CHAPTER 8Planning Fundamentals
The Oracle Applications suite currently offers two products for material and capacity planning in a manufacturing or distribution environment: Master Scheduling/MRP and Advanced Supply Chain Planning. Master Scheduling/MRP offers single-organization, unconstrained planning of material and resources. We’ll use the term MRP to refer to this planning tool. Advanced Supply Chain Planning (ASCP) is the next-generation planning tool; it offers multi-organization planning and the option of constraint-based and optimized plans.
This chapter describes the basic logic common to both planning methods and details the common setup needed by both methods. Subsequent chapters describe the unique characteristics of MRP and ASCP. ...
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