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An excel based Planning workbench
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An Excel based Planning Workbench
If you think ….
Oracle’s Planner’s workbench is not Planner friendly….
Oh Gosh247,000 lines in pegging
Why the demand is late
So many clicks – My fingers hurt
Not for Planners !!
Then You are not Alone !
I wish I had my old excel
Most Planners don’t fully understand the plan
Capabilities of a powerful planning engine remain unused due to a poor User Interface
In turn, best planning systems in the world end up losing to
Weaknesses•Complex•Time consuming•No flexibility
Workbench
Strengths•Single source of truth•Integrated•Secure
MS Excel
Strengths•Flexible to use•Easy to Share
Weaknesses•Unsecure •No Control
The Historical battle
Taking the Best: The Old ApproachCreate Reports to export to Excel spreadsheets
Development CostMaintenance costNon standard reportsCompatibility/Upgrade Issues
The new approach
1. Use Oracle Advanced Planning as Data Repository
2. Use Microsoft Excel as reporting tool3. Apply the best in class reports designed for Planners
Introducing …
EBS’s Plan Viewer™
The Excel based Planning workbench
A tool for Planners ( and not developers)
Features• Works using Microsoft Excel at front end• Directly connects to database • Refreshes to get the latest planning data• Configurable KPIs for Constraint, Unconstraint & Optimized
Plans• 12 Inbuilt Planners reports – No Pre-processing required• Multi-level slicing and dicing capabilities• Powerful Planning Dashboard- Add your own reports
Head to Head
Requirements ASCP Workbench
EBS- Plan Viewer™
Horizontal Plan- Single Item a aHorizontal Plan -Multiple Items aPlan Dollarization aHigher level summary Pegging aCategory level aggregated Plan output aCritical Path Analysis a aMulti Plans Comparison aFlexible Reporting a
Partially Supported : a
The Summary View
Sneak Peek
Summary View –Cont.
Sneak Peek
Details of exceptions can be found by
clicking the hyperlinks
Horizontal View-Weekly
Sneak Peek
Horizontal Value Plan -Weekly
Sneak Peek
Horizontal Value Plan -Weekly
Sneak Peek
Summary Pegging View
Sneak Peek
Pegging Pattern for a specific item including all make and buy components can be seen by Pegging report
Critical Path Analysis
Sneak Peek
Activities causing lateness are marked
Critical activities can be easily identified for any combination of demand and end item
Early Feedback collected
Participants:- Planners Planning Managers Consultants
Feedback - Continued
Will you use EBS Plan Viewer™ for your plan:-
(A) I like workbench(B) I already have tons of reports(C) Yes Definitely(D) Need more information
Feedback Continued
Which is the most useful feature:-
(A) Easy horizontal Plan(B) Access through excel (C) $ Value inclusion(D) Critical Path Analysis
Feedback Continued
How much time you think will it take to go live with Plan Viewer™?
(A) 3 Months(B) 2 Months(C) 1 Month(D) Depends upon complexity
It actually takes less than a week to go live with Viewer
Write us to see what you have been missing
Thank you !!