Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Planning

Unify planning processes: Use a single application to plan supply, production, and inventory

Make better decisions—faster Identify demand risk and evaluate the impact of demand changes on supply. Balance global demand and supply Proactively revise plans to address shortages and overloads based on the latest data from across the supply chain. Align enterprise business segments Reduce cost to serve, buffer variability, and stockouts by aligning business segment plans using a common supply network. Honor customer commitments Prioritize, simulate, and reschedule open orders based on the latest supply availability. Maximize shop floor throughput Develop high-quality, executable intraday factory schedules for your daily supply plans that maximize asset and component utilization.

Plan global supply: Strategically plan across your supply chain

Plan across all supply chain tiers Manage material and capacity across plants, distribution centers, suppliers, and contract manufacturers. Develop constrained plans Automatically select alternate resources and components to reduce lead time and capacity constraints. Handle diverse production planning and fulfillment needs Plan process, discrete, configure-to-order, and outsourced production, as well as drop-ship and back-to-back fulfillment.

Monitor performance: Understand supply planning performance

Analyze overall plan performance Get at-a-glance aggregate and detailed summaries of revenue, margin, demand, supply, resource utilization, changeover time, and other metrics. Diagnose root causes Use guided navigation to drill down to details and perform cause-and-effect analysis of problems. Answer ad hoc questions Easily configure analytics to visualize issues, highlight exceptions, and focus on what matters.

Respond and pivot: Respond to changing business conditions

Simulate solutions to critical problems Simulate the impact of demand, supply, capacity, and item structure changes to prevent disruptions. Identify plan changes Review and collaborate on plan changes with internal and external stakeholders. Instantly execute the new plan Execute ready-to-build orders, and release purchase and transfer recommendations. Efficiently manage the order backlog Minimize the cost of fulfilling the most urgent demand while maximizing shipments to meet revenue targets. Dynamically reschedule production to reduce delays Instantly respond to machine outages, labor shortages, material delays, and changing order priorities. Release adjusted schedules for shop floor execution as needed throughout the day.

Optimize production: Maximize throughput with effective production scheduling

Improve production planning efficiency Maximize use of resources and available components, reducing work-in-process inventory, waste, and expedites. Release schedules for execution in real time. Create executable production schedules Create feasible production schedules that take the latest material, capacity, and calendar constraints into account. Optimize changeovers to minimize downtime Increase throughput and asset utilization with schedules that make efficient changeovers based on your industry attributes, minimizing idle time. Resolve shop floor bottlenecks Schedule work order operations with your desired attribute sequence to maximize the efficiency of your production planning process. Simulate the impact of schedule changes Run quick, in-line simulations and what-if scenarios to resolve production scheduling issues, make drag-and-drop adjustments, and edit dispatch lists as necessary. Minimize the effect of unplanned downtime Run, repair, and release production schedules dynamically to deal with unexpected machine outages, labor shortages, material delays, and changes in order priorities. Proactively monitor your shop floor Monitor changeover time, resource utilization, and late orders with prebuilt analytics for production scheduling.

Prioritize order backlog: Manage your sales order backlog with strategic fulfillment

Intelligently manage open orders Prioritize your open orders to reduce delivery delays, increase sales, or achieve margin targets when supply or demand changes. Simulate multiple fulfillment alternatives, and select those that best meet your business objectives. React intelligently to supply and demand changes Use available supply to schedule new orders and reduce delays while respecting existing promise dates. Fulfill the most important orders first Prioritize orders in the backlog using flexible business rules that maximize order revenue, margin, and service. Solve sourcing and fulfillment problems Model what-if changes to sourcing, transit mode, and shipping constraints to respond quickly and find the best solutions. Perform what-if order planning Simulate the scheduling and availability impact of a potential order on the rest of the backlog.