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Planning BOMS or Product Families: That is the Question?. Jerry Edwards. Business Purpose : Planning BOMS and Product Families are used to generate end item forecasts based on a forecast for a non-physical parent item.
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Planning BOMS or Product Families: That is the Question? Jerry Edwards
Business Purpose: • Planning BOMS and Product Families are used to generate end item forecasts based on a forecast for a non-physical parent item. • The parent item represents an aggregate demand to allocate across component (planning bill) or members (product family)
Differences between Planning BOMS and Product Families: • Item Definition: • Planning BOM Parent Item: Define in Master Items form • Product Family Item: Define in Flow Manufacturing / Products and Parts / Product family form (or in Master items form but enable required attributes) Product family items generate a new category value in the seeded Product Family category set. Use this value in report selection
Differences between Planning BOMS and Product Families: • End Item Assignment: • Planning BOM: an item can be used on more than one planning BOM • Product Family: an item can report to only one product family parent
Differences between Planning BOMS and Product Families: • Consumption: • Planning BOM: sales order for exploded component item consumes component item forecast ONLY. Parent forecast quantity is unchanged • Product Family: sales order for exploded member consumes both end item and parent item forecast
Differences between Planning BOMS and Product Families • Nesting: • Planning BOM: Planning items can be nested any number of times: • Product Families: Single level only • Bill Maintenance • Planning BOM: Bill of Material form • Product Family: Product Family Member form
Differences between Planning BOMS and Product Families • Parent item forecast quantity maintenance • Planning BOM forecast quantity changes • Maintain manually: Sales orders DO NOT consume
Differences between Planning BOMS and Product Families • Parent item forecast quantity maintenance • Product Family forecasts • Consumption occurs automatically via Planning Manager concurrent process based on consumption window defined for the forecast set
Enter Product Family Members: Flow MFG form Products and Parts / Product Family Members
Enter Product member allocation percentages: Note: Planning %: Enter whole numbers • Repeat for each item in the product family • The entry below means .9% or .09 X Parent item forecast quantity
Forecast copy/merge: Note: Recommend different destination forecast
Check Forecast Consumption After planning manager executes
Sales order consumed product family member forecast: Repeat Process for Product Family item
Product Family item forecast: Duplicate row resolved by exploding forecast to a different destination forecast
When to use Planning Bills or Product Families • Nesting Required: Use Planning Bill • End item must be forecasted via multiple parent forecast items: Use Planning Bill • End items will be used with one parent: Use Product Family • Automated Planning item forecast consumption: Use Product Family
Updating Product Family Percentages • Query Shipments in Order Organizer • Select Appropriate Order Types • Export Data to Excel via File/Export • Filter data • Sort by Ordered item • Sum Totals • Calculate Percentages • Update Product Family member percentages in the Product family members form
Product Family Setup Tasks Enter product family category structure (like system items)
Product Family Setup Tasks • Profile: Enter values for INV: Product Family Enter at Site and Flow MFG application level
Enter Organization Access if using: Note application is Oracle Bills of Material
Product Family Setup Tasks • Review Product Family Template: Flow MFG Implementation Manual: p. 73, 2-21
Sample Forecast Maintenance Process: Resulting MDS file used in MPS
References: • Oracle Flow Manufacturing Implementation Guide • Oracle Flow Manufacturing User Guide • Oracle Bills of Material User Guide • METALINK Note: 200797.1: Plan by Product Family Assembly or Model: Last revised 16 April 2004.
Contact Information • Jerry Edwards • jkedwards2002@hotmail.com • 650-799-6699 (Cell)