Update 22A

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date	Product	Feature	Notes
20 DEC 2021			Created initial document.

Overview

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1. Click Navigator > My Enterprise > New Features.
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3. On the New Features tab, review the new features and check the opt-in status of the feature in the Enabled column. If a feature has already been enabled, you will see a check mark. Otherwise, you will see an icon to enable the feature.
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1. Click Navigator > My Enterprise > Offerings.
2. On the Offerings page, select your offering, and then click Opt In Features.
3. On the Opt In page, click the Edit Features (pencil) icon for the offering, or for the functional area that includes your feature.
4. On the Edit Features page, complete the steps to enable the feature.

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Feature Summary

Demand Management

Demand Management

Hide Empty Rows and Columns in Planning Tables

You can increase your efficiency in making quick decisions by displaying only rows or columns with meaningful data. With this update, in planning tables you can hide rows and columns that have either zero or null in the entire column or row.

Hide Empty Rows and Hide Empty Columns options in the View Menu

Improve planner productivity by increasing the density of meaningful data displayed.

Watch a Demo.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

• Import from Microsoft Excel is disabled if the Hide Empty Rows or Hide Empty columns options are enabled.

• The Hide Empty Rows and Hide Empty Columns options aren't considered for Publish or REST.

• The Hide Empty Rows and Hide Empty Columns settings are saved as part of the table layout.

• Editable measures with no values will be hidden when either the Hide Empty Rows or Hide Empty Columns option is enabled. To manually enter values you must first deselect these options.

• Indicator measures that have only values of 0 or 1 will be hidden when all values are 0 and either the Hide Empty Rows or Hide Empty Columns option is enabled.

Key Resources

• Watch Hide Empty Rows and Columns in Planning Tables Readiness Training

Role Information

You have a couple options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Demand Planner (ORA_MSC_DEMAND_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Sales and Operations Planner (ORA_MSC_SALES_AND_OPERATIONS_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • View Planning Tables (MSC_VIEW_PLANNING_TABLES_PRIV)
  • Maintain Planning Tables (MSC_MAINTAIN_PLANNING_TABLES_PRIV)

Combine Calendars in Plans with Aggregate Time Levels

You may want to aggregate weekly forecasts to a month or to similar time aggregations where the more granular time level is spread across multiple parents. Previously, it wasn’t possible to aggregate to the calendar month because the calendar week might be spread across two months in a weekly plan. To do so, you had to create a plan at the day level which usually negatively impacted performance. You can now combine manufacturing, Gregorian, and fiscal calendars, and the plan will automatically apportion the forecast without the explicit modeling of the plan at a day level.

Combine manufacturing, Gregorian, and fiscal calendars to enable aggregations, such as week to calendar month, without impacting performance.

Watch a Demo.

Steps to Enable

Do these steps to use this new feature:

1. Run the Create Hybrid Time Hierarchies process.
2. Set up the dimension catalog.
3. Define a new Demand plan at the hybrid planning time level.

Details for each step:

• Step1: Run the Create Hybrid Time Hierarchies scheduled process to create hybrid time dimension hierarchies from calendars you select. In supply chain planning, each calendar has a corresponding time dimension hierarchy. The Create Hybrid Time Hierarchies process creates an additional time hierarchy for each of the selected calendars by introducing a new common lowest aggregate time level named Hybrid time level. Validations enforced during the selection of calendars:
  • You must select at least 2 calendars and no more than 3 calendars.
  • One of the calendars you select must be of the manufacturing type.
  • You can select only 1 calendar for each calendar type, which are Gregorian, Manufacturing, and Fiscal.

Field to Select Calendars When Defining Parameters for the Create Hybrid Time Hierarchies Process

• Step 2: Add the hybrid time dimension hierarchies to the dimension catalog. Refer to the ESS process log file after you run the Create Hybrid Time Hierarchies process. The log file provides the names of the hybrid time dimension hierarchies. 

Names of Hybrid Time Hierarchies in an ESS Log File for the Create Hybrid Time Hierarchies Process

• Step 3: Define a new demand plan with the following definition.
  • Dimension Catalog: Select the dimension catalog containing the hybrid time dimension hierarchies
  • Planning Calendar: Select either the manufacturing, Gregorian, or fiscal calendar hybrid time dimension hierarchy
  • Planning Time Level: Hybrid time level

The Dimension, Planning Calendar, and Planning Time Level Options on the Plan Options, Scope Tab

Tips And Considerations

• You typically run the Create Hybrid Time Hierarchies process only one time as an initial setup except for the following circumstance: If the definition of the start date or end date, or both, for the calendars selected in the Create Hybrid Time Hierarchies process gets changed after the initial run of the process, then you have to:
  1. Rerun the Create Hybrid Time Hierarchies process to update the definition of the hybrid time hierarchies
  2. Rerun the demand plan with the hybrid time level

• Hybrid time dimension hierarchies get created for only the overlapping time periods between the selected calendars. For example, if you have selected a manufacturing calendar defined from year 2015 to 2025 and a Gregorian calendar defined from year 2005 to 2035, then the hybrid time hierarchies will get created for only years 2015 to 2025. The ESS log file for the Create Hybrid Time Hierarchies process will provides the start and end date of the hybrid time dimension hierarchies.

• The hybrid time hierarchy that you select for the demand plan planning calendar option determines the time levels available for the forecasting time level option. For example, if you want the demand engine to forecast at the week level then you have to select the hybrid time hierarchy corresponding to the manufacturing calendar as the planning calendar. Similarly, if you want the demand engine to forecast at the fiscal month level, then you have to select the hybrid time hierarchy corresponding to the fiscal calendar.

• You can select the hybrid time level demand plan as the demand schedule only plans of only the supply and demand and supply plan types.

Key Resources

• Watch Combine Calendars in Plans with Aggregate Time Levels Readiness Training

Role Information

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:    
  • Demand Planner (ORA_MSC_DEMAND_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Supply Chain Planning Application Administrator (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNING_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)
  • Supply Chain Application Administrator (ORA_RCS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain either this privilege or duty, or both, are able to access this feature:    
  • Edit Plans (MSC_EDIT_PLANS_PRIV)
  • Plan Management (ORA_MSC_PLAN_MANAGEMENT_DUTY)
  • Planning Administration (ORA_MSP_PLANNING_ADMINISTRATION_DUTY)

Attribute-Based Planning

Plan and analyze your supply chain using configured attributes specific to your business needs, such as country of origin. Forecast for demand qualified by these attributes. Configure attributes and attribute netting rules in a supply plan so that only qualified supply, based on attributes of inventory, purchase orders, transfer orders, or work order supplies, is used to satisfy demand. Generate planned orders for these attributes at any level of your supply chain.

After you opt in to the feature named Attribute-Based Planning, you can use the features in this section.

Consume Forecast Considering Attributes Including Project and Task

With this update, you can manage a forecast in demand management for demand striped by configured attributes including project and task and use this forecast as a demand schedule. In addition, you can now use all of the capabilities for forecast consumption that were previously available for only supply plans that didn’t use configured attributes. You can also include attributes specifically configured for your enterprise when you analyze the details of which sales orders consumed a forecast.

Example of how you can manage a forecast measure with configured planning attribute, including project and task, in a pivot table in a demand plan by creating a demand plan with planning attributes measure context:

Example of how you can configure plan options and select Planning Attributes as ship-to consumption level and select either all or a subset of planning attributes for forecast consumption in a supply plan in the Organizations and Schedules subtab of Supply tab in plan option:

Example of how you can view forecast consumption details at planning attributes level for a forecast in the Supplies and Demands view. Select a forecast with planning attributes and drill to the Forecast Consumption user interface to view forecast consumption details at planning attributes level in supply plan output:

Ensure that the demand driving the supply planning process takes into consideration your rules for consuming forecasts with sales orders.

Watch a Demo.

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Supply Chain Planning

When you opt in to use this feature, you must either opt in to the feature named: Attribute-Based Planning or Plan Project-Specific Supply. Opting in to the Attribute-Based Planning or Plan Project-Specific Supply feature also enables the feature described here. If you previously opted in to the Attribute-Based Planning or Plan Project-Specific Supply feature, then this feature is automatically enabled.

To opt in to the Attribute-Based Planning feature:

• In the Offerings work area, select the Supply Chain Planning offering. Click Opt In Features.
• On the Opt In: Supply Chain Planning page, click the Features icon for the Supply Chain Planning offering.
• Enable the Attribute-Based Planning  feature.

To opt in to the Plan Project-Specific Supply feature:

• If your enterprise doesn’t use Oracle Supply Chain Execution Cloud:
  • In the Offerings work area, select the Supply Chain Planning offering. Click Opt In Features.
  • On the Opt In: Supply Chain Planning page, click the Features icon for the Supply Chain Planning offering.
  •  Enable the Project-Driven Supply Chain feature, and then enable the Plan Project-Specific Supply feature.

• If your enterprise uses Oracle Supply Chain Execution Cloud and has already opted in to the Project-Driven Supply Chain feature:
  • In the Offerings work area, select either the Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management offering or the Supply Chain Planning offering. Click Opt In Features.
  • On the Opt In page, click the Features icon for the offering.
  •  Enable the Plan Project-Specific Supply feature.

• If your enterprise uses Oracle Supply Chain Execution Cloud and hasn't already opted in to the Project-Driven Supply Chain feature:
  • In the Offerings work area, select either the Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management offering or the Supply Chain Planning offering. Click Opt In Features.
  • On the Opt In page, click the Features icon for the offering.
  • Enable the Project-Driven Supply Chain feature, and then enable the Plan Project-Specific Supply feature.
  • Perform the required setup for the Project-Driven Supply Chain feature. For details, refer to the Project-Driven Supply Chain chapter in the Implementing Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management guide on the Oracle Help Center.

After opt in is enabled, perform these steps to begin consuming forecasts by planning attributes including project and task:

• Create a demand plan  with user-defined measure having planning attribute dimensions and select a not default measure context

• Run the demand plan

• Import new combinations with planning attributes and measure values into a pivot table using excel or REST service to manage forecast measure values with planning attributes

• Create an unconstrained supply plan or demand and supply plan and select a not default measure context

• Assign a planning-attribute-based netting rule to the plan

• Optionally upload external forecast by planning attributes using the ScpExternalForecast file-based data import (FBDI)

• Select planning attributes as ship-to consumption level and select planning attributes to be used for consumption

• Run the plan to consume forecast by planning attributes including project and task

Tips And Considerations

• The demand planning process won't generate statistical forecast by planning attributes. Forecast measure values by planning attributes are managed in demand planning work area by importing combinations and measure values either by excel import or REST services with measure values.

• The demand plan and supply plan options should have same measure context.

• User-defined forecast measures used in a demand plan need to be included in the End Item Demand measure group.

• Planning attribute dimensions can't be deployed using change granularity in manage planning measure to forecast measures used in forecasting profiles, seeded demand planning measures, and configured to order measures.

• A demand plan with a nondefault measure context can't be used for configured to order forecasting.

• Select a user-defined forecast measure as end item demand measure in supply plan's option.

• Provide a positive integer value for the Consumption Detail Cutoff Days plan option to view forecast consumption details at planning attribute level in the Forecast Consumption user interface.

Key Resources

• Watch Consume Forecast Considering Attributes Including Project and Task Readiness Training

Role Information

You have a couple of options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_JOB)   
  • Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Demand Planner (ORA_MSC_DEMAND_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Monitor Supply Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_SUPPLY_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)   
  • Monitor Demand and Supply Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_DEMAND_AND_SUPPLY_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
  • Monitor Demand Management Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_DEMAND_MANAGEMENT_WORK_AREA_PRIV)

Replenishment Planning

Maintain optimum inventory levels at each node of your supply chain to meet customer service targets at the lowest inventory cost. Use automated processes to maintain inventory policy parameters and improve customer service levels. These automated processes dynamically update the inventory to keep on hand and reduce costs by calculating the economic order quantity for replenishment when appropriate.

After you opt in to the feature named Replenishment Planning, you can use the features described in this section.

Simulate Inventory Rebalancing Recommendations for a Planner-Selected Subset of Items

You can simulate multiple scenarios to find the best solution to respond to changes within the supply chain. Simulation helps model the effects of plan changes without actually executing them.

When performing simulations for inventory rebalancing, you can simulate changes to:

• Demand data: Make changes to demand dates and quantities that impact your plan and monitor their effects. You can also add a manual demand that will impact the excess or shortage quantity of the item location.

• Supply data: Edit the date and quantity of the planned order recommended by inventory rebalancing for an item lane. You can also add a manual planned order that will impact the excess or shortage quantity of the item location.

• Shipping method: Make changes to the shipping method while making changes to the date or quantity on an order and evaluate the impact of this change on the plan.

During simulation, the application treats all edits made to item locations as firm. For the edited item locations, the excess and shortage quantities are recomputed. The inventory rebalancing process then recomputes the recommendations for all locations in the cluster for the items you edited. If you decide to override the planned order or create a new planned order for an item lane, no new orders are suggested by inventory rebalancing for that item lane. In addition, you can rebalance inventory for a subset of items within applicable clusters.

The following screenshot illustrates how you can run simulation plan for inventory rebalancing:

Analyze various scenarios to quickly respond to local demand and supply variations and reduce unnecessary replenishments from upstream facilities.

Watch a Demo.

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Supply Chain Planning

Tips And Considerations

When you opt in to use this feature, you must opt in to the feature named: Replenishment Planning. Opting in to the Replenishment Planning feature also enables the feature described here. If you previously opted in to the Replenishment Planning feature, then this feature is automatically enabled.

Key Resources

• Watch Simulate Inventory Rebalancing Recommendations for a Planner-Selected Subset of Items Readiness Training

Role Information

You have a couple of options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned to this predefined job role are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privilege are able to access this feature:
  • Monitor Replenishment Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
  • Manage Segments (MSC_MANAGE_SEGMENTS_PRIV)

Hide Empty Rows and Columns in Planning Tables

You can increase your efficiency in making quick decisions by displaying only rows or columns with meaningful data. With this update, in planning tables you can hide rows and columns that have either zero or null in the entire column or row.

Hide Empty Rows and Hide Empty Columns options in View Menu

Improve planner productivity by increasing the density of meaningful data displayed.

Watch a Demo.

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Supply Chain Planning

Tips And Considerations

When you opt in to use this feature, you must opt in to the feature named: Replenishment Planning. Opting in to the Replenishment Planning feature also enables the feature described here. If you previously opted in to the Replenishment Planning feature, then this feature is automatically enabled.

Other Tips & Considerations:

• Import from Microsoft Excel is disabled if the Hide Empty Rows or Hide Empty columns options are enabled.

• The Hide Empty Rows and Hide Empty Columns options aren't considered for Publish or REST.

• The Hide Empty Rows and Hide Empty Columns settings are saved as part of the table layout.

• Editable measures with no values will be hidden when either the Hide Empty Rows or Hide Empty Columns option is enabled. To manually enter values you must first deselect these options.

• Indicator measures that have only values of 0 or 1 will be hidden when all values are 0 and either the Hide Empty Rows or Hide Empty Columns option is enabled.

Key Resources

• Watch Hide Empty Rows and Columns in Planning Tables Readiness Training

Role Information

You have a couple options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Demand Planner (ORA_MSC_DEMAND_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Sales and Operations Planner (ORA_MSC_SALES_AND_OPERATIONS_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • View Planning Tables (MSC_VIEW_PLANNING_TABLES_PRIV)
  • Maintain Planning Tables (MSC_MAINTAIN_PLANNING_TABLES_PRIV)