Advance Planning Command Center - An Executive Approach for Planning Decision
APCC is an executive decision making tool for Planning and recently introduced in market by Oracle. APCC stands for Advance Planning Command Center. APCC is business intelligence-analytical tool and product is based on Oracle Business Intelligence - Enterprise Edition (OBIEE). It provides unified user interface for user analysis in form of Graph and Reports.
The Missing Link:
Oracle ASCP is a strong tool to analyze different ASCP Plan and their output but the limitation surface out when we try to perform some analysis to compare different Plan scenarios or Past performance of our ASCP Plan with the current one. For example:
a) Ability to perform neck to neck comparison of two or more scenarios on certain KPI's of planning which can help us to take a quick decision on the best options/Plan scenarios to be chosen.
b) If we want to analyze different kind of forecasting Model as a demand input for each of the Plan scenarios and see their Impact.
c) Input from other Planning products like S&OP, SNO, ASCP, DRP, IO etc while evaluating the decision.
Advance Planning Command Center Capability:
1. A analytical tool which can take input form all planning product like Demand Management , S & OP, Strategic Network Optimization, ASCP, DRP or IO.
2. A tool which can compare different ASCP scenarios to decide the best suitable option to go forward.
3. A tool which can compare the past ASCP scenarios with the present one and help analyzing our performance in compare to the past.
4. A tool which can compare the Key Performance Indicator of Planning for evaluation of performance of different ASCP scenarios.
Advance Planning Command center is next generation software which is going to give executive's an edge while making planning decision related to Supply-Demand, Forecasting, Manufacturing capacity, Supplier capacity, inventory and many other aspects of Supply chain planning.
