measure copy set as the default.
Click Save and Close.

The Manage Product Launch Data Copy Individual process is submitted. In the Scheduled Processes work area, you can check the process status. Once the process is completed, the relationship status changes from In progress to Active on the Manage Product Launch page.
Run the plan with the Refresh with current data option selected on the Parameters tab in the Run Plan dialog box.

The forecast is generated for the new product if you copied measure data.
If you generated only combinations, enter the history, including forecast overrides, for the new product in tables that have the Product, Customer, and Organization dimensions.

To generate the forecast for the new product, run the plan again with the Refresh with current data option selected on the Parameters tab in the Run Plan dialog box.

Edit a Relationship Between a Source Product and New Product

To edit the relationship between a source product and new product, follow these steps:

In the Demand Management, Demand and Supply Planning, Planning Central, or Sales and Operations Planning work area, open a demand, demand and supply, or sales and operations plan.
Do one of the following to open the Manage Product Launch page:
- In the plan, click Actions > Manage Product Launch.
- In a pivot table or graph, click Actions > Manage Product Launch.
- In a pivot table, right-click a cell, and select Manage Product Launch.
On the Manage Product Launch page, search for the relationship that you want to edit by the source product, new product, or status.

Note:
If the status is Complete, the process end date specified in the relationship has been reached. When you run the plan, combinations aren't generated, and measure data isn't copied for the new product from the source product. You can only delete the relationship.
Select the relationship that you want to modify, and click Edit.
On the Source Relation tab, do the following:
1. Move members for which combinations must be generated to the Selected Members list.
  
  Move members for which combinations should not be generated to the Available Members list.
2. Click Insert.
3. For the combinations that you want to generate for the new product, keep the Include Selected check box selected.
  
  For the combinations that you don't want to generate, deselect the check box.
4. Edit the process end date for each combination.
If you also want to copy measure data from the source product to the new product, on the Measures tab, do the following:
- To add a row, click Actions > Add.
  
  In the new row, select the source measure for the source product and target measure for the new product.
  
  Alternatively, you can click Apply Measure Copy Set to open the Apply Measure Copy Set dialog box, and search for and add a previously defined measure copy set or replace the existing rows by the measure copy set.
  
  Enter a factor to increase or decrease the measure data for the new product.
- To edit a row, select it, and modify the factor.
- To delete a row, select it, and click Delete.
Click Save and Close.

The Manage Product Launch Data Copy Individual process is submitted. In the Scheduled Processes work area, you can check the process status.
Run the plan with the Refresh with current data option selected on the Parameters tab in the Run Plan dialog box.

The forecast is regenerated for the new product if you copied measure data.
If you regenerated only combinations, enter the history, including forecast overrides, for the new product in tables that have the Product, Customer, and Organization dimensions.

To regenerate the forecast for the new product, run the plan again with the Refresh with current data option selected on the Parameters tab in the Run Plan dialog box.