Helping ASCP planners to achieve better planning results
Channel: Enginatics
Date: 03/08/2020

Many customers of the Oracle module – Advanced Supply Chain Planning (ASCP) are disappointed or just cannot get the planners to use the Planner Workbench (PWB). But what if there was an easier way? Finally, there is, we provide a full suite of planning reports completely free to use that run directly within the workbench. Delivering plan data to Excel in a much faster method than any other EBS reporting tool. There are no hourglass waits, or CSV files to reformat and no data limitations. Whether you need 1 or 10 million records, we can deliver into Excel in seconds with all report data pre-formatted and sent directly through the standard concurrent manager. For maximum delivery performance to Excel, we avoid BI Publisher – XML processing, and all our reports are version tracked in EBS.

Planner Workbench Reports
Here are just a few of the rapid Excel-based delivery reports that can run from the standard Planner Workbench with our free-to-use Blitz Report software. We use standard Oracle integrations throughout including the concurrent manager.

If your report is not available below, typically it can be created in less than 1 hour using Blitz Report. When compared to BI Publisher development typical time-frames of 3-5 days, we believe that’s fairly remarkable, especially as Blitz Report automatically formats the report for the user. Also, there are no concurrent programs to register, and Blitz Report keeps full SQL version control in EBS which saves IT departments a significant amount of change control time.

Here are a few examples of free to use planner reports:-

Horizontal Plan – multiple orgs / items with additional plan detail
Planning Exceptions – lists all exceptions to be emailed daily / weekly to planners
Sourcing Rules – review sourcing assignments from within the plan
Export your supply and demand with pegging at row-level details
Export all of your planned orders automatically for planner sharing
Audit planning data attributes on items, e.g. who changed a planning attribute and when

The planner workbench is not the easiest of planning tools at the best of times, combine this with a lack of standard reports makes for a planning headache. In this article, we have demonstrated a few possibilities to improve the planner’s experience and make for greater efficiency. The possibilities are fairly endless, we have Toolkits for DBA tuning, Costing, Operational, Data Management, and Support.

Summary
For more planning ideas and report explanations such as plan metrics and pegging exports and more, visit our Enginatics YouTube Channel.
Here’s an example video on planning exceptions with Blitz report:
For more information, contact us for a live demo with your individual request. We think the best way to find out what Blitz Report can do for your business is a live demonstration. Depending on your location we can schedule an onsite appointment or a remote video call. Or in the meantime, you can review the short video overview below.

The Blitz Report™ software is free to use for your first 30 reports, you can plan your 30 minutes guided installation with the team at www.enginatics.com, this is also free of charge.

Blitz Report™ Pricing
We believe all EBS users should have access to the benefits of our reporting solutions, and so we ensure it is available to all by providing a completely free version for life. Our philosophy is to ensure benefits have been proven against your own Oracle solutions before we discuss your licensing requirements. However, if you would like to see our pricing model ahead of your demonstration, you can review it here.