You can have multiple supply chain plans. Before you launch a plan for the first time you must name it.
Copying Supply Chain Plans
In addition to creating a plans by creation, you can create a new plan by copying information from one plan to it. Do this if you want to:

• Save the results of a particular plan run before you re-run the plan
• Begin using a new plan name with the results of the latest run of another plan.
• Create a new plan with the same plan options as an existing plan

Use the copy plan function to make a copy of an existing plan. If memory bases planner flat files do not exist, Copy Plan process completes with the warning - WARNING: The copy plan operation completed successfully. However, some auxiliary data files could not be copied. Therefore, you will not be able to run online planner. You can re-launch the plan from the Navigator.

Create a global supply chain plan
Navigator to Supply Chain Plan > Names

Enter the below details as required
Name: Define a plan name.
Description: Define a plan description.
ATP:  If this is selected, this plan will be used for availability check. If the plan is used as a 24 x 7 ATP plan, the planning process may never switch to a new version of the plan from the copied plan after the original plan has completed successfully ; consider setting profile options MSC: Action Allowed on ATP 24 x 7 Plan While Running and MSC: ATP  Synchronization Downtime (minutes).
Production: If this is selected, this is a product plan. Planned orders will be automatically released within their release time fence.
Notifications: If this is selected, exception message notifications for the plan are enabled.
Plan Type Valid values are Manufacturing Plan, Production Plan, and Distribution Plan. This setting interacts with the Planning Method item attribute to determine which subset of the items that pass the condition imposed by the Planned Items parameter are planned.

Choosing a Plan Type
In Oracle ASCP you can launch three type of plans:

•  Production Plan
•  Manufacturing Plan
•  Distribution Plan

Each creates time-phased planned orders that satisfy independent and dependent demand while seeking to respect material and resource constraints. A choice of plan types lets you tailor the degree of subset planning that is performed for the supply chain: from a single, global supply chain plan down to manually adjusted plans for each item in each organization of the supply chain.

MPS plans support the following functionality:

•  You can select routings for a production plan while scheduling resources.
•  For production plans that have routings, you can view the Gantt chart in the Planner Workbench.

To do this, the three types of plans need to be used in conjunction with the MRP Planning Type item attribute that is set for each item. Possible values for this attribute are:

• MRP Planning
• MPS Planning
• MRP/DRP Planned
• MPS/DRP Planned
• DRP Planned

The below table lists the controls that determine the items that are planned in the plan and their possible values: