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Oracle Modern Best Practice for Manufacturing—Forecast to Plan

Faster Response. Less Disruption.

Forecast to Plan

Drive supply chain efficiency and meet ever-changing customer demand with responsive planning. Leverage social collaboration to define demand forecasts, address supply issues, and identify improvement opportunities. Use mobile analytics to monitor actual performance against planned objectives and get recommendations that maximize revenue and minimize supply disruption. Take advantage of the cloud to quickly communicate plan changes to production facilities and suppliers.

Set Planning Objectives
Sense Demand
Plan Supply
Analyze Demand and Supply Changes
Address Supply Issues
Release Supply Orders

Mobile. Analytics. Social.

Set Planning Objectives

Define the planning options and exception thresholds that best support your revenue, utilization, and throughput objectives by securely collaborating among stakeholders.

Infographic: Oracle SCM Cloud: Plan to Produce (PDF)

Mobile. Analytics. Social. Big Data.

Sense Demand

Detect market changes by integrating real-time demand signals with historical data. Gain a consensus view of future demand via statistical forecasting and cross-functional teamwork.

Data sheet: Oracle Planning Central Cloud (PDF)

Mobile. Analytics.

Plan Supply

Determine resource and material requirements based on current demand, material availability, manufacturing capacity, and supplier commitments.

Presentation: Plan to Produce in the Cloud (PDF)

Mobile. Analytics. Social.

Analyze Demand and Supply Changes

Determine and prioritize resource and material exceptions. Analyze and drill down to find the root cause of demand and supply issues. Collaborate to identify performance opportunities.

White paper: Why End-to-End Visibility Is Key to a Modern Manufacturing Process (PDF)

Mobile. Analytics. Social.

Address Supply Issues

Maximize revenue and minimize disruptions with data-driven suggestions. Add and adjust buy, make, or transfer orders to address hot demand, pull-in demand, and at-risk demand. Simulate plan changes to compare results.

Infographic: Transform Your Supply Chain Business Processes (PDF)

Mobile. Social.

Release Supply Orders

Review supply and demand pegging and assess build plans to prioritize supply orders for release. Automatically release routine buy, make, or move orders.