EBS Plan Viewer - An excel based Planning workbench
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This document introduces an Excel-based planning workbench called EBS Plan ViewerTM that aims to address limitations of traditional planning systems by leveraging the flexibility of Excel. It connects directly to Oracle Advanced Planning databases to provide planners configurable KPI reports, multi-level slicing and dicing capabilities, and 12 pre-built planner reports without preprocessing. Early feedback from planners found the easy horizontal planning, access through Excel, inclusion of dollar values, and critical path analysis to be most useful features. Implementation is targeted to take less than a week.
EBS Plan Viewer - An excel based Planning workbench
- 1. An Excel based Planning Workbench
- 2. If you think …. Oracle’s Planner’s workbench is not Planner friendly….
- 3. Then You are not Alone !So many clicks – My fingers hurtWhy the demand is lateOh Gosh247,000 lines in peggingNot for Planners !!I wish I had my old excel
- 4. Most Planners don’t fully understand the planCapabilities of a powerful planning engine remain unused due to a poor User InterfaceIn turn, best planning systems in the world end up losing to
- 5. MS ExcelWorkbenchStrengthsSingle source of truth
- 6. Integrated
- 11. No ControlThe Historical battle
- 12. Taking the Best: The Old ApproachCreate Reports to export to Excel spreadsheetsDevelopment CostMaintenance costNon standard reportsCompatibility/Upgrade Issues
- 13. The new approach1. Use Oracle Advanced Planning as Data Repository 2. Use Microsoft Excel as reporting tool3. Apply the best in class reports designed for Planners
- 14. Introducing … EBS’s Plan Viewer™ The Excel based Planning workbenchA tool for Planners ( and not developers)
- 15. FeaturesWorks using Microsoft Excel at front endDirectly connects to database Refreshes to get the latest planning dataConfigurable KPIs for Constraint, Unconstraint & Optimized Plans12 Inbuilt Planners reports – No Pre-processing requiredMulti-level slicing and dicing capabilitiesPowerful Planning Dashboard- Add your own reports
- 16. Head to HeadPartially Supported : a
- 17. Sneak PeekThe Summary View
- 18. Sneak PeekSummary View –Cont.Details of exceptions can be found by clicking the hyperlinks
- 20. Sneak PeekHorizontal Value Plan -Weekly
- 21. Sneak PeekHorizontal Value Plan -Weekly
- 22. Sneak PeekSummary Pegging ViewPegging Pattern for a specific item including all make and buy components can be seen by Pegging report
- 23. Sneak PeekCritical Path AnalysisActivities causing lateness are markedCritical activities can be easily identified for any combination of demand and end item
- 24. Early Feedback collectedParticipants:- Planners Planning Managers Consultants
- 25. Feedback - ContinuedWill you use EBS Plan Viewer™ for your plan:-I like workbenchI already have tons of reportsYes DefinitelyNeed more information
- 26. Feedback ContinuedWhich is the most useful feature:-Easy horizontal PlanAccess through excel $ Value inclusionCritical Path Analysis
- 27. Feedback ContinuedHow much time you think will it take to go live with Plan Viewer™?3 Months2 Months1 MonthDepends upon complexityIt actually takes less than a week to go live with Viewer
- 28. Write us to see what you have been missingThank you !!