1. Independent Consultant
ASCP - 101
A Beginners Guide to
Implementing ASCP
Sandeep Gandhi
Independent Consultant

2. Agenda Scope ASCP v/s MRP ASCP Data Flow Setups Item Attributes
Plan Options
Execute Plan
Q&A

3. Advanced Supply Chain Planning
Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning (ASCP) is a comprehensive planning solution that decides when and where supplies should be deployed within an extended supply chain.
Key Capabilities
Plan all supply chain facilities simultaneously
Short-term detailed scheduling and long-term aggregate planning are supported within a single plan
Plans that consider both resource and material constraints
Configure Oracle ASCP to optimize specific business criteria
Allows many types of changes to supply, demand and resources to simulate changing business conditions
Integrated solution
Comprehensive : Planning, Scheduling, GOP, Inventory Optimization, Demand Planning

4. ASCP v/s MRP Oracle’s focus product Productivity enhancing UI
QOH shown in supply/demand screen
Multi-level pegging
Ability to define queries and publish to planners
Vertical Plan / Gnatt Chart
Plan alt. sources and alt. resources
Plan with optimization rules (inv turns / ontime delivery) and penalty factors
Constrained plan (ECC / EDD / lead time constraints)
VMI Support
New reports
Powerful simulations
Different calendars for shipping / manufacturing / receiving
Multiple instance planning

5. ASCP Data Flow

6. Initial Setups Decide configuration Centralized v/s Distributed
Apply latest Rollup Patches
(Note )
Collections RUP #25 (patch # )
Planning Engine RUP #30 (patch # )
Get responsibilities
Advanced Supply Chain Planner
Advanced Planning Administrator
Centralized => less overhead, licensing fees where as Distributed=> upgrade to R12, support multiple instances, can be optimized for ascp performance, no peak load

7. Initial Setups – Contd. Define Instance Define Orgs
Assign Collection Groups
Main instance types = Discrete, Process, Discrete & Process

8. Initial Setups – contd.
Run full data collection

9. Initial Setups – contd.
Gather schema stats on MSC
Grant Org access

10. Key Item Attributes

11. Key Item Attributes – Contd.
Source type – supplier / inventory . Order modifier => need 75 tomorrow, 50 day after tomorrow

12. Collecting Sales Orders
Define Demand class
Define Master Demand Schedule (MDS)
Refresh MDS

13. Define Plan
Plan types > Mfg plan, production plan, master plan

14. Plan Options – Main Tab

15. Plan Options – Org tab

16. Plan Options – Constraints Tab

17. Execute Plan Refresh MDS Run Data Collection
Run Custom Data Cleanup Programs
Run plan
Consider creating request set
Access Planner’s workbench

18. Planner’s Workbench

19. Release

20. Gotchyas Sales order demand duplicated
Inactive items coming over to plan
Can not release configured items
Planning Data Pull very slow
Run Refresh Collection Snapshots often
Run Net change collection
ODS Load takes a long time
Set MSC:Purge Stg Tbl Cntrl to Yes
Plan takes a long time to run
Set MSC: Share Plan Partitions to No
File space issues
Set MSC:Write MBP Flat Files to Yes
Schema stats

21. Q&A
Sandeep Gandhi