Oracle SCM Cloud: Planning Central Implementation

Duration: 5 Days

What you will learn

This Oracle SCM Cloud: Planning Central Implementation training teaches you how to identify demand planning
methods and tools that planners have available in Planning Central, including automatic forecasting analytics, and
multidimensional data modeling. Expert Oracle University instructors will teach you how to identify supply planning
methods and available features.

Learn To:

Define plans.
Model the supply chain.
Analyze and work with the demand plan.
Define and analyze the supply plan.
Explain concepts of drop ship.
Simulate supply planning.
Implement Planning Central.
Troubleshoot Planning Central.

Benefits to You

Ensure a smooth and successful implementation of your Supply Chain Management Cloud applications. Taking this
course not only helps you better understand the core implementation tasks required to set up your applications, but also
delves into the core functionality and how they can benefit your entire enterprise. The goal is to complete the setup
steps necessary for Planning Central and learn how to implement and use Oracle Planning Central for material,
production and distribution planning.
Instructional Approach
Each lesson in this course begins with your instructor presenting important concepts related to the functional setup or
functionality of Oracle SCM Cloud.
Each lesson may also require you to do one or more of the following:
Complete a portion of the setup in the application.
Discuss key setup decisions and best practices.
Complete a knowledge assessment quiz.

Audience

Administrator
Cloud Administrator
Cloud User
End Users
Functional Implementer
Implementation Consultant
Technical Consultant

Related Training

Required Prerequisites
Oracle SCM Cloud: Supply Chain Management Foundation
Suggested Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of demand and supply planning concepts
Experience with Fusion applications
Experience with Oracle Fusion Inventory Management
Experience with Oracle Fusion Purchasing
Oracle SCM Cloud: Advanced Supply Chain and Fulfillment Techniques
Oracle SCM Cloud: Configurator Modeling

Course Objectives

Analyze plans using the tools provided by Planning Central
Release planned orders to execution applications
Perform the functional setup tasks required to implement Oracle Planning Central Cloud, including the setup tasks
required to analyze plans
Define and run integrated demand and supply plans

Course Topics

Overview of Planning Central

Demand-driven adaptive planning
Integrated demand and supply planning
Planning business flow
Ad hoc analysis
Cloud-based deployment

Collections

Collections processing
Performing collections
Collected business objects
View collected data

Define Plans

Plan management
Plan types
Define plan options
Start the plan

View Plan Output

Plan Summary
Configurable Planner Workbench
Standard predefined views
Exceptions
Demand Fulfillment view
Additional predefined views using embedded analytics
Selector Tool usage to create tables, graphs, infotiles, and tile sets, and to determine placements in a plan summary

Configure Planning Data Security

Overview
Configure Data Security at different levels
Configure Data Security filters/rules
Use of Data Security in the work area pages

Modeling the Supply Chain

Supply network model
Sourcing rules and assignment sets
Items and item structures
Purchasing concepts
Oracle Manufacturing Cloud

Define Demand Plan

Demand plan scope
Demand plan options
Demand plan additional information

Demand Planning Considerations

Demand planning in Planning Central
Demand planning best practices
Run a demand plan
Planning with causal factors

Analyze Demand Plan

Review Forecast Results
Demand Exceptions
Override Forecast
Approve Plan

Working with the Demand Plan

Updating data and data allocations
Use units of measure and currencies
Use conditional formatting

Define Supply Plan

Supply Plan Options
Supply Plan Advanced Options
Organizations and Demand Schedules
Launching the Plan

Analyze a Supply Plan

Forecast processing
Requirements explosion for make item
Backward scheduling and order dates
Exceptions
Plan recommendations
Analyzing demand and supply
Demand Fulfillment page
Release recommendations

Drop Ship Overview

Drop ship sales order and purchase order
Drop ship validation organization
Planning for drop shipments
Drop ship sourcing setup
Drop shipment forecast
Release drop shipment recommendations

CTO Planning

Planning Setup: Consume then Explode
Configure-to-Order (CTO) Models
Forecasting CTO Models
CTO Model Forecast Consumption and Explosion
CTO Configured Item in Oracle Product Management Cloud and Oracle Manufacturing Cloud
CTO Configured Item Planning

Supply Planning Concepts

Planning in daily buckets
Planning for make orders
Resource calendars and resource utilization
Scheduling buy orders
Supplier capacity
Plans feeding demand to plans
Sourcing allocation splits
Planning for contract manufacturing

Simulation Supply Planning

Demand and supply changes
Simulation sets

Configuring Planning Analytics

Overview of Planning Analytics configuration
Configure dimension catalogs for analytics
Configure measure catalogs for analytics
Customize worksheets, graphs, infotiles, and tile sets
Use Selector Tool advanced options to refine your selections
Use the table drilling and linking features
Use spreadsheet integration in Items and in Supplies and Demands

Safety Stock Planning

Identify the business value of safety stock
Plan safety stock by based on days of cover
Plan safety stock based on target safety stock quantities
Plan safety stock based on statistical calculations

Implementing Planning Central

Trading Community source systems
Planning source systems
Planning profile options
Collect planning data during the initial setup
Load planning data from files
Configure planning analytics

Troubleshooting