R12.2.9 Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning Fundamentals — Lesson 2: Plan Options, Constraints, and Decision Rules

Technical Scope

• plan types, organizations, time horizons, buckets, demand classes, and inclusion rules
• material, resource, capacity, lead-time, sourcing, and supplier constraints
• decision rules, substitution, alternates, lot sizing, order modifiers, and calendars
• plan-option validation, unrealistic assumptions, and controlled baseline creation

Instructor Demonstration

The instructor models plan types, organizations, time horizons, buckets, demand classes, and inclusion rules, then connects it to material, resource, capacity, lead-time, sourcing, and supplier constraints. The demonstration captures the exact configuration, transaction, command, query, log, or screen evidence needed to prove intended behavior and the applicable control boundary.

Applied Workshop

Learners execute a guided lab focused on material, resource, capacity, lead-time, sourcing, and supplier constraints and decision rules, substitution, alternates, lot sizing, order modifiers, and calendars. The exercise introduces a realistic exception related to plan-option validation, unrealistic assumptions, and controlled baseline creation and requires a reversible correction supported by before-and-after evidence.

1. Confirm scope, identities, data, dependencies, controls, and expected result.
2. Perform the product-specific configuration or analysis and record exact steps.
3. Validate functional behavior, security, data integrity, and operational observability.
4. Introduce the defined failure condition, diagnose the cause, and apply a safe correction.
5. Document rollback, acceptance evidence, unresolved risk, and ownership.

Validation Standard

Acceptance requires accurate handling of decision rules, substitution, alternates, lot sizing, order modifiers, and calendars, traceable proof for plan types, organizations, time horizons, buckets, demand classes, and inclusion rules, and a repeatable recovery path for plan-option validation, unrealistic assumptions, and controlled baseline creation. Results must be understandable to both implementers and operational support teams.

Failure Analysis

Learners compare symptoms, logs, state, dependencies, and recent changes when plan-option validation, unrealistic assumptions, and controlled baseline creation occurs. The final diagnosis must separate the immediate fix from the preventive control.

Practical Outcome

The completed output is a tested plan options, constraints, and decision rules implementation or analysis, with validation evidence, troubleshooting notes, rollback guidance, and a concise operational handover.