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Introduction to Oracle Value Chain Planning
Oracle VCP

2. Value Chain Planning
Value Chain Planning (VCP) is Comprehensive solution bringing together planning, optimization
and analytics into a single framework. VCP helps organizations to create flexible supply chains
which can work proactively and cushion organizations from variations in demand. Value chain
solutions follow a modular approach and can be implemented in an incremental fashion
enabling organizations to resolve their key problems first, all the products in the VCP domain
built upon on the foundation established by a prior companion product. This relay approach
actually helps organizations built over the work already done, avoiding any throw away and
providing highest Return on investments.
Value Chain Planning consists of the following product:
• Advanced Planning Command Center • Manufacturing Operations Center
• Advanced Supply Chain Planning • Production Scheduling
• Collaborative Planning • Rapid Planning
• Rapid Planning • Service Parts Planning
• Global Order Promising • Strategic Network Optimization
• Inventory Optimization • Demantra (DM, S&OP, PTP)

3. Advanced Planning Command Center
(APCC)
Do you have easy
access to critical
supply chain
performance
metrics?
Do you have real-time
access to the data that
drives your detailed
planning applications?
Do you need a systemic
process for simulating
alternative business
scenarios to make better
supply chain decisions?

4. Advanced Planning Command Center
(APCC)
Oracle Advanced Planning Command Center provides decision makers with a
comprehensive solution that delivers powerful analysis of operational, tactical, and
strategic supply chain plans, robust scenario modeling and management, and
automated business process execution capabilities.
As a key decision maker, you
can quickly compare
alternative business scenarios,
define how they will be
executed, and determine
what trade-offs need to be
made to meet your business
goals. .
Oracle Advanced Planning Command
Center's unique offering of prebuilt
dashboards, reports, performance
indicators, facts, hierarchies, alerts,
and context-sensitive drill downs
provide the decision support tools that
you need to increase the value in your
supply chain without the need to
master complex tools and processes.

5. Advanced Planning Command Center
(APCC)
• Key decision makers often rely on spreadsheets, e-mail, and simplified presentations to
executives or to monitor the health of their supply chain. Typically, this information is stale
due to the time it takes to extract and transform detailed planning data into actionable
metrics. Oracle Advanced Planning Command Center solves this problem by providing
robust scenario management, out-of-the-box analytics, and process automation
capabilities that enable you to streamline your planning processes.
Make Supply Chain Decisions Based on Real-time Business Insight
• To make the best supply chain decisions, you often need to compare alternative business
strategies. With Oracle Advanced Planning Command Center, you can easily define
scenarios that represent these alternatives. You can assign tasks that trigger collaboration
between the various stakeholders executing the elements of a scenario such as creating a
consensus forecast and running supply plans. You can attach related documents that
provide background information or illustrate why or how a task needs to be executed.
Once scenario tasks are completed, you can analyze the results as supply chain metrics
linked to demand and supply plan data in a uniform and consistent format.
Business Scenario Planning for Key Decision Makers

6. Advanced Planning Command Center
(APCC)
•When performing root-cause analysis on supply chain planning problems, you
need to be able to translate very detailed planning information into
performance metrics that quickly illustrate the impact specific business
scenarios. Oracle Advanced Planning Command Center enables you to analyze
high level demand and supply trends and metrics, and to drill down in any
area to analyze root-cause of problems via the prebuilt dashboards and
reports. You can also seamlessly drill-down to the powerful planning
workbenches to simulate possible solutions or take actions, in context of the
problem that you are trying to solve.
Seamlessly Move Between Analytics and Planning
•Oracle Advanced Planning Command Center obtains supply chain planning
data from complementary demand planning, inventory optimization, sales
and operations planning, network design, and supply planning applications
via web services. This web services-based approach enables Oracle Advanced
Planning Command Center to support operational improvements in a wide
variety of functional areas through integration with other applications—even
in highly heterogeneous application environments.
Leverage Process Automation to Structure
Execution of Your Scenarios

7. Advanced Planning Command Center (APCC)
•Oracle Advanced Planning Command Center provides comprehensive prebuilt dashboards that enable you to
analyze sales and operations planning performance and the health of your supply plan. The dashboards can
be quickly configured for the various analyst roles in your organization and extended to show information
from external non-planning data sources.
•The Sales and Operations Planning dashboard supports a 360 degree review of demand, supply, and enables
you to analyze executive level information such as revenue, inventory turns, profit and loss, and cost trends
for the plans that you execute. You can also compare your baseline to multiple alternative scenarios at
various levels, such as organization, product category, sales channel, supplier, customer, and project.
•The Supply Chain Analyst dashboard enables you to quickly assess trends in demand and supply, exceptions,
resource over- and under-utilization, inventory, and production.
Prebuilt dashboards for sales and operations
planning and supply chain analysis
•Oracle Advanced Planning Command Center provides a comprehensive library of performance metrics and
reports across many seeded dimensions and hierarchies. For example, you can analyze demand satisfaction
through metrics like late demand ratio, perfect order index, fill rate, service level, unmet demand, and sales
quantity; you can analyze inventory performance through metrics like inventory turns, carrying cost,
projected available balance in days of cover and amount, stock-outs, safety stock, total supply and demand;
you can analyze supply chain financial performance through metrics like profit, margin, revenue, and cost
(purchasing, transportation, and manufacturing). Leveraging the industrial strength and configurability of
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus (OBIEE), you can easily create new reports that are based
on any of the seeded reports
Get started quickly – more than 200 pre-built
reports and performance metrics

8. Advanced Supply Chain Planning(ASCP)
How do I plan my
supply chain in the
least amount of time
possible?
How do I involve
my trading
partners?
How can I access
my plan from
anywhere?
How do I keep
improving my
plans?
How can I plan all
manufacturing
methods?

9. Advanced Supply Chain Planning(ASCP)
Holistic Optimization, Planning, and Scheduling. Oracle ASCP can plan all supply chain
facilities simultaneously. Short-term detailed scheduling and long-term aggregate
planning are supported within a single plan. This single plan also supports multiple
manufacturing methods, including discrete, flow, project and process manufacturing.
Optimization. Users can easily
configure Oracle ASCP to
optimize specific business
criteria. No programming is
necessary to access Oracle ASCP’s
powerful mathematical
optimization capabilities
Finite Capacity Planning and
Scheduling. Oracle ASCP generates
feasible supply chain plans that
consider both resource and material
constraints.
Backward Compatibility. Oracle
ASCP’s component architecture
allow it to be deployed against any
combination of Oracle 10.7, Oracle
11 and Oracle 11i transaction
systems.
Workflow-Driven Exception
Messaging. Oracle ASCP’s
exception messages alert
planners to critical issues across
the extended supply chain
Global Accessibility. Oracle ASCP’s
database-centric architecture stores plan
data in a central planning server database.
These data are accessible from anywhere
via a simple browser.
Integrated Planning and Execution.
Oracle ASCP’s advanced Planner
Workbench user interface not only
displays plan results, but also allows
planners to execute planning
recommendations

10. Advanced Supply Chain Planning(ASCP)
•Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning enables you to run holistic plans that span long term
aggregate planning to short term detailed schedules, multiple manufacturing processes (lot based,
process, discrete, configure-to-order, and project based), and all organizations across a virtual
supply chain. As a single solution for distribution, supply chain, and manufacturing planning, it is
based on one supply chain model, one planning engine, and one setup. Its flexible configuration,
however, enables you to define different models that can co-exist (hub-and-spoke planning; single
plan) and evolve as your organization grows without requiring reimplementation. Extensive
defaulting logic, paired with a productivity enhancing UI and strong exception management,
enables planners to quickly use the tool to make their planning decisions.
Reduce Planning Cycle Time - Holistic Supply and Distribution Planning
•Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning offers comprehensive support for companies that focus
more on solving distribution and replenishment problems. Distribution planners can leverage a
comprehensive Distribution Planner Workbench that presents global visibility of material positions,
automates allocations and redistribution between regional and central distribution centers, with
the ability to manually override, consolidates individual shipments into optimal truckloads,
highlights exceptions, and releases planning recommendations for execution while taking into
account kitting, end item substitution, date effective sourcing, distribution, allocation rules, global
forecasting, alternates (components, suppliers, facilities, and ship methods), and supplier capacity
constraints
Comprehensive Distribution Planning

11. Advanced Supply Chain Planning(ASCP)
• Planners can leverage robust exception management and root-cause analysis in
combination with graphical supply chain pegging to identify and resolve problems from
end demand to the lowest level component or resource requirements. Extensive use of
workflow to enable process automation and automated corrective action enables you to
significantly reduce the non-value added costs of manual activity. In addition, planners can
leverage extensive personalization to tailor their workspace to their needs. Combined with
the powerful simulation and multi-planner collaboration capabilities, it enables them to
perform their planning tasks quickly and efficiently.
Increase planner productivity and reduce decision making latency

12. Collaborative Planning
Do you want to
reduce your supply
chain planning cycle
times and inventory
levels?
Do you want to automate
your inventory
replenishment?
Do you know how a
sudden reduction of
supplier capacity
impacts your
customers’ demand?
Do you know how a
change in customers’
demand impacts your
downstream
suppliers?

13. Collaborative Planning
Oracle Collaborative Planning is an Internet-based collaboration solution that
rapidly and significantly improves supply chain performance by providing advanced
capabilities for collaborative demand, supply, and inventory planning across your
virtual supply chain.
Oracle Collaborative Planning
enables you to increase forecast
accuracy, implement vendor
managed and consigned inventory
processes, increase global supply
visibility, reduce supply shortages,
and lower expediting cost.
You can collaborate securely with your
trading partners, reduce planning cycle
time, and identify and react quickly to
supply chain exceptions.
By getting early visibility to your supply
commit changes and making your
suppliers aware of your order forecast
changes, you can quickly streamline
cross-enterprise planning and
operations.

14. Collaborative Planning
•Share inventory levels and locations with key trading partners and pool
inventory for critical parts to reduce stock-outs and increase service
levels.
Increase global visibility and reduce supply shortages
•Provide customer value-add services by automating customer inventory
replenishment and reduce your expediting cost by automating your
replenishment with your key suppliers. The system provides extensive
and yet configurable exception management to notify your inventory
planners and buyers of critical conditions.
Implement vendor managed and consigned inventory

15. Collaborative Planning
• Compare order forecasts and supply commits continuously and in real-time while
leveraging waterfall analysis and audit trail to measure supplier commit
performance. Quickly react to supply-demand mismatches and instantly use the
latest supply data in your supply planning process.
Reduce planning cycle time through multi-enterprise planning
• A user configurable and extensive exceptions management framework enables you
to notify your planners, buyers, and trading partners about cross-enterprise
planning exceptions, and to automate the escalation of notification if no actions are
taken.
React quickly to supply chain exceptions

16. Rapid Planning
Does it take you too long
to respond to critical
business questions or
events that occur
throughout the day?
Can you respond to a
request for a large
important customer
order instantly?
Do you need to quickly
respond to changing
supply chain
conditions?
Can you assess the
impact of an
unexpected reduction
of supply to your
customer demand
before it becomes
reality?
Can you calculate the
impact of an
engineering change or
production shortfall on
your service levels?

17. Rapid Planning
Oracle Rapid Planning enables you to dramatically reduce your decision making
time through real-time event driven planning and simulation.
Embedded analytics, robust
exception management, and a
spreadsheet-style user interface
provide predictive and actionable
insight to identify the most
profitable decision. Your decisions
can be translated directly into action
with seamless integration to
execution. Rapid Planning can be
deployed in heterogeneous
environments and co-exist with
existing planning and ERP
environments.
Oracle Rapid Planning delivers a fast,
incremental planning engine combined
with easy mass editing of data and a
powerful user experience to instantly
assess the impacts of changes without
having to wait for daily tactical
planning runs to complete and your
ERP to catch up.

18. Rapid Planning
• Oracle Rapid Planning offers fast, incremental plan runs, easy manipulation of
planning data, and automated constraint-based decisions making to help you react
to changes in the shortest possible time.
• Perform fast incremental demand/supply planning driven by real-time events
• Utilize powerful "what-if" simulation simultaneously considering material and
resource availability
• Easily manipulate data with a highly configurable spreadsheet-style user interface
for mass edits
• Leverage automated decision making to quickly resolve supply issues
QUICKLY REACT TO SUPPLY CHAIN DISRUPTIONS
• Oracle Rapid Planning includes powerful analytics and an intuitive user interface to
allow you to quickly assess the business impact of scenarios and determine the
most effective course of action.
• Embedded analytics present plan results in aggregate and detailed performance
metrics
• A rich array of performance indicators enable you to create custom performance
metrics tailored to your company's requirements
• Use plan comparison views to compare the results of different simulations
PROVIDE PREDICTIVE AND ACTIONABLE INSIGHT

19. Rapid Planning
•Oracle Rapid Planning can be implemented standalone, or integrated with Oracle E-Business Suite and
Oracle's JD Edwards Enterprise One. It can also be easily integrated with a wide range of ERP systems
including SAP or other legacy systems. Rapid Planning is fully compatible with all elements of Oracle's suite of
Value Chain Planning applications.
•All data necessary for planning is brought into Rapid Planning automatically
•Plan recommendations can be released directly into execution for immediate action
•Rapid Planning can compliment or replace existing supply planning solutions
TRANSLATE DECISIONS INTO ACTIONS WITH OUT-OF-THE-BOX INTEGRATION

20. Inventory Optimization
Do you know what the
most profitable balance
is among customer
service levels, budgets,
and inventory cost?
Do you know how much
inventory to hold where
and over which time
period?
Are you able to account
for your supply chain
variability when
determining your time
phased safety stocks?

21. Inventory Optimization
It enables you to provide higher
service levels to your customers
at significantly lower cost by
applying inventory
postponement
recommendations, while
simultaneously weighing the
impacts on revenue, budgets,
inventory policies, and sourcing.
Oracle Inventory Optimization
considers the demand, supply,
constraints, and variability in your
extended supply chain to optimize
your inventory investment
decisions.

22. Inventory Optimization
• Oracle® Inventory Optimization uses postponement and risk pooling to help you
determine where to hold inventory to guarantee a desired service level and at what
stage of production to hold inventory. It can consider all your manufacturing plants,
distribution centers, central warehouses, and even your suppliers and customers. In
addition, it considers your bill of materials to calculate how much inventory to hold
at the finished goods, subassembly, and raw material level. Oracle® Inventory
Optimization solves the complex issue of balancing the time and cost you need to
incur to get a product to a customer, without paying high costs to hold every
product configuration close to your customer's locations.
Postponement and risk pooling
• To optimize your inventory investment, you need to account for all of the variability
in your supply chain. Demand variability occurs due to seasonal factors, forecast
errors, promotions, or new product introductions. Supply variability occurs due to
lead-time uncertainties and supplier performance issues such as product quality
and unreliable delivery. Capturing the variability in demand and supply enables you
to obtain the precise determination of the inventory investment that is required to
meet your customer service objectives, at the lowest possible cost, while remaining
within your available inventory budget.
Mitigate supply chain risk by managing supply chain variability

23. Inventory Optimization
• Typically, your customer service target is not a single number. You might have different
goals for different products, customers, or sales channels. Oracle® Inventory Optimization
helps determine the most profitable targets to strive for as well as optimize the use of your
scarce resources to focus on achieving the most profitable product and sales mix. You can
also define different service levels at various levels as every product, sales channel, and
customer does not need to have the same service level.
Determine your most profitable channels, products, and customers
• Oracle® Inventory Optimization leverages cutting-edge optimization and risk pooling
techniques to determine the most optimal solution, yet it was designed For Planners Not
Programmers, empowering your inventory analysts and planners to make decisions
intuitively and quickly.
For planners, not programmers

24. Global Order Promising (GOP)
Do you need to
increase your
on-time
delivery?
Do you need to improve
the reliability and
accuracy of your
promises to customers?
Do you need to
manage
commitments to
key customers?
Do you need visibility
to manufacturing,
supplier, and
transportation capacity
while promising
orders?
Do you know
what orders are
affected when
you accept a
new order?

25. Global Order Promising (GOP)
Oracle's order promising
capabilities include robust
support for distributed global
order promising and multi-level
supply-chain Available to
Promise (ATP), Capable to
Promise (CTP), and Capable to
Deliver (CTD).
Oracle® Global Order Promising provides you with sophisticated, fast, accurate,
and flexible order promising, 24 hours a day.
You can consolidate supply and
demand information from
multiple transaction systems to
provide a consolidated global
picture of demand and supply.
Order promising is accessible
from multiple order entry
systems or order capture
systems (such as web stores and
call centers).

26. Global Order Promising (GOP)
•You can promise order more accurately when you take all the constraints
of your supply chain into consideration (substitutes, alternates, lead
times, network, capacity). In addition, you can have a more responsive
and reliable promising process when the system is available 24x7 with
'zero downtime.' By combining a database-driven architecture with
manufacturing, supplier, and logistics constraints, you can ensure
improvements in customer service levels and an increase in fill rates.
Promise accurately and reliably
•You can also manage allocations of supply to key customers and
channels, thereby ensuring that you can meet contractual agreements
and service levels in the priority that yields most profitability. Planners
can easily configure the system to vary allocations in line with priorities
that flow out of your Sales and Operations Planning process.
Manage key customer and channel commitments

27. Global Order Promising (GOP)
•Tight integration with Oracle Configurator and Order Management
enables accurate order promising of complex configurations.
Sourcing and availability can be dependent on the options selected
during the configuration process. Multiple levels of models and
options, including outsourced configurations are supported, whereas
match-and-reserve can quickly identify availability for existing
configurations.
Promise complex multi-level configurations
•Extensive backlog management enables you to (re)promise a group
of orders in a priority sequence. You can also leverage the filtering
and manual override capabilities to take care of your most important
customers first rather than following the system-suggested
recommendations.
Respond to changing conditions

28. Production Scheduling
Are you able to
evaluate the impact of
a supply shortage on
fill rates?
Do you know
when to offload
production to
alternate
resources?
Do you need to
minimize the effect of
unplanned down time?
Are you able to
sequence orders
to best use your
production
resources?

29. Production Scheduling
You can optimize the usage of
your critical resources, calculate
realistic and feasible schedules
that the shop floor can execute,
and easily determine the
schedule that best meets your
objectives.
Oracle® Production Scheduling enables you to create detailed, up-to-the-minute
schedules that enable you to produce the right amount of product when it is
needed, thereby maximizing service, minimizing inventory, sequence dependent
setups, expediting, and other undesirable costs
Oracle® Production Scheduling,
designed for schedulers by
schedulers, enables you to take
control of your production
scheduling problem, and helps
you to maximize shop floor
throughput while optimizing
resource investment.
You can leverage the out-of-the-box integration with the Oracle E-Business Suite
(discrete, process, and lot-based manufacturing) to implement quickly and obtain
immediate value.

30. Production Scheduling
• Simultaneously consider capacity and calendar constraints
on machines, crews and tools with automatic floating
bottleneck detection to optimally schedule your shop floor.
Create feasible schedules using sequence dependent setup
minimization and campaign run optimization.
Maximize throughput of bottleneck resources
• Schedulers can minimize the effect of unplanned downtime,
easily identify exceptions, and use a powerful drag-and-
drop scheduling workbench to quickly adjust schedules.
Improve shop floor performance

31. Production Scheduling
• Fast easy simulation enables your schedules to quickly compare scenarios and
key performance indicators before deciding which schedule to release for
execution. Planners can also review both planned and actual production orders
to make their decisions.
Quickly determine the best production schedule
• Production Scheduling is fully integrated with the Oracle E-Business Suite,
enabling you to start quickly by leveraging existing setup. It supports discrete,
process, and lot-based manufacturing without the need for extensive
configuration.
Implement quickly by leveraging out-of-the-box integration

32. Demantra Demand
Management
Do you need to increase your
forecast accuracy or quickly
converge on a consensus forecast
to drive your supply chain
planning processes?
Do you need to
improve your
management of
product lifecycles,
promotions, and other
events?
Is your company
trying to be
more demand
driven?

33. Demantra Demand
Management
Automated analytics ensures
that your plans are based on the
most accurate, forward
forecasts without the need of
statistical knowledge. The result
is a demand-driven organization
with higher service levels and
sales, more satisfied customers,
and lower inventory and
distribution costs..
Oracle® Demantra Demand Management enables you to sense demand real time,
improve forecast accuracy, and shape demand for profitability. The result is a
demand-driven organization with higher service levels and sales, more satisfied
customers, and lower inventory and distribution costs.
Oracle's Demantra Demand
Management helps you
maximize profitability with
superior capabilities to better
sense, shape, and respond to
demand.

34. Demantra Demand
Management
• Uses mixed model approach to ensure out-of-box
forecast accuracy
Automated forecast analytics
• Allows planners to get instant answers even in the
most data-intensive planning scenarios
Real-time forecast capabilities
• Quickly respond to changing market conditions
Dashboards, automated exception
management, and workflow

35. Demantra Demand
Management
• Enables up-to-date demand visibility for all departments and
makes one-number planning feasible
Multidimensional data modeling with flexible
data hierarchies
• Predicts new product demand and product phase-out while
reducing the overall planning effort
Chaining, attribute-based forecasting, and shape
modeling
• Monitor and respond in real time
Web-based, real-time internal and external
collaboration, with role-based security

36. Demantra S&OP
Do you want to incorporate
emerging best practices such as
more precise forecasts,
collaboration, and postponement
strategies?
Do you need to
consolidate disparate
sources of information
into a central
repository to drive
consensus and make
better decisions?
Do you want to
implement a more
demand-driven sales
and operations
planning process?

37. Demantra S&OP
It enables you to implement a
comprehensive sales and
operations planning process
that balances demand and
supply around a one-number
forecast to drive operational
excellence and achieve
profitability goals.
Oracle’s Sales and Operations Planning solution enables you to implement a
continuous and proactive sales and operations planning process that profitably
balances demand, supply, and budgets.
Oracle's Demantra Real-time
Sales and Operations Planning
extends demand-driven
adaptive planning across your
company.

38. Demantra S&OP
• Provides sense, shape, and response capabilities
to support your sales and operations planning
process with accurate forecasts that all
departments can agree on
Superior demand management
• Adapts to company business processes
Configurable planning platform
•Improves responsiveness to changes in demand and supply
Workflow-driven collaborative planning

39. Demantra S&OP
• Improves decision-making
A single source of information
• Validates business plans and identifies potential gaps
Top-down bottom-up planning
• Monitor and respond in real time
Demand shaping capabilities