Scheduling Assistant
Application component: Traders and Schedulers Workbench
App type: Transactional
Line of business: Downstream
Leading industry: Oil, Gas, and Energy
Solution capability: Bulk Supply Chain Operations (S/4)|Inventory and Movement Management (S/4)
Description:  With this app, the scheduler can make a decision on the sourcing options available to fulfill the demand for a particular material of certain quantity at a location on a target date.  For any given demand (either nomination or simulation), a list of the feasible sources of supply is displayed . Feasible sources are determined either from locations that are directly connected or connected through an intermediate location to the demand location. The list shows if the source is from own stock or from a purchase, the material or purchase price, the associated simulated logistics costs, the duration based on mode of transport and the proposed loading date. The list is ranked by total cost. The scheduler makes the final decision by selecting from the sources of supply suggested by the app to fulfill the demand and complete the respective nomination or simulation in the backend system. The transshipment points are shown in addition to the source locations (with no stock or purchasing option shown for the transhipment leg). The logistics costs are shown for each leg and in total. The system supports a single transhipment (two modes of transport) 
Scheduling Assistant app is used to identify available sources of supply for a particular demand together with their associated costs, mode of transport etc
Key features:  This app provides the following key features:  List view of the open demands from various sources.   Provides an option to capture a new demand line.   Option to filter the demands specific to a Location, Product and so on.   Helps to identify potential sources of supply for a selected demand and transshipment points if required.   The duration for each source or transshipment point is calculated based on the shortest path as per the stages maintained in the routes.   Quick view feature for the purchase contract to display the relevant contract details.   Ability to open the Demand/Source in the Inventory Planning Workbench (IPW) application, once it is confirmed.   Option to publish completed simulations directly without the need to navigate to IPW. On choosing to Confirm and Publish, simulations IDs are created during confirm and actual nominations are created on publish. On choosing to Publish the completed simulations directly, nominations are created without the simulation IDs.Note Once confirmed or published, the other sources cannot be selected apart from the one already selected. Publish is allowed only for the selected sources.    Enhanced feature to select and delete multiple simulations.    Sources of supply are displayed based on the logistics cost ranking. Transshipments are shown as a second line under the same ranking.   Provides an option to recalculate the logistic cost by supplying additional Business Partners used in shipment costing (For example, Insurance, Inspector and so on).The selected source line can be saved in the backend system completing the Nomination or Simulation.   Save source option for a demand, and the corresponding partners are persistent. If a nomination is deleted from IPW or GUI, the corresponding partners are also marked for deletion in the backend.   In IPW, if a demand is partially met and the scheduler wants to fulfill the rest of the demand using this app, a pop-up is displayed if the existing source line can be deleted, on confirmation navigation to Scheduling Assistant is triggered.   
Business roles: Transportation Scheduler (IOG)
Transportation Scheduler (Oil & Gas) : 
Schedules movements along the supply chain. Is responsible for multiple terminals and transport systems (marine, rail, truck, pipeline), multiple products (crude, feed stocks, refined products) and stock transfers, purchase orders, and sales orders.