CHAPTER 11Advanced Supply Chain Planning

Starting with Release 11, Oracle has offered Advanced Supply Chain Planning (ASCP) as an alternative to the single-organization planning discussed in Chapter 10. As its name suggests, ASCP plans across your supply chain and can incorporate customer preferences and supplier capacity. Some of these capabilities are also present in the earlier Supply Chain Planning (SCP) product, available since Release 10.7.

This chapter highlights the differences between SCP and ASCP. It describes the tools to define your supply chain; for the most part, these tools apply to both SCP and ASCP, but differences are noted. Additionally, this chapter discusses constraint-based and optimized planning, the mechanics of defining ...

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