Oracler Oracler Work in Process

User’s Guide
Release 11i
Part No. A83598–03

December, 2003
Oracle Work in Process User’s Guide, Release 11i
Part No. A83598–03
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 Contents

Preface ........................................................ xix

Documentation Accessibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Other Information Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Online Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Related User’s Guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxii
Guides Related to All Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxii
User Guides Related to This Product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxii
Installation and System Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
Other Implementation Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii
Training and Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxviii
About Oracle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxx
Your Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxx

Chapter 1 Overview of Work in Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–1

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–2
Increase Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–4
Standard Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–6
Defining Job and Schedule Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–6
Defining Operation Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–7

Chapter 2 Setting Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–1

Overview of Setting Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–2
Related Product Setup Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–3
Setup Flowchart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–6

Contents iii
 Setup Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–8
WIP Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 14
Discrete Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 17
Repetitive Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 18
Average Costing Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 19
Move Transaction Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 20
Backflush Default Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 21
Intraoperation Steps Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 23
Outside Processing Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 23
Scheduling Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 25
Mobile Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 27
Serial Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 28
Other Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 29
Defining WIP Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 30
WIP Accounting Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 42
Discrete Accounting Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 42
Repetitive Accounting Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 43
Lot Based Job Accounting Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 43
Maintenance Account Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 44
Valuation and Variance Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 44
Defining WIP Accounting Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 48
Shop Floor Statuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 51
Defining Shop Floor Statuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 51
Defining Schedule Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 53
Defining Labor Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 55
Production Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 57
Defining Production Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 57
Defining Tolerance Fences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 60
Profile Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 63
Setup Profile Options Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 63
Profile Option Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 65
TP:WIP:Background Shop Floor Material Processing . . . . . . 2 – 65
TP:WIP:Completion Material Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 66
TP:WIP:Completion Transaction Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 66
TP:WIP:Completion Transactions First Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 67
TP:WIP:Concurrent Message Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 67
TP:WIP:Material Transaction Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 67
TP:WIP:Material Transactions First Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 68
TP:WIP:Move Transaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 68
TP:WIP:Move Transactions First Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 69
TP:WIP:Move Transaction Quantity Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 69

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 TP:WIP:Operation Backflush Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 70
TP:WIP:Resource Transactions First Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 70
TP:WIP:Shop Floor Material Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 70
TP:WIP:Work Order–less Default Completion . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 71
WIP:Default Job Start Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 72
WIP:Define Discrete Job Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 72
WIP:Discrete Job Prefix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 73
WIP:Enable Outside Processing Workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 73
WIP:Exclude ECOs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 73
WIP:Job Name Updatable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 74
WIP:Move Completion Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 74
WIP:Requirement Nettable Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 74
WIP:See Engineering Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 74
Security Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 76
Form Function Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 76
Function Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 78

Chapter 3 Discrete Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–1

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–2
Discrete Manufacturing Process Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–6
Setting Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–8
Overview of the Discrete Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–9
Features of the Discrete Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–9
Discrete Workstation Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 11
Viewing the Discrete Workstation Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 12
Selecting the Department or Department and Resource . . . 3 – 14
The Discrete Workstation Branches and Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 15
Discrete Workstation Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 15
Issue Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 16
Move Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 16
Complete Assemblies and Complete Operations . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 18
Charge Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 19
View Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 20
View Contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 21
Department or Resource Branch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 23
Utilization Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 23
Utilization Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 24
Efficiency Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 25
Efficiency Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 25
Productivity Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 26
Productivity Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 26

Contents v
 Load Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 28
Cumulative Load Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 28
Daily Load Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 30
Properties Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 31
Immediate Dispatch List Branch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 33
Schedule Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 33
Jobs for Immediate Dispatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 34
Assembly Moves Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 35
Component Shortages Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 37
Component Shortages Tab Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 37
Time Charges Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 39
Properties Tab (Jobs for Immediate Dispatch) . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 41
Components Branch (Jobs for Immediate Dispatch) . . . . . . . 3 – 42
Component Requirements Tab (Immediate Dispatch) . . . . . 3 – 43
Resources Branch (Jobs for Immediate Dispatch) . . . . . . . . . 3 – 44
Resource Requirements Tab (Immediate Dispatch) . . . . . . . . 3 – 44
Upstream Dispatch List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 47
Jobs for Upstream Dispatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 47
Component Shortages Tab (Jobs for Upstream Dispatch) . . . 3 – 47
Component Shortages Tab Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 48
Properties Tab (Jobs for Upstream Dispatch) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 49
Components Branch (Jobs for Upstream Dispatch) . . . . . . . . 3 – 50
Component Requirements Tab (Upstream Dispatch) . . . . . . 3 – 51
Resources Branch (Jobs for Upstream Dispatch) . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 52
Resource Requirements Tab (Jobs for Upstream Dispatch) . 3 – 52
Creating Discrete Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 55
Planned Discrete Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 55
Final Assembly Orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 56
Work Order Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 57
Aligning Engineering Change Order Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 57
Kanban Replenishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 58
WIP Accounting Class Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 60
Non–Project Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 60
Project Related Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 61
Build Sequencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 61
Defining Discrete Jobs Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 63
Linking Sales Orders and Discrete Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 74
Over–completion Quantities Reserved to Sales Orders . . . . 3 – 77
Serial Number Tracking Throughout Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 79
Setting Up Serial Number Control Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 79
Associating and Modifying Serial Number Job Information 3 – 82

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 Label Printing for Serialized Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 84
Moving Serialized Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 84
Project Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 87
Building Discrete Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 88
Finding Discrete Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 89
Releasing Discrete Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 92
Printing Reports for Current Discrete Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 93
Viewing Discrete Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 95
Viewing Discrete Job Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 95
Viewing Pending Job Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 97
Viewing Job Transaction Genealogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 100
Updating Discrete Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 104
Changing Discrete Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 105
Mass Changing Discrete Job Statuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 109
Simulating and Saving Simulated Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 111
Completing Discrete Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 115
Discrete Job Close . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 119
Closing Discrete Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 121
Discrete Job Purge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 127
Purging Discrete Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 128
Specifying Purge Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 130
Processing Pending Jobs and Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 133

Chapter 4 Non–Standard Discrete Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–1

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–2
Standard Versus Non–Standard Discrete Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–4
Business Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–7
Rework Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–7
Upgrade Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–9
Disassemble Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 11
Build Engineering Prototypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 13
Track Other Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 16

Chapter 5 Flow Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–1

Overview of Flow Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–2
Flow Manufacturing Integration with Work in Process . . . . 5–3
Setting Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–7
Flow Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–8
Flow Schedule Completions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–8

Contents vii
 Flow Schedule Reservations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–9
Kanban Replenishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 10
Work Order–less Completions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 11
Component Backflushing and Resource Transactions . . . . . . 5 – 11
Serial Number Validations for Flow Schedule Completions 5 – 13
Non–updatable Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 13
Work Order–less Completion Transaction Types . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 14
Performing Work Order–less Completions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 17
Scrapping Flow Schedule Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 27
Overview of the Flow Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 29
Flow Workstation Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 31
Viewing the Flow Workstation Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 32
Flow Workstation Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 33
Selecting the Line and Line Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 34
The Flow Workstation Branches and Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 36
Branch Naming Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 37
Flow Workstation Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 38
Kanban Replenishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 38
Line Operation, Schedule, and Assembly Completions . . . . 5 – 38
Integration with Oracle Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 39
Linearity, Load, and Properties of the Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 41
Linearity Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 41
Planned And Actual Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 41
Mix Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 43
Load Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 45
Line Load by Day Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 45
Cumulative Load by Line Operation Resource Graph . . . . . 5 – 46
Properties Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 47
Open Schedules and Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 49
Buttons on Open Schedule Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 50
Completing Line Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 50
Completing Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 52
Label and Quality Plan Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 52
View Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 52
Open Schedule Component Requirements Tab . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 53
Open Schedule Resource Requirements Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 54
Open Schedule Properties Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 55
Open Schedule Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 56
Event Component Requirements Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 57
Event Resource Requirements Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 59
Event Properties Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 60

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Chapter 6 Repetitive Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–1
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–2
Repetitive Manufacturing Process Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–5
Setting Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–6
Production Line and Assembly Associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–7
Associating Lines and Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–7
Deleting Line/Assembly Associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 11
Creating Repetitive Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 13
Planned Repetitive Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 13
Defining Repetitive Schedules Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 14
Building Repetitive Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 19
Finding Repetitive Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 20
Releasing Repetitive Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 22
Printing Reports for Current Repetitive Schedules . . . . . . . . 6 – 23
Viewing Repetitive Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 25
Viewing Repetitive Schedule Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 25
Updating Repetitive Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 28
Changing Repetitive Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 28
Mass Changing Repetitive Schedule Statuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 32
Completing Repetitive Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 35
Repetitive Schedule Purge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 41
Purging Repetitive Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 42

Chapter 7 Material Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–1

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–2
Setting Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–6
Material Requirements Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–7
By–Product Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–8
Kanban Completion Supply Statuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–8
Adding and Updating Material Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 10
Deleting Material Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 13
Viewing Material Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 14
Viewing Component Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 17
Viewing Component ATP Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 19
Material Control Process Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 22
Component Picking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 23
Job and Schedule Values for Picking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 24
Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 25
Material Destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 25
Navigating on the Component Pick Release Window . . . . . . 7 – 26

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 Using the Find Window for Component Picking . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 27
Using the Component Pick Release Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 31
Backordered Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 34
Multiple Generation of Pick Release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 35
Cancelling Jobs and Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 35
Component Pick Release Submit Requests Program . . . . . . . 7 – 35
Component Issues and Returns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 39
Repetitive Component Issues and Returns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 41
Repetitive Component Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 41
Repetitive Component Returns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 43
Component Issue and Return Transaction Options . . . . . . . . 7 – 43
Viewing Material Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 44
WIP Material Transaction Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 45
Issuing and Returning Specific Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 46
Issuing and Returning All Push Components . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 51
Phantom Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 58
Bills of Material Parameters for Phantoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 58
Routing and Routing Revision Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 59
Assemble To Order (ATO) Phantoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 60
Supply Subinventory and Locator Replenishment . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 61
Supply Subinventory and Locator Replenishment Options . 7 – 63
Replenishing Supply Subinventories and Locators . . . . . . . . 7 – 64
Replenishing Higher Level Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 68
Backflush Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 70
Reverse Backflush Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 70
Revision Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 71
Backflush Transaction Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 71
Backflush Transaction Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 72
Backflush Supply Subinventories and Locators . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 72
Negative Inventory Balances during Backflushing . . . . . . . . 7 – 73
Repetitive Production Line Backflushing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 73
Lot and Serial Number Backflushing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 74
Assembly Pull Backflush Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 75
Assembly Completions and Returns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 76
Label Printing at Completion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 78
Serial Number Validations for Returns and Completions . . 7 – 79
Assembly Over–Completions and Over–Moves . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 80
Assembly Over–returns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 83
Kanban Completion Supply Statuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 84
Completion Transaction Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 86
Completing and Returning Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 87

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 WIP Inventory Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 93

Chapter 8 Shop Floor Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–1

Overview of Shop Floor Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–2
Basic Business Needs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–2
Major Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–3
Setting Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–5
Routings and Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–6
Intraoperation Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–9
Using Intraoperation Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 10
Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 12
Adding and Updating Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 12
Deleting Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 17
Viewing Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 20
Viewing Job and Schedule Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 22
Move Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 24
Move Transactions Process Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 24
Interoperation Moves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 26
Intraoperation Moves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 28
Operation Completion Moves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 29
Move Completion/Return Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 31
Over–completions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 32
Completions into License Plate Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 32
Kanban Replenishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 32
Production Line Moves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 33
Open Move Transaction Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 33
Move Transaction Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 34
Move Transaction Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 36
Performing Move Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 37
Operation Pull Backflush Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 43
Backflush Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 43
Count Point and Autocharge Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 43
Negative Requirements Backflushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 43
Backflushing Pull Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 44
Move Completion/Return Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 47
Performing Move Completion/Return Transactions . . . . . . . 8 – 48
Viewing Move Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 52
Pending Move Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 54
Processing Pending Move Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 54
Finding Pending Move Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 62

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 Shop Floor Statuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 63
Assigning and Viewing Shop Floor Statuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 65
Shop Floor Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 69
Outside Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 69
Rework Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 69
Assembly Scrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 71
Scrapping Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 73
Dispatch Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 75

Chapter 9 Resource Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–1

Overview of Resource Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–2
Setting Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–6
Resource Charge Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–7
WIP Move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–7
Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–8
PO Move and PO Receipt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–8
Resource Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 11
Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 11
Departmental Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 12
Operation Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 12
Simultaneous and Alternate Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 13
Manufacturing Scheduling Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 13
Resource Factors in Lead Time Calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 15
Adding and Updating Resource Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 16
Defining Manufacturing Scheduling Resources . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 22
Deleting Resource Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 25
Viewing Resource Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 27
Resource Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 30
Open Resource Transaction Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 31
Resource Transaction Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 31
Charging Resources Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 33
Charging Resources with Move Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 36
Viewing Resource Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 39
Viewing Accounting Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 40
View Accounting Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 41
Drilling Down to Oracle General Ledger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 42
Pending Resource Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 45
Finding Pending Resource Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 45
Processing Pending Resource Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 47

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Chapter 10 Outside Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 1
Overview of Outside Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 2
Introduction to Outside Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 5
Outside Processing Business Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 8
Understanding Outside Processed Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 11
Outside Processing Setup and Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 18
Setting Up Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 19
Setting Up Bills of Material and Cost Management . . . . . . . . 10 – 22
Setting Up Purchasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 28
Setting Up Work in Process for Outside Processing . . . . . . . 10 – 32
Planning Outside Resource Load . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 33
Requisitioning Outside Processing Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 34
Creating Outside Processing Purchase Orders . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 36
Receiving Outside Processing Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 38
Autocompleting Assemblies and Work Orders . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 41
Managing Returns and Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 42
Consecutive Outside Processing Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 43
Supplier Access to Outside Processing Purchase Orders . . . . . . . 10 – 45
Outside Processing Workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 49
Outside Processing Workflow Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 54
Changing the Need By Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 54

Chapter 11 Job and Repetitive Schedule Statuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 1

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 2
Discrete Job Status Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 4
Discrete Job Statuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 7
User Controlled Statuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 7
Processing Statuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 8
Repetitive Schedule Status Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 10
Repetitive Schedule Statuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 12
User Controlled Statuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 12
Processing Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 14
Job and Repetitive Schedule Status Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 15
Transaction and Process Control By Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 17
Transaction Control By Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 17
ECO Implementation By Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 18
Planning Control by Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 19
Reporting by Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 19
Business Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 22

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Chapter 12 Work in Process Costing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 1
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 2
Setting Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 5
Work in Process Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 6
Costing Methods and Work in Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 6
Work in Process Valuation and Variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 8
Work in Process Valuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 8
Cost Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 8
Accounting Classes and Cost Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 8
Work in Process Cost Variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 10
Cost Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 10

Chapter 13 Work in Process Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 1

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 2
Discrete Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 5
Detailed Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 7
Discrete Rescheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 12
Repetitive Line Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 14
Repetitive Line Rescheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 19
Repetitive Line Capacity Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 21

Chapter 14 Descriptive Flexfields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 1

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 2
Setting Up Descriptive Flexfields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 4
Using Descriptive Flexfield Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 6
Business Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 12
Management of Quality Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 12
Management of Outside Processor Sterilization . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 14

Chapter 15 Reports and Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 1

AutoCreating Final Assembly Orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 3
Closing Discrete Jobs Using Submit Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 7
Discrete Job Data Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 11
Discrete Job Dispatch Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 13
Discrete Job Listing Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 15
Discrete Job Pick List Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 17
Discrete Job Routing Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 19
Discrete Job Shortage Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 21

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 Discrete Job Value Report – Standard Costing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 25
Discrete Shop Packet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 29
Employee Rates Listing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 30
Expense Job Value Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 32
Importing Jobs and Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 35
Job Lot Composition Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 38
Job and Schedule Interface Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 40
Move Transaction Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 41
Production Line Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 43
Purging Jobs and Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 44
Purge Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 50
Repetitive Line Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 51
Repetitive Pick List Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 52
Repetitive Routing Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 54
Repetitive Schedule Data Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 55
Repetitive Schedule Shortage Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 56
Repetitive Shop Packet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 59
Repetitive Value Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 60
Resource Performance Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 63
Resource Transaction Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 65
Schedule Group Listing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 67
Shop Floor Statuses Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 68
WIP Account Distribution Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 69
WIP Account Summary Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 72
WIP Accounting Classes Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 73
WIP Location Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 74
WIP Offsetting Account Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 76
WIP Outside Processing Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 77
WIP Parameters Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 78
WIP Value Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 79

Appendix A Windows and Navigator Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A – 1

Appendix B Character Mode Forms and Corresponding GUI Windows . . . B – 1

Appendix C Comparison of Manufacturing Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C – 1

Discrete Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C – 2

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 Project Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–2
Assemble–to–Order (ATO) Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–2
Repetitive Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–3
Flow Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–3
Manufacturing Costing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–4

Appendix D Supply Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–1

Assembly Pull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–2
Based on Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–2
Bulk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–3
Operation Pull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–3
Phantom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–3
Push . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–4
Supplier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–4

Appendix E Attachments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E – 1

Appendix F Tools Menu Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F – 1

Appendix G Work in Process Workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G–1

Intermediate Shipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G–2
Customizing the Intermediate Shipment Process . . . . . . . . . G–2
Creating a New Custom Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G–3
Summary of Intermediate Shipment Activities . . . . . . . . . . . G–4
Intermediate Shipment Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G–5
Summary of Ship and Receive Intermediates . . . . . . . . . . . . . G–7
Ship and Receive Intermediates Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G–8
Summary of Notify 2nd Buyer & Subcontractor . . . . . . . . . . G–9
Notify 2nd Buyer & Subcontractor Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . G – 10
Change PO Need By Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G – 13
Customizing the Change PO Need By Date Process . . . . . . . G – 13
Creating a New Custom Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G – 14
Summary of Change PO Need By Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G – 14
Change PO Need By Date Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G – 15

Appendix H Flow Workstation Customized Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H – 1

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Glossary

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Preface

Welcome to Release 11i of the Oracle Work in Process User’s Guide.

This guide contains the information you need to understand and use
Oracle Work in Process:
• Chapter 1 introduces Work in Process and describes its
integration with other Oracle Manufacturing Applications.
• Chapter 2 provides information about setting up Work in Process
and other integrated Oracle Manufacturing applications. It lists
Work in Process parameters and profile options, and also
contains implementation information and procedures.
• Chapter 3 explains how you to create, build, view, update,
complete, close, and purge Discrete jobs, and how to use the
Discrete Workstation.
• Chapter 4 explains the differences between standard and
non–standard discrete jobs and provides examples of how you
can use non–standard discrete jobs in your manufacturing
process.
• Chapter 5 provides an overview of Flow Manufacturing and its
integration with Work in Process, and explains how to create and
use Work Order–less Completion transactions.
• Chapter 6 explains how to associate lines and assemblies, and
how to create, build, view, update, complete, and purge
Repetitive schedules.

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 • Chapter 7 provides an overview of material requirements, and
explains how to transact, control, and track materials in Work in
Process.
• Chapter 8 provides an overview of shop floor control including
routings and operations; and explains how to move, control, and
track assemblies on the shop floor.
• Chapter 9 provides information on resource requirements and
charge types, and explains how you can manage resources in
Work in Process.
• Chapter 10 provides information on how you can setup and use
outside processing resources in your manufacturing process, and
provide your suppliers with access to their purchase orders,
instructions, and other information. It also provides a
description of associated workflow notifications.
• Chapter 11 describes how you can use Discrete job and
Repetitive schedule statuses to control production activities.
• Chapter 12 explains how you can track job and schedule costs in
Work in Process.
• Chapter 13 explains how Discrete jobs and Repetitive schedules
are scheduled in Work in Process.
• Chapter 14 describes how descriptive flexfields are used in
Oracle Work in Process.
• Chapter 15 explains how to submit requests for reports and
processes, and provides a brief description of each report and
process.
• Appendix A provides a list of Work in Process windows and the
paths that you follow to open them, and navigation paths to
windows from character mode.
• Appendix B provides a comparison of manufacturing methods.
• Appendix C describes Work in Process supply types and their
uses.
• Appendix D describes the purpose and process of creating job,
schedule, and operation attachments.
• Appendix E describes the options available from the Tools menu.
• Appendix F describes Work in Process workflow notifications
and provides an overview of how you can customize them to
suit your business needs.

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Other Information Sources

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documentation, training, and support services, to increase your
knowledge and understanding of Oracle Work in Process.
If this guide refers you to other Oracle Applications documentation,
use only the Release 11i versions of those guides.

Online Documentation
All Oracle Applications documentation is available online (HTML or
PDF).

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 • Online Help – Online help patches (HTML) are available on
MetaLink.
• About Documents – Refer to the About Document for the
mini–pack or family–pack that you have installed to learn about
new documentation or documentation patches that you can
download. About Documents are available on Metalink.

Related User’s Guides

Oracle Work in Process hares business and setup information with
other Oracle Applications products. Therefore, you may want to refer
to other user’s guides when you set up and use Oracle Work in Process.
You can read the guides online by choosing Library from the
expandable menu on your HTML help window, by reading from the
Oracle Applications Document Library CD included in your media
pack and on Metalink, or by using a Web browser with a URL that your
system administrator provides.
You can purchase printed guides from the Oracle Store at
http://oraclestore.oracle.com.

Guides Related to All Products

Oracle Applications User’s Guide

This guide explains how to enter data, query, run reports, and navigate
using the graphical user interface (GUI) available with this release of
Oracle Work in Process (and any other Oracle Applications products).
This guide also includes information on setting user profiles, as well as
running and reviewing reports and concurrent processes.
You can access this user’s guide online by choosing ”Getting Started
with Oracle Applications” from any Oracle Applications help file.

User Guides Related to This Product

Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide

This guide describes how to create various bills of materials to
maximize efficiency, improve quality and lower cost for the most
sophisticated manufacturing environments. By detailing integrated
product structures and processes, flexible product and process
definition, and configuration management, this guide enables you to

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manage product details within and across multiple manufacturing
sites.

Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide

This guide describes how to use Oracle Cost Management in either a
standard costing or average costing organization. Cost Management
can be used to cost inventory, receiving, order entry, and work in
process transactions. It can also be used to collect transaction costs for
transfer to Oracle Projects. Cost Management supports multiple cost
elements and multiple sub–elements. It also provides comprehensive
valuation and variance reporting.

Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide

This guide describes how to use Oracle’s Flow Manufacturing
functionality to support the processes of Flow manufacturing. It
describes design features of demand management, line design and
balancing, and kanban planning. It also describes production features
of line scheduling, production, and kanban execution.

Oracle General Ledger User’s Guide

This guide explains how to plan and define your chart of accounts,
accounting period types and accounting calendar, functional currency,
and set of books. It also describes how to define journal entry sources
and categories so you can create journal entries for your general ledger.
If you use multiple currencies, use this manual when you define
additional rate types, and enter daily rates. This manual also includes
complete information on implementing Budgetary Control.

Oracle HRMS User’s Guide

This manual explains how to enter your employees. It also explains
how to set up organizations and site locations. Even if you do not
install Oracle HRMS, you can set up your employees, site locations,
and organization using Oracle HRMS forms.

Oracle Inventory User’s Guide

This guide describes how to define items and item information,
perform receiving and inventory transactions, maintain cost control,
plan items, perform cycle counting and physical inventories, and set up
Oracle Inventory.

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 Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling User’s Guide
This guide describes how to use Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling to
view and reschedule single discrete jobs or the entire shop floor.
Specifically, this guide details how to easily use the drag and drop
functionality to view and reschedule jobs, operations, and resources.

Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning

User’s Guide
This guide describes how to anticipate and manage both supply and
demand for your items. Using a variety of tools and techniques, you
can create forecasts, load these forecasts into master production
schedules, and plan your end–items and their component
requirements. You can also execute the plan, releasing and
rescheduling planning suggestions for discrete jobs and repetitive
schedules.

Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications User’s Guide

This guide describes performing shop floor and warehouse
transactions using a mobile client device interfaced with a networked
computer system. The Mobile Server enables you to perform Oracle
Application transactions using the Telnet Protocol Server.. You can
create Oracle Work in Process shop floor transactions, enter Oracle
Inventory and Oracle Warehouse Management transactions, and record
Oracle Quality collection plan results.

Oracle Order Management User’s Guide

This guide describes how to enter sales orders and returns, copy
existing sales orders, schedule orders, release orders, confirm
shipments, create price lists and discounts for orders, run processes,
and create reports.

Oracle Project Manufacturing User’s Guide

This guide describes the unique set of features Oracle Project
Manufacturing provides for a project–based manufacturing
environment. Oracle Project Manufacturing can be tightly integrated
with Oracle Projects; however, in addition to Oracle Projects
functionality, Oracle Project Manufacturing provides a comprehensive
set of new features to support project sales management, project
manufacturing costing, project manufacturing planning, project
manufacturing execution and project quality management.

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 Oracle Purchasing User’s Guide
This guide describes how to create and approve purchasing
documents, including requisitions, different types of purchase orders,
quotations, RFQs, and receipts. This guide also describes how to
manage your supply base through agreements, sourcing rules and
approved supplier lists. In addition, this guide explains how you can
automatically create purchasing documents based on business rules
through integration with Oracle Workflow technology, which
automates many of the key procurement processes.

Oracle Shopfloor Management User’s Guide

This manual provides information about managing complex shop floor
relationships using network routings, lot based jobs, co–products, and
lot genealogy.

Oracle Warehouse Management User’s Guide

This manual provides information about warehouse resource
management, warehouse configuration, and advanced pick
methodologies for material handling for warehouses, manufacturing
facilities, and distribution centers. This product is one of the
components of Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications.

Installation and System Administration

Oracle Applications Concepts

This guide provides an introduction to the concepts, features,
technology stack, architecture, and terminology for Oracle Applications
Release 11i. It provides a useful first book to read before an installation
of Oracle Applications. This guide also introduces the concepts behind
Applications–wide features such as Business Intelligence (BIS),
languages and character sets, and Self–Service Web Applications.

Installing Oracle Applications

This guide provides instructions for managing the installation of Oracle
Applications products. In Release 11i, much of the installation process
is handled using Oracle Rapid Install, which minimizes the time to
install Oracle Applications, the Oracle8 technology stack, and the
Oracle8i Server technology stack by automating many of the required
steps. This guide contains instructions for using Oracle Rapid Install
and lists the tasks you need to perform to finish your installation. You

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 should use this guide in conjunction with individual product user’s
guides and implementation guides.

Upgrading Oracle Applications

Refer to this guide if you are upgrading your Oracle Applications
Release 10.7 or Release 11.0 products to Release 11i. This guide
describes the upgrade process and lists database and product–specific
upgrade tasks. You must be either at Release 10.7
(NCA, SmartClient, or character mode) or Release 11.0, to upgrade to
Release 11i. You cannot upgrade to Release 11i directly from releases
prior to 10.7.

Maintaining Oracle Applications

Use this guide to help you run the various AD utilities, such as
AutoUpgrade, AutoPatch, AD Administration, AD Controller, AD
Relink, License Manager, and others. It contains how–to steps,
screenshots, and other information that you need to run the AD
utilities. This guide also provides information on maintaining the
Oracle applications file system and database.

Oracle Applications System Administrator’s Guide

This guide provides planning and reference information for the Oracle
Applications System Administrator. It contains information on how to
define security, customize menus and online help, and manage
concurrent processing.

Oracle Alert User’s Guide

This guide explains how to define periodic and event alerts to monitor
the status of your Oracle Applications data.

Oracle Applications Developer’s Guide

This guide contains the coding standards followed by the Oracle
Applications development staff. It describes the Oracle Application
Object Library components needed to implement the Oracle
Applications user interface described in the Oracle Applications User
Interface Standards for Forms–Based Products. It also provides information
to help you build your custom Oracle Forms Developer 6i forms so that
they integrate with Oracle Applications.

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Other Implementation Documentation

Oracle Applications Product Update Notes

Use this guide as a reference for upgrading an installation of Oracle
Applications. It provides a history of the changes to individual Oracle
Applications products between Release 11.0 and Release 11i. It includes
new features, enhancements, and changes made to database objects,
profile options, and seed data for this interval.

Multiple Reporting Currencies in Oracle Applications

If you use the Multiple Reporting Currencies feature to record
transactions in more than one currency, use this manual before
implementing Oracle Work in Process. This manual details additional
steps and setup considerations for implementing Oracle Work in
Process with this feature.

Multiple Organizations in Oracle Applications

This guide describes how to set up and use Oracle Work in Process
with Oracle Applications’ Multiple Organization support feature, so
you can define and support different organization structures when
running a single installation of Oracle Work in Process.

Oracle Workflow Guide

This guide explains how to define new workflow business processes as
well as customize existing Oracle Applications–embedded workflow
processes.You also use this guide to complete the setup steps necessary
for any Oracle Applications product that includes workflow–enabled
processes.

Oracle Applications Flexfields Guide

This guide provides flexfields planning, setup and reference
information for the Oracle Work in Process implementation team, as
well as for users responsible for the ongoing maintenance of Oracle
Applications product data. This manual also provides information on
creating custom reports on flexfields data.

Oracle eTechnical Reference Manuals

Each eTechnical Reference Manual (eTRM) contains database diagrams
and a detailed description of database tables, forms, reports, and

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 programs for a specific Oracle Applications product. This information
helps you convert data from your existing applications, integrate
Oracle Applications data with non–Oracle

Oracle Applications User Interface Standards for Forms–Based

Products
This guide contains the user interface (UI) standards followed by the
Oracle Applications development staff. It describes the UI for the
Oracle Applications products and how to apply this UI to the design of
an application built by using Oracle Forms, applications, and write
custom reports for Oracle Applications products. Oracle eTRM is
available on Metalink.

Oracle Manufacturing APIs and Open Interfaces Manual

This manual contains up–to–date information about integrating with
other Oracle Manufacturing applications and with your other systems.
This documentation includes API’s and open interfaces found in Oracle
Manufacturing.

Oracle Order Management Suite APIs and Open Interfaces Manual

This manual contains up–to–date information about integrating with
other Oracle Manufacturing applications and with your other systems.
This documentation includes API’s and open interfaces found in Oracle
Order Management Suite.

Oracle Applications Message Reference Manual

This manual describes all Oracle Applications messages. This manual is
available in HTML format on the documentation CD–ROM for Release
11i.

Training and Support

Training
Oracle offers a complete set of training courses to help you and your
staff master Oracle Work in Process and reach full productivity quickly.
These courses are organized into functional learning paths, so you take
only those courses appropriate to your job or area of responsibility.
You have a choice of educational environments. You can attend courses
offered by Oracle University at any one of our many Education

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 Centers, you can arrange for our trainers to teach at your facility, or
you can use Oracle Learning Network (OLN), Oracle University’s
online education utility. In addition, Oracle training professionals can
tailor standard courses or develop custom courses to meet your needs.
For example, you may want to use your organization structure,
terminology, and data as examples in a customized training session
delivered at your own facility.

Support
From on–site support to central support, our team of experienced
professionals provides the help and information you need to keep
Oracle Work in Process working for you. This team includes your
Technical Representative, Account Manager, and
Oracle’s large staff of consultants and support specialists with expertise
in your business area, managing an Oracle server, and your hardware
and software environment.

Do Not Use Database Tools to Modify Oracle Applications Data

Oracle STRONGLY RECOMMENDS that you never use SQL*Plus,
database triggers, or any other tool to modify Oracle Applications
data unless otherwise instructed.
Oracle provides powerful tools you can use to create, store, change,
retrieve, and maintain information in an Oracle database. But if you use
Oracle tools such as SQL*Plus to modify Oracle Applications data, you
risk destroying the integrity of your data and you lose the ability to
audit changes to your data.
Because Oracle Applications tables are interrelated, any change you
make using Oracle Applications can update many tables at once. But
when you modify Oracle Applications data using anything other than
Oracle Applications, you may change a row in one table without
making corresponding changes in related tables. If your tables get out
of synchronization with each other, you risk retrieving erroneous
information and you risk unpredictable results throughout Oracle
Applications.
When you use Oracle Applications to modify your data, Oracle
Applications automatically checks that your changes are valid. Oracle
Applications also keeps track of who changes information. If you enter
information into database tables using database tools, you may store
invalid information. You also lose the ability to track who has changed

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 your information because SQL*Plus and other database tools do not
keep a record of changes.

About Oracle
Oracle provides an integrated line of software products for database
management, applications development, decision support, and office
automation, as well as Oracle Applications, an integrated suite of
software modules for financial management, supply chain
management, manufacturing, project systems, human resources
management and customer relationship management.
Oracle products are available for mainframes, minicomputers, personal
computers, network computers and personal digital assistants,
allowing organizations to integrate different computers, different
operating systems, different networks, and even different database
management systems, into a single, unified computing and information
resource.
Oracle is the world’s leading supplier of software for information
management, and the world’s second largest software company. Oracle
offers its database, tools, and applications products, along with related
consulting, education, and support services, in over 145 countries
around the world.

Your Feedback
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Oracle values your comments and feedback. At the end of this guide is
a Reader’s Comment Form you can use to explain what you like or
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CHAPTER

1 Overview of Work in
Process

T his chapter introduces Oracle Work in Process and describes its

integration with other Oracle Applications.
• Overview: page 1 – 2
• Standard Documents: page 1 – 6
• Defining Job and Schedule Documents: page 1 – 6
• Defining Operation Documents: page 1 – 7

Overview of Work in Process 1–1

Overview
Oracle Work in Process is a complete production management system.
Work in Process is part of Oracle Applications, an integrated suite of
business solutions. Work in Process supports discrete, project, repetitive,
assemble–to–order, work order–less, lot based jobs, or a combination of
manufacturing methods. Inquiries and reports give you a complete
picture of transactions, materials, resources, costs, and job and schedule
progress.
Note: The lot based jobs functionality is available only if Oracle
Shopfloor Management is installed.

Manufacturing Support
• Build discrete jobs, both standard and non–standard (prototype,
rework, maintenance, and special projects)
• Build lot based jobs, if Oracle Shopfloor Management is installed
• Build project jobs, both standard and non–standard
• Build repetitive schedules by production line/assembly
• Build final assembly orders for configure–to–order
• Complete assemblies without having to create a job or schedule

Production Scheduling
• Load and sequence repetitive production by assembly and
production line
• Schedule start and stop times to the minute
• Schedule fixed, variable, and overlap time elements
• Use forward, backward, manual, and midpoint rescheduling
• Update the master production schedule automatically

Material Control
• Issue and return components from and to inventory
• Replenish supply subinventories by item, job, or day
• Backflush components automatically using operation or assembly
completion
• Generate bill of material requirements using standard and
alternate bills and revisions
• Select material for jobs and schedules using rules based picking

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 • Modify job and schedule material requirements as required
• Control engineering change implementation
• Issue and build serial number, lot–controlled, and revision
controlled components and assemblies
• Use serial control for discrete production, through Oracle Mobile
Supply Chain Applications, to track assembly moves throughout
the manufacturing process
• Scrap components and assemblies
• Control MRP netting (production quantities can be non–nettable
quantities)
• Display on–hand and available to transact quantities during
material transactions
• Setup transaction processing options as required

Shop Floor Control

• Move assemblies between and within operations
• Use outside suppliers
• Combine move and completion transactions
• Charge resources and overheads automatically
• Generate routing operations using standard and alternate
routings and revisions
• Modify routing operations as required
• If Oracle Shopfloor Management is installed, use network
routings, co–products, and lot splitting and merging
• Setup transaction processing options as required

Resource Tracking
• Charge labor, machine, and outside resources automatically or
manually
• Charge resources at standard, employee, or actual rates
• Charge labor by resource or employee
• View and report efficiency, usage, and transaction history

Costing
• Cost discrete jobs using standard or weighted average costs

Overview of Work in Process 1–3

 • Segregates costs for project jobs
• Track costs by product line

Mobile Manufacturing
• Using a mobile device – perform work in process transactions
including issuing and returning material, moving, completing,
and scrapping assemblies
• View transaction information
• Create resource transactions
• Perform assembly and work orderless completions into Oracle
Warehouse Management License Plate Numbers (LPN)
• Track jobs and move transactions using serial control and
genealogy throughout the manufacturing process
Note: LPN completions are supported only in standard cost
organizations.

Import
• Import move transactions from data collection devices, factory
floor machines or controllers using the Open Move Transaction
Interface
• Import material transactions (component issue/return, assembly
completion/return, replenishment) from data collection devices,
custom data entry forms, and other manufacturing inventory
systems using the Open Inventory Transaction Interface
• Import resource transactions from data collection devices and
labor tracking systems using the Open Resource Cost Transaction
Interface
• Import planned orders, update recommendations, and planned
repetitive schedules directly from external sources using the Work
Order Interface
• Update scheduling dates at the operation or resource level using
the Work Order Interface

Increase Productivity
You can setup Oracle Applications and Work in Process to automate
manufacturing information processing:

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• Eliminate the need to define and update orders after each
planning run by loading and rescheduling shop floor activity
based on master schedule and material plans
• Eliminate excess navigation within windows by setting first field
defaults that correspond to your primary manufacturing
environment (discrete, repetitive, or assemble–to–order)
• Eliminate the need to transact at non–critical operations by
defining them as no count point or no autocharge operations
• Eliminate the need to manually define job names by using the
automatic sequence generator
• Eliminate the need to manually assign and verify lots during
transaction processing by specifying default lot selection and
verification rules

Overview of Work in Process 1–5

Standard Documents
You can define standard documents for discrete jobs, repetitive
schedules, and job/schedule operations. Standard documents can then
be attached to discrete jobs, repetitive schedules, and operations as
required.

Defining Job and Schedule Documents

You can use the Job and Schedule Documents window to create a
catalog of standard job and schedule documents. You can then attach
these documents to your jobs and repetitive schedules.

" To define standard job and schedule documents:

H Navigate to the Job and Schedule Documents window. See the
procedure for Defining Operation Documents: page 1 – 7

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See Also

Working with Attachments, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

Attaching Files to Jobs, Schedules, and Operations: page E – 2
Adding an Attachment, Oracle Applications User’s Guide.

Defining Operation Documents

You can use this window to create a catalog of standard operation
documents. You can then attach these documents to your work in
process routing operations in the Operations window.

" To define standard operation documents:

1. Navigate to the Operation Documents window.
2. Enter a value in the Category field and any applicable description.
Categories control which windows can access the document. Each
window enabling attachments must list the document categories it
can access.

Overview of Work in Process 1–7

 3. In the Source Region, select a Document Datatype. Your choices
are:
• Document Reference: Reference to any type of document
accessed through a document management system.
• Short Text: Text stored in the database containing less than 2000
characters. This is entered in the Document block.
• Long Text: Text stored in the database containing 2000 characters
or more. This is entered in the Document block.
Note: For Oracle Work in Process reports that print
attachments, only the Short Text datatypes print. However, you
can view Long Text datatype attachments in the Document
block.
• File: A file created in another application such a word processing
or image file. When these types of files are opened in the
Attachments window, a web browser window is invoked to view
them.

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 • Web Page: A URL reference to a web page, a web browser
window is invoked to view the page.
4. In the File field, enter the name of the file or URL for selected
datatypes File or Web Page.
5. In the Usage region, specify how this document is used. Your
choices are:
• Standard: Document is used until the effective date expires.
• Template: Document is used as a model for other documents and
modified before use.
• One–Time: Document is used only once.
6. In the Security region, indicate access to this document.
• In the Type field, select users of the same Organization or Set of
Books. Select None if you do not want to limit access.
• In the Owner field, depending on your choice for security, select
an Organization or Set of Books value. If you selected None, this
field is disabled.
• Check the Share check box if you want other users to have access
to this document.
7. In the Effective Dates region, select any applicable dates in the
From and To fields.
8. The Document block is used to displays the record selected in the
Source region.
If you selected Long Text or Short Text datatypes, enter that text
here. If you selected Document Reference, File, or Web Page
datatypes, choose Open Document to navigate to a browser
window for viewing.
9. You have the option to change the view of the document by
selecting a value in the Magnification field.
10. Save your work.

See Also

Working with Attachments, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

Attaching Files to Jobs, Schedules, and Operations: page E – 2

Overview of Work in Process 1–9

 Adding an Attachment, Oracle Applications User’s Guide.

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CHAPTER

2 Setting Up

T his chapter provides information about setting up Oracle Work in

Process as well as other integrated Oracle Applications, including these
topics:
• Overview: page 2 – 2
• Related Setup Steps: page 2 – 3
• Setup Flowchart: page 2 – 6
• Setup Checklist: page 2 – 7
• Setup Steps: page 2 – 8
• WIP Parameters: page 2 – 14
• WIP Accounting Classes: page 2 – 42
• Shop Floor Statuses: page 2 – 51
• Defining Schedule Groups: page 2 – 53
• Defining Labor Rates: page 2 – 56
• Production Lines: page 2 – 58
• Profile Options: page 2 – 64
• Setup Profile Options Summary: page 2 – 64
• Profile Option Descriptions: page 2 – 66
• Security Functions: page 2 – 80

Setting Up 2–1
Overview of Setting Up
This section contains an overview of the tasks that you need to
complete to set up Oracle Work in Process, including related product
setup steps. Before beginning, consider the following:

Oracle Applications Implementation Wizard

If you are implementing more than one Oracle Applications product,
we recommend that you use the Oracle Application Implementation
Wizard to coordinate your setup activities. The Wizard guides you
through the setup steps for the applications that you have installed,
suggesting a logical sequence that satisfies cross–product
implementation dependencies and reduces redundant setup steps.
You can use the Wizard to see a graphical overview of setup steps, read
online help for a setup activity, and to open the appropriate setup
window. You also can document your implementation for further
reference and review by using the Wizard to record comments for each
step.

Set up underlying Oracle Applications Technology

If you do not use the Oracle Applications Implementation Wizard to
implement Work in Process, you need to complete several other setup
steps, including:
• Performing system–wide setup tasks such as configuring
concurrent managers and printers.
• Managing data security, which includes setting up
responsibilities to allow access to a specific set of business data
and complete a specific set of transactions, and assigning
individual users to one or more of these responsibilities.
• Setting up Oracle Workflow.
For information on using the Oracle Applications Implementation
Wizard, or on performing the implementation manually, see:
Oracle Applications Implementation Wizard User’s Guide
Oracle Applications System Administrator’s Guide
Oracle Workflow Guide

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 Set up Work in Process
There are 12 steps to set up Work in Process, three of which are
required. All of the steps are visually depicted on the Work in Process
Setup Flowchart (see: Overview of Setting Up Bills of Material, Oracle
Bills of Material User’s Guide) and listed in the Setup Check List (see:
Overview of Setting Up Bills of Material, Oracle Bills of Material User’s
Guide).

Related Product Setup Steps

You may need to perform some or all of the following steps to set up
Work in Process. These steps are discussed in detail in the Setting Up
sections of the related Oracle product user’s guides.

Oracle Inventory Setup Steps

Set up Inventory as described in the Overview of Setting Up Inventory,
Oracle Inventory User’s Guide. Ensure that all of the following steps are
completed:

Step AIW Reference

Create your organizations Common
Manufacturing
Define your organization parameters Common
Manufacturing
Define your items and item costs Common
Manufacturing
Launch your transaction managers Common
Manufacturing
Define your account aliases (optional) Common
Manufacturing
Define your transaction reason codes (optional) Common
Manufacturing
Define your units of measure (UOMs) Common
Manufacturing
Define your subinventories Common
Manufacturing
Define your stock locators Common
Manufacturing

Setting Up 2–3
 Oracle Bills of Material
Set up Bills of Material as described in Overview of Setting Up Bills of
Material, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide. Ensure that all of the
following steps have been completed:

Step AIW Reference

Create your bills of material Common
Manufacturing
Define your resources Common
Manufacturing
Define your departments, department classes, Common
resource shifts, and department resources Manufacturing
Define your standard operations Common
Manufacturing
Create your routings (optional) Common
Manufacturing
Define simulation sets Common
Manufacturing
Calculate your manufacturing lead times (optional) Common
Manufacturing
Create your workday calendar Common
Manufacturing

Oracle Engineering
Set up Engineering as described in Overview of Setting Up
Engineering, Oracle Engineering User’s Guide.

Step AIW Reference

Define your Engineering change orders (optional) Common
Manufacturing
Define your Engineering bills of material and Common
routings (optional) Manufacturing

Oracle Cost Management (Optional)

Set up Cost Management as described in Overview of Setting Up Cost
Management, Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide.

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 Step AIW Reference
Define your cost types Common
Manufacturing
Define your resource activities and activity costs Common
Manufacturing
Define your default WIP accounting classes for Common
categories (optional) Manufacturing
Define resources, material sub–elements, Common
overheads, and overhead defaults. Manufacturing

Oracle MRP/Master Scheduling and Oracle Supply Chain Planning

Set up MRP/Master Scheduling and Supply Chain Planning.
Optionally, define your demand classes.

Oracle Project Manufacturing (Optional)

Set up Project Manufacturing as described in Setting Up Project
Manufacturing, Oracle Project Manufacturing User’s Guide and the Oracle
Project Manufacturing Implementation Manual.

Oracle Workflow (Optional)

In order to initiate workflows that send notifications during outside
processing operations, or to customize workflows to include your own
notification recipients, you must have Oracle Workflow installed. Set
up Oracle Workflow as described in the Oracle Workflow User’s
GuideSetting Up Oracle Workflow, Oracle Workflow User’s Guide.

Oracle Supplier Management Portal (Optional)

You must have Supplier Management Portal installed in order to set up
a user ID for your suppliers so that they can view their purchase orders
on the Oracle Self–Service Web Applications web site. Set up Oracle
Supplier Management Portal as described in the Oracle Supplier
Management Portal Implementation Manual.

Setting Up 2–5
Setup Flowchart
The following flowchart lists the steps for setting up Work in Process:

The following flowchart diagrams the steps that you need to perform
to set up work in Process. Some of the steps outlined in this flowchart
and in the setup checklist are Required and some are Optional.
“Required Step with Defaults” refers to setup functionality that comes
with pre–seeded, default values. You should review the defaults and
decide whether or not to change them to suit your business needs. If

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 you change the defaults, you should perform the setup step. You need
to perform Optional steps only if you plan to use the related feature or
complete certain business functions.

Setup Check List

The following table lists setup steps and a reference to their location
within the Wizard. For a detailed description of AIW reference levels,
see the Oracle Applications Implementation Wizard User’s Guide.
After you log on to Oracle Applications, complete the required steps to
implement Work in Process:

Step # Description Discrete Repetitive Projects Work AIW

Order–less Reference
Schedules

1 Define Work in Process Required Required Required Required Oracle Work

Parameters: page 2 – 8 in Process

2 Define Work in Process Required Required Required Required Oracle Work

Accounting Classes: page in Process
2–9

3 Set Work in Process Profile Required Required Required Required Oracle Work
Options: page 2 – 10 in Process

4 Define Production Lines: page Optional Required Optional Optional Oracle Work
2 – 11 in Process

5 Define Repetitive Assemblies: NA Required N/A Optional Oracle Work

page 2 – 11 in Process

6 Define Schedule Groups: page Optional NA Optional Optional Oracle Work

2 – 12 in Process

7 Define Employees (optional if Optional Optional Optional Optional Oracle Work

using resources): page 2 – 12 in Process

8 Define Labor Rates (optional if Optional Optional Optional Optional Oracle Work
using resources): page 2 – 12 in Process

9 Define Shop Floor Statuses Optional Optional Optional NA Oracle Work

(optional if using resources): in Process
page 2 – 12

10 Define Job and Schedule Optional Optional Optional NA Oracle Work

Documents: page 2 – 13 in Process

Setting Up 2–7
 Step # Description Discrete Repetitive Projects Work AIW
Order–less Reference
Schedules

11 Define Operation Documents: Optional Optional Optional NA Oracle Work

page 2 – 13 in Process

12 Define Report Sets: page 2 – 13 Optional Optional Optional Optional Oracle Work
in Process

Setup Steps
You must complete the following steps to set up Work in Process. Each
step includes a Context section that indicates whether you need to
repeat the step for each set of books, set of tasks, inventory
organization, HR organization, or other operating unit under Multiple
Organizations.

Step 1 Define your Work in Process Parameters (Required with Defaults)

System Requirements: The following parameters define modes of
operation and default values that affect Work in Process: Discrete
Manufacturing Parameters, Repetitive Manufacturing Parameters,
Move Transaction Parameters, Backflush Default Parameters,
Intraoperation Steps Parameters, Outside Processing Parameters,
Scheduling Parameters, and Other Parameters.
To define WIP parameters, you must change the control level for the
Costing Enabled and Inventory Asset Value item attributes in the Item
Attribute Controls window in Oracle Inventory. This change requires
that costs be defined for all organizations that point to other
organizations for their costs.

☞ Attention: You cannot define Work in Process parameters

when the costing organization is different from the current
organization.
You must define modes of operation that affect other functions in
Oracle Work in Process and assign default values before you can
perform any transactions in your organization. You must also enable
the intraoperation steps that you want to use in your routings to allow
detailed tracking within operations on the shop floor. Work in Process
always enables Queue for each operation and To Move for the final
operation in a routing.

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 Define Bills of Material Parameters for Phantom Routing (Required)
There are two Bills of Material (BOM) parameters that you need to
define in order to use phantom routing: Use Phantom Routings (choose
whether or not to charge phantom routing cost); and Inherit Phantom
OP Seq (choose whether or not phantom components inherit the
operation sequence of the parent operation or maintain their own
phantom routing sequence).

Define Profile Options for Project Manufacturing (Optional)

There are two Project Manufacturing (PJM) parameters that you need
to define in order to use PJM with Work in Process: Enable Model/Unit
Number Effectivity (choose whether or not to enable model/unit number
effectivity on this site); and Allow Cross Unit–Number Issues (choose
whether or not components with a different unit number from your
assemblies can be issued to WIP).

Define Item Tolerance Type (Optional)

You need to enter an overcompletion tolerance type and tolerance
value if you will be overcompleting assemblies on jobs or schedules.
On the Master Items form, navigate to the Work in Process tab. Select
the tolerance type percent or amount from the list of values, then enter
the corresponding tolerance value.
Context: You need to perform this step once for each applicable item in
the master organization where that item is defined..
Defining Items, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
Work in Process Attribute Group, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.

Step 2 Define your WIP Accounting Classes (Required)

You must define Work in Process accounting classes before you can
define discrete jobs and repetitive assemblies. You must define separate
accounting classes for standard discrete jobs, non–standard expense
jobs, non–standard asset jobs, and repetitive assemblies. Accounting
classes include the elemental valuation and variance accounts you use
to cost discrete and repetitive production.
System Requirements: you can define any number of accounting
classes. Accounting classes define which valuation and variance
accounts are charged and when they are charged. Every discrete job
and repetitive schedule that you define must be assigned one of the
following types of accounting classes: Discrete, Standard Discrete

Setting Up 2–9
 Expense, Non–standard Asset, Non–standard Repetitive, or Lot Based
Standard Discrete.
Note: The Lot Based Standard Discrete type is available only if
Oracle Shop Floor Management is installed.
Default: If you skip this step, Discrete will be used as the default value.
Context: Perform this step for each inventory organization in which
you use Work in Process.
See: Defining WIP Accounting Classes: page 2 – 48.

Step 3 Set your Work in Process Profile Options (Required)

Profile options specify how Work in Process controls access to and
processes data. In general, profile options can be set at one or more of
the following levels: site, application, responsibility, and user.
System Requirements: the system administrator sets and updates
profile values. The Oracle Applications System Administration
Reference Manual contains a list of all profile options available to every
Oracle Application. At this step, select the profile options related to the
Work in Process (WIP) module. These system profiles must be set in
order to have an operational system. They include, but are not limited
to:
01) TP:WIP:Background Shop Floor Material Processing
02) WIP:Completion Material Processing
03) WIP:Completion Transaction Form
04) TP:WIP:Completion Transactions First Field
05) TP:WIP:Concurrent Message Level
06) TP:WIP:Material Transaction Form
07) TP:WIP:Material Transactions First Field
08) TP:WIP:Move Transaction
09) TP:WIP:Move Transaction First Field
10) TP:WIP:Move Transaction Quantity Default
11) TP:WIP:Operation Backflush Setup
12) TP:WIP:Resource Transactions First Field
13) TP:WIP:Shop Floor Material Processing
14) TP:WIP:Work Order–less Default Completion

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 15) WIP:Default Job Start Date
16) WIP:Define Discrete Job Form
17) WIP:Discrete Job Prefix
18) WIP:Enable Outside Processing Workflows
19) WIP:Exclude ECOs
20) WIP:Job Name Updatable
21) WIP:Move Completion Default
22) WIP:Requirement Nettable Option
23) WIP:See Engineering Items

Step 4 Define Production Lines (Optional)

You can associate production lines with repetitive assemblies, discrete
jobs, and work order–less completions. A production line describes a
unique set of operations, departments, and manufacturing cells that
produce one or more of your products. You can define and update, but
not delete production lines.
You must associate production lines with the assemblies that you plan
to manufacture repetitively. You can build different repetitive
assemblies on the same production line, which allows you to use
production lines to aggregate material requirements for a number of
assemblies by production line. You also can build the same assembly on
different production lines.
See: Defining Production Lines: page 2 – 58

Step 5 Define your Repetitive Line and Assembly Associations (Optional)

If you manufacture assemblies repetitively, you must define your
repetitive assemblies and associate them with production lines before
you can define repetitive schedules. When you define repetitive
schedules, you must specify the line on which you plan to produce the
repetitive assembly and the quantity that you plan to build. Repetitive
line scheduling then uses the line start and stop times, production rate,
and lead time, along with the workday calendar to schedule your
repetitive schedules.
See: Associating Lines and Assemblies: page 6 – 7

Setting Up 2 – 11
 Step 6 Define Schedule Groups (Optional)
You can define schedule groups then assign them to jobs or work
order–less completion transactions. For example, you can define a
schedule group then assign that schedule group to a group of jobs that
are being built on a specific production line and that must be
completed on a specific date for a planned departure.
See: Defining Schedule Groups: page 2 – 53.

Step 7 Define your Employees (Optional)

If you do not install Oracle Human Resource Management Systems
with Oracle Work in Process, you use the Enter Employees form to
define employees whose labor rates you want to charge.
See: Employee Management, Oracle Human Resources.

Step 8 Define your Employee Labor Rates (Optional)

If you want to charge employee labor for employees that you defined in
Step 7, you must define the hourly labor rate of your employees. Oracle
Work in Process uses employee rates when you manually charge
person–type resources to jobs or repetitive schedules that do not charge
at the standard rate, and when you associate an employee number with
the resource you are charging.
You can add, delete, and update the effective date of the hourly labor
rates for person–type resources (employees). You can define multiple
hourly labor rates for the same employee, as long as each rate has a
different effective date. If you use actual costing, the hourly labor rate
rather than the standard rate is used to compute the actual cost of
person–type resources charged to discrete jobs and repetitive
schedules. You can enter an employee number when performing a
person–type resource transaction in the Resource Transactions window
or the Resource Transaction Open Interface Process. The employee’s
most current hourly labor rate is used to compute the actual cost of the
transaction.
See: Defining Labor Rates: page 2 – 56.

Step 9 Define your Shop Floor Statuses (Optional)

You have the option to prevent move transactions from steps within an
operation by defining shop floor statuses that prevent moves, and
assigning them to operations and intraoperation steps within discrete
jobs or repetitive schedules. You can also use these statuses to record

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 more detailed information regarding assemblies at a particular step
within an operation.
You can assign shop floor statuses to any intraoperation step associated
with a job or repetitive line or assembly. You also can assign multiple
statuses to an intraoperation step; however, you cannot assign the same
shop floor status to more than one intraoperation step within the same
operation. Shop floor statuses that are assigned to a repetitive line or
assembly are valid for all repetitive schedules being built on that
production line.
See: Defining Shop Floor Statuses: page 2 – 51.

Step 10 Define Job and Schedule Documents (Optional)

You can define standard job and schedule documents and then attach
them to jobs and repetitive schedules.
See: Defining Job and Schedule Documents: page 1 – 6.

Step 11 Defining Operation Documents (Optional)

You can define operation documents then attach them to work in
process routing operations.
See: Defining Operation Documents: page 1 – 7.

Step 12 Defining Report Sets (Optional)

Reports and concurrent programs can be assembled into request
groups and request sets. A request group is a collection of reports or
concurrent programs. Only a system administrator can create a request
group. The system administrator defines request groups in order to
control user access to reports and concurrent programs. Request sets
define run and print options, and possibly, parameter values for a
collection of reports or concurrent programs. Both end users and
system administrators can define request sets; however, system
administrators have request set privileges beyond those of end users.
See: Defining Report Sets: page 1 – 7.

Setting Up 2 – 13
WIP Parameters
You can use WIP parameters to define modes of operation and to
assign default values for various work in process functions. You can
only define one set of WIP parameters per organization. The following
tables summarizes WIP parameters and their defaults:

Parameters, Discrete Required? Default Value

Discrete

Default Discrete Class Optional Null

Default Lot Number Type Required Job Name

Respond to Sales Order Changes Required Always

Parameters, Repetitive Required? Default Value

Recognize Period Variances Optional All Schedules

Autorelease Days Optional 0

Parameters, Average Costing Required? Default Value

Default Completion Cost Source Required System Calculated

System Option Cond. Required Use Predefined

Resources

Cost Type Cond. Required Null

Auto Compute Final Completion Optional No

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Parameters, Move Transactions Required? Default Value

Require Scrap Account Optional Disabled

Allow Creation of New Operations Optional Disabled

Allow Moves Over No Move Shop Optional Enabled

Floor Statuses

Parameters, Backflush Default Required? Default Value

Supply Subinventory Required Null

Supply Locator Optional Null

Lot Selection Method Optional Expiration Date

Lot Verification Optional All

Release Backflush Components Optional Disabled

Parameters, Intraoperation Steps Required? Default Value

Intraoperation Steps Optional All are enabled

Parameters, Outside Processing Required? Default Value

Shop Floor Status for PO Move Optional Null

Resources

Requisition Creation Time Optional At OSP operation

Production Scheduler Optional Null

Shipping Manager Optional Null

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 Parameters, Scheduling Required? Default Value

Include Resource Efficiency Optional Disabled

Include Resource Utilization Optional Disabled

Use Constraint–Based Scheduler Optional Disabled

(check box)

Constraints Optional Resources

Primary Objective Optional Maximum Ontime

Completion

Horizon (days) Optional Null

Simulation Set Optional Null

Maximum Penalty Optional Null

Penalty Per Day Late Optional Null

Due Date Tolerance (days) Optional Null

Parameters, Mobile Required? Default Value

Default Scrap Account Optional Null

Transaction Processing Optional Background

Parameters, Serial Required? Default Value

Default Serialization Start Operation Optional Disabled

Auto Associate Serial Numbers on Job Optional Disabled

Creation From Interface

Default Intraoperation Step for Optional Null

Assembly Moves

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 Parameters, Other Required? Default Value

Component ATP Rule Optional Null

Default Overcompletion Tolerance % Optional Null

Default Pick Slip Grouping Rule Optional Null

Default Plan Tasks Optional Disabled

Discrete Parameters
The following parameters affect discrete manufacturing.

Default Discrete Class

If Category Default WIP Classes are not set up and you are defining a
standard, non–project discrete job or performing a work order–less
completion, this parameter determines which accounting class is used
as the default. See: Default WIP Classes: page 3 – 60 and Associating
WIP Accounting Classes with Categories, Oracle Cost Management
User’s Guide.
You can only select an active, standard discrete accounting class when
defining this parameter. See: Discrete Accounting Classes: page 2 – 42,
Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63, and Autocreating Final
Assembly Orders: page 15 – 3.

Default Lot Number Type Parameter

Determines how lot numbers are assigned to discrete jobs. The options
are as follows:
Job Name Base job lot numbers on the job name you enter
when you define the job. This is the default.
Based on Inventory Base job lot numbers on the lot number rules you
Rules defined in Oracle Inventory. See: Lot Control,
Oracle Inventory User’s Guide and.Defining
Revision, Lot, LPN, Serial Parameters, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide

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 Respond to Sales Order Changes
Determines the status of a work order reserved and linked to a sales
order: if a configured item is de–linked from a sales order or sales order
line placed on hold, you can set the following options:
Never The work order will not be placed on hold if you
de–link the configured item from the sales order, or
if the sales order is placed on hold.
Always The work order will be placed on hold if you
de–link the configured item from the sales order, or
if the sales order is placed on hold.
When Linked 1 to 1 The work order will be placed on hold if it is the
only work order reserved to that sales order.

☞ Attention: When cancelling sales order lines with ATO items,

this parameter, is ignored by the system. See: Linking Sales
Orders and Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 74

Repetitive Parameters
The following parameters affect repetitive manufacturing.

Recognize Period Variances

Determines which repetitive schedule variances are posted to the
general ledger when an accounting period is closed. The options are as
follows:
All Schedules Post variances for all repetitive schedules.
Cancelled and Post variances for repetitive schedules with
Complete–No statuses of Cancelled or Complete–No Charges.
Charges Only

Autorelease Days
Determines the time period within which the system automatically
releases the next Unreleased schedule.
When you complete a repetitive schedule, the system searches within
the autorelease time frame for an Unreleased schedule, or for a
schedule with a status of Released, Complete, or On Hold. If one exists,
the status of the newly completed schedule changes to Complete–No
Charges and the future schedule is automatically released. If no such
schedule exists, the status of the schedule changes to Complete. If more

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 than one schedule exists within the autorelease time frame, only one
schedule is released.

Average Costing Parameters

These parameters affect how WIP assembly completion transactions are
costed. The Default Completion Cost Source, Cost Type, and System
Option parameters are defaulted when you define standard and
non–standard accounting classes in the WIP Accounting Classes
window. They can be overridden at the account class level. The Auto
Compute Final Completion parameter is defaulted when you complete
jobs. It also can be overridden.
Note: You can only set these parameters if your current
organization has been defined as an average cost organization
in the Oracle Inventory Organization Parameters window. See:
Organization Parameters Window, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide
and Defining Costing Information, Oracle Inventory User’s
Guide.

Default Completion Cost Source

This parameter determines how resource costs are determined as
assemblies are completed from jobs into inventory.
System Calculated If this option is set, resources can be costed at
either the actual resource costs or at the resource
predefined cost depending on how the System
Option parameter is subsequently set.
When completing assemblies from a non–standard
job with no routing, the resource rate associated
with the Average Rates cost type is used.
User–Defined If the option is set, you must choose a user–defined
cost type using the Cost Type Parameter. This cost
type is then used to determine the resource cost for
the assemblies being completed.
Note: If there are uncleared costs left in the job, they are
posted to the job variance accounts when the job is closed.
Residual costs could be left in the job if: 1) the Auto Compute
Final Completion option is set, but not all assemblies are
completed or scrapped or 2) the job earns costs between the
last final completion and the close transaction.

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 System Option
If you select the System Calculated completion cost source, you must
select a System Option. The available options are as follows:
Use Actual Resources costs are determined based on the actual
Resources costs that have been charged to the job.
Use Predefined Resources costs are determined using the
Resources predefined resource cost.
Caution: If you have chosen the Use Predefined Resources
system option and are overcompleting assemblies that are
associated with lot based resources and overheads, these
resources and overheads are over–relieved from Work in
Process. You can avoid this problem by selecting the Use Actual
Resources system option. See: Assembly Over–completions and
Over–returns: page 7 – 84 and Move Completion/Return
Transactions: page 8 – 31.

Cost Type
Determines which cost type to use as the default when the Default
Completion Cost Source is User–Defined. You can only select a Cost
Type if the Default Completion Cost Source parameter is set to User
Defined. See: Defining a Cost Type, Oracle Cost Management User’s
Guide.

Auto Compute Final Completion

Determines whether the Final Completion in the Completion
Transaction window defaults to checked (Yes).

Move Transaction Parameters

The following parameters affect move transactions.

Require Scrap Account

Determines whether a scrap account is required when you use the
Move Transactions window to move job and repetitive assemblies into
and out of the Scrap intraoperation step of an operation. It also
determines whether a scrap account is required when flow schedule
assemblies are scrapped or returned from scrap through the Work
Order–less Completions window. If you do not specify that a scrap
account is required, it is optional.
This parameter also determines how scrap transactions are processed.
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 the job or schedule elemental accounts through the operation at which
the assemblies are scrapped. If you enter a reversing scrap transaction,
the system credits this account and debits the job or schedule elemental
accounts through the operation at which the assemblies are returned. If
you do not provide a scrap account, the cost of scrap remains in the job
or schedule until job or period close and is then written off as a
variance.

Allow Creation of New Operations

Determines whether you can or cannot add an operation to a discrete
job work in process routing during a move transaction. For example,
you may want to add an operation to keep track of rework you were
not expecting.

Allow Moves Over No Move Shop Floor Statuses

Determines whether moves are disallowed if an intraoperation step
that disallows moves exists at an autocharge operation and
intraoperation step between the From and To operations or at
intervening intraoperation step at the From and To operations if they
are direct charge. If an intraoperation step that disallows moves is
found, a warning message is displayed and the move is disallowed.
Note: The Move Transactions: Allow Skipping Over No Move
Statuses security function can be set to override no move shop
floor statuses. See: Security Functions: page 2 – 78.
Direct charge operations between the From and To Operations are not
considered when the system checks for no move shop floor statuses.
Scrap and Reject intraoperation steps at autocharge operations are also
not considered. See: Shop Floor Statuses: page 8 – 63.

Backflush Default Parameters

The following parameters affect backflush transactions.

Supply Subinventory
Determines which supply subinventory and, if required by the
subinventory, locator are used when backflushing Operation Pull and
Assembly Pull components that do not have defaults defined at the bill
of material component or at the inventory item level.
You can select an expense subinventory, if the Oracle Inventory Allow
Expense to Asset Transfer profile option is set to Yes. See: Inventory
Profile Options, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.

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 Supply Locator
Determines which supply subinventory, and if required by the
subinventory, which locator is used when backflushing Operation Pull
and Assembly Pull components that do not have defaults defined at the
bill of material component or at the inventory item level.

Lot Selection Method

Determines how lot controlled Assembly Pull and Component Pull
component items are selected during backflush transactions. The
options are as follows:
Expiration Date Backflush lots are automatically selected based on
their expiration date and the first in–first out
(FIFO) method or, if the lot is not under shelf life
control, the receipt date and the first in–first out
(FIFO) method.
Manual Backflush lots must be manually selected.
Receipt Date Backflush lots are automatically selected based on
their inventory receipt date using the first in–first
out (FIFO) method.
Note: This parameter does not apply to components that are
under both lot and serial control. When you backflush a
component under both lot and serial control, you must enter
both the lot and the serial number.

Lot Verification
Determines how lots that are automatically selected, based on whether
the Lot Selection Method parameter is set to Receipt Date or Expiration
Date, are verified during backflush transactions. When the Lot Selection
Method parameter is set to Manual, manually selected lots are verified
as if the All option has been specified. The lot verification options are as
follows:
All Verifies that the lots automatically selected were
the ones consumed by the assemblies.
Exceptions Only Verifies exceptions only. If the lot requirement for
the component cannot be filled automatically using
the FIFO method, you can assign lots to
components manually.

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 Release Backflush Components
Used by component pick release functionality. If this check box is
checked, operation pull and assembly pull supply type components are
included in the pick release process.
Note: The Discrete Job Pick List Report does not use this
parameter.

Intraoperation Steps Parameter

Determines which intraoperation steps are enabled in your WIP routing
operations. The options are Queue, Run, To Move, Reject and Scrap.
See: Intraoperation Steps: page 8 – 9.
The Queue intraoperation step is automatically enabled for all
operations and cannot be disabled. The To Move intraoperation step,
even if disabled here, is automatically enabled for the final operations
in routings so that assemblies can be completed into inventory.

See Also

Defining WIP Parameters: page 2 – 30

Outside Processing Parameters

The following parameters affect outside processing functionality:

Shop Floor Status for PO Move Resources

Determines which shop floor status is assigned to the Queue
intraoperation step of an outside processing operation when you create
discrete jobs and repetitive schedules. You first define the status on the
Shop Floor Statuses window, and it then appears on the list of values
for this parameter. See: .You then can assign the status to operations
that have PO Move resources assigned to them (but not those assigned
PO Receipt). Only no move statuses, those statuses which are not Allow
Moves enabled, can be selected.
This status ensures that assembly moves from an outside processing
resource operation can only be launched by the receipt of a purchase
order in Oracle Purchasing. This ensures that the same number of
assemblies are moved into and out of an outside processing resource
operation. Problems in tracking work in process and cost variances are
thus avoided.

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 Requisition Creation Time
Determines whether purchase requisitions are created for outside
processing operations automatically or manually, and when in the
manufacturing process they are created. An outside processing
operation is an operation that contains an outside resource linked to an
outside processing item.
At Job/Schedule Automatically creates purchase requisitions for all
Release outside processing operations on a job or schedule
(except non–countpoint/non– autocharge
operations), when the job or schedule is released.
Creating requisitions at job and schedule release
makes it possible to create and release purchase
orders to suppliers in advance.
At OSP Automatically creates purchase requisitions when
Operation you move assemblies into the Queue
intraoperation step of an outside processing
operation. This is the parameter’s default value. If
the outside processing operation is the first
operation of the job or repetitive schedule, a
requisition is created at that operation when the
status of the job or schedule is changed to
Released.
Manual Requires you to manually create purchase
requisitions in Oracle Purchasing. This option
allows you to automatically charge outside
processing resources at an operation, but does not
link the creation of the requisition to either the
creation or processing of the job or schedule.
Note: For lot based jobs in Oracle Shop Floor Management, set
this is parameter to At OSP Operation. Multiple paths are
available in a network routing, and the outside processing
operation can change for each manufacturing run.

Production Scheduler
Associates an employee with the Production Scheduler job role on
outside processing workflow notifications. The production scheduler
receives notifications when there are no purchase orders for outside
processing items, when outside processing assemblies have been
shipped, or when they will not be shipped.

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 Shipping Manager
Associates an employee with the Shipping Manager job role on outside
processing workflow notifications. The shipping manager receives a
notification when intermediate assemblies are ready to be shipped to a
supplier for outside services. The employee associated with this role
receives all notifications for all jobs that have an outside processing
operation.

Scheduling Parameters
This parameter is used to include resource factors in scheduling
calculations–and if Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling is installed, to
enable the constraint–based scheduling engine. Constraint–base
scheduling considers resource, material constraints, and the number of
days in the schedule when rescheduling jobs. If you do not set this
parameter, the system assumes infinite capacity.
Check the Use Constraint Based Scheduler check box to enable the
constraint–based scheduling engine. You also must select the
constraints and the scheduling horizon that you want the engine to
consider when rescheduling jobs.

Include Resource Efficiency (check box)

This check box provides the option to use resource efficiency in
scheduling calculations; it affects both constraint–based and infinite
scheduling. This factor influences resource elapsed time calculated
during scheduling. Values of less than 100 percent elongate lead time.
Resource efficiency is always considered in lead time calculations.

Include Resource Utilization (check box)

This check box provides the option to use resource utilization in
scheduling calculations; it affects both constraint–based and infinite
scheduling. This factor influences resource elapsed time calculated
during scheduling. Values of less than 100 percent elongate lead time.
Resource utilization is always considered in lead time calculations.

Use Constraint Based Scheduler (check box)

Choose this check box to enable the constraint–based scheduling
engine. If this check box is not selected, the system assumes infinite
capacity.
Caution: Do not select this check box unless you have Oracle
Manufacturing Scheduling installed.

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 Constraints
If you are using the constraint–based scheduling engine, open the list of
values for the field, and select the constraints that the scheduling
engine is to consider when rescheduling jobs.
Resources If you select this option, the system considers the
capacity of the resources available.
Resources and If you select this option, the system considers the
material capacity of the resources and the material
available.

Primary Objective
The Primary Objective is the goal of work in process scheduling for
your plant and determines the set of scheduling logic used on the shop
floor.. Your choices are maximize Ontime Completion, Minimize Setup,
or Minimize Operation Slack.

Horizon (days)
If you are using the constraint–based scheduling engine, enter the
scheduling horizon, which is the number of days in the schedule that
the engine must consider when rescheduling jobs. The scheduling
horizon should be at least as long as your longest job scheduled, and
you should add additional time to take into consideration future
material receipts.

Simulation Set
The Simulation Set field enables you to adjust resource capacity.
Simulation sets are used to link resource changes to available resource
capacity for scheduling and planning. They are defined on the
Simulation Sets window. If the Use in Scheduling field is checked for
particular simulation sets, capacity moderations associated with that
set are used when scheduling jobs.
When you assign resources to departments, you can use simulation sets
for capacity modifications by defining them on the Capacity Changes
window in Oracle Bills of Material. See: Assigning Resources to a
Department, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.

Maximum Penalty
This value is the maximum penalty factor that can be entered when
assigning penalties for scheduling.

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 Penalty Per Day Late
This value is the default penalty factor used in scheduling jobs not
completed by the scheduled due date. Higher penalties generate
attempts in the scheduling logic to circumvent such an event.

Due Date Tolerance (days)

The value in this field specifies the maximum number of days the job
can be delayed during scheduling. This is a default value, you can enter
another on the job.

See Also

Calculating Manufacturing Lead Times: page NO TAGCalculating

Manufacturing Lead Time, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
Manufacturing Lead Time Computations: page NO TAGManufacturing
Lead Time Computations, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
Detailed Scheduling: page 13 – 7

Mobile Parameters
The following parameter is set only if you are using Oracle Mobile
Supply Chain Applications. This value must be set if you are entering
scrap transactions.

Default Scrap Account

The Default Scrap Account value is used for scrap transactions. You
can either enter an account number, or select an alias from the list of
values. An alias is an easily recognized name or label representing an
account.
Caution: This account number is only used in Oracle Mobile
Supply Chain Application scrap transactions. It is not used in
standard Work in Process scrap transactions.

Transaction Processing Mode

Used to control mobile processing, your choices are either:
• Online: Transactions are processed while you wait, and control is
returned when the transaction processing is completed.
• Background: Transactions are processed on a periodic basis, and
control is returned immediately.

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 Resource, LPN, and serial tracking transactions ignore this parameter:
• Resource transactions are always processed in Background mode
• LPN transactions (including LPN completions, LPN work
order–less completions, and LPN flow transactions) are always
processed in Online mode
• Mobile serialized transactions are always processed in the Online
mode

Serial Parameters
The following parameter is used to set features for serial number
control tracking throughout manufacturing. Serial control includes
control beginning at the routing, association of serial numbers to jobs
before their production, serial based transaction entry, generation of
serial numbers, and serial label printing. See: Serial Number Tracking
Throughout Manufacturing: page 3 – 79, and Associating and
Modifying Serial Number Job Information: page 3 – 82

Default Serialization Start Operation

Determines the job operation where tracking of the serial number
begins. The values are:
• Enabled: If the serialization start operation is defined on the bill
of material item routing, it is copied to the job routing. If this
value is not defined on the item routing, the first operation is
defaulted to be the serialization start operation on the job
routing.
• Disabled: The serialization start operation on the job routing is
blank.

Auto Associate Serial Numbers on Job Creation From Interface

Determines if serial numbers are automatically generated and
associated with a job when a job is created through the WIP Mass Load
interface. The job start quantity determines the number of serial
numbers created. The values are:
• Enabled: Serial numbers are automatically generated and
associated with a job.
• Disabled: Serial numbers are not automatically generated and
associated with a job.

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 Default Intraoperation Step for Assembly Moves
This parameter is used for move transactions on a serialized job. It
defines a default value for the intraoperation step where you are
moving assemblies – the To step. Your choices are Queue, Run, To
move, and null.
For example, when moving assemblies, if this value is set to:
• Queue – the default intraoperation To step for the next move
transaction is the next Queue step in the routing.
• Run – the default intraoperation To step for the next move
transactions is the next Run step in the routing.
• To move – the default intraoperation To step for the next move
transaction is the next To move in the routing.
• Null – a default is not set, you must specify the step in your
move transaction.

Other Parameters
The following parameter is used to set features for material availability
checking, overcompletions, and component pick release.

Component ATP Rule

Determines which ATP Rule is used as the default when checking the
material availability of component requirements. You can enter any
user–defined ATP rule. See: Viewing Component ATP Information:
page 7 – 20 and Defining ATP Rules, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.

Default Overcompletion Tolerance % (percent)

Determines the percentage of assemblies that you can over–complete
on all jobs and schedules.

Default Pick Slip Grouping Rule

This field sets the default Pick Slip Grouping Rule displaying on the
Component Pick Release window. Grouping rules are used each time
you run component pick release; resulting tasks are grouped based on
the rule. The grouping rules are defined on the Pick Slip Grouping
Rules window in Oracle Inventory. See: Using the Component Pick
Release Window: page 7 – 33

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 Default Plan Tasks
This parameter is used only by Oracle Warehouse Management enabled
organizations. It determines the default Plan Tasks value displaying on
the Component Pick Release window. The choices are:
• Enabled: Pick tasks are created, you can choose the time to
release the tasks using the concurrent program.
• Disabled: Pick tasks are created and released when you choose
Release on the Component Pick Release window.
See: Using the Component Pick Release Window: page 7 – 33

Defining WIP Parameters

WIP parameters define modes of operation and default values that
affect Work in Process.
Caution: You cannot define WIP parameters if the current
organization shares costs with another organization. If the
current organization does share costs, you must change the
organization’s control level for the Costing Enabled and
Inventory Asset Value item attributes (Costing Group) to
Item/Organization. This can be done using the Item Attribute
Controls window in Oracle Inventory. Before changing these
attributes, however, you must confirm that item costs have
been defined in the current organization. See: Cost
Organizations and Shared Costs, Oracle Cost Management User’s
Guide and Defining Item Attribute Controls, Oracle Inventory
User’s Guide.

Prerequisites
❑ Define a discrete accounting class. See: Defining WIP Accounting
Classes: page 2 – 48.
❑ Option: define a shop floor status that disallows moves of PO
resources. See: Defining Shop Floor Statuses: page 2 – 51.

" To define and update Work in Process parameters:

1. Navigate to the Work in Process Parameters window. See: WIP
Parameters: page 2 – 14.
2. In the Discrete tabbed region, enter the Default Discrete Class. See:
Default WIP Classes: page 3 – 60.

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3. Select the Default Lot Number Type.
Determines how lot numbers are assigned to discrete jobs.
4. Select one of the Respond to Sales Order Changes options.
Determines whether and how the system responds to changes to
configure–to–order (CTO) sales orders and their related discrete
jobs.
5. In the Repetitive tabbed region, select the Recognize Period
Variances option.

Determines which repetitive schedule variances are posted to the

general ledger when an accounting period is closed.

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 6. Enter the number of repetitive Autorelease Days.
Determines the time period within which the system automatically
releases the next Unreleased schedule.
7. In the Average Costing tabbed region, select a Default Completion
Cost Source. The options are System Calculated and User Defined.
See: Average Costing Parameters: page 2 – 19.

☞ Attention: You can only set parameters in the Average

Costing tabbed region if your current organization has been
defined as an average cost organization in the Oracle Inventory
Organization Parameters window. See: Organization
Parameters Window, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide and Defining
Costing Information, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
8. If you select the System Calculated as your default completion cost
source, you must select a System Option. The options are Use
Actual Resources and Use Predefined Resources.
9. Select a Cost Type.
Determines which Cost Type is defaulted for when completing
jobs. You must select a cost type if the Default Completion Cost
Source parameter is User Defined.
10. Check the Auto Compute Final Completions check box to indicate
whether the system should automatically determine when a
completion transaction completes a job (quantity complete + scrap
quantity = job quantity). The system calculates completion costs by
taking the incurred job costs and dividing them by the completion
quantity.

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11. In the Move Transactions tabbed region, select or deselect the
Require Scrap Account check box.

Determines whether a scrap account is required when you move

assemblies into and out of the Scrap intraoperation step of an
operation.
12. Select or deselect the Allow Creation of New Operations check box.
Determines whether you can or cannot add an operation to a
discrete job work in process routing during a move transaction.
13. Select or deselect the Allow Moves Over No Move Shop Floor
Statuses.
Determines whether moves are disallowed if an intraoperation step
that disallows moves exists at an autocharge operation and
intraoperation step between the From and To operations and
intraoperation steps.
14. In the Backflush Defaults tabbed region, select a default backflush
Supply Subinventory and, if required by the Supply Subinventory,
a Supply Locator.

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 These two parameters determine which supply subinventory/
locator is used when backflushing Operation Pull and Assembly
Pull components that do not have defaults defined at the bill of
material component level or at the item level.
You can select an expense subinventory, if the Oracle Inventory
Allow Expense to Asset Transfer profile option is set to Yes. See:
Inventory Profile Options, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
15. Select a backflush Lot Selection Method.
Determines how lot controlled Assembly Pull and Component Pull
component items are selected during backflush transactions.
16. Select a backflush Lot Verification Method.
Determines how lots are verified during backflush transactions.
17. Check the Release Backflush Components check box to indicate if
operation pull and assembly pull supply type components are
included in the Component Pick Release window.
18. In the Interoperation Steps tabbed region, enable Intraoperation
Steps as required.

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 Determines which intraoperation steps are enabled in your WIP
routing operations.
19. In the Outside Processing tabbed region, select which status is
assigned to the Shop Floor Status for PO Move Resources
parameter.

This parameter determines which shop floor status is assigned to

the Queue intraoperation steps of outside processing operations
when you create discrete jobs and repetitive schedules.
20. Select a Requisition Creation Time option.
Determines whether or not requisitions for outside processing
resources operations are created, and when in the outside

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 processing process they will be created (At Job/Schedule Release,
At Operation, or Manual).
21. If you have outside processing operations, and you have set the
WIP:Enable Outside Processing Workflows profile option to YES,
select the employees that you want to associate with the Production
Scheduler and the Shipping Manager job roles.
The employee associated with either of these roles receives all
notifications for all jobs that have an outside processing operation.
22. Select the Scheduling tabbed region to include resource factors in
scheduling jobs, and to enable the Constraint Based Scheduler if
Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling is installed.
23. Check the Include Resource Efficiency box if you want job
scheduling to consider resource efficiency.
Efficiency effects resource loading and is always considered in lead
time calculations.

24. Check the Include Resource Utilization box if you want job
scheduling to consider resource utilization.
Utilization is always considered in lead time calculations. Resource
availability is divided by the utilization percentage for capacity.

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25. If you have Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling installed, check the
Use Constraint Based Scheduler box to activate the Constraint
Based scheduling engine. See: Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling
User’s Guide.
Caution: Do not choose this check box unless you have Oracle
Manufacturing Scheduling installed.
26. Select the constraints that you want the constraint–based
scheduling engine to consider in its calculations when it
reschedules jobs: Resources (only) or Resources and Material.
27. In the primary Objective field, select the primary goal of work in
process scheduling for your plant.
The choice of objective determines which set of scheduling logic is
used on the shop floor. Your choices are maximize Ontime
Completion, Minimize Setup, or Minimize Operation Slack.
28. Enter the number of days in the scheduling Horizon field. The
horizon is the number of days in the schedule that the
constraint–based scheduling engine is to consider in its calculations
when it reschedules jobs (the default is 60 days). The horizon
should be at least as long as your longest job on the schedule, and
you should also add additional time to take into consideration
future material receipts.
29. Select a simulation set in the Simulation Set field to enable the
adjust resource capacity capability.
Simulation sets are used to link resource changes to available
resource capacity for scheduling and planning.
30. In the Maximum Penalty field, enter the maximum penalty factor
that can be entered when assigning penalties for scheduling.
31. In the Penalty Per Day Late field, enter the default penalty factor
used in scheduling jobs not completed by the scheduled due date.
32. In the Due Date Tolerance (days) field, enter the default number of
days a job can be delayed during scheduling.
33. The Mobile tabbed region is used if you are using Oracle Mobile
Supply Chain Applications. Select a Default Scrap Account value
for scrap transactions, entering either an account number, or
selecting an alias from the list of values.
Caution: This account number is only used in Oracle Mobile
Supply Chain Application scrap transactions. It is not used in
standard Work in Process scrap transactions.

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 34. Select a Transaction Processing Mode.
Your choices are Online, for immediate processing–or Background
for periodic processing.
35. Use the the Serial tabbed region to select parameters for serial
number control tracking. See: Serial Number Tracking Throughout
Manufacturing: page 3 – 79
36. Use the Default Serialization Start Operation box to determine the
job operation where tracking of the serial number begins. The
choices are:
• Enabled: If the serialization start operation is defined on the bill
of material item routing, it is copied to the job routing. If this
value is not defined on the item routing, the first operation is
defaulted to be the serialization start operation on the job
routing.
• Disabled: The serialization start operation on the job routing is
blank.

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37. Use the Auto Associate Serial Numbers on Job Creation From
Interface box to determine if serial numbers are automatically
generated.
This flag is used when jobs are created through the WIP Mass
Load interface. The job start quantity determines the number of
serial numbers created.
If this flag is enabled, serial numbers are automatically generated
and associated with a job. Otherwise, serial numbers are not
automatically generated and associated with a job.
38. Select a value in the Default Intraoperation Step for Assembly
Moves field. This value is used when the move quantity is at the
intraoperation step, your choices are Queue, Run, To move, and
null.
For example, when moving assemblies, if this value is set to Queue
– the default intraoperation To step for the next move transaction is
the next Queue step in the routing.
If the value is set to Run – the default intraoperation To step for the
next move transactions is the next Run step in the routing.
If set to To move – the default intraoperation To step for the next
move transaction is the next To move in the routing.

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 However, if this value is set to null – a default is not set and you
must specify the step in your move transaction.
39. In the Other tabbed region, select a Component ATP Rule. See: ATP
Parameter: page 2 – 29.

40. Enter the Default Overcompletion Tolerance % (percent) of

assemblies that can be over–completed on all jobs or schedules.
41. Select a Default Pick Slip Grouping Rule.
This value displays on the Component Pick Release window for
this organization, but can be changed during requirement picking.
It is used to group tasks based on the pick method such as order
pick or bulk pick. See: Using the Component Pick Release Window:
page 7 – 33, and Pick Slip Grouping Rules, Oracle Inventory User’s
Guide
42. If you are setting up an Oracle Warehouse Management
organization, use the Default Plan Tasks to determine the default
value displaying on the Component Pick Release window. Your
choices are:
• Enabled: Pick tasks are created, you can choose the time to
release the tasks using the concurrent program.

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• Disabled: Pick tasks are created and released when you choose
Release on the Component Pick Release window.
See: Using the Component Pick Release Window: page 7 – 33

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WIP Accounting Classes
You can define any number of accounting classes. The valuation and
variance accounts that are associated with these accounting classes
determine which accounts are charged and when.

Discrete Accounting Classes

You can define accounting classes for each type of discrete production
you use: standard discrete, asset non–standard discrete, and expense
non–standard discrete. You must assign an accounting class all your
discrete jobs.

Standard Discrete
Standard discrete accounting classes can be used to group job costs.
For example, if you build subassemblies and finished goods, you can
define your accounting classes so that you can separately value and
report the costs associated with subassembly and finished goods
production. Standard discrete accounting classes can be automatically
defaulted when you create discrete jobs. See: Product Line Accounting
Setup, Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide and Discrete Parameters:
page 2 – 17.
When you define an accounting class, you must assign valuation and
variance accounts to it. When you issue materials to a job that uses this
accounting class, the appropriate valuation accounts are charged.
When the job is closed, final costs and variances are calculated and
posted to the variance and valuation accounts. When the accounting
period is closed, these journal entries are automatically posted to the
general ledger.

Non–Standard Discrete
Non–standard discrete accounting classes can be used to group and
report various types of non–standard production costs, such as field
service repair or engineering projects.
For example to track recurring expenses — machine maintenance or
engineering projects — with non–standard jobs, you can define and
assign an accounting class with a type of expense non–standard to
these jobs. The valuation accounts carry the costs incurred on these
expense jobs as an asset during the period and automatically writes
them off to the variance accounts at period close.
On the other hand, if you use non–standard discrete jobs to track
production costs as assets, you can define and assign an accounting

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 class with a type of asset non–standard. Asset non–standard discrete
jobs are costed the same as standard discrete jobs. Valuation accounts
are charged when material is issued to a job and final costs and
variances are calculated and posted to the appropriate variance and
valuation accounts when the job is closed.

Repetitive Accounting Classes

Repetitive accounting classes are used to group production costs and
must be assigned to each repetitive line/assembly association that is
created. Every schedule for that assembly on that line uses these
accounts. The accounts are charged whenever you transact against the
line/assembly association. Repetitive accounting classes can be
automatically defaulted when you associate repetitive assemblies with
production lines. See: Product Line Accounting Setup, Oracle Cost
Management User’s Guide.
You can analyze repetitive manufacturing costs by assembly regardless
of the line on which it was manufactured by using the same accounting
class for all lines that build that assembly. You can use the same class
for all assemblies on a line to do line based cost reporting or you can
use a different accounting class for every line/assembly association.

Lot Based Job Accounting Classes

Oracle Shop Floor Management extends work in process functionality
using network routings, lot based transactions, and yield based
operational costing. If you have Oracle Shop Floor Management
installed, you can define accounting classes for standard production
and expense non–standard jobs.

Standard Lot Based

Standard jobs control the material, resources, and operations required
to build an assembly and collect costs. When you build lot based jobs,
the standard lot based accounting class is used to separately value and
report costs associated with yielded production at each individual
operation on the routing.
You must assign valuation and variance accounts to it. When you issue
materials to a job that uses this accounting class, the appropriate
valuation accounts are charged. When the job is closed, final costs and
variances are calculated and posted to the variance and valuation
accounts. When the accounting period is closed, these journal entries
are automatically posted to the general ledger. If Estimated Scrap
Accounting is enabled, both Estimated Scrap accounts are required. If

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 this feature is not enabled, the Estimated Scrap account fields are
disabled.

Expense Non–standard Lot Based

Non–standard jobs control material and collects costs for miscellaneous
activity. These jobs are used for expense work orders for testing,
prototypes, and rework where operation yield costing is not
considered. You can perform all transactions (moves, jumps, scrap,
splits, and update assemblies or routings) with the exception of job
merge.

Maintenance Account Class

Maintenance accounting classes are used to group costs for work
orders used in Oracle Enterprise Asset Management (eAM). For
example, if you are creating work orders for plant maintenance
activities, you can define your accounting classes to separately value
and report the costs related to asset. Maintenance accounting classes
are automatically defaulted when you create eAM work orders.
When you define an accounting class, you must assign valuation and
variance accounts to it. When you issue materials to a work order that
uses this accounting class, the appropriate valuation accounts are
charged. When the work order is closed, final costs and variances are
calculated and posted to the variance and valuation accounts. When
the accounting period is closed, these journal entries are automatically
posted to the general ledger.

Valuation and Variance Accounts

WIP accounting class valuation accounts are charged when you issue
components, move assemblies, complete assemblies, and charge
resources.
Variance accounts associated with Standard Discrete and
Non–standard Asset accounting classes are charged when jobs are
closed. Variance accounts associated with Expense Non–standard
Discrete, and optionally Repetitive accounting classes, are charged
when accounting periods are closed.
As noted in the following table, different valuation and variance
accounts are required under standard versus average costing.

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Account Valuation Variance

Material Standard and Average Standard and Average

Material Overhead Standard and Average Standard and Average

Resource Standard and Average Standard and *Average

Outside processing Standard and Average Standard and *Average

Overhead Standard and Average Standard and *Average

Standard Cost Standard Only Variance not applicable

Bridging Average Only Variance not applicable

Expense Average Only Variance not applicable

Table 2 – 1 Standard Versus Average Costing Valuation and Variance Accounts (Page
1 of 1)

Valuation Accounts
WIP accounting class valuation accounts are defined as follows:
Material Normally an asset account this account tracks
material costs. Under standard costing, it is
debited at standard when you issue material to a
job or schedule and credited at standard when you
complete assemblies from a job or schedule, close a
job, or close an accounting period. Under average
costing, this account is debited at the average cost
in effect at the time of the issue transaction and is
credited when you complete assemblies from a job.
Material Normally an asset account this account tracks
Overhead material overhead (burden) costs. Under standard
costing, it is charged/debited at standard when
you issue material with material overhead to a job
or schedule and relieved at standard when you
complete assemblies from a job or schedule, close a
job, or close an accounting period. Under average
costing, this account is debited at the average cost
in effect at the time of the issue transaction.
Note: When a job is completed and material
overhead is earned, this account is not charged
/credited. Instead, the material overhead account
for the completion subinventory is debited.

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 Resource An asset account that account tracks resource costs.
Under standard costing, it is charged/debited at
standard when resources are charged to a job or
schedule and relieved/credited at standard when
you complete assemblies from a job or schedule,
close a job, or close an accounting period. Under
average costing, this account is debited and
credited at the resource rate in effect at the time the
resource is charged.
Outside An asset account account that tracks outside
Processing processing costs. Under standard costing it is
debited at the standard or purchase order cost
when you receive items for a job or schedule in
Oracle Purchasing. It is credited at standard when
you complete assemblies from a job or schedule,
close a job, or close an accounting period. Under
average costing when you move job or repetitive
schedule assemblies through an outside processing
operation, it is debited at the resource’s predefined
rate or at the purchase order cost. See: Performing
Move Transactions: page 8 – 37.
Overhead Normally an asset account this account tracks
resource or department overhead cost. Under
standard costing it is debited at standard when
resources are charged to a job or schedule. It is
relieved at standard when you complete assemblies
from a job or schedule, close a job, or close an
accounting period.
For additional information about how elemental accounts are charged
under standard and average costing see: Work in Process Average Cost
Transactions, Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide and Work in Process
Standard Cost Transactions, Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide.

Variance Accounts
WIP accounting class variance accounts are defined as follows:
Material This account tracks variances that occur when the
previous level material costs charged to the job or
schedule do not equal the previous level material
costs that are relieved. This calculation gives you a
net material usage and configuration variance.
Resource This account tracks variances that occur when the
this level resource costs charged to the job or

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 schedule do not equal the this level resource costs
that are relieved. If you charge actual labor
without creating resource rate variances (resource
standard rate is set to No), the resource variance
includes any rate, efficiency, and method variances.
If you recognize rate variances or charge resources
at standard, the resource variance includes
resource efficiency, and any method variances.
Outside Tracks the variances that are occur when the this
Processing level outside processing costs charged to the job or
schedule do not equal the this level outside
processing costs that are relieved. If you do not
calculate purchase price variance (resource
standard rate is set to No), the outside processing
variance includes any rate, efficiency, and method
variances. If you recognize purchase price
variance, this account includes efficiency and any
method variances.
Overhead Tracks the variances that are occur when the this
level overhead costs charged to the job or schedule
do not equal the this level overhead costs relieved
from the job or schedule. These variances include
both efficiency and method variances.
Standard Cost Applies only to standard discrete and
non–standard asset. This account is charged for
the sum of all the elemental standard cost
adjustments when you perform a standard cost
update that impacts an active job. Cost updates
are not performed for repetitive schedules or
expense non–standard jobs.
Bridging This field is optional.
Expense Optional, used to accommodate European
accounting practices.
Estimated Scrap Applies only to lot based jobs in Oracle Shop Floor
Management enabled inventory organizations
when Estimated Scrap Accounting is enabled. If
this feature isenabled, both Estimated Scrap
accounts are required. The scrap account field is
required when defining a department on the
Departments window. Additionally when you
define this account, you can also track operation
yield and estimated scrap absorption when

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 creating transactions for lot based jobs. See:
Defining Parameters, Oracle Shop Floor Management
User’s Guide

See Also

Work in Process Costs: page 12 – 6

Defining WIP Accounting Classes

Accounting classes are assigned and used when jobs, work orders, and
repetive assemblies associated with production lines are defined.

" To define accounting classes:

1. Navigate to the WIP Accounting Classes window.
If you are using an average costing organization, the Cositng region
displays for entering average costing information. Otherwise, if
using a standard costing organization, this region does not appear.
2. Enter a unique accounting class name and description in the Class
and Description fields.
You cannot update the class name after you save your changes.
3. Select an accounting class Type.
The options are Standard Discrete, Repetitive Assembly, Asset
Non–standard, Expense Non–standard, Standard Lot Based,
Maintenance, and Expense Non–standard Lot Based. Production
costs and variances are tracked in the valuation and variance
accounts associated with these classes.

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4. Enter the Inactive On date
As of this date, you can no longer use this accounting class. The
Inactive On date can be greater than or equal to the current date. If
you do not enter an Inactive On date, the accounting class is active
indefinitely.
5. In the Accounts region, select the general ledger accounts each
required Valuation and Variance account. See: Valuation and
Variance Accounts: page 2 – 44.
6. If you are defining an accounting class for an average costing
organization, in the Costing region, select a Default Completion
Cost Source.
Note: This region displays only when you are using an
average costing inventory organization.
The default completion cost source defined in the WIP Parameters
window is defaulted but can be overridden. The options are
System Calculated and User Defined.

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 7. If you select the System Calculated as your default completion cost
source, you must select a System Option. The options are Use
Actual Resources and Use Predefined Resources.
8. Select a Cost Type.
Determines which Cost Type is defaulted for when completing
jobs. You must choose a cost type if the Default Completion Cost
Source parameter is User Defined.
9. Save your work.

See Also

WIP Accounting Classes: page 2 – 42

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Shop Floor Statuses
Shop floor statuses can be used to control shop floor move transactions.
You can define as many shop floor statuses as are required.
Shop floor statuses can be assigned to the intraoperation steps of work
in process routing operations. When assigned to an intraoperation step
of an operation that is associated with a particular repetitive line and
assembly, the status applies to all repetitive schedules building that
assembly on that line.

Defining Shop Floor Statuses

" To define shop floor statuses:

1. Navigate to the Shop Floor Statuses window.

2. Enter an alphanumeric Status name.

For example, enter WIPHold to signify that shop floor assemblies
are on WIP hold or, QAHold to signify that the shop floor
assemblies are on quality assurance hold.
3. Enter a Status description.

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 Descriptions can be used to identify shop floor statuses on
standard reports. They can be up to 240 characters of alpha
numeric text.
4. Uncheck Allow Moves so that you can use this status to control
move transactions. Allow Moves defaults to checked.
5. Enter the Inactive On date.
As of this date, you can no longer use this status.
6. Save your work.

See Also

Overview of Shop Floor Control: page 8 – 2

Assigning and Viewing Shop Floor Statuses: page 8 – 65
Shop Floor Statuses Report: page 15 – 68

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Defining Schedule Groups
You can assign flow schedules and discrete jobs to the schedule
groups you define. Jobs and flow schedules within a given schedule
group can be sequenced. Sequencing jobs and flow schedules within a
schedule group makes it possible to prioritize, for example, by
customer.
You can update schedule groups. You cannot delete schedule groups
that are assigned to jobs and flow schedules.

" To define a schedule group:

1. Navigate to the Schedule Groups window.

2. Enter an alphanumeric name to identify the Schedule Group.

Schedule groups are used to group discrete jobs and flow
schedules. For example, you can create a Week01 schedule group
to identify which jobs are to be released and built during the first
week of your current production cycle. Schedule group names can
be up to 30 characters and must be unique within the organization.

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 3. Enter a schedule group Description. Descriptions can be up to 240
characters of alphanumeric text.
4. Enter an Inactive On date.
As of this date, you can no longer use this schedule group.

See Also

Build Sequencing: page 3 – 61

Schedule Group Listing Report: page 15 – 67

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Defining Labor Rates
You can add, delete, and update the effective date of the hourly labor
rates for person–type resources (employees). You also can define
multiple hourly labor rates for the same employee, as long as each rate
has a different effective date.
If you use actual costing, the hourly labor rate rather than the standard
rate is used to compute the actual cost of person–type resources
charged to discrete jobs and repetitive schedules. You can enter an
employee number when performing a person–type resource transaction
in the Resource Transactions window or the Resource Transaction Open
Interface process. The employee’s most current hourly labor rate is
used to compute the actual cost of the transaction.

Prerequisites
❑ Enter at least one employee. See: Employee Management,
Managing People Using Oracle HRMS.

" To define or update the hourly labor rate of an employee:

1. Navigate to the Employee Labor Rates window.

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 2. Select the employee Name or Number.
3. Select the Effective Date for each hourly labor rate.
The hourly rate remains effective until the next effective date or
until the inactive date of the employee. You can only update or
delete future effective dates.
4. Enter the Hourly Labor Rate for the employee.
You can define multiple hourly labor rates for the same employee
as long as they have different effective dates. You can define a
labor rate to the smallest currency denomination. For example,
you can define a US dollar rate to the penny. You can only update
or delete future labor rates.
5. Save your work.

See Also

Resource Requirements: page 9 – 11

Setting Up 2 – 57
Production Lines
You can define and update, but not delete, production lines. A
production line describes a unique set of operations, departments,
and/or manufacturing cells that produce one or more of your products.
You can associate production lines with repetitive assemblies, discrete
jobs, and work order–less completions.

See Also

Associating Lines and Assemblies: page 6 – 7

Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63
Performing Work Order–less Completions: page 5 – 16

Defining Production Lines

" To define a production line:

1. Navigate to the Production Lines window.

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2. Enter the production line Name.
For example, enter LINE1 to signify production line number 1, or
BOARD to signify the PC board assembly line.
3. Enter the production line Description.
4. Optionally, select an Exception Set. See: Creating Planning
Exception Sets, Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply
Chain Planning User’s Guide. Defining ATP Rules, Oracle Inventory
User’s Guide.
Production lines are rate–based resources. The exception sets that
you assign to them help you identify capacity problems. See:
Overview of Online Capacity Planning, Oracle Master
Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning User’s Guide.
5. Optionally, select an ATP Rule. See: Defining ATP Rules, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide.

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 You can select any user–defined ATP rule. The ATP rule that you
assign to the production line is used when determining the capable
to promise status of the line resource. See: Capable to Promise,
Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning
User’s Guide.
6. Enter the Minimum Hourly Rate.
This represents the minimum number of assemblies the line can
produce per hour. The minimum hourly rate must be greater than
or equal to 0 and less than or equal to the maximum rate.
7. Enter the Maximum Hourly Rate.
This represents the maximum number of assemblies the line can
produce per hour. The maximum hourly rate must be greater than
or equal to the minimum rate.
8. Enter the production line Start time.
This is the time at which your production line starts running every
day. You can update this field at any time.
9. Enter the production line Stop time.
This is the time at which your production line stops running every
day. You can update this field at any time.
The difference between the Start and Stop times represents the
amount of time per day a line is available. If the Start and Stop
times are the same, the production line is considered to be available
24 hours per day.
10. Select the Lead Time Basis.
If the lead time varies by assembly, you can schedule the repetitive
production time based on the routing of the assembly the line is
building. You can set a fixed lead time if the lead time is
determined by the production line and does not vary by assembly.
You can update this field at any time.
Fixed: The system schedules the first unit completion date and the
operations of all repetitive schedules on this production line based
on the fixed lead time hours you enter for the production line.
Scheduling is done regardless of actual capacity or the lead time of
the routing of the repetitive assembly.
Routing–Based: The system schedules the first unit completion date
and the operations of all repetitive schedules on this production
line using the detailed shop floor scheduling algorithm, the routing
of the assembly, and a quantity of 1.

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 11. If the lead time basis is fixed, you must enter the Fixed Lead Time,
in hours per assembly, for the production line. This is the amount
of time it takes to produce the first assembly, from start to finish on
the production line. The daily quantity from that point on is set
when you define individual repetitive schedules and must be less
than or equal to the maximum hourly rate. The fixed lead time
entered here is used to schedule repetitive schedules produced on
this production line. You can update this field at any time. You
cannot enter a value in this field for a routing–based production
line.

☞ Attention: For lines with a lead time basis of Routing–based, the

lead time is calculated by applying the detailed shop floor
scheduling algorithm to the routing of the assembly.
12. Enter the Inactive On date.
The Inactive On date is greater than the current date. If you do not
enter an Inactive On date, the production line is active indefinitely.
You cannot update any repetitive schedule that uses this
production line, nor can you assign this production line to a new
repetitive schedule as of this date.
13. Save your work.

See Also

Associating Lines and Assemblies: page 6 – 7

Defining Repetitive Schedules Manually: page 6 – 14
Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63
Performing Work Order–less Completions: page 5 – 16

Defining Tolerance Fences

Tolerance fences provide temporary increases to capacity above the
standard operating rate to handle increases in orders. Oracle Flow
Manufacturing uses flexible tolerance fences during line scheduling to
temporarily alter the line rate, that is the capacity of the line.
This feature is activated by checking the Flex Tolerance check box on
the Line Scheduling Workbench.

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See Also

Line Scheduling Workbench Options Window, Oracle Master

Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning User’s Guide

" To define tolerance fences:

1. Choose Tolerance Fences from the Production Lines window.
The Tolerance Fences window displays.

2. In the Days in Advance field, enter the number of days of notice

needed before increasing the line capacity.
The Days in Advance value should be equal to or greater than the
fixed lead time value.
3. In the Tolerance Percent field, enter the percentage you want to
increase the line capacity.

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 For example, the lead time for an assembly is 3 days on a line, and
you know you can increase your capacity by 5 percent if given 5
days notice. Set Days in Advance at 8 days (the lead time plus
number of days required for notice), and the tolerance percentage
at 5.
The line rate is adjusted by the tolerance fence before scheduling
rules are applied.
4. Save your work.

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Profile Options
During implementation, you set a value for each user profile option to
specify how Work in Process controls access to and processes data.
Generally, the system administrator sets and updates profile values.
See: Setting User Profile Options, Oracle Applications System
Administrator’s Guide.

Setup Profile Options Summary

The table below indicates whether you can view or update the profile
option, and at which System Administrator levels the profile options
can be updated: User, Responsibility, Application, or Site. For a
detailed description of each profile option, see: Profile Option
Descriptions: page 2 – 66.
You are required to provide a value for a “Required” profile option. An
“Optional” profile option provides a default value, which you only
need to change if you do not want to accept the default. The key to the
following chart is as follows:
• n

You can update the profile option.

• –

You can view the profile option value but you cannot change it.

• 0

You cannot view or change the profile option value.

• D, R, P

The profile is applicable to Discrete, Repetitive, or Project Manufacturing

• WO

The profile is applicable to Flow Manufacturing (Work Order–less Completions)

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Profile Option Name User User Resp App Site Required Default Value Applies
or To
Optional

TP:WIP Background Shop Floor n n n n n Required Online All

Material Processing processing

TP:WIP Completion Material n n n n n Required Online D, R, P

Processing processing

TP:WIP Completion Transaction n n n n n Required Online D, R, P

Form processing

TP:WIP Completion Transactions n n n n n Required Job D, R, P

First Field

TP:WIP Concurrent Message Level n n n n n Required Message level D, R, P

0

TP:WIP Material Transaction Form n n n n n Required Online D, R, P

processing
TP:WIP Material Transactions First n n n n n Required Job D, R, P
Field

TP:WIP Move Transaction n n n n n Required Online D, R, P

processing
TP:WIP Move Transactions First n n n n n Required Job D, R, P
Field
TP:WIP Move Transaction Quantity n n n n n Required None D, R, P
Default

TP:WIP Operation Backflush Setup n n n n n Required Online D, R, P

processing
TP:WIP Resource Transactions First n n n n n Required Job All
Field
TP:WIP Shop Floor Material n n n n n Required Online All
Processing processing

TP:WIP:Workorderlesss Completion n n n n n Required Unscheduled WO

Default

WIP: Default Job Start Date n n n n n Required No D, P

WIP: Define Discrete Job Form n n n n n Required Interactive D, P

definition

WIP: Discrete Job Prefix n n n n n Required None D, P,

WO
WIP: Enable Outside Processing – – – – n Optional No D, R
Workflows

WIP: Exclude ECOs n n n n n Required Open D, R, P,

WO

WIP: Job Name Updatable – n n n n Required Yes D, P

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 Profile Option Name User User Resp App Site Required Default Value Applies
or To
Optional

WIP: Move Completion Default n n n n n Required No D, R, P

WIP: Requirement Nettable Option n n n n n Required View all D, R, P,

subinventories WO
WIP:See Engineering Items n n n n n Required Yes D, R, P,
WO

Profile Option Descriptions

The following information provides you with a description of each
Work in Process profile option and its values.

TP:WIP:Background Shop Floor Material Processing

This profile option is used only when the TP:Move Transaction profile
is set to Background processing and the transaction being processed is a
move completion, move return, or operation pull backflush transaction.
If these conditions are met, the move transaction processor processes
the assembly move portion of the transaction. The processing of the
shop floor material portion of the transaction is controlled by this
profile option. Available values are listed below:
Background When set to background, shop floor material
processing transactions are processed by the inventory
material transaction processor on a periodic basis.
Concurrent When set to concurrent, the inventory material
processing transaction processor is launched to process the
shop floor material transactions.
The concurrent request number, representing the
concurrent process executing the shop floor
material transaction, is displayed.
Online processing When set to online, the move transaction processor
processes the shop floor material backflush
portions of transactions online by calling the
inventory material transaction processor.

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TP:WIP:Completion Material Processing
Controls material processing of assembly completion, assembly return,
and assembly completion backflush transactions initiated using the
Completion Transactions window. Available values are listed below:
Background When you save a completion transaction, control is
processing returned to you immediately. Assembly
completions and returns and their associated
backflush transactions are processed on a periodic
basis.
Concurrent When you save a completion transaction, a
processing concurrent process is spawned and control is
returned to you immediately.
The concurrent request number, representing the
concurrent process executing the material
transaction for the job or repetitive schedule, is
displayed.
Online processing When you save a completion transaction, the
transaction is processed while you wait and control
is returned once transaction processing is
completed.

☞ Attention: If you set TP:WIP:Completion Transactions Form

profile option to Background processing, this profile option is
disregarded.

☞ Attention: If you are using average costing, and the TP:INV:

Transaction Processing Mode profile option in Oracle Inventory
is set to Form level processing, you must set this profile option
to Online to ensure that transactions are processed in the
proper sequence.

TP:WIP:Completion Transaction Form

Determines whether completion transactions are processed online or in
the background when transacting assembly completions using the
Completion Transactions window. A completion transaction includes
updating the completion quantity of a job or repetitive schedule,
identifying the component items and quantities to be backflushed, and
transferring reservations from the final assembly order to appropriate
sales order lines and deliveries. Available values are listed below:
Background When you save a completion transaction, control is
processing returned to you immediately. Completion
transactions are then processed on a periodic basis.

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 Online processing When you save a completion transaction, it is
processed while you wait and control is returned
once transaction processing is completed.

☞ Attention: If you are using average costing, and the

TP:INV:Transaction Processing Mode profile option in Oracle
Inventory is set to Form level processing, you must set this
profile option to Online to ensure that transactions are
processed in the proper sequence.

TP:WIP:Completion Transactions First Field

Determines which field the cursor defaults to when you first enter the
Completion Transactions window. Set this option based on your
predominant manufacturing environment: assemble–to–order, project
or discrete job, or repetitive.
The available first field values are Line, Assembly, Job, or Sales Order.
You can navigate to another field to override the default.

☞ Attention: You can only enter a Sales Order name if you have
an ATO sales order linked to a job.

TP:WIP:Concurrent Message Level

Determines the level of detail reported in the move transaction
concurrent log file during move transaction validation and processing.
Available values are listed below:
Message level 0 Reports errors only.
Message level 1 Reports processing activities and errors.
Message level 2 Reports and time stamps processing activities and
errors.

TP:WIP:Material Transaction Form

Controls the processing of component issue and return transactions
entered in the WIP Material Transactions window. Available values are
listed below:
Background When you save a material transaction, control is
processing returned to you immediately. Transactions are then
processed on a periodic basis.

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 Concurrent When you save a material transaction, a concurrent
processing process is spawned and control is returned to you
immediately.
The concurrent request number representing the
concurrent process executing the issue or return
transactions for the job or repetitive schedule is
displayed.
Online processing When you save a material transaction, the
transaction is processed while you wait and control
is returned once transaction processing is
completed.

☞ Attention: If you are using average costing, and the TP:INV:

Transaction Processing Mode profile option in Oracle Inventory
is set to Form level processing, you must set this profile option
to Online to ensure that transactions are processed in the
proper sequence.

TP:WIP:Material Transactions First Field

Determines which field the cursor defaults to when you first enter the
WIP Material Transactions window. Set this option based on your
predominant manufacturing environment: assemble–to–order, project
or discrete job, or repetitive.
The available first field values are Line, Assembly, Job, or Sales Order.
You can navigate to another field to override the default.

☞ Attention: You can only enter a Sales Order name if you have
an ATO sales order linked to a job.

TP:WIP:Move Transaction
Determines whether move transactions performed using the Move
Transactions window are processed online or in the background.
Available values are listed below:
Background When you save a move transaction, control is
processing returned to you immediately. Transactions are then
processed on a periodic basis.
Online processing When you save a move transaction, the transaction
is processed while you wait and control is returned
once transaction processing is completed.

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 ☞ Attention: If you have this option set to Online processing,
you cannot move more assemblies than are waiting at an
operation step. However, if you have this option set to
Background processing, you can move any number of
assemblies, but validation of the quantity takes place in the
background. You can correct and resubmit transactions that
have errors using the Pending Move Transactions window.

☞ Attention: If you are using average costing, and the TP:INV:

Transaction Processing Mode profile option in Oracle Inventory
is set to Form level processing, you must set this profile option
to Online to ensure that transactions are processed in the
proper sequence.

TP:WIP:Move Transactions First Field

Determines which field the cursor defaults to when you first enter the
Move Transactions window. Set this option based on your
predominant manufacturing environment: assemble–to–order, project
or discrete job, or repetitive.
The available first field values are Line, Assembly, Job, or Sales Order.
You can navigate to another field to override the default.

☞ Attention: You can only enter a Sales Order name if you have
an ATO sales order linked to a job.

TP:WIP:Move Transaction Quantity Default

Indicates if and how move transaction quantities are defaulted.
Available values are listed below:
None No transaction quantity is defaulted.
Minimum Transfer When you perform a move transaction, the
Quantity transaction quantity defaults to the minimum
transfer quantity if the minimum transfer quantity
is less than or equal to the available quantity. If the
minimum transfer quantity is greater that the
available quantity, and the available quantity is not
zero, then the available quantity is defaulted.
Available Quantity When you perform a move transaction, if the
available quantity is not zero, the transaction
quantity defaults to the available quantity

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TP:WIP:Operation Backflush Setup
Controls the backflush setup used in the Move Transactions window.
This setup determines which component items and quantities are
backflushed and also determines how component lot numbers are
derived. Available values are listed below:
Online processing When you save a move transaction, the setup of
operation backflush transactions is processed while
you wait and control is returned once the setup
processing is completed. Use this option when
lot/serial numbers must be manually assigned
(e.g., the Lot Selection Method parameter is set to
Manual).

☞ Attention: If you set the TP:WIP:Move Transactions profile

option to Background processing, this profile option is
disregarded and executes operation backflush setup in the
background.

☞ Attention: You should set this profile to Online processing if

you are backflushing lot and serial controlled or serial
controlled components or using manual lot entry.

☞ Attention: If you are using average costing, and the TP:INV:

Transaction Processing Mode profile option in Oracle Inventory
is set to Form level processing, you must set this profile option
to Online to ensure that transactions are processed in the
proper sequence.

TP:WIP:Resource Transactions First Field

Determines which field the cursor defaults to when you first enter the
Resource Transactions window. Set this option based on your
predominant manufacturing environment: assemble–to–order, project
or discrete job, or repetitive.
The available first field values are Line, Assembly, Job, or Sales Order.
You can navigate to another field to override the default.

☞ Attention: You can only enter a Sales Order name if you have
an ATO sales order linked to a job.

TP:WIP:Shop Floor Material Processing

Controls processing of operation and assembly pull backflush,
assembly scrap, move completion, and move return transactions from
the Move Transactions window. Available values are listed below:

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 Background When you save a move transaction, control is
processing returned to you immediately. The operation and
assembly pull backflush, assembly scrap, move
completion, and move return transactions are then
processed on a periodic basis.
Do not use background processing if you are
backflushing lot controlled components that
require manual entry of lot numbers either because
of insufficient inventory or because the WIP
Backflush Lot Selection parameter is set to Manual.
See: Lot and Serial Number Backflushing: page
7 – 78.
Concurrent When you save a move transaction, a concurrent
processing process to process the material port of the move
transaction is spawned and control is returned to
you immediately.
The concurrent request number representing the
concurrent process executing the move
transactions for the job or repetitive schedule is
displayed.
Online processing When you save a move transaction, operation and
assembly pull backflush, assembly scrap, move
completion, and move return transactions are
processed while you wait and control is returned
once transaction processing is completed.

☞ Attention: If you set the TP:WIP:Move Transactions or the

TP:WIP:Operation Backflush Setup profile option to
Background processing, the Move Transactions window
disregards this profile option for operation pull backflush,
assembly scrap, and move completion transactions and
performs the material portion of the move transaction in the
background.

TP:WIP:Work Order–less Default Completion

Determines the default for the Scheduled flag in the Work Order–less
Completions window. Set this profile according to your business
requirements. The default can be overridden. Available values are
listed below:
Scheduled The Schedule flag defaults to checked. Use this
option if most of your work order–less completions

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 are based upon flow schedules generated by the
Line Scheduling Workbench.
Unscheduled The Scheduled flag defaults to unchecked. Use this
option if most of your work order–less completions
are manually entered and not based upon flow
schedules generated by the Line Scheduling
Workbench.

WIP:Default Job Start Date

Determines whether the start dates for jobs default to the current date
and time or not at all when defining jobs in the Discrete Jobs window.
The options are Yes or No.

WIP:Define Discrete Job Form

Indicates how to load the bill of material and routing information when
defining jobs in the Discrete Jobs window. Available values are listed
below:
Concurrent When you save a job, a concurrent process is
definition spawned and control is returned to you
immediately.
The concurrent request number representing the
concurrent process is displayed. You can view the
status of the process in the Concurrent Requests
window. The concurrent process updates the job
status to Pending Bill Load, and if the bill of
materials load succeeds, updates the job status to
Pending Routing Load. The process then loads the
routing information (if you defined a routing for
the bill). If the routing load succeeds, the job status
is updated to the choice you specified for the job
(Unreleased, Released, or On Hold), and then loads
the costing information. When all costing
information is loaded, you can update the discrete
job information and transact against it.
Concurrent definition produces an output report
that indicates the job, assembly, relevant dates, and
successful completion of each step (bill of materials
load, routing load, and costing load). If the
concurrent process fails, the status of the discrete
job indicates the source of the problem (Failed bill

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 of material load or Failed routing load). If the bill
of material or routing load fails you can resubmit
the job once you change the job status to
Unreleased, Released, or On Hold.
Interactive When you save a job, job definition occurs
definition immediately. The bill of material and routing are
loaded while you wait and control is returned
when the definition process is completed.

☞ Attention: If you have complex bills of material and long

routings, concurrent processing is recommended.

WIP:Discrete Job Prefix

Specifies the job prefix to use when autogenerating job names in the
Discrete Jobs, Simulate Discrete Jobs, Import Jobs and Schedules, and
AutoCreate windows in Work in Process, and in the Planner
Workbench window in Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle
Supply Chain Planning. It is also used when autogenerating the
numbers for flow schedules created in the Work Order–less
Completions window.
Work in Process concatenates this prefix with a value from the
sequence WIP_JOB_NUMBER_S to create a default discrete job name.

WIP:Enable Outside Processing Workflows

Determines whether or not outside processing workflows are enabled.
Yes All outside processing workflows are enabled.
No No outside processing workflows are enabled.

WIP:Exclude ECOs
Controls which engineering change orders (ECOs) are included when
you define jobs and schedules. This profile option also controls whether
you can select revisions associated with open ECOs in the WIP Material
Transactions window. See: ECO Statuses, Oracle Engineering User’s
Guide and ECO Implementation by Status: page 11 – 18. Your choices
are:
• Open: ECOS with statuses of Release, Schedule, and Implement
are considered when you choose a bill of material revision or
revision date, and the bill of material is exploded. Open is the
default value.

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 • None: Open ECOs are included with the statuses of Release,
Schedule and Implement when you choose a bill of material
revision or revision date. This enables you to explode item
revisions on the bill of material.
• All: Only revised item lines with a status of Implemented are
considered.

WIP:Job Name Updatable

Determines whether you can update the names of existing jobs in the
Discrete Jobs window.

WIP:Move Completion Default

Determines the default transaction type for the Move Transactions
window. If you specify Yes, the transaction type defaults to Complete.
Otherwise, the transaction type defaults to Move. Note that you
cannot specify that the Return transaction type be used as the default.
See: Move Transaction Types: page 8 – 36.

WIP:Requirement Nettable Option

Determines which subinventories to include when displaying on–hand
quantities in the Material Requirements and View Material
Requirements windows. Available values are listed below:
View only nettable Include only nettable subinventories when
subinventories displaying on–hand quantities.
View all Include all subinventories (nettable and
subinventories non–nettable) when displaying on–hand quantities.

WIP:See Engineering Items

Determines whether you can define jobs and schedules for engineering
items and whether you can add engineering items as material
requirements.

See Also

Oracle Inventory Profile Options, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide

Overview of User Profiles, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

Setting Up 2 – 75
 Setting Your Personal User Profile, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Security Functions
Function security is the mechanism by which user access to
applications functionality is controlled. System administrators
administer function security.
Access to Work in Process functionality is controlled either by menus
and form functions/subfunctions or by form function parameters.

See Also

Overview of Function Security, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

Form Function Parameters

Some Work in Process forms are coded to accept particular parameters.
Parameters can be used to limit access to form elements such as:
• Window options
• Tools menu options
• Buttons
The syntax for entering form function parameters is:
PARAMETER = VALUE
For example, to enter a negative Boolean parameter value for the
WIP_WIPDJMDF_CLOSE function, you would enter the following in
the Parameters field in the Form Functions window:
UNCLOSE = N
The following table describes the Work in Process form function
parameters. All values are either Y (Yes) or N (No). A detailed
description of each form function parameter follows the table:

Function User Function Name Parameter

WIP_WIPDJMDF_CLOSE Define Discrete Jobs: Close Dis- UNCLOSE

crete Jobs

WIP_WIPTXSFM_OVER- Move Transactions: Allow Skip- OVERRIDE_NO_

RIDE_NO_MOVE ping Over No Move Statuses MOVE_NO_SKIP

WIP_WIPTXSFM_NO_CMP Move Transactions: No Comple- ALLOW_CMP

tion Transactions

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Function User Function Name Parameter

WIP_WIPTXSFM_NO_RSC Move Transactions: No Resource RESOURCE_TXNS

Transactions

ALLOW_FINAL_COMPLETIONS Completion Transactions: No Fi- ALLOW_FINAL_

nal Completions COMPLETIONS

Define Discrete Jobs: Close Discrete Jobs

Determines whether you can unclose jobs using the Close Discrete Jobs
window. When this function security parameter (UNCLOSE) is added
and set to N, the Unclose option does not appear in the Tools menu.
See: Closing Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 121.
The default for this option is Y.

Move Transactions: Allow Skipping Over No Move Statuses

Determines whether you can override ‘no move’ shop floor statuses
when performing a move transaction. If the WIP Allow Moves Over No
Move Shop Floor Statuses parameter is set to N and this function security
parameter (OVERRIDE_NO_MOVE_NO_SKIP) is set to Y, you can
move assemblies over no move shop floor statuses. See: Move
Transaction Parameters: page 2 – 20.
The default for this option is N.

Move Transactions: No Completion Transactions

Determines whether you can perform assembly completion and return
move transactions using the Move Transactions window. When this
function security parameter (ALLOW_CMP) is set to N, the Complete
and Return options do not appear in the Transaction Type region of the
Move Transactions window. See: Move Transaction Types: page 8 – 36.
The default for this option is Y.

Move Transactions: No Resource Transactions

Determines whether you can initiate a manual resource transaction
from the Move Transactions window. When this function security
parameter (RESOURCE_TXNS) is set to N, the Resources button does
not appear in the Move Transactions window. See: Charging Resources
with Move Transactions: page 9 – 36.
The default for this option is Y.

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 Completion Transactions: No Final Completions
Determines whether you can perform WIP final completions in an
average costing organization. When this function security parameter
(ALLOW_FINAL_ COMPLETIONS) is set to N, the Final Complete
check box does not appear in the Completion Transactions window.
See: Completing and Returning Assemblies: page 7 – 91.
The default for this option is Y.

Function Security
A form function invokes an Oracle Forms form. A non–form function
(subfunction) is a securable subset of a form’s functionality: in other
words, a function executed from within a form. When the subfunction
associated with a certain functionality is included in a menu, that
functionality is enabled. For more information see: Menus Window,
Oracle Applications User’s Guide.
The following table describes the subfunction used in Work in Process.
A detailed description of each function (subfunction) follows the table:

Menu Function (Subfunction) Functionality

WIP_TXN_MATERIAL Allow Overcompletions Overcompletions from Completion

Transactions window

WIP_TXN_MOVE Allow Overcompletions Overcompletions from Move Transac-

tions window

Allow Overcompletions
You can complete more assemblies than have been defined for discrete
jobs and repetitive schedule.
See: Assembly Over–completions and Over–returns: page 7 – 84 and
Move Completion/Return Transactions: page 8 – 31.

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CHAPTER

3 Discrete Manufacturing

T his chapter explains how to use and define jobs, including:

• Overview: page 3 – 2
• Discrete Manufacturing Process Diagram: page 3 – 6
• Setting Up: page 3 – 8
• Discrete Workstation: page NO TAG
• Creating Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 55
• Project Jobs: page 3 – 87
• Building Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 88
• Viewing Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 95
• Updating Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 104
• Simulating and Saving Simulated Jobs: page 3 – 111
• Completing Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 115
• Discrete Job Close: page: page 3 – 119
• Discrete Job Purge: page: page 3 – 127
• Processing Pending Jobs and Schedules: page 3 – 133

Discrete Manufacturing 3–1

Overview
You can use Oracle Work in Process to produce assemblies in discrete
batches, also known as discrete jobs.

Standard Versus Non–Standard Jobs

Standard discrete jobs control the material, resources, and operations
required to build an assembly and collect its manufacturing cost.
Non–standard discrete jobs control material and collect costs for
miscellaneous manufacturing activity. They may or may not build an
assembly. This type of activity can include rework, field service repair,
upgrade, disassembly, maintenance, engineering prototypes, and other
projects. See: Overview of Non–Standard Discrete Jobs: page NO TAG

Discrete Versus Lot Based Jobs

A discrete job is a production order for the manufacture of a specific
(discrete) quantity of an assembly, using a specific standard routing
and operations.
If you have Oracle Shop Floor Management installed, you can use lot
based jobs in your manufacturing. A lot based job follows a network
routing. Network routings provide flexibility in choosing the next
operation which, in turn, determines the series of operations the job
moves through. See: Creating a Network Routing, Oracle Shop Floor
Management User’s Guide, and Creating a Lot Based Job, Oracle Shop
Floor Management User’s Guide

Shop Floor Control

Shop floor control helps you manage the flow of production inside the
plant. Routings can be used to schedule job production activities and
create requirements. You can use reports and views to help you control
these activities.

Discrete Workstation
The Discrete Workstation enables you to obtain critical job information
on all immediate and future jobs at a department resource to perform
common shop floor transactions; and to view operating instructions,
associated contracts, and other attachments without having to return to
the Work in Process main menu.

Material Control
Material control helps you manage the flow of component material
from inventory to jobs. Bills of material can be used to create job

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material requirements. You can use reports and views to help you
control material activities.

Non–Standard Job Bills of Material and Routings

You can assign a predefined bill of material or routing to a
non–standard job or create one manually. You may use any bill or
routing for the job, including one that does not match the assembly
item of the job.

Engineering Bills and ECOs

You can build released as well as unreleased revisions and engineering
items. You can also add engineering items as material requirements.
The system can automatically update your jobs following an
engineering change order (ECO).
You can create ECOs and pass down the information to unreleased jobs
to specify a cumulative quantity, a range of jobs, or implement changes
for specific lots. You can also add, change, or disable – items,
operations, resources, and attributes. See: Defining ECO Revised Items,
Oracle Engineering User’s Guide

Processing Options
When you define discrete jobs, you can create discrete job operations,
resource requirements, and material requirements either concurrently
or interactively. Interactive processing loads all bill of material and
routing information while you wait, returning control to you after the
process is complete. Concurrent processing spawns a background
process that loads all bill of material and routing information and
returns control to you immediately.

Lot and Serial Control

You can build jobs for assemblies under lot control, serial control, or
both lot and serial control.
You can track your jobs using serial control throughout the
manufacturing process. This enables you to assign, perform serial
transaction entry, import serial numbers, and print serial number
labels. This functionality is supported through Oracle Mobile Supply
Chain Applications. See: Serial Number Tracking Throughout
Manufacturing: page 3 – 79

Planning Standard Discrete Jobs

Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning plans standard
discrete jobs and their material requirements. You can automatically

Discrete Manufacturing 3–3

 create standard jobs from these planned orders. Master
Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning can also reschedule
standard jobs.
Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning does not plan
non–standard discrete jobs. However, Master Scheduling/MRP and
Supply Chain Planning nets non–standard jobs if you choose.

Work Order Interface

You can import planned order and planned order update
recommendations for discrete jobs from external systems into Work in
Process. See: Work Order Interface, Oracle Manufacturing APIs and Open
Interfaces Manual

Requirements and Assembly Netting

You can specify whether a job’s material requirements are included as
demand in the MRP netting process. You can also specify whether the
assemblies you build on a job are included as supply.

MPS Relief
When you build an MPS–Planned item using a job, the master schedule
for the quantity you define is automatically updated (relieved).

Simulate Discrete Jobs

You can simulate a standard job to determine what materials,
operations, and operation resources are required to support that job.
You can convert your simulated job into an actual job. See: Simulating
and Saving Simulated Jobs: page 3 – 111.

Available–to–Promise Materials
You can view component available–to–promise (ATP) information as
you define, simulate, and view discrete jobs.

Final Assembly Orders

You can manually or automatically define jobs (final assembly orders)
to build custom configurations for assemble–to–order products. You
can allocate your discrete production by sales channel using demand
classes. You can retain as–built configuration histories for quality and
customer service tracking.

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Job Close
You can close several standard and non–standard discrete jobs
simultaneously. You can also close individual discrete jobs. See:
Discrete Job Close: page 3 – 119.

Job Costs
You can cost standard and non–standard asset discrete production by
job. You can report job cost on a period–to–date and
cumulative–to–date basis. See: Discrete Job and Repetitive Schedule
Costs: page 12 – 6

Job Purge
You can purge all information associated with discrete jobs including
job header records and job detail and transaction information. You can
also selectively purge some or all of the following job related
information: job details (material requirements, resource requirements,
and operations), ATO configurations, move transactions, and resource
cost transactions.

View Workflows
You can view the status of workflows used for tracking outside
processing of assemblies. Workflows automatically send notifications
and activate processes during specific manufacturing points. You can
display a graphical display of the status of workflows from the Tools
menu in the Discrete Jobs and View Discrete Jobs windows.

Constraint–based Scheduling
If you have installed Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling; the
Constraint–based Scheduling engine enables you to schedule discrete
jobs and operations based on user–defined priorities, resources, and
material availability. The Scheduler Workbench is the graphical
interface used to schedule single discrete jobs, and reschedule pending
jobs on the entire shop floor. See: Scheduling Single Discrete Jobs,
Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling User’s Guide, and Features, Oracle
Manufacturing Scheduling User’s Guide

Label Printing at Completion

Label printing capabilities are available at the time of completion. This
provides the ability to create labels for any descriptive information or
customer requirements. See: Label Printing at Completion: page 7 – 82

Discrete Manufacturing 3–5

See Also

Comparison of Manufacturing Methods: page C – 2

Discrete Manufacturing Process Diagram

The following diagram illustrates the discrete manufacturing process:

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Discrete Manufacturing 3–7
Setting Up
• For a listing of setups that affect discrete manufacturing see:
Setup Prerequisites: page 2 – 3.
• For a listing of setup steps within Work in Process see: Setup
Check List: page 2 – 7.
• For additional information about discrete parameters and
accounting classes see: Discrete Manufacturing Parameters: page
2 – 17 and Discrete Accounting Classes: page 2 – 42.
• For a listing of profile options that affect discrete manufacturing
see: Profile Options: page 2 – 64.

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Overview of the Discrete Workstation
The Discrete Workstation provides you with a single window to obtain
critical production information and perform common shop floor
transactions. The workstation displays information by department or
for a resource, and it lists all of the job operations for immediate and
future dispatch at that department or resource.
You can view broad information, such as the utilization, efficiency,
productivity, and load on the resources within a department or on a
specific resource across all departments. You also can obtain detailed
component and resource information on each individual job scheduled
for the department or resource. You can perform move, completion,
and other common transactions directly on the workstation’s tabs, or
open their corresponding Work in Process windows directly from the
workstation. There is also a link to Oracle Project Contracts records
associated with specific jobs.
The Discrete Workstation can record and track discrete production in
organizations enabled for Oracle Shopfloor Management. You can use
all the capabilities of monitoring and transaction work on discrete jobs
in a mixed mode organization where discrete and lot based jobs are
both used.

Features of the Discrete Workstation

On the Discrete Workstation, you can:
• View the utilization, efficiency, productivity, and load on the
resource from all departments in table and graph format.
• View all of the jobs for immediate and future dispatch at the
selected resource, including their components and resources
• View job component shortages
• View resource properties
• View project contract information linked to specific jobs
• Open the Material Transactions window and Issue components
to jobs
• Move assemblies from one intraoperation step to another
directly on the workstation using the mouse
• Open the Work in Process Move Transactions window and
perform Move transactions
• Complete assemblies and operations

Discrete Manufacturing 3–9

 • Scrap assemblies
• Open the Work in Process Resource Transactions window and
manually charge resources to jobs
• Manually charge resource time to jobs
• Collect quality results data during Move transactions
• Obtain operating instructions, diagrams, component
attachments, ant other information previously attached to jobs,
assemblies, and components

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Discrete Workstation Window
The Discrete Workstation window is composed of two panes. The left
pane displays the navigational tree. The right pane displays one or
more tabs of detailed information that correspond to the branch or tab
that you select from the tree.

Navigational Tree
The workstation’s left pane contains its navigational structure, which
displays a hierarchical listing of the workstation contents. Since its
structure is analogous to a tree with branches, it is referred to as the
workstation tree, The tree displays four branches or levels of
information. When you select a branch (the branch is highlighted),
information relevant to that branch is displayed on tabs in the right
pane of the workstation. See: Discrete Workstation Tree and Tabs: page
3 – 15 for detailed information on each of the workstation branches and
tabs.

Tabbed Regions
The workstation’s right pane displays one or more tabs of detailed
information pertaining to the branch that you selected from the tree.
The information is displayed either in tables, on lists, pictorially, or on
graphs, so that you can quickly assess the status of the job. Tabs may
also have buttons that enable you to:
• Perform common transactions directly from the tab, such as
issuing components, performing assembly moves, or charging
resources,
• Open the WIP Material Transactions, Move Transactions, and
Resource Transactions forms directly from the workstation
• Obtain attachments previously appended to a job, such as
drawings and instructions

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Viewing the Discrete Workstation Tree
The information on the tree is always current, as jobs are completed –
they are automatically removed from the tree. You can update the
display at any time by choosing the Refresh tool.
You can choose to view the information on the workstation tree in
Vertical (the default), Interleaved (horizontal), or Org Chart
(organization chart) format. These choices are available through tools
on the toolbar, or as menu selections under the View menu.

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 To view the tree in Interleaved or Org Chart format, you may need to
widen the left pane to see the full display. You can use your mouse to
drag the right side of the pane towards the right side of the window, or
you can hide the tabs so the window’s full width can be used to display
the contents of the left pane.

" To hide the right pane of the workstation:

H Select the View menu, and remove the check mark from the Node
Properties check box. The right pane is hidden.

" To again display the right pane of the workstation:

H Select the View menu and place a check mark in the Node
Properties check box. The right pane is displayed.

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Selecting the Department or Department and Resource
The Discrete Workstation provides you with production information on
the jobs assigned to a particular department or resource. In order to
launch the workstation, you must first select the department or the
department and the resource whose jobs you want to view.
• If you want to view all of the job operations scheduled to be
worked on in a department, you select only the department, then
launch the workstation.
• If you want to view the job operations that are assigned to a
resource associated with a specific department, you select the
department and the resource, then launch the workstation.
If you want to view a different department or resource, you must close
the workstation, and launch it again, choosing a new department and
resource from the workstation startup window.

" To Launch the Discrete Workstation

1. Navigate to the Discrete Workstation. The Discrete Workstation
Startup window opens.

2. In the Department field, select the department to view.

Choose OK. If you want to view all of the job operations scheduled
for the department.
3. Select a Resource from the list of values.

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 4. Choose Launch to display the Discrete Workstation.

The Discrete Workstation Branches and Tabs

The first, topmost branch on the Discrete Workstation tree displays
information for the department or the resource that you selected when
you launched the workstation. Listed below it are its two main
branches:
• The Immediate Dispatch List branch, which displays all of the
job operations that are ready to be worked on in the department
or by the resource (there is a quantity of assemblies in its queue).
• The Upstream Dispatch List branch, which displays all of the job
operations that are to be worked on in the department or by the
resource in the near future (there is a quantity of assemblies
ready to be moved in the previous operation).
Expanding any of the individual job operation branches under either
main branch displays two additional branches, the components and
resources branches for that job.

Branch Naming Conventions

The branch names displayed on the Discrete Workstation are
automatically generated by the system. They contain the name of the
job (which you created when you defined the job in the Discrete Jobs
window), and the number of the operation, separated by a colon. For
example: BIKE_Assy1:20 is the BIKE_Assy1 job at operation 20.

Discrete Workstation Transactions

From the Discrete Workstation, you can issue components, move
assemblies, complete assemblies and operations, and charge resources
without having to return to the main menu. You can either perform the
transactions directly on the workstation tabs, or open the appropriate
Work in Process window for that transaction.

Issue Components
To issue components to a job from the workstation, you choose the
Issue Components button, which opens the WIP Material Transactions
window. All relevant job information is automatically defaulted into

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 the window from the workstation. See: Component Issues and Returns:
page 7 – 42.

Move Assemblies
You can perform simple assembly Move transactions directly on the
Assembly Move tab graphic using the mouse. The graphic displays a
bucket for each intraoperation step, and uses a red ball to represent the
assembly quantity. You move assembly quantities from one
intraoperation step to another. by dragging the red ball to the bucket at
that step.
When you move the assemblies, a window opens so that you can
indicate the quantity that you want to move. The assembly quantity at
each intraoperation step is displayed numerically above the step, and
changes to reflect the number of assemblies that you move in or out of
that step.

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For more complex Move transactions, for example, if you want to
over–complete, over–move, or complete lot and serial number
controlled assemblies, you use the Work in Process Move Transactions
window. You open the window directly from the workstation by
choosing the Move Assemblies button on the Assembly Moves tab. All
relevant job information is automatically defaulted into the window
from the workstation.

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See Also

Completing Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 115.

Completing and Returning Assemblies: page 7 – 91.
Assembly Over–completions: page 7 – 84.
Move Completion/Return Transactions: page 8 – 31.
Performing Move Transactions: page 8 – 37.
Performing Move Completion and Move Return Transactions
Transactions: page 8 – 48.

Complete Assemblies and Complete Operations

You can complete assemblies and complete operations directly on the
workstation Assembly Moves tab. You complete assemblies and
operations when you drag the red ball graphic into the Complete
Assembly or Complete Operation bucket on the tab’s interactive
graphic. You also can complete and over–complete assemblies on the
Move transactions window, which you open by choosing the Move
Assemblies button.

Completing Assemblies
You can complete assemblies on the Assembly Moves tab if you are at
the last operation on the routing. The completed assembly is then
moved into the completion subinventory designated on the routing.

Completing Operations
You can complete the operation on the Assembly Moves tab for any
operation other than the last operation The assembly is moved into the
Queue of the next operation.

Serial Control
If you want to over–complete or over–move assembly quantities, or
complete assemblies that are lot or serial number controlled, you
choose the Move Assemblies button, which opens the Move
Transactions window.

Sales Orders and Outside Processing Operations

When a job with outside processing operations is changed to complete,
closed, or canceled status – an informational warning message displays
if open purchase orders or requisitions exist for any of the operations.

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 Changing a job status to completed, closed, or canceled is prevented if
open reservations exist. If you attempt one of these transactions for a
job linked to a sales order, an error message displays. You have two
options in order to continue:
• Unlink the sales order reserved to this job
• Reduce the job quantity of the job to equal the completed
quantity

See Also

Assembly Completions and Returns: page 7 – 80.

Assembly Over–completions: page 7 – 84.
Performing Move Completion and Return Transactions: page 8 – 48.
Completing and Returning Assemblies: page 7 – 91.
Linking ATO Sales Orders and Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 74

Charge Resources
Resources are automatically charged when you move assemblies,
unless you set them up to be charged manually. If you are set up to
charge resources manually, you charge them on the Resource
Transactions window, which you an open directly from the workstation
by choosing the Charge Resources. All relevant job information is
automatically defaulted into the window from the workstation.
You also can use the workstation Time Charges tab to charge person
and machine time to a resource. On this tab, you select the resource
that you want to charge, and enter the Start and End Dates, and the
workstation calculates the time. The time is charged at the standard
rate unless you select the Use Employee Rate check box, which charges
the time at the employee rate.
See: Charging Resources Manually: page 9 – 33 , and Charging
Resources with Move Transactions: page 9 – 36.

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View Instructions
The View Instructions button is displayed on the Assembly Moves,
Component Shortages, and Time Charges tabs. It enables you to
download, view, and print instructions or other documents including
drawings and web pages that were previously attached to the job,
assembly, or component.
Choosing the View Instructions button opens an Oracle Web Applications
page that lists the available attachments. Selecting an attachment
displays it in the space below the list. To view a different attachment,

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 choose the web page’s Back button, which returns you to the list. To
return to the workstation, choose the Back to Invoking Page button
(appears after you select an attachment to view). See: Attaching Files to
Jobs, Schedules, and Operations: page E – 2.

View Contracts
You can view Oracle Project Contracts information for jobs that have an
associated contract. The View Contracts tab is enabled only when
Oracle Project Contracts is installed; and the discrete job has a project
and, if applicable, corresponding task referenced.
When you select a job in the hierarchical tree, and then select View
Contracts – the contracts associated with this job display including
detail information about contract number, type, status, related project
number and task, and description.

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 You can select the contract number to display the flowdown details
which can include system attributes, terms and conditions types, article
subjects, and standard note types.

See Also

Using the Contract Authoring Workbench, Oracle Project Contracts

User’s Guide
Business Areas and Contract Flowdown Attributes, Oracle Project
Contracts User’s Guide
Flowdown, Oracle Project Contracts Implementation Manual.

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Department or Resource Branch
The topmost branch of the tree displays the name of either the
department or the resource that you selected when you launched the
workstation. Your choice affects which jobs are displayed, as described
below:

Viewing a Department
If you launch the workstation by selecting a department, but do not
select a resource, the workstation branches display all of the job
operations scheduled to be worked on in that department. You can
identify whether you are viewing information for a department or a
resource by the graphic preceding the name. Department names are
preceded by a graphic of a building.

Viewing a Resource
If you launched the workstation by selecting a department and a
resource, the workstation branches display only the job operations
scheduled to be worked on at or by that resource. If you selected a
person resource when you launched the workstation, the name of the
resource on this branch will be preceded by a graphic of a person;
machine resources are preceded by a graphic of a conveyor belt.

Corresponding Tabs
When you select this branch, five tabs of information are displayed in
the workstation’s right pane. Four of the tabs provide tables and
graphs that show you the utilization, efficiency, productivity, and load
of the resources within the department or on a specific resource from
across all departments that use the resource. The fifth tab displays a list
of the department’s or resource’s properties.

Utilization Tab
The Utilization tab displays in graph and table format, the department’s
or resource’s daily percent utilization during the past five days (the
default date range), or during a date range that you select. The top
section of the tab displays the name of the department or resource and
its description, and provides you with two Date fields that you can use
to change the date range of the graph.

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Utilization Graph
The Utilization graph displays as a percentage the hours the department
or resource was actually used compared to the hours it was available to
be used. It shows the daily percent utilization of the resources within
the selected department, or of a particular resource across all
departments, depending on whether you chose to view a department
or a department/resource when you launched the workstation.
The utilization formula is: Utilization = Actual Hours / Available Hours.

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 The default view for the graph displays information for the last five
working days, however, you can change the date range (you are
restricted to dates in the past). If you change the graph dates, you use
the Redraw Graph button to refresh (update) the display.
The following information on the graph is also displayed in a table
below the graph:
• Date: a day in the selected date range (the default date range is
the last five working days)
• Actual Hours: the actual hours charged
• Available Hours: the hours defined in Bills of Material resource
definitions
• Utilization Percent (%): Actual Hours / Available Hours

Efficiency Tab
The Efficiency tab displays in graph and table format the efficiency
percentage of the department or resource. It shows the daily percent
efficiency of the resources within the selected department, or of a
particular resource across all departments, depending on whether you
chose to view a department or a department/resource when you
launched the workstation. The top section of the tab displays the name
of the department or resource and its description, and contains two
Date fields that you can use to change the date range for the graph.

Efficiency Graph
The Efficiency graph is a line graph that represents the daily percentage
of hours the department or resource is actually being used compared to
how many hours it was expected to be used. The default date range for
the graph is the last five working days, however you can change it (you
are restricted to dates in the past). If you change the date range of the
graph, you use the Redraw Graph button to refresh (update) the
display.
The Efficiency formula is: Efficiency = Actual Hours / Standard Hours
The information from the graph is also displayed in a table below the
graph:
• Date: a day in the selected date range (the default date range is
the last five working days)

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 • Actual Hours: the actual hours charged to the resource
• Standard Hours: the number of hours that were expected to have
been charged as defined in the routing
• Efficiency Percent (%): Actual Hours / Standard Hours

Productivity Tab
The Productivity tab displays the daily productivity of the department
or resource in graph and table format. It shows the percent
productivity of the resources within the selected department or of a
particular resource across all departments, depending on whether you
chose to view a department or a department/resource when you
launched the workstation. The top section of the tab displays the name
of the department or resource and its description, and provides you
with two Date fields that you can use to define the date range for the
graph.

Productivity Graph
The Productivity graph displays the daily percentage of hours the
department or resource was expected to be used compared to the
number of hours it was available to be used. The default date range for
the graph is the last five working days, however you can change it (you
are restricted to dates in the past). If you change the graph’s dates, you
must choose the Redraw Graph button to refresh (update) the display.
The Productivity formula is: Productivity = Standard Hours / Available
Hours

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The information from the graph is also displayed in a table below the
graph:
• Date: a day in the selected date range (the default date range is
the last five working days)
• Standard Hours: the number of hours that were expected to have
been charged as defined in the routing
• Available Hours: the hours defined in Bills of Material resource
definitions
• Productivity Percent (%): Standard Hours /Available Hours

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Load Tab
The Load Tab displays a bar graph that represents the load versus the
capacity of the resource. It shows the percent load versus capacity of
the resources within the selected department or of a particular resource
across all departments, depending on whether you chose to view a
department or a department/resource when you launched the
workstation. The top section of the tab displays the name of the
resource and its description, and provides you with two Date fields
that you can use to define the date range for the graph.
On this tab, you can view the load on the department or resource on
the two graphs, the Cumulative Load and Daily Load graphs, which
you select from the Graph Type field’s list of values.

Cumulative Load Graph

The Cumulative Load graph displays the cumulative available and
required hours for the department or resource across the entire date
range. The default date range for the graph is the last five working
days, however you can change it (you are restricted to dates in the
past). If you change the date range of the graph, you use the Redraw
Graph button to refresh (update) the display.

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The following information from the graph is also displayed in a table
below the graph:
• Department or Resource: the name of the department or resource
that you selected at launch
• Available Hours: calculated from Bills of Material resource
definitions. It represents the number of hours that can be worked
during the given date range.
• Required Hours: calculated from the scheduled start/end times
and the usage rates. It represents the number of hours required
to be worked on any scheduled jobs during the given date range.

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Daily Load Graph
The Daily Load graph displays the available and required hours for the
resource by day. The default date range for the graph is the last five
working days, however you can change it (you are restricted to dates in
the past). If you change the date range of the graph, you use the
Redraw Graph button to refresh (update) the display.

The following information from the graph is also displayed in a table

below the graph:

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 • Date: a day in the selected date range (the default date range is
the last five working days)
• Available Hours: calculated from Bills of Material resource
definitions. It represents the number of hours that can be worked
during the given date range.
• Required Hours: calculated from the scheduled start/end times
and the usage rates. It represents the number of hours that are
required for any job operations scheduled during the given date
range.

Properties Tab
The Properties tab for the department or resource provides you with the
resource, description, UOM (Unit of Measure), owning department,
resource type, whether or not the resource is available 24 hours, and
the basis:

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Immediate Dispatch List Branch
The Immediate Dispatch List is the first of the two main branches on
the Discrete Workstation’s navigation tree. When you select the
Immediate Dispatch List branch itself, the Schedule tab is displayed.
This tab lists all of the job operations on the tree in a table, along with
their job and operation start and end times.
Listed below the Immediate Dispatch List branch are all of the current
job operations that need to be worked on at the department or resource
that you selected when you launched the workstation. Selecting an
individual job operation branch displays the job operation’s
Components and Resources branches.
Each of the Immediate Dispatch List branches displays tabs of
information about the job operation. Further, the tabs contain buttons
that you can use to perform common transactions, and one that enables
you to view attachments. All of these branches, tabs, and buttons are
described in the sections that follow.

Schedule Tab
The Schedule tab lists all of the job operations on the Immediate
Dispatch List and provides you with the job name, operation code, and
operation start and end times. The top of the tab displays the name of
the department and resource that you selected when you launched the
workstation. There also are two Date fields that you can use to select a
different date range for the jobs that appear on the graph (the last five
working days are the default dates for the graph). If you change the
default dates, you must choose the Show Graph button to refresh
(update) the display.

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Jobs for Immediate Dispatch
Job operations listed under the Immediate Dispatch List branch have
assembly quantities in their Queue intraoperation step, and thus are
jobs that you can work on immediately. Any job operation listed on the
tree in red text and preceded by an icon of a stoplight, however, has
been put on hold.
Each branch represents one job operation, and each job operation is
supported by two branches of information: its Components branch,

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 which displays the operation’s Component Requirements tab, and its
Resources branch, which displays its Resource Requirements tab.
When you select a job operation branch, four tabs of information about
that operation are displayed in the workstation’s right pane: the
Assembly Moves, Component Shortages, Time Charges, and Properties
tabs. These tabs provide you with production information and enable
you to perform common shop floor transactions using the Issue
Components, Move Assemblies, and Charge Resources buttons that
appear at the top of the tabs. You also can download and print any
operating instructions or other attachments associated with the job or
its components by choosing the tab’s View Instructions button.
Each of the tabs are pictured below and described in the following
sections. For a description of each button and how you can use it to
perform transactions, see Discrete Workstation Transactions: page
3 – 15.

Assembly Moves Tab

The top section of the Assembly Moves tab displays the job that you
selected, its operation sequence, operation code, assembly, department,
resource, and resource sequence:

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 The Assembly Moves tab displays an interactive graphic that you can
use to perform simple Move and Completion transactions. It consists of
buckets that represent Work in Process intraoperation steps, and a red
ball graphic that represents the assembly quantity for the job. You use
the mouse to perform simple move and transactions on the graphic.
The tab also displays three buttons, the Issue Components, Move
Assemblies, and Charge Resources buttons, which you can use to open
Work in Process transaction windows. You also can download
operating instructions by choosing the View Instructions button.

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 Moving Assemblies: you use the mouse to perform simple move
transactions by dragging the red ball graphic from one bucket to
another. When you drag the red ball a small window opens so that you
can enter the assembly quantity that you want to move. The assembly
quantities that you move at each intraoperation step are displayed
above the step’s bucket.
Completing Assemblies: you can complete assemblies on the Assembly
Tab if you are at the last operation on the routing. The completed
assembly is then moved into the completion subinventory designated
on the routing. You also can complete and over–complete assemblies on
the Move transactions window, which you open by choosing the Move
Assemblies button.
Completing Operations: at any operation other than the last operation,
you can complete the operation, and the assembly is moved into the
Queue of the next operation. You complete assemblies and operations
when you drag the red ball graphic into the Complete Assembly or
Complete Operation bucket on the tab’s interactive graphic.
For information on performing these transactions, see Discrete
Workstation Transactions: page 3 – 15

Component Shortages Tab

The Components Shortages tab displays in graph and table format a
comparison of the components required for a job operation to the
quantities of components on–hand. You can choose the Issue
Components button on the tab, which opens the WIP Material
Transactions window so that you can issue components to the job.
The top section of the Component Shortages tab displays the job that
you selected, its operation sequence, operation code, assembly,
department, resource, and resource sequence:

Component Shortages Tab Graph

The Component Shortages bar graph compares the job operation’s
required quantity to its on–hand quantity. The graph only displays job
operations that have fewer components on–hand than are required for
the operation.

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 The graph provides you with the following information, which is also
presented in a table below the graph:
• Component: the name of the component
• Date: the date where a shortage occurred
• Required Quantity: the number of components required for the job
operation
• On–Hand Quantity: the number of the components required for
the job operation that are in inventory
• Difference: the Required quantity minus the On–Hand quantity

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Time Charges Tab
If an operation has been set up to allow manual resource charging, you
can use the features on the Time Charges tab to manually charge both
person– or machine–type resources to the operation.
You can charge resources directly from the Time Charges tab or you can
charge them on the Resource Transactions window, which you can
open by choosing the Charge Resources button. When you charge
resources on the Resource Transactions window, the job, assembly, and
other information from the workstation are automatically defaulted in
the fields. The steps for manually charging resources on the Time
Charges tab are listed below. For information and instructions on
manually charging resources on the Resource Transactions window,
see: Charging Resources Manually: page 9 – 33.

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 " To manually charge resources on the Time Charges tab
1. In the Resource field, open the drop–down box and select the
resource to which you are charging time.
The first resource on the list is the resource that you selected when
you launched the workstation. Select this resource if you are
charging time for a person–type resource. All other resources listed
are machine–type resources assigned to that operation.
2. In the Start Date field, enter the start date and time for the period
of time that you are charging to the resource. The date must be the

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 current or a future date (if an invalid date is entered the field color
changes to red).
3. In the End Date field, enter the end date and time for the period of
time that you are charging to the resource. The date must be either
the same as the Start Date or a future date (if an invalid date is
entered the field color changes to red).
Note: When you change the start and end dates and times, the
system calculates the total hours for that period and displays
them directly below the End Date field.
4. In the Rate block, check the Use Employee Rate check box ONLY if
you are charging an employee’s time to the operation at the
employee’s rate. If you do NOT check the check box, the employee’s
time will be charged at the standard rate (the default).
5. From the drop–down list for the Employee Name field, select the
employee for whom you are charging time. The list only displays
the names of employees assigned to the resource whose employee
rate has already been set up in the system.
6. Choose the Save button on the tab to save your entries.

Properties Tab (Jobs for Immediate Dispatch)

The Properties tab for jobs in the immediate dispatch list provides you with
the following information: job, operation sequence, operation code,
operation description, scheduled quantity, assembly, assembly
description, department, resource, resource sequence, job start time, job
end time, operation start time, operation end time, quantity in Queue,
quantity in Run, quantity in To Move, quantity in Reject, quantity in
Scrap, quantity complete, next operation, previous operation,
minimum transfer quantity, project, and task.

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Components Branch (Jobs for Immediate Dispatch)
The Components branch displays the Component Requirements tab.
This tab lists all of the components required for the job operation.

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Component Requirements Tab (Jobs for Immediate Dispatch)
The header at the top of the Component Requirements tab for jobs in the
immediate dispatch list displays the job, operation sequence, operation
code, assembly, department, resource, and resource sequence.

The tab’s table provides the following information about the

component (you may have to scroll to see all of the columns of
information):
• Component

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 • Description
• UOM (Unit of Measure)
• Required Quantity
• Supply Type
• Date
• Subinventory
• Locator
• Quantity Issued
• Quantity Per Assembly
• Comments

Resources Branch (Jobs for Immediate Dispatch)

Selecting the Resources branch opens the Resource Requirements tab. This
tab lists all of the resources required the the job operation.

Resource Requirements Tab (Jobs for Immediate Dispatch)

The top section of the Resource Requirements tab for jobs in the immediate
dispatch list provides you with the job, operation sequence, operation
code, assembly, department, resource, and resource sequence.

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The tab’s table provides the following information about the resource
(you may have to scroll to see all of the columns of information):
• Sequence
• Resource
• Assigned Units
• Type
• Description
• UOM

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 • Basis
• Usage Rate
• Start Date
• Completion Date

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Upstream Dispatch List
The Upstream Dispatch List branch is the second of two main branches
on the Discrete Workstation. The tab for the Upstream Dispatch List
branch itself is blank. If there are jobs for future dispatch at that
department or resource, expanding the tree displays them on a list
below this branch. When you select a job operation from the tree, the
workstation also displays the operation’s Components and Resources
branches.
Job operations on the Upstream Dispatch List display two tabs of
information, the Component Shortages and Properties tabs. The job
operation’s Components branch displays the Component Requirements
tab, and its Resources branch displays the Resource Requirements tab.
Detailed information on each of these tabs is provided in the sections
that follow.

Jobs for Upstream Dispatch

Job operations on the Upstream Dispatch List have assembly quantities
in the To Move intraoperation step of the previous operation. These job
operations are scheduled to be worked on in the near future at the
resource you are viewing.
Each branch under the Upstream Dispatch List represents one job
operation, and each job operation is supported by two branches of
information: its Components branch, which displays the operation’s
Component Shortages and Properties tabs, and its Resources branch,
which displays its Resource Requirements tab.

Component Shortages Tab (Jobs for Upstream Dispatch)

The Component Shortages tab displays a comparison of the components
required for a job operation to the quantities of components on–hand.
The top section of the Component Shortages tab displays the following
information about the department and resource: job, operation
sequence, operation code, assembly, department, resource, and
resource sequence.

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Component Shortages Tab Graph
The Component Shortages bar graph for jobs in the upstream dispatch list
compares the job operation’s required quantity to its on–hand quantity.
The graph only displays job operations that have fewer components
on–hand than are required for the operation.

The graph provides you with the following information, which is also
presented in a table below the graph:
• Component: the name of the component
• Date: the date where the shortage occurred

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 • Required Quantity: the number of components required for the job
operation
• On–Hand Quantity: the number of the components required for
the job operation that are in inventory
• Difference: the Required quantity minus the On–Hand quantity

Properties Tab (Jobs for Upstream Dispatch)

The Properties tab for jobs in the upstream dispatch list displays the
following information:

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 • Job
• Operation Sequence
• Operation Code
• Operation Description
• Scheduled Quantity
• Assembly
• Assembly Description
• Department
• Resource
• Resource Sequence
• Job Start Time
• Job End Time
• Operation Start Time
• Operation End Time
• Quantity in Queue
• Quantity in Run
• Quantity in To Move
• Quantity in Reject
• Quantity in Scrap
• Quantity in Complete
• Next Operation
• Previous Operation
• Minimum Transfer Quantity
• Project
• Task

Components Branch (Jobs for Upstream Dispatch)

The Components branch displays the Component Requirements tab. This
tab lists all of the components required for the job operation.

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Component Requirements Tab (Jobs for Upstream Dispatch)
The section at the top of the Component Requirements tab for jobs in the
upstream dispatch list displays the job, operation sequence, operation
code, assembly, department, resource, and resource sequence.
The tab’s table provides the following information about the
component (you may have to scroll to see all of the columns of
information):

• Component
• Description
• UOM (Unit of Measure)

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 • Required Quantity
• Supply Type
• Date
• Subinventory
• Locator
• Quantity Issued
• Quantity Per Assembly
• Comments

Resources Branch (Jobs for Upstream Dispatch)

Selecting the Resources branch opens the Resource Requirements tab. This
tab lists all of the resources required the the job operation.

Resource Requirements Tab (Jobs for Upstream Dispatch)

The top section of the Resource Requirements tab for jobs in the upstream
dispatch list provides you with the job, operation sequence, operation
code, assembly, department, resource, and resource sequence.

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The table provides the following information about the resource (you
may have to scroll to see all of the columns of information):
• Sequence
• Resource
• Assigned Units
• Type
• Description
• UOM
• Basis

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 • Usage Rate
• Start Date
• Completion Date

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Creating Discrete Jobs
You can create discrete jobs in the following ways:
• manually (both standard and non–standard discrete jobs). See:
Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63.
• manually from a simulation (standard discrete jobs only). See:
Simulating and Saving Simulated Jobs: page 3 – 111.
• automatically using Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle
Supply Chain Planning to plan your standard discrete
production, then using the Planner Workbench to implement
your planned orders. See: Planned Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 55.
• automatically using Advanced Planning and Scheduling’s High
Level Scheduling Engine to schedule jobs and import them into
Work in Process
• automatically (standard discrete jobs only) from final assembly
orders for specific customer configurations and/or standard
assemble–to–order (ATO)/configure–to–order items. See: Final
Assembly Orders: page 3 – 56.
• using the Work Order Interface to import planned orders and
updated planned order recommendations. See: Work Order
Interface, Oracle Manufacturing APIs abd Open Interfaces Manual.
Note: If you have Oracle Shop Floor Management installed,
you can create lot based jobs. The entire quantity of a lot based
job moves on the basis of the network routing.

Planned Discrete Jobs

You can create planned orders and reschedule recommendations using
the Planner Workbench in Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle
Supply Chain Planning. You can modify the due dates and quantities
of planned orders, and also firm plan these orders. You can create new
discrete jobs by implementing all or some planned orders.
When you create jobs using the Planner Workbench, you can specify the
WIP accounting class. Accounting classes can be defaulted. See:
Product Line Accounting Setup, Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide,
Discrete Parameters: page 2 – 17, and Discrete Accounting Classes:
page 2 – 42.
If the job being created is for a lot controlled assembly, the WIP Default
Lot Number Type parameter is used to determine whether lot numbers

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 are assigned based on the job name or based on the Oracle Inventory
lot number rules.
Discrete jobs created from planned orders use the planned order
quantity as the default job quantity. The primary bill of materials and
primary routings for the assemblies are used to create work in process
bills and routings. Jobs created from planned orders are backward
scheduled from the required completion date. The calculated start date
is used to determine the bill and routing revisions and revision dates.
Planning takes shrinkage rate, component yield, and safety stock into
consideration in the planning process. Once you define the standard
job, supply is calculated using the following formula:
available supply quantity = (MRP net quantity – quantity
completed – quantity scrapped) x 1 – item shrinkage rate)
You can also use the Planner Workbench to reschedule existing jobs.
For example, you can reschedule every assembly in the plan or you can
reschedule only certain specific assemblies.
When you implement planned orders and create discrete jobs, Planning
does not take into account the WIP:View Only Released ECOs profile
option in the Personal Profile Values window.
Oracle Advanced Planning provides a profile option enabling you to
align Work in Process production with engineering changes for
planning See: Aligning Engineering Change Order Dates in Planning
and Production: page 3 – 57

See Also

Overview of Implementing Planning Recommendations, Oracle Master

Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning User’s Guide
Discrete Scheduling: page 13 – 5
Detailed Scheduling: page 13 – 7

Final Assembly Orders

You can automatically create final assembly orders for Assemble to
Order (ATO) items entered in Oracle Order Management. These
discrete job orders are created on a single job to single sales order
delivery basis.

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 On the Sales Order window (which you open from the Discrete Jobs
window in Work in Process), you also can associate discrete jobs for
both standard items and ATO items with sales orders and thereby
allocate production to specific customers.
To determine the job start date, you schedule jobs created from final
assembly orders backwards from the order due date. The calculated
start date is used to determine the bill and routing revisions and
revision dates.

See Also

Overview to Supplying Unique Configurations, Oracle Configure To

Order Implementation Manual
Linking ATO Sales Orders and Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 74
AutoCreating Final Assembly Orders: page 15 – 3
Discrete Scheduling: page 13 – 5

Work Order Interface

You can load planned orders, planned order update recommendations,
and suggested repetitive schedules from any source — planning
systems, order entry systems, finite scheduling packages, production
line sequencing programs, spreadsheets, and even custom entry forms
— into the Work Order Interface. For example, if your plant directly
feeds to your customer’s plant, you can take demands directly from
your customer rather than waiting for the next MRP run thus reducing
response time and eliminating unnecessary overhead.
You then use the Import Jobs and Schedules window to launch the WIP
Mass Load program, which validates records in the Work Order
Interface table and implements any imported records as new discrete
jobs, updated discrete jobs, or pending repetitive schedules.
See:Work Order Interface, Oracle Manufacturing APIs and Open Interfaces
Manual

Aligning Engineering Change Order Dates in Planning and Production

In Oracle Advanced Planning, the ECO Use–up Date is the date when
the on–hand quantity is calculated to be 0. It is calculated from
inventory supply and requirement demand. Work in Process detailed

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 scheduling calculations are taken sequentially. Therefore, production
order recommendations from planning can result in recommendations
that either ignore active ECOs, or assume future ECOs are already
active.
Oracle Advanced Planning provides a profile option to align Work in
Process production with engineering change orders in planning. This
enables you to control if resource and component schedules, calculated
by Oracle Advanced Planning, are forwarded to Oracle Work in
Process when ECO Revision Date differs from the order Start Date.
The profile option, MSC: Release WIP Details if Order Date Different
than BOM Revision Date, has the following settings:
• Yes: Work in Process details are release even if the the job or
schedule Start Date is different than the bill of material Revision
Date.
The planning engine updates the ECO Revision Date to the Start
Date of the earliest affected job or schedule. Oracle Work in
Process ignores the job BOM Revision Date and explodes the bill
of material and routing details. It uses the planning
recommended new Start Date, instead of the existing order Start
date. This eliminates revision conflicts among multiple
engineering change orders.
• No: Work in process details are not released if the job or schedule
Start Date is different than the bill of material Revision Date.
Work in Process explodes the details effective as of the Start
Date.
See:Engineering Change Orders Use–Up Effectivity, Oracle Advanced
Planning Implementation and User’s Guide

Kanban Replenishments
In a pull–based system, inventory items for a particular part or
assembly area are replenished as soon as they are needed. When the
items are needed, kanban cards in Oracle Inventory change their
Supply Status to Empty, and Inventory generates production kanban
replenishment request automatically.
If the source type of the kanban card is Production, as opposed to
Supplier or Inter–Org, the type of Work in Process Entity that is created
is determined based on the assembly referenced by the kanban card per
the following rules:

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 • If the lowest priority or primary routing of the assembly is a
Flow routing, a Flow schedule is created. This is true even if the
items Repetitive Planning attribute is set
• If the lowest priority or primary routing of the item is not a Flow
routing, and the Repetitive Planning attribute is set, then a
repetitive schedule is created.
• If the lowest priority or primary routing of the item is not a Flow
routing, and the Repetitive Planning attribute is NOT set, then a
discrete job is created
Signals to create discrete jobs and repetitive schedules are processed by
the WIP Mass Load program.
When discrete jobs and repetitive schedules are created in response to
kanban replenishment signals, they are automatically loaded into the
Work Order Interface and automatically processed. If the
replenishment signal creates a discrete job, the kanban card is
referenced on that job; however, if the replenishment signal creates a
repetitive schedule, the kanban card is not referenced. Once the
discrete job or repetitive schedule has been successfully loaded, the
status of the kanban card is updated to In process.
When kanban replenishment jobs and schedules fail validation and
processing, they are automatically deleted from the interface table. The
reason for their failure is noted on the Job and Schedule Interface
report, which is automatically printed each time the Mass Load
program is run. When imported, non–kanban job and schedule
information that fails validation or processing is marked. You can use
the Pending Jobs and Schedules window to view, update, and resubmit
this information.

See Also

Overview of Kanban Replenishment, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide

Work Order Interface, Oracle Manufacturing APIs and Open Interfaces
Manual
Overview of Reports and Programs, Oracle Applications User’s Guide
Importing Jobs and Schedules: page 15 – 35
Processing Pending Jobs and Schedules: page 3 – 133

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WIP Accounting Class Defaults
You can set up default WIP accounting classes at several levels:
• at the category account level for discrete jobs and repetitive
line/assembly associations
• at the Default Discrete Class parameter class level for standard
discrete jobs
• at the project cost group level for project jobs

Non–Project Defaults
You can set up non–project default WIP accounting classes at the
category account level and at the Default Discrete Class parameter level.

Non – Project Standard Discrete Jobs

The default discrete accounting classes that you have associated with
categories in the Default WIP Accounting Classes for Categories
window are used when you create standard discrete jobs for items that
belong to categories that belong to the product line category set. For
example, if you create a job to build Item A, and Item A belongs to a
category that belongs to the product line category set, then the WIP
accounting class associated with Item A’s category is defaulted. This
defaulting logic is applied no matter how jobs are created. See:
Creating Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 55.

☞ Attention: If default discrete WIP accounting classes do not

exist, the accounting class specified for the Default Discrete Class
parameter is used. See Discrete Parameters: page 2 – 17.

Non – Project Referenced Work Order–less Completions

When you perform work order–less completions, discrete accounting
classes that are associated with categories are defaulted if the item
being completed belongs to a category that belongs to the product line
category set. For example, if you are performing a work order–less
completion for Item A, and Item A belongs to a category that belongs
to the product line category set, then the WIP accounting class
associated with Item A’s category is defaulted.

Repetitive Assemblies
When you associate repetitive assemblies with production lines, the
repetitive accounting classes that you have associated with categories
are defaulted if the assembly item being associated belongs to a
category that belongs to the product line category set. For example if

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 you create a repetitive line/assembly association for an assembly Item
B, and Item B belongs to a category that belongs to the product line
category set, then the WIP accounting class associated with Item B’s
category is defaulted.

Project Related Defaults

Discrete accounting classes can also be defaulted when you define
project referenced jobs and perform project referenced work order–less
completions. If the assembly item belongs to a category that belongs to
the product line category set, then the WIP accounting class associated
with the item’s category is defaulted.
However, if a default discrete class cannot be found for a project job or
work order–less completion based on the assembly item’s category set,
the system does not default the accounting class specified for the
Default Discrete Class parameter. Instead it uses the WIP accounting
class that is associated with the project as defined in the Project
Parameters window. Like other accounting class defaults it can be
overridden but only with an accounting class that was associated with
the project’s cost group in the WIP Accounting Classes for Cost Groups
window. See: Assigning Project Parameters, Oracle Project
Manufacturing User’s Guide, and Defining Cost Groups, Oracle Cost
Management User’s Guide.

☞ Attention: If you create a project referenced job or perform a

project referenced work order–less completion, and the system
can find neither a default accounting class nor a project WIP
accounting class, the accounting class is not defaulted and one
must be selected.

See Also

Associating WIP Accounting Classes with Categories, Oracle Cost

Management User’s Guide
Product Line Accounting Setup, Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide

Build Sequencing
You can sequence the jobs and Flow schedules that you are building
within schedule groups. This is done by assigning a unique schedule
number to each job or Flow schedule within a group.

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 Schedule Groups
Schedule groups are defined in the Define Schedule Groups window
and can be optionally assigned to jobs, in the Discrete Jobs window, or
to Flow schedules, in the Line Scheduling Workbench Options window.
The schedule group assigned in the Line Scheduling Workbench
Options window can be overridden in the Work Order–less
Completions window, but only with a schedule group that is associated
with a Flow schedule.

Build Sequence
Sequencing jobs and Flow schedules within a schedule group makes it
possible to prioritize, for example by customers, the jobs or Flow
schedules being built on a specific production line.

Production Lines
You must specify a production line when you sequence Flow schedules.
Production lines are optional for discrete jobs. When a production line
is assigned, the schedule group/build sequence/production line
combination must be unique, as shown in the following table.

Schedule Group 1000 Schedule Group 2000

Production Line 4000, Build Sequence Production Line 4000, Build Sequence
0001 0001

Production Line 4000, Build Sequence Production Line 4000, Build Sequence
0002 0002

Production Line 5000, Build Sequence Production Line 5000, Build Sequence
0001 0001

Production Line 5000, Build Sequence Production Line 5000, Build Sequence
0002 0002

All of the above combinations would be valid for any job or Flow
schedule, but you cannot assign the same combination to both a
discrete job and a Flow schedule.

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See Also

Defining Schedule Groups: page 2 – 53

Defining Discrete Jobs Manually

You can manually define standard, non–standard, and project jobs. You
can assign bills and routings to standard discrete jobs to create material
requirements, schedule operations, and create resource requirements.
You can optionally assign alternate bills of material and/or alternate
routings when you define standard discrete jobs (however, neither bills
of material nor routings are required). You also can assign bill of
material references and/or routing references to non–standard discrete
jobs to create material requirements, schedule operations, and create
resource requirements.
Further, you can attach illustrative or explanatory files (in the form of
text, images, word processing documents, spreadsheets, video, and so
on) to discrete jobs. See: About Attachments, Oracle Applications User’s
Guide.
After saving a job, use the Component and Operations buttons to
immediately view the details of the job, including its material
requirements, operations, and operation material and resource
requirements.

" To define a discrete job:

1. Navigate to the Discrete Jobs window. The Discrete Jobs Summary
window appears
2. Choose New to display the Discrete Jobs window.

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 You can define discrete jobs one–at–a–time in the Discrete Jobs
window. This method is described below. You can, however, also
define several jobs simultaneously using the Discrete Jobs
Summary folder window. See: Combination Block, Oracle
Applications User’s Guide
Caution: The following nine fields cannot be accessed in the
Discrete Jobs Summary folder window even if included in your
user folder: bill and routing Alternates, bill and routing Revisions
and Revision Dates; Completion Subinventory and Locator; and
Supply Type. If you need to change the values that are defaulted
into these fields, navigate to the Discrete Jobs detail window.
3. Enter or generate the Job name.
You can generate a default Job name by choosing Apply Default Job
Name from the Tools menu or by simply pressing the tab key. If
you do enter the job name, it must be unique and alphanumeric.

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☞ Attention: Default job names can only be automatically generated
by the automatic sequence generator if a prefix has been specified
for the WIP:Discrete Job Prefix profile option.
4. Select the job Type, either Standard or Non–Standard. See:
Standard Versus Non–Standard Discrete Jobs: page 4 – 4.
5. If defining a standard discrete job, select the job Assembly.
The assembly is the item you are building. If a primary bill of
material, primary routing, or both exist for this assembly, they are
defaulted.
You cannot select an assembly that has a primary routing that is
Flow related. If you do, a warning is displayed and you are
prompted to enter another routing designator.
See: Creating a Flow Routing, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
Assemblies are optional for non–standard discrete jobs, however,
you must enter them for non–standard discrete jobs with routings
if you want to track shop floor move and resource transactions.
If you set the WIP:See Engineering Items profile option to Yes, you
can define jobs for engineering items.

☞ Attention: If you are defining a job for an ATO sales order, you
must enter an ATO item.

☞ Attention: You can define discrete jobs for assemblies that do not
have components and for assemblies that have components with
disable dates less than or equal to the current date.
6. Select the accounting Class.
If a default discrete WIP accounting class can be found, it is used.
See: WIP Accounting Class Defaults: page 2 – 17 and Discrete
Accounting Classes: page 2 – 42.
For non–standard jobs, you can select any active Asset
Non–standard or Expense Non–standard accounting class.
7. Select the job Status.
When you define a job, its status defaults to Unreleased but can be
changed to Released or On Hold. See: Discrete Job Statuses: page
11 – 7.
8. Check the Firm check box to firm your job. You cannot firm a
non–standard discrete job.
Firming a discrete job prevents MRP from suggesting rescheduling
and replanning recommendations when changes to supply or

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 demand occur. If replanning is required, the MRP planning process
creates new jobs to cover the new demand. See: Firm Order
Planning, Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain
Planning User’s Guide.

" To define job quantities:

1. Enter the job Start quantity.
Standard discrete jobs must have a start quantity greater than zero.
When you enter a start quantity for jobs with bills and routings, the
component material requirements, department schedules, resource
load, and job start and end dates are all determined automatically.
For non–standard jobs, if you enter a start quantity of 0 and specify
a bill of material reference, the corresponding bill is exploded but
material requirements equal to 0 are created. To perform move and
completion transactions for a non–standard job, the start quantity
must be greater than zero.

☞ Attention: If you link a job to an ATO sales order, the start

quantity defaults from the sales order. If you link several sales
orders to a single job, the order quantities are totalled and the start
quantity is automatically updated.
2. Enter the MRP Net quantity.
The MRP net quantity is the number of assemblies that MRP
considers as supply on the scheduled completion date.
For standard and non–standard discrete jobs with assemblies, the
MRP net quantity is derived from the job start quantity. For
non–standard discrete jobs without assemblies, the default is zero.

☞ Attention: On standard jobs, do not use MRP net quantity to

identify planned shrinkage due to operation yield loss. The MPS
and MRP planning processes automatically deduct scrapped
assemblies from the quantity as you scrap. Therefore, reducing the
MRP net quantity and scrapping assemblies double counts job
scrap.

☞ Attention: You can use MRP net quantity to identify planned

shrinkage due to operation yield loss on non–standard jobs.
Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning does not
include quantities scrapped or the item shrinkage factor in
determining available supply from a non–standard job.

" To schedule a discrete job with a routing:

H Enter or select either the Start or Completion date and time.

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 If you enter a start date and time the completion date and time are
automatically forward scheduled based on the assembly’s routing.
Similarly, if you enter a completion date, the start date and time are
automatically backward scheduled based on the assembly’s
routing. You can enter a past due start date to forward schedule a
job that should have started before the current date. You cannot
enter a start date and time greater than the completion date and
time.
You can use the start date of the job to default bill and routing
revisions and revision dates. If a start date is not entered, bill and
routing revisions and revision dates default based on fixed and
variable lead times of the assembly.

" To schedule a discrete job without a routing:

H Enter or select either the Start and/or Completion date and time.
If you enter only one date and time and your job type is standard,
the missing date and time is calculated using the fixed and variable
lead time of the assembly. If the assembly has both a fixed and
variable lead time, the lead time for the job is calculated as job
quantity times variable lead time plus fixed lead time. If you enter
only one date and time and your job type is non–standard, the
other dates and times are calculated using the fixed and variable
lead time of the routing reference.
If your job is non–standard and has a routing reference, the fixed
and variable lead times of the routing reference are used instead of
the assembly lead time. If your job is non–standard and you specify
no routing reference, you must enter both dates and times.

☞ Attention: You can use the WIP:Default Job Start Date profile
option to specify whether the start date for a job defaults to the
current date and time or does not default at all.

" To assign a bill of material reference to a non–standard discrete job

and/or an alternate bill of material/revision to a standard discrete job:
1. On the Bill tab, select the bill of material Reference if defining a
non–standard discrete job.
Bill of material references are used to create material requirements
for non–standard discrete jobs, however, they are not required.
Instead, you can define the job without material requirements, then
customize it by adding only those material requirements that are
required. See: Adding and Updating Material Requirements: page
7 – 10.

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 2. Select the Alternate bill of material. See: Primary and Alternate
Bills of Material, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
You can select an alternate bill if alternates have been defined for
the assembly you are building. If the WIP:See Engineering Items
profile option is set to Yes, you can also select engineering items as
alternates. See: Profile Options: page 2 – 64.
For non–standard discrete jobs, you can enter any alternate defined
for the bill Reference specified.
3. Select the bill of material Revision.
The bill revision and date determines which version of the bill of
material is used to create job component requirements. The start
date of a standard discrete job can be used to default the bill
revision and revision date. If a start date is not selected, the
revision and revision date are derived based on fixed and variable
lead times of the assembly.
You can update the bill revision of a standard discrete job as long
as the job remains unreleased. You can update the bill revision for
standard bills or alternate bills. See: Item and Routing Revisions,
Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
You can explode item revisions that have associated ECOs with
Release, Schedule, and Implement statuses. If you set the
WIP:Exclude ECOs profile option to None, you can also explode
revisions for ECOs that have an Open status. See: ECO
Implementation By Status: page 11 – 18.
If you are building a non–standard job and the Revision Control
attribute for the assembly item is set to Yes, the revision of the bill
reference must be valid for the assembly. See: Defining Items,
Oracle Inventory User’s Guide and Inventory Attribute Group, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide.
You can create an ECO for a job and specify a cumulative quantity,
a range of jobs, or implement changes for specific lots. For
example: Job1 quantity is for 100 units of an item. If an ECO is
created specifying a cumulative quantity of 50, the existing job is
divided into two jobs and the ECO is implemented on the
remaining 50 units. See: Defining ECO Revised Items, Oracle
Engineering User’s Guide
4. Select the bill Revision date and time.
You can select a bill revision date other than the one that is derived
for standard bills, alternate bills, or bill references. You can update
this date as long as the job remains Unreleased.

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 5. Select the Supply Type.
The supply type defaults to Based on Bill. This supply type
indicates that component requirements are supplied based upon
their individual supply types. You can override this default by
choosing one of the following supply types: Push, Assembly Pull,
Operation Pull, Bulk, or Supplier. See: Supply Types: page D – 2.

" To assign a routing reference to a non–standard discrete job and/or

an alternate routing/revision to a job:
1. On the Routing tab, select the routing Reference if defining a
non–standard job.
Routing references can be used to create routings (operations and
resource requirements) for non–standard discrete jobs, but are not
required. You can optionally define non–standard jobs without
routings, then customize them by adding only those operations that
are required. See: Adding and Updating Operations: page 8 – 12.

☞ Attention: You can assign any routing to a non–standard job,

including one that does not match the assembly you assigned,
using the routing reference.
2. Select the alternate Routing.
You can select an alternate routing if alternates have been defined
for the assembly you are building. If the WIP:See Engineering Items
profile option is set to Yes, you can select engineering routings as
alternates. See: Profile Options: page 2 – 64 and Primary and
Alternate Routings, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
For non–standard job, you can enter any alternate defined for the
routing reference specified.
3. Select the routing Revision. See: Item and Routing Revisions,
Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
The start date of a standard discrete job can be used to derive the
routing revision and revision date. If a start date is not selected,
the revision and revision date are derived based on fixed and
variable lead times of the assembly.
You can update the routing revision as long as the job remains
unreleased. For standard discrete jobs, the routing revision
determines which version of the routing is used to create the job
routing (operations and resource requirements). For non–standard
discrete jobs, the routing reference determines the routing for the
job. The revision you select for the non–standard job applies to the
routing reference, not the assembly.

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 4. Select the routing Revision Date and time.
You can update routing revision dates for standard routings,
alternate routings, or routing references. You can update routing
revision dates as long as the job remains unreleased.
5. Select the completion Subinventory and, if required by the
subinventory, Locator.
Assemblies are completed into or returned from this subinventory
and locator. If the assembly has a routing, the completion
subinventory and locator are defaulted from the routing but can be
overwritten. For non–standard discrete jobs, you can select
completion subinventories and locators only if you specified an
assembly.
If the Oracle Inventory INV:Allow Expense to Asset Transfer profile
option is set to Yes, you can select an expense subinventory. See:
Inventory Profile Options, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.

☞ Attention: You can override the completion subinventory and

locator you specify here when you complete or return assemblies
using the Completion Transactions window.
Caution: You must specify a completion subinventory and locator
if you plan to complete or return assemblies using the Move
Transactions window since the subinventory and locator specified
here are automatically used for those transactions.
Project locator logic is used if you are assigning a completion
subinventory to a project job. See: Manage Locators in Project
Manufacturing, Oracle Project Manufacturing User’s Guide

" To assign a demand class, kanban identifier, lot number, description,

and overcompletion tolerance type and tolerance value:
1. On the More tab, select the Demand Class.
You can select any enabled and active demand class. Demand
classes are not required. See: Overview of Demand Classes, Oracle
Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning User’s
Guide and Creating Demand Classes, Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP
and Oracle Supply Chain Planning User’s Guide.
2. If the assembly is under lot control, select a Lot Number.
Lot numbers are automatically assigned based on how the Default
Lot Number Type parameter is set, either by job name or based on
Inventory lot number rules, but can be overwritten or deleted. See:
Discrete Parameters: page 2 – 17.

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 When you complete or return assemblies using the Completion
Transactions window, job lot numbers entered here are
automatically defaulted but can be changed. Job lot numbers must
be entered here before you can move and complete or move and
return lot controlled assemblies using the Move Transactions
window.
3. Enter the job Description.
Descriptions can be used to identify jobs on standard reports. They
can be up to 240 characters of alpha numeric text. They are
optional.
4. Enter the Kanban reference.
5. In the Overcompletion region, select the Tolerance Type. The
options are Percent or Amount. If you do not select the Tolerance
Type, it implies an infinite tolerance value.
6. Enter the Overcompletion Tolerance Value that corresponds to the
Overcompletion Tolerance Type that you selected.
• If you did not select an Overcompletion Tolerance Type, no
tolerance is indicated and you can over–complete all assemblies
on this job.
• If you indicate a value of zero, you will not be able to
over–complete any assemblies on this job.

" To define schedule group and project information:

1. On the Schedule Group, Project tab, select the Schedule Group.
You have the option to assign discrete jobs to any active schedule
group. See: Defining Schedule Groups: page 2 – 53
2. Enter a Build Sequence identifier. See: Build Sequencing: page
3 – 61.
3. Select a production Line.
You can select any active production line. Production lines are
optional for discrete jobs. They are not used for scheduling or
transactional purposes. However, if you do select a production
line, the combination of schedule group, build sequence, and
production line must be unique.
4. Select a Project and, if required, a task.
You can only select a project if the current organization’s Project
References Enabled parameter is set in Oracle Inventory. You must
select a task if the Project Control Level parameter is set to Task and

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 you have entered a project. See: Organization Parameters Window,
Oracle Inventory User’s Guide and Creating Projects, Oracle Projects
User’s Guide.
5. Enter the Unit Number. This enables you to associate an end item
model/unit effectivity number with the item.
You must have Oracle Project Manufacturing installed, the item
must be under model/unit effectivity control, and you must have a
model/unit number associated with it to enable this functionality.
If the item is not under model/unit number control, this field is
disabled. See: Model/Unit Effectivity, Oracle Project Manufacturing
Implementation Manual.
Note: You can update unit effectivity through Mass Load for
discrete jobs that are unreleased and project related.
6. Save your work.
If you are defining a discrete job, you must save the job before
viewing component requirements and operations for that job.

" To define Manufacturing Scheduling information:

If you have installed Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling, you can
use the fields on this tab to change scheduling information
defaulted from the WIP Parameters window. To enable this
functionality, select the Constraint Based Scheduler check box on
the Scheduling tab of the WIP Parameters window.
Warning: Do not check the Constraint Based Schedule check
box unless you have installed Oracle Manufacturing
Scheduling.
1. Select the Scheduling tab.
2. In the Requested Due Date field, you can enter a due date that is
different than the completion date for the job.
3. In the Scheduling Priority field, enter a number ranging from 1 to
99, with 1 being the highest priority. The default priority is 10. See:
Rescheduling All Job or Pending Scheduling Jobs, Oracle
Manufacturing Scheduling User’s Guide
4. In the Penalty Per Day Late field, enter a penalty factor value used
for scheduling jobs not completed by the scheduled due date.
Higher penalties generate attempts in scheduling to circumvent
such an event.
5. In the Due Date Tolerance (days) field, specify the maximum
number of days the job can be delayed during scheduling.

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 6. Save your work.

" To change a saved job:

H See: Updating Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 104.

" To view pending job information:

H You can determine if there are any pending transactions or
documents for a job using the Transaction Summary window. See:
Viewing Pending Job Transactions: page 3 – 97.

" To view operations:

H Choose the Operations button. The Operation window appears
and the job’s operations are displayed. You can optionally view the
components required at a selected operation using the Components
button. See: Viewing Job and Schedule Operations: page 8 – 22.

" To view component requirements:

H Choose the Components button. The Material Requirements
window appears and the job’s components are displayed. See:
Viewing Component Requirements: page 7 – 18 and Viewing
Component ATP Information: page 7 – 20.

☞ Attention: When no routing exists, all components default to

operation sequence of 1.

" To view outside processing workflows:

H See: Outside Processing Workflows: page 10 – 49.

" To link an ATO sales order to a standard discrete job:

H See: Linking ATO Sales Orders and Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 74.

☞ Attention: The Sales Order button is disabled if you are

changing a production kanban job.

See Also

Setting up Discrete Manufacturing: page 3 – 8

Updating Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 104
Discrete Job Status Control: page 11 – 4

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 Discrete Job Statuses: page 11 – 7
Discrete Scheduling: page 13 – 5
Attaching Files to Jobs, Schedules, and Operations: page E – 2

Linking Sales Orders and Discrete Jobs

You can reserve assemblies on a Discrete job for a specific sales order
line whether or not the assemblies are Assemble–to–Order (ATO)
items. You link both standard and non–standard Discrete jobs to sales
orders by selecting one or more sales orders from the Sales Order
window when you create the job. You can link one or more sales order
lines with one or more jobs.
You can also enter the demand class for the job to help you track
production by sales channel. When you are building final assembly
orders, the demand class is automatically loaded based on the
customer. You can enter any valid demand class.
When linking ATO sales orders and jobs, however, the following rules
are applied:
• the assembly item cannot be a Pick–to–order item
• the sales order line item must be demanded, but not yet shipped
• the assembly item must be a standard item or an ATO item, not a
model or an option
The WIP parameter, Respond to Sales Order Changes, determines the
response to changes for configured sales orders and their linked
Discrete jobs. Options are to ignore the sales order change or change
the status of linked jobs to On Hold. When making changes to sales
order lines with ATO items, this parameter is ignored by the system.
See: WIP Parameters: page 2 – 14.
You cannot cancel jobs linked to sales orders without first undoing the
links between them (see the task.

Prerequisites
❑ Define at least one discrete job. See: Defining Discrete Jobs
Manually: page 3 – 63.

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" To link a Discrete job with a sales order
1. Navigate to the Discrete Jobs window.
2. Enter the Job name.

☞ Attention: Once you chose a job or assign an assembly to a job,

you can only select sales order lines that are for that assembly.
3. Choose the Sales Orders button. The Sales Order window appears.

4. Select one or more sales orders.

You can select multiple sales orders as long as the total quantity
allocated does not exceed the job quantity. You cannot select a
sales order that has order lines that are currently being satisfied by
a Flow schedule.

☞ Attention: You can attach a sales order to a job before entering an

assembly, start quantity, or demand class for a job. Work in Process
defaults the assembly, start quantity, or demand class based upon
the sales order you specify.
5. Enter the sales order Line.
If you enter a line that also specifies a shipment number, the sales
order shipment number is entered in the Ship Number field. You
can specify a sales order line that does not include a sales order
shipment number.

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 6. Enter the Quantity Allocated.
This is the quantity of the sales order, line number, and shipment
number combination that the discrete job fulfills.
7. Save your work.

" To link a Discrete job with an ATO sales order:

1. Select a Sales Order that has a line defined for the job’s ATO item
and demand class.
You can select multiple sales orders as long as the total quantity
allocated does not exceed the job quantity. You cannot select a
sales order that has order lines that are currently being satisfied by
a Flow schedule.

☞ Attention: You can attach a sales order to a job before entering an

assembly, start quantity, or demand class for a job. Work in Process
defaults the assembly, start quantity, or demand class based upon
the sales order you specify.
2. Enter the sales order Line.
If you enter a line that also specifies a shipment number, the sales
order shipment number is entered in the Ship Number field. You
can specify a sales order line that does not include a sales order
shipment number.
3. Enter the Quantity Allocated.
This is the quantity of the sales order, line number, and shipment
number combination that the discrete job fulfills.
4. Save your work.

" To view an ATO sales order linked with a discrete job:

1. Navigate to the Discrete Jobs window.
2. Choose Find from the Query Menu. See: Finding Discrete Jobs:
page 3 – 89.

" To undo links between Discrete jobs and sales orders:

1. Navigate to the Sales Order window.
2. Enter the Job name.
3. Choose the Sales Orders button. The Sales Order window appears.
4. Select one or more sales orders.

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 5. Choose Delete from the Edit Menu to undo the link.
6. Save your work.

Over–completion Quantities Reserved to Sales Orders

You can reserve over–completion quantities from jobs linked to sales
orders when using the Completion Transactions and Move Transactions
windows. To reserve over–completions:
H The linked sales order must be open.
H You enter the sales order number for each completion line. This
reserves the surplus amount, otherwise the over–completion is
unreserved excess inventory.
Note: Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications does not
support this feature.

Over–completion Reservations and Multiple Sales Orders

When multiple sales orders are tied to the same job, you can have
instances where a job fulfilled by several sales orders is closed by
over–completing only one order line. For example:
• JobA is a quantity of 200
• It is linked to Sales Order1 for 100, and Sales Order2 for 100, the
completed quantities on both lines are reserved
• The over–completion tolerance for the job is 20 percent
Note: Over–completion tolerance limits for discrete jobs are
defined in the WIP Parameters window. See: Defining WIP
Parameters: page 2 – 30
• 80 are completed referencing Sales Order1
• 120 completed referencing Sales Order2
The over–completion quantity meets the tolerance level, and the job
status is changed to complete–even though Sales Order1 still has 20
units open linking to this job. You have several options to close this
open record:
• Cancel the jobs linked to the sales order line
• Delink the jobs linked to the same sales order line
• Reduce the quantity on the jobs linked to the same sales order
line

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 Sales Order Over–shipments and Over–completion Reservations
The over–shipment tolerance for the sales order is defined in Order
Management. Depending on the tolerance settings for job
over–completions and sale order over–shipments, it is possible to have
job over–completions that are not reserved to the sales order. For
example:
• JobA is for a quantity of 10, and linked to Sales Order1 for 10
each
• The over–completion tolerance is 20 percent for the job, and the
over shipment tolerance is 10 percent for the sales order
• 12 are completed for Job A–an over–completion quantity of 2, (20
percent)
One of the over–completions is reserved to the job, the other is
unreserved. You can reserve the other surplus by increasing the
quantity on the picking transaction to reserve it to the sales order.

See Also

Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63,

Assembly Over–completions and Over–returns: page 7 – 84
Completing Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 115.
Move Completion/Return Transactions: page 8 – 31.
Performing Move Completion and Move Return Transactions: page
8 – 48
Completing and Returning Assemblies: page 7 – 91

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Serial Number Tracking Throughout Manufacturing
You can track your jobs using serial control throughout the
manufacturing process. This enables you to assign and associate serial
numbers to a job, and track the assembly by serial number as it
progresses on the shop floor. Serial number tracking is enabled for
discrete jobs, both standard and non–standard. This feature also
includes:
• Serial control beginning at a specific point in the routing
• Association of serial numbers to jobs before build
• Serial based transaction entry
• Import and auto–generation of serial numbers
• Serial number label printing
You can view the genealogy of the serialized assembly including move
transactions, component issues, returns to stock, and completions. See:
Viewing Job Transaction Genealogy: page 3 – 100 and Describing Lot
Split,Merge, and Genealogy, Oracle Warehouse Management User’s Guide
Serial tracking for work in process transactions is only supported in the
online mode through Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications.

Setting Up Serial Number Control Tracking

Serial control for items is defined in Oracle Inventory. Work order serial
tracking for assemblies is set in the Work in Process Parameters
window.

Inventory Setup
❑ Specify the serial control type as Predefined. This value is defined
in Inventory attribute, Serial Generation.
Work in process serial tracking is only enabled when you use the
value of Predefined. See: Inventory Attribute Group, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide.
❑ Establish the type of serial number uniqueness for your
organization in the Oracle Inventory Organization Parameters
window.
Your options for serial number uniqueness are Within inventory
items, Within an organization, or Across organizations. See:

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 Defining Revision, Lot, LPN, Serial Parameters, Oracle Inventory
User’s Guide
❑ Optionally, you can predefine serial numbers in Oracle Inventory.
You can generate serial numbers using the Serial Number
Generation concurrent program, see: Generating Serial Numbers,
Oracle Inventory User’s Guide. You also have the option to generate
numbers from within the Associate Serial Numbers window.

Work in Process Setup

Several parameters are set in the Serial tabbed region of the Work in
Process Parameters window. See: Defining WIP Parameters: page 2 – 30
❑ Default Serialization Start Operation
Determines the job operation where serial number tracking begins.
The serial start operation on the item routing is always copied to
the job routing during job creation. If there is no serialization start
operation on the item routing, and this parameter is enabled – the
serialization start operation is defaulted to the first operation on
the job routing, This value displays on the Discrete Jobs window. If
this parameter is not enabled, the serialization start operation on
the job routing is blank, and serialization is disabled.
❑ Auto Associate Serial Numbers on Job Creation From Interface
If this parameter is enabled, serial numbers are automatically
generated and associated to a job when a job is created through the
WIP Mass Load Interface.
When you submit the WIP Mass Load program using the Import
Jobs and Schedules window, new standard and non–standard
discrete jobs are created. The Work Order Interface uses the value
in this parameter to create serialized records for the new jobs.
See:Importing Jobs and Schedules: page 15 – 35, and Work Order
Interface, Oracle Manufacturing APIs and Open Interfaces Manual
❑ Default Intraoperation Step for Assembly Moves
This parameter is used for move transactions on a serialized job. It
defines a default value for the intraoperation step where you are
moving assemblies – the To step. Your choices are Queue, Run, To
move, and Null. The following table shows the next move for for
Default Intraoperation Step values in this parameter.

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 Default Intraoperation Step Value To Step for the Next Move

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Transaction

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Queue The next Queue step in the routing

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Run The next Run step in the routing

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
To move

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Null ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
The next To move in the routing

A default step is not set, you must

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
specify the step in your move
transaction

.
• Example One
There are three operations in a serialized job –10, 20, 30.
Operation 10 is the Serialization Start Operation, and the Default
Intraoperation Step for Assembly Moves is set to Queue.
The first time a serialized move is performed, the From
Operation and From Step are set to 10 Queue because the
assembly is still at 10 Queue.
The To Operation is defaulted to the next count point operation,
and the To Step is defaulted to Queue because the parameter is
set to this value.
If all the operations are count point operations, the first
transaction moves from 10 Queue to 20 Queue, and the second
transaction moves from 20 Queue to 30 Queue.
• Example Two
There are three operations in a serialized job –10, 20, 30.
Operation 10 is the Serialization Start Operation, and the Default
Intraoperation Step for Assembly Moves is set to either Run or
To Move.
The first time a serialized move is performed, the From
Operation and From Step are set to 10 Queue because the
assembly is still at 10 Queue.
The To Operation is defaulted to the From Operation because the
value for Default Intraoperation Step for Assembly Moves is
later in the routing than the current step (that is, Run and To
Move takes place after Queue),
If all the operations are count point operations, the first
transaction moves from 10 Queue to 10 Run or To Move
(depending on the default value). The second transaction moves
from 10 Run or To Move, to 20 Run or To Move.

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 ❑ Transaction Processing Mode
This parameter has two settings: Online and Background. For
serialized transactions, this parameter is ignored and will always
use the Online setting.

See Also

Setting Up Serial Number Control, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide

Serial Number Control, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide,
Associating and Modifying Serial Number Job Information: page 3 – 82

Associating and Modifying Serial Number Job Information

The Associate Serial Numbers window is accessed from the Discrete
Jobs window, and is enabled only for jobs under serialization. If you are
creating a new job, you must first save your record in order to enter
information on this window.
This window enables you to generate and associate new or existing
serial numbers to the job. You can also print labels for these serial
numbers from this window.

" To associate serial number to jobs:

1. Navigate to the Associate Serial Numbers window.
The Job name, Job Quantity, and Assembly name field values
default from the record accessed on the Discrete Jobs window.
If there is a quantity of this job already associated to serial numbers
– that quantity displays in the Qty Associated field, and those serial
records display in the Associate Serial Numbers region.
Association can be performed either by creating a new record,
selecting from the list of values, or generating multiple serial
numbers to a job.
2. To create a new serial number and associate to an assembly, enter a
value in the Serial Number field.
You can enter any value according to serial number uniqueness
rules. See: Defining Revision, Lot, LPN, Serial Parameters, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide

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3. You also have the option to select a serial number from a
predefined list of values.
See: .Generating Serial Numbers, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide

4. To generate and associate serial numbers from this window, enter

the number of serial numbers to generate in the Serial Number Qty
to Generate/Associate field.
5. Choose Generate/Associate.
The serial number values display in the Serial Number field. The
number of serial numbers associated to this job displays in the Qty
Associated field.
6. Check the Include in Serial Printing if you want to print labels for
these records.
7. Save your work.
Initially, the values in the Operation, Operation Code, Department,
and Step fields are blank – and the Status field is Associated until
you perform transactions.

Discrete Manufacturing 3 – 83
 As you perform move transactions, the applicable values for those
moves display Operation, Operation Code, Department, and Step
fields. The Status field is In Progress while you are performing
move transactions.
When the assembly is completed, the value in the Status field
changes to Complete.

" To cancel a serial number associated to a job:

1. Select the row for the record you want to disassociate.
2. Delete the entire row from the window.
You can only disassociate or delete rows with a status of
Associated.

Label Printing for Serialized Parts

Labels can be printed after serial numbers have been associated to a
job. You can set up serial label printing either in Oracle Inventory, or
Oracle Warehouse Management. This includes selecting serial number
label types, formats, and assigning printers.
You can print labels from the Associate Serial Numbers window, or
from the mobile device window.

" To print serial number labels using the Associate Serial Numbers
window:
1. Enable the Include in Label Printing check box for the serial records
you want to print.
In the Print Labels region, you can enable all the serial number
records for printing by choosing Select All. You can disable all
selected records for printing by choosing Deselect All. .
2. Choose Print.

Moving Serialized Assemblies

You can perform serialized move transactions through Oracle Mobile
Supply Chain Applications using a mobile device. The location of the
assembly on the routing determines the window used for the
transactions. For example, jobs not serialized do not require serial entry

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– and serialized jobs require serial number entry before you can
proceed. This functionality uses the following rules:
• Before reaching the serialization start operation, move
transactions are performed using the window where serial
number entry is not available.
• Once a serialized assembly moves to the Queue of the
serialization start operation, move transactions are performed
using a window requiring serial number entry.
• The current location of the assembly (the From Operation and
Step), and the setting of the Default Intraoperation Step for
Assembly Moves parameter – is used as the default destination
for the To Operation and Step.
The default destination is the next occurrence of the step that
you selected for the parameter setting. The next occurrence is in
either the current operation, or the next countpoint operation –
depending on the From Step. Default information can be
changed. For example:
– If the From Operation and Step is 20 Queue, and the
parameter is set to Run, 20 Run is the default value for the
To Operation.
– If the From Operation and Step is 20 Queue, and the
parameter is set to Queue, 30 Queue is the default if 30 is a
countpoint operation.
• Before the serialization start operation, where serial number
entry is not available, you can move both backward and
forward. However, when moving forward, an assembly must be
moved to Queue of the serialization start operation before it can
move forward. Starting from that point, the serial number
represents a specific assembly and serial number entry is
required.
• Backflush components are issued in the quantity and item as
defined on the bill of material.
• Genealogy is not built for negative issues and negative return
transactions in serial number tracking.
• Only serial numbers associated with a specific job can be
transacted for that job.
• Only one assembly can be moved or completed per transaction.

Discrete Manufacturing 3 – 85
 • In Rules based component picking, you cannot employ the
option to have push issue transactions created automatically for
serialized components.

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Project Jobs
Jobs with project or project and task references are known as project
jobs. You can add project references to both standard and
non–standard discrete jobs.
Project jobs make it possible to track the material and manufacturing
costs that are specific to a project. You can issue project or common
inventory to project jobs. You can also charge resources and overhead
to project jobs.
Like other discrete jobs, project jobs can created in several ways:
• manually defined in the Discrete Jobs window
• planned in Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply
Chain Planning then implemented using the Planner Workbench

☞ Attention: You can add project references to discrete jobs only

If the Project References Enabled organization parameter in
Oracle Inventory is set. You must also specify a task if the
Project Control Level organization parameter is set to Task and
the job has a project. See: Organization Parameters Window,
Oracle Inventory User’s Guide and Creating Projects, Oracle
Projects User’s Guide.

See Also

Assigning Project Parameters, Oracle Project Manufacturing User’s Guide

Discrete Manufacturing 3 – 87
Building Discrete Jobs
Steps involved in building discrete jobs include:
• Releasing jobs to production. See: Releasing Discrete Jobs: page
3 – 92.
• Issuing components to jobs and, if necessary, returning them back
to inventory. See: Issuing and Returning Specific Components:
page 7 – 49 and Issuing and Returning All Push Components:
page 7 – 54.
• Using Shop Floor Control to coordinate, on an as required basis,
the following:
– Moving assemblies between routing operations and
intraoperation step. See: Performing Move Transactions:
page 8 – 37.
– Scrapping assemblies. See: Scrapping Assemblies: page
8 – 72.
– Backflushing or issuing and returning operation pull and
assembly pull components automatically with move
transactions
– Charging resources. See: Charging Resources with Move
Transactions: page 9 – 36 and Charging Resources Manually:
page 9 – 33.
• Changing jobs to accommodate changes in production. See:
Changing Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 105 and Mass Changing Discrete
Job Statuses: page 3 – 109.
Note: If you have Oracle Shop Floor Management installed,
you can use lot based jobs in your manufacturing. The entire
quantity of a lot based job moves on the basis of the network
routing.

See Also

Overview of Material Control: page 7 – 2

Overview of Shop Floor Control: page 8 – 2

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Finding Discrete Jobs
You can find then view, release, change, reschedule, or close discrete
jobs. You can also query to find jobs to purge.

" To find one or several discrete jobs to view, release, change,

reschedule, or close:
1. When the Find Discrete Jobs window appears, enter your search
criteria.
You can query by Job name, job Type (standard or non–standard),
Assembly, Schedule Group, a range of Build Sequences, accounting
Class, a range of Start Dates, a range of Completion Dates, Sales
Order, Project Number, Task Number, or job Status. You can
combine or omit criteria as required.
Caution: Querying to find jobs does not validate the records
returned. For example, querying to find a range of jobs to close
does not return only those jobs in that range that can be closed.

Discrete Manufacturing 3 – 89
 2. Choose the Find button.

" To find one or several discrete jobs to include in your purge:

1. When the Find Discrete Jobs window appears, enter your general
search criteria.
You can by query by Job name, job Type (standard or
non–standard), Assembly, Schedule Group, a range of Build
Sequences, accounting Class, a range of Start Dates, a range of
Completion Dates, Sales Order, Project Number, or Task Number.

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2. Select an accounting Period or enter a Cutoff Date for the purge.
You can query by closed accounting Period. When you select an
accounting period, the end date of that period is defaulted as the
purge Cutoff date and cannot be overridden.
If you do not select an accounting Period, the cutoff date of the most
recently closed accounting period is defaulted. You can override
this date with any date in a closed period.

☞ Attention: Only jobs with close dates before or on the purge cutoff
date are purged.
3. Choose whether to Include Configurations for jobs that have ATO
configurations.
If you do not choose to include jobs that have ATO configurations in
your query, no jobs that include ATO configurations are returned
when you choose Find. If you do include configurations, you still

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 have access to lot and serial information using the Lot Genealogy
window or the Lot Transactions and Transaction Serial Numbers
windows in Oracle Inventory. See: Viewing Material Transactions,
Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.

☞ Attention: If Oracle Bills of Materials purges the configured item

that you build in Work in Process, then Oracle Bills of Material
replaces the configured item on the job with the model the
configuration was based on. You do not want to include
configurations if you need this information for customer support.
For example, if a customer complains that you did not build the
configuration he ordered.

See Also

Searching for Information, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

Releasing Discrete Jobs

You must release a job to production before transacting against it.
Releasing a discrete job with a routing automatically loads the job
quantity into the Queue intraoperation step of the first operation. If PO
Move or PO Receipt resource requirements exist at the first operation,
purchase requisitions for these resources are automatically generated.

" To release a single job:

1. Navigate to the Discrete Jobs window.
2. Find a job. See: Finding Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 89.
3. Change the selected job’s status to Released. See: Discrete Job
Statuses: page 11 – 7.

☞ Attention: You can release discrete jobs in either the Discrete Jobs
Summary window or the Discrete Jobs window. See: Combination
Block, Oracle Applications User’s Guide.
4. Save your work.

" To release several discrete jobs:

H See: Mass Changing Discrete Job Statuses: page 3 – 109.

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See Also

Job and Repetitive Schedule Status Changes: page 11 – 15

Discrete Job Status Control: page 11 – 4

Printing Reports for Current Discrete Jobs

If you are in the Discrete Jobs, Close Discrete Jobs, Purge Discrete Jobs,
or View Discrete Jobs window, you can use the Print Reports Tools menu
option to print the Discrete Job Routing Sheet, Discrete Job Pick List
Report, or the Discrete Job Shortage Report for the active or current job.
See: Current Record Indicator, Oracle Applications User’s Guide.
Additional Information: These are the reports that make up
the Discrete Shop Packet: page 15 – 29.
You can also use the Print Reports window to navigate to the Submit
Requests window.

" To print a report for the current discrete job:

1. From the Discrete Jobs, Close Discrete Jobs, or View Discrete Jobs
window choose Print Reports from the Tools menu. See: Tools menu:
page F – 2.
The Print window appears.

Discrete Manufacturing 3 – 93
 2. Select the Print Current Record with option.
3. Select the name of the report and choose OK.
When you choose OK, a concurrent request to print the report is
submitted. You can view the status of concurrent requests. See:
Using the Concurrent Requests Window, Oracle Applications Users
Guide.

" To submit a request for a different report:

1. Select the Other Reports option from the Print Reports window.
2. Choose OK. The Submit Requests window appears.

See Also

Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

Discrete Job Routing Sheet: page 15 – 19
Discrete Job Pick List Report: page 15 – 17
Discrete Job Shortage Report: page 15 – 21

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Viewing Discrete Jobs
To view discrete job information see:
• Viewing Discrete Job Information: page 3 – 95
• Viewing Material Requirements: page 7 – 14, Viewing Component
Requirements: page 7 – 18, and Viewing Component ATP
Information: page 7 – 20
• Viewing Operations: page 8 – 20 and Viewing Job and Schedule
Operations: page 8 – 22
• Viewing Resource Requirements: page 9 – 27
• Viewing Job Transaction Genealogy: page 3 – 100
You also can view discrete job information on a variety of reports.
If you have Oracle Shop Floor Management installed, discrete job
reports also support lot based job information. See: Lot Based Job
Reporting, Oracle Shop Floor Management User’s Guide

Viewing Discrete Job Information

You can view information for discrete jobs of any status, including jobs
that are closed, cancelled or on hold. You can also view operation,
material requirement, and resource requirement information associated
with discrete jobs.
The Production Control Board’s Discrete Workstation provides you with
detailed information on all of the immediate and future job operations
for a department and resource that you select. You also can view all
information for one job in the View Discrete Jobs window, or partial
information for several jobs using the Discrete Jobs Summary folder
window. See Combination Block, Oracle Applications User’s Guide
andCustomizing the Presentation of Data in a Folder, Oracle Applications
User’s Guide.

" To view discrete job information:

H Navigate to View Discrete Jobs window. When the Find Discrete
Jobs window appears, enter your search criteria. See: Finding
Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 89.
Jobs are automatically displayed in the View Discrete Jobs Summary
folder window. The information you can view in summary
window, depends on how your discrete job folder is defined. Using

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 the Summary/Detail option from the Go Menu, you can switch to
the View Discrete Jobs window to view all information for a selected
job. You can optionally navigate to the View Discrete Jobs window
by choosing the Open button from the View Discrete Jobs Summary
window.

" To print reports for a job:

H You can print reports for the ’active’ or current job. See: Printing
Reports for Current Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 93.

" To view operations:

H From either the View Discrete Jobs or View Discrete Jobs Summary
windows choose the Operations button. The Operation window
appears and displaying the job’s operations. You can optionally
view the components required at a selected operation using the
Components button. See: Viewing Job and Schedule Operations:
page 8 – 22.

" To view component requirements:

H From either the View Discrete Jobs or View Discrete Jobs Summary
windows, choose the Components button. The Material
Requirements window appears and the job’s components are
displayed. See: Viewing Component Requirements: page 7 – 18 and
Viewing Component ATP Information: page 7 – 20.

☞ Attention: When no routing exists, all components default to

operation sequence of 1.

" To view sales orders that are linked to a standard discrete job:
H From either the View Discrete Jobs window, choose the Sales Order
button. See: Linking ATO Sales Orders and Discrete Jobs: page
3 – 74.

" To view pending job information:

H You can determine if there are any pending transactions or
documents for a job using the Transaction Summary window. See:
Viewing Pending Job Transactions: page 3 – 97.

" To view outside processing workflows:

H See: Outside Processing Workflows: page 10 – 49.

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 Work in Process provides workflows to track outside processing of
assemblies. If you want to activate workflow notifications, you must
have your system administrator set up the WIP:Enable Outside
Processing Workflows profile option. See: Outside Processing
Workflow Setup: page 10 – 54

Viewing Pending Job Transactions

You can use the Transaction Summary window to determine if there are
pending transactions or unprocessed documents associated with a job.
You cannot purge or close jobs if pending transactions or unprocessed
documents exist. In some instances, you also cannot change a job from
one status to another. For example, you cannot change jobs from a
Released to an Unreleased status if pending information exists.

" To view pending transactions and conditions for a job:

1. Select a queried job in the Discrete Jobs, View Discrete Jobs, Close
Discrete, or Purge Discrete Jobs window. See: Finding Discrete Jobs:
page 3 – 89.
2. Choose Transaction Summary from the Tools menu to invoke the
Transaction Summary window. See: Tools menu: page F – 2.

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 If a restriction exists, the check boxes indicating the type of
restrictions is marked. An explanation of each restrictive condition
follows:
Material Transactions: Components have been issued to the job and
there are records in the WIP_REQUIREMENTS_OPERATIONS
table. You can view information about issues material in the
Material Requirements. See: Viewing Material Requirements: page
7 – 14 and Viewing Component Requirements: page 7 – 18.
Uncosted Material Transactions: There are uncosted transaction
records in the MTL_MATERIAL_TRANSACTIONS table. You can
check to see if transactions are uncosted, the costed indicator is off,
using the Material Transactions window. See: Viewing Material
Transactions, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide and Oracle Inventory
Electronic Technical Reference Manual (eTRM) on Oracle MetaLink.

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 Pending Material Transactions: There are unprocessed material
transaction records in the
MTL_MATERIAL_TRANSACTIONS_TEMP table. You can view,
update, and resubmit these records in the Pending Transactions
window in Oracle Inventory. See: Viewing Pending Transactions,
Oracle Inventory User’s Guide and Oracle Inventory Electronic
Technical Reference Manual (eTRM) on Oracle MetaLink.
Resource Transactions: Resources have been charged and there are
records in the WIP_OPERATIONS_RESOURCES table.
Pending Resource Transactions: There are pending resource and
overhead transaction records in the WIP_COST_TXN_INTERFACE
table. You can view and resubmit these records using the Pending
Resource Transactions window. See: Processing Pending Resource
Transactions: page 9 – 47 and Oracle Work in Process Electronic
Technical Reference Manual (eTRM) on Oracle MetaLink.
Pending Move Transactions: There are pending move transaction
records in the WIP_MOVE_TXN_INTERFACE table. You can view
and resubmit these records using the Pending Move Transactions
window. See: Processing Pending Move Transactions: page 8 – 54
and Oracle Work in Process Electronic Technical Reference Manual
(eTRM) on Oracle MetaLink.
PO Requisitions: There are purchase requisitions in the
PO_REQUISITION_LINES table. See: Reviewing Requisition, Oracle
Purchasing User’s Guide and Oracle Purchasing Electronic Technical
Reference Manual (eTRM) on Oracle MetaLink .
Pending PO Requisitions: There are unprocessed records in the
PO_REQUISITION_ INTERFACE table. See: Requisition Import
Process, Oracle Purchasing User’s Guide and Oracle Purchasing
Electronic Technical Reference Manual (eTRM) on Oracle MetaLink.

See Also

Closing Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 121

Purging Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 128
Viewing Discrete Job Information: page 3 – 95

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Viewing Job Transaction Genealogy
You can view historical information for discrete jobs in the Lot
Genealogy window. This graphical interface provides an integrated
view of genealogy information for discrete jobs, lot based jobs, and
Oracle Warehouse Management inventory transactions. You can view
transaction information for discrete jobs such as component issues,
assembly completions, and move transactions.

" To view discrete job transaction genealogy:

1. Select View Genealogy from the Work in Process menu.
2. When the Find Lots/Jobs window appears, select the Jobs radio
button.
3. Enter your search criteria.
You can query by Jobs, Assembly, job Status, a range of Start Dates,
and a range of Completion Dates. You can combine or omit criteria
as required.

4. Choose Find.

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 The Jobs Summary window appears with the records that meet your
criteria and displays job name, status, assembly, and start and
completion dates.

5. Select a record and choose View Genealogy.

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 The Lot Genealogy window displays. The left pane is in a tree
format containing two tabs for different views:
• Lot Source displays the source of the record you are viewing. It is
designated by assembly name, appended by the job name, at the
top node of the tree. For example, you may be producing a
specific job from components of a particular lot. Material used in
this assembly/job combination is expanded under the top node.

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 • Where Used displays the assembly this material is used. It is
designated by assembly name, appended by the job name, at the
top node of the tree. The assembly/job combinations using this
top record are expanded below it.

In the right pane, information about the job displays in the Job
Details region. The Material Transactions tab displays historical
transaction information for the record selected on the hierarchical
tree. You can view transactions such as component issues and
assembly completions.
Note: The Lot Based Job Transactions tab is available only for
Oracle Shop Floor Management enabled organizations.
6. Choose Move Transactions to access the View Move Transactions
window. See: Viewing Move Transactions: page 8 – 52

See Also

Describing Lot Split,Merge, and Genealogy, Oracle Warehouse

Management User’s Guide

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Updating Discrete Jobs
You can make the following changes to your discrete jobs:
• Change the name of existing jobs in the Discrete Jobs window,
but only if the WIP:Job Name Updatable profile option is set. See:
Profile Options: page 2 – 64.
• Change dates, quantities, bills, statuses, and routings. See:
Changing Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 105, Rescheduling Discrete
Jobs: page 3 – 106, and Mass Changing Discrete Job Statuses:
page 3 – 109.
• Add, update, and delete operations. See: Adding and Updating
Operations: page 8 – 12, Deleting Operations: page 8 – 17, and
Midpoint Rescheduling: page 8 – 18.
• Add, update, and delete material requirements. See: Adding
and Updating Material Requirements: page 7 – 10 and Deleting
Material Requirements: page 7 – 13.
• Add, change, and delete resource requirements. See: Adding
and Updating Resource Requirements: page 9 – 16 and Deleting
Resource Requirements: page 9 – 25.
• Implement engineering change orders in Oracle Engineering.
See: Implementation of ECOs on Discrete Jobs and Repetitive
Schedules, Oracle Engineering User’s Guide and ECO
Implementation By Status: page 11 – 18.
• Add, change, and delete WIP Attachments. See: Attaching Files
to Jobs, Schedules, and Operations: page E – 2.
• If you have Oracle Shop Floor Management installed, you can
create and update lot based jobs. The entire quantity of a lot
based job moves on the basis of the network routing.

See Also

Discrete Job Status Control: page 11 – 4

Job and Repetitive Schedule Status Changes: page 11 – 15
Creating a Lot Based Job, Oracle Shop Floor Management User’s Guide

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Changing Discrete Jobs
You can change discrete jobs using the Discrete Jobs and Discrete Jobs
Summary windows. The status of the job determines if and what
information can be changed. See: Discrete Job Status Control: page
11 – 4.

Quantities
You can increase or decrease the job quantity with no restrictions if the
job is unreleased. If the job is released and work has begun on the
assembly, you cannot decrease the job quantity lower than the number
of assemblies that have already passed the Queue intraoperation step
of the first operation. If a sales order is linked to the job, you cannot
decrease the job quantity lower than the order quantity. The material
requirements and job dates are automatically adjusted based upon the
quantity change. If the job’s assembly is an MPS–planned item, the
update process automatically adjusts the MPS relief quantity.

Dates
You can reschedule standard and non–standard jobs to respond to
changes in plans or unexpected downtime by changing their start
and/or completion dates and times. Jobs might require rescheduling
when capacity or material schedules change, or when standards
change. See: Rescheduling Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 106.

Statuses
You can change the status of a discrete job although some changes from
one status to another are disallowed and others are conditional. See:
Job and Repetitive Schedule Status Changes: page 11 – 15.

Prerequisites
❑ Define at least one standard or non–standard discrete job. See:
Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63.

" To change discrete jobs:

1. Navigate to the Discrete Jobs window.
2. Choose Find from the Query Menu. See: Finding Discrete Jobs:
page 3 – 89.
3. Change jobs in either the Discrete Jobs or Discrete Jobs Summary
folder window. From the Discrete Jobs Summary window, you can

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 choose the Open button to navigate to the Discrete Jobs window.
See: Combination Block, Oracle Applications User’s Guide.

" To view pending job information:

H You can use the Transaction Summary window to determine if
pending transactions or conditions exist for a job. Some status
changes are disallowed when pending information exists. See:
Viewing Pending Job Transactions: page 3 – 97.

See Also

Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63

Mass Changing Discrete Job Statuses: page 3 – 109
Rescheduling Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 106
Attaching Files to Jobs, Schedules, and Operations: page E – 2

Rescheduling Discrete Jobs

You can reschedule standard and non–standard discrete jobs with and
without routings. You can enter job start and completion dates earlier
than the current date to maintain relative date priorities for department
schedules and material requirements. You can also reschedule discrete
jobs by rescheduling their operations. See: Adding and Updating
Operations: page 8 – 12 and Midpoint Rescheduling: page 8 – 18.
If you change a job quantity, the system automatically prompts you to
reschedule the job.

Prerequisites
❑ Define at least one discrete job with a status of Released or
Complete. See: Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63.

" To reschedule a standard job with a routing or a non–standard job

with a routing reference:
1. Navigate to the Discrete Jobs window. See: Combination Block,
Oracle Applications User’s Guide.
2. Enter the Name of the job.

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 3. In the Dates region, enter either the Start or Completion date and
time.
For standard jobs, if you enter a start date and time, the completion
date and time are automatically forward scheduled based on the
assembly’s routing. Similarly, if you enter a completion date and
time, the start date and time are automatically backward scheduled
based on the assembly’s routing. You can enter a past due start
date to forward schedule a job that should have started before the
current date. You cannot enter a start date and time greater than
the completion date and time.
For non–standard jobs, the same forward and backward scheduling
logic is applied. However, for non–standard jobs, scheduling is
based on the routing reference not the assembly’s routing.
Note: If your job is non–standard and has a routing reference that
has no routing, the fixed and variable lead times of the routing
reference are used to calculate the start or completion date and
time.
4. Save your work.

" To reschedule a standard job without a routing or a non–standard job

without a routing reference:
1. Navigate to the Discrete Jobs window.
2. Select the Job.
3. In the Dates region, enter either the Start or Completion date and
time or enter both the Start or Completion date and time.
For standard jobs without routings, you can enter either the start
date and time or the completion date and time. If you enter a start
date and time, the lead time for the job is calculated by adding the
job assembly’s fixed and variable lead times and multiplying this
sum by the job quantity. The completion date and time are then
automatically forward scheduled using this lead time. Similarly, if
you enter a completion date and time, the start date and time are
automatically backward scheduled using this lead time. Standard
jobs can also be manually scheduled by entering both the start and
the completion date and time.
For non–standard job without routing references, both the start and
the completion dates and times must be entered.
4. Save your work.

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 " To reschedule a discrete job with a routing after changing a start
quantity:
1. After changing your start quantity and saving your work, the
Schedule Discrete Job window appears.

Select a scheduling method:

Forwards from start date: The completion date is cleared and the job
is forward scheduled using the start date and time.
Backwards from completion date: The start date is cleared and the job
is backward scheduled using the completion date and time.
Manual: For jobs without routings and operations, you have the
option to reschedule by accepting the current job start and
completion dates.
2. Choose OK to save your work.

" To reschedule a discrete job using Constraint–based Scheduling:

If you have installed Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling, the
Constraint–based Scheduling engine enables you to reschedule jobs
based on your date if constraints allow. Or it moves the job forward to
the first available time slot as resources and material are available.
H Rescheduling All Jobs or Pending Scheduling Jobs
When you reschedule all jobs or pending scheduling jobs from the
Schedule Discrete Jobs window, the constraint–based scheduling
engine uses the requested due date and scheduling priority. The
highest priority jobs are scheduled first. Jobs with the same priority
are scheduled based on the earliest requested due date. Firm jobs
and any associated operations are not rescheduled.

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 H Automatically Rescheduling Jobs and Operations
The required resource and material are used as the determining
factor. The automatic scheduler enables you to specify the start and
end dates, forward or backward schedule a job, and schedule an
operation using the midpoint or midpoint forward scheduling
method.

See Also

Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63

Changing Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 105
Detailed Scheduling: page 13 – 7
Discrete Rescheduling: page 13 – 12
Rescheduling All Job or Pending Scheduling Jobs, Oracle Manufacturing
Scheduling User’s Guide

Mass Changing Discrete Job Statuses

You can change the status of a group of discrete jobs using the Change
Status option from the Tools menu. This mass change capability can be
used for a variety of purposes such as releasing jobs to production and
putting jobs on hold.

" To change the status of several Discrete jobs:

1. Navigate to the Discrete Jobs window.
2. Choose Find from the Query menu. See: Finding Discrete Jobs:
page 3 – 89.
The Discrete Jobs Summary window appears with the results of the
query.
3. In the Discrete Jobs Summary window, select and deselect jobs as
required. See: Selecting Multiple Records, Oracle Applications User’s
Guide.
4. Choose Change Status from the Tools menu. See: Tools menu: page
F – 2.
The Change Status window appears.

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 5. Choose a status. See: Discrete Jobs Statuses: page 11 – 7 and Job
and Repetitive Schedule Status Changes: page 11 – 15.
6. Choose OK.
7. Save your work.

" To view pending job information:

H You can use the Transaction Summary window to determine if
pending transactions or conditions exist for a job. Some status
changes are disallowed when pending information exists. See:
Viewing Pending Job Transactions: page 3 – 97.

See Also

Changing Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 105

Discrete Job Status Control: page 11 – 4

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Simulating and Saving Simulated Jobs
You can simulate a standard job to determine what materials,
operations, and operation resources are required to support that job.
You can specifically do all of the following:
• vary the job quantity and/or start and completion dates to
determine scheduling and requirement constraints
• view both on–hand and available to promise quantities for
simulated component requirements
• vary the bills of material and/or routings and their associated
revisions and revision dates
When you are satisfied with the simulated job, you can convert it into
an actual job and save it.

" To simulate a discrete job:

1. Navigate to the Simulate Discrete Jobs window.

2. Select the simulation Assembly.

You can only simulate standard discrete jobs with assemblies,
although routings are not required.
If you set the WIP:See Engineering Items profile option to Yes, you
can also simulate jobs for engineering items.
You cannot select an assembly that has a primary routing that is
flow related. If you do, a warning is displayed and you are
prompted to enter another routing designator.

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 See: Creating a Flow Routing, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
3. Enter the job Quantity.
4. Enter either a job Start Date and time or a Completion Date and
time.
You can enter start dates and times earlier than the current date to
maintain relative date priorities for department schedules and
material requirements
5. Optionally, select an Alternate bill of material. See: Primary and
Alternate Bills of Material, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
You can select an alternate bill if alternates have been defined for
the assembly you are building. This bill of material is used instead
of the assembly’s standard bill of material.
6. Select the bill Revision and Revision Date and time.
The bill revision and date determines which version of the bill of
material is used to create job component requirements. The start
date of a standard discrete job can be used to default the bill
revision and revision date. If a start date is not selected, the
revision and revision date are derived based on fixed and variable
lead times of the assembly. See: Item and Routing Revisions, Oracle
Bills of Material User’s Guide.
You can explode item revisions that have associated ECOs with
Release, Schedule, and Implement statuses. If you set the
WIP:Exclude ECOs profile option to None, you can also explode
revisions for ECOs that have an Open status. See: ECO
Implementation By Status: page 11 – 18.
7. Optionally, select an Alternate routing. See:Overview of Routings,
Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
You can select an alternate routing if alternates have been defined
for the assembly you are building. This routing is used instead of
the assembly’s standard routing. If the WIP:See Engineering Items
profile option is set to Yes, you can select engineering routings as
alternates. See: Profile Options: page 2 – 64Profile Options: page
2 – 64 and Primary and Alternate Routings, Oracle Bills of Material
User’s Guide.
8. If the assembly has a routing, select the routing Revision and
Revision Date and time. See: Item and Routing Revisions, Oracle
Bills of Material User’s Guide.
The start date of a standard discrete job can be used to derive the
routing revision and revision date. If a start date is not selected,

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 the revision and revision date are derived based on fixed and
variable lead times of the assembly.

" To save a simulated job:

1. Choose Save Simulated Job from the Tools menu. The Save
Simulated Jobs window appears. See: Tools menu: page F – 2.

2. Enter the Job Name.

If a prefix has been entered for the WIP:Discrete Job Prefix profile
option, the automatic sequence generator generates a default job
name. This name can be overwritten. See: Profile Options: page
2 – 64.
The following fields are defaulted as follows:
Class: If a default accounting class can be found, it is used. If one
cannot be found, you must assign an accounting class to the job in
the Discrete Jobs window. See: WIP Accounting Class Defaults:
page 2 – 17 and Discrete Accounting Classes: page 2 – 42.
Status: The status defaults to Unreleased. See: Discrete Job
Statuses: page 11 – 7.
Note: The above defaults can be changed using the Discrete Jobs
window. See: Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63
3. Enter a job Description.
Descriptions can be used to identify jobs on standard reports. They
can be up to 240 characters of alpha numeric text. They are
optional.
4. Optionally, enter the a descriptive flex value for the job. See:
Setting Up Descriptive Flexfields: page 14 – 4.

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 5. Save your work by choosing OK.
Note: Values for the following fields are derived or defaulted but
can be changed using the Discrete Jobs window. See: Defining
Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63
MRP Net Quantity: Derived from the job start quantity.
Supply Type: Defaults to Based on Bill. See: Supply Types: page
D – 2.
Firm Planned option: Defaults to off (not automatically firmed).
Completion Subinventory and Locator: For jobs with routings,
defaults from the routing.
Lot Number: For lot controlled job assemblies, defaults based on
how the WIP Default Lot Number Type parameter is set. See:
Backflush Default Parameters: page 2 – 21.
You can also use the Discrete Jobs window to enter values for
optional fields: Demand Class, Project, Task, Schedule Group,
Build Sequence, and Production Line.

" To view simulated job operations:

H Choose the Operations button. The Operation window appears
displaying the job’s operations. You can optionally view the
components required at a selected operation using the Components
button. See: Viewing Job and Schedule Operations: page 8 – 22.

" To view simulated component requirements:

H Choose the Components button. The Material Requirements
window appears and the job’s components are displayed. See:
Viewing Component Requirements: page 7 – 18 and Viewing
Component ATP Information: page 7 – 20.

☞ Attention: When no routing exists, all components default to

operation sequence of 1.

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Completing Discrete Jobs
You complete job assemblies into inventory using the Completion
Transactions and Move Transactions windows. You also use these
windows to return completed assemblies back to jobs. When you
complete or return assemblies, any remaining quantities are
automatically updated.
Note: You can also complete Work in Process assemblies using
the Inventory Transaction Interface and the Open Move
Transaction Interface.

Over–completions
H Over–completing and over–moving assembly quantities
You can complete an assembly quantity into inventory that is
greater than the job start quantity, or move an assembly quantity
that is greater than the quantity at an intraoperation step, whether
or not the assemblies have a routing. This is referred to as an
“over–completion,” and it is useful when your production process
yields more assemblies than planned.
Note: You also can over–complete assemblies using the
Inventory Transaction Interface and the Open Move
Transaction Interface, but you must explicitly specify the
over–completion transaction quantity, as it will not be derived
by Work in Process.
To be able to over–complete assemblies on jobs, you must:
• Set up a tolerance level to restrict the number of assemblies that
can be over–completed
• Enable the over–completion feature by checking the
Over–completion check box on the Completion Transaction or
Move Transaction windows when completing assemblies
When you over–complete assemblies to Discrete jobs, all resources
are charged and any backflush components are backflushed.
H Over–completion Tolerance
You must set up a tolerance level for the quantity of assemblies that
can be over–completed. The tolerance level is used to validate the
over–completion quantity. If a completed quantity is greater than
the tolerance allows, the transaction will fail.
You can set up tolerances at three levels: at the organization level
by setting the Default Over–completion Tolerance Percent
parameter, at the item level by setting Oracle Inventory item

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 attributes, or at the job or schedule levels when defining jobs and
schedules. If you do not set up a tolerance at either the item or job
or schedule level, the default over–completion tolerance percent
parameter is used to validate over–completion assembly quantities.
If you do not enter a value for this parameter, it defaults to zero,
and you will be unable to over–complete assemblies. Instead, you
will receive a message telling you that you cannot over–complete
because there is no tolerance. For more information on
over–completion tolerance levels, see: Assembly
Over–completions: page 7 – 84
H Over–Completions from the Completion Transaction and Move
Transaction windows
Once you set up tolerance levels, you enable over–completion on
the Completion Transaction and Move Transaction windows by
selecting the Over–Completion check box before performing the
transaction. For instructions, see: Completing and Returning
Assemblies: page 7 – 91 and Performing Move Completion/Return
Transactions: page 8 – 48.
You can specify any completion subinventory and, if required,
locator when you complete or return assemblies with a completion
transaction. If you complete or return assemblies using move
transactions, the subinventory and locator that you assigned (if
any) to the job is used. You can complete or return partial job or
schedule quantities to different subinventories and locators. The
status of a discrete job is automatically updated to complete when
your cumulative quantity completed equals the job quantity.
H Over–completion Quantities Reserved to Sales Orders
You can reserve over–completion quantities from jobs linked to
sales orders when using the Completion Transactions and Move
Transactions windows. The sales order number for each completion
line must be entered. This reserves the surplus amount, otherwise
the over–completion is unreserved excess inventory. See: Linking
Sales Orders and Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 74.

Backflushing
When you complete assemblies, all components with the supply type of
Assembly pull are automatically backflushed. When components for
assemblies under lot control, serial number control, or lot and serial
control are backflushed upon assembly completion, you must assign lot
and/or serial numbers to the components.

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Shop Floor Statuses
You cannot complete assemblies from a job if a shop floor status that
prevents shop floor moves has been assigned the To move
intraoperation step of the last operation. In this case, you must assign a
status that allows shop floor moves in order to complete the
assemblies.

Outside Processing Operations

When a job or schedule with outside processing operations is changed
to complete status – an informational warning message displays if open
purchase orders or requisitions exist for any of the operations.

Sales Orders
Changing a job status to completed is prevented if open reservations
exist. If you attempt one of these transactions for a job linked to a sales
order, an error message displays. You must reduce the job quantity, or
unlink the sales order to continue the transactions. See: Linking ATO
Sales Orders and Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 74

Non–Standard Job Completions

You must have an assembly and job quantity to complete a
non–standard discrete job. You can complete an assembly quantity
greater than the job start quantity, with or without a routing, as long as
the quantity is within the tolerance set. For some non–standard jobs,
such as those used for disassembly or equipment maintenance, there is
no need to complete assemblies.

Final Assembly Order Completions

When you complete assemblies from final assembly orders using a
completion transaction, reservations are automatically transferred from
the job to the subinventory and locator based on sales order line
delivery due dates. You may override the automatic transfer. When
returning completed assemblies back to a final assembly order, you
must enter the sales order line and delivery information so that the
system knows which reservations to transfer from inventory to WIP.

Costing
Under standard costing, assemblies are received into inventory at
standard cost and the job is relieved of costs at standard. Under
average costing, assemblies are received and the job relieved of costs at
average.

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 Serial Number Validations for Discrete Assembly Completions
For a serialized item returned to stock, validations occur to prevent
re–issuing to a different job. At the time of completion, serialized
assemblies and components are available from stock if they have
specific values set for discrete assemblies and components in the Serial
Numbers window in Oracle Inventory:
See: Serial Number Validations for Component Returns and Assembly
Completions: page 7 – 83

Label Printing at Completion

Label printing capabilities are available at the time of completion. This
provides the ability to create labels for any descriptive information or
customer requirements. See: Label Printing at Completion: page 7 – 82

See Also

Assembly Completions and Returns: page 7 – 80

Performing Move Completion/Return Transactions: page 8 – 48
Assembly Over–completions: page 7 – 84
Assembly Over–returns: page 7 – 84
Completing and Returning Assemblies: page 7 – 91
Work in Process Costs: page 12 – 6
WIP Valuation: page 12 – 8

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Discrete Job Close
You can close discrete jobs using the Close Discrete Jobs (SRS) and
Close Discrete Jobs windows. The window you choose depends on
your requirements
The Close Discrete Jobs window enables you to:
• Submit and immediately process job close requests
• Specify a close date other than the system date
• Unclose discrete jobs
• Check and resubmit failed job close requests
• View discrete jobs before closing them
The Close Discrete Jobs (SRS) window enables you to:
• Specify when to submit the close request (concurrent or
scheduled processing)
• Specify a close date other than the system date
• Use criteria for closing jobs based on a range of accounting
classes, job numbers, and dates – including release, start, and
completion dates
• Exclude or include jobs linked to sales orders from the
processing
• Exclude or include uncompleted jobs from the processing
• Exclude or include jobs with pending transactions
You can use the Close Discrete Jobs window to close discrete jobs and
to resubmit jobs that have failed to close. You can also use this window
to unclose jobs, that is, correct jobs closed in error..
Prior to closing discrete jobs, you can review job value information
using the Discrete Job Value Report, which lists standard and
non–standard asset jobs, or the Expense Job Value Report, which lists
non–standard expense jobs. See: Discrete Job Value Report: page
15 – 25 and Expense Job Value Report: page 15 – 32.
Warning: Only jobs closed in error should be unclosed, and
this should be done immediately after the close. If assembly
costs are rolled up between the time you close then unclose a
job, your costs may be incorrect because the unclose process
does not revalue the job.
Before closing, unclosing, or resubmitting jobs, you can view job detail
information (operations, material requirements, and resource

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 requirements) and ATO sales order information for those jobs. You can
also print reports for selected jobs.

Close Requirements
In the Close Discrete Jobs (Form) window, you cannot close a job that
has pending material, resource, or move transactions including those
that the concurrent manager has not processed. You also cannot close a
job that has uncosted material transactions. If you attempt to close a
job for which pending or uncosted transactions exist, the close process
fails and the job status changes to Failed Close. See: Viewing Pending
Job Transactions: page 3 – 97. You have the option to close these types
of jobs in the concurrent program.
When a job with outside processing operations is changed to complete,
closed, or canceled status – an informational warning message displays
if open purchase orders or requisitions exist for any of the operations.
Changing a job status to completed, closed, or canceled is prevented if
open reservations exist. If you attempt one of these transactions for a
job linked to a sales order, an error message displays. You have two
options in order continue:
• Unlink the sales order reserved to this job
• Reduce the job quantity of the job to equal the completed
quantity
If you close a job for an MPS–planned item with a quantity complete
different from the quantity originally scheduled, the MPS for the actual
quantity is automatically updated. See: Schedule Relief, Oracle Master
Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning User’s Guide.
In Oracle Warehouse Management organizations, open move orders for
a job are cancelled when the job is closed. However, you must perform
an unload task transaction to delete the material requirement and move
order record.

Unclose Requirements
You cannot unclose a job that does not have a status of Closed. You
cannot unclose a job that is linked to a sales order. You also cannot
unclose a job that was closed in a now closed accounting period.

History
Information associated with a job is not deleted when the job is closed.
You can view information for closed discrete jobs. You also can print
reports on closed jobs and closed job values. See: Discrete Job Data
Report: page 15 – 11 and Discrete Job Value Report: page 15 – 25.

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See Also

Closing Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 121

Closing Discrete Jobs Using Submit Requests: page 15 – 7
Purging Transaction History, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide
Overview of Period Close, Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide

Closing Discrete Jobs

The form function parameter, WIP_WIPDJMDF_CLOSE. enables the
Unclose option in the Tools menu. If you do not want Unclose to
display in the menu, set the parameter to No. See: Security Functions:
page 2 – 78.

" To find one or more jobs to view, close, or reopen

1. Navigate to the Close Discrete Jobs window. The Find Discrete
Jobs window appears.
2. Query to find one or more jobs. See: Finding Discrete Jobs: page
3 – 89.
The Close Discrete Jobs Summary window appears with the results
of your query. Option: to navigate to the Close Discrete Jobs
window, choose the Open button.

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 You can view information about the jobs you intend to close from either
the Close Discrete Jobs or the Close Discrete Jobs Summary window.
You can view job operation information by choosing the Operations
button and component requirement information by choosing the
Components button, see: Viewing Job and Schedule Operations: page
8 – 22, Viewing Component Requirements: page 7 – 18, and Viewing
Component ATP Information: page 7 – 20. You can also view sales
orders that are linked to standard discrete jobs by choosing the Sales
Orders button, see: Linking ATO Sales Orders and Discrete Jobs: page
3 – 74.

" To close discrete jobs:

1. Navigate to the Discrete Jobs Summary window. If more than one
job is displayed in the Discrete Jobs Summary window, select the
jobs to close. See: Selecting Multiple Records, Oracle Applications
User’s Guide.
You can only close jobs with statuses of Cancelled, Complete,
Complete – No Charges, Failed Bill Load, Failed Close, Failed
Routing Load, On Hold, Released, and Unreleased.

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2. Choose Close from theTools menu. The Close Discrete Jobs
Request window appears.
3. Select a Report Type.
Reports are printed per the Report Type specified, after the close
process computes job close variances. If your organization uses
standard costing, the Discrete Job Value Report – Standard Costing
is printed when standard discrete jobs and non–standard asset jobs
are closed. If your organization uses average costing, the Discrete
Job Value Report – Average Costing is printed. The Expense Job
Value Report is printed when expense non–standard jobs are closed
regardless of your costing method. It is always printed in detail
format regardless of the Report Type option specified. For more
information about these reports see: Discrete Job Value Report:
page 15 – 25 and Expense Job Value Report: page 15 – 32.
Report Type options and formats are as follows:

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 Summary: Lists each job and includes job header, period–to–date
summary, and cumulative–to–date summary information. The
system also lists summary elemental account values for each job.
Detail Using Planned Start Quantity: Lists each job using the
planned start quantity of the job to calculate the material usage
variance. A detail report includes the following: job header,
material, resource, resource–based and move–based overhead
costs, completion, scrap, and job close variance transactions. It also
includes period–to–date and cumulative–to–date summary
information.
Detail Using Actual Completion Quantity: Lists each job using the
actual completion quantity of the job to calculate the material usage
variance. A detail report includes the following: job header,
material, resource, resource–based and move–based overhead
costs, completion, scrap, and job close variance transactions. It also
includes period–to–date and cumulative–to–date summary
information.
No Report: Does not print a report.
4. Select an Actual Close Date. The system date is the default.
The actual close date must be later than the most recently dated
material, resource, or move transactions associated with the
selected job or jobs. It must also be in an open accounting period.
If it is not, the last date of the most recent open accounting period
is defaulted.
5. Select a Submission Date and time. The system date and time is
the default.
6. Choose OK to submit the request.
Only those jobs with appropriate statuses are closed. The statuses
of jobs that are being closed are changed to Pending Close until the
close process completes.

☞ Attention: The abnormal termination of a close request, either due

to a hardware problem or manual termination of a concurrent
request, can result in a status of Pending Close. These jobs must be
manually resubmitted.

" To reopen closed jobs:

1. From the queried jobs displayed, select which jobs to reopen. See:
Selecting Multiple Records, Oracle Applications User’s Guide.

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 You can only reopen closed jobs. When you reopen a job, it reverts
to its pre–close status. For example, reopening a job that had a
pre–close status of Complete changes its status from Closed back to
Complete. See: Discrete Job Statuses: page 11 – 7.
2. Choose Unclose from the Tools menu to submit the request.
When you choose Unclose, job statuses are immediately changed to
their pre–close status.
Caution: Only the status of the job is changed. Costing
information, historical information, and MPS quantities are not
updated.

" To check the status of close requests:

H You can check the status of close requests using the Concurrent
Requests window. See: Concurrent Requests, Oracle Applications
User’s Guide.

" To print reports for a job:

H If you need additional information about a job, you can optionally
print reports for the active or current job. See: Printing Reports for
Current Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 93.

" To view pending job information:

H You can use the Transaction Summary window to determine if
there are pending or uncosted transactions associated with a job.
You cannot close jobs if pending or uncosted transactions exist.
See: Viewing Pending Job Transactions: page 3 – 97.

" To resubmit jobs with a Pending Close status:

1. From the queried jobs displayed, select one or more jobs to
resubmit. See: Selecting Multiple Records, Oracle Applications
User’s Guide.
2. Choose Check Requests from the Tools menu. See: Tools menu: page
F – 2.
You can use the Check Requests option from the Tools menu to
manually resubmit jobs that have failed to close and have a
Pending Close status. Resubmitting a job with Check Request sets
the job’s status back to its original status. Resubmitting jobs that
have Pending Close statuses because the process has not yet
concluded does not interrupt the close process.

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See Also

Discrete Job Close: page 3 – 119

Overview of Period Close, Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide
Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63
Discrete Accounting Classes: page 2 – 42

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Discrete Job Purge
You can purge discrete job information using the Purge Discrete Jobs
window and Purge Discrete Jobs (SRS). You can purge all information
associated with discrete jobs including job header records and job
detail and transaction information. You can also selectively purge
some or all of the following job related information: job details
(material requirements, resource requirements, and operations), ATO
configurations, move transactions, and resource cost transactions.
Selective purging allows you to retain pertinent historical information.
For example, you can retain operation information but purge move
transactions associated with these operations.

Purge Rules
A discrete job may not purge if the any of the following information
still exists:
• material transactions that reference the job
You can purge material and completion transaction information
in Oracle Inventory. See: Purge Transactions, Oracle Inventory
User’s Guide.
• purchase transactions, purchase requisitions, or purchase orders
that reference the job in Oracle Purchasing
• quality results records that reference the job
You can delete quality results records in the Oracle Quality. See:
Updating and Deleting Quality Results, Oracle Quality User’s
Guide.

Reporting
You can submit a request to print a Purge Report as you purge discrete
jobs. When you printed a report as part of the purge process, the
output of the report is determined by the defaulted purge parameters
used and the level of detail choosen (Full, Summary, or Excepting) in
the Purge Options window.
The Purge Report can also be submitted independently of the purge
process using the Submit Requests window. When submitted
independently of the purge process, only the jobs and/or schedules
that failed to purge are listed.

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See Also

Purging Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 128

Purging Jobs and Schedules: page 15 – 44
Specifying Purge Options: page 3 – 130

Purging Discrete Jobs

You can use the Purge Discrete Jobs window to purge information
associated with discrete jobs that were closed in a now closed
accounting period. You can purge all discrete job information or just
selected information: details (material requirements, resource
requirements, and operations), associated ATO configurations, or
associated move and/or resource cost transactions.
Before purging a job, you can view detail and ATO sales order
information for that job. You can also print one or all of the reports in
the Discrete Job Packet for the job. See: and .

Prerequisites
❑ You must have at least one closed period for your organization.
See: Overview of Period Close, Oracle Cost Management User’s
Guide.

" To find jobs to purge:

1. Navigate to the Purge Discrete Jobs window. The Find Discrete

Jobs window appears.
2. Query to find one or more discrete jobs. See: Finding Discrete Jobs:
page 3 – 89.
The Purge Discrete Jobs Summary window appears with the results
of your query.

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" To print reports for a selected job:
H See: Printing Reports for Current Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 93.

" To view pending job information:

H You can use the Transaction Summary window to determine if
there are pending transactions or conditions associated with a job.
You cannot purge jobs if pending transactions or unprocessed
documents exist. See: Viewing Pending Job Transactions: page
3 – 97.

" To view operations and operation requirements for a selected job:

H From either the Purge Discrete Jobs or Purge Discrete Jobs
Summary window choose the Operations button.
The operations, if any, required for the job are displayed. See:
Viewing Job and Schedule Operations: page 8 – 22.

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 " To view component requirements for a selected job:
H From either the Purge Discrete Jobs or Purge Discrete Jobs
Summary window choose the Components button.
The component materials, if any, required the job are displayed.
See: Viewing Component Requirements: page 7 – 18.

☞ Attention: When no routing exists, all components default to

operation sequence of 1.

" To view sales orders that are linked to a standard discrete job:
H From the Purge Discrete Jobs Summary window choose the Sales
Order button. See: Linking ATO Sales Orders and Discrete Jobs:
page 3 – 74.

" To select which discrete jobs to purge and/or report:

1. From the jobs displayed, select which to include in the purge. You
can select and deselect jobs as required. See: Selecting Multiple
Records, Oracle Applications User’s Guide.
2. Choose Purge from the Tools menu. See: Tools menu: page F – 2.
The Purge Options window appears. See: Specifying Purge
Options: page 3 – 130.

See Also

Purge Report: page 15 – 50

Transaction Control by Status: page 11 – 17
Changing Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 105

Specifying Purge Options

After selecting which jobs/schedules to purge in the Purge Jobs or
Purge Repetitive Schedules window, you can choose from the following
action type options:
Purge and Report Purges the selected jobs/schedules and prints a
report.
Report Only Prints a report listing the selected jobs/schedules
but does not purge them.

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 Purge Only Purges the selected jobs/schedules but does not
print a report.
If you choose to the print a report, you can choose whether the report is
printed in Full, Summary, or Exception format.

☞ Attention: Printing a report before submitting a purge request

allows you to view the records you have selected, but does not
give you any indication of whether the selected jobs/schedules
meet the purge conditions.

Prerequisites
❑ Select the jobs/schedules to include in your purge. See: Purging
Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 128 and Purging Repetitive Schedules: page
6 – 42.

" To purge information for the selected jobs or schedules and print a
report:
1. From the Purge Options window, choose the Purge and Report
action. This is the default option.
2. Choose the level of detail to include in the report. The options are
as follows:
Full: The report lists all job and/or schedule records selected for
the purge, the table and number of rows affected as well as those
records that cannot be purged because of purge rule violations.
Full is the default option.
Summary: The report lists all job and/or schedule records selected
for the purge but in a tabular form. The table and row detail is
omitted although exception information is included.
Exception: The report lists only those job and/or schedule records
that cannot be purged because of purge violation rules. Exception
information is included.
3. Choose OK to submit the purge and print the report.

☞ Attention: Once you commit the process, all related information is

removed from the database.

" To only print a report for the selected jobs or schedules:

1. From the Purge Options window, choose the Report Only action.
2. Choose the level of detail to include in the report. The options are
Full, Summary, or Exception (see above).

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 3. From the Include option group, choose what information to include
in the report. The options are as follows:
Headers: If you choose to purge Headers, all other options are
automatically selected and are, furthermore, required. Purging
headers purges all information associated with the selected jobs or
repetitive schedules.
Details: You can choose to purge job or repetitive schedule details
(operations and material and resource requirements). If you choose
this option, you can also choose to purge move and resource
transactions.
Move Transactions: You can choose to purge move transactions. If
you choose this option, you can also choose to purge schedule
details and resource transactions.
Resource Transactions: You can choose to purge resource
transactions. If you choose this option, you can also choose to
purge schedule details and move transactions.

☞ Attention: If you enter a date that is earlier than the repetitive

schedule’s complete or cancel date or the discrete job’s close date,
the system does not purge any job or schedule information.
4. Choose OK to print the report.

" To purge without printing a report:

1. From the Purge Options window, choose the Purge Only action.
2. From the Include option group, choose what information to purge.
See above.
3. Choose OK to submit the purge and print the report.

" To view pending job information:

H You can determine if there are any pending transactions or
conditions for a job using the Transaction Summary window. See:
Viewing Pending Job Transactions: page 3 – 97.

See Also

Purge Report: page 15 – 50

Transaction Control by Status: page 11 – 17
Changing Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 105

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Processing Pending Jobs and Schedules
You can view, update, delete, and resubmit records (rows) that have
failed validation and remain in the Work Order Interface (WIP_JOB_
SCHEDULE_INTERFACE) table. You can view the error messages
associated with failed records. Error messages assist you in updating
failed records before resubmission.
You cannot insert new job and schedule records into your interface
table using this window.

Prerequisites
❑ Insert job and schedule data into the Work Order Interface table.
See: Work Order Interface: page 3 – 57., and Open Job and Schedule
Interface, Oracle Manufacturing APIs and Open Interfaces Manual

" To find job and schedule interface records:

1. Navigate to the Pending Jobs and Schedules window. The Find
Pending Jobs and Schedules window appears.

2. Enter your selection criteria.

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 You can find all records with a specific Group ID. You can also find
all records that have a specific Process Phase (Validation,
Explosion, Creation, or Complete), Process Status (Pending,
Running, Error, or Complete), Source Code, Source Line ID, Load
Type (Create Standard job, Create Repetitive Schedule, Update
Discrete Job, or Create Non–standard Job), or are for a specific
Organization. You can also search for a specific Job, Assembly, or
Line and Assembly.
3. Choose the Find button. The Pending Jobs and Schedules window
appears with the results of your query.

" To view job and schedule interface records:

For each record, you can view the following information using the
Pending Jobs and Schedules window’s tabbed regions:
Process: Group ID, Phase, Status, Request ID, Source Code, and
Source Line (if applicable)
Header: Load Type, Organization, Job, Line, Assembly

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 Quantities: Discrete Start and Net Quantities, Repetitive Daily
Quantity and processing Days, and Total Quantity (both discrete
and repetitive)
Discrete: Class, Lot Number, Schedule Group, Build Seq, Project
Number and Task
More: Status, Firm planned option, Demand Class, Scheduling
Method, Unit Number
Dates: First Unit Start Date, First Unit Completion Date, Last Unit
Start Date, and Last Unit Completion Date
Bill: Reference, Alternate, Revision, Revision Date, Supply Type
Routing: Reference, Alternate, Revision, Revision Date, and
Completion Subinventory, and Completion Locator
Description: Description and Created By

" To view error details for failed job and schedule records:
1. In the Pending Jobs and Schedules window, select the failed
(Status=Error) record.
2. Choose the Errors button. The Pending Job and Schedule Errors
window appears.
All errors for the selected record are displayed. The Type indicates
whether the failed record produced an Error or a Warning. The
Message explains why the transaction failed. Using these messages
you can determine what fields need to be updated.

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 " To update job and schedule interface records:
1. Select the record to update.
You can only update records with a processing status of Error. You
can update all fields except the Group ID, processing Phase,
processing Status, Request ID, and Total Quantity.
In general, the default values are derived in the same way that they
are derived when you manually enter discrete jobs and repetitive
schedules in the Discrete Jobs and Repetitive Schedules windows.
See: Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63 and Defining
Repetitive Schedules Manually: page 6 – 14.
2. In the Process tabbed region, enter the Source Code and Source
Line.
The Source Code and Source Line identify the source of the
interface record. For example, if you load jobs and schedules from
different sources, you can use a difference Source Code to identify
each.
3. In the Header tabbed region, select the Load Type.
The Load Type indicates whether the current interface record is a
planned order, update recommendation, or suggested repetitive
schedule.
Possible values include:
• Create Standard Discrete Job
• Create Pending Repetitive Schedule
• Update Standard or Non–Standard Discrete Job
• Non–Standard Discrete Job
4. Select the Organization.
You can only select enabled organizations. See: Creating an
Organization, Oracle Human Resources User’s Guide.
5. Select the Job, Line/Assembly, or Assembly.
The assembly is the item you are building. An assembly is optional
for non–standard discrete jobs.
Select the production Line on which to build the repetitive
assembly and the repetitive Assembly to be produced on that line.
6. In the Quantities tabbed region, enter the Start Quantity and Net
Quantity for discrete jobs or the Daily Quantity and number of
Days for repetitive schedules.

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7. In the Discrete tabbed region, select the class.
For records with a Load Type of 4 (Non–Standard Discrete Job),
you can select any active Asset Non–standard, Expense
Non–standard, or Project accounting class. For records with a
Load Type 1 (Create Standard Discrete Job), you can select any
active Standard Discrete accounting class.
8. Select the Lot Number.
9. Select the Schedule Group.
You can optionally assign discrete jobs to any active schedule
group. See: Defining Schedule Groups: page 2 – 53
10. Enter the Build Sequence identifier. See: Build Sequencing: page
3 – 61.
The combination of schedule group and build sequence must be
unique for each job.
11. Select the Project and, if required, task.
You can only select a project if the current organization’s Project
References Enabled parameter is set in Oracle Inventory. You must
select a task if the Project Control Level parameter is set to Task and
you have entered a project. See: Organization Parameters Window,
Oracle Inventory User’s Guide and Creating Projects, Oracle Projects
User’s Guide.
12. On the More tab, select a status for the job or repetitive
assembly/line.
You can select a status of Unreleased, Released or On Hold for any
record. See: Discrete Job Statuses: page 11 – 7 or Repetitive
Schedule Statuses: page 11 – 12.
13. Select whether the discrete job or repetitive schedule is Firm.
14. Select the Demand Class.
You can select any enabled and active demand class. See:
Overview of Demand Classes, Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and
Supply Chain Planning User’s Guide and Creating Demand Classes,
Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning
User’s Guide.
15. For discrete jobs, select the Scheduling Method.
You can choose one of the following:

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 Routing: You can schedule discrete jobs using routing lead times, if
the Load Type is 1 (Create Standard Discrete Job) or 3 (Update
Standard or Non–Standard Discrete Job).
Item Lead Time: You can schedule discrete jobs using item lead
times, even if the item has a routing, if the Load Type is 1 (Create
Standard Discrete Job) or 3 (Update Standard or Non–Standard
Discrete Job).
Manual: You can manually schedule your discrete jobs by entering
start and/or completion dates.
16. Enter the Unit Number. If you have Oracle Project Manufacturing
installed, this enables you to associate an end item model/unit
effectivity number with the item.
The item must be under model/unit effectivity control, and you
must have a model/unit number associated with it. If the item is
not under model/unit number control, this field is disabled. See:
Model/Unit Effectivity, Oracle Project Manufacturing Implementation
Manual.
You can update the assembly unit number through WIP Mass Load
for discrete jobs that are unreleased, project related, and use unit
effectivity.You can change job status from Unreleased to Released
in the same process.
17. In the Dates tabbed region, enter a First Unit Start Date (FUSD),
First Unit Completion Date, a Last Unit Start Date, or a Last Unit
Completion Date (LUCD).
If you are using Manual scheduling, enter both a FUSD and a
LUCD.
18. In the Bill tabbed region, select the bill of material Reference for
your non–standard discrete job.
You can select bill of material reference if the Load Type is 3
(Update Standard or Non–Standard Discrete Job) or 4
(Non–Standard Discrete Job).
19. Select the bill Alternate if creating a discrete job.
You can select an alternate bill if alternates have been defined for
the assembly. For non–standard jobs, you can enter any alternate
defined for the bill Reference specified.
20. Select the bill Revision and bill Revision date. See: Item and
Routing Revisions, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
21. Select the Supply Type.

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 You can select any of the following Supply Types: Push, Assembly
Pull, Operation Pull, Bulk, or Supplier. See: Supply Types: page
D – 2.
22. In the Routing tabbed region, select the routing Reference your
non–standard discrete job.
Routing references are used to create routings (operations and
resource requirements) for non–standard discrete jobs, however,
they are not required.
23. Select the routing Alternate if creating a discrete job.
You cannot enter a value here unless you have defined alternate
routings for the assembly you are building. For non–standard jobs,
you can enter any alternate defined for the routing reference you
specify. See: Primary and Alternate Routings, Oracle Bills of
Material User’s Guide.
24. Select the routing Revision and Revision Date. See: Item and
Routing Revisions, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
25. Select the Completion Subinventory, and if required, locator.
You can select a Completion Subinventory if your Load Type is 1
(Create Standard Discrete Job) or if your Load Type is 4 and you
have an assembly.
26. In the Description tabbed region, enter the Description
You can optionally enter a Description that can be used to identify
jobs on standard reports. They can be up to 240 characters of alpha
numeric text.
27. Enter the Created By identifier.
You can update the name of the user that created the transaction is
displayed. This field can be updated.
28. Save your work.

" To select and resubmit pending job and schedule records:

1. From the queried records displayed, select which to resubmit. See:
Selecting Multiple Records, Oracle Applications User’s Guide.
You can only resubmit records with a processing status of Error. If
you do not mark a row for resubmission, you can still update it but
the WIP Mass Load Program does not process it again when
polling the Open Job and Schedule Interface table.
2. Choose the Submit from the Tools menu.

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 Resubmitting records resets their process status flags to 1
(Pending), and nulls their Group ID. The next time the WIP Mass
Load Program polls the Open Job and Schedule Interface table,
these records are reevaluated.

" To delete job and schedule interface records:

1. Select the record to delete. See: Selecting Multiple Records, Oracle
Applications User’s Guide.
You can only delete records with a processing status of Error.
When you delete records, their corresponding error messages are
deleted from the Errors table (WIP_INTERFACE_ERRORS).
2. Choose Delete from the Edit menu.

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CHAPTER

4 Non–Standard Discrete
Jobs

T his chapter explains the differences between non–standard and

standard discrete jobs and illustrates how non–standard discrete jobs
can be used, including:
• Overview: page 4 – 2
• Standard Versus Non–Standard Discrete Jobs: page 4 – 4
• Business Scenarios: page 4 – 7

Non–Standard Discrete Jobs 4–1

Overview
Non–standard discrete jobs can be used to control materials and
resources and to collect costs for a wide variety of miscellaneous
manufacturing activities such as rework, field service repair, upgrade,
disassembly, maintenance, and engineering prototypes.

Assemblies
You can optionally assign an assembly to a non–standard job. For
example, if you are using a non–standard job to rework assemblies, you
can identify those assemblies on the job. On the other hand, if you are
using a non–standard job to track machine maintenance, you do not
have to associate the job with an assembly.

Quantities
You can choose whether to specify a job quantity on a non–standard job.
The job quantity enables you to track the assemblies on the shop floor
and to plan supplies. You cannot define a job quantity if you have not
defined an assembly for the non–standard job.

Bills of Material and Routings

You can assign bills of material and routings to non–standard discrete
jobs, or you can create them manually. You can assign any bill or
routing including one that does not match the assembly item of the job.

Transactions
You can perform move, issue, backflush, resource, scrap, and
completion transactions on non–standard discrete jobs with assemblies.
For non–standard jobs without assemblies, you can only do issue and
resource transactions.

Planning Options
You can specify how Oracle Planning applications plans material
requirements and job quantities. For each material requirement on a
non–standard job, you can use the MRP Net field to specify whether
MRP includes the requirement as a demand. For the assembly, you can
specify the MRP net quantity as the number of assemblies you expect
the non–standard job to supply on the completion date of the job.

Asset and Expense Accounting Class

You can define asset accounting classes for non–standard discrete jobs
you want to carry as an asset during the life of the job. Asset classes are

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 costed on a job basis. You can also define expense accounting classes for
non–standard jobs you want to expense during each accounting period.

Job Close
You can manually close non–standard jobs whenever you choose. The
system automatically performs an accounting close for non–standard
jobs with expense type accounting classes on a periodic basis during the
period close process.

Job Costs
You can charge, value, and report the standard costs of material,
material overhead, resources, resource overhead, and outside processing
for non–standard discrete jobs. You can charge resource and outside
processing at actual cost. Non–standard jobs with expense type
accounting classes are not subject to revaluation at cost update.
Non–standard jobs do not earn material overhead on Completions.

Project Non–Standard Jobs

If Project Manufacturing is implemented, you can use project
non–standard jobs in the same way that you use common non–standard
jobs.

See Also

Overview of Discrete Manufacturing: page 3 – 2

Discrete Accounting Classes: page 2 – 42
Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63
Project Jobs: page 3 – 87
Discrete Job Close: page 3 – 119
Overview of Material Control: page 7 – 2
Overview of Shop Floor Control: page 8 – 2
Charging Resources Manually: page 9 – 33

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Standard Versus Non–Standard Discrete Jobs
Non–standard jobs are similar to standard jobs, however, there are
noteworthy differences including:
• Non–standard jobs are more flexible than standard jobs. Because
of this they can be used to manage such varying activities as
rework, field service repair, upgrades, disassembly, maintenance,
engineering prototypes, and other miscellaneous projects.
• Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning does
not create planned orders or reschedule recommendations for
non–standard jobs. You must manually define and reschedule
non–standard jobs. However, if a non–standard job is assigned an
assembly bill of material, a routing, or both, Oracle Master
Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning considers the job’s
material requirements as demand and its assemblies as supply.
Oracle Capacity considers resource load for non–standard jobs.
• Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning does
not deduct scrapped assemblies from the MRP net quantity, or
deduct the MRP net quantity by the item shrinkage rate for
non–standard jobs. As such, you must identify planned assembly
shrinkage by entering an MRP net quantity that is less than the
job quantity.
• Non–standard expense jobs are period costed and are not subject
to cost updates, whereas standard discrete and asset type
non–standard jobs are costed when closed and are automatically
revalued by the cost update. Non–standard discrete jobs do not
earn overhead on completion. Instead material overhead at
completion is posted directly to the subinventory material
overhead account. See: Discrete Job and Repetitive Schedule
Costs: page 12 – 6.
• Work in Process does not implement engineering change orders
(ECOs) on non–standard jobs. See: ECO Implementation by
Status: page 11 – 18
• You can use a bill and routing from another assembly. For
example, you can set up a standard upgrade routing to use for a
group of assemblies.
• You can define bill of material loops, that is, you can define the
assembly itself as a requirement on its bill. This is useful for
upgrade, disassembly, and repair activities.
• You can return a greater quantity of assemblies to non–standard
discrete jobs than you completed into inventory.

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 The following table illustrates the differences between non–standard
and standard discrete jobs.

Job Field Values Standard Discrete Job Non–Standard Discrete Job

Name Required Required

Type Required Required

Description Optional Optional

Assembly Required Optional. Enter if you want to perform move and/or

completion transactions.

Job Class Required Required

Status Required Required

Quantity Required Required. You can enter 0. Enter a positive number

if you want to perform move and/or completion
transactions.

MRP Net Qty Required. Defaults from Required. Defaults from Quantity. If you do not en-
Quantity. ter an assembly then you cannot enter a value in this
field.

Start Date Required Required. If a routing exists for the job, then you can
enter either a start or a completion date. Otherwise,
you must enter both a start and completion date.

Completion Date Required Required. If a routing exists for the job, then you can
enter either a start or a completion date. Otherwise,
you must enter both a start and completion date.

Firm Required. Defaults to Yes if You cannot enter a value in this field. Defaults to No.
item is MPS planned. Other-
wise, defaults to No.

Lot Number Optional Optional

Routing Reference You cannot enter a value in Optional. Enter a value if you want to perform job
this field. scheduling based on a routing.

Alt. Routing Optional Optional

Revision Optional Optional. You must enter a value in this field if you
have a routing for the assembly.

Revision Date Optional Optional. You must enter a value in this field if you
have a routing for the assembly.

Completion Sub. Optional Optional

Completion Locator Optional Optional

Bill Reference You cannot enter a value in Optional. Enter a value if you want to automatically
this field. create material requirements based on a bill of mate-
rials.

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 Job Field Values Standard Discrete Job Non–Standard Discrete Job

Alt. Bill Optional Optional

Revision Optional Optional. You must enter a value in this field if you
have a bill for the assembly.

Revision Date Optional Optional. You must enter a value in this field if you
have a bill for the assembly.

Supply Type Required. Defaults to Based Required. Defaults to Based on bill.

on bill.

See Also

Overview of Non–Standard Discrete Jobs: page 4 – 2

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Business Scenarios
Non–standard discrete jobs are very flexible and can be used to control a
wide variety of manufacturing activities. The following sections
provide various business scenarios that explain how non–standard
discrete jobs can be used to manage rework, field service repairs,
upgrades, disassembly, maintenance, and engineering prototypes.

Rework Assemblies
Business Example
You are a chair manufacturer that has rejected a lot of 100 completed
chairs due to an overly glossy finish. You have decided to rework these
chairs on a non–standard discrete job.

Assumptions
You have 100 rejected chair assemblies in a non–nettable Material
Review Board (MRB) subinventory.
Since this type of rework occurs frequently, your manufacturing
engineers have already defined standard rework operations for
stripping, sanding, repainting, and reinspection with appropriate
resources.

Setup
Use the Discrete Jobs window to define a non–standard discrete job for
the chair assembly with a job quantity of 100. Since it is highly likely
that you will be 100% successful in reworking the chairs, enter 100 in the
MRP Net Quantity field. Select an asset type non–standard accounting
class since you are building up an asset.
Use the Operations window to manually create a routing for the
stripping, sanding, repainting, and reinspection operations needed.
Use the Material Requirements window to manually create the only
component requirement (the chair assembly) at the stripping operation.
Enter Push as the supply Type since you will likely push the assembly to
the stripping operation, and specify the supply subinventory as the
MRB subinventory. Do not check MRP Net if you do not want to create
demand for items that are supplied from a non–nettable subinventory.

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 Print the Discrete Job Pick List Report and release the job using the
Discrete Jobs window. Or release the job and use the Component Pick
Release window to select requirements and generate move orders.

Transactions
Use the WIP Material Transactions window to issue the chair assembly
to the non–standard discrete job. Use the Move Transactions window to
move the chairs from operation to operation and to charge resources
and overhead.
Use the Completion Transactions window to complete the perfectly
finished chairs into a nettable finished goods inventory.

Costing
When all the chairs are completed, the job status changes to Complete.
Your cost accountants can run a Discrete Job Value Report to check all
the charges.
The job must have an ending balance equal to the cost of the resource
and overhead charges only. The material charges for the chair
assemblies net to a zero balance because the only material on the job was
the chair assemblies that you issued to and completed from the job.
Ending resource and overhead charge balances are written off as a
variance when you close the job.

See Also

Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63

Adding and Updating Material Requirements: page 7 – 10
Adding and Updating Operations: page 8 – 12
Issuing and Returning All Push Components: page 7 – 54
Performing Move Transactions: page 8 – 37
Completing and Returning Assemblies: page 7 – 91
Discrete Job Close: page 3 – 119
Using the Component Pick Release Window: page 7 – 33

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Upgrade Assemblies
Business Example
You are a computer manufacturer that wants to upgrade some printed
circuit boards from an older revision to the now current revision. You
have decided to upgrade these assemblies from revision A to revision C
on a non–standard discrete job.

Assumptions
You have 100 revision A printed circuit board assemblies in a
non–nettable spare parts subinventory. From past upgrade efforts, your
manufacturing engineers expect 90% success in the upgrade.
For this upgrade effort, your manufacturing engineers have defined an
alternate bill of material for the revision C of the printed circuit board.
This alternate bill, named UpgradeToC, includes all the items that are
required for revision C that are not in revision A. In other words, this
alternate bill is the upgrade kit.
Since upgrades such as this occur frequently, your manufacturing
engineers have defined an alternate routing, named Upgrade. This
routing includes all the standard printed circuit board upgrade
operations including remove, replace, test1, and test2.

Setup
Use the Discrete Jobs window to define a non–standard discrete job for
revision C of the printed circuit board assembly with a job quantity of
100. Since you expect that 90% success when the rework is complete,
enter 90 in the MRP Net Quantity field rather than the job quantity.
Select an asset type non–standard accounting class since you are
building up an asset.
Enter the printed circuit board and the Upgrade alternate routing into
the Routing Reference and Alternate Routing fields respectively to
schedule the start and end dates of the job and to create the WIP
operations and resources. Enter the printed circuit board assembly and
the UpgradeToC alternate bill in the Bill Reference and Alternate Bill
fields respectively in order to get the upgrade kit components onto the
non–standard discrete job.
Use the Material Requirements window to manually create the
component requirement for the printed circuit board. The printed
circuit board will likely be a push component at the remove operation.
For the printed circuit board, do not check MRP Net since you do not
want to create demand for items that are supplied from a non–nettable

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 subinventory. Since the upgrade kit components are supplied from
nettable subinventories, check MRP Net for these items.
Print the Discrete Job Pick List Report and release the job using the
Discrete Jobs window. Or release the job and use the Component Pick
Release window to select requirements and generate move orders.

Transactions
Use the WIP Material Transactions window to issue the printed circuit
board and upgrade kit components to the non–standard discrete job.
Use the Move Transactions window to move the printed circuit boards
from operation to operation and to charge resources and overheads.
You can also use the Move Transactions window to scrap unfixable
printed circuit boards.
Use the Completion Transactions window to complete the finished
Revision C printed circuit boards into a nettable finished goods
inventory.

Costing
When all the printed circuit boards are completed or scrapped, the job
status changes to Complete. Your cost accountants can run a Discrete
Job Value Report to check all the charges.
The job must have costs incurred equal to the standard cost of the
printed circuit board assemblies, plus the cost of the upgrade kit
material, plus the standard or actual cost of resources charged, and the
standard cost of overhead charged. The costs relieved from the job
equal the standard cost of the completed and scrapped printed circuit
board assemblies. The balance is written off as a variance when you
close the job.

See Also

Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63

Adding and Updating Material Requirements: page 7 – 10
Adding and Updating Operations: page 8 – 12
Charging Resources Manually: page 9 – 33
Issuing and Returning All Push Components: page 7 – 54
Performing Move Transactions: page 8 – 37
Completing and Returning Assemblies: page 7 – 91

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 Discrete Job Close: page 3 – 119
Using the Component Pick Release Window: page 7 – 33

Disassemble Assemblies
Business Example
You are a custom bicycle manufacturer that has received a cancellation
for a custom bike you have recently completed. You have decided to
disassemble this bike into its major components so that you can reuse
these components on future custom orders. Use a non–standard discrete
job to disassemble the bike.

Assumptions
You have one completed custom bicycle in a nettable finished goods
(FGI) subinventory. Your manufacturing engineers have set up a
standard operation to disassemble bicycles, called Disassembly, with a
single direct charge resource, called Tech1.

Setup
Use the Discrete Jobs window to define a non–standard discrete job for
the bicycle assembly with a job quantity of 1. Since you will not be
receiving any finished bicycles as a supply, enter zero in the MRP Net
Quantity field rather than the job quantity. Select an expense type
non–standard accounting class since you are not building up WIP assets.
Use a class with accounts that correspond to the appropriate expense
accruals.
Use the Operations window to manually create a single operation
routing with the Disassembly standard operation as the only operation.
Use the Material Requirements window to manually create the
component requirements. The first requirement must be the bicycle
assembly itself at the Disassembly operation. Enter Push as the supply
Type since you will likely push the bicycle assembly to the Disassembly
operation and enter the FGI subinventory in the Supply Subinventory
field. Check MRP Net since you want to create demand for a bicycle
that is supplied from the nettable FGI subinventory.
Further, you must create negative component requirements for each of
the major components you expect to return to inventory from the bicycle
including the frame, seat, handlebars, crank set, wheels, and tires. For

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 these components, check MRP Net so that the MRP planning process
sees these negative demands as supply.
Print the Discrete Job Pick List Report and release the job using the
Discrete Jobs window. Or release the job and use the Component Pick
Release window to select requirements and generate move orders.

Transactions
Use the WIP Material Transactions window to issue the bicycle to the
non–standard discrete job.
Use the Resource Transactions window to charge resource time incurred
during the dismantling process.
Use the WIP Material Transactions window to return the frame, seat,
wheels, and so on to inventory as you dismantle the bicycle. These
return transactions fill the negative requirements you created using the
Update Requirements window. Do not use the Completion Transactions
window since there is nothing to complete.

Costing
When the disassembly process is over and all the components have been
returned to inventory, you must change the job status to Cancelled–no
charges. The cost accountants can run a Discrete Job Value Report to
check all the charges.
The job must have an ending balance equal to the resource and
overhead costs incurred during assembly and disassembly and any
outside processing costs incurred during assembly. The costs of
materials issued and returned must be equal since all the components of
the bicycle were returned to inventory. The resource, overhead, and
outside processing costs are written off as a variance when you close the
job or at period end when expense type non–standard jobs are
automatically expensed.

See Also

Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63

Adding and Updating Material Requirements: page 7 – 10
Adding and Updating Operations: page 8 – 12
Charging Resources Manually: page 9 – 33
Issuing and Returning All Push Components: page 7 – 54
Performing Move Transactions: page 8 – 37

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 Completing and Returning Assemblies: page 7 – 91
Discrete Job Close: page 3 – 119
Using the Component Pick Release Window: page 7 – 33

Build Engineering Prototypes

You can define prototype bills of material in two ways. The first is to
use engineering change orders (ECO) to define future revisions to items
on a bill. The second is to create a new engineering item and bill.
In either case, you may build a small quantity of these new structures to
validate the design and to ensure manufacturability. You can use
non–standard jobs to manage the prototype build process for both
future revisions and new engineering items.

Business Example #1 – Future Revision of an Existing Item

You are an automotive parts manufacturer that wants to build a batch of
fuel filter prototypes for next year’s model. These fuel filters are only
slightly revised from this year’s models and are defined as a future
unreleased revision rather than as a new item. You have decided to
build these prototype assemblies on a non–standard discrete job.

Assumptions
Your manufacturing engineers have used engineering change orders to
define a future open bill of material for the fuel filters with a revision
identifier of 95 and revision date of 01–Jan. You can build the 95
revision in the regular fuel filter production area on a standard fuel filter
routing. The engineers may modify the routing on the fly during the
build process. Cost accounting has not performed a cost rollup for this
future version of the fuel filter.

Setup
Use the Discrete Jobs window to define a non–standard discrete job for
the fuel filter assembly, revision 95 with a revision date of 01–Jan, with a
job quantity of 10. Since none of these prototypes will be available as
supply, enter zero in the MRP Net Quantity field rather than the job
quantity. Select an expense type non–standard accounting class since
you are performing engineering activities. Use a class with accounts
that correspond to your engineering prototype expense accruals.

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 Enter the current routing into the Routing Reference field to schedule
the start and end dates of the job and to create the WIP operations and
resources.
Enter the 95 revision with the revision date of 01–Jan into the Bill
Revision and Revision Date fields respectively to get the correct
component requirements into the non–standard discrete job. You must
have the WIP:Exclude Open ECOs profile option set to None to allow you
to define jobs for open revisions.
Print the Discrete Job Pick List Report and release the job using the
Discrete Jobs window. Or release the job and use the Component Pick
Release window to select requirements and generate move orders.

Transactions
Use the WIP Material Transactions window to issue the components to
the non–standard discrete job.
Use the Move and Resource Transactions windows to move the fuel
filters from operation to operation and to charge resources and
overheads. You can also use these windows to add either operations or
resources as needed.
Use the Completion Transactions window to complete revision 95 of the
finished fuel filters into a non–nettable engineering prototypes
inventory.

Costing
When all the fuel filters are completed or scrapped, the job status
changes to Complete. Your cost accountants can run a Discrete Job
Value Report to check all the charges.
The job must have an ending balance equal to the cost of material,
resources and overhead charges less the current standard cost for the
completed fuel filters (since this future version is not the current
standard). The balance is written off as a variance when you close the
job or at period end when expense type non–standard jobs are
automatically expensed.

Business Example #2 – Engineering Items

You are an automotive parts manufacturer that wants to build a batch of
fuel filter prototypes for a brand new model. These fuel filters are a
brand new engineering item that does not meet the same window, fit, or
function of any item. You have decided to build these prototype
assemblies on a non–standard discrete job.

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Assumptions
Your manufacturing engineers have defined a new engineering item bill
of material for the fuel filters with a revision identifier of 95A and
revision date of 01–Jan. You can build the new item in the regular fuel
filter production area on a standard fuel filter routing. The engineers
modify the routing on the fly during the build process. Cost accounting
has not performed a cost rollup or a cost update for this new
engineering fuel filter.

Setup
Use the Discrete Jobs window to define a non–standard discrete job for
the engineering fuel filter assembly, revision 95A with a revision date of
01–Jan, with a job quantity of 10. Since none of these prototypes will be
available as supply, enter zero in the MRP Net Quantity field rather than
the job quantity. Select an expense type non–standard accounting class
since you are performing engineering activities. Use a class with
accounts that correspond to your engineering prototype expense
accruals.
Enter the standard fuel filter into the Routing Reference field to schedule
the start and end dates of the job and to create the WIP operations and
resources.
Enter the 95A revision with the revision date of 01–Jan into the Bill
Revision and Revision Date fields respectively to get the correct
component requirements into the non–standard discrete job. You must
have the WIP:See Engineering Items profile option set to Yes to allow you
to define jobs for engineering items.
Print the Discrete Job Pick List Report and release the job using the
Discrete Jobs window. Or release the job and use the Component Pick
Release window to select requirements and generate move orders.

Transactions
Use the WIP Material Transactions window to issue the components to
the non–standard discrete job.
Use the Move and Resource Transactions windows to move the fuel
filters from operation to operation and to charge resources and
overheads. You can also use these windows to add either operation or
resources as needed.
Use the Completion Transactions window to complete revision 95A of
the finished engineering fuel filters into a non–nettable engineering
prototypes inventory.

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 Costing
When all the fuel filters are completed or scrapped, the job status
changes to Complete. Your cost accountants can run a Discrete Job
Value Report to check all the charges.
The job must have an ending balance equal to the cost of material,
resources and overhead charges. No costs were relieved from the job by
the completion transaction since the costs of the engineering fuel filter
have never been rolled up or updated. The job balance is written off as a
variance when you close the job or at period end when expense type
non–standard jobs are automatically written off.

See Also

Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63

Adding and Updating Material Requirements: page 7 – 10
Adding and Updating Operations: page 8 – 12
Charging Resources Manually: page 9 – 33
Issuing and Returning All Push Components: page 7 – 54
Performing Move Transactions: page 8 – 37
Completing and Returning Assemblies: page 7 – 91
Discrete Job Close: page 3 – 119
Using the Component Pick Release Window: page 7 – 33

Track Other Projects

Business Example
You are a contract electronics manufacturer who can charge customers
for design services as well as production services. You have decided to
track their design service projects using non–standard discrete jobs.

Assumptions
Your manufacturing engineers have already set up a dummy item,
named Design_Project, with a number of alternate routings for various
types of design projects. In this case, Project7 is the alternate routing
that most closely matches this specific project.

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You can use the Operations window to modify this standard routing to
exactly match the major tasks (operations) and responsibilities
(resources) for this specific project.

Setup
Use the Discrete Jobs window to define a non–standard discrete job with
no assembly and a job quantity of zero. There is no need for an
assembly since you will not be moving or completing anything. Select
an expense type non–standard accounting class since you are
performing project activities. Use a class with accounts that correspond
to your project accruals. Use the job name and description to identify
the specific customer and design contract.
Enter the Design_Project item and the Project7 alternate routing into the
Routing Reference and Alternate Routing fields respectively to create
the WIP operations and resources. Since you will not be making moves,
the purpose of this routing is to serve as a task reference list and
charging point for the individuals who are performing this project.
Print the Discrete Job Pick List Report and release the job using the
Discrete Jobs window. Or release the job and use the Component Pick
Release window to select requirements and generate move orders.

Transactions
Use the Resource Transactions window to charge resources time
incurred during the life of the project. You can charge at a standard rate
or a rate based on the specifics of your contract.
Use the Move or Resource Transactions windows, or the Operations
window to modify the operations or resources as required for this
particular project.
Use the WIP Material Transactions window to issue any items that the
project might require.

Costing
Since you will do this project over several periods, you can leave this job
open for as long as you want. The job must have an ending balance
equal to the material, resource, and overhead charges incurred during
any period. The cost accountants must run a Discrete Job Value report
each period to review the charges and bill the customer. The job balance
is written off as a variance when you close the job or at period end when
expense type non–standard jobs are automatically expensed.

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See Also

Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63

Adding and Updating Material Requirements: page 7 – 10
Adding and Updating Operations: page 8 – 12
Charging Resources Manually: page 9 – 33
Issuing and Returning All Push Components: page 7 – 54
Performing Move Transactions: page 8 – 37
Completing and Returning Assemblies: page 7 – 91
Discrete Job Close: page 3 – 119
Using the Component Pick Release Window: page 7 – 33

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CHAPTER

5 Flow Manufacturing

T his chapter explains how to use flow manufacturing in Work in

Process, including:
• Overview: page 5 – 2
• Setting Up: page 5 – 7
• Flow Schedules: page 5 – 8
• Work Order–less Completions: page 5 – 11
• Overview of the Flow Workstation: page 5 – 27
• Flow Workstation Window: page 5 – 28
• The Flow Workstation Branches and Tabs: page 5 – 33
• Flow Workstation Transactions: page 5 – 35
• Linearity, Load, and Properties of the Line: page 5 – 38
• Open Schedules and Events: page 5 – 46

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Overview of Flow Manufacturing
Flow Manufacturing is a set of manufacturing processes and techniques
designed to reduce product cycle time through line design and line
balancing, reduce product costs by minimizing inventories and
increasing inventory turns, and to enhance product quality through
total quality control. It is significantly different from other
manufacturing processes in that it is a just–in–time (JIT) or
demand–based ”pull” system that manufactures to customer order.

A Multi–Mode Environment
Integrating Flow Manufacturing with other Oracle Applications such as
Work in Process enables you to operate in a multi–mode environment.
This means that you can concurrently implement Discrete, Repetitive,
and Flow manufacturing methods in the same or different inventory
organizations by plant, product family, assembly line, or process. For
example, you can produce some of your product families in the Flow
environment and others in the Discrete environment.

Mixed–Model Production
Flow Manufacturing uses dedicated assembly lines that are designed to
support the manufacture of product families through mixed–model
production. Mixed–model production enables you to produce any item
in a product family in any sequence and in a lot size of one. To ensure
optimum resource utilization and the smooth flow of materials, lines
are designed to minimize bottlenecks, to eliminate non value–added
tasks, and to integrate quality inspections into the process.
When setting up Flow Manufacturing assembly lines, the goal is to set
up balanced lines that enable you to meet the expected demand in the
shortest possible time. Using ”pull” manufacturing, materials flow
through the line at a steady rate (known as TAKT time), starting with
the final assembly operation.
Mixed–model production is driven by Flow schedules, rather than by
Discrete work orders, and uses existing Flow routings. Schedules are
sequenced based on customer orders, and component material is
managed, and replenished at its point–of–use by kanban bins and
signals.

Kanban Material Replenishment

In Oracle Flow Manufacturing, you can both plan and execute kanbans,
a method of just–in–time material replenishment that can be applied to
the production of items with relatively constant demand and medium
to high production volume. Kanban material replenishment is a

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 self–regulating pull system that uses replenishment signals (kanbans) to
pull the minimum amount of material possible into production bins
when needed to meet demand.
When material is needed, a kanban signal is sent electronically or
manually to feeding operations and/or external suppliers. A supplier
kanban may automatically trigger a purchase order to a supplier, while
an internal kanban results in an inter–organizational transfer.

See Also

Flow Manufacturing, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide

Kanban Planning and Execution, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide
Mixed Model Map, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide
Creating Flow Schedules, Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle
Supply Chain User’s Guide
Line Scheduling Workbench Options Window, Oracle Master
Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain User’s Guide
Product Synchronization, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide
Pull Sequence Window, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide

Flow Manufacturing Integration with Work in Process

Integrating Flow Manufacturing with Work in Process has simplified
production execution. The following overviews provide you with a
brief introduction to the Flow Manufacturing features provided in
Work in Process:

Work Order–less Assembly Completions and Returns

You can complete and return flow schedules and unscheduled flow
assemblies without having to create a work order. When you perform a
WIP Assembly Completion, operation pull, assembly pull, and push
components are backflushed and resources and overheads are charged.
For a WIP Assembly Return, operation pull, assembly pull, and push
components are returned to inventory and resource and overhead
transactions are reversed. You perform these transactions on the Work
Order–less Completions window, which you can open from both the
Flow Manufacturing and Work in Process menus.

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 Quality Data Collection during Work Order–less Completions
You can collect quality results data when you complete Flow schedules
and unscheduled assemblies on the Work Order–less Completions
window. When you set up a collection plan to associate with a Work
Order–less completion transaction, you can specify mandatory quality
data collection, in which case, the user must enter quality results before
completing the transaction. You also can specify that quality data is
collected automatically in the background. Detailed information on
setting up collection plans for recording quality data during
transactions is available in the Oracle Quality User’s Guide.

Assembly Scrap and Return of Scrap

You can scrap and return from scrap both scheduled and unscheduled
assemblies at any operation. This can be performed for assemblies
where no routing exists. Operation and assembly pull, and push
components at events prior to the scrap line operation are
automatically backflushed. You can substitute components at any
operation on or prior to the scrap operation. You can specify a scrap
account for scrap and return from scrap transactions.

Component Substitutions
You can add, delete, and substitute components that are not normally
associated with the assembly you are building.

Component Backflush
Operation Pull, assembly pull, and push components are automatically
backflushed when you complete a Flow schedule. Conversely, when
you return Flow assemblies, reversing transactions are created. Bulk
and supplier components are not backflushed. The bills for phantom
components are exploded and the phantom’s components are
backflushed when transactions are saved.

Production Kanban Replenishment

You can use kanban signals to create a discrete job, repetitive schedule,
or Flow schedule (or you can use existing job or schedule) to replenish
production kanbans whose supply status is Empty or In Process.
Production kanbans for discrete jobs or repetitive schedules are
replenished when assemblies are completed through the Completion or
Move Transaction form. Production kanbans for scheduled and
unscheduled flow assemblies are completed on the Work Order–less
Completion form.

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You can complete an assembly into the subinventory or locator
specified by the kanban. The first assembly completed automatically
updates the supply status of its production kanban to Full.

Lot and Serial Number Control

You can specify lot, serial, and lot and serial number information for
assemblies and components when you perform Work Order–less
Completion transactions. You also can set the WIP Lot Selection Method
parameter to specify whether lot controlled components are selected
manually or automatically during backflush transactions. If you specify
manual selection, you select which lots are used; if you specify
automatic selection, lots are selected on the basis of their inventory
expiration or receipt date. See: Backflush Parameters: page 2 – 21 and
Lot and Serial Number Backflushing: page 7 – 78.

ATO (Assemble–to–Order) Reservations

You can accept a customer order, generate a Flow schedule, and
complete it using a Work Order–less Completion transaction.
Components are automatically reserved to satisfy that specific sales
order.

Sales Order Reservations

You can reserve the assemblies being built on a Flow schedule to a sales
order. One or more Flow schedules can be used to satisfy a sales order.
Sales order lines cannot be satisfied by both discrete jobs and Flow
schedules.

Inventory Transaction Open Interface

You can load work order–less completion transaction information from
external systems — such as bar code readers and other data collection
devices — into the Inventory Transaction Open Interface. When this
data is processed, it is validated, and invalid records are marked so
that you can correct and resubmit them

Mobile Manufacturing
Oracle Mobile Manufacturing is the component of Oracle Mobile
Supply Chain Applications used for Oracle Work in Process
transactions. The interface of a mobile client device with a networked
computer system is used to create transactions. You can perform Flow
Manufacturing completion and scrap transactions, and work order–less
completions.

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See Also

Comparison of Manufacturing Methods: page C – 2

Performing Work Order–less Completions: page 5 – 16
Completing and Returning Assemblies: page 7 – 91
Performing Move Transactions: page 8 – 24
Creating Flow Schedules, Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle
Supply Chain User’s Guide
Line Scheduling Workbench Options Window, Oracle Master
Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain User’s Guide
Product Synchronization, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide
Pull Sequence Window, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide
Flow Manufacturing Transactions, Oracle Mobile Supply Chain
Applications User’s Guide
Work Order–Less Transactions, Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications
User’s Guide

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Setting Up
• For a listing of out–of–product setups that affect flow
manufacturing see: Related Product Setup Steps: page 2 – 3.
• For a listing of setups within Work in Process that affect flow
manufacturing see: Setup Check List: page 2 – 7.
• For additional information about parameters and accounting
classes see: WIP Parameters: page 2 – 14 and WIP Accounting
Classes: page 2 – 42.
• For a listing of profile options that affect Flow manufacturing
see:Profile Options: page 2 – 64.
• For information on setting up flow routings see: Creating a Flow
Routing, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide
• For information on defining scheduling rules see: Defining
Scheduling Rules, Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle
Supply Chain User’s Guide
• For information on creating standard events see: Defining Flow
Manufacturing Standard Events, Oracle Flow Manufacturing
User’s Guide
• For information on creating flow lines see Overview of the
Graphical Line Designer Workbench, Oracle Flow Manufacturing
User’s Guide

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Flow Schedules

Flow schedules are production schedules for assemblies produced on

Flow Manufacturing lines. They are created to meet planned
production orders and/or sales orders. You can link sales orders to
flow schedules, and you also have the option to reserve the schedule’s
completed assemblies to the associated sales order..
You create flow schedules on the Flow Manufacturing Line Scheduling
Workbench. Flow schedules are scheduled within a line and optionally
within a schedule group. Once you create a flow schedule, you can use
the Work Order–less Completions window to perform completion,
return, and scrap transactions.

See Also

Defining Scheduling Rules, Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle

Supply Chain User’s Guide
Creating Flow Schedules, Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle
Supply Chain User’s Guide
Line Scheduling Workbench Options Window, Oracle Master
Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain User’s Guide

Flow Schedule Completions

You perform completion transactions for flow schedules in the Work
Order–less Completions window. At the time of completion, material is
automatically backflushed and resources and overheads are charged.
You can create completion transactions for:
• Assemblies for flow schedules created in Flow Manufacturing, or
created to replenish production kanbans
• Scheduled and unscheduled assemblies
You can also use kanban signals to create a flow schedule completion
when the kanban card status is changed to Full (notifies you that the
order has been filled).

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See Also

Work Order–less Completions: page 5 – 11,

Performing Work Order–less Completions: page 5 – 16.
Flow Manufacturing Transactions, Oracle Mobile Supply Chain
Applications User’s Guide
Work Order–Less Transactions, Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications
User’s Guide

Flow Schedule Reservations

You can use assemblies that have been completed into Inventory
through work order–less completions to satisfy sales orders. Unlike
discrete manufacturing, these sales orders are not required to be
assemble–to–order (ATO) sales orders.
For both scheduled and unscheduled sales orders, you specify that
assemblies from a single flow schedule can fill multiple sales orders.
For scheduled flow schedules only, you can specify that assemblies
from a single sales order satisfy multiple flow schedules.
You can designate the sales order to the schedule when it is created in
the Line Scheduling Workbench. This sales order is for reference and
does not create a reservation.

☞ Attention: If you are using Oracle Mobile Supply Chain

Applications for your work order–less completions
transactions, only configured to order (CTO) flow schedules
are reserved to designated sales orders.

Reserving Sales Orders

As you complete flow schedules that reference ATO sales orders in the
Work Order–less Completions window, the Reserve option defaults to
enabled but can be disabled. If the flow schedule is linked to a sales
order for a non–ATO item, the Reserve option defaults to disabled.
Note: Discrete jobs cannot be used to satisfy an ATO sales
order if a flow schedule has been created to satisfy it.
You can only reserve a quantity that is less than or equal to the open
quantity of a sales order. Because completions that are being processed
may affect this quantity, the system checks to see that all pending
completions for that flow schedule are processed first.

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 The item required, completion subinventory, locator, revision, and
demand class specified in the sales order line are the same as the values
entered at the time of completion.
Once the a link between the flow schedule and the sales order is
established and the reservation is made, the work order status is
changed to Work Order Open if the earlier order status was
Manufacturing Released. The supply reservation created will have a
different delivery ID so you will need to obtain the new delivery ID
from MTL_DEMAND, and create a reservation in On–Hand inventory.
You will need to create hard reservations for each of the lots specified
in the transaction.

Returning Reserved Assemblies

You can only return assemblies to flow schedules if no reservation
between the flow schedule and sales order exists. Therefore, to return
an assembly that was reserved to a flow schedule, you must first break
the reservation in on–hand inventory.

Kanban Replenishment
You can use kanban signals to create a discrete job, repetitive schedule,
or flow schedule (or you can use an existing one) to replenish
production kanbans whose supply status is Empty or In Process.
Production kanbans for discrete jobs or repetitive schedules are
replenished when assemblies are completed through the Completion or
Move Transaction form. Production kanbans for scheduled and
unscheduled flow assemblies are completed on the Work Order–less
Completion form.
You can complete an assembly into the subinventory or locator
specified by the kanban. The first assembly completed automatically
updates the supply status of its production kanban to Full.

See Also

Kanban Planning and Execution, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide

Pull Sequence Window, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide

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Work Order–less Completions
You can do all of the following on the Work Order–less Completions
window:
• Complete unscheduled or scheduled assemblies to Inventory
• Return unscheduled or scheduled assemblies from Inventory
• Scrap assemblies from and return scrapped assemblies to any
operation
• Explode the assembly’s bill of material and add, delete, and
change components–and review items under lot and serial
number control
• Specify lot, serial, and lot and serial information for assemblies
and components.
• Create material reservations for assemblies that are linked to
sales orders
• Replenish production kanbans
If Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications is installed, you can use a
mobile client device networked with a computer system to complete or
return unscheduled and scheduled assemblies to inventory, and return
unscheduled assemblies. See: Work Order–Less Transactions, Oracle
Mobile Supply Chain Applications User’s Guide.
If Oracle Warehouse Management is installed, you can perform work
order–less completions into license plate numbers (LPN). License plate
numbers are identifiers for tracking both inbound and outbound
material – providing genealogy and transaction history for each license
plate. For work order–less return transactions, you must first unpack
the LPN before performing the assembly return transaction See:
Explaining License Plate Management, Oracle Warehouse Management
User’s Guide

Component Backflushing and Resource Transactions

When you complete assemblies in this window, components are
automatically backflushed. Resources that are specified as item based,
when you perform return transactions all resource changes are
rreversed. For lot based resources, return transactions do not reverse
charges.
When adding a component through the Material Transaction interface,
with an operation sequence that does not exist on the routing, the

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 backflush transaction is still processed with the invalid operation
sequence.

Lot and Serial Components

Backflush completions for components under lot number control can be
identified manually or automatically depending on how the WIP
Backflush Lot Selection Method parameter is set.
For backflush components under serial, or lot and serial control, you
can manually identify which lot and serial number combinations to
backflush using the Lot/Serial action in the Components window. If
you return assemblies using this window, you must always identify the
lot, serial, and lot or serial numbers of the components being returned
to inventory.
See: Lot and Serial Backflushing: page 7 – 78 and Backflush Default
Parameters: page 2 – 21.

Flow Schedule Completions

• On the Routings window in Oracle Bills of Material, in the WIP
tabbed region–the Count Point and Autocharge flags are enabled
and not modifiable. Therefore, resources are set up to be
charged.
• If an operation and event combination is disabled, the resources
linked to those departments are not charged. However,
components tied to those operations and events are backflushed.
• If the event is not assigned to a line operation, the resource and
material associated with that operation is charged when
performing completion and scrap transactions.
• When performing scrap transactions, all components are
backflushed in the line operations prior to, and including, the
line operation scrapped.

Collecting Quality Results Data

If Oracle Quality is installed and at least one qualified collection plan
exists, both the Enter Quality Results option on the Tools menu and the
Quality button on the toolbar are enabled. When mandatory collection
plans are used, quality results data must be entered and saved before
you can save your transaction. See: Using Oracle Quality with Oracle
Work in Process, Oracle Quality User’s Guide.

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Serial Number Validations for Unscheduled and Flow Schedule Completions
For a serialized item returned to stock, validations occur to prevent
re–issuing to a different flow schedule. At the time of completion,
serialized assemblies and components for flow schedules are available
from stock if they have the following values set in the Serial Numbers
window in Oracle Inventory:
• Flow Schedule Work Order–less Completions
State value: Defined but not used.
State value: Issued out of stores. This is restricted to serial
numbers that were previously returned to the same flow
schedule that you are completing.
• Unscheduled Work Order–less Completions
State value: Defined but not used.
State value: Issued out of stores. This is restricted to serial
numbers that were previously transacted for an unscheduled
work order–less return.
See: Serial Number Validations for Component Returns and Assembly
Completions: page 7 – 83

Non–updatable Fields
The following table lists the fields that cannot be updated in the Work
Order–less Completions window:
WIP Assembly WIP Assembly Scrap Return from
Completion Return Scrap

Unscheduled Assemblies Build Sequence Build Sequence Build Sequence, Build Sequence,
Subinventory/Lo- Subinventory/Lo-
cator, Lot/Serial cator, Lot/Serial
button button

Scheduled Flow Schedule Assembly, Line, Assembly, Line, Assembly, Line, Assembly, Line,
Schedule Group, Schedule Group, Schedule Group, Schedule Group,
Build Sequence, Build Sequence, Build Sequence, Build Sequence,
Schedule Num- Schedule Num- Schedule Num- Schedule Num-
ber, Accounting ber, Accounting ber, Accounting ber, Accounting
Class, Project/ Class, Project/ Class, Project/ Class, Project/
Task Task Task, Subinvento- Task, Subinvento-
ry/Locator, Lot/ ry/Locator, Lot/
Serial button Serial button

Table 5 – 1 (Page 1 of 2)

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 WIP Assembly WIP Assembly Scrap Return from
Completion Return Scrap

Unscheduled Assemblies with Build Sequence, DISALLOWED DISALLOWED DISALLOWED

a Kanban Reference Subinventory/Lo-
cator

Scheduled Flow Schedule Build Sequence, DISALLOWED DISALLOWED DISALLOWED

with a Kanban Subinventory/Lo-
cator

Unscheduled Assemblies with Build Sequence DISALLOWED Build Sequence, Build Sequence,
a Sales Order Reference Subinventory/Lo- Subinventory/Lo-
cator, Lot/Serial cator, Lot/Serial
button button

Scheduled Flow Schedule Build Sequence Assembly, Line, Assembly, Line, Assembly, Line,
with a Sales Order Reference Schedule Group, Schedule Group, Schedule Group,
Build Sequence, Build Sequence, Build Sequence,
Schedule Num- Schedule Num- Schedule Num-
ber, Accounting ber, Accounting ber, Accounting
Class, Project/ Class, Project/ Class, Project/
Task, Subinvento- Task, Subinvento- Task, Subinvento-
ry/Locator, Lot/ ry/Locator, Lot/ ry/Locator, Lot/
Serial button Serial button Serial button

Table 5 – 1 (Page 2 of 2)

See Also

Profile Options: page 2 – 64

Security Functions: page 2 – 78

Work Order–less Completion Transaction Types

WIP assembly Receive completed assemblies into inventory. If
completion backflush components are under lot or serial
number control, the lots and serial control numbers
to backflush must be identified. Lots for backflush
components under lot number control can be
identified manually or automatically based on how
the WIP Backflush Lot Selection parameter is set.
See: Backflush Default.
For backflush components under serial number
control or manual lot control, you must manually
identify which serial numbers or lot numbers to
backflush using the lot/serial number action in the
Components window.

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WIP assembly Return assemblies from inventory. All operation
return pull, assembly pull and push components are
automatically returned to inventory. If the
returned components are under lot or serial
number control, the lots and serial numbers to
return must be identified using the Lot/Serial
action in the Components window.
WIP scrap Scrap assemblies at any operation. You can scrap
transactions assemblies even if the assembly does not have a
routing. When this is done, the Scrap Operation
defaults to 1. All operation pull, assembly pull and
push components are backflushed when a flow
schedule assembly is scrapped.
If the WIP Require Scrap Account parameter is set to
Yes, and a scrap account is entered, the system
debits this account and credits the elemental
accounts associated with the flow schedule
through the operation at which the assemblies are
scrapped. Resource and overhead cost elements at
scrap operations that are non–autocharge
operations are also charged. However resource
and overhead cost elements at the non–autocharge
operations prior to the scrap operation are not
charged.
If you do not provide a scrap account, the cost of
scrap remains in the flow schedule until job or
period close and is then written off as a variance,
you must enter a scrap account. See: .
WIP return from Return assemblies from scrap. If you enter a
scrap reversing scrap transaction, the system credits this
account and debits the job or schedule elemental
accounts through the operation at which the
assemblies are returned.

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Performing Work Order–less Completions

" To complete or return scheduled or unscheduled assemblies:

1. Navigate to the Work Order–less Completions window.

2. Select a Transaction Date and time.

The system date is defaulted but can be overridden with a date that
is not greater than the current date, and falls within an open
accounting period.
Use the Refresh Date button if you want to change the Transaction
Date after entering data on this window. This enables you to
change the date without losing information already selected.
3. Select the WIP assembly completion or WIP assembly return
Transaction Type. See: Work Order–less Completion Transaction
Types: page 5 – 14

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4. If you are completing a scheduled assembly, select the Scheduled
check box.
5. Select an Assembly.
You can select any assembly that has it’s Build in WIP attribute set
in Oracle Inventory. If a primary bill of material, primary routing,
or both exist for this assembly, they are defaulted. See: Defining
Items, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide and Work In Process Attribute
Group, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
If you select a Schedule Number first, the information associated
with that schedule is defaulted. If you select an assembly before
selecting a schedule, you can only select schedules that are building
that assembly.
If you select a Sales Order and Order Line, the assembly is
defaulted.
6. Select a production Line.
You can select any active production line. Production lines are
optional.
If you select a Schedule Number before selecting a Production Line,
the information associated with that schedule is defaulted. If you
override the defaulted production line, all defaults are cleared. If
you select a production line before selecting a schedule, you can
only select schedules that are being build on that production line.
7. Select a Schedule Group. See: Defining Schedule Groups: page
2 – 53.
You can assign unscheduled Flow completions to any active
schedule group. If you are completing a scheduled assembly, this
field will default from the schedule number. The schedule group is
optional.
If you select a Schedule Number before selecting a Schedule Group,
the information associated with that schedule is defaulted. If you
select a schedule group before selected a schedule, you can only
select schedules that belong to that schedule group.
Also, if the transaction type is a WIP assembly completion, the
applicable Project, Task, Sales Order Line, Sales Order Delivery,
and Kanban ID are defaulted.
8. Enter a Schedule Number.
When completing unscheduled assemblies, you can assign a
unique, alphanumeric Schedule Number to an unscheduled
assembly. If you do not enter a Schedule Number, and a prefix has

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 been specified for the WIP:Discrete Job Prefix profile option, a
default Schedule Number is assigned by the automatic sequence
generator when you press the tab key. When completing scheduled
assemblies, select from the List of Values.
9. If the transaction type is a WIP assembly completion, you can select
a Sales Order and an Order Line on that Sales Order.
When completing unscheduled assemblies, you can select a Sales
Order and Order Line that is for the selected assembly. You can
only select sales orders that are open and that have either a
standard item or a configured item in at least one of their order
lines. Also, the order line selected should not be linked to a
discrete job.
When completing a scheduled assembly that was created by
scheduling a sales orders, this field will default from the schedule
number.
10. If you have selected a Sales Order/Order Line, you can enable the
Reserve option to create a reservation. See: Reserving Available
Inventory, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
If the Sales Order and Order Line selected is for an
assemble–to–order (ATO) item, the Reserve option is automatically
enabled but can be disabled. If the Sales Order/Order Line is for a
non–ATO item, the Reserve option, it can be, enabled.
Note: If you are using Oracle Mobile Supply Chain
Applications, only configured to order items (CTO) can be
reserved in inventory for flow schedule referencing a sales
order.
11. Select a unit of measure in the UOM field. See: Overview of Units
of Measure, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
12. Enter a transaction Quantity. For scheduled completions, the
transaction quantity will default to the schedule number.
13. Select a Completion Subinventory and, if required, a Locator.
Several rules apply to these fields for defaulted information:
• If a completion subinventory/locator was specified on the
routing, it is defaulted but can be overridden. See: Completion
Subinventory and Locator Fields, Oracle Bills of Material User’s
Guide.
• The Completion Subinventory/Locator is defaulted from any
existing Sales Order and Sales Line values.

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 • If you have selected a Kanban Number, the completion
subinventory/locator for that kanban, if specified, is defaulted
and cannot be changed.
• The Locator field information defaults from any applicable
project and task combination entered.
• If you entered a default Completion Subinventory on the item
routing, the Completion Subinventory/Locator is defaulted. You
can create a reservation for the quantity completed, the
subinventory/locator/lot information for the previous
reservation is overridden.
• Completion locators are required if the Locator Control
Parameter in Oracle Inventory is set to require a locator.
14. Select a BOM Revision.
When you select an assembly, the primary bill of material for the
assembly is defaulted. If there is more than one revision for the
primary bill of material, the transaction date is used to determine
the bill revision and revision date.
If you set the WIP:Exclude ECOs profile option to None,
engineering change orders with Open statuses, as well as those
with Release, Schedule, and Implement statuses, are considered
when the bill of material is exploded. See: Overview of Engineering
Change Orders, Oracle Engineering User’s Guide, Defining
Engineering Change Orders, Oracle Engineering User’s Guide, and
ECO Implementation By Status: page 11 – 18.
15. Select a BOM revision Date and time.
You can select a BOM revision date other than the one determined
by the transaction date and time.
16. Select a Routing Revision. See: Item and Routing Revisions, Oracle
Bills of Material User’s Guide.
When you select an assembly, the primary routing for the assembly
is defaulted. If there is more than one revision for the primary
routing, the transaction date is used to determine the routing
revision and revision date.
17. Select a Routing revision Date and time.
You can select a routing revision date other than the one
determined by the transaction date and time.
18. Select a BOM Alternate bill of material.

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 You can select an alternate bill if alternates have been defined for
the assembly you are building.
19. Select a Routing Alternate.
You can select a routing alternate if alternates have been defined for
the assembly you are building.
20. Select a Project, and if required, a Task.
You can only select a project if the current organization’s Project
References Enabled parameter is set in Oracle Inventory. You must
select a task if the Project Control Level parameter is set to Task
and you have entered a project number. See: Organization
Parameters Window, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide and Defining
Project Information, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
Note: The default information in these fields cannot be
changed if an existing schedule, sales order and line, or kanban
number is entered.
21. If the transaction type is a WIP assembly completion and the
specified Flow schedule does not reference a Sales Order/Order
Line, you can select a Kanban Number. for replenishment.
See: Completions to Kanbans with Supply Statuses of Full.
When you select a kanban, the quantity for that kanban is
defaulted. If a completion subinventory/locator for the kanban
have been specified, they are also defaulted.
22. Select an accounting Class.
See: WIP Accounting Class Defaults: page 2 – 17 and Discrete
Accounting Classes: page 2 – 42.
23. Select a Demand Class.
The Demand Class is defaulted from the Sales Order/Order Line,
but can be overridden. You can select any enabled and active
demand class. See: Overview of Demand Classes, Oracle Master
Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning User’s Guide and
Creating Demand Classes, Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle
Supply Chain Planning User’s Guide.
24. Optionally, select a transaction Reason code. See: Defining
Transaction Reasons, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
25. Optionally, enter a transaction Reference.
References can be used to identify transactions on standard reports.
They can be up to 240 characters of alpha numeric text.

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 26. If you are completing assemblies under lot, serial, or lot and serial
control, choose Lot/Serial. See: Assigning Lot Numbers, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide and Assigning Serial Numbers, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide.
27. Save your work.

☞ Attention: Assembly Pull, Operation Pull, and Push components

are automatically backflushed. Bulk and supplier components are
not backflushed. The bills for Phantoms are exploded and the
Phantom components are backflushed.
The system backflushes these components from the supply
subinventory/locator assigned to the components on the bill of
materials or the one specified in the Components window. If no
supply subinventory/locator is assigned to the bill components, the
system pulls components from the supply subinventory/locator
defined for the item. If no item supply subinventory/locator is
defined at the item level, items are pulled from the default supply
subinventory/locator as determined by the Supply Subinventory
and Supply Locator parameters. See: Backflush Parameters: page
2 – 21.

" To complete multiple flow schedules:

1. Navigate to the Work Order–less Completion window.
2. Change the date and time to the completion date and time desired.
3. Choose Retrieve.
4. Enter the retrieve criteria. Line is a required field, all others are
optional.

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 5. Optionally, enter default completion sub–inventory, locator, and
flex field information.
6. Choose Retrieve.
7. A window will appear informing you how many records will be
retrieved. Choose OK to retrieve them all, choose Cancel to return
to the Retrieve window and change your criteria.

☞ Attention: Items under lot and serial control cannot be retrieved

and must be entered individually using the Work Order–less
Completions window. If any other items cannot be retrieved, you
will receive an error. Other errors are usually caused by an
incorrect or missing completion sub–inventory on a routing. To
permanently fix the errors, return to all routings and ensure a

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 completion sub–inventory and locator are entered. To temporarily
fix it, you can return to the retrieve screen and enter a default
completion sub–inventory and locator.
8. If there are schedules retrieved that you do not want to complete,
highlight them and delete them.
9. Add any other scheduled or non–scheduled items you wish to
complete at the same time, and choose Save.

" For component transactions including adding deleting changing, or

specifying lot/serial information:
1. Choose the Components button.
The Components window appears, displaying the exploded bill of
material for this assembly.
2. Select the component item at which to make the change.
3. Modify the editable fields you want to change.
4. In all transactions, optionally you can select the transaction Reason
code. See: Defining Transaction Reasons, Oracle Inventory User’s
Guide.
5. In all transactions, optionally you can enter a transaction Reference.
References can be used to identify transactions on standard reports.
They can be up to 240 characters of alpha numeric text.

" To change a component:

1. Select the component to be replaced, and select the value you want
to substitute.
2. Change the quantity, if required.
The quantity you enter here is the total quantity for the completion.
The Revision for the substitute is defaulted based on the
transaction date. The supply subinventory/locator are defaulted
from the item. See: Defining Items, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide
and Work In Process Attribute Group, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
If there is no supply subinventory/locator at the item level, the
supply Subinventory, and if required, the Supply Locator, are
defaulted based on the values entered for the WIP Supply
Subinventory and Supply Locator parameters. See: Backflush Default
Parameters: page 2 – 21.
3. Save your work.

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 " To add a component:
1. From the File menu, select New.
A new row displays in the Components window.
2. Select the Operation where the component will be used.
If the assembly has no routing, the system displays 1 as the default
operation sequence. This value cannot be updated.
3. Select a component to add and enter a quantity.
The Revision and Supply Subinventory/Locator, are defaulted the
same as for a Substitute.
4. Save your work.

" To delete a component:

H Select the component you want to take out, delete, and save your
work.

" To enter lot and serial number information for a component.

H Components under lot or serial number control are indicated when
Lot/Serial button is available. Select a component, then choose the
Lot/Serial button.
See: Assigning Lot Numbers, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide and
Assigning Serial Numbers, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.

" To resubmit transactions that fail to process:

H You can resubmit transactions that fail to process using the
Transaction Open Interface window in Oracle Inventory.

" To add, delete, or change components or specify component lot/serial

information:
1. Choose Components to display the Components window.
2. Select the Operation at which to make the substitution.
If the assembly has no routing, the system displays 1 as the default
operation sequence. This value cannot be updated.
3. Select a substitution Type from the following options:
Add: Add a component at the operation.
Delete: Delete a component from the operation.

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 Change: Substitute one component for another at the operation.
Lot/Serial: Specify lot/serial number information for items.
H If you are scrapping assemblies, and the substitution type is
changed, deleted, or lot or serial, the event operation sequence
selected must precede the scrap line operation in the routing
network.
H If you are Changing a component, you must select the component
to be replaced, select a Substitute component and enter a Quantity.
The quantity you enter here is the total quantity for the completion.
The Revision for the substitution is defaulted based on the
transaction date. The supply subinventory/locator are defaulted
from the item. See: Defining Items, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide
and Work In Process Attribute Group, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
H If you are Adding a component, select a component to add and
enter a Quantity. The Revision and supply Subinventory/Locator,
are defaulted the same as for a Substitute.
H If you are Deleting a component, select the component to delete.
H To enter Lot/Serial information for a component, select a
component then choose the Lot/Serial button. See: Assigning Lot
Numbers, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide and Assigning Serial
Numbers, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
4. Optionally, select a transaction Reason code. See: Defining
Transaction Reasons, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
5. Optionally, enter a transaction Comment.
Comments can be used to identify transactions on standard
reports. They can be up to 240 characters of alpha numeric text.
6. Choose Done to save your work.

" To resubmit transactions that fail to process:

H You can resubmit transactions that fail to process using the
Inventory Transactions Open Interface window in Oracle Inventory.

See Also

Backflush Transactions: page 7 – 74

Setting Up Flow Manufacturing: page 5 – 7

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Scrapping Flow Schedule Assemblies
You can use the Work Order–less Completions window to scrap
scheduled and unscheduled Flow assemblies. Specifically, you can do
all of the following:
• Scrap assemblies at any operation in the routing, which in turn
causes all Assembly Pull, Operation Pull, and Push components
to be backflushed and all resources charged
• Return assemblies to Flow schedules that have been scrapped
(this creates reversing resource charge and component backflush
transactions)
Scrap and return from scrap transactions are disallowed if either the
Flow schedule or unscheduled assembly references a kanban.

" To scrap or return from scrap unscheduled Flow assemblies:

1. Select the WIP Scrap transaction or WIP Return from Scrap
transaction type. See: Work Order–less Completion Transaction
Types: page 5 – 14.
2. Specify an Assembly, production Line, Schedule Group, or
optionally generate a Schedule Number, assembly bill and routing
information. When scrapping and returning scrap, you cannot
enable the Reserve option, or select a Completion
Subinventory/Locator, Project/Task, or Kanban number.
3. Select a Sales Order and an Order Line on that Sales Order.
4. Select a Scrap Line Operation Sequence.
5. Select a Discrete Accounting class.
The scrapped assemblies are written off against the accounts
associated with this class.
6. If the WIP Require Scrap Account parameter is set, you must enter a
scrap account number or an account Alias. If you do not specify
that a scrap account is required, it is optional. See: Move
Transaction Parameters: page 2 – 20 and Defining Account Aliases,
Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
7. Optionally specify a Demand Class, a Reason, for the Scrap
transaction, and enter a Comment about the transaction.

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Overview of the Flow Workstation
The Flow Workstation provides you with immediate access to critical
Flow Manufacturing production information. It enables you to track the
flow of work throughout the shop floor and to complete scheduled and
unscheduled assemblies directly from the workstation. It also provides
you with detailed component, resource, and property information on
flow schedules, unscheduled assemblies and their events, and operation
instructions and other attachments.

Features of the Flow Workstation

The Flow Workstation enables you to:
• View the linearity, load, and properties of the selected line
• View a line operation’s open schedules and events, and
unscheduled assemblies
• View detailed information on the components and resources
required for schedules and events
• Obtain the kanban locations of components required at an
operation
• Complete flow schedules and unscheduled assemblies
• Complete line operations
• Request kanban replenishment
• Obtain operating instructions, diagrams, component attachments,
and other information attached to assemblies and events
• Enter quality data at specific points in the routing

See Also

Mixed Model Map, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide

Product Synchronization, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide
Flow Manufacturing Line Balance, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s
Guide
Overview of the Graphical Line Designer Workbench, Oracle Flow
Manufacturing User’s Guide
Pull Sequence Window, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide

Navigation Document Examples 5 – 27

Flow Workstation Window
The Flow Workstation window consists of two panes. The left pane
displays the workstation directory chooser or navigator in tree format.
The right pane displays one or more tabs of detailed information that
correspond to the branch that you select from the tree.
The workstation’s left pane displays a hierarchical listing of the
workstation’s contents. Since its structure is analogous to a tree with
branches, it is referred to as the workstation tree. The tree displays four
branches (levels) of information. When you select a branch (this
highlights the branch), information relevant to that branch is displayed
on tabs in the right pane of the workstation. When you launch the Flow
Workstation, it immediately displays the tabs for the first event of the
first scheduled line operation.

The workstation’s right pane displays one or more tabbed regions of

detailed information pertaining to the branch that you select on the tree.
The information on the tabs is displayed either in tables, lists, or in
graph format, so that you can quickly assess the status of the schedule
or assembly. See: Flow Workstation Tree and Tabbed Regions: page

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 5 – 33 for detailed information on each of the workstation branches and
tabs.
There are tabs available to:
• Open windows directly from the workstation so that you can
perform common transactions, such as Work Order–less
Completion transactions and kanban replenishment.
• View attachments previously appended to a job, such as drawings
and instructions. See: View Instructions: page 5 – 49

Viewing the Flow Workstation Tree

Dynamic information: the information on the tree is dynamically
created when you launch the workstation. You also can update the
display at any time by choosing the Refresh tool (curved arrow icon on
the toolbar). As schedules are completed, they are automatically
removed from the tree so that only current schedules are displayed.
Choice of Formats: you can choose to view the information on the tree
in Vertical (the default), Interleaved (horizontal), or Org Chart
(organization chart) format. These choices are available through tools on
the toolbar or as menu selections under the View menu.
Wider View: in order to view the tree in Interleaved or Org Chart
format, you may need to widen the left pane to see the full display.
There are two ways that you can do this: you can use your mouse to
drag the right side of the pane towards the right side of the window, or
you can hide the tabbed regions so that the window’s full width can be
used to display the contents of the left pane. As follows:

" To hide the right pane of the workstation:

H Select the View menu, then remove the check mark from the Node
Properties check box. The tabs in the right pane are hidden, and the
contents of the left pane fill the window area.

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 " To again display the right pane of the workstation:
H Select the View menu, then place a check mark in the Node
Properties check box. The tabs in the right pane are again displayed.

Flow Workstation Toolbar

The following tools are located on the toolbar directly below the
workstation menus. From left to right, they are:
• Vertical Style: the default; displays the branches of the navigation
tree vertically
• Interleaved Style: displays the branches of the navigation tree
horizontally
• Org Chart Style: displays the branches of the navigation tree in the
same format as a standard corporate organization chart

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 • Refresh: use this tool to refresh (update) the workstation display
• Pin Tab: use this tool to place the active tabbed region in a
separate window that remains on top of and separate from the
workstation
• Replenish Kanban: use this tool to replenish kanbans
• Enter Quality Results: use this tool to access the Enter Quality
Results window, it is enabled if there is an exiting collection plan

Selecting the Line and Line Operation

The Flow Workstation displays information for only one line and line
operation at a time. When you select the workstation from the menu, a
window opens for selecting the line and line operation for schedules
and assemblies you want to view. You can enter a range of dates and a
schedule group–allowing you to filter and view schedules for a
particular shift or date.

☞ Attention: You must first define line operations in order to use

the Flow Workstation.

" To launch the Flow Workstation:

1. Navigate to the Flow Workstation. The Flow Workstation Startup
window displays.
2. In the Line field, select a line from.
3. In the Line Operation field, select a line operation.

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 4. In the Open Schedules region, enter a range of dates in the
Completion Dates fields.
This allows you to filter and view schedules for a particular shift or
date.
5. In the Schedule Group field, select a value from the list of values.
This identifier groups schedules for scheduling and releasing
purposes. Schedules within a schedule group can be sequenced.
6. Choose Open.
The Flow Workstation displays.

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The Flow Workstation Branches and Tabs
The first and topmost branch on the Flow Workstation tree displays the
name of the line and line operation that you selected when you
launched the workstation. The main branches:
• The Open Schedules branch displays all of the flow schedules at
that operation
• The Assemblies branch displays all of the unscheduled flow
assemblies at that operation
Expanding any branch in the Open Schedule or Assembly branches,
displays branches for that schedule’s or assembly’s events. When you
select (highlight) a branch, corresponding tabbed regions of information
about that branch are immediately displayed in the right frame of the
workstation. When you launch the workstation, it automatically
displays the first event of the first open schedule:

The following table lists the workstation branches and the

corresponding tabbed regions of information that are displayed.

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Flow Workstation Branch Corresponding Tabbed Region Displayed

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Line and Line Operation Linearity, Load, Properties of the entire line

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Open Schedules Blank Tab

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Individual Schedules

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Component Requirements, Resource Requirements, and

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Properties for each assembly scheduled at the line opera-

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tion

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Schedule Events

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Component Requirements, Resource Requirements, Prop-
erties for each assembly’s events

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Assemblies Blank Tab

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Individual Assemblies Component Requirements, Resource Requirements,
Properties for each unscheduled assembly assigned to the

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Assembly Events Component Requirements, Resource Requirements, Prop-

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
erties for each assembly’s events

Branch Naming Conventions

Branch titles contain sections of information identifying the branch.
Each section in the branch name is separated by a colon (if two colons
appear together, no information is available for the section):
• Topmost branch: displays first the name of the line, then the line
operation code. For example: FlowLine01:Op20
• Open Schedules branches: display the Assembly, Schedule
Completion Date, Schedule Group, and Build Sequence. For example:
Assy01:25–SEP–99:Grp1:20
• Assemblies branches: display the Assembly Number, Assembly
Description, Routing Revision, and Event Sequence. For example:
Assy01:Bike:B:20
• Events branches: display the Event Sequence and Event Code. For
example: 40:STO2

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Flow Workstation Transactions
On the Flow Workstation, you have access to common shop floor
transactions: you can request kanban replenishment, and you can
perform line operation and schedule completions.

Kanban Replenishment
The flow Workstation provides access to windows for replenishing
kanbans. Choose the Replenish Kanban icon on the toolbar, see: Flow
Workstation Toolbar: page 5 – 30). When you choose Replenish Kanban,
the Find Kanban window opens. Enter search criteria and choose Find
to display the Kanban Cards Summary window.

See Also

Kanban Planning and Execution, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide

Pull Sequence Window, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide
Accessing the Planning Region, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide
Accessing the Production Region, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide
Defining Kanban Cards, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide
Overview of Kanban Replenishment, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide

Line Operation, Schedule, and Assembly Completions

On the Flow Workstation, you can complete both line operations and
flow schedules directly from the workstation. Choose the appropriate
transaction, either Complete Line Operation or Complete Schedule. Both
functions are available on the Component Requirements, Resource
Requirements, and Properties tabs for all open schedules.

Complete Line Operations

Choose Complete Line Operation to open the Complete Line Operation
window and move assemblies to the next operation. Completing the line
operation removes the assemblies from the current line operation’s list
of open schedules on the workstation tree. It does not trigger any cost or
inventory transactions. See: Complete Line Operation button: page
5 – 47.

☞ Attention: Selecting the Complete Line Operation button does

not complete the schedule nor does it perform any material

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 transactions. If you are working on the last operation of the
schedule, you have the option to complete the schedule using
the Work Order–less Completions window.

Complete Schedules
Choosing Complete Schedule displays the Work Order–less
Completions window to complete an open schedule. If you are at the
last operation on a schedule, you are prompted to complete the
schedule. You can choose another time to complete the schedule. See:
Complete Schedule button: page 5 – 49, and Performing Work
Order–less Completions: page 5 – 16.

Complete Assemblies
You can complete assemblies by choosing Complete Assembly.
Choosing this button opens the Work Order–less Completions window
in unscheduled mode (the Scheduled check box is not selected), so that
you can perform a Work Order–less Completion transaction to complete
the assembly.
Performing a Work Order–less Completion transaction automatically
backflushes components and charges resource and overhead costs. Once
the assembly has been completed, it is removed from the line
operation’s list of unscheduled Assemblies. See: Buttons on Open
Schedule Tabs: page 5 – 47.

Integration with Oracle Quality

If collection plans exist for line operation completions, you can enter
quality data within the Flow Workstation. You can enter results for
mandatory collection plans or optional collection plans at specific points
on a routing. This feature also prevents completing the line operation if
there are remaining mandatory collections plans. When the collection
plan data is entered, and the completion transaction is saved – the
quality data is also saved.
The Quality icon on the toolbar of the Flow Workstation is enabled when
Oracle Quality is enabled for the organization, and a collection plan
exists for the line operation:
• If the collection plan is mandatory, the Enter Quality Results
window from Oracle Quality, automatically displays when you
choose Complete Line Operation.
• If the collection plan is optional, choose the Quality icon on the
toolbar to display this window.

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See Also

Complete Line Operation Button: page 5 – 47.

Entering Quality Results Directly, Oracle Quality User’s Guide
Setting Up Collection Plans for Line Operation Completion
Transactions, Oracle Quality User’s Guide

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Linearity, Load, and Properties of the Line
Selecting the topmost branch of the tree (Line:Line Operation), displays
three tabbed regions of information in the right pane – the Linearity,
Load, and Properties tabs. The information on these tabs can help you
manage production across the entire line.

See Also

Product Synchronization, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide

Flow Manufacturing Line Balance, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s
Guide

Linearity Tab
One of the goals of Flow Manufacturing is to produce a constant
quantity of products. Linearity determines how close your production
matches the production schedule, and the Flow Workstation provides
you with immediate access to that information.
When you select the topmost branch of the tree, the Linearity tab is the
first tab displayed. Its two graphs, Planned vs Actual and Mix, enable
you to determine if production is meeting linearity.
Both the Planned vs Actual and Mix graphs chart the linearity for the
entire line, not just the line operation selected. The graphs automatically
display the last week of production, but you can select your own range
of dates to view. If you change the dates of the graph, choose Redraw
Graph to refresh the display.

Planned And Actual Graph

The Planned vs Actual graph compares the cumulative actual quantity
completed on the line to the quantity that was scheduled to be
completed during the past week or a defined date range.
• The cumulative quantity completed is the total combined number
of scheduled and unscheduled units completed on the line for
each date.
• The cumulative quantity scheduled is the total combined number
of units scheduled to be produced on the line for each date,
displayed on the Line Scheduling Workbench.

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Both scheduled and completed quantities accumulate the units over the
date range. For example, the data point on the graph for the first day
shows the values for that day only. The data point for the second day,
shows the combined data values for the first and the second day, and so
on.

The information from the graph is also displayed in a table below the
graph including Date, Scheduled Quantity, Completed Quantity,
Difference (between the scheduled and actual quantities), and Variance
Percent.

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Mix Graph
The Mix graph displays the linearity percentage of the product mix on
the line over time, based on the assembly being built. The information
on this graph is beneficial for lines that produce multiple products. Its
linearity calculation measures the difference (differential or deviation)
between the number of units scheduled to be completed and the number
of units actually completed for each product. It compares it to the total
planned quantity for all products. The differential is calculated for each
assembly built on the line, and then the differentials are summed.
See: Mixed Model Map, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide

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 The variance (the sum of the differences between what is scheduled and
what is completed) is calculated using this formula:
Linearity = (1 – (sum of differentials/total planned quantity)) * 100
The following charts shows an example of this calculation:

Day One Assemblies Scheduled Quantity Actual Quantity Differential

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Assembly 1

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20

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18 2

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Assembly 2 20 19 1

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Assembly 3
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20

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23 3

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Total 60 60 6

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Day Two Assemblies Scheduled Quantity Actual Quantity Differential

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Assembly 1 20 22 2

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Assembly 2

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Assembly 3 20 22 2

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Total 60 60 8

Linearity for Day 1 = (1 - (6/60)) * 100 = 90%

Linearity for Day 2 = (1 - (8/60)) * 100 = 87%

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Load Tab
The Load tab provides you with two graphs that compare the load on
the line to the line’s capacity either by completion date or by line
operation resource. Both graphs show the load and capacity for the
entire line, not just for the line operation selected when you opened the
workstation. The Line Load by Day graph calculates the load on the
entire line for each day. The Cumulative Load by Line Operation
Resource graph calculates the load for each line operation resource over
a date range that you define. If you define your own date range, you
must choose the Redraw Graph button to refresh the display.

Line Load by Day Graph

The Line Load by Day bar graph calculates the load (required hours)
versus the capacity (available hours) of the entire line by completion
date. For each completion date in the date range, it displays two bars,
one representing the load, and the other representing the capacity of the
entire line.

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Cumulative Load by Line Operation Resource Graph
The second graph on the Load tab, the Cumulative Load by Line
Operation Resource graph, compares the load for the entire line to the
capacity of the line at each line operation resource. For each line
operation resource, the graph displays two bars: one that shows the
cumulative load on the resource assigned to the line operation, and the
other that shows the cumulative capacity of the resource assigned to the
line operation for the date range defined.
Even though you select a single line operation to view when you open
the workstation, the graph looks at the load placed on the resource from
the entire line in order to present a more accurate picture of the
resource’s availability. For example, on a welding line where the graph
displays the load on the line’s ArcWeld, SubWeld, and Welder. If the
Welder is required for 10 hours at Operation 10 and 10 hours at

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 Operation 20, the total load on the Welding resource, 20 hours, is
displayed.

Properties Tab
The Properties tab displays the following information about the line
operation that you selected when you opened the workstation: the line,
line description, operation code, operation description prompt, and the
minimum transfer quantity.

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Note: An application program interface (API) enables
customized attributes to display on the Properties tab. See:
Customized Display for Properties Tabbed Region: page H – 2.

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Open Schedules and Events
The Flow Workstation displays all of the open schedules, unscheduled
assemblies, and events for the line operation selected.
There are three tabs of information for each open schedule, unscheduled
assembly, and event listed: Component Requirements, Resource
Requirements, and Properties. The Complete Line Operation and
Complete Assembly buttons enable you to reduce your list of open
schedules as you complete the schedules at your line operation.

The Open Schedules branch is used to display all assemblies scheduled

for work at that line operation. When you select an open schedule, the
events for that operation are displayed – along with component and
resource requirements.

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See Also

Defining Scheduling Rules, Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle

Supply Chain User’s Guide
Creating Flow Schedules, Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle
Supply Chain User’s Guide
Line Scheduling Workbench Options Window, Oracle Master
Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain User’s Guide

Buttons on Open Schedule Tabs

The Complete Line Operation and Complete Schedule buttons enable
you to perform transactions directly from the workstation. View
Instructions enables you to download attachments associated with
schedules and components.

Completing Line Operations

Complete Line Operation enables you to complete a line operation by
removing it from the list of open schedules and placing it on the list of
open schedules for any other operation.

☞ Attention: Completing a line operation does not complete the

schedule, nor does it trigger inventory transactions or charge
costs. If you want to complete a schedule, you must use the
Work Order–less Completions window.
When you choose Complete Line Operation, the Complete Line
Operation window opens for selecting another operation for
completion. If you are at the last line operation, you will be prompted to
complete the schedule. If you choose to complete it, the Work Order–less
Completions window automatically opens. See: Performing Work
Order–less Completions: page 5 – 16.
The Flow Workstation is integrated with Oracle Quality. If collection
plans exist for line operation completions, you can enter quality data.
See: Integration with Oracle Quality: page 5 – 36., and Setting Up
Collection Plans for Line Operation Completion Transactions, Oracle
Quality User’s Guide

" To complete a line operation:

1. On the Flow Workstation tree, select the open schedule.

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 2. On any of the tabbed regions displayed in the right frame of the
workstation, select the Complete Line Operation button. The
Complete Line Operation window opens.
If a mandatory collection plan exists for this line operation, the Enter
Quality Results window from Oracle Quality automatically
displays. You can also enter optional collection plan data by
choosing the Quality icon on the toolbar. See: .Entering Quality
Results Directly, Oracle Quality User’s Guide

3. In the Next Line Operation field, select the number of the line
operation that you want to move the assembly to from the field’s list
of values (you can move it to a previous line operation).

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 4. Select OK to complete the line operation and close the window. The
schedule is removed from the list of Open Schedules on the
workstation tree.

Completing Schedules
The Complete Schedule button is displayed on the Open Schedule
Component Requirements, Resource Requirements, and Properties tabs.
Selecting this button opens the Work Order–less Completions window.
When you complete a schedule using the Work Order–less Completions
window, components and costs are automatically backflushed and
charged.
See: Performing Work Order–less Completions: page 5 – 16.

View Instructions
You can View Instructions from the Events and Properties tabs, This
enables you to view any attachments that were previously associated
with an open schedule or event’s components and resources.
Attachments may include operating instructions, drawings, memos,
web pages, or any other kind of information.
When you choose View Instructions a web page displays a list of the
available attachments. Select any of the attachments listed.

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 Note: If a resource, assembly, or component is associated with
an attachment, an icon of a paper clip is visible next to its name.

Open Schedule Component Requirements Tab

The Component Requirements tab for open schedules lists all of the
components required at the line operation to make the particular
assembly. It provides you with details on the line and line operation, as
well as information on each required component.
The following information on the assembly’s components is listed:
Event Sequence, Component, Unit of Measure, Quantity Per Assembly,
Supply Location Quantity, Destination Kanban Subinventory,
Destination Kanban Locator, Supply Kanban Subinventory, Supply
Kanban Locator, and Description.

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Open Schedule Resource Requirements Tab
The Resource Requirements tab lists all of the resources that are required
to manufacture the particular assembly that you selected from the tree.
In addition to detailed information on each required resource, the tab
also provides you with information on the line and line operation.
The following information is included in this region: Event
Sequence,Resource Sequence, Resource, Unit of Measure, Assigned
Units, Usage Rate, Description.

Navigation Document Examples 5 – 51

Open Schedule Properties Tab
The Properties tab provides you with the following information on the
Line and Line Operation and assembly: line, line operation, schedule
group, build sequence, schedule number, scheduled completion date,
assembly, assembly description, scheduled quantity, unit number, Bill of
Material (BOM) revision, alternate BOM designator, routing revision,
alternate routing designator, project, task, and sales order.

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 Note: An application program interface (API) enables
customized attributes to display on the Properties tab. See:
Customized Display for Properties Tabbed Region: page H – 2.

Open Schedule Events

Selecting a schedule from the list of open schedules displays the events
(tasks) required to produce that assembly at that operation. For
example, events for the Paint operation, might be: Sand, Paint, Finish.
Each event is supported by three tabs of information: Component
Requirements, Resource Requirements, and Properties.

Navigation Document Examples 5 – 53

 In addition, if an attachments are associated with the assembly or any of
its components, you can download them by choosing the View
Instructions.

See Also

Defining Flow Manufacturing Standard Events, Oracle Flow

Manufacturing User’s Guide

Event Component Requirements Tab

The Component Requirements tab for scheduled assembly events lists
all of the components required at this event to produce the assembly.
The tab lists details of the line and line operation and information on
each required component.

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You can view the following information in this region:
• Component
• Unit of Measure (UOM)
• Quantity per Assembly
• Supply Location Quantity
• Destination Kanban Subinventory
• Destination Kanban Locator
• Supply Kanban Subinventory
• Supply Kanban Locator

Navigation Document Examples 5 – 55

 • Description

Event Resource Requirements Tab

The Resource Requirements tab for scheduled assembly Events lists all
of the resources required at this event to produce the particular
assembly.
The tab’s table provides you with the following information on the
resources needed at that event including:
• Resource Sequence
• Resource
• Unit of Measure (UOM)
• Assigned Units
• Usage Rate
• Description

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Event Properties Tab
The Properties tab for scheduled assembly Events lists the following
information on the line and line operation: line, line operation, schedule
group, build sequence, schedule number, assembly, event code, event
description, event sequence, effectivity date, disable date, project, task,
and sales order.

Navigation Document Examples 5 – 57

 Note: An application program interface (API) enables
customized attributes to display on the Properties tab. See:
Customized Display for Properties Tabbed Region: page H – 2.

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CHAPTER

6 Repetitive
Manufacturing

T his chapter explains how to use and define repetitive schedules,

including:
• Overview: page 6 – 2
• Repetitive Manufacturing Process Diagram: page 6 – 5
• Setting Up: page 6 – 6
• Production Line and Assembly Associations: page 6 – 7
• Creating Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 13
• Building Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 19
• Viewing Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 25
• Updating Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 28
• Completing Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 35
• Repetitive Schedule Purge: page 6 – 41

Repetitive Manufacturing 6–1

Overview
You can use Work in Process to produce assemblies on a continuous
basis. This is known as repetitive manufacturing. See: Comparison of
Manufacturing Methods: page C – 2

Repetitive Schedules
You can control your repetitive production quantities using repetitive
schedules. You charge all production costs to the assembly itself,
eliminating the need for discrete jobs.

Production Lines
You can manage repetitive production by production line. Production
lines control how you schedule individual assemblies. Material and
shop floor transactions are also controlled by production line. You can
build an assembly on one or several lines. You can build single or
multiple assemblies on a line.

Shop Floor Control

Shop floor control helps you manage the flow of production inside the
plant. Routings can be used to schedule repetitive production activities
and create requirements. You can use reports and views to help you
control these activities. You can use production lines to separate areas
of the shop floor.

Material Control
Material control helps you manage the flow of component material
from inventory onto lines and into repetitive schedules. Bills of
material can be used to create repetitive material requirements. You
can build different repetitive assemblies on one production line to
aggregate material requirements for a number of assemblies. You can
use reports and views to help you control material activities.

Engineering Bills and ECOs

You can build released as well as unreleased revisions and engineering
items. You can also add engineering items as material requirements.
The system can automatically update your repetitive schedules
following an engineering change order (ECO). You always schedule to
build the most current revision.

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Repetitive Line Scheduling
You can define minimum and maximum line rates, line start and stop
times, and line lead times for repetitive production lines. The system
uses these rates and times to schedule repetitive production to the
minute.

Fixed and Variable Speed Production Lines

You can specify all the assemblies on a production line to run at the
same production rate on your fixed rate lines. You can specify the
production rate by assembly for your variable rate lines.

Fixed vs. Routing Based Line Lead Time Options

You can schedule your repetitive production lead time based on the
assembly’s routing or lead time line attributes to best simulate your
repetitive production process.

Partial Days and Fractional Rates

You can define repetitive schedules for any number of processing days,
including partial days. You can specify the daily quantity and/or the
total quantity as any positive number including decimal quantities (up
to 6 decimal places), such as 1.25.

Planning Repetitive Production

Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning plans your
repetitive production. You can automatically create repetitive
schedules from planning’s suggestions.

Work Order Interface

You can import planned repetitive schedules from external systems into
Work in Process. See: Work Order Interface, Oracle Manufacturing APIs
and Open Interfaces Manual

Period–Based Costs
You can calculate the costs of repetitive production and recognize any
variances on a periodic basis by closing accounting periods. You do
not need to close repetitive schedules.

Repetitive Assembly and Line Costs

Repetitive production costs are tracked by assembly so you do not have
to review your costs by individual repetitive schedule. You can also
track your costs by assembly on a line or by individual line so you can

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 compare costs for your production lines. See: Work in Process Costs:
page 12 – 6

Repetitive Schedule Purge

You can purge all information associated with repetitive schedules
including header records and detail and transaction information. You
can also selectively purge some or all of the following schedule related
information: schedule details (material requirements, resource
requirements, and operations), move transactions, and resource cost
transactions.

View Workflows
You can view the status of workflows used for tracking outside
processing of repetitive schedules. Workflows automatically send
notifications and activate processes during specific manufacturing
points. You can display a graphical display of the status of workflows
from the Tools menu in the Repetitive Schedules and View Repetitive
Schedules windows. See: Outside Processing Workflows: page 10 – 49

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Repetitive Manufacturing Process Diagram
The following diagram illustrates the repetitive manufacturing process:

Repetitive Manufacturing 6–5

Setting Up
• For a listing of setups that affect repetitive manufacturing see:
Setup Prerequisites: page 2 – 3.
• For a listing of setup steps within Work in Process see: Setup
Check List: page 2 – 7.
• For additional information about repetitive parameters and
accounting classes see: Repetitive Manufacturing Parameters:
page 2 – 18 and Repetitive Accounting Classes: page 2 – 43.
• For a listing of profile options that affect repetitive
manufacturing see: Profile Options: page 2 – 64.

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Production Line and Assembly Associations
You can define, update, and delete line/assembly associations.

Associating Lines and Assemblies

Line/assembly associations establish a link between an assembly and
the production line on which it is manufactured. You can define any
number of line/assembly associations. You can also update and delete
line/assembly associations.
Your repetitive assembly/line associations guide your repetitive
production process. You can build the same assembly on different
production lines. You can also build different assemblies on the same
production line. Building different assemblies on the same production
line makes it possible to aggregate, by production line, material
requirements for a number of assemblies.
For each assembly on a line, you can enter a primary or alternate bill
and a primary or alternate routing. If you change routings for an
assembly on a line and there are open repetitive schedules, the new
routing must have the same operations as the prior routing.
If you plan to over–complete assemblies, you can set a tolerance level,
which restricts the number of assemblies that can be over–completed
on the schedule.

Prerequisites
❑ Define and enable one production line. See: Defining Production
Lines: page 2 – 58.

" To add a line/assembly associations:

1. Navigate to the Repetitive Line/Assembly Associations window.
The Repetitive Line/Assembly Associations summary window
appears.

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 ☞ Attention: You can associate several lines and assemblies
simultaneously using the Repetitive Line/Assembly Associations
Summary window. You can, however, also associate lines and
assemblies one–at–a–time in the Repetitive Line/Assembly
Associations window. This method is described below. See:
Combination Block, Oracle Applications User’s GuideNavigating
Within a Combination Block, Oracle Applications User’s Guide.
2. Choose the New button to open the Repetitive Line/Assembly
Associations window.
3. Select the production Line where you build the repetitive assembly,
then the assembly or select the Assembly then the production line.
You cannot update the name of a production line after you have
assigned it to a repetitive assembly nor can you delete a production
line that supports repetitive schedules.

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" To assign an alternate bill or alternate routing to the line/assembly
association:
1. Select the alternate Bill of material. See: Primary and Alternate
Bills of Material, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
You can select an alternate bill if alternates have been defined for
the assembly. If the WIP:See Engineering Items profile option is set
to Yes, you can select engineering items as alternates. See: Profile
Options: page 2 – 64.
2. Select the alternate Routing. See Primary and Alternate Routings,
Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
You can select an alternate routing if alternates have been defined.
If the WIP:See Engineering Items profile option is set to Yes, you can
select engineering routings as alternates.

" To enter a completion subinventory and locator:

H Select the completion Subinventory and, if required by the
subinventory, the Locator.
Assemblies are completed or returned into or from this
subinventory and locator. If the assembly has a routing, the
completion subinventory and locator are defaulted from the
routing but can be overwritten.

☞ Attention: You can override the completion subinventory and

locator you specify here when you complete or return assemblies
using the Completion Transactions window.
Caution: You must specify a completion subinventory and locator
if you plan to complete or return assemblies using the Move
Transactions window since the subinventory and locator specified
here are automatically used for those transactions.

" To enter a supply type, accounting class, line priority, and hourly
production rate:
1. Select the Supply Type. See: Supply Types: page D – 2.
The supply type defaults to Based on Bill. This supply type
indicates that component requirements are supplied based upon
their individual supply types. You can override this default by
choosing one of the following supply types: Push, Assembly Pull,
Operation Pull, Bulk, or Supplier. See: Supply Types: page D – 2.
2. Select an accounting Class.

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 Accounting classes can also be defaulted based on the assembly
item’s category default WIP class. You can override these defaults
with any active repetitive accounting class. See: WIP Accounting
Class Defaults: page 3 – 60 and Repetitive Accounting Classes:
page 2 – 43.
3. Enter a numeric line Priority.
You must specify a line priority for each line/assembly association.
Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning
uses line priority to determine which line to create repetitive
schedules on. Repetitive schedules are created on the highest
priority line first. For example, if you build the same assembly on
two lines and the first line has a priority of 1 and the other a
priority of 10, Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning
creates repetitive schedules on the first line — the one with a
priority of 1 — first.
4. Enter the Hourly Production Rate of assemblies on the production
line.
The maximum hourly rate for the production line is the default.
The repetitive line scheduling method also uses the production rate
to calculate how fast the line runs in terms of completed assemblies
per hour. The production rate for any assembly on the line must be
less than the maximum hourly rate on the line.
5. Check the Lead Time Line check box to indicate which production
line Oracle Bills of Material is to use to calculate the processing
lead time for the repetitive assembly. Master Scheduling/MRP and
Supply Chain Planning uses the calculated lead time in its planning
process. Oracle Capacity also uses the lead time line to rollup
resource requirements during rough cut capacity planning.
If you do not select a lead time line for the repetitive assembly, the
lead time rollup process in Bills of Material does not calculate a
lead time for this repetitive assembly. There is no requirement to
specify a lead time line.

" To set the tolerance level for over–completing assemblies:

1. In the Overcompletion region, select the Overcompletion Tolerance
Type. The options are Percent or Amount. If you do not select a
Tolerance Type, it signifies no tolerance, and you will not be able to
over–complete assemblies on this job.
2. In the Overcompletion Tolerance Value field, enter the
corresponding value for the Overcompletion Tolerance Type. If you
did not select an Overcompletion Tolerance Type, you will not be

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 able to enter a value in this field or over–complete assemblies on
this job.

" To change line/assembly associations:

1. Navigate to the Repetitive Line/Assembly Associations Summary
window.
2. Choose Find from the Query Menu.
3. In the Find Repetitive Line/Assembly Associations window, select
either a Line to find all Line/Assembly associations for that line,
select an Assembly to find all Line/Assembly associations for that
Assembly, or select a Line and Assembly.
4. Select the Line/Assembly association to change and choose the
Open button.
5. Change Line/Assembly association information as required.

See Also

Defining Repetitive Schedules Manually: page 6 – 14

Deleting Line/Assembly Associations: page 6 – 11

Deleting Line/Assembly Associations

You can delete line/assembly associations that have not been used to
define a repetitive schedule.

" To delete line/assembly associations:

1. Navigate to the Repetitive Line/Assembly Associations Summary
window.
2. Choose Find from the Query Menu.
3. In the Find Repetitive Line/Assembly Associations window, enter
your search criteria. The results display in the Repetitive
Line/Assembly Associations Summary window.

☞ Attention: You can delete line/assembly associations in either the

Repetitive Line/Assembly Associations window or Repetitive
Line/Assembly Associations Summary windows. See:
Combination Block, Oracle Applications User’s GuideNavigating
Within a Combination Block, Oracle Applications User’s Guide.

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 4. Select the Line/Assembly association.
5. Choose Delete from the Edit Menu.

See Also

Associating Lines and Assemblies: page 6 – 7

Defining Repetitive Schedules Manually: page 6 – 14

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Creating Repetitive Schedules
You can create repetitive schedules in the following ways:
• manually. See: Defining Repetitive Schedules Manually: page
6 – 14.
• automatically using Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply
Chain Planning to plan your repetitive schedules, then using the
Planner Workbench to implement them. See: Planned Repetitive
Schedules: page 6 – 13.
• using the Open Job and Schedule Interface to import suggested
repetitive schedules. See: Open Job and Schedule Interface: page
3 – 57.

Planned Repetitive Schedules

Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning creates
planned orders and reschedule recommendations. You can choose
whether to implement these planned orders.
You can use the Planner Workbench in Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP
and Supply Chain Planning to automatically implement some or all
suggested repetitive schedules. When you implement planned
schedules, their statuses change to Pending–Mass Loaded. You cannot
perform transactions against schedules with this status.
Implemented schedules are assigned a default description and load
date. You can update the schedule as if it were an unreleased schedule.
For example, you can modify the first and last unit start date, the
processing days, daily quantity, the production line, and firm plan the
schedule.
Repetitive schedules are loaded across production lines using the line
priorities specified in the Repetitive Line/Assembly Associations
window. The bill and routing revisions default to the current revision,
alternate bill and routing, supply type, WIP accounting class, and
completion subinventory and locator are based on the line/assembly
association.
Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning does not
suggest changes to repetitive schedules, instead it suggests new
repetitive schedules to meet the demand. Therefore, it is possible to
have pending schedules that overlap existing repetitive schedules.

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 For example, suppose you have a schedule that starts at the beginning of
next week for 10 assemblies a day for the next 5 days. Oracle Master
Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning suggests a schedule that
starts the beginning of next week for 25 assemblies a day for the next 5
days. When you implement the repetitive schedule in the Planner
Workbench, Work in Process assigns a status of Pending–Mass Loaded
to the new schedule. In the Repetitive Schedules window, you now
have two overlapping schedules with different rates (10 per day and 25
per day), and different statuses (Unreleased and Pending–Mass
Loaded). Either cancel the unreleased repetitive schedule and change
the status of the pending schedule to Unreleased or Released or, update
the rate of the unreleased schedule to match the recommended rate and
cancel the pending schedule.

See Also

Overview of Master Scheduling, Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and

Oracle Supply Chain Planning User’s Guide
Repetitive Line Scheduling: page 13 – 14
Repetitive Planning Versus Discrete Planning, Oracle Master
Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning User’s Guide

Defining Repetitive Schedules Manually

You can define repetitive schedules to build assemblies repetitively on a
production line. Repetitive schedules are used to schedule production,
resources, and material requirements, and to collect the costs of
manufacturing a repetitive assembly on a production line.
You can assign bills and routings to repetitive schedules to create
material requirements, schedule operations, and create resource
requirements. Neither bills of material nor routings are required
however.
You can specify the line, the assembly you are building, daily quantity,
processing days, and/or total quantity, as well as a date around which
to schedule.
You can attach illustrative or explanatory files — in the form of text,
images, word processing documents, spreadsheets, video, and so on —
to repetitive schedules. See: About Attachments, Oracle Applications
User’s Guide., and Attaching Files to Jobs, Schedules, and Operations:
page E – 2

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 Prerequisites
❑ Define at least one production line. See: Defining Production Lines:
page 2 – 58.
❑ Define at least one Repetitive Line/Assembly Association. See:
Associating Lines and Assemblies: page 6 – 7.

" To define a repetitive schedule:

1. Navigate to the Repetitive Schedules window. The Repetitive
Schedule Summary window appears.
2. Choose the New button to open the Repetitive Schedules window.

☞ Attention: You can define several repetitive schedules

simultaneously in the Repetitive Schedules Summary window. You
can, however, also define repetitive schedules one–at–a–time using
the Repetitive Schedules window. This method is described below.
See: Combination Block, Oracle Applications User’s Guide.

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 3. Select the production Line and the repetitive Assembly.
You can select any production Line and associated Assembly. The
routing, bill, accounting class, supply type, and completion
subinventory/locator defined for the Repetitive Line/Assembly
Association selected are defaulted. See: Associating Lines and
Assemblies: page 6 – 7.
4. Select the schedule Status.
When you define a repetitive schedule, its default status is
Unreleased but can be changed to Released or On Hold. See:
Repetitive Schedule Statuses: page 11 – 12.
5. Enter the Daily Quantity for the repetitive schedule.
If you do not enter the daily quantity, enter the number of
processing days and the total quantity.
The number of completed assemblies you plan to produce on the
schedule each day. This quantity is effective from the schedule start
date to the schedule end date.
6. Enter the number of Days for the repetitive schedule. Use decimal
numbers to indicate partial days (up to 6 decimal places).
This is the number of days that the repetitive schedule requires,
from the first assembly completion date through the last assembly
completion date, to manufacture the total number of assemblies.
If you enter the number of days, the total quantity is automatically
calculated based on the daily quantity. If you do not enter the
number of days, enter the daily quantity and total quantity.
7. Enter the Total Quantity of assemblies that you plan to manufacture
with this schedule.
If you enter the total quantity, the processing days are calculated
based on the daily quantity. If you do not enter the total quantity,
enter the daily quantity and number of processing days.
8. Select the Demand Class.
You can select any enabled and active demand class. Demand
classes are not required. See: Overview of Demand Classes, Oracle
Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning User’s Guide
and Creating Demand Classes, Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and
Oracle Supply Chain Planning User’s Guide.
9. Check the Firm check box to firm your schedule.
Firming repetitive schedules prevents MRP from suggesting
rescheduling and replanning recommendations when changes to

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 supply or demand occur. Firming a repetitive schedule locks in that
schedule’s daily quantity as the recommended daily quantity for
future schedules using that line/assembly association. See: Firm
Order Planning, Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply
Chain Planning User’s Guide.
10. Enter the Description.
Descriptions can be used to identify repetitive schedules on
standard reports. They can be up to 240 characters of alpha numeric
text. They are not required.

" To schedule a repetitive schedule with a routing or a fixed lead time

repetitive schedule without a routing:
H Select a First Unit Start Date (FUSD) or First Unit Complete Date
(FUCD) or a Last Unit Start Date (LUSD) or Last Unit Complete
Date (LUCD).
Only one date (FUSD, FUCD, LUSD, or LUCD) is required for
repetitive assemblies with routings and repetitive assemblies
without routings that are associated with production lines that have
Fixed lead time. The repetitive schedule is automatically forward or
backward scheduled based upon the dates entered.

" To schedule a repetitive schedule without a routing that has a

routing–based lead time:
H Select the FUSD and FUCD or select the LUSD and LUCD.
A set of start or completion dates is required for repetitive schedules
without routings that are associated with production lines that have
Routing–based lead times. The system uses the processing days to
schedule the dates not entered.

" To assign bill of material and routing revisions and dates:

1. Select the bill of material Revision.
The bill of material defaults based on the repetitive line and
assembly selected. You can however, select an alternate revision
and revision date and time if alternates have been defined.
You can update the bill revision as long as the repetitive schedule
remains unreleased. You can update the revision for standard bills
or alternate bills. See: Item and Routing Revisions, Oracle Bills of
Material User’s Guide.

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 You can explode item revisions that have associated ECOs with
Release, Schedule, and Implement statuses. If you set the
WIP:Exclude ECOs profile option to None, you can also explode
revisions for ECOs that have an Open status. See: ECO
Implementation By Status: page 11 – 18.
2. Select the bill Revision Date and time.
You can update the bill revision date for standard bills or alternate
bills. You can update the bill revision date as long as the repetitive
schedule remains unreleased.
3. Select the routing Revision.
The routing defaults based on the repetitive line and assembly
selected. You can, however, update the routing revision as long as
the schedule remains unreleased. See: Item and Routing Revisions,
Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide
4. Select the routing Revision Date and time.
You can update routing revision dates for standard and alternate
routings. You can update the routing revision date as long as the
schedule remains unreleased. If you do not enter a revision date,
the system uses the first unit start date (FUSD).
5. Save your work.

" To view outside processing workflows:

H See: Outside Processing Workflows: page 10 – 49

See Also

Changing Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 28

Repetitive Line Scheduling: page 13 – 14
Rescheduling Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 30

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Building Repetitive Schedules
Steps involved in building repetitive schedules include:
• Releasing repetitive schedules to production. See: Releasing
Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 22.
• Issuing components to repetitive schedules and, if necessary,
returning them back to inventory. See: Issuing and Returning
Specific Components: page 7 – 49 and Issuing and Returning All
Push Components: page 7 – 54.
• Using Shop Floor Control to coordinate, on an as required basis,
the following:
– Moving assemblies between routing operations and
intraoperation steps as required. See: Production Line
Moves: page 8 – 33.
– Scrapping assemblies. See: Scrapping Assemblies: page
8 – 72.
– Backflushing or issuing and returning operation pull and
assembly pull components automatically with move
transactions.
– Charging resources. See: Charging Resources with Move
Transactions: page 9 – 36 and Charging Resources Manually:
page 9 – 33.
• Changing repetitive schedules to accommodate changes in
production. See: Changing Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 28 and
Mass Changing Repetitive Schedule Statuses: page 6 – 32.

See Also

Overview of Material Control: page 7 – 2

Overview of Shop Floor Control: page 8 – 2
Repetitive Component Issues and Returns: page 7 – 44
Repetitive Production Line Backflushes: page 7 – 77

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Finding Repetitive Schedules
You can find then view, release, change, and reschedule repetitive
schedules. You can also find then purge information associated with
repetitive schedules.

" To find one or several repetitive schedules to view, release, change, or

reschedule:
1. When the Find Repetitive Schedules window appears, enter your
search criteria.
You can query by assembly Line and Assembly, a range of First
Unit Start Dates, a range of First Unit Completion Dates, and
Status. You can combine or omit criteria as required.

Caution: Querying to find repetitive schedules does not validate

the records returned. For example, querying to find a range of
schedules to release does not return only those jobs in that range
that can be released.
2. Choose the Find button.

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" To find one or several repetitive schedules to include in your purge:
1. When the Find Repetitive Schedules window appears, enter your
search criteria.
You can query by assembly Line and Assembly, a range of First
Unit Start Dates, or a range of First Unit Completion Dates.

2. Select an accounting Period or enter a Cutoff Date for the purge.

You can query by closed accounting Period. When you select an
accounting period, the end date of that period is defaulted as the
purge Cutoff date and cannot be overridden.
If you do not select an accounting Period, the cutoff date of the
most recently closed accounting period is defaulted. You can
override this date with any date in a closed period.

☞ Attention: When purging repetitive schedules, the date a

repetitive schedule was changed to Complete–No Charges or
Cancelled is compared to the purge cutoff date. Only repetitive
schedules that were set to Complete–No Charges or Cancelled on
or before the cutoff date are purged.
Caution: If you enter a cutoff date that is earlier than the date a
repetitive schedule was changed to Complete–No Charges or

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 Cancelled, the system purges only the repetitive schedule detail
and transaction information up to the date you enter.
3. Choose the Find button.

See Also

Searching for Information, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

Releasing Repetitive Schedules

You must release a repetitive schedule to production before transacting
against it. Releasing a repetitive schedule with a routing automatically
loads the total number of assemblies to be built for the repetitive
schedule into the Queue intraoperation step of the first operation. If
PO Move or PO Receipt resource requirements exist at the first
operation, purchase requisitions are automatically generated for these
resources.

" To release a single repetitive schedule:

1. Navigate to the Repetitive Schedules window. The Repetitive
Schedules Summary window appears.
2. Find a repetitive schedule. See: Finding Repetitive Schedules: page
6 – 20.
The Repetitive Schedules Summary window appears with the
results of the query.
3. Change the selected schedule’s status to Released. See: Repetitive
Schedule Statuses: page 11 – 12.

☞ Attention: You can release repetitive schedules in either the

Repetitive Schedules Summary or the Repetitive Schedules
window. See: Combination Block, Oracle Applications User’s Guide.
4. Save your work.

" To release several repetitive schedules:

H See: Mass Changing Repetitive Schedule Statuses: page 6 – 32.

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See Also

Job and Repetitive Schedule Status Changes: page 11 – 15

Repetitive Schedule Status Control: page 11 – 10

Printing Reports for Current Repetitive Schedules

If you are in the Repetitive Schedules, Purge Repetitive Schedules, or
View Repetitive Schedules window, you can print selected reports for
the ’active’ or current schedule. See: Current Record Indicator, Oracle
Applications User’s Guide.
You can print any one of the following reports:
• Repetitive Routing Sheet: page 15 – 54
• Repetitive Pick List Report: page 15 – 52
• Repetitive Line Report: page 15 – 51
• Repetitive Schedule Shortage Report: page 15 – 56
• Repetitive Schedule Data Report: page 15 – 55

" To print a report for the current repetitive schedule:

1. From the Repetitive Schedules or View Repetitive Schedules
window choose Print Reports from the Tools menu. See: Tools
menu: page F – 2.
The Print window appears.

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 2. Select the name of the report and choose OK
When you choose OK, a concurrent request to print the report is
submitted. You can view the status of concurrent requests. See:
Using the Concurrent Requests Window, Oracle Applications User’s
Guide.

See Also

Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Viewing Repetitive Schedules
To view repetitive schedule information see:
• Viewing Repetitive Schedule Information: page 6 – 25
• Viewing Material Requirements: page 7 – 14 and Viewing
Component Requirements: page 7 – 18
• Viewing Operations: page 8 – 20 and Viewing Job and Schedule
Operations: page 8 – 22
• Viewing Resource Requirements: page 9 – 27
You can also print a variety of repetitive schedule reports.

Viewing Repetitive Schedule Information

You can view information for repetitive schedules of any status,
including schedules that are closed, cancelled, or on hold. You can view
one schedule or several. You can also view operation, material
requirement, and resource requirement information associated with
repetitive schedules.
You can view repetitive schedule information in summary or detail. See:
Combination Block, Oracle Applications User’s Guide.

" To view repetitive schedule information:

H Navigate to View Repetitive Schedules window. When the Find
Repetitive Schedules window appears, enter your search criteria.
See: Finding Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 20.
Repetitive schedules are automatically displayed in the View
Repetitive Schedules Summary window. Using the
Summary/Detail option from the Go Menu, you can switch to the
View Repetitive Schedules window to view all information for a
selected schedule. You can optionally navigate to the View
Repetitive Schedules window by choosing the Open button from the
View Repetitive Schedules Summary window.

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 By tabbed region, all of the following information can be viewed in
View Repetitive Schedules Summary window:
Status region: Line, Assembly, Status, Date Released
Quantities region: Daily Quantity, Days, Total Quantity, Quantity
Completed
Start Dates region: First and Last Unit Start Dates
Completions Dates region: First and Last Unit Completion Dates
Bill Information region: Alternate Bill, Revision, Revision Date, and
Supply Type
Routing region: Alternate Routing, Routing Revision, and Revision
Date
Planning, Description region: Firm plan option, Demand Class and
Description
Current Progress region: Quantity Completed, Quantity Scrapped,
and Quantity Ahead, and Days Ahead

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" To view repetitive schedule operations:
H From either the View Repetitive Schedules window or the View
Repetitive Schedules Summary window, choose the Operations
button. The Operation window appears displaying the repetitive
schedules’s operations. You can optionally view the components
required at a selected operation using the Components button. See:
Viewing Job and Schedule Operations: page 8 – 22.

" To view repetitive schedule component requirements:

H From either the View Repetitive Schedules window or the View
Repetitive Schedules Summary window, choose the Components
button. The Material Requirements window appears and the
repetitive schedule’s components are displayed. See: Viewing
Component Requirements: page 7 – 18

" To print reports for a repetitive schedule:

H You can print selected reports for the ’active’ or current schedule
See: Printing Reports for Current Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 23.

" To view outside processing workflows:

H See: Outside Processing Workflows: page 10 – 49
Work in Process provides workflows to track outside processing of
repetitive schedules. If you want to activate workflow notifications,
you must have your system administrator set up the WIP:Enable
Outside Processing Workflows profile option. See: Outside
Processing Workflow Setup: page 10 – 54

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Updating Repetitive Schedules
You can make the following changes to your repetitive schedules:
• Change dates, quantities, bills, statuses, and routings. See:
Changing Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 28 and Rescheduling
Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 30.
• Add, update, and delete operations. See: Adding and Updating
Operations: page 8 – 12 and Deleting Operations: page 8 – 17.
• Add, update, and delete material requirements. See: Adding
and Updating Material Requirements: page 7 – 10 and Deleting
Material Requirements: page 7 – 13.
• Add, change, and delete resource requirements. See: Adding
and Updating Resource Requirements: page 9 – 16 and Deleting
Resource Requirements: page 9 – 25.
• Implement engineering change orders in Oracle Engineering.
See: Implementation of ECOs on Discrete Jobs and Repetitive
Schedules, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide and ECO
Implementation By Status: page 11 – 18.
• Add, change, and delete WIP Attachments. See: Attaching Files
to Jobs, Schedules, and Operations: page E – 2.

See Also

Repetitive Schedule Status Control: page 11 – 10

Job and Repetitive Schedule Status Changes: page 11 – 15

Changing Repetitive Schedules

You can change repetitive schedules using the Repetitive Schedules and
Repetitive Schedules Summary windows. The status of the schedule
determines if and what information can be changed. See: Repetitive
Schedule Status Control: page 11 – 10.

Quantities
You can update the daily production quantity, the number of
processing days and the total quantity of a repetitive schedule. You can
reduce or increase the schedule quantity. Changing the daily
production rate on a repetitive schedule causes the total quantity to
change accordingly based on the processing days. Changing the

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 processing days causes the total quantity to change according to the
daily quantity. Changing the total quantity on a schedule does not
impact the daily quantity. Instead increasing the total quantity causes
the processing days to increase. Conversely, reducing the total quantity
decreases the processing days.
Once the repetitive schedule is released and work has begun on the
assembly, you cannot decrease the total quantity lower than the
number of assemblies that have already passed the Queue
intraoperation step of the first operation. The material requirements
and schedule dates are automatically adjusted based upon the quantity
change. If the schedule’s assembly is an MPS–planned item, the update
process automatically adjusts the MPS relief quantity.

Dates
You can change the dates and times on a repetitive schedule. If you
change the first unit start date, first unit completion date, last unit start
date, or last unit completion date, Work in Process reschedules the
repetitive schedule to adjust the remaining start and completion dates.
Changing any of the four start and completion dates does not impact
the processing days, total quantity, daily quantity, or lead time. Work
in Process does not allow you to change dates and times to cause
overlapping of schedules for the same assembly on the same line. See:
Rescheduling Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 30.

Statuses
You can change the status of a repetitive schedule although some
changes from one status to another are disallowed and others are
conditional. See: Job and Repetitive Schedule Status Changes: page
11 – 15.

Prerequisites
❑ Define at least one repetitive schedule. See: Defining Repetitive
Schedules Manually: page 6 – 14.

" To change repetitive schedules:

1. Navigate to the Repetitive Schedules window. The Repetitive
Schedules Summary window appears.
2. Choose Find from the Query Menu. See: Finding Repetitive
Schedules: page 6 – 20.
3. Change repetitive schedules in either the Repetitive Schedules or
Repetitive Schedules Summary windows. From the Repetitive

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 Schedules Summary window, you can choose the Open button to
navigate to the Repetitive Schedules window. See: Combination
Block, Oracle Applications User’s Guide.

See Also

Defining Repetitive Schedules Manually: page 6 – 14

Mass Changing Repetitive Schedules Statuses: page 6 – 32
Rescheduling Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 30
Attaching Files to Jobs, Schedules, and Operations: page E – 2

Rescheduling Repetitive Schedules

You can reschedule repetitive schedules with and without routings.
When you change a repetitive schedule quantity, the system
automatically prompts you to choose the date around which you want
to reschedule. The number of processing days increases/decreases to
reflect the quantity change.
When you update the number of workdays, you must choose the date
around which you want to reschedule. The current schedule is
rescheduled around the date you specify.
You can enter first unit/last unit start (FUCD/LUSD) and first
unit/last unit completion (FUCD/LUCD) dates and times earlier than
the current date and time to maintain relative date priorities for
department schedules and material requirements.

Prerequisites
❑ Define at least one repetitive schedule with a status of Released or
Complete. See: Defining Repetitive Schedules Manually: page
6 – 14.

" To reschedule a repetitive schedule with a routing or a fixed lead

time repetitive schedule without a routing:
1. Navigate to the Repetitive Schedules window. The Repetitive
Schedule Summary window appears. See: Combination Block,
Oracle Applications User’s Guide.

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 2. Choose the New button to navigate to the Repetitive Schedules
window.
3. Select the production Line and Assembly.
4. Select a FUSD or FUCD or a LUSD or LUCD.
Only one date (FUSD, FUCD, LUSD, or LUCD) is required for
repetitive assemblies with routings and repetitive assemblies
without routings that are associated with production lines that
have Fixed lead time. The repetitive schedule is automatically
forward or backward scheduled based upon the dates entered.
5. Save your work.

" To reschedule a repetitive schedule without a routing that has a

routing–based lead time:
1. Navigate to the Repetitive Schedules window.
2. Select the production Line.
3. Select the repetitive Assembly.
4. Select the FUSD and FUCD or select the LUSD and LUCD.
A set of start or completion dates is required for repetitive
schedules without routings that are associated with production
lines that have Routing–based lead times. The system uses the
processing days to schedule the dates not entered.
5. Save your work.

" To reschedule a repetitive schedule after changing the daily quantity,

the processing days, or the total quantity:
1. After changing the Daily quantity, which updates the Total
Quantity based on the number of processing Days; changing the
number of processing Days, which updates the Total Quantity
based on the Daily Quantity; or changing the Total Quantity, which
updates the number of processing Days but does not update the
Daily Quantity; and saving your work, the Reschedule Repetitive
Schedule window appears.

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 Select a reschedule point option:
First Unit Start Date: All other dates and times are cleared and the
schedule is forward scheduled using the FUSD and time.
First Unit Completion Date: All other dates and times are cleared
and the schedule is forward scheduled using FUCD and time.
Last Unit Start Date: All other dates and times are cleared and the
schedule is backward scheduled using the LUSD and time.
Last Unit Completion Date: All other dates and times are cleared
and the schedule is backward scheduled using the LUCD and time.
2. Choose the Reschedule button.

See Also

Defining Repetitive Schedules Manually: page 6 – 14

Changing Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 28
Repetitive Line Scheduling: page 13 – 14
Repetitive Line Rescheduling: page 13 – 19

Mass Changing Repetitive Schedule Statuses

You can change the statuses of repetitive schedules ’en masse’ using the
Change Status option from the Tools menu. This mass change capability

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 can be used for a variety of purposes such as releasing schedules to
production and putting schedules on hold.

" To change the status of several repetitive schedules:

1. Navigate to the Repetitive Schedules window. The Repetitive
Schedules Summary window appears.
2. Choose Find from the Query Menu. See: Finding Repetitive
Schedules: page 6 – 20.
The Repetitive Schedules Summary window appears with the
results of the query.
3. In the Repetitive Schedules Summary window, select and deselect
schedules as required. See: Selecting Multiple Records, Oracle
Application User’s Guide.
4. Choose Change Status from the Tools menu. See: Tools menu: page
F – 2.
The Change Repetitive Schedules Status window appears.

5. Choose a Status. See: Repetitive Schedules Statuses: page 11 – 12

and Discrete Job and Repetitive Schedule Status Changes: page
11 – 15.
6. Choose OK to save your work.

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See Also

Changing Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 28

Repetitive Schedule Status Control: page 11 – 10

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Completing Repetitive Schedules
You can complete repetitive assemblies from repetitive schedules into
inventory using the Completion Transactions and Move Transactions
windows. You can also return completed assemblies back to schedules
using these windows.
Note: You can also complete WIP assemblies using the
Inventory Transaction Interface and the Open Move
Transaction Interface.

Over–completions
If the repetitive schedule is over–completion enabled, you can complete
a quantity of assemblies greater than the total quantity on the schedule,
whether or not the schedule has a routing. This feature is useful when
the production process yields more assemblies than planned. Since all
over–completed quantities are allocated to the last open schedule, you
can over–complete assembly quantities up to the tolerance limit of that
schedule.
To enable over–completion for assemblies on Repetitive schedules, you
must:
• Set up a tolerance level to control the number of assemblies that
can be over–completed
• Enable the over–completion feature by checking the
Over–completion check box on the Completion Transaction or
Move Transaction windows when completing assemblies
When you over–complete assemblies to Repetitive schedules, all
resources are charged and any backflush components are backflushed.
Over–completion Tolerance
You must set up a tolerance level for the quantity of assemblies that can
be over–completed. The tolerance level, which is either a number or a
percent, is used to validate the quantities. If an over–completed
quantity is greater than the tolerance allows, the transaction will fail.
You can set up tolerances item by item, or you can set a parameter at
the organization level that sets the default over–completion tolerance
percent for all items. When you set the tolerance at the organization
level, you also are setting the default that will be used to validate
over–completion assembly quantities when no tolerance level has been
set at either the item or job or schedule levels.
If you do not set a tolerance level, the default over–completion
tolerance percent defaults to zero. If you then try to over–complete

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 assemblies, you will receive a message telling you that you cannot
over–complete because there is no tolerance. For more information on
over–completion tolerance levels, see: Assembly Over–completions:
page 7 – 84
Over–Completions from the Completion Transaction and Move Transaction
windows
Once you set up tolerance levels, you enable over–completion on the
Completion Transaction and Move Transaction windows by selecting
the Over–Completion check box before performing the transaction. For
instructions, see: Completing and Returning Assemblies: page 7 – 91
and Performing Move Completion/Return Transactions: page 8 – 48.
If there is an open schedule for the same repetitive assembly being built
on the same line, you also can optionally increase the assembly
quantity by increasing the total quantity, the daily quantity, or the
number of processing days. You can then move these additional
assemblies from the Queue intraoperation step of the first operation
sequence to the To Move intraoperation step of the last operation
sequence. You then will have sufficient quantity in the To Move
intraoperation step of the last operation sequence to complete from the
schedule without having to over–complete assemblies. You can
optionally define an additional schedule so you can complete from the
line without over–completing from any schedule.

Over–returns
You can return more assemblies to repetitive schedules than you
completed into inventory. Any excess quantities are allocated to the
first open schedule.

Routings
When you complete an assembly from a Repetitive schedule with a
routing, it is transacted from the To Move intraoperation step in the last
operation of the schedule into the completion subinventory, and if
required, the locator for the line. If you did not specify a completion
subinventory and locator for the line, then you must specify a
subinventory and possibly a locator when you perform the completion
transactions.

Complete versus Complete–No Charges

When the number of assemblies completed equals the number of
planned assemblies, the schedule is complete and the status of the
schedule changes to either Complete or Complete–No Charges. The
difference between these two statuses depends upon whether a future

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schedule exists. The end date of the schedule does not determine when
a schedule is complete, and a repetitive schedule can be active after its
end date.
If there is a subsequent schedule with a status of Unreleased within the
autorelease days time fence, or a schedule with a status of Released,
Complete, or On Hold, then the status of the current schedule changes
to Complete–No Charges and is automatically released the next
schedule if appropriate. If there is no subsequent schedule that meets
this requirement, then the status of the current schedule changes to
Complete. This keeps the current schedule active so that you can
transact any unused or excess material and perform delayed resource
and material transactions.

Multiple Schedules
When you have more than one active schedule open for an assembly on
a line at one time, the completion transactions automatically allocate
the correct completion quantity to each schedule starting with the
oldest schedules.
For example, a repetitive schedule is scheduled to complete 100
assemblies on 10–JAN and 200 assemblies on 11–JAN. On 11–JAN
when you complete 200 assemblies, the transaction completes 100
assemblies to the first schedule and the remaining 100 assemblies to the
second schedule.

Rolling Material Forward

When the number of assemblies completed plus the assemblies in the
Scrap intraoperation steps equals the number of assemblies planned,
the schedule is checked for any excess material. Over–issuing results in
excess material. This can occur as a result of pushing too much
material to the schedule or from reducing the total quantity of the
schedule.
If there is any excess material, the system checks to see if there is a
future schedule with a status of Unreleased within the autorelease days
time frame, or a schedule with a status of Released, Complete, or On
Hold following the newly completed schedule. If so, this excess
material charge rolls forward to the next schedule, the next schedule is
released (if appropriate), and the status of the completed schedule
changes to Complete–No Charges. If an appropriate schedule is not
found, the status changes to Complete and the excess material charges
do not roll forward. You can then analyze the schedule and transact
the excess material.

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 Roll forward also occurs if you cancel a schedule and there is an
existing Unreleased schedule within the time fence specified by the
Repetitive Autorelease Days Parameter. See: Repetitive Manufacturing
Parameters: page 2 – 18.
Determines the time period within which the system automatically
releases the next Unreleased schedule.
When you complete a repetitive schedule, the system searches within
the autorelease time frame for an Unreleased schedule, or for a
schedule with a status of Released, Complete, or On Hold. If one
exists, the status of the newly completed schedule changes to
Complete–No Charges and the future schedule is automatically
released. If no such schedule exists, the status of the schedule changes

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to Complete. If more than one schedule exists within the autorelease
time frame, only one schedule is released.

Stopping Repetitive Schedules

Repetitive schedules stop when the number of assemblies completed
plus the assemblies in the Scrap intraoperation steps equals the number
of planned assemblies. No further action is needed. You do not close
repetitive schedules. To prevent accidental charges, change the status
of any Complete schedules to Cancelled or Complete–No Charges.

Serial Number Validations for Assembly Completions and Returns

For a serialized item returned to stock, validations occur to prevent
re–issuing to a different repetitive schedule. At the time of completion,
serialized assemblies and components for repetitive schedules are
available from stock if they have the following values set in the Serial
Numbers window in Oracle Inventory:
• State value: Defined but not used.
• State value: Issued out of stores. This is restricted to serial
numbers that were previously returned to the same repetitive
schedule that you are completing.
Serial Number Validations for Component Returns and Assembly
Completions: page 7 – 83

Sales Orders and Outside Processing Operations

When a schedule with outside processing operations is changed to
complete, closed, or canceled status – an informational warning
message displays if open purchase orders or requisitions exist for any
of the operations.
Changing a schedule status to completed, closed, or canceled is
prevented if open reservations exist. If you attempt one of these
transactions for a schedule linked to a sales order, an error message
displays. You can unlink the reservations, or reduce the schedule
quantity to equal the completed quantity. See: Linking ATO Sales
Orders and Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 74

Label Printing at Completion

Label printing capabilities are available at the time of completion. This
provides the ability to create labels for any descriptive information or
customer requirements. See: Label Printing at Completion: page 7 – 82

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See Also

Overview of Period Close, Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide

Move Transaction Types: page 8 – 36
Assembly Over–completions and Over–returns: page 7 – 84
Completing and Returning Assemblies: page 7 – 91

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Repetitive Schedule Purge
You can purge repetitive schedule information using Purge Repetitive
Schedules (Form) and Purge Repetitive Schedules (SRS). You can purge
all information associated with repetitive schedules including their
schedule header records and schedule detail and transaction
information. You can also selectively purge the following repetitive
schedule information: schedule details (material requirements, resource
requirements, and operations), move transactions, and resource cost
transactions. Selective purging allows you to retain pertinent historical
information. For example, you can retain operation information but
purge move transactions associated with these operations.

Purge Rules
A repetitive schedule may not purge if the any of the following
information still exists:
• material transactions that reference the repetitive schedule
You can purge material and completion transaction information
associated with repetitive schedules in Oracle Inventory. See:
Purge Transactions, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
• purchase transactions, purchase requisitions, or purchase orders
that reference the repetitive schedule in Oracle Purchasing.
• quality results records that reference the repetitive schedule
You can delete quality results records associated with repetitive
schedules in the Oracle Quality. See: Updating and Deleting
Quality Results, Oracle Quality User’s Guide.

Reporting
You can submit a request to print a Purge Report as you purge
repetitive schedules. When you print a report as part of the purge
process, the output of the report is determined by the defaulted purge
parameters used and the level of detail choosen (Full, Summary, or
Excepting) in the Purge Options window.
The Purge Report can also be submitted independently of the purge
process using the Submit Requests window. When submitted
independently of the purge process, only the jobs and/or schedules
that failed to purge are listed.

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See Also

Purging Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 42

Purging Jobs and Schedules: page 15 – 44
Specifying Purge Options: page 3 – 130

Purging Repetitive Schedules

You can use the Purge Repetitive Scheules window to purge
information associated with Cancelled and Complete–No Charges
repetitive schedules. You can purge all repetitive schedule information
or just selected information: details (material requirements, resource
requirements, and operations), or associated move and/or resource
cost transactions.
Before purging a repetitive schedule, you can view detail information
for that schedule. You can also print one or all of the reports in the
Repetitive Schedule Packet for the schedule. See: Current Record
Indicator, Oracle Applications User’s Guide and Repetitive Shop Packet:
page 15 – 59 Overview of Period Close, Oracle Cost Management User’s
Guide.

Prerequisites
❑ You must have at least one closed period for your organization.
See: Overview of Period Close, Oracle Cost Management User’s
Guide.

" To find repetitive schedules to purge:

1. Navigate to the Purge Repetitive Schedules window. The Find

Repetitive Schedules window appears.

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2. Query to find one or more repetitive schedules. See: Finding
Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 20.
The Purge Repetitive Schedules Summary window appears with
the results of your query.

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 " To print reports for the queried records:
H Printing Reports for Current Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 23.

" To view operations and operation requirements for a selected

repetitive schedule:
H From either the Purge Repetitive Schedules or Purge Repetitive
Schedules Summary window choose the Operations button.
The operations, if any, required for the schedule are displayed. See:
Viewing Job and Schedule Operations: page 8 – 22.

" To view component requirements for a selected repetitive schedule:

H From either the Purge Repetitive Schedules or Purge Repetitive
Schedules Summary windows choose the Components button.
The component materials, if any, required the schedule are
displayed. See: Viewing Component Requirements: page 7 – 18.

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 ☞ Attention: When no routing exists, all components default to
operation sequence of 1.

" To select which repetitive schedules to purge and/or report:

1. From the schedules displayed, select which to include in the purge.
See: Selecting Multiple Records, Oracle Applications User’s Guide.
2. Choose Purge from the Tools menu. See: Tools menu: page F – 2.
The Purge Options window appears. See: Specifying Purge
Options: page 3 – 130.

See Also

Purge Report: page 15 – 50

Transaction Control by Status: page 11 – 17
Changing Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 28

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CHAPTER

7 Material Control

T his chapter explains how materials are transacted, controlled, and

tracked in Work in Process, including:
• Overview: page 7 – 2
• Setting Up: page 7 – 6
• Material Requirements Control: page 7 – 7
• Adding and Updating Material Requirements: page 7 – 10
• Material Control Process Diagram: page 7 – 24
• Component Picking: page 7 – 25
• Component Issues and Returns: page 7 – 46
• Phantom Assemblies: page 7 – 62
• Supply Subinventory and Locator Replenishment: page 7 – 67
• Backflush Transactions: page 7 – 74
• Assembly Completions and Returns: page 7 – 80
• WIP Inventory Accuracy: page 7 – 97

Material Control 7–1

Overview
You can control and monitor which materials are used and how they
flow from inventory to discrete jobs and repetitive schedules and from
jobs and schedules to inventory.

Material Requirements
When you define jobs and repetitive schedules, you can combine
standard, alternate, or common bills of material and routings to create
specific material requirements anywhere in the routing. The job or
schedule assembly revision determines which version of the bill of
materials is used to create the material requirements. See: Overview of
Bills of Material, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide and Creating a Bill
of Material, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.

Synchronizing your Bills of Material and Routings

You can specify at which operations component items are required by
associating bills of material with routings. When bills and routings are
synchronized, material is pushed or pulled onto jobs and schedules
only where and when it is needed. This eliminates excess work in
process inventory.

Push and Pull Requirements

You can push (issue) and pull (backflush) components items onto jobs
and repetitive schedules. A component’s supply type determines how
it is supplied. See: Supply Types: page D – 2, Backflush Transactions:
page 7 – 74, and Component Issues and Returns: page 7 – 42.

Replenish Supply Subinventories and Locators

You can replenish depleted supply subinventory stores. This ensures
that materials are available for backflush transactions. See: Supply
Subinventory and Locator Replenishment: page 7 – 65.

Component Picking
You can select component requirements to issue to jobs and schedules
on the Component Pick Release window. This window generates move
orders. You can select items for discrete jobs, lot based jobs, repetitive
schedules, and flow schedules. Each manufacturing mode has a distinct
and individual window. You can also use a rules based system to
determine a recommended source location for each component. See:
Component Picking: page 7 – 25

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Reverse Transactions
Material transactions are reversible. You can return components that
have been issued to jobs and schedules back to inventory. You can also
return completed assemblies from inventory to jobs and schedules.
See: Component Issues and Returns: page 7 – 42 and Assembly
Completions and Returns: page 7 – 80.

Transaction Processing Options

You can choose how to process material transactions using WIP
transaction processing profile options. For most transactions, the
available options are on–line, concurrent, and background processing.
See: Profile Options: page 2 – 64.

Open Material Transactions Interface

You can load work in process material transaction information from
external systems — such as bar code readers and other data collection
devices — into the Inventory Transaction Interface. When this data is
processed, it is validated, and invalid records are marked so that you
can correct and resubmit them.

Transaction Control
The status of a job or schedule indicates what point it has reached in its
life cycle. Statuses also control which activities can be performed. For
example, when you define a job or schedule, its status defaults to
Unreleased. You must change its status to Released before you can
transact against it. See: Transaction Control By Status: page 11 – 17.

Lot and Serial Number Control

You can issue, backflush, and complete lot, serial number, and lot and
serial number controlled items. For lot controlled assemblies you build
using discrete jobs, there are complete lot composition inquiries and
reports. See: Lot and Serial Number Backflushing: page 7 – 78.
You can track your jobs using serial control throughout the
manufacturing process, with serial transaction entry for assembly
moves. This functionality is supported through Oracle Mobile Supply
Chain Applications. . See: Serial Number Tracking Throughout
Manufacturing: page 3 – 79

Backflush Lot Selection

You can specify how lot controlled components are selected during
backflush transactions with the WIP Lot Selection Method parameter.
Lots can be selected manually — in other words you specify which lots

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 are used — or they can be selected automatically based on either their
inventory expiration or receipt date. See: Backflush Default
Parameters: page 2 – 21.

Revision Control
Oracle Work in Process, Oracle Inventory, Oracle Bills of Material, and
Oracle Engineering combine to provide complete revision control. You
can define item revisions in either Oracle Inventory, Oracle Bills of
Material, or Oracle Engineering. You can build open, released,
scheduled, and implemented revisions. You cannot build revisions that
have statuses of On Hold. See: Item and Routing Revisions, Oracle Bills
of Material User’s Guide.

Engineering Items
You can choose whether to build engineering items and whether to use
engineering items as material requirements.

Alternate Units of Measure

You can issue components and complete assemblies using alternate
units of measure. Transactions are recorded and reported in both the
base and transacted units of measure.

Nettable Controls
You can specify whether assembly quantities are included as supply in
the MRP planning process when you define jobs and schedules. You
can also specify whether job and schedule material requirement
quantities are included as demand in the net requirements calculation.
You can specify, using the WIP:Requirement Nettable profile option,
whether the quantities in non–nettable subinventories are included
when on–hand quantities are displayed in the Material Requirements
and View Material Requirements windows. You can also choose to
include non–nettable inventories when using the Discrete Job and
Repetitive Schedule Shortage Reports to view inventory balances.

Requirements Reporting
You can view material requirements in a variety of ways including by
assembly, by job, by production line, by date required, and by
subinventory. Shortages can be highlighted so that planners and
buyers can respond. See: Viewing Material Requirements: page 7 – 14.

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 Mobile Manufacturing
If Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications is installed, the Mobile
Manufacturing component enables you to perform all work in process
material transactions using a mobile client device networked with a
computer system. This includes issuing material from inventory to
charge against a job, reversing component issues, and issuing
components from jobs to fill negative material requirements. See:
Mobile Manufacturing, Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications User’s
Guide.

WIP Inventory Accuracy

You can maintain accurate inventory balances for components and
assemblies using tools provided in Oracle Inventory and Work in
Process. See: WIP Inventory Accuracy: page 7 – 97.

See Also

Setting Up Material Control: page 7 – 6

Material Requirements Control: page 7 – 7

Material Control 7–5

Setting Up
• For a listing of out–of–product setups that affect material
processing see: Setup Prerequisites: page 2 – 3.
• For a listing of setup within Work in Process that affect material
processing see: Setup Check List: page 2 – 7.
• For additional information about parameters that affect material
processing see: WIP Parameters: page 2 – 14.
• For a listing of profile options that affect material processing see:
Profile Options: page 2 – 64.

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Material Requirements Control
Open material requirements are satisfied when components are issued
and backflushed.
When you create jobs and repetitive schedules that have bills of
material, routings, or both, material requirements for the appropriate
components are automatically created. These requirements (demands)
are considered ’open’ until they are fulfilled.
The MRP planning process and available to promise calculations
include open requirements as demand but do not formally allocate
them to their parent jobs and repetitive schedules.
Material shortages occur when insufficient inventory exists to cover
open requirements. The MRP planning process reports current and
projected material shortages and develops a plan to satisfy those
shortages.

Negative Requirements
You can use negative material requirements to recover by–products or
other reusable components. Jobs and repetitive schedules supply
negative requirements instead of consuming them. See: By–Product
Recovery: page 7 – 8.

Available–to–Promise Materials
You can view available–to–promise (ATP) status of components as you
define, simulate, and view discrete jobs and as you view repetitive
schedules. See: Viewing Component ATP Information: page 7 – 20

WIP Shortage Reporting

The Discrete Job Shortage and Repetitive Schedule Shortage Reports
list shortages or open requirements for jobs and repetitive schedules
based on requirement date. You can optionally include quantities in
non–nettable subinventories in the on–hand quantities displayed on
these reports. You can also use these report to view bulk and supplier
component requirements.
The View Material Requirements window can be used to view the
requirements for a component across jobs and schedules. You can view
quantities required and issued for each component.

Material Requirements Reporting

You can supplement materials information provided by WIP reports
and inquiries with Oracle Inventory reports and inquiries. For

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 example, you can use Oracle Inventory reports to list on–hand balances
and transaction information.
See: Oracle Inventory Reports, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.

See Also

Overview of Material Requirements Planning, Oracle Master

Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning User’s Guide
Available to Promise, Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply
Chain Planning User’s Guide

By–Product Recovery
You can create negative material requirements to support the recovery
of by–products and other reuseable or recoverable components.
Negative requirements are supplied instead of consumed by jobs and
schedules. For example, if you add negative material requirements to a
non–standard discrete job that is tracking the disassembly of a
completed part, the job supplies component materials rather than
consuming them. Negative requirements are considered supply by the
MRP planning process.
You can define negative requirement usage quantities when you assign
components to bills of material in Oracle Bills of Material. Negative
requirements can be assigned to lot, serial number, and lot and serial
number controlled items.

See Also

WIP Material Transaction Types: page 7 – 48

Supply Types: page D – 2
Adding and Updating Material Requirements: page 7 – 10

Kanban Completion Supply Statuses

In a pull–based system, inventory items for a particular part or
assembly area are replenished as soon as they are needed. When the
items are needed, kanban cards in Oracle Inventory change their

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 Supply Status to Empty, and Inventory generates production kanban
replenishment requests automatically.
When completing WIP Entities (jobs, repetitive schedules, and Flow
schedules) that replenish production kanbans, you can override the
defaulted kanban number with a supply status of Empty or In process.
You can also override the defaulted kanban number with a kanban
supply status of Full if previous completions from the selected schedule
have set that kanban’s status to Full or if it has been referenced.
Referenced in this context means that the WIP Entity and Kanban are
linked because the WIP Entity was created to replenish the Kanban.

See Also

Kanban Planning and Execution, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide

Accessing the Planning Region, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide
Accessing the Production Region, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s
Guide

Material Control 7–9

Adding and Updating Material Requirements
You can add material requirements to discrete jobs and repetitive
schedules with statuses of Unreleased, Released, On Hold, and
Complete.
Note: You can also add material requirements to jobs and
schedules by issuing components not required by the job or
schedule. See: Issuing and Returning Specific Components:
page 7 – 49.

" To add or update material requirements:

1. Navigate to the Material Requirements window.

2. Select the Job or repetitive Line and Assembly.

You can only select a discrete job or a repetitive line and assembly
for a repetitive schedule if the job or schedule has a status of
Unreleased, Released, On Hold, or Complete.

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3. If you select a line and assembly, choose the repetitive schedule by
selecting the first unit start date of that schedule. If you select a
discrete job, the system displays the scheduled start date of the job.
4. Optionally, choose the Find button to populate the Material
Requirements region.
5. From the Main tabbed region of the Material Requirements region,
select the Component to update or add.
You can add items with Push, Assembly Pull, Operation Pull, Bulk,
Phantom, and Supplier supply types. If you add Phantom items,
their supply types are changed to Push. Supply types are also
changed to Push if you add Assembly Pull items to jobs or
schedules without bills of material. Similarly, if you add Operation
Pull items to jobs or schedules without routings, their supply types
are changed to Assembly Pull.
You can add engineering items as requirements if you have the
WIP:See Engineering Items profile option set to Yes. See: Profile
Options: page 2 – 64 and Engineering Bills of Material and
Routings, Oracle Engineering User’s Guide.
In the case of non–standard discrete jobs, you can add the primary
assembly as a component. In other words, the job assembly
requires itself. This is useful when you use non–standard jobs to
manage rework or disassembly. See: Rework Assemblies: page
4 – 7 and Disassemble Assemblies: page 4 – 11.
You can add items that already exists as job or schedule component
requirements if you add them at a different operation sequence.
6. If adding a component, select the Operation Sequence number.
See: Overview of Routings, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide and
Creating a Routing, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
You can only add components at existing operations. The
operation sequence identifies where the material is required.
If you add a requirement to a job or schedule without a routing, the
system displays 1 as the default operation sequence. This value
cannot be updated.
7. Select the Date Required.
For jobs with routings, the system displays the start date of the
operation as the default. For repetitive schedules with routings, the
system displays the first unit start date of the operation as the
default. You can update the date required with a date that lies
between the start and completion dates of the operation.

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 For jobs and schedules without routings, the systems displays the
scheduled start date of the job or the first unit start date of the
schedule as the default. You can update the date required with a
date and time that lies between the start date and time and
completion date and time of the job or schedule.
8. In the Quantities tabbed region, enter the Per Assembly Quantity or
the Required Quantity for the component.
If you are adding a component, the per assembly quantity defaults
to 1 and the required quantity is derived from the job or schedule
quantity and displayed in the component’s primary UOM. It can
be updated. If you update the per assembly quantity, the required
quantity is automatically calculated. Conversely if you update the
required quantity, the per assembly quantity calculated. You can
enter a decimal value, such as 1.25, for both the per assembly and
the required quantity. You can also enter a required or per
assembly quantity of zero.
9. In the Supply tabbed region, select the Supply Type. See: Supply
Types: page D – 2.
When you add components, the supply type specified for the item
in Oracle Inventory is normally defaulted. If the item does not
have a supply type, the supply type defaults to Push.
Supply type selection is restricted based on the type and makeup of
the job or schedule. You cannot, for example, change the supply
type of a Push component to Assembly Pull if the job or schedule
has no routing.
10. If the component’s supply type is Assembly Pull or Operation Pull,
you must select the supply Subinventory, and if required by the
supply subinventory, the supply Locator. See: Supply
Subinventory and Locator Fields, Oracle Bills of Material User’s
Guide.
11. Check the MRP Net check box to include material requirements as
demand in the calculation of net requirements. See: Net Work in
Process, Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain
Planning User’s Guide.
If a negative quantity for a standard discrete job or repetitive
schedule is entered, this check box is disabled.
For non standard–jobs with a negative quantity, the MRP check box
is enabled. However, Oracle planning nets the negative
requirement as supply rather than demand.

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 When initially creating non–standard discrete jobs, this flag is
unchecked. You must manually mark the check box for
components to be considered as demand by Oracle planning
applications.
12. In the Comments tabbed region, enter or update the Comment.
13. Save your work.

See Also

Material Requirements Control: page 7 – 7

Setting Up Material Control: page 7 – 6

Deleting Material Requirements: page 7 – 13

Deleting Material Requirements

You can delete material requirements from Unreleased discrete jobs
and repetitive schedules. You cannot delete material requirements that
have been issued even if their due quantity is 0. You cannot delete
material requirements if any transactions gave been made for a
particular component.

" To delete material requirements:

1. Navigate to the Material Requirements window.
2. Select the Job or Line and Assembly.
3. If you select a line and assembly, choose the repetitive schedule by
selecting the first unit start date of that schedule. If you have
selected a discrete job, the system displays the scheduled start date
of the job.
4. Choose the Find button to populate the Material Requirements
region.
5. In the Material Requirements region, select the Component.
6. Choose Delete Record from the Edit Menu.
7. Save your work.

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Viewing Material Requirements
You can view material requirements for individual discrete jobs and
repetitive schedules using the View Material Requirements window.
You can also view material requirements across jobs and schedules
using this window.

" To find and view material requirements:

1. Navigate to the View Material Requirements window. The Find
Material Requirements window appears.

You can view requirements for jobs and schedules of a specific

status (Unreleased, Complete, Released, On Hold, Complete–No
Charges). You can view all requirements for a specific component
or all components required from a specific subinventory/locator.

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 You can also view components required on a specific date or within
a range of dates. Lastly you can view open or negative
requirements.
2. Enter any combination of search criteria and choose the Find
button. The results display in the View Material Requirements
window.

You can view the following information in View Material

Requirements window’s tabbed regions:
Main: Component, Operation Sequence, Department, Date
Required, Comments
Note: You can view Component Descriptions using the Material
Requirements window. See: Adding and Updating Material
Requirements: page 7 – 10
Quantities: Component, UOM, Per Assembly, Required, Issued,
Open, and On Hand

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 Repetitive Quantities: Component, UOM, Per Assembly, Required
Today, Issued Today, Ahead or Behind Quantities, Days
Supply: Component, (Supply) Type, Subinventory, Locator, and
MRP Net flag
Header: Component, Job, Line, Assembly, and Status
ATP: ATP Allowed flag and ATP Rule
You can also view, if entered, descriptive flexfield information. See:
Setting Up Descriptive Flexfields: page 14 – 4.

See Also

Searching for Information, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

Material Requirements Control: page 7 – 7

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Viewing Component Requirements
You can view job and repetitive schedule component requirements by
choosing the Components button from the Discrete Jobs, Simulate
Discrete Jobs, View Discrete Jobs, Close Discrete Jobs, Purge Discrete
Jobs, Repetitive Schedules, View Repetitive Schedules, and Purge
Repetitive Schedule windows. You can also view component
requirements for a specific job or repetitive schedule operation by
choosing the Operations then the Components button from any of these
windows. From the Discrete Jobs, Simulate Discrete Jobs, and View
Discrete Jobs windows, you can optionally view ATP component
information.

" To view component requirements for the current job, schedule or

operation:
H After choosing the Components button, the Material Requirements
window (in view only mode) appears. You can then view detailed
information about components in the window’s tabbed regions.
You can view material requirements across jobs and schedules
using the View Material Requirements window. See: Viewing
Material Requirements: page 7 – 14.

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• Main: Component, Operation Sequence, Department, Date
Required, Component Description.
• Quantities: Component, UOM, Per Assembly, Required, Issued,
Open, and On Hand.
• Repetitive Quantities: Component, Per Assembly, Required Today,
Issued Today, Ahead or Behind Quantity, Days.
• Supply: Component, (Supply) Type, Subinventory, Locator, and
MRP Net flag.
• Comment: Component, comment
• ATP: Component, ATP Allowed flag and ATP Rule
Note: This region is accessible only if you are viewing material
requirements using a window that allows ATP checking the
Material Requirements window, the Check ATP button is
enabled only if you have accessed this window from a window
that allows ATP checking.

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 " To view component ATP for jobs and repetitive schedules:
H If the Check ATP button is enabled in the Material Requirements
window, you can check the ATP status of components. See:
Viewing Component ATP Information: page 7 – 20.

☞ Attention: The Check ATP button is only enabled if you choose

the Components button from the Discrete Jobs, Simulate Discrete
Jobs, View Discrete Jobs, or View Repetitive Schedules window, or
if you choose the Operations button, then the Components button
from any of these windows.
You can only check the ATP status of the components that have
their ATP Allowed flag set. This flag is automatically set if the
Check ATP attribute for that item is set. See: Defining Items, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide and Order Management Attribute Group,
Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
You can view the ATP status of several component records at one
time by choosing multiple records. If you choose Select All from the
Edit menu, only those components that have their ATP Allowed
flag set are highlighted. If you specifically select components that
do not have this flag set, you are warned that the components that
you have selected are not Check ATP enabled. You must deselect
these components before proceeding. See: Selecting Multiple
Records, Oracle Applications User’s Guide.

See Also

Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63

Simulating and Saving Simulated Jobs: page 3 – 111
Closing Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 121
Viewing Discrete Job Information: page 3 – 95
Purging Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 128
Viewing Repetitive Schedule Information: page 6 – 25
Purging Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 42

Viewing Component ATP (Available to Promise) Information

As you define, simulate, and view discrete jobs and as you view
repetitive schedules, you can view their associated components by

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 choosing the Components button. See: Viewing Component
Requirements: page 7 – 18.
If the displayed components have their Check ATP attribute set, you
can optionally view their ATP status by choosing the Check ATP
button. See: Defining Items, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide and Order
Management Attribute Group, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
Note: You do not have to enter ATP Information and ATP
Criteria as you do when checking the ATP status of
components in Oracle Inventory. This information is
automatically derived.
However, you can only view the ATP status of a component if an ATP
Rule can be found and applied to that component. When searching for
an ATP Rule, the system first checks at the WIP parameter level, then at
the item attribute level, and finally at the organization parameter level.
If an ATP rule cannot be found, an error message is displayed when
you Choose the Check ATP button. See: ATP Parameter: page 2 – 29,
Organization Parameters Window, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide, and
Defining ATP, Pick, Item–Sourcing Parameters, Oracle Inventory User’s
Guide.

" To view the available–to–promise status of components:

1. After choosing the Check ATP button from the Material
Requirements window, the ATP Results window appears and
displays current ATP information as follows:
Required and Projected region: Displays the job Required Quantity
and Required Date, the Available Quantity (current on–hand
quantity that is available to promise on the required date), and the
Projected Transactable quantity (includes the current available
quantity, minus reservations, plus all future sources of supply and
less all future sources of demand up to the required date).
ATP and Early ATP region: Displays the ATP Date (the first date on
or after the required date that the required quantity is available),
ATP Quantity (the projected on–hand quantity of the item at the
ATP date), the Early ATP Date (the earliest date that the required
quantity of the item is projected to be available), and the Early ATP
Quantity (the quantity of the item available on the earliest ATP
date. If the earliest ATP date is the date corresponding to infinite
supply, the quantity is displayed as 10,000,000,000).

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 " To view the supply, demand, and ATP item quantities for the periods
that fall between the current date and the infinite supply time fence
date:
H Choose the Period ATP button. See: Viewing ATP by Period Detail,
Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.

" To view the supply source and demand source used to calculate the
ATP quantity for the item:
H Choose the Supply/Demand button. See: Viewing ATP
Supply/Demand Detail, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.

☞ Attention: This option is not available if you are viewing ATP

material availability for discrete jobs.

See Also

Entering ATP Criteria, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide

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Material Control Process Diagram
The following diagram illustrates the flow of materials in Work in
Process.

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Component Picking
Component picking, obtaining requirements for specific jobs and
schedules, is the process of moving items from source locations and
issuing them to work orders. In previous versions of Oracle Work in
Process, items were issued from locations specified for each component
on the bill of material. Now you can also use a rules based system to
determine a recommended source location for each component. The
features for component picking include:
• The Component Pick Release window is used to select
requirements and create move orders for discrete jobs, lot based
jobs, repetitive schedules, and flow schedules.
• Move orders are created for picked items. Move orders are
requests for the movement of material within an organization.
They enable the replenishment of material within a warehouse or
manufacturing shop floor.
• There is a distinct and individual window for the manufacturing
mode selected.
• The source for material picked is based on Oracle Inventory
allocation rules entered on the Picking Rules window. Or, if
Oracle Warehouse Management is installed, rules based picking
recommendations.
• Rules based picking uses the Warehouse Management Rules
engine. This employs user defined rules to recommend locations
to pick from, and specific items to pick.
• Pick methodologies, or grouping rules, control how pick tasks
are grouped to individual picking. All grouping rules, available
during picking for shipment against a sales order, are supported
for component picking. These grouping rules include order pick,
bulk pick, cluster pick, and user defined grouping rules.
• The destination for picked material depends on the supply type.
It can be a staging area, or directly to a job or schedule.
• You have the option to release picking tasks at the time of the
pick release. Or you can choose another time to release. See:
Component Pick Release Submit Requests Program: page 7 – 37

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Job and Schedule Values for Picking
Depending on the job or schedule type, specific values control which
records display on the Component Pick window, and how material
issues are transacted:
H Discrete Jobs
• Status must be Released or Complete – Charges Allowed
• Material is defined at the operation and autocharge is enabled
• Item status attribute in Oracle Inventory is Transactable
H Lot Based Jobs
• Status must be Released or Complete – Charges Allowed
• Components are picked based on the network routing
• Item status attribute in Oracle Inventory is Transactable
• Move order quantities are calculated as assemblies per operation
multiplied by components per assembly, or:
The sum of all the quantities in each intraoperation step
(Queue, Run, To Move, Reject and Scrap)
Multiplied by the component’s quantity per assembly
H Flow Schedules
• Material must be defined at a valid line operation
• Status must be Open
• Item status attribute in Oracle Inventory is Transactable
• Move orders are generated when all quantities for the flow
schedule components can be filled
• Components must be a supply type of Push
Note: In flow schedules, material and resources are specified
in the events associated with the line operation. If components
are not assigned to specific events, or events are not assigned to
line operations – the value in the Line Operation field is 1. This
indicates an unassigned line operation for that material
requirement.
H Repetitive Schedules
• Status must be Released or Complete – Charges Allowed
• Material is defined at the operation and autocharge is enabled
• Item status attribute in Oracle Inventory is Transactable

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 • The Days of Supply value is used to calculate the quantity of
components to pick.

Setup
❑ Indicate if operation pull and assembly pull supply type
components are included in picking.
Mark the Release Backflush Components check box on the WIP
Parameter window. This check box is located on the Backflush
Defaults tabbed region. See: Defining WIP Parameters: page 2 – 30

Material Destination
Material destination is automated with move orders in the component
picking process; it depends on the supply type:
H Operation Pull and Assembly Pull
Components are moved from the supply subinventory to a specific
staging area. The staging area location is defined on the Bills of
Material window, the Subinventory field (and applicable Locator)
in the Material Control tabbed region. See: Creating a Bill of
Material, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide. If not defined, the
default value on the Backflush Defaults tab of the WIP Parameters
window is used. See: Defining WIP Parameters: page 2 – 30
H Push
Push transactions are performed automatically by the system.
Components are moved directly to the job or schedule. Specifically,
the destination is defined as the department, job, and operation
combination. The source of the material is the subinventory (and
locator, if applicable) recommended by the sourcing rules. You can
override this recommendation and enter another location as the
source of the material.
H Push items with predefined staging subinventory
You can define a staging subinventory on the bill of material if you
do not want the push transaction automatically generated. If the
staging subinventory is defined on the bill of material, the
components are considered the same way as pull items – they are
moved to that staging area. However, another step must be
performed: you will have to manually move the parts to the job or
schedule.

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See Also

Defining Picking Rules, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide

The WMS Rules Engine, Oracle Warehouse Management User’s Guide
Overview of Move Orders Oracle Inventory User’s Guide
Setting Up Move Orders Oracle Inventory User’s Guide
Navigating on the Component Pick Release Window: page 7 – 28
Using the Component Pick Release Window: page 7 – 33
Using the Find Window for Component Picking: page 7 – 29

Navigating on the Component Pick Release Window

The Component Pick window is a graphical workbench that consists of
two panes:
❑ The left pane is a navigation tree hierarchy containing three nodes.
You can expand items on the navigation tree by left–clicking the
plus sign (+) with your mouse to select a node detail. The
associated subfields display below the node.
The first node displays Discrete Jobs, Repetitive Schedules, Flow
Schedules, or Lot Based Jobs–depending on the application you are
using.
❑ The right pane displays field information associated with the
applicable records meeting your search criteria.
The initial view, or if you select the top job or schedule node, is a
summary window. This displays rows with fields associated with
the jobs or schedules meeting your search criteria.
You can display a detail window by selecting a record on the
hierarchy tree.

See Also

Using the Find Window for Component Picking: page 7 – 29

Using the Component Pick Release Window: page 7 – 33

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Using the Find Window for Component Picking

" To query jobs or schedules for component picking:

1. Navigate to the Component Pick Release window.
The Find window displays fields pertaining to the specific job or
schedule type. Select query criteria. You can combine or omit
criteria as required.
H Discrete Jobs: You can query by Job name, Operation, Assembly, or
Sales Order number. If you are using Oracle Projects or Project
Manufacturing, you can search by Project Number and Task
Number. See: Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63,
For discrete jobs only, you have the option to pick by a specific
operation sequence in a single job – or across multiple jobs. All
components up to the operation sequence selected are displayed on
the Component Pick Release window. This feature is valuable in
manufacturing environments where pick releases based on the
timing of operations is not feasible, because operation start times
are unpredictable.
The Material Requirement Cutoff Date field is used to search
requirements based on the Date Requirement value. This value is
entered on the Material Requirements window.
Caution: The material requirements cutoff date limits the date
components are picked. For example, if you set this date for
July 1, and you have requirements for June 1 and August 1 –
the system will not consider the August 1 requirements. Set
this date to consider material requirements and lead times.

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 H Lot Based Jobs: You can query by Job name, Assembly, Schedule
Group, and production Line. See: Creating a Lot Based Job, Oracle
Shop Floor Management User’s Guide
The Material Requirement Cutoff Date field is used to search for
component records. The Date Requirement value entered on the
Material Requirements window is used as the basis.
Caution: The material requirements cutoff date limits the date
components are picked. For example, if you set this date for
July 1, and you have requirements for June 1 and August 1 –
the system will not consider the August 1 requirements. Set
this date to consider material requirements and lead times.

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H Repetitive Schedules: You can query by Assembly, production Line,
and Material Requirement Cutoff Date. See: Creating Repetitive
Schedules: page 6 – 13
The Material Requirement Cutoff Date field is used to search for
component records. The Date Requirement value entered on the
Material Requirements window is used as the basis.
Caution: The material requirements cutoff date limits the date
components are picked. For example, if you set this date for
July 1, and you have requirements for June 1 and August 1 –
the system will not consider the August 1 requirements. Set
this date to consider material requirements and lead times.
The Days of Supply value is multiplied by the daily production rate
and component quantity per assembly to calculate the pick
quantity. If the open quantity is less than the value entered here, the
open quantity is used instead.

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 H Flow Schedules: You can query by flow Line, Schedule Group, Build
Sequence, or Sales Order. If you are using Oracle Projects or Project
Manufacturing, you can search by Project Number and Task
Number.. See: Line Scheduling Workbench Options Window, Oracle
Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning User’s
Guide

2. Choose Find to display the Component Pick Release window.

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See Also

Using the Component Pick Release Window: page 7 – 33

Using the Component Pick Release Window

When you navigate to the Component Pick Release window, a Find
window initially displays with the criteria for the job or schedule type
you select.

" To select and pick items for component picking:

1. Navigate to the Component Pick Release window.
2. Choose your search criteria on the Find window. See: Using the
Find Window for Component Picking: page 7 – 29
The Component Pick Release window displays in the summary
view. Fields display applicable to the job or schedule type you
choose.
See Also::
Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63
Creating a Lot Based Job, Oracle Shop Floor Management User’s Guide
Creating Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 13
Line Scheduling Workbench Options Window, Oracle Flow
Manufacturing User’s Guide

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 3. The Include in Release check box defaults as marked for all the
records. Uncheck records you do not want to release, or clear a
record from the Edit menu.
4. The Pick Slip Grouping Rule field displays the organizational
default selected on the Work in Process Parameters window. You
can select another value for this pick release.
The grouping rule is used to group tasks based on the pick method.
For example, if you select the Bulk Picking rule, all pick tasks for
the same component item– across multiple work orders and
operations – are picked. Rules are defined on the Pick Slip
Grouping Rules window in Oracle Inventory. See: Pick Slip
Grouping Rules, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide
5. The Print Pick Slips box is used to indicate if you want to print the
Move Order Pick Slip Report, in Oracle Inventory as part of this
component pick release. Check this box to enable printing, or
deselect the box to disable it.

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6. If you are using an Oracle Warehouse Management enabled
organization, the Plan Tasks box displays the default on the Work
in Process Parameters window. You can change this value.
This flag provides the option to plan tasks automatically or
manually at the time of pick release.
• If this check box is enabled, the system creates pick tasks in an
Unreleased status. This option is used if you want to create the
allocations, but postpone the dispatching. You can later choose
the time to release the task. See: Component Pick Release Submit
Requests Program: page 7 – 37
• If this check box is not checked, tasks are created in a Pending
status and are immediately eligible for dispatching.
7. To display a detail window of one of the records–expand the job or
schedule node in the navigation tree, and select a record.
Information for top level records displays on the summary
window. The detail window is the only way to view records below
the top level. The summary and detail windows display fields
specific to the manufacturing mode selected for component
picking, meeting your search criteria.

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 8. Choose Release to perform the pick release process.
All jobs or schedules displayed in the tree are released. Move
orders are generated for ecords where the Include in Release check
box is unchecked.
Records are cleared using the Edit menu.
All records on the tree are released regardless of whether you
choose Release from the summary or detail window. When the
transaction is complete, the pane is displayed as blank.
9. Choose Cancel to end this transaction. Records are not updated,
and the Find window displays again.

Backordered Requirements
When you choose Release, the system creates move orders for the open
component requirements. If the on–hand quantity does not meet
requirements, or is already allocated, move orders are not created and
an informational message displays. Backorders are created for these

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 components. Backorders are filled when items are received (from
purchase orders, completions, LPNs, and so forth).
• If the allocation was partial, you can view the backorder quantity
in the Component detail window.
• If you are using Rules Based Picking, and the warehouse is
enabled for cross docking, the WMS Rules engine checks for
backorders and creates move orders to put material directly into
the staging area. See: Explaining LPN and Cross Docking Put
Away, Oracle Warehouse Management User’s Guide
Note: Backorders are not generated for flow schedules. Move
orders are only generated when all quantities for the flow
schedule components can be filled.

Multiple Generation of Pick Release

If you generate the pick release program on the same records multiple
times, only open requirements are selected each subsequent time.
• Discrete jobs, Lot Based jobs, and Repetitive schedules: New
requirements are created only for items not moved to a job, or
backordered.
• Flow schedules: Since move orders are not generated for flow
schedules with component shortages, you can run the pick
release multiple times until the requirement is filled.

Cancelling Jobs and Schedules

When jobs and schedules are cancelled; all untransacted tasks and
move orders associated with those work orders are cancelled. An API,
WIP_PICKING_PVT.CANCEL_ALLOCATIONS, is used to select all
open move orders to update their allocated and backflushed quantities.
This procedure calls INV_MO_Cancel_PVT.Cancel_Move_Order_Line
to cancel the corresponding move order lines.

Component Pick Release Submit Requests Program

You can release picking tasks on the Component Pick Release window;
or they can be submitted for another time using concurrent or
scheduled processing.

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 " To submit requests for component picking:
1. Navigate to the Component Pick Release (SRS) window to display
the Parameters window.
There are three separate submit request programs, depending on
the job or schedule type you are picking:
• Discrete Job Component Pick Release (SRS)
• Repetitive Schedule Component Pick Release (SRS)
• Lot Based Job Component Pick Release (SRS)
Note: This functionality is not currently available for flow
schedule picking.
2. In the Days Forward field, enter the number of days in the future to
consider requirements for this pick release.
For example, if this value is 1, and your program is scheduled to
run daily–it will pick up requirements for jobs and schedules up to
one day forward. Any new material requirements added today are
picked up by the concurrent program when it is scheduled to run
next.

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3. Select a rule in the Pick Slip Grouping Rule field.
The grouping rule is used to group tasks based on the pick method.
Rules are defined on the Pick Slip Grouping Rules window in
Oracle Inventory. See: Pick Slip Grouping Rules, Oracle Inventory
User’s Guide
4. In the Print Pick Slips field, select a value of Yes or No to indicate if
you want to print the Move Order Pick Slip Report as part of this
component pick release.
5. If this is an Oracle Warehouse Management organization, in the
Plan Tasks field, select a value of Yes or No to indicate if you want
to release tasks at the time of the pick release.
Yes indicates that the concurrent program will plan tasks and pass
this data to the Inventory Pick Release API.
6. If this pick release is for repetitive schedules, enter a value in the
Days of Supply field.
The Days of Supply value is used to calculate the pick quantity.
This value is multiplied by the daily production rate, and

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 component quantity per assembly. If the open quantity is less than
the value entered here, the open quantity is used.
7. Choose OK to display the Submit Request window.
8. Choose Submit. See: Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications
User’s Guide.
Jobs that meet the criteria entered are released when your request
is run.

See Also

Overview of Concurrent Processing, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

Overview of Standard Request Submission, Oracle Applications User’s
Guide.
Using the Component Pick Release Window: page 7 – 33

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Component Issues and Returns
You can issue components from inventory to jobs and repetitive
schedules and return issued components from jobs and schedules to
inventory using the WIP Material Transactions window. There are two
issue and return options available from this window: All Material and
Specific Component.

Push and Pull Components

You can issue and return both push and pull components. You can
’push’ components from inventory to specific job and repetitive
schedule operations. A component’s supply type determines how it is
supplied to a job or schedule. See: Supply Types: page D – 2.

Negative Component Issues and Returns

You can issue components to satisfy negative job and schedule
requirements. When you issue negative requirement components, the
components are returned from the job or schedule to inventory.
You can reverse negative component issues with negative component
returns. When you return components that have negative
requirements, the components are issued from inventory to the job or
repetitive schedule. See: WIP Material Transaction Types: page 7 – 48.

Negative Inventory Balances

You can set the Allow Negative Balances Parameter in Oracle Inventory
so that the inventory balances of items can be driven negative. If this
parameter is set, a warning message is displayed to notify you that
balances are about to be driven negative. You can continue with the
transaction or stop it and fix the condition.

Requirement Quantities
You can issue partial requirement quantities. You can also over–issue
requirements. Material that is required, but not issued, is considered
an open requirement.

Transaction Criteria
You can use the ’All Material’ option to issue push components to
specific departments or operations associated with jobs or schedules
with routings. When you issue to a job, the assembly quantity specified
determines how many push components are issued. When you issue to
repetitive schedules, the component quantity is based on the specified
start date and the number of days supply. The start date and days are

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used to determine the number of days worth of requirements you want
to fulfill on the schedule.

Ad Hoc Requirements
You can issue and return components that do not appear as job or
schedule material requirements using the ’Specific Component’ option.
When you issue or return components using this option, the system
determines if the item is a material requirement for the job or schedule.
If the item is not a material requirement, is a backflush component, or
is not required at the operation sequence a warning message is
displayed, but you can continue with the transaction. Components
added in this manner are commonly referred to as ’ad hoc’
components.

Bulk, Supplier, and Phantom Components

You can issue Bulk, Supplier, and Phantom supply type items, which
do not normally appear as requirements in the WIP Material
Transactions window, using the ’Specific Component’ option.

Alternate Unit of Measure

You can issue and return component items in their primary or alternate
unit of measure. If you select an alternate unit of measure, the system
converts the transaction quantity using the conversion factor you
specified when you defined the unit of measure in Oracle Inventory.
You can change this quantity. If the material is under serial number
control, you can only change the transaction quantity to an integer
when expressed in the primary unit of measure. For example, you can
issue 0.5 dozen (DZ) if the primary unit of measure is each (EA).

Supply Subinventory and Locator

You can change default supply subinventories and locators by updating
component requirements using the Material Requirements window.
You can also change default supply subinventories and locators as you
issue components. See: Supply Subinventory and Locator Fields, Oracle
Bills of Material User’s Guide.

Serial Number Validations

You can issue and return component items that are under lot, serial
number, or both lot and serial number control. Available serial number
records are restricted for use when issuing a serialized item, returning
it to stock, and then to a different job. At the time of completion,
serialized components are available from stock if they have the

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 following values set in the Serial Numbers window in Oracle
Inventory:
• Component Issues and Negative Component Returns
State value: Resides in stores.
• Component Returns and Negative Component Issue
State value: Defined but not used.
This is restricted to serial numbers that were previously issued
or negative returns–for the same job or schedule that you are
performing the component return or negative component issue.
See: Serial Number Validations for Component Returns and Assembly
Completions: page 7 – 83

Revision Control
You can issue and return component items that are under revision
control. The system always defaults the component revision to the
current revision as of the transaction date. You can select a different
revision. See: Item and Routing Revisions, Oracle Bills of Material User’s
Guide.

See Also

Issuing and Returning Specific Components: page 7 – 49

Repetitive Component Issues and Returns: page 7 – 44

Backflush Supply Subinventories and Locators: page 7 – 76

Repetitive Component Issues and Returns

To issue components from inventory to repetitive schedules or to return
components from repetitive schedules to inventory, you must select a
repetitive assembly and line.

Repetitive Component Issues

When you issue to a repetitive schedule, the system determines which
components must be issued based on the start date and number of
schedule days entered.

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Positive Requirements
For positive requirements, WIP component issue transactions are
automatically allocated to specific repetitive schedules on a first in–first
out basis based on the schedule’s start date. If there is more than one
open schedule, issues are allocated to each schedule until there are no
more open schedules. If you over–issue, the entire over–issue quantity
is allocated to the last open schedule.
For positive requirements, WIP component return transactions are
allocated on a last in – first out basis, based on the schedule’s start date.

Negative Requirements
For negative requirements, WIP negative component issue transactions
are automatically allocated to specific schedules on a first in – first out
basis. WIP negative component issue transactions supply the
components to Oracle Inventory as a part of normal production. If
there is more than one open repetitive schedule, negative component
issues are allocated to each schedule until there are no open schedules
to allocate to. If you over–issue a negative component, the entire
over–issue quantity is allocated to the last open schedule.

Multiple Schedules
When you have more than one active schedule for an assembly on a
line, material transactions automatically allocate the correct amount of
material to each schedule. The system assumes that you work on older
schedules first and charges the earliest schedule first followed by the
next earliest schedule and so on.
For example, suppose a repetitive schedule has been released to
produce 100 assemblies ABC on 10–JAN and 200 assemblies ABC on
11–JAN. If you issue 200 assemblies’ worth of components on 11–JAN,
then 100 assemblies’ worth of components are charged to the first
schedule and the remaining 100 assemblies worth of components to the
second schedule.

Phantoms
Phantom assemblies can be used in repetitive schedules. At the time
the schedule is defined, the phantom’s requirements are exploded and
added to the schedule at the operation where the phantom was
assigned.

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Repetitive Component Returns
When you return components from a repetitive schedule, you must
enter a start date and number of schedule days to default the return
quantities.

Positive Requirements
For positive requirements, WIP component return transactions are
automatically allocated to specific repetitive schedules on a last in–first
out basis. If there is more than one open repetitive schedule, each
schedule is allocated until there are no more open repetitive schedules
to allocate to. If you over–return, the entire over–return quantity is
allocated to the first open repetitive schedule.

Negative Requirements
For negative requirements, WIP negative component return
transactions are automatically allocated to specific repetitive schedules
on a last in–first out basis. If there is more than one open repetitive
schedule, negative component returns are allocated to each schedule
until there are no more open repetitive schedules to allocate to. If you
over–return, the entire over–return quantity is allocated to the last open
repetitive schedule.

See Also

Issuing and Returning Specific Components: page 7 – 49

Issuing and Returning All Push Components: page 7 – 54
WIP Material Transaction Types: page 7 – 48
By–Product Recovery: page 7 – 8

Component Issue and Return Transaction Options

Component issue and return transactions can be launched by:
• Issuing and Returning Specific Components: page 7 – 49 and
Issuing and Returning All Push Components: page 7 – 54
• Backflushing Pull Components while Completing and Returning
Assemblies: page 7 – 91
• Backflushing Pull Components: page 8 – 44Backflushing Pull
Components while Performing Move Transactions: page 8 – 37

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 • Backflushing Pull Components while Entering Receipts. See:
Entering Receipt Header Information, Oracle Purchasing User’s
Guide
Issue, return, and backflush transactions can also be imported through
the Oracle Inventory: Open Transaction Interface, Oracle Manufacturing
APIs and Open Interfaces Manual

Viewing Material Transactions

You can search for all Work in Process–related material transactions
using a variety of criteria, such as all transactions that you entered
during a range of dates, on the View Material Transactions window.
See: Viewing Material Transactions, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide

" To view your material transactions:

H Navigate to the Work in Process menu, and select View Material
Transactions. The View Material Transactions window opens.

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WIP Material Transaction Types
When you enter material transactions in the WIP Material Transactions
window you must select one of the following transaction types:
WIP component Issues components from inventory to jobs and
issue schedules to fulfill positive material requirements.
If you issue components under lot, serial, or lot
and serial number control, you must identify which
lots and/or serial numbers to issue.
WIP negative Issues components from jobs and schedules to
component issue inventory to fulfill negative material requirements.
When you issue components that have negative
requirements, components are returned from the
job or schedule to inventory. If you return
components under lot, serial, or lot and serial
number control, you must identify the lots and/or
serial numbers to return. Negative material
requirements allow you to recover by–products
from your manufacturing processes.
WIP component Returns components from jobs and schedules to
return inventory. WIP component returns reverse WIP
component issues. If you return components
under lot, serial, or serial number control, you
must identify the lots and/or serial numbers to
return.
WIP negative Returns components to jobs and schedules from
component inventory to fulfill negative material requirements.
return WIP negative component returns reverse WIP
negative component issues.
When you return components that have negative
requirements, components are issued from
inventory to the job or repetitive schedule. If you
issue components that are under lot, serial, or lot
and serial number control, you must identify the
lots and/or serial numbers to issue. Negative
material requirements allow you to recover
by–products from your manufacturing processes.
Replenishment Replenishes the supply subinventories of
supply Operation Pull or Assembly Pull supply type
subinventory components. You can transfer components from a
’source’ subinventory/locator to the supply
subinventory/locator associated with the

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 component specified. If you replenish components
under lot, serial, or lot and serial number control,
you must identify the lots and/or serial numbers
that are used to replenish the supply
subinventory/locator.
This transaction is similar to a subinventory
transfer in Oracle Inventory.

See Also

Transaction Types, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide

Defining and Updating Transaction Types, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide
Issuing and Returning Specific Components: page 7 – 49
Issuing and Returning All Push Components: page 7 – 54
By–Product Recovery: page 7 – 8
Replenishing Supply Subinventories and Locators: page 7 – 68
Transferring Between Subinventories, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide

Issuing and Returning Specific Components

You can use the Specific Component option to issue and return
components of any supply type to and from jobs and schedules. If the
job or schedule has a routing, components can be issued and returned
to any operation.

Ad Hoc Material Requirements

You can use the Specific Component option to issue and return
components that are not required on the work in process bills of jobs
and schedules. These ad hoc material requirements are created with a
required quantity of 0.

Prerequisites
❑ Release a job or repetitive schedule. See: Releasing Discrete Jobs:
page 3 – 92 and Releasing Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 22.

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 " To select sales orders, discrete jobs, or repetitive schedules:
1. Navigate to the WIP Material Transactions window.

2. Select a Sales Order, repetitive Line and Assembly, Assembly, or

Job. The cursor defaults to one of these fields based on how the
TP:WIP:Material Transactions First Field profile option is set. See:
Profile Options: page 2 – 64.
You can only select a discrete job or a repetitive line and assembly
for a repetitive schedule if the job or schedule has a status of
Released or Complete.

" To define issue or return transaction header information:

1. In the Transaction region, select the transaction Type: WIP
component issue, WIP component return, WIP negative component issue,
or WIP negative component return. See: WIP Material Transaction
Types: page 7 – 48.
2. Enter the transaction Date and time.
The date and time must fall within an open accounting period and
cannot be greater than the current date or less than the release date
of the job or the earliest valid repetitive schedule.

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3. Optionally, select a default supply Subinventory and, if required by
the supply subinventory, the supply Locator. See: Supply
Subinventory and Locator Fields, Oracle Bills of Material User’s
Guide.
If a supply subinventory/locator is entered here, it is used in the
transaction detail window as the default for those components that
do not have a supply subinventory/locator defined at the
component or item level.
If the Oracle Inventory INV:Allow Expense to Asset Transfer profile
option is set to Yes, you can select an expense subinventory. See:
Inventory Profile Options, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
4. Choose the Include Specific Component option.

☞ Attention: You cannot enter transaction criteria when issuing or

returning specific components.
5. Choose the Continue button.
Depending on the transaction type selected, the transaction detail
folder window (WIP component issue, WIP component return, WIP
negative component issue, or WIP negative component return) appears.
See: Customizing the Presentation of Data in a Folder, Oracle
Applications User’s Guide.

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 " To transact or add and transact ‘ad hoc’ component requirements:
1. In transaction detail folder window (WIP component issue, WIP
component return, WIP negative component issue, or WIP negative
component return), select the component Item.
You can select Push, Assembly Pull, Operation Pull, Bulk, Supplier
and Phantom supply type items. You can select lot, serial, or lot
and serial controlled items. You can select components that are
required by a job or schedule even though they are not
automatically displayed.

2. If the component is under revision control, select the component’s

Revision. See: Item and Routing Revisions, Oracle Bills of Material
User’s Guide.
The item’s current revision is defaulted.

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 3. Select the supply Subinventory and, if required by the
subinventory, the supply Locator. See: Supply Subinventory and
Locator Fields, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
If the component does not have an assigned subinventory/locator,
the subinventory/locator entered in the WIP Material Transaction
window is defaulted. It can be overwritten.
If the Oracle Inventory INV:Allow Expense to Asset Transfer profile
option is set to Yes, you can select an expense subinventory. See:
Inventory Profile Options, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
4. If the job or schedule has a routing, select the Operation Sequence.
If no routing exists, the operation sequence defaults to 1.

☞ Attention: Do not assign Assembly Pull items to operations that

are non–count point/autocharge operations. This can result in
over–issues at the operation if you do not transact all assemblies
that you are completing through the operation.
5. Select the UOM. See: Overview of Units of Measure, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide.
6. Enter the transaction Quantity.
You can enter any nonzero quantity including a quantity that result
in an over–issue or over–return of a job or schedule’s components
requirements.
7. Optionally, select the transaction Reason code. See: Defining
Transaction Reasons, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
8. Optionally, enter the transaction Reference.
References can be used to identify transactions on standard reports.
They can be up to 240 characters of alpha numeric text.
9. If the component is under lot, serial, or lot and serial control,
choose the Lot/Serial button. See: Assigning Lot Numbers, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide and Assigning Serial Numbers, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide.
10. Choose the Done button to save your work.

See Also

Component Issues and Returns: page 7 – 42

Setting Up Material Control: page 7 – 6

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 By–Product Recovery: page 7 – 8

Issuing and Returning All Push Components: page 7 – 54

Adding and Updating Material Requirements: page 7 – 10

Issuing and Returning All Push Components

You can use the ’All Material’ option to issue and return Push supply
type components to discrete jobs and repetitive schedules. You can
only issue and return Push components that already exist on the work
in process bill or routing however.

Prerequisites
❑ Release a job or repetitive schedule. See: Releasing Discrete Jobs:
page 3 – 92 and Releasing Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 22.

" To select a sales order, discrete job, or repetitive schedule:

1. Navigate to the WIP Material Transactions window.
2. Select a Sales Order, repetitive Line and Assembly, Assembly, or
Job. The cursor defaults to one of these fields based on how the
TP:WIP:Material Transactions First Field profile option is set. See:
Profile Options: page 2 – 64.
You can only select a discrete job or a repetitive line and assembly
for a repetitive schedule if the job or schedule has a status of
Released or Complete.

" To define issue or return transaction header information for discrete

jobs:
1. In the Transaction region, select the transaction type: WIP
component issue, WIP component return, WIP negative component issue,
or WIP negative component return. See: WIP Material Transaction
Types: page 7 – 48.
2. Enter the transaction Date and time.
The date and time must fall within an open accounting period and
cannot be greater than the current date or less than the release date
of the job.

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3. Select the supply Subinventory and, if required by the
subinventory, the supply Locator. See: Supply Subinventory and
Locator Fields, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
The supply subinventory/locator is optional. If it is entered here, it
is used as the default in the transaction detail window for those
components that do not have a supply subinventory/locator
defined at the component or item level.
If the Oracle Inventory INV:Allow Expense to Asset Transfer profile
option is set to Yes, you can select an expense subinventory.
4. Choose the Include All Material option.

5. In the Criteria region, optionally enter any criteria or combination

of criteria that is valid for the job: Assembly Quantity, Operation
Sequence, or Department.
Assembly Quantity: If you enter an assembly quantity, it must be
less than or equal to the job quantity. If the job has a routing and
you do not enter an assembly quantity, required component
quantities — original required quantity minus component
quantities already issued — for all push components are calculated
and displayed as defaults in the transaction detail folder window.
You can change these defaulted quantities.

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 Operation Sequence: If the job has a routing, you can issue push
components to or return push components from a specific
operation.
If the job does not have a routing and you do not enter an assembly
quantity, required component quantities are not automatically
displayed in the transaction detail folder window.
Department: If the job has a routing, you can issue push components
to or return push components from a specific department.
Supply Subinventory: If you select a supply Subinventory, only
those components that have the same default supply Subinventory
are displayed in the transaction detail folder window. This is
convenient when assembly components have different
subinventories and these subinventories are controlled by different
users.

☞ Attention: You can optionally use the ’All Material’ option to add
push components to the work in process bill. However, you can
only add requirements that already exist on that bill. Conversely,
you can return only components that already exist on the work in
process bill when you return components.
6. Choose the Continue button.
Depending on the transaction type selected, the transaction detail
folder window (WIP component issue, WIP component return, WIP
negative component issue, or WIP negative component return) appears.

" To define issue or return header information for repetitive schedules:

1. After selecting a repetitive schedule, repeat steps 1 through 3
above.
2. Choose the Include All Material option.

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3. In the Criteria region, enter the Start Date and time and the number
of Days.
Push component requirements are issued or returned to repetitive
schedules based on the schedule Start Date and number of Days.
The component quantities required to support the number of days
entered are calculated and displayed as defaults in the transaction
details folder window. You can change these defaulted quantities.
When you issue push components to repetitive schedules, all
component requirements for the number of days and from the start
date you specify — regardless of what you have already issued —
are issued.
4. If the schedule has a routing, optionally select the Operation
Sequence number, the Department, or both.
Operation Sequence: You can issue push components to or return
push components from a specific repetitive schedule operation.
Department: You can issue push components to or return push
components from a specific department of a repetitive schedule
operation.
Supply Subinventory: If you select a supply Subinventory, only
those components that have the same default supply Subinventory
are displayed in the transaction detail folder window. This is

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 convenient when assembly components have different
subinventories and these subinventories are controlled by different
users.
5. Choose the Continue button.
Depending on the transaction type selected, the transaction detail
window (WIP component issue, WIP component return, WIP negative
component issue, or WIP negative component return) appears.

" To issue or return push components:

1. From the transaction detail folder window (WIP component issue,
WIP component return, WIP negative component issue, or WIP negative
component return), select the component Item.

2. If the item is under revision control, select the item Revision. See:
Item and Routing Revisions, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
The item’s current revision is defaulted.

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 3. Select the supply Subinventory and, if required by the
subinventory, the supply Locator. See: Supply Subinventory and
Locator Fields, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
If the Oracle Inventory INV:Allow Expense to Asset Transfer profile
option is set to Yes, you can select an expense subinventory. See:
Inventory Profile Options, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
4. Select the UOM. See: Overview of Units of Measure, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide.
The available to transact quantity and the current on–hand
quantity for the component are displayed in this unit of measure.
5. Enter the transaction Quantity.
You can change the default quantity (original required quantity
minus component quantities already issued). You can enter any
nonzero quantity including a quantity that results in an over–issue
or over–return of the job or schedule’s components requirements.
You can issue partial quantities or over–issue quantities.
For repetitive schedules, if you over–issue or over–return
components with positive or negative requirements, quantities are
appropriately allocated to the first or last open repetitive schedule.
See: Repetitive Component Issues and Returns: page 7 – 44
6. Optionally, select the transaction Reason code. See: Defining
Transaction Reasons, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
7. Optionally, enter the transaction Reference.
References can be used to identify transactions on standard reports.
They can be up to 240 characters of alpha numeric text.
8. If the component is under lot, serial, or lot and serial control,
choose the Lot/Serial button. See: Assigning Lot Numbers, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide and Assigning Serial Numbers, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide.
9. Choose the Done button to save your work.

" To display details for components being added or issued:

1. From the transaction detail folder window (WIP component issue,
WIP component return, WIP negative component issue, or WIP negative
component return), select or add the component Item
2. If you are adding a component, enter the transaction quantity. (See
Above).
You cannot view component item details until you enter a quantity.

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 3. Choose Component Item Details from the Tools menu. See: Tools
menu: page F – 2.
The Component Item Details window appears displaying complete
information about the component in a single record format.

See Also

Component Issues and Returns: page 7 – 42

Setting Up Material Control: page 7 – 6

By–Product Recovery: page 7 – 8

Issuing and Returning Specific Components: page 7 – 49

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Phantom Assemblies
Phantom assemblies are non–stocked items that group material needed
to produce an assembly or a subassembly. You can specify how
phantom components and routing resources and overheads are
charged, as well as whether phantom subassemblies will have their
own operation sequence numbers or inherit the operation sequence
numbers of their parent assemblies.
In Work in Process, phantom parent and high level assemblies conform
to the standard APICS defined behavior, however, phantom
subassemblies do not have individual identities and become a
collection of their components. Work in Process does not recognize the
phantom subassembly itself, and only sees and lists the individual
phantom components on the bills of material for Discrete jobs and
Repetitive schedules (although the phantom subassembly is recognized
and planned for in Master Planning and Scheduling (MRP).
Phantom subassembly component costs are included in the higher level
phantom assembly cost, and the components automatically inherit the
operation sequence number of the parent assembly. Resource costs and
overhead for these components, however, are not considered in the
parent or higher level assembly cost. You have the option to specify
that phantom subassemblies and their resources are visible in Work in
Process and are charged by Oracle Cost Management. You also can
specify that phantom subassemblies maintain their own operation
sequence numbers and that their resource and overhead costs are
charged to the parent or higher level assembly by setting up two
parameters in Oracle Bills of Material.

Bills of Material Parameters for Phantoms

If you want Work in Process to maintain the individual operation
sequence numbers for phantom subassemblies, and to charge their
resource and overhead costs to the parent or higher level assembly, you
set the following two parameters in Oracle Bills of Material:

BOM:Use Phantom Routings

Set this parameter to specify whether or not phantom routing resources
and overhead costs (including those for outside processing resources
assigned to phantom routing operations) are charged to the parent or
higher level assembly. Setting this parameter also implies department
inheritance for resources; thus, phantom resources can be used by
departments that they are not owned by or assigned to as a borrowed
resource. You set the parameter at the inventory organization level and

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 it then applies to all phantoms within a single inventory organization.
These are its two values:
• Yes: If you select this value, phantom routing components and
resources and overheads are included in the cost of the higher
level assembly. Routing resource costs are also included in
capacity planning.
• No: This is the default. This value specifies that only components
are included in the higher assembly’s cost, not resources and
overheads.

BOM:Inherit Phantom Op Seq

Set this parameter to specify whether phantom subassembly
components inherit the operation sequence number of their parent or
higher level assembly, or maintain their own operation sequence
number. This parameter is set at the inventory organization level, and
applies to all phantoms within a single inventory organization. The
parameter has these two values:
• Yes: This is the default. This value specifies that phantom
subassembly components inherit the operation sequence number
of their parent or higher level assemblies.
• No: If you select this value, phantom subassembly components
maintain their own operation sequence numbers.
There are two exceptions when you select a value of No:
– If the phantom component exists on an operation sequence
that does not exist on the parent routing–then the
components are added to the first operation sequence of the
parent routing.
– Also, if the phantom component exists on operation
sequence 1 of the parent routing, the component is still
added to the phantom operation sequence.

Routing and Routing Revision Numbers

Phantom subassembly routings for Discrete jobs and Repetitive
schedules use the primary routing, and Flow schedules use the first
priority routing. Phantoms with routing revisions use the routing
revision number and date assigned when the job or schedule is defined.
If these values are Null, the routing revision dates are defaulted to the
job start date or the first unit start date.

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Assemble To Order (ATO) Phantoms
Component, resource, and overhead costs for Assemble To Order items
defined as model or option types are defined on the item’s configured
bill of material as phantoms. They differ from typical phantoms in that
their component and routing costs are not charged to the parent or
higher level assembly, and they are not affected by the setting of either
of these two Bills of Material parameters.

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Supply Subinventory and Locator Replenishment
You can replenish supply subinventories and locators to replace
components that you have issued to jobs or repetitive schedules and to
insure a source of material for backflush transactions. You can
replenish components for an entire job or repetitive schedule, or for a
specified number of days of repetitive production. Specifically you can
do the following:
• Replenish supply subinventories and locators by transferring
components from any subinventory and locator into the supply
subinventory and locator for the job or repetitive schedule. See:
Replenishing Supply Subinventories and Locators: page 7 – 68.
This method works well if you stage the pull components one job
or repetitive assembly at a time. For example, if you wanted to
replenish the supply subinventory and locator for all the
operation pull material requirements on a job, you would:
– Generate the Discrete Job Pick List report for pull
components. This report identifies material requirements,
subinventories and locators with available inventory, and
supply subinventories and locators where you backflush
from. You would then pick the components using the pick
list and transfer them into the appropriate supply
subinventories and locators. Repetitive replenishment
works the same way except you would replenish for an
assembly for a number of days instead of for a job.
– You can also use the Component Pick Release window to
select material using rules based picking. See: Using the
Component Pick Release Window: page 7 – 33
• Replenish supply subinventories and locators for higher level
assemblies by completing lower level assemblies into the next
level’s supply subinventory and locator. See: Replenishing
Higher Level Supply: page 7 – 72.
This method works well if your plant is set up with feeder lines
that physically flow to consuming lines. For example, assume
you build a subassembly on a feeder line that ends at the
consumption point of the subassembly into the higher level
assembly. You can set the completion subinventory and locator
on the subassembly to be the supply subinventory and locator of
the subassembly on the next level bill of material. Then, as you
complete the subassembly into its completion subinventory and
locator using the Completion Transactions window, Move
Transactions window, or the Inventory Transaction Interface, you

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 automatically replenish the supply subinventory and locator on
the next level bill of material.
• Transfer components from any subinventory and locator into the
supply subinventory and locator in Oracle Inventory using
subinventory transfers to replenish supply subinventories and
locators. See: Transferring Between Subinventories, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide.
This method works well when you are replenishing for more
than one job or one assembly on a line. For example, you can
run a Repetitive Pick List report for all assemblies on a line to
identify all the operation and assembly pull requirements for all
repetitive schedules on the line regardless of their parent
assembly. You can then use this consolidated pick list to pick the
components. Then you can transact the transfer of the
components into the supply subinventories and locators. You can
also use the Component Pick Release window to select material
using rules based picking. See: Using the Component Pick
Release Window: page 7 – 33
• Requisition material automatically to replenish supply
subinventories in Oracle Inventory using internal requisitions.
See: Sources of Replenishment, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide and
Overview of Inventory Planning and Replenishment, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide.
This method works well when you have consistent material
flows within your plant and can estimate reasonable floor stock
inventory levels. For example, you can set a minimum quantity
for a component item in a supply subinventory. As you reduce
the balance in the supply subinventory due to push issues or
backflushes, Oracle Inventory automatically generates a
requisition when the balance for the component reaches the
minimum quantity. Then when you fulfill the internal
requisition, you replenish the supply subinventory.
• Receive components directly from your supplier into supply
subinventories and locators in Oracle Purchasing. See: Receipts,
Oracle Purchasing User’s Guide.
This method works well if you have a smooth flow of raw
materials from your suppliers and have space on the shop floor
to inventory components you receive. For example, if you
purchase a component that is consumed out of a supply
subinventory, you could receive that component directly into
that supply subinventory and locator using the Enter Receipts
window in Oracle Purchasing. This method avoids a subsequent

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 subinventory transfer of the component thereby saving both time
and a transaction.
Suggestion: You can simplify repetitive line replenishment by
ensuring that the supply subinventory and locator for each
item is consistent across the assemblies and across the alternate
bills for an assembly. By sharing supply subinventories and
locators, you can replenish the line with fewer transactions.

See Also

Supply Subinventory and Locator Replenishment Options: page 7 – 67

Supply Subinventory and Locator Replenishment Options

Replenishment transactions can be launched by:
• Replenishing Supply Subinventories and Locators: page 7 – 68
• Replenishing Higher Level Supply: page 7 – 72
• Transferring Between Subinventories, Oracle Inventory User’s
Guide
• Internal Requisitions in Oracle Inventory. See: Sources of
Replenishment, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide and Overview of
Inventory Planning and Replenishment, Oracle Inventory User’s
Guide
• Receiving Transactions in Oracle Purchasing. See: Receipts,
Oracle Purchasing User’s Guide

See Also

Supply Subinventory and Locator Replenishment: page 7 – 65

Material Control 7 – 67
Replenishing Supply Subinventories and Locators
You can replenish the supply subinventories and locators for push and
pull components that are assigned to your jobs and repetitive schedule.
You can replenish from any subinventory and locator.

Prerequisites
❑ Release a job or repetitive schedule. See: Releasing Discrete Jobs:
page 3 – 92 and Releasing Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 22.

" To select a sales order, discrete job, or repetitive schedule to

replenish:
1. Navigate to the WIP Material Transactions window.
2. Select a Sales Order, repetitive Line and Assembly, Assembly, or
Job. The cursor defaults to one of these fields based on how the
TP:WIP:Material Transactions First Field profile option is set. See:
Profile Options: page 2 – 64.
You can only select a discrete job or a repetitive line and assembly
for a repetitive schedule if the job or schedule has a status of
Released or Complete.

" To define replenishment transaction header information:

1. In the Transaction region, select Backflush Transfer as the
transaction Type.
2. Enter a transaction Date and time.
The date and time must fall within an open accounting period and
cannot be greater than the current date or less than the release date
of the job or the earliest valid repetitive schedule.
3. Select the Subinventory and, if required by the subinventory, the
Locator.
This subinventory/locator becomes the default replenish from
subinventory/locator in the Backflush Transfer window.
If the Oracle Inventory INV:Allow Expense to Asset Transfer profile
option is set to Yes, you can select an expense subinventory. See:
Inventory Profile Options, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.

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4. In the Criteria region, optionally enter any criteria or combination
of criteria that is valid for the job: Assembly Quantity, Operation
Sequence, or Department.
Assembly Quantity: If you enter an assembly quantity, it must be
less than or equal to the job quantity. If the job has a routing and
you do not enter an assembly quantity, required component
quantities — original required quantity minus component
quantities already issued — for all push components are calculated
and displayed as defaults in the transaction detail folder window.
You can change these defaulted quantities.
Operation Sequence: If the job has a routing, you can issue push
components to or return push components from a specific
operation.
If the job does not have a routing and you do not enter an assembly
quantity, required component quantities are not automatically
displayed in the transaction detail folder window.
Department: If the job has a routing, you can issue push components
to or return push components from a specific department.
Supply Subinventory: If you select a supply Subinventory, only
those components that have the same default supply Subinventory
are displayed in the transaction detail folder window. This is

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 convenient when assembly components have different
subinventories and these subinventories are controlled by different
users.
5. Choose Continue. The Backflush Transfer window displays. See:
Customizing the Presentation of Data in a Folder, Oracle
Applications User’s Guide.

" To replenish component supply subinventories and locators:

1. Select the component item.
Assembly pull and operation pull components requirements that
cannot be fulfilled from their default supply
subinventories/locators are automatically displayed.
Note: To determine where on–hand inventories exist see: Viewing
On–hand Quantities, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
2. If the component is under revision control, select the Revision. See:
Item and Routing Revisions, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.

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 The current revision for the item is displayed as the default.
3. Select the Subinventory and, if required by the subinventory, the
Locator from which to transfer replenishment quantities.
The supply subinventory/locator selected in the WIP Material
Transactions window is defaulted but can be overridden.
If the Oracle Inventory INV:Allow Expense to Asset Transfer profile
option is set to Yes, you can select an expense subinventory. See:
Inventory Profile Options, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
4. Select the replenish To Subinventory and, if required by the
subinventory, the To Locator.
If defined, the component’s default supply subinventory/locator is
defaulted but can be overridden. See: Supply Subinventory and
Locator Fields, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
If the Oracle Inventory INV:Allow Expense to Asset Transfer profile
option is set to Yes, you can select an expense subinventory.
5. Select the UOM. See: Overview of Units of Measure, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide.
6. Enter the replenishment Quantity.
The component’s open requirement quantity is displayed. You can
enter a quantity greater or less than this quantity.
7. Optionally, select the transaction Reason code. See: Defining
Transaction Reasons, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
8. Optionally, enter the transaction Reference.
References can be used to identify transactions on standard reports.
They can be up to 240 characters of alpha numeric text.
9. If the component that is being transferred is under lot, serial, or lot
and serial control, choose the Lot/Serial button. See: Assigning Lot
Numbers, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide and Assigning Serial
Numbers, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
10. Choose the Done button to save your work.

See Also

Supply Subinventory and Locator Replenishment Options: page 7 – 67

Replenishing Higher Level Supply: page 7 – 72
Setting Up Material Control: page 7 – 6

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Replenishing Higher Level Supply
You can complete lower level assemblies into the supply subinventory
and locator of higher level assemblies to replenish the higher level
supply subinventory and locator. This method works well if your plant
is set up with feeder lines that physically flow to consuming lines.

Prerequisites
❑ Release a job or repetitive schedule. See: Releasing Discrete Jobs:
page 3 – 92 and Releasing Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 22.
❑ Move the quantity to be completed for replenishment into the To
move intraoperation step of the last operation if you are completing
a job or schedule with a routing. This step cannot have a status
that prevents moves. See: Performing Move Transactions: page
8 – 37.

" To enter higher level supply:

1. Navigate to the Completion Transactions window.
2. Select a Sales Order, repetitive Line and Assembly, Assembly, or
Job. The cursor defaults to one of these fields based on how the
TP:WIP:Completion Transactions First Field profile option is set. See:
Profile Options: page 2 – 64.
You can only select a discrete job or a repetitive line and assembly
for a repetitive schedule if the job or schedule has a status of
Released or Complete.
3. Select the WIP assembly completion Transaction Type. See:
Completion Transaction Types: page 7 – 90.
4. Enter a transaction Date and time.
The date and time must fall within an open accounting period and
cannot be greater than the current date or less than the release date
of the job or the earliest valid repetitive schedule.
5. Choose the Transact button. The WIP assembly completion
transaction detail window appears.
6. In the WIP assembly completion transaction detail window, select the
replenish to Subinventory and, if required by the subinventory, the
Locator. See: Completion Subinventory and Locator Fields, Oracle
Bills of Material User’s Guide.

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 The completion subinventory must be the supply subinventory for
the assembly on the next level bill of material. See: Supply
Subinventory and Locator Fields, Oracle Bills of Material User’s
Guide.
If the Oracle Inventory INV:Allow Expense to Asset Transfer profile
option is set to Yes, you can select an expense subinventory. See:
Inventory Profile Options, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
7. Select the UOM. See: Overview of Units of Measure, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide.
8. Enter the completion Quantity.
The quantity should be in the UOM you are transacting. You can
receive partial quantities to different subinventories or locators.
9. Optionally, select the transaction Reason code. See: Defining
Transaction Reasons, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
10. Optionally, enter the transaction Reference.
References can be used to identify transactions on standard reports.
They can be up to 240 characters of alpha numeric text.
11. If the assembly is under lot, serial, or lot and serial control, choose
the Lot/Serial button. See: Assigning Lot Numbers, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide and Assigning Serial Numbers, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide.
12. Choose the Done button to save your work.

See Also

Replenishing Supply Subinventories and Locators: page 7 – 68

Supply Subinventory and Locator Replenishment: page 7 – 65

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Backflush Transactions
Backflush transactions ’pull’ components with Operation Pull and
Assembly Pull supply types from inventory onto jobs and repetitive
schedules. Backflush transactions can be launched by:
• completing assemblies at operations using the Move
Transactions window
• moving and completing assemblies into inventory using the
Move Transactions window
• completing assemblies into inventory using the Completion
Transactions window
• receiving assemblies from an outside processing operation using
the Oracle Purchasing, Enter Receipts window
Move transactions imported through the Open Move Transaction
Interface can also create backflush transactions. Transactions imported
through the Oracle Inventory, Inventory Transactions Interface can also
create backflush transactions.
Additional Information: Backflushing reduces the number of
manual material transactions required to process the discrete
jobs and repetitive schedules.

Reverse Backflush Transactions

You can reverse backflush transactions and automatically return
backflushed components back to inventory. For example, pull
components that are backflushed as you move assemblies to the next
intraoperation step in a routing are automatically returned to inventory
if you move assemblies to a previous step in the routing. Reverse
backflush transactions can be created as you do the following:
• reverse operation completion transactions using the Move
Transactions window
• return completed assemblies from inventory to jobs and
schedules using the Completion Transactions
• move and return assemblies from inventory to jobs and
schedules using the Move Transactions window
• return or correct transaction receipts in the Enter Returns or
Enter Corrections windows in Oracle Purchasing.
Move transactions imported through the Oracle Work in Process Open
Move Transaction Interface can also reverse backflush transactions as

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 can return transactions imported through the Inventory Transaction
Interface.
Note: You can, if necessary, issue and return pull components to
and from jobs and schedules to inventory using the ’Specific
Component’ option in WIP Material Transactions window

Revision Control
For component items under revision control, the system always
defaults the revision based on the item’s current revision as of the date
of the transaction. See: Item and Routing Revisions, Oracle Bills of
Material User’s Guide.

Backflush Transaction Rules

The following rules are enforced when performing backflush
transactions:
• an enabled default supply subinventory and, if required by the
subinventory, locator must be defined for the component. See:
Backflush Supply Subinventories and Locators: page 7 – 76.
• routing references must be specified for non–standard discrete
jobs. See: Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63.
• the component item must be transactable. See: Status Attributes
and Item Status Control, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
• the subinventory you are backflushing from must be an asset
subinventory if the Oracle Inventory Allow Expense to Asset
Transfer profile option is set to No. See: Oracle Inventory Profile
Options, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
• backflush quantities that are calculated as decimal values, must
be at least five decimal places in order to create the backflush
transaction
• yield calculations are based on exact requirements, rather than
rounded values

See Also

Backflushing Pull Components: page 8 – 44

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Backflush Transaction Options
Backflush transactions can be launched from the following windows:
• Completion Transactions window. See: Assembly Pull Backflush
Transactions: page 7 – 79
• Move Transactions window. See: Operation Pull Backflush
Transactions: page 8 – 43
• Enter Receipts window in Oracle Purchasing. See: Entering
Receipt Header Information, Oracle Purchasing User’s Guide
Transactions which reverse backflush transactions can be launched
from the following windows:
• Completion Transactions window
• Move Transactions window
• Enter Corrections in Oracle Purchasing. See: Entering
Corrections, Oracle Purchasing User’s Guide
• Enter Returns in Oracle Purchasing. See: Entering Returns,
Oracle Purchasing User’s Guide
Assembly move completion and move return transactions imported
through the Open Move Transaction Interface can also create and
reverse backflush transactions. Similarly, assembly completion and
return transaction imported through the Inventory Transaction
Interface can create and reverse backflush transactions. See: Open
Move Transaction Interface: page 8 – 33.

Backflush Supply Subinventories and Locators

Supply subinventories and locators can be defined at the item or bill of
material component level. If they are not defined, the system uses the
supply subinventory and locator specified by the WIP Backflush Supply
Subinventory and Locator Parameters when components are backflushed.
See: Backflush Default Parameters: page 2 – 21.
To ensure adequate supply for backflush transactions, you can
replenish supply subinventories and locators as required. See: Supply
Subinventory and Locator Replenishment Options: page 7 – 67.

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Negative Inventory Balances during Backflushing
You can use the following two Oracle Inventory settings to determine
whether or not inventory balances can be negative:
• Allow Negative Balances parameter: you use this parameter to
specify whether or not negative inventory balances are allowed.
• Override Negative for Backflush profile option: you use this profile
option to override a No setting on the Allow Negative Balances
parameter during backflush transactions. This allows backflush
transactions to drive the inventory negative even though the
organization does not allow negative balances on any other types
of transactions.
The only exception is when the component that you are backflushing is
under lot, serial, or lot and serial number control. In this case, you will
not be able to complete the backflush transaction unless you select a
subinventory and locator that contains a sufficient quantity of valid lot
and/or serial numbered items. See: Lot and Serial Number
Backflushing: page 7 – 78, and See: Default Inventory Parameters,
Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.

See Also

Assembly Completions and Returns: page 7 – 80

Assembly Pull Backflush Transactions: page 7 – 79
Operation Pull Backflush Transactions: page 8 – 43
Completing and Returning Assemblies: page 7 – 91
Performing Move Completion Transactions: page 8 – 48
Backflush Transaction Options: page 7 – 76
Backflushing Pull Components: page 8 – 44
Supply Types: page D – 2
Resource Charge Types: page 9 – 7

Repetitive Production Line Backflushing

For repetitive manufacturing, all backflush assemblies are
automatically allocated to the correct repetitive schedule using a FIFO
algorithm. The algorithm is based on a first unit start date, and on the

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 assemblies moved or completed in the transaction that initiated the
backflush.

Lot and Serial Number Backflushing

Assembly and Operation Pull components that are under lot, serial, or
lot and serial number control can be backflushed. You can also
backflush Push components that are requirements of work order–less
schedules.

Lot Controlled Components

You can use WIP parameters to determine how lot numbers are
assigned and verified during backflush transactions. You can use the
WIP Lot Selection Method parameter to determines how lot controlled
Assembly Pull and Component Pull component items are selected
during backflush transactions. You can use the WIP Lot Verification
parameter to determines how lots are verified during backflush
transactions.
If you backflush lot controlled components and the Lot Selection Method
parameter is set to Manual, you must specify a valid lot number. You
must also manually specify lot numbers if there is not enough on–hand
inventory.

☞ Attention: If the TP:WIP:Shop Floor Material Processing or the

TP:WIP:Completion Material Processing profile option is set to
process transactions in the background, transactions for
lot–controlled components that require manual entry of lot
numbers fail. See: Profile Options: page 2 – 64.

Serial Number Controlled Components

You must always manually enter serial numbers when backflushing
components under serial number control or under both lot and serial
number control.

See Also

Backflush Transactions: page 7 – 74

Backflush Default Parameters: page 2 – 21
Backflush Supply Subinventories and Locators: page 7 – 76

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Assembly Pull Backflush Transactions
When you complete an assembly that has Assembly Pull components,
these components are automatically pulled (backflushed) from their
assigned supply subinventories/locators.
If the components being backflushed are under manual lot control,
serial control, or lot and serial control, you must enter lot and/or serial
numbers. If the job is tied to one or more sales orders, the system
automatically completes the assembly for those orders.

See Also

Operation Pull Backflush Transactions: page 8 – 43

Move Completion/Return Transactions: page 8 – 31
Backflush Transactions: page 7 – 74
Note: Purchasing transactions initiate backflushes only if they are
tied to outside processing resources with an autocharge type of PO
Move and only if requirements with a supply type of Operation
Pull exist at the outside processing operation.

See Also

Backflush Transactions: page 7 – 74

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Assembly Completions and Returns
You can complete assemblies from Discrete jobs and Repetitive
schedules into inventory, and you can return completed assemblies
from inventory to jobs and repetitive schedules. You also can complete
a greater quantity than the job or schedule start quantity
(over–complete) into inventory, as long as it is within the tolerance
level set. Further, on Repetitive schedules and non–standard Discrete
jobs, you also can return more assemblies than were completed.
Assemblies can be completed and returned using the Completion
Transactions and the Move Transactions windows. You can also import
assembly completion and return transactions through the Inventory
Transaction Interface in Oracle Inventory.

Completion Quantities
Completing assemblies from a job or schedule with a routing reduces
the assembly quantity in the To move intraoperation step of the last
operation sequence and increases the job or schedule completed
quantity.

Return Quantities
Returning assemblies to a job or schedule with a routing, increases the
assembly quantity in the To move intraoperation step of the last
operation sequence and decreases the job or schedule complete
quantity.

Alternate Units of Measure

You can complete and return assemblies in their alternate unit of
measure. If you enter an alternate unit of measure for the item, the
transaction quantity is converted using the conversion information you
specified when you defined the unit of measure in Oracle Inventory.
You can change this quantity if desired.

Lot and Serial Number Control

You must assign a lot or serial number if the assembly is under lot,
serial number, or lot and serial number control. For discrete jobs, the
lot number you specified when you defined the job as the default
displays.
If you are completing assemblies that have lot controlled Assembly Pull
components and the WIP Backflush Lot Selection parameter is set to
Manual, you must manually select which lots to backflush. If you are
completing assemblies that have serial controlled or lot and serial

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controlled components, you must manually select which lots and/or
serial numbers to backflush.

Revision Control
When you complete assemblies under revision control, the revision
defaults based on the assembly revision of the job or repetitive
schedule. For assemblies under revision control, the bill revision is
completed from the job or the earliest released repetitive schedule. If
there is no bill revision on the job or repetitive schedule, but the
assembly is under revision control, the assemblies’ current revision is
completed as defined in Oracle Inventory.

Completion Subinventory and Locator

When you complete assemblies, the completion subinventory defaults
from the job or repetitive line/assembly association. For
subassemblies, the completion subinventory can be the supply
subinventory for higher level assemblies, for final assemblies or
finished goods the completion subinventory can be finished goods
inventory. You can change the default completion subinventory as you
complete assemblies.
If you have set your organization, subinventory, or item controls to
require locators, you must also enter locator as you complete
assemblies.

Final Assembly Orders Completion

Reservations are automatically transferred from the job to the
subinventory and locator as you complete assemblies from final
assembly orders. Reservations are automatically transferred based on
sales order line delivery due dates. You can override the automatic
transfer. When assemblies are returned to a final assembly order, you
must enter the sales order line and delivery information so that the
system knows which specific reservations to transfer back from
inventory.

Repetitive Production Lines

When you complete repetitive assemblies into inventory from a
repetitive production line, the completion transaction is automatically
allocated to a specific repetitive schedule on a first in–first out basis.
When you return assemblies from inventory to a repetitive schedule
line, the transaction is automatically allocated to specific repetitive
schedules on a last in–first out basis.

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 Kanban Replenishment
The supply status of a production kanban is updated to Full when the
first assembly from replenishment job or repetitive schedule is
completed.

Mobile Manufacturing
If Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications is installed, the Mobile
Manufacturing component enables you to perform work in process
material transactions using a mobile client device networked with a
computer system. This includes issuing material from inventory,
reversing component issues, filling negative requirements, lot and
serial number control, and viewing transaction information. See:
Mobile Manufacturing, Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications User’s
Guide

Completions into License Plate Numbers

If Oracle Warehouse Management is installed, you can use License
Plate Number functionality for tracking completions. License plate
numbers are unique identifiers for containers in the supply chain. You
can perform assembly completions and work order–less completions
into license plate numbers. Multi–level nesting enables containers to be
packed within another container.. The container’s genealogy provides
content and transaction history for each license plate.Explaining
License Plate Management, Oracle Warehouse Management User’s Guide
Note: LPN completions are supported only in standard cost
organizations.

Label Printing at Completion

Label printing capabilities are available at the time of completion in the
Completion Transactions and Work Order–less Completions windows.
This functionality enables you to create labels for shipping, order
management, manufacturing, and other types of information. Labels
are created by selecting a format type and setup in Oracle Inventory –
and using a third–party label printing system. If Oracle Warehouse
Management is installed, you can set up compliance labeling using bar
code specifications and symbol content. This creates customer specific
labels to comply with your customer’s requirements. See: Compliance
Labeling Setup, Oracle Warehouse Management User’s Guide
If collection plans exist for the line operation, you can enter quality
data within the Flow Workstation, and print labels for the quality plan
at the first operation or subsequent operations.

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 See: Compliance Labeling Setup, Oracle Warehouse Management User’s
Guide

Serial Number Validations for Component Returns and Assembly Completions

For a serialized item returned to stock, validations occur to prevent
re–issuing to a different assembly or schedule. At the time of
completion, serialized assemblies and components are available from
stock if they have the following values set in the Serial Numbers
window in Oracle Inventory:

Discrete Assembly Completions

State value: Defined but not used.
State value: Issued out of stores. This is restricted to serial numbers
that were previously returned to the same job that you are completing.

Flow Schedule Work Order–less Completions

State value: Defined but not used.
State value: Issued out of stores. This is restricted to serial numbers
that were previously returned to the same flow schedule that you are
completing.

Unscheduled Work Order–less Completions

State value: Defined but not used.
State value: Issued out of stores. This is restricted to serial numbers
that were previously transacted for an unscheduled work order–less
return.

Assembly Returns
This includes discrete jobs, flow schedule work order–less completions,
and unscheduled work order–less completions.
State value: Resides in stores.

Component Issues and Negative Component Returns

State value: Resides in stores.

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 Component Returns and Negative Component Issue
State value: Issued out of stores.
State value: Defined but not used.
This is restricted to serial numbers that were previously issued or
negative returns–for the same job or schedule that you are performing
the component return or negative component issue.

See Also

Serial Number Assignment, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide

Completing and Returning Assemblies: page 7 – 91.
Work Order–less Completions: page 5 – 11,
Move Completion/Return Rules: page 8 – 47

Assembly Over–Completions and Over–Moves

You can complete an assembly quantity into inventory that is greater
than the Discrete job or Repetitive schedule start quantity, whether or
not the assemblies have a routing. This is referred to as an
“over–completion,” and it is useful when your production process
yields more assemblies than planned. You also can move a quantity
that is greater than the quantity at an interoperation step, whether or
not the assemblies have a routing, and this is referred to as an
“over–move.”
You can over–complete and over–move assembly quantities on the
Completion Transactions and Move Transaction windows. You also can
over–complete assemblies using the Inventory Transaction Interface
and the Open Move Transaction Interface, however, you must explicitly
specify the over–completion transaction quantity, as it will not be derived
by Work in Process. The over–completion quantity is the transaction
quantity minus the available quantity.
To be able to over–complete assembly quantities on jobs or schedules,
you must:
• First, set up a tolerance level to restrict the number of assemblies
that can be over–completed.

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 • Then, enable the over–completion feature when completing
assemblies by checking the Overcompletion check box on the
Completion Transaction or Move Transaction windows.
All resources for over–completed assemblies are automatically charged
and any backflush components are backflushed.

Over–Completion Tolerance
If you will be over–completing assembly quantities in your
manufacturing process, you must set up a tolerance level for the
quantity of assemblies that can be over–completed on a job or schedule.
The tolerance level, which is either a number or a percent, is used to
validate the quantity being over–completed. If the quantity is greater
than the tolerance allows, the transaction will fail.
You can set up tolerances at these levels:
Organization Level
You can set up tolerances item by item, or you can set a parameter at
the organization level that sets the default over–completion tolerance
percent for all items. When you set the tolerance at the organization
level, you also are setting the default that will be used to validate
over–completion assembly quantities when no tolerance level has been
set at either the item or job and schedule levels.
If you do not set a tolerance level, the default over–completion
tolerance percent will be Null, which in effect is equal to zero percent
or no tolerance. If you then try to over–complete assemblies, you will
receive a message telling you that you cannot over–complete the
assemblies because there is no tolerance.
You set the Default Overcompletion Tolerance Percent parameter on the
Other tab of the WIP Parameters window. See: WIP Parameters: page
2 – 14
Item Level
You also can set up over–completion tolerances at the item level in
Oracle Inventory. The tolerance that you set up at the item level
overrides the tolerance that you set up at the organization level. To set
the over–completion tolerance at the item level, you define the
following two item attributes on the WIP tab of Inventory’s Item
Definition window. Their values are defaulted to the Discrete or
Repetitive item when it is defined:
• Overcompletion Tolerance Type: the values for this attribute are:
Percent or Amount. If you do not select an over–completion
Tolerance Type, the tolerance defaults to the tolerance that you

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 set at the organization level. (If you did not set a tolerance at the
organization level, the default is Null, which signifies that no
over–completions are allowed.)
• Overcompletion Tolerance Value: the value for this attribute is the
number value for the Overcompletion Tolerance Type that you
selected. It determines the acceptable percent or quantity of
assemblies that you will allow to be over–completed. For
example, if you choose Percent as the Overcompletion Tolerance
Type, and enter 100 as the Overcompletion Tolerance Value, you
allow over–completions up to 100 percent of the original job or
schedule quantity. If you did not select an Overcompletion
Tolerance Type, you will not be able to enter a value in this field.
If you set tolerances at the item level, the item attributes default into
the Overcompletion Tolerance Type and Overcompletion Tolerance
Value fields on the Discrete Jobs and Repetitive Line/Assembly
Associations windows, where you can manually modify them. Any
modification to the tolerance is validated when the assemblies are
completed to ensure that the value is not less than the already
over–completed quantity.
Job or Schedule Level
You can set the over–completion tolerance at the job or schedule level
when you define a Discrete job or Repetitive schedule. The tolerance
then only applies to that particular job or schedule, and overrides any
tolerance that you established at the organization or item levels. When
you set a tolerance limit for a Repetitive item, it applies to all Repetitive
schedules in which the item is used.
You set the tolerance by selecting the tolerance type and entering its
value. For Discrete jobs, you set it on the More tab of the Discrete Jobs
window. For Repetitive schedules, you set it on the Over–Completion
block of the Repetitive Line/Assembly Associations window. See:
Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63 and Associating Lines and
Assemblies: page 6 – 7
Note: On Repetitive schedules, all over–completed quantities
are allocated to the last open schedule, thus over–completion is
subject to the tolerance limit of the last open schedule.

Over–Completions from the Move Transactions Window

To perform over–completions from the Move Transactions window,
you select the transaction type (Move or Completion), which enables
the Overcompletion check box. You must select the check box before you
enter the over–completion quantity. Once you select the check box, you
enter the transaction quantity, which must be greater than the quantity

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 at the “From” operation or the available quantity and within tolerance
levels. The Overcompletion check box is disabled if you are performing
a Return transaction or a reverse Move transaction, or if the From
operation step is the Scrap or Reject step.

Over–Completions from the Completion Transactions window

To over–complete assembly quantities from the Completion
Transactions window, you select the Overcompletion check box in the
Transaction region. If the transaction type is a WIP Assembly Return
transaction, however, the Overcompletion check box will be disabled.
Selecting the Overcompletion check box enables you to complete more
assemblies than the quantity in the To Move step of the last operation.
If the total completion quantity specified in the Completion
Transactions window exceeds the available quantity to complete, then
the excess assemblies are moved from the Queue step of the first
operation to the To Move step of the last operation, and all completion
transactions are performed. The total transaction quantity (which is the
sum of the transaction quantities for all completion transactions
entered and must exceed the available quantity) is validated against the
tolerance levels defined.

Security Functions
The system administrator must set up user access privileges that
identify who has permission to perform over–completion transactions.
If a user does not have permission, the Overcompletion check box will
not be accessible on the Assembly Completion, Move Transaction, and
Pending Move Transaction forms.

Over–completion Quantities Reserved to Sales Orders

You can reserve over–completion quantities from jobs linked to sales
orders when using the Completion Transactions and Move Transactions
windows. The sales order number is entered for each completion line.
This reserves the surplus amount, otherwise the over–completion is
unreserved excess inventory. See: Linking Sales Orders and Discrete
Jobs: page 3 – 74.

Assembly Over–returns

Discrete Jobs
You cannot return more assemblies than you have completed to
standard discrete jobs. You can, however, return more assemblies than
you have completed to non–standard Discrete jobs.

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 Repetitive Schedules
You can also return more assemblies than you have completed to
repetitive schedules. Any excess quantity is allocated to the first open
schedule.

See Also

Function Security: page 2 – 80

Completing and Returning Assemblies: page 7 – 91
Move Transactions: page 8 – 24

Kanban Completion Supply Statuses

In a pull–based system, inventory items for a particular part or
assembly area are replenished as soon as they are needed. When the
items are needed, kanban cards in Oracle Inventory change their
Supply Status to Empty, and Inventory generates production kanban
replenishment requests automatically.
When completing WIP entities (jobs, repetitive schedules, and flow
schedules) that replenish production kanbans, you can override the
defaulted kanban number with a supply status of Empty or In process.
You can also override the defaulted kanban number with a kanban that
has supply status of Full (in other words it has been previously
completed to) if previous completions from the WIP entity that you are
completing set that kanban’s status to Full, or if it has been referenced.
Referenced in this context means that the WIP entity and Kanban are
linked because the WIP entity was created to replenish the Kanban.

Supply Status of Full

The following example explains the logic used to determine whether a
Kanban with a status of Full can be selected. The first column shows
the relationship between the Kanban (Kanban1 and Kanban2) and the
WIP entities (Job1 and Job2) created to replenish them. Note that in this
example jobs are used as the WIP entity, but the same logic applies to
repetitive schedules and flow schedules.
The second column shows the transactions and the order in which they
are completed. Finally, the third column shows the transaction results
and explains why the transaction was allowed or disallowed. The
initial supply status of both Kanbans is Empty.

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 Original WIP Completion Transaction Results
Entity Kanban Transaction
Relationship Relationship

Job1 linked to Complete Job1 to Supply Status of Kanban2, which was

Kanban1 Kanban2 Empty, is set to Full

Job1 linked to Complete Job1 to Supply Status of Kanban1, which was

Kanban1 Kanban1 Empty, is set to Full

Job2 linked to Complete Job2 to Transaction is disallowed, Kanban2 is Full

Kanban2 Kanban2 because it was replenished by Job1

Completion and move completion transactions can also be imported

through the Open Transaction Interface, See:
Oracle Inventory: Open Transaction Interface, Oracle Manufacturing APIs
and Open Interfaces Manual and through the Open Move Transaction
Interface: page 8 – 33.

See Also

Pull Sequence Window, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide

Accessing the Planning Region, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide
Accessing the Production Region, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s
Guide

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Completion Transaction Types
When you enter transactions in the Completion Transactions window
you must select one of the following transaction types:
WIP Assembly Receives completed assemblies into inventory from
Completion discrete jobs and repetitive schedules.
Components with a supply type of Assembly Pull
are automatically backflushed as you complete
assemblies. If backflushed components are under
lot or serial number control, the lots and serial
numbers to backflush must be identified.
Lots for backflush components under lot number
control can be identified manually or automatically
depending on how the WIP Backflush Lot Selection
Method Parameter is set. For backflush components
under serial number control, you must manually
identify which serial numbers to backflush using
the Serial Number Entry window.
The completion quantity is limited to the quantity
in the To move intraoperation step of the last
operation when completing assemblies from
discrete jobs and repetitive schedules with
routings. When completing from discrete jobs and
repetitive schedules without routings, you can
complete more than the total quantity of the
discrete job or repetitive schedule.
WIP Assembly Returns completed assemblies from inventory back
Return to discrete jobs and repetitive schedules.
Components with a supply type of Assembly Pull
are automatically unbackflushed. If the
unbackflushed components are under lot or serial
number control, the lots and serial numbers to
unbackflush must be identified.
You can return more assemblies than you
completed from inventory to a repetitive schedule
or a non–standard discrete job without a routing.
The returned assemblies are automatically moved
to the To move intraoperation step of the last
operation of the job or repetitive schedule routing.
For sales orders, you cannot return more
assemblies than you completed to that sales order.

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See Also

Transaction Types, Oracle Inventory user’s Guide

Defining and Updating Transaction Types, Oracle Inventory user’s Guide
Backflush Default Parameters: page 2 – 21
Assembly Over–completions and Over–returns: page 7 – 84
Completing and Returning Assemblies: page 7 – 91
Replenishing Higher Level Supply: page 7 – 72

Completing and Returning Assemblies

You can complete and over–complete assemblies from jobs and
repetitive schedules into inventory, and you can also reverse a
completion transaction by returning completed assemblies from
inventory back to jobs and repetitive schedules.

☞ Attention: If Oracle Quality is installed and at least one

qualified collection plan exists, you can collect quality data
during completion transactions. When a Quality collection plan
is available for the transaction, both the Enter Quality Results
option on the Tools menu and the Quality tool on the toolbar
are enabled. If the collection plan has been defined as
mandatory, quality results data must be entered and saved
before you can save the transaction. See: Using Oracle Quality
with Oracle Work in Process, Oracle Quality User’s Guide.

Prerequisites
❑ Release a job or repetitive schedule. See: Releasing Discrete Jobs:
page 3 – 92 and Releasing Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 22.
❑ If you are completing assemblies from a job or schedule with a
routing, move the quantity to be completed into the To move
intraoperation step of the last operation. This intraoperation step
cannot have a status that prevents moves. See: Performing Move
Transactions: page 8 – 37.
❑ For a serialized item returned to stock, validations occur to prevent
re–issuing to a different assembly. At the time of completion,
serialized assemblies and components are available from stock if
they have the following values set in the Serial Numbers window
in Oracle Inventory:

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 • Discrete Assembly Completions
State value: Defined but not used.
State value: Issued out of stores. This is restricted to serial
numbers that were previously returned to the same job that you
are completing.
• Assembly Returns
This includes discrete jobs, flow schedule work order–less
completions, and unscheduled work order–less completions.
State value: Resides in stores.
See: Serial Number Assignment, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide

" To define complete transaction header information:

1. Navigate to the Completion Transactions window.

2. Select a Sales Order, repetitive Line and Assembly, Assembly, or

Job. The cursor defaults to one of these fields based on how the
TP:WIP:Completion Transactions First Field profile option is set. See:
Profile Options: page 2 – 64.
You can only select a discrete job or a repetitive line and assembly
for a repetitive schedule if the job or schedule has a status of
Released or Complete.

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 You can reserve over–completion quantities from jobs linked to
sales orders. The sales order number must be entered to reserve the
excess quantity. See: Linking Sales Orders and Discrete Jobs: page
3 – 74.
Note: If you are returning an ATO assembly, you can enter any
sales order linked to the job and any sales order you have
completed assemblies against. However, you must manually
specify which sales order name, line, and delivery you are
returning against.
3. In the Transaction region, select the WIP Assembly Completion or
WIP Assembly Return Transaction Type. See: Completion
Transaction Types: page 7 – 90.
4. Enter the transaction Date and time.
The date and time must fall within an open accounting period and
cannot be greater than the current date or less than the release date
of the job or the earliest valid repetitive schedule.
5. If you are over–completing the assembly quantity, select the
Overcompletion check box. If the transaction type is WIP Assembly
Return, however, the check box will be disabled.
6. Choose the Continue button to navigate to the WIP Assembly
Completion or WIP Assembly Return window.

" To complete or return assemblies:

1. In the WIP Assembly Completion or WIP Assembly Return window,
select the Subinventory and, if required by the subinventory, the
Locator.
Assemblies are completed into or returned into or from this
subinventory and locator. The completion subinventory and
locator you specified for the job or the repetitive line/assembly
association is defaulted but can be overwritten. See: Completion
Subinventory and Locator Fields, Oracle Bills of Material User’s
Guide.

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 If the Oracle Inventory INV:Allow Expense to Asset Transfer profile
option is set to Yes, you can select an expense subinventory. See:
Inventory Profile Options, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
2. Select the UOM. See: Overview of Units of Measure, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide.
3. Enter the completion or return Quantity.
The quantity should be in the UOM you are transacting. You can
complete or return partial job or schedule quantities to different
subinventories and locators. You can over–complete from jobs and
schedules, whether or not they have a routing. You can complete or
return partial job or schedule quantities to different subinventories
and locators.
If you are completing a serial controlled assembly, you can only
enter a quantity that is an integer when expressed in the primary
unit of measure. For example, you can complete 0.5 dozen (DZ) if
the primary unit of measure is each (EA).

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 4. Choose the Final Complete check box.
If your current organization is an average costing organization, the
Final Complete check box is displayed.
The value of the Final Completion option (enabled/disabled) is
defaulted based on how the WIP Autocompute Final Completions
parameter is set. Using the default eliminates the need to manually
choose the option. Final completions ensure that no residual
balance is left in the job after the last assembly has been completed.
Residual balances are handled as discussed below under WIP Job
Closures.
5. Optionally, select the transaction Reason code. See: Defining
Transaction Reasons, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
6. Optionally, enter the transaction Reference.
References can be used to identify transactions on standard reports.
They can be up to 240 characters of alpha numeric text.
7. If you are completing assemblies under lot, serial, or lot and serial
control, choose the Lot/Serial button. See: Assigning Lot
Numbers, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide and Assigning Serial
Numbers, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
8. Choose the Done button to save your work.

☞ Attention: If you are completing assemblies that have Assembly

Pull components, the system pulls (backflushes) these components
from the supply subinventory/locator assigned to the component
requirement. If no supply subinventory/locator is assigned to the
component, the system pulls components from the default supply
subinventory/locator specified by the WIP Supply Subinventory
and Supply Locator Parameters. See: Backflush Default
Parameters: page 2 – 21.

" To backflush or return backflushed pull components under lot,

serial, or lot and serial control:
H See: Backflushing Pull Components: page 8 – 44.

See Also

Assembly Completions and Returns: page 7 – 80

Assembly Over–completions: page 7 – 84
Replenishing Higher Level Supply: page 7 – 72

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 Backflush Transactions: page 7 – 74
Setting Up Material Control: page 7 – 6

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WIP Inventory Accuracy
You can maintain accurate inventory balances for components and
assemblies. Oracle Work in Process and Oracle Inventory combine to
provide a number of tools to help you monitor and maintain inventory
accuracy.

Transactions and Balances

When components are issued to jobs and repetitive schedules, the
system automatically updates the component inventory balances in
Oracle Inventory and the component issued quantities in Work in
Process. Similarly, when job and repetitive schedule assemblies are
completed, the system updates the assembly inventory balances in
Oracle Inventory and the job or schedule completed quantities in Work
in Process. Component and assembly returns work the same way only
in reverse.
As you move assemblies on the shop floor, the system also
automatically decrements the balance in the From operation sequence
and intraoperation step and increments the To operation sequence and
intraoperation step.
If you enter inaccurate information or delay the entry of transactions,
the inventory balances become inaccurate. Performing material and
move transactions in a timely manner helps you maintain accurate
inventory balances.

Cycle Counting WIP Inventories

You can use Oracle Inventory’s cycle counting system to cycle count
inventory balances in work in process supply and completion
subinventories and locators to check that material is being moved in
and out of work in process accurately.

Physically Inventorying WIP Inventories

You can use Oracle Inventory’s physical inventory system to check
inventory balances in work in process supply and completion
subinventories and locators to check that material is being moved in
and out of work in process accurately.

Component Reports
You can check the timeliness and accuracy of the component balances
in jobs and repetitive schedules using the Discrete Job Data Report and
the Repetitive Schedule Data Report. Each report provides a complete

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 list of material requirements including quantity required and quantity
issued.
You can use these reports to randomly audit certain jobs or repetitive
schedules in search of inaccurate balances. Whenever you find a
problem, you can use Oracle Inventory’s transaction reports and
inquiries to identify its source. Once you know the source of the
problem, you can take proactive steps to eliminate the causes and
thereby improve the accuracy of work in process component balances.

Assembly Reporting
You can check the timeliness and accuracy of assembly balances in jobs
and repetitive schedules using the WIP Location Report. This report
provides a complete list of assembly balances by operation.
You can use this report to randomly audit certain jobs, repetitive
schedules, assemblies, or work centers in search of inaccurate balances.
Whenever you find a problem, you can use the Move Transaction
Report and/or the View Move Transactions and View Resource
Transactions windows to identify its source. Once you know the
source of the problem, you can take proactive steps to eliminate the
causes and thereby improve the accuracy of work in process assembly
balances.

See Also

Overview of Cycle Counting, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide

Overview of Physical Inventory, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide
Viewing On–hand Quantities, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide

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CHAPTER

8 Shop Floor Control

T his chapter explains how assemblies are moved, controlled, and

tracked on the shop floor, including:
• Overview: page 8 – 2
• Setting Up: page 8 – 5
• Routings and Operations: page 8 – 6
• Operations: page 8 – 12
• Move Transactions: page 8 – 24
• Pending Move Transactions: page 8 – 54
• Shop Floor Statuses: page 8 – 65
• Shop Floor Management: page 8 – 68

Shop Floor Control 8–1

Overview of Shop Floor Control
Shop floor control helps you manage the flow of production inside
your plant. Effective shop floor control can lead to due date
performance that ensures meeting your customer service goals. The
purpose of this section is to help you understnad how Oracle Work in
Process provides tools for shop floor control. In particular, it describes
the complete life cycle of shop floor control from setup through
execution.

Basic Business Needs

Oracle Work in Process provides you with the features you need to
satisfy the following basic shop floor control needs. You can:
• Define work in process routings that model the manufacturing
process
• Track assembly movements throughout the shop floor
• Track the status of assemblies within an operation
• Use transaction information from shop floor collection devices
and other external systems
• Collect product and process quality information as you move
assemblies
• Enter alternate units of measure and quantities in move
transactions
• Dispatch assemblies by operation or within an operation
• Backflush components automatically based on transactions
• Charge resource time and overhead automatically
• Track and repair rejected assemblies separately from normal
assemblies
• Scrap assemblies from the manufacturing process
• Create requisitions for operation outside resources
• Track assemblies at outside vendors
• If Oracle Shop Floor Management is installed, you can create
network routings with primary and alternate paths

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Major Features
Move Transactions
You can move assemblies within operations (intraoperation moves) and
between operations (interoperation moves). You can also complete and
return assemblies from and to jobs and schedules using move
transactions. Move transactions automatically update operation
completion quantities, charge appropriate resources and overheads,
and backflush pull components. See: Move Transactions: page 8 – 24.

Open Move Transaction Interface

You can load move transaction information from external systems —
such as barcode readers and manufacturing cell controllers — into the
Open Move Transaction Interface table. When this data is processed, it
is validated, and invalid records are marked so that you can correct
and resubmit them. See: Open Move Transaction Interface: page 8 – 33.

Shop Floor Statuses

You define and assign shop floor statuses. You can control move
transactions by assigning these statuses to intraoperation steps on the
work in process routing. You can view these statuses during move
transactions. See: Assigning and Viewing Shop Floor Statuses: page
8 – 65 and Defining Shop Floor Statuses: page 2 – 51.

Dispatch Reporting
You can use dispatch reports to help you prioritize work at specific
operations, production on specific lines, and to locate assemblies on the
shop floor. See: Dispatch Reports: page 8 – 74.

Outside Processing
You can automatically create purchase requisitions for resources
assigned to outside processing operations. You can also control the
movement of assemblies to and from your suppliers. See: and
Resource Charge Types: page 9 – 7.

Managing Rework Production

You can use Reject intraoperation steps, rework operations, or
non–standard discrete jobs to rework problem assemblies. You have
complete control over the material requirements and operations you
use to complete rework. See: Rework Production: page 8 – 68.

Shop Floor Control 8–3

 Managing Scrap
You can scrap assemblies at any point during the production process.
See: Assembly Scrap: page 8 – 70.

Mobile ManufacturingMobile
If Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications is installed, the Mobile
Manufacturing component enables you to perform work in process
material transactions using a mobile client device networked with a
computer system. This includes:
• Moving assemblies from one operation or intraoperation step to
another.
• Completing assemblies and jobs
• Scrapping or rejecting assemblies, and reversing transactions
• Resource transactions enabling you to change or add resources
• Viewing transaction information including job status,
completions, scrap quantities, and schedule dates
• If Oracle Warehouse Management is installed, you can use
License Plate Number functionality for tracking completions
Note: LPN completions are supported only in standard cost
organizations.

See Also

Overview of Resource Management: page 9 – 12

Setting Up Shop Floor Control: page 8 – 5
Move Transaction Options: page 8 – 34
Mobile Manufacturing, Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications User’s
Guide
Explaining License Plate Management, Oracle Warehouse Management
User’s Guide

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Setting Up
• For a listing of out–of–product setups that affect shop floor
processing see: Setup Prerequisites: page 2 – 3.
• For a listing of setups within Work in Process that affect shop
floor processing see: Setup Check List: page 2 – 7.
• For additional information about parameters that affect shop
floor processing see: WIP Parameters: page 2 – 14.
– Backflush Default Parameters: page 2 – 21
– Intraoperation Steps Parameter: page 2 – 21
– Move Transaction Parameters: page 2 – 20
• For a listing of profile options that affect shop floor processing
see: Profile Options: page 2 – 64.

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Routings and Operations
You can define operations and routings in Oracle Bills of Material.
Operations and routings are the basis of shop floor control.

Operation Sequence
Routings define the step–by–step operations required to manufacture
an assembly. Routing operations describe a specific portion of the
manufacturing process. Work in process routing operations help you
locate (through the assigned department) assemblies on the shop floor
and identify the quantity complete or remaining at an operation. See:
Operations, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.

Resource Requirements
You can associate multiple resources with a routing operation. For each
resource, you can determine if you want to include that resource in
scheduling calculations. Resources can be charged and scheduled on
an item–by–item or lot basis. The system calculates the time required
for all scheduled resources at an operation to get the operation start
and end dates and times. The system then calculates the time required
for all operations to get the job and repetitive schedule start and end
dates and times. See: Overview of Resource Requirements: page
NO TAG.

Resource Charge Types

You can determine how operation resources are charged. You can
automatically charge resources as you move assemblies in Work in
Process and as you enter purchase receipts for outside processing
resources in Oracle Purchasing. You can also manually charge
resources. See: Resource Charge Types: page 9 – 7.

Outside Processing
You can define outside processing resources and assign them to routing
operations. See: Overview of Outside Processing: page 10 – 2.

Specify Where Material is Used

You can specify at what operations materials are required in the
routing. Thus, you only issue (push) or backflush (pull) material where
and when it is needed.

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Backflush Operations
You can use the operation backflush option to specify at what point in
the routing Operation Pull components are backflushed. Pull
components at non–backflush operation are not backflushed when
assemblies are completed at the operation. Instead, they are
backflushed when a backflush operation later in the routing is
completed. It is often useful to postpone backflushing at time–critical
operations.

Autocharge/Count Point Operations

You can specify whether an operation is a count point and whether it
should be automatically charged. The autocharge and count point
options for an operation work together. See: Count Point and
Autocharge Fields, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.

Minimum Transfer Quantities

You can define minimum transfer quantities for your operations. If you
move fewer assemblies than the minimum quantity, a warning is
displayed but you can complete the transaction.

Establish Standard Costs

You specify the resources required to build an assembly when you
define a routing. Resources have costs associated with them. By
defining the routing with specific resources, you establish standard
resource costs for any item that uses the routing.

Alternate Routing
You can choose an alternate routing for an assembly when you define a
discrete job or repetitive schedule. See: Primary and Alternate
Routings, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.

Routing Revision
You can use routing revisions to control date effective revisions on a
routing. You specify the routing revision and the revision date for the
assembly when you define discrete jobs and repetitive schedules. See:
Item and Routing Revisions, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.

Engineering Routing
You can set your WIP:See Engineering Items profile option to Yes so that
you can use engineering routings. See: Engineering Bills of Material
and Routings, Oracle Engineering User’s Guide.

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 Network Routing
If Oracle Shop Floor Management is installed, you can create flexible or
network routings. While discrete jobs use standard routings, lot based
jobs use network routings. These comprise a collection of operations
which include primary and alternate paths. The relationships
established in a network routing provide all possible combinations of
sequence and operations a job may follow.

See Also

Overview of Routings, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide

Creating a Routing, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide
Intraoperation Steps: page ‘8 – 9
Creating a Network Routing, Oracle Shop Floor Management User’s Guide

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Intraoperation Steps
Intraoperation steps are used to control move and resource transactions
within and between operations and to track assemblies within
operations. You can only move assemblies to intraoperation steps that
are enabled. See: Interoperation Steps Parameter: page 2 – 23.
The five intraoperation steps — Queue, Run, Reject, To Move, and
Scrap — are defined as follows:
Queue Assemblies in the Queue intraoperation step of an
operation are waiting for you to perform work on
them. Queue is the default intraoperation step for
every operation in a routing.
When you release jobs and repetitive schedules, the
assembly quantity is automatically loaded into the
Queue intraoperation step of the first operation.
You can move assemblies from the Queue
intraoperation step to any other enabled
intraoperation step.
Run Assemblies in the Run intraoperation step are
ready to be worked on. You can move assemblies
from the Run step to any other enabled
intraoperation step in the routing.
To Move Assemblies in the To move intraoperation step of
an operation have been completed and are waiting
to be moved to the next operation. You can move
assemblies from the To Move intraoperation step to
any other enabled intraoperation step in the
routing.
Before you can use the Completion Transactions
window to complete assembles from jobs and
schedules with routings, you must move these
assemblies into the To Move intraoperation step of
the last operation. For this reason, the To Move
intraoperation step is automatically enabled for all
final routing operations. See: Assembly Pull
Backflush Transactions: page 7 – 79.
Assemblies in the To Move step are considered
complete for the operation.
Reject Assemblies in the Reject intraoperation step of an
operation have been rejected and are waiting to be
repaired (reworked) or scrapped. You can move

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 assemblies from the Reject intraoperation step to
any other enabled intraoperation step in the
routing.
Assemblies in the Reject step may not be useable,
but they are considered complete for the operation
because components and resources have been
consumed in their production.
Scrap Assemblies in the Scrap intraoperation step are
considered unusable. This step is for those
assemblies whose yield loss you want to consider
as a variance on the discrete job or repetitive
schedule. (In some industries, scrap is considered
yield loss.) You can incur this variance
immediately by entering a scrap account as you
move assemblies into this step. However, you can
wait until the job is closed (standard and
non–standard asset discrete jobs) or the period is
closed (repetitive schedules and non–standard
expense discrete jobs) to incur the variance. Oracle
Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain
Planning does not consider assemblies that in
Scrap steps in the MRP planning process.
Assemblies in the Scrap intraoperation step are
usually not useable. They are considered complete
for the operation because components and
resources have been consumed in their production.
They can be recovered from scrap by moving them
to another intraoperation or operation step.

Complete/Incomplete Operation Steps

Assemblies are considered incomplete at an operation if they are in the
Queue or Run intraoperation steps. Assemblies are considered
complete at an operation if they are in the To Move, Reject, or Scrap
intraoperation step. When assemblies are completed at an operation,
the system automatically backflushes Operation Pull components and
charges resources. See: Operation Completion Moves: page 8 – 29.

Using Intraoperation Steps

The intraoperation steps that you enable and use depend on your
manufacturing environment and your information requirements.

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 Manufacturing Environment
For example, if you are a ‘pull’ manufacturer you might enable just the
Run and To Move intraoperations. You would do this to simplify the
process of pulling assemblies into the Run step of an operation from the
To Move step of a prior operation.
Conversely, if you are a ‘push’ manufacturer you might enable just the
Queue and Run intraoperation steps. You would do this to simplify the
process of pushing (issuing) components to assemblies in the Queue
intraoperation step of the operation before you moving them to the
Run step of the same operation.

Processing Times
As you move assemblies from one intraoperation or interoperation step
to another the dates and times of these transactions are recorded. For
example, you can use this information to help you determine how long
assemblies spend waiting to be worked on (Queue time) and how
much time they are actually being worked on (Run time).

See Also

Open Move Transaction Interface, Oracle Manufacturing APIs and Open

Interfaces Manual

Performing Move Transactions: page 8 – 37

Rework Production: page 8 – 68

Assembly Scrap: page 8 – 70
Overview of Period Close, Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide
Discrete Job Close: page 3 – 119

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Operations
You can add, update, delete, reschedule, and view operations.

Adding and Updating Operations

You can add operations to discrete jobs with statuses of Unreleased,
Released, Complete, or On Hold. You can add operations to repetitive
schedules with statuses of Unreleased. You can add operations to jobs
and repetitive schedules with or without routings.
You can create a routing for a job or schedule that does not have a
routing by adding operations to it. When you add the first operation,
the system automatically defaults an operation sequence of 1 for the
new operation and assigns job or schedule material requirements to
this operation. If the job or schedule is already released, the system
also loads the job or schedule quantity into the Queue intraoperation
step of the new operation.
Note: If you add an operation to a job or repetitive schedule,
you may want to reschedule the job or repetitive schedule to
correctly reflect the start and completion dates.
You can update the operations of discrete jobs with statuses of
Unreleased, Released, Complete, or On Hold. You can update the
operations of repetitive schedules with statuses of Released, Complete,
or On Hold as long as there are no other active schedules for the
assembly on the line.
Note: You cannot update operation dates for repetitive
schedules of any status.
You can attach illustrative or explanatory files — in the form of text,
images, word processing documents, spreadsheets, video, and so on —
to operations. See: About Attachments, Oracle Applications User’s Guide.

Prerequisites
❑ Define at least one standard discrete job, one non–standard discrete
job or one repetitive schedule. See: Defining Discrete Jobs
Manually: page 3 – 63 and Defining Repetitive Schedules Manually:
page 6 – 14.

" To add or update an operation:

1. Navigate to the Operations window.

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2. Select the Job or Line and Assembly.
3. If you select a line and assembly, choose the repetitive schedule by
selecting the first unit start date of that schedule. If you have
selected a discrete job, the system displays the scheduled start date
of the job.
4. Optionally, choose the Find button to populate the Operations
region.
5. From the Main tabbed region of the Operation region, select the
operation Sequence or enter an operation Sequence number to add
an operation.
6. Select the Operation Code of a standard operation or leave the
Operation Code blank.
If you add a standard operation by selecting its Operation Code,
the Department, Count point, Autocharge and Backflush options,
Minimum Transfer Quantity, and Description are automatically
defaulted. Resource requirements that are associated with the

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 standard operation are also defaulted. You can update these
defaults at any time.
You can update the operation codes of unreleased discrete jobs. If
you update the operation code by selecting the operation code of a
standard operation, existing operation information is overridden.
If you leave the Operation Code blank, you must manually define
the operation.
7. Select the Department.
The Department identifies which group — people, machines,
and/or suppliers — is performing the operation. Departments are
also used for charging resources at an operation and are required
even if there are no resources assigned to the operation.
If you add a standard operation, the system displays the
Department of that operation as the default. If there are resources
assigned to the standard operation, you cannot update this field.
8. Check the Count Point check box to make the operation a count
point operation. See: Count Point and Autocharge Fields, Oracle
Bills of Material User’s Guide.
Operations you must always perform, for example, critical,
time–sensitive, or bottleneck operations, should be made count
point operations. Operations that are not always performed should
be made non–count point operations.
When you perform move transactions, the system defaults in the
next count point operation as the To operation sequence. For
example, suppose you have three operations at sequences 10, 20,
and 30 defined as count point, non–count point, and count point
respectively. When you select operation 10 as the From operation,
the system automatically defaults operation 30, the next count
point operation, as the To operation. You can override this default
and choose operation 20, if required.
If you add an operation that is not a standard operation, the system
automatically makes the operation a count point operation. If you
add a standard operation, the system displays the count point
option of that operation as the default.
9. Check the Autocharge check box to make the operation an
autocharge operation. See: Count Point and Autocharge Fields,
Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
Operations you must always charge resources to should be made
autocharge operations. Operations that do not always require

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 resource charges should be made non–autocharge operations. See:
WIP Move: page 9 – 7.
Autocharge operations automatically charge WIP Move resources
when you move assemblies through or beyond them. For example,
suppose you have three operations at sequences 10, 20, and 30
defined respectively as autocharge, non–autocharge, and
autocharge operations. When you move assemblies from the
Queue intraoperation step of operation 10 to an intraoperation step
that completes assemblies at operation 30 (To Move, Scrap, or
Reject), resources at operations 10 and 30 are charged, but those at
operation 20 are not. To charge resources to operation 20, you must
move assemblies into a completion intraoperation step (To Move,
Scrap, or Reject) of that operation. See: Intraoperation Steps: page
8 – 9.
The count point and autocharge check boxes work together.
Operations can be count point/autocharge, non–count
point/non–autocharge operations, or non–count point/autocharge.
They cannot be count point/non–autocharge. See: Count Point and
Autocharge Fields, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
If you add a standard operation, the system displays the
autocharge option of that operation as the default. If you add an
operation that is not a standard operation, the system makes the
operation a count point operation.
10. Check the Backflush check box to make the operation a backflush
operation.
Operation Pull components that are assigned to backflush
operations are automatically backflushed (pulled) from inventory
when assemblies are moved and completed at that operation. Also
backflushed are all Operation Pull components that have not been
backflushed because they are assigned to non–backflush operations
prior to the backflush operation.
If you add an operation that is not a standard operation, the system
automatically makes the operation a non–backflush operation.
Caution: The last operation in a routing must always be a
backflush operation. Materials are not backflushed from inventory
if the last operation is a non–backflush operation and operations
prior to it are non–backflush operations that have Operation Pull
components that have not been backflushed.
11. Enter the Minimum Transfer Quantity.
If you add a standard operation, the system displays the minimum
transfer quantity of that operation as the default. If you add an

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 operation that is not a standard operation, the system displays 0 as
the default. See: Creating a Standard Operation, Oracle Bills of
Material User’s Guide.
If you attempt to move fewer that the minimum transfer quantity,
you receive a warning message but are allowed to continue.
12. In the Description tabbed region, enter the Description.
If you add a standard operation, the system displays the
description of that operation as the default.
13. Save your work.

" To midpoint reschedule a discrete job:

H See: Midpoint Rescheduling: page 8 – 18.

" To manually schedule/reschedule a discrete job operation:

H You can manually schedule/reschedule a discrete job operation by
changing one or more of its dates. The job must have a status of
Unreleased, Released, Complete, or On Hold.
You can change the First Unit Start Date (FUSD), the First Unit
Completion Date (FUCD), Last Unit Start Date (LUSD), and the
Last Unit Completion Date (LUCD) to any date. Changing the date
or dates of an operation does not affect the date or dates of the
operations that precede or follow that operation.
Note: If you change the LUCD of the last operation to a date
that is greater than the job completion date, the job completion
date is updated to the LUCD. If you change the FUSD of the
first operation to a date earlier than the job start date, the job
start date is updated to the FUSD.

" To update operation resource requirements:

H Choose the Resource button. See: Adding and Updating Resource
Requirements: page 9 – 16.

See Also

Working with Attachments, Oracle Application User’s Guide

Deleting Operations: page 8 – 17

Operations Control: page 8 – 6

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 Overview of Routings, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide
Creating a Routing, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide

Deleting Operations
You can delete operations from jobs and repetitive schedules regardless
of the status of the job or schedule. However, you cannot delete an
operation if any of the following conditions exist:
• assemblies have been completed for the operation
• resources have been charged at the operation
• pending move and resource transactions exist for the operation
• quantities exist in any intraoperation step of the operation
• purchase requisitions (either approved or unapproved) or
purchase orders exist for outside processing resources assigned
to the operation
You also cannot delete an operation from a repetitive schedule with a
status of Released, Complete, or On Hold if there are other active
schedules for the assembly on the line.
If you delete an operation, the system reassigns its material
requirements to the first operation in the routing or to operation
sequence 1 if there are no other operations in the routing.
Note: If you delete an operation from a job or repetitive
schedule, you may want to reschedule the job or repetitive
schedule to correctly reflect the start and completion dates.

" To delete an operation:

1. Navigate to the Operations window.
2. Select the Job or Line and Assembly.
3. If you select a line and assembly, choose the repetitive schedule by
selecting the first unit start date of that schedule. If you have
selected a discrete job, the system displays the scheduled start date
of the job.
4. Choose the Find button to populate the Operations region.
5. In the Operations region, select which operation to delete by
selecting its operation Sequence.

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 6. Choose Delete Record from the Edit Menu.
7. Save your work.

Midpoint Rescheduling
You can use midpoint rescheduling to reschedule around a bottleneck
job operation. When you midpoint reschedule jobs, job start and
completion dates and times are automatically updated. The start and
completion dates of all other job operations, including operations you
added that are not part of the original routing, are also updated.
Material and resource requirement dates are also updated.

Prerequisites
❑ Define at least one discrete job. See: Defining Discrete Jobs
Manually: page 3 – 63 and Defining Repetitive Schedules Manually:
page 6 – 14.

" To midpoint reschedule operations:

1. Navigate to the Operations window.
2. Select the discrete Job.
3. Choose the Find button to populate the Operations region with the
job’s operations.
4. Select the Operation.
You can choose any operation since any operation can be a
bottleneck operation.
5. Choose the Reschedule button. The Reschedule window appears.

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 6. Choose either of the following options:
First Unit Start Date: Reschedules the operation from its first unit
start date (FUSD) and time.
Last Unit Completion Date: Reschedules the operation from its last
unit completion date (LUCD) and time.
7. Enter the reschedule Date and time.
The reschedule date and time becomes the new FUSD or LUCD
and time of the operation. Operations that are before the operation
being rescheduled are backward scheduled from this date and
time. Operations that are after it are forward scheduled. Job start
and completion dates and times as well as resource and material
requirement dates and times are also updated.
8. Choose OK to save your work.

" To manually reschedule a job or schedule operation:

H See: Adding and Updating Operations: page 8 – 12.

See Also

Rescheduling Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 106

Detailed Scheduling: page 13 – 7
Discrete Rescheduling: page 13 – 12

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Viewing Operations
You can view operation information in a variety of ways. You can view
all operations associated with a specific job or repetitive line and
assembly. You can also view operations across jobs and schedules.

" To find and view operations:

1. Navigate to the View Operations window. The Find Operations
window appears.

You can view operations for jobs and repetitive schedules that start
on a specific date or within a range of start dates. You can view all
operations for jobs and schedules of a specific status (Unreleased,
Complete, Released, On Hold, Complete–No Charges). You can
view all operations for a specific department. Lastly you can view
all operations that have first unit start or last unit completion dates
with specific dates or within a range of dates.

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2. Enter any combination of search criteria and choose the Find
button. The results display in the View Operations window.

You can view the following information in the View Operations

window’s tabbed regions:
Main: Operation Sequence, Operation Code and Department;
Count Point, Autocharge and Backflush flags; Minimum Transfer
Quantity and Date Last Moved
Quantities: In Queue, Running, To Move, Completed, Remaining,
and for repetitive lines/assemblies the Quantity Ahead and the
Days Ahead

☞ Attention: The Completed quantity is the sum of assemblies in the

Scrap, Reject, and To Move intraoperation steps. Remaining
quantity is the sum of assemblies in the Queue and Run
intraoperation steps. You can view Scrap and Reject quantities
using the Operations window. See: Adding and Updating
Operations: page 8 – 12.

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 Dates: First Unit Start Date, First Unit Completion Date, Last Unit
Start Date, and Last Unit Completion Date
Description: Description
Job or Schedule: Job, Line, Assembly, Start Date, and Status
Previous Operation: Sequence, Department, Last Unit Completion
Date, and Quantities In Queue, Running, To Move, and Completed
Quantities
You can also view, if entered, descriptive flexfield information. See:
Setting Up Descriptive Flexfields: page 14 – 4.

See Also

Searching for Information, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

Operations Control: page 8 – 6

Viewing Job and Schedule Operations

As you do the following, you can view operations and operation
material and resource requirements for the current discrete job or
repetitive schedule by choosing the Operations button:
• Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63
• Simulating Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 111
• Closing Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 121
• Viewing Discrete Job Information: page 3 – 95
• Purging Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 128
• Viewing Repetitive Schedule Information: page 6 – 25
• Purging Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 42

" To view the operations for the current job or schedule:

H After choosing the Operations button, the Operations window (in
View Only Mode) appears. You can view the following
information for each operation using the window’s tabbed regions:
• Main region: Count Point option, Autocharge option, Backflush
option, Minimum Transfer Quantity, Date Last Moved

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 • Quantities region: In Queue, Running, To Move, Rejected,
Scrapped, and Completed
• Dates region: First Unit Start Date, Last Unit Start Date, First
Unit Completion Date, and Last Unit Completion Date
• Description region: Description

☞ Attention: You can also view operations across jobs and

schedules. See: Viewing Operations: page 8 – 20.

" To view operation specific material requirements:

H From the Operations window, select an Operation sequence then
choose the Components button.
The component materials, if any, required at the selected operation
are displayed.

" To view the operation resource requirements:

H From the Operations window, Choose the Resources button. The
Resource Requirements window appears.
The resources, if any, required at the selected operation are
displayed.

" To close all open windows after viewing operations and material
requirements:
H See: Closing Multiple Windows, Oracle Application User’s Guide.

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Move Transactions
You can move assemblies within an operation (for example, from
Queue to Run) or from one operation to the next. You can move
assemblies backward and forward within the routing.

Move Transactions Process Diagram

You can move the assemblies that you are building from one operation
and/or intraoperation step to another using the Move Transactions
window (See: Interoperation Moves: page 8 – 26.) You can move
assemblies forward and backward within and between operations.

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(See: Intraoperation Moves: page 8 – 28). Moving assemblies into the
To Move, Reject, or Scrap intraoperation step of an operations
completes those assemblies at that operation. When assemblies are
completed at an operation, the system automatically backflushes
Operation Pull components and charges resources (See: Operation
Completion Moves: page 8 – 29).
Note: If Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications is installed,
the Mobile Manufacturing component enables you to perform
all work in process move transactions using a mobile client
device networked with a computer system. See: Assembly
Transactions, Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications User’s
Guide.

Assembly Move Completion and Move Return Transactions

If function security permits, you can complete assemblies from any
routing operation into inventory or return completed assemblies from
inventory to any routing operation from the Move Transactions
window. See: Security Functions: page 2 – 78 and Assembly Move
Completion and Move Return Transactions: page 8 – 31.

Resource Charges
Move transactions that complete assemblies at autocharge operations,
automatically charge resources and overhead at that operation. If
assemblies are completed at an operation, and Manual resources are
assigned to that operation, the system notifies you that these resources
exist. To charge these resources, use the Resources button to access the
Resource Transactions window. See: Charging Resources with Move
Transactions: page 9 – 36

Assembly Scrap
You can also scrap defective assemblies by moving them into a scrap
intraoperation step. If you enter scrap account number or scrap
account alias when you scrap assemblies, the cost of the scrapped
assemblies is removed from the job or repetitive schedule. If you do
not enter a scrap account or select an alias, the cost of the scrap remains
in the job or schedule until job or period close. See: Scrapping
Assemblies: page 8 – 72.

Outside Processing Resource Charges

When you move assemblies into the Queue intraoperation step of an
operation that has either PO Move or PO Receipt resources assigned to
it (or when the job is released, depending on your setup), the system
automatically creates a purchase requisition in Oracle Purchasing.

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 When you receive assemblies back from an outside processing supplier
in Oracle Purchasing, PO Receipt or PO Move resources are
automatically charged at the standard or the actual rate. Purchase
requisitions are also automatically created when you release a job or
repetitive schedule if there are PO Move or PO Receipt resources at the
first operation. See: Overview of Outside Processing: page 10 – 2.

Ad Hoc Operations
You can also add ’ad hoc’ operations to discrete job using the Move
Transactions window. However, you can only add operations if the
Allow Creation of New Operations parameter is set and the TP:WIP:Move
Transactions profile option is set to on–line processing. See: Move
Transaction Parameters: page 2 – 20 and Profile Options: page 2 – 64.

Shop Floor Statuses

You can view shop floor statuses when performing move transactions.
Statuses are removed from intraoperation steps when the quantities at
those operations drop to zero.

See Also

Move Transaction Types: page 8 – 36

Production Line Moves: page 8 – 33

Interoperation Moves
When you move assemblies from one operation to another you are
performing an interoperation move. You can move assemblies from
any enabled intraoperation step to another. For example, you can
move assemblies from operation sequence 20 to operation sequence 30,
or from operation sequence 50 back to operation sequence 30.
Normally, moves follow the forward sequence defined by the routing.
You can, however, move assemblies from any operation to any other —
even preceding operations. For example, if you intend to move 5
assemblies from operation 10 to 20, but you mistakenly 10, you can
correct your mistake by moving 5 assemblies back from operation 20 to
10. The system automatically reverses resource and overhead charges,
and component backflushes when you move assemblies backward in
the routing.

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You can add operations using the Operations window. You can also
use the Move Transactions window to add ’ad hoc’ operations to
discrete jobs. However, you can only add operations as you move
discrete assemblies if the WIP Allow Creation of New Operations
parameter is set and the TP:WIP:Move Transactions profile option is set
to on–line processing.
You can move assemblies to outside supplier operations. You receive
these assemblies back using either the Enter Receipts window in Oracle
Purchasing or the Move Transactions in Work in Process window.
The following figure illustrates the flow of interoperation move
transactions:

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See Also

Performing Move Transactions: page 8 – 37

Intraoperation Steps: page 8 – 9

Intraoperation Moves
When you move assemblies from one intraoperation step of an
operation to another intraoperation step of the same operation you are
performing an intraoperation move. You can move assemblies from
any enabled intraoperation step — Queue, Run, To move, Reject, or
Scrap — as required. Intraoperation steps are enabled using the WIP
Enabled Intraoperation Steps parameter.
The follow figure illustrates the flow of intraoperation move
transactions:

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See Also

Performing Move Transactions: page 8 – 37

Intraoperation Steps: page 8 – 9

Operation Completion Moves

You can complete assemblies at operations by:

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 • Moving assemblies from the Queue or Run intraoperation step of
an operation to the To Move, Scrap or Reject intraoperation steps
of the same operation
• Moving assemblies from the Queue or Run intraoperation steps
of an operation to the To Move, Scrap or Reject intraoperation
steps of a subsequent operation
Assemblies are not completed at Operations by:
• Moving assemblies between the To Move, Scrap, and Reject
intraoperation steps of the same operation
• Moving assemblies from the To Move, Scrap, or Reject
intraoperation steps of the one operation to the Queue or Run
intraoperation step of a subsequent operation
You can complete any number of assemblies from any operation in a
routing. For example if you have 49 assemblies at operation 10, and 51
at operation 20 you can complete the assemblies at operation 10 before
completing those at operaton 20 and vice versa. You also can
over–complete assemblies
You also can over–complete assembly quantities if they are within the
defined tolerance limit, if you have selected the Overcompletion check
box on the Move Transaction window, which enables this functionality.
See: Assembly Over–completions: page 7 – 84.
If there are WIP Move resources at an operation that is being
completed, the system automatically charges these resources at their
standard rate. If there are Operation Pull components at this operation,
these components are automatically pulled from inventory. If there are
Manual resources at the operation that is being completed, the system
notifies you that Manual resources exist at the operation so that you can
manually charge them. If you perform a move transaction that reverses
an operation completion, the system automatically reverses any
associated material and resource charges. See: Resource Charge Types:
page 9 – 7.

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See Also

Operation Pull Backflush Transactions: page 8 – 43

Intraoperation Steps: page 8 – 9

Performing Move Transactions: page 8 – 37

Move Completion/Return Transactions

If the WIP_WIPTXSFM_NO_CMP (Move Transactions: No Completion
Transactions) form function parameter is set to allow completions, you
can use the Move Transactions window to simultaneously move and
complete assemblies from and return and move assemblies to discrete
jobs and repetitive schedules. See: Form Function Parameters: page
2 – 78.
Assembly move completions automatically issue components with a
supply type of Assembly Pull to the job or repetitive schedule, reduce
the number of assemblies in the To move intraoperation step of the last

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 operation of the job or repetitive schedule routing, and increase the
quantity completed on the job or repetitive schedule
Assembly move returns move the assemblies first to the To Move
intraoperation step of the last operation then to the operation sequence
and step that you specify.

Over–completions
If the Allow Overcompletions form function is included on your menu,
you can move, but not return, more assemblies than exist at an
operation. This allows you to over–complete more assemblies than are
specified for the job or repetitive schedule.
The assemblies that are over–completed are moved through each of the
job or schedule operations. This ensures that Operation and Assembly
Pull components are backflushed and resources are properly charged.
Push components associated with the assembly’s routing must,
however, be manually issued using the WIP Material Transactions
window.

Completions into License Plate Numbers

If Oracle Warehouse Management is installed, you can perform
assembly completions and work order–less completions into license
plate numbers. License plate numbers identifiers for tracking the
contents of containers in receiving, work in process, inventory,
shipping, and in–transit. Information for each container can be tracked
both inbound and outbound. The container’s genealogy provides
content and transaction history for each license plate. See: Explaining
License Plate Management, Oracle Warehouse Management User’s Guide
Note: For work order–less return transactions, you must first
unpack the LPN before performing the assembly return
transaction.

Kanban Replenishment
The supply status of a production kanban is updated to Full when the
first assembly from replenishment job or repetitive schedule is move
completed.

See Also

Assembly Over–completions: page 7 – 84

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 Security Functions: page 2 – 78
Assembly Pull Backflush Transactions: page 7 – 79
Performing Move Transactions: page 8 – 37
Performing Move Completion and Move Return Transactions: page
8 – 48
Completing and Returning Assemblies: page 7 – 91
Kanban Planning and Execution, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide
Pull Sequence Window, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide
Accessing the Planning Region, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide
Accessing the Production Region, Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s
Guide

Production Line Moves

You can track the production of repetitive assemblies by production
line. When you move assemblies being built on a production line, the
system groups all transactable repetitive schedules for that assembly on
that line. In other words, you can move assemblies and charge
resources across multiple schedules.
The system automatically allocates move and resource transaction
quantities to schedules on a first in–first out basis. For example, if you
have 2 released schedules for 100 assemblies each and you move 150
assemblies, the system automatically allocates 100 to the earliest
schedule and 50 to the next. When you move repetitive assemblies
backward, for example from operation 40 to 30, move quantities are
allocated to the last schedule on a last in–first out basis.

Open Move Transaction Interface

You can load move transaction information into the Open Move
Transaction Interface table from external sources such as bar code
readers, factory floor machines such as cell controllers, and other
manufacturing execution and quality control systems. The move
transaction manager, launched in Oracle Inventory, processes and
validates this information to ensure accuracy and compatibility with
Oracle Applications information.

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 Warning: Move transaction records are automatically inserted
into the Open Move transaction Interface when receipts that
involve PO Move resources are entered in Oracle Purchasing.
If the Move Transaction Manager has not been launched, these
records are not processed.
Move transaction information that fails validation or processing is
marked. You can use the Pending Move Transactions windows to view,
update, and resubmit this information. If associated WIP Move
resource transactions fail, they can be viewed, updated, and
resubmitted using the Pending Resource Transactions window.
Note: If you are completing an assembly quantity that is
greater than the job start quantity (over–completing quantities),
you must explicitly specify the over–completion transaction
quantities when you use the Open Move Transaction Interface,
as they will not be derived by Work in Process.

See Also

Transaction Managers, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide

Launching Transaction Managers, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide
Open Move Transaction Interface, Oracle Manufacturing APIs and
Open Interfaces Manual
Processing Pending Move Transactions: page 8 – 54

Move Transaction Options

Move transactions can be launched from the following windows:
• Move Transactions. See: Performing Move Transactions: page
8 – 37 and Performing Move Completion and Move Return
Transactions: page 8 – 48.
• Receipt Transactions. See: Entering Receipt Header Information,
Oracle Purchasing User’s Guide.
Move transactions can also be imported through the Open Move
Transaction Interface. See: Open Move Transactions Interface: page
8 – 33.

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See Also

Move Transactions: page 8 – 24

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Move Transaction Types
When you enter move transactions in the Move Transactions window
you must choose one of the following transaction types:
Move Moves assemblies within (intraoperation) and
between (interoperation) routing operations. You
can move assemblies forward or backward within
and between routing operations.
Complete Completes assemblies from any routing operation
and intraoperation step into inventory. Assembly
move completions move assemblies from the
current operation to the To Move intraoperation
step of the last operation then complete them into
inventory. Assemblies are completed into the
default completion subinventory and locator
specified for the discrete job or repetitive
line/assembly. Where applicable, move
completion transactions also charge move based
resources and overheads and create backflush
transactions for components with supply types of
Assembly and Component Pull.
Return Returns assemblies from inventory to any routing
operation and intraoperation step. Assembly move
returns first return assemblies from the discrete job
or repetitive line/assembly completion
subinventory/locator to the To Move
intraoperation step of the last operation then move
them into the operation and intraoperation step
you specify. Where applicable, move return
transactions also create transactions that reverse
charges to move based resources and reverse
backflush transactions for components with supply
types of Assembly and Component Pull.
You can specify which move transaction type is used as the default
transaction type in the Move Transactions window using the
TP:WIP:Move Transactions profile option. See: Profile Options: page
2 – 64.

☞ Attention: You cannot complete or return lot controlled

assemblies with move complete and move return transactions.
You also cannot complete or return serial number controlled
assemblies unless the Oracle Inventory Serial Generation

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 attribute for the assembly is set to Dynamic entry at sales order
issue.

See Also

Assembly Completions and Returns: page 7 – 80

Performing Move Transactions

You can perform move transactions for discrete jobs and repetitive
schedules with routings. You can also perform move transaction for
non–standard discrete jobs that have assemblies and routing references.
See: Move Transactions: page 8 – 24.

Prerequisites
❑ Release a discrete job or repetitive schedule with a routing or
routing reference. See: Releasing Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 92 and
Releasing Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 22.
❑ Confirm that the From intraoperation step has a shop floor status
that allows you to move assemblies from one intraoperation step to
another. See: Assigning and Viewing Shop Floor Statuses: page
8 – 65.

" To select a sales order, line/assembly or job to transact:

1. Navigate to the Move Transactions window.

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 2. Select a Sales Order, repetitive Line and Assembly, Assembly, or
Job. The cursor defaults to one of these fields based on how you
have the TP:WIP:Move Transaction First Field profile option set. See:
Profile Options: page 2 – 64.
You can only select a discrete job or a repetitive line and assembly
for a repetitive schedule if the job or schedule has a status of
Released or Complete.

" To perform an interoperation or intraoperation move:

1. Select the Move Transaction Type. See: Move Transaction Types:
page 8 – 36.
2. Select the From operation Sequence number.
This is the operation sequence number from which you want to
move assemblies.
3. Select the From operation Step.

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 This is the intraoperation step from which you want to move
assemblies. You must enter a value in this field if you entered a
value in the From Op Seq field. You can move assemblies only
from intraoperation steps that contain assemblies. See:
Intraoperation Steps: page 8 – 9.
You can enable or disable intraoperation steps using the
Interoperation Steps parameter. See: Interoperation Steps Parameter:
page 2 – 23.
You cannot move assemblies from an intraoperation step if it has
been assigned a shop floor status that prevents moves. You can
optionally prevent moves from an operation and intraoperation
step to an operation and intraoperation step if a No Move
intraoperation step exists between the two. This is done using the
Allow Moves Over No Move Shop Floor Statuses parameter. See:
Move Transaction Parameters: page 2 – 20.

☞
4.
Attention: You can view statuses by choosing the Statuses button.
Select the To operation Sequence number.
The system defaults in the next count point operation as the To
operation sequence. For example, suppose you have three
operations at sequences 10, 20, and 30 defined as count point,
non–count point, and count point respectively. When you select
operation 10 as the From operation, the system automatically
defaults operation 30, the next count point operation, as the To
operation. You can override this default and choose operation 20,
if required.
If you move assemblies between operations (interoperation), the To
operation sequence must be the different from the From operation
sequence. You can select any operation on the routing including
preceding operations.
If you move assemblies within an operation(intraoperation), the To
operation sequence must be the same as the From operation
sequence. For example, you can move assemblies from the Queue
to Reject intraoperation step of the same operation.
5. Select the To operation Step. This can be any operation step in any
operation sequence.
If you are entering an interoperation move, the To Operation step
can be any intraoperation step in an operation before or after the
current operation step.

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 If you are entering an intraoperation move, the To Operation step
can be any intraoperation step before or after the current
intraoperation step.
Moves into the To Move, Scrap, or Reject intraoperation steps of an
operation, whether transacted as intraoperation or interoperation
moves, complete assemblies at that operation.
6. Select the UOM. See: Overview of Units of Measure, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide.
You can use any valid, alternate unit of measure for the assembly
you are moving.
7. If you selected Move as the transaction type, the Overcompletion
check box is enabled. Select the check box to specify
over–completion.

☞ Attention: You must select the check box before you enter the
over–completion quantity. The transaction quantity must be
greater than the quantity at the From operation or the available
quantity, and it must be within tolerance levels.
The Overcompletion check box is disabled if you are performing a
return transaction or a reverse move transaction, for example
moving assembles from operation 30 to 20 or from the To Move
intraoperation step to the Queue intraoperation step. It is also
disabled if the From interoperation step is Scrap or Reject.
8. Enter the transaction Quantity.
The transaction quantity defaults to either the minimum transfer
quantity, the available quantity, or not at all depending on how the
TP:Move Transaction Default Quantity profile option is set. See:
Profile Options: page 2 – 64.
If you enter a quantity that is less than the minimum transfer
quantity, a warning is displayed but you are allowed to continue.
If you selected an alternate unit of measure for the assemblies, you
must enter the transaction quantity in the alternate unit of measure.
If you have the TP:WIP:Move Transaction profile option set to
Online processing, you cannot move more assemblies than exist in
an operation step. If this option is set to Background processing,
however, you can move any number of assemblies, but the quantity
is validated in the background. You can correct any errors using the
Pending Move Transactions window. See: Processing Pending
Move Transactions: page 8 – 54.
If you have more than one repetitive schedule released for a
specified assembly, the system displays the aggregate quantity of

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 these schedules and allocates quantities across schedules using a
FIFO (first in–first out) algorithm. Thus transactions against the
oldest repetitive schedules are processed first.
9. Enter the transaction Date and time.
The date and time must fall within an open accounting period and
cannot be greater than the current date and time or less than the
release date of the job or the release date of the earliest valid
repetitive schedule. Valid repetitive schedules have statuses of
Released or Complete.
10. Optionally, select the Reason code. See: Defining Transaction
Reasons, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
11. Optionally, enter the transaction Reference.
References can be used to identify transactions on standard reports.
They can be up to 240 characters of alpha numeric text.
12. If Oracle Quality is installed and one or more qualified mandatory
collection plans exist, Oracle Quality is invoked and the Find
Collection Plans window appears. If no mandatory collection plans
are found you can optionally invoke Oracle Quality by choosing
the Quality button from the toolbar or the Enter Quality Results
option from the Tools menu. See: Entering Quality Data for Move
Transactions, Oracle Quality User’s Guide.
13. Choose the Transact button.

" To scrap assemblies:

H See: Scrapping Assemblies: page 8 – 72.

" To add an operation and move assemblies into this operation:

1. Enter a From operation Sequence number.
2. Enter a From operation Step.
3. Enter a To operation Sequence number for the new operation.
4. Enter an operation Code or Department for the new operation
sequence.
5. Enter a To operation Step for the new operation.
6. Follow steps 6 through 11 above.

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 " To backflush pull components:
H See: Backflushing Pull Components: page 8 – 44.

" To charge manual resources:

H Choose the Resources button. See: Charging Resources with Move
Transactions: page 9 – 36.

" To view shop floor statuses:

H Choose the Statuses button. See: Assigning and Viewing Shop
Floor Statuses: page 8 – 65.

See Also

Setting Up Shop Floor Control: page 8 – 5

Operation Completion Move Transactions: page 8 – 29
Performing Move Completion and Move Return Transactions: page
8 – 48
Intraoperation Steps: page 8 – 9
Resource Management: page 9 – 2

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Operation Pull Backflush Transactions
Operation pull backflush transactions automatically pull inventory for
all Operation Pull components defined at the operation. They also
pulls components for all non–backflush operations between the current
operation and the last completed backflush operation. Whether the
backflush occurs automatically during a move transaction is
determined by the whether the operation is or is not defined as a
backflush operation. See: Operations, Oracle Bills of Material User’s
Guide. and Creating a Standard Operation, Oracle Bills of Material User’s
Guide.

Backflush Operations
You cannot backflush at operations that are specified as non–backflush
operations. If you assign Operation Pull components to non–backflush
operations these components are backflushed at a backflushing
operation later in the routing. The last operation in the routing should
always be defined as a backflush operation to ensure that all Operation
Pull components are backflushed by the end of the routing.

Count Point and Autocharge Operations

When you define operations in Oracle Bills of Material, you can specify
whether an operation is a count point and whether resources at that
operation should be automatically charged during a move transaction.
You can update this information in Work in Process using the
Operations window. Operations that are non–count point/autocharge
operations must be defined as backflush operations. See: Count Point
and Autocharge Fields, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.

Negative Requirements Backflushes

When Operation Pull components that have negative requirement
quantities are backflushed, they are returned to instead of supplied
from inventory.

See Also

Backflush Transactions: page 7 – 74

Lot and Serial Number Backflushing: page 7 – 78
Supply Types: page D – 2

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 Operation Completion Transactions: page 8 – 29

Backflushing Pull Components

As you perform move and completion transactions that complete
assembles at an operation or complete assemblies into inventory, the
system automatically backflushes pull components not under lot, serial
number, or lot and serial control from their respective supply
subinventories. Reversing these transactions returns backflushed
components back to their subinventories. See: Backflush Transactions:
page 7 – 74 and Reverse Backflush Transactions: page 7 – 74.
Pull components under lot, serial number, or lot and serial number
control are handed somewhat differently. Lot controlled components
can also be automatically backflushed but only if the WIP Backflush Lot
Selection Parameter is set to auto–FIFO selection — by Receipt Date or
Expiration Date — and there is sufficient inventory. Components
under serial number or lot and serial control cannot however be
backflushed without the manual entry of the applicable lot and/or
serial numbers. See: Lot and Serial Number Backflushing: page 7 – 78.
Operation and Assembly Pull components are not automatically
backflushed when you complete assemblies at an operation or
complete job or schedule assemblies into inventory if the following
conditions exist:
– the operation that assemblies are being completed at is not a
backflush operation
– the components are under serial number or lot and serial
number control
– the WIP Backflush Lot Selection Parameter requires manual
entry of lot numbers
– there is insufficient inventory in the supply subinventory
and locator for lot controlled components

☞ Attention: Backflush transactions that do not complete

because there is insufficient inventory can be resubmitted using
the Pending Transactions window in Oracle Inventory. See:
Viewing Pending Transactions, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
Pull components that are not backflushed can be manually issued using
the WIP Material Transactions window. You can use the WIP Material
Transaction window to issue these components that were not

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 backflushed because the backflush transaction was cancelled. See:
Issuing and Returning Specific Components: page 7 – 49.

" To backflush or return backflushed components under lot, serial, or

lot and serial control:
1. When the Backflush Transactions folder window appears, select the
supply Subinventory and, if required by the subinventory, the
supply Locator. See: Customizing the Presentation of Data in a
Folder, Oracle Applications User’s Guide and See: Supply
Subinventory and Locator Fields, Oracle Bills of Material User’s
Guide.

☞ Attention: The Backflush Transaction folder window

automatically appears only if you are backflushing lot controlled
pull components and the WIP Lot Selection Method Parameter is set
to require manual lot entry. It also appears when you are
backflushing serial only or lot and serial controlled components.
See: Backflush Default Parameters: page 2 – 21.

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 2. Select the UOM. See: Overview of Units of Measure, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide.
You can use any valid, alternate unit of measure for the component
you are backflushing.
3. Enter the transaction Quantity.
You must transact the the Quanity Required value. If you are
transacting components in their primary unit of measure under lot
control and the required quantity is a non–integer, you can only
transact up to the largest integer. If you enter an alternate unit of
measure for the assemblies, you must enter the transaction quantity
in the alternate unit of measure.
4. Optionally, select the Reason code. See: Defining Transaction
Reasons, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
5. Optionally, enter the transaction Reference.
References can be used to identify transactions on standard reports.
They can be up to 240 characters of alpha numeric text.
6. Choose the Lot/Serial button to assign lot and/or serial numbers.
See: Assigning Lot Numbers, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide and
Assigning Serial Numbers, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
7. Choose Done to save your work.

See Also

Backflush Transactions: page 7 – 74

Move Transaction Types: page 8 – 36
Performing Move Transactions: page 8 – 37
Performing Move Completion and Move Return Transactions: page
8 – 48

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Move Completion/Return Rules
The following rules are enforced when performing assembly move
completion and move return transactions:
• Discrete jobs and repetitive schedules must have routings.
• A non–standard discrete job must have an assembly and routing
reference
• Default completion subinventories, and locators if required by
the subinventory, must be specified for the following:
– standard discrete jobs
– the repetitive line/assemblies that are used to build
Repetitive schedules
– non–standard Discrete jobs with routing references
• Assemblies under lot control cannot be completed from or
returned to repetitive schedules
• Assemblies under lot control can be completed from and
returned to discrete jobs only if you have specified a lot number
for the job. See: Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63
• Assemblies under serial number control cannot be completed
from or returned to discrete jobs or repetitive schedules unless
the item’s Serial Generation attribute in Oracle Inventory is set to
dynamic entry –At sales order issue.
• Assemblies cannot be completed from or returned to the To
Move intraoperation step of the last operation on the routing
• Assemblies cannot be completed from or returned to a discrete
job or repetitive schedule if the To Move intraoperation step of
the last operation on the routing has a shop floor status that
disallows move transactions
• When a job or schedule with outside processing operations is
changed to complete, closed, or canceled status – an
informational warning message displays if open purchase orders
or requisitions exist for any of the operations.
• Changing a job or schedule status to completed, closed, or
canceled is prevented if open reservations exist. You must unlink
the sales order reserved to the assembly, or reduce the quantity
to equal the completed quantity.

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 The following rules are enforced only when performing move return
transactions:
• You cannot return more assemblies from inventory to a standard
Discrete job than have been completed from that job
• You cannot return more assemblies to jobs or schedules than
exist in inventory unless the Oracle Inventory Allow Negative
Balances parameter is set. See: Default Inventory Parameters,
Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
• Assemblies cannot be returned to Discrete jobs or Repetitive
schedules if the assembly item or its subinventory is under
reservation control.

Performing Move Completion/Return Transactions

You can complete assemblies into inventory from jobs and schedules
using move completion transactions. You can also return completed
assemblies back to jobs or repetitive schedules using move return
transactions.

☞ Attention: Function security controls whether assembly move

completion and move return transactions are allowed. You can
also control whether the Move Transaction Type defaults to
Complete using the WIP:Move Completion Default. See:
Profile Options: page 2 – 64 and Security Functions: page
2 – 78.

Prerequisites
❑ Release a job or repetitive schedule. See: Releasing Discrete Jobs:
page 3 – 92 and Releasing Repetitive Schedule: page 6 – 22.
❑ Confirm that the From intraoperation step has a shop floor status
that allows you to move assemblies from one intraoperation step to
another. See: Assigning and Viewing Shop Floor Statuses: page
8 – 65.

" To select a job, repetitive schedule, or sales order:

1. Navigate to the Move Transactions window.

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 2. Select a Sales Order, repetitive Line and Assembly, Assembly, or
Job. The cursor defaults to one of these fields based on how you
have the TP:WIP:Move Transaction First Field profile option set. See:
Profile Options: page 2 – 64.
You can only select a discrete job or a repetitive line and assembly
for a repetitive schedule if the job or schedule has a status of
Released or Complete.
You can reserve over–completion quantities from jobs linked to
sales orders. Enter the sales order number, otherwise the
over–completion is unreserved excess inventory. See: Linking Sales
Orders and Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 74.

" To move and complete assemblies or return and move assemblies:

1. Choose the Complete or Return Transaction Type. See: Move
Transaction Types: page 8 – 36.

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 If you are completing assemblies, information from the last
operation of the job or schedule is automatically defaulted into the
operation To fields — Sequence, Code, and Department — and the
To Move intraoperation step is defaulted for the To Step.
If you are returning assemblies, information from the last operation
of the job or schedule is automatically defaulted into the operation
From fields — Sequence, Code, and Department — and the To
Move intraoperation step is defaulted for the From Step.
2. If you are completing assemblies, select the complete From
operation Sequence and intraoperation Step.
3. Select the UOM. See: Overview of Units of Measure, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide.
You can use any valid, alternate unit of measure for the assembly
you are moving.
4. Enter the transaction Quantity.
If you are completing assemblies, you can complete a greater
quantity than the job or schedule start quantity, subject to the
tolerance level set. For example, if you have 49 assemblies at
operation 10, and 51 at operation 20 you can complete the
assemblies at operation 10 before completing those at operaton 20.
If you are returning assemblies, you can return fewer but not more
assemblies than the number of assemblies that have been
completed from a standard Discrete job. You can return more
assemblies than completed to non–standard Discrete jobs and to
Repetitive schedules. You cannot return more assemblies than are
in inventory unless the Allow Negative Balances parameter is set in
Oracle Inventory. See: Organization Parameters Window, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide.
If you enter a quantity that is less than the minimum transfer
quantity for the operation, a warning is displayed but you are
allowed to continue.
If you selected an alternate unit of measure, you must enter the
quantity in the alternate unit of measure.
5. Enter the transaction Date and time.
The date and time must fall within an open accounting period and
cannot be greater than the current date or less than the release date
of the job or the earliest valid repetitive schedule.
6. Optionally, select the Reason code. See: Defining Transaction
Reasons, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.

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 7. Optionally, enter the transaction Reference.
References can be used to identify transactions on standard reports.
They can be up to 240 characters of alpha numeric text.
8. Choose the Transact button.

" To backflush pull components:

H See: Backflushing Pull Components: page 8 – 44.

See Also

Setting Up Shop Floor Control: page 8 – 5

Assembly Move Completion Transactions: page 2 – 75
Move Completion/Return Rules: page 8 – 47
Intraoperation Steps: page 8 – 9
Resource Management: page 9 – 2

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Viewing Move Transactions
You can view move transactions for an individual job or repetitive
schedule (line/assembly). You can also view move transactions across
jobs and schedules.

" To find and view move transactions:

1. Navigate to the View Move Transactions window. The Find Move
Transactions window appears.

You can query to find move transactions by Transaction Date or

date range, by Job, by production Line, by Assembly, by a range of
Departments, and by a range of Steps. For example, you might
query to find all move transactions that scrapped assemblies (To
Step = Scrap).
2. Enter any combination of search criteria and choose the Find
button. The results display in the View Move Transactions
window.

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 You can view the following move transaction information in the
Move Transaction window’s tabbed regions:
Job or Schedule Header: Transaction Date, Job, Assembly, production
Line, Transaction ID
Operations, Quantities: From Operation (Sequence, Department
Step), To Operation (Sequence, Department, Step), Transaction
(UOM, Quantity), Primary (UOM, Quantity), and Overcompletion
(Transaction Quantity, Primary Quantity)
Scrap, Comments: Scrap Account, Reason, Reference
You can also view, if entered, descriptive flexfield information. See:
Setting Up Descriptive Flexfields: page 14 – 4.

See Also

Searching for Information, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

Move Transaction Options: page 8 – 34

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Pending Move Transactions
You can view Move transactions awaiting processing. You can also
view, update, delete, and resubmit Move transactions that have failed
validation or processing.

Processing Pending Move Transactions

You can view, update, delete, and resubmit Move transaction records
that have failed validation and remain in the Open Move Transaction
Interface table (WIP_MOVE_TNX_INTERFACE). You can also
resubmit transactions whose concurrent process has failed and have a
processing phase of Complete and process status of Error. You can
view error messages associated with failed records. Error messages
can assist you in updating failed records before resubmission.

Prerequisites
❑ Launch the Move Transaction Manager. See: Transaction
Managers, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide and Launching Transaction
Managers, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.

" To view pending Move transaction records:

1. Navigate to the Pending Move Transactions window. The Find
Pending Move Transactions window appears.

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 You can search for records by Transaction Date range, by
Organization, by Job or Schedule Name, and production Line. You
can also search for records that have a specific Process Phase (Move
validation, Move processing, or Backflush setup, Process Status
(Pending, Running, or Error), Source Code, Source Line ID, or
Transaction ID.
2. Enter any combination of search criteria and choose the Find
button. The Pending Move Transactions window appears with the
results of your query.

" To view pending Move transaction records:

H For each pending record displayed, you can view the following
information using the Pending Move Transactions window’s
tabbed regions:

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 Processing: Group ID, processing Phase, processing Status
Source: Source Code, Source Line (if applicable), Created By
Concurrent Request: Request ID, Phase, Status, Message
Job or Schedule Name: Organization, Job or Schedule Name, Line
Operations: From Operation Sequence, Department, and Step and
To Operation Sequence, Department, and Step
Transaction: Transaction ID, UOM, Quantity, Overcompletion
Quantity, Date and Time, Type
Comments and Scrap Account: Reason, Reference, and Scrap
Account
You can also view the descriptive flexfield information entered for
the transaction record. See: Setting Up Descriptive Flexfields: page
14 – 4.

" To view error details for failed Move transactions:

1. In the Pending Move Transactions window, select the failed record.

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 2. Choose the Errors button. The Pending Move Transactions Error
window appears.

All errors for the selected record are displayed. Column indicates
the name of the column in the Move interface table that failed
validation. Message indicates why the transaction failed. Using
these messages you can determine what fields need to be updated.
Messages that are not specific to a Column, for example processing
errors, may also be displayed. In such cases, a Message but no
Column is shown.

" To update failed Move transaction records:

1. Select the record to update.
You can update records with a processing status of Error.
2. In the Source tabbed region, enter the Source Code, the Source
Line, or both.
When you insert records into the Open Move Transaction Interface
table, you can optionally identity a record’s source using the source
code and source line. For example, you can enter a different source
code and source line for records from a bar code reader versus
those from a radio frequency device.
3. Select the Created By identifier.
The name of the user that created the transaction is displayed. This
field can be updated.
4. In the Job or Schedule Name tabbed region, select the Organization.
You can only select enabled organizations. See: Creating an
Organization, Oracle Human Resources User’s Guide.
5. Select the Job or Schedule Name.

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 If you select a schedule name, you must enter a production line. If
you select a Discrete job, and the line field contains a value the
system prompts you to delete the line value.
6. In the Operations tabbed regions, select the From Operation
Sequence.
You can enter any operation defined for your job or schedule.
7. Select the From Operation Step.
You can update this field with any intraoperation step currently
enabled for your organization. See: Intraoperation Steps: page
8 – 9.
8. Select the To Operation Sequence. You can enter any operation
sequence that has a valid department for your organization and job
or Repetitive schedule.
9. Select the To Operation Step.
You can select any operation step that is enabled for your
organization. If you select the Scrap intraoperation step and the
WIP Require Scrap Account parameter is set, you must enter a scrap
account. If you update the To Operation step from Scrap to
another, non–scrap step and the scrap account field has a value,
you must clear the scrap account field.
10. Select the Move transaction Type: Move transaction, Move and
Complete, Return and Move. See: Move Transaction Types: page
8 – 36.
11. In the Transaction tabbed region, select the UOM.
You can use any valid, alternate UOM for the assembly you are
moving. See: Overview of Units of Measure, Oracle Inventory User’s
Guide.
12. Enter the transaction Quantity.
If you enter an alternate unit of measure for the assemblies, you
must enter the quantity in the alternate unit of measure. You can
update this field with any number.
13. If you are over–completing an assembly quantity, the
over–completion quantity is displayed in the field. You can
manually change it.
14. Enter the transaction Date and time.
The date and time must fall within an open accounting period and
cannot be greater than the current date or less than the release date
of the job or the earliest valid Repetitive schedule.

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 15. In the Comments and Scrap Account tabbed region, select a
transaction Reason code. See: Defining Transaction Reasons, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide.
16. Enter the transaction Reference.
References can be used to identify transactions on standard reports.
They can be up to 240 characters of alpha numeric text.
17. If the To intraoperation step is Scrap and the WIP Require Scrap
Account parameter is set, you must enter a scrap account Number
or an account Alias. If you do not specify that a scrap account is
required, it is optional. See: Move Transaction Parameters: page
2 – 20 and Defining Account Aliases, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
If you subsequently change the To intraoperation step from Scrap
to an intraoperation step other than Scrap, you must clear the Scrap
Account number or Account Alias.
18. Save your work.

" To resubmit individual failed Move transaction records:

1. In the Pending Move Transactions window, check the transaction’s
Resubmit check box.
You can resubmit transactions of any processing status. If you
leave the check box unchecked you can still update your
transaction record but the transaction manager does not process it
again when polling the Move interface table.
2. Save your work to resubmit the transaction.
When you resubmit a record, the system nulls the Transaction ID,
Group ID, and concurrent Request ID and changes the processing
status to Pending. The resubmit level of the Move Transaction
Manager determines at what specific start date and time or at what
specific intervals transactions are processed.

" To select and resubmit all failed Move transaction records:

1. In the Pending Move Transactions window, chose Select All for
Resubmit from the Tools menu. See: Tools menu: page F – 2.

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 You can deselect selected transactions as required.
2. Save your work to resubmit the transactions.
When you resubmit transactions, the system nulls their Transaction
IDs, Group IDs, and concurrent Request IDs and changes their
processing Statuses to Pending. The resubmit level of the Move
Transaction Manager determines at what specific start date and
time or at what specific intervals transactions are processed.

" To delete pending Move transaction records:

1. In the Pending Move Transactions window, select the transaction.
2. Choose Delete from the Edit Menu
You can delete failed records that have a processing status of Error
regardless of their processing phase. When you delete transaction
records, their corresponding error messages are also deleted.

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See Also

Open Move Transaction Interface, Oracle Manufacturing APIs and

Open Interfaces Manual
Open Move Transaction Interface: page 8 – 33
Performing Move Transactions: page 8 – 37
Performing Move Completion Transactions: page 8 – 48
Profile Options: page 2 – 64
Searching for Information, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Finding Pending Move Transactions
You can find pending move transactions for jobs or schedules or
repetitive lines and assemblies.
You can find pending move transactions by a range of Transaction
Dates, Organization, Job or Schedule Name, production Line, Process
Phase (Move validation, Move processing, or Backflush setup), Process
Status (Pending, Running, or Error), Source Code, Source Line ID, and
Transaction ID. You can limit or expand your selection by combining
selection criteria.

" To find pending move transactions:

1. Navigate to the Pending Move Transactions window. The Find
Pending Move Transactions window appears.
2. Enter any combination of search criteria and choose the Find
button. The Pending Move Transactions window appears with the
results of your query.

See Also

Processing Pending Move Transactions: page 8 – 54

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Shop Floor Statuses
Shop floor statuses help you control assembly move transactions on the
shop floor. You can define as many shop floor statuses as are required.
You can restrict moves transactions by assigning ‘no move’ shop floor
statuses to intraoperation steps within job and repetitive schedule
operations. Shop floor statuses can be used to restrict the movement of
an assembly out of a ‘no move’ intraoperation step. For example, you
can define a ‘no move’ shop floor status, such as QAHold, then assign
this status to the applicable intraoperation step to prevent moves until
the problems are resolved.
Shop floor statuses can also be used to restrict moves over ‘no move’
intraoperation steps and out of operations that have outside processing
resources assigned to them. These two optional uses of shop floor
statuses are controlled by WIP parameters and are described below.

Restricting Moves Over ‘No Move’ Intraoperation Steps

When the WIP Allow Moves Over No Move Shop Floor Statuses parameter
is not set, the system checks all autocharge operations and To Move,
Run and Queue intraoperation steps between the From and To
operations and intraoperation steps for ‘no move’ statuses. The system
also checks the statuses of intervening intraoperation steps at the From
and To operations if those operations are direct charge. If a status that
can prevent moves is found, the move is disallowed. Direct charge
operations between the From and To Operations and statuses at Scrap
and Reject intraoperation steps do not prevent moves.
Note: The Move Transactions: Allow Skipping Over No Move
Statuses security function can be set to override ‘no move’ shop
floor statuses. See: Security Functions: page 2 – 78.

Parameter On
If the WIP Allow Moves Over No Move Shop Floor Statuses parameter is
set, standard shop floor status logic is applied and only moves from
intraoperation steps that have ‘no move’ statuses are prohibited. In
this example, you cannot move assemblies from the To Move
intraoperation step of operation 20, from the Scrap intraoperation step
of operation 30, and from the Run and Reject intraoperation steps of
operation 40.
Note: You can move assemblies from these operations and
intraoperation steps after disabling or deleting their ‘no move’
statuses.

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 Parameter Off
If the WIP Allow Moves Over No Move Shop Floor Statuses parameter is
not set, both standard shop floor status and ‘no move’ logic are
applied. Again, you cannot move assemblies from the To Move
intraoperation step of operation 20, from the Scrap intraoperation step
of operation 30, and from the Run and Reject intraoperation steps of
operation 40. In addition, the following moves are also prohibited:
• You cannot move assemblies from the Queue intraoperation step
of operation 10 to the Scrap intraoperation step of operation 20
because of the ‘no move’ shop floor status at the To Move
intraoperation step of operation 20, a direct charge operation.
• You cannot move assemblies backward from the To Move
intraoperation step of operation 40 to the Queue intraoperation
step of operation 40 because of the intervening ‘no move’ at the
Run intraoperation step.
• You cannot move assemblies from the Queue intraoperation step
of operation 10 to the To Move intraoperation step of operation
40 because of the ‘no move’ status at the Run intraoperation step
of operation 40.
• You cannot move and complete assemblies from the Queue
intraoperation step of operation 10 to the To Move intraoperation
step of the last operation, operation 40, because of the ‘no move’
status at the Run intraoperation step of operation 40.
The following move transactions, however, are not prohibited:
• You can move and complete assemblies from the To Move
intraoperation step of operation 40 because the ‘no move’ status
at the Reject intraoperation step of operation 40 is not
considered.
• You can move assemblies from the Queue intraoperation step of
operation 10 to the Queue intraoperation step of operation 30
Queue because ‘no move’ status at the To Move intraoperation
step of operation 20 is on the intraoperation step of an
intervening direct charge operation.
• You can move assemblies from the Queue intraoperation step of
operation 10 to the Reject of operation 30 because the intervening
‘no move’ status at the Scrap intraoperation of operation 30 is
not considered.
• You can move assemblies from the Queue intraoperation step at
operation 10 into the Run intraoperation step of operation 40

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 because you can move into an operation and step with a ‘no
move’ status without restrictions.
Additional Information: Move transactions loaded through
the Open Move Transaction Interface are checked for ‘no move’
statuses as well.

Shop Floor Status for PO Move Resources Parameter

Selecting a ‘no move’ shop floor status sets the Shop Floor Status for PO
Move Resources parameter. When this parameter is set, as you move
assemblies into the Queue intraoperation step of an outside processing
operation, the specified ‘no move’ shop floor status is automatically
assigned to the To Move (Queue) intraoperation step. Assemblies are
only moved out of this operation and step when a purchase order
receipt transaction in Oracle Purchasing launches the move transaction.
Using this parameter ensures that the same number of assemblies are
moved into and out of Queue at an outside processing step. Problems
in tracking work in process and cost variances are thus avoided.

See Also

Defining Shop Floor Statuses: page 2 – 51

Assigning and Viewing Shop Floor Statuses: page 8 – 65
Shop Floor Statuses Report: page 15 – 68
Move Transaction Parameters: page 2 – 20

Assigning and Viewing Shop Floor Statuses

You can assign shop floor statuses to any intraoperation step associated
with a job or repetitive line/assembly. Shop floor statuses that are
assigned to a repetitive line/assembly are valid for all repetitive
schedules being built on that production line.
You can assign multiple statuses to an intraoperation step. You cannot,
however, assign the same shop floor status to more than one
intraoperation step within the same operation. For example you could
not assign the same status to the Queue and To Move intraoperation
steps of operation sequence 30. You can update shop floor statuses at
any time.
Statuses are removed from intraoperation steps when the quantities at
those operations drop to zero.

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 Viewing Shop Floor Statuses
You can view the shop floor statuses that you have assigned to jobs and
repetitive schedule operations. You can view statuses directly using
this window or indirectly by choosing the Statuses button as you
perform move transactions. Viewing statuses as you transact allows
you to check the status of intraoperation steps before you attempt to
move assemblies into or out of them.

Prerequisites
❑ Define shop floor statuses. See: Defining Shop Floor Statuses: page
2 – 51.
❑ Define at least one job or repetitive schedule that has a routing.
See: Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63 and Defining
Repetitive Schedules Manually: page 6 – 14.

" To assign/update shop floor statuses:

1. Navigate to the Assign Shop Floor Statuses window.

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2. Select the discrete Job or the production Line and repetitive
Assembly.
You can assign shop floor statuses to jobs or repetitive schedules
that have the following statuses: Unreleased, Released, Complete,
or On Hold.
3. Choose Find to display all shop floor statuses you have previously
assigned to the job or repetitive line/assembly.
4. Select the Operation Sequence of the job or repetitive schedule.
You can assign shop floor statuses to any operation in the routing
of the job or repetitive schedule. This includes operations you
defined using the Operations window.
The department associated with the operation sequence is
displayed.
5. Select the intraoperation Step to which you want to assign or
update a shop floor status. You can only choose an enabled
intraoperation step. See: Intraoperation Steps Parameter: page
2 – 23.
6. Select the shop floor Status for the intraoperation step. You cannot
enter a shop floor status with an inactive on date less than or equal
to the current date.
7. Save your work.
Shop Floor Statuses Report: page 15 – 68

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Shop Floor Management
You can use Work in Process to manage outside supplier processing,
rework production, and perform assembly scrap. It also provides you
with several reports that can help you manage the activities on the
floor.
In this section, you will find overviews of each of these topics.

Outside Processing
You can use the closed loop system provided by Oracle Inventory,
Oracle Purchasing, and Oracle Work in Process to do the following:
• Define outside processing resource requirements for your
discrete job and repetitive schedule routings
• Automatically generate purchase requisitions, charge for outside
resources, and complete assemblies
• Receive assembly items back from outside processing suppliers
and automatically charge your outside processing resource costs
• Control and track progress at outside processing operations
Outside processing is described in detail in the Overview of Outside
Processing: page 10 – 2.

See Also

PO Move and PO Receipt: page 9 – 8

Rework Production
Rework may be necessary when production problems arise. You can
often rework or repair defective assemblies to make them usable. Work
in Process provides several options for handling rework. The method
you choose depends on the product you are building, your
manufacturing process, and the nature of the problem.
The options available are as follows:
• Reject intraoperation steps
• Rework operations

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 • Non–standard discrete jobs

Reject Intraoperation Step

When it is possible to rework defective assemblies at their present
routing operation, they can be moved into the Reject intraoperation
step of that operation. This isolates them from known ’good’
assemblies at that operation.
The system views assemblies moved into the Reject intraoperation step
from the Queue or Run intraoperation step of the same operation as
complete at that operation and updates operation completion
information, backflushes pull components, and charges resource costs
and overheads accordingly.
You can now perform the rework. When rework is complete you can
move the repaired assemblies to the Queue, Run, or To move
intraoperation step of the next operation.
If you do not want to rework defective assemblies at their present
operation, you can alternatively move them to the Reject intraoperation
step of a prior operation. This avoids recreating an operation
completion (Queue or Run to Reject and Queue, Run, or To Move to the
next operation) at the current operation.
If necessary, you can move irreparable assemblies into the Scrap
intraoperation step of the current operation. Moves from the Reject to
the Scrap intraoperation step, do not complete assemblies since rejected
assemblies are already considered complete. See: Intraoperation Steps:
page 8 – 9.

Rework Operations
When you regularly rework certain assemblies, you may find it
convenient to add ’rework’ operations to the primary routings of these
assemblies. You can then move assemblies that need rework into these
operations. Good assemblies bypass these operations.
Rework operations should be set to count point off/autocharge off so
that when good assemblies bypass them, the system does not
automatically transact operation completions for these operations. In
other words, you only need to move assemblies into these operations if
they require rework.

Non–Standard Discrete Jobs

You can also use non–standard jobs to perform rework activities.
Before defining non–standard jobs for rework, you must first complete
the defective assemblies by receiving them into a non–nettable rework

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 subinventory. This subinventory helps you to isolate these assemblies
from the known good assemblies.
Once you determine the proper rework steps for these assemblies, you
can define a non–standard discrete and add the operations and
components required for the rework. You can also create a rework
routing that specifically addresses this type of rework. See: Rework
Assemblies: page 4 – 7.

Assembly Scrap
You can scrap unusable, partially completed assemblies from jobs and
repetitive schedules by moving them into the Scrap intraoperation step
of an operation.

Scrap Transactions
You scrap assemblies by moving them into the Scrap intraoperation
step of an operation. You can, if necessary, recover scrapped
assemblies by moving them out of the Scrap intraoperation step. You
can also move assemblies back to the Scrap intraoperation step of the
previous operation from the Queue or Run intraoperation step of the
current operation if no work has been completed at the current
operation. See: Intraoperation Steps: page 8 – 9.
The system views assemblies moved into the Scrap intraoperation step
from the Queue or Run intraoperation step of the same operation as
complete at that operation and updates operation completion
information, backflushes pull components, and charges resource and
overhead costs accordingly.

Costing Assembly Scrap

You can optionally specify whether Scrap transactions require a scrap
account or alias using the WIP Require Scrap Account parameter. If you
enter a scrap account or alias as you move assemblies into a Scrap
intraoperation step, the scrap account is debited and the job or
repetitive schedule elemental accounts, as determined by the
accounting class, are credited for the cost of the assembly through the
scrap operation. This removes the cost of the scrapped assemblies
from the job or repetitive schedule. If you do not provide a scrap
account, the cost of the scrap remains in the job or schedule until job or
period close. If you recover assemblies from scrap, the scrap account is
credited and the job or repetitive schedule elemental accounts for the
cost of this assembly through this operation are debited. For more

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 information about how assembly cost transactions are costed see: Work
in Process Average Cost Transactions, Oracle Cost Management User’s
Guide and Work in Process Standard Cost Transactions, Oracle Cost
Management User’s Guide.

Netting Assembly Scrap

For standard discrete jobs, the MRP planning process does not consider
assemblies in Scrap intraoperation steps as scheduled receipts, nor does
the planning process use these scrapped assemblies when calculating
MPS relief. For standard discrete jobs, the planning process deducts
scrapped assemblies from the MRP net quantity to determine the
available supply. The planning process does not deduct scrapped
assemblies from supply on non–standard discrete jobs or repetitive
schedules.

Effect of Scrap on Backflush Components

When you move assemblies into the Scrap intraoperation step of an
operation that has operation pull components assigned to it, the system
backflushes these components, even if the operation is defined as a
non–backflush operation. Operation pull components waiting at prior,
non–backflush operations are also backflushed.
When you move assemblies into the Scrap intraoperation step of an
operation that has assembly pull components assigned to it, the system
backflushes these components and all assembly pull components at
prior operations.
If you recover assemblies from scrap, by moving assemblies out of
instead of into a Scrap intraoperation step, the backflush transactions
described above are reversed.

☞ Attention: When you scrap assemblies at an operation, the

operation and assembly pull components that would have been
consumed at subsequent operations are not backflushed.

See Also

Intraoperation Steps: page 8 – 9

Operation Pull Backflush Transactions: page 8 – 43

Move Transaction Parameters: page 2 – 20

Scrapping Assemblies: page 8 – 72

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Scrapping Assemblies
You scrap assemblies by moving them into a scrap intraoperation step
as part of an intraoperation or interoperation move transaction. If you
enter a scrap account number or alias, the cost of the assembly through
the scrap operation is removed from the job or schedule. See:
Assembly Scrap: page 8 – 70.

Prerequisites
❑ Release a job or repetitive schedule. See: Releasing Discrete Jobs:
page 3 – 92 and Releasing Repetitive Schedule: page 6 – 22.
❑ Confirm that the From intraoperation step has a shop floor status
that allows you to move assemblies from one intraoperation step to
another. See: Assigning and Viewing Shop Floor Statuses: page
8 – 65.

" To select a sales order, line/assembly or job to transact:

1. Navigate to the Move Transactions window.
2. Select a Sales Order, repetitive Line and Assembly, Assembly, or
Job. The cursor defaults to one of these fields based on how you
have the TP:WIP:Move Transaction First Field profile option set. See:
Profile Options: page 2 – 64.
You can only select a discrete job or a repetitive line and assembly
for a repetitive schedule if the job or schedule has a status of
Released or Complete.

" To perform an intraoperation scrap move:

1. Select the From operation Sequence and intraoperation Step.
2. Select the To operation sequence and intraoperation step.
The To intraoperation step must be Scrap. See: Intraoperation
Steps: page 8 – 9.
3. Select the UOM. See: Overview of Units of Measure, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide.
You can use any valid, alternate unit of measure for the assembly
you are moving.
4. Enter the transaction Quantity.
If you selected an alternate unit of measure, you must enter the
quantity in the alternate unit of measure.

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 5. Enter the transaction Date and time.
This date and time must fall within an open accounting period. It
cannot be greater than the current date or less than the release date
of the job or the earliest valid repetitive schedule.
6. If the WIP Require Scrap Account parameter is set, you must enter a
scrap account number or an account Alias. If you do not specify
that a scrap account is required, it is optional. See: Move
Transaction Parameters: page 2 – 20 and Defining Account Aliases,
Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
If you subsequently change the To intraoperation step from Scrap
to an intraoperation step other than Scrap, you must clear the scrap
account Number or Account Alias.
For more information about how scrap transactions are costed see:
Work in Process Average Cost Transactions, Oracle Cost
Management User’s Guide and Work in Process Standard Cost
Transactions, Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide.
7. Optionally, select the Reason code. See: Defining Transaction
Reasons, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
8. Optionally, enter the transaction Reference.
References can be used to identify transactions on standard reports.
They can be up to 240 characters of alpha numeric text.
9. Choose the Transact button.

" To backflush pull components:

H See: Backflushing Pull Components: page 8 – 44.

See Also

Assigning Lot Numbers, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide

Assigning Serial Numbers, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide
Setting Up Shop Floor Control: page 8 – 5
Performing Move Transactions: page 8 – 37

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Dispatch Reports
There are a number of reports that can help you prioritize your shop
floor activity, including:
• Discrete Job Data Report: page 15 – 11
• Discrete Job Dispatch Report: page 15 – 13
• Discrete Job Listing Report: page 15 – 15
• Repetitive Line Report: page 15 – 51
• Repetitive Schedule Data Report: page 15 – 55
• WIP Location Report: page 15 – 74

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CHAPTER

9 Resource Management

T his chapter explains how to manage resources in Work in Process,

including:
• Overviewof Resource Requirements: page 9 – 2
• Setting Up: page 9 – 6
• Resource Charge Types: page 9 – 7
• Resource Requirements: page 9 – 11
• Resource Transactions: page 9 – 30
• Pending Resource Transactions: page 9 – 45

Resource Management 9–1

Overview of Resource Management
In Work in Process, you can define and control resources (people,
machines, and so on) during your production process using these
features:

Resource Types
You can charge resources based upon their charge type: WIP Move,
Manual, PO Move, and PO Receipt.

Manual Resource Transactions

You can manually charge resources associated with discrete job and
repetitive schedule operations. Manual resources can be charged as
you move assemblies. They can also be charged independent of move
transactions resource transaction. You can correct erroneously entered
Manual resource charges.

Automatic Resource Transactions

When you move job and schedule assemblies forward in their routing,
pre–assigned WIP Move resources are automatically charged at their
standard rate. If you move assemblies backward, WIP Move resource
charges are reversed.
When you receive purchasing items that are associated with PO Move
and PO Receipt resources back from an outside processing supplier,
they are automatically charged. In the case of PO Move resources, the
purchasing items are also completed at the operation. If you return
assemblies to an outside processing supplier or enter correcting
receipts for an outside processing supplier, resource charges and moves
are reversed.

Resource Requirements
You can add resources to existing routing operations as well as to
operations not on the original routing.

Phantom Resources
You can include phantom resources in your routings, however, when
the phantom is the parent or higher level assembly, its component costs
are included in the parent cost, they inherit the operation sequence
number from the parent, and their resources and overheads are
excluded from the parent or higher level assembly cost. If you want
phantom components to maintain their own operation sequence
numbers, and if you want their resource and overhead costs to be

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included in the parent cost, you can set these two BOM:Use Phantom
Routings and BOM:Inherit Phantom Operation Sequence parameters.
See: Phantom Assemblies: page 7 – 62.

Outside Processing Resources

You can assign outside processing resources to job and schedule
routing operations. You can move assemblies to and receive them back
from these outside operations. The system automatically charges
outside processing resources, tracks your supplier costs, and directly
interfaces with Oracle Purchasing for closed loop control. See:
Overview of Outside Processing: page 10 – 2.

Constraint–based Scheduling of Resources

If you have installed Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling,
Constraint–based scheduling is enabled when you set the Scheduled
field on the Resource Requirements window. The Scheduled field value
flags the constraint–based scheduling engine to consider the capacity
for the resource. See: Defining WIP Resource Definition, Oracle
Manufacturing Scheduling User’s Guide

Simultaneous and Alternate Resources

You can set up simultaneous and alternate resources. Simultaneous
resources consist of two or more resources scheduled with the same
start date and time. Alternate resources consist of other resources used
instead of the primary resource. See: Defining Simultaneous and
Alternate Resources, Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling User’s Guide, and
Adding and Updating Resource Requirements: page 9 – 16

Resource Instances
If you have installed Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling, you can define
specific machines to any of your machine type resources. You can also
define specific employees to labor type resources. Resource instances
are defined on the Resource Instance window.

Open Resource Transaction Interface

You can load resource transaction information from external systems —
such as bar code readers, payroll systems, time cards, routing sheets,
and custom data entry forms — into the Open Resource Transaction
Interface table. When this data is processed, it is validated, and invalid
records are marked so that you can correct and resubmit them. See:
Open Resource Transaction Interface: page 9 – 31.

Resource Management 9–3

 Flexible Labor Transactions
You can charge person–type resources with or without entering an
employee. If you enter an employee, the employee hourly rate is used
to calculate the resource charge. Otherwise, the charge is calculated
using the standard resource rate.

Actual Rate Resource Transactions

If you define a resource as costed at an actual rate, you can enter the
actual rate during a manual resource transaction using the Open
Resource Transaction Interface. If you do not enter an actual rate, the
standard rate is used, but it is treated as an actual rate.

Automatic Overhead Charging

The appropriate overhead costs are automatically charged as you move
assemblies through the shop floor. You can charge overheads directly
based on move transactions or based on resource charges. You can base
the material overhead charge on the number of units, or on the
percentage of resource value. The overhead rate with the basis of
resource value must be directly assigned to the resource’s respective
routing. Overhead charges are automatically reversed during a
backward move transaction.

Mobile Manufacturing
If Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications is installed, the Mobile
Manufacturing component enables you to perform resource
transactions using a mobile client device networked with a computer
system. You can charge resources defined to operation sequences. See:
Resource Transactions, Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications User’s
Guide.

Resource Reporting
You can report on resource transactions, efficiencies, and costs by job,
repetitive schedule, department, or resource to get a complete history
of resource activities. See: Resource Performance Report: page 15 – 63
and Resource Transaction Report: page 15 – 65.

See Also

Overview of Outside Processing: page 10 – 2

Setting Up: page 9 – 6

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Resource Transaction Options: page 9 – 31
Defining Overhead, Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide

Resource Management 9–5

Setting Up
• For a listing of out–of–product setups that affect resource
management see: Setup Prerequisites: page 2 – 3.
• For a listing of setups within Work in Process that affect resource
management see: Setup Check List: page 2 – 7.
• For a listing of profile options that affect resource management
see: Profile Options: page 2 – 64.

See Also

Resource Requirements: page 9 – 11

Cost Accounting Prerequisites, Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide
Setting Up Manufacturing Standard Costing, Oracle Cost Management
User’s Guide

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Resource Charge Types
You can specify how to charge resources when you assign resources to
routing operations in Oracle Bills of Materials. You can also specify how
to charge resources when you add resources to work in process routing
operations. There are four resource charge types: WIP Move, Manual,
PO Move, and PO Receipt.
See Also: Resource Charges, Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide.

WIP Move
WIP Move resources are automatically charged at their standard rate as
you move assemblies forward from the Queue or Run intraoperation
step to the To move, Reject, or Scrap intraoperation step of the same
operation, or to the next operation.
WIP Move resources with a basis of Item are charged upon completion of
each assembly in the operation. WIP Move resources with a basis of Lot
are charged upon completion of the first assembly at the operation. In
both cases, the amount charged is based upon the resource’s usage rate
or amount multiplied by the resource’s standard cost at the time of the
transaction.
You can reverse a WIP Move resource charge by moving assemblies
backward from Queue or Run of the current operation to Queue or Run
of any prior operation, or by moving assemblies from the To move,
Reject, or Scrap intraoperation steps backward to the Queue or Run
intraoperation steps of the same operation, or to any intraoperation step
of any prior operation.
WIP Move resource charges are applied on a first in–first out basis to
multiple repetitive schedules on a line based on how the assemblies
being moved are allocated. For example, if you have 2 released
schedules for 100 assemblies each and you move 150 assemblies, the
system automatically allocates 100 to the earliest schedule and 50 to the
next.

See Also

Operation Completion Moves: page 8 – 29

Performing Move Transactions: page 8 – 37

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Manual
Manual resources can be charged independent of move transactions
using the Resource Transactions window. If you complete an operation
with a move transaction, and there are Manual resources assigned to that
operation, a message informing you that Manual resources exist at that
operation is displayed. You can then charge these Manual resources by
choosing the Resources button in the Move Transactions window.
Note: You can control whether the Resources button appears in
the Move Transactions window using function security. See:
Security Functions: page 2 – 78.
When you charge Manual resources, you must enter the actual resource
units applied rather than autocharging the resource’s usage rate or
amount based on the move quantity. You can charge Manual resources
using that resources unit of measure or any valid alternate unit of
measure. If the resource is a person–type resource, you can enter an
employee number. Manual resources for repetitive schedules are
charged to the first open repetitive schedule on the line.
You can create ad hoc resource requirements as you charge resources.
Ad hoc resource requirements an be created for any resource that is
defined for the department that is associated with the operation.
You can reverse Manual resource charges by entering negative resource
units. For example, if you intend to charge 8 hours but mistakenly enter
10, you can correct the error by entering an additional resource charge
transaction for –2 hours.

See Also

Operation Completion Moves: page 8 – 29

Charging Resources Manually: page 9 – 33

PO Move and PO Receipt

The WIP Requisition Creation Time parameter determines whether or
not requisitions are created for resources assigned to outside processing
operations, and when they will be created. You can set this parameter so
that requisitions are created at job or schedule release, or at the outside
processing operation. See: WIP Parameters: page 2 – 14.
When you receive assemblies back from an outside processing supplier
in Oracle Purchasing, PO Receipt or PO Move resources, also known as
outside processing resources, are automatically charged at the standard

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or the actual rate. If the receipt involves a PO Move resource, the
assemblies are also moved from the Queue intraoperation step of the
outside processing operation into the Queue intraoperation step of the
next operation. If the outside processing operation is the last operation
in the routing, the assemblies are moved into the To move intraoperation
step of that operation. The assemblies are then immediately completed
into inventory if the following conditions are also met:
• For discrete jobs, a lot number must have been specified if the
assemblies are under lot control. See: Defining Discrete Jobs
Manually: page 3 – 63
• For repetitive schedules, the assemblies cannot be under lot
control
• Available serial number records are restricted for use with
another assembly once it has been issued from stock. Validations
occur to prevent issuing a serialized item, returned to stock, and
then to a different job. At the time of completion, serialized
assemblies and components are available from stock if they have
the specific values set for jobs and schedules in the Serial
Numbers window in Oracle Inventory. See: Serial Number
Validations for Component Returns and Assembly Completions:
page 7 – 83
• For discrete jobs and repetitive schedules, the assemblies cannot
be completed from or returned to the last operation on the routing
if the To Move intraoperation step of that operation has a shop
floor status that disallows move transactions
• For both discrete jobs and repetitive schedules, locators must be
specified if required by the default completion subinventories
Note: If the Move Transaction manager in Oracle Inventory has
not been launched, the assemblies move transactions are not
processed. See: Open Move Transactions Interface: page 8 – 33.
You can track the progress of outside processing assemblies that have
been sent to a supplier by moving assemblies within the outside
processing operation. You can optionally disallow move transactions
from an outside processing step unless they are launched by a purchase
order receipt. You can do this by using the Shop Floor Status for PO
Move Resource parameter. See: Shop Floor Statuses: page 8 – 63.
If, in Oracle Purchasing, you return assemblies to an outside processing
supplier using the Receiving Returns window, or enter correcting
receipts for an outside processing supplier using the Receiving
Corrections window, the system creates reversing charges for the PO
Move and PO Receipt resources associated with the outside processing

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 operation. If you enter a return or correction that involves a PO Move
resource, the assemblies are moved from the Queue intraoperation step
of the operation immediately following the outside processing operation
into the Queue intraoperation step of the outside processing operation.
If the outside processing operation is the last operation on the routing,
the assemblies automatically move from the To move intraoperation
step to the Queue intraoperation step of the outside processing
operation.
PO Move resource transactions are applied to multiple repetitive
schedules on a line based on how the assemblies being moved are
allocated. Moves are allocated across multiple repetitive schedules on a
first–in–first–out (FIFO) basis. PO Receipt resource transactions are
allocated across schedules on a first–in–first–out basis.
For example, if you have two released schedules for 100 assemblies each
and you move 150 assemblies, the system automatically allocates 100 to
the earliest schedule and 50 to the next.

See Also

Outside Processing: page 8 – 68

Resource Charges, Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide
Detailed Scheduling: page 13 – 7

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Resource Requirements
Resources can be assigned to routing operations. Resources are used to
cost and schedule jobs and repetitive schedules.

Resources
A resource is anything of value, except material and cash, required to
manufacture, cost, and schedule products. People, tools, machines,
outside processing services, machines, and physical space are
commonly used resources. See: Defining a Resource, Oracle Bills of
Material User’s Guide.
Note: In order for resources to be viewable in the applications
windows, Unit of Measure values in manufacturing must be
consistent with the values in Oracle General Ledger Set of
Books. Use the Unit of Measure Conversions window in Oracle
Inventory to create UOM conversion values. See: Defining Unit
of Measure Conversions, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide

Standard versus Non–Standard

You can specify whether to charge resources at a standard or
non–standard rate. Non–standard resources can be charged manually
in Work in Process. If the resource is a non–standard, outside
processing resource, its costs are derived from the purchase order it is
associated with.

Outside Processing Resources

You can define a resource as an outside processing resource. Outside
processing resources must be associated with the item that they are
used to produce. See: Overview of Outside Processing: page 10 – 2.

Phantom Assembly Resources

Phantom assemblies are non–stocked items that group material needed
to produce an assembly or a subassembly. When parent or high level
assemblies are phantoms, resource costs, including overheads are not
charged to the parent or higher level assembly cost. When phantoms
arse used as subassemblies, however, you can set a parameter in Oracle
Bills of Material to specify that its resource and overhead costs are
charged to the parent or higher level assembly. See: Phantom
Assemblies: page 7 – 62.

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 Charge Types
You must assign a charge type to each resource. Charge types
determine how resources are charged in Work in Process.

Resource Activities
You can assign the activities you define in Oracle Cost Management to
resources. Activities are processes or procedures that consume costs
and time. The can be used to assign indirect costs.

Resource Basis
You can assign a resource basis type of Item to a resource if its per unit
usage rate is dependent on the number of assembly items being
produced. If the per unit usage rate is fixed, for example labor to setup
a machine for a job, you can assign a resource basis of Lot. See:
Resource Usage, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.

Departmental Resources
You can identify which resources are available to a department when
you define departments. Departments can have multiple resources.

Operation Resources
You can define routing operations as you create routings in Oracle Bills
of Material. You can also add and update job and schedule routing
operations in Work in Process. When you define a routing operation
you must identify the department at which the operation is performed.
You can assign any resource that is defined for that department to the
routing operation. See: Assigning Operation Resources, Oracle Bills of
Material User’s Guide.

Multiple Resources
You can assign multiple resources to routing operations. You can
sequence these resources as required. If you assign multiple resources,
they are scheduled sequentially based on their resource sequence
number, or in parallel, based on their scheduled attribute

Costing Multiple Resources

You can assign multiple resources to charge labor, machine usage, and
other activities performed within the operation. For example, if you
have costs associated with running a machine and costs associated with
the machine operator, you can define them as two resources at the

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 same operation. For each resource you can specify the sequence
number of the resource, the usage rate, and the number of resources
assigned to the operation working in parallel.

Scheduling Multiple Resources

Resource requirements are used for detailed scheduling. When
multiple resources are assigned to an operation, operation start and
end dates and times are scheduled based upon the sum of the times
required for each resource. Job and repetitive schedule start and end
dates and times are scheduled based upon sum of the time required for
each operation.
You can assign but not schedule resources at an operation. You can
also assign resources used solely for scheduling, even though these
resources do not actually provide value added work. See: Detailed
Scheduling: page 13 – 7

Simultaneous and Alternate Resources

Simultaneous resources consist of two or more resources scheduled
with the same start date and time within a job operation. These
resources have the same value in the Scheduled Seq field of the Routing
window. Simultaneous resources must begin at the same time, but they
may complete at different times depending the Usage Rate or Amount.
Alternate resources consist of other resources—or groups of
resources—used instead of the primary resource in the job operation.
Alternate resources are defined on the Alternate Resources window.
They are invoked in one of two ways:
• During backward scheduling, when the use of alternate
resources is the only means for a job to complete by the
Requested Due Date
• When a resource for an operation is unavailable

Manufacturing Scheduling Resources

The Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling application provides additional
resource capability with constraint–based scheduling of resources. See:
Defining Manufacturing Scheduling Resources: page 9 – 22

Constraint–based Scheduling of Resources

The Constraint–based Scheduling engine provides the ability to
schedule jobs based on available resources and material.

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 Constraint–based scheduling is enabled when you set the Schedule
field on the Resources Requirements window. It must be one of the
following values in order for the constraint–based scheduling engine to
consider the capacity for the resource:
• Yes: Include this resource when scheduling an operation from a
job and calculating manufacturing lead time for the assembly.
• Prior: Include this resource when scheduling a job, or schedule
by backward scheduling the previous operation from the end of
this resource.
• Next: Include this resource when scheduling a job, or schedule
by forward scheduling the next operation from the start of this
resource.

Adjusting Resource Capacity

You can adjust resource capacity from the Scheduler Workbench. This
can be done manually or automatically:
• Reschedule the start and end dates of a resource
• Delete or add a day of capacity, adjusting for overtime shifts or
shop closures
• Add or delete resource units when either extra resources are
obtainable or resources are unavailable
• Adjust Assigned Units or Usage Rate for the resource on the job
routing
Simulation sets are used to link resource changes for scheduling.
Simulation sets are defined, associated to resources in Oracle Bills of
Material, and linked to Work in Process scheduling parameters.. See:
Defining WIP Parameters: page 2 – 30

Resource Instances
You can define specific machines to any of your machine type
resources, and specific employees to labor type resources. All instances
for a resource are viewable in the Resource Property window on the
Scheduler Workbench.

See Also

Charging Resources Manually: page 9 – 33

Defining a Resource, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide

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 Defining WIP Resource Definition, Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling
User’s Guide
Defining Simultaneous and Alternate Resources, Oracle Manufacturing
Scheduling User’s Guide

Resource Factors in Lead Time Calculation

Material and resource requirement lead times are calculated using the
Calculate Manufacturing Lead Time concurrent program. This program
determines the lead time for items and assemblies using information
from the bill of material and routing setup. This includes lot size, item
lead time attributes (such as processing and cumulative lead times),
and fixed and variable components. The lead time calculation rollup
program also includes resource usage features that can affect
processing lead time.
Note: Alternate resources are not considered in lead time
calculation.

Resource Efficiency
Resource usage is divided by the efficiency percentage to capture the
resource lead time. Values of less than 100 percent elongate the lead
time.

Resource Utilization
You define a utilization percentage in order to capture true
available–for–work time. Utilization represents the difference between
the theoretical and actual production from a resource, For example, is
the resource actually working 8 hours of productive time in an 8 hour
shift. If the difference is expected to be significant, you can model
utilization on that resource. Values of less than 100 percent elongate
lead time.

Simultaneous Resources
When using two or more resources at the same time, the resource
taking the most extended time is used in lead time calculation. This is
the resource with the longest lead time within the same schedule
number, for an operation. Simultaneous resources shorten lead time.

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 Assigned Units for 24 Hour Resources
For resources available 24 hours, the more resource units assigned to an
operation in a routing – the less elapsed time for that operation to
complete. This shortens the lead time.

See Also

Calculating Manufacturing Lead Times, Oracle Bills of Material User’s

Guide
Manufacturing Lead Time Computations, Oracle Bills of Material User’s
Guide

Adding and Updating Resource Requirements

You can add and update resources as you add and update operations.
You can add resources that are not pre–assigned to job or repetitive
schedule routing operations. You can add resources to jobs and
schedules that do not have operations.
You can add resource requirements regardless of their charge type:
Manual, PO move, PO receipt, or WIP move. When you add a resource
with an charge type of PO move, PO receipt, or WIP move, the resource
is added to the job or repetitive schedule as a Manual resource.

Prerequisites
❑ You must assign a resource to the department that is associated
with the operation before you can add the resource as a
requirement at that operation. See: Assigning Resources to a
Department, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.

" To add or update resource requirements:

1. Navigate to the Operations from Job/Schedule Details in the menu.
2. Select the Job or repetitive Line and Assembly.
If you select a line and assembly, choose the repetitive schedule by
selecting the first unit start date of that schedule. If you have
selected a discrete job, the system displays the scheduled start date
of the job.
3. In the Main tabbed region, select the operation Sequence.

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 If you are adding a resource, the operation Sequence specifies at
which operation to add the resource.
4. Choose the Resources button. The Resource Requirements window
appears.

5. In the Main tabbed region of the Resource Requirements window,

select or enter the resource Sequence number.
Valid sequence numbers range from 1 to 9999 inclusive.
6. Select the resource Name.
You can add any resource that is assigned to the department of the
operation you have selected. You can also add any multi–
departmental resource.
When you add a resource, the UOM, basis, activity, charge type,
and rate or amount that are associated with the resource are
defaulted. See: Assigning Resources to a Department, Oracle Bills
of Material User’s Guide and Defining a Resource, Oracle Bills of
Material User’s Guide.

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 Note: You cannot update a resource if you have charged the
resource to a job or schedule.
7. Select a resource Basis basis. See: Resource Usage, Oracle Bills of
Material User’s Guide.
The options are as follows:
Item: Charge and schedule the resource on an item–by–item basis.
Select Item when resource times and costs are dependent on the job
or schedule quantity, such as when charging per unit labor costs.
Lot: Charge and schedule the resource on a one per job or schedule
basis. Select Lot when resource times and costs are independent of
quantity, such as when setting up a machine to run an entire job.
You cannot update the resource basis if you have charged against
the resource.
8. Enter the Usage Rate or Amount Value or Inverse.
Value: Enter a Value if you know how much of the resource is
consumed at the operation (per item or per lot) given the resource
UOM. For example, if your manufacturing process consumes a
mold (resource UOM=EA) for every 5 items produced, enter a
Value of 0.2 (1/5). When you enter the Value of 0.2, the Inverse is
automatically calculated as 5. In other words, producing one unit
consumes 0.2 of the mold.
Inverse: Enter an inverse amount if you know the number of units a
resource can process given the resource UOM. For example, if you
can process 10 units on a lathe (resource UOM = HR) in an hour,
enter an inverse amount of 10. When you enter the inverse amount
of 10, the value is automatically calculated as 0.1 (1/10). In other
words, each unit takes 0.1 hours to process.
You cannot enter a quantity less than zero for resources with
time–based units of measure. When you enter the usage rate or
amount, the inverse usage rate or amount is automatically
supplied.

" To schedule or reschedule a resource:

1. In the Scheduling tabbed region, enter the number of Assigned
Units. See: Resource Usage, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
When you add a resource, the number of assigned units default
value of 1. The number of Assigned Units must be greater than
zero.

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 The number of assigned units affects the scheduling of jobs and
repetitive schedules. If you assign more than the default number of
resource units, less elapsed time is scheduled for the operation.
For example, if you have an operation that normally takes a
machine 10 hours to complete, and you assign 2 machines, then
only 5 hours are scheduled for the resource at that operation. You
should only assign multiple resource units if they work
simultaneously at an operation.
Assigned units for 24 hour resources are also considered by the
Calculate Manufacturing Lead Time concurrent program.

☞ Attention: You should not assign multiple resource units unless

each resource charges at the same rate. For example, if you have 2
person–type resources performing the same task at an operation,
you can create 1 resource and assign 2 units if each person works at
the same rate, charges at the same rate, and works in parallel on a
job or schedule. If not, then you should create 2 separate resources
at the operation.
2. Select the Scheduled option.
Yes: The resource’s start and completion dates and times are used
to schedule the job or repetitive schedule operation.
No: The resource’s start and completion dates and times are not
used to schedule the job or repetitive schedule operation.
Prior: The resource’s completion date and time are scheduled to
overlap the completion date and time of the first scheduled
resource (Scheduled option is Yes) of the previous operation which is
earlier than a Next resource. This option is useful, for example,
when applied to setup resources that can work in parallel with
work in previous operations.
Next: The resource’s start date and time are scheduled to overlap
the start date and time of the first scheduled resource (Scheduled
option is Yes) of the next operation which is earlier than a Prior
resource. This option is useful, for example, when applied to a
teardown operation that can work in parallel with work in next
operations.
Note: Prior and Next resource scheduling options are not
available for simultaneous resources. These resources are
scheduled as Yes, that is, the resource start and completion
dates are used to schedule the operation.
3. Enter the Start and Completion Dates and times for the resource
operation.

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 " To enter or update resource cost information:
1. In the Costing tabbed region, select the Activity.
Activities are processes and procedures that consume costs and
time. See: Defining Activities and Activity Costs, Oracle Cost
Management User’s Guide.
2. Check the Standard Rate check box to charge the resource at its
standard rate.
If you choose the standard rate option, the resource is charged at its
resource unit cost. If you charge an outside processing resources at
the standard, Oracle Purchasing computes any purchase price
variance and posts it to the variance account for the resource.
If you choose non–standard, you can manually charge the resource
at the employee rate or at actual cost. If the resource is a
non–standard, outside processing resource, its costs are derived
from the purchase order it is associated with.
Note: Non–standard is recommended if you import charges
from an outside labor system and want to enter actual costs or
an employee’s labor rate.
You cannot change the standard rate option if you have charged the
resource to the job or repetitive schedule.
3. Select the Charge Type. See: Resource Charge Types: page 9 – 7.
You can select any charge type if the resource is defined as an
outside processing resource. You can only select PO receipt if the
department of the current operation has a location assigned to it.
You can only select PO move if the department of the next operation
has a location assigned to it. Also, you can only assign one PO
move resource to an operation.
Charge types are defined as follows:
WIP move: Resources with this charge type are automatically
charged when you complete a job or repetitive schedule operation.
See: Charging Resources with Move Transactions: page 9 – 36.
Manual: Resources with this charge type must be manually
charged. See: Charging Resources Manually: page 9 – 33
PO receipt: Resources with this charge type are automatically
charged when purchase orders are received. However, the
assembly items associated with theses resources are not
automatically moved to the next operation. They must be
manually moved. See: Performing Move Transactions: page 8 – 37

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 PO move: Resources with this charge type are automatically
charged upon receipt of a purchase order and the assembly items
associated with theses resources are moved to the Queue
intraoperation step of the next operation, or to the To move
intraoperation step if there is no next operation.
4. Save your work.

" To define simultaneous resources and designate to job routings:

1. Navigate to the Operations Resources window in Oracle Bills of
Material.
2. Enter your resource information in the Main tabbed regions. See:
Assigning Resources to a Department, Oracle Bills of Material User’s
Guide.
3. In the Scheduling tabbed region, enter the same value in the
Scheduled Seq field for all resources that are simultaneous for each
sequence.
The schedule sequence number indicates the sequence the resource
is to be used – simultaneous resources have identical values.
4. In the Principal Flag check box, you have the option to designated
the resource that is the primary resource in a group of
simultaneous resources.
5. Save your work.
6. Navigate to the Resource Requirements window in Oracle Work in
Process.
7. Enter resource information in the Main tabbed region.
8. In the Scheduling tabbed region, enter the same value in the
Scheduled Seq field for all resources that are simultaneous for each
sequence.
The schedule sequence number indicates the sequence the resource
is to be used – simultaneous resources have identical values
9. In the Scheduled field., select Yes.
Prior and Next resource scheduling options are not available for
simultaneous resources. These resources are scheduled as Yes, that
is, the resource start and completion dates are used to schedule the
operation.
10. Select the Start dates and times for the resources – these dates must
be the same date for the resources to be considered simultaneous.

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 Simultaneous resources must begin at the same time, but they may
complete at different times depending on the Usage Rate or
Amount.
11. Save your work.

See Also

Overview of Work in Process Scheduling: page NO TAG

Adding and Updating Operations: page 8 – 12

Defining Manufacturing Scheduling Resources

If you have installed Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling, you can define
resource instances, resource setups, and alternate resources to
determine feasible schedules for jobs. See: Features, Oracle
Manufacturing Scheduling User’s Guide. If you are not using
Manufacturing Scheduling, you can still define this data for
informational purposes. This information is defined on windows
accessed from the Resource Requirements window.

" To enter resource instance information:

❑ Choose Instances on the Resource Requirements window.

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 Enter the number for the employee, or equipment and serial
number applicable to the resource type. All instances for a resource
are viewable in the Resource Property window on the Scheduler
Workbench. See: Resource Instances, Oracle Manufacturing
Scheduling User’s Guide

" To enter resource setup information

1. Choose Setup on the Resource Requirements window.
You can create a performance model for machine and labor
resource setups. The setups for a resource are independent of the
department that the resource is defined in.

2. Enter a resource sequence in the Res Seq field.

The resource sequence indicates the order of a resource relative to
other resources.
3. Select a value in the Resource field.

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 4. Select the resource basis, indicating whether the usage required is
by item or lot.
5. In the Usage Rate or Amount section, enter the amount the
resource is consumed at an operation.
6. In the Setup field, select a setup that is specific to this resource.
7. Save your work.

" To enter alternate resource information

1. Choose Alternate on the Resource Requirements window.
Alternate resources consist of other resources used instead of the
primary resource. See: Defining Simultaneous and Alternate
Resources, Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling User’s Guide
Note: The Alternates button is active when a value is entered
in the Scheduling Sequence field on the resource record. When
adding a new resource, this field uses the Resource Sequence
value as a default. The Resource Sequence value can be
changed, but you can not use duplicate values

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 2. In the Scheduling tabbed region, for each alternate resource, enter a
Replacement Group value.
This is used in grouping several resources together as an alternate
resource group. The primary resource defaults to Replacement
Group value of 0.
3. In the Scheduled Sequence field, enter a value.
The schedule sequence number indicates the sequence the resource
is to be used— this value defaults from the Resource Requirements
window and is the same value as the resource it is replacing.
4. Save your work.

Deleting Resource Requirements

You can delete resource requirements as you update operations. You
cannot delete resource requirement that have pending transactions. you
cannot delete resource requirements that have been transacted even if

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 their due quantity is zero. If you delete an operation, the resources
associated with it are automatically deleted.

" To delete resource requirements:

1. Navigate to the Operations window.
2. Select the operation Sequence.
The operation Sequence specifies from which operation the
resource is to be deleted.
3. Choose the Resources button. The Resource Requirements window
appears.
4. In the Main tabbed region of the Resource Requirements window,
select or enter the resource Sequence number.
5. Select the resource Name.
You can delete a resource requirement regardless of the status of
the job or repetitive schedule. You cannot delete a resource that
has been charged at an operation (applied quantity exists) or that
has pending resource transactions.
If you delete an operation from a job or repetitive schedule, you
may want to reschedule the job or repetitive schedule to correctly
reflect the start and completion dates.
You cannot delete a PO move or PO receipt resources or the
operations they are assigned to if purchase requisitions (either
approved or unapproved) or purchase orders exist for these
resources.
6. Choose Delete Record from the Edit Menu.
7. Save your work.

See Also

Adding and Updating Operations: page 8 – 12

Deleting Operations: page 8 – 17
Adding and Updating Resource Requirements: page 9 – 16
Resource Requirements: page 9 – 11

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Viewing Resource Requirements
You can view resource requirements for a specific discrete job or
repetitive line and assembly. You can also view resource requirements
across jobs and schedules.

" To find and view resource requirements:

1. Navigate to the View Resource Requirements window. The Find
Resource Requirements window appears.

You can query by Job or production Line and Assembly or a range

of start dates. You can query to find resource requirements for jobs
and schedules of a specific status. For example, you can query to
find only resources for Released jobs and schedules

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 You can also query by Department, Resource, Resource Type,
Activity, and/or a range of First Unit and Last Unit Start or
Completion Dates.
2. Enter any combination of search criteria and choose the Find
button. The results display in the View Resource Requirements
window.

You can view the following information in View Resource

Requirements window’s tabbed regions:
Main: Resource, UOM, Operation Sequence number, Department,
Resource Sequence number, Basis, Rate or Amount of Usage and
Inverse Value
Quantities: Required, Applied, and Open quantities
Scheduling: Assigned Units, Scheduled, Start Date, and Completion
Date
Costing: Activity, Standard Rate option, Charge Type

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 Job or Schedule: Job/Assembly or production Line/Assembly and
Status
Type, Description: Resource Type and Description
You can also view, if entered, descriptive flexfield information. See:
Setting Up Descriptive Flexfields: page 14 – 4.

See Also

Resource Requirements: page 9 – 11

Searching for Information, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Resource Transactions
Resource charges can be transacted manually, with move or purchase
order transactions, or imported from outside data sources or data
collection devices. Resources are charged based upon their charge
type: Manual, WIP Move, PO Receipt and PO Move. See: Resource
Charge Types: page 9 – 7.
For all resources you charge either manually or automatically, Oracle
Work in Process also records the units applied to the job or repetitive
schedule, expressed in the unit of measure of the resource, when you
complete an operation.

Actual Resource Charges

You can charge resource charges at actual in two ways. You can enter
an actual rate for the resource using the Open Resource Transaction
Interface or you can use the Persons window. The system computes
the resources variances accordingly.

Actual Outside Processing Charges

Outside processing resources can be charged at standard rate or actual.
Oracle Purchasing computes purchase price variances accordingly.

Overhead Charging
Overhead costs are appropriately charged as you charge resources.
You can define overheads to be charged based on Resource units or
Resource value, Lot, or Item. Oracle Work in Process calculates the
appropriate overhead charge as you charge the resource. Oracle Work
Overhead charges are automatically reversed as you reverse
underlying resource charges. See: Default Basis Types, Oracle Cost
Management User’s Guide.

Resource Costs and Overheads for Phantoms

You have the option to include resource and overhead charges in the
cost of the parent or higher level assembly. This feature is enabled
when you set up the Oracle Bills of Material BOM:Use Phantom
Routings parameter to have “Yes” as its value. You set this parameter
at the inventory organization level and it applies to all phantoms
within a single inventory organization. Routing resources and their
costs are then also included in capacity planning.

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See Also

Overview of Resource Management: page 9 – 2

Setting Up Resource Management: page 9 – 6
Resource Transaction Options: page 9 – 31

Open Resource Transaction Interface

You can load resource transaction information into the Open Resource
Transaction Interface table from external sources such as bar code
readers and payroll systems. The resource cost transaction manager,
launched in Oracle Inventory, processes and validates this information
to ensure accuracy and compatibility with other Oracle Applications
information.
Resource transaction information that fails validation or processing is
marked. You can use the Pending Resource Transactions window to
view, update, and resubmit this information.

See Also

Open Resource Transaction Interface, Oracle Manufacturing APIs and

Open Interfaces Manual
Transaction Managers, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide
Processing Pending Resource Transactions: page 9 – 47

Resource Transaction Options

You can transact resources or reverse resource charges:
• In Work in Process by:
– Charging Resources with Move Transactions: page 9 – 36
– Charging Resources Manually: page 9 – 33
• Through open interfaces:
– Open Move Transaction Interface: page 8 – 33

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 – Open Resource Transaction Interface: page 9 – 31

See Also

Resource Transactions: page 9 – 30

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Charging Resources Manually
Manual resources can be charged to discrete jobs and repetitive
schedules that have statuses of Released or Complete. Resources are
charged based on how they are defined at the operation they are
assigned.

Ad Hoc Resource Requirements

You can charge resources that are not assigned to job or repetitive
schedule routing operations thus creating ad hoc resource requirements.
You can choose to add ad hoc resources of any charge type — Manual,
PO Move, PO Receipt, or WIP Move — however ad hoc resources are
actually added as Manual resources and have with a required quantity
of zero.

Prerequisites
❑ Define at least one job or repetitive schedule with a routing. See:
Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63 or Defining Repetitive
Schedules Manually: page 6 – 14.

" To add, charge, or add and charge a resource:

1. Navigate to the Resource Transactions window.

2. Select a Sales Order, repetitive Line and Assembly, Assembly, or

Job. The cursor defaults to one of these fields based on how the

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 TP:WIP:Resource Transactions First Field profile option is set. See:
Profile Options: page 2 – 64.
You must select a discrete job or repetitive line and assembly with a
status of Released or Complete.
3. Enter the transaction Date and time.
4. Check the Find Manual Resources check box to find the manual
resources operations for the Job or Line/Schedule.

☞ Attention: Be aware that costed, manual resources on the

manufacturing routing are part of the standard cost for the
assembly you are building. If you do not apply the correct number
of resource units, you may have a variance on the job or repetitive
schedule.
5. Enter the range of Operation sequence numbers at which you want
to transact manual resources.
6. Enter the range of Operation sequence numbers at which you want
to transact manual resources.
You cannot choose operations if you do not choose to find the
manual resources for the Job or Line/Schedule.
7. Check theCount Points Only check box to find only the count point
operations for the Job or Line/Schedule. See: Count Point and
Autocharge Fields, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
8. Choose the Transact button. The Resource Transactions window
appears.

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9. Select the Operation Sequence.
10. Enter or select the Resource Sequence.
11. In the Transaction tabbed region, enter or select a resource.
You can select any resource associated with the department of the
operation or any multi–departmental resource.
12. Optionally, select the Employee.
If you enter an employee, you can charge job or schedule resources
at the employee’s effective rate. If you do not specify an employee,
the resource is charged at the standard rate for the person–type
resource.
13. Select the UOM. See: Overview of Units of Measure, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide.
You can use any valid, alternate unit of measure for the assembly
you are moving.
14. Enter the transaction Quantity.
Enter the number of units charged by the resource. If you enter an
amount different from the standard for a resource that is part of
your standard manufacturing routing, a cost variance is incurred.
All charges for ’ad hoc’ resources, represent a cost variance.

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 ☞ Attention: If you add a manual resource, the transaction quantity
is blank. The resource is not transacted unless you enter a
transaction quantity.
15. Select the Activity. See: Defining Activities and Activity Costs,
Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide.
The enabled activity, if any, associated with the resource is
displayed.

" To enter additional resource transaction information:

1. In the Comments tabbed region, select the Operation sequence.
2. Optionally, select the Reason code. See: Defining Transaction
Reasons, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
3. Optionally, enter the transaction Reference.
References can be used to identify transactions on standard reports.
They can be up to 240 characters of alpha numeric text.

See Also

Resource Transactions: page 9 – 30

Overview of Work in Process Costing: page 12 – 2
Overview of Work in Process Scheduling: page NO TAG
Adding and Updating Operations: page 8 – 12
Resource Requirements: page 9 – 11
Adding and Updating Resource Requirements: page 9 – 16
Transaction Control by Status: page 11 – 17

Charging Resources with Move Transactions

You can charge manual resources as you move assemblies by choosing
the Resources button. The system automatically displays the resources
you should charge based upon the move. When you perform a move
transaction across more than one repetitive schedule, only manual
resources associated with the first schedule are displayed.
You can also add and charge resources not already associated with a
job or repetitive schedule. You can add a resource regardless of the
autocharge type. When you add a resource with an autocharge type of

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 PO move, PO receipt, or WIP move, the system adds the resource to
the job or repetitive schedule as a manual resource.
If you add a standard operation that has manual resources in the Move
Transactions window, then complete assemblies at that operation, the
system automatically displays the resources you should charge.

Prerequisites
❑ Set the Move Transactions: No Resource Transactions
(RESOURCE_TXNS) security function to Y so that the Resources
button appears in the Move Transactions window. See: Security
Functions: page 2 – 78.

" To manually transact a resource with a move:

1. Perform a Move Transaction. See: Performing Move Transactions:
page 8 – 37.
2. Choose the Resources button. The Resource Transactions window
appears.

3. Perform a Resource Transaction. See: Charging Resources

Manually: page 9 – 33.

☞ Attention: The Reason, if any, entered for the move transaction is

displayed as the default.

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See Also

Setting Up Resource Management: page 9 – 6

Resource Transactions: page 9 – 30

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Viewing Resource Transactions
You can find and view resource transactions for an individual job or a
repetitive line and assembly. You also can view resource transactions
across jobs and schedules.

See Also

Searching for Information, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

Resource Transactions Options: page 9 – 31

" To find and view resource transactions:

1. Navigate to the View Resource Transactions window. The Find

Resource Transactions window first appears.
You can query to find resource transactions by Transaction Date
range, Job or Flow Schedule, Line, Department, Resource,
Employee Number, Activity, and PO Number.
2. Enter any combination of search criteria and choose the Find
button. The results display in the View Resource Transactions
window.

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 You can view the following information in the View Resource
Transactions window’s tabbed regions:
Job or Schedule Header: Transaction Date, Job/Flow Schedule,
Assembly, Line Transaction ID
Operation, Quantities: Operation Sequence, Department, Sequence,
Name, Employee Number, UOM and Quantity in both the
transaction and primary units of measure
Resource Information: Basis, Usage Rate or Amount, Activity,
Autocharge Type, PO Number, Currency
Transaction Comments: Transaction Type, Reason, Reference
Project: Project Number, Project ID, Task Number, Task ID
You can also view, if entered, descriptive flexfield information. See:
Setting Up Descriptive Flexfields: page 14 – 4.

" To view resource transaction distributions:

1. From the View Resource Transactions window, select the resource
transaction.
2. Choose the Distributions button. The results display in the WIP
Transactions Distributions window. See: Viewing WIP Transaction
Distributions, Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide.

Viewing Accounting Lines

When you query a resource transaction in Oracle Work in Process, you
can choose to view the detail accounting lines for the queried
transaction in the form of a balanced accounting entry (i.e., debits equal
credits). You can also choose to view the detail accounting as
t–accounts. Use these features to see how a transaction will affect the
account balances in your general ledger.

" To view accounting lines and t–accounts:

1. Query the resource transaction for which you want to view
accounting lines.
2. From the Tools menu, choose View Accounting.
The View Resource Accounting window opens.
See: View Accounting Windows, below

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 3. (Optional) To view the accounting detail as t–accounts, choose the
T–Accounts button.
See: Viewing T–Accounts, Oracle General Ledger User’s Guide

View Accounting Windows

The first time you open the View Resource Accounting window, the
following information will be displayed for the detailed accounting
lines:

Account Line
Accounting Date Line Type
Assembly Operation Sequence
Basis Primary Quantity
Cost Element Reference
Credit Resource
Curr Conversion Rate Resource Sequence
Debit Set of Books Short Name
Department Trans Reason
Entered Credit Trans Source
Entered Curr Transaction Class
Entered Debit Transaction Date
Flow Schedule Transaction Num
GL Batch Transaction Type
Inventory Organization Code Unit Cost
Job UOM

When you select a detailed accounting line, the system displays the
following information at the bottom of the View Resource Accounting
window:

Account Desc Line

Assembly Quantity
Basis Resource
Flow Schedule Unit Cost
Job UOM

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 Customizing the View Accounting Window
The View Resource Accounting window is a folder. You can easily
customize the information that is displayed in the window, as
described in the Oracle Applications User’s Guide.
When customizing the View Resource Accounting window, you can
hide the columns that normally appear in the window and you can
choose to display any additional columns that are available.
Following is a list of all the hidden columns that you can choose to
display:

Account Description Line Reference

Curr Conversion Date Trans ID
Curr Conversion Type Transferred to GL

Drilling Down to Oracle Work in Process from Oracle General Ledger

From General Ledger, you can drill down to subledger details from the
Account Inquiry, Journal Entry Inquiry, or Enter Journals windows for
journals that have specific journal sources assigned to them. For
example, if a journal source is WIP, you can drill down to the
transaction details in Oracle Work in Process.
When you drill down from General Ledger, the WIP Accounting Lines
window will open. The first time you open this window, the following
information will be displayed:

Accounting Date Line

Assembly Line Type
Basis Operation Sequence
Cost Element Primary Quantity
Credit Reference
Currency Resource
Curr Conversion Rate Resource Sequence
Debit Trans Reason
Entered Credit Trans Source
Entered Curr Transaction Date
Entered Debit Transaction ID
Flow Schedule Transaction Type

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 GL Batch Unit Cost
Job UOM

When you select a detailed accounting line, the system displays the
following information at the bottom of the window:

Assembly Quantity
Basis Resource
Flow Schedule Unit Cost
Job UOM
Line

Customizing the Drilldown Window

The drilldown window is a folder. You can easily customize the
information that is displayed in the window, as described in the Oracle
Applications User’s Guide.
When customizing the drilldown window, you can hide the columns
that normally appear in the window and you can choose to display any
additional columns that are available.
Following is a list of all the hidden columns that you can choose to
display:

Account Curr Conversion Type

Account Description Line Reference
Curr Conversion Date

Drilling Down Further From the WIP Accounting Lines window, you can drill down even
further to view detail transactions or you can choose to view the
underlying transaction accounting.

" To drill down to detail transactions or to view transaction accounting:

1. From the WIP Accounting Lines window, select a detail accounting
line.
2. Choose the Show Transaction button to view detail transactions.
3. Choose the Show Transaction Accounting button to view the
transaction accounting.

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See Also

Viewing Accounting Lines: page 9 – 40

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Pending Resource Transactions
You can view resource transactions awaiting processing. You can also
view, update, delete and resubmit resource transactions that have
failed validation or processing.

Finding Pending Resource Transactions

You can find pending resource transactions for an individual job or
schedule name. You can also find pending resource transactions for
multiple jobs and schedules simultaneously.
You can find pending resource transactions by a range of Transaction
Dates, Organization, Job or Schedule Name, Line, Process Phase (Move
validation, Move processing, or Backflush setup), Process Status
(Pending, Running, or Error), Source Code, Source Line ID, and
Transaction ID. You can limit or expand your selection by combining
selection criteria.

" To find pending resource transactions:

1. Navigate to the Pending Resources Transactions window. The Find
Pending Resources Transactions window appears.

Resource Management 9 – 45
 2. Enter any combination of search criteria and choose the Find
button. The Pending Resource Transactions window appears with
the results of your query.

See Also

Processing Pending Resource Transactions: page 9 – 47

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Processing Pending Resource Transactions
You can view, update, delete, and resubmit resource transactions that
have failed validation and remain in the Open Resource Transaction
Interface table (WIP_RESOURCE_TNX_INTERFACE). You can also
resubmit transactions whose concurrent process has failed and have a
processing phase of Complete and process status of Error. You can
view error messages associated with failed records. Error messages
can assist you in updating failed records before resubmission.

" To view pending resource transaction records:

1. Navigate to the Pending Resources Transactions window. The Find
Pending Resource Transactions window appears.

You can find pending records by Transaction Date range, by

Organization, by Job, Schedule Name, and production Line. You
can also search for records that have a specific Process Phase (Move
validation, Move processing, or Backflush setup, Process Status
(Pending, Running, or Error), Source Code, Source Line ID, or
Transaction ID.
2. Enter any combination of search criteria and choose the Find
button. The Pending Resource Transactions window appears with
the results of your query.

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 " To view pending resource transaction records:
H For each pending record displayed, you can view the following
information using the Pending Resource Transactions window’s
tabbed regions:
Processing: Group ID, processing Phase, processing Status
Source: Source Code, Source Line (if applicable), Created By
Concurrent Request: Request ID, Phase, Status, Message
Job or Schedule Name: Organization, Job, Schedule Name, Line
Operations: Operation Sequence, Department, resource Sequence,
resource Name, resource Type, Employee Number
Resource: Activity, Charge Type, PO Number, Currency, Actual
Rate
Transaction: UOM, Quantity, Date and Time, Type
You can also view the descriptive flexfield information entered for
the transaction record. See: Setting Up Descriptive Flexfields: page
14 – 4.

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" To view error details for failed resource transactions:
1. In the Pending Resource Transactions window, select the failed
record.
2. Choose the Errors button. The Pending Resource Transactions
Error window appears.

All errors for the selected transaction are displayed. Column

indicates the name of the column in the resource transaction
interface table that failed validation. Message indicates why the
transaction failed.
Messages that are not specific to a Column, for example processing
errors, may also be displayed. In such cases, a Message but no
Column is shown.

" To update failed resource transaction records:

1. Select the record to update.
You can update records with a processing status of Error.
2. In the Source tabbed region, enter the Source Code and Source
Line.
When you insert records into the Open Resource Transaction
Interface table, you can optionally identity a record’s source using
the source code and source line. For example, you can enter a
different source code and source line for records from a bar code
reader versus those from a radio frequency device.
3. Select the Created By identifier.
The name of the user that created the transaction is displayed. This
field can be updated.
4. In the Job or Schedule Name tabbed region, select the Organization.

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 You can only select enabled organizations. See: Creating an
Organization, Oracle Human Resources User’s Guide.
5. In the Operations tabbed regions, select the Operation Sequence for
the resource.
You can select any operation defined for the job or repetitive
schedule.
6. Select or enter the resource Sequence.
You can update this field with any resource sequence defined for
your operation or you can add a resource ad hoc by entering a new
resource sequence. If you choose a predefined resource sequence,
all fields specific to that resource are automatically populated.
7. Select the Name.
If you inserted an ’ad hoc’ resource requirement into the Open
Resource Transaction Interface table by entering a new resource
sequence, you can select resources associated with the department
of the operation or multi–departmental resources. All related fields
are automatically populated based on your selection.
If you choose a resource of type Person and the employee number
has no value, you are prompted to enter an employee number.
If you choose a resource type other than Person and the employee
number has a value, you are prompted to clear the employee
number.
8. Select the Employee Number.
If you have entered a person–type resource, you can update this
field with any valid employee number.
9. In the Resource tabbed region, select the Activity.
You can select an activity defined for your organization or an
activity that is not tied to any specific organization and is not
inactive.
10. Select the Currency code. See: Currencies Window, Oracle
Applications System Administrators Guide.
11. Enter the Actual Rate for your resource.
This rate is used to determine the cost of a resource when the
resource’s standard rate option is set to No.
12. In the Transaction tabbed region, select the UOM. See: Overview
of Units of Measure, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.

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 You can update this field with any resource alternate UOM that is
not inactive.
13. Enter the transaction Quantity.
This is a quantity of the UOM which you are charging to a job or
schedule. The job/schedule is costed at the resource standard, the
employee rate, or the actual rate. You can update this field with
any number.
14. Enter the transaction Date and time.
The date and time must fall within an open accounting period. It
cannot be greater than the current date or less than the release date
of the job or the earliest valid repetitive schedule.
15. In the Comments tabbed region, select the Reason code. See:
Defining Transaction Reasons, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
16. Enter the transaction Reference.
References can be used to identify transactions on standard reports.
They can be up to 240 characters of alpha numeric text.
17. Save your work.

" To resubmit individual failed resource transaction records:

1. In the Pending Resource Transactions window, check the
transaction’s Resubmit check box.
You can resubmit transactions of any processing status. If you
leave the check box unchecked you can still update your
transaction record but the transaction manager does not process it
again when polling the resource interface table.
2. Save your work to resubmit the transaction.
When you resubmit a transaction, the system nulls the Transaction
ID, Group ID, and concurrent Request ID and changes the
processing status to Pending. The resubmit level of the Resource
Cost Transaction Manager determines at what specific start date
and time or at what specific intervals transactions are processed.

" To select and resubmit all failed resource transactions:

1. In the Pending Resource Transactions window, chose Select All for
Resubmit from the Tools menu. See: Tools menu: page F – 2.
You can deselect selected transactions as required.
2. Save your work to resubmit the transactions.

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 When you resubmit transactions, the system nulls their Transaction
IDs, Group IDs, and concurrent Request IDs, and changes their
processing Statuses to Pending. The resubmit level of the Resource
Cost Transaction Manager determines at what specific start date
and time or at what specific intervals transactions are processed.

" To delete pending resource transaction records:

1. In the Pending Resource Transactions window, select the
transaction.
2. Choose Delete from the Edit Menu
You can delete failed records that have a processing status of Error
regardless of their processing phase. When you delete transaction
records, their corresponding error messages are also deleted.

See Also

Open Resource Transaction Interface, Oracle Manufacturing APIs and

Open Interfaces Manual
Open Resource Transaction Interface: page 9 – 31
Resource Transactions: page 9 – 30
Changing Resources Manually: page 9 – 33
Charging Resources with Move Transactions: page 9 – 36
Adding and Updating Resource Requirements: page 7 – 10
Searching for Information, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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CHAPTER

10 Outside Processing

T his chapter explains how you can manage your outside processed
resources in Work in Process and includes the following topics:
• Overviewof Outside Processing: page 10 – 2
• Outside Processing Setup and Planning: page 10 – 18
• Managing Returns and Corrections: page 10 – 42
• Supplier Access to Outside Processing Purchase Orders: page
10 – 42
• Outside Processing Workflows: page 10 – 49

Outside Processing 10 – 1
Overview of Outside Processing
Oracle Manufacturing allows you to include supplier–sourced
components and resources in your manufacturing processes. This is
referred to as outside processing, and its competitive advantages
include:
• Using specialized supplier skills in your manufacturing process
to help lower engineering and manufacturing costs and increase
production quality
• Using supplier capacity to temporarily or permanently increase
your overall production capacity
An overview of the life cycle of outside processing from setup through
execution is described below.

Outside Processing Items and Outside Resources

You can define outside processing items that represent
supplier–sourced items, resources, and services that you include in
your build process. These items can be non–stocked items which
represent the actual supplier contribution in your build process or you
can define the assembly itself as an outside processing item. The
outside processing item is the item on your requisition or purchase
order and the item you receive in your purchase order receipts.
You also define outside resources and associate them with these
outside processing items. The outside resources are included on your
routings for scheduling and costing purposes. A job or repetitive
schedule in Work in Process is charged for outside processing through
these outside resources.
Work in Process automatically requisitions the outside processing items
associated with outside resources on jobs or repetitive schedules.
Purchasing charges outside resources to jobs or repetitive schedules
when you receive the outside processing items.

Multiple Outside Resources per Operation

You can assign multiple outside resources to each operation on the
routings of your outside processed assemblies.

Supplier–Sourced Components
You can define supplier–sourced components by selecting the Supplier
supply type on your bills of material to identify components that are
provided by suppliers. Supplier components provide information on
the component materials that your suppliers provide, but the supplier

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components need not be transacted. Supplier components are not
backflushed.

Automatic Requisition Generation

Work in Process automatically generates a purchase requisition for
outside processing operations, unless you specify that they be created
manually. An outside processing operation is an operation that
contains an outside resource linked to an outside processing item. The
timing of the creation of the purchase requisition is based on the setting
of the WIP parameter Requisition Creation Time. If you set the
parameter to At Job/Schedule Release, a purchase requisition is created
for all outside processing operations on a job or schedule when you
release the job or schedule. If you set the parameter to At Operation, a
purchase requisition is created when you move into the Queue
intraoperation step of an outside processing operation. You then use
Purchasing’s Autocreate feature to convert these requisitions to
purchase orders or releases against blanket agreements.
Note: The Requisition Import process automatically runs
when using PO Move and PO Receipt resource types.
However, only PO Move initiates the Intermediate Shipment
workflow.
When the purchase requisition is created, the revision of the outside
processing item is determined and put on the requisition. If the outside
processing item is an assembly component, the current revision of the
item is used. If the outside processing item is the assembly being built,
the bill of material revision on the job or schedule is used.
Note: For lot based jobs in Oracle Shop Floor Management, set
this is parameter to At Operation. Multiple paths are available
in a network routing, and the outside processing operation can
change for each manufacturing run.

Manual Outside Resource Requisitions and Purchase Orders

You can manually requisition and/or purchase outside resources that
are not linked to outside processing items by requisitioning and/or
purchasing an outside processing item and referencing a particular
outside resource on a job or repetitive schedule.

Multiple Jobs or Repetitive Schedules per Purchase Order Line

You can define a purchase order with several lines; each line can be for
a different outside processing item, and each outside processing item
can refer to several discrete jobs or repetitive schedules.

Outside Processing 10 – 3
 View Jobs or Repetitive Schedules Included on a Purchase Order
You can view each of the jobs or repetitive schedules referenced on a
purchase order. You can also report purchase order information
associated with resources on jobs or repetitive schedules.

Automatic Resource Charging

Purchasing automatically charges jobs or repetitive schedules for
outside resources when you receive the outside processing items linked
to outside resources on those jobs or repetitive schedules.

Automatic Move Transactions

When you receive outside processing items linked to PO Move
resources, Purchasing automatically moves the assemblies to Queue of
the next operation or to To Move of the final operation (if you are at the
final operation).
If you receive more assemblies than the quantity in the Queue of the
outside processing operation, WIP automatically moves a quantity up
to the over–completion tolerance limit on the assembly being built. If
the quantity received is greater than the acceptable over–move quantity
for the job, then the transaction will error and quantity will be included
on the Pending Move Transaction window.
Note: If Oracle Shop Floor Management is installed, and you
are using lot based jobs with network routings, the PO Receipt
transaction moves the items to the last operation–not the next
operation. See: Creating a Network Routing, Oracle Shop Floor
Management User’s Guide.

Automatic Assembly and Work Order Completion

If the outside processing operation is the last operation on the routing,
and the resource has a charge type of PO Move, Work in Process
automatically completes both full and partial outside processing
assembly quantities into Inventory when they are received back from
the supplier. When quantities that account for the remaining
uncompleted quantity of a work order are received, the status of the
work order is updated to “complete–charges allowed.”

Receiving Inspection Options

Oracle Manufacturing gives you several options to handle your
receiving inspection flow: Supplier Inspection, Shop Floor Inspection,
and Receiving Inspection.

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 Returns and Corrections
You can return outside processed assemblies to suppliers for rework,
and you can reverse receiving transactions to correct over–receipts.
Purchasing reverses accounting charges and move transactions
associated with the initial transactions.

Introduction to Outside Processing

Oracle Manufacturing provides complete life cycle support for your
outside processing business needs from setup through receipt.
Although outside processing operations revolve around the shop floor,
you must perform several setup steps in Oracle Inventory, Bills of
Material, Cost Management, Purchasing, and Work in Process, in order
to accurately track and cost outside processing assemblies. To
understand the physical flow of outside processing operations, and the
setup steps that must take place in other Oracle applications, see the
following topics:

Understanding the Physical Flow of Outside Processed Assemblies

Oracle Manufacturing supports your physical outside processing flow
by providing you with the tools necessary to record and charge each
activity. Before you implement the system, you should understand
your physical material flows to and from your suppliers and then tailor
your implementation to match your physical model.

Setting Up Inventory
You define outside processing items in Inventory. These items can be
non–stocked items which represent the actual supplier contribution in
your build process or you can define the assembly itself as an outside
processing item. When you create purchase requisitions and purchase
orders, you enter outside processing items on the requisition and
purchase order lines.
You must define all outside processing items in your purchasing
organization. In addition, you must define and maintain these outside
processing items in all your work in process organizations. You must
maintain the outside processing item list price and lead time which are
used when automatically creating a purchase requisition. You must
maintain consistent item attributes for outside processing items you
include in multiple organizations.
You also define outside processing item and outside resource units of
measure in Inventory. You can receive an item in an alternate unit of

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 measure. When Purchasing charges the resource to the job or repetitive
schedule, it converts the receiving unit of measure back to the resource
unit of measure.

Setting Up Bills of Material and Cost Management

You define outside resources in Cost Management and define
departments, routings, and bills of material in Bills of Material.
Resources identify the item, resource, or service you are purchasing
from a supplier. You must associate an outside resource with a
manufacturing department so you can attach the resource to a routing
operation.
When you define your bills of material, you can identify the
components supplied by a supplier. You do this by choosing the
Supplier supply type for these components on your bill of material.

Setting Up Purchasing
You can define supplier sourcing rules and Approved Supplier List
entries to reference source documents such as blanket purchase
agreements when you requisition outside processing items. On the
requisition, the person that you enter as the preparer is the employee
linked to the application user who entered the transaction that created
the requisition.
You must also define ship–to and deliver–to locations, which
Purchasing uses when receiving outside processing items. The Ship–To
Location on the purchase order represents the delivery dock or the
inspection location, and the Deliver–To Location represents the
destination location, which is Work in Process. The destination location
is the same location that you associate with the department of the
outside operation.
You can also enable receiving tolerance percentages as well as receiving
routing controls in Purchasing. Finally, you must specify several
accounts which Purchasing uses when receiving outside processing
items.
When a job or schedule with outside processing operations is changed
to complete, closed, or canceled status – an informational warning
message displays if open purchase orders or requisitions exist for any
of the operations.

Setting Up Work in Process

You define your standard discrete, non–standard, and repetitive
assembly accounting classes in Work in Process. You must enter an
outside processing account to charge when you receive outside

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processing items linked to outside resources on jobs and repetitive
schedules.
In addition, you just set these three WIP parameters on the WIP
Parameters window Outside Processing tab: Requisition Creation Time,
Production Scheduler, and Shipping Manager. You also must set the
Enable Outside Processing Operation profile option to Yes. See:
Defining WIP Accounting Classes: page 2 – 48

Planning Outside Resource Load

Capacity plans either rough–cut or detailed resource load for outside
resources with time–based units of measure. For more information.

Requisitioning Outside Processing Items

You can create requisitions for outside processing automatically or
manually depending on how you set the WIP Requisition Creation
Time parameter:
• If you set the parameter to At Job/Schedule Release, a purchase
requisition is created for all outside processing operations when
you release the job or schedule. The requisition is for the entire
job quantity, independent of the move transaction quantity.
• If you set the parameter to At Operation, a purchase requisition
is created when you move into Queue of an outside processing
operation (this is the default). If the move transaction is for a
partial quantity, the requisition is created for each quantity
moved. If you set the parameter to Manual, you must create the
purchase requisition manually
Requisition Import runs as part of the requisition creation process. The
workflow is automatically initiated for PO Move. If you set the
parameter to At Operation, the workflow is initiated when you move
into Queue.

Purchasing Outside Processing Items

You can automatically create a purchase order or blanket release from
an outside processing purchase requisition. The purchase order or
release contains lines referencing outside processing items, shipments
referencing delivery information, and distributions referencing jobs or
repetitive schedules and resources to charge. You can also manually
define a purchase order for an outside processing item and link it to a
job or repetitive schedule.

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 When a job or schedule is changed to complete, closed, or canceled
status – an informational warning message displays if open purchase
orders or requisitions exist for any of the operations.

Receiving Outside Processing Items

When you receive outside processing items linked to jobs or repetitive
schedules, your job or repetitive schedule is automatically charged for
the cost of the outside processing item at standard or at the purchase
price, depending upon how you define the outside resource linked to
the outside processing item you are receiving. Also, outside processed
assemblies are automatically moved to the next operation on the shop
floor if you defined the resource as PO Move.
Note: If Oracle Shop Floor Management is installed, and you
are using lot based jobs with network routings, the PO Receipt
transaction moves the items to the last operation–not the next
operation.

Automatically Completing Assemblies and Work Orders

If the outside processing operation is the last operation on the routing,
and the resource has a charge type of PO Move, Work in Process
automatically completes both full and partial outside processing
assembly quantities into Inventory when they are received back from
the supplier. When quantities that account for the remaining
uncompleted quantity of a work order are received, the status of the
work order is updated to “complete–charges allowed.”

Managing Returns and Adjustments

You can return outside processed assemblies to suppliers for rework,
and you can reverse over–receipts that you erroneously transacted.
Purchasing reverses move transactions and accounting charges
associated with the initial transactions.

Outside Processing Business Examples

In general, you use outside processing to facilitate the purchase and
costing of supplier services included in your production activities. The
following are three examples of how you can use outside processing in
Oracle Manufacturing.
You are not required to manage your outside processing manufacturing
activities exactly as described in the following examples. Rather, the

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objective of these examples is to highlight the flexibility of outside
processing across a variety of situations.
Oracle recommends that you experiment and review the results of
different approaches to determine the best implementation of the
outside processing functionality for your unique needs. You should
use these examples as a starting point to better understand how you
might use outside processing at your manufacturing facilities.

A Plating Service Example

You are a computer manufacturer who sends your frame assemblies to
a supplier for plating. You have defined a primary routing for your
assemblies that includes a supplier plating operation. Further, you
have created a relationship, a contract, and even blanket purchase
agreements with your plating supplier based on your production
capabilities and capacity planning.
To support the purchase and costing of the supplier plating service, you
define an outside resource called ”Plating” with a charge type of PO
Move, a UOM of EA for each, and a standard cost. Then you link this
resource to an outside processing item called ”Plating.” This is the item
that you purchase and receive from your supplier.
You set the WIP parameter Requisition Creation Time to At Job/Schedule
Release. When you release the job, the requisition is created. You use
AutoCreate to convert the requisition to a purchase release against the
blanket order for the ”Plating” outside processing item and send the
release to the supplier.
When your assemblies are ready for plating, you ship them to your
supplier and enter a move transaction recording the move to the
supplier plating operation.
You receive the plated assemblies back from the supplier. The job or
repetitive schedule you use to control your production is automatically
charged for the ”Plating” outside resource when you receive the
assemblies. The assemblies are automatically moved to the next
operation for inspection to match your physical flow.
You perform inspection of the assemblies at the following operation
and either move them on or return them to the supplier for rework. If
you return them for rework, Oracle Manufacturing automatically
reverses the charges and performs a reversing move transaction to
accurately track the physical flow of your assemblies.

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 A Plating Service Setup Charge Example
You are a computer manufacturer who sends your frame assemblies to
a supplier for plating. As part of your contract, your supplier charges
the same setup fee for each job or repetitive schedule, regardless of the
number of assemblies on the job or repetitive schedule. You have
defined a primary routing for your assemblies that includes a supplier
plating operation with a Lot based outside resource for plating setup.
To support the purchase and costing of this setup charge, you define an
outside resource called ”Plating SU” with a charge type of PO Receipt,
a UOM of EA for each, and a standard cost. Then you link this
resource to an outside processing item called ”Plating SU.” The
purchase quantity is always 1 on a job or repetitive schedule, unlike the
”Plating” outside processing item, which was based on the number of
assemblies you shipped. You set the WIP parameter Requisition
Creation Time to At Operation.
When your assemblies are ready for plating, you ship them to your
supplier and enter a move transaction recording the move to the
supplier plating operation. The move automatically initiates a
purchase requisition for a single ”Plating SU” outside processing item
associated with the ”Plating SU” outside resource. You use AutoCreate
to convert the requisition to a purchase order and send the purchase
order to the supplier.
When you receive the assemblies back from the supplier, there is a
separate line item for ”Plating SU.” The job or repetitive schedule you
use to control your production is automatically charged for the setup
charge when you receive that item. The assemblies are not moved after
this receipt; rather they are moved when you receive the ”Plating” item
since the ”Plating” resource’s charge type is PO Move.

A Plating Service Labor Charge Example

You are a computer manufacturer who sends your frame assemblies to
a supplier for plating. Your supplier charges a setup fee for each job or
repetitive schedule and a plating service charge for each assembly he
services. In addition, the supplier has a resource at his plant to
perform periodic chemical analysis relating to the assembly plating
process. Although this service is not a standard part of the plating
process, you still include this outside resource on your routing so you
can charge it as needed.
To support the purchase and costing of this chemical analysis resource,
you define an outside resource called ”Analysis” with a charge type of
PO Receipt, a UOM of EA for each, and a standard cost of $1.

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 However, you do not link this resource to the ”Analysis” outside
processing item.
Since the ”Analysis” resource is not linked to the ”Analysis” outside
processing item, this resource is never automatically requisitioned.
However, your buyer includes this item on purchase orders as
necessary to authorize this periodic chemical analysis service. The
buyer includes the amount he authorizes (such as 100 EA @ $1 = $100)
and the job or repetitive schedule to charge.
When you receive assemblies back from the supplier, there is a separate
line item for ”Analysis” charges. The job or repetitive schedule the
buyer referenced on the purchase order line is automatically charged
for the chemical analysis service charges when you receive that item.
The assemblies are not moved after this receipt.

Understanding the Physical Flow of Outside Processed Assemblies

Oracle Manufacturing gives you the flexibility you need to control your
outside processing flows. This essay highlights some basic outside
processing scenarios and discusses all of the options you have to
manage your particular outside processing flows. Before you learn the
transaction flows of Oracle Manufacturing, you should understand the
physical flow assumptions on which they are based. This section
covers areas such as consuming material requirements, shipping
assemblies to suppliers, tracking assemblies at suppliers, and
inspecting outside processed assemblies.

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 Kitting Options
An outside operation may have material requirements in addition to
labor or machine requirements. Further, you may have different
methods for satisfying material requirements at an outside operation.
For example, you may kit and ship components to your supplier for
assembly. Or, you may let your supplier provide the components
himself. Regardless, Oracle Manufacturing lets you model and transact
to match the way you perform outside processing.
You can use the supply type on your bill to indicate who supplies
components and when you record the material transactions in the
system. For example, if your supplier provides components in addition

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to labor, you can include the components on your bill with a Supplier
supply type. You can charge a job or repetitive schedule for these
components by including their cost in the standard cost of the outside
resource on your routing. Or, if your supplier charges you separately
for these components, you can add another outside resource
specifically for these costs. Master Scheduling/MRP does not plan
supplier–sourced components.
If you kit components to send to a supplier for assembly, you can
include these components on your bill with a Push supply type. Before
kitting and sending the assembly components to the supplier, you can
run the Discrete Job or Repetitive Pick List Report to list the component
requirements, then issue these components to the job or repetitive
schedule using the WIP Material Transactions window in Work in
Process. The material cost is charged to the job or repetitive schedule
when you issue the components. You can ship the components along
with the assemblies to the supplier. Master Scheduling/MRP does
recognize this component demand.
If you want to backflush the components at an outside operation, you
can identify the components on your bill with either an Operation Pull
or Assembly Pull supply type. You must still get the components out
of inventory and to the supplier, even if you are delaying the backflush
until later in your process. You would typically run a pick list to
identify the necessary components and ship these components along
with the assemblies to the supplier. You would then backflush the
components and charge the material cost to a job or repetitive schedule
when you complete the outside operation or complete the assemblies to
inventory. Master Scheduling/MRP also recognizes this component
demand.

Shipping Options
You have several options for shipping your outside processed
assemblies to your supplier. Your supplier may pick up assemblies at
your plant based on a regular schedule, or you may ship assemblies to
your supplier on an as needed basis. In some cases, you may want
your supplier to drop ship assemblies directly to another supplier for
additional outside processing.
You can use move transactions in Work in Process to record outside
processing shipments to your supplier. You can include the specific
costs of shipping as separate resources on your routing. In addition,
Purchasing lets you record the FOB point on your purchase orders.
If you have sequential outside processing operations and you have
worked out the physical flows between your suppliers, you can use PO

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 Move resources to automatically move outside processed assemblies
from one outside operation to the next one on your routing. You must
first set up the supplier locations by entering them in the Shipping
Network Location field on Oracle Payables’ Supplier Sites window. The
locations then appear on the list of values for the Ship–To Location on
the Purchase Order. When the assemblies are completed and shipped
from the first outside processing supplier to the second, you must enter
a receiving transaction in Purchasing confirming completion by the first
supplier and receipt by the second supplier.

Inspection Options
Oracle Manufacturing provides you with several options for inspecting
your supplier work. In general, either you or your supplier can
perform inspections.

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If your suppliers perform inspections (to your specifications), they can
then ship the assemblies directly to the next operation on your routing.
Suppliers can include the inspection fee either in the overall fee or as a
separate line item. If they charge you separately, you must define a
separate outside resource on your routing for the inspection.

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 If you perform the inspection internally, you can define an internal
inspection resource either at the outside operation or at a separate
inspection operation with an inspection resource.

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You can also receive the outside processed assemblies into a receiving
inspection location in Purchasing and perform your inspection
activities in receiving inspection. Then, you can deliver the assemblies
to the shop floor and charge the job or repetitive schedule for the
outside processing services.

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Outside Processing Setup and Planning
Although outside processing revolves around your shop floor, the only
required setup steps in Work in Process are to define the outside
processing valuation and variance accounts in each of your WIP
accounting classes, set up shop floor statuses, and set up the requisition
creation time parameter and workflow notification parameters. All
other required setup steps are completed in Oracle Applications,
Inventory, Bills of material, Cost Management, and Purchasing. The
following table lists the setup steps that must be completed in each of
these applications.

Product Setup Functions

Oracle Applications (see: Oracle Set up site level profile that enables outside
Applications System Administrator’s processing workflows.
Guide)

Inventory (see: Setting Up Inventory: Define outside processing items, item list prices
page 10 – 19) and lead times, and units of measure.

Bills of Material (see: Setting Up Bills Define departments and routings. Link outside
of Material and Cost Management: resources to operations. Include supplier–
page 10 – 22) sourced components on bills of material.

Cost Management (see: Setting Up Define outside resources, perform cost rollup
Bills of Material and Cost
Management: page 10 – 22)

Purchasing (see: Setting Up Define supplier sourcing rules. outside proces-

Purchasing: page 10 – 28) sing line types, quantity received tolerances,
receiving routing controls, ship to, deliver to
locations, and receiving, PPV, IPV, and AP
accrual accounts. Link employees to applica-
tion users. Assign supplier sourcing rules.

Work in Process (see: Setting Up Work Define WIP accounting classes, WIP parame-
in Process: page 10 – 32) ters. Set up shop floor statuse.

Once you complete the above setup steps for outside processing, you
then perform the following steps:
• Plan your outside resource load

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 • Determine whether you want purchasing requisitions to be created
automatically or manually. If requisitions are created automatically,
you must set up the parameters that determine the timing
• Create outside processing purchase order lines
• Set up receipt transactions for outside processing items
• Determine how you will manage returns and corrections
Detailed information on each of these steps is provided in the sections
that follow.

Setting Up Inventory
Use the Items window to define and maintain outside processing items.
These items can be non–stocked items which represent the actual
supplier contribution in your build process, or you can define the
assembly itself as an outside processing item. You must define and
maintain outside processing items across all organizations that use
them, including the inventory organization you define in Purchasing.
See: Defining Items, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.

Define Outside Processing Items

When you define outside processing items for outside processing, you
must define certain item attributes in the Items window. (See:
Purchasing Attribute Group, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.) These
attributes let you link outside resources to the outside processing items
and then include the items on outside processing requisition and
purchase order lines. For each outside processing item, you must
define the following:
Outside Processing Item
Set this attribute to Yes to link an outside processing item with an
outside resource and to include an item on an outside processing
purchase order line.
Purchasable
Set this attribute to Yes to include an item on a purchase order line.
Outside Processing Unit Type
You can requisition outside processing items from Work in Process in
two ways. You can requisition them based on the number of
assemblies, or you can requisition them based on the extension of the
number of assemblies times the usage rate or amount of the resource.

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 In either case, you always charge the job or repetitive schedule using
the extended quantity for the associated outside resource.
If you want to requisition one outside processing item for each
assembly you ship to a supplier, then you should set the Outside
Processing Unit Type to Assembly.
For example, suppose your frame assemblies each require one plating
service. You would set up a ”Plating” outside resource and a
corresponding ”Plating” outside processing item to represent this
outside service. You should also set the unit of measure of the frame
assembly and the ”Plating” outside processing item to be EA for each.
Finally, you need to assign the ”Plating” outside resource to the frame
assembly routing and enter the appropriate usage rate or amount and a
basis of Item.
When the requisition is automatically created for the ”Plating” outside
processing item, the unit of measure EA is used. The quantity of the
requisition depends on the WIP parameter Requisition Creation Time.
If the parameter is set to At Operation, when you move one EA of the
frame assembly into the outside processing operation, Work in Process
automatically requisitions one EA of the ”Plating” outside processing
item. If the parameter is set to At Job Release, when the job for 10 EA
is released, Work in Process automatically requisitions 10 EA of the
”Plating” outside processing item. When you later move one EA of the
frame assembly into the outside processing operation, the requisition
quantity is not changed and may need to be modified manually.
Note: If you set the parameter to At Operation, and the move
transaction is for a partial quantity, the requisition is created for
each quantity moved. If you set the parameter to At
Job/Schedule Release, the requisition is created for the entire
job quantity – independent of the move transaction quantity..
When you receive one EA of the plated assembly back from the
supplier, Purchasing relieves the purchase order for one ”Plating” item.
Purchasing charges the job or repetitive schedule one frame assembly
times the usage rate or amount of the ”Plating” outside resource using
the outside resource’s unit of measure.
If you want to requisition the usage rate or amount of the outside
resource, you should set the Outside Processing Unit Type to Resource.
For example, suppose your frame assemblies each require three hours
of plating machine time. You would set up a ”Plating” outside resource
and a corresponding ”Plating” outside processing item to represent this
outside machine time service. You should also set the unit of measure
of the outside resource and the outside processing item to HR for
hours. Finally, when you assign the ”Plating” outside resource to the

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 frame assembly routing, you should set the usage rate or amount to
three for three HR of plating machine time per assembly.
When the requisition is automatically created for the ”Plating” outside
processing item, the unit of measure HR is used. The quantity of the
requisition depends on the WIP parameter Requisition Creation Time.
If the parameter is set to At Operation, when you move one EA of the
frame assembly into the outside processing operation, Work in Process
automatically requisitions three HR of the ”Plating” outside processing
item. If the parameter is set to At Job Release, when the job for 10 EA
is released, Work in Process automatically requisitions 30 HR of the
”Plating” outside processing item. When you later move one EA of the
frame assembly into the outside processing operation, the requisition
quantity is not changed and may need to be modified manually.
Later when you receive the plated frame assembly back from the
supplier, Purchasing relieves the purchase order for three ”Plating”
outside processing item HR and charges the job or repetitive schedule
for three ”Plating” outside resource HR.

Outside Processing UOM Type = Assembly Outside Processing UOM Type = Resource

Equals the job or repetitive schedule assembly UOM. Equals the outside resource UOM.

Equals the assembly move quantity using the outside Equals the assembly move quantity times the outside
processing item UOM. resource usage rate or amount using the outside proces-
sing item UOM.

Charge the receipt quantity times the outside resource Charge the receipt quantity using the outside resource
usage rate or amount using the outside resource UOM. UOM.

* Assumes the outside resource associated with the item has a basis of
Item

Maintain Outside Processing Items in Multiple Organizations

You must maintain each outside processing item you define across all
organizations that use the item in outside processing. This includes the
Purchasing inventory organization that you establish in the Financials
Options window (See: About Financials Options, Oracle Payables User’s
Guide.) as well as each of the work in process organizations you use for
building your assemblies. Each of these organizations should be part
of the same master organization for ease of maintenance.

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 When you requisition and purchase an outside processing item,
Purchasing validates the item attributes for the item definition in the
inventory organization. For example, purchasing makes sure the item
is an outside processing item and that it is purchasable. Purchasing
then enters the work in process organization for the job or repetitive
schedule as the Ship–To organization on the purchase order line
shipment. When you receive against the purchase order line shipment
you must be logged into the Ship–To organization.

Define Units of Measure (UOM)

When you define outside resources in Bills of Material and outside
processing items in Inventory, you must also define a primary UOM for
each entity. See: Defining Units of Measure, Oracle Inventory User’s
Guide.
Purchasing always purchases an outside processing item in the item’s
UOM and charges the job or repetitive schedule in the resource’s UOM.
Purchasing can optionally receive an item in an alternate UOM. See:
Creating a Routing, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.

Processing Lead Time Attributes

When Work in Process requisitions an outside processing item, the start
date of the operation, following the outside processing operation
determines the Need By Date. If the outside processing operation is the
last operation, then the Need By Date is the last unit complete date of
that operation. Processing lead times are defined in Oracle Inventory
Item Attributes and include:
• Preprocessing lead time specifies the number of days you must
add to purchasing or manufacturing lead time to place an order..
• Processing is the days required to procure or manufacture an
item. For manufactured assemblies, processing days equals
manufacturing lead time.
• Post processing is the days required to receive a purchased item
into inventory from the initial supplier receipt.
See: Lead Times Attribute Group, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.

Setting Up Bills of Material and Cost Management

Much of the setup required for outside processing occurs in Cost
Management and Bills of Material. You must first define outside
resources in Cost Management. Then, in Bills of Material, you assign

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the outside resources to departments and shifts. You must also define
routings that include operations with outside resources. You can also
include supplier–sourced components on your bills of material.

Define Outside Resources

You must define outside resources and link them to outside processing
items in order to automatically generate purchase requisitions for
outside processing. When you assign outside resources to a routing,
you also specify a usage rate or amount that determines the quantity
you are requisitioning and/or charging to work in process jobs or
repetitive schedules. You must define the following resource attributes
for outside resources: See: Defining a Routing, Oracle Bills of Material
User’s Guide. See: Defining a Standard Operation, Oracle Bills of
Material User’s Guide and Count Point and Autocharge Fields, Oracle
Bills of Material User’s Guide
Charge Type
Use this attribute to determine how you charge a resource to a job or
repetitive schedule. For outside resources that you want to
automatically requisition, you choose either PO Move or PO Receipt.
These resources are charged to jobs and repetitive schedules when you
receive against purchase order lines linked to the resources.
In addition, move transactions are performed automatically when you
receive against purchase order lines linked to PO Move resources. The
outside processed assemblies are moved to Queue of the next operation
unless the outside processing operation is the final operation. In this
case, the assemblies are moved to the To Move step of the last
operation and automatically moved to the designated subinventory
location. You should choose PO Move or PO Receipt based on your
physical flow. You can have only one PO move resource per operation.
You can override the autocharge of a resource when you assign the
resource to a routing.
You can manually link a purchase order line to a job or repetitive
schedule and charge any PO Move or PO Receipt resource on the
routing.
Note: If Oracle Shop Floor Management is installed, and you
are using lot based jobs with network routings, the PO Receipt
transaction moves the items to the last operation–not the next
operation.
Outside Processing Item
Use this attribute to associate an outside resource with the outside
processing item you are buying from a supplier. When you enter a

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 move into Queue of an operation with an outside resource, Work in
Process automatically requisitions the outside processing item
associated with the outside resource.
You may not necessarily want to link an outside processing item with
every outside resource. As discussed earlier in the ”Chemical
Analysis” resource example, you might want to charge a resource to a
job or repetitive schedule but not create requisitions with each move
transaction.
UOM
Use this attribute to specify the UOM associated with a resource. In
general, the UOM of the resource would be quantity based such as EA
for each plated item since this is the likely unit of measure for items on
purchase orders. However, you can use a time based UOM if you
purchase a quantity of time, such as plating machine hours. If your
resource UOM is time based, you can also schedule the resource and
include the resource in capacity plans. If the UOM is quantity based,
you can define a separate resource for scheduling your jobs or
repetitive schedules and for including outside resource load in capacity
plans.
Purchasing always purchases items linked to outside resources using
the outside processing item’s UOM. Purchasing always charges items
to jobs or repetitive schedules using the resource’s UOM.
Standard Rate
Use this attribute to control whether you charge an outside resource to
a job or repetitive schedule at the standard rate of the resource or
whether you charge the job or repetitive schedule at the actual
purchase order line price. See: Work in Process Resource and Move
Transactions in Receiving Outside Processing Items: page 10 – 38. You
can override whether you charge a resource at standard or actual when
you assign the resource to a routing.
Absorption and Variance Accounts
You must define a purchase price variance account for each outside
resource you define. This account defaults from the organization’s
purchase price variance account. You must also define an absorption
account for each outside resource. The absorption account defaults
from the organization’s receiving account, which is debited when an
outside processing item is received and which is subsequently credited
when the item is delivered to work in process. The debit goes to the
outside processing account associated with the accounting class of the
job or repetitive schedule when the item is delivered to work in
process.

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Cost Element
When you define a resource with a charge type of either PO Move or
PO Receipt, Cost Management automatically defaults Outside
Processing as the cost element. However, you can also charge PO
Move and PO Receipt resources to any of the other cost elements,
including Material, Material Overhead, Resource, and Resource
Overhead.
Assuming you use the Outside Processing cost element, the assembly
cost rollup inserts the outside resource standard cost into the outside
processing cost element for the assembly. The outside processing cost
element is charged when you receive against purchase orders. Work in
Process credits the outside processing cost element at standard or
average when you complete assemblies. See: Overview of Work in
Process Costing: page NO TAG.
Costed
Enter Yes to include an outside resources in your cost rollup. You can
enter No if you want to use a resource for other purposes such as
scheduling. You cannot override this attribute on the routing.
Default Basis
You can define a default basis of either Lot or Item, which you can then
override on the routing. Enter Lot if you schedule or charge the
resource once for each job or repetitive schedule. Enter Item if you
schedule or charge a resource based upon the job or repetitive
schedule’s assembly quantity.
You might enter Lot for outside resources that represent services such
as setup and teardown. Other services for which a supplier charges
based on the assembly quantity should have a basis of Item.
Resource Unit Cost
Use the resource unit cost to define the standard cost per UOM for a
resource. Cost Management uses this standard along with the standard
lot size, usage rate or amount, and basis on the routing when it
calculates the outside processing elemental standard during an
assembly cost rollup. Also, jobs and repetitive schedules are charged
using this cost when you receive outside processing items linked to
outside resources that charge at standard.
As your buyer negotiates price changes with your suppliers, he
maintains the List Price attribute in the Items window. Purchasing
defaults this price when it creates requisitions and purchase orders
(except if you set up a blanket, in which case Purchasing defaults the
price on the blanket.). As the actual purchase price varies from the

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 standard resource cost, you create variances. You can reduce these
variances by keeping the resource’s unit cost in line with the list price
for the outside processing item in the Items window. See: Defining
Items, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide and Defining a Resource, Oracle
Bills of Material User’s Guide.

Define Departments with Delivery Locations

You must define departments with outside resources and valid delivery
locations before you can include outside operations in your routings.
You cannot associate an outside resource with an operation on a
routing unless the resource is assigned to the operation’s department
and the department has a location associated with it.
Work in Process passes the department location to Purchasing as the
Deliver–To location when requisitioning outside processing items.
Purchasing requires a Deliver–To location when you receive outside
processing items and deliver them to the shop floor. See: Defining a
Department, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide

Define Routings
Use the Routing window in Bills of Material to associate outside
resources with assemblies requiring outside processing. You can define
a routing with one or more outside operations that each include one or
more outside resources. When you associate an outside resource with
an operation on a routing, you set the usage rate or amount for that
resource. Work in Process uses the routing to calculate the requisition
quantities and to schedule jobs and repetitive schedules. Cost
Management uses the routing to calculate the assembly’s standard cost.
See: Creating a Routing, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
Calculating Requisition Quantities for Outside Processing Unit Type of
Resource
When Work in Process requisitions an outside processing item with a
Outside Processing Unit Type of Resource, it uses the outside
resource’s usage rate or amount and basis to calculate the requisition
quantity.
If the basis is Item, Work in Process requisitions the usage rate or
amount times the move quantity, or the usage rate or amount times the
job quantity depending on the WIP parameter Requisition Creation
Time. For example, if you have an outside resource with a UOM of HR
and a usage rate or amount of 10, and you move five assemblies into
the outside operation, Work in Process requisitions 50 HR of the
outside processing item linked to the outside resource.

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For outside resources with a basis of Lot, Work in Process requisitions
the usage rate or amount of the resource when you move the first
assembly on the job or repetitive schedule into Queue of the outside
operation or when you release the job, depending on your Work in
Process setup.
Calculating Requisition Quantities for Outside Processing Unit Type of
Assembly
When requisitioning items with an Outside Processing Unit Type of
Assembly, Work in Process does not extend the assembly move
quantity by the usage rate or amount.
If you set the parameter to At Operation, and the move transaction is
for a partial quantity, the requisition is created for each quantity
moved. If you set the parameter to At Job/Schedule Release, the
requisition is created for the entire job quantity – independent of the
move transaction quantity.
For outside resources with a basis of Item, when the WIP parameter
Requisition Creation Time is set to At Operation, Work in Process
requisitions the move quantity each time you move into Queue of the
outside operation.
For outside resources with a basis of Lot, Work in Process requisitions a
quantity of 1 when you move the first assembly on the job or repetitive
schedule into Queue of the outside operation or when you release the
job or schedule, depending on your Work in Process setup.

Move Transaction Quantities and

Qty. Item Price and Unit Required? Charges

50 Assembly: $1 each Item: 10 at $1 each 50 at (50 x 10) @ $1 = $500

50 Assembly: $1 each Lot: 10 at $1 each 1 at (1 x 10) @ $1 = $10

50 Resource: $1 per hour Item: 10 at $1 per hour 500 hrs. at (500 HR @ $1) =
$500

50 Resource: $1 per hour Lot 10 at $1 per hour 10 hrs. at (10 HR @ $1) = $10

Work in Process Scheduling

Work in Process schedules all resources in a routing with Scheduling
set to Yes and with a time based unit of measure. If you are
requisitioning outside processing items for outside operations with

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 units of measure that are not time based, you may want to add
resources with time based units of measure to the routing to accurately
schedule the outside processing work. You can also include time based
outside resources in capacity planning. See: Overview of Work in
Process Scheduling: page 13 – 2 and Creating a Routing, Oracle Bills of
Material User’s Guide.

Define Supplier–Sourced Components

You can define supplier–sourced components on bills of material by
choosing a supply type of Supplier. Work in Process prints the supply
type on several reports including the Pick Lists and the Routing Sheets.
This information signals to your supplier the components that he is
responsible for supplying. Master Scheduling/MRP does not plan
these components.
Whether you associate a unit cost with these supplier–sourced
components in the item master depends on how your supplier charges
you for the item. If your supplier includes the component costs in the
price of his service (the outside resource), then you would not want to
also include the cost in the assembly’s bill. For example, if your plating
supplier provides zinc as part of his plating service, then you might
include zinc on your bill at the outside operation but include the cost of
zinc in the plating resource. See: Creating a Bill of Material, Oracle Bills
of Material User’s Guide.

Cost Rollup
The cost rollup uses the outside resource’s usage rate or amount, unit
cost, and basis to calculate the outside processing costs for the primary
routing of each assembly. Lot based resources are allocated across the
assembly’s standard lot size in calculating the assembly’s standard
cost. Assuming you associate the outside processing cost element with
your outside resources, the assembly cost rollup inserts the outside
resource costs into the outside processing cost element. See: Rolling
Up Assembly Costs, Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide.

Setting Up Purchasing
There are several setup steps for outside processing that you must
perform in Purchasing. Some of these steps are optional and can be
performed to help facilitate your outside processing flow. Other steps
are required to be able to link requisitions and purchase orders to jobs
or repetitive schedules as well as to receive purchase order shipments.

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Define Outside Processing Line Types
Purchasing requires you to enter a line type when you enter a
requisition or purchase order line. Purchasing is installed with a
predefined line type called Outside Processing, and Work in Process
uses this line type when it creates pending requisitions. You can define
additional line types for outside processing. You may want to use a
user defined line type if you manually requisition and purchase an
outside processing item. See: Defining Line Types, Oracle Purchasing
User’s Guide.

Enter Employee and Link to Applications Users

Purchasing requires an employee for all requisitions. When Work in
Process requisitions outside processing items, it includes an employee
name for Purchasing to put on the requisition as the preparer. This
employee name is the one linked to the applications user who performs
the move transaction that initiates the requisition.
To support this functionality, you must define employees and link them
to the applications users who enter move transactions. This includes
users who enter move transactions on–line as well as users associated
with bar code transactions and other moves you insert into the move
transaction open interface. See: Employee Management, Oracle Human
Resource Management Systems User’s Guide and Users Window, Oracle
Applications User’s Guide.

Define Sourcing Rules

You can define rules for each outside processing item to help you
determine from which supplier to source the item. When Work in
Process requisitions an outside processing item, it checks whether a
sourcing rule exists for that item. If so, then that supplier is defaulted
on the requisition. You can override the supplier default on the
purchase order. See: Automatic Sourcing, Oracle Purchasing User’s
Guide.

Define Outside Processing Item List Prices

When you requisition an outside processing item, Purchasing enters a
default price for the item. If there is a blanket purchase agreement,
Purchasing uses this price. Otherwise, Purchasing defaults the list
price from the Items window for the outside processing item. See:
Defining Items, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.
If you have defined source documents in the Approved Supplier List,
Purchasing uses the highest ranking document to determine the price.

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 Define Outside Processing Item Lead Times
When Work in Process requisitions an outside processing item, the start
date of the operation following the outside processing operation
determines the Need By Date. If the outside processing operation is the
last operation, then the Need By Date is the last unit complete date of
that operation (Lot based jobs use a different logic to derive the need
by date because network routings have changing first and last
operations.). See: Setting Up Inventory: page 10 – 19

Define Overreceipt Tolerance and Control

You can specify a quantity received tolerance percent to limit the
quantity you can over receive on a purchase order shipment. You can
also control whether you provide a warning for over–receipts or
whether you prevent over–receipts beyond the percentage you specify.
For outside processing, you may want to prevent any over–receipts by
specifying a 0% tolerance. For example, if you purchase assembly
plating for 10 assemblies and receive 11 from the supplier, you are
unable to automatically move the assemblies to the next operation.
Work in Process prevents move transactions for quantities greater than
what exists in an operation. Also, you are adding more costs to a job or
repetitive schedule than you relieve which causes a variance at job or
period close.
You can define your receiving tolerance in the Receiving Options
window in Purchasing and override it at the supplier, item, and
purchase order shipment levels. See: Defining Receiving Options,
Oracle Purchasing User’s Guide.

Control Your Receipt Routing

You can control your receiving routing by specifying one of three
options. The first option lets you receive an outside processing item
directly into work in process. The second option requires you to
receive to the Ship–To Location before you can deliver to work in
process. The third option requires you to deliver to the Ship–To
Location, inspect the outside processing items, and then deliver to
work in process.
You can define your receiving routing in the Receiving Options
window in Purchasing and override it at the supplier, item, and
purchase order shipment levels. You can also override the receiving
routing at receipt time if the RCV: Allow Routing Override profile
option is set to Yes. See: Defining Receiving Options, Oracle Purchasing
User’s Guide and Profile Options, Oracle Purchasing User’s Guide.

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Define Ship To and Deliver–To Locations
You must define Ship To and Deliver–To Locations to include on your
requisitions and purchase orders. See: Site Locations, Oracle Human
Resource Management Systems User’s Guide.
• The Ship–To Location represents the delivery dock or inspection
location. When you receive an outside processing item from a
supplier, you receive to the Ship–To Location specified on the
purchase order shipment. You set up the Ship–To Location by
entering the location in the Shipping Network Location field on
Oracle Payables’ Supplier Sites window. It then becomes available on
the list of values for the Ship–To Location field in Purchasing’s
Purchase Order window.
• The Deliver–To Location represents the destination location. When you
deliver outside processed items to Work in Process, you deliver to
the purchase order destination associated with your purchase order
distribution. The destination location is the same as the location
associated with the department of the outside operation.

Define Accounting Information

You must define a Receiving Account in the Receiving Options
window. See: Defining Receiving Options, Oracle Purchasing User’s
Guide Purchasing debits this account when you receive outside
processing items and credits this account when you deliver outside
processing items to work in process. Bills of Material defaults this
account into the Absorption Account when you define an outside
resource.
In the Organization Parameters window you must define the Purchase
Price and Invoice Price Variance accounts and the Inventory AP
Accrual account. Bills of Material defaults the Purchase Price Variance
account into the Resource Variance Account when you define an
outside resource. Purchasing charges this account when you receive an
outside processing item at a purchase price which differs from the
standard cost of the resource associated with the item and when you
charge the resource at standard. Purchasing credits the Inventory AP
Accrual Account when you receive outside processing items (and
Payables reverses the accrual when you enter the supplier invoice).
The Invoice Price Variance account is charged when you enter an
invoice for an amount different from the purchase order price. See:
Organization Parameters Window, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide.

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Setting Up Work in Process for Outside Processing
Though outside processing revolves around your shop floor, the only
required setup steps that you must perform in Work in Process are to
define the outside processing valuation and variance accounts in each
of your WIP accounting classes, and to set up the WIP parameters that
enable automatic requisition creation and workflow notifications.

Define WIP Accounting Classes

For each accounting class you define, you must enter an outside
processing valuation and variance accounting flexfield. This includes
standard discrete, non–standard asset, non–standard expense, and
repetitive assembly accounting classes. See: Defining WIP Accounting
Classes: page 2 – 48.
The outside processing valuation account is debited when you receive
outside processing items. The debited cost is either standard or

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 purchase order actual, depending on whether the Standard Rate for the
outside resource is set to Yes for standard or No for actual.
Master Scheduling/MRP and Capacity require no additional setup
steps to support outside processing.

Set up WIP Parameters

You must set up the following parameters to enable the automatic
creation of purchasing requisitions for outside processing items when
jobs or schedules are released, and to determine the recipients of
outside processing workflow notifications:
Requisition Creation Time
This parameter determines whether purchasing requisitions are created
for outside processing items automatically or manually. There are three
values for this parameter: At Job/Schedule Release, At Operation (these
two values determine the timing of automatic requisition creation), and
Manual. The default value is At Operation. See: Requisitioning Outside
Processing Items: page 10 – 34.
Note: If you set the parameter to At Operation, and the move
transaction is for a partial quantity, the requisition is created for
each quantity moved. If you set the parameter to At
Job/Schedule Release, the requisition is created for the entire
job quantity – independent of the move transaction quantity.
Production Scheduler
This parameter defines the employee for the Production Scheduler role,
who will receive all outside processing workflow notifications for that
role.
Shipping Manager
This parameter defines the employee for the Shipping Manager role.
This employee organizes the shipping of intermediate assemblies to
outside suppliers, and also receives all shipping–related outside
processing workflow notifications.
For more information on these parameters see: WIP Parameters: page
2 – 14 and Outside Processing Workflows: page 10 – 49.

Planning Outside Resource Load

Capacity performs rough–cut and detailed capacity planning for time
based outside resources. As such, you can analyze your capacity plans

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 for your outside resources and use these to set load expectations for
your supplier. You can also use capacity planning to help you negotiate
prices and volume discounts for outside services.
Capacity does not include resources with non–time based units of
measure in its capacity plans. All capacity plans are displayed in
hours. So, even resources which have time based units of measure
other than hours must have unit of measure conversions defined for
hours. For outside resources in units of measure such as EA for each,
you can define another resource on your routing to use for scheduling
purposes and to include in your capacity plans.

Requisitioning Outside Processing Items

You can create purchasing requisitions for outside processing items
automatically or manually depending on how you set the WIP
parameter Requisition Creation Time.
If you set the parameter to At Job/Schedule Release, a purchase
requisition is created for all outside processing operations on a job or
schedule when you release the job or schedule. If you set the parameter
to At Operation, a purchase requisition is created when you move into
Queue of an outside processing operation. If you set the parameter to
Manual, you must create purchase requisitions manually. You also must
manually create purchase requisitions for work orders with a resource
charge type of PO Move or PO Receipt that are added to the work
order after it is released.
The Requisition Import process automatically runs when using PO
Move and PO Receipt resource types. However, only PO Move initiates
the Intermediate Shipment workflow.
If Oracle Shop Floor Management is installed, and you are using lot
based jobs with network routings, the PO Receipt transaction moves
the items to the last operation–not the next operation. Network
routings define different paths for the next operation according to the
results of the last operation. The next operation cannot be determined
before receiving because the routing is dynamic. See: Creating a
Network Routing, Oracle Shop Floor Management User’s Guide.

Work in Process Move Transactions

When a requisition is automatically triggered by a move transaction
into an outside processing operation, Work in Process creates a pending
requisition in the PO_REQUISITIONS_INTERFACE table for the
outside processing item linked to the outside resource. If you define

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several outside resources in an operation, Work in Process creates a
separate pending requisition for each outside processing item linked to
each resource.
If you move into any intraoperation step other than Queue, Work in
Process does not create a pending requisition. Also, if you move
backwards into Queue, Work in Process does not create a pending
requisition.

Submitting Requisition Import

You can submit the Requisition Import process through the Submit
Requests window in Purchasing to generate approved requisitions
created by Work in Process. You must specify WIP as the Import
Source when you submit the process. You have several choices for
grouping your requisitions including All, Buyer, Category, Item,
Location, and Supplier. For example, you can group your requisitions
by Item to create a separate requisition for each item. Or, you can
group your requisitions by All to include multiple items on a single
requisition. Purchasing creates a separate requisition line for each line
in the interface table. See: Requisition Import Process, Oracle
Purchasing User’s Guide.
You can specify a default Group By option for Requisition Import in the
Purchasing Options window. You can also automate the approval of
pending requisitions by using the resubmit functionality of the Submit
Requests window to automatically submit the Requisition Import
process at pre–specified intervals. See: Defining Default Options,
Oracle Purchasing User’s Guide and Submitting a Request, Oracle
Applications System Administrator’s Guide.

Creating Approved Purchasing Requisitions

Purchasing automatically checks for supplier sourcing rules when it
creates a requisition line for an outside processing item. If you defined
a supplier sourcing rule, Purchasing defaults the primary supplier you
specified. If you have a blanket purchase agreement active for the
item/supplier combination in the Approved Supplier List, then
Purchasing also defaults the price associated with the outside
processing item on the blanket. If no price exists, then Purchasing
defaults the List Price from the item master.
The Need By Date on the requisition is based on the start date of the
operation following the outside processing operation. If the outside
processing operation is the last operation, then the Need By Date is
determined using the last unit complete date of that operation.

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 Note: Lot based jobs use a different logic to derive the need by
date because network routings have changing first and last
operations.
The preparer for a requisition is the employee associated with the
applications user who entered the move transaction in Work in Process.
For each requisition line, Purchasing automatically enters account
information. The Charge Account for a requisition line comes from the
outside processing valuation account on the accounting class associated
with the job or repetitive schedule you are charging. The Budget
Account is left null unless you use encumbrance accounting. The
Accrual Account comes from the organization Inventory AP Accrual
Account. And, the Variance Account comes from the organization
Invoice Price Variance Account.

Manually Creating Requisitions

You can manually define a purchase requisition that includes one or
more outside processing items. For each requisition line, you must
specify a job or repetitive schedule to charge. You can charge any
resource on a job or repetitive schedule that has a charge type of PO
Move or PO Receipt. See: Entering Outside Processing Information,
Oracle Purchasing User’s Guide.

Approving Requisitions
Purchasing automatically approves requisitions created by the
Requisition Import program. You must approve any requisitions you
define manually. Only approved requisitions become part of the
requisition pool from which AutoCreate Documents creates purchase
orders. See: Autocreate Purchase Order Options, Oracle Purchasing
User’s Guide.

Creating Outside Processing Purchase Orders

You must create a purchase order line for each of the outside
processing items you are buying. You can modify purchase order lines
to reference jobs or repetitive schedules other than those referenced in
the requisition. You can also add a purchase order line and reference a
job or repetitive schedule. You can even charge multiple jobs or
repetitive schedules for a single purchase order line.

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Automatically Generating Purchase Orders from Requisitions
Use the AutoCreate Documents window in Purchasing to generate
purchase orders from approved requisitions. You can specify search
criteria to locate the requisition lines you want to include on a purchase
order, and you can choose whether to create a new purchase order or
add to an existing purchase order. See: Autocreate Purchase Order
Options, Oracle Purchasing User’s Guide
You can optionally combine multiple requisition lines onto a single
purchase order line. In this case, Purchasing takes the lowest price of
all the requisition lines for the purchase order line, but you can edit this
price after you complete the autocreation process.

Manually Creating Purchase Orders and Lines

You can manually define a purchase order which includes one or more
outside processing items. For each purchase order line, you must
specify a job or repetitive schedule to charge. You can charge any
resource on a job or repetitive schedule which has a charge type of PO
Move or PO Receipt. You can even charge multiple jobs or repetitive
schedules by including several distributions for a purchase order line.
See: Entering Purchase Order Distributions, Oracle Purchasing User’s
Guide.

Approving Purchase Orders

You must approve a purchase order before you can send it to a supplier
to authorize work and before you can receive against it. See:
Submitting a Document for Approval, Oracle Purchasing User’s Guide.

Viewing Purchase Orders

You can view purchase order information including which jobs and/or
repetitive schedules you are charging in the Purchase Orders window.
You can view all purchase orders linked to a job or repetitive schedule
by submitting the WIP Outside Processing report. See: WIP Outside
Processing Report: page 15 – 77.

Foreign Currency Purchases

You can manually requisition and purchase outside processing items in
foreign currencies. When you receive against purchase order
shipments, Purchasing automatically enters the purchase price in the
foreign currency with an exchange rate, and Work in Process converts
this and charges the job or repetitive schedule in the functional
currency of the work in process organization.

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Receiving Outside Processing Items
You receive outside processing items using the receiving functions in
Purchasing. From a physical flow point of view, you receive the
outside processed assemblies and move them to the next
manufacturing operation or into inventory. From a transaction point of
view, you actually receive the outside processing items against
purchase order lines. The receipt transaction relieves the purchase
order, creates the appropriate Payables accrual, charges the job or
repetitive schedule for the outside resource, and optionally moves the
outside processed assembly to the next operation. See: Receiving
Transactions, Oracle Purchasing User’s Guide.

Direct vs. Standard Receipts

When you receive outside processing items from suppliers, you can
optionally receive them directly into work in process or into a
receiving/inspection location before delivering them to work in
process. If you inspect your assemblies in work in process, for
example, you can enter a direct receipt in the Receipts window to
immediately charge a job or repetitive schedule for the outside
processing. A direct receipt also moves the assemblies to the next
operation in work in process if the outside processing item you are
receiving is linked to a PO Move resource.
Note: The move transactions are processed only if the Move
Transaction Manager is running. See: Transaction Managers
and Launching Transaction Managers, Oracle Inventory User’s
Guide.
If you enter a standard receipt in the Receipts window, you must
specify a Ship–To Location. You then use the Receiving Transactions
window to deliver the outside processing items to work in process. In
this case, you do not charge and move assemblies in work in process
until you enter the delivery transaction in the Receiving Transactions
window. See: Receiving Transactions, Oracle Purchasing User’s Guide.

Receiving Partial vs. Full Quantities

When you receive outside processing items you can receive full or
partial quantities against a particular purchase order shipment. If you
want to receive a complete shipment, you can use the express option on
either the Receipts or Receiving Transactions windows. If not, you can
enter the quantity you want to receive. Purchasing charges work in
process only for the quantity you receive. For items linked to PO Move
resources, the quantity of assemblies moved equals the quantity you
receive.

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For partial receipts of purchase order shipments linked to multiple jobs
or repetitive schedules, you must specify the quantity to receive against
each job or repetitive schedule. Purchasing does not automatically
allocate receipt quantities for you.
If you receive more assemblies than the quantity in the Queue of the
outside processing operation, WIP will automatically move a quantity
up to the over–completion tolerance limit on the assembly being built.
If the quantity received is greater than the acceptable over–move
quantity for the job, then the transaction will error and quantity will be
included on the Pending Move Transaction window. See: Assembly
Over–Completions: page 7 – 84.

Receiving Assembly vs. Resource Outside Processing Unit Type

Items
The quantity of outside processing items you receive can relate to the
assembly quantity on the job or repetitive schedule in several ways
depending on the outside processing item’s Outside Processing Unit
Type and the outside resource’s basis.
If the outside processing item has an Outside Processing Unit Type of
Assembly and the outside resource has a basis of Item, you receive one
outside processing item for each assembly you receive. If the outside
resource has a basis of Lot, you receive one outside processing item for
each job or repetitive schedule.
If the outside processing item has an Outside Processing Unit Type of
Resource and the outside resource has a basis of Item, you receive the
extended quantity (using the outside resource usage rate or amount) of
the outside processing item for each assembly you receive. For
example, if you purchase 3 hours of plating service for each assembly,
(usage rate or amount is 3), then you receive a quantity of 3 hours for
each assembly you receive from the supplier. If the outside resource
has a basis of Lot, you receive 1 outside processing item extended by
the outside resource usage rate or amount for each job or repetitive
schedule.
In all cases, the job or repetitive schedule is charged using the extended
quantity of the associated outside resource.

Work in Process Resource and Move Transactions

When you receive an outside processing item linked to an outside
resource, the job or repetitive schedule associated with the resource is
charged at either the standard cost of the resource or the actual
purchase order line price.

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 If you charge an outside resource at standard, any variance between the
resource standard cost and the actual purchase price is written to the
variance account associated with the outside resource. If you charge at
actual and use standard costing, any variance is charged to the outside
processing variance account for the accounting class associated with
the job or repetitive schedule. This outside processing variance is
recognized at job or period close. If you charge at actual and use
average costing, you may or may not have a variance depending on
how the cost of completed assemblies is calculated.
When you receive an outside processing item linked to a resource with
a charge type of PO Move, Purchasing enters a move transaction for the
assembly on the job or repetitive schedule you charge. Purchasing
enters a move for the assembly quantity you are receiving. As such,
you should use outside processing items with Assembly unit types and
PO move resources with a basis of Item. It moves the assemblies to
Queue of the next operation or to To Move if the resource is in the final
operation. You can have only one PO Move resource per operation on
a routing.
When assemblies move, the outside operation is being completed for
the quantity that moves. These operation completions automatically
backflush any material associated with the outside operation that has
an Operation Pull supply type, and charge any WIP Move resources
associated with the outside operation. See: Overview of Material
Control: page NO TAG.
You cannot backflush any serial controlled components at an outside
operation with a PO Move resource since the Receipts window does
not allow entry of component serial numbers. You can, however,
backflush lot controlled components as long as you set your Backflush
Lot Entry setup option to one of the automatic FIFO options in the
Parameters window in Work in Process. You must enter move
transactions online using the Move Transactions window in Work in
Process, if you want to manually record serial and lot numbers for
components you backflush. See: Defining WIP Parameters: page 2 – 30
and Performing Move Transactions: page 8 – 37.
If you receive outside processing items linked to a job or repetitive
schedule with an non–transactable status, such as On Hold or
Cancelled, Work in Process gives these transactions an error status.
You can use the Pending Move Transactions window in Work in
Process to view the errors and resubmit the transactions. Processing
Pending Move Transactions: page 8 – 54.
If Oracle Shop Floor Management is installed, and you are using lot
based jobs with network routings, the PO Receipt transaction moves

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 the items to the last operation–not the next operation. Network
routings define different paths for the next operation according to the
results of the last operation. The next operation cannot be determined
before receiving because the routing is dynamic. See: Creating a
Network Routing, Oracle Shop Floor Management User’s Guide.

Autocompleting Assemblies and Work Orders

If the outside processing operation is the last operation on the routing,
and the resource has a charge type of PO Move, Work in Process
automatically completes both full and partial outside processing
assembly quantities into Inventory when they are received back from
the supplier. When quantities that account for the remaining
uncompleted quantity of a work order are received, the status of the
work order is updated to “complete–charges allowed.”
Note: When a job or schedule with outside processing
operations is changed to complete, closed, or canceled status –
an informational warning message displays if open purchase
orders or requisitions exist for any of the operations.
Assemblies cannot be completed from discrete jobs or repetitive
schedules if the To Move intraoperation step of the outside processing
operation has a status that disallows a move. If you want to disable
autocomplete, however, you can assign a No Move status to the To
Move intraoperation step of the outside processing operation, if it is the
last operation on the routing.

Autocompletion Validation
When outside processing items are received back from the supplier,
Work in Process validates the items before completing them into
Inventory. If the assemblies fail validation, the quantities in Queue are
moved to the To Move intraoperation step of the outside processing
operation, rather than being completed into Inventory. For
autocomplete to succeed, you must ensure that all Move Completion
and Return rules are followed. The validation process also checks the
following:
• Default subinventories and locators: default subinventories and
locators must be specified, if they are required by the
subinventory.
• Lot number controlled assemblies: a lot number must be
specified on the discrete job subinventory. Since you cannot
specify a lot number on a repetitive schedule, assemblies under

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 lot control on repetitive schedules will NOT be completed
automatically.
• Serial number controlled assemblies: assemblies under serial
number control must have their Serial Generation attribute in
Oracle Inventory set to dynamic entry at sales order issue. If this
attribute is not set, you will be unable to complete and return
these assemblies to discrete jobs or repetitive schedules.
• No Move Status: the To Move intraoperation step of the outside
processing operation cannot have any status that disallows a
move, such as No Move status. If a status that disallows a move
is assigned, you will be unable to complete assemblies from
discrete jobs or repetitive schedules.
• BOM Revision Number: the item revision number must be the
BOM revision number. When you use the assembly being built as
the outside processing item, Work in Process automatically
passes the BOM revision number of the assembly on the job to
the Purchase requisition.
• Assembly item over–completion tolerance: Quantities received
must be less than or equal to the quantity in the Queue of the
outside processing operation plus the user–defined
over–completion allowance of the assembly being built on the
job.

Managing Returns and Corrections

Oracle Manufacturing gives you the tools necessary to correct
over–receipts and to return to suppliers outside processed assemblies
that fail your inspection processes.

Correcting Errors in Receiving

If you receive an outside processing item and enter an incorrect
quantity, you can easily adjust the receipt using the Corrections
window in Purchasing. Purchasing automatically reverses the charges
made to a job or repetitive schedule based on the corrected quantity
you enter. Purchasing enters a reversing move transaction if you enter
a correction for an outside processing item linked to a PO Move
resource. Before correcting a receipt for a PO Move resource, you
should make sure that a sufficient quantity of assemblies exists in
Queue of the operation immediately following the outside operation.
See: Corrections, Oracle Purchasing User’s Guide.

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 In general, you may want to prevent the possibility of incorrect receipts
by defining a 0% tolerance on outside processing purchase order lines.

Returning Assemblies to Suppliers

If you want to return to a supplier outside processed assemblies that
fail your internal inspection, you can enter a return to supplier
transaction in the Returns window in Purchasing. Outside resource
charges made to a job or repetitive schedule are automatically reversed
based on the return quantity you enter. Purchasing enters a reversing
move transaction if you enter a return quantity for an outside
processing item linked to a PO Move resource. Before entering a return
quantity for a PO Move resource, you should make sure that a
sufficient quantity of assemblies exists in Queue of the operation
immediately following the outside operation. See: Returns, Oracle
Purchasing User’s Guide.

Consecutive Outside Processing Operations

If you have set up consecutive outside processing operations in your
routing, using two different suppliers – after the first supplier has
completed work, the assembly is shipped directly to the second
supplier. There are two ways you can set up your routing. One method
is to create a PO Move resource and a PO Receipt resource, and
associate them with the same operation. In the second method, you
associate outside processing resources to two consecutive operations.
The method launches the worklfow to notify the second supplier.
When setting up the method, the following model is recommended:
• Use the Ship–To Location to specify that the supplier for the first
outside processing operation, ships the completed assemblies
directly to the supplier for the second outside processing
operation.
• Perform a PO Move resource rather than a PO Receipt from the
first outside processing operation to the second outside
processing operation.
This eliminates an unnecessary transaction since material is not
actually received at your site.
The Oracle Internet Supplier Portal application provides the
framework to enable buyers and suppliers to communicate
business transactions used for outside processing operations.
This includes acknowledging purchase orders, rescheduling
purchase orders, submitting advanced shipment notices, and

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 notifying buyers and suppliers of shipments. See: Oracle Internet
Supplier Portal Implementation Guide.
The Notify Second Buyer and Supplier workflow is used to
notify the buyer, and the next supplier, when the supplier for the
first outside processing operation has completed the assemblies.
See: Outside Processing Workflows: page 10 – 49
• When creating consecutive outside processing operations, define
only one outside processing resource for each consecutive
operation.
When the supplier completes and submits the Advance
Shipment Notice, Oracle Purchasing automatically creates a
shipment in the system and sends a notification to the buyer. The
Notify Second Buyer and Supplier workflow notifies the buyer
and production scheduler that assemblies have been shipped to
the second supplier. When the second supplier receives the
assemblies from the first supplier, and responds to the workflow
– this response triggers a logical receipt in the manufacturer’s
system. This action causes the assemblies to move into Queue of
the second outside processing operation, if the first outside
processing resource is PO Move.

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Supplier Access to Outside Processing Purchase Orders
If you have Oracle iSupplier Portal installed on your system, you can
provide your outside processing suppliers with access to all of their
current purchase orders. You must set up an Oracle Applications user
ID for the supplier (generally this is set up by the system
administrator), enabling them to access specific purchase orders
viewable through a browser. They can obtain detailed information on
all of their purchase orders, including components, component
attachments, associated operations, and operating instructions.
When you log on to Oracle Self–Service Web Applications, you choose
Oracle iSupplier Portal’s Supplier Services. This opens a menu linking
to the Orders tabbed window. From here you can query outside
processing order information through the Manufacturing Orders tab..
Shipment and distribution information is also displayed.

Viewing Outside Processing Orders

The information for outside processing orders displays standard and
blanket outside processing purchase orders listed by purchase order
number. Suppliers can view:
• Purchase order approval status
• Item number and description
• Job or schedule number
• Quantity ordered and delivered
• Date information
In addition to being able to view outside processing and shipping
information, you also can obtain additional, or more detailed
information:

Access to purchase order details

Each purchase number is linked to Purchasing’s Purchase Order Detail
page displaying purchase order revision number, purchase order type
(standard or blanket), order date, order total amount, ship–to location,
carrier, currency, bill–to location, payment terms, freight terms, and
status.
In addition, you can select the Invoice and Receipt buttons on the
Purchase Order Detail page to see related invoices (displays the PO
Matched Invoices page) and receipt transactions (displays the PO
Receipt Transactions page).

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 Download Component and Operation Attachments and Instructions
If components have attachments, and if operating instructions are
available, you can link to download the attachments and instructions,
view them online, and print them.
Selecting the Available link in a purchase order’s Components column
opens the OSP Operation Components page, displaying the components
required for that operation. If a component has an attachment or
instructions, there also will be an Available link in the Component
Instructions column.
Selecting the Available link in the purchase order’s Operating
Instructions column opens a list of operating instructions and/or
attachments. Selecting the instructions or attachment displays it in the
lower half of the page.

Update the Promised Date

Suppliers can change the promise date through the Update Promise
Date link In the Promise Date column, you select the new promise
date, enter a reason for the date change in the Reason column, then
select Submit enter the change. This automatically changes the promise
date on the purchase order and notifies the buyer and production
scheduler.

Download Quality Collection Plans and Collect and Submit Quality

Results
You can provide your supplier with access to Quality collection plans.
You must first create the collection plan in Oracle Quality and associate
it with the Self–Service Quality for Outside Processing transaction. A
link then is displayed in the QA Plans column. Selecting this link
displays a list of the collection plans that are associated with that
purchase order. You can choose to enter Quality results, to view
Quality results that have been submitted, or to view attachments for
any purchase order listed.
Selecting Enter Results opens the Enter Quality Results page. This page
displays a table whose columns contain the collection elements that
you defined for that collection plan, plus any context collection
elements defaulted from the parent page. You can enter up to 25 rows
of quality data at a time. When you have finished entering the data,
you select the Save Results button, and the data are automatically
saved to the database. Once you have saved and submitted all of the
quality results, you then choose the Send Notification button to notify
the buyer, or whomever you designate, that Quality results have been
submitted.

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When you want to view the results that you submitted, you select the
View Results link, and the View Quality Results page opens. The results
are displayed in a table. If any attachments are associated with the
collection plan an “Available” link is displayed in the View
Attachments column. You can download and view the attachments
online, or print them to a local printer.
The Outside Processing Orders page contains these columns of
information:
• PO (Purchase Order) Number
• Item Number
• Supplier Item Number
• Description
• Need By Date
• Promise Date
• Components
• Operating Instructions
• Qty (Quantity) Ordered
• Qty (Quantity) Delivered
• UOM (Unit of Measure)
• Approval Status
• Status
• WIP Job/Schedule
• Repetitive Line
• Operation Number
The OSP Workbench page contains these columns of information:
• PO (Purchase Order) Number
• Item Number
• Supplier Item Number
• Item Description
• Need By Date
• Promise Date
• Components

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 • Operating Instructions
• Qty (Quantity) Ordered
• Qty (Quantity) Delivered
• UOM (Unit of Measure)
• WIP Entity Name
• WIP Line
• Operation Sequence
• QA Plan
• Update Promise Date

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Outside Processing Workflows
To enable you to track your outside processing assemblies from the
shop floor to the supplier, Work in Process provides the following four
workflows, which automatically send notifications and activate
processes during specific points in the outside processing process:
• Intermediate Shipment: this workflow tracks outside processing
assemblies from the shop floor to the supplier.
• Ship and Receive Intermediates: this workflow notifies the shipping
manager and the supplier that outside processing assemblies are
ready to ship.
• Notify Second Buyer and Supplier: this workflow is used when you
have two consecutive outside processing operations. It notifies
the buyer when the supplier for the first outside processing
operation has completed the outside processing assemblies, then
notifies the second supplier that the assemblies have been
shipped.
• Update Outside Processing Need By Date: when you change the
Need By date on the purchase order, you can activate the Update
Outside Processing Need By Date workflow to notify the buyer,
the requestor, and the supplier that the date has changed. If the
supplier approves the change, the need by date and the promise
date are updated on the requisition and the purchase order, and
a notification is sent to the buyer, requestor, and supplier.

" To view outside processing workflows:

1. Navigate to one of the windows where you can access outside
processing workflows.
You can view the progression and status of the workflows from the
Discrete Jobs, View Discrete Jobs, Repetitive Schedules, and View
Repetitive schedules windows.
2. From the Tools menu, select View Workflows.
The View Workflows window displays.

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 3. Select one of the workflows listed on this window and choose View
Diagram.
This action launches your browser and the View Diagram appears
with the graphical display of the workflow selected.
4. When you are finished viewing the workflow, close your browser.

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The following sections describe each of the workflow processes:

Intermediate Shipment Workflow

The purpose of this workflow is to track outside processing assemblies
from the shop floor to the shipping dock, and then to the supplier. The
workflow is activated when you move assemblies into the Queue
intraoperation step of an outside processing operation that has a PO
Move resource charge type. It first imports pending requisitions, checks
to see how many approved (non–cancelled) purchase orders exist for
the outside processing supplier, then notifies the buyer.
Note: Only PO Move initiates the workflow.
If there are from one to three approved purchase orders for that
supplier and the buyer wants to proceed with the order(s), the
quantities are validated, and a second workflow, the Ship and Receive
Intermediates workflow, is initiated. The second workflow notifies the
shipping manager and the supplier that the outside processing items
are ready to ship.

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 The workflow initiates the following actions, based on the number of
approved purchase orders that it finds:
• If there are no approved purchase orders, the default buyer (or
alternatively, the production scheduler) is notified, and the search for
approved purchase orders continues. If no default buyer or
production scheduler has been defined, the workflow ends.
• If there is only one approved purchase order (the norm), a
notification is sent to the buyer, and if the buyer decides to proceed
with the order, the Ship and Receive Intermediates workflow is
activated, and the first workflow ends.
• If there are from one to three approved purchase orders, a notification
is sent to the buyer so that the buyer can decide the quantity to be
shipped to each supplier. The total allocated quantity, which must
equal the move quantity, is then validated. If the quantity is valid,
the Ship and Receive Intermediates workflow is activated for each
purchase order.
• If there are more than three approved purchase orders for that
supplier, the buyer is notified that there are multiple purchase
orders, and the workflow ends.

Ship and Receive Intermediates Workflow

The purpose of this workflow is to notify the shipping manager and the
supplier that assemblies are ready to ship to outside processing
suppliers for further processing. The workflow is activated during the
Intermediate Shipment workflow when the buyer decides to proceed
with the order and selects the Proceed button on the notification
window.
To enable this workflow, you must first define the Shipping Manager
parameter in the WIP Parameters window, and the employee assigned
to this role must have a valid user ID (this is set up by the system
administrator). The workflow first searches for the shipping manager,
and if found, then searches for the supplier’s shipping address. It then
notifies the shipping manager that the assemblies are ready to ship and
relays the shipping address. If the shipping manager decides to
proceed with the shipment, the system searches for the supplier
contact. If a contact is found, he or she is notified that the assemblies
have been shipped (if the supplier contact is not found, the buyer is
then notified). The system also searches for the purchase order’s
Internet address or URL and includes it as a link on the notification so
that the supplier has immediate access to the purchase order
information. The supplier can use the same notification to send a reply

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stating how many assemblies were received and whether or not any
assemblies were damaged.
If the shipping manager decides not to ship the assemblies, a search is
conducted for the production scheduler, and if found, the production
scheduler is notified that the assemblies were not shipped. The same
notification is also sent to the buyer.

Notify Second Buyer and Supplier Workflow

When suppliers complete outside processing assemblies, they can
notify you through Purchasing’s Advance Shipment Notice. The
Advance Shipment Notice is available through a link on the Supplier
Management Portal Supplier Service menu. When the supplier
completes the Advance Shipment Notice and submits it, Oracle
Purchasing automatically creates a shipment in the system and sends a
notification to the buyer.
To enable the workflow notification for this functionality, you must set
up the Production Scheduler parameter, which associates an employee
with the production scheduler role. The employee must have a valid
user ID, which is set up by the system administrator. In addition, if you
have two consecutive outside processing operations on a routing, and
you want the supplier for the first operation to ship the completed
assemblies directly to the supplier for the second operation, you must
specify the second supplier’s address in the Ship–To Location field on
the purchase order.
Note: In order for the supplier’s address to be available on the
list of values for Purchasing’s Ship–To Location field, you must
first set up the supplier’s address in the Shipping Network
Location field on Oracle Payables’ Supplier Sites Window. See:
Supplier Sites window, Oracle Payables User’s Guide.
When the supplier completes the Advance Shipment Notice, a receipt is
automatically created and sent to the first supplier, and the Notify
Second Buyer and Supplier workflow is activated to notify the second
supplier that the assemblies have been shipped.
The system searches for an approved purchase order for the second
outside processing supplier, and if it finds the purchase order, it then
searches for the production scheduler. If the production scheduler is
found, it sends the production scheduler a notification that the
assemblies have been shipped from the first supplier. The same
notification is also sent to the buyer, and if the buyer decides to
proceed with the order, the Ship and Receive Intermediates workflow is
activated to notify the shipping manager and the supplier that the
assemblies have been shipped.

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 Update Outside Processing Need By Date Workflow
When you change the scheduled need by date for outside processing
operations, you can activate a workflow process that updates the need
by date on the purchase order (whether or not it has been approved),
then notifies the requestor, supplier, and buyer that the need by date
has changed. You activate the workflow from the Update Need By Date
window, which you open from the Tools menu on the Work in Process
Operations window (see: Updating the Need By Date: page 10 – 54).
You enter the new need by date, select the check box for the purchase
order, and select OK, and the workflow begins.
The workflow first searches for the buyer, and if found, sends the
notification to the buyer and the requestor. If the buyer decides to
proceed with the date change, the workflow searches for the supplier
contact. If the supplier contact is found, it sends a notification to the
contact. If the supplier contact accepts the date change, the need by
date and the promise date are updated on the purchase order. A
notification is then sent to the buyer and the requestor that the dates
were approved and changed. If the new need by date is not approved,
you can manually change it.

Outside Processing Workflow Setup

In order to use workflow functionality, you must have Oracle
Workflow installed. To enable outside processing workflows, your
system administrator must set up the profile option WIP:Enable
Outside Processing Workflow. You also must set up the Production
Scheduler and Shipping Manager parameters. See: WIP Parameters:
page 2 – 14 and Profile Options: page 2 – 64

Changing the Need By Date

The need by date is the date on the purchase order that tells the
supplier when you expect the completed assemblies to be delivered.
The need by date is the first unit start date of the operation following
the outside processing operation. If the outside processing operation is
the last operation, then the need by date is the last unit complete date
of that operation.
Note: Lot based jobs use a different logic to derive the need by
date because network routings have changing first and last
operations.

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When changes in the schedule occur, you may need to update the need
by date and notify the supplier. You can activate a workflow process
that will update the need by date on the purchase order and obtain the
approval of the buyer and supplier. If the supplier approves the date
change, both the Need By and Promise dates are updated and the
buyer and requestor are notified. If the changed need by date is not
approved, you can manually change it.
Update Need By Date Workflow
You activate the workflow from the Update Need By Date window, which
you open from the Tools menu on the Work in Process Operations
window. Once you change the date, the Update Need By Date
workflow is automatically activated. For detailed information on the
workflow, see: Outside Processing Workflows: page 10 – 49.
Update Need By Date Window
When the Update Need By Date window opens, it displays the
previous need by date (Current Date) and the new need by date (New
Date) for all of the requisitions and purchase orders associated with
that operation. To change the need by date, you enter the date in the
New Date column, select the check box to the left of the row, then
choose OK. The check box is automatically checked if there are
requisitions and purchase orders in the database with at least one day’s
difference between the dates.

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CHAPTER

11 Job and Repetitive

Schedule Statuses

T his chapter describes how discrete job and repetitive schedules

statuses can be used to control production activities, including:
• Overview: page 11 – 2
• Discrete Job Status Control: page 11 – 4
• Discrete Job Statuses: page 11 – 7
• Repetitive Schedule Status Control: page 11 – 10
• Repetitive Schedule Statuses: page 11 – 12
• Job and Repetitive Schedule Status Changes: page 11 – 15
• Transaction and Process Control By Status: page 11 – 17
• Business Scenarios: page 11 – 22

Job and Repetitive Schedule Statuses 11 – 1

Overview
Job and repetitive schedule statuses can help you manage
manufacturing operations.

Job
Job statuses describe various stages the life cycle of a job and control
job activities. See: Discrete Job Statuses: page 11 – 7.

Repetitive Schedule
Repetitive schedule statuses describe stages in the life cycle of a
repetitive schedule and control schedule activities. See: Repetitive
Schedule Statuses: page 11 – 12.

Transaction Control
Job and repetitive schedule statuses control issue, move, resource,
overhead, completion, scrap, job close, period close, and purge
transactions. See: Transaction Control by Status: page 11 – 17.

Status Control
Job and repetitive schedule statuses are automatically updated after
certain activities. For example, the status of a job is updated to
Complete when you complete all the assemblies on the job. Statuses
can also be manually changed although there are some restrictions. See:
Discrete Job Status Control: page 11 – 4, and Repetitive Schedule Status
Control: page 11 – 10

ECO Control
Job and repetitive schedule statuses control engineering change order
(ECO) implementation. See: ECO Implementation by Status: page
11 – 18.

Planning Control
Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning
includes supplies and demands from jobs based on their status. See:
Planning Control by Status: page 11 – 19.

Release Control
When you release —by changing the status from Unreleased to
Released — a job or schedule with a routing, the release date is
automatically set and the Queue intraoperation step of the first routing
operation is updated with the job or schedule quantity. You can

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’unrelease’ jobs and schedules if there are no net issue, move, resource,
completion, or scrap charges against them.

Hold Control
Putting jobs and schedules on hold allows you to respond to changes
and to control production by temporarily preventing transactions. You
can manually change jobs and repetitive schedules to On Hold. You
also set the WIP Respond to Sales Order Changes parameter so that
Unreleased jobs are automatically changed from Unreleased to On
Hold when configuration items are unassigned in Oracle Order
Management. See: Discrete Parameters: page 2 – 17.

Status Based Reporting

Job and repetitive schedule statuses control what information is
displayed in various reports and inquiries. See: Reporting by Status:
page 11 – 19.

Information Management
Closed jobs and Complete – No Charges and Cancelled repetitive
schedules cannot be updated. Job and schedules with these statuses
can be purged. You can change the status of a job or schedule so that it
can be updated.

Concurrent Processing Support

When you define discrete jobs, the WIP:Define Discrete Job form profile
option determines whether job bills of material and routings, if any, are
created (loaded) concurrently or interactively. The status of the job
tracks the progress and outcome of the concurrent load process (e.g.,
Pending Bill Load, Pending Routing Load, Failed Bill Load, and Failed
Routing Load). See: Profile Options: page 2 – 64.
Statuses also track the progress of the job close process (e.g., Pending
Close and Failed Close).

Job and Repetitive Schedule Statuses 11 – 3

Discrete Job Status Control
You cannot update jobs with statuses of Closed, Complete – No
Charges, Cancelled, or any processing status (Pending Bill Load,
Pending Routing Load, Failed Bill Load, Failed Routing Load, Pending
Close, and Failed Close). You can update jobs with statuses of
Unreleased, Released, On Hold, or Complete although you may not be
able to update all fields. The fields you can update, based on the job’s
status, are listed in the following tabls:

Discrete Job

Status Field Unreleased Released On hold Complete

Job Name n n n n

Type

Assembly

UOM

Class n

Status n n n n

Firm n n n n

Start Quantity n n n n

MRP Net Quantity n n n n

Start Date/Time n n n n

Completion n n n n
Date/Time

Descriptive Flexfield n n n n

Attachments n n n n

Bill Information

Status Field Unreleased Released On hold Complete

Reference n

Alternate n

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Status Field Unreleased Released On hold Complete

Revision n

Revision Date n

Supply Type n

Routing Information

Status Field Unreleased Released On hold Complete

Reference (for n
non–standard jobs)

Alternate n

Revision n

Revision Date n

Completion n n n n
Subinventory

Completion Locator n n n n

More Information

Status Field Unreleased Released On hold Complete

Demand Class n n n n

Kanban

Lot Number n n n n

Description n n n n

Tolerance Type

Tolerance Value

Job and Repetitive Schedule Statuses 11 – 5

 Schedule Group, Project

Status Field Unreleased Released On hold Complete

Schedule Group n n n n

Build Sequence n n n n

Line n n n n

Project n n n n

Task n n n n

Table 11 – 1 Discrete Job (Page 1 of 1)

Sales Order

Status Field Unreleased Released On hold Complete

Sales Order

Line

Shipment Number

Demand Class

Quantity Allocated n n n

Quantity Completed

See Also

Overview of Job and Repetitive Schedule Statuses: page 11 – 2

Overview of Discrete Manufacturing: page 3 – 2
Updating Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 104
Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63
Discrete Job Statuses: page 11 – 7

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Discrete Job Statuses
Discrete job statuses describe the various stages in the life cycle of a job
and control the activities that you can perform on it.

User Controlled Statuses

You can manually change user–controlled statuses. For example, you
can change a job’s status to Released to initiate the production cycle.
Some user–controlled statuses are automatically changed based on
other events. For example, when you complete a job, its status is
changed to Complete.
Released The job is available for production and can be
transacted against. When a job is changed to this
status, the date released is automatically set to the
current date and, if a routing exists, the job
quantity is moved to the Queue intraoperation step
of the first routing operation.
You can change jobs to this status as you define
them.
Unreleased The job is not released for transaction activity. You
can update but cannot transact against it.
You can assign a status of Unreleased if there are
no net issue, move, resource, completion, or scrap
charges associated with the job and no purchase
orders or purchase requisitions linked to the job.
Complete The job is completed but accepting transactions
and charges. Jobs are automatically updated to
this status when the quantity completed into
inventory equals the job quantity.
You can manually assign this status only when you
update the job, not when you define it.
Complete–No The job is complete and accepting no further
Charges activity. You cannot update or transact against it,
but you can change its status to Complete. You can
assign this status only when you update the job.
On Hold You can update the job but cannot transact against
it. You can assign this status to a job when you
define it.

Job and Repetitive Schedule Statuses 11 – 7

 Cancelled The job was cancelled before completion. You
cannot update the job or transact against it, but you
can change its status. You can assign this status
only when you update the job.
Closed The job is closed and accepting no further activity.
Job are automatically updated to this status upon
successful completion of the job close process. You
can change jobs with this status to another status if
the accounting period that the job was completed
in is still open and if your functional security setup
permits.

Processing Statuses
Some job statuses are automatically updated by a process. For
example, if you have the WIP:Define Discrete Job Form profile option set
to concurrent definition, the job status is used to track the progress of
the bill of material and routing load process. When you close a job, its
status is used to track the progress of the concurrent close process.
Pending Bill The concurrent process is loading the bill of
Load material for the job. You cannot update the job nor
transact against it.
For non–standard discrete jobs, this is applicable
only if you specified a bill reference.
Pending Routing The bill of material load was successful and the
Load concurrent process is now loading the routing for
the job. You cannot update the job nor transact
against it.
For non–standard discrete jobs, this option is
applicable only if you specified a routing reference.
Failed Bill Load The concurrent process was unable to load the bill
of material for the job. The load may have failed
for a number of reasons. For example, the job start
date may be outside the last open accounting
period at the time of job creation. You can close the
failed job with the Close Discrete Jobs window and
open another job for the assembly. Or you can
resubmit the job once you change the status to
Unreleased, Released, or On Hold.
For non–standard discrete jobs, this option is
applicable only if you specified a bill reference.

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 Failed routing The concurrent process was unable to load the
load routing for the job. The load may have failed for a
number of reasons. For example, the job start or
completion date may be outside the organization
workday calendar at the time of job creation. You
can close the failed job and open another job for the
assembly, or you can resubmit the job after
changing its status to Unreleased, Released, or On
Hold.
For non–standard discrete jobs, this option is
available only if you specified a routing reference.
Pending Close The concurrent process is closing the job. You
cannot transact against or update it. If the close
process terminates abnormally, you can change the
status of the job and resubmit it.
Failed Close The concurrent process was unable to close the job.
The close may have failed for a number of reasons.
For example, there may be pending transactions
against the job. You must fix the problems before
you can close the job. You cannot transact against
it.

See Also

Overview of Job and Repetitive Schedule Statuses: page 11 – 2

Discrete Job Status Control: page 11 – 4
Mass Changing Discrete Job Statuses: page 3 – 109
Discrete Job Close: page 3 – 119
Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63

Job and Repetitive Schedule Statuses 11 – 9

Repetitive Schedule Status Control
You cannot update repetitive schedules with user controlled statuses of
Cancelled, Complete – No Charges or with the Pending – Mass Loaded
processing status. You can update repetitive schedules with statuses of
Unreleased, Released, On Hold, or Complete although you may not be
able to update all fields. The fields you can update, based on the
schedule’s status, are listed in the following table:

Status and Quantity Information

Status Field Unreleased Released On hold Complete

Line n n n n

Assembly n n n n

Status n n n n

Date Released

Daily Quantity n n n n

Days n n n n

Total Quantity n n n n

Quantity Completed

Descriptive Flexfield n n n n

Scheduling Information

Status Field Unreleased Released On hold Complete

First Unit Start Date n n n n

Last Unit Start Date n n n n

First Unit Completion n n n n

Date

Last Unit Completion n n n n

Date

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 Bill and Routing Information

Status Field Unreleased Released On hold Complete

Alternate Bill

Bill Revision n

Bill Revision Date n

Alternate Routing

Routing Revision n

Routing Revision Date n

Planning Information and Description

Status Field Unreleased Released On hold Complete

Firm n n n n

Demand Class n n n n

Description n n n n

Descriptive Flexfield n n n n

See Also

Overview of Job and Repetitive Schedule Statuses: page 11 – 2

Repetitive Manufacturing: page 6 – 2
Updating Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 28
Defining Repetitive Schedules Manually: page 6 – 14
Repetitive Schedule Statuses: page 11 – 12

Job and Repetitive Schedule Statuses 11 – 11

Repetitive Schedule Statuses
Repetitive schedule statuses describe the various stages the life cycle of
a repetitive schedule and control the activities that you can perform on
it.

User Controlled Statuses

You can manually change user–controlled statuses. For example, you
can change a repetitive schedule’s status to Released to initiate the
production cycle. Some user–controlled statuses are automatically
updated based on other events. For example, when you complete all
the assemblies on a schedule, its status is changed to Complete or
Complete–No Charges.
Released The schedule is available for production and can be
transacted against. When a schedule is changed to
this status and a routing exists, the total number of
assemblies to be built are moved to the Queue
intraoperation step of the first routing operation.
You can change schedules to this status as you
define them.
Unreleased The schedule is not released for transaction
activity. You can update but cannot transact
against it.
You can change a schedule’s status to Unreleased if
it is not the only open schedule on a line, if there
are no net issue, move, resource, completion, or
scrap charges associated with the schedule, and if
there are no purchase orders or purchase
requisitions linked to it.
Complete The schedule is completed but accepting
transactions and charges.
The schedule is automatically updated to this
status when the number of completed assemblies
equals the total quantity of the schedule and there
are no subsequent schedules for the assembly on
the production line. If there is a subsequent
schedule with a status of Unreleased within the
autorelease days time fence, or a schedule with a
status of Released, Complete, or On Hold, then the
status of the current schedule changes to

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 Complete–No Charges. If there is no subsequent
schedule that meets this requirement, the status of
the current schedule changes to Complete. This
keeps the current schedule active, so that you can
transact any unused or excess material and
perform delayed resource and material
transactions.
You can manually assign this status only when you
update the schedule, not when you define it.
Complete–No The schedule is completed and accepting no
Charges further activity. You cannot update or transact
against it.
The schedule is updated to this status when the
number of completed assemblies equals the total
quantity of the schedule and another schedule of
this assembly on this line is available. If there is a
subsequent schedule with a status of Unreleased
and within the autorelease days time fence, or a
schedule with a status of Released, Complete, or
On Hold, the status of the current schedule
changes to Complete–No Charges. If there is no
subsequent schedule that meets this requirement,
the status of the current schedule changes to
Complete. This keeps the current schedule active
so that you can transact unused or excess material
and perform delayed resource and material
transactions. Any excess material in the schedule
is automatically rolled forward, that is, it is issued
to the following schedule.
You can manually assign this status only when you
update the schedule. If you are changing to this
status manually, and there are subsequent
schedules, you can choose to roll forward excess
material, or you can leave it in the current schedule
and write it off as a variance.
On Hold You can update the schedule but cannot transact
against it. You can assign this status to a schedule
when you define it.
Cancelled The schedule was cancelled before completion.
You cannot update the schedule or transact against
it, but you can change its status. You can assign
this status only when you update the schedule.

Job and Repetitive Schedule Statuses 11 – 13

 You can return all remaining material back to
inventory before you cancel the schedule or roll it
forward to the next available schedule for the
repetitive assembly on the line. The next schedule
must have a status of Unreleased and be within the
autorelease days time fence or have a status of
Released, Complete, or On Hold. If there is no
such schedule, or if you choose not to roll forward
to the next schedule, the excess material is
recognized as a variance at period close.

Processing Status
There is one repetitive schedule status this is automatically updated by
a process.
Pending–mass Schedule implemented from the Open
loaded Job/Schedule Interface or Planner Workbench in
Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain
Planning. You can update pending repetitive
schedules as if they were unreleased schedules but
cannot transact against. You can update schedules
with this status to Unreleased, Released, or On
Hold when you decide to implement a repetitive
schedule.

See Also

Overview of Job and Repetitive Schedule Statuses: page 11 – 2

Repetitive Schedule Status Control: page 11 – 10
Mass Changing Repetitive Schedule Statuses: page 6 – 32
Defining Repetitive Schedules Manually: page 6 – 14

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Job and Repetitive Schedule Status Changes
Statuses describe the various stages in the life cycle of a job or
repetitive schedule. Statuses are either user or processing controlled.
Processing controlled statuses are updated based on the progress and
outcome of concurrent processes. User controlled statuses can be
updated by the user or are changed based on events such as job or
schedule completion.
Some status changes are allowed while others are not. Some status
changes are conditional. For example, you cannot change jobs and
schedules from Released to Unreleased if there are net issue, move,
resource, completion, or scrap charges associated with them. You also
cannot unclose a job that is linked to a sales order or that was closed in
a now closed accounting period.

Change To USER status From Complete

USER Status Unreleased Released Complete –No On Hold Cancelled Closed
Charges

Unreleased N/A Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes

Released Cond N/A Yes No Yes Yes Yes

Complete Cond Yes N/A Yes Yes Yes Yes

Complete – No Charges (DIS) No No Yes N/A No No Yes

Complete – No charges (REP) No No No N/A No No N/A

On Hold (DIS) Cond Yes Yes No N/A Yes Yes

On Hold (REP) Cond Yes Yes No N/A Yes Yes

Cancelled (REP) No No No No No N/A N/A

Cancelled (DIS) Cond Yes Yes Yes Yes N/A Yes

Pending – Mass Loaded (REP) Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes N/A

Pending Bill Load (DIS) No No No No No No No

Failed Bill Load (DIS) Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes

Pending Routing Load (DIS) No No No No No No No

Failed Routing Load (DIS) Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes

Pending Close (DIS) Cond Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Failed Close (DIS) Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes

Closed (DIS) Yes Yes Yes No No No N/A

Job and Repetitive Schedule Statuses 11 – 15

 Change To PROCESSING status From Pending Failed
Pending Failed Bill Pending Failed
Routing Routing
Bill Load Load Close Close
PROCESSING Status Load Load

Unreleased No No No No Yes Yes

Released No No No No Yes Yes

Complete No No No No Yes Yes

Complete – No Charges No No No No Yes Yes

On Hold No No No No Yes Yes

Cancelled No No No No Yes Yes

Pending Bill Load N/A No Yes Yes No No

Failed Bill Load No No N/A No Yes Yes

Pending Routing Load Yes N/A Yes Yes No No

Failed Routing Load No No Yes N/A Yes Yes

Failed Close No No No No Yes N/A

Pending Close No No No No N/A Yes

Closed (DIS) No No No No No No

See Also

Discrete Job Close: page 3 – 119

Discrete Job Statuses: page 11 – 7
Repetitive Schedule Statuses: page 11 – 12
Changing Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 105
Changing Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 28
Mass Changing Discrete Job Statuses: page 3 – 109
Mass Changing Repetitive Schedule Statuses: page 6 – 32

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Transaction and Process Control By Status
Statuses control what transactions can be performed on discrete jobs
and repetitive schedules. Discrete job statuses also help you control
whether you can close and purge jobs. Statuses can also be used to
control ECO implementation and the MRP planning process.

Transaction Control By Status

Material, Move, and Resource Transactions
You can perform issue, completion, move, scrap, and resource
transactions for jobs and schedules with Released or Complete statuses.
Backflush transactions and overhead charges are indirectly controlled
by status since their source move or completion transactions are
directly controlled by status.

Cost Update Transactions

Cost update transactions are created for standard discrete jobs and
non–standard asset jobs with the following statuses: Unreleased,
Released, Complete, Complete–No Charges, and On Hold.

Period Close Transactions

When you close an accounting period, accounting transactions for
repetitive schedules with statuses of Released, Complete, Complete–No
Charges, and On Hold —or just Complete and Complete–No Charges
depending on how you set the WIP Recognize Period Variances Parameter
— are automatically created.
When you close an accounting period, accounting transactions for
non–standard expense jobs with statuses of Unreleased, Released,
Complete, Complete–No Charges, and On Hold are also automatically
created.

Job Close Transactions

You can close jobs of any status except jobs that are Closed, Pending
Close, Pending Bill Load, and Pending Routing Load.

Purge Transactions
You can purge jobs that were closed in a now closed period. You can
also purge repetitive schedules that were changed to statuses of
Complete–No Charges and Cancelled in closed periods.

Job and Repetitive Schedule Statuses 11 – 17

See Also

Discrete Job Statuses: page 11 – 7

Repetitive Schedule Statuses: page 11 – 12
Discrete Job Purge: page 3 – 127
Repetitive Schedule Purge: page 6 – 41
Job and Repetitive Schedule Status Changes: page 11 – 15
Overview of Period Close, Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide

ECO Implementation By Status

Oracle Engineering automatically implements engineering change
orders (ECOs) with Release, Schedule, and Implement statuses for jobs
with statuses of Unreleased and schedules with statuses of Unreleased,
Released, and On Hold. You can optionally choose to implement Open
status ECOs using the WIP:Exclude ECOs profile option. See: ECO
Statuses, Oracle Engineering User’s Guide.
Oracle Engineering does not implement ECOs on non–standard
discrete jobs.

Unreleased Standard Discrete Jobs and Repetitive Schedules

When an ECO is implemented in Oracle Engineering, the system
automatically regenerates the bills of material for unreleased jobs and
schedules to reflect the impact of the ECO.

Released, Complete, or On Hold Repetitive Schedules

The impact of an ECO implementation on Released, Complete, or On
Hold repetitive schedules depends on whether repetitive assemblies
have been moved beyond the Queue intraoperation step of the first
routing operation.

See Also

Overview of Engineering Change Orders, Oracle Engineering User’s

Guide

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Planning Control by Status
Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning
includes the assembly supply and component demand of jobs with
statuses of Unreleased, Released, Complete, and On Hold. Because
Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning uses different
planning algorithms for repetitive manufacturing, repetitive statuses do
not impact how repetitive schedule supply and demand is viewed.

See Also

Overview of Material Requirements Planning, Oracle Master

Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning User’s Guide
Overview of Planner Workbench, Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and
Oracle Supply Chain Planning User’s Guide

Reporting by Status
Job and repetitive schedule statuses determine what information is
listed on reports. For example, if a job has a status of Closed,
Compete–No Charges, or Cancelled, information about that job and its
component requirements is not listed on the Discrete Job Shortage
Report since shortages on jobs with these statuses do not need to be
filled.
You can view discrete job and repetitive schedule information
regardless of status. For example, you could view the component
material requirements for a closed job using the View Discrete Jobs
window.

Pending
Status Report Complete
Mass
Unreleased Released Complete No On Hold Cancelled Closed
Loaded
Charges
(Rep)

Discrete Job Data Report Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes N/A

Discrete Dispatch Report Opt Yes Yes No Yes No No N/A

Discrete Job Listing Report Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes N/A

Discrete Job Pick List Report Yes Yes Yes No No No No N/A

Discrete Job Routing Sheet Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No N/A

Job and Repetitive Schedule Statuses 11 – 19

 Pending
Status Report Complete Mass
Unreleased Released Complete No On Hold Cancelled Closed Loaded
Charges (Rep)

Discrete Job Shortage Report Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No N/A

Discrete Job Value Report Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes N/A

Expense Job Value Report No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes N/A

Job Lot Composition Report Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes N/A

Move Transaction Report No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes N/A

Repetitive Line Report Yes Yes Yes No Yes No N/A Yes

Repetitive Pick List Report Yes Yes Yes No No No N/A N/A

Repetitive Routing Sheet Yes Yes Yes No Yes No N/A N/A

Repetitive Schedule Data Report Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes N/A Yes

Repetitive Schedule Shortage Report Yes Yes Yes No No No N/A N/A

Repetitive Value Report No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes N/A N/A

Resource Performance Report No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes N/A

Resource Transaction Report No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes N/A

WIP Account Distribution Report No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes N/A

WIP Account Summary Report Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes N/A

WIP Location Report No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No N/A

WIP Outside Processing Report No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No N/A

WIP Offsetting Account Report Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes N/A

WIP Value Report No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No N/A

Note: Reports that are printed with processes, such as

importing and purging jobs and schedules, are not included in
the above table.

See Also

Viewing Discrete Job Information: page 3 – 95

Discrete Job Statuses: page 11 – 7

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Repetitive Schedule Statuses: page 11 – 12

Job and Repetitive Schedule Statuses 11 – 21

Business Scenarios
The following business cases illustrate how statuses can be used to
manage manufacturing production.

Production Start
You are ready to define jobs. However, you do not want to kit and
assemble these jobs until you have confirmed material availability and
production capacity.
In this case, you can begin by defining your jobs with a status of
Unreleased. Once you are certain that everything is ready, you can
change the status of the jobs to Released and print your shop
paperwork. See: Changing Discrete Job: page 3 – 105, Mass Changing
Discrete Job Statuses: page 3 – 109, Discrete Shop Packet: page 15 – 29,
and Discrete Job Dispatch Report: page 15 – 13.
To identify which jobs to kit, the stockroom staff can run a report for all
jobs with a status of Released. See: Discrete Job Listing Report: page
15 – 15.
To identify which assemblies to build, the shop floor staff can run a
report that lists assemblies with quantities in the Queue intraoperation
step of the first routing operation. See: WIP Location Report: page
15 – 74.

Production Stop
You need to stop a group of jobs temporarily because a quality problem
has developed. You also need to stop a job that is building a
configure–to–order item because the customer has just changed the
configuration.
In the first instance, stopping production on the group of jobs makes it
possible for you to address the quality problem. In the second instance,
stopping production allows you to evaluate how the customer’s change
affects material requirements and operations. You can temporarily stop
production on the jobs involved by changing their statuses to On Hold.
See: Changing Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 105 and Mass Changing Discrete
Job Statuses: page 3 – 109.
Jobs can be defined in sequential order using the automatic sequence
generator. Sequentially ordered jobs are easier to query and mass
change than non–sequential jobs.
Once the quality problem is resolved and the impact of the changes to
the configure–to–order job have been determined, you can change the
statuses of the jobs from On Hold to Unreleased or Released.

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 Close Discrete Jobs
You are preparing to close your accounting period and must review all
jobs that can be closed. You can find and view all Complete,
Complete–No Charges, and Cancelled jobs using the View Discrete
Jobs window. Using this window, you can also check the disposition of
component materials and the status of shop floor operations. See:
Viewing Discrete Job Information: page 3 – 95.
If all the jobs are in order, you can view job costs either on–line or using
reports. See: Viewing WIP Value Summaries, Oracle Cost Management
User’s Guide and Discrete Job Value Report: page 15 – 25.
Once you are satisfied that your job cost information is correct, you can
close your jobs individually or as a group based on their status. See:
Discrete Job Close: page 3 – 119.

Repetitive Schedule First In – First Out Sequencing

You have implemented an ECO on a repetitive schedule in production,
and the schedule has automatically split into two repetitive schedules.
The first schedule uses the original bill of material and the second uses
the new bill with the ECO. See: ECO Implementation by Status: page
11 – 18.
Because of the production rates and lead times being used, the
schedule split results in having the same assembly with two different
bills on the same line at the same time. Since the first in–first out
allocations are used when two schedules are released on the line at the
same time, you must maintain first in–first out order when moving
assemblies. Unfortunately several of the assemblies with the original
bill are being may be held for repair at a Reject intraoperation step and
assemblies using the new bill are beginning to pass them. This could
result in the lose of physical first in–first out (FIFO) flow and improper
backflushing.
To correct this problem you must separate the assemblies by changing
the status of the first schedule to On Hold. This freezes the first
schedule removing it from the FIFO algorithm. Later, when the
rejected assemblies are ready to go, you can change the status on the
first schedule to Released so that assemblies on the first schedule take
precedence in the FIFO algorithm. See: Defining Repetitive Schedules
Manually: page 6 – 14.

See Also

Discrete Job Statuses: page 11 – 7

Job and Repetitive Schedule Statuses 11 – 23

 Repetitive Schedule Statuses: page 11 – 12
Job and Repetitive Schedule Status Changes: page 11 – 15

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CHAPTER

12 Work in Process
Costing

T his chapter explains how costs are calculated and controlled in

Work in Process, including:
• Overview: page 12 – 2
• Setting Up: page 12 – 5
• Work in Process Costs: page 12 – 6
• Work in Process Valuation and Variances: page 12 – 8

Work in Process Costing 12 – 1

Overview
Oracle Work in Process provides a complete cost system to track and
report your production costs.

WIP Accounting Classes

You use WIP accounting classes to establish your valuation and
variance accounts. You can enter different accounts for each cost
element within a WIP accounting class for maximum elemental account
visibility. You can also enter the same account for more than one cost
element. If you are assign the same account to more than one cost
element, you can choose to have the values of these cost elements
summarized before being transferred to General Ledger.

Multiple Cost Elements

Through the multiple cost elements (material, material overhead,
resource, outside processing, and overhead) that you assign to your
accounting classes, the system can track all your production costs to the
correct valuation and variance accounts.

Costing Methods
All Oracle costing methods support Oracle Work in Process. However,
you can only cost repetitive schedules using standard costs.

Job Costs
You can cost standard and non–standard asset discrete production by
job. You can report job costs on a period–to–date and
cumulative–to–date basis.

Project Costs
If you are using Oracle Project Manufacturing Costing, you can cost
jobs by project. Project jobs can be specific to a single contract or a
group of contracts for a specific customer.

Period Costs
You can cost and report your repetitive and non–standard expense
production by period.

Repetitive Assembly and Line Costs

You can track your repetitive production costs by assembly on a line so
you do not have to review your costs by individual repetitive schedule.

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You can also track repetitive costs by assembly across lines or by line so
you can compare costs for your production lines.

Transaction Based Costs

You can track and report costs through the various stages of
production. The system calculates all costs and reports move, issue,
resource, overhead, completion, scrap, period close, and job close
transaction costs.

Resource Charging
You can charge resources automatically or manually.

Overhead Charging
You can charge overhead automatically based on resource value
charges, resource charges, or operation completions.

Fixed and Variable Resource, Outside Processing and Overhead

Charging
You can set up resources, outside processing, and overheads with a
basis of Lot for fixed charges per job or schedule, such as setup and
teardown. You can use a basis of Item for resources, outside
processing, and overheads that vary based on the job or repetitive
schedule quantity.

Flexible Resource, Outside Processing, and Overhead Absorption

You can assign separate absorption accounts by sub–element, such as
individual resources, outside processing resources, and overheads. As
you charge resources, outside processing, and overheads, work in
process valuation automatically absorbs your payroll, accounts payable
accruals, and overhead cost pools. At period end, you can compare
absorbed amounts with actual costs incurred in your general ledger
cost pools and accounts.

Actual Labor Charging

You can charge resources at standard resource rates, standard
employee rates, or actual rates.

Actual Purchase Price Charging

You can charge outside resources at predefined or actual purchase
prices.

Work in Process Costing 12 – 3

 Period Close
When you close an accounting period, period close costs are calculated.
The system costs and transfers all production costs by account to
Oracle Financial products. You can transfer in summary and detail
depending on your Oracle Inventory option.

Variances
You can track and report previous level usage variances for materials
and this level efficiency variances for resources and overheads. The
system calculates standard cost adjustment variances when the
standard cost update is run.

Valuation Reporting
The system can provides complete valuation reporting including
current balances, period to date charges, and cumulative to date
charges. You can also report your work in process balances by cost
element and level.

See Also

Work in Process Valuation: page 12 – 8

Work in Process Cost Variances: page 12 – 10
Overview of Standard Costing, Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide
Overview of Average Costing, Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide
Flow Manufacturing Costing, Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide
Overview of eAM Costing, Oracle Enterprise Asset Management User’s
Guide
Overview of Lot Based Job Costing, Oracle Shopfloor Management User’s
Guide

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Setting Up
Based on your manufacturing and accounting requirements, refer to the
appropriate manufacturing (Inventory and Work in Process) section:
• Setting Up Standard Costing for Manufacturing, Oracle Cost
Management User’s Guide
• Setting Up Average Costing for Manufacturing, Oracle Cost
Management User’s Guide
• Setting Up Layer Costing for Manufacturing, Oracle Cost
Management User’s Guide
Check your WIP Require Scrap Account Parameter and Recognize Period
Variance Parameter. See: Work in Process Parameters: page 2 – 14. If
you are using average costing, also check your Average Costing
Parameters: page 2 – 19.

See Also

Defining WIP Parameters: page 2 – 30

Defining WIP Accounting Classes: page 2 – 48
Defining Labor Rates: page 2 – 56

Work in Process Costing 12 – 5

Work in Process Costs
You use standard and non–standard discrete jobs, project jobs,
repetitive schedules, and flow schedules to collect the costs of
production. For standard and non–standard discrete jobs, you value
and report work in process costs based on jobs. For project jobs, you
value work in process costs based on the projects that jobs are
associated with. For repetitive schedules, you value and report work in
process costs based on assemblies on a line in a period, not on specific
repetitive schedules.

Costing Methods and Work in Process

You can cost standard discrete jobs, non standard discrete jobs, project
jobs, and flow schedules in average costing organizations. You can cost
repetitive schedules in standard costing organizations only. Costing
methods are assigned in the Organization Parameters window in
Oracle Inventory. See: Organization Parameters Window, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide and Defining Costing Information, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide.
The following table summarize which costing methods can be used
with which manufacturing methods.

Manufacturing Method Standard Costing Average. FIFO, LIFO

Organization Costing Organization,

Standard Discrete Jobs Yes Yes

Non–standard Expense Job Yes Yes

Non–standard Asset Jobs Yes Yes

Project Jobs Yes Yes

Repetitive Schedules Yes No

Flow Schedules Yes Yes

Project Flow Schedules No Yes

See Also

Work in Process Standard Cost Transactions, Oracle Cost Management

User’s Guide

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Work in Process Average Cost Transactions, Oracle Cost Management
User’s Guide
FIFO/LIFO Costing, Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide

Work in Process Costing 12 – 7

Work in Process Valuation and Variances
The value of work in process is maintained as transactions are
processed. Work in process values include usage, efficiency, and
standard cost adjustment variances.

Work in Process Valuation

Work in Process continually maintains the value of work in process,
updating it with each transaction. This means that you can report
work in process costs quickly and accurately.

Cost Elements
Work in Process maintains and reports work in process values by
distinct cost element (material, resource, and so on) even if you assign
the same general ledger account to each cost element. You can also
report work in process value by cost element within specific WIP
accounting classes.

Accounting Classes and Cost Elements

Note: The following discussion provides an overview of how
discrete and repetitive costs are calculated and posted. For
additional information on these topics and complete
descriptions of the resulting accounting entries see the
following topics:

Standard Discrete Job Costs

The WIP accounting class that you assign to a standard discrete job
determines which valuation and variance accounts are charged.
Valuation accounts are charged when material is issued to a job. When
the job is closed, final costs and variances are calculated and posted to
the variance and valuation accounts associated with the job. Standard
jobs that have not been closed are automatically revalued by the
standard cost update. Average cost updates and layer cost updates not
not revalue jobs.

Non–Standard Discrete Job Costs

The WIP accounting class that you assign to a non–standard discrete
job determines which valuation and variance accounts are charged.
There are two types of accounting classes that can be assigned to

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non–standard discrete jobs: expense non–standard and asset
non–standard.
Non–standard expense jobs are costed using period–based costing.
Non–standard expense jobs are not revalued by cost updates.
Conversely, non–standard asset jobs are costed much like standard
discrete jobs and are revalued by cost updates. Non–standard expense
and non–standard asset jobs do not earn material overhead when you
complete assemblies. Instead material overhead at completion is
posted directly to the subinventory material overhead account.

Repetitive Costs
When you enter a repetitive transaction, costs are charged to the
assembly and line rather than to a specific schedule. This is known as
flow charging and applies to all repetitive material, resource, and move
transactions. Repetitive transactions are allocated to open schedules
based upon date the first unit start date (FUSD) starting with the oldest
schedule first.
Repetitive assemblies are costed using period–based costing. Period
costs for a repetitive assembly are calculated by totalling the charges
made to an assembly and line during the period and dividing by the
number of assemblies you produced on that line during the period.
Valuations and variances are calculated when you close a period. You
do not need to close repetitive schedules.
Repetitive variances are calculated by comparing an assembly’s period
cost with its standard cost. Variances can occur due to scrap,
additional resource and overhead charges, and changes in daily
quantities.
The period close process writes the variance values to the variance
accounts associated with the WIP accounting class you assigned to the
repetitive line/assembly association. You can specify which repetitive
schedule variances to post to the general ledger when you close an
accounting period using the WIP Recognize Period Variances parameter.
See: Repetitive Parameters: page 2 – 18.

Journal Entries
Whenever a job or schedule is changed, relieved, or closed, journal
entries are created. When transactions are transferred to the general
ledger or the accounting period is closed, these journal entries are
transferred to the general ledger. See: General Ledger Transfer, Oracle
Inventory User’s Guide and Overview of Period Close, Oracle Cost
Management User’s Guide.

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See Also

WIP Accounting Classes: page 2 – 42

WIP Accounting Class Elemental Costs: page 2 – 44
WIP Value Report: page 15 – 79
Discrete Job Value Report: page 15 – 25
Repetitive Value Report: page 15 – 60

Viewing WIP Value Summaries: page NO TAG

Work in Process Cost Variances

Work in Process provides usage, efficiency, and standard cost
adjustment variances. Usage and efficiency variances result when the
total costs charged to a job or schedule do not equal the total costs
relieved from a job or schedule at standard. You can transact the
following types of variances:
• Material Usage Variance
• Resource and Outside Processing Efficiency Variance
• Move Based Overhead Efficiency Variance
• Resource Based Overhead Efficiency Variance
• Standard Cost Adjustment Variance

See Also

Work in Process Standard Cost Variances: page NO TAG

Viewing WIP Value Summaries: page NO TAG

Cost Reports
The following reports can be used to assist you in identifying your
discrete and repetitive manufacturing costs:

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• Discrete Job Value Report: page 15 – 25
(includes costs for standard discrete and non–standard asset
jobs)
• Expense Job Value Report: page 15 – 32
• Repetitive Value Report: page 15 – 60
• WIP Value Report: page 15 – 79

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CHAPTER

13 Work in Process
Scheduling

T his chapter explains how discrete jobs and repetitive schedules are
scheduled, including:
• Overview of Work in Process Scheduling: page NO TAG
• Discrete Scheduling: page 13 – 5
• Detailed Scheduling: page 13 – 7
• Discrete Rescheduling: page 13 – 12
• Repetitive Line Scheduling: page 13 – 14
• Repetitive Line Rescheduling: page 13 – 19
• Repetitive Line Capacity Changes: page 13 – 21

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Overview of Work in Process Scheduling
You can use Oracle Work in Process to schedule production resources
and materials, customer delivery requirements, and maintain a smooth
production flow. Scheduling establishes expected dates and times for
material and resource requirements. Scheduling also establishes
expected dates and time for the supply availability of assemblies built
on the jobs and repetitive schedules.
Oracle Work in Process uses two scheduling modes: infinite and
constraint–based. The infinite scheduling engine assumes infinite
capacity. If you have Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling installed, you
can enable the constraint–based scheduler which considers resource
and material constraints. All scheduling is based on the calendars,
shifts, departments, resources, routing, and planning you define in
Oracle Bills of Material – and jobs and production lines defined in
Work in Process.
Scheduling for both the infinite and constraint–based scheduler
consider resource usage features such as simultaneous resources, 24
hour resources, and utilization and efficiency factors.
You can choose to include either or both resource efficiency and
resource utilization in scheduler calculations. Efficiency effects your
production load, and utilization effects capacity. These resource factors
are always considered in lead time calculations, and influence resource
elapsed time calculated during scheduling. Both the infinite scheduler
and the constraint based scheduler use the efficiency and utilization
settings in the Work in Process Parameter window when scheduling
jobs. See: Defining WIP Parameters: page 2 – 30

Date and Time Scheduling

You can define the start and completion dates and times for jobs and
repetitive schedules. Start and completion dates and times for the
operations within these jobs and schedules are scheduled
automatically.

Forward vs. Backward Scheduling Options

If you enter a job or repetitive schedule start date and time, the
completion date and time is automatically determined using forward
scheduling. Conversely, if you enter a job or repetitive schedule
completion date and time, the start date and time is determined using
backward scheduling.

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Fixed and Variable Rate Production Lines
You can specify all the assemblies on a repetitive production line to run
at the same production rate on your fixed rate lines. You can specify
the production rate by assembly for your variable rate lines.

Fixed vs. Routing Based Line Lead Time Options

You can schedule your repetitive production lead time based on
routing or line attributes to best simulate your repetitive production
process.

Planning Based Rescheduling

You can automatically implement discrete reschedule
recommendations from Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply
Chain Planning or import them from other sources through the Open
Job and Schedule Interface.

Midpoint Scheduling
You can schedule discrete jobs around bottleneck operations using
midpoint scheduling. By setting the midpoint operation start or
completion date and time you can automatically forward and
backward schedule from that midpoint.

Multiple Resources per Operation Scheduling

You can define multiple resources at an operation to account for labor,
machine, and other activities. Resources are automatically scheduled
based on their sequence.

Simultaneous Resources
When a group of multiple resources are defined as simultaneous
resources, the scheduler uses the one resource having the longest
duration to calculate start and end dates for the group. See: Resource
Factors in Lead Time Calculation: page 9 – 15
Prior and Next resource scheduling options are not available for
simultaneous resources. These resources are scheduled as Yes, that is,
the resource start and completion dates are used to schedule the
operation. For example, if you have two operations, and the first
operation has simultaneous resources assigned, both resources are
scheduled with a value of Yes. The resources in the operation following
this resource are scheduled as Prior or Next.

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 Fixed and Variable Resource Scheduling
You can define resource usage based on job and repetitive schedule
quantity for variable resources or for a fixed amount for fixed resources
such as setup and teardown. Scheduling is based on resource usage.

Resource Availability Scheduling

You can assign as many resources to an operation as are available.
Further, you can make any resource available by shift or around the
clock. Scheduling is based on resource availability.

Operation Resource Overlap Scheduling

You can schedule resource operations to overlap to account for
simultaneous processing of the same job or repetitive schedule in
concurrent operations. For example, you can schedule external setup
on the next operation to take place while you complete processing at
the prior operation.

Constraint–based Scheduling
If you have installed Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling; the
Constraint–based Scheduling engine enables you to schedule discrete
jobs and operations based on priorities, resources, and material
availability. The Scheduler Workbench, a graphical interface, is used to
schedule and reschedule discrete jobs on the shop floor..

Dispatch Reporting
You can monitor and prioritize your shop floor activity to meet
customer demands using a variety of standard Work in Process reports.

See Also

Overview of Oracle Bills of Material, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide

Overview of Rough Cut Capacity Planning, Oracle Capacity User’s Guide
Overview of Capacity Requirements Planning, Oracle Capacity User’s
Guide
Overview of Material Requirements Planning, Oracle Master
Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning User’s Guide
Scheduling Single Discrete Jobs, Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling User’s
Guide
Rescheduling All Job or Pending Scheduling Jobs, Oracle Manufacturing
Scheduling User’s Guide

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Discrete Scheduling
When you define a job, you must enter either a start or completion date
and time. If the job assembly has a routing, dates and times are
automatically scheduled for the operations, resources, and material
requirements for the job using detailed scheduling.
If the job assembly does not have a routing, it can be scheduled in one
of two ways. You can manually schedule the jobs by entering both the
start and completion dates. You can also enter either a start or
completion date and allow the system to calculate the missing date
based on the item lead time.

Start Date
This is the date and time that you plan to start the job. You can choose
start dates and times earlier than the current date to maintain relative
date priorities for department schedules and material requirements.
You can choose start dates that are not on the manufacturing calendar.
In this case, the system plans for work to start on the next valid date.
When you specify the start date and time, the system forward
schedules the job and automatically calculates the job completion date
and time using detailed scheduling based on the assembly’s routing. If
no routing exists, the system forward schedules using the fixed and
variable lead times for the assembly from the item master. If no routing
and no lead time exist, you must enter both the start and completion
dates.

Completion Date
This is the date and time on which you plan to complete the job. You
can choose completion dates and times earlier than the current date to
maintain relative date priorities for department schedules and material
requirements. If you choose completion dates that are not on the
manufacturing calendar, the system plans for work to complete on the
next valid date.
When you specify the job completion date and time, the system
backward schedules the job and automatically calculates the job start
date and time using detailed scheduling based on the assembly’s
routing. If no routing exists, the system backward schedules using the
fixed and variable lead times for the assembly from the item master. If
no routing and no lead time exist, you must enter both the start and
completion dates.
When you import jobs and schedules or automatically create discrete
jobs from planned orders, the system uses the due date from the

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 planned order as the scheduled completion date and uses backward
scheduling to determine the start date. When the system automatically
creates final assembly orders, it also uses backward scheduling from
the order due date to determine the job start date.
Note: The start date that Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and
Supply Chain Planning recommends may not exactly match
with the start date of the actual job. Differences between the
planning and work in process lead times can arise due to more
precise scheduling of shifts and resources by Work in Process.

Operations Dates
Each operation in the routing is scheduled using detailed scheduling.
The start date and time of the first operation generally equals the start
date and time for the job. The scheduled completion date and time for
the job generally equals the scheduled completion date and time of the
last operation in the routing. If the resource is not active on a shift at
the start or completion dates and times of the job, the first and last
operation dates and times do not match the start and completion dates
of the job. In addition, you can manually schedule the first and last
operation dates and times to differ from the job start and completion
dates and times.

Material Requirements Dates

The system schedules material requirements so that they are required
on the start date and time of the operation where they are consumed.
For example, if you use component A in operation sequence 30 and
operation sequence 30 is scheduled to start on 01–JAN at 12:15, then
the component is required on 01–JAN at 12:15 regardless of the start
and completion dates and times of the job. If there is no routing, all
material requirements are required on the job start date and time.

See Also

Detailed Scheduling: page 13 – 7

Discrete Rescheduling: page 13 – 12
Rescheduling Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 106
Importing Jobs and Schedules: page 15 – 35
Final Assembly Orders: page 3 – 56
Planned Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 55

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Detailed Scheduling
The system uses detailed scheduling to schedule discrete production.
The lead time rollup process in Oracle Bills of Material also uses
detailed scheduling to calculate lead times used by Oracle Master
Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning.
Detailed scheduling applies resource usage defined by routings and
resources to resource availability defined by the calendar shifts and
exceptions on a minute by minute basis to determine job start and end
times (calculated to the minute) and operation start and end times.
You provide resource usage information used by detailed scheduling
when you assign resources to a routing in Oracle Bills of Material.
For example, assume you have defined the following routing and you
want to use it to schedule a discrete job for a quantity of 1000
assemblies:

Routing to Schedule Discrete Job

Res Usage Rate Assigned Scheduled

Op Seq Seq Resource Basis or Amount Activity Scheduled Units Units

10 1 Punch press Item 0.1 Run Yes 1 100

10 2 Punch press Lot 1 Teardown Next 1 1

20 1 Queue Lot 4 Queue Yes 1 4

20 2 Machinist Item 0.05 Labor No 3 0

20 3 Drill press Item 0.05 Run Yes 3 50

20 4 Inspector Item 0.01 Quality Yes 1 10

30 1 Plating Lot 1 Setup Prior 1 1

preparation

30 2 Plating Item 0.01 Run Yes 1 10

Note: All units of measure are in hours.

Multiple Resources
You can assign multiple resources per operation to schedule labor,
machine, and other activities you perform within an operation.
Detailed scheduling schedules multiple resources sequentially based on
their resource sequence number.
In the Routing to Schedule Discrete Job table, operation sequence 30
has two resources: Plating and Plating preparation. Detailed

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 scheduling schedules these resources sequentially based on their
resource sequence number.

Constraint–based Scheduling of Resources

If you have installed Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling, the
constraint–based scheduling engine considers the capacity for the
resource. You can also set up simultaneous and alternate resources.
Simultaneous resources consist of two or more resources scheduled
with the same start date and time. Alternate resources are used instead
of the primary resource. See: Defining WIP Resource Definition, Oracle
Manufacturing Scheduling User’s Guide, and Defining Simultaneous and
Alternate Resources, Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling User’s Guide
The Scheduler Workbench, a graphical interface, provides access to
areas where you can adjust resource capacity including:
• Reschedule the start and end dates of a resource
• Delete or add a day of capacity, adjusting for overtime shifts or
shop closures
• Add or delete resource units when either extra resources are
obtainable or resources are unavailable
• Adjust Assigned Units or Usage Rate for the resource on the job
routing

Lot or Item Basis

You can use a resource basis of Lot to schedule fixed resource
requirements such as setup or teardown. You can use a resource basis
of Item to schedule resources whose requirements change in proportion
to the number of assemblies being built.
In the Routing to Schedule Discrete Job table, operation sequence 10
has resource sequence 2, Punch press, with a basis of Lot to schedule
one hour of teardown activity for each job.
Operation sequence 10, resource sequence 1 has 1 hours of runtime
activity for each assembly unit on the job. Therefore, a job for an
assembly quantity of 1000 requires 100 hours of runtime activity.

Assigned Units
You can assign multiple units of a resource to work concurrently at an
operation. In the Routing to Schedule Discrete Job table, for operation
sequence 20, resource sequence 3, you have three drill press resources
in your plant that you have assigned to the routing. Detailed
scheduling schedules assuming all three are applied to the job. In other

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words, if your job has 50 hours of drill press resource required, detailed
scheduling would schedule 16.67 elapsed hours (50 resource hours
required/3 resources available).

Scheduled Options
You can assign resources to an operation, but not have them scheduled.
In the Routing to Schedule Discrete Job table, you might have a
machinist resource who periodically checks the progress of the drill
press resource. Since the machinist resource is not on the critical path
you would not schedule, but you would likely want to cost, the
machinist resource.
You can assign resources used solely for scheduling, even though these
resources do not actually provide value added work. In the Routing to
Schedule Discrete Job table, at operation sequence 20, resource
sequence 1, you can simulate 4 hours of queue time to schedule the
time assemblies wait before the drill press resource frees up from other
scheduled work.

☞ Attention: Detailed scheduling is not a finite scheduling

algorithm. However, you schedule resources to simulate load
that other jobs place on a department and resource and thus
achieve scheduling results similar to those created by finite
scheduling algorithms.
You can schedule operations to overlap to account for simultaneous
processing of the same job in concurrent operations. For example, you
can schedule setup resources of the next operation to overlap with
processing resources of the current operation. Or, you can schedule
teardown resources at the prior operation to overlap with processing
resources at the current operation.
In the Routing to Schedule Discrete Job table, operation sequence 10,
resource sequence 2 has one hour of teardown that can be performed
after the assemblies have moved to the next operation. As such, the
Scheduled field is set to Next.
Operation sequence 30, resource sequence 1 has one hour of setup
activity that can begin before the assemblies arriving at operation
sequence. As such, the Scheduled field is set to Prior.

Shift Calendar
Detailed scheduling uses the shift calendar to determine resource
availability. Therefore, resources can only be scheduled when they are
available. If you assume round the clock resource availability, the job
for 1000 assemblies, using the routing in the Routing to Schedule

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 Discrete Job table, would require 141.67 processing hours or
approximately 5.6 workdays.
On the other hand, if you assume a single 8 hour day, single shift
calendar for all resources, the processing hours would remain 141.67
hours, but the workdays would stretch to approximately 17.7.

Forward and Backward Scheduling

When you forward schedule, detailed scheduling starts at the job start
date and time and computes the job completion date and time. When
you backward schedule, detailed scheduling ends at the job completion
date and time and computes the job start date and time.
If the job start date and time is before the first scheduled resource in the
first operation becomes available, no work can take place until that
resource becomes available. Likewise for backward scheduling, if the
completion date and time for the job conflict with the availability of the
last scheduled resource in the last operation, the job cannot be
completed until the last operation is complete. Resources may or may
not be available depending on their shift availability.
The following diagram depicts how the detailed scheduler would
schedule the routing from the Routing to Schedule Discrete Job table,
assuming round the clock resource availability:

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 Note: Not to scale.

See Also

Overview of Routings, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide

Creating a Routing, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide
Overview of Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP), Oracle Capacity
User’s Guide
Overview of Capacity Requirements Planning, Oracle Capacity User’s
Guide
Overview of Implementing Planning Recommendations, Oracle Master
Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning User’s Guide

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Discrete Rescheduling
You can reschedule discrete jobs by modifying discrete job operations,
by importing modified jobs and schedules, and by replanning planned
orders using Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain
Planning.

Operation Dates
You can reschedule any existing job. You can reschedule around the
start or completion date of any discrete job operation. For example,
you can do midpoint rescheduling to schedule both forward and
backward from any operation within the routing. You can also
manually reschedule operation start and completion dates. See:
Adding and Updating Operations: page 8 – 12.

Discrete Job Changes

You can change start and completion dates and times of discrete jobs.
The operations and material requirements of the job are automatically
forward or backward scheduled depending on the date you changed.
This rescheduling is based on the operation and requirements of the
job, not the bill and routing you define in Oracle Bills of Material.
If you increase or decrease the job quantity, the job is automatically
rescheduled based on the revised quantity. If you change the alternate
routing, the routing revision, or revision date and time or routing
reference (for non–standard jobs only) of a job with a status of
Unreleased, the job is rescheduled based on the new routing.

Planned Orders
You can automatically implement reschedule recommendations from
Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning. You can
choose the specific jobs you want to reschedule based on the criteria
you enter in the Planner Workbench. The system then automatically
reschedules job operation and material requirement start and
completion dates and times.

Job Import
You can import suggested repetitive schedules from other planning
system into Work in Process. You can choose the specific jobs you want
to reschedule based on the criteria you enter in the planning system.
Job operation and material requirement start and completion dates and
times are automatically rescheduled. See: Work Order Interface: page
3 – 57 and Importing Jobs and Schedules: page 15 – 35.

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 Capacity Modifications
For each resource on a shift, you can override the number of resource
units available (such as number of machines) and specify additions or
reductions to the amount of time the resource is available on that shift.
And, you can group capacity modifications into sets that you can use
when you generate a capacity plan to simulate capacity changes. In
Work in Process, these capacity modifications are considered when you
define new jobs and/or reschedule existing jobs.

Workday Calendar and Shifts

You can change the workday calendar and modify shifts at any time.
The system takes these changes into account when you define new jobs
and/or reschedule existing jobs. You can transact on non–workdays as
long as they occur in a valid period. See: Overview of Workday
Calendar, Oracle Bills of Material user’s Guide.

Constraint–based Rescheduling
If you have installed Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling, the
Constraint–based Scheduling engine enables you to reschedule jobs
based on date constraints or available resources and material. When
you reschedule all jobs or pending scheduling jobs from the Schedule
Discrete Jobs window, the constraint–based scheduling engine uses the
requested due date and scheduling priority:
• The highest priority jobs are scheduled first
• Jobs with the same priority are scheduled based on the earliest
requested due date
• Firm jobs and any associated operations are not rescheduled
See: Rescheduling All Job or Pending Scheduling Jobs, Oracle
Manufacturing Scheduling User’s Guide

See Also

Overview of Capacity Requirements Planning, Oracle Capacity User’s

Guide
Rescheduling Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 106

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Repetitive Line Scheduling
Repetitive line scheduling is used to schedule repetitive production.
When you define repetitive schedules you must specify the line on
which you plan to produce the repetitive assembly and the quantity
you plan to build. Then, repetitive line scheduling uses the line start
and stop times, production rate, and lead time, along with the workday
calendar to schedule your repetitive schedules.

Production Lines
When you define lines you must specify the start and stop times of the
line. You must also specify the minimum and maximum hourly rate on
the line.
The repetitive line scheduling method uses line start and stop times to
calculate how long the line runs each day. For example, if you run the
line from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, you would enter a start time of 08:00 and
a stop time of 17:00. The repetitive line scheduling method does not
use the shift calendar dates and times you defined in Oracle Bills of
Material. The repetitive line scheduling method does use the days on
and days off from the workday calendar.

Production Rate
When you associate a line and assembly you must set the hourly
production rate. In other words, you define the hourly production run
rate used to schedule that assembly on that line. For line/assembly
associations with a fixed lead time rate line, all assemblies should use
the same production rate. For variable rate lines, you need to specify
different rates for each assembly. The production rate cannot be greater
than the maximum rate on the line.

Lead Times
For lines with a lead time basis of Fixed, you must enter a fixed lead
time for the line. For lines with a lead time basis of Routing–based, the
lead time is calculated by applying the detailed scheduling algorithm to
the routing of the assembly. The lead time for a repetitive schedule is
the amount of time it takes to complete the first unit.

Repetitive Schedule Quantities

You define the daily production quantity, processing days, and total
production quantity when you manually define a schedule.

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Daily Quantity
The daily quantity is the number of completed assemblies you plan to
produce on the schedule each day. The daily quantity can only be a
positive number including decimals, such as 1.25. A warning message
displays if you define a daily quantity for a schedule that is greater
than the line’s maximum hourly rate times the production hours.
You can choose a daily quantity that is less than or equal to the daily
line capacity:

production rate X (line stop time – line start time)

In that case, you build the entire daily quantity for that schedule in less
than a full day. For example, if the production rate is 100 per hour for
10 hours and the daily quantity for a schedule is 500 per day, you can
build the 500 in half a day. The remaining line capacity of 500 is then
free for other production.

Over–schedule Line By Daily Quantity

You can temporarily over–schedule a production line to simulate
overtime or a production rate increase. You can choose a daily quantity
greater than the daily line capacity. For example, if the production rate
is 100 units per hour for 10 hours, the daily line capacity is 1000 units.
You can define a schedule for 1200 units, thereby over–scheduling the
line. The system warns you that you are over–scheduling the line and
interprets this over–schedule as an increase in the production rate, not
a change in start and stop times. In this example, the system would
assume a production rate of 120 units per hour for 10 hours to get 1200
units per day.

Processing Days
Processing days are the number of days you plan to work on the
repetitive schedule. Processing days can be any positive number
including decimal (partial) days. A full processing day for the schedule
on a line may not require the entire capacity of the line if the daily
quantity is less than the daily line capacity. For example, a full
processing day on a schedule at a daily quantity of 500 on a line with a
production rate of 100 per hour and 10 available hours can be built
with a half day of line capacity.
The total quantity is the number of completed assemblies you plan to
produce on the repetitive schedule. The total quantity equals the daily
quantity multiplied by the processing days. The total quantity can only
be a positive number including decimal quantities.

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 When you manually define a repetitive schedule, you can enter either
the daily quantity or the total quantity. You can enter both if you
choose. If you enter either quantity and processing days information,
the system automatically calculates the other quantity for you.

Lead Times
Lead time is the amount of time that it takes to complete the first
assembly on a repetitive schedule from start to finish. Lead time equals
the difference between the FUSD and the FUCD. The system calculates
lead time based on the routing for lines with a lead time basis of
Routing based. The system defaults the lead time from the production
line for repetitive schedules on production lines with a lead time basis
of Fixed.

Repetitive Schedule Dates and Days

You enter dates First Unit/Last Unit Start and First Unit/Last Unit
Completion Dates and times, and processing days when you manually
define a repetitive schedule.

First Unit/Last Unit Start and First Unit/Last Unit Completion Dates
The first unit start date (FUSD) is the date and time you plan to begin
production on the first assembly on a repetitive schedule. You can
enter a start date and time earlier than the current date to maintain
relative priorities.
The LUSD (last unit start date) is the date and time you plan to begin
production of the last assembly on a repetitive schedule.
The FUCD (first unit completion date) is the date and time you plan to
complete production of the first assembly on a repetitive schedule.
This date equals the FUSD plus the lead time.
The LUCD (last unit completion date) is the date and time you plan to
complete production of the last assembly on a repetitive schedule.

Forward Scheduling
For repetitive schedules with routings, if you enter FUSD or FUCD and
times, the system uses forward scheduling to calculate the other dates.
If you enter FUCD or LUCD and time, the system uses backward
scheduling to calculate the other dates. If you do not have a routing for
an assembly on a line with a lead time basis of Routing based, you
must manually schedule the lead time. In other words, if you enter the
FUSD and time, you must enter the FUCD and time to set the lead time
for the schedule.

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If you do not have a routing for an assembly on a line with a lead time
basis of Routing based, you must manually schedule the lead time. In
other words, if you enter the FUSD and time, you must enter the FUCD
and time to set the lead time for the schedule.
You can also forward or backward schedule a schedule if its assembly
has either a fixed or variable lead time or both. If the assembly has
both a fixed and variable lead time, the lead time for the repetitive
schedule is calculated as follows:

(job or schedule quantity x variable lead time) + fixed lead time

The following diagram illustrates repetitive schedule dates.

You cannot overlap repetitive schedules for the same assembly on the
same line. In other words, you cannot have the FUSD of one schedule
fall between the FUSD and LUSD of a prior schedule. For example, if

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 the LUSD on the prior schedule is 24–MAY at 12:00, then the FUSD of
the next schedule for that assembly on that line must be at least
24–MAY at 12:01.
If you do not have a routing for an assembly on a line with a lead time
basis of Routing based, you must manually schedule the lead time. In
other words, if you enter the FUSD and time, you must enter the FUCD
and time to set the lead time for the schedule.

Sequencing Repetitive Assemblies on a Line

If you build multiple repetitive assemblies on a single production line,
you can sequence production to maximize efficiency and customer
service. You can then query all schedules defined for an assembly on
the line and check the sequencing based on the schedule dates. You can
then reschedule the schedules.
To further assist you with sequencing, the system provides several
additional features. For example, you can define all schedules for an
assembly on a single line.
Furthermore, because the system uses both dates and times to schedule
repetitive production, you can decide the proper scheduling sequence
then schedule production to the minute to match your sequence.
Lastly, you can use the Open Job and Schedule Interface to import
sequence optimized repetitive planning suggestions. For example, if
you have an automated sequencing program, you can insert output
records from this program into the Open Job and Schedule Interface
table. These records can then be imported into Work in Process.

See Also

Open Job and Schedule Interface: page 3 – 57

Associating Lines and Assemblies: page 6 – 7
Production Line Report: page 15 – 43
Repetitive Line Report: page 15 – 51

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Repetitive Line Rescheduling
You can reschedule repetitive schedules by changing quantities, dates,
and routing revisions.

Repetitive Schedule Changes

You can change the daily production quantity, processing days, and
total quantity of a repetitive schedule. You can change any quantity
and the system reschedules all other dates and quantities on that
schedule accordingly. For example:
• Changing the daily production rate on a repetitive schedule
causes the total quantity to change accordingly based on the
processing days.
• Changing the processing days causes the total quantity to change
according to the daily quantity.
• Changing the total quantity on a schedule does not impact the
daily quantity. Instead increasing the total quantity causes the
processing days to increase. Conversely, reducing the total
quantity decreases the processing days.
If you change repetitive schedule quantities, you must select a date
around which to reschedule. The system then keeps this date constant
while automatically changing the other dates accordingly. For instance,
if you increase the processing days on a repetitive schedule and choose
to keep the first unit start and completion dates constant, the system
pushes out the last unit start date and last unit completion date and
increases the total quantity.

Repetitive Schedule Dates

You can change the dates and times on a repetitive schedule. When
you change dates and times, the system reschedules unreleased and
released schedules the same way. If you change the first unit start date,
first unit completion date, last unit start date, or last unit completion
date, the system reschedules the repetitive schedule to adjust the
remaining start and completion dates. Changing any of the four start
and completion dates does not impact the processing days, total
quantity, daily quantity, or lead time. You cannot change dates and
times so that schedules for the same assembly on the same line overlap.
You cannot change the lead time on a schedule. For fixed rate lines, the
line determines the lead time. For routing–based lines, the routing
determines the lead time. When you change dates on a repetitive
schedule, all the other attributes of that schedule, such as bill revision,
remain the same.

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 Bill Revisions and Dates
You can change the bill revision and dates for any unreleased or
pending repetitive schedule.

Routing Revisions and Dates

If you change the routing revision or revision date for any repetitive
schedule with a status of Unreleased or Pending – Mass loaded, the
system automatically reschedules based on the new routing. For
routing–based lines this may impact the dates. For fixed rate lines,
changing the routing does not impact the dates.

See Also

Creating Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 13

Production Line Report: page 15 – 43
Repetitive Line Report: page 15 – 51

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Repetitive Line Capacity Changes
You can make repetitive schedule adjustments to your repetitive
production capacity to reflect short term issues in matching your
repetitive production supply and demand. You can also change line
attributes such as start and stop time, and production rate to reflect
ongoing changes in your repetitive line capabilities.

Temporary Increase in Capacity

You have several options for temporarily increasing repetitive
production output. You can increase the production hours on a line by
working overtime. You can also increase the production rate by adding
workers to a line, or you can increase the load on an underutilized line.
The system lets you temporarily over–schedule a production to
simulate overtime or production rate increase. You can choose a daily
quantity greater than the daily line capacity when you define a
repetitive schedule. Over–scheduling is interpreted as an increase in
the production rate between the defined line start and stop times, not
as an increase in the line’s production hours.
You can also increase the load on an underutilized line by simply
associating the line with the assembly then manually defining a
repetitive schedule for the assembly on that line.

Temporary Decrease in Capacity

You have several options for temporarily decreasing repetitive
production output. You can decrease production hours on a line
temporarily by shutting down the line earlier than usual. You can also
temporarily decrease the production rate by reassigning workers to
other lines or by temporarily shutting down the underutilized line.
The system lets you under–schedule a line any time you define a
repetitive schedule. You can choose a daily quantity less than the daily
line capacity. Under–scheduling is interpreted as running for a shorter
interval at the defined production rate and within the line start and
stop time.
You can choose not to define schedules on a line if you do not need the
supply. As such, the line would likely be underutilized.

Permanent Increase in Capacity

You have several options for permanently increasing your repetitive
production outputs. In real life, you can run existing lines longer, you
can speed up production on the line, or you can add lines.

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 To run lines longer or faster, you can change the start and stop times on
a line, add days to the workday calendar, or increase the production
rate. All new schedules planned and defined after this change reflect
these new attributes. Existing repetitive schedules are not impacted.
You can define new lines and associate them with existing repetitive
assemblies to increase your repetitive capacity as well.

Permanent Decrease in Capacity

To permanently decrease your repetitive production capacity, you can
shorten your production hours, decrease your production rate, or shut
down underutilized lines.
The system lets you shorten your production hours by changing line
start and stop times or by removing days from the workday calendar.
You can also decrease the production rate for a line and all the
repetitive assemblies that use the line. All new repetitive schedules
planned and defined after this change reflect this new rate. Finally, you
can remove a line from production by removing its association to any
repetitive assemblies.

See Also

Creating Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 13

Production Line Report: page 15 – 43
Repetitive Line Report: page 15 – 51

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CHAPTER

14 Descriptive Flexfields

T his chapter explains how descriptive flexfields are used in Work in

Process, including:
• Overview: page 14 – 2
• Setting Up: page 14 – 4
• Using Descriptive Flexfield Information: page 14 – 6
• Business Scenarios: page 14 – 12

Descriptive Flexfields 14 – 1
Overview
Descriptive flexfields allow you to customize your application to store
information specific to your business needs.
The following discussion highlights where you can define and view
descriptive flexfields and provides business examples of how you might
use them.

Defining Descriptive Flexfields

You can use descriptive flexfields to enter information that is unique to
your business. For each descriptive flexfield, you can enter up to 15
segments. For each segment, you can use value sets to control the
information you are able to enter. You can also make your descriptive
flexfields context–sensitive to control when to enter specific information.
You can update descriptive flexfield information at any time.

Updating Descriptive Flexfields

You can update descriptive flexfield information as you use Work in
Process. For example, if you add a descriptive flexfield to a production
line that you later associate with an assembly, you can update the
production line descriptive flexfield without modifying the original
production line flexfield information.

Transferring Descriptive Flexfields From Oracle Bills of Material to

Work in Process
You can enter descriptive flexfield information when you define bill of
material components, routing operations, and operation resources in
Oracle Bills of Material. The system automatically transfers this
information when you use these components, operations, and operation
resources in Work in Process. For example, if you add an operation to a
job, the system automatically transfers the descriptive flexfield
information for that operation from Oracle Bills of Material.

Transferring Descriptive Flexfields Within Work in Process

You can enter descriptive flexfield information when you define
production lines and shop floor statuses. The system automatically
transfers this information when you use these lines and statuses within
Work in Process. For example, if you assign a shop floor status to the
intraoperation step of a job, the system automatically transfers the
descriptive flexfield information for that shop floor status to the job.

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 Upgrading Descriptive Flexfields
The system upgrades descriptive flexfield definitions and data when
you install new releases.

See Also

Descriptive Flexfield Concepts, Oracle Applications Flexfields Manual

Planning Your Descriptive Flexfield, Oracle Applications Flexfields Manual

Descriptive Flexfields 14 – 3
Setting Up Descriptive Flexfields
You use the Descriptive Flexfield Segments window to define
descriptive flexfield structures. Flexfield structure can contain up to 15
segments. You can customize descriptive flexfields by entering values
and value sets for each segment. Values and value sets are used to
determine what data can and cannot be entered in descriptive flexfields.
The following table lists the source windows where you can enter
descriptive flexfields information as well as the where used windows that
display this information.
Note: Many where used windows are accessed using gateway
windows and buttons. These where used windows are
documented by giving their navigational path which includes
both the gateway window and the button. For example you can
access the Material Requirements (where used) window from the
View Discrete Jobs window by choosing the Components
button. In this case the where used window is documented as
View Discrete Jobs [Components]. Also, unless otherwise
noted, all source windows are Work in Process windows.
Windows are listed in alphabetical order.
H Bills of Material (Oracle Bills of Material/components flexfield)
• Material Requirements
• View Material Requirements
• Simulate Discrete Jobs (Components)
• Close Discrete Jobs (Components)
• View Discrete Jobs (Components)
• View Repetitive Schedules (Components)
H Discrete Jobs
• Close Discrete Jobs
• Pending Jobs and Schedules
• Purge Discrete Jobs
• View Discrete Jobs
H Labor Rates: no where used window
H Parameters: no where used window
H Pending Move Transactions
• View Move Transactions

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H Pending Production Lines
• Associate Lines and Schedules
H Repetitive Schedules
• View Repetitive Schedules
• Pending Jobs and Schedules
• Purge Repetitive Schedules
H Resources (Oracle Bills of Material /resources)
• Routings
• Operations
• View Resource Requirements
• Close Discrete Jobs
• View Discrete Jobs
• View Repetitive Schedules
H Resource Transactions
• View Resource Transactions
H Schedule Groups: no where used window
H Shop Floor Statuses
H Standard Operations (Oracle Bills of Material)
• Routings
• Operations
• Simulate Discrete Jobs
• Close Discrete Jobs
• View Discrete Jobs
• View Repetitive Schedules
H WIP Accounting Classes: no where used window
H WIP Material Transactions
• View Transactions

Descriptive Flexfields 14 – 5
Using Descriptive Flexfield Information
You can insert, update, and view information using descriptive flexfield
structures.

Descriptive Flexfield Relationships

The following table illustrates the relationships between windows that
display descriptive flexfields. It is composed of groups of windows that
contain the same descriptive flexfield information. For each window,
the base database table containing the descriptive flexfield is shown as
well as information on whether you can insert, update, or simply view
descriptive flexfields in the window.
Windows that are accessed using gateway windows and buttons are
documented by giving their navigational path which includes both the
gateway window and the button. For example you can access the
Material Requirements (Where Used) window from Discrete Jobs
window by choosing the Components button. In this case the Where
used window is documented as View Discrete Jobs [Components].
Also, unless otherwise noted, all source windows are Work in Process
windows.

Window Name for Move Transactions Base Table Insert Update View

Move Transactions N/A* n

Pending Move Transactions wip_move_txn_interface n n

View Move Transactions wip_move_transactions n

Window Name for Resource Transactions Base Table Insert Update View

Resource Transactions wip_cost_txn_interface n

Pending Resource Transactions wip_cost_txn_interface n n

View Resource Transactions wip_transactions n

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Window Name for Move Transactions Base Table Insert Update View

WIP Material Transactions mtl_material_transac- n n n

tions_temp

View Transactions (Oracle Inventory) mtl_material_transactions n

Window Name for Completion Transactions Base Table Insert Update View

Completion Transactions mtl_material_transac- n

tions_temp

View Transactions (Oracle Inventory) mtl_material_transactions n

Window Name for Discrete and Repetitve Base Table Insert Update View
Requirements

Bills of Materials (Oracle Bills of Material/com- bom_inventory_components n n n

ponents flexfield)

Material Requirements wip_requirement_operations n n n

View Material Requirements wip_requirement_operations n

Material Requirements wip_requirement_operations n

Simulate Discrete Jobs [Components]

Close Discrete Jobs [Components]

Purge Discrete Jobs [Components]

View Discrete Jobs [Components]

Purge Repetitive Schedules [Components]

View Repetitive Schedules [Components]

Descriptive Flexfields 14 – 7
 Window Name for Discrete and Repetitive Base Table Insert Update View
Operations

Standard Operations (Oracle Bills of Material/ bom_standard_operations n n n

operations flexfield)

Routings (Oracle Bills of Material/sequences bom_operation_sequences n n n

flexfield)

Operations wip_operations n n n

View Operations wip_operations n

Simulate Discrete Jobs [Operations] wip_operations n

Close Discrete Jobs [Operations]

Purge Discrete Jobs [Operations]

View Discrete Jobs [Operations]

Purge Repetitive Schedules [Operations]

View Repetitive Schedules [Operations]

Standard Operations (Oracle Bills of Material/ bom_std_op_resources n n

resources flexfield)

Routings (Oracle Bills of Material/resources bom_operation_resources n n

flexfield)

Operations [Resources] wip_operation_resources n n n

View Resource Requirements wip_operation_resources n

Resource Requirements wip_operation_resources n

Simulate Discrete Jobs [Operations][Resources]

Close Discrete Jobs [Operations][Resources]

View Discrete Jobs [Operations][Resources]

View Repetitive Schedules [Operations][Re-

sources]

Window Name for Discrete Job Information Base Table Insert Update View

Discrete Jobs wip_discrete_jobs n n

View Discrete Jobs wip_discrete_jobs n

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Window Name for Repetitive Schedule Base Table Insert Update View
Information

Repetitive Schedules wip_repetitive_schedules n n

View Repetitive Schedules wip_repetitive_schedules n

Window Name for Production Lines Base Table Insert Update View

Production Lines wip_lines n n

Associate Lines and Assemblies wip_repetitive_items n n n

Window Name for Shop Floor Statuses Base Table Insert Update View

Shop Floor Statuses wip_shop_floor_status_codes n n

Assign Shop Floor Statuses wip_shop_floor_statuses n n n

Window Name for Discrete Jobs and Base Table Insert Update View
Repetitive Schedules (Miscellaneous)

Work in Process Parameters wip_parameters n n n

Work in Process Parameters wip_valid_intraopera- n n n

tion_steps

Persons (Oracle Human Resources/employee per_people_f n n n

flexfield)

Persons (Oracle Human Resources/address per_addresses n n n

flexfield)

Persons (Oracle Human Resources/assignment per_assignments_f n n n

flexfield)

WIP Accounting Classes wip_accounting_classes n n n

Labor Rates wip_employee_labor_rates n n n

Descriptive Flexfields 14 – 9
 Transferring Descriptive Flexfields From Oracle Bills of Material to
Work in Process
You can transfer the descriptive flexfield information defined in Oracle
Bills of Material to Work in Process as you create discrete jobs and
repetitive schedules. Work in Process takes a snapshot of the bill of
material requirement, operation, and resource descriptive flexfield
information as you create jobs and schedules with bills and routings and
as those bills and routings are exploded. You can modify this
information in Work in Process without affecting the original bill of
materials or routing.
The following diagram illustrates how descriptive flexfield information
is transferred from Oracle Bills of Material to Work in Process.

Transferring Descriptive Flexfields Within Work in Process

Work in Process allows you to transfer descriptive flexfield information
on production lines, and shop floor statuses when you use these lines
and statuses.
For example, as you associate a production line with a repetitive
assembly in the Associate Lines and Assemblies window, Work in
Process takes a snapshot of the production line definition from the
Production Lines window and carries it over to the Associate Lines and
Assemblies window. The descriptive flexfield that you defined for the
production line defaults to the descriptive flexfield in the Associate

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Lines and Assemblies window. If you change the original descriptive
flexfield in the Production Lines window, the descriptive flexfield in the
Associate Lines and Assemblies window is not affected. You can change
the descriptive flexfield information in the Associate Lines and
Assemblies window at any time.

Descriptive Flexfields 14 – 11
Business Scenarios
Descriptive flexfields allow you to easily extend the standard
functionality of Oracle Work in Process. The following business
examples demonstrate ways that you can use descriptive flexfields to
support specific business needs:
• Management of Quality Information: page 14 – 12
• Management of Outside Processor Sterilization: page 14 – 14

☞ Attention: Descriptive flexfields are not required. The

objective of these business scenarios is to highlight the flexibility
of descriptive flexfields. You should experiment and review the
results of different approaches to determine how best to use
them.

Management of Quality Information

Suppose you are an electronics manufacturer that tests printed circuit
boards in a plant. You want to use descriptive flexfields to collect test
results and failure information.
You measure four test results during room temperature testing and two
different test results during high temperature testing. You use this
information to verify the performance of each board against
specifications and collect product and process trend information.
If a board fails any of these tests, it is sent to the central debugging
department for analysis to determine the cause of the failure and
suggested repairs. You perform Pareto analysis on the failure
information collected during the debugging process as the basis of your
continuous process improvement efforts on the board line.

Approach 1 – Using Standard Operation and Move Transaction Flexfields

Setup
Use the descriptive flexfield in the Standard Operations window in
Oracle Bills of Material to set up the fields for each of the pieces of test
information you wish to collect at the test and debug operations. For the
test operations, you should create a value set that specifies acceptable
limits on test results. For the debug operations, you should create a
value set that comprises all causes included in the Pareto analysis and
one that includes all possible repairs. As such, whenever you use any of

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 these operations in a routing, Work in Process includes these descriptive
flexfields.
Next, you must set up your quality data collection method. You can
modify a copy of the Move Transactions window or create your own
move transactions window (taking advantage of the Open Move
Transaction Interface) to require entry of test results on moves out of a
test operation and failure and suggested repair information on moves
out of a debug operation.

Execution
Use the descriptive flexfields on move transactions to store the data you
collect. You can validate your test results against acceptable limits to
force moves to a debug operation if required. For the failure
information, set up the descriptive flexfield to require use of one of the
predefined failure reasons, and entry of predefined repairs.
Once you have collected the actual test results and failure information,
you can use a number of Oracle tools to analyze and report the
information.

Approach 2 – Using Shop Floor Transaction Flexfield Only

Setup
Use the descriptive flexfield in the Move Transactions window to set up
segments for each of the pieces of test information you wish to collect at
the test and debug operations. For the test operations, you should set
up a segment with a value set that specifies acceptable limits on test
results. For the debug operations, you should set up one segment with a
value set that comprises all causes included in the Pareto analysis and
another segment that allows entry of suggested repair information.

Execution
You can use the context–sensitive capabilities of descriptive flexfields to
require entry of test results on moves out of a test operation, and failure
and suggested repair information on moves out of a debug operation.
Once you have collected the actual test results and failure information,
you can use a number of Oracle tools to analyze and report the
information.

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Management of Outside Processor Sterilization
Suppose you are a medical device manufacturer that uses a vendor to
perform sterilization outside processing. You want to use descriptive
flexfields to create labels that indicate whether assemblies have been
sterilized.

Setup
Modify the descriptive flexfield on the Operations window to indicate
the need for and number of sterilization labels. Create a value set that
specifies an acceptable range of values you can enter for your
sterilization labels.

Execution
When you receive sterilized assemblies from your vendor, use the Move
Transactions window to move the assemblies to the next operation and
require entry of the number of sterilization labels to be printed. You can
use a number of Oracle tools to create a report that prints your actual
labels. You can further modify the Move Transactions window to
launch that report upon recording the label information. Next, you can
set up a printer close to your receipt area to immediately apply the
labels to your sterilized material.

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CHAPTER

15 Reports and Processes

T his chapter explains how to submit report and process requests

and briefly describes each Work in Process report:
• AutoCreating Final Assembly Orders: page 15 – 3
• Closing Jobs Using Submit Requests: page 15 – 7
• Discrete Job Data Report: page 15 – 11
• Discrete Job Dispatch Report: page 15 – 13
• Discrete Job Listing Report: page 15 – 15
• Discrete Job Pick List Report: page 15 – 17
• Discrete Job Routing Sheet: page 15 – 19
• Discrete Job Shortage Report: page 15 – 21
• Discrete Job Value Report: page 15 – 25
• Discrete Shop Packet: page 15 – 29
• Employee Rates Listing: page 15 – 30
• Expense Job Value Report: page 15 – 32
• Importing Jobs and Schedules: page 15 – 35
• Job Lot Composition Report: page 15 – 38
• Job and Schedule Interface Report: page 15 – 40
• Move Transaction Report: page 15 – 41

Reports and Processes 15 – 1

 • Production Line Report: page 15 – 43
• Purging Jobs and Schedules: page 15 – 44
• Purge Report: page 15 – 50
• Repetitive Line Report: page 15 – 51
• Repetitive Pick List Report: page 15 – 52
• Repetitive Routing Sheet: page 15 – 54
• Repetitive Schedule Data Report: page 15 – 55
• Repetitive Schedule Shortage Report: page 15 – 56
• Repetitive Shop Packet: page 15 – 59
• Repetitive Value Report: page 15 – 60
• Resource Performance Report: page 15 – 63
• Resource Transaction Report: page 15 – 65
• Schedule Group Listing: page 15 – 67
• Shop Floor Statuses Report: page 15 – 68
• WIP Account Distribution Report: page 15 – 69
• WIP Account Summary Report: page 15 – 72
• WIP Accounting Classes Report: page 15 – 73
• WIP Location Report: page 15 – 74
• WIP Offsetting Account Report: page 15 – 76
• WIP Outside Processing Report: page 15 – 77
• WIP Parameters Report: page 15 – 78
• WIP Value Report: page 15 – 79

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AutoCreating Final Assembly Orders
The AutoCreate Final Assembly Orders load program creates final
assembly orders (discrete jobs) from sales order demand, and links
each sales order to the final assembly order supplying it. You can create
final assembly orders for ATO configuration items, or standard ATO
items.
You can submit the program in specified intervals. For example, to
submit the program each day at midnight, specify midnight in the Run
Options.
You have the option to create supply for lower level configurations
when running the AutoCreate Final Assembly Orders program. This is
based on the setting for the Create Lower Level Supply parameter in
Oracle Bills of Material. See:Parameters, Oracle Configure to Order
Implementation Manual. You have three options:
• No – Creates supply only to the top level ATO item or
configuration
• Auto Created Configuration Items only – Creates supply for any
lower level configuration generated because of the specific sales
order generation.
• Auto Created Configuration Items and ATO Items – Creates
supply for all lower level ATO, preconfigured, and autocreated
configured items.
The Assemble To Order Mass Load Report is automatically printed
after submiting the AutoCreate Final Assembly Orders program. This
report lists sales orders, by sales order number, that the system was
unable to create final assembly orders for.
Note: When you autocreate a final assembly order, the sales
order line delivery quantity becomes the default quantity for
the discrete job and the assembly’s primary bill and routing are
used.

" To autocreate final assembly orders:

1. Navigate to the AutoCreate Final Assembly Orders window. The
Parameters window appears.

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 2. Optionally, select the Sales Order number.
A discrete job is created for each sales order shipment number
associated with the sales order number. If you enter an order
number, you cannot enter Offset Days, Load Type, or Organization.
If you do not enter an order number, you must enter Offset Days
and Load Type.
3. If you have not selected a sales order, enter the number of Offset
Days.
The number of offset days is added to the current date to
determine when final assembly orders must be released to the shop
floor to be completed by the sales order due date. The final
assembly order release date is backwards scheduled using the
order from the sales order due date. For example, if the current
date is 01–JAN–2004 and you specify 7 offset days, final assembly
orders are created that must be released between 01–JAN–2004 and
08–JAN–2004 to meet the due dates of the sales orders they are
supplying. Orders that should have been released before the
current date are also included.
4. If you have not selected a sales order, select one of the following
Load Type options. The Create Lower Level Supply parameter in
Oracle Bills of Material must be set correctly to specify the option
selected here. See:Parameters, Oracle Configure to Order
Implementation Manual.
Configured Orders only: Final assembly orders created from
configured sales orders. A configured order begins with a model
and options, and then generates or links a configured item using
the AutoCreate Configuration Items program in Oracle Bills of
Material.

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 Non–configured Orders only: Final assembly orders created from
sales orders placed directly for ATO items.
Both configured and non–configured Orders: Final assembly orders
created from both configured and non–configured items.
5. If you have not selected a sales order, select one of the following job
Statuses: Unreleased, Released, or On Hold. See: Discrete Job
Statuses: page 11 – 7.
6. If you have not selected a sales order, select an Organization.
If you do not select an Organization, sales order demand across all
organizations is examined.
7. Select an accounting Class. This accounting class is the default for
the jobs that are created.
Default accounting classes may be displayed but can be
overwritten. See: Product Line Accounting Setup, Oracle Cost
Management User’s Guide, Discrete Parameters: page 2 – 17, and
Discrete Accounting Classes: page 2 – 42.
8. Choose OK to display the request window.

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 9. Submit the autocreate request. See: Submitting a Request, Oracle
Applications User’s Guide.

See Also

Creating Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 55

Overview to Supplying Unique Configurations, Oracle Configure To
Order Implementation Manual.

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Closing Discrete Jobs Using Submit Requests
Job close requests can be submitted using concurrent or scheduled
processing. See: Overview of Concurrent Processing, Oracle
Applications User’s Guide and Overview of Standard Request
Submission, Oracle Applications User’s Guide.
The close requirements for the concurrent program are the same as
when using the Close Discrete Jobs window. See: Discrete Job Close:
page 3 – 119. In the concurrent program, you can also use criteria for
closing jobs based on a range of accounting classes, job numbers, and
dates – including release, scheduled start, and completion dates. You
can also close jobs as of a specific date, rather than the date the
program is executed.

" To close Discrete jobs using Submit Requests:

1. Navigate to the Close Discrete Jobs window using the Close
Discrete Jobs (SRS) menu option. The Parameters window appears.
2. Select an accounting Class Type.
The options are Standard Discrete, Repetitive Assembly, Asset
Non–standard, Expense Non–standard, Standard Lot Based,
Maintenance, and Expense Non–standard Lot Based.
If you do not select a class type, the system closes job for all class
types. If you select a class type, you can only select accounting
classes of that class type.
3. To select a range of accounting classes, select values in the From
and To Class fields.
If you do not select a To Class, all jobs from the From Class forward
are closed. If you do not select a From Class, all jobs through the To
Class are closed.
4. To select a range of jobs, select values in the From and To Job fields.
To close a single job, use the same From and To Job value. The
From Job value defaults into the To Job field, eliminating
accidentally closing all jobs forward from the one selected.
5. To select a range of job release dates, select values in the From and
To Job Release Date fields. Use the same value in the From and To
fields if you only want one date.
6. To select a range of scheduled job start dates, select values in the
From and To Job Start Date fields. Use the same value in the From
and To fields if you only want one date.

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 7. To select a range of scheduled job completion dates, select values in
the From and To Job Completion Date fields. Use the same value in
the From and To fields if you only want one date.
8. Select a job Status.
You can only close jobs with one with the following statuses:
Cancelled, Complete, Complete – No Charges, Failed Bill Load,
Failed Close, Failed Routing Load, On Hold, Release, or
Unreleased. See: Discrete Job Statuses: page 11 – 7.
9. Exclude Reserved Jobs parameter provides the option to exclude or
include jobs linked to sales orders from the processing. The default
value is Yes.

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10. Exclude Un–Completed Jobs parameter provides the option to
exclude or include jobs having a status other than Complete from
the processing.
If the value selected is Yes – jobs in this submission with a status
other than Complete are ignored and will not process.
If the value selected is No – jobs with a status other than Complete
are processed, and the job status changes to Failed Close. See:
Viewing Pending Job Transactions: page 3 – 97.
11. Exclude Jobs with Pending Trans parameter provides the option to
exclude or include jobs with pending transactions during the close
process.
If the value selected is Yes – jobs in this submission with pending
material, resource, move, or uncosted material transactions are
ignored and will not process.
If the value is set to No – jobs in this submission with pending
material, resource, move, or uncosted material transactions are
included in the process. The job status changes to Failed Close.
12. Select a Report Type.
Reports are printed after the close process computes job close
variances. The Discrete Job Value Report is printed when standard
discrete jobs and non–standard asset jobs are closed – in summary
or detail based on the Report Type option specified. The Expense
Job Value Report is printed when expense non–standard jobs are
closed and is always printed in detail format regardless of the
Report Type option specified. See: Discrete Job Value Report: page
15 – 25 and Expense Job Value Report: page 15 – 32.
Report Type options and formats are as follows:
Summary: Lists each job and includes job header, period–to–date
summary, and cumulative–to–date summary information. The
system also lists summary elemental account values for each job.
Detail using planned start quantity: Lists each job using the planned
start quantity of the job to calculate the material usage variance. A
detail report includes the following: job header, material, resource,
resource–based and move–based overhead costs, completion,
scrap, and job close variance transactions. It also includes
period–to–date and cumulative–to–date summary information.
Detail using actual completion quantity: Lists each job using the
actual completion quantity of the job to calculate the material usage
variance. A detail report includes the following: job header,
material, resource, resource–based and move–based overhead

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 costs, completion, scrap, and job close variance transactions. It also
includes period–to–date and cumulative–to–date summary
information
No Report: Does not print a report.
13. In the Actual Close Date field, you have the option to enter a date
other than today’s date. This enables you to close jobs as of a
specific date, rather than the date the program is executed.
14. Choose OK.
15. Submit the close request. See: Submitting a Request, Oracle
Applications User’s Guide.
Jobs that meet the criteria entered are closed when your request is
run.
You can check the status of close requests using the Concurrent
Requests window. See: Concurrent Requests, Oracle Applications
User’s Guide.

See Also

Discrete Job Close: page 3 – 119

Overview of Period Close, Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide
Defining Discrete Jobs Manually: page 3 – 63
Closing Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 121
Discrete Accounting Classes: page 2 – 42

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Discrete Job Data Report
The Discrete Job Data Report lists complete information on discrete
jobs. You can use this report to review all details about a job, such as
quantities, dates, routing operations, material requirements, resources,
instructions, sales orders, comments and accounts. You can sort the
report by job name or schedule group and build sequence.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select Discrete Job Data Report in the
Name field.

Report Parameters

Sort By
Choose one of the following options:
Job Sort by job.
Schedule Group, Sort by schedule group, then by build sequence.
Build Sequence
Job From/To
To restrict the report to a range of jobs, select a beginning and an
ending job.

Assembly From/To
To restrict the report to a range of assemblies, select a beginning and an
ending assembly.

Start Dates From/To

To restrict the report to a date range, select a beginning and an ending
date.

Class
Select a WIP accounting class. See: WIP Accounting Classes: page
2 – 42

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 Status
Choose a status. The available options are Unreleased, Released,
Complete, Complete–No Charges, and On Hold. See: Discrete Job
Statuses: page 11 – 7 and Reporting by Status: page 11 – 19.

Schedule Groups From/To

To restrict the report to a range of schedule groups, select a beginning
and an ending schedule group.

See Also

Overview of Discrete Manufacturing: page 3 – 2

Dispatch Reports: page 8 – 74
Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Discrete Job Dispatch Report
The Discrete Job Dispatch Report lists jobs that must be completed.
You can use this report to prioritize the work in each of your
manufacturing departments. You can sort this report by operation start
date or operation completion date within the department. You can
restrict the output by department, date, and schedule group.
Information is listed only for jobs with statuses of Released, Complete,
and On Hold.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select Discrete Job Dispatch Report in
the Name field.

Report Parameters

Sort By
Choose one of the following options:
Operation start date Sort by operation start date within the department.
Operation Sort by operation completion date within the
completion date department.

Include Unreleased Jobs

Select Yes or No to indicate whether to include jobs with a status of
Unreleased on the report.

Departments From/To
To restrict the report to a range of departments, select a beginning and
an ending department.

Dates From/To
To restrict the report to a date range, enter a beginning and an ending
date.

Schedule Group
Select a schedule group.

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See Also

Overview of Discrete Manufacturing: page 3 – 2

Dispatch Reports: page 8 – 74
Reporting by Status: page 11 – 19
Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Discrete Job Listing Report
The Discrete Job Listing Report lists discrete jobs regardless of their
status. You can sort the report by assembly, job, scheduled start date,
or schedule group and build sequence. You can restrict the output of
the report by job, assembly, start date, status, and schedule group. For
example, you can use this report to determine which jobs need to be
released by restricting it to jobs with a status of Unreleased.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select Discrete Job Listing Report in
the Name field.

Report Parameters

Sort By
Choose one of the following options:
Assembly Sort by assembly.
Job Sort by job. This is the default option.
Scheduled start date Sort by scheduled start date.
Schedule Group, Sort by schedule group, then by build sequence.
Build Sequence
Jobs From/To
To restrict the report to a range of jobs, select a beginning and an
ending job.

Assemblies From/To
To restrict the report to a range of assemblies, select a beginning and an
ending assembly.

Start Dates From/To

To restrict the report to a date range, enter a beginning and an ending
date.

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 Status
Choose a status. You can choose any status. See: Discrete Job Statuses:
page 11 – 7.

Schedule Group From/To

To restrict the report to a range of schedule groups, select a beginning
and an ending schedule group.

See Also

Overview of Discrete Manufacturing: page 3 – 2

Reporting by Status: page 11 – 19
Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Discrete Job Pick List Report
The Discrete Job Pick List Report lists open component requirements
for jobs with statuses of Unreleased, Released, Complete, or On Hold.
You can use this report when you pick material from stock to issue to
discrete jobs. This report lists component requirements in supply type
order; push components first followed by pull, bulk, then vendor
components. This report can be sorted by component, date required,
item sequence, supply subinventory/locator, or WIP material
transaction.
If the report is sorted by component, requirements that are common
across jobs are consolidated. This can be particularly useful if you are
replenishing backflush subinventories which supply several jobs.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select Discrete Job Pick List Report in
the Name field.

Report Parameters

Sort By
Choose one of the following options:
Component Sort by component. Requirements are
consolidated across jobs. Use this option to help
you replenish backflush subinventories which
supply multiple jobs. You can use the
Subinventory Transfer form in Oracle Inventory to
transfer the consolidated quantity of each
requirement from your warehouse to the backflush
subinventories that supply your jobs.
Date required Sort by requirement date.
Item Sequence Sort by item sequence. The item sequence is
established while defining a component on the bill
of material. If a job includes phantom components,
the item sequence is derived from the phantom
component, not the parent assembly.
Supply sub– Sort by supply subinventory and locator.
inventory, locator

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 WIP material Sort component requirements in WIP Material
transaction Transaction order. The system lists components in
the order presented in the WIP Material
Transactions window. This assists data entry when
you use the pick list as hard copy for issuing the
components.

Transactable Only
Select Yes or No to indicate whether to exclude discrete jobs with
statuses of Unreleased or On Hold.

Jobs From/To
To restrict the report to a range of jobs, select a beginning and an
ending job.

Start Dates From/To

To restrict the report to a date range, select a starting and an ending
date.

Schedule Groups From/To

To restrict the report to a range of schedule groups, select a beginning
and an ending schedule group.

Supply Type
Choose a Supply Type. The available options are Push, Pull, Bulk, and
Vendor. See: Supply Types: page D – 2.

Supply Subinventory
Select the supply subinventory to include as available material in the
Discrete Job Pick List. If you do not enter a value, the system lists
requirements of any supply subinventory.

See Also

Overview of Discrete Manufacturing: page 3 – 2

Overview of Material Control: page 7 – 2
Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Discrete Job Routing Sheet
The Discrete Job Routing Sheet lists the operations and associated
resources and material requirements for jobs with statuses of
Unreleased, Released, Complete, and On Hold. You can use the report
output as a traveler for the discrete job on the shop floor. Jobs can be
sorted by job or schedule group and build sequence. Header
information is followed by job details including job operations,
resources, operation instructions and material requirements.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select Discrete Job Routing Sheet
Report in the Name field.

Report Options

Jobs From/To
To restrict the report to a range of jobs, select a beginning and an
ending job.

Scheduled Start Dates From/To

To restrict the report to a range of scheduled start dates, select a
beginning and an ending date.

Schedule Groups From/To

To restrict the report to a range of schedule groups, enter a beginning
and an ending schedule group.

Sort By
Choose one of the following options:
Job Sort by job.

Schedule Group, Sort by schedule group, then by build sequence

Build Sequence within the schedule group.

Reports and Processes 15 – 19

See Also

Overview of Discrete Manufacturing: page 3 – 2

Viewing Discrete Job Information: page 3 – 95
Viewing Operations: page 8 – 20
Reporting by Status: page 11 – 19
Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Discrete Job Shortage Report
The Discrete Job Shortage report lists either jobs with open
requirements or jobs with component requirements for which there is a
shortage. Shortage component requirements can be listed based on the
quantities available in all subinventories or based only on the quantities
available in the component’s supply subinventory. You can also list
shortage components based on all subinventories or only those
subinventories that are nettable. Only discrete jobs with statuses of
Unreleased, Released, Complete, and On Hold are listed on this report.
See: Reporting by Status: page 11 – 19.
You can format your report to print:
• A job’s open requirements to identify components you need to
issue or have not yet backflushed
• Components you need to highlight for expediting
• You can sort either report by component, date required,
department, job, or by make/ buy option, buyer, and planner:
• When you sort by component, make/ buy option,or planner–the
components are listed in order of the corresponding jobs
• When you print report type Shortage based on supply
sub/loc–the components are not listed by corresponding jobs

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select Discrete Job Shortage Report in
the Name field.

Report Parameters

Report Type
Choose one of the following options:
Open requirement Lists open material requirements for all jobs. This
is the default option. These values are calculated
using only the Include Nettable Only and
Requirement End Date parameters, and not any of
the other parameters.
Shortage based on Lists requirements with insufficient quantities as
QOH based on all subinventories. If you select Yes in the
Include Nettable Only option, then you may see

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 more shortages depending on how much quantity
you have available for each requirement in your
non–nettable subinventories. These values are
calculated using only the Include Nettable Only
and Requirement End Date parameters, and not
any of the other parameters.
Shortage based on Lists requirements with insufficient quantities as
supply sub/loc based on each requirement’s supply subinventory
and locator.

Sort By
Choose one of the following options:
Component Sort the shortages or open requirements by
component, and then by job within the component.
Date required Sort the shortages or open requirements by
requirement date, and then by job within the
requirement date.
Department Sort the shortages or open requirements by
department, and then by job within the
department.
Job Sort the open requirements by job. This is the
default option.
Make or Buy, Sort the shortages or open requirements by
Buyer, Planner component, and then by job within the component.
Order the components by the make or buy code,
and then by the buyer, and then by the planner.

Include Nettable Only

Select Yes to include only nettable subinventories when calculating
subinventory quantities and printing shortages. Select No to include
nettable and non–nettable subinventories when calculating
subinventory quantities and printing shortages. The system
determines the quantity onhand for each requirement using this value.

Include Bulk
Select Yes to indicate whether to include bulk–supplied material
requirements.

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Include Supplier
Select Yes to indicate whether to include supplier–provided material
requirements.

Jobs From/To
To restrict the report to range of jobs, select a beginning and an ending
job.

Components From/To
To restrict the report to range of components, select a beginning and an
ending component.

Dates From/To
To restrict the report to a date range, select a beginning and an ending
date.

Departments From/To
To restrict the report to a range of departments, select a beginning and
an ending department.

Planners From/To
To restrict the report to a range of planners, select a beginning and an
ending planner name.

Buyers From/To
To restrict the report to a range of buyers, select a beginning and an
ending buyer name.

Make or Buy
Select Make or Buy to indicate whether to report on shortages for
components that are made or purchased.

Requirement End Date

Select a date to limit netting the requirements for open jobs. The
system nets the requirements required on or before this date.

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 Schedule Group
Select a schedule group.

See Also

Overview of Discrete Manufacturing: page 3 – 2

Overview of Material Control: page 7 – 2
Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Discrete Job Value Report – Standard Costing
The Discrete Job Value Report – Standard Costing assists you in
analyzing your standard discrete jobs and non–standard asset jobs in a
standard costing organzation. You can submit the WIP Value Report
before submitting this report to review total variances and charges for
your jobs. Then, you can submit this report to analyze a summary of
the transactions behind the charges and variances for each job.
This report includes summarized information on all cost transactions
including material, resource, move and resource–based overheads,
scraps, completions, and job close variances. The report also lists
period–to–date and cumulative–to–date summary information, as well
as complete job header information.
You can list information for a group of jobs by specifying a job name
range, an accounting class range, an assembly range, and/or a
particular job status. Costs are grouped and subtotalled by transaction
type.
This report provides you with all the information you need to reconcile
your standard and non–standard asset jobs before closing them.

☞ Attention: This report does not include expense non–standard

jobs. Use the Expense Job Value Report to analyze expense
non–standard jobs.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select Discrete Job Value Report –
Standard Costing in the Name field.
You can optionally print this report when you close asset non–standard
and standard discrete jobs using the Close Discrete Jobs (Form) or
Close Discrete Jobs (SRS) window. This is done by choosing any
Report Type option other than No Report. The report is printed after
the close process computes job close variances.
See: Closing Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 121 and Closing Discrete Jobs Using
Submit Requests: page 15 – 7.

Report Parameters

Sort By
Choose one of the following options:

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 Assembly, Job Sort by assembly and then by job within the
assembly.
Class, Assembly, Sort by WIP accounting class, then by assembly
Job within the WIP accounting class, and then by job
within the assembly.
Job Sort by job. This is the default.

Report Type
Choose one of the following options:
Detail using actual Lists each job using the actual completion quantity
completion quantity of the job to calculate the material usage variance.
A detail report includes the following: job header,
material, resource, resource–based and
move–based overhead costs, completion, scrap,
and job close variance transactions. It also includes
period–to–date and cumulative–to–date summary
information.
If you push material to a job or backflush material
at operation completion and have not completed
the assemblies that consumed the material, your
material usage variance is overstated. If you
backflush material at assembly completion, or you
have completed all of the assemblies, any material
usage variance is accurate.
Use this option if you backflush your requirements
at assembly completion, or if you have already
completed most of your assemblies.
Detail using Lists each job using the planned start quantity of
planned start the job to calculate the material usage variance. A
quantity detail report includes the following: job header,
material, resource, resource–based and
move–based overhead costs, completion, scrap,
and job close variance transactions. It also includes
period–to–date and cumulative–to–date summary
information.
If you have not transacted each of the items and
resources required to produce your assemblies,
your variances are understated (you have a
favorable variance). You can use this option to
analyze the total cost requirements for a job by cost

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 element, based on your planned assembly
completions.
Summary Lists each job and includes job header,
period–to–date summary, and cumulative–to–date
summary information. The system also lists
summary elemental account values for each job.

Class Type
Choose one of the following options:
Asset non–standard Report costs for jobs with a WIP accounting class
type of asset non–standard.
Standard discrete Report costs for jobs with a WIP accounting class
type of standard discrete. This is the default.

Include Bulk
Select Yes to indicate whether to include bulk–supplied material
requirements. If you have already issued to a particular bulk
requirement, the system lists the requirement, regardless of what you
select here. Yes is the default.

Include Supplier
Select Yes to indicate whether to include supplier–provided material
requirements. If you have already issued to a particular supplier
requirement, the system lists the requirement, regardless of what you
select here. Yes is the default.

Classes From/To
To restrict the report to a range of accounting classes, select a beginning
and an ending accounting class.

Jobs From/To
To restrict the report to a range of jobs, select a beginning and an
ending job.

Status
Select a status. The available options are Unreleased, Released,
Complete, Complete–No Charges, On Hold, Cancelled, Closed,

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 Pending Close, and Failed Close jobs. See: Discrete Job Statuses: page
11 – 7.
Note: If you run the Discrete Job Value Report for closed jobs
and have changed your standard costs, the transaction
summary information uses the latest standard cost and does
not balance to the period or cumulative–to–date summaries.

Assemblies From/To
To restrict the report to a range of assemblies, select a beginning and an
ending assembly.
Note: For discrete jobs, any difference between the cumulative
single level variances and the material usage or efficiency
variance subtotals is from configuration or method variances.
The cumulative–to–date summary compares the costs incurred
for the job with the standard bill/routing requirements for
completions out of the job. Therefore, the difference between
the cumulative variances and the usage/efficiency variance is
due to the difference between the standard bill/routing
requirements and the work in process bill/routing
requirements.
To find the configuration variance, you should compare the
material usage variance with the single level material variance.
To find the methods variance, you should compare the
efficiency variance with its corresponding single level variance.
For example, you would compare the resource efficiency
variance with the single level; resource and outside processing
variance added together. You would add the resource–based
and move–based overhead efficiency variances and compare it
with the single level overhead variance.

See Also

Discrete Job Close: page 3 – 119

Overview of Discrete Manufacturing: page 3 – 2
Expense Job Value Report: page 15 – 32
Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Discrete Shop Packet
The discrete shop packet consists of three reports:
• Discrete Job Pick List Report: page 15 – 17
• Discrete Job Routing Sheet: page 15 – 19
• Discrete Job Shortage Report: page 15 – 21

See Also

Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

Submitting a Request Set, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Employee Rates Listing
The Employee Rates Listing lists employees and their hourly labor
rates. Employees are listed in alphabetical order with their employee
number, current labor rate and effective date.
You can charge an employee labor rate to a job or repetitive schedule
by charging a resource that does not charge at standard and by
referencing the employee whose rate you want to charge. The system
uses the rate effective on the resource transaction date.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select Employee Rates Listing in the
Name field.

Report Parameters

Display in Detail
Select Yes or No to indicate whether to print any additional labor rate
information. If you select Yes, the system lists any past or future labor
rates defined for your employees.

Current Only
Select Yes or No to indicate whether to print current employees only or
all employees.

Employees From/To
To restrict the report to a range or employees, select a beginning and an
ending employee.

Dates From/To
To restrict the report to a date range, select a beginning and an ending
date.

See Also

Overview of Shop Floor Control: page 8 – 2

Overview of Resource Management: page 9 – 2

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Defining Labor Rates: page 2 – 56
Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Expense Job Value Report
The Expense Job Value Report assists you in analyzing your
non–standard expense jobs. You can submit the WIP Value Report
before submitting this report to review total charges for your jobs.
Then, you can submit this report to analyze a summary of the
transactions behind the charges for each job.
This report includes summarized information on all cost transactions
including, material, resource, move and resource based overheads,
scraps, completions, and period close variances. The report also prints
period–to–date summary information as well as complete job header
information.
You can list a particular group of jobs by specifying a job name range,
an accounting class range, an assembly range, and/or a particular job
status. The system groups and subtotals your cost transactions by
transaction type.

☞ Attention: Unlike the Discrete Job Value Report, this report

prints no standard or variance information. Expense
non–standard jobs typically have no standards and are used
only to collect and charge costs. See: Discrete Job Value Report:
page 15 – 25.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select Expense Job Value Report in the
Name field.
You can optionally print this report when you close expense
non–standard discrete jobs using the Close Discrete Jobs (Form) or
Close Discrete Jobs (SRS) window. This is done by choosing any
Report Type option other than No Report. When printed in
conjunction with the close process, this report automatically prints in
detailed format. The report is printed after the close process computes
job close variances.
See: Closing Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 121 and Closing Discrete Jobs Using
Submit Requests: page 15 – 7.

Report Parameters

Sort By
Choose one of the following options:

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Assembly, Job Sort by assembly and then by job within the
assembly.
Class, Assembly, Sort by WIP accounting class, then by assembly
Job within the WIP accounting class, and then by job
within the assembly.
Job Sort by job. This is the default.

Report Type
Choose one of the following options:
Detailed In addition to summary information, the system
prints detail cost transaction information on
material, resource, move and resource based
overheads, completions, scrap, and period close
variances.
Summary List only summary information, including job
header and period–to–date summary information.

Period Start Date

Select a period start date. The system prints non–standard expense
jobs with cost transactions against them that are dated on or after this
date.

Period Close Date

Select a period close date. The system prints non–standard expense
jobs with cost transactions against them that are dated on or before this
date.

Classes From/To
To restrict the report to a range of WIP accounting classes, select a
beginning and an ending class.

Jobs From/To
To restrict the report to a range of jobs, select a beginning and an
ending job.

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 Status
Choose a status. You can print this report for Unreleased, Released,
Complete, Complete–No Charges, On Hold, Cancelled, Closed,
Pending Close, and Failed Close jobs. See: Discrete Job Statuses: page
11 – 7.

Assemblies From/To
To restrict the report to a range of assemblies, select a beginning and
ending assembly.

See Also

Overview of Non–Standard Discrete Jobs: page 4 – 2

Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Importing Jobs and Schedules
You can use the Import Jobs and Schedules window to submit the WIP
Mass Load program. See: Overview of Reports and Programs, Oracle
Applications User’s Guide
When the WIP Mass Load program is submitted, the system searches
the Open Job and Schedule Interface (WIP_JOB_SCHEDULE_
INTERFACE) table for rows with the specified Group ID. It then
creates standard and non–standard discrete jobs, updates existing jobs,
and creates pending repetitive schedules for all valid rows. If a row
fails validation, an error message is generated. You can view these
errors and update failed rows using the Pending Jobs and Schedules
window.
The assembly unit number can be changed through WIP Mass Load for
discrete jobs that are unreleased, project related, and use unit
effectivity. You can change job status is from Unreleased to Released in
the same process.
You can also use Oracle Advanced Planning to submit the WIP Mass
Load program and perform the same actions on planned orders,
reschedule recommendations, or suggested schedules sourced for
Oracle Advanced Planning.
The Job and Schedule Interface Report is automatically printed when
the WIP Mass Load program is submitted. This report lists the
standard and non–standard jobs that were created, the jobs that were
updated, and the repetitive schedules that were created. It also lists the
jobs and repetitive schedules rows that failed to process. If you
resubmit the Job and Schedule Interface Report after the WIP Mass
Load program has cleared the Open Job and Schedule Interface table of
successfully processed records, only records for failed rows are listed.

" To import jobs and schedules:

1. Navigate to the Import Jobs and Schedules window. The
Parameters window appears.

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 2. Enter a Group ID number.
The system polls the WIP_JOB_SCHEDULE_INTERFACE table for
rows with this group identification number. When rows with this
number are found, the system validates the data and either creates
a job or repetitive schedule, reschedules an existing job, or enters
an error message. Rows with errors in them remain in the table
and can be updated and resubmitted. See: Processing Pending Jobs
and Schedules: page 3 – 133
3. Choose OK.
4. Submit the import request. See: Submitting a Request, Oracle
Applications User’s Guide.

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See Also

Open Job and Schedule Interface: page 3 – 57

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Job Lot Composition Report
The Job Lot Composition Report lists assembly and component lot
numbers used on discrete jobs of any status. You assign component lot
numbers when you issue or backflush lot controlled components to the
job. You assign assembly lot numbers when you complete lot
controlled assemblies from the job. The system lists all components
under lot control consumed by a discrete job as well as lot numbers if
you complete assemblies under lot control. You can sort this report by
job or lot.
Since the system uses the material transaction history to create
compositions, you should not purge any material transactions which
contribute to genealogies you need to retain.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select Job Lot Composition Report in
the Name field.

Report Parameters

Sort By
Choose one of the following options:
Job Sort by job. The system lists jobs in alphanumeric
order.
Lot Sort by lot. The system lists jobs by lot number
and job name.

Assembly
Select an assembly. The system lists the lot composition of all jobs that
are building this assembly. If you do not select a value, the system lists
the lot composition for all assemblies.

Dates From/To
To restrict the report to a date range, select a beginning and an ending
date.

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 Jobs From/To
To restrict the report to a range of jobs, select a beginning and an
ending job.

Lots From/To
To restrict the report to a range of lots, select a beginning and an ending
lot.

See Also

Overview of Discrete Manufacturing: page 3 – 2

Discrete Job Purge: page 3 – 127
Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Job and Schedule Interface Report
The Job and Schedule Interface Report is submitted when the Mass
Load program is launched.
This report lists the following information for jobs and schedules that
are created and/or updated as well as for those that fail to process.
Created Jobs Job, Job Type, Assembly, Quantity, Start Date,
Completion Date, Process Phase, and Process
Status
Created Line, Assembly, Line, Daily Quantity, Days, First
Schedules Unit Start Date, Last Unit Completion Date.
Process Phase, and Process Status
Updated Discrete Job, Assembly, Status, Quantity, Start Date,
Jobs Completion Date, Process Phase, and Process
Status
The report is sorted by source code and, where applicable, by
organization within that source code.

See Also

Open Job and Schedule Interface: page 3 – 57

Processing Pending Jobs and Schedules: page 3 – 133
Importing Jobs and Schedules: page 15 – 35
Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Move Transaction Report
The Move Transaction Report lists move transaction information for
discrete jobs and repetitive schedules. You can choose to display
transaction details such as reason codes and references. You can also
sort this report by date or assembly.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select Move Transaction Report in the
Name field.

Report Parameters

Sort By
Choose one of the following options:
Date Sort by date, then by job or repetitive schedule
within the date, and then by operation sequence
number within the job or repetitive schedule.
Assembly Sort by assembly, then by date within the assembly,
then by job or repetitive schedule within the
assembly, and then by operation sequence number
within the job or repetitive schedule.

Show Details
Select Yes or No to indicate whether to print the reason and reference
for the move transaction. If you select Date in the Sort By field and you
choose Yes in this field, the system lists the assembly along with the
reason and reference for each move transaction.

Jobs /Schedules From and To

To restrict the report to a range of jobs or repetitive schedules, select a
beginning and an ending job/repetitive schedule.

Lines From/To
To restrict the report to a range of lines, select a beginning and an
ending line.

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 Assemblies From/To
To restrict the report to a range of assemblies, select a beginning and an
ending assembly

Dates From/To
To restrict the report to a date range, select a beginning and an ending
date.

Reasons From/To
To restrict the report to a range of reasons, select a beginning and an
ending reason.

See Also

Move Transactions: page 8 – 24

Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Production Line Report
The Production Line Report lists production lines in alphabetical order.
The system prints the line attributes as well as the assemblies that you
can build on each line.
A production line describes a unique set of operations, departments,
and/or manufacturing cells that produce one or more of your
assemblies. You use production lines to build repetitive assemblies.
You can build different repetitive assemblies on the same production
line. This means that you can use production lines to aggregate
material requirements for a number of assemblies. You can also use
lines to define separate area1s of your shop floor for greater
management control.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select Production Line Report in the
Name field.

Report Parameters

Line From/To
To restrict the report to a range of lines, select a beginning and an
ending line.

See Also

Overview of Repetitive Manufacturing: page 6 – 2

Defining Production Lines: page 2 – 58
Associating Lines and Assemblies: page 6 – 7
Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Purging Jobs and Schedules
You can purge discrete jobs that were closed in accounting periods that
are now closed. You can also purge repetitive schedules that were
cancelled or complete with no charges in a closed accounting period.
You can purge all detail information — material requirements, resource
requirements, and operations — associated with jobs and schedules.
You can also purge move and/or resource transactions associated with
jobs and repetitive schedules. For quality and customer service
tracking purposes, you can choose to retain as–built configuration
histories for discrete jobs that build assemble to order items. You can
purge all discrete job and repetitive schedule information (details,
transactions and headers) by choosing to purge headers.

☞ Attention: Although all purge Yes/No parameters default to

No, you should exercise extreme caution when purging. Once
you submit a purge request with a Purge Only or Purge and
Report action type, all related information is removed from the
database.
Purge requests can be submitted using concurrent or scheduled
processing. See: Overview of Concurrent Processing, Oracle
Applications User’s Guide and Overview of Standard Request
Submission, Oracle Applications User’s Guide.
You can check the status of purge requests using the Concurrent
Requests window.

Prerequisites
❑ You must have at least one closed period for your organization.
See: Overview of Period Close, Oracle Cost Management User’s
Guide.

" To purge jobs and schedules:

1. Navigate to the Purge Jobs and Schedules window. The

Parameters window appears.

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2. Select a Job Type.
All Jobs/schedules: Purge information for discrete jobs with statuses
of Closed and repetitive schedules with statuses of Cancelled and
Complete–No Charges. All Jobs/schedules is the default.
Discrete jobs: Purge information for discrete jobs with a status of
Closed.
Repetitive Schedules: Purge information for repetitive schedules
with statuses of Cancelled or Complete–No Charges.
3. Select an Action Type.
You can choose from the following:
Purge and Report: Purge the selected jobs/schedules and print a
report. You can print the report in Full, Summary, or Detail format.
If you select Purge and Report, you must select a Report Type.
Report Only: Print a report listing the selected jobs/schedules but
do not purge them. You can print the report in Full, Summary, or
Detail format. If you select Report Only, you must select a Report
Type.

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 Purge Only: Purge the selected jobs/schedules but do not print a
report. If you choose Purge Only, you must specify that the Report
Type is None.
Note: Printing a report before submitting a purge request allows
you to view the exceptions that might arise and determine how
many records are to be deleted from related tables as a result of the
purge.
4. Specify which discrete jobs, repetitive schedules, or discrete jobs
and repetitive schedules to purge by selecting one or more of the
following:
Jobs From/To: Purge all jobs in this range that have a close date
before the purge cutoff date.
Line: Purge all repetitive schedules produced on this line that have
been closed or cancelled before the purge cutoff date.
Assembly: Purge all jobs and repetitive schedules that produce this
assembly. If a job range is also specified, only jobs that produce
this assembly that are within that range are purged. Similarly, if a
production line is specified, only repetitive schedules that produce
this assembly on that line are purged.
Note: When purging discrete jobs, you can enter a production
line, however this information is ignored when the purge is
submitted. If you enter a job range, when purging repetitive
schedules, this information is also ignored.
5. Enter a Cutoff Date.
This date must be less than or equal to the close date of the most
recently closed accounting period.
If you choose to purge details in the Purge Options window, the
system purges the details (material requirements, resource
requirements, and operations) of Closed jobs and Cancelled and
Complete–No Charges repetitive schedules with closed, completed,
or cancelled dates less than or equal to this date. If you choose to
purge Move, Resource, or Move and Resource Cost Transactions,
the system purges transactions with dates less than or equal to this
date for Closed jobs and Cancelled and Complete–No Charges
schedules.

☞ Attention: If you enter a date that is earlier than the closed,

cancelled or completed date of a selected job or repetitive schedule,
the system only purges job and repetitive schedule detail and
transaction information up to the date you enter.

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6. Select Yes for Include Configurations to include discrete jobs that
build either configured items or models in the purge. Select No to
exclude configured items.
If Oracle Bills of Materials purges the configured item that you
build in Work in Process, then Oracle Bills of Material replaces the
configured item on the job with the model the configuration was
based on. You do not want to include configurations if you need
this information for customer support. For example, if a customer
complains that you did not build the configuration he ordered.
If you do include configurations, you still have access to lot and
serial information using the Lot Genealogy window or the lot and
serial transactions in Oracle Inventory.
7. Select whether to purge or not purge Headers.
If you purge Headers, all information associated with the parent
record and all associated details (material requirements, resource
requirements, and operations) and transactions (move and resource
transactions) are automatically purged. Shop floor statuses
associated with jobs and/or repetitive schedules are also purged.
Sales order allocations associated with discrete jobs are also
purged.
Note: When you choose to purge headers, the options to
include details, move transactions, and resource transactions
are automatically selected. You cannot choose to purge header
and choose not to purge details are purged even if you choose
not to purge details, move transactions, and resource
transactions.
8. Select whether to purge Details.
You can selectively purge Details — material requirements,
resource requirements, and operations — without purging headers.
Selective purging allows you to retain pertinent historical
information. For example, you can retain operation information
but purge move transactions associated with these operations.
9. Select whether to purge or not purge Move Transactions
You can selectively purge Move Transactions associated with the
selected discrete jobs, repetitive schedules, or both. If the move
transaction date is less than or equal to the cutoff date you entered,
move transactions for repetitive schedules with Cancelled and
Complete–No Charges statuses or discrete jobs with Closed
statuses are purged.

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 10. Select whether to purge or not purge Resource Transactions
associated with jobs and/or repetitive schedules.
You can selectively purge Resource Transactions associated with
the selected discrete jobs, repetitive schedules, or both. Only
resource transactions for repetitive schedules with Cancelled and
Complete–No Charges statuses are purged, regardless of whether
the transaction date is less than or equal to the cutoff date you
entered.
11. Select one of the following Report Types:
Full: The report lists all job and/or schedule records selected for
the purge, the table and number of rows affected as well as those
records that cannot be purged because of purge rule violations.
Full is the default option.
Summary: The report lists all job and/or schedule records selected
for the purge but in a tabular form. The table and row detail is
omitted although exception information is included.
Exception: The report lists only those job and/or schedule records
that cannot be purged because of purge violation rules. Exception
information is included.
None: The report lists only the purge options selected (e.g.
Headers, Schedule Details, Move Transactions, Resource
Transactions), but does not list tables affected and records purged.
12. Choose OK.
13. Submit your purge request. See: Submitting a Request, Oracle
Applications User’s Guide.

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See Also

Discrete Job Purge: page 3 – 127

Repetitive Schedule Purge: page 6 – 41
Transaction Control by Status: page 11 – 17

Reports and Processes 15 – 49

Purge Report
The Purge Report can be printed as you purge discrete jobs, repetitive
schedules, or both jobs and repetitive schedules using the following
windows:
• Purge Discrete Jobs (Form)
• Purge Repetitive Schedules (Form)
• Purge Discrete Jobs/Repetitive Schedules (SRS)
When you choose to print a report as part of the purge process, the
report option selected in the Purge Options window is defaulted and
determines the format of the report. Report options are as follows:
Full Lists all job and/or schedule records, the table and
number of rows affected as well as those records
that cannot be purged because of purge rule
violations. Full is the default option.
Summary Lists all job and/or schedule records but in a
tabular form. The table and row detail is omitted
although exception information is included.
Exception Lists only those job and/or schedule records that
cannot be purged because of purge violation rules.
Exception information is included.
None Lists only the purge options selected (e.g. Headers,
Schedule Details, Move Transactions, Resource
Transactions), but does not list which tables are
affected and which records purged.

☞ Attention: You can only select the None option when

submitting a purge request from the Purge Jobs and Schedules
window. It is available only if you select the Purge Only action
type in the Purge Options window. Furthermore, you must
select this report option if the Purge Only option is selected as
no other report option selections are allowed.

See Also

Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

Purging Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 128
Purging Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 42
Specifying Purge Options: page 3 – 130

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Repetitive Line Report
The Repetitive Line Report lists repetitive schedules defined for a
production line. The system lists effective and pending repetitive
schedules separately so you can easily identify which ones to cancel or
implement. You can use this report to help you see the overall load on
the line.
The system lists the production line header followed by all schedules
defined on that line. Schedules are listed by assembly and first unit
start date.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select Repetitive Line Report in the
Name field.

Report Parameters

Lines From/To
To restrict the report to a range of lines, select a beginning and an
ending line.

Assemblies From/To
To restrict the report to a range of lines, select a beginning and an
ending assembly.

Dates From/To
To restrict the report to a date range, select a beginning and an ending
date.

See Also

Overview of Repetitive Manufacturing: page 6 – 2

Dispatch Reports: page 8 – 74
Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Repetitive Pick List Report
The Repetitive Pick List Report lists component requirements for a
range of repetitive schedules in your organization with statuses of
Unreleased, Released, Complete, or On Hold. You can use this report
to pick material from stock to issue to work in process for a schedule.
The report lists production lines in alphanumeric order with all their
requirements ordered by supply type, including push, pull, bulk and
vendor items. This report can be sorted by component, date required,
supply subinventory/locator, or WIP material transaction.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select Repetitive Pick List Report in
the Name field.

Report Parameters

Sort By
Choose one of the following options:
Component Sort by component.
Supply sub– Sort by supply subinventory and locator.
inventory, locator

WIP material Sort component requirements in WIP Material

transaction Transaction order. The system lists components in
the order presented in the WIP Material
Transaction window. This assists data entry when
you use the pick list as hard copy for issuing the
components.

Transactable Only
Select Yes or No to indicate whether to exclude repetitive schedules
with statuses of Unreleased or On Hold.

Start Date
Select the start date. The system calculates requirements for your
repetitive schedules from this date for the number of days you
specified in the Days of Supply report option.

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 Days of Supply
Select the number of days of supply that you want to calculate
requirements for.

Lines From/To
To restrict the report to a range of lines, select a beginning and an
ending line.

Assemblies From/To
To restrict the report to a range of assemblies, select a beginning and an
ending assembly.

Supply Type
Choose a Supply Type. The available options are Push, Pull, Bulk, and
Vendor. See: Supply Types: page D – 2.

Supply Subinventory
Select the supply subinventory to include as available material in the
pick list. If you do not select a value, the system lists requirements of
any supply subinventory.

See Also

Overview of Repetitive Manufacturing: page 6 – 2

Overview of Material Control: page 7 – 2
Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Repetitive Routing Sheet
The Repetitive Routing Sheet lists operations and associated resources
and material requirements for schedules with a status of Unreleased,
Released, On Hold, or Complete. You can use the report as a traveler
to report production against repetitive schedules on the shop floor. The
system displays repetitive assemblies and production lines in
alphanumeric order. For each repetitive assembly/line, the system
prints schedules ordered by first unit start date and followed by their
operations, resources, instructions and requirements.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select Repetitive Routing Sheet in the
Name field.

Report Parameters

Assembly
Select a repetitive assembly. If you do not select an assembly, the
system lists routing information for all schedules defined for the line
selected.

Line
Select a production line. If you do not select a line, the system displays
routing information for all schedules defined for the assembly selected.

First Unit Start Dates From/To

To restrict the report to a range of first unit start dates, select a
beginning and an ending date.

See Also

Overview of Repetitive Manufacturing: page 6 – 2

Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Repetitive Schedule Data Report
The Repetitive Schedule Data Report lists repetitive assemblies and
production lines in alphanumeric order, and their schedules ordered by
first unit start date. You can use this report to review all details about a
repetitive schedule, such as quantities, dates, routing operations,
material requirements, resources, instructions, comments and accounts.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select Repetitive Schedule Data Report
in the Name field.

Report Parameters

Effective Only
Select Yes or No. No means list all schedules in the report. Yes means
list only the schedules with the following statuses: Unreleased,
Released, On Hold, Complete and Pending – Mass Loaded. See:
Reporting by Status: page 11 – 19.

Assemblies From/To
To restrict the report to a range of assemblies, select a beginning and an
ending assembly.

Lines From/To
To restrict the report to a range of lines, select a beginning and an
ending line.

Start Dates From/To

To restrict the report to a date range, select a beginning and an ending
date.

See Also

Overview of Repetitive Manufacturing: page 6 – 2

Dispatch Reports: page 8 – 74
Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Repetitive Schedule Shortage Report
The Repetitive Schedule Shortage Report lists either open requirements
or requirements with inventory shortages for repetitive schedules. You
can list requirement shortages based on the quantities available in all
subinventories or based on the quantities available in the supply
subinventories only. You can also determine shortages using all
subinventories or only nettable subinventories. The system lists
repetitive schedules with statuses of Unreleased, Released, On Hold, or
Complete.
You can print a repetitive schedule’s open requirements to identify
components you need to issue or have not yet backflushed. You can
print the shortage report to highlight components you need to expedite.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select Repetitive Schedule Shortage
Report in the Name field.

Report Parameters

Report Type
Choose one of the following options:
Open requirement List open material requirements for all repetitive
schedules. This is the default option.
Shortage based on Lists requirements with insufficient quantities as
QOH based on all subinventories. If you select Yes in the
Include Nettable Only option, then you may see
more shortages depending on how much quantity
you have available for each requirement in your
non–nettable subinventories.
Shortage based on Lists requirements with insufficient quantities as
supply sub/loc based on each requirement’s supply subinventory
and locator.

Include Nettable Only

Select Yes to include only nettable subinventories when calculating
subinventory quantities and printing shortages. Select No to include
nettable and non–nettable subinventories when calculating

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subinventory quantities and printing shortages. The system
determines the quantity onhand for each requirement using this value.

Include Qty Ahead/Behind

Select Yes or No to indicate whether to include requirements fulfilled in
the past when calculating open requirements and shortages. If you
select Yes, the system includes requirements already issued or to be
issued in its calculation of open requirements and shortages. If you
select No, the system only takes into account today’s quantities in its
calculation of open requirements and shortages.

Include Bulk
Select Yes to indicate whether to include bulk–provided material
requirements.

Include Supplier
Select Yes to indicate whether to include supplier–supplied material
requirements.

Supply Days
Select the number of supply days ahead of today that the system uses
to calculate open requirements and shortages for your repetitive
schedules.

Lines From/To
To restrict the report to a range of lines, select a beginning and an
ending line.

Assemblies From/To
To restrict the report to a range of assemblies, select a beginning and an
ending assembly.

Components From/To
To restrict the report to a range of component, select a beginning and
an ending component.

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See Also

Overview of Material Control: page 7 – 2

Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Repetitive Shop Packet
The repetitive shop packet consists of four reports:
• Repetitive Pick List Report: page 15 – 52
• Repetitive Routing Sheet: page 15 – 54
• Repetitive Schedule Shortage Report: page 15 – 56
• Repetitive Line Report: page 15 – 51

See Also

Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

Submitting a Request Set, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Repetitive Value Report
The Repetitive Value Report can be used to analyze your repetitive
schedules. You can submit the WIP Value Report before submitting this
report to review total variances and charges for your repetitive
schedules. Then, you can submit this report to analyze a summary of
the transactions behind the charges and variances for each repetitive
schedule.
This report includes information on all cost transactions including
material, resource, outside processing, move and resource–based
overhead charges and variances. Relief charges, such as completion,
assembly scrap, and period close transactions, are summarized across
all schedules building an assembly on a line. The report also lists
account summary information as well as repetitive schedule header
information. The system groups and subtotals cost transactions by
transaction type.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select Repetitive Value Report in the
Name field.

Report Parameters

Report Type
Choose one of the following options:
Detail with Lists each assembly and line using the actual
requirements based completion quantity of the assembly and line in to
on actual quantity calculate all the variances. A detail report includes
completion the following: header, material, resource,
resource–based and move–based overhead costs,
completion, scrap, and close variance transactions.
It also includes account period–to–date and
cumulative–to–date summary information.
Use this option if you backflush your material
requirements at assembly completion or if you
have already completed most of your assemblies.
Detail with Lists each assembly and line using the planned
requirements based start quantity of the assembly and line to calculate
on planned start all the variances. A detail report includes the
quantity following: header, material, resource,

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 resource–based and move–based overhead costs,
completion, scrap, and close variance transactions.
It also includes account summary information.
Use this option to compare your total requirements
against your existing transactions for all cost
elements using your planned completion quantity.
Summary Lists each assembly and line and includes
repetitive schedule header and account
information. The system also lists summary
elemental account values for each repetitive
schedule.

Include Bulk
Select Yes to indicate whether to include bulk–supplied material
requirements. If you have already issued to a particular bulk
requirement, the system lists the requirement, regardless of what you
select here.

Include Supplier
Select Yes to indicate whether to include supplier–provided material
requirements. If you have already issued to a particular supplier
requirement, the system lists the requirement, regardless of what you
select here.

Period Start Date

Select a period start date. The system lists the value of repetitive
schedules that are dated on or after this date, or that were transacted
between the period start date and the period close date.

Period Close Date

Select a period close date. The system lists the value of repetitive
schedules that are dated on or before this date, or that were transacted
between the period start date and the period close date.

Assemblies From/To
To restrict the report to a range of assemblies, select a beginning and an
ending assembly.

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 Lines From/To
To restrict the report to a range of production lines, select a beginning
and an ending line.

Classes From/To
To restrict the report to a range of WIP accounting classes, select a
beginning and an ending class.
For repetitive schedules, any difference between the cumulative single
level variances and the material usage or efficiency variance subtotals
is from configuration or methods variances. The cumulative–to–date
summary compares the costs incurred for the schedule with the
standard bill/routing requirements for completions out of the schedule.
Therefore, the difference between the cumulative variances and the
usage/efficiency variance is due to the difference between the standard
bill/routing requirements and the work in process bill/routing
requirements. To find the configuration variance, you should compare
the material usage variance with the single level material variance. To
find the methods variance, you should compare the efficiency variance
with its corresponding single level variance. For example, you would
compare the resource efficiency variance with the single level; resource
and outside processing variance added together. You would add the
resource–based and move–based overhead efficiency variances and
compare it with the single level overhead variance.
Since repetitive schedules are not revalued by the cost update, these
variances also include any standard cost adjustments. The Standard
Requirements columns use the latest standards. The Applied Cost
columns use the transaction cost without cost update adjustments.

See Also

Overview of Work in Process Costing: page 12 – 2

Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Resource Performance Report
The Resource Performance Report details resource efficiency by
department. The system lists all resources within a department with
the jobs/schedules charging these resources in alphanumeric order.
The system lists the efficiency percentage of each resource as applied to
a specific job or schedule and the departmental efficiency of each
resource.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select Resource Performance Report in
the Name field.

Report Parameters

Resources From/To
To restrict the report to a range of resources, select a beginning and an
ending resource.

Departments From/To
To restrict the report to a range of departments, select a beginning and
an ending department.

Job/Schedule Active Dates From

Select a beginning date.

To
Select an ending date.

Minimum Efficiency
Select a minimum efficiency percentage. The system lists the resources
for which the departmental efficiency is equal to or greater than this
value. If you also select a maximum efficiency percentage, displays
resources for which the departmental efficiency is equal to or greater
than the minimum efficiency percentage and less than or equal to the
maximum efficiency percentage.

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 Maximum Efficiency
Select a maximum efficiency percentage. The system lists the resources
for which the departmental efficiency is less than or equal to this value.
If you also select a minimum efficiency percentage, the system lists
resources for which the departmental efficiency is equal to or greater
than the minimum efficiency percentage and less than or equal to the
maximum efficiency percentage.

See Also

Overview of Resource Management: page 9 – 2

Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Resource Transaction Report
The Resource Transaction Report lists resource transaction information
for discrete jobs and repetitive schedules. You can list transaction
details such as reason codes and references. You can sort this report by
assembly, date, or employee.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select Resource Transaction Report in
the Name field.

Report Parameters

Sort By
Choose one of the following options:
Assembly Sort by assembly, then by date within assembly,
then by job or repetitive schedule within the
assembly, and then by operation sequence number
within the job or repetitive schedule.
Date Sort by date, then by job or repetitive schedule
within the date, and then by operation sequence
number within the job or repetitive schedule.
Employee Sort by employee, then by date within the
employee, then by job or repetitive schedule within
the date, and then by operation sequence number
within the job or repetitive schedule.

Show Details
Select Yes or No to indicate whether to list reason and reference for the
resource transaction. If you select Date or Employee in the Sort By
field, and you choose Yes in this field, the system also lists the assembly
along with the reason and reference for each resource transaction.

Jobs /Schedules From and To

To restrict the report to a range of jobs/schedules, select a beginning
and an ending job or repetitive schedule.

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 Resources From/To
To restrict the report to a range of resources, select a beginning and an
ending resource.

Lines From/To
To restrict the report to a range of production lines, select a beginning
and an ending line.

Assemblies From/To
To restrict the report to a range of assemblies, select a beginning and an
ending assembly.

Dates From/To
To restrict the report to a date range, select a beginning and an ending
date.

Employees From/To
To restrict the report to a range of employees, select a beginning and an
ending employee.

Reasons From/To
To restrict the report to a range of employees, select a beginning and an
ending reason.

Activities From/To
To restrict the report to a range of Activities, select a beginning and an
ending activity.

See Also

Resource Transactions: page 9 – 30

Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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Schedule Group Listing
The Schedule Group Listing lists all information about schedule
groups.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select Schedule Group Listing in the
Name field.

Report Parameters

Schedule Group From/To

To restrict the report to a range of schedule groups, select a beginning
and an ending schedule group.

See Also

Defining Schedule Groups: page 2 – 53

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Shop Floor Statuses Report
The Shop Floor Statuses Report lists shop floor statuses in alphabetical
order. The system also lists status descriptions and disable dates and
identifies which statuses prevents you from moving assemblies.
Shop floor statuses give you control of your shop floor movement by
limiting when you can make moves. Once you have released a job or
repetitive schedule, you can assign and modify these statuses at the
operations on the work in process routing using the Shop Floor
Statuses window. You can view these statuses during shop floor moves
and report them using job or repetitive schedule data reports.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select Shop Floor Statuses Report in
the Name field.

See Also

Assigning and Viewing Shop Floor Statuses: page 8 – 65

Defining Shop Floor Statuses: page 2 – 51
Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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WIP Account Distribution Report
The WIP Account Distribution Report details account information for
work in process cost transactions, including resource, overhead and
outside processing charges, cost updates, and period close and job
close variances. The system groups your transactions by job or
schedule, by transaction type, and orders your transactions by earliest
transaction date. You can list detailed account information for specific
accounts, general ledger batches, or both to help you reconcile your
general ledger.
This report does not list material cost transactions such as issues,
completions, and scrap. You can list this information using the
Material Account Distribution reports in Oracle Inventory.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select WIP Account Distribution
Report in the Name field.

Report Parameters

Dates From/To
To restrict the report to a range of transaction dates, enter a beginning
and ending date.

Account
Select a specific general ledger accounting flexfield.

GL Batch
Select a general ledger batch number. The system lists information by
account for each account in the selected batch.

Job/Schedule
Select a specific job or repetitive assembly.

Line
Select a production line.

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 Assembly
Select an assembly.

Transaction Type
Choose one of the following options to print work in process cost
transaction details for a specific transaction type:
Resource Lists resource transaction details.
transaction

Overhead Lists overhead transaction details.

transaction

Outside processing Lists outside processing transaction details.

Cost update Lists cost update transaction details.
Period close Lists transaction details for period close variance
variance transactions for expense jobs and certain instances
of repetitive schedules.
Job close variance Lists job close variance transaction details.

Department
Select a department name.

Activity
Select an activity.

Class
Select a WIP accounting class name.

Currency
Select a currency. You can run this report for any defined currency.
When you select a currency other than the functional currency, item
costs are converted to the selected currency. Your functional currency
is the default.

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 Exchange Rate
The system displays the most recent End of period rate but you can
choose another period. The rate type used, either period average or the
period end, is determine by how the CST:Exchange Rate Type profile
option is set. See: Profile Options, Oracle Cost Management.

See Also

Overview of Period Close, Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide

Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

Reports and Processes 15 – 71

WIP Account Summary Report
The WIP Account Summary Report summarizes account information
for work in process cost transactions, including resource, overhead and
outside processing charges, cost updates, and period close and job
close variances. The system lists debit, credit and net activity by
account for each type of cost transaction. You can list information by
date. You can also list information for specific accounts, general ledger
batches, or both to help you reconcile your general ledger. You can use
this report during your pre–close monthly review process.
The system does not list material cost transactions, such as issues,
completions, and scraps, in this report. You can report this information
using the Inventory Account Distribution report in Oracle Inventory.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select WIP Account Summary Report
in the Name field.

Report Parameters

Dates From/To
To restrict the report to a range of transaction dates, select a beginning
and an ending date.

Account
Select a general ledger accounting flexfield.

GL Batch
Select a general ledger batch. The system lists information by account
for each account in the selected batch.

See Also

Overview of Period Close, Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide

Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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WIP Accounting Classes Report
The WIP Accounting Classes Report lists the WIP accounting classes
you have defined. The class type, disable date and description for each
accounting class, as well as the elemental valuation and variance
accounts, are listed.
You must define separate accounting classes for standard discrete jobs,
non–standard expense jobs, non–standard asset jobs, repetitive
assemblies, maintenance jobs, and lot based jobs. Each accounting
class includes the elemental valuation and variance accounts you use to
cost discrete and repetitive production. You must enter an accounting
class when you define a discrete job and when you associate
production lines with repetitive assemblies.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select WIP Accounting Classes Report
in the Name field.

See Also

WIP Accounting Classes: page 2 – 42

Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

Reports and Processes 15 – 73

WIP Location Report
The WIP Location Report details the locations of the assemblies within
the routings of the jobs and repetitive schedules. This includes job and
repetitive schedules with statuses of Released, Complete, and On Hold.
The system lists only operations that contain assemblies.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select WIP Location Report in the
Name field.

Report Parameters

Sort By
Choose one of the following options:
Assembly, Sort by assembly, then by job or repetitive schedule
Job/Schedule, Line, within the assembly, then by line within the job or
Op seq repetitive schedule, and then by operation
sequence number within the line.
Department, Sort by department number, then by assembly
Assembly, within the department, then by job or repetitive
Job/Schedule, Op schedule within the assembly, and then by
seq operation sequence number within the job or
repetitive schedule.
Job/Schedule, Sort by job or repetitive schedule, then by assembly
Assembly, Line, Op within the job or repetitive schedule, then by line
seq within the assembly, and then by operation
sequence number within the line.
Line, Assembly, Sort the report by line, then by assembly within the
Job/Schedule, Op line, then by job or repetitive schedule within the
seq assembly, and then by operation sequence number
within the job or repetitive schedule.

Jobs/Schedules From and To

To restrict the report to a range of jobs or repetitive schedules, select a
beginning and ending job/schedule.

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 Lines From/To
To restrict the report to a range of production lines, select a beginning
and an ending line.

Assemblies From/To
To restrict the report to a range of assemblies, select a beginning and an
ending assembly.

Departments From/To
To restrict the report to a range of departments, select a beginning and
an ending department.

See Also

Dispatch Reports: page 8 – 74

Viewing Operations: page 8 – 20
Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

Reports and Processes 15 – 75

WIP Offsetting Account Report
The WIP Offsetting Account Report lists detailed account information
for work in process cost transactions, including resource, overhead and
outside processing charges; cost updates; and period close and job
close variances. Transaction information is grouped by offsetting
account, by transaction type, from the earliest transaction date.
The system does not list material cost transactions — issues,
completions, and scrap transactions — on this report. You can report
this information using the Inventory Account Distribution report in
Oracle Inventory.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select WIP Offsetting Account Report
in the Name field.

Report Parameters

Accounts From/To
To restrict the report to a range of accounts, select a beginning and an
ending accounting flexfield.

Dates From/To
To restrict the report to a range of transaction dates, select a beginning
and an ending date.

See Also

Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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WIP Outside Processing Report
The WIP Outside Processing Report lists outside processing
information for jobs or repetitive schedules. The system lists all
purchase orders associated outside processing resources.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select WIP Outside Processing Report
in the Name field.

Report Parameters

Jobs/Schedules From and To

To restrict the report to a range of jobs or repetitive schedules, select a
beginning and ending job/schedule.

Assemblies From/To
To restrict the report to a range of assemblies, select a beginning and an
ending assembly.

Lines From/To
To restrict the report to a range of production lines, select a beginning
and an ending line.

Status
Choose a status. See: Discrete Job Statuses: page 11 – 7 or Repetitive
Schedule Statuses: page 11 – 12.

Open POs Only

Select Yes or No to indicate whether to print all purchase orders except
ones that are closed and cancelled.

See Also

Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

Reports and Processes 15 – 77

WIP Parameters Report
The WIP Parameters Report lists the Work in Process parameters you
have defined.
WIP parameters define modes of operation and assign default values
that affect other functions in Work in Process, such as backflushing and
lot number entry.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select WIP Parameters Report in the
Name field.

See Also

WIP Parameters: page 2 – 14

Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

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WIP Value Report
The WIP Value Report details work in process inventory as of a
particular accounting period. The system lists the value of discrete jobs
and repetitive schedules for the period specified, lists the ending
balance for each discrete job and repetitive schedule in a particular
accounting class, and subtotals by the accounting class. In addition, the
system summarizes each accounting class by cost element and lists a
subtotal for each type of accounting class. For example, your can view
your WIP inventory value for all standard discrete jobs.
For Oracle Shop Floor Management lot based jobs, if Estimated Scrap
Accounting is enabled, you can view estimated scrap calculations. This
includes estimated scrap incurred, relieved, and variances.
You can submit the report using several options to determine your
output. You can list the output in a foreign currency using a particular
exchange rate.
To ensure accurate ending inventory values for discrete jobs, you must
close any open periods before the one you are using for this report.
Note: The system overstates WIP value by the value in your
expense non–standard jobs and repetitive schedules. If you
have not closed the period you are reporting, you have not yet
written off the balances in your expense non–standard jobs and
repetitive schedules. The system automatically writes these
values off to the variance accounts at period close.
You can optionally set the WIP Recognize Period Variances
Parameter so that only variances for repetitive schedules with
statuses of Cancelled or Complete–No Charges are posted at
period close. See: Repetitive Parameters: page 2 – 18.

Report Submission
In the Submit Requests window, select WIP Value Report in the Name
field.

Report Parameters

Report Type
Choose one of the following options:

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 Cumulative to Date List WIP inventory values based on transactions
entered for all periods, including those Selected
before the current period.
For standard discrete jobs and non–standard asset
jobs, the system accumulates job costs over the life
of the job, which may cover more than one period.
This option may be appropriate for these types of
jobs
Period to Date Lists WIP inventory values based only on
transactions entered for a particular period.
Optionally for repetitive schedules and always for
non–standard expense jobs, the system
automatically creates journal entries for valuation
costs when you close your accounting period each
month. This option may be appropriate for this
type of job and repetitive schedules.

Period
Select an accounting period. Depending on the report type selected,
the WIP values may be cumulative or may include only values
transacted during this period.

Closed Jobs
Select Yes to include discrete jobs that were closed during the
accounting period you specify. If you select No, the system includes
only those jobs that were open at the end of the specified period.

Class Type
Choose one of the following accounting class options:
Asset non–standard List costs for asset non–standard jobs.
Expense List costs for expense non–standard jobs.
non–standard
Repetitive assembly List costs for repetitive assemblies.
Standard discrete List costs for standard discrete jobs.

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 Classes From/To
To restrict the report to a range of WIP accounting classes, select a
beginning and ending class. You cannot specify a class range unless
you first select a value in the Class Type field.

Jobs/Schedules From and To

To restrict the report to a range of jobs or repetitive schedules, select a
beginning and ending job/repetitive schedule. You cannot specify a
job/schedule range unless you first select a value in the Class Type
field.
For repetitive schedules, you are actually selecting a repetitive
assembly value, such as an item number. For discrete jobs, you are
selecting a job name.

Assemblies From/To
To restrict the report to a range of assemblies, select a beginning and an
ending assembly. You cannot specify an assembly range unless you
first select a value in the Class Type field.
If you are reporting values for repetitive schedules, you do not need to
select both a job/schedule and assembly range unless you changed a
repetitive assembly item number since you defined your repetitive
assembly.

Currency Code
Select a currency code in which you want to report your WIP inventory
values. The system defaults the functional currency from the set of
books associated with your organization.

Exchange Rate
Select an exchange rate when you report your WIP inventory values in
a foreign currency. You can choose from any valid exchange rates
defined for the currency you selected in the previous field.

See Also

WIP Accounting Classes: page 2 – 42

Submitting a Request, Oracle Applications User’s Guide

Reports and Processes 15 – 81

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APPENDIX

A Windows and
Navigator Paths

T his appendix shows you the default navigator path for each
Oracle Work in Process window. Refer to this appendix when you do
not already know the navigator path for a window that you want to
use.
Further, as a supplement to the Windows and Navigator Paths, this
appendix also provides a table that matches character mode forms with
their corresponding GUI windows or processes.

Windows and Navigator Paths A–1

Work in Process Windows and Navigator Paths

For forms described in other manuals:

See... Refer to this manual for a complete form description

CST Oracle Cost Management User’s Guide

HR Oracle Human Resources User’s Guide
Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain
MRP
Planning User’s Guide
User Oracle Applications User’s Guide

Brackets ([ ]) indicate a button.

Window Name Navigation Path

Assign Shop Floor Statuses: page 8 – 65 Move Transactions > Shop Floor Statuses > Assign Shop Floor
Statuses
Move Transactions > Move Transactions > [Statuses]

Associate Lines and Assemblies: page 6 – 7 Repetitive > Associate Lines and Assemblies

Autocreate: page 15 – 3 Discrete > Autocreate Orders

Backflush Transactions: page 8 – 44 Move Transactions > [Conditionally invoked]

Completion Transactions > [Conditionally invoked]

Change Organization (see MRP) Other > Change Organization

Change Repetitive Schedule Status: page Repetitive > Repetitive Schedule > Tools menu > Change Status
6 – 32

Changing Statuses: page 3 – 109 Discrete > Discrete Jobs > Tools menu > Change Status

Close Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 121 Discrete > Close Discrete Jobs > Close Discrete Jobs (Form)

Close Discrete Jobs: page 15 – 7 Discrete > Close Discrete Jobs > Close Discrete Jobs (SRS)

Close Discrete Jobs Request: page 3 – 121 Discrete > Close Discrete Jobs > Close Discrete Jobs (Forms) >
Tools menu > Close
Concurrent Requests (see User) Other > Request

A–2 Oracle Work in Process User’s Guide

Window Name Navigation Path

Completion Transactions: page 7 – 91 Material Transactions > Completion Transactions

Component Item Details: page 7 – 54 Material Transactions > WIP Material Transactions > Tools menu
> Component Item Details

Component Pick Release: page 7 – 33 WIP > Discrete or Repetitive > Component Pick Release > Find

Component Pick Release: page 7 – 33 SHOP > Component Pick Release > Find

Component Pick Release: page 7 – 33 FLOW > Production > Component Pick Release > Find

Components: page 5 – 16 Material Transactions > Work Order–less Completions >

[Components]
Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 63 Discrete > Discrete Jobs

Distribution (see CST) Resource Transactions > View Resource Transactions >
[Distributions]
Import Jobs and Schedules: page 15 – 35 Discrete > Import Jobs and Schedules

Repetitive > Import Jobs and Schedules

Job and Schedule Documents: page 1 – 6 Setup > Job and Schedule Documents

Labor Rates: page 2 – 56 Setup > Employees > Labor Rates

Material Requirements: page 7 – 10 Job/Schedule Details > Material Requirements

Move Transactions: page 8 – 37 Move Transactions > Move Transactions

Operations: page 8 – 12 Job/Schedule Details > Operations

Operation Documents: page 1 – 7 Setup > Operation Documents

Pending Jobs and Schedules: page 3 – 133 Discrete > Pending Jobs and Schedules

Repetitive > Pending Jobs and Schedules

Pending Job and Schedule Errors: page Discrete > Pending Jobs and Schedules > [Errors]
3 – 133
Repetitive > Pending Jobs and Schedules > [Errors]

Pending Move Transactions: page 8 – 54 Move Transactions > Pending Move Transactions

Pending Resource Transactions: page 9 – 47 Resource Transactions > Pending Resource Transactions

Personal Profile Values (see User) Other > Profile

Persons (see HR) Setup > Employees > Persons

Windows and Navigator Paths A–3

Window Name Navigation Path

Print: page 3 – 93 Discrete > Discrete Jobs > Tools menu > Print Reports

Discrete > Close Discrete Jobs > Tools menu > Print Reports

Discrete > Purge Discrete Jobs > Tools menu > Print Reports

Print: page 6 – 23 Repetitive > Repetitive Schedules > Tools menu > Print Reports

Repetitive > Repetitive Schedules > Tools menu > Print Reports

Production Lines: page 2 – 58 Setup > Production Lines

Purge Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 128 Discrete > Purge Discrete Jobs > Purge Discrete Jobs (Form)

Purge Jobs and Schedules: page 15 – 44 Discrete > Purge Discrete Jobs > Purge Discrete Jobs (SRS)

Repetitive > Purge Repetitive Schedules > Purge Repetitive

Schedules (SRS)

Purge Options: page 3 – 130 Discrete > Purge Discrete Jobs > Purge Discrete Jobs (Form) >
Tools menu > Purge
Repetitive > Purge Repetitive Schedules > Purge Repetitive
Schedules (Form) > Tools menu > Purge
Purge Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 42 Repetitive > Purge Repetitive Schedules > Purge Repetitive
Schedules (Form)
Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 14 Repetitive > Repetitive Schedules

Reschedule: page 8 – 18 Job/Schedule Details > Operations > [Reschedule]

Resource Requirements: page 9 – 16 Job/Schedule Details > Operations > [Resources]

Resource Transactions: page 9 – 33 Resource Transactions > Resource Transactions

Sales Orders: page 3 – 74 Discrete > Discrete Jobs [Sales Orders]

Save Simulated Job: page 3 – 111 Discrete > Simulate Discrete Jobs > Tools menu > Save Simulated
Job
Schedule Groups: page 2 – 53 Setup > Schedule Groups

Shop Floor Statuses: page 2 – 51 Move Transactions > Shop Floor Statuses > Shop Floor Statuses

Simulate Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 111 Discrete > Simulate Discrete Jobs

Tolerance Fences: page 2 – 61 Setup > Production Lines > Tolerance Fences

Submit Requests (see User) Report > Submit Requests

Transaction Summary: page 3 – 97 Discrete > Discrete Jobs > Tools menu > Transaction Summary

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Window Name Navigation Path

Discrete > View Discrete Jobs > Tools menu > Transaction
Summary
Discrete > Close Discrete Jobs > Tools menu > Transaction
Summary
Discrete > Purge Discrete Jobs > Tools menu > Transaction
Summary
View Discrete Jobs: page 3 – 95 Discrete > View Discrete Jobs

View Material Requirements: page 7 – 14 Job/Schedule Details > View Material Requirements

View Move Transactions: page 8 – 52 Move Transactions > View Move Transactions

View Operations: page 8 – 20 Job/Schedule Details > View Operations

View Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 25 Repetitive > View Repetitive Schedules

View Resource Requirements: page 9 – 27 Job/Schedule Details > View Resource Requirements

View Resource Transactions: page 9 – 39 Resource Transactions > View Resource Transactions

WIP Accounting Classes: page 2 – 48 Setup > WIP Accounting Classes

WIP Material Transactions: page 7 – 49 Material Transactions > WIP Material Transactions

WIP Value Summary (see CST) Discrete >WIP Value Summary

Repetitive > WIP Value Summary

Work in Process Parameters: page 2 – 30 Setup > Parameters

Work Order–less Completions: page 5 – 16 Material Transactions > Work Order–less Completions

Windows and Navigator Paths A–5

A–6 Oracle Work in Process User’s Guide
APPENDIX

B Character Mode Forms

and Corresponding
GUI Windows

T his appendix describes character mode forms with their

corresponding GUI windows or processes.

Character Mode Forms and Corresponding GUI B–1

Windows
Oracle Work in Process Character Mode Forms and Corresponding
GUI Windows
The following table matches character mode forms with their
corresponding GUI windows or processes. This information
supplements Windows and Navigator Paths in the product online
documentation. Text in brackets ([ ]) indicates a button.
The GUI Navigator paths are based on the WIP Manager GUI US1
responsibility.
For more information on any window, navigate to the window and
choose the help icon.

Character Mode Form and Menu Path GUI Window or Process, and Navigation Path

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ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Assign Descriptive Security Rules Use the System Administrator responsibility and See:
System Administrator Character Mode Forms and

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Setup Flexfields Descriptive Security
Assign Corresponding GUI Windows.

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Assign Key Flexfield Security Rules

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Setup Flexfields Key Security Assign
Use the System Administrator responsibility and See:
System Administrator Character Mode Forms and

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Corresponding GUI Windows.

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Assign Security Rules

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Use the System Administrator responsibility and See:

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Setup Flexfields Validation Security System Administrator Character Mode Forms and
Corresponding GUI Windows.

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Assign

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
AutoCreate Final Assembly Orders AutoCreate Final Assembly Orders

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Discrete AutoCreate Navigator: Discrete > AutoCreate Orders

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Change Organization Change Organization

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Other ChangeOrg Navigator: Other > Change Organization

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Close Discrete Jobs
\Navigate Discrete Close
Close Discrete Jobs
Navigator: Discrete > Close Discrete Jobs > Close

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Discrete Jobs (SRS)

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
or

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Navigator: Discrete > Close Discrete Jobs > Close
Discrete Jobs (Forms)

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ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Define Cross–Validation Rule

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Setup Flexfields Key Rules
Use the System Administrator responsibility and See:
System Administrator Character Mode Forms and

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Corresponding GUI Windows.

B–2 Oracle Work in Process User’s Guide

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Character Mode Form and Menu Path GUI Window or Process, and Navigation Path

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ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Define Descriptive Flexfield Segments
\Navigate Setup Flexfields Descriptive Segments
Use the System Administrator responsibility and See:
System Administrator Character Mode Forms and

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Corresponding GUI Windows.

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Define Descriptive Security Rule

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Setup Flexfields Descriptive Security
Use the System Administrator responsibility and See:
System Administrator Character Mode Forms and
Corresponding GUI Windows.

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Define

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Define Descriptive Segment Values Use the System Administrator responsibility and See:
System Administrator Character Mode Forms and

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Setup Flexfields Descriptive Values
Corresponding GUI Windows.

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Define Discrete Job

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Discrete Define
Discrete Jobs
Navigator: Discrete > Discrete Jobs

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ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Define Employee Labor Rate
\Navigate Setup Employee Rates
Labor Rates
Navigator: Setup > Employees > Labor Rates

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ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Define Key Flexfield Security Rule Use the System Administrator responsibility and See:
System Administrator Character Mode Forms and

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Setup Flexfield Key Security Define
Corresponding GUI Windows.

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ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Define Key Flexfield Segments

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Setup Flexfields Key Segments
Use the System Administrator responsibility and See:
System Administrator Character Mode Forms and
Corresponding GUI Windows.

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Define Key Segment Values Use the System Administrator responsibility and See:
System Administrator Character Mode Forms and

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Setup Flexfields Key Values
Corresponding GUI Windows.

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Define Production Line

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Setup Line
Production Lines
Navigator: Repetitive > Production Lines

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Define Repetitive Assembly

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Repetitive Assembly
Associate Lines and Assemblies
Navigator: Repetitive > Associate Lines and

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ Assemblies

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Define Repetitive Schedules

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Repetitive Schedule
Repetitive Schedules
Navigator: Repetitive > Repetitive Schedules

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Define Report Set

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Report Set
Request Set
Use the System Administrator responsibility

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Navigator: Concurrent > Set

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Define Rollup Groups

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Use the System Administrator responsibility and See:

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Setup Flexfields Key Groups System Administrator Character Mode Forms and
Corresponding GUI Windows.

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Character Mode Forms and Corresponding GUI B–3
Windows
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Character Mode Form and Menu Path GUI Window or Process, and Navigation Path

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Define Security Rule Use the System Administrator responsibility and See:
\Navigate Setup Flexfields Validation Security Define System Administrator Character Mode Forms and

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Corresponding GUI Windows.

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Define Segment Values

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Setup Flexfields Validation Values
Use the System Administrator responsibility and See:
System Administrator Character Mode Forms and
Corresponding GUI Windows.

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Define Shop Floor Statuses Shop Floor Statuses

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Setup Status Navigator: Move Transactions > Shop Floor Statuses
> Shop Floor Statuses

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Define Shorthand Aliases

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Setup Flexfields Key Aliases
Use the System Administrator responsibility and See:
System Administrator Character Mode Forms and

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Corresponding GUI Windows.

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Define Standard WIP Comments Job and Schedule Documents

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Setup Comments Navigator: Setup > Job and Schedule Documents

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Define Value Set

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Setup Flexfields Validation Sets
Use the System Administrator responsibility and See:
System Administrator Character Mode Forms and
Corresponding GUI Windows.

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Define WIP Accounting Class WIP Accounting Classes

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Setup Class Navigator: Setup > WIP Accounting Classes

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Define WIP Parameters Parameters

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Setup Parameters Navigator: Setup > Parameters

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Enter Employees Enter Person

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Setup Employee Enter Navigator: Setup > Employees > Persons

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Import Job/Schedules

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Transact Import
Import Jobs and Schedules
Navigator: Discrete > Import Jobs and Schedules

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
or

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Navigator: Repetitive > Import Jobs and Schedules

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Purge Job/Schedule Information

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Transact Purge
Purge Jobs and Schedules
Navigator: Repetitive > Purge Repetitive Schedules >

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Purge Repetitive Schedules (SRS)

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
or

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Navigator: Discrete > Purge Discrete Jobs > Purge
Discrete Jobs (SRS)

B–4 Oracle Work in Process User’s Guide

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Character Mode Form and Menu Path GUI Window or Process, and Navigation Path

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Reschedule Discrete Job
\Navigate Discrete Reschedule Job
Reschedule
Navigator: Job/Schedule Details > Operations >

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ [Reschedule]

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Run Reports

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Report
Submit Request
See: Submit Requests (Oracle Applications User’s

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Guide)

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Navigator: Report > Run

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Shop Floor Transactions

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Transact ShopFloor
Move Transactions
Navigator: Move Transactions > Move Transactions

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Simulate Discrete Job

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Discrete Test
Simulate Discrete Jobs
Navigator: Discrete > Simulate Discrete Jobs

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Update Personal Profile Options

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Other Profile
Personal Profile Values
Navigator: Other > Profile

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Update Shop Floor Statuses

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Transact Update Status
Assign Shop Floor Statuses
Navigator: Move Transactions > Shop Floor Statuses

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ > Assign Shop Floor Statuses

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Update WIP Operations

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Transact Update Operations
Operations
Navigator: Job/Schedule Details > Operations

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Update WIP Requirements
\Navigate Transact Update Requirements
Material Requirements
Navigator: Job/Schedule Details > Material

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ Requirements

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Update WIP Transaction Interface

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Transact Update Interface
Pending Move Transactions
Navigator: Move Transactions > Pending Move

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Transactions

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
and

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Pending Resource Transactions

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Navigator: Resource Transactions > Pending
Resource Transactions

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
View Component Item Requirements

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Inquiry ShopFloor Requirements
View Material Requirements
Navigator: Job/Schedule Details > View Material

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Component Requirements

Character Mode Forms and Corresponding GUI B–5

Windows
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Character Mode Form and Menu Path GUI Window or Process, and Navigation Path

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
View Concurrent Requests
\Navigate Other Request
Requests
See: Viewing Requests (Oracle Applications User’s

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Guide)
Navigator: Other > Request

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Choose:

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
View Output button – to view Request Output

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
View Log button – to view Request Log

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Use the Menu to choose:

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Special > Managers – to view Manager Log

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
View Department Dispatch List View Operations

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Inquiry Operations Dispatch Navigator: Job/Schedule Details > View Operations
(by Dept)

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
View Discrete Job View Discrete Jobs
\Navigate Inquiry Discrete Job Navigator: Discrete > View Discrete Jobs

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
View Job/Schedules by Status View Discrete Jobs

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Inquiry ShopFloor Status Navigator: Discrete > View Discrete Jobs (by Status)

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
and
View Repetitive Schedules

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Navigator: Repetitive Schedules >View Repetitive
Schedules (by Status)

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
View Jobs by Assembly

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Inquiry Discrete
View Discrete Jobs
Navigator: Discrete > View Discrete Jobs (by

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
Assembly)

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
View Repetitive Schedules by Assembly

ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ
\Navigate Inquiry Repetitive
View Repetitive Schedules
Navigator: Repetitive > View Repetitive Schedules

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APPENDIX

C Comparison of
Manufacturing
Methods

T his appendix explains the differences between manufacturing

methods in Oracle Applications.

Comparison of Manufacturing Methods C–1

Comparison of Manufacturing Methods
Oracle Applications supports discrete, project, repetitive,
assemble–to–order, and flow (work order–less) manufacturing
methods.

Discrete Manufacturing
You use discrete manufacturing for assemblies that you make in groups
or batches. You define jobs with a job name, a job type, assembly, a job
quantity, a start date, and an end date. For non–standard discrete jobs,
you have the option of entering an assembly and job quantity.
You can use assembly bills of material to create job material
requirements. You can also use routings to schedule job production
activities and create operation specific material and resource
requirements.
In discrete manufacturing, production costs are normally charged to a
job. This is called job costing. You open jobs, collect charges, close
jobs, and analyze and report costs and variances by job.

Project Manufacturing
You can use project manufacturing to meet demand driven production
requirements for large contracts or projects. Project manufacturing
allows you to plan, schedule, process, and cost against a specific
contract or a group of contracts for a specific customer.
If Oracle Projects is installed and the Project References Enabled and
Project Control Level parameters are set in the Organization Parameters
window in Oracle Inventory, you can assign project and, if required,
task references to planned orders, jobs, purchase orders, sales orders,
miscellaneous transaction and other entities within Oracle
Manufacturing.
If the Project Cost Collection Enabled parameter is also set, you can
optionally collect and transfer manufacturing cost to Oracle Projects.
Project costs are tracked by project/task and expenditure type.

Assemble–to–Order (ATO) Manufacturing

You can define available options for unique product configurations.
You can master schedule models and options then create work orders
to build these unique configurations.

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Repetitive Manufacturing
You use repetitive manufacturing for assemblies you make on a
continuous or semi continuous basis over a predefined interval. You
identify which assemblies are built on which production lines in
advance. You can build assemblies on dedicated lines (one assembly
per line) or on mixed model lines (many assemblies per line). You can
build an assembly on multiple lines.
You define repetitive schedules by the assembly, its daily quantity and
its production lines, no job or work order exists. You can schedule
production of a single assembly continuously for just a few hours or for
any number of days.
You can schedule repetitive production based on the fixed lead time of
your production line if the lead time does not vary from one assembly
to another assembly. If the lead time varies by assembly, you can
schedule the repetitive production time based on the routing of the
assembly the line is building.
In repetitive manufacturing, you charge the cost of production directly
to the assembly and line. You analyze and report costs by assembly
and line during the period close. At period close, all charges to a
repetitive assembly for that period are totalled and divided by the
number of assemblies produced during that period. Period close also
calculates assembly costs and usage variances.
Repetitive schedules and discrete jobs can coexist. Oracle Master
Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning plans production
using repetitive or discrete planning techniques based on the planning
type you specify for the item in Oracle Inventory.

Flow Manufacturing
Flow Manufacturing is an innovative manufacturing approach that
aligns production with customer demand. Flow manufacturing
employs Just–In–Time (JIT) concepts such as manufacturing to demand
(vs. forecast), production lines for families of products (vs. process
layout), pull material using kanbans (vs. push material), backflush
material and costs upon completion (vs. at each operation), and so on.
This in turn helps decrease inventories, optimize machine utilization,
reduce response time to customer needs, and simplify shop floor
activities.
To prepare for flow manufacturing, you design production lines and
production processes so that each line can produce a constantly
changing mix of products within a family at a steady rate. Flow

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 manufacturing production lines are designed to support the
inter–mixed production of multiple products within a family on the
same line. Line design includes grouping products into families,
defining the processes and events required to produce each product,
and grouping events into operations. By specifying demand rates for
each product you can predict line capacities. As a part of line design,
you can specify demand forecasts for the products, derive TAKT times
(also called Operational Cycle Time), and calculate optimal kanban
quantities.
Flow manufacturing can be used in Oracle Inventory to replenish
kanbans and in Oracle Work in Process to complete assemblies without
having to created a job or a schedule. See: Performing Work
Order–less Completions: page 5 – 16.

Manufacturing Costing
The costing method of the organization you are operating in
determines whether you can used mixed manufacturing methods. See:
Work in Process Costs: page 12 – 6.

See Also

Overview of Discrete Manufacturing: page 3 – 2

Overview of Repetitive Manufacturing: page 6 – 2
Oracle Flow Manufacturing, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide
Overview of Kanban Replenishment, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide

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APPENDIX

D Supply Types

T his appendix describes supply types and how they are used in
Oracle Work in Process and other Oracle Manufacturing Applications.

Supply Types D–1

Supply Types
Supply types control how component materials are supplied to discrete
jobs and repetitive schedules in Oracle Work in Process, how materials
are planned in Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain
Planning, and how materials are costed in Oracle Cost Management.
You can assign supply types to the items you define in Oracle Inventory.
You can also assign supply types to components when you create bills of
material in Oracle Bills of Material and Oracle Engineering. See:
Defining Items, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide, Work In Process Attribute
Group, Oracle Inventory User’s Guide, and Creating a Bill of Material,
Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
In Oracle Work in Process, you can change the defaulted Based on Bill
(see below) supply type that is assigned as you define jobs and
schedules.
Below is a list of the supply types and their uses:

Assembly Pull
Assembly Pull components are issued to discrete jobs and repetitive
schedules when you complete assemblies in Work in Process. They are
pulled from the supply subinventory assigned to the component
requirement.
If you must assign pull components to a bill of material or job that is not
associated with a routing, you must assign an Assembly Pull, rather
than operation pull, supply type.
You cannot assign this supply type to a non–standard discrete job if you
have not specified an assembly or bill of material reference for that job.

Based on Bill
The Based on Bill supply type is Work in Process specific. When you
define a discrete job or a repetitive line/assembly association in Oracle
Work in Process, the supply type for the assembly defaults to Based on
Bill and assembly components are supplied based upon their bill of
material supply types. See: Creating a Bill of Material, Oracle Bills of
Material User’s Guide.
If the supply type for a job or line/assembly association is changed, the
new supply type is applied to all component material requirements. For
example, if you change the supply type of a job assembly from Based on
Bill to Assembly Pull, the supply types of all assembly components are

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 changed to Assembly pull. You can update the supply types of
individual material requirements using the Material Requirements
window in Oracle Work in Process. See: Adding and Updating Material
Requirements: page 7 – 10.
The system automatically changes components with a supply type of
Operation Pull to Assembly Pull, when the Based on Bill supply type is
applied to a job or repetitive schedule that has a bill of material but lacks
a routing or operations.

Bulk
Bulk component requirements can be viewed and are displayed on
reports. They can be used to communicate to the shop floor that bulk
components must be used but need not be transacted.
Bulk components are not backflushed nor do they default when issuing
all components for an assembly. You can, however, manually issue
specific bulk components to a discrete job or repetitive schedule.

Operation Pull
Operation pull components are issued to discrete jobs and repetitive
schedules when you complete backflush operations. Components are
pulled the supply subinventory assigned to the component.
You cannot assign this supply type to an assembly without a routing or
a non–standard discrete job without a routing.
You can assign this supply type to assemblies that have routings with no
operations or when the routing has disabled operations. However, all
components with a supply type of operation pull are automatically
changed to assembly pull.

Phantom
Phantom components can be assigned to bill of material component
subassemblies and subassembly items in Oracle Bills of Material and
Oracle Engineering. Components of phantom subassemblies are used as
if they were tied directly to the parent assembly. Phantom supply types
cannot be assigned to jobs and repetitive lines/assembly associations in
Work in Process. See: Phantoms, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide.
Phantoms behave normally when they are top level assemblies, such as
when master scheduled or manufactured on a discrete job. As
subassemblies, they lose their distinct identity and become a collection

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 of their components. Phantom components (not the phantom itself) are
included on discrete jobs and repetitive schedules and are listed on the
Discrete Job and Repetitive Schedule Pick List Reports.
Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning plans
phantom subassemblies with lot–for–lot lot sizing. Otherwise,
phantoms are planned like other assemblies. You must set the lead time
of a phantom to zero to avoid lead time offset during the planning
process. Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning
ignores demand time fences, planning time fences, and order modifiers
when planning phantom subassemblies.
When assembly costs are rolled up in Oracle Cost Management, the
material costs, but not the routing costs, of phantom assemblies are
included in the cost of the higher level assemblies that include those
phantoms.

Push
Push components can be issued directly to discrete jobs and repetitive
schedule as required. You can specify the subinventory from which to
issue push components, though Work in Process defaults the supply
subinventory associated with the component.

Supplier
Supplier component requirements can be included on bills of material.
Requirements for supplier components are created when you define
discrete jobs and repetitive schedules in Work in Process.
Supplier component requirements can be viewed and are displayed on
reports. They provide information on the component materials that
your suppliers provide but need not be transacted.
Supplier components are not backflushed nor do they default when
issuing all components for an assembly. You can, however, manually
issue specific supplier components to discrete jobs and repetitive
schedules.

See Also

Overview of Bills of Material, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide

Bills of Material Profile Options, Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide

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APPENDIX

E Attachments

T his appendix describes the purpose and process of creating job,

schedule, and operation attachments.

Attachments E–1
Attaching Files to Jobs, Schedules, and Operations
You can attach illustrative or explanatory files — in the form of text,
images, word processing documents, spreadsheets, video, and so on—
to discrete jobs, repetitive schedules, and job/schedule operations. For
example, you can attach a text message, such as “source inspection
required,” to a job to indicate that completed assemblies must be
inspected before they can be shipped to customers.
Note: For Oracle Work in Process reports that print
attachments, only the Short Text datatypes print. However, you
can view Long Text datatype attachments in the Document
block. See: Defining Operation Documents: page 1 – 7
Routing operation attachments defined in Oracle Bills of Material are
automatically copied to your work in process routing operations. You
can delete them and add new ones as required. Deleting an attachment
to an image or OLE object deletes the link to the file not the file itself.

" To attach files to discrete jobs or repetitive schedules:

1. Navigate to the Discrete Jobs or Repetitive Schedules window and
select a discrete job or repetitive schedule.
You can only define attachments for discrete jobs and repetitive
schedules that have been saved. See: Defining Discrete Jobs
Manually: page 3 – 63 and Defining Repetitive Schedules Manually:
page 6 – 14.
2. Choose Attachments from the Edit Menu.

" To attach files to operations:

1. Navigate to the Operations window then select an operation in the
Operations region.
You can only define attachments for operations that have been
saved. See: Adding and Updating Operations: page 8 – 12.
2. Choose the Attachments from the Edit menu.

See Also

Working with Attachments, Oracle Application User’s Guide

Defining Job and Schedule Documents: page 1 – 6
Defining Operation Documents: page 1 – 7

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APPENDIX

F Tools Menu Options

T his appendix explains the various options that are available from
the Tools Menu.

Tools Menu Options F–1

Work in Process Tools menu
Depending on the currently active window and conditions applying to
that window, functions available from the Tools menu can include:

Discrete Jobs window

Change Status Changes the statuses of discrete jobs you select.
See: Mass Changing Discrete Job Statuses: page
3 – 109.
Apply Default Generates a default Job name, based upon the
Job Name prefix specified for the WIP:Discrete Job Prefix
profile option, using the automatic sequence
generator. See: Defining Discrete Jobs Manually:
page 3 – 63.
View Workflows Accesses the View Workflows window where you
can display the progression and status of
workflows. From here you can select a workflow
and view a graphical display of the workflow.
Transaction Allows you to view pending job transactions for
Summary the ’active’ or current job. Pending transaction
prohibit you from closing, purging, and in some
instances, changing the status of a job. See: and
Viewing Pending Job Transactions: page
3 – 97Current Record Indicator, Oracle Applications
User’s Guide.
Print Reports Allows you to print the Discrete Job Routing Sheet,
Discrete Job Pick List Report, or the Discrete Job
Shortage Report for the ’active’ or current job. See:
Printing Reports for Current Discrete Jobs: page
3 – 93 and Current Record Indicator, Oracle
Applications User’s Guide.

Close Discrete Jobs window

Close Closes selected jobs. See: Closing Discrete Jobs:
page 3 – 121.
Check Request Resubmits jobs that have failed to close and have a
Pending Close status.
View Workflows Accesses the View Workflows window where you
can display the progression and status of
workflows. From here you can select a workflow
and view a graphical display of the workflow.

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 Transaction Allows you to view pending job transactions for
Summary the ’active’ or current job. Pending transaction
prohibit you from closing, purging, and in some
instances, changing the status of a job. See:
Current Record Indicator, Oracle Applications User’s
Guide and Viewing Pending Job Transactions: page
3 – 97.
Print Reports Allows you to print the Discrete Job Routing Sheet,
Discrete Job Pick List Report, or the Discrete Job
Shortage Report for the ’active’ or current job. See:
Printing Reports for Current Discrete Jobs: page
3 – 93 and Current Record Indicator, Oracle
Applications User’s Guide.

Purge Discrete Jobs window

Purge 1 Invokes the Purge Options window. See:
Specifying Purge Options: page 3 – 130.
View Workflows Accesses the View Workflows window where you
can display the progression and status of
workflows. From here you can select a workflow
and view a graphical display of the workflow.
Transaction Allows you to view pending job transactions for
Summary the ’active’ or current job. Pending transaction
prohibit you from closing, purging, and in some
instances, changing the status of a job. See:
Current Record Indicator, Oracle Applications User’s
Guideand Viewing Pending Job Transactions: page
3 – 97.
Print Reports Allows you to print the Discrete Job Routing Sheet,
Discrete Job Pick List Report, or the Discrete Job
Shortage Report for the ’active’ or current job. See:
Printing Reports for Current Discrete Jobs: page
3 – 93 and Current Record Indicator, Oracle
Applications User’s Guide.

Simulate Discrete Jobs window

Save Simulated Invokes the Save Simulated Job window. See:
Job Simulating and Saving Simulated Discrete Jobs:
page 3 – 111.

Viewing Discrete Jobs window

View Workflows Accesses the View Workflows window where you
can display the progression and status of

Tools Menu Options F–3

 workflows. From here you can select a workflow
and view a graphical display of the workflow.
Transaction Allows you to view pending job transactions for
Summary the ’active’ or current job. Pending transaction
prohibit you from closing, purging, and in some
instances, changing the status of a job. See:
Current Record Indicator, Oracle Applications User’s
Guide and Viewing Pending Job Transactions: page
3 – 97.
Print Reports Allows you to print the Discrete Job Routing Sheet,
Discrete Job Pick List Report, or the Discrete Job
Shortage Report for the ’active’ or current job. See:
Printing Reports for Current Discrete Jobs: page
3 – 93 and Current Record Indicator, Oracle
Applications User’s Guide.

Repetitive Schedules window

Change Status Changes the statuses of the repetitive schedules
you select. See: Mass Changing Repetitive
Schedule Statuses: page 6 – 32.
Print Reports Allows you to print the Repetitive Routing Sheet,
Repetitive Pick List Report, Repetitive Line Report,
Repetitive Schedule Shortage Report or Repetitive
Schedule Data Report for the ’active’ or current
repetitive schedule. See: Printing Reports for
Current Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 23 and
Current Record Indicator, Oracle Applications User’s
GuideCurrent Record Indicator, Oracle Applications
User’s Guide.

Purge Repetitive Schedules window

Purge 1 Invokes the Purge Options window appears. See:
Specifying Purge Options: page 3 – 130.
Print Reports Allows you to print the Repetitive Routing Sheet,
Repetitive Pick List Report, Repetitive Line Report,
Repetitive Schedule Shortage Report or Repetitive
Schedule Data Report for the ’active’ or current
repetitive schedule. See: Printing Reports for
Current Repetitive Schedules: page 6 – 23 and
Current Record Indicator, Oracle Applications User’s
Guide.Current Record Indicator, Oracle Applications
User’s Guide

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 View Workflows Accesses the View Workflows window where you
can display the progression and status of
workflows. From here you can select a workflow
and view a graphical display of the workflow.

Pending Jobs and Schedules window

Concurrent Resubmits job and schedule records that have
Requests failed the load process. See: Processing Pending
Jobs and Schedules: page 3 – 133.

WIP Material Transactions

Component Item Displays details for push component items issued
Details or added as you issue and return components
using the ’All material’ option. See: Issuing and
Returning All Push Components: page 7 – 54.

Move Transactions
Enter Quality Navigates to the Enter Quality Results window in
Results Oracle Quality. See: Entering Quality Results
Associated with Move Transactions, Oracle Quality
User’s Guide.

Pending Move Transactions

Select All for Resubmits move transactions that have failed
Resubmit validation and remain in the Open Move
Transaction Interface table. See: Processing
Pending Move Transactions: page 8 – 54.

Pending Resource Transactions

Select All for Resubmits resource transactions that have failed
Resubmit validation and remain in the Open Resource
Transaction Interface table. See: Processing
Pending Resource Transactions: page 9 – 47.

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APPENDIX

G Work in Process
Workflows

T his appendix provides detailed information about the workflow

process in Oracle Work in Process.
• Intermediate Shipment: page G – 2
• Customizing the Intermediate Shipment Process: page G – 2
• Summary of Intermediate Shipment Activities: page G – 4
• Intermediate Shipment Activities: page G – 5
• Summary of Ship and Receive Intermediates: page G – 7
• Ship and Receive Intermediate Activities: page G – 8
• Summary of Notify 2nd Buyer & Subcontractor: page G – 9
• Notify 2nd Buyer & Subcontractor Activities: page G – 10
• Change PO Need By Date: page G – 13
• Customizing the Change PO Need By Date Process: page G – 13
• Summary of Change PO Need By Date: page G – 14
• Change PO Need By Date Activities: page G – 15

Work in Process Workflows G–1

Intermediate Shipment
The Intermediate Shipment workflow allows you to track the outside
processing assemblies from the shop floor to the shipping dock, and
then to the supplier.
The workflow is activated when you move assemblies into the Queue
intraoperation step of an Outside Processing operation that has a PO
Move resource charge type or if the outside processing operation is the
first operation.

Customizing the Intermediate Shipment Process

Use the Oracle Workflow Builder to customize workflows. You can
also use the Workflow Builder to create unique planning exception
messages workflows for different parts of your organization and
associate particular workflows with certain activities.

" To display the process in Oracle Workflow Builder:

1. Choose Open from the File menu, and connect to the database.
See: Opening and Saving Item Types, Oracle Workflow Guide.
The display name of the Intermediate Shipment workflow is WIP:
Shipping & Receiving Intermediate. The name of its Workflow
definition file is wipishpw.wft.

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 2. Expand the data source, the WIP Intermediate Shipment branch
within the data source.
3. Expand the Processes branch, then choose the Intermediate
Shipment branch activity to display the diagram.

Creating a New Custom Process

Customize the default (original) workflow that Oracle Work in Process
provides after creating a backup. This allows you to have your backup
while testing customizations.

Work in Process Workflows G–3

Summary of Intermediate Shipment Activities
The process begins at Node 1.
The process first checks to see if there are requisitions pending at Node
2, then executes the concurrent program Requisition Import at Node 3.
At Node 4 the process checks to see how many approved
(non–cancelled) purchase orders exist for the outside processing
supplier.
At Node 5 the process searches for the default buyer for the outside
processing item. If the buyer is found, the process notifies the buyer
that there are no approved purchase orders at Node 6, and the buyer
can again query for them.
If a buyer is not found,the process attempts to locate the production
scheduler at Node 7.
If the production scheduler is not found, the activity is complete and
the process ends at Node 8. If the production scheduler is found, the
process notifies the production scheduler if there are no purchase
orders at Node 9. The process then ends at Node 18
If there is one approved purchase order, the buyer is notified that the
Intermediates are ready to ship at Node 10, and the Ship and Receive
Intermediates workflow is initiated at Node 12. The process ends at
Node 18.
If there are from one to three approved purchase orders, the buyer is
notified at Node 13. If the buyer does not proceed with the transaction,
the process ends at Node 14. If the buyer proceeds with the transaction,
the quantities are validated at Node 15, and the Ship and Receive
Intermediates workflow is initiated at Node 16. If quantities are not
validated, the buyer is notified at Node 15. The process ends at Node
18.
To examine the activities of the process in more detail, the nodes on the
following diagram are numbered for easy referencing. The numbers
themselves are not part of the process diagram.

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Intermediate Shipment Activities
The following is a description of each activity in the Intermediate
Shipment workflow, listed by the activity’s display name.

Start (Node 1)
This is a standard function activity that simply marks the start of the
process.

Are there any requisitions to import? (Node 2)

This function determines if there are any requisitions to be imported
from the Requisitions Table.

Work in Process Workflows G–5

 Execute Concurrent Program (Node 3)
This function processes the current program.

How many approved purchase orders? (Node 4)

This function activity determines how many approved purchase orders
there are for the same job and operation. The possible values are none,
one, multiple.

Find default buyer (Node 5)

This function activity locates the buyer responsible for the PO
information.

Notify default buyer – No approved purchase orders (Node 6)

If there are no approved purchase orders, this function activity sends a
notification to the default buyer.

Find production scheduler (Node 7)

The function activity attempts to locate the production scheduler.

Notify production scheduler – No purchase orders (Node 9)

If there are no purchase orders, this function activity sends a
notification to the production scheduler.

Notify buyer – Intermediates ready to ship (Node 10)

When the Intermediates are ready to ship, this function activity sends a
notification to the buyer.

Ship and Receive Intermediates (Node 12)

This function calls the workflow Ship and Receive Intermediates which
will notify the 2nd subcontractor. .See: Ship and Receive Intermediates:
page G – 7.

Notify one buyer (Node 13)

This function sums QTY1, QTY2, QTY3 and validates that it equals the
TXN_QTY. If it does, then it returns a Yes. If does not it returns a No.

Validate quantities (Node 15)

The function validates qualities on purchase orders.

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 Launch ’Ship and Receive Intermediates’ workflows (Node 16)
This function starts the second(child) process of the workflow (Ship
Intermediate) for each subcontractor. It will also populate common
data (WIP_ENTITY_NAME, LINE_NAME,$) to the child process.

Notify buyer – Multiple purchase orders (Node 17)

If there are multiple purchase orders, this function activity sends a
notification to the default buyer.

End (Node 8, 11, 14, 18)

This is a standard function activity that marks the end of the process.

Summary of Ship and Receive Intermediates

The Ship and Receive Intermediates workflow allows you to notify the
shipping manager and the supplier that outside processing assemblies
are ready to ship. The workflow is activated during the Intermediate
Shipment workflow, when the buyer decides to proceed with the order
and selects the Proceed button on the notification window.
To enable this workflow, you can optionally define the Shipping
Manager parameter in the WIP Parameters window. The workflow first
searches for the shipping manager, and if found, then searches for the
supplier’s shipping address. It then notifies the shipping manager that
the assemblies are ready to ship and relays the shipping address. If the
shipping manager decides to proceed with the shipment, the system
searches for the supplier contact. If a contact is found, he or she is
notified that the assemblies have been shipped (if the supplier contact
is not found, the buyer is then notified). The system also searches for
the purchase order’s Internet address or URL and includes it as a link
on the notification so that the supplier has immediate access to the
purchase order information. The supplier can use the same notification
to send a reply stating how many assemblies were received and
whether or not any assemblies were damaged.
If the shipping manager decides not to ship the assemblies, a search is
conducted for the production scheduler, and if found, the production
scheduler is notified that the assemblies were not shipped. The same
notification is also sent to the buyer.

Work in Process Workflows G–7

Ship and Receive Intermediates Activities
The following is a description of each activity in the Ship and Receive
Intermediate workflow, listed by the activity’s display name.
To examine the activities of the process in more detail, the nodes on the
following diagram are numbered for easy referencing. The numbers
themselves are not part of the process diagram.

Start (Node 1)
This is a standard function activity that simply marks the start of the
process.

Find shipping manager (Node 2)

This function activity attempts to locate the shipping manager.

Find subcontractor’s shipping address (Node 3)

This function gets the ship–to address of the subcontractor.

Notify shipping manager (Node 4)

When the Intermediates are ready to ship, this function activity sends a
notification to the shipping manager.

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 Find production scheduler (Node 5)
The function activity attempts to locate the production scheduler.

Notify production scheduler – Intermediates not shipped (Node 6)

If the intermediates are not shipped, this function activity sends a
notification to the production scheduler.

Notify buyer – Intermediates not shipped (Node 7)

If the intermediates are not shipped, this function activity sends a
notification to the buyer.

Find subcontractor contact (Node 8)

This function activity attempts to locate the subcontractor contact.

Notify buyer – Subcontractor not found (Node 9)

If the subcontractor is not found, this function activity sends a
notification to the buyer.

Gets PO URL (Node 10)

This function activity retrieves the URL for the PO.

Notify subcontractor (Node 11)

After the PO is received, this function activity sends a notification to
the subcontractor.

Notify buyer – Received intermediates (Node 12)

If intermediates are received, this function activity sends a notification
to the buyer.

End (Node 13)

This is a standard function activity that marks the end of the process.

Summary of Notify 2nd Buyer & Subcontractor

When suppliers complete outside processing assemblies, they can
notify you through Purchasing’s Advance Shipment Notice. The

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 Advance Shipment Notice is available through a link on the Supply
Management Portal Supplier Service menu. When the supplier
completes the Advance Shipment Notice and submits it, Oracle
Purchasing automatically sends a notification to the buyer, and a
shipment is created in the system.

If you have two consecutive outside processing operations on a

routing, and you want the supplier for the first operation to ship the
completed assemblies directly to the supplier for the second operation,
you specify the second supplier’s address in the Ship–To Location field
on the purchase order before you fill out the Advance Shipment Notice.

Note: In order for the supplier’s address to be available on the

list of values for Purchasing’s Ship–To Location field, you must
first must set up the supplier’s address in the Shipping
Network Location field on Oracle Payables’ Supplier Sites
Window. See: Supplier Sites window, Oracle Payables User’s
Guide.

When the supplier completes the Advance Shipment Notice, a receipt is

automatically created and sent to the first supplier, and the Notify
Second Buyer and Supplier workflow is activated to notify the second
supplier that the assemblies have been shipped.

It first searches for an approved purchase order for the second outside
processing supplier, and if it finds the purchase order, it then searches
for the production scheduler. If the production scheduler is found, it
sends the production scheduler a notification that the assemblies have
been shipped from the first supplier. The same notification is also sent
to the buyer for the second supplier, and if the buyer decides to
proceed with the order, the Ship and Receive Intermediates workflow is
activated to notify the shipping manager and the supplier that the
assemblies have been shipped.

Notify 2nd Buyer & Subcontractor Activities

The following is a description of each activity in the Notify 2nd Buyer

& Subcontractor workflow listed by the activity’s display name.

To examine the activities of the process in more detail, the nodes on the
following diagram are numbered for easy referencing. The numbers
themselves are not part of the process diagram.

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Start (Node 1)
This is a standard function activity that simply marks the start of the
process.

Is there an approved PO? (Node 2)

This function activity determines if there is an approved PO.

Notify buyer – No PO for 2nd subcontractor (Node 3)

If no PO is found for second subcontractor, this function activity sends
a notification to the buyer.

Find production scheduler (Node 5)

The function activity attempts to locate the production scheduler.

Notify production scheduler – Intermediates shipped (Node 6)

If the intermediates are shipped, this function activity sends a
notification to the production scheduler.

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 Notify buyer – Intermediates have been shipped (Node 7)
If the intermediates are shipped, this function activity sends a
notification to the buyer.

Set PO attribute (Node 9)

Buyer sets PO attribute.

Ship and Receive Intermediates (Node 10)

This function calls the workflow Ship and Receive Intermediates and
notifies workflow that the intermediates shipped. .See: Ship and
Receive Intermediates: page G – 7.

End (Node 4, 8, 11)

This is a standard function activity that marks the end of the process.

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Change PO Need By Date
When you reschedule outside processing operations, you can activate a
workflow process that updates the need by date on the purchase order,
and notifies the buyer and supplier that the need by date requires
approval for the change. You can manually change the date if it is not
approved.
You activate the workflow from the Update PO Need–By–Date
window, which you open from the Tools menu on the Work in Process
Operations window. To activate the workflow, you select the check box
for the purchase order, and select OK, and the workflow begins.

Customizing the Change PO Need By Date Process

Use the Oracle Workflow Builder to customize workflows. You can
also use the Workflow Builder to create unique planning exception
messages workflows for different parts of your organization and
associate particular workflows with certain activities.

" To display the process in Oracle Workflow Builder:

1. Choose Open from the File menu, and connect to the database.
See: Opening and Saving Item Types, Oracle Workflow Guide.
The display name of the Change PO Need By Date workflow is
WIP: Change PO Need By Date. The name of its Workflow definition
file is wipupnbd.wft.

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 2. Expand the data source, the WIP: Change PO Need By Date branch
within the data source.
3. Expand the Processes branch, then choose the Update OSP Need
By Date branch activity to display the diagram.

Creating a New Custom Process

Customize the default (original) workflow that Oracle Work in Process
provides after creating a backup. This allows you to have your backup
while testing customizations.

Summary of Change PO Need By Date

The workflow first searches for the requestor at Node 2 and the buyer
at Node 3. When the buyer is found, the requestor and the buyer are
notified that approval is required for the change of date. If the buyer
decides to proceed with the date change, the workflow searches for the
supplier contact at Node 7. If the subcontractor contact is not found at

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 Node 7, the buyer is notified at Node 8, and the workflow ends at
Node 9. If the subcontractor contact is found, the workflow obtains the
Internet address or URL (Uniform Resource Locator) for the purchase
order and at Node 11, sends it in a notification to the contact that
approval for the change of date is required. If the subcontractor accepts
the date change, the need by date and the promise date are updated on
the purchase order at Node 14 and Node 15. A notification is then sent
to the buyer and the requestor at Node 16 and Node 17 that the dates
were approved and changed.
To examine the activities of the process in more detail, the nodes on the
following diagram are numbered for easy referencing. The numbers
themselves are not part of the process diagram.

Change PO Need By Date Activities

The following is a description of each activity in the WIP:Change PO
Need By Date workflow listed by the activity’s display name.

Start (Node 1)
This is a standard function activity that simply marks the start of the
process.

Notify requestor (Node 2)

This function notifies the requestor that the need–by–date on the PO
has been required.

Work in Process Workflows G – 15

 Find buyer (Node 3)
This function activity finds the buyer.

Notify buyer (Node 4)

When the buyer is found, this function activity notifies the buyer that
the need–by–date on the PO needs to be changed.

Notify requestor (Node 5)

If the buyer does not proceed with the change, this function activity
notifies requestor.

Find subcontractor contact (Node 7)

If the buyer proceeds with the change, this function activity attempts to
locate the subcontractor contact.

Notify buyer (Node 8)

If no subcontractor is found, this function activity sends a notification
to the buyer.

Gets PO URL (Node 10)

This function activity retrieves the URL for the purchase order so that it
can be passed to the supplier in the notification.

Notify subcontractor (Node 11)

After the PO URL is received, this function activity sends a notification
to the subcontractor.

Notify buyer of rejection (Node 12)

If subcontractor rejects the need–by–date request, this function activity
sends a notification to the buyer.

Update need by date (Node 14)

If subcontractor accepts the request, this function activity updates the
need–by–date on the PO.

Update promise date (Node 15)

If subcontractor accepts the request, this function activity updates the
promise date on the PO.

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Notify buyer of approval (Node 16)
When all appropriate changes are made, this function activity notifies
buyer of approval.

Notify requestor of approval (Node 17)

When all appropriate changes are made, this function activity notifies
requestor of approval.

End (Normal) (Node 6, 18)

This is a standard function activity that marks the end of the process.

End (Exception) (Node 9)

This is a standard function activity that marks the end of the process
with exceptions.

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APPENDIX

H Flow Workstation
Customized Display

T his appendix describes a package enabling customized attributes to

display on the Flow Workstation.

Flow Workstation Customized Display H–1

Customized Display for Properties Tabbed Region
Oracle Work in Process provides a package for customizing the
Properties tabbed region of the Flow Workstation. You can modify the
parameters to display particular fields, of a specific value, and highlight
these fields on your window. The name of the package is
WIP_SF_CUSTOM_API. It includes two APIs used to modify attributes
specific to your organization. The APIs you are dependent on view, –
either the Schedule or Event node view. These APIs are:
• schedule_custom_api
• event_custom_api
This API does not change existing parameters displaying in the
Properties tabbed region. It enables you to add additional attributes and
highlight those fields in color.

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Schedule_custom_api
The following parameters are listed for modifying the Schedule node
view on the Properties tab.

Parameter Usage Type

scheduleNumber IN VARCHAR2

orgCode IN VARCHAR2

lineCode IN VARCHAR2

opSeqID IN NUMBER

salesOrderNumber IN VARCHAR2

assemblyName IN VARCHAR2

scheduleGroup IN VARCHAR2

buildSequence IN NUMBER

completionDate IN DATE

projectName IN VARCHAR2

taskName IN VARCHAR2

x_num_attr OUT NUMBER

x_labels OUT system.wip_attr_labels

x_values OUT system.wip_attr_value

x_colors OUT system.wip_attr_colors

Event_custom_api
The following parameters are listed for modifying the Event node view
on the Properties tab.

Parameter Usage Type

scheduleNumber IN VARCHAR2

orgCode IN VARCHAR2

lineCode IN VARCHAR2

lineopSeqID IN NUMBER

Flow Workstation Customized Display H–3

 Parameter Usage Type

opSeqNum IN NUMBER

opCode IN VARCHAR2

deptCode IN VARCHAR2

x_num_attr OUT NUMBER

x_labels OUT system.wip_attr_labels

x_values OUT system.wip_attr_value

x_colors OUT system.wip_attr_colors

Customizing the Package

The OUT parameters are modified to create a display on the Properties
tabbed region customized to your organization. In the following table,
two additional fields are added. You first specify the number of
attributes with the x_num_attr parameters. The arrays x_labels,
x_values, and x_colors are modified to contain the corresponding field
names, values, and text colors.

Parameter Modified Parameter

x_num_attr 2

x_labels Organization Name, Qty Completed

x_values Cleveland Manufacturing, 3

x_colors red, blue

The IN parameters are passed to the API based on the particular node
context (Schedule or Event). You need to modify the OUT parameters to
return the requested attributes.
In the package body, you first extend the three arrays to the needed size,
then fill them either manually or using SQL statements using the
following rules:
• The number of attributes returned must match the length of the
return arrays:

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 • The number of labels used must match the number of values
• The number of colors used must match each label and value
combination
• The valid values for colors are blue, cyan, darkGray, gray, green,
lightGray, magenta, orange, pink, red, white, yellow.

See Also

Flow Workstation Window: page 5 – 28.

Properties Tab: page 5 – 44.

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GLOSSARY

absorption account The offset or contra Assemble–to–order is also an item attribute

account for any cost charged to your that you can apply to standard, model, and
inventory or work in process value. For option class items.
example, when you perform a purchase
assemble–to–order (ATO) model A
order receipt and the item has a material
configuration you make in response to a
overhead rate, you debit your inventory
customer order that includes optional items.
valuation account and credit your material
overhead absorption account for the material assembly An item that has a bill of material.
overhead cost. You have ”absorbed” You can purchase or manufacture an
expenses from your general ledger accounts assembly item. See also assemble–to–order,
into your inventory. At the month–end, you bill of material.
compare your absorption accounts against
assembly completion pull transaction A
expenses incurred in your general ledger and
material transaction where you backflush
write the difference off to your income
components from inventory to work in
statements.
process as you complete the operation where
accounting class See WIP accounting class the component is consumed. See operation
completion pull transaction.
active schedule A schedule currently running
on a production line. A schedule can be assembly completion transaction A material
active past its scheduled completion date or transaction where you receive assemblies
before its scheduled start date. into inventory from a job or schedule upon
completion of the manufacture of the
acquisition cost The cost necessary to obtain
assembly.
inventory and prepare it for its intended use.
It includes material costs and various costs assembly move completion transaction A
associated with procurement and shipping of move transaction that completes assemblies
items, such as duty, freight, drayage, customs into inventory.
charges, storage charges, other supplier’s
assembly scrap transaction A move
charges, and so on.
transaction where you charge a scrap
activity A business action or task which uses account as you move assemblies into a Scrap
a resource or incurs a cost. intraoperation step. This reduces the value
of your discrete job.
alternate bill of material An alternate list of
component items you can use to produce an assembly UOM item A purchasing item
assembly. associated with an outside resource that you
purchase using the assembly’s unit of
alternate routing An alternate manufacturing
measure. The assembly’s unit of measure
process you can use to produce an assembly.
should be the same as the purchasing item’s
assemble–to–order (ATO) An environment unit of measure.
where you open a final assembly order to
assemble items that customers order.

Glossary– 1
asset item Anything you make, purchase, or may be transferred within or out of
sell including components, subassemblies, inventory.
finished products, or supplies which carries
backflush operation A routing operation
a cost and is valued in your asset
where you backflush component items.
subinventories.
backflush transaction A material transaction
asset subinventory Subdivision of an
that automatically issues component items
organization, representing either a physical
into work in process from inventory when
area or a logical grouping of items, such as a
you move or complete the assembly. Also
storeroom where quantity balances are
known as post–deduct or pull. See pull
maintained for all items and values are
transaction
maintained for asset items.
backward scheduling A scheduling technique
assigned units The number of resource units
where you specify a production end date and
assigned to work at an operation in a
Oracle Manufacturing calculates a
routing. For example, if you have 10 units of
production start date based on detailed
machine resource available at a department,
scheduling or repetitive line scheduling.
you can assign up to 10 of these units to an
operation in a routing. The more units you bill revision A specific version of an item
assign, the less elapsed time Work in Process which specifies the components that are
schedules for the operation. active for a date range.
ATP See available to promise. bill/routing reference A bill or routing you
assign to non–standard discrete jobs. You
ATT See available to transact.
use the bill reference to create the material
autocharge A method of charging a discrete requirements for the job. You use the routing
job or repetitive schedule for the resources reference to create the routing for the job.
consumed at an operation.
blanket purchase agreement A type of
automatic sourcing A Purchasing feature purchase order you issue before you request
which allows you to specify for predefined actual delivery of goods or services. You
items a list of approved suppliers and to normally create a blanket purchase
associate source documents for these agreement to document a long–term supplier
suppliers. When you create a requisition or agreement. A blanket purchase agreement
purchase order line for the item, Purchasing may contain an effective date and an
automatically provides appropriate pricing expiration date, a committed amount, or
for the specified quantity based on the quantity. You use a blanket purchase
top–ranked open source document for the agreement as a tool for specifying agreed
supplier with the highest percentage prices and delivery dates for goods and
allocation. services before ordering them.
autorelease To automatically release the next blanket purchase order See blanket purchase
available repetitive schedule upon agreement
completion of the current repetitive schedule.
blanket release An actual order of goods and
Available To Transact (ATT) Quantity on services against a blanket purchase
hand less all reservations for the item which agreement. The blanket purchase agreement

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 determines the characteristics and prices of closed job A discrete job that is unavailable
the items. The blanket release specifies for charges or any type of transaction.
actual quantities and dates ordered for the Closing a job calculates final costs and
items. You identify a blanket release by the variances and creates history for the job.
combination of the blanket purchase
common bill of material An assembly that
agreement number and the release number.
uses the bill of material of another assembly
bucket days The number of workdays within as its bill. This enables you to reduce your
a repetitive planning period. maintenance effort by sharing the same bill
structure among two or more assemblies.
build sequence The sequence of jobs within a
For example, if you have identical bills of
schedule group. For example, you can use
material that produce the same product in
sequences to prioritize all jobs on a specific
two different organizations, you can define
production line by customer. Similarly, you
common bills of material for the identical
can use sequences to insure that jobs are built
structures.
in reverse departure order thus facilitating
truck loading. See also schedule group common locator .A locator without a project
or project and task reference. See also project
bulk items Component items on a bill of
locator
material not usually transacted directly to the
job or repetitive schedule. Bulk items are common routing A routing that uses the
usually charged to the work in process routing of another assembly as its routing.
department where the item is consumed. This enables you to reduce your maintenance
effort by sharing the same routing and
bulk requirement See bulk items
operations for two or more assemblies.
buyer Person responsible for placing item
common subinventory Subinventory that
resupply orders with suppliers and
does not have a project reference into which
negotiating supplier contracts.
items can be delivered and out of which
by–product Material produced as a residual of items can be issued and transferred.
a production process. Represented by
completed assembly An assembly you built
negative usage in the bill of material for an
on a discrete job or repetitive schedule and
assembly.
received into inventory.
cancelled job A discrete job you no longer
completed job A discrete job whose quantity
want to work on. You cannot make
planned equals the number of assemblies
transactions, move assemblies, or apply or
actually completed.
update costs.
completed schedule A repetitive schedule
cancelled schedule A repetitive schedule you
whose number of assemblies planned equals
no longer want to work on. You cannot
the number of assemblies actually
make transactions, move assemblies, or
completed.
apply costs.
completion date The date you plan to
capital project A project in which you build
complete production of the assemblies in a
one or more depreciable fixed assets.
discrete job.
charge type See autocharge

Glossary– 3
completion locator An inventory location cost element A classification for the cost of an
within a completion subinventory where you item. Oracle Manufacturing supports five
receive completed assemblies from work in cost elements: material, material overhead,
process. resource, outside processing, and overhead.
completion subinventory An inventory cost group An attribute of a project which
location at the end of your production line allows the system to hold item unit costs at a
where you receive completed assemblies level below the inventory organization.
from work in process. Often this is the Within an organization, an item may have
supply subinventory for subassemblies or more than one cost if it belongs to multiple
finished goods inventories for final cost groups. Item costing can be specific to a
assemblies. single project if each project has a distinct
cost group, or specific to a group of projects
component demand Demand passed down
if all projects in that group are assigned to
from a parent assembly to a component.
the same cost group.
component item An item associated with a
cost transaction The financial effect of your
parent item on a bill of material.
material, resource, overhead, job and period
component yield The percent of the amount close, and cost update activities. For
of a component you want to issue to build an example, each material quantity transaction
assembly that actually becomes part of that may have several cost accounting entries,
assembly. Or, the amount of a component and each accounting entry is a cost
you require to build plus the amount of the transaction.
component you lose or waste while building
cost type A set of costs for items, activities,
an assembly. For example, a yield factor of
resources, outside processing, and
0.90 means that only 90% of the usage
overheads. You may have unlimited cost
quantity of the component on a bill actually
types for each organization, but only one is
becomes part of the finished assembly.
used to record cost transactions. The Frozen
configuration bill of material The bill of Standard cost type is used for standard
material for a configuration item. costing; the Average Costs type is used for
Average costing. Others could be defined for
configuration variance For Work in Process,
simulation or temporary purposes.
this quantity variance is the difference
between the standard components required count point operation A default operation to
per the standard bill of material and the move to and from where you record move
standard components required per the work and charge resource transactions. Also
in process bill of material. Currently, this known as pay point.
variance is included with the material usage
critical path The series of operation start and
variance.
completion dates and times that result from
constraint–based scheduling The the detailed scheduling algorithm.
constraint–based scheduling engine, in
current average cost The current weighted
Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling, offers
average cost per unit of an item before a
enabling you to schedule discrete jobs and
transaction is processed. See new average
operations based on user–defined priorities,
cost.
resources, and material availability.

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current on–hand quantity Total quantity of active, or the date a forecast or master
the item on–hand before a transaction is schedule is no longer valid.
processed.
discrete job A production order for the
daily line capacity The daily production rate manufacture of a specific (discrete) quantity
of assemblies on a production line. This is of an assembly, using specific materials and
equal to the line speed (in hours) times the resources, in a limited time. A discrete job
line production hours. collects the costs of production and allows
you to report those costsincluding
daily quantity See daily rate
variancesby job. Also known as work
daily rate The number of completed order or assembly order.
assemblies a repetitive schedule plans to
discrete manufacturing A manufacturing
produce per day. Also known as production
environment where you build assemblies in
rate. See repetitive rate
discrete jobs or batches. Different from a
demand class A classification of demand to repetitive production environment where
allow the master scheduler to track and you build assemblies on production or
consume different types of demand. A assembly lines at a daily rate.
demand class may represent a particular
dispatch report A report that prioritizes
grouping of customers, such as government
planned production work based on
and commercial customers. Demand classes
operation schedule dates and times.
may also represent different sources of
demand, such as retail, mail order, and distribution account An account where you
wholesale. record material, material overhead, resource,
outside processing, and overhead charges
department An area within your organization
incurred by a discrete job or repetitive
that consists of one or more people,
assembly. In a standard costing system, this
machines, or suppliers. You can also assign
is where you record your standard costs.
and update resources to a department.
efficiency A productivity measure that
departure order The order of jobs within a
focuses on actual performance against a
schedule group. Jobs are normally
standard. Expressed in a percentage figure,
sequenced within a schedule group in the
it is calculated by dividing actual resource
order that they must be loaded onto the truck
time charged to a task by the standard
for shipment. See also schedule group and
resource requirements for the same task.
detailed scheduling A method of scheduling
efficiency variance A quantity variance
production that considers minute to minute
defined as the difference between the
resource availability information as well as
amount of a resource (typically in hours)
exact resource requirements from routings.
required at standard and the actual amount
disable date A date when an Oracle used to manufacture an assembly.
Manufacturing function is no longer
elemental variance A work in process
available for use. For example, this could be
variance between the standard of an
the date on which a bill of material
assembly and the actual charges to a
component or routing operation is no longer

Glossary– 5
 standard job or repetitive schedule final assembly order A discrete job created
distributed by cost element. from a configuration or an assemble to order
item and linked to a sales order. Also known
engineering change order (ECO) A record of
as final assembly schedule.
revisions to one or more items usually
released by engineering. first unit completion date The date and time
you plan to complete production of the first
engineering item A prototype part, material,
assembly on a repetitive schedule. This date
subassembly, assembly, or product you have
equals the first unit start date plus the lead
not yet released to production. You can
time.
order, stock, and build engineering items.
first unit start date The date and time you
expenditure type An implementation–defined
plan to begin production of the first
classification of cost you assign to each
assembly on a repetitive schedule. This date
expenditure item. Expenditure types are
equates to the start of your lead time.
grouped into cost groups (expenditure
categories) and revenue groups (revenue flow charging A repetitive transaction
categories). method where you charge material, move,
resource, and overhead transactions to a
expense item Anything you make, purchase,
specific assembly on a line rather than a
or sell including components, subassemblies,
specific repetitive schedule. See repetitive
finished products, or supplies and that does
allocation
not carry a cost. Also known as a non–asset
item. flow manufacturing Manufacturing
philosophy utilizing production lines and
expense subinventory Subdivision of an
schedules instead of work orders to drive
organization, representing either a physical
production. Mixed models are grouped into
area or a logical grouping of items, such as a
families and produced on lines balanced to
storeroom where no value exists but the
the TAKT time.
quantities may be tracked.
folder A flexible entry and display window in
express receipt A site option that lets you
which you can choose the fields you want to
receive an entire purchase order or blanket
see and where each appears in the window.
purchase agreement release with one
keystroke. forward scheduling A scheduling technique
where you specify a production start date
FIFO (first–in–first–out) costing method A
and Oracle Manufacturing calculates a
cost flow methodused for inventory
production end date using either detailed
valuation. Inventory balances and values are
scheduling or repetitive line scheduling.
updated perpetually after each transaction is
sequentially costed. It assumes that the intraoperation steps The particular phases
earliest inventory units received or produced within an operation. There are five
are the first units used or shipped. The intraoperation steps in Work in Process:
ending inventory therefore consists of the Queue, Run, To Move, Reject, and Scrap.
most recently acquired goods. FIFO cost
flow does not have to match the physical
flow of inventory.

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issue transaction A material transaction to lead time line The production line Bills of
issue component items from inventory to Material uses to calculate the processing lead
work in process. time for a particular repetitive assembly,
since lead times may vary on different
item–based resource A resource whose usage
production lines.
quantity is the amount required per
assembly unit you make. lead time rollup A Bill of Material program
that computes cumulative lead times for
job costing A method of collecting and
items.
reporting costs for each individual discrete
job. Includes costs in due to material, license plate number (LPN) LPNs are unique
resource and overhead transactions, and identifiers used to store and transact
costs out due to completions, scrap and inventory throughout the supply chain. They
variances. Used for standard and store a container’s contents, including item,
non–standard asset discrete jobs. revision, lot and serial numbers, and
quantity.
job status An Oracle Manufacturing function
that lets you describe various stages in the line lead time The time required to complete
life cycle of a discrete job and control the first assembly on a production line.
activities that you can perform on the job.
line lead time basis A repetitive scheduling
LIFO (last–in–first–out) costing method A technique that uses a fixed line lead time for
cost flow methodused for inventory all production on a repetitive line or
valuation. Inventory balances and values are calculates the line lead time based on each
updated perpetually after each transaction is assembly’s routing.
sequentially costed. It assumes that the most
line priority The line priority indicates which
recent inventory units received or produced
production line to use to build assemblies.
are the first units used or shipped. The
You create repetitive schedules on the
ending inventory consists of old goods
highest priority line first, then, if the line
acquired in the earliest purchases or
capacity is less than demand, additional
completions.
repetitive schedules are created on other
labor efficiency variance The difference lines in decreasing order of their line priority.
between actual and standard man–hours of For example, if demand is for 1000 units per
work. day on two lines with a daily capacity of 750,
the line with the highest priority is loaded
last unit completion date The date and time
with 750 and the lower priority line with 250.
you plan to complete production of the last
For lines of equal priority, the load is
assembly on a repetitive schedule. This date
allocated evenly across lines.
equates to the first unit completion date plus
processing days. line production hours The number of hours
per day that production line operates. This is
last unit start date The date and time you plan
equal to the difference between the line start
to begin production of the last assembly on a
time and line stop time.
repetitive schedule. This date is the first unit
start date plus processing days.

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line start time The time a production line mass rescheduling An Oracle Manufacturing
starts running every day. The line start time function where you can reschedule or change
is used to schedule repetitive schedules on a the status of one or more discrete jobs based
line. on your planned reschedule
recommendations in your MRP or MPS.
line stop time The time a production line
stops running every day. The line stop time material overhead rate A percentage of an
is used to schedule repetitive schedules on a item cost you apply to the item for the
line. purposes of allocating material overhead
costs. For example, you may want to allocate
locator Physical area within a subinventory
the indirect labor costs of your
where you store material, such as a row,
manufacturing facility to items based on a
aisle, bin, or shelf.
percentage of the item’s value and usage.
locator control An Oracle Manufacturing
material requirement An inventory item and
technique for enforcing use of locators
quantity needed to build an assembly on a
during a material transaction.
job or repetitive schedule. Discrete job and
lot A specific batch of an item identified by a repetitive schedule material requirements are
number. created based on the component items
defined on the assembly’s bill of materials.
lot based jobs If you have Oracle Shop Floor
Issue transactions fulfill material
Management installed, you can use lot based
requirements.
jobs in your manufacturing. A lot based job
follows a network routing. Network routings material transaction Transfer between, issue
provide flexibility in choosing the next from, receipt to, or adjustment to an
operation which, in turn, determines the inventory organization, subinventory, or
series of operations the job moves through locator. Receipt of completed assemblies into
inventory from a job or repetitive schedule.
lot based resource A resource whose usage
Issue of component items from inventory to
quantity is the amount required per job or
work in process.
schedule.
maximum rate The maximum number of
lot control An Oracle Manufacturing
completed assemblies a production line can
technique for enforcing use of lot numbers
produce per hour.
during material transactions thus enabling
the tracking of batches of items throughout methods variance For Work in Process, this
their movement in and out of inventory. quantity variance is defined as the difference
between the standard resources required per
manual resource A resource manually
the standard bill of material and the standard
charged to a discrete job or repetitive
resources required per the work in process
schedule.
bill of material. This variance is included
mass loading An Oracle Manufacturing with the resource efficiency variance.
function to create one or more discrete jobs
midpoint scheduling A scheduling technique
or repetitive schedules based on planned
where you specify an operation start or end
orders or schedules in your MRP or master
date and Oracle Manufacturing
production schedule.

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 automatically calculates production start and Negative requirements can be created to
end dates. support by–products or other reusable
components.
minimum rate The minimum number of
completed assemblies a production line can nettable control An Oracle Manufacturing
produce per hour. function that lets you specify whether the
MRP planning process considers the
mobile devices Oracle Mobile Supply Chain
requirements of the job or schedule in its
Applications uses equipment with the ability
netting calculations.
to communicate to an application server by
the Internet or local area networks. This network routing Network routings in Oracle
equipment includes hand–held Radio Shop Floor Management comprise a
Frequency (RF) devices, wearable computing collection of operations which include
and ring scanner systems, lift truck mounted primary paths and alternate paths. You are
RF computers, and personal digital able to define a separate routing for each
assistants. (PDA item, at each sector. When you create
routings in the Routings window, you define
mobile manufacturing A component of Oracle
all possible paths.
Mobile Supply Chain Applications, enabling
you to perform all work in process material new average cost Cost of an item after a
transactions using a mobile client device transaction that affects the average cost is
networked with a computer system. processed. See current average cost.
model bill of material A bill of material for a new on–hand quantity The quantity on–hand
model item. A model bill lists option classes immediately after the transaction is
and options available when you place an performed and saved. Equal to current
order for the model item. on–hand quantity plus total quantity. See
current on–hand quantity, total quantity.
move transaction A transaction to move
assemblies from operation to operation or non–standard asset job A type of
within an operation on a discrete job or non–standard job carried as an asset during
repetitive schedule. the life of the job.
MPS–planned item An item controlled by the non–standard discrete job A type of discrete
master scheduler and placed on a master job that controls material and resources and
production schedule. The item is critical in collects costs for a wide variety of
terms of its impact on lower–level miscellaneous manufacturing activities.
components and/or resources, such as These activities can include rework, field
skilled labor, key machines, or dollars. The service repair, upgrade, disassembly,
master scheduler maintains control for these maintenance, engineering prototypes, and
items. other projects. Non–standard jobs do not
earn material overhead upon assembly
MRP net quantity The quantity planning
completion.
views as supply coming from a discrete job
on the scheduled completion date. non–standard expense job A type of
non–standard job expensed at the close of
negative requirement A requirement
each accounting period. Typical expense jobs
supplied to a discrete job or repetitive
include maintenance and repair.
schedule instead of being consumed by it.

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offsetting account The source or opposite side operation overlap scheduling A scheduling
of an accounting entry. For example, when technique that allows you to schedule
you charge resources in Work in Process you resource activities in the prior and next
debit a resource to your work in process operations to overlap with the current
resource valuation account; the offset operation.
account is the credit to the resource
operation sequence A number that orders
absorption account.
operations in a routing relative to each other.
on hold job/schedule A job or repetitive
organization A business unit such as a plant,
schedule not accepting further activity and is
warehouse, division, department, and so on.
therefore untransactable.
Order Management refers to organizations as
open interface A Manufacturing function that warehouses on all Order Management
lets you import or export data from other windows and reports.
systems through an open interface. An
outside operation An operation that contains
example is a bar code reader device
outside resources and possibly internal
accumulating data you later import into your
resources as well.
manufacturing system for further processing.
outside processing Performing work on a
open requirement A WIP material
discrete job or repetitive schedule using
requirement you have not yet transacted to a
resources provided by a supplier.
discrete job or repetitive schedule. It equates
to the component quantity required less any outside processing operation Any operation
quantity issued. that has an outside processing resource. See
outside resource
operation A step in a manufacturing process
where you perform work on, add value to, outside processing item An item you include
and consume department resources for an on a purchase order line to purchase supplier
assembly. services as part of your assembly build
process. This item can be the assembly itself
operation code A label that identifies a
or a non–stocked item which represents the
standard operation.
service performed on the assembly.
operation completion pull transaction A
outside resource A resource provided by a
material transaction where you backflush
supplier that you include in your routings,
components from inventory to work in
such as supplier sourced labor or services.
process as you complete the operation where
This includes both PO move and PO receipt
the component is consumed. See also
resources.
backflush transaction
over–completions Completing an assembly
operation completion transaction A move
quantity into inventory that is greater than
transaction from one operation to the next
the Discrete job or Repetitive schedule start
where you have completed building the
quantity, whether or not the assemblies have
assembly at that operation. In this process,
a routing.
you can also charge resources and overheads
and backflush component items.

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over–completion quantity The transaction order pickers gather the options when they
quantity minus the available quantity. ship the order. Alternative to manufacturing
the parent item on a work order and then
over–moves Moving a quantity from one
shipping it. Pick–to–order is also an item
interoperation step to another that is greater
attribute that you can apply to standard,
than the quantity at the interoperation step,
model, and option class items.
whether or not the assemblies have a routing.
planned order A suggested quantity, release
overhead The indirect expenses allocated in
date, and due date that satisfies net item
your budgeting process and assigned to your
requirements. MRP owns planned orders,
resources or departments. You charge
and may change or delete the orders during
overhead costs based on resource value,
subsequent MRP processing if conditions
resource units, or operation completions.
change. MRP explodes planned orders at
You typically include administration, facility,
one level into gross requirements for
depreciation activity, and other costs you
components at the next lower level
cannot directly charge to your manufactured
(dependent demand). Planned orders along
items. Does not include material overhead.
with existing discrete jobs also serve as input
overhead transaction A work in process to capacity requirements planning,
transaction that automatically charges describing the total capacity requirements
overhead costs to a job or repetitive schedule throughout the planning horizon.
as you perform moves or charge resources.
PO move resource An outside resource that is
pending A status where a process or automatically charged upon receipt of a
transaction is waiting to be completed. purchase order. PO move resources also
automatically initiate shop floor move
period–based costing A method of collecting
transactions upon receipt.
and reporting costs by period rather than by
some other method such as by discrete jobs. PO receipt resource An outside resource that
Used primarily in costing repetitive is automatically charged upon receipt of a
schedules and non–standard expense purchase order.
discrete jobs.
previous level costs The material, material
phantom assembly An assembly Work in overhead, outside processing, resource and
Process explodes through when it creates the overhead costs of the components used in the
bill of material for a job or schedule. A manufacture of an assembly.
particular assembly can be a phantom
primary bill of material A list of the
assembly on one bill and a subassembly on
components you most frequently use to
another.
build a product. The primary bill is the
pick list A report that lists all component default bill for rolling up costs, defining a
requirements sorted by supply type for a job, and calculating cumulative item lead
particular discrete job, repetitive schedule or times. Master Scheduling/MRP uses this bill
production line. to plan your material.
pick–to–order A configure–to–order primary routing A list of the operations you
environment where the options and included most frequently perform to build a product.
items in a model appear on pick slips and The primary routing is the default routing

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 for defining a job and calculating track the costs of a manufacturing–related
manufacturing lead times. project against a project budget.
processing days See repetitive processing project subinventory A subinventory with a
days. project reference into which terms can be
delivered and out of which items can be
processing status The processing state of a
issued and transferred.
row (record) in an open interface table.
Common statuses include, but are not project task A subdivision of Project Work.
restricted to, Pending, Running, and Error. Each project can have a set of top level tasks
See repetitive processing days. and a hierarchy of subtasks below each top
level task. You can charge costs to tasks at
production line The physical location where
the lowest level only. See also Work
you manufacture a repetitive assembly,
Breakdown Structure.
usually associated with a routing. You can
build many different assemblies on the same pull transaction A material transaction that
line at the same time. Also known as automatically issues component items into
assembly line. work in process from inventory when you
move or complete the assembly. Also known
production rate Hourly rate of assemblies
as post–deduct or backflush. See backflush
manufactured on a production line.
transaction.
project A unit of work broken down into one
purge A technique for deleting data in Oracle
or more tasks, for which you specify revenue
Manufacturing that you no longer need to
and billing methods, invoice formats, a
run your business.
managing organization, and project manager
and bill rates schedules. You can charge push transaction A material transaction to
costs to a project, as well as generate and issue component items from inventory to
maintain revenue, invoice, unbilled work in process before you manufacture the
receivable and unearned revenue assembly.
information for a project.
quantity completed For an operation on a
project inventory Any and all items and costs discrete job or repetitive schedule, the
in both project subinventories and project quantity of the assembly that you transacted
work in process jobs. beyond the Run intraoperation step. For a
discrete job or repetitive schedule, the
project job A standard or non–standard WIP
quantity of the assembly that you received
job with a project reference. The valuation
into inventory.
accounts associated with this type of job will
be project work in process. Any balance quantity in operation The quantity of an
remaining in such a job when it is closed will assembly in an operation on a discrete job or
be reported as a variance. repetitive schedule. This includes the
quantities in each of the intraoperation steps.
project locator A locator with a project or
project and task reference. See also common quantity issued The quantity of a component
locator. item issued from inventory to a discrete job r
repetitive schedule to fulfill a WIP material
project manufacturing The type of project
requirement.
that uses Projects with Manufacturing to

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quantity on hand Current quantity of an item several repetitive schedules that are building
in inventory. the same repetitive assembly on the same
line. See flow charging.
quantity remaining The quantity of an
assembly remaining to be completed at an repetitive assembly An assembly that you
operation in a discrete job or repetitive build in a repetitive manufacturing
schedule. This is the sum of the quantities in environment (for example on a production
all intraoperation steps at all operations line). You can also build a repetitive
before the current operation, plus the assembly in discrete jobs if you operate in a
quantities in the Queue and Run hybrid manufacturing environment.
intraoperation steps at the current operation.
repetitive line scheduling A method of
quantity required The total quantity of a scheduling repetitive production on a line
component item required to produce all the that considers line speed, line start and stop
assemblies in a discrete job or repetitive times, lead time, and workday calendar.
schedule as determined by the usage
repetitive manufacturing A manufacturing
quantity on the bill of materials, the
environment where you build assemblies
production quantity, and the component
repetitively, on production lines, rather than
yield.
in discrete jobs or batches.
queue An intraoperation step in an operation
repetitive planning period A period, defined
where assemblies are waiting to be worked
as a number of days, that smooths the
on. The default intraoperation step for every
production rate over time. With repetitive
operation in a routing.
planning periods, you can prevent your
rate variance For resources charged to work in planned repetitive production rate from
process, this variance is the difference fluctuating too frequently.
between the actual resource rate and the
repetitive processing days The number of
standard resource rate times the resource
days you plan to work on a repetitive
quantity charged to the job or repetitive
schedule, from the first unit start date to the
schedule. You create rate variance entries if
last unit start date.
you charge resources using an actual rate
and you chose Yes for the Standard Rate field repetitive rate The daily rate for a repetitive
in the Resources window. schedule. See daily rate.
release date The date when you release a repetitive schedule The process of dividing
discrete job or repetitive schedule to the shop suggested aggregate repetitive schedules and
floor signifying that work can begin and the allocating them across individual production
discrete job or repetitive schedule becomes lines, based on predefined line priorities and
transactable. production rates.
released job/schedule A discrete job or repetitive schedule allocation The process of
repetitive schedule that you have signified dividing suggested aggregate repetitive
available to be worked on and transactable. schedules and allocating them across
individual production lines, based on
repetitive allocation An Oracle
predefined line priorities and production
Manufacturing technique for applying
rates.
transaction quantities and costs across

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repetitive schedule status An Oracle resource sequence The number that indicates
Manufacturing function that lets you the order of a resource in an operation
describe various stages in the life cycle of a relative to other resources.
repetitive schedule and control activities that
resource transaction A transaction where you
you can perform on the schedule.
automatically or manually charge resource
replenish to order See assemble–to–order costs to a discrete job or repetitive schedule.
(ATO).
resource units applied A quantity you charge
requirement See material requirement to a job or repetitive schedule for work
performed by a resource. The quantity is
requirement date The date when the
expressed in the unit of measure of the
requirement needed by the discrete job or
resource. For example, if the unit of measure
repetitive schedule is to be consumed.
of a resource is hours and the resource works
Requirement dates are defaulted to the start
10 hours, you apply 10 resource units to the
date of the operation where a requirement is
job or repetitive schedule.
consumed.
resource UOM item A purchasing item
reschedule To modify the schedule of a
associated with an outside resource that you
discrete job. You can reschedule a discrete
purchase using the resource’s unit of
job by changing the start date, completion
measure.
date, job quantity or any operation date on
the routing. Planning can automatically return to supplier A transaction that allows
reschedule jobs that are not firm based on you to return to the supplier items from a
planning requirement changes. fully or partially received purchase order
and receive credit for them.
resource Anything of value, except material
and cash, required to manufacture, cost, and reversing transaction A transaction that
schedule products. Resources include reverses a previously processed material,
people, tools, machines, labor purchased move, resource, or overhead transaction.
from a supplier, and physical space.
revision A particular version of an item, bill of
resource basis The basis for resource usage material, or routing.
quantity that indicates whether that quantity
revision control An inventory control option
is required per item or per lot.
that tracks inventory by item revision and
resource charge See resource transaction. forces you to specify a revision for each
material transaction.
resource requirement A resource and
quantity needed to build an assembly on a roll forward An Oracle Manufacturing
job or repetitive schedule. Discrete job and technique where you can automatically take
repetitive schedule resource requirements are the material you over issued to a particular
created based on the resource requirements repetitive schedule and move it forward into
specified on the assembly’s routing. the next available repetitive schedule.
Resource transactions fulfill resource
requirements.

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route sheet A report that provides full shortage An open requirement with no
routing, operation, resource, and material inventory in the organization to support the
requirement details for jobs and repetitive requirement.
schedules. Typically used to know how,
shrinkage rate The percentage on a parent
when, where, and who builds an assembly.
assembly expected to be scrapped in work in
Also known as traveler.
process.
routing revision A specific version of a
simulated job Job used to evaluate the
routing that specifies the operations that are
availability of material and resources
active for a date range.
required for a potential discrete job based on
run An intraoperation step where you move the job quantity and need date for the
assemblies that you are working on at an assembly.
operation.
single level variance A work in process
schedule group An identifier used to group variance that is the difference between the
jobs for scheduling and releasing purposes. standard cost of an assembly and the actual
For example, you might group together all charges to a standard jobs or repetitive
jobs that must be completed on a specific schedules distributed by structure level. This
date and are being built on the same variance looks at the assembly cost for the
production line. Jobs within a schedule resource and overhead standard cost at the
group can be sequenced. See also build top level and compares them to the actual
sequence resource and overhead costs charged to the
standard job or repetitive schedule. All other
scheduled resource A resource on a routing
costs material, material overhead, outside
that is scheduled by Work in Process.
processing, resource and overhead costs
scrap An intraoperation step where you move from lower level assemblies are included in
assemblies that cannot be reworked or the material usage variance calculation.
completed.
standard comments Standard text you can
scrap account An account that you may use to assign to discrete jobs or repetitive schedules.
charge scrap transactions. Special instructions or details specific to a
particular job or circumstance.
serial number A number assigned to each unit
of an item and used to track the item. standard costing A costing method where a
predetermined standard cost is used for
serial number control A manufacturing
charging material, resource, overhead,
technique for enforcing use of serial numbers
period close, job close, and cost update
during a material transaction.
transactions and valuing inventory. Any
shift A scheduled period of work for a deviation in actual costs from the
department within an organization. predetermined standard is recorded as a
variance.
shop floor status An Oracle Manufacturing
function that lets you restrict movement of standard discrete job A type of discrete job
assemblies at an operation and that controls material and resources for
intraoperation step within a discrete job or standard production assemblies.
repetitive schedule.

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standard operation A commonly used supply type A bill of material component field
operation you can define as a template for that controls issue transactions from
use in defining future routing operations. inventory to work in process. Supply types
supported by Work in Process include:
start date The date you plan to begin
Push, Assembly pull, Operation pull, Bulk,
production of assemblies in a discrete job.
Supplier, Phantom, and Based on bill.
subassembly An assembly used as a
this level costs The cost or value added at the
component in a higher level assembly.
current level of an assembly. Resource,
subinventory Subdivision of an organization, outside processing and overhead costs are
representing either a physical area or a examples of this level costs. Material is
logical grouping of items, such as a always a previous level cost.
storeroom or receiving dock.
to move An intraoperation step where
suggested repetitive schedule The schedule assemblies can either be completed to a
for an individual production line for a subinventory or wait to be moved to another
specific item that is derived from the operation.
Suggested aggregate schedule. MRP divides
transaction cost The cost per unit at which the
the suggested aggregate schedule for a
transaction quantity is valued.
specific line and item based on the
production line attributes: priority, transaction date The date you enter and
minimum and maximum rates. Oracle Manufacturing maintains for any
manufacturing transaction. The date must
supplier Provider of goods or services.
fall within an open accounting period and be
supplier requirement See supplier sourced greater than the release date for transactions
component on a discrete job or repetitive schedule.
supplier sourced component A component transaction interface An open interface table
item on a bill of material supplied to work in through which you can import transactions.
process directly by a supplier. See open interface.
supply A quantity of materials available for transaction manager A concurrent program
use. Supply is replenished in response to that controls your manufacturing
demand or anticipated demand. transactions.
supply locator The specific location, such as transaction quantity The quantity of a
shelves or containers, within a supply transaction.
subinventory that you use as the default
transaction worker An independent
locator in a material transaction.
concurrent process launched by a transaction
supply subinventory The subinventory you manager to validate and process your
use as a primary source of supply to meet a manufacturing transactions.
specific material requirement in a discrete job
traveler See route sheet.
or repetitive schedule. In Release 9, this is
the backflush subinventory for pull material unit of measure The unit that the quantity of
or the primary issue subinventory for push an item is expressed.
material.

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unreleased job/schedule A discrete job or vendor See supplier.
repetitive schedule planned but not released
WIP accounting class A set of accounts that
for work to begin and not yet transactable.
you use to charge the production of an
UOM See unit of measure. assembly. You assign accounting classes to
discrete jobs and repetitive schedules. Each
usage quantity The quantity of a component,
accounting class includes distribution
including component yield required to
accounts and variance accounts. Also used
produce one assembly in a discrete job or
in cost reporting.
repetitive schedule as stated on the bill of
materials. WIP move resource A resource automatically
charged to a discrete job or repetitive
usage rate The amount of a resource
schedule by a move transaction. Resources
consumed at an operation.
are automatically charged when a forward
usage variance A quantity variance defined as move occurs, or uncharged when a
the difference between the amount of backward move occurs.
material required at standard and the actual
work in process An item in various phases of
amount you use to manufacture an assembly.
production in a manufacturing plant. This
valuation account Your inventory and work includes raw material awaiting processing
in process asset accounts set up in Inventory, up to final assemblies ready to be received
Work in Process, and Purchasing. into inventory.
value added See outside processing. workday calendar A calendar that identifies
available workdays for one or more
variance An accounting term used to express
organizations. Master Scheduling/MRP,
the difference between an expected cost and
Inventory, Work in Process, and Capacity
an actual cost. A variance can be favorable
plan and schedule activities based on a
or unfavorable. Variances are usually
calendar’s available workdays.
written directly to the income statement as a
period expense. worker An independent concurrent process
that executes specific tasks. Programs using
variance account An account where you
workers to break large tasks into smaller
record your variance charges. You can
ones must coordinate the actions of the
maintain several variance accounts in your
workers.
work in process system, depending on what
you are charging and which class you use. yield See component yield.

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Index
A Activity
pending resource transaction, 9 – 50
Account resource, 9 – 12
material asset, 2 – 45 resource requirement, 9 – 20
material expense, 2 – 46 resource transaction, 9 – 36
material overhead asset, 2 – 45 Actual labor rate, 9 – 30
outside processing asset, 2 – 46 Actual outside processing charges, 9 – 30
outside processing expense, 2 – 47
overhead asset, 2 – 46 Actual rate, pending resource transaction,
overhead expense, 2 – 47 9 – 50
resource asset, 2 – 46 Adjusting resource capacity, 9 – 14
resource expense, 2 – 46 All material
standard cost update expense, 2 – 47 issuing and returning components to jobs,
Account number, scrap, 5 – 28, 8 – 74 7 – 52
Accounting class, work order–less assembly, Allow creation of new operations, parameter,
5 – 21 2 – 33
Accounting Class Defaults, 3 – 60 Allow moves, shop floor status option, 2 – 52
Accounting classes Allow moves over no move shop floor
discrete, 2 – 42, 3 – 65 statuses, parameter, 2 – 33
elemental accounts, 2 – 44 Allow Negative Balance (Inventory)
lot based jobs, 2 – 43 parameter, 7 – 73
maintenance, 2 – 44 Alternate, line/assembly association routing,
non–standard discrete, 2 – 42 6–9
pending jobs, 3 – 137 Alternate bill of material
repetitive, 2 – 43, 6 – 9 discrete job, 3 – 68
selecting the accounting class type, 2 – 48 line/assembly association, 6 – 9
standard discrete, 2 – 42 pending job, 3 – 138
standard lot based, 2 – 43 simulated job, 3 – 112
Accounting lines, viewing, 9 – 40
Active, production line, 2 – 60

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Alternate routing Attachments
discrete job, 3 – 69 Attaching Files to Jobs, Schedules, and
pending job, 3 – 139 Operations, E – 2
simulated job, 3 – 112 View Instructions button (Discrete
work order–less assembly, 5 – 21 Workstation), 3 – 20
API, Flow Workstation, H – 2 View Instructions button (Flow
Assemblies Workstation), 5 – 52
based on bill, D – 2 Autocharge, enabling, 8 – 14
completing, 7 – 87 Autocompleting assemblies and work orders,
completing from the Discrete Workstation, 10 – 41
3 – 18 AutoCreate window, AutoCreating Final
completing from the Flow Workstation, Assembly Orders, 15 – 3
5 – 39 Autorelease days, parameter, 2 – 32
completing with move transactions, 8 – 48
job simulation, 3 – 111 Available supply quantity calculation, 3 – 56
line, 6 – 8
moving, 8 – 37
moving from the Discrete Workstation, 3 – 16 B
over–completing assemblies, overview,
Backflush
7 – 80
Allow Negative Balance (Inventory), 7 – 73
over–returning, 7 – 83
enabling, 8 – 15
returning, 7 – 87
negative inventory balances during
returning reserved assemblies to Flow
backflushing, 7 – 73
schedules, 5 – 10
Override Negative for Backflush (Inventory),
returning with move transactions, 8 – 48
7 – 73
scrapping, 8 – 73
supply subinventories and locators, 7 – 72
Assembly completions, 7 – 76
Backflush default supply locator, parameter,
final assembly order, 7 – 77
2 – 33
Flow schedules, 5 – 8
from the Discrete Workstation, 3 – 18 Backflush lot verification method, parameter,
moves, 8 – 36 2 – 34
returns, 8 – 36 Backflush transactions, 7 – 70
Assembly Moves tab (Discrete Workstation), assembly pull, 7 – 75
3 – 35 backflushing pull components, 8 – 44
lot and serial numbers, 7 – 74
Assembly over–completions, overview, 7 – 80
operation pull, 8 – 43
Assembly over–returns, 7 – 83 options, 7 – 72
Assembly returns, 7 – 76 reversing, 7 – 70
lot control, 7 – 76 Basis
revision control, 7 – 77 item, 9 – 18
serial number control, 7 – 76 lot, 9 – 18
Assembly scrap and return from scrap, Flow resource, 9 – 12
manufacturing, 5 – 4 resource requirement, 9 – 18
Assigned units, resource requirement, 9 – 18 Bill alternate
ATP Results window, Entering ATP Criteria discrete job, 3 – 68
and Viewing Results, 7 – 20 line/assembly association, 6 – 9

Index – 2 Oracle Work in Process User’s Guide

 work order–less assembly, 5 – 20 Charge types
Bill reference, non–standard discrete, 3 – 67, resource requirement, 9 – 20
3 – 138 WIP move, 9 – 7
Bill revision Charging resources
discrete job, 3 – 68 from the Discrete Workstation, 3 – 19
pending job, 3 – 138 manual resource transactions, 9 – 33
repetitive schedules, 6 – 17 manually on Discrete workstation Time
simulated job, 3 – 112 Charges tab, 3 – 40
work order–less assembly, 5 – 20 with Move transactions, 9 – 36
Bill revision date Classes
discrete jobs, 3 – 68 demand, 2 – 5
pending job, 3 – 138 WIP accounting, 2 – 42
repetitive schedules, 6 – 18 Close Discrete jobs, status requirements, 15 – 8
simulated job, 3 – 112 Closing Discrete jobs
work order–less assembly, 5 – 20 checking the status of close requests, 3 – 125
Bills of material finding jobs to view or close, 3 – 121
engineering, 2 – 4 overview, 3 – 119, 3 – 121
setup for outside processing, 10 – 22 Closing Discrete Jobs Using Submit Requests,
Build sequence 15 – 7
for discrete job, 3 – 71 Collecting Quality results data, Work
for pending jobs, 3 – 137 Order–less Completions window, 5 – 12
Build sequencing, 3 – 61 Completing Discrete jobs, 3 – 115
Building Discrete jobs, overview, 3 – 88 Completing Flow schedules, Flow
Business examples Workstation, 5 – 39
descriptive flexfields, 14 – 12, 14 – 14 Completion date
Non–standard Discrete jobs, 4 – 7 discrete jobs, 3 – 66
outside processing, 10 – 8 first unit, 6 – 17
statuses, 11 – 22 job simulation, 3 – 112
By–product, recovery, 7 – 8 last unit, 6 – 17
Completion locator
discrete job, 3 – 70
C line/assembly association, 6 – 9
replenishment higher level supply, 7 – 68
Calculation work order–less assembly, 5 – 19
available supply quantity formula, 3 – 56
Completion subinventory
percent linearity (Flow Workstation Mix
discrete job, 3 – 70
graph), 5 – 44
line/assembly association, 6 – 9
Calendar, workday, 2 – 4 pending jobs, 3 – 139
Capacity changes (repetitive output) replenishment higher level supply, 7 – 68
permanent decrease, 13 – 22 work order–less assembly, 5 – 19
permanent increase, 13 – 21 Completion transaction
temporary decrease, 13 – 21 discrete job, 3 – 115
temporary increase, 13 – 21 Flow manufacturing, 5 – 8
Change order, engineering, 2 – 4 from the Discrete Workstation, 3 – 18
Change Status window, changing the status of options, 7 – 76
several Discrete jobs, 3 – 109 repetitive production line, 7 – 77

Index – 3
 repetitive schedule, 6 – 34 issuing from the Discrete Workstation, 3 – 16
Completion Transactions window issuing specific, 7 – 46
Completing and Returning Assemblies, operation pull, D – 3
7 – 88 phantom, D – 3
Replenishing Higher Level Supply, 7 – 68 push, D – 4
Completions returning all, 7 – 51
alternate unit of measure, 7 – 76 returning specific, 7 – 46
assembly, 7 – 76 specifying component lot or serial
kanban completion and supply statuses, information, 5 – 26
7 – 84 supplier, D – 4
subinventories, 7 – 77 viewing component requirements, 3 – 96
Component issue, transaction type, 7 – 45 Components branch (Discrete Workstation)
jobs for immediate dispatch, 3 – 42
Component Pick Release window jobs for upstream dispatch, 3 – 50
Find windows, 7 – 27
navigating, 7 – 26 Components window, adding, deleting,
using, 7 – 31 changing, specifying lot/serial
information, 5 – 24, 5 – 26
Component Pick Release, Submit requests,
7 – 35 Constraint–based scheduling, 3 – 5, 3 – 108,
13 – 4
Component picking
backordered requirements, 7 – 34 Cost Management, setup for outside
grouping rules, 7 – 23, 7 – 32 processing, 10 – 22
overview, 7 – 23 Cost rollup, outside processing, 10 – 28
plan tasks, 7 – 33 Costs
setup, 7 – 24, 7 – 25 non–standard discrete job, 12 – 8
Component Requirements tab standard discrete job, 12 – 8
jobs for immediate dispatch (Discrete work in process, 12 – 6
Workstation), 3 – 43 Count points
jobs for upstream dispatch (Discrete charging resources, 9 – 34
Workstation), 3 – 51 enabling, 8 – 14
open schedule branch (Flow Workstation), check box, 9– 34
5 – 53 Creating outside processing purchase orders,
open schedule events (Flow Workstation), 10 – 36
5 – 57 Cumulative Load by Line Operation Resource
Component return, transaction type, 7 – 45 graph (Flow Workstation), 5 – 46
Component Shortages tab, jobs for immediate Currency code, pending resource transaction,
dispatch graph, 3 – 37 9 – 50
Component substitutions, during Work Cutoff date (purging discrete jobs), 15 – 46
Order–less Completions, 5 – 4
Components
adding, deleting, or changing (Work
Order–less Completions), 5 – 26
D
assembly pull, D – 2 Daily quantity (Repetitive schedules), 6 – 16
backflush, Work Order–less Completions, Daily quantity, formula, 13 – 15
5–4 Date
bulk, D – 3 accounting class inactive, 2 – 49
issuing all, 7 – 51

Index – 4 Oracle Work in Process User’s Guide

 assembly completion, 7 – 89 diagram, forward and backward scheduling,
assembly return, 7 – 89 13 – 10
issue transaction, 7 – 47 forward, 13 – 10
material requirement, 7 – 11 item basis, 13 – 8
move completion transaction, 8 – 50 lot basis, 13 – 8
pending move transaction, 8 – 58 multiple resources, 13 – 7
pending resource transaction, 9 – 51 scheduled options, 13 – 9
production line inactive, 2 – 60 shift calendar, 13 – 9
replenish supply subinventory, 7 – 64 Details
replenishing higher level supply, 7 – 68 discrete job, 3 – 127
reschedule, 8 – 19 Repetitive schedule, 6 – 40
resource transaction, 9 – 34 Diagram
return transaction, 7 – 47 descriptive flexfields, 14 – 10
scrap, 8 – 74 detailed scheduling, 13 – 10
shop floor status inactive, 2 – 52 discrete manufacturing process, 3 – 6
WIP material transaction, 7 – 47 interoperation move transaction process,
WIP replenishment transactions, 7 – 64 8 – 27
Days, schedule, 6 – 16 intraoperation move transaction process,
Default Discrete Class parameter, 2 – 30 8 – 28
Default job name, generating, 3 – 64 material control process, 7 – 22
Default lot number type, parameter, 2 – 31 move transaction process, 8 – 24
operation completion transactions, 8 – 29
Defining Discrete jobs manually, 3 – 63 repetitive manufacturing process, 6 – 5
Defining WIP Accounting Classes, 2 – 48 repetitive schedule dates, 13 – 17
Demand class rolling material forward, 6 – 37
discrete job, 3 – 70 Discrete accounting class, 3 – 65
repetitive schedule, 6 – 16 Discrete Job Data Report, 15 – 11
setup, 2 – 5
work order–less assembly, 5 – 21 Discrete Job Dispatch Report, 15 – 13
Departments, 2 – 4 Discrete Job Listing Report, 15 – 15
Descriptive flexfields Discrete Job Pick List Report, 15 – 17
business examples, 14 – 12 Discrete Job Routing Sheet, 15 – 19
defining, 14 – 2 Discrete Job Shortage Report, 15 – 21
diagram: transferring information from Discrete Job Value Report, 15 – 25
BOM to WIP, 14 – 10 Discrete jobs
relationships, 14 – 6 build sequencing, 3 – 61
setting up for Work in Process, 14 – 4 changing, 3 – 105
transferring from Oracle Bills of Material, checking the status of close requests, 3 – 125
14 – 10 closing (overview), 3 – 119
transferring within Oracle Work in Process, closing using submit requests, 15 – 7
14 – 10 completing, 3 – 115
updating, 14 – 2 controlling transactions, 11 – 17
upgrading, 14 – 3 creating overview, 3 – 55
using, 14 – 6 defining manually, 3 – 63
Detailed scheduling, 13 – 7 final assembly orders, 3 – 56
assigned units, 13 – 8 finding, 3 – 89
backward, 13 – 10

Index – 5
 finding jobs to purge, 3 – 128 Discrete Jobs window
finding jobs to view or close, 3 – 121 attachments, E – 2
firming, 3 – 65 Changing Discrete Jobs, 3 – 105
genealogy, 3 – 100 changing the status of several Discrete jobs,
history, 3 – 120 3 – 109
job name, 3 – 64 Defining Discrete Jobs Manually, 3 – 63
job type, 3 – 65 Linking ATO Sales Orders and Discrete Jobs,
Kanban replenishments, 3 – 58 3 – 75
mass changing statuses, 3 – 109 Releasing Discrete Jobs, 3 – 92
MRP net quantity, 3 – 66 Rescheduling Discrete Jobs, 3 – 106
non–project defaults, 3 – 60 Viewing Linked ATO Sales Orders and
over–completing and over–moving Discrete Jobs, 3 – 76
assemblies, 3 – 115 Discrete manufacturing
planned, 3 – 55 overview, 3 – 2
planning by status, 11 – 19 process diagram, 3 – 6
printing reports, 3 – 93 Discrete rescheduling
project, 3 – 87 by importing discrete jobs, 13 – 12
purge overview, 3 – 127 capacity modifications, 13 – 13
purge rules, 3 – 127 job changes, 13 – 12
purging information, 15 – 45 operation dates, 13 – 12
releasing, 3 – 92 planned orders, 13 – 12
reopening closed jobs, 3 – 124 workday calendar, 13 – 13
reporting by status, 11 – 19
rescheduling, 3 – 106 Discrete scheduling
resubmitting jobs with a pending close completion date, 13 – 5
status, 3 – 125 material requirement dates, 13 – 6
scheduling with a routing, 3 – 66 operation dates, 13 – 6
scheduling without a routing, 3 – 67 start date, 13 – 5
selecting the supply type, 3 – 69 Discrete Shop Packet, 15 – 29
simulating and saving simulated Discrete Discrete Workstation
jobs, 3 – 111 Assembly Moves tab, 3 – 35
specifying purge options, 3 – 130 attachments (viewing), 3 – 20
start quantity, 3 – 66 branch naming convention, 3 – 15
status, 3 – 65 branches and tab structure, 3 – 15
updating, 3 – 104 charging resources, 3 – 19
updating job and schedule interface records, completing assemblies, 3 – 18
3 – 136 completing job operations, 3 – 18
viewing, 3 – 95 Component Requirements tab (jobs for
viewing job and schedule interface records, immediate dispatch), 3 – 43
3 – 134 Component Requirements tab (jobs for
viewing sales orders linked to jobs, 3 – 96 upstream dispatch), 3 – 51
viewing simulated component requirements, Component Shortages tab (jobs for
3 – 114 immediate dispatch), 3 – 37
viewing simulated job operations, 3 – 114 Component Shortages tab (jobs for upstream
Discrete Jobs Summary window dispatch), 3 – 47
Changing Discrete Jobs, 3 – 105 Components branch (jobs for immediate
Defining Discrete Jobs Manually, 3 – 64 dispatch), 3 – 42
Releasing Discrete Jobs, 3 – 92

Index – 6 Oracle Work in Process User’s Guide

 Components branch (jobs for upstream Elemental accounts
dispatch), 3 – 50 valuation, 2 – 44
Department or Resource main branch, 3 – 23 variance, 2 – 44
Efficiency tab, 3 – 25 Employee
features, 3 – 9 hourly labor rate, 2 – 56
Immediate Dispatch List main branch, 3 – 33 labor rate effective date, 2 – 56
issuing components, 3 – 16 name, 2 – 56
jobs for immediate dispatch branches, 3 – 34 number, 2 – 56
jobs for upstream dispatch branches, 3 – 47 number for pending resource transactions,
launching the workstation, 3 – 14 9 – 50
Load tab, 3 – 28 Employee Labor Rates window, Defining
moving assemblies, 3 – 16 Employee Labor Rates, 2 – 55
Productivity tab, 3 – 26
Properties tab (department or resource), Employee Rates Listing Report, 15 – 30
3 – 31 Enabled intraoperation steps, parameter, 2 – 34
Properties tab (jobs for immediate dispatch), Engineering
3 – 41 bills of material, 2 – 4
Properties tab (jobs for upstream dispatch), change orders, 2 – 4
3 – 49 routings, 2 – 4
Resource Requirements tab, 3 – 44 Error details, pending job and schedule
Resource Requirements tab (jobs for records, 3 – 135
upstream dispatch), 3 – 52 Estimated scrap account, 2 – 47
Resources branch, 3 – 44
Resources branch (jobs for upstream Events (Flow Workstation)
dispatch), 3 – 52 Component Requirements tab (open
Schedule tab, 3 – 33 schedule events), 5 – 57
Time Charges tab, 3 – 39 open schedule events overview, 5 – 56
transactions, 3 – 15 Properties tab (open schedule events), 5 – 60
Upstream Dispatch List main branch, 3 – 47 Resource Requirements tab (open schedule
Utilization tab, 3 – 23 events), 5 – 59
View Contracts tab, 3 – 21 Expense Job Value Report, 15 – 32
View Instructions button, 3 – 20
viewing the tree, 3 – 12
window, 3 – 11 F
Dispatching
Final assembly orders, 3 – 56
discrete jobs, 8 – 75
autocreating, 15 – 3
repetitive schedules, 8 – 75
Find Discrete Jobs window, Finding Discrete
Jobs, 3 – 89, 3 – 90
E Find Move Transactions window, 8 – 52
Find Operations window, Finding Operations,
ECOs 8 – 20
discrete job implementation, 11 – 18 Find Pending Move Transactions window,
information on unreleased jobs, 3 – 3 Finding Pending Move Transactions
repetitive schedule implementation, 11 – 18 window, 8 – 54, 8 – 62
setup step, 2 – 4
Effective date, employee, 2 – 56
Efficiency tab, Efficiency graph, 3 – 25

Index – 7
Find Pending Resource Transactions window, buttons (Open Schedule tabs), 5 – 50
Finding Pending Resource Transactions, Complete Assembly button, 5 – 39
9 – 45, 9 – 47 Complete Line Operation button, 5 – 38,
Find Resource Requirements window, Finding 5 – 50
Resource Requirements, 9 – 27 Complete Schedule button, 5 – 39, 5 – 52
Finding Discrete jobs, 3 – 89 completing assemblies, 5 – 39
Completing Flow Schedules, 5 – 39
Finding Discrete Jobs to Purge, 3 – 128 Completing Line Operations, 5 – 50
Finding job and schedule interface records, Completing Line Operations overview, 5 – 38
3 – 133 Component Requirements tab (open
Finding jobs to view or close, 3 – 121 schedule events), 5 – 57
Finding Pending Jobs and Schedules window, Component Requirements tab (open
Finding Pending Jobs and Schedules, schedules branch), 5 – 53
3 – 133 Cumulative Load by Line Operation
Finding Pending Resource Transactions, 9 – 45 Resource graph, 5 – 46
customizing the Properties tab display, H – 2
Firm, repetitive schedules, 6 – 16 Entering Quality results, 5 – 34, 5 – 39
Firm check box (Discrete jobs), 3 – 65 features, 5 – 29
First unit completion date, 6 – 17 hiding and unhiding the right pane, 5 – 32
First unit start date, 6 – 17 launching the workstation, 5 – 34
reschedule, 8 – 19 Line Load by Day graph (Load tab), 5 – 45
Flow manufacturing Linearity tab, 5 – 41
assembly scrap and return from scrap, 5 – 4 linearity, load, and properties of the line,
backflushing, 5 – 4 5 – 41
Flow schedule reservations, 5 – 9 Load tab, 5 – 45
Flow schedules, 5 – 8 Mix graph (Linearity tab), 5 – 43
Kanban replenishment, 5 – 4, 5 – 10 open schedule events, 5 – 56
overview, 5 – 2 overview of the workstation, 5 – 29
returning reserved assemblies, 5 – 10 percent linearity formula (Mix graph), 5 – 44
scrapping Flow schedule assemblies, 5 – 27 Planned vs Actual graph (Linearity tab),
Work Order–less assembly completions and 5 – 41
returns, 5 – 3 Properties tab (line and line operation
Work Order–less Completion component branch), 5 – 47
substitutions, 5 – 4 Properties tab (open schedule events), 5 – 60
Work Order–less Completion transactions, Properties tab (open schedules branch),
5 – 11 5 – 55
Resource Requirements tab (open schedule
Flow schedules, 5 – 8 events), 5 – 59
assemble–to–order reservations, 5 – 5 Resource Requirements tab (open schedules
build sequencing with Discrete jobs, 3 – 61 branch), 5 – 54
Flow schedule completions, 5 – 8 toolbar, 5 – 33
reservations, 5 – 9 transactions, 5 – 38
returning reserved assemblies, 5 – 10 View Instructions button, 5 – 52
sales order reservations, 5 – 5 viewing formats, 5 – 32
scrapping Flow schedule assemblies, 5 – 27 window description, 5 – 31
Flow Workstation Flow Workstation startup window, 5 – 34
branch naming conventions, 5 – 37
branches and tabs overview, 5 – 36 Flowchart, Work in Process setup, 2 – 6

Index – 8 Oracle Work in Process User’s Guide

Form function parameters, 2 – 76 complete, 8 – 10
Formulas incomplete, 8 – 10
available supply quantity calculation, 3 – 56 parameter, 2 – 34
percent linearity (Flow Workstation Mix queue intraoperation step, 8 – 9
graph), 5 – 44 reject intraoperation step, 8 – 9
Function security, 2 – 78 run intraoperation step, 8 – 9
scrap intraoperation step, 8 – 10
to move intraoperation step, 8 – 9
INV:Allow Negative Balance parameter, 7 – 73
G INV:Override Negative for Backflush profile
Genealogy, discrete job transactions, 3 – 100 option, 7 – 73
Group ID, selecting import jobs and schedules Inventory, setup for outside processing, 10 – 19
rows, 15 – 36 Inventory accuracy
Grouping Rules, 7 – 23 cycle counting WIP inventories, 7 – 93
physically inventorying WIP inventories,
7 – 93
H Inventory Transaction Open Interface, 5 – 5
Issue transaction
History, Discrete jobs, 3 – 120
lot control, 7 – 50, 7 – 56, 7 – 67
Hourly rate revision control, 7 – 41
production line maximum, 2 – 59 serial number control, 7 – 50, 7 – 56, 7 – 67
production line minimum, 2 – 59
Issues, specific components, 7 – 48
Issuing components
from the Discrete Workstation, 3 – 16
I overview, 7 – 39
Immediate Dispatch List, 3 – 33 repetitive components, 7 – 41
Schedule tab, 3 – 33
Import Jobs and Schedules window, Importing
Jobs and Schedules, 15 – 35 J
Include configurations, 15 – 47 Job, pending, 3 – 136
Instructions Job and Schedule Documents window,
viewing from the Discrete Workstation, Defining Job and Schedules Documents,
3 – 20 1–6
viewing from the Flow Workstation, 5 – 52
Job and schedule interface records
Interface deleting, 3 – 140
open move transaction, 8 – 33 finding, 3 – 133
open resource transaction, 9 – 31 updating, 3 – 136
work order, 3 – 57 viewing, 3 – 134
Interoperation move transactions, process viewing error details, 3 – 135
diagram, 8 – 27 Job Lot Composition Report, 15 – 38, 15 – 40
Intraoperation move transactions Job name (Discrete jobs), 3 – 64
overview, 8 – 28
Job status, 15 – 5
process diagram, 8 – 28
Job type, 3 – 65, 15 – 45
Intraoperation steps, 8 – 9
assigning statuses to, 8 – 67

Index – 9
Jobs and operations, rescheduling Line priority, 6 – 10
automatically, 3 – 109 Linearity tab (Flow Workstation)
Jobs for future dispatch list (Discrete Mix graph, 5 – 43
Workstation), 3 – 47 overview, 5 – 41
Jobs for immediate dispatch branches, 3 – 34 Planned vs Actual graph, 5 – 41
Linearity, load, and properties of the line (Flow
Workstation), 5 – 41
K Lines and assemblies, associating, 6 – 7, 6 – 11
Load tab (Discrete Workstation), 3 – 28
Kanban
Cumulative Load graph, 3 – 28
completion supply statuses, 7 – 84 Daily Load graph, 3 – 30
Flow schedule completions, 5 – 8
replenishment during Work Order–less Load tab (Flow Workstation)
Completions, 5 – 4 Cumulative Load by Line Operation
replenishment for Discrete jobs, 3 – 58 Resource graph, 5 – 46
replenishment in Flow manufacturing, 5 – 10 Line Load by Day graph, 5 – 45
replenishment on the Flow Workstation, overview, 5 – 45
5 – 38 Load type, 15 – 4
supply status of Full, 7 – 84 pending jobs and schedules, 3 – 136
Locator
line/assembly completion, 6 – 9
L substitute component, 5 – 25
Lot and serial number control, Work
Labor rate, employee hourly, 2 – 56 Order–less Completions, 5 – 5
Last unit completion date, 6 – 17 Lot based jobs, 3 – 95, 3 – 104
reschedule, 8 – 19 discrete versus lot based, 3 – 2
Last unit start date, 6 – 17 network routings, 8 – 7
Launching the Discrete Workstation, 3 – 14 WIP accounting class, 2 – 43
Launching the Flow Workstation, 5 – 34 Lot Genealogy window, 3 – 100
Lead times Lot number
line, 6 – 10 assigning to Work Order–less components,
repetitive line scheduling, 13 – 14 5 – 26
License plate numbers, completions into, backflushing, 7 – 74
7 – 78, 8 – 32 discrete jobs, 3 – 70
issue transaction, 7 – 50, 7 – 56, 7 – 67
Line
pending job assembly, 3 – 137
assembly, 6 – 8
work order–less component, 5 – 27
for discrete job, 3 – 71
lead time, 6 – 10 Lot selection method, parameter, 2 – 34
name, 2 – 58 Lot verification method, parameter, 2 – 34
production, 6 – 8
sales order, 5 – 19, 5 – 28
Line Load by Day graph (Flow Workstation), M
5 – 45
Management of Quality Information (business
Line operations (Flow Workstation)
example), 14 – 12
complete line operations (overview), 5 – 38
Completing a Line Operation, 5 – 50

Index – 10 Oracle Work in Process User’s Guide

Managing Outside Processor Sterilization Modifying repetitive production capacity,
(business example), 14 – 14 13 – 21
Manufacturing methods, compared, C – 2 Move based overhead efficiency variance,
Manufacturing Scheduling 12 – 10
constraint–based scheduling, 13 – 4 Move return, transactions, 8 – 31
constraint–based scheduling of discrete jobs, Move transaction
3–5 assembly completion, 8 – 36
defining scheduling information, 3 – 72 charging resources, 9 – 36
parameters, 2 – 25, 2 – 37 from the Discrete Workstation, 3 – 16
resources, 9 – 3, 9 – 13 interoperation moves, 8 – 26
Mass changing Discrete job statuses, 3 – 109 intraoperation moves, 8 – 28
Material control, 7 – 2 move completions and returns, 8 – 31
cycle counting, 7 – 93 operation completion, 8 – 29
physical inventory, 7 – 93 options, 8 – 34
Material requirements process diagram, 8 – 24
ad hoc, 7 – 46 production lines, 8 – 33
component, 7 – 11 purging, 15 – 47
controlling, 7 – 7 reverse operation completion, 8 – 29
deleting, 7 – 13 TP:WIP:Move Transaction profile option,
netting, 7 – 12 2 – 68
operation sequence, 7 – 11 TP:WIP:Move Transaction Quantity Default
per assembly quantity, 7 – 12 profile option, 2 – 69
required quantity, 7 – 12 TP:WIP:Move Transactions first field profile
option, 2 – 69
Material Requirements window types, 8 – 36
Adding and Updating Material
Requirements, 7 – 10 Move Transaction Report, 15 – 41
Deleting Material Requirements, 7 – 13 Move transaction types, complete, 8 – 36
Material transaction, types, 7 – 45 Move transactions, viewing, 8 – 52
Material usage variance, 12 – 10 Move Transactions window
Midpoint rescheduling of operations, 8 – 18 Performing Move Completion/Return
Transactions, 8 – 48
Mix graph (Flow Workstation), 5 – 43 Performing Move Transactions, 8 – 25, 8 – 37
percent linearity formula, 5 – 44
Moves, interoperation, 8 – 26
Mobile Manufacturing, 1 – 4
assembly completions, 7 – 78 MRP Net quantity, 3 – 66
Flow Manufacturing transactions, 5 – 5 Multiple repetitive schedules, 6 – 36, 7 – 42
resource management in, 9 – 4
setup, 2 – 37
shop floor transactions, 8 – 4 N
work order–less completions, 5 – 11
Name
Mobile Supply Chain Applications
employee, 2 – 56
completions into license plate numbers,
pending resource transaction, 9 – 50
7 – 78
resource requirement, 9 – 17, 9 – 26
Flow Manufacturing transactions, 5 – 5
setup, 2 – 37 Navigator paths, A – 2
shop floor transactions, 8 – 4 Negative, inventory balances, 7 – 39
work order–less completions, 5 – 11

Index – 11
Negative component issue, transaction type, Resource Requirements tab, 5 – 54
7 – 39, 7 – 45 Open Schedules tab buttons
Negative component return, transaction type, Complete Line Operation button, 5 – 50
7 – 45 Complete Schedule button, 5 – 52
Net, material requirement, 7 – 12 Operation completion, moves, 8 – 29
Network routings, 8 – 7 Operation completion date, resource
Non–project default WIP accounting classes, requirement, 9 – 19
3 – 60 Operation completion transactions, process
Non–standard discrete jobs diagram, 8 – 29
assemblies, 4 – 2 Operation Documents window, Defining
asset accounting classes, 4 – 2 Operation Documents, 1 – 7
bills of material, 4 – 2 Operation sequence
build engineering prototypes business assigning statuses, 8 – 67
example, 4 – 13 to 4 – 25 issue transactions, 7 – 50
close, 4 – 3 pending resource transaction, 9 – 50
costs, 4 – 3 resource transaction, 9 – 35
differences between standard and return transactions, 7 – 50
non–standard, 4 – 5 WIP material transactions, 7 – 50
disassembly business example, 4 – 11 Operation sequence range, charging resources,
expense accounting classes, 4 – 2 9 – 34
planning, 4 – 2
quantities, 4 – 2 Operation start date, resource requirement,
rework business example, 4 – 7 9 – 19
routings, 4 – 2 Operations, 8 – 6 to 8 – 10
tracking other products business example, autocharge, 8 – 14
4 – 16 to 4 – 28 backflush, 8 – 15
transactions, 4 – 2 completing from the Discrete Workstation,
upgrade assemblies business example, 4 – 9 3 – 18
versus standard discrete jobs, 4 – 4 count point, 8 – 14
Non–updateable fields, Work Order–less department, 8 – 14
Completion transactions, 5 – 13 description, 8 – 16
first unit completion date, 8 – 16
Number, employee, 2 – 56 first unit start date, 8 – 16
job, 8 – 13
last unit completion date, 8 – 16
O last unit start date, 8 – 16
line/assembly, 8 – 13
Offset days, 15 – 4
midpoint rescheduling, 8 – 18
Open interface minimum transfer quantity, 8 – 15
move transaction, 8 – 33 non–autocharge, 8 – 14
resource transaction, 9 – 31 non–backflush, 8 – 15
Work Order Interface, 3 – 57 non–count point, 8 – 14
Open schedules and events (Flow overview of adding and updating, 8 – 12
Workstation), overview, 5 – 49 scheduling based on resources, 8 – 6 to 8 – 10
Open Schedules branch (Flow Workstation) sequence, 8 – 13
Component Requirements tab, 5 – 53 viewing Discrete job operations, 3 – 96
Event branches, 5 – 56 Operations window
Properties tab, 5 – 55 Adding and Changing Operations, 8 – 12

Index – 12 Oracle Work in Process User’s Guide

 attachments, E – 2 managing, 8 – 69
Deleting Operations, 8 – 17 managing returns and corrections, 10 – 42
Midpoint Rescheduling, 8 – 18 manually creating purchase orders and lines,
Oracle Work in Process, setting up, 2 – 2 10 – 37
Organization, 15 – 5 outside processing item in multiple
pending jobs and schedules, 3 – 136 organizations, 10 – 21
overview, 10 – 2
Outside processing planning outside resource load, 10 – 33
approving purchase orders, 10 – 37 processing lead time attributes, 10 – 22
autocompleting assemblies and work orders, resource, 9 – 11
10 – 41 returning assemblies to suppliers, 10 – 43
business examples, 10 – 8 setting up Oracle Bills of Material, 10 – 22
charging resources, 9 – 30 setting up Oracle Cost Management, 10 – 22
consecutive outside processing operations, setting up Oracle Inventory, 10 – 19
10 – 43 setting up Oracle Purchasing, 10 – 28
controlling your receiving routing, 10 – 30 setting up Work in Process, 10 – 32
correcting errors in receiving, 10 – 42 setup and planning overview, 10 – 18
cost rollup, 10 – 28 shipping options, 10 – 13
creating outside processing purchase orders, understanding the physical flow of outside
10 – 36 processed assemblies, 10 – 11
defining accounting information, 10 – 31 WIP:Enable Outside Processing Workflows
defining deliver to locations, 10 – 31 profile option, 2 – 73
defining departments with delivery
locations, 10 – 26 Outside processing item, defining lead times,
defining employees, 10 – 29 10 – 30
defining outside processing item lead times, Outside processing items
10 – 30 defining, 10 – 19
defining outside processing item list prices, defining list prices, 10 – 29
10 – 29 maintaining in multiple organizations,
defining outside processing items, 10 – 19 10 – 21
defining outside processing line types, receiving, 10 – 38
10 – 29 requisitioning, 10 – 34
defining outside resources, 10 – 23 Outside resources, 10 – 23
defining overreceipt tolerance and control, Over–completion Tolerance Type, 7 – 81
10 – 30 Over–completion Tolerance Value, 7 – 82
defining routings, 10 – 26
defining ship to locations, 10 – 31 Over–completions
defining supplier sourcing rules, 10 – 29 default tolerance, 7 – 81
defining supplier supplied components, from the Completion Transactions window,
10 – 28 7 – 83
defining units of measure, 10 – 22 from the Move Transactions window, 7 – 82
defining WIP accounting classes, 10 – 32 overview, 7 – 80
efficiency variance, 12 – 10 Reserved to sales orders, 3 – 77
foreign currency purchases, 10 – 37 security functions, 7 – 83
generating purchase orders from setup, 7 – 80
requisitions, 10 – 37 tolerance levels, 7 – 81
inspection options, 10 – 14 Over–moves, 7 – 80
introduction, 10 – 5 Over–returns
kitting options, 10 – 12 assembly, 7 – 83

Index – 13
 non–standard discrete job assemblies, 7 – 83 primary objective, 2 – 26
repetitive schedule assemblies, 7 – 84 production scheduler, 2 – 24
standard discrete job assemblies, 7 – 83 recognize repetitive period variances, 2 – 18
Overhead charging, resource transactions, release backflush components, 2 – 23
9 – 30 repetitive autorelease days, 2 – 18
repetitive manufacturing, 2 – 18
require scrap account, 2 – 20
requisition creation time, 2 – 24
P respond to changes, 2 – 18
Parameter, Inventory: Allow Negative Balance, scheduling, 2 – 25
7 – 73 shipping manager, 2 – 25
Parameters shop floor status for PO move resources,
allow creation of new operations, 2 – 21 2 – 21, 2 – 23
auto assoicate serials numbers on job simulation set, 2 – 26
creation from interface, 2 – 28 supply locator, 2 – 22
auto compute final completion, 2 – 20 supply subinventory, 2 – 21
average cost, 2 – 19 system option, 2 – 20
backflush default, 2 – 21 transaction processing mode, 2 – 27
component ATP rule, 2 – 29 use constraint based scheduler, 2 – 25
constraints, 2 – 26 Work in Process, 2 – 14
cost type, 2 – 20 Parameters window
default completion cost source, 2 – 19 AutoCreating Final Assembly Orders, 15 – 3
default discrete class, 2 – 17 Closing Discrete Jobs Using Submit
default intraoperation step for assembly Requests, 15 – 7
moves, 2 – 29 Importing Jobs and Schedules, 15 – 35
default lot number type, 2 – 17 Purging Jobs and Schedules, 15 – 44
default overcompletion tolerance percent, Pending job transactions, 3 – 97
2 – 29 Pending jobs and schedules, processing,
default pick slip grouping rule, 2 – 29 3 – 133
default plan tasks, 2 – 30
Pending Jobs and Schedules Errors window,
default scrap account, 2 – 27
viewing pending jobs and schedule errors,
default serialization start operation, 2 – 28
3 – 135
defining, 2 – 30
discrete manufacturing, 2 – 17 Pending Jobs and Schedules window
due date tolerance, 2 – 27 Processing Pending Jobs and Schedules,
Horizon (days), 2 – 26 3 – 134
include resource efficiency, 2 – 25 viewing job and schedule interface records,
include resource utilization, 2 – 25 3 – 134
intraoperations steps, 2 – 23 Pending move transaction errors, viewing,
lot selection method, 2 – 22 8 – 56, 9 – 49
lot verification, 2 – 22 Pending move transactions
maximum penalty, 2 – 26 deleting, 8 – 60
mobile, 2 – 27 organization, 8 – 57
move transaction, 2 – 20 processing, 8 – 54
Other, 2 – 28, 2 – 29 resubmitting, 8 – 59, 9 – 51
outside processing, 2 – 23 selecting and resubmitting all, 3 – 139, 8 – 59
penalty per day late, 2 – 27 updating, 8 – 57

Index – 14 Oracle Work in Process User’s Guide

 viewing, 8 – 55 Printing Reports for Current Repetitive
Pending Move Transactions Errors window, Schedules, 6 – 23
viewing pending move transaction errors, Priority, line, 6 – 10
8 – 57 Process diagram
Pending Move Transactions window, descriptive flexfields, 14 – 10
Processing Pending Move Transactions, detailed scheduling, 13 – 10
8 – 55, 8 – 62 discrete manufacturing, 3 – 6
Pending resource transactions interoperation move transactions, 8 – 27
deleting, 9 – 52 intraoperation move transactions, 8 – 28
organization, 9 – 49 material control, 7 – 22
processing, 9 – 47 move transaction, 8 – 24
selecting and resubmitting, 9 – 51 operation completion transactions, 8 – 29
updating, 9 – 49 repetitive manufacturing, 6 – 5
viewing, 9 – 48 rolling material forward, 6 – 37
Pending Resource Transactions Error window, Production
viewing pending resource transaction Flow manufacturing schedules, 5 – 8
errors, 9 – 49 hourly rate, 6 – 10
Pending Resource Transactions window, kanban replenishments, 3 – 58
Processing Pending Resource Transactions, line, 6 – 8
9 – 46, 9 – 47 Production line
Percent linearity formula (Flow Workstation for discrete job, 3 – 71
Mix graph), 5 – 44 name, 2 – 58
repetitive line scheduling, 13 – 14
Performing Work Order–less Completions,
5 – 17 Production Line Report, 15 – 43
Period–based costs Production Lines window, Defining
non–standard expense jobs, 12 – 9 Production Lines, 2 – 57
repetitive assemblies, 12 – 9 Production rate, repetitive line scheduling,
Physical flow of outside processed assemblies, 13 – 14
10 – 11 Productivity tab, 3 – 26
Pick Methodologies, 7 – 23 Productivity graph, 3 – 26
Pick Slip Grouping Rule, 7 – 32 Profile options
background shop floor material processing,
Plan Tasks, 7 – 33 2 – 65
Planned completion material processing, 2 – 66
discrete jobs, 3 – 55 completion transaction form, 2 – 66
repetitive schedules, 6 – 13 completion transactions first field, 2 – 67
Planned vs Actual graph (Flow Workstation), concurrent message level, 2 – 67
5 – 41 default job start date, 2 – 72
Planning, planning outside resource load, define discrete job form, 2 – 72
10 – 33 descriptions of, 2 – 65
Print discrete reports, printing current jobs, discrete job prefix, 2 – 73
3 – 93 enable outside processing workflows, 2 – 73
exclude ECOs, 2 – 73
Print reports, printing current schedules, 6 – 23 Inventory: Override Negative for Backflush,
Print window 7 – 73
Printing Reports for Current Discrete Jobs, job name updateable, 2 – 74
3 – 93

Index – 15
 material transaction form, 2 – 67 Purge Repetitive Schedules window, Purging
material transactions first field, 2 – 68 Repetitive Schedules, 6 – 41
move completion default, 2 – 74 Purge Report, 15 – 50
move transaction, 2 – 68 Purge Report request, 3 – 127
move transactions first field, 2 – 69
move transactions quantity default, 2 – 69 Purging
operation backflush setup, 2 – 70 job and schedule detail information, 15 – 47
requirements nettable option, 2 – 74 move transactions, 15 – 47
resource transaction first field, 2 – 70 Purging Discrete jobs
see engineering items, 2 – 74 finding jobs to purge, 3 – 128
setup summary, 2 – 63 overview, 3 – 127
shop floor material processing, 2 – 70 purge rules, 3 – 127
Work in Process, 2 – 63 requesting a purge report, 3 – 127
work order–less default completion, 2 – 71 selecting jobs to purge or report, 3 – 130
Project specifying purge options, 3 – 130
discrete job, 3 – 71 viewing component requirements, 3 – 130
Discrete jobs, 3 – 87 viewing operations and operation
for pending job, 3 – 137 requirements for a job, 3 – 129
work order–less assembly, 5 – 21 viewing sales orders linked to jobs, 3 – 130
Project Contracts, viewing in Discrete Purging Discrete Jobs (task), 3 – 128
Workstation, 3 – 21 Purging Repetitive Schedules, 6 – 41
Project related WIP accounting class defaults, Purging Repetitive schedules
3 – 61 overview, 6 – 40, 6 – 41
Properties tab (Discrete Workstation) purge rules, 6 – 40
department or resource, 3 – 31 submitting a report, 6 – 40
jobs for immediate dispatch, 3 – 41 Push components
jobs for upstream dispatch, 3 – 49 issuing all, 7 – 51
Properties tab (Flow Workstation) returning all, 7 – 51
line and line operation branch, 5 – 47
open schedule events branches, 5 – 60
open schedules branch, 5 – 55 Q
Pull transaction, repetitive production line, Quantities, material requirement, 7 – 39
7 – 73
Quantity
Purchasing assembly completions, 7 – 76, 7 – 90
creating outside processing purchase orders, assembly returns, 7 – 76, 7 – 90
10 – 36 daily (Repetitive schedules), 6 – 16
setup for outside processing, 10 – 28 job MRP Net, 3 – 66
Purge Discrete Jobs Summary window, job simulation, 3 – 112
Purging Discrete Jobs, 3 – 128 material required per assembly, 7 – 12
Purge Discrete Jobs window, Purging Discrete minimum transfer, 8 – 40, 8 – 50
Jobs, 3 – 128 move transaction, 8 – 40, 8 – 46
Purge Jobs and Schedules window, Purging pending move transaction, 8 – 58
Jobs and Schedules, 15 – 44 pending resource transaction, 9 – 51
Purge Repetitive Schedules Summary window, replenishing higher level supply, 7 – 69
Purging Repetitive Schedules, 6 – 42 replenishment transaction, 7 – 67

Index – 16 Oracle Work in Process User’s Guide

 resource transaction, 9 – 35 Oracle Engineering setup, 2 – 4
scrap, 8 – 73 Oracle Inventory setup, 2 – 3
substitution, 5 – 26 Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP setup, 2 – 5
WIP material transaction, 7 – 50 Oracle Project Manufacturing setup, 2 – 5
work order–less assembly completion, 5 – 19 Oracle Supplier Management Portal, 2 – 5
work order–less assembly return, 5 – 19 Oracle Workflow, 2 – 5
Queue intraoperation step, 8 – 9 Releasing Discrete jobs, 3 – 92
Reopening closed jobs, 3 – 124
Repetitive
R accounting class, 6 – 9
component issues, 7 – 41
Rate component returns, 7 – 41
employee hourly, 2 – 56
returns, 7 – 43
hourly production, 6 – 10
Repetitive autorelease days, parameter, 2 – 31,
Reason code
2 – 32
backflush transaction, 8 – 46
completion transaction, 7 – 91 Repetitive Line Report, 15 – 51
move completion transaction, 8 – 50 Repetitive line rescheduling
move transaction, 8 – 41 bill revision dates, 13 – 20
resource transaction, 9 – 36 repetitive schedule changes, 13 – 19
scrap, 8 – 74 repetitive schedule dates, 13 – 19
WIP material transaction, 7 – 50, 7 – 67 routing revision dates, 13 – 20
work order–less completion, 5 – 21 Repetitive line scheduling
work order–less substitution, 5 – 25, 5 – 27 daily quantity, 13 – 15
Receiving outside processing items, 10 – 38 forward scheduling, 13 – 16
assembly vs resource outside processing unit lead time, 13 – 16
type items, 10 – 39 lead times, 13 – 14
direct vs standard, 10 – 38 processing days, 13 – 15
move transactions, 10 – 39 production line, 13 – 14
partial vs full quantities, 10 – 38 production rate, 13 – 14
resource transactions, 10 – 39 repetitive schedule dates, 13 – 16
Recovering repetitive schedule quantities, 13 – 14
by–products, 7 – 8 sequencing repetitive assemblies on a line,
scrap, 8 – 71 13 – 18
Reference Repetitive Line/Assembly Associations
backflush transaction, 8 – 46 Summary window
completion transaction, 7 – 91 Associating Lines and Assemblies, 6 – 7
move completion transaction, 8 – 51 Deleting Line/Assembly Associations, 6 – 11
move transactions, 8 – 41 Repetitive Line/Assembly Associations
resource transaction, 9 – 36 window
scrap, 8 – 74 Associating Lines and Assemblies, 6 – 7
WIP material transaction, 7 – 50, 7 – 67 Deleting Line/Assembly Associations, 6 – 11
work order–less completion/return, 5 – 21 Repetitive manufacturing
Reject intraoperation step, 8 – 9 process diagram, 6 – 5
Related product setup steps rolling material forward diagram, 6 – 37
Oracle Bills of Material setup, 2 – 4 Repetitive Pick List Report, 15 – 52
Oracle Cost Management setup, 2 – 4

Index – 17
Repetitive production, modifying capacity, Rescheduling Repetitive Schedules, 6 – 29
13 – 21 Repetitive Shop Packet, 15 – 59
Repetitive production line, pull transaction, Repetitive Value Report, 15 – 60
7 – 73 Replenishment
Repetitive recognize period variances, backflush transfer, 7 – 64
parameter, 2 – 31 completing lower level assembly option,
Repetitive rescheduling, 13 – 19 7 – 61
Repetitive Routing Sheet, 15 – 54 higher level supply, 7 – 68
Repetitive Schedule Data Report, 15 – 55 replenishing kanbans (Flow Workstation),
5 – 38
Repetitive schedule dates diagram, 13 – 17 supply subinventory transaction type, 7 – 45
Repetitive schedule lead time, formula, 13 – 17 WIP supply subinventory, 7 – 61
Repetitive Schedule Shortage Report, 15 – 56 Reports
Repetitive schedules Discrete Job Data, 15 – 11
completing, 6 – 34 Discrete Job Dispatch, 15 – 13
controlling transactions, 11 – 17 Discrete Job Listing, 15 – 15
excess material, 6 – 36 Discrete Job Pick List, 15 – 17
firming, 6 – 16 Discrete Job Routing Sheet, 15 – 19
multiple schedules, 7 – 42 Discrete Job Shortage, 15 – 21
planned, 6 – 13 Discrete Job Value, 15 – 25
planning by status, 11 – 19 Discrete Shop Packet, 15 – 29
purge overview, 6 – 40 dispatch, 8 – 75
purge rules, 6 – 40 Employee Rates Listing, 15 – 30
purging information, 15 – 45 Expense Job Value, 15 – 32
Purging Repetitive Schedules, 6 – 41 Job Lot Composition, 15 – 38, 15 – 40
releasing, 6 – 22 Move Transaction, 15 – 41
reporting by status, 11 – 19 Production Line, 15 – 43
rescheduling, 6 – 29, 13 – 19 Purge, 15 – 50
rolling material forward, 6 – 36 Repetitive Line, 15 – 51
status changing, 6 – 31 Repetitive Pick List, 15 – 52
stopping, 6 – 38 Repetitive Routing Sheet, 15 – 54
submitting a purge report, 6 – 40 Repetitive Schedule Data, 15 – 55
Repetitive Schedules Summary window Repetitive Schedule Shortage, 15 – 56
Changing Repetitive Schedules, 6 – 28 Repetitive Shop Packet, 15 – 59
Defining Repetitive Schedules Manually, Repetitive Value, 15 – 60
6 – 15 Resource Performance, 15 – 63
Mass Changing Repetitive Schedule Statuses, Resource Transaction, 15 – 65
6 – 32 Schedule Group Listing, 15 – 67
Rescheduling Repetitive Schedules, 6 – 29 Shop Floor Statuses, 15 – 68
Repetitive Schedules window WIP Account Distribution, 15 – 69
attachments, E – 2 WIP Account Summary, 15 – 72
Changing Repetitive Schedules, 6 – 27, 6 – 28 WIP Accounting Classes, 15 – 73
Defining Repetitive Schedules Manually, WIP Location, 15 – 74
6 – 15 WIP Offsetting Account, 15 – 76
Mass Changing Repetitive Schedule Statuses, WIP Outside Processing, 15 – 77
6 – 32 WIP Parameters, 15 – 78
Releasing Repetitive Schedules, 6 – 22 WIP Value, 15 – 79

Index – 18 Oracle Work in Process User’s Guide

Require scrap account, parameter, 2 – 33 Resource requirements, 9 – 11
Requisitioning outside processing items, ad hoc, 9 – 33
10 – 34 multiple resources, 9 – 12
approving requisitions, 10 – 36 operation resources, 9 – 12
creating approved requisitions, 10 – 35 resource basis, 9 – 12
manually creating requisitions, 10 – 36 resource scheduling, 9 – 13
move transactions, 10 – 34 Resource Requirements tab
submitting requisition import, 10 – 35 jobs for immediate dispatch (Discrete
Reschedule window, Midpoint Rescheduling, Workstation), 3 – 44
8 – 18 jobs for upstream dispatch (Discrete
Rescheduling Workstation), 3 – 52
automatically, 3 – 109 open schedule events (Flow Workstation),
based on bill revision changes, 13 – 20 5 – 59
based on job changes, 13 – 12 Open Schedules branch (Flow Workstation),
based on repetitive schedule changes, 13 – 19 5 – 54
based on routing revision changes, 13 – 20 Resource Requirements window, Adding and
by importing discrete jobs, 13 – 12 Updating Resources, 9 – 17, 9 – 26
constraint–based, 13 – 13 Resource sequence
discrete capacity modifications, 13 – 13 pending resource transaction, 9 – 50
discrete jobs, 13 – 12 resource requirement, 9 – 17, 9 – 26
discrete jobs with changed quantities, 3 – 108 resource transaction, 9 – 35
discrete operation dates, 13 – 12 Resource transaction distributions, viewing,
discrete planned orders, 13 – 12 9 – 40
discrete workday calendar, 13 – 13 Resource Transaction Report, 15 – 65
repetitive schedule dates, 13 – 19
repetitive schedules, 6 – 29, 13 – 19 Resource transactions
repetitive schedules with changed quantities, actual labor rate, 9 – 30
6 – 30 actual outside processing charges, 9 – 30
charge options, 9 – 31
Rescheduling Discrete Jobs, 3 – 106 open interface, 9 – 31
Reservations, to sales orders from Flow overhead charging, 9 – 30
schedules, 5 – 9 overview, 9 – 30
Resource purging, 15 – 48
activity, 9 – 12 viewing, 9 – 39
efficiency variance, 12 – 10 viewing accounting lines, 9 – 40
management overview, 9 – 2 Resource Transactions window
non–standard rate, 9 – 11 Charging Resources Manually, 9 – 33
outside processing, 9 – 11 Charging Resources with Move Transactions,
standard rate, 9 – 11 9 – 37
Resource based overhead efficiency variance, Resources, 2 – 4
12 – 10 adjusting capacity, 9 – 14
Resource charge transaction options, 9 – 31 alternate, 9 – 3, 9 – 13, 9 – 24, 13 – 8
Resource charge type charging from the Discrete Workstation,
manual, 9 – 8 3 – 19
overview, 9 – 7 charging manually on the Discrete
PO move, 9 – 8 Workstation, 3 – 40
PO receipt, 9 – 8 charging resources with move transactions,
Resource Performance Report, 15 – 63 9 – 36

Index – 19
 constraint–based scheduling, 9 – 13, 13 – 8 simulated job, 3 – 112
instances, 9 – 14 work order–less assembly, 5 – 20
Manufacturing Scheduling, 9 – 3, 9 – 13 Routing revision date
simultaneous, 9 – 3, 13 – 8 discrete jobs, 3 – 70
simultaneous and alternate, 9 – 3, 9 – 13 pending jobs and schedules, 3 – 139
Resources branch (Discrete Workstation) repetitive schedule, 6 – 18
jobs for immediate dispatch, 3 – 44 simulated job, 3 – 112
jobs for upstream dispatch, 3 – 52 work order–less assembly, 5 – 20
Resource Requirements tab (jobs for Routings, 2 – 4, 8 – 6 to 8 – 10
immediate dispatch), 3 – 44 engineering, 2 – 4
Resource Requirements tab (jobs for Routings and Operations, 8 – 6 to 8 – 10
upstream dispatch), 3 – 52
Rules
Respond to sales order changes, parameter, backflush transaction, 7 – 71
2 – 31 move completions, 8 – 47
Resubmitting jobs with a pending close status, move returns, 8 – 47
3 – 125 Run intraoperation step, 8 – 9
Returning components, overview, 7 – 39
Returns
assembly, 7 – 76
repetitive component, 7 – 41
S
Reverse, backflush transactions, 7 – 70 Sales order, Flow schedule reservations, 5 – 9
Revision Sales order line, 3 – 75, 5 – 19, 5 – 28
discrete job routing, 3 – 69 Sales order number, final assembly orders,
issue transactions, 7 – 49 15 – 4
replenishment transactions, 7 – 66 Sales order reservations, Work Order–less
return transactions, 7 – 49 Completion transactions, 5 – 5
work order–less substitute component, Sales orders
5 – 25, 5 – 27 Linking Sales Orders and Discrete Jobs,
Revision control, issue transaction, 7 – 41 3 – 74
Rework production, 8 – 69 Over–completion reservations, 3 – 77
non–standard job, 8 – 70 reserving, 5 – 9
reject intraoperation step, 8 – 70 Save Simulated Job window, saving simulated
rework operations, 8 – 70 jobs, 3 – 113
Rolling material forward, process diagram, Schedule group
6 – 37 assigning, 3 – 71
Routing alternate build sequencing, 3 – 61
discrete job, 3 – 69 for pending jobs, 3 – 137
line/assembly association, 6 – 9 work order–less completion, 5 – 18
work order–less assembly, 5 – 21 Schedule Group Listing Report, 15 – 67
Routing reference Schedule tab, 3 – 33
non–standard discrete jobs, 3 – 69 Scheduling
pending jobs and schedules, 3 – 139 constraint–based, 13 – 4
Routing revision constraint–based sheduling of resources,
discrete job, 3 – 69 13 – 8
pending jobs and schedules, 3 – 139 discrete completion date, 13 – 5
repetitive schedules, 6 – 18

Index – 20 Oracle Work in Process User’s Guide

 discrete job detailed scheduling, 13 – 7 to Serial number
13 – 8 backflushing, 7 – 74
discrete jobs, 13 – 5 issue transaction, 7 – 50, 7 – 56, 7 – 67
discrete jobs with routings, 3 – 66 work order–less component, 5 – 26, 5 – 27
discrete jobs without routings, 3 – 67 Setup (Work in Process)
discrete material requirement dates, 13 – 6 overview, 2 – 2
discrete operation dates, 13 – 6 related products, 2 – 3
discrete start date, 13 – 5 setup checklist, 2 – 7
production line, 13 – 14 setup flowchart, 2 – 6
repetitive lead times, 13 – 14, 13 – 16 setup steps, 2 – 8
repetitive line, 13 – 14 Setup references
repetitive processing days, 13 – 15 discrete manufacturing, 3 – 8
repetitive production rate, 13 – 14 flow manufacturing, 5 – 7
repetitive schedule dates diagram, 13 – 17 material control, 7 – 6
repetitive schedules forward, 13 – 16 repetitive manufacturing, 6 – 6
resource, 9 – 13 resource management, 9 – 6
sequencing repetitive assemblies on a line, shop floor control, 8 – 5
13 – 18 Work in Process costing, 12 – 5
Scheduling dates, repetitive schedules, 6 – 17 Shop floor control
Scheduling method, for pending job, 3 – 137 interoperation move transactions diagram,
Scheduling option 8 – 27
next operation overlap, 9 – 19 intraoperation move transactions diagram,
previous operation overlap, 9 – 19 8 – 28
resource requirements, 9 – 19 managing outside processing, 8 – 69 to 8 – 72
Scheduling resources, 9 – 18 operation completion transactions diagram,
Scrap 8 – 29
assemblies, 8 – 71 overview, 8 – 2
costing, 8 – 71 Shop floor status
effect on backflush components, 8 – 72 discrete job, 8 – 67
netting assemblies, 8 – 72 overview, 8 – 63
recovery, 8 – 71 repetitive line/assembly, 8 – 67
scrapping Flow schedule assemblies, 5 – 27 Shop Floor Statuses Report, 15 – 68
transactions, 8 – 71 Shop Floor Statuses window, Defining Shop
Scrap intraoperation step, 8 – 10 Floor Statuses, 2 – 51
Scrapping or returning from scrap, Simulate Discrete Jobs window, Simulating
unscheduled Flow assemblies, 5 – 28 Discrete Jobs, 3 – 111
Security functions, 2 – 76 Simulating and saving simulated jobs,
Selecting a department or resource (Discrete overview, 3 – 111
Workstation), 3 – 14 Source code
Selecting the line and line operation (Flow pending job and schedules, 3 – 136
Workstation), 5 – 34 pending move transaction, 8 – 57
Sequence pending resource transaction, 9 – 49
material requirement, 7 – 11 Source line
operation, 8 – 13 pending jobs and schedules, 3 – 136
resource requirement, 9 – 17, 9 – 26 pending move transaction, 8 – 57

Index – 21
 pending resource transaction, 9 – 49 Status control
Specifying Discrete job purge options, 3 – 130 discrete job, 11 – 4
Standard cost adjustment variance, 12 – 10 for cost update transactions, 11 – 17
for job close transactions, 11 – 17
Standard discrete jobs, versus non–standard for material, move, and resource
discrete jobs, 4 – 4 transactions, 11 – 17
Standard rate resource charge, enabling, 9 – 20 for period close transactions, 11 – 17
Start date for purge transactions, 11 – 17
discrete job, 3 – 66 repetitive schedules, 11 – 10
first unit, 6 – 17 Statuses
job simulation, 3 – 112 discrete job, 11 – 2, 11 – 7
last unit, 6 – 17 processing for discrete jobs, 11 – 8
Start quantity, Discrete jobs, 3 – 66 repetitive schedule, 11 – 2, 11 – 12
Startup window (Flow Workstation), 5 – 34 shop floor, 8 – 63
Status user controlled for discrete jobs, 11 – 7
cancelled discrete job, 11 – 8 user controlled for repetitive schedules,
cancelled repetitive schedule, 11 – 13 11 – 12
checking close request statuses, 3 – 125 using, 11 – 22 to 11 – 24
closed discrete job, 11 – 8 using to close discrete jobs, 11 – 23 to 11 – 25
complete discrete job, 11 – 7 using to sequence repetitive schedules,
complete repetitive schedule, 11 – 12 11 – 23 to 11 – 25
complete–no charges discrete job, 11 – 7 using to start production, 11 – 22 to 11 – 24
complete–no charges repetitive schedule, using to stop production, 11 – 22 to 11 – 24
11 – 13 Steps
Discrete job, 3 – 65 intraoperation, 8 – 9
failed bill load discrete job, 11 – 8 Work in Process setup, 2 – 8
failed close discrete job, 11 – 9 Subinventory
failed routing load discrete job, 11 – 9 discrete job completion, 3 – 70
intraoperation step, 8 – 68 line/assembly completion, 6 – 9
job, 15 – 5 substitute component, 5 – 25
name, 2 – 51 Substitute, component quantity, 5 – 26
on hold discrete job, 11 – 7 Substitution type, 5 – 26
on hold repetitive schedule, 11 – 13 add, 5 – 26
pending bill load discrete job, 11 – 8 change, 5 – 26
pending close discrete job, 11 – 9 delete, 5 – 26
pending job, 3 – 137 lot/serial specification, 5 – 26
pending mass loaded repetitive schedule,
11 – 14 Supplier access to outside processing purchase
pending routing load discrete job, 11 – 8 orders, 10 – 45
processing for repetitive schedule, 11 – 14 Supply locator
released discrete job, 11 – 7 backflush, 7 – 72
released repetitive schedule, 11 – 12 issue transactions, 7 – 48
unreleased discrete job, 11 – 7 material requirement, 7 – 12
unreleased repetitive schedule, 11 – 12 parameter, 2 – 33
Status changes replenishing, 7 – 63
discrete job, 11 – 15 replenishment transaction, 7 – 64, 7 – 67
repetitive schedules, 11 – 15 return transactions, 7 – 48

Index – 22 Oracle Work in Process User’s Guide

 WIP material transactions, 7 – 48 checking job close requests, 3 – 125
work order–less substitute component, choosing purge options for discrete jobs,
5 – 25, 5 – 27 3 – 130
Supply subinventory choosing purge options for repetitive
backflush, 7 – 72 schedules, 6 – 44
issue transaction, 7 – 48 closing Discrete jobs, 3 – 125
material requirement, 7 – 12 closing discrete jobs, 3 – 123
parameter, 2 – 33 options, F – 2
replenishing, 7 – 63 printing discrete job reports, 3 – 93
replenishment transaction, 7 – 64, 7 – 67 printing repetitive schedule reports, 6 – 23
return transaction, 7 – 48 reopening Discrete jobs, 3 – 123, 3 – 125
WIP material transaction, 7 – 48 resubmitting failed jobs and schedules,
work order–less substitute component, 3 – 139
5 – 25, 5 – 27 resubmitting failed move transactions, 8 – 59
Supply type Save Simulated Job, 3 – 113
based on bill, D – 2 viewing component item details, 7 – 57
bulk supply types, D – 3 viewing pending job transactions, 3 – 97
discrete job, 3 – 69 Transaction options
line/assembly association, 6 – 9 backflush, 7 – 72
material requirement, 7 – 12 component issue, 7 – 43
operation pull, D – 3 component return, 7 – 43
overview, D – 2 moving assemblies, 8 – 34
pending job, 3 – 138 replenishing supply locators, 7 – 63
push, D – 4 replenishing supply subinventories, 7 – 63
supplier, D – 4 resource charge, 9 – 31
WIP Material, 7 – 43
Transaction Summary window, viewing
T pending job transactions, 3 – 97
Transaction types
Task completion, 7 – 86
discrete job, 3 – 71 move, 8 – 36
for pending job, 3 – 137 replenishment supply subinventory, 7 – 45
work order–less assembly, 5 – 21 WIP assembly completion, 7 – 86
Time Charges tab, charging resources WIP assembly returns, 7 – 86
manually, 3 – 40 WIP component issue, 7 – 45
Time Charges tab (Discrete Workstation), WIP component return, 7 – 45
3 – 39 WIP negative component issue, 7 – 45
To move intraoperation step, 8 – 9 WIP negative component return, 7 – 45
Work Order–less Assembly Completion,
Tolerances, over–completions
5 – 14
item level, 7 – 81
Work Order–less Assembly Return, 5 – 15
job or schedule level, 7 – 82
Work Order–less Completion transactions,
organization level, 7 – 81
5 – 14
Toolbar, Flow Workstation, 5 – 33
Transactions
Tools menu backflush assembly, 7 – 75
apply default job name, 3 – 64 backflush operation, 8 – 43
changing job statuses, 3 – 109 backflushing negative requirements, 8 – 43
changing repetitive schedule statuses, 6 – 32

Index – 23
 Discrete Workstation, 3 – 15 Value, resource requirement, 9 – 18
Flow Workstation, 5 – 38 Variance
issuing components, 7 – 39 material usage, 12 – 10
resubmitting failed transactions, 5 – 27 move based overhead efficiency, 12 – 10
returning components, 7 – 39 outside processing efficiency, 12 – 10
scrap, 8 – 71 resource based overhead efficiency, 12 – 10
Viewing Move Transactions, 8 – 52 resource efficiency, 12 – 10
Work Order–less Completion, 5 – 11 standard cost adjustment, 12 – 10
Transfer quantity, minimum, 8 – 40, 8 – 50 Work in Process variances, 12 – 10
Type, substitution, 5 – 26 View Accounting window, customizing, 9 – 42
View Discrete Jobs Summary window, Viewing
Discrete Job Information, 3 – 95
U View Discrete Jobs window, Viewing Discrete
Job Information, 3 – 95
UOM
backflush transaction, 8 – 46 View Instructions button (Discrete
issue transactions, 7 – 50 Workstation), 3 – 20
move transactions, 8 – 40, 8 – 50, 9 – 35 View Instructions button (Flow Workstation),
pending move transaction, 8 – 58 5 – 52
pending resource transaction, 9 – 50 View Material Requirements window, Viewing
replenishing higher level supply, 7 – 69 Material Requirements, 7 – 15
replenishment supply subinventory, 7 – 67 View Move Transactions window, Viewing
return transactions, 7 – 50 Move Transactions, 8 – 52
scrap, 8 – 73 View Operations window, Viewing Operations,
WIP material transactions, 7 – 50 8 – 21
work order–less completion, 5 – 19
View Repetitive Schedules Summary window,
Updating Discrete jobs, 3 – 104 Viewing Repetitive Schedule Information,
Upstream Dispatch List branch (Discrete 6 – 25
Workstation), 3 – 47 View Repetitive Schedules window, Viewing
jobs for upstream dispatch branches, 3 – 47 Repetitive Schedule Information, 6 – 25
Usage rate, resource requirement, 9 – 18 View Resource Accounting window, 9 – 40,
Utilization tab, 3 – 23 9 – 41
Utilization graph, 3 – 24 View Resource Requirements window,
Viewing Resource Requirements, 9 – 28
View Resource Transactions window, 9 – 39
V Viewing Resource Transactions, 9 – 39
Valuation Viewing accounting lines, 9 – 40
material asset account, 2 – 45 Viewing component requirements, 3 – 96
material expense account, 2 – 46 Viewing Discrete jobs, 3 – 95
material overhead asset account, 2 – 45
Viewing error details for failed job/schedule
outside processing asset account, 2 – 46
records, 3 – 135
overhead asset account, 2 – 46
overhead expense account, 2 – 47 Viewing job and schedule interface records,
resource asset account, 2 – 46 3 – 134
resource expense account, 2 – 46, 2 – 47 Viewing job transaction genealogy, 3 – 100
standard cost expense account, 2 – 47 Viewing Move Transactions, 8 – 52

Index – 24 Oracle Work in Process User’s Guide

Viewing operations, 3 – 96 repetitive rescheduling, 13 – 19
Viewing pending job information, 3 – 96 WIP Value Report, 15 – 79
Viewing Pending Job Transactions, 3 – 97 Work in Process Parameters window, Defining
Viewing Resource Transactions, 9 – 39 WIP Parameters, 2 – 30
Viewing sales orders linked to standard Work Order Interface, 3 – 57
Discrete jobs, 3 – 96 Work order–less assembly, accounting class,
Viewing simulated component requirements, 5 – 21
3 – 114 Work Order–less Completion assemblies,
Viewing simulated job operations, 3 – 114 5 – 18
Work Order–less Completion transactions
assemble–to–order reservations, 5 – 5
W collecting Quality results in Flow
manufacturing, 5 – 4
Windows, navigator paths, A – 2 completing or returning unscheduled Flow
WIP Account Distribution Report, 15 – 69 assemblies, 5 – 17
WIP Account Summary Report, 15 – 72 completing unscheduled assemblies (Flow
Workstation), 5 – 39
WIP accounting class defaults, 3 – 60
component backflush, 5 – 4
non–project related, 3 – 60
component substitutions, 5 – 4
project related, 3 – 61
Flow manufacturing, 5 – 3
WIP Accounting Class window, Defining WIP Flow schedule completions, 5 – 8
Accounting Classes, 2 – 48 Flow schedule reservations, 5 – 9
WIP Accounting Classes Report, 15 – 73 Inventory Transaction Open Interface, 5 – 5
WIP Accounting Lines window, 9 – 42, 9 – 43 lot and serial number control, 5 – 5
WIP Location Report, 15 – 74 non–project discrete accounting class
defaults, 3 – 60
WIP Material Transactions window
non–updateable fields, 5 – 13
Issuing and Returning All Components,
overview, 5 – 11
7 – 51
Performing Work Order–less Completions,
Issuing and Returning Specific Components,
5 – 17
7 – 47
production kanban replenishment, 5 – 4
Replenishing Supply Subinventories and
sales order reservations, 5 – 5
Locators, 7 – 64
TP:WIP:Work Order–less Default
WIP Move, charge type, 9 – 7 Completion profile option, 2 – 71
WIP Offsetting Account Report, 15 – 76 transaction types, 5 – 14
WIP Outside Processing Report, 15 – 77 Work Order–less Completions window
WIP parameters, defining, 2 – 30 completing unscheduled assemblies, 5 – 39
WIP Parameters Report, 15 – 78 opening from the Flow Workstation, 5 – 39,
5 – 52
WIP scheduling
Performing Work Order–less Completions,
detailed scheduling, 13 – 7
5 – 17
discrete rescheduling, 13 – 12
discrete scheduling, 13 – 5 Workday calendar, 2 – 4
repetitive line, 13 – 14

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