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

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Summary View –Cont.

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Details of exceptions can be found by

clicking the hyperlinks

Horizontal View-Weekly

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Horizontal Value Plan -Weekly

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Horizontal Value Plan -Weekly

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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

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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

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Thank you !!