Oracle announced the introduction of four new Value Chain Planning applications during the OAUG Collaborate ’08 Conference on April 15, 2008.

These new applications are available for Oracle applications Release 12.1:
o Oracle Advanced Planning Command Center (APCC)
o Oracle Service Parts Planning (SPP)
o Oracle Demand Signal Repository (DSR)
o Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center (MOC)

OAUG Advanced Planning & Collaboration SIG announces Spring 2008 Educational session schedule.

Through collaboration with Inspirage, Noetix has developed the first reporting solution designed and optimized to meet the Oracle ASCP reporting challenge. Please join us for a web seminar announcing the solution on Nov 6th at 10:00 AM pacific time. You can register for the seminar here: http://noetix.webex.com/ec0507l/eventcenter/event/eventAction.do?theAction=detail&siteurl=noetix&confViewID=389819896

A friend asked me to explain the primary differences in how Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning (ASCP) supports Oracle Process Manufacturing (OPM) vs. Discrete manufacturing. I thought this might be of general interest, so I am reposting part of my response here…

Bob Smith, Oracle Corporation, and Kevin Creel, Agile Planning Group, provided a presentation to OAUG’s SCC SIG on March 6, 2007. This session will explain the new Oracle Advanced Planning Suite features introduced in Release 12 with a special emphasis on the enhancements for Distribution Planning.