Oracle Supply Chain Planning Cloud - "Planning Central" surely seems impressive with the new simpler GUI, in-memory planning engine and pre-integrated cloud. Release 11 is first release for Fusion Planning Central.
Planning Central provides demand planning, inventory planning and supply planning capabilities all in one application with linkage to execution systems.
- Demand Management: Forecast based of shipment/booking history with sales orders consuming forecast. Stat engine supporting causal factors with NPI capabilities inbuild
- Inventory Planning: Stat safety stock derivation based of demand volatility & stocking goals.
- Supply Planning: Material and Resource requirement calculation based of SS and customer demand with lead times, calendars, availability etc. in consideration.
- Unified Data model with common set of dimensions for supply & demand plans
- 200+ Seeded measures
- End to End business process flow support (CollectData>PlanDemand>PlanInventory>PlanSupplies>Execute)
- Integrated with OrderMgmt, MaterialsMgmt, InventoryMgmt, Mfg & Purchasing Cloud Services
- Integrated with Fusion ERP for collections & planning output releases
- OOTB Plan Summary dashboard
- Planner Workbench (Configurable)
- Seeded Data views (Configurable)
- Seeded Analytics (Configurable)
- Embedded Analytics (Configurable)
- Excel Export/Import option
Here is a demo from Oracle on Planning Central's first release.
Remember all the configurations/setups for Planning Central very much like other Cloud applications is required to be done using Functional Setup Manager(FSM). Offering is Value Chain Planning and functional area is Planning Central. FSM should be used for setting up source systems definition, profiles, loading data and configuring planning analytics.
