Configuring Manufacturing Plans - AWS Supply Chain
Using Supply Planning for the first timePlan overviewPlan outputsPlan exceptionsImporting product_bom data

Configuring Manufacturing Plans

Configure Manufacturing Plans to generate material, transfer, and production requirements for components and finished good items.

Using Supply Planning for the first time

You can define how and when you want to plan your supply chain.

When you log in to Supply Planning for the first time, you can view the onboarding pages that highlight its key features. This helps you to get familiar with the Supply Planning capabilities.

Note

Make sure that the required data is ingested before configuring Manufacturing Plans. For information on the data fields required for Supply Planning, see Supply Planning.

  1. In the left navigation pane on the AWS Supply Chain dashboard, choose Supply Planning.

    The Supply Planning page appears.

  2. Choose Get Started.

  3. On the Choose your plan page, select Manufacturing Plans.

  4. Choose Get Started.

  5. On the Supply Planning page, choose Next.

    You can read through the description to understand what Supply Planning offers, or you can choose Next to get to the Supply Planning Set-up page.

  6. On the Material Plan Changes page, you can view all the material plans that deviated from the predefined supply plan.

    Under Supply Insights, you can search for a particular material plan in the Search box, by Required Date and Insight Type.

    You can also choose a particular material plan to view more details.

  7. Choose Get Started.

  8. On the Supply Planning Set-up page, there are four steps to configure Manufacturing Plans:

    • Name and Scope

    • Horizon and Schedule

    • Inputs

    • Output

  9. On the Name and Scope page, under Plan Name, enter a name for your plan.

    Under Supply Planning Scope, select all the product groups and regions that must be included in the supply plan.

    Note

    If you do not see the Product Groups or Regions that you ingested through Supply Chain data lake, ingest the Product BOM through the API and make sure that all the other datasets, such as Product, ProductHierarchy, Site, Geography, and SourcingRule, are already ingested.

  10. Choose Continue.

  11. On the Horizon and Schedule page, you can do the following:

    • Planning Horizon – You can set the planning period by defining the following:

      • Start day of the week – You can define your weekly supply planning. For example, if your Start day of the week is Monday, and today is July 3, then the supply planning period will be from July 3 to 9.

      • Time Bucketization – Define the time details. Daily and Weekly options are supported.

      • Time Horizon – Define the planning time horizon. The supported range is from 1 to 90 days, or from 1 to 104 weeks.

    • Plan Schedule – Define when your supply plans must be executed.

      • Planning Frequency – Define how frequently you want to execute the supply plan.

      • Start Time – Define when to start planning on a scheduled day.

      • Release Times – Define the time Supply Planning releases the approved purchase orders into the ERP system.

    • Demand and Forecast – Define the demand forecast for Supply Planning.

      • Demand Planning – Supply Planning will use the forecast information from the demand plan generated from Demand Planning .

      • External – Supply Planning with use the Forecast data entity to extract the demand forecasts for Supply Planning.

    • Past days for average demand calculation in consumption-based planning – For each product-site combination, Supply Planning looks at the past 30 days of sales history from the OutboundOrderLine data entity to determine the average daily demand. You can choose between 30, 60, 90, 180, 270, or 365 days and Supply Planning will consider the corresponding number of days of historical sales data when generating the average.

    • Forecast Netting – Independent demand includes both actual customer orders and forecasted demand. Forecast Netting offers four different methods to manage and conslidate these demand measures. By combining actual customer needs with forecast data effectively, businesses can better manage inventory levels and improve operational processes. Selecting the appropriate netting method helps align supply with demand, reducing inefficiencies and enhancing customer satisfaction.

      • Do not change forecasted demand – Rely solely on forecasted demand to drive supply planning, discregarding actual customer orders.

      • Replace forecasted demand with actual orders if higher than forecast – If both forecasted demand and actual customer orders fall within the same time bucket, use the higher of the two values.

      • Add actual orders to forecasted demand– If both forecasted demand and actual customer orders fall within the same time bucket, add the two values toghether.

      • Enable demand time fence and forecast consumption– Forecasted demand within the demand time fence is ignored. Ourside the time fence, forecasted demand is adjusted by substrating actual order quantity within the forecast consumption window. To use this option, users should also specify the demand time fence days, forecast consumption backward days, and forecast consumption forward days.

        • Demand Time Fence Days –The number of days between the current date and the demand time fence date. All forecasts on or before the demand time fence date will be ignored by the planning engine.

        • Forecast Consumption Backward Days –The number of days that the planning engine will go backward to find a matching forecast entry to consume starting from the due date of the sales order.

        • Forecast Consumption Forward Days– The number of days that the planning engine will go forward to find a matching forecast entry to consume starting from the due date of the sales order.

    • Carry over unmet demand (backorders) in your planning? – Select Yes to carry over the orders that are not fulfilled in the current time period to the next time period.

    • Supply – Define your supply related inputs.

      • Past Due Orders – When an order in the InboundOrderLine data entity is not delivered and the expected delivery date is before the execution date, by default, Supply Planning ignores this order. However, you can configure the number of past due days to be considered for inbound inventory to reorder stock. For example, if you set the Past Due Orders for 7 days and if an order was expected 4 days ago, the item will still be considered for inbound inventory.

  12. Choose Continue.

  13. On the Output page, you can do the following:

    • Plan Outputs – Select the type of supply plan that you want Supply Planning to generate.

    • Plan Insights – Set the deviation criteria to generate supply plan insights.

  14. Choose Finish.

  15. (Optional) Choose Invite Partners to invite suppliers into your supply plan.

    You can also choose Skip for now to return to Supply Planning.

Plan overview

You can view the overall manufacturing plan for your organization.

  1. In the left navigation pane on the AWS Supply Chain dashboard, choose Supply Planning.

    The Supply Planning page appears.

  2. Choose Get Started.

  3. On the Choose your plan page, select Manufacturing Plan.

    The Manufacturing Plan page appears.

  4. Choose Export to download the Material Plans, Production Plans, or Transfer Plans to your Amazon S3 bucket.

  5. Choose the Plan Overview tab.

    Manufacturing Plan overview

    • Plan Summary – Displays the overall manufacturing plan.

      Note

      Plan Summary metrics will not be available for new users. You can view the Plan Summary metrics after the next supply planning cycle.

      • Inventory On-hand – Displays the current inventory on-hand in dollars.

      • Open POs – Displays the current open purchase orders and the required dollars.

      • Suppliers – Displays the total number of active suppliers.

      • Purchase Requirements – Displays the total quantity of end components required and their total cost.

      • Plan Exceptions – Displays exceptions for missing datasets or issues in any of the data entities.

    • Supply Insights – Supply Insights are only generated for all Material Plan changes end components when they satisfy the deviation percent change compared with the previous plan. You can select each insight to view it and take action it.

      You can use the Search box to search based on Product Name or Site Name, or you can search for specific supply insights by using the Required Date Start and Required Date End.

Plan outputs

You can view the overall manufacturing plan for your organization.

  1. In the left navigation pane on the AWS Supply Chain dashboard, choose Supply Planning.

    The Supply Planning page appears.

  2. Choose Get Started.

  3. On the Choose your plan page, select Manufacturing Plans.

    The Manufacturing Plan page appears.

  4. Choose the Plan Outputs tab.

    Choose Filters to filter the list based on Products or Sites.

    Manufacturing Plan outputs

    • Material Plan – Displays the overall material plan for end components from the supply plan generated.

    • Transfer Plan – Displays the overall transfer plan for any materials or finished goods between sites from the supply plan generated.

    • Production Plan – Displays the overall production plan for finished goods from the supply plan generated.

  5. Under Material Plan and Material Requirements, you can view the supply details for each item.

  6. Under Item, choose the Supply Plan Details for the selected item.

    The Supply Plan Details page appears.

    Viewing the supply Plan details

    The Supply Plan Details section displays item details and attributes. Choose View all attributes to view all the attributes of an item.

    Under Supply Plan, you can view the supply plan for the selected item. You can view the supply plan for a specific date range by using Start Date and End Date.

    • Demand Forecast – Displays the demand forecast or dependent demand related to an item or site.

    • Inventory – Displays the on-hand inventory level related to an item or site.

    • Open Order – Displays open order quantities based on the expected_delivery_date for an item or site. Supported order types are Purchase order, Transfer order, or Manufacturing order.

    • Inventory Target – Target inventory level calculated based on the inventory policy and order schedule. For more information, see Inventory policies.

    • Planned Supply – Displays the planned supply.

    • Total Supply – The sum of open orders and planned supply.

    • Projected Ending on Hand – The projected order ending on hand.

      Projected Ending On Hand (EOH) is calculated based on Demand, Supply, and Inventory. EOH(T0) = Inventory(T0) + Open Orders(T0) + Planned Supply(T0) - Demand Forecast(T0) EOH(T1) = EOH(T0) + Open Orders(T1) + Planned Supply(T1) - Demand Forecast(T1).

  7. You can also view the overall Supply Planning for an item:

    • Material Plan – Displays the material plan related to an item or site.

    • Transfer Plan – Displays the transfer plan related to an item or site.

    • Production Plan – Displays the production plan related to an item or site.

    • Purchase Orders – Displays the input purchase orders used in generating the supply plan.

    • Transfer Orders – Displays the input transfer orders used in generating the supply plan.

    • Production Orders – Displays the input production orders used in generating the supply plan.

Plan exceptions

You can view the overall manufacturing exceptions for your organization.

  1. In the left navigation pane on the AWS Supply Chain dashboard, choose Supply Planning.

    The Supply Planning page appears.

  2. Choose Get Started.

  3. On the Choose your plan page, select Manufacturing Plans.

    The Manufacturing Plans page appears.

  4. Choose the Plan Exceptions tab.

    You can use the Filters icon to filter exceptions based on Product and Site. Choose View all to view all the available filters.

Importing product_bom data

To import product_bom data using the AWS CLI, follow the procedure below:

Note

You can only use AWS CLI to import product_bom data into AWS Supply Chain.

  1. Make a note of your instance ID where you want to import your product_bom data. Your URI format for your supply chain data bucket will be "s3://aws-supply-chain-data-INSTANCE_ID/product_bom.csv".

  2. Use the following command to upload your product_bom data to the Amazon S3 instance bucket.

    aws s3 cp Path To Local Product BOM CSV$S3_BOM_URI "s3://aws-supply-chain-data-INSTANCE_ID/product_bom.csv".

  3. Use the following command to invoke the create bill of materials import job.

    aws supplychain create-bill-of-materials-import-job --instance-id $INSTANCE_ID --s3uri "s3://aws-supply-chain-data-INSTANCE_ID/product_bom.csv"

    Note

    Make sure to use the same destination Amazon S3 URI that you used when uploading the CSV in step 2.

  4. Make a note of the job ID returned.

  5. Use the following command to view the imported result.

    aws supplychain get-bill-of-materials-import-job --instance-id $INSTANCE_ID --job-id job-id from step 4

For more information on AWS Supply Chain API see the AWS Supply Chain API Reference.