Your client uses product categories and global sourcing rules for supply planning. However, their newest product doesn't follow these rules. For a specific item in the category, it needs to be sourced from a different supplier globally.
How should they set this up for the easiest maintenance, going forward?
Your client manufactures consumer electronics and has all facilities live on Oracle Cloud. Their latest product has a very complicated manufacturing process and therefore can only be made at one facility (Organization ABC). However, it is ordered all over the world.
How should the Sourcing Rule be set up to accomplish this?
You analyzed your customer's shipment history data at item and organization level. You found that the customer has many new products with limited history.
Does Planning Central support forecasting products with limited history, and what is this process called?
Your current shipments forecast for Jan 2018 is 1000 and the demand planner determines that the forecast should be 1500. Describe how the demand planner can override shipments forecast. Also, what happens to the final shipments forecast measure when the demand plan is run again and the shipments forecast value changes to 1250?