Monday, May 19, 2014

Oracle ASCP Programs


  • Push Plan Information

This concurrent process deletes an entire plan on the source instance and then replaces it with a copy of the current plan from the destination instance.

Prerequisites: A plan that has been run successfully.

Parameters:
Instance
Plan Type
Plan Name
Buy Orders Only: The default is No.
Demand: If you select Yes, the process purges and re-populates table 
mrp_gross_requirements with requirements from the plan. If you select No, the process leaves the data in table mrp_gross_requirements. The default is Yes.
Organization Code: The list of values contains the planned organizations of the selected
plan.
Planner: The list of values contains the planners of the items planned in the selected 
plan.
Category: The list of values contains the categories in the default planning category set.
Item: You can select a specific item. If you leave this parameter blank, the process 
pushes information for all items planned in the selected plan.
Supplier: The list of values contains the suppliers in the plan assignment set. You can 
select a value for this parameter only if:
• Buy Orders Only is Yes
• Demand is No
Supplier Site: The list of values contains the supplier sites in the plan assignment set. 
You can select a value for this parameter only if:
• Supplier has a value
• Demand is No
Horizon Start Date: The earliest Suggested Due Date for which you want plan 
information pushed. If you leave this parameter blank, the process begins with the plan 
start date.
Horizon End Date: The latest Suggested Due Date for which you want plan information
pushed. The default is one year from today. If you leave this parameter blank, the 
process ends with the plan horizon.

Example 1: Minimal Criteria
Settings:
• Buy Orders Only: No
• Demand: Yes
• Organization, Planner, Category, Item, Supplier, Supplier Site, Horizon Start Date, 
Horizon End Date:
The process:
• All supplies and demands from the selected plan in the source instance are deleted.
• All supplies and demands from the selected plan in the destination instance are 
copied to the source instance

 

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Processing Constraints

Orders in OM can be influenced in many ways like Workflow controls, Defaulting rules, Processing constraints.

Processing Constraints define whether a change is allowed to an order after certain activities have been completed, as well as level of responsibilities required to make the change. It prevent changes being made to order information when commitments have been made and communicated.

It has 2 main parts – action that you would like to prevent from happening and condition or state after which you want to prevent it. The condition can be in via workflow, column value in a table or through a PL/SQL package.

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Monday, May 12, 2014

Product Information Management

Production Information Management (PIM) systems available (from):

  1. SAP
  2. Oracle (under Oracle MDM)
  3. Stibo Systems
  4. Hybris
  5. Riversand
  6. Heiler
  7. Enterworks
  8. WebOn
  9. Agility
  10. PCS (from Pegasystems)