An excel based Planning workbench

1. An Excel based Planning Workbench

2. If you think …. Oracle’s Planner’s workbench is not Planner friendly….

3. Then You are not Alone ! So many clicks – My fingers hurt Why the demand is late Oh Gosh 247,000 lines in pegging Not for Planners !! I wish I had my old excel

4. Most Planners don’t fully understand the plan Capabilities of a powerful planning engine remain unused due to a poor User Interface In turn, best planning systems in the world end up losing to

6. Integrated

9. Time consuming

11. No ControlThe Historical battle

12. Taking the Best: The Old Approach Create Reports to export to Excel spreadsheets Development Cost Maintenance cost Non standard reports Compatibility/Upgrade Issues

13. The new approach 1. Use Oracle Advanced Planning as Data Repository 2. Use Microsoft Excel as reporting tool 3. Apply the best in class reports designed for Planners

14. Introducing … EBS’s Plan Viewer™ The Excel based Planning workbench A tool for Planners ( and not developers)

15. Features Works using Microsoft Excel at front end Directly connects to database Refreshes to get the latest planning data Configurable KPIs for Constraint, Unconstraint & Optimized Plans 12 Inbuilt Planners reports – No Pre-processing required Multi-level slicing and dicing capabilities Powerful Planning Dashboard- Add your own reports

16. Head to Head Partially Supported : a

17. Sneak Peek The Summary View

18. Sneak Peek Summary View –Cont. Details of exceptions can be found by clicking the hyperlinks

19. Sneak Peek Horizontal View-Weekly

20. Sneak Peek Horizontal Value Plan -Weekly

21. Sneak Peek Horizontal Value Plan -Weekly

22. Sneak Peek Summary Pegging View Pegging Pattern for a specific item including all make and buy components can be seen by Pegging report

23. Sneak Peek Critical Path Analysis Activities causing lateness are marked Critical activities can be easily identified for any combination of demand and end item

24. Early Feedback collected Participants:- Planners Planning Managers Consultants

25. Feedback - Continued Will you use EBS Plan Viewer™ for your plan:- I like workbench I already have tons of reports Yes Definitely Need more information

26. Feedback Continued Which is the most useful feature:- Easy horizontal Plan Access through excel $ Value inclusion Critical Path Analysis

27. Feedback Continued How much time you think will it take to go live with Plan Viewer™? 3 Months 2 Months 1 Month Depends upon complexity It actually takes less than a week to go live with Viewer 

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