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Collaborative Forecasting Overview

GAMS Oracle S&G Team

Oracle Value Chain Planning Solution

Complete, best-in-class e-business planning process platform

Service
Parts
Planning

Demand Signal
Management

Order
Promising

Plant
Scheduling and
Monitoring

Risk
Management

Demand
Management

Performance
Management
Sales and
Operations
Planning

Collaboration and
Vendor Managed
Inventory

Trade Promotion
Management
Supply and Distribution
Planning

Single source of truth

Integrated with ERP
SOA enabled

Forecast Collaboration

Sales forecast collaboration

Applicable for retail sales wherein demand is influenced by
promotions. The objective is to arrive at a consensus on
what the end demand could be
Order forecast collaboration
The customer provides a forecast of demand and as
suppliers we provide the ability to commit the supplies
Oracle Demand Planning & ASCP can be used in conjunction with
Collaborative Planning to :
Receive forecast and commit supply to customers
Publish order forecast to suppliers and receive delivery
commits from them
Compare customer forecasts over a period of time and analyze
changes and trends.

Oracle Collaborative Planning

Collaborative Planning Architecture

Single Machine Implementation

Two Machine Implementation
Three Machine Implementation

Collaboration Cycle

Forecasting Process

Inventory Visibility

Unallocated on-hand inventory can be viewed by customers

Customer groups can be created with whom you want to share
inventory data.
Security rules can be set on what data can be visible to specific
customer category
Customers can search for inventory based on the access given to
them .

Exceptions
Exceptions are generated when the actual processes deviate from the
required processes. The following are the seeded exceptions supported in
collaborative planning

Forecast accuracy

Forecast mismatch

Late orders

Early orders

Response required

Potential late orders

Material shortage

Change orders

Performance below target

In addition to the above we can even create custom exceptions

User Management

Users in collaborative planning will belong to either your company, supplier or

customer organization
Customers users will be first set up as contacts for customer sites before
defining them as users.
New users can be created by running collections for targeted organization
Responsibilities on Supply Chain planner and Supply Chain manager can be
provided to customers and suppliers.

Thank You