Merchandise Financial Planning (MFP) Business Essentials 13
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Description
The Oracle Retail Merchandise Financial Planning Business Essentials course provides learners with insight into the tasks associated with three user roles: Executive, Manager and Planner.
The course begins by focusing on the Pre-Season Planning activities that are initiated by the Executive role and explores the evolution of that plan through subsequent roles before the planning season begins. Next, the Manager and Planner activities are explored individually and based upon how these roles interact with one another.
Several later modules are devoted to the exploration of In Season planning activities for each role. This portion of the training highlights the variance in tasks that must occur…
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The Oracle Retail Merchandise Financial Planning Business Essentials course provides learners with insight into the tasks associated with three user roles: Executive, Manager and Planner.
The course begins by focusing on the Pre-Season Planning activities that are initiated by the Executive role and explores the evolution of that plan through subsequent roles before the planning season begins. Next, the Manager and Planner activities are explored individually and based upon how these roles interact with one another.
Several later modules are devoted to the exploration of In Season planning activities for each role. This portion of the training highlights the variance in tasks that must occur differently because of conditions present once the planning season begins.
Finally, this course provides learners the opportunity to experience the Merchandise Financial Planning solution through realistic, hands-on exercises that require the application of concepts learned in the course.
Learn To:
- Use the Merchandise Financial Planning solution to perform Pre-Season Planning activities
- Use the Merchandise Financial Planning solution to perform In-Season Planning
- Discern where the Merchandise Financial Planning solution fits into the Oracle family of products and which others may compliment this solution
Audience
- Business Analysts
- End Users
- Functional Implementer
- Project Manager
- System Analysts
Course Topics Course Overview Oracle Product Suite Overview
- Retail Planning Overview
- Oracle Retail Planning Solutions Footprint
- Application Integration
- Merchandise Financial Planning (MFP) Overview
- Generic Business Scenario
- MFP Retail business process/lifecycle overview
- MFP Retail Key Features
- Plan Versions
- Measures
- Hierarchies
- MFP components and Key Processes
- Overview of Top Down Planning
- Business Process Overview
- Seed the Plan
- Initialize Worksheet
- Business Process Overview
- Create Sales and Markdown Target
- Sales Worksheet
- Margin Worksheet
- Business Process Overview
- Create Receipt, Inventory, and Turn target
- Rec/Inv Value Plan Worksheet
- Rec/Inv Unit Plan Worksheet
- Business Process Overview
- Review Margin Target
- Margin Worksheet
- Business Process Overview
- Publish Targets for Middle Out Role
- Review Plan Worksheets
- Publish Targets Worksheet
- Introduction to Lesson
- Overview of the Middle Out Role
- Business Process Overview
- Seed the Plan
- Initialize Worksheet
- Business Process Overview
- Review Targets
- Target Overview Worksheet
- Business Process Overview
- Create Sales, Markdown, Receipt, Inventory, Turn and Gross Margin Plan
- Sales Worksheet
- Rec/Inv Value Plan Worksheet
- Rec/Inv Unit Plan Worksheet
- Margin Worksheet
- Business Process Overview
- Reconcile Plan to Top Down Targets
- Review Plan Worksheet
- Reconcile Targets Worksheets
- Business Process Overview
- Publish Targets for Bottom Up Role
- Publish Targets Worksheets
- Approve the Plan
- Review Submitted Plan Worksheet
- Approve Plan Worksheet
- Original Plan Summary Worksheet
- Current Plan Summary Worksheet
- Overview of Bottom up role
- Business Process Overview
- Seed the Plan
- Initialize Worksheet
- Business Process Overview
- Review Targets
- Target Overview Worksheet
- Business Process Overview
- Create Sales, Markdown, Receipt, Inventory, Turn and Gross Margin Plan
- Sales Worksheet
- Margin Worksheet
- Rec/Inv Value Worksheet
- Rec/Inv Unit Worksheet
- Business Process Overview
- Reconcile Targets
- Reconcile Targets Worksheet
- Business Process Overview
- Review Item Plan
- Review Item Plan Original Plan Worksheet
- Review Item Plan Current Plan Worksheet
- Business Process Overview
- Submit Plan for Approval
- Approval Worksheet
- Business Process Overview
- In Season Top Down
- In Season Middle Out Up
- In Season Bottom Up
- Embedded Forecasts
Course Objectives
- Describe the basic types of planning and planner roles
- Identify and utilize the worksheets in Merchandise Financial Planning that support each step of the pre-season and in-season planning process according to user role
- Describe the evolution of plan type plans move through pre-season and in season time periods
- Analyze and execute the process flow steps for both pre-season and in season planning based upon responsibilities per user role
- Use the Oracle Retail RPAS Merchandise Financial Planning tool to develop plans for three significant user roles
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