Planning Engines – CA

Planning Engines (PE) provide Advanced Planning like capabilities in SCP supporting cloud deployment and access through a web browser UI, as well as on premise deployment. Planning Engine provides a customizable modeler and optimization configuration to build your own supply chain models.

Planning Engines are available to customers with Supply Planning with Optimization.

The Forecast Consumption model, using Planning Engines, is General Available (GA) in v21.1. Supply Chain Optimization (SCO) with Planning Engines is Controlled Available (CA) in v21.1. Other implementations of Planning Engines, including migration of existing Supply Planning and Advanced Planning customers are available in later releases.

This section provides an overview of Planning Engine features available in SCP from this release.

This feature is available upon upgrade to applicable customers, however access to planning engine menus and features described requires new permissions. These are applied to standard Planning Engine roles upon load of the base template (base.zip) for this version. It is recommended to assign appropriate users to one of these roles: Planning Engine Main System Administration (IBP_AP_SystemsAdmin), Planning Engine Participating user (IBP_AP_Normal), Planning Engine Read-only user (IBP_AP_Viewer).