Oracle's Support to reduce Negotiation lead time

Hi Everybody,
How we can use oracle apps to reduce lead time during bid to PO cycle.
Are there any oracle apps features/best practises which can help reducing lead time.

You can use Oracle Sourcing Module for bid process.
Thanks
S.Shanthakumar

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Hello,
We have 10 million entries in our database (Oracle 10g in windows 32 bit machine.)
The execution of 'select * ....' takes 3 to 4 hour. Is there any way to reduce this time.
Is any tool available which can read the oracle export data and produce the output in text file format.
or any idea ?
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With Regards
Hemant.

hem_kec wrote:
Hello EdStevens
Is that 3 to 4 hours scrolling data past your screen?Answer: The Oracle is taking 3-4 hr to produce the output.
OK, let me try again. Where is the output being directed? To the screen? To a file?
The reason I ask is that often people will say "It takes n minutes to run this query" when in fact Oracle is producing the result set in a few seconds and what is taking n minutes is to run the results past the screen.
You should take a statspack report while the query is running and see where it is spending its time.
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That's a different problem. I assume by "export data" you mean a .dmp file created by exp or expdp? If so what do you hope to achieve by outputting it in text format? What is the business problem to be solved?Answer: Since customer want to read all 10 milion entries. so we are think if we can dump (Oracle export) the data and using some tool (not Oracle) to read the data so there is no wait for the customer.As stated, a dmp file is oracle proprietary binary file that exists solely to transport data across platforms/versions. It is not suitable for your purpose. You are far better off finding where the current query is spending its time than looking for some kludge. 10 million rows of data is still 10 million rows of data. Do you think extracting it from the db, storeing it in some other format, and having some other tool read it off of disk in that format is going to be faster than simply selecting it from the db -- asking the db to do what it was designed to do?
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Thanks
With Regards
Hemant.

Is Oracle MRP efficient enough to reduce Inventory?Role of Lead time setups

Gurus,
I started understanding MRP these have the following questions,appreciate your inputs on below items
1)Does Item Lead time setups play a role in MRP?If Lead time setup is blank for all items,,does MRP work efficiently?
2)We just use MRP..not using any other inv rep. techniques like Min - Max etc.Our inventory is 3/4 times more than our monthsly revenues?exmaple our one month shipments are like 1 Mil.our inventory is like 4 Mil..Is it ok?how to reduce inventory?
3)how to improve our planning?
we are on 11i and discrete mfg.
thank you.

1)Does Item Lead time setups play a role in MRP?If Lead time setup is blank for all items,,does MRP work efficiently?
Lead times do play an important role in MRP. If lead times are blank, MRP will assume that all items can be procured / made in no time at all. The recommendations you get in MRP will be based on this incorrect assumption.
2)We just use MRP..not using any other inv rep. techniques like Min - Max etc.Our inventory is 3/4 times more than our monthsly revenues?exmaple our one month shipments are like 1 Mil.our inventory is like 4 Mil..Is it ok?how to reduce inventory?
Some companies have 52 inventory turns a year; some companies have 2. You are somewhere in between.There is no way for us to tell if you have too much inventory or too little. It highly depends on the industry you are in and on your business model. The best way is to compare yourself with other companies in the same market segment.
Inventory reduction is an art; not science. You can start looking at your excess and obsolete inventory and identifying patterns that lead to perceived excess. You can start looking at procurement practices. You can start analyzing MRP recommendations and acting upon them as required.
3)how to improve our planning?
You need to define what you mean by "improve". Oracle MRP is but a tool to improve planning. You need to implement a proper S&OP process to improve the planning component. You need to have a good review of your processes to "improve planning".
Sorry this is nebulous and may not help, but your question is quite generic.
Sandeep Gandhi
Independent Techno-functional Consultant

How to store lead-time and price per MPN for a single Item

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In order to make the creation time of the Channels searchable you would
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I realize that this isn't ideal or elegant, as in total it requires 4
searches (date, hour, minute, second). But that is the most
straightforward way of searching your channels by creation date/time.
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Sales order is not taking shipping transit lead time into consideration

Hi,
We have following scenario -
1. Sales order is created in AT organization.
2. There is no onhand in any of the organizations including AT.
3. The scheduled ship date for sales order comes as order creation date + item lead time = 15-Sep-2011.
3. PO for sufficient quantity is available at UK org with need-by date as 01-Jun-2011.
5. Post processing item lead time for this item is 1 day.
4. intransit shipment is setup between UK and AT.
5. Shipment Transit lead times are also set up at 3 days between locations of UK and AT.
6. ASCP plan is run.
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8. Expectation is that API should also take transit lead time into consideration while calculating the ATP dates and hence the Expectation is that scheduled ship date should come as 05-Jun-2011 (PO need-by date + Transit lead time + 1 day of post processing).
Please let me know
a. if this is standard functionality of oracle or not.
b. if this is standard functionality then what setups are missing required for the same to be achieved.
UAT is held up for this issue. Please help urgently.
Regards.

Oracle is supposed to take the in-transit time into consideration.
Are you running a constrained plan or an unconstrained one?
Make sure you defined the inter-org network as described in http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/A60725_05/html/comnls/us/inv/shipne01.htm.
or go to Inventory > Setup > Organization > Inter-Location Transit Times and enter it there.
Sandeep Gandhi

Oracle's support in Django

I'm trying to decide which application server/framework I can use for python development and for that, in my case, oracle's support is a must.
While analyzing I found out Django is trying to add Oracle as an option right now, using, of course the cx_Oracle module: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/OracleBranch.
That's good news. If anyone can comment their experience with Zope, Django, etc I'll appreciate it.
TIA

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TO REDUCE THE EXECUTION TIME OF REPORT

HI,
     CAN ANYONE TELL ME THAT, HOW CAN I REDUCE THE EXECUTION TIME OF THE REPORT. IS THERE ANY IDEA TO IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF THE REPORT.

Hi Santosh,
Good check out the following documentation
<b>Performance tuning</b>
For all entries
Nested selects
Select using JOINS
Use the selection criteria
Use the aggregated functions
Select with view
Select with index support
Select Into table
Select with selection list
Key access to multiple lines
Copying internal tables
Modifying a set of lines
Deleting a sequence of lines
Linear search vs. binary
Comparison of internal tables
Modify selected components
Appending two internal tables
Deleting a set of lines
Tools available in SAP to pin-point a performance problem
<b>Optimizing the load of the database</b>
For all entries
The for all entries creates a where clause, where all the entries in the driver table are combined with OR. If the number of entries in the driver table is larger than rsdb/max_blocking_factor, several similar SQL statements are executed to limit the length of the WHERE clause.
The plus
Large amount of data
Mixing processing and reading of data
Fast internal reprocessing of data
Fast
The Minus
Difficult to program/understand
Memory could be critical (use FREE or PACKAGE size)
Some steps that might make FOR ALL ENTRIES more efficient:
Removing duplicates from the the driver table
Sorting the driver table
If possible, convert the data in the driver table to ranges so a BETWEEN statement is used instead of and OR statement:
FOR ALL ENTRIES IN i_tab
WHERE mykey >= i_tab-low and
        mykey <= i_tab-high.
Nested selects
The plus:
Small amount of data
Mixing processing and reading of data
Easy to code - and understand
The minus:
Large amount of data
when mixed processing isnt needed
Performance killer no. 1
Select using JOINS
The plus
Very large amount of data
Similar to Nested selects - when the accesses are planned by the programmer
In some cases the fastest
Not so memory critical
The minus
Very difficult to program/understand
Mixing processing and reading of data not possible
Use the selection criteria
SELECT * FROM SBOOK.
CHECK: SBOOK-CARRID = 'LH' AND
                  SBOOK-CONNID = '0400'.
ENDSELECT.
SELECT * FROM SBOOK
WHERE CARRID = 'LH' AND
        CONNID = '0400'.
ENDSELECT.
Use the aggregated functions
C4A = '000'.
SELECT * FROM T100
WHERE SPRSL = 'D' AND
        ARBGB = '00'.
CHECK: T100-MSGNR > C4A.
C4A = T100-MSGNR.
ENDSELECT.
SELECT MAX( MSGNR ) FROM T100 INTO C4A
WHERE SPRSL = 'D' AND
       ARBGB = '00'.
Select with view
SELECT * FROM DD01L
WHERE DOMNAME LIKE 'CHAR%'
        AND AS4LOCAL = 'A'.
SELECT SINGLE * FROM DD01T
    WHERE   DOMNAME    = DD01L-DOMNAME
        AND AS4LOCAL   = 'A'
        AND AS4VERS    = DD01L-AS4VERS
        AND DDLANGUAGE = SY-LANGU.
ENDSELECT.
SELECT * FROM DD01V
WHERE DOMNAME LIKE 'CHAR%'
       AND DDLANGUAGE = SY-LANGU.
ENDSELECT.
Select with index support
SELECT * FROM T100
WHERE     ARBGB = '00'
       AND MSGNR = '999'.
ENDSELECT.
SELECT * FROM T002.
SELECT * FROM T100
    WHERE     SPRSL = T002-SPRAS
          AND ARBGB = '00'
          AND MSGNR = '999'.
ENDSELECT.
ENDSELECT.
Select Into table
REFRESH X006.
SELECT * FROM T006 INTO X006.
APPEND X006.
ENDSELECT
SELECT * FROM T006 INTO TABLE X006.
Select with selection list
SELECT * FROM DD01L
WHERE DOMNAME LIKE 'CHAR%'
        AND AS4LOCAL = 'A'.
ENDSELECT
SELECT DOMNAME FROM DD01L
INTO DD01L-DOMNAME
WHERE DOMNAME LIKE 'CHAR%'
       AND AS4LOCAL = 'A'.
ENDSELECT
Key access to multiple lines
LOOP AT TAB.
CHECK TAB-K = KVAL.
ENDLOOP.
LOOP AT TAB WHERE K = KVAL.
ENDLOOP.
Copying internal tables
REFRESH TAB_DEST.
LOOP AT TAB_SRC INTO TAB_DEST.
APPEND TAB_DEST.
ENDLOOP.
TAB_DEST[] = TAB_SRC[].
Modifying a set of lines
LOOP AT TAB.
IF TAB-FLAG IS INITIAL.
    TAB-FLAG = 'X'.
ENDIF.
MODIFY TAB.
ENDLOOP.
TAB-FLAG = 'X'.
MODIFY TAB TRANSPORTING FLAG
           WHERE FLAG IS INITIAL.
Deleting a sequence of lines
DO 101 TIMES.
DELETE TAB_DEST INDEX 450.
ENDDO.
DELETE TAB_DEST FROM 450 TO 550.
Linear search vs. binary
READ TABLE TAB WITH KEY K = 'X'.
READ TABLE TAB WITH KEY K = 'X' BINARY SEARCH.
Comparison of internal tables
DESCRIBE TABLE: TAB1 LINES L1,
                TAB2 LINES L2.
IF L1 <> L2.
TAB_DIFFERENT = 'X'.
ELSE.
TAB_DIFFERENT = SPACE.
LOOP AT TAB1.
    READ TABLE TAB2 INDEX SY-TABIX.
    IF TAB1 <> TAB2.
      TAB_DIFFERENT = 'X'. EXIT.
    ENDIF.
ENDLOOP.
ENDIF.
IF TAB_DIFFERENT = SPACE.
ENDIF.
IF TAB1[] = TAB2[].
ENDIF.
Modify selected components
LOOP AT TAB.
TAB-DATE = SY-DATUM.
MODIFY TAB.
ENDLOOP.
WA-DATE = SY-DATUM.
LOOP AT TAB.
MODIFY TAB FROM WA TRANSPORTING DATE.
ENDLOOP.
Appending two internal tables
LOOP AT TAB_SRC.
APPEND TAB_SRC TO TAB_DEST.
ENDLOOP
APPEND LINES OF TAB_SRC TO TAB_DEST.
Deleting a set of lines
LOOP AT TAB_DEST WHERE K = KVAL.
DELETE TAB_DEST.
ENDLOOP
DELETE TAB_DEST WHERE K = KVAL.
Tools available in SAP to pin-point a performance problem
The runtime analysis (SE30)
SQL Trace (ST05)
Tips and Tricks tool
The performance database
Optimizing the load of the database
Using table buffering
Using buffered tables improves the performance considerably. Note that in some cases a stament can not be used with a buffered table, so when using these staments the buffer will be bypassed. These staments are:
Select DISTINCT
ORDER BY / GROUP BY / HAVING clause
Any WHERE clasuse that contains a subquery or IS NULL expression
JOIN s
A SELECT... FOR UPDATE
If you wnat to explicitly bypass the bufer, use the BYPASS BUFFER addition to the SELECR clause.
Use the ABAP SORT Clause Instead of ORDER BY
The ORDER BY clause is executed on the database server while the ABAP SORT statement is executed on the application server. The datbase server will usually be the bottleneck, so sometimes it is better to move thje sort from the datsbase server to the application server.
If you are not sorting by the primary key ( E.g. using the ORDER BY PRIMARY key statement) but are sorting by another key, it could be better to use the ABAP SORT stament to sort the data in an internal table. Note however that for very large result sets it might not be a feasible solution and you would want to let the datbase server sort it.
Avoid ther SELECT DISTINCT Statement
As with the ORDER BY clause it could be better to avoid using SELECT DISTINCT, if some of the fields are not part of an index. Instead use ABAP SORT + DELETE ADJACENT DUPLICATES on an internal table, to delete duplciate rows.
Good Luck and thanks
AK

Difference between Req with insufficient lead time and lead time const

Hi ,
1) Can anyone explain the difference between Requirement with insufficient lead time and Requirement lead time constraint exception messages. Both seems to be similar for me with the compressed time.Also at what situations these exceptions are generated.
2) what is minimum lead time required ,actual lead time and its calculation.
Thanks...

Check out
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm50/helpdata/en/99/ed3a981d0f11d5b3fc0050dadf0791/content.htm
particularly the section "Which functions of the operations relevant to scheduling are supported?"
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Delivery lead time in Sales Order--URGENT

Hi SAP GURUS,
How the Delivery lead time works in Sales Order i.e
"From the time a confirmed Sales order is punched till the time we have delivered the material"
How to confgure to use effectively

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5. Check the route proposed by system in sales order. Let's say route selected is 000003. Go to transaction 0VTC and see Transit duration & Transportation lead times maintained there. Let's say timings maintained are 2 days and 1 days respectively.
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Also note that system takes into account factory holidays, factory timings when it is calculating above. If factory works 24 hours and is closed on Saturday & Sunday, system arrives at date Apr 30. It now confirms delivery date as Apr 30 to customer.
I have given a simple example. There are many other aspects you can configure on scheduling.

Reducing your implementation time with Configuration Express Wizard

Dear B1 community,
recently a new tool has been published on the SDN which may help you to reduce the implementation time of SAP Business One 2005 A SP01.
It is provided as a non-supported version and you can download it here: https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/0033074f-9958-2a10-9cb0-ad9f75622b40.
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Try it - we are curious on your feedback.
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Hi guys
I've tried all links given here, but none of them are working properly. I've tried saving and opening, but either way I got a corrupted file.
Is there any other way I can download it?
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Could you please help me with this.
Regards

Are you using Global or Local ASL because only global are supported. Plus do you see any demand pushed out because of a long lead time?
Also can show the screenshot of the lead times both at item level and asl level for all the orgs.
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Hello,
I work with some vendor software that uses the ODP driver for it's .net application to talk to oracle. In there next release they are discontinuing ODP support claiming that oracle has chosen to no longer support this driver. The vendor is instead pushing us to use this [ devart|http://www.devart.com/dotconnect/oracle/] as a work around and they claim this should give us equal or better performance.
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Hi All.
We have a buy Item Which is used at multiple Organization now we have defined processing Lead time for this Item at Item Level and ASL level (Global) However for different organization Like ABC and XYZ we have same supplier and Supplier Site for this item,
Below is the details of Item
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Org - ABC - 35
Org - XYZ - 15
Item's Processing Lead Time at ASL Level
Org - ABC - 10
Org - XYZ - 5
Now when we run ASCP plan for org XYZ and check for exception, Item's Lead time is coming from Item Level (15) not from ASL Level (Does this is expected behavior from Oracle?)
Regards.

Hi Abhishek,
I tested one more time with the same scenario, this time ASCP is considering Processing lead time form ASL only however it is considering processing lead time for another organization (When I am running ASCP plan for Org XYZ ASCP is considering Processing lead time for ABC).
Does it is due to same supplier site for both the organization?
Also it has an active sourcing rule for the same supplier
Regards.

Where to go to see Lead Time settings? Calendar days vs working days

Hi everybody,
II'm trying to find the screen where details regarding Lead Time settings are shown. I'm looking specifically for information on the type of days we're using to identify Processing LT's. I'm not certain whether we're using calendar days or working days.
I'm sure there is a simple way of finding this information out, but just don't know where to look/change the setting.
Thanks,
BG

This is NOT a setting that you can view.
Oracle always behaves like this.
Best way to verify this is to create an item with PreLt=5, Processing LT=7 and Post-processing lt=5.
Then create a sales order with a due date of say 9/21. Make sure 9/1 to 9/21 is regular 5 days week.
Assuming no holidays, it will mean that you need material on the dock on 9/15 (5 days of PPLT = 7 calendar days.)
So when MRP/ASCP creates a Req/PO, the promised date will be 9/15.
Also, the Days from today will point to 9/1 - which includes 7 days of processing + 7 days of preprocessing (5 working days)
Hope this answers your quesiton.

Oracle Still Supports Forms 4.5/5.0?

I understand that Oracle will no longer support Forms 6i after 2006 (or 2008 with Extended Support). How about old Forms 4.5/5.0? When will Oracle de-support Forms 4.5/5.0 applications? I need this information to make decisions on migrations.
Thanks.
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Forms 5.0 is no longer supported at all.
Forms 4.5 is out of normal error correction support and is currently in Extended Assistance Support until 31-Dec-2003.
Extended Assistance support means:
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* Backporting of fixes
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