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Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Supply Chain Management

By : Muneeb A. Siddiqui
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Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Supply Chain Management

By: Muneeb A. Siddiqui

Overview of this book

<p>Supply chain operations are turning increasingly global and complex, as companies aspire to support a variety of strategies, such as entering new markets and lowering costs. Oracle E-Business Supply Chain Management R12 provides comprehensive solutions to predict market requirements and align operations across global networks. However to implement these solutions, you need to gain a solid understanding of the various Oracle EBS modules used in supply chain processes.</p> <p>Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Supply Chain Management will guide you to successfully configure and implement the various Oracle EBS modules for supply chain management. With this book in hand, you will be able to learn from scratch what Oracle EBS is and how it works in the supply chain management's domain. Backed by ample screenshots and clear explanation, the book will demonstrate the business flow of the entire application.</p> <p>This book is an excellent learning resource for Oracle application supply chain modules. It begins by explaining the fundamentals of supply chain management and why it is necessary to use Oracle applications for supply chain management. If you have just begun using Oracle Applications, this book will give you a clear picture of the working and interface of Oracle E-Business Suite. It then progressively moves forward to demonstrate the step-by-step configuration of various Oracle EBS SCM modules.This book also covers all the transaction flows in detail, and shows how we carry out transactions in different modules. The chapters also explain the business and process flow of the modules that are configured.</p> <p>By the end of this book, you will have learned to automate all your supply chain management processes thereby increasing profitability and customer satisfaction.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Supply Chain Management
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning exceptions


On the basis of plans and collection, Oracle ASCP throws exception messages. These exceptions are normally system-generated alerts, which are considered to be recommendations from the Planning Engine.

The planning server only throws exceptions for those items on which we have previously assigned an exception set.

Some common exceptions are:

  • Item with excess inventory

  • Item with expired lots

  • Item with no activity

  • Late replenishment for sales order

  • Early replenishment for sales order

  • Order to be cancelled

  • Orders to be rescheduled

  • Order sourced from alternate supplier

  • Demand satisfied using end item substitution

Planning exception sets

Using Oracle ASCP, we can make planning exception sets so that we can group the exceptions as per our convenience. We can create as many planning exception sets as we want, on the basis of our requirement, using the exception set form.

Assign the newly created exception set to items and resources, only for those items and resources...