Fixed Days Supply Not Respected (Doc ID 973278.1)

Last updated on JUNE 28, 2017

Applies to:

Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning - Version 12.1 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

On 12.1.1 in Production, find that Fixed Days Supply is lumping demands together for eight days while the FDS is set to seven days. Additionally, in some cases, a separate planned order is generated for just one day.

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR
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We expect FDS to consider all sorts of demand (forecast, safety stock, planned order demand, sales order) and create one planned order for the days specified in FDS.

STEPS
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The issue can be reproduced at will with the following steps:
1. Set Fixed Days Supply
2. Run a constrained plan

BUSINESS IMPACT
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The issue has the following business impact:
Output is confusing. Too many planned orders are being generated.

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Cause

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