Oracle Certification Program Exam Topics

Oracle Certification Program

Oracle EBS R12.1 Advanced Supply Chain Planning
Exam Topics
E-Business Advanced Supply Chain Planning

Overview to Advanced Supply Chain Planning

[ ] Identify planning business issues
[ ] Describe key capabilities of Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning
[ ] Explain efficiencies achieved by implementing Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning
[ ] Identify key constraints that influence distribution planning decisions and how to
meet them
[ ] Explain key benefits of using distribution planning
[ ] Explain integration of distribution planning with other Oracle APS suite products
[ ] Explain usefulness of different plan types
[ ] Identify plan classes based on scenarios
[ ] Identify differences in implementation progression by plan class
[ ] Describe planning business flow
[ ] Describe planning data flow

Unconstrained Plans
[ ] Describe planning concepts
[ ] Create unconstrained plans
[ ] Launch unconstrained plans

Constrained Plans
[ ] Create demand priority rules
[ ] Create and assign calendars
[ ] Set constrained plan options
[ ] Set aggregation levels
[ ] Run constrained plan
[ ] View material constraints
[ ] View resource constraints

Constrained Plans - Enforce Capacity Constraints with Decision Rules

[ ] Describe Enforce Capacity Constraints with Decision rule plans
[ ] Interpret End item substitution/Substitution components
[ ] Setup and use Alternate resources/BOMs/Routings
[ ] Planning Decision rule hierarchy

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Global Forecasting
[ ] Describe global forecasting
[ ] Spreading Global Forecasts
[ ] Consuming Global Forecasts
[ ] Recommending Sales Order changes

Planning Information and Planner Workbench

[ ] Explain the significance of various types of data used for planning
[ ] Explain key functionalities of planner workbench
[ ] Describe how to research data for planning
[ ] Describe planning results
[ ] Describe planner strategies
[ ] Copy and manage plans

Modeling the Supply Chain

[ ] Analyze enterprise data
[ ] Analyze organization structure
[ ] Review planning approach
[ ] Analyze item information
[ ] View Bill of material data
[ ] Explain types of BOM
[ ] Create and Maintain BOM
[ ] Create and maintain Routing & Resources
[ ] Explain Engineering change order (ECO) and its process
[ ] Analyze sourcing information
[ ] View supplier data
[ ] Define lead time
[ ] Review organization relationship
[ ] Model the supply chain
[ ] Describe the usage of MRP plan versus Master Production Plan and Master
Production Schedule
[ ] Describe the benefits of Holistic Plans

Querying Supply Chain Plan Information

[ ] Create personal and public queries
[ ] Manage personal and public queries
[ ] Create order queries
[ ] Manage order queries

Constrained Plans - Enforce Demand Due Dates

[ ] Describe Enforce Demand Due Dates constrained plans
[ ] Describe exceptions out of Enforce Demand Due Date Plans
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Integrating Advanced Supply Chain Planning with Other Oracle Applications

[ ] Describe the types of manufacturing environments that are integrated with ASCP
[ ] Describe the integration points between ASCP and Oracle Project Manufacturing
[ ] Describe the integration points between ASCP and Oracle Process Manufacturing
[ ] Describe the integration points between ASCP and Oracle Flow Manufacturing
[ ] Describe the integration points between ASCP and Demantra demand
Management
[ ] Describe the integration points between ASCP and Production scheduling
[ ] Describe the integration points between ASCP and SNO

Demand and Supply

[ ] Explain Types of Demand sources
[ ] Describe sales orders
[ ] Explain forecast and forecast consumption
[ ] Analyze supply types
[ ] Describe demand classes
[ ] Analyze purchase orders
[ ] Analyze manufacturing orders

Collections
[ ] Analyze & Review collections strategy
[ ] Detail the types of collection exceptions
[ ] Detail various Collection methods
[ ] Analyze & Review collected data

Analyzing Unconstrained Plans

[ ] View unconstrained exceptions
[ ] Compare and manage unconstrained exception messages
[ ] View recommendations
[ ] Peg supply and demand
[ ] Release recommendations

Constrained Plans - Enforce Capacity Constraints

[ ] Describe ECC plans
[ ] Analyze Sales order exceptions
[ ] Analyze Forecast exceptions
[ ] Analyze Late supply exceptions
[ ] Describe causes of late demands
[ ] View Gantt chart
[ ] Run and Analyze Planning detail /Plan comparison reports
[ ] View and Analyze Workflow notifications

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[ ] Analyze Bottleneck resources
[ ] Review outcome of Network routings
[ ] Firm work orders

Cost-Based Optimized Plans

[ ] Setting plan options for Cost Based Optimized Plan
[ ] Describe Optimized Plans
[ ] Describe Desired Outcomes from Optimized Plan
[ ] Setting Penalty factors for Optimized Plans
[ ] Configuring targets for key performance indicators and reviewing results

Planning Strategies
[ ] Perform Net Change Plan simulation
[ ] Compare Simulation Plan results

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