Demantra - S&OP (Sales & Operational Planning) : Integration Overview - 2

What it takes for seeded S&OP integration to work ?
Demantra's 7.2.0 and higher versions have seeded integration for Sales & Operations Planning(S&OP) module with Advanced Supply Chain Planning(ASCP) & Strategic Network Optimizer(SNO) modules of APS. The seeded integration however currently is supported only with Oracle EBS R12.0.4 version and is available as integration patch. Once you fulfill the pre-requisite criterias and apply the patches, on EBS front new responsbilities start appearing(similar to EBS-DM integration).

What's new on EBS side? :

The New Responsbilities for S&OP:
1. Sales & Operations Planning System Administrator : This responsbility is quite similar to Demand Managment System Administrator responsbility and has few Menu options common to DM System Administrator. Users who controls and executes data collection for S&OP planning should have access to this responsbility. S&OP Administrator can collect all the relevant data from EBS into Demantra, using Collection menu options controlled by Setups and Profile options.
The Menus in this responsbility are divided broadly into following:

• Links to Open Demantra S&OP application (which includes : S&OP Workbench, Workflow Manager, Administration, User Management)
• Collections Menu (which includes : Collection > Standard collection, Shipment & Booking History data, SCI Data**, Currency Conversion, UOM Conversion, Returns History, Pricing Data, and Download Calendars)
• Collect from Legacy (Legacy Collection - Flat; Legacy Collection - Self; Shipment & Booking History - Flat; Shipment & Booking History - Self Service)
• Setup ( Instances; Calendar List; New Product List; Price List )

2. Sales & Operations Planning Analyst: S&OP Analyst responsibility is same as Demand Analyst in Oracle's EBS-Demantra DM integration. As an analyst, the menu options have limited authority and can only Open Demantra S&OP applications - S&OP Workbench, Workflow, Administration, and User Management pages.

3. New S&OP enabled plan options: ASCP & SNO plan options have now a new check box saying "S&OP enabled", once selected those Supply plans can be brought inside Demantra for S&OP process as Supply Plan Scenarios.

4. Publish option in SNO: New option to publish SNO plan for S&OP usage has been added in SNO workbench.

** From collection point of view, only Supply Chain Intelligence(SCI) data is added entity as compared to Demand Management integration. SCI data being collected comprises of Order backlog information, Actual production data, etc.

Besides above changes on EBS/ASCP/SNO side, Demantra's S&OP module has been changed a lot to support this seeded integration. There are new Levels, hierarchies, series, worksheets. integration interfaces, workflows etc. which appear if you install S&OP module.