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Advanced Supply Chain Planning

SUPPORT FEATURE DOCUMENT FOR

PROCESS MANUFACTURING ENHANCEMENTS

(COMPLEX ROUTINGS)

Prepared by

Author: John Sweet

Creation Date:29 January 2007

Last Updated: 01 March 2007

File Name:
415102.1_FD_ASCP(OPM)_Process_Planning_Enhancements-
Complex_Routings.htm

Version: 0.1

Status: In Review

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Note 394274.1

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2

2. Feature Descriptions 3

3. Minimum Level Requirements (Product) 4

4. New or Changed Profiles, Forms and Objects 4

5. Reports 5

6. Implementation Considerations5

7. How To Setup and Use This Feature 6

8. Performance Considerations 7

9. Troubleshooting Tips 7

10. References..............................................................................................................................

11. Feedback.................................................................................................................................

1. Introduction

The objective of the Support Feature Document is to provide

information on a specific new feature introduced in a Release 12
from a technical and functional perspective so that Oracle
Support have the necessary information to help customers
implement and troubleshoot the new features.

This is release specific and not cumulative. For information on

prior releases, please see previous Oracle Documentation.

The target audience for this document is Oracle Advance Supply

Chain Planning (ASCP)support engineers who have responsibility
for supporting customers integrated with Oracle Process
Manufacturing (OPM).

Disclaimer: This document is for informational purposes only and

is intended solely to assist you in planning for the implementation
and upgrade of the product features described. It is not a
commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and
should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The
development, release, and timing of any features or functionality
described in this document remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.
 Due to the nature of the product architecture, it may not be
possible to safely include all features described in this document
without risking significant destabilization of the code.

2. Feature Descriptions

The Complex Routing functionality enables the planning of operations

(steps) where there are multiple operations feeding material (source) to a
single downstream operation (destination) and where there are multiple
downstream operations being fed by a single upstream operation. It is
now possible to have operations being run in parallel (in addition to linear
processing is now available) within ASCP. The results of this functionality
can be seen in the Planner Workbench Resource Requirements form and
the Gantt Chart

In addition products from one routing can be used as ingredients in

another and the planning will now reflect the Time Delays and Minimum
Transfer Quantity (MTQ) of the source recipe as maintained in the Step
Material Associations

This allows the users to:

 Plan reflecting the actual processing of a product.

It should be noted that the Complex Routing functionality works in

conjunction with the Scheduling Contiguous Operations functionality and
in particular the Minimum and Maximum Time Offset functionality also
included in Release 12. Please note the references below.

It should also be noted that the most significant part of the data set up
(modeling) of this functionality within Oracle Process Manufacturing (OPM)
has existed prior to Release 12.
3. Minimum Level Requirements
(Product)

Advanced Supply Chain Planning and

Oracle Process Manufacturing

4. New or Changed Profiles, Forms

and Objects

Forms

 Changed Form – Step/Material Associations– GMDRSAED.fmb

o NAV / Process Engineer / Recipe / Step Material Associations

(button)

o New Fields (folder) Maximum Delay, Minimum Delay,

Minimum Transfer Quantity

o Used to specify a minimum quantity of a product that can be

issued to serve as an ingredient in another route and any
minimum or maximum time delays associated with that.

 Changed Form – Planner Workbench – MSCFNSCW.fmb

o NAV / Advanced Supply Chain Planner / Supply Chain Plan /

Workbench / Routing Operations / Network Routing

o New Field Dependency Type for the Start-to-Start and Finish-

to-Start of the step dependencies to allow for parallel operations

 Changed Form – Planner Workbench – MSCFNSCW.fmb

o NAV / Advanced Supply Chain Planner / Supply Chain Plan /

Workbench / Items / Co-Products

o New Fields MTQ, Min Time Offset and Max Time Offset to
show the collected data from the Step Material Associations

Objects
  GMD_RECIPE_STEP_MATERIALS

o Table changed to include the columns

MINIMUM_TRANSFER_QTY, MINIMUM_DELAY and
MAXIMUM_DELAY.

Files

 $GMD_TOP/patch/115/odf/ GMDRCP.odf

o Modified to add the columns MINIMUM_TRANSFER_QTY,

MINIMUM_DELAY and MAXIMUM_DELAY to
GMD_RECIPE_STEP_MATERIALS

 $GMP_TOP/patch/115/sql/GMPBMRTB.pls

o Modified collection package to collect

MINIMUM_TRANSFER_QTY, MINIMUM_DELAY and
MAXIMUM_DELAY from GMD_RECIPE_STEP_MATERIALS for the
product as an ingredient of another product functionality

o Modified collection package to collect DEP_TYP from

FM_ROUT_DEP for the Start-to-Start and Finish-to-Start of the
step dependencies to allow for parallel operations

 $ MSC_TOP/patch/115/odf/mscplan.odf

o Adds columns DEPENDENCY_TYPE to

MSC_OPERATION_NETWORKS

5. Reports

There are no reports related to this Feature Document

6. Implementation Considerations
If upgrading to Release 12 it is possible that you have production recipes
with the modeling of Complex Routings already in place as this
functionality has existed within OPM prior to Release 12. As ASCP has been
unable to plan on the basis of Complex Routings prior to Release 12 you
may have implemented Planning Recipes for these same items to enable
ASCP to plan. If this is the case the Validity Rule for this planning recipes
can be end dated (set to yesterday) and the existing Production Recipes
 can now be used for planning. This has the additional advantage of
enabling the conversion of planned order recommendations (PLOs) into
OPM batches using the same recipes.

7. How To Setup and Use This

Feature

The main setup for the establishment of Complex Routings has existed in
OPM for some time. In particular it is the setting of the Dependency Type
(Start to Start, Finish to Start) in the Routing Step Dependency form that
can now be used by ASCP. Prior to this enhancement ASCP planned on
the basis of Finish to Start and for a linkage between a single feeding
(source) operation to a single consuming (destination) operation. This
restriction has now been removed from ASCP and so Start to Start
Dependency can now be used to establish parallel operations and either
Dependency Type can be used against multiple down stream operations or
multiple upstream operations can have dependencies to a single
downstream operation.

For Inter routing feeding of product/co-products to be consuming

ingredients of steps in other routings there are new fields on the Step
Material Association form of MTQ and Minimum and Maximum Time
Offset.

 Open the form - Process Routing Step Dependencies –

GMDSDPED.fmb

o NAV / Process Engineer / Process Routings / Step

Dependencies (button)

o Establish the Dependency Type in line with the

business processing requirement

 Open the form – Step Material Associations –

GMDRSAED.fmb

o NAV / Process Engineer / Recipes / Step Material

Associations (button)

o Establish the Minimum Transfer Quantity, Minimum

Delay, Maximum Delay in line with the business process
requirement
 Please See the Oracle University presentation (Part 3) referenced below
for the set up and results of this functionality.

Please also see the Feature Document Scheduling Contiguous Operations

and the associated OU Presentation as a pre-requisite to this subject
matter.

8. Performance Considerations

There are no known performance implications as a result of this

functionality though it is likely that collection and planning will be
marginally slower

9. Troubleshooting Tips

There are no feature specific debug facilities available for this feature.

I am not seeing the Complex Routing functionality in the results of planning

in the Resource Requirements form

 Make sure you check the Collection Workbench / Network

Routing form to ensure that the Dependency Type you are expecting
has been collected successfully. If this still does not provide the
answer check that the Recipe (and therefore routing) that has been
used by ASCP is the one where the Complex Routing is established.
For testing purposes it might be worthwhile end dating (set to
yesterday) the validity rules for all recipes except the one where the
route is established with the Complex Routing and running a
collection and a plan again.

Similar checks should be performed in the event of a failure of the feeding

product, consuming operation functionality where the Minimum Transfer
Quantity, Maximum Delay, Minimum Delay has been set up in the Step
Material Associations form.
 I am not seeing Complex Routings in the resultant OPM Batch for a Planned
Order Recommendation (PLO) released from the ASCP Planner Workbench
where Complex Routing details were seen in the operations.

 Has the feedback routine actually been able to use the details
passed from ASCP or has it defaulted to the standard GME Batch
Creation routines. Try setting GMP:Auto Implement APS
Suggestions to Yes and release a similar recommendation then view
the log file in the concurrent program Auto Release of Planning
suggestions for APS (GMPRELAP) and see if there are error
messages pertaining to the batch creation.

 This request log file would be on the ERP Source instance if you
have a distributed installation

10. References
Documentation Resources

Powerpoint PDF File - PPT_Schedule_Complexroutings_2-3.pdf

User Guides

Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning Implementation and User's Guide

(zipped)

Chapt 16 Integrating Mixed-mode Manufacturing Environments / Complex

Routings pg 16-44

Oracle Process Manufacturing Process Planning User's Guide

Complex Routing, 4-2

Release Content Document - Support Enhanced Version - Note 414332.1

Release Content Document - standard released version

Note 412702.1 -Getting Started With R12 - FAQ for Advanced

Planning and Scheduling (APS) Suite

Advanced Planning Technical TOI – This replaces the ‘About

Document’ that was use for previous releases <under revision -
needs external link>
11. Feedback

We welcome your comments and suggestions on the quality and usefulness of

this document. Your input is an important part of the information used for
revision or future Feature Document information.

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Keywords

ADVANCED SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING; GMD_RECIPE_STEP_MATERIALS;

INGREDIENT; OPM; PROCESS PLANNING; ROUTING OPERATIONS

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