Introduction The elements of doing business are constantly changing.

Interest rates rise and fall, customer preferences change, suppliers go out of business, and the list goes on and on. As the factors that affect business change, the company forecasts must also change. In this time of rapid change, accurate and timely forecasts have become even more important. Recognizing this is the first step in becoming a successful organization. In Oracle ASCP, constrained master production plan that includes all manufacturing facilities and all distribution facilities, drives plan with global forecasts to capture both sales orders and forecasts. Global forecasts are forecasts with no pre-specified ship from Organization associated to forecasts. Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning supports global forecasting by using Oracle Demand Planning scenarios as global forecasts. The forecasts from Oracle Demand Planning are fed into the planning engine as demand schedules, which can be consumed without any reference to a ship from organization. Sourcing rules can be used to distribute the consumed forecasts and sales orders to appropriate shipping facilities. This helps in using existing supplies across multiple shipping organizations effectively and making more accurate forecast consumption.

Problem Statement Individual organization forecast gives wrong forecast quantities which lead to overstating the demands. For this problem, global forecast consumption will be the best solution. Business Requirements Sales orders from all manufacturing and distribution facilities should be considered in forecast consumption (i.e. Global forecast consumption). Forecast from all orgs less shipment quantities will be loaded through custom program (BPEL) every month in Global forecast set. This net forecast is exploded by SI Forecast Consumption & Load program. This program will consume forecast by sales orders based on consumption rule set in Global org and then spread it in weekly buckets. This unconsumed forecast will be stored in automatically generated Global forecast set. ATP plans are copied from ASCP and DRP plans (Tick ATP flag) with no forecast set defined in plan options. Run SI ATP-1 request set under BV Advanced Supply Chain Planning Super User. This will collect data and run DRP-ATP plan.

After Completion of SI ATP-1 requests, run SI ATP-2 request set under BV Advanced Supply Chain Planning Super User. This pushes DRP_ATP recommendations into ASCP-ATP and runs ASCP plan. Run SI Planning Set-1 request set under BV Advanced Supply Chain Planning Super User. This will collect data and run DRP plan. After Completion of SI Planning Set-1 requests, run SI Planning Set-2 request set under BV Advanced Supply Chain Planning Super User. This pushes DRP recommendations into ASCP and runs ASCP plan.