Redwood: Analyze Supply Plans Using a Configurable Redwood Page

Welcome to the demo of 25B Analyze Supply Plans Using a Configurable Redwood Page in Supply Chain Planning, Supply Planning module. My name is Viren and in this demonstration, we'll see how the 25B update of Oracle Supply Chain Planning helps you efficiently analyze and plan using some new tools and actions in a configurable interface to meet your supply planning goals. We'll highlight some of the purpose and business benefits of this release, and then see a demonstration of the new visualization capabilities that help you configure the planning interface to your requirement.

In order to manage your supply chain resources to meet demand at the lowest cost, this update allows you to use the new Redwood user experience that enables you to access, analyze, compare, and simulate a supply plan. To effectively manage demand for your business, you can set up your planning interface using flexible page layouts, advanced searches, plan actions, and tasks to make your planning experience and resulting actions insightful and effective. This helps you identify the risks and opportunities impacting your supply plan and respond to customer demand in a timely and effective manner.

In this demonstration, we'll see an overview of the pages and page groups, how to create a page and a page group, add visualizations from a content library to a page, editing and managing a page layout with visualizations, using some of the search features, using the Search bar and Filter Search, and comparing plans to drive the best planning outcome. To log in to the Redwood user interface for supply chain planning, select the Supply Chain Planning springboard icon from your home page.

This gets you to the Landing page. And let's have a look at some of the key components of the Redwood Supply Planning Interface. A page is comprised of a set of visualizations, tables, and graphs arranged in rows. You can have up to four visualizations in a row with a maximum number of visualizations, which is governed by a profile setting of up to 25 visualizations by default. In this current plan, we can see two pages that together comprise to form a page group.

To access your plan, click on the plan selector in the top left. Since this is a unified supply chain planning interface, all plan types that a user has access to are visible here. You can search by a keyword. As you type along, matching plans with the keywords will appear in the list. We selected the plan. The Supply Chain Planning work area enables access to most of the actions necessary for planners to analyze plans. The users plan specific actions related to plan inputs, configuration, managing pages and visualizations, that are accessible in the More Actions menu.

Click on the ellipsis three-dot menu. Here, you can see some of the primary actions which are more frequently accessed. Click on the View More option. Clicking on the View More option button slides out a right drawer, which has more plan actions, Pages, and Visualization, and plan inputs. These plan actions are the same in behavior as in the classic user interface. The menu actions will be based on the access and security privileges of the user.

To create a planning page, click on the plus icon. This opens a drawer on the left pane, which displays the Pages, Page Groups, and Visualizations. To create a page, go to the Pages tab and click on the Create Page button. This opens up the Create Page interface. Enter a page name and click on the Continue button. This creates an empty page in an edit page layout mode. In this mode, you can add visualizations. The content library on the right-hand-side shows the visualizations, that is, tables, and graphs available here. All supported visualizations in the classic interface are available here.

To add content to the page, you can search the desired visualizations. You can search by keyword. All matching results are displayed. We'll use the Demand at Risk Summary Graph. Click on the plus sign to add the visualization to the page. The visualization takes the default size. The default height of the visualization is one unit, which is approximately 50% of your display height. You can increase height to 2 units if needed, which will be double the default. Let's add another visualization in the same row.

You can also drag and drop the visualization. We've added the visualization in the same row. Let's add a couple of more visualizations. Now we have four graphs in a single row, and that's the maximum number of visualizations on a single row. Now let's add a pivot table in the same row below. Our page now has two rows of visualizations. Let's do some resizing and arranging of these visualizations. Let's close the content library. The visualization actions are available in the Visualization Actions menu.

Let's move the Demand and Supply Totals Graph. As you can see, the visualization auto rearranges the width of the two visualizations. Let's resize the three-map graph. Let's increase the width. This resize the three map and auto adjusted the width of the other two graphs in the row. Let's decrease the width of the bottom graph to make the pivot table a little bigger. We'll decrease the width.

This resize both the visualization in the row. You can also quickly set the maximum and minimum width allowed for a visualization by selecting the Maximum and Minimize options available in the Actions menu. Let's do that for the pivot table. Click on the Maximize option. This action occupies the maximum width of the visualization on that row. It moves the other visualization to the next row. Once completed, you can save this page. Go to the More Actions. Click on Save. This takes a page out of the Edit Page layout mode to the default mode. You can see that a demo page has been added to this page group.

To save the page as a page group, click on the Save Page Group As option. This brings up the Save Page Group As dialog. Click Save if you would like to save with the same page group name, or change the name and save with a different page group name. You can assign the page group as a public or a private group, and if it is a default page. Select Save to commit. To remove a page from Page Group, click on the Close button of the page.

Now, let's look at the search and filter functionality. Click on the Search bar. You can filter the page by a searchable attribute string, for example, an item or a category. You can search using a keyword as you type along, relevant matches are shown below. We're using the word Berry. As you can see, the visualization data has changed to represent the data that matches the keyword Berry. Let's go back to the Search and clear the search criteria and hit Tab or Enter to return. The data returns back to the default view for the plan.

You can also refine your plan and analysis by using the filter chips to search the filter data. We'll use the Product Family. Click on the Product Family filter chip. Enter a keyword to refine matching product family members or scroll through the list. We'll select Citrus. Hit Enter. The page data for all the visualization has changed to show the data for the Citrus family only. To return to the default data, click on the Clear button. This returns you back to the default view.

Let's now examine how the Compare Plans feature works. By comparing plans, you may examine how various planning scenarios differ from one another, and compare data points across plans to determine the greatest possible planning outcome, thus helping you refine your planning approach and help you make the most beneficial planning choices. To do this, click on the More Actions. Select the Compare Plan actions. This opens the plan list for selection. You can select up to three plans to compare your base plan to. You can select by search by keyword.

Click on the checkbox next to the plan to select. This refreshes the page and shows the same visualizations with the different data viewpoints. You can analyze and assess the pros and cons of each approaches and pick the best outcome for your planning outcomes. As you scroll through the page, you can see the differences shown in the same graph across planned plans. Let's return back up to the top.

The Compare functionality works across pages in the page group. In the Pivot Table view, the compared plans are shown as rows in the same measure, with the original plan being compared to the base plan. You can compare the differences in the measure value across the plans to identify and assess the best outcome for your planning. With that, we conclude this demo. Thanks for watching.