Practice - Working with Optimized Plans

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Practice - Working with Optimized Plans

Overview
This practice covers working with optimized plans.

Tasks
Responsibility: Advanced Supply Chain Planner
Instance:Organization = TST:M1
Make a Copy of the Constrained Plan
1.

Navigate to the Supply Chain Plan Names form.

2.

View the optimized plan options.

3.

Which type of plan is this?

4.

Find and note the two tabbed regions that have differences in plan options between this plan
and your xxConstraind plan.

5.

View sales orders for item AS66311 in organization D2.

6.

Compare the exception messages between your enforce capacity constraints plan and your
optimized plan.

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Solution Working with Optimized Plans

Responsibility: Advanced Supply Chain Planner
Instance:Organization = TST:M1
Make a Copy of the Constrained Plan
1.

Navigate to the Supply Chain Plan Names form.

(N) Supply Chain Plan > Names

2.

View the optimized plan options.

Select plan xxOptimized
Click Plan Options

3.

Which type of plan is this?

Navigate to the Constraints tabbed region
Constrained Plan is selected
Enforce Capacity Constraints is selected
Navigate to the Decision rules tabbed region
Decision rules are selected
Navigate to the Optimized tabbed region
Optimize is selected
It is an optimized plan

4.

Find and note the two tabbed regions that have differences in plan options between this plan
and your xxConstraind plan.
In the Aggregation tabbed region, the plans have different days/weeks/periods
In the Optimization tabbed region, this plan has optimization objectives specified

5.

View sales orders for item AS66311 in organization D2.

Navigate to the Planner Workbench Navigator
View by = Organizations
Expand plan Optimized
Expand organization D2
Expand item category COMPUTER.HANDHELD
Select item AS66311
Click the Supply/Demand icon
(M) View > Find
Criteria = Order Type
Condition = Equals
From = Sales Orders

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6.

Compare the exception messages between your enforce capacity constraints plan and your
optimized plan.
Navigate to Planner Workbench Navigator
In the Navigator, select the Plans tabbed region
View By = Actions
Expand directory Plans
Multi-select plans xxECC (not xxEDD) and xxOptimized
Navigate to the right-click menu and select Exceptions > Summary. Note the
columns Plan and Version
Browse the exception summary and find the exception messages that are prevalent
in each plan type

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