Oracle EBSR12 Inventory Version 01

Oracle Inventory
Oracle Inventory Application Integration
Oracle
WIP
Oracle Cost Oracle
Management Flow
Manufacturing
Oracle Oracle
Purchasing Project
Manufacturing
Oracle
Inventory
Oracle Order
Management Oracle ASCP/
Oracle GOP
Oracle Oracle Bills
Engineering Oracle of Material
Shipping
Copyright 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Integration of Oracle Inventory to
Financial Applications
External
Systems
Oracle Oracle
Payables General
Ledger
Oracle
Inventory
Oracle Oracle
Receivables Assets
Oracle Inventory is one of Oracles enterprise applications products. Oracle Inventory enables companies to satisfy
business needs such as these:
Defining part numbers
Modeling organization structures
Tracking perpetual inventory
Maintaining accurate on-hand balances
Planning material replenishments
Forecasting anticipated demand
Define Locations
To Enable Egypt Still And EGP Currency
Global HRMS Manager View>Requests> International HRMS Setup

Human Resources. Location Address
Country list Of Value = PER_TERRITORIES
Human Resources. Personal Address Information
Before Define Location Apply This Note.
When attempting to add a location in form PERWSLOC.fmx, the following error occurs:
ERROR
FRM-40735: ON-INSERT trigger raised unhandled exception ORA -29273.
The profile option: IRC: Geocode Host has the value:
http://elocation.oracle.com/elocation/lbs at the site level.
STEPS
The issue can be reproduced at will with the following steps:
Navigate to the Human Resources Super User, query up the Locations form and add a new Location,
press the save button. The error happens on the save.
BUSINESS IMPACT
The issue has the following business impact:
Due to this issue, It is impacting a suppliers conversion that is needed for CRP1 (1st milestone).
SOLUTION
To implement the solution, please execute the following steps:
1. Go into the responsibility: System Administrator
2. Navigate to Profile > System.
3. Clear the value at the Site level for the profile option IRC: Geocode Host.
4. Retest the issue.
5. Migrate the solution as appropriate to other environments.
To Define Location
Implementation of Inventory
The first step in Inventory implementation is to design the flex field structures.
Of all the key flexfield system items is the most important. It's used to store the item information.
Oracle Inventory Flexfields
Oracle Inventory provides the following flexfields:
1. System Items
2. Item Catalogs
3. Item Categories
4. Stock Locators
5. Account Aliases
6. Sales Orders
Depending on your system's setup, Inventory may also use some or all of the following Flexfields provided by other Oracle products:
Accounting (Oracle General Ledger)

Sales Tax Location (Oracle Receivables)
Territory (Oracle Receivables)
1. System Items
You can use the System Items Flexfield (also called the Item Flexfield) for recording and r eporting your item information.
You must design and configure your Item Flexfield before you can start defining items.
All Oracle Applications products that reference items share the Item Flexfield and support multiple -segment implementations. However, This
flexfield supports only one structure.
You must set up your OE: Item Flexfield profile option to specify the Item Flexfield structure that you will use for your Oracle applications.
Users can also set up the OE: Item Flexfield Entry Method profile option to specify your preferred method of entry for thi s flexfield.
You can optionally use the item flexfield to default item information for invoice, debit memo, and credit memo lines or you c an enter your own
line information.
2. Item Catalogs
This key flexfield supports only one structure.
3. Item Categories
You must design and configure your Item Categories Flexfield before you can start defining items since all items must be assi gned to
categories. You can define multiple structures for your Item Categories Flexfield, each structure corres ponding to a different category
grouping scheme. You can then associate these structures with the categories and category sets you define.
ITEM_CATEGORIES
4. Stock Locators
You can use the Stock Locators Flexfield to capture more information about stock locators in inventory. If you do not have Oracle Inventory
installed, or none of your items have locator control, it is not necessary to set up this flexfield.
If you keep track of specific locators such as aisle, row, bin indicators for your i tems, you need to configure your Stock Locators Flexfield and
implement locator control in your organization.
To Define List Of Value For Row
- Value Set Name = Sh Stock Row
- Value Set Name = Sh Stock Shelf
- Add Value For LOV 's
Up Load Data Manual Or Using Data Loader
A TAB *DN
B TAB *DN
C TAB *DN
D TAB *DN
E TAB *DN
F TAB *DN
G TAB *DN
H TAB *DN
I TAB *DN
J TAB *DN
K TAB *DN
L TAB *DN
M TAB *DN
N TAB *DN
O TAB *DN
Q TAB *DN *SAVE
Stock Locator Shelf Row Shelf Shelf Desc.
*AV \F T AB B ENT *NB *AF \N 000001 T AB Shelf 000001 T AB T AB *SAVE *PB
*AV \F T AB C ENT *NB *AF \N 000004 T AB Shelf 000004 T AB T AB *SAVE *PB
*AV \F T AB D ENT *NB *AF \N 000007 T AB Shelf 000007 T AB T AB *SAVE *PB
*AV \F T AB E ENT *NB *AF \N 000010 T AB Shelf 000010 T AB T AB *SAVE *PB
*AV \F T AB F ENT *NB *AF \N 000013 T AB Shelf 000013 T AB T AB *SAVE *PB
*AV \F T AB F ENT *NB *AF \N 000014 T AB Shelf 000014 T AB T AB *SAVE *PB
*AV \F T AB G ENT *NB *AF \N 000015 T AB Shelf 000015 T AB T AB *SAVE *PB
*AV \F T AB H ENT *NB *AF \N 000016 T AB Shelf 000016 T AB T AB *SAVE *PB
- Now Return To Key Flexfield To Assign Lov To Segment
- Compile Flexfield
5. Account Aliases
6. Sales Order
The Sales Order Flexfield is a key flexfield used by Oracle Inventory to uniquely identify sales order transactions Oracle Order Management
interfaces to Oracle Inventory.
Your Sales Order Flexfield should be defined as Order Number, Order Type, and Order Source. This combination guarantees each
transaction to Inventory is unique. You must define this flexfield before placing demand or making reservations in Oracle Ord er Management.
You must set up the OM: Source Code profile option to determine the source code you will use in for the third segment of this flexfield to
guarantee that each transaction is unique. (Oracle Inventory defaults the value of the OM: Source Code profile option to 'ORDER ENTRY '.)
For your value sets, you must use Dynamic Inserts. The Validation Type should be None. Value Required should be Yes to improve
performance of concurrent programs. The value set must be alphanumeric. The value set maximum size must be 40.
You should set the Required field to Yes in the Validation Information region when enabling the flexfield segments. Setting this field to Yes,
improves performance when updating existing demand or reservations by guaranteeing that Oracle Order Management always suppli es a
value.
Set Right-justify Zero-fill Numbers to No so sales order numbers are not padded with zeros.
Oracle Inventory defines a unique ID for each order in MTL_SALES_ORDERS based on this flexfield. The Inventory unique ID, as opposed to
the Order Management unique ID, is used throughout Oracle Manufacturing applications.
Define workday calendar
Calendar Exception Templates
Defining Organizations
Defining Organizations
Set of Books
Operating Unit
Inventory Inventory
Organization A Organization B
Subinventory Subinventory Subinventory Subinventory
Locator Locator Locator Locator Locator
Inventory Organization Structure
Organization
Subinventories
Locators

Multi-org often refers to an Oracle Applications setup used to enable multiple business units in a single install.
With multi-org, a business enterprise may set up multiple business units with differing sets of books, operating units, and legal entities all within a single
instance.
With multi-org, goods my be sold out of one operating unit or legal entity and shipped out of another, and the system will process an intercompany sale to
properly account for it.
M ulti-org, however, should not be mistaken for installs with multiple inventory organizations.
You do not have to use Oracle Applications multi-org to support multiple inventory organizations if all the inventory organizations share the same set of
books, operating unit, and legal entity.
Location: A location is simply a name and address, and is assigned to an organization or used to indicate delivery information on a purchase order.
You may define as many locations as you like, but only one location may be assigned to an inventory organization.
Business group is a group of companies that does business in different markets under common administrative or financial control whose members are linked
by relations of interpersonal trust on the bases of similar personal ethnic or commercial background a business group.
S et of Books (S OB): The financial entity that represents the chart of accounts, fiscal calendar, and base currency. The SOB is set up in the General Ledger.
Legal Entity Organization: An entity used to represent a legal company. Fiscal and tax reporting are done at the Legal Entity level.
A legal employer is a legal entity that is responsible for employing people in a particular country. Therefore, if you employ people in a country, then you
must have at least one organization classified as a legal entity and a legal employer.
The Configuration Workbench classifies an organization as a GRE/Legal Entity where your enterprise operates in a country, and classifies it as an Employer
if you employ people in that country also. For example, you can have a legal entity in a country where you do business, but do not employ people in that
country.
Operating Unit Organization: A business unit that shares a common Purchasing, Accounts Payable, Order Entry and Accounts Receivable setup.
An operating unit may consist of multiple inventory organizations, with multiple manufacturing sites, distribution centers, and sales offices, but they share a
common sales order and purchase order system.
For example, a sales order may have lines shipping from different inventory organizations or a purchase order may have lines destined for different inventory
organizations.
Inventory Organization: An entity used to represent a manufacturing or distribution site.

Inventory organizations are where a user tracks on-hand balances, manufactures goods, and transacts the daily ins and outs of material movement.
An inventory organization is the lowest level entity for costing goods, planning material requirement s, and securing system access.
Only a single address may be assigned to an Inventory Organization.
An inventory organization is assigned a Set of Books which determines the chart of accounts, fiscal calendar, and base currency for all financial and value
added activities that occur within the organization.
Inventory Organizations are also assigned to a Legal Entity Organization and an Operating Unit Organization.
A variation on the inventory organization is the master item organization.
Generally, with Oracle Applications a single inventory organization is created and designated at the master organization. Items are defined first in the master
organization, then enabled in other inventory organizations as necessary.
Some of the item attributes are set as controlled at the master organization and therefore the attribute values cannot be updated within individual inventory
organizations.
Category sets may also be designated as master organization level. Cross-references are also master level only or master level optional as well.
S ubinventory: Physical or logical locations for storing inventory.

Subinventories are generally defined to represent the main stores area as well as stocking p oints on the production floor.
Additional subinventories may be used to specify supply closets or cabinets and the cage area for discrepant material.
Subinventories are flagged as to availability for planning (nettable), reservations, and available to promise checks, thereby determining the availability of the
material stored in the subinventory.
Subinventories are assigned material asset account numbers. As goods move in and out of a subinventory a transaction posts to the asset account.
S tock Locator: A physical area within a stockroom.
The stock locator is a key flexfield that is often defined as a multiple segment flexfield with the segments representing the physical layout of a stockroom.
For example, a stockroom may be laid out in rows of shelves with bins on the shelves, each numbered so that a row/shelf/bin combination would direct
someone to a particular material storage compartment.
Such an implementation would define a locator flexfield as a 3 segment flexfield with segments for row, shelf, and bin.
Define Operating Unit
Save
Save
Replicate Seed Data
System Administrator> Requests
Run Request == Replicate Seed Data
Define Your Own Inventory Responsibility same As Inventory
Profile Option For New Responsibility

Profile Option Name Value
HR: Security Profile Vision Corporation
HR:Business Group Vision Corporation
HR:User Type HR with Payroll User
MO: Default Operating Unit SH OU
MO: Operating Unit SH OU
MO: Security Profile Vision Corporation
GL Ledger Name Vision Operations (USA)
INV:Override Neg for Backflush NO
TP:INV Transaction processing mode online
Define Master Organization
Save
Save
Define Inventory Organization SH1
Define Inventory Organization SH2
Define Inventory Parameter For Inventory Organization

Inventory : Setup -> Organizations -> Organization
Item Master Organization
You define items in one organization. To distinguish it from others, we call it the Item Master organization.
Other organizations (child organizations) refer to the Item M aster for item definition.
After you define an item in the Item M aster, you can assign it to any number of other organizations.
Note : There is no functional or technical difference between the Item M aster organization and other organizations.
However, for simplicity, Oracle recommends that you limit the Item M aster to just an item definition organization.
Oracle also recommends that you do not define multiple item masters.
This can make item definition and maintenance confusing.
In addition, multiple item masters are distinct entities, with no relationship to each other.
You cannot associate items in one item master organization with another item master organization.
You cannot copy items across item master organizations.
To Create The Item Master:
1. Use the Organization window to create the organization you want to use as the Item M aster.
2. Use the Organization Parameters window to specify that organization as the Item M aster.
This is also where you assign child organizations to the Item M aster.
The item master organization uses itself as the Item M aster.
You can define and update default inventory and costing parameters for your current organization in the following areas:
1. Inventory Parameters
2. Costing Information
3. Other Account Parameters
4. Revision, Lot, Serial, LPN Parameters
5. ATP, Pick, ItemSourcing Parameters
6. Defining InterOrganization Information
7. Defining Warehouse Parameters
1. Enter an organization code for which you want to set up the organization parameter.
2. S elect an Item Master organization. Oracle Inventory only defines items in the Item M aster organization of the organization from which you
enter the Items window.
3. S elect a workday calendar. This is required when Oracle M aster Scheduling/M RP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning is installed.
4. Optionally, select a demand class. Demand classes segregate scheduled demand and production into groups, allowing you to track and
consume those groups independently. Oracle M aster Scheduling/M RP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning uses this demand class during forecast
consumption, and shipment and production relief.
5. In the Move Order Timeout Period field, enter the number of days a move order requisition can wait for approval.
The workflow approval process sends a notification to the item planner when a move order requisition requires approval.
After the first timeout period, if the recipient has not approved or rejected the order, a reminder notice is sent.
After the second timeout period, the order is automatically approved or rejected, depending on whether you select Approve aut omatically or Reject
automatically in the M ove Order Timeout Action field.
If you want to bypass the move order approval process and automatically approve move order requisitions, enter 0 days in the M ove Order Timeout
Period field and select Approve automatically in the M ove Order Timeout Action field.
6. S elect a move order timeout action
Approve automatically: After the second timeout period, move order requisitions are automatically approved. Select this option and set the M ove
Order Timeout Period to 0 if you want to bypass the move order approval process and automatically approve move order requisit ions.
Reject automatically: After the second timeout period, move order requisitions are automatically rejected.
7. S elect a locator control option:
None: Inventory transactions within this organization do not require locator information.
Prespecified only: Inventory transactions within this organization require a valid, predefined locator for each item.
Dynamic entry allowed: Inventory transactions within this organization require a locator for each item. You can choose a valid, predefined locator,
or define a locator dynamically at the time of transaction.
Determined at subinventory level: Inventory transactions use locator control information that you define at the subinventory level.
Quality S kipping Inspection Control : Indicate whether to allow quality skipping for inspections .
Indicate whether locator aliases must be unique across the organization.
Indicate whether to Allow Negative Balances.

Determines whether inventory transactions can drive the inventory balance of an item negative.
Attention: If insufficient quantity on hand exists in a supply subinventory to satisfy backflush demand, Oracle Work in Process forces the supply
subinventory balance negative, ignoring this option setting.
Auto delete allocation at Move Order cancellation

Indicate whether this organization is an Oracle Warehouse Management enabled organization.
You can use WM S features such as LPNs, task management, warehouse execution rules and cost
groups in this organization. Locator control must be enabled in order to enable WM S.
Once this has been enabled and transactions have been entered in this organization, this box cannot be unchecked.
Indicate whether this organization is an Oracle Enterprise Asset Management enabled Organization.
Enter a total load weight and unit of measure for this organization.
Enter a total volume and unit of measure for this organization.
8 . S elect a Default On-hand Material S tatus tracking option.

This step is optional.
Attention: You cannot update this field for existing organizations.
To enable this field, you must submit the Activate Onhand Level M aterial Status Tracking concurrent program.
1. Costing Organization
2. Costing Method
3. Transfer to GL Indicate whether all transactions are posted in detail to the general ledger.
Caution: Transferring detail transaction distributions to the general ledger increases general ledger posting times due to the number of records created.
4. Reverse Encumbrance Indicate whether to reverse encumbrance entry upon receipt in inventory.
You normally select this option if you use encumbrances with Oracle Purchasing.
5. Optionally, enter a Cost Cutoff Date
If you leave this field blank, all available transactions will be costed as usual.
If you enter a date, all transactions prior to this date will be costed.
All transactions on or later than this date will not be costed.
For interorganization transfers, a standard costing, receiving organization will not cost a receipt if the sending organization did not already cost the
transaction.
The default time is the first instant of the date. You can optionally choose another time.
The standard cost update process can be performed on the cost cutoff date. You can restart cost processing by changing the cutoff date to blank, or a future
date.
6. Default Material S ub element

For standard costing, select a material subelement that this organization uses as a default when you define item costs. For average costing, the default
material subelement you select can be used for cost collection when Project Cost Collection Enabled is set.
7. Material Over head S ub element
Optionally, select a Default M aterial Overhead SubElement from the list of values. During the Supply Chain Rollup process, when costs are merged from
another organization, markup and shipping costs will use this value.
The supply chain cost rollup will complete successfully, regardless of whether this field is populated. If the Cost Rollup identifies an organization with a
default material overhead subelement not set up, a corresponding warning message will be printed in the log file.
8. Default Cost Group
Indicate the default cost group for the organization. This will default into the Default Cost Group field for each subinventory. If the WM S cost group rules
engine fails to find a cost group, this cost group will be used.
9. Valuation Accounts
You choose a default valuation account when you define organization parameters. Under standard costing, these accounts are defaulted when you define
subinventories and can be overridden. Under average costing, these accounts (except for Expense) are used for subinventory transactions and cannot be
updated. For a detailed discussion of cost
elements.
Material An asset account that tracks material cost. For average costing, this account holds your inventory
and intransit values. Once you perform transactions, you cannot change this account.
Material Overhead An asset account that tracks material overhead cost.
Resource An asset account that tracks resource cost.
Overhead An asset account that tracks resource and outside processing overheads.
Outside processing An asset account that tracks outside processing cost.
Expense The expense account used when tracking a nonasset item.
Enter The Following Valuation Account
Account Type Account

Material 01-000-1410-0000-000
Outside processing 01-000-1450-0000-000
Material Overhead 01-000-1420-0000-000
Overhead 01-000-1430-0000-000
Resource 01-000-1440-0000-000
Expense 01-520-7530-0000-000
Revision, Lot, Serial, LPN Parameters
Enter a starting revision to be the default for each new item.
Lot Number
1. Select an option for lot number uniqueness.
Across items: Enforce unique lot numbers for items across all organizations.
None: Unique lot numbers are not required.
2. Select an option for lot number generation.

Userdefined: Enter userdefined lot numbers when you receive items.
At organization level: Define the starting prefix and lot number information for items using the values you enter in the Prefix, Zero Pad Suffix, and Total
Length fields. When you receive items, this information is used to automatically generate lot numbers for your items.
At item level: Define the starting lot number prefix and the starting lot number when you define the item. This information is used to generate a lot number
for the item when it is received.
3. Indicate whether to add zeroes to rightjustify the numeric portion of lot numbers (Zero Pad Suffix).
4. Optionally, select an alphanumeric lot number prefix to use for systemgenerated lot numbers when generation is at the organization level.
5. Optionally, define the maximum length for lot numbers. If you use Oracle Work in Process and you set the WIP parameter to default the lot number based
on inventory rules, then WIP validates the length of the lot number against the length you define in this field.
S erial Number
1. Select an option for serial number uniqueness.
Within inventory items: Enforce unique serial numbers for inventory items.
Within organization: Enforce unique serial numbers within the current organization.
Across organizations: Enforce unique serial numbers throughout all organizations.
2. Select an option for serial number generation.

At organization level: Define the starting prefix and serial number information for items using the information you enter in the following fields of this
window.
At item level: Define the starting serial number prefix and the starting serial number when you define the item.
3. Optionally, select an alphanumeric serial number prefix to use for systemgenerated serial numbers when generation is at the organization level.
4. Optionally, enter a starting serial number to use for systemgenerated serial numbers.
If serial number generation is at the organization level you must enter a starting serial number.
5. Indicate whether the system will suggest serial numbers as part of the move order line allocating process. If you do not select this option, you must
manually enter the serial numbers in order to transact the move order.
ATP, Pick, ItemSourcing Parameters
S elect a default ATP rule.
ATP rules define the options used to calculate the available to promise quantity of an item. If you are using Oracle Order
M anagement, the default is the ATP rule for the M aster organization.
Picking Defaults
S elect a default picking rule.
Picking rules define the priority that order management functions use to pick items.
Notes: This rule will not be employed in a WM S enabled organization. The WM S picking rules will be used.
Enter a default subinventory picking order.

This value indicates the priority with which you pick items from a subinventory, relative to another subinventory, in which a given item resides. The value
you enter here displays as the default when you define a subinventory.
Enter a default locator picking order.

This value indicates the priority with which you pick items from a locator, relative to another locator, where a given item resides. The value you enter here
displays as the default when you define a locator.
Check the Pick Confirmation Required box if you want your pickers to manually pick confirm. If you do not check the box, pick confirmation will occur
automatically.
Item-S ourcing Default

S elect a source type for item replenishment.
Inventory: Replenish items internally from another subinventory in the same organization or another organization.
Supplier: Replenish items externally, from a supplier you specify in Oracle Purchasing.
None: No default source for item replenishment.
S elect the organization used to replenish items.

You must enter a value in this field if you selected Inventory in the Type field.
S elect the subinventory used to replenish items.

You must enter a value in this field if you selected your current organization in the Organization field. You cannot enter a value in this field if you selected
Supplier in the Type field.
Other Account
Encumbrance: An expense account used to recognize the reservation of funds when a purchase order is approved.
Inventory A/P Accrual : The liability account that represents all inventory purchase order receipts not matched in Accounts Payable,
such as the uninvoiced receipts account.
Purchase Price Variance : The variance account used to record differences between purchase order price and standard cost.
This account is not used with the average cost method.
Invoice Price Variance : The variance account used to record differences between purchase order price and invoice price.
This account is used by Accounts Payable to record invoice price variance.
Cost of Goods S old: The profit and loss (income statement) account that tracks the default cost of goods sold account.
S ales: The profit and loss (income statement) account that tracks the default revenue account.
Project Clearance Account: When performing miscellaneous issues to capital projects, the project clearance account is used to post the distributions.
Average Cost Variance: Under average costing with negative quantity balances.
This account represents the inventory valuation error caused by issuing your inventory before your receipts.
Note: For standard costing, only the Purchase Price Variance, Inventory A/P Accrual, Invoice Price Variance, Expense, Sales and Cos t of Goods Sold
accounts are required. The other accounts are used as defaults to speed your set up.
Note: For average costing, only the M aterial, Average Cost Variance, Inventory A/P Accrual, Invoice Price Variance, Expense, Sales and Cost of Goods
Sold accounts are required. The other accounts are used as defaults or are not required.
Deferred cogs account: The Deferred COGS account holds the costs until Receivables recognizes the revenue.
Enter The Following Other Account Informati on:
Purchase Price Variance 01-520-5210-0000-000
Invoice Price Variance 01-520-5220-0000-000
Inventory AP Accrual 01-000-2220-0000-000
Encumbrance
Sales 01-520-4110-0000-000
Cost of Goods Sold 01-450-5110-0000-000
Deferred COGS Account 01-450-5110-0000-000
Cost Variance Account 01-000-1410-0000-000
Repeat This Steps For To Organization SH 1 And SH 2
Or You Can Use Organization Copy Functionality

Copying Inventory Organizations
You can create and update a large set of inventory organizations and their business entities, such as Subinventories, Items, Bills of material,
and Resources.
These entities can be copied and customized as part of an inventory organization copy.
This aids in the management of inventory organizational setup, which is mandatory for the use of Inventory, Costing, Bills of Material and
Work in Process. This feature is useful for companies that have a large number of inventory organizations.
You can copy a source inventory organization's parameters, defaults, and settings, in a single operation, to as many new organizations as you
wish for the following setup entities:
Bills of Material
Routings
Items
Categories
Subinventories
Shipping Networks
Inventory Parameters
WIP Parameters
BOM Parameters
Organization Mass Copy is a two-step process.
In order to copy source inventory organization structures, you must first set up entity APIs to load interface tables and then run the Copy
Organization concurrent program to export and import the setup data.
Prerequisites
Define an inventory organization
Define organization parameters.
Load interface tables:
Populate the Copy Organization Interface table with XML data to customize your new Inventory Organizations. You should
create an XML document with the minimum organization specific information for each new entity you wish to create.
1. Navigate to the Organization Copy Interface program. On the Find Interface Records form, select New.
Inventory > Setup> Organization >Organization Copy > Maintain Interface
2. Indicate the organization name, organization code, and a valid location for each new organization.
You can enter any optional information to override data belonging to the source inventory organization.
Note: If you want to use a new location, provide the required address information in order to define and associate the location
with the new organization.
3. Save the document as an XML file and place in the Copy Organization Interface Tables.
Copy Organizations:
A Java Loader program calls Business Entity APIs to perform the mass copy by copying through the XML interfaces and using
data from the interface tables.
1. Use the Setup Reports or Submit Requests window and enter Copy Inventory Organization in the Name field to submit the
report.
2. Enter the following parameters:
Model Organization: Enter the source inventory organization for the copying procedure.
Group Code: Enter the batch name that refers to the XML document created for loading.
Assign to Existing Hierarchies:

No Do not place this organization in e ve ry organization hie rarchy whe re the model organization is pre sent.
Yes Place this organization in e ve ry organization hie rarchy whe re the model organization is pre sent.
Copy Shipping Networks:
No Do not copy shipping ne twork information.
Yes Copy shipping ne twork information.
Copy Subinventories:
No Do not copy subinve ntorie s and related setups to ne w organizations.
Yes Copy subinve ntories and re lated se tups to ne w organizations.
Copy Items:
No Do not copy all ite ms activated in the mode l organization.
Yes Copy all ite ms activated in the mode l organization.
Copy Categories:
No Do not copy cate gory information to ne w organizations.
Yes Copy cate gory information to ne w organizations.
Copy BOM:
No Do not copy BOMs and BOM parameters.
Yes Copy all BOMs, BOM parame ters and re lated setups.
Copy Routings:
No Do not copy routing se tup information from the model organization.
Yes Copy routing se tup information from the model organization.
Purge:
No Do not purge Copy Organization Interface Tables.
Yes Purge Copy Organization Interface Table s.
Organization Access
Receiving Options

Receiving Inventory Account 01-000-1410-0000-000
Clearing Account 01-000-1410-0000-000
Subinventories
Subinventories are unique physical or logical separations of material inventory, such as raw inventory, finished goods, or
defective material. All material within an organization resides in a subinventory.
There are two types of subinventories within Warehouse Management, storage and receiving.
Storage subinventories are intermediate or final put away locations for material.
Material that resides in a storage subinventory appears in on hand quantity , and is tracked by the system.
The system can book orders against, and use manufacturing processes on material that res ides in a storage subinventory.
You must define at least one storage subinventory for your implementation.
Receiving subinventories. Optionally, you can create receiving subinventories to track material in the receiving area.
You use receiving Subinventories when you want to track the material as soon as it enters the warehouse before an operator
puts it away. Receiving subinventories enable managers to see where the material resides as soon as it enters the warehouse.
Material located in a receiving subinventory does not appear in on hand quantity, and the system c annot reserve the material.
An operator can also only specify a receiving subinventory if they are using a mobile device to receive the material.
Note: Operators cannot transfer material from a storage subinventory to a receiving subinventory.
All material within an organization is held in a subinventory therefore, you must define at least one subinventory.
Table : MTL_SECONDARY_I NVENTORI ES
Header
1. Subinventory Name : Enter a unique alphanumeric name.
2. Status: Indicate the material status of this subinventory, which controls the enabled transactions for all material in this
subinventory.
The status is not overridden by the status of any locator, lot or serial, within this subinventory.
The statuses of those objects will be considered when determining transactions that are not enabled.
This field is used if you have Oracle Warehouse Management installed.
3. Default Cost Group: Indicate the default cost group for this subinventory.
If the cost group assignment rules fail to identify a cost group for newly received material, this cost group will be assigned.
This cost group will remain with the material, even through subinventory transfers, until you perform a cost group change
transaction.
This feature is available if you have Oracle Warehouse Management installed, and you are working with a WMS enabled
organization.
4. Subinventory Type : Select the subinventory type from the drop down list.
The available choices are as follows:
Storage: Designates the subinventory as a Storage subinventory.
Receiving: Designates the subinventory as a receiving subinventory, and links it to a receiving location.
This subinventory type is used only for receiving material.
Material in this type of subinventory cannot be onhand, or reserved.
Null: No subinventory designation
Parameters
Following are the important parameters that we must define
1. Quantity tracked Indicate whether each transaction for this subinventory updates the quantity on hand for the subinventory
(Quantity Tracked).
If you leave this option unchecked, onhand balances are not maintained and you cannot check or update the Asset Inventory,
Include in ATP, Reservable, or Nettable options.
Note .You can update this value only if there is no onhand quantity, no pending transaction, or no uncosted transaction for the
subinventory.
2. Asset Subinventory: Indicate whether to maintain the value of this subinventory on the balance sheet (Asset Subinventory).
You can update this value only if there is no onhand quantity for the subinventory.
3. Include in ATP: Indicate whether to include items in this subinventory in ATP calculations.
4. Depreciable: Indicate whether to designate items in this subinventory as depreciable.

This data is needed to support depreciable and location information in the Subinventory Setup from the Oracle Network Logistics
product.
5. Allow Reservation: Indicate whether to include this subinventory when you perform availabletores erve calculations.
6 Nettable: Indicate whether the planning process uses the onhand balance of these subinventory items as available inventory
(Nettable).
7. LPN Controlled: Indicate if material may be packed into an LPN in the subinventory.
If this is unchecked, all LPNs transacted into this subinventory will be automatically unpacked, and LP Ns cannot be packed into
this subinventory.
This feature is available if you have Oracle Warehouse Management installed, and you are working with a WMS enabled
organization
8. Locator Control: Select a type of locator control.
You can select an option only if you selected locator control as Determined at subinventory level in the Locator Control fiel d in
the Organization Parameters window.
You can only update this option if there is no onhand quantity for the subinventory.
None: Inventory transactions within this subinventory do not require locator information.
Prespecified: Inventory transactions within this subinventory require you to enter a valid predefined locator for each item.
Dynamic entry: Inventory transactions within this subinventory require you to enter a locator for each item.
You may choose a valid predefined locator, or define a locator dynamically at the time of transaction.
Item level: Inventory transactions use locator control information that you define at the item level.
9. Optionally, enter an inactive date for the subinventory.
10. Enter a location for the subinventory. If the Subinventory type is Receiving, this field is mandatory.
Lead times
Optionally, enter preprocessing, processing, and postprocessing lead times for items in this subinventory.
These lead times are used when you use minmax planning at the subinventory level.
Sourcing
Inventory: Replenish items internally, from another organization.
Supplier: Replenish items externally, from a supplier you specify in Oracle Purchasing.
Subinventory: Replenish items internally, from another subinventory in the same inventory organization.
Subinventory Account Information

Enter the general ledger accounts. The default accounts are those defined for the organization in the Organization Parameters
window. If you are using average costing, you may enter the valuation accounts, but they are not used. Average costing uses
only the Expense and Encumbrance accounts. If you use standard costing, and Oracle Bills of Material is installed, all asset
accounts are required. If you use standard costing, and Oracle Bills of Material is not installed, you are only required to e nter the
Material and Material Overhead accounts.
Define Subinventory For Org SH 1
Subinventory Code Description Status Type Locator Control Quantity Tracked
SH FG Finished Goods Inventory Active Storage Item Level Selected
SH Main Main Stores Active Storage Dynamic Entry Selected
SH RM Raw Materials Active Storage None Selected
SH RM Loc Raw Materials Locator Control Active Storage Predefined Selected
SH WIP Work In Process Storage None Selected
Test Case For Subinventory Locator Control

1- Prespecified: Inventory transactions within this subinventory require you to enter a valid predefined locator for each item.
After You Define Locators On Subinventory

You Can Use This Subinventory For Transactions
2- Dynamic entry: Inventory transactions within this subinventory require you to enter a locator for each item. You may choose a valid
predefined locator, or define a locator dynamically at the time of transaction.
You Can Define Any Combination From Locator Segment But Don't Use With Anther
Subinventory
3- Item level: Inventory transactions use locator control information that you define at the item level.
Locator Control
1. Stock Locators Flexfield
1. Choose the number of segments in the flexfield.

2. Indicate the number of characters in each segment of the flexfield.
3. Specify whether you want to validate the values that you assign to the segments.
4. Freeze and compile your flexfield definition.
5. Even if you do not implement locator control, you must still compile the Stock Locators flexfield because trans action and on-hand
reports require a frozen flexfield definition.
6. Locator control provides locator uniqueness within an organization.
2. Organization-Level Locator Control Options
None Oracle Inventory never requests locator information while you perform a transaction for this organization.
Prespecified only Oracle Inventory requires locator information while you perform a transaction for this organization. You must choose
a locator from a list of locators that you have prespecified.
Dynamic entry allowed Oracle Inventory requires locator information while you perform a transaction for this organization. You may
either choose from a prespecified list of locators or define a locator dynamically when you enter the transaction.
Determined at subinventory level You can use the Subinventories window to set locator control for each individual subinventory.
Note: Locator control options that you choose at the organization level override the locator control options that you choose at the subinventory
and item levels.
3. Sub Inventory-Level Locator Control Options
None Oracle Inventory never requests locator information while you perform a transaction for this subinventory.
Prespecified Oracle Inventory requires locator information while you perform a transaction for this subinventory. You must choose a
locator from a list of locators that you have prespecified for this subinventory.
Dynamic Entry Oracle Inventory requires locator information when you perform a transaction for this subinventory. You may either
choose from a predefined list of locators or define a locator dynamically when you enter the transaction.
Item level This determines whether Oracle Inventory requires locator information when you perform a transaction for this item.
Note: If your organization-level locator control choice is Locator control determined at subinventory level, you must choose a locator control
option for each subinventory in your organization.
4. Item-Level Locator Control Options

No control Serial number control not established for this item. All material transactions involving this item bypass serial number
information.
At inventory receipt Create and assign serial numbers when you receive the item. Thereafter, for any material transaction, you must
provide a serial number for each unit.
At sales order issue Create and assign serial numbers when you issue (ship) the item against a sales order. If you select this option,
serial numbers are required at ship confirm. If you receive an item on an RMA (return material authoriza tion), you must specify the
same serial numbers you created at sales order issue. All other material transactions for this item bypass serial number info rmation.
Predefined Assign predefined serial numbers when you receive the item. Thereafter, for any material transaction, you must provide a
serial number for each unit.
5. Define locators
Prespecified Locators
You must define locators if your item is under Prespecified locator control.
When you enter a transaction for an item that is under Prespecified locator control, you must choose a locator that you have
Prespecified in this window.
You do not have to Prespecify locators if your item is under Dynamic Entry locator control.
Locator Capacity
You can optionally specify locator capacity information. Oracle Inventory does not check for capacity limits and possible vio lations, but you can
use the Locator Listing report to display locator loads.
You can develop extensions to the standard product to generate locator overloading checks and warnings using this information and item
physical information that you specify in the Master Item window.
Units of Measure
Oracle Inventory provides you with powerful methods for defining and manipulating units of measure. You can easily convert between the units of measure
you define. This enables you to manufacture, order, or receive items in any unit of measure. With units of measure you can:
1. Define unit of measure classes,

2. Define units of measure,
3. Define unit of measure conversions,
4. Define lot-specific unit of measure conversions
Defining Unit of Measure Classes

Unit of measure classes represent groups of units of measure with similar characteristics.
Creating unit of measure classes is the first step in unit of measure management.
Each unit of measure you define must belong to a unit of measure class.
Each class has a base unit of measure. The base unit of measure is used to perform conversions between units of measure in the class.
For this reason, the base unit of measure should be representative of the other units of measure in the class, and generally one of the smaller units.
For example, you could use CU (cubic feet) as the base unit of a class called Volume.
Unit of measure classes are not organization-specific. Default unit of measure classes are not provided.
1. Enter a unique name for the unit of measure class.

2. Define the base unit of measure for this class.
3. Define a unique abbreviation for the base unit of measure.
Defining Units of Measure
Units of measure are used by a variety of functions and transactions to express the quantity of items.
Defining units of measure is the second step in unit of measure management.

The values defined in the Units of M easure window p rovide the list of values available in unit of measure fields in other windows.
Units of measure are not organization-specific.
Primary Unit of Measure

The primary unit of measure is the stocking unit of measure for an item in a particular organization.
The primary unit of measure is an item attribute that you specify when defining each item.
Prerequisites
You must define at least one unit of measure class.
Enter UOM from UOM Class FORM
After defining the UOM class click on Unit of measure button to enter a new UOM .
Enter the UOM named and short name.
Save the form
Define a UOM in UOM Form
Navigate to the Units of M easure window.
1. Enter a unique name for the unit of measure.

2. Enter a unique abbreviation for the unit of measure with a maximum length of three characters.
For example, EA for each or HRS for hours.
3. Enter a unit of measure class.
4. Indicate if this is the base unit of measure for the unit of measure class.
To Delete a Unit Of measure:
1. You can delete existing units of measure that are not base units of measure if no standard or item specific conversions are defined.
To make a unit of measure inactive:
1. Enter the date on which the unit of measure becomes inactive. As of this date, you can no longer assign standard or item-specific conversions to the unit of
measure.
To change Base UOM:
Its not possible to change the base UOM from one UOM to another UOM .
Defining Unit of Measure Conversions
Unit of measure conversions are numerical factors that enable you to perform transactions in units other than the primary unit of the item being transacted.
You can define:
A conversion common to any item (Standard)
A conversion for a specific item within a unit of measure class (Intra-class)
A conversion for a specific item between unit of measure classes (Inter-class)
Note : Unit of measure conversions are not organization-specific.
You must define a conversion between a non-base unit of measure and the base unit of measure before you can assign the non-base unit of measure to
an item
S pecifying Which Conversion to Use

When you define an item you decide which type of unit of measure conversion to use:
1. Itemspecific: Only uses unit of measure conversions unique to this item.

If none exist, you can only transact this item in its primary unit of measure.
2. Standard: Uses standard unit of measure conversions for this item if an item-specific conversion is not available.
3. Both: Uses both item-specific and standard unit of measure conversions.
If both exist for the same unit of measure and item combination, the item-specific conversion is used.
Unit of Measure Conversions During Transactions

Whenever you enter an item's quantity, the default is the primary unit of measure for the item. The list of values for the unit of measure field displays all units
of measure for which you have defined standard and/or item-specific conversions from the primary unit of measure.
Transactions are performed in the unit of measure you specify. The conversion happens automatically and item quantities are updated in the primary unit of
measure of the item.
Important: Inventory transactions and on hand balance supports decimal precision to 5 digits after the decimal point.
Oracle Work in Process supports decimal precision to 6 digits.
Other Oracle Applications support different decimal precision. As a result of the decimal precision mismatch, transactions another Oracle Application passes
may be rounded when processed by Inventory.
If the transaction quantity is rounded to zero, Inventory does not process the transaction.
It is therefore suggested that the base unit of measure for an item is set up such that transaction quantities in the base unit of measure not require greater than
5 digits of decimal precision.
Define a S tandard conversion for any item
In standrad conversion you specify how one unit of mesaure is related to the primary unit of measure in the same class.
In standrad conversion you cant do the following :
You cant specify any sort of intra class conversion
Relationship between two UOM s not Involving primary UOM
Navigate to the Unit of M easure Conversions window & Select the Standard tabbed region.
1- Enter a unit of measure.
2- Enter the conversion factor by which the unit of measure is equivalent to the base unit of measure established for this class .
For example, if one DZ (this unit of measure) is equivalent to 12 EA (base unit), the conversion factor is 12. Or, if EA is equal to one-twelfth of a DZ, the
conversion factor is 0.08333.
Define a conversion for a specific item within a unit of measure cl ass (Intra-class)
We have seen in standard conversion we can only do conversion from one UOM to primary UOM .
Suppose we have defined a UOM conversion rule for a unit of measure UOM _XYZ as UOM _XYZ = 6 x Primary UOM but for a particular item the
Conversion rate is not 6 in that case we define a intra class conversion for a particular item and when ever that item is transacted system 'll pick the
conversion rate from either intra class or standard conversion depending upon ITEM master set up.
Notes
We can do intra class conversion between two UOM s for a particular item only for a single class which is the UOM class of the primary U OM of the item.
For example Suppose ITEM 001 has a primary UOM as Ea and UOM Ea belongs to class Quantity then we can define intra class conversion for the item
ITEM 001 between two UOM s in the class Quantity.
we cant define intra class conversion between any other UOM s belonging to a different UOM class.
Navigate to the Unit of M easure Conversions window.

1. Select the Intra-class tabbed region.
2. Enter an item.
3. Enter a unit of measure.
4. Enter the conversion factor by which the unit of measure is equivalent to the base unit of measure established for this class.
For example, if one LB (this unit of measure) is equivalent to 16 OZ (base unit), the conversion factor is 16.
Define a conversion for a specific item between unit of measure classes (Inter-class)
Inter class conversion is used to convert an item from one primary UOM in one class to another primary UOM in a different class for a particular item.
Navigate to the Unit of M easure Conversions window and Select the Inter-class tabbed region.
1. Select an item.
2. Select the destination base unit of measure of the class to which you are converting a unit of measure.
3. Enter the conversion factor by which the source base unit is equivalent to the destination base unit.
For example, if one M L (source base unit) is equivalent to one GR (destination base unit), the conversion factor is one.
Profile Option For Default UOM := INV: Default Primary Unit of M easure
Defining Unit of Measure Conversions

Unit of measure conversions are numerical factors that enable you to perform transactions in units other than the primary unit of the item being transacted.
You can define:
A conversion common to any item (Standard)
A conversion for a specific item within a unit of measure class (Intra-class)
A conversion for a specific item between unit of measure classes (Inter-class)
Unit of measure conversions are not organization-specific.

You must define a conversion between a non-base unit of measure and the base unit of measure before you can assign the non-base unit of measure
to an item
S pecifying Which Conversion to Use

When you define an item you decide which type of unit of measure conversion to use:
1. Itemspecific: Only uses unit of measure conversions unique to this item. If none exist, you can only transact this item in its primary unit of
measure.
2. Standard: Uses standard unit of measure conversions for this item if an item-specific conversion is not available.
3. Both: Uses both item-specific and standard unit of measure conversions. If both exist for the same unit of measure and item combination, the item-
specific conversion is used.
Unit of Measure Conversions During Transactions

Whenever you enter an item's quantity, the default is the primary unit of measure for the item. The list of values for the unit of measure field displays all units
of measure for which you have defined standard and/or item-specific conversions from the primary unit of measure.
Transactions are performed in the unit of measure you specify. The conversion happens automatically and item quant ities are updated in the primary unit of
measure of the item.
Important: Inventory transactions and on hand balance supports decimal precision to 5 digits after the decimal point. Oracle Work in P rocess supports
decimal precision to 6 digits. Other Oracle Applications support different decimal precision. As a result of the decimal precision mismatch, transactions
another Oracle Application passes may be rounded when processed by Inventory. If the transaction quantity is rounded to zero, Inventory does not process
the transaction.
It is therefore suggested that the base unit of measure for an item is set up such that transaction quantities in the base unit of measure not require greater than
5 digits of decimal precision.
Define a S tandard conversion for any item

In standrad conversion you specify how one unit of mesaure is related to the primary unit of measure in the same class.
In standrad conversion you cant do the following
You cant specify any sort of intra class conversion
Relationship between two UOM s not invloving primary UOM
Navigate to the Unit of M easure Conversions window & Select the Standard tabbed region.
1 Enter a unit of measure.

2 Enter the conversion factor by which the unit of measure is equivalent to the base unit of measure established for this class.
For example, if one DZ (this unit of measure) is equivalent to 12 EA (base unit), the conversion factor is 12. Or, if EA is equal to one-twelfth of a DZ, the
conversion factor is 0.08333.
Define a conversion for a specific item within a unit of measure class (Intra-class)
We have seen in standard conversion we can only do convesrion from one UOM to primary UOM .
Suppose we have defined a UOM convsrion rule for a unit of measure UOM _XYZ as UOM _XYZ = 6 x Primary UOM but for a particular item the
vonvsrion rate is not 6 in that case we define a intra class convesrion for a particular item and when ever that item is transacted system 'll pick the convesrion
rate from either intra class or standrad convesrion depending upon ITEM master set up.
Notes
We can do intra class conversion between two UOM s for a particular item only for a single class which is the UOM class of the primary UOM of the item.
For exampe Suppose ITEM 001 has a primary UOM as Ea and UOM Ea belongs to class Quantity then we can define intra class conversion for the item
ITEM 001 between two UOM s in the class Quantity.
we cant define intra class convesrion between any other UOM s belonging to a differnt UOM class.
Navigate to the Unit of M easure Conversions window.
1. Select the Intra-class tabbed region.

2. Enter an item.
3. Enter a unit of measure.
4. Enter the conversion factor by which the unit of measure is equivalent to the base unit of measure established for this class.
For example, if one LB (this unit of measure) is equivalent to 16 OZ (base unit), the conversion factor is 16.
Define a conversion for a specific item between unit of measure classes (Inter-class)
Inter class conversion is used to convert an item from one primary UOM in one class to another primary UOM in a differnt class for a particular item.
Navigate to the Unit of M easure Conversions window and Select the Inter-class tabbed region.
1. Select an item.
2. Select the destination base unit of measure of the class to which you are converting a unit of measure.
For example, if one M L (source base unit) is equivalent to one GR (destination base unit), the conversion factor is one.
Lot-Specific Unit of Measure Conversions
Lot specific conversions enable you to perform a specific inter-class conversion for a given lot. This enables you to establish more granular control over the
transactional quantities of a lot. For example, the standard inter-class conversion for a lot controlled item is one gallon equals 15 pounds; however, when you
receive a particular lot of the item, 1 gallon equals 16 pounds.
You can create a lot specific unit of measure for this instance.
You can create lot-specific unit of measure conversions for on-hand lots or lots with a zero balance. If you create a lot-specific conversion for a lot with on-
hand quantities, you can automatically update the quantities in the system to more accurately reflect the on-hand quantity.
You can also view the history of changes made to the lot unit of measure conversion, and the corresponding quantity changes.
1. Enter the item number in the Item field.
2. Enter the lot number in the Lot Number field.
3. Select the destination base unit of measure of the class to which you are converting the unit of measure.
For example, if 16 pounds (source base unit) is equivalent to 1 Gallon (destination base unit), the conversion factor is 16.
5. Optionally, enter an inactive date for the conversion. This is the date when the unit of measure conversion for the lot reverts back to the standard inter-
class conversion.
6. Optionally, enter a transaction reason for the conversion.
Introduction to Items
An item is a part or service that you purchase, sell, plan, manufacture, stock, distribute, or prototype. The following Oracl e Applications use
items:
Oracle Inventory
Oracle Purchasing
Oracle Order Entry
Oracle Cost Management

Oracle Bills of Material
Oracle Work in Process
Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP
Oracle Receivables
Oracle Payables
Oracle Services
Oracle Engineering
Oracle Quality
Oracle Sales and Marketing
Below diagram describes the basic work that needs to be done before an item is ready to be used in inventory for transaction purpose.
Defining User Item Types
The User Item Type item attribute is a Quick Code you use when you define an item . You can use the types provided by Oracle Inventory or
create your own.
Setup Steps
1. Navigate to the Item Type Quick Codes window. The User access level is selected indicating you can add or modify Quick Codes without
restriction.
2. Enter a unique alphanumeric code describing the item type. You can define a maximum of 250 Quick Codes for a single Quick Code type.
You cannot change the values in this field after saving them. To remove an obsolete Quick Code you can either disable the code, enter an end
date, or change the meaning and description to match a replacement code.
3. Enter the meaning of the item type. Inventory uses this value in the list of values for the User Item Type item attribute in the Items window.
Item Attribute, Item Defining Attributes, Status Attributes & Item Status
Item attributes are information about an item, such as order cost, lead time, and revision control.
Item Defining Attributes - An item defining attribute identifies the nature of an item. What designates an item as an engineering item is the
attribute Engineering Item, but what controls the functionality of the item are the collection of
attributes that describe it. You can buy an engineering item if you want to; simply set Engineering Item, Purchased, and Purc hasable to Yes.
The following table presents item defining attributes:
When you set an item defining attribute to Yes, the item is automatically assigned to the default category set of the corresp onding functional
area. For example, if you set Inventory Item to Yes, the item is automatically assigned to the default category set for the inventory functional
area.
Item Status attributes are item attributes that enable key functionality for each item.
Status attributes enable and disable the functionality of an item over time.
Each status attribute allows you to enable the item for a particular use.
For example, if you set the status attribute Purchasable to Yes, you can put the item on a purchase order. The status attribu tes are related to
the item defining attributes. You cannot enable a status attribute if you do not set the corresponding item defining attribute to Yes.
The following table presents status attributes:
An item status Codes is defined by selecting the value check boxes for the status attributes.
Item Status Codes may be used to set or update the default values for certain item attributes. They can be used to control the functionality of
an item. When you update the values for a status, all items that use that status will be updated also.
The Item Status Code controls certain item attributes designated as status attributes. Each status attribute has a Status Setting option. The
option determines whether a status attribute value is set by the status code and is not updateable, defaulted and updateable, or not used when
you define an item
Pending Status:
You can assign one or more pending statuses for an item, to be implemented on future dates. These statuses become effective o n their
assigned effective dates. You can also view the history of an item status.
(N) Items>Master Items (M)>Tools -> Pending Status
You can submit the Update item statuses with pending statuses of the concurrent program to update the status of all items with Pending
statuses and current effective dates. When you submit this concurrent program, change its parameters so that it resubmits its elf periodically,
automatically updating item statuses to a Pending status, as effective dates become current. Pending statuses are used in the product
development cycle.
Item Attribute Control determines whether you have centralized (Master level) or decentralized (Organization level) control of item attribut es.
Both status attributes and item status can be controlled at the item level or organization levels.
You can choose the status setting level of each status attribute in the Item Attribute Controls window.
The status setting level determines whether you can update the value of each status attribute within an item status.
Sets Value: The status that you assign to the item loads a non updatable value into the status attribute.
You can update the status attribute by changing the status that you assigned to your item.
Defaults Value: The status that you assign to the item loads a default value into the status attribute.
You can update the status attribute as you define your item.
Not Used: The status that you assign to the item does not determine the value of the status attribute.
You can enable or disable the status attribute as you define your item.
Status Setting Level Consideration: You have the flexibility to change individual status attribute settings. Using meaningful status codes gives you control
over item usage.
Defining Item Categories
Overview of Item Categories
You can use categories and category sets to group your items for various reports and programs.
A category is a logical classification of items that have similar characteristics.
A category set is a distinct grouping scheme and consists of categories.
The flexibility of category sets allows you to report and inquire on items in a way that best suits your needs.
Setup Steps :-
Enter a flexfield Structure Name, a unique Category (value) for each structure segment, and a unique description for the new category. If you
want to make a category inactive, enter a date you want the category to be inactive on. Save your work.
If you choose a multisegment flexfield structure you can assign a specific meaning to each segment. For example in our case the category
"Electronics.Mobile.Samsung" means an item assigned to this category is a Samsung brand mobile device of electronics product group.
Category Sets
Category sets may be used as a means to develop custom lists of items on which to report and sort. You can also create other category sets
such as Johns Priority or Janes Priority, with categories like high, medium, and low.
The category set Inventory is seeded when you install Oracle Inventory.
The category set Purchasing is seeded when you install Oracle Purchasing.
If you plan to use Order Managements group pricing functionality with item categories, you must add the categories to the Or der Entry
category set.
Attention:
1. You must use this window to define valid categories for each purchasing category set before you can use Oracle Purchasing.
2. For the Controlled At level, if the item defining attribute of the functional area (e.g. Inventorys is Inventory Item) is controlled at the
Organization level, then the new default Category Set should also be controlled at the Organization level.
Enter a unique category set Name and Description.
In the Flex Structure section, enter which flexfield structure is to be used.
The categories assigned to the category set must have the same flexfield structure as the set itself.
Select a control level and a default category.
You will then need to select Enforce List of Valid Categories if you want validation of the ca tegories at the time of input.
You will then enter in or select the valid categories for the category set.
Default Category Sets:
set to each of the following functional areas: Inventory, Purchasing, Order Management, Costing, Engineering, and Planning. P roduct Line
Accounting is seeded with the Inventory category set. Inventory makes the default category set mandatory for all items defined for use by a
functional area. If your item is enabled for a particular functional area you cannot delete the items corresponding default category set
assignment. Default category sets are required so that each functional area has at least one category set that contains all item s in that
functional area.
You can enable an item for each functional area by using that functional areas item defining attribute. An item defining attribute identifies the
nature of an item.
For example, what designates an item as an engineering item is the attribute Engineering Item. If a functional areas item defining attribute is
controlled at the Organization level, then that functional area may only have an Organization level default category set.
When you enable an item for a certain functional area, Oracle Inventory automatically assigns the item to the default categor y set of that
functional area and the default category of that set. For example, if you set Inventory Item to Yes, then Inventory automatically assigns the item
to the Inventory functional areas default category set and default category.
You may change a functional areas default category set under certain con ditions. You should ensure that every item within the functional area
belongs to the new default category set (which replaces the existing default category set). If the item defining attribute of the functional area is
controlled at the Organization level then the new default category set should also be controlled at the Organization level.
Assigning Items to Categories
When you enable an item in a functional area, the item is assigned to the default (mandatory) category set and default catego ry of the
functional area. You can override the category sets default category. In addition, you can manually assign your item to an u nlimited number of
category sets. You may optionally assign an item to more than one category within a category set based on the ca tegory set definition.
When you assign your item to another organization Oracle Inventory copies M aster level category sets, Organization level default category sets, and the
associated categories assigned in the Item M aster organization. This means that if you manually assign an Organization level category set to the item in the
M aster organization, Inventory does not copy over that Organization level category set when you assign that item to another organization.
After assigning an item to another organization you can disable the item for one or more functional areas in the new organization. However, Inventory does
not remove the corresponding functional areas default category set. For example, you may have set the value of the Purchased attribute to Yes when you
defined the item in the item master organization. When you assign this item to another organization Inventory copies over the Yes value of the Purchased
attribute and
therefore assigns the default category set of the purchasing functional area. In the new organization you may decide to set the value of the Purchased attribute
to No. After you disable the item for the purchasing functional area in the new organization, the item still retains the purchasing default category set. You
may manually delete the purchasing category set in the new organization.
If you copy an item from another item with category sets defined at the Organization level, Inventory assigns the new item the default categories of the
mandatory category sets, even if the original item did not have the default categories. This is because Inventory copies the values of the item defining
attributes and not the category sets and categories themselves.
Oracle Inventory uses category sets in numerous reports and forms. For example, you can summarize demand histories for a particular
category of items. Oracle Inventory always displays the inventory default category set but you can run your reports and programs by choosing
any category set.
The following is a list of forms and reports where Oracle Inventory uses categories:
Inactive items report
Item reservations report
Lot transaction register
Material account distribution detail
Serial number transaction register
Transaction historical summary
Transaction register
Transaction source type summary
Expected Receipts Report
Inactive items report
Item categories report
Item cross-references listing
Item definition detail
Item definition summary
Item demand history report
Item relationships listing
Item reservations report
Item statuses report
Forecast Comparison Report
Forecast Detail Report
Physical inventory accuracy analysis
Physical inventory counts report
Transaction historical summary
Search Items
Item Catalog
An item catalog group is a standard set of descriptive elem ents to which you assign items.
Overview of Item Cataloging

You can use item cataloging to add descriptive information to items and to partition your Item Master into groups of items that share common
characteristics.
You configure in advance what is required to uniquely define an item in each group.
When you define your items, you assign them to an item catalog group.
To define your catalog, you set up as many distinct item catalog groups as you need to partition your Item Master.
Each group has unique characteristics (called descriptive elements) that completely describe items belonging to the group.
When you assign an item to an item catalog group, you define values for the descriptive elements that apply to your item.
For example, an item catalog group called Computer could have a descriptive element called Processing Speed.
Possible values for Processing Speed might be 100MHZ, 133MHZ, and so on.
Examples of catalog descriptive elements are color, shape, length, and so on.
For example, a textile manufacturer might define pattern attributes such as color, size, texture, and style.
Usage: An electronics company (say Samsung) can use the catalog to

incorporate length, breadth and height of each mobile it produces. As the
company Samsung also produces other electronics products such as TV,
Refrigerator and etc. We should first create an item category as mobile and then
create a catalog group as mobile-catalog with three catalogs length-breadth and
height.
Defining and Using Item Catalogs

Follow these steps to define and use item catalogs:
1- Define the item catalog group.
2- Define descriptive elements within each catalog group.
3- Enter categories for the catalog groups.

Items belonging to the above category are attached with the descriptive element of the catalog.
4- Enter descriptive element values for each item.

5- Update item descriptions with catalog group and descriptive element values.
6- Search for items using descriptive elements as the search criteria.
Searching all the items with breadth 20.

Define Master Items
You must set certain controls and reference options before defining items. These enable you to maintain, group, reference, qu ery, and delete
your items. Once you have defined items, you can set up other parameters, such as item cross references, to control the use of items.
You define items in one organization. To distinguish it from others, we call i t the Item Master organization.
Other organizations (child organizations) refer to the Item Master for item definition. After you define an item in the Item Master, you can assign
it to any number of other organizations.
There is no functional or technical difference between the Item Master organization and other organi zations. However, for simplicity, Oracle
recommends that you limit the Item Master to just an item definition organization.
Oracle also recommends that you do not define multiple item masters. This can make item definition and maintenance confusing. In addition,
multiple item masters are distinct entities, with no relationship to each other. You cannot associate items in one item maste r organization with
another item master organization. You cannot copy items across item master organizations.
To create the item master:

1. Use the Organization window to create the organization you want to use as the Item Master.
2. Use the Organization Parameters window to specify that organization as the Item Master.
Item Master Business Example

Suppose you have a distribution warehouse and a manufacturing factory. In the warehouse, the item has independent demand and is min
max planned. In the factory, the item is MRP planned and built.
Using an Item Master with a warehouse and a factory as the other organizations , you define the item just once in the Item Master.
Next, you assign the item to both the warehouse and the factory. Finally, you change the planning and build attributes in eac h organization to
describe the different behavior of the items in those organizations.
You do not have to change any other information about the item; in fact, because information such as unit of measure, descrip tion, and so on
is maintained at the Master level, you know it is consistent in each organization
Main Attribute Group
Following are the Main attributes and their possible values. You set these attributes when defining or updating items.
Primary Unit of Measure
This is the stocking and selling unit of measure. Any necessary conversions are based on this unit of measure. This attribute is not updatable.
The default primary unit of measure for new items is defined using the INV:Default Primary Unit of Measure profile option.
The primary unit of measure is the default for invoices and credit memos entered in Oracle Receivables.
Note:
1. If an item belongs to both a master organization and a child organization, and these organizations belong to the same cost ing organization,
the primary unit of measure for the item must be the same within both organizations.
2. You can stock items in two units of measure. These dualcontrolled items support Oracle Process Manufacturing environments.
User Item Type

Oracle provides several types by default at installation. These types correspond to the item templates also provided. Select one of these
values, or one you defined with the Item Type window.
ATO model
Finished good
Freight
Inventory Type
Kit
Model
Option Class
Outside processing item
PTO model
Phantom item
Planning
Product Family
Purchased item
Reference item
Subassembly
Supply item
Item Status
Item status codes set or default the values for attributes under status control. User defined status codes control certain item attributes
designated as status attributes. The status attributes are:
BOM Allowed
Build in WIP
Customer Orders Enabled
Internal Orders Enabled
Invoice Enabled
Transactable
Purchasable
Stockable
These attributes control the functionality of an item over time.

The default item status for new items is defined using the INV:Default Item Status profile option.
Conversions
Both Use both item specific and standard unit of measure conversions. If you defined an item specific and a standard conversion for the
same unit of measure, the item specific conversion is used.
Item specific Use only unit of measure conversions unique to this item.
Standard Use only standard unit of measure conversions.
If you want to use only standard conversions do not create item specific conversions.
Long Description
Indicate the long description for this item. This Long Description is supported in multiple languages.
Inventory Attribute Group
Inventory Attribute Group
Following are the Inventory attributes and their possible values. You set these attributes when defining or updating items.
1. Inventory Item: Indicate whether to stock and transact this item in Oracle Inventory.
You must turn this option on if you want to enable the following item attributes: Stockable, BOM Allowed, Transactable, and B uild in WIP.
This is an item defining attribute. If you turn this option on, the item is automatically assigned to the default category set for the
Inventoryfunctional area.
2. Stockable: Indicate whether to stock this item in Inventory. You can set this attribute only when you turn on the Inventory Item option.
Turning this option on enables you to set the Transactable item attribute.This attribute is optionally set by the Item Status code.
3. Transactable: Indicate whether to allow Inventory transactions. You can set this attribute only when you tur n on the Stockable option.
Note: Oracle Order Management uses this along with Stockable and Returnable to determine which authorized returned items can be
physically received into inventory. (See also the OE Transactable attribute.)
4. Revision Control: Indicate whether to track inventory balances by revision. If you turn this option on you must specify an existing revision
number for issues and receipts.
Attention: You cannot change revision control when an item has quantity on hand. If Revision Control is controlled at the Master Item level, the
check for onhand quantity is against the sum of onhand quantities in all child organizations.
Note: For Oracle Order Management, if item attribute Reservable is checked, you can manually reserve a specific revisi on at order entry or let
Pick Release use Inventory picking rules to suggest the revision when the order is picked. If Reservable item attribute is no t
checked, Inventory picking rules will suggest the revision when the order is picked.
5. Reservable: Indicate whether you can create material reservations. You can reserve an item only when you have sufficient inventory.
Reservation control for a subinventory overrides reservation control for an item. In other words, if an item is Reservable but a subinventory is
not, the item quantity in that subinventory is not Reservable.
Note: If the Reservable attribute is checked, Oracle Order Management allows reservation of the item during order entry. If m aterial hasnt
been reserved prior to pick release, pick release creates reservations for material when the pick wave move order is allocated.
6. Check Material Shortages: Indicate whether the system will check this item for material shortages.
Turn this option on to trigger a material shortage alert and shortage notification during transactions of this item Oracle Inventory and Oracle
Shipping execution will automatically backorder a delivery line at pick release if inventory is unavailable for allocation. I n the event that no
material is available for allocation, the pick wave move order line will b e immediately deleted and the delivery line status will change to
Backordered. In the event that only part of the required quantity is available, the delivery line will split into the release d portion and the
backordered portion. The requested quantity on the move order line will update to reflect the quantity that was available for picking, an d the
move order line will close when the available quantity has been picked. The delivery line can be re released
through the Shipping Transactions form, the Release Sales Orders for, or the Release Sales Orders SRS process.
LOT Details
Lot Control
No control Do not establish lot control for the item.
Full control Track inventory balances by lot number. You must specify a lot number for issues and receipts.
You can establish lot number control only for an item that has no quantity on hand. If Lot Control is controlled at the Maste r Item level, the
Note: For Oracle Order Management, if an item is Reservable, you can manually reserve a specific lot at order entry or let pi ck release use
Inventory picking rules to suggest the lot when the order is picked. If the item is not Reservable, Inventory picking rules will suggest the lot
when the order is picked.
Attention: Oracle Work in Process recognizes either lot control or serial number control for an item but not both. You cannot transact an item
into Work in Process if it has both lot and serial control defined.
Starting Lot Prefix

Enter a starting prefix for all lot numbers you define for this item. When Lot Number Generation is At item level in the orga nization parameters,
this prefix is used when you define a lot number.
Starting Lot Number

Enter a starting numeric suffix for this item only. When Lot Number Generation is At item level in the organization parameter s, this starting
numeric suffix is used when you create a lot number. Thereafter, this number is incremented for each succeed ing lot.
Lot Expiration (Shelf Life) Control

Lot Expiration control governs how long items in a given lot remain available.
Shelf life days Specify a number of days for all lots of an item, beginning on the day you create the lot by receiving the it em. You receive a
warning message that the lot expires after the specified number of days.
No control Shelf life control not established for this item Userdefined Specify an expiration date as you receive each lot. You receive a
warning but are not prevented from using the lot after expiration.
Attention: You cannot change lot expiration control when an item has quantity on hand. If Lot Expiration is controlled at the Item level, the
Shelf Life Days

Enter the number of days each lot is active. At receipt, the expiration date is determined by adding the shelf life days to t he system date
(includes the day you define the lot). This is used only when you choose Shelf life days for Lot Expiration Control.
Lot Status Enabled

Indicate whether an item is subject to status control at the Lot Level. For example, a lot may be In Test. A company may have a policy of
allowing Lots In Test to be used in planning and reserved, but not shipped. A lot may also be In Quarantine. For example, a company
may have a policy of not allowing lots In Quarantine to be used in planning.
If an item is lotcontrolled, you can indicate the Default Lot Status. For example, a lot of microprocesso rs may be at the Quarantine status until
a soak test is complete.
Lot Split Enabled

Indicate whether a lotcontrolled item may split into many lots during the production of a batch.
Lot Merge Enabled
Indicate whether many lots of a lotcontrolled item may merge during the production of a batch.
Lot Translate Enabled
Enables you to translate lots within a lot controlled item.
Lot Substitution Enabled
Enables you to substitute lots during a transaction.
SERIAL DETAILS
Serial Generation
At inventory receipt Create and assign serial numbers when you receive the item. Thereafter, for any material transaction, you must provide a
serial number for each unit.
At sales order issue Create and assign serial numbers when you issue (ship) the item against a sal es order. If you select this option, serial
numbers are required at ship confirm. If you receive an item on an RMA (return material authorization), you must specify the same serial
numbers you created at sales order issue. All other material transactions for this item bypass serial number information.
No control Serial number control not established for this item. All material transactions involving this item bypass serial number information.
Predefined Assign predefined serial numbers when you receive the item. Thereafter, for any material transaction, you must provide a serial
number for each unit.
The following table presents conditions where you can change back and forth between certain options:
If Serial Generation is controlled at the Item level, the check for onhand quantity is against the sum of onhand quantities in all child
organizations.
Starting Serial Prefix
Enter a starting alpha prefix for all serial numbers you define. You must enter a value when you choose Predefined and when S erial
Generation is At item level in the organization parameters. This prefix is used when you define your serialized units.
Starting Serial Number

Enter a starting numeric suffix for all serial numbers for this item only.
You must enter a value when you choose Predefined and when Serial Number Generation is At item level in the organization parameters. This
starting numeric suffix is used when you define your serialized units.
Thereafter, this number is incremented for each succeeding serial number.
Serial Status Enabled

Indicate whether an item is subject to status control at the Serial Level.
For example, a company may have a policy of allowing all functions on serial numbers that are New, and a policy of allowing r eservations to
Reworked serial numbers, not including Reworked items.
If an item is serialcontrolled, you can indicate the Default Serial Status. For example, a serial number of analytical equipment may be at the
Quarantine status until a soak test is complete.
Locator Details
Locator Control
Dynamic entry Define locators when you use them, either as you receive or ship items.
No control Locator control not established.
Prespecified Defined locators before you use them.
Note: For Oracle Order Management, if an item is Reservable, you can manually reserve a specific locator at order entry or let pick release use
Inventory picking rules to suggest the locator when the order is picked. If the item is not Reservable, Inventory picking rul es will suggest the
locator when the order is picked.
Note: Locator control for an organization or for a subinventory overrides locator control for an item.
Attention: You cannot change locator control when an item has quantity on hand.
Restrict Subinventories Indicate whether to restrict transactions of this item to or from a subinventory specified in a list you define with the
Item/Subinventory
Information window. This option must be turned on if you choose to restrict locators.
Restrict Locators Indicate whether to restrict transaction of this item to or from a locator spe cified in the list you define with the
Item/Subinventory Information window. You cannot restrict locators unless you also restrict subinventories
Order Management Attribute Group
Following are the Order Management attributes and their possible values. You set these attributes when defining or updating items.
Customer Ordered
Indicate whether to allow an item to be ordered by external customers. You can add any customer orderable items to price lists in Oracle
Order Management. This attribute must be turned off if the BOM Item Type attribute is set to Planning.
If you turn this attribute on, you can temporarily exclude an item from being ordered by turning Customer Orders Enabled off. This is an item
defining attribute. If you turn this attribute on, the item is automatically assigned to the default category set for the Oracle Order Management
functional area.
Customer Orders Enabled

Indicate whether an item is currently customer orderable. If you turn this attribute on you can specify the item in the Enter Orders window in
Oracle Order Management.
You can initially define an item with Customer Ordered Item turned on and Customer Orders Enabled turned off. This means pric es can be
defined for the item, but no orders can be placed for it.
Internal Ordered
Indicate whether to allow an item to be ordered on an internal requisition.
If you turn this attribute on, you can temporarily exclude an item from being ordered on an internal requisition by turning I nternal Orders
Enabled off.
This is an item defining attribute. If you turn this attribute on, the item is automatically assigned to the default category set for the Oracle
Purchasing functional area.
Internal Orders Enabled

Indicate whether you can currently order an item internally. If you turn this attribute on, you can specify the item on an internal requisition, if
Internal Ordered Item is also on.
If you turn Internal Ordered Item on, you can temporarily exclude an item from being ordered on an internal requisition by tu rning this attribute
off.
This attribute is optionally set by the Item Status code.
Shippable
Indicate whether to ship an item to a customer. Shippable items are released by Oracle Shipping Executions Pick Release program, creating
confirmable shipping lines, and are printed on the pick slip. A warning is issued if you change the value of this attribute when open sales order
lines exist.
This attribute must be turned off if the BOM Item Type attribute is set to Planning.
OE Transactable
Indicate whether demand can be placed for an item by Oracle Order Management, and whether shipment transactions are interfaced to Oracle
Inventory. Most items with Shippable turned on also have OE Transactable turned on. For items you do not ship, you may still want OE
Transactable turned on if you use the items in forecasting or planning.
If you also want to reserve the item, turn Reservable on. A warning is issued if you change the value of this attribute when open sales order
lines exist. You cannot turn this attribute off if demand exits.
Pick Components
Indicate whether an item has a bill of material with options, classes, or included items picked from finished goods inventory. Picktoorder
items must have this attribute turned on. Assembletoorder items and items without a bill of material must have this attribute turned off.
Assemble to Order
Turn this attribute on if an item is generally built for sales order demand; a final assembly work order is created based on sales order details.
You must turn on this attribute if you auto create requisitio ns.
An item cannot have Pick Components turned on and this attribute turned on at the same time.
Returnable
Indicate whether to allow customers to return an item. If an item is returnable, you can enter it on the Returns window in Or acle Order
Management. Order Management uses this attribute along with Stockable and Transactable to determine which authorized returned items
you can physically receive into inventory.
RMA Inspection Required

Indicate whether inspection is required for items returned by the cu stomer. The item then must be separately transferred to inventory.
Credits are never automatically generated by Oracle Order Management for customer return items awaiting inspection.
Financing Allowed
Indicate whether a customer can finance this item.
ORDER DETAILS
Check ATP
Select Check Material Only, Check Material and Resources, Check Resources Only, or None to indicate whether to check availabl e to promise
and/or capable to promise information when placing demand.
This attribute also determines whether you can view component ATP information for material requirements in Work in Process.
ATP Components
Indicate whether to include, in available to promise checking, additional components in the bill of material for ATO and PTO items. These
components are included in ATP checking if Check ATP for the component is turned on.
ATP Rule
Enter a userdefined available to promise rule. ATP rules define supply and demand sources, time fence parameters, and availableto
promise calculation methods. You can give ATP rules meaningful names, such as ATO ATP Rule.
If there is no ATP rule for the item, the organizations default ATP rule is used.
Default Shipping Organization

Enter the Oracle Shipping Execution primary shipping organization. This organization defaults to the Enter Orders window if Item is the source
attribute of the Warehouse object in the standard value rule set for the order. This organization defaults to the Enter Retur ns window if a
receiving warehouse is not defined on the customer or order type.
Default SO Source Type

This item attribute determines if an item is to be dropshipped. If the value is internal, the item will not be dropshipped. If the value is external,
the item will be dropshipped.
Picking Rule
Enter the picking rule that defines the order in which subinventories, locators, lots, and revisions are picked. This rule will not be employed in
WMS enabled organizations. Oracle Warehouse Management picking rules will be used.
Purchasing Attribute Group
Following are the Purchasing attributes and their possible values. You set these attributes when defining or updating items.
Purchased
Indicate whether to purchase and receive an item. Turning this option on allows you to set the Purchasable attribute.
This is an item defining attribute. If you turn this option on, the item is automatically assigned to the default category set for the Oracle
Purchasing functional area.
If an item is vendor managed, you must turn on this option.
Purchasable
Indicate whether to order an item on a purchase order. You can set this only when Purchased is turned on.
Turning Purchasable off allows you to temporarily restrict the ability to buy. This attribute is optionally set by the Item S tatus code.
RFQ Required
Indicate whether to require an item quotation when requesting an item. Oracle Purchasing defaults this value on requisition lines for this item.
Leave this field blank if you want Inventory to use the value defined in the Purchasing Options window for transactions invol ving this item.
Taxable
Indicate whether the supplier charges a tax. Oracle Purchasing uses the taxable status together with the tax code you associate w ith a location
to determine whether a purchase order shipment is taxable, and what the tax code that applies to this shipment is. L eave this field blank if you
want Inventory to use the value defined in the window for transactions involving this item.
Tax Code
Select the appropriate tax code for the item. The tax code shows the tax authorities and rates that are available to use for this item. You must
select the taxable attribute to enable this field.
Receipt Required (ThreeWay Invoice Matching)
Indicate whether you must receive an item before you can pay the invoice. Leave this field blank if you want Inventory to use the value defined
in the Purchasing Options window for transactions involving this item.
Inspection Required (FourWay Invoice Matching)
Indicate whether to inspect an item upon receipt from the supplier, before paying the corresponding invoice. Leave this field blank if you want
Inventory to use the value defined in the Purchasing Options window for transactions involving this item.
Outside Processing Item
Indicate whether you can add the item to an outside processing purchase order line. You can turn this option on onl y if Purchased is also on. In
addition, this option controls whether you can attach an item to a resource in the Resource window.
Outside Processing Unit Type

Select an option to determine the quantity of an outside processing item you requisition, purch ase and receive:
Assembly You purchase an outside processing item based on the number of assemblies you ship to the supplier.
Resource You purchase an outside processing item based on the number of assemblies times the resource usage rate or amount.
List Price
Enter the value that Oracle Purchasing uses as the default price on a purchase order, requisition, RFQ, or quotation. Oracle Receivables uses
this value as the default unit selling price on a transaction. Note that this is the original inventory it em price used by Purchasing and therefore
should be used as a guide only.
When performing supplier inventory replenishment, a List Price must be specified in order to automatically generate a requisi tion.
Market Price
Enter the market value for an item. Oracle Purchasing copies the market price to the purchase order lines you create.
Price Tolerance
Enter the price tolerance percent, the maximum price percentage over the normal price range for an item. For example, if the tolerance percent
is 5, the maxim um acceptable price on a purchase order is 5% over the requisition price. Any purchase order price 5% above the requisition
price is unacceptable, and you cannot approve the purchase order.
Receipt Close Tolerance

Enter the percentage tolerance Oracle Purchasing uses to automatically close purchase order shipments. Oracle Purchasing automatically
closes a shipment when your unreceived quantity is within the quantity tolerance percentage of the shipment.
For example, if the original shipment quantity is 50, and you enter 10 here (10%), Oracle Purchasing automatically closes the shipment for
receiving when you receive 45 or more.
Closed for Receiving is a status change only. You can receive additional items against the shipment later.
Invoice Close Tolerance

Enter the percentage tolerance Oracle Purchasing uses to automatically close purchase order shipments. Oracle Purchasing auto matically
closes a shipment when your uninvoiced quantity is within the quantity tolerance percentage of the shipment.
For example, if the original shipment quantity is 50, and you enter 10 here (10%), Oracle Purchasing automatically closes the shipment for
invoicing when you invoice match 45 or more.
Closed for Invoicing is a status change only. You can invoice match additional items against the shipment later.
Encumbrance Account
This attribute is controlled at the Organization level only.
Enter the default encumbrance account Oracle Purchasing uses when an item is received. If the item encumbrance account does n ot exist,
Oracle Purchasing uses the subinventory account. You encumber, or reserve against funds, when the purchase requisition or purchase order
is approved. When you deliver into a subinventory you reverse the encumbrance. The total receipts plus encumbrances equals yo ur total funds
spent.
Expense Account
This attribute is controlled at the Organization level only. Enter the default inventory account for expense items. This attr ibute is used only
when Inventory Asset Value is turned off. Oracle Purchasing debits this account when you receive an item into inventory only if the item is
being expensed. If you receive into an expense subinventory, Oracle Purchasing uses the expense account you assigned to the s ubinventory
first; if you do not define the account here, Oracle Purchasing uses the expense account assigned to the item.
Asset Category
Enter the asset category to which the item belongs. Oracle Assets uses this to classify your fixed assets. All assets in a ca tegory share default
information, such as the accounts used when you post to the general ledger. You can enter this field only if you use Oracle Assets.
Receiving Attribute Group
Following are the Receiving attributes and their possible values. You set these attributes when defining or updating items.
Receipt Date Action

None No receipt date exception enforced.
Reject Reject receipts when the receive date is outside the range defined by Days Early Receipt Allowed or Days Late Receipt Allowed.
Warning Display a warning message if you attempt to receive an item outsid e the range defined by Days Early Receipt Allowed or Days Late
Receipt Allowed, but perform the receipt, anyway.
Receipt Days Early

Enter the number of days before the promise date you can receive an item without warning or rejection. For example, if you e nter 3 and the
promise date is a Friday, you can receive the item on Tuesday.
Note that Oracle Purchasing uses regular calendar days (including weekends and holidays) in this calculation. If the promise date does not
exist, Oracle Purchasing uses the need by date.
Receipt Days Late

Enter the number of days after the promise date you can receive an item without warning or rejection. For example, if you ent er 2 and the
promise date is a Monday, you can receive the item on Wednesday.
Note that Oracle Purchasing uses regular calendar days (including weekends and holidays) in this calculation. If the promise date does not
exist, Oracle Purchasing uses the need by date
Overreceipt Quantity Control Action

None No over tolerance enforced.
Reject Reject receipts over the tolerance quantity. You receive an error message and are prevented from receiving quantities exceeding the
order quantity by more than the Quantity Received Tolerance percent.
Warning A warning message displays if you accept receipts over the quantity determined by the Overreceipt Quantity Control Tolerance
percent, but does perform the receipt.
Overreceipt Quantity Control Tolerance

Enter the quantity received tolerance percent, the maximum acceptable overreceipt percentage, used by the Overreceipt Quantity Control
Action attribute. For example, if the tolerance percent is 5, then the acceptable quantity on a receipt transaction is within 5% of the quantity you
order on a purchase order line. Any quantity more than 5% over the order quantity is unacc eptable.
Allow Substitute Receipts

Indicate whether to allow receipt of defined substitutes in place of this item. You define valid substitutes with the Item Re lationships window.
Leave this field blank if
you want Inventory to use the value defined in the Receiving Options window for transactions involving this item.
Allow Unordered Receipts
Indicate whether you can receive an item without a purchase order. If this option is on, you can later match the receipt to t he appropriate
purchase order. If this option is off, all receipts for an item must have a corresponding purchase order. Leave this field blank if you want
Inventory to use the value defined in the Receiving Options window for Items
transactions involving this item.
Allow Express Transactions

Indicate whether you can deliver all distributions for this item with one data entry transaction if the quantity to deliver equa ls the purchase order
line balance. If this option is turned off, you must deliver individual distributions separately. Leave this field blank if you want Inventory to use
the value defined in the Receiving Options window for
transactions involving this item.
Receipt Routing
Direct At receipt, deliver an item directly to its location.
Inspection Receive an item first, inspect it, then deliver.
Standard Receive an item first, then deliver without inspection.
Enforce ShipTo
Select an option to control whether the supplier can deliver to a location that differs from the ship to location defined on the purchase order:
None No shipto location enforced.
Reject Prevent receipt of items not received to their purchase order ship to location.
Warning Display a warning message if you attempt to receive an item to a location that differs from the purchase order ship to location, but
perform the receipt, anyway.
Costing Attribute Group
Following are the Costing attributes and their possible values. You set these attributes when defining or updating items.
Costing Enabled
Indicate whether to report, value, and account for any item costs. For example, you might disable costing for reference items, or for invoice
only (nonstock) items that you never ship and never hold in inventory.
Attention: Organizations using average costing always maintain their own item costs, regardless of the control le vel set for the Costing Enabled
attribute.
This is an item defining attribute. If you turn this option on, the item is automatically assigned to the default category se t for the Oracle Cost
Management functional area.3
Inventory Asset Value

Indicate whether to value an item as an asset in inventory. Turning this option off indicates an expense item.
Include in Rollup
Indicate whether to include an item in the cost rollup.
Cost of Goods Sold Account

This attribute is controlled at the Organization level only. Enter a general ledger account to use as a source for the Cost of Goods Sold
Account. The default cost of goods sold account is set when you define organization parameters.
Standard Lot Size

Enter the standard lot size Oracle Bills of Material uses to calculate assembly lead times. Oracle Cost Management uses this value to calculate
unit costs for subelements with a Lot basis type. This lot size is separate from the lead time lot size.
Bills of Material Attribute Group

Following are the Bills of Material attributes and their possible values. You set these attributes when defining or updating items
BOM Allowed
Allows you to define a bill of material for an item, or to assign the item as a component on a bill.
This attribute is optionally set by the Item Status code.
BOM Item Type

This attribute is co
ntrolled at the Master level only.
Select a type to control bill functionality. You must enter a value here if BOM Allowed is turned on.
Model The items bill of material lists option classes and options available when you place an order for the model item.
Option Class This items bill of material contains a list of related options. Option classes group like options together. Oracle Order Man agement
does not allow ordering of classes outside a model.
Planning This items bill of material contains a list of items and planning percentages. A planning item can represent a product famil y or
demand channel. Its bill of material facilitates master scheduling and/or material planning.The total component planning percentages on a
planning bill can exceed 100%. Oracle Order Management does not allow ordering of Planning bills.
Product Family This item can be used as a product family for planning at an aggregate level.
Standard Any item that can have a bill or be a component on a bill, except planning, model, or option class items. Standard items include
purchased items, subassemblies, or finished products.
Notes
When to use Planning Bills or Product Families

Nesting Required: Use Planning Bill
End item must be forecasted via multiple parent forecast items: Use Planning Bill
End items will be used with one parent: Use Product Family
Automated Planning item forecast consumption: Use Product Family
Base Model
This attribute is controlled at the Master level only.
Displays the model from which an ATO configuration was created. In Oracle Order Management, you can place an order for an ATO model,
choosing from the list of options. Oracle Bills of Material creates a new configuration item, bill, and routing that captur es the chosen options.
The configuration item lists the ordered model item as its base model.
Configurator Model Type

This attributes determines the behavior of configurable models in configurator.
Standard
Container
Engineering Item
Indicates that the item was created using Oracle Engineering. This attribute is not updatable.
Effectivity Control
This attribute is used by Oracle Bills of Material when calculating lead times from the Routings form.
Date A concurrent program uses the date as the parameter.
Model/Unit Number A concurrent program uses the Unit Number as the parameter.
Work In Process Attribute Group
Following are the Work In Process attributes and their possible values. You set these attributes when defining or updating it ems.
Build in WIP
Indicate whether to create discrete jobs or repetitive assemblies in Oracle Work in Process. See: Defining Discrete Jobs Manu ally, and
Defining Repetitive Schedules Manually, Oracle Work in Process Users Guide.
This attribute must be turned off if the Inventory Item attribute is turned off or if the BOM Type attribute is not set to Standard. This attribute is
optionally set by the Item Status code.
Supply Type
Select a supply type for components.
Push
Assembly pull
operational pull
Bulk
Supplier
Phantom
Supply Subinventory
This attribute is controlled at the Organization level only. Enter the primary subinventory from which to issue (push) or bac kflush (pull) an item
to work in process.
Supply Locator
This attribute is controlled at the Organization level only. Enter the supply locator from which to issue (push) or backflush (pull) an item to work
in process. You can also define a WIP supply locator for any bill that uses this item; the bill supply locator overrides the supply locator you
define here. You m ust enter a WIP supply subinventory before you can enter a locator.
Overcompletion Tolerance Type
Select Percent or Amount, or leave the field blank. If you do not select an Overcompletion Tolerance Type, the tolerance defa ults to the
tolerance that you set at the organization level. If you did not set a tolerance at the organization level, the default is Null, which signifies t hat no
overcompletions are allowed.
Overcompletion Tolerance Value
The value for this attribute is the number value for the Overco mpletion Tolerance Type that you selected. It determines the acceptable percent
or quantity of assemblies that you will allow to be overcompleted. For example, if you choose Percent as the Overcompletion Tolerance Type,
and enter 100 as the Overcompletion Tolerance Value, you allow overcompletions 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.
Scheduling Penalty Inventory Carry

Specify, in units per day, an Inventory Carry penalty for jobs that are not completed before they are scheduled to be finished. For example, the
Inventory Carry penalty for a job that is not completed for an item might be 10 per day.
Scheduling Penalty Operation Slack
Specify, in units per day, the operation slack penalty for items having lag time between operations.
General Planning Attribute Group
Following are the General Planning attributes and their possible values. You set these attributes when defining or updating items.
Inventory Planning Method

Select an option for organization level planning.
Minmax You define a minimum quantity that you want on hand. When you reach this quantity, you reorder. You also define a maximum on
hand quantity that you do not want to exceed.
Not planned No planning method used. Select this option for MRP/MPS planned items.
Reorder point The reorder point is calculated based on the planning information you define for this item.
Planner
This attribute is controlled at the Organization level only. Enter the material planner assigned to plan this item. You must define planner codes
for your organization before updating this attribute. The planner defined here is responsible for approving all move order li nes requesting the
item if move order approvals are used.
If an item is vendor managed, you must enter a planner for the item.
Make or Buy
Select the option that applies to items with Inventory Item set to Yes. The Planner Workbench uses this to default an appropr iate value for
implementation type. You cannot change the value of the flag if open orders exist for the item.
Make Usually manufactured. The Planner Workbench defaults the implementation type Discrete job. The planning process passes demand
down from manufactured items to lower level components.
Buy Uslly purchased. The Planner Workbench defaults the implementation type to Purchase Requisition. The planning process does no t pass
demand down from purchased items to lower level components.
Attention: You must also set Purchasable to Yes to create purchase requisitions and purchase orders. If you also set Build in WIP to Yes, you
can use the Planner Workbench to implement planned orders as discrete jobs.
MIN-MAX
MinMax Minimum Quantity
Enter the quantity minimum for minmax planning. If an item is minmax planned, the MinMax Planning Report suggests a new order when
quantity drops to the minmax minimum.
MinMax Maximum Quantity

Enter the quantity maximum for minmax planning. If an item is minmax planned, the MinMax Planning Report suggests an order that brings
onhand up to the minmax maximum
ORDER QUANTITY
Minimum Order Quantity
Enter the minimum order quantity or repetitive rate (units per day). Planning algorithms (reorder point, min max, MPS, and MRP) use this to
modify the size of planned order quantities or repetitive daily rates. For discrete items, when net requirements fall short o f the minimum order
quantity, planning algorithms suggest the minimum order quantity. For repetitive items, when average dail y demand for a repetitive planning
period falls short of the minimum order quantity, planning algorithms suggest the minimum order quantity as the
repetitive daily rate. For example, use this to define an order quantity below which it is unprofitable to bu ild the item
Maximum Order Quantity

Enter the maximum order quantity or repetitive rate (units per day) of the item. Planning algorithms (reorder point, min max, MPS, and MRP)
use this to modify the size of planned order quan tities or repetitive daily ra tes. For discrete items, when net requirements exceed the
maximum order quantity, planning algorithms suggest the maximum order quantity. For repetitive items, when average daily dema nd for a
repetitive planning period exceeds of the maximum order quantity, planning algorithms suggest the maximum order quantity as the
repetitive daily rate. For example, use this to define an order quantity above which you do have insufficient capacity to bui ld the item
COST
Order Cost
Enter the fixed cost associated with placing an order of any quantity.
Carrying Cost Percent

Enter the percentage used to calculate the annual carrying cost. This is the percentage of the unit cost that represents your internal cost to
stock one unit for one year.
SOURCING
Source Type (Replenishment)
Inventory Fill requests by creating internal requisitions that become internal sales orders, pulling stock from existing inventory.
Supplier Fill requests by creating purchase requisitions that become purchase orders, procuring the item from a suppl ier. Subinventory Fill
requests by creating move order requisitions that become move orders, pulling stock from an existing subinventory.
Attention: If you are using Supplier Scheduling, it is generally recommended that this field be left blank. Otherwise, it could override your
sourcing rules.
Source Organization
Optionally enter the organization from which an internal requisition draws the item. This applies only when Inventory is the replenishment
source type
You can choose organizations that meet the following criteria:
the item is assigned to the source organization
the source organization has a valid interorganization relationship with the current organization
The source organization can be your current organization if the item is MRP planned and you choose a non nettable Source Subinventory.
Source Subinventory
Enter the subinventory within the source organization from which an internal requisition draws the item. This applies only when Inventory or
Subinventory is the replenishment source, and only when you specify a source organization. For MRP planned items, you must en ter a non
nettable source subinventory when the source organization is the current organization.
SAFTY STOCK
Safety Stock Method
Select an option to plan use of fixed or dynamically calculated safety stock quantities.
For MRP/MPS planned items, you must set the Inventory Planning Method attribute to Not plann ed, then choose the MRP planned percent
option here. MRP planned percent Calculate safety stock as a userdefined percentage (Safety Stock Percent) of the average gross
requirements for a userdefined number of days. For discrete items, the userdefined number of days is the Safety Stock Bucket Days. For
repetitive items, the userdefined number of days is the repetitive planning period. Note that safety stock for an item varies as the average
gross requirements vary during the planning process.
NonMRP planned Calculate safety stock using methods defined by the Enter Item Safety Stocks window. You can use mean absolute
deviation or userdefined percentage of forecasted demand.
For Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning and Supply Chai n Planning, these safety stock quantities are fixed.
The Snapshot portion of the planning process loads them, and they do not vary during the planning process itself.
Safety Stock Bucket Days

Enter the number of days to dynamically calculate safety stock q uantities. The planning process multiplies the Safety Stock Percent by the
average gross requirements and divides by the number of days you enter here.
Safety Stock Percent

Enter the percent to dynamically calculate safety stock quantities for the item. Th e planning process multiplies this percent by the average
gross requirements and divides by the Safety Stock Bucket Days. The planning process uses this attribute when you set Safety Stock to MRP
planned percent.
ORDER MODIFIERS
Fixed Order Quantity
Enter the quantity used to modify the size of planned order quantities or repetitive daily rates. When net requirements fall short of the fixed
order quantity, the planning process suggests the fixed order quantity. When net requirements exceed the fixed order q uantity, the planning
process suggests multiple orders for the fixed order quantity. For discrete items, use this attribute to define a fixed produ ction or purchasing
quantity. For repetitive items, use this attribute to define a fixed production rate. For example, if your suppliers can provide the item in full
truckload quantities only, enter the full truckload quantity as the fixed order quantity.
Fixed Days Supply

Enter the number of days used to modify the size and timing of planned order quantities. Th e planning process suggests planned order
quantities that cover net requirements for the period defined by this value. The planning process suggests one planned order for each
period. For example, use this to reduce the number of planned orders for a discr ete component of a repetitive item.
Fixed Lot Multiplier

Enter the fixed lot multiple quantity or repetitive rate (units per day). Planning algorithms (reorder point, min max, MPS, and MRP) use this to
modify the size of planned order quantities or repetitive daily rates. When net requirements fall short of the fixed lot size multiplier quantity,
planning algorithms suggest a single order for the fixed lot size multiplier quantity. When net requirements exceed the fixed lot size multiplier
quantity, planning algorithms suggest a single order that is a multiple of the fixed lot size multiplier
Invoicing Attribute Group
Following are the Invoicing attributes and their possible values. You set these attributes when defining or updating items
Invoiceable Item
Indicate whether to include an item on an Oracle Receivables invoice. If you turn this option on, you can temporarily exclude from invoicing
when Invoice Enabled is turned off. This option must be on if Invoice Enabled is on.
Invoice Enabled
Indicate whether to activate an item for invoicing in Oracle Receivables. If Invoiceable Item is turned on, you can temporari ly exclude from
invoicing by leaving Invoice Enabled turned off. If you turn this option on, the item appears in the Invoice Ent ry item list of values in Oracle
Receivables. If you turn this feature off, the item does not appear in the list of values and Auto Invoice rejects the item. This attribute is
optionally set by the Item Status code.
Payment Terms
Enter a valid payment term s code. This attribute is for reference information only.
Accounting Rule
Enter an accounting rule to identify special revenue recognition rules for an item, such as recognizing revenue over time. Se e: Defining
Invoicing and Accounting Rules, Oracle Receivables Reference Manual, This attribute is for reference information only.
Invoicing Rule
Enter an invoicing rule to determine the period in which you send an invoice when you recognize revenue over time (using acco unting
rules).This attribute is for reference information only.
Tax Code
Enter a tax code to use when calculating tax based on location and tax codes. You assign specific rates to a Tax Code in the Other Tax Rates
window.
Sales Account
This attribute is controlled at the Organization level only. Enter the general ledger account Oracle Receivables uses to record revenue when
you bill the customer. If Auto Accounting is based on items, accounting entries are created at that time.
Open First Inventory Period
Prefix TAB TYPE TAB YEAR TAB QUARTER TAB NUM TAB FROM DATE TAB TO DATE TAB *DN
JAN TAB Month TAB 2013 TAB 1 TAB 1 TAB 01-01-2013 TAB 31-01-2013 TAB *DN
FEB TAB Month TAB 2013 TAB 1 TAB 2 TAB 01-02-2013 TAB 29-02-2013 TAB *DN
MAR TAB Month TAB 2013 TAB 1 TAB 3 TAB 01-03-2013 TAB 31-03-2013 TAB *DN
APR TAB Month TAB 2013 TAB 2 TAB 4 TAB 01-04-2013 TAB 30-04-2013 TAB *DN
MAY TAB Month TAB 2013 TAB 2 TAB 5 TAB 01-05-2013 TAB 31-05-2013 TAB *DN
JUN TAB Month TAB 2013 TAB 2 TAB 6 TAB 01-06-2013 TAB 30-06-2013 TAB *DN
JUL TAB Month TAB 2013 TAB 3 TAB 7 TAB 01-07-2013 TAB 31-07-2013 TAB *DN
AUG TAB Month TAB 2013 TAB 3 TAB 8 TAB 01-08-2013 TAB 31-08-2013 TAB *DN
SEP TAB Month TAB 2013 TAB 3 TAB 9 TAB 01-09-2013 TAB 30-09-2013 TAB *DN
OCT TAB Month TAB 2013 TAB 4 TAB 10 TAB 01-10-2013 TAB 31-10-2013 TAB *DN
NOV TAB Month TAB 2013 TAB 4 TAB 11 TAB 01-11-2013 TAB 30-11-2013 TAB *DN
DEC TAB Month TAB 2013 TAB 4 TAB 12 TAB 01-12-2013 TAB 31-12-2013 TAB *DN
ADJ TAB Month TAB 2013 TAB 4 TAB 13 TAB 31-12-2013 TAB 31-12-2013 TAB *DN
Transaction Setup
You must set certain controls and options before performing inventory transactions. These include:
Setting transaction profile options:

Oracle Inventory provides you with the following transaction processing profiles:
Enter Replenishment Count
InterOrganization Transfer
Miscellaneous Issue and Receipt
Transaction Processing Mode
Transfer Between Subinventories
Update Average Cost
Server Side Online Processing
Allow Expense to Asset Transfer
Project Miscellaneous Transaction Expenditure Type
RPC Timeout
Restrict Receipt of Serials
Transaction Date Validation
Use New Trx Manager for Processing
Override negative for Blackflush
Quantity Tree Timeout for Lock
Maximum Number of Quantity Trees
Cycle Count Approvals
Cycle Count Entries
Transaction Processing Mode

You can set processing control globally for all transactions or you can choose different options for each type of transaction . You establish the
method of transaction processing by choosing one of the following options when you set up your TP:INV Transaction Processing Mod e profile:
Online processing Processes transactions while you wait and returns control to you once it finishes.
Background processing Returns control immediately to you. With this option, Oracle Inventory processes transactions
on a periodic basis via the Inventory Transaction Manager.
Immediate concurrent processing Spawns a concurrent process when you commit the transaction and returns control immediately to you,
allowing you to continue working.
Form level processing Processes transactions using the processing control option you choose for that particular type of transaction. You
must also set the Inventory profile options for InterOrganization Transfer, Miscellaneous Issue and Receipt,
Receive Customer Return, Return to Customer, and Transfer Between Subinventories. If you are using Oracle Work inProcess, you must set
the WIP profile options Completion Material Processing, Completion Transaction Form, Material Transaction Form, Move Transaction,
Operation Backflush Setup, and Shop Floor Processing.
If you choose Form level processing for the Transaction Processing Mode profile you can set up different processing controls fo r each type of
transaction.
Online Processing If you use Online processing, you can choose whether transactions are processed on the server or client side by setting
the Server Side Online Processing profile. The default value is server side processing.
Inventory Remote Procedure Manager Server side online processing uses the Inventory Remote Procedure Manager to allow a transaction
initiated on the client to process on the server. System managers maintain the Remote Procedure Manager.
Transaction Actions
A transaction action is a generic type of Material movement or cost update with no specificity regarding the source of the transaction. Along
with a transaction source type, a transaction action identifies a transaction type. Oracle Inventory provides the following transaction actions:
Issue from stores
Subinventory transfer
Direct organization transfer
Cycle count adjustment
Physical inventory adjustment
Intransit receipt
Intransit shipment
Cost update
Receipt into stores
Delivery adjustments
WIP assembly scrap
Assembly completion
Assembly return
Negative component issue
Negative component return
Staging Transfer
Transaction Source Types

The relationship between transaction source type, transaction action and transaction type is shown in below picture.
1. A transaction source type is the type of entity against which Oracle Inventory charges a transaction. Along with a transaction action, it
uniquely identifies the type of transaction you perform. Oracle Inventory provides the following predefined transaction source types:
Account
Account Alias
Cycle Count
Internal Order
Internal Requisition
Inventory
Job or Schedule
Move Order
Periodic Cost Update
Physical Inventory
Purchase Order
RMA (Return Material Authorization)
Sales Order
Standard Cost Update
2. You can define additional transaction source types in the Transaction Source Types window . You can then use these userdefined
transaction source types and predefined transaction actions to define a new transaction type. This userdefined transaction type is now a
customized form of tracking transactions with which you can group
and sort reports and inquiries.
3.When you perform a transaction, you specify a transaction type and a source. For example, for a PO receipt
transaction, the transaction source type is Purchase Order and the actual PO number is the source.
Transaction source type = Purchase Order

Transaction source = Purchase Order Number
Transaction Action = Receipt
Transaction type = PO Receipt
Transaction Types
A transaction type is the combination of a transaction source type and a transaction action. It is used to classify a particular transaction for
reporting and querying purposes. Oracle Inventory also uses transaction typ es to identify certain transactions to include in historical usage
calculations for ABC analysis or forecasting. The following table presents predefined transaction types:
Use the Transaction Types window to define additional transaction types to customi ze transaction entry. A userdefined transaction type is a
combination of a userdefined transaction source type and a predefined transaction action. For example, if you frequently donate items to
charity, you might want to define a transaction source type called Charity and a transaction type called Issue to Charity. In this case, the
transaction action would be Issue from Stores. You would then use the Miscellaneous Transactions window to actually issue an item to charity,
using the Issue to Charity transaction type. You would also specify the actual charity to which you are issuing, such as Goodwill, and the
expense account that specifies the source (Goodwill).
You define transaction types by combining transaction actions and transaction source type s. You define transaction source types in the
Transaction Source Types window. Oracle Inventory provides the list of transaction actions.
You must specify a transaction type when you perform a miscellaneous receipt or issue, a subinventory transfer, a WI P transaction, or an
interorganization transfer.
Defining Transaction Reasons
A transaction reason is a standard means of classifying or explaining the reason for a transaction. Transaction reasons can b e used in all
transaction forms.
You can use these standard transaction reasons with any type of material transaction. Oracle Inventory provides transaction reporting and
inquiring capabilities by transaction reason.
In the reason type from the list of values. The available choices are as follo ws:
Load
Drop
Receiving
Replenishment
Cycle Count
Shipping
Update Status
QA Update Status
Note: The Replenishment reason type is disabled.
If you selected Picking as the Reason Type, select a Reason Context from the list of values. The available choices are as follows:
Curtail Pick: End the pick after picking a few LPNs or Lots and load the contents.
LPN Exception: Pick partial quantity of the scanned fully consumable LPN.
Pick None: End the pick without picking anything.
Pick Over: Pick more than the requested quantity.
Pick Partial: Split the pick and allow confirmation of less than the requested quantity. You must still pick the entire qua ntity, but can pick in
stages.
Pick Short: Specify a quantity less than the requested quantity, and back order the rest of the required quantity.
Change Source Locator: Change the location from which the material is picked.
Change UOM: Change the transaction unit of measure for the task.
Defining Item Transaction Defaults
Use this form to define a default subinventory and/or locator for an item for shipping, receiving, and move order transactions. Oracle Ship ping
Execution displays the default shipping information when you ship an item. Oracle Inventory displays the default receiving in formation when
you receive an item. For Move orders, Oracle Inventory derives the default put away locator when you transact an item into a locator controlled
subinventory if no locator was specified by the creator of the move order.
1. Navigate to the Item Transaction Defaults window.
2. Select the Subinventories tabbed region

a. ITEM -
Enter an item for which you want to assign a default transaction subinventory.
b. Default For -
Select the type of default:
Shipping: Assign a default shipping subinventory to the item.
Receiving: Assign a default receiving subinventory to the item.
Move Order Receipt: Assign a default move order subinventory to the item.
c. Subinventory -
Enter a subinventory to use as the default transaction subinventory for the item. If you restrict the item to specific subinventories using
either the Subinventory Items window or the Item subinventories window, you can only choose those subinventories in this field.
d. LOCATOR -
Enter a locator to use as the default transaction locator for the item in this subinventor y.
Defining Account Aliases
An account alias is an easily recognized name or label representing a general ledger account number. You can view, report, and reserve
against an account alias. During a transaction, you can use the account alias instead of an account number to refer to the ac count.
To define an account alias:
1. Navigate to the Account Aliases window.

2. Enter a unique account alias name derived from concatenated segments of the account alias name key flexfield.
3. Enter the general ledger account to which you charge all transactions that use this account alias. You can change this acc ount only if the
account alias has not been referenced.
4. Enter the effective date on which the account alias is enabled. Date must be greater than or equal to the current date.
5. Save your work.
To make an account alias inactive:
Enter the date on which the account alias becomes inactive. As of this date, you can no longer use the account alias. Date must be greater
than or equal to both the effective date and the current date.
Define an Shorthand Alias
Transaction Managers
The transaction managers execute the following processes: material transaction, demand reservation, move transaction, resource cost
transaction, remote procedure call, and material cost transaction . These run at periodic intervals you specify until you delete them with the
concurrent manager. They control the number of transaction workers, processing intervals, and number of transactions processed by each
worker during each interval. For descriptions of the available managers see: Transaction Managers.
You do not have to launch these transaction managers if you decide to process all your transactions on -line and do not use the
transaction interface.
The use of multiple transaction workers enables parallel processing of transactions. This is especially helpful when processing a large
batch of transactions.
Material transaction
The material transaction manager immediately executes a material transaction after you save your changes in a transaction win dow. By
starting the transaction manager, you can determine how to execute transactions: immediately through immediate concurrent request
submissions, or through periodic concurrent request submissions. You define this transaction mode for individual transaction windows in the
Personal Profile Values window.
Move transaction
The move transaction manager processes move transactions in Oracle Work in Process and move transactions you import from devices such
as portable bar code readers or your custom data entry forms using the Open Move Transaction Interface.
Resource cost transaction

The resource cost transaction manager processes resource transactions in Oracle Work in Process and resource transactions you import fr om
barcode readers, payroll systems, time cards, routing sheets, and custom data entry forms using the Open Resource Transaction Interface.
Material cost transaction

The material cost transaction manager costs material transactions in Oracle Inventory and Oracle Work in Process in the backg round.
To view and update the transaction managers

1. Navigate to the Interface Managers window. All existing transaction managers and their current status are displayed.
2. Enter the maximum number of rows to assign to the worker.
3. For WIP Move Transactions only: Specify the processing timeout in hours and minutes. After this time the move transa ction manager no
longer processes pending transactions and marks them as an error.
4. Save your work.
To launch a transaction manager:

1. Select a transaction manager in the Interface Managers window.
2. Choose Launch Manager from the Tools menu.
The Launch Inventory Managers window appears displaying the transaction manager you choose as the process to be submitted.
Note: If the transaction manager is already active, Oracle Inventory displays a warning before displaying the new window.
3. Select a resubmit level.
You can enter the start date and time to resubmit the transaction manager or an interval of time that the transaction manager polls the
interface table for pending transactions.
4. Choose Submit.
Transactions
Oracle Inventory, with Oracle Order Management, Oracle Purchasing, and Oracle Work in Process, provides you with a complete set of
transactions and reports for maintaining inventory control. This allows you to control the flow of material from the time you receive items to the
time you ship finished goods to the customer.
Inventory transactions and on hand balance supports decimal precision to 5 digits after the decimal point. Oracle Work in Pro cess supports
decimal precision to 6 digits. Other Oracle Applications support different decimal precision. As a result of the decimal precision mismatch,
transactions another Oracle Application passes may be rounded when processed by Inventory. If the transaction quantity is rou nded to zero,
Inventory does not process the transaction. It is therefore suggested that the base unit of measure for an item is set up such that transaction
quantities in the base unit of measure not require greater than 5 digits of decimal precision.
Performing Miscellaneous Transactions

With a miscellaneous transaction you can issue material to or receive material from general ledger accounts in your current organization. This
allows you to issue material to groups that are not inventory, receiving, or work in process such as a research and development group or an
accounting department. You can also make manual adjustments to the general ledger by receiving material from one account to inve ntory, and
then issuing that material from inventory to another account.
You can use your userdefined transaction types and sources to further classify and name your transactions. You can use this feature to issue
items to individuals, departments, or projects; or to issue damaged items to expense accounts such as scrap. You can perform the receipts for
items that were acquired by means other than a purchase order from a supplier. You can also use this feature to load all item on hand
quantities when you start implementing Oracle Inventory.
You will receive a material shortage alert while performing a miscellaneous transaction if you have enabled shortage alerts for the
miscellaneous transaction type being performed. Also, a miscellaneous transaction can trigger a shortage notification to be s ent to various
predefined individuals.
Subinventory Transfer
You can transfer material within your current organization between subinventories, or between two locators within the same su binventory. You
can transfer from asset to expense subinventories, as well as from tracked to non tracked subinventories. If an item has a restricted list of
subinventories, you can only transfer material from and to subinventories in that list. Oracle Inventory allows you to use us erdefined
transaction types when performing a subinventory transfer.
To do a subinventory transfer from expense to asset subinventory set the profile option INV: Allow Expense to Asset Transfer to "Yes."
If it has not been set it to "Yes," it is possible to issue from an asset to an expense subinventory, but issue from an expense to asset
subinventory is not possible.
Oracle Inventory expects the consumption of material at the expense location. If you return an asset item to an expense subinventory,
you must be first issue it from the expense subinventory using the Miscellaneous
Transaction form and transfer it to the subinventory expense account. Then, no accounting occurs and you only transfer quantities .
To receive the asset item back to the asset subinventory, perform the Miscellaneous Transaction account receipt using the same expense
account as the expense subinventory.
For receiving an ASSET item back, you use the Miscellaneous Transaction instead of the subinventory transfer.
Inventory Controls
With Oracle Inventory you can implement locator, revision, lot, and serial number control.
Flexible Controls
You can implement any combination of the four controls (locator, revision, lot, and serial number) for each item.
Inventory controls are optional for all items. You can choose to implement inventory controls for specific items.
Locator Control Hierarchy

Oracle Inventory uses the following hierarchy to determine which locator control option to enforce during transaction entry:
1. Org level overrides subinventory and item level.
2. Subinventory level overrides item level.
3. If decision is pushed to item level, Oracle Inventory uses item level.
Defining Locators
Locators are structures within subinventories. Locators are the third level in the enterprise structuring scheme of Oracle In ventory. Locators
may represent rows, aisles, or bins in warehouses. You can receive items directly into and ship items
directly from locators.
You can structure your Oracle Inventory installation so that some of the subinventories and items have locator control while others do not.
Each locator you define mus t belong to a subinventory. Each subinventory can have multiple locators.
Defining Revision Quantity Control
A revision is a particular version of an item, bill of material, or routing. By using the revision quantity control option yo u can track item quantities
by item revision. To do so you must specify a revision for each material transaction. You can enable revision quantity contro l for items for
which you must track version changes or changes that are significant enough to track but are not affecting the function and feature of the item
and therefore do not require an item change.
Defining Lot Control
A lot is a specific batch of an item that you receive and store in your organization.
Lot control is a technique for enforcing the use of lot numbers during material
transactions, thus enabling the tracking of batches of items throughout their
movement in and out of inventory. With Oracle Inventory you can establish lot
control for specific items in your organization.
Defining Serial Number Control

A serial number is an alphanumeric piece of information that you
assign to an individual unit of an item. A serialized unit is a
combination of an item and a serial number.
You can track individual units of items by using serial numbers.
Serial number control is a system technique for enforcing the use of
serial numbers during a material transaction. You can use serial
numbers to track items over which you want to maintain very tight
control.
6. Item Transaction Defaults
Default Shipping Locator

You can enter a default shipping locator for each item/subinventory combination. If you disable reservations for your system, Ora cle Order
Entry uses the default shipping subinventory and locator in the pick release process.
You can override the default shipping locator at ship confirm time.
Default Receiving Locator

You can enter a default receiving locator for each item/subinventory combination. When you deliver items to an inventory loca tion, if the source
document does not have subinventory/locator information, Oracle Purchasing uses the default receiving
subinventory and locator that you specify in Oracle Inventory.
You can override the default receiving locator if you decide to receive the item into another locator.
7. Restrict Items to Locators
Reasons to Restrict Items to Locators
Security You may decide to restrict high-security items to specific aisle/bin locations in warehouses.
Transaction entry You can limit items to specific locators to make the transaction entry process easier.
Fixed storage All your items are always stocked in a particular range of bins and aisles.
Options to Restrict an Item to Specific Locators

In the Inventory region of the Master Item window, select the Restrict Subinventories and Restrict Locators check boxes.
In the Item Subinventories window, enter the list of restricted subinventories and locators for each item.
You can restrict an item to a list of locators only if your locator control is Prespecified or No Control.
Revision Control
A revision is a particular version of an item , bill of material, or routing.
You use revision quantity control to track item quantities by item revision. To do so you must specify a revision for each ma terial transaction.
You can enable revision quantity control for items for which you must track version changes or changes that are significant enough to track but
are not affecting the function and feature of the item and therefore do not require an item change.
Steps to Implement Revision Control for Items in Your Organization
1. Define a default starting revision for each organization.

2. Enable revision quantity control for items.
3. Define revision numbers to use for each revision-controlled item.
4. Enter revision numbers when you perform transactions.
Uses in Oracle Inventory
Material Transactions You can enter revision numbers for revision -controlled items during inventory transactions.
Reservations You can place holds on specific revisions of items.
Accuracy You can enter revision numbers for revision-controlled items whenever you enter physical inventory counts and cycle
counts.
Reports and Inquiries Oracle Inventory reports and inquiry windows display revision information for revision -controlled items.
Starting Default Revision for an organization

You can define a starting revision that Oracle Inventory uses when creating items. Revisions can be in numerical or alphabetical order. If you
do not enter a starting revision, Oracle Inventory makes the starting revision number zero.
When you save your item, Oracle Inventory assigns to the item the starting revision number from the Organization Parameters window. This is
the base revision of your item. If you introduce additional versions of the item, you must first define them in the Item Revi sions window.
Enable Revision Control Attribute

Revision control is an item attribute. If you maintain the revision control attribute at the item master level, each item mus t have the same kind of
revision control in each organization that carries the item .If you maintain the revision control attribute at the organization level, each item may
have a different kind of revision control in each organization that carries the item.
Revision Quantity Control : If you select the Revision Control check box for an item, you must enter a revision number w hen you enter
transactions for the item.
If you clear the Revision Control check box for an item, you do not have to enter revision information when you enter a mater ial transaction for
the item. You will not be able to track quantities of each different version of the item.
Defining Item Revisions

You can define multiple revision numbers and effective dates for each revision controlled item. You can assign revisions in sequence by
effective date. Revisions must be in alphabetical or numerical order, and you must choose one of the revision
numbers when you enter transactions, physical inventory counts, and cycle counts. You must enter a revision number for each r evision-
controlled item that you transact.
Engineering Change Order

You can add a revision number when you enter an engineering change order or when you transfer items, bills, and routings from engineering
to manufacturing. Oracle Inventory displays the engineering change order that added the revision.
Oracle Inventory displays the date on which you entered the engineering change order or when you transferred the item using the Transfer to
Manufacturing window.
Defining Item Revisions

Navigate to the Item Revisions window from one of the following windows:
i. Master Items Summary folder or Master Item window
ii. Organization Items Summary folder or Organization Item window
iii. Bills of Material window
iv. Engineering Change Orders window
You can use letters, numbers, and characters (such as *, &, and #) to label revisions. Letters are always in upper case and numbers may
include decimals. To ensure that revisions sort properly, decimals should always be followed by a number. Valid revisions can include: A, B,
01, 02, A1, B1, 1A, 1B, 0.0, 0.1, A.0, A.1, and so on.
Revisions are sorted according to ASCII rules. Each revision must be greater than the previous revision. Therefore, you cannot use revision 10
after revision 9 because, according to ASCII sorting, 10 precedes 9.
The value you entered in the Starting Revision field in the Organization Param eters window displays as the starting revision for the item. For
revisions that have the same effective date, the revisions sort in descending order starting with the last revision you enter ed.
Lot Control
A lot is a specific batch of an item that you receive and store in your organization.
Lot control is a technique for enforcing the use of lot numbers during material transactions, thus enabling the tracking of b atches of items
throughout their movement in and out of inventory.
Oracle Inventory enables you to establish lot control for specific items in your organization.
Steps to Implement Lot and Shelf Life Control in Your Organization
1. Choose organization-level lot number generation and uniqueness options.

2. Enable lot and shelf life control for your items.
3. Perform transactions for lot-controlled items.
4. Update information for specific item lots.
Material transactions You can trace item movements by lot number.

Reservations You can place holds on batches of items.
Perishable items You can establish shelf life control to regulate the use of perishable items.
Accuracy You can enter lot number information when you enter physical inventory counts and cycle counts for lot -controlled items.
Reports and inquiries Oracle Inventory displays lot number information on reports and inquiry windows that list item quantity and
transaction information.
Organization level lot number defaults
Uniqueness Level of Lot Numbers
None : You can assign the same lot number to multiple part numbers in the same organization and across organizations.
Across items : You can assign a specific lot number to only one item in the same organization.
Lot Number Generation Options

At Item Level You can specify a starting lot number prefix and a starting lot number when you define an item under lot control.
When you receive the item, Oracle Inventory uses this information to generate a default lot number for the item.
You can always override default lot numbers.
At Organization Level You can specify the starting prefix and lot number information when you enter the organization parameters.
When you receive a lot controlled item, Oracle Inventory uses this information to generate a default lot number for the item. You can
always override default lot numbers.
User-Defined Oracle Inventory does not generate a default lot number when you receive your item.
Enabling Lot Control Options

Full Control You can specify a lot number for the item whenever you enter a transaction for the item. You can establish lot number con trol for
an item only if that item has no quantity on hand.
Establishing Shelf Life Control
You can establish shelf life control for items under lot control and use shelf life control to regulate the use of perishable items.
Shelf Life Days All lots of this item have the number of shelf life days you define. Oracle Inventory calculates the expiration date of
the lot by adding the shelf life days to the date on which you receive the item.
User-defined You can enter an expiration date when you receive each lot and issue items from an expired lot to a scrap account. If
you perform any other transaction from an expired lot, Oracle Inventory displays a message warning you that the lot has expir ed.
Generate Lot Number For Items

Generate Child Lot Number For Items
- Define New Item Code With Child Lot Control
Enable Child Lot

Lot Number Entry
(N)Transactions>Miscellaneous Transaction
(B) Transaction Lines >Lot/Serial
Update LOT information

Viewing Existing Lots
You can query any lot number used in the organization. Oracle Inventory displays the item with which the lot is associated and its expirati on
date.
Disabling Lot
You can disable an item lot combination if you no longer want to view the lot in a List of Values.
Updating Expiration Dates

If necessary, you can update the expiration date and the lot number combination for an item.
Viewing Supplier Lot Information

If you entered the supplier lot number during your receipt transaction, you can use the Supplier Lots button to trace your lot number back to the
supplier lot number.
Item Lot Control

Oracle Inventory provides complete lot number support for inventory transactions. You can enable lot control for specific ite ms in your
inventory. For items under lot control, you assign lot numbers to each receipt into inventory and thereafter reference the same lots each time
you perform material transactions. This allows you to have tight control over batches of items in your inventory.
Assigning Lot Numbers
1. You must assign lot numbers whenever you receive items under lot control into inventory. You can also add quantities to existing lot
numbers and split an inventory receipt into several lots, as necessary.
2. Inventory assists you in entering lot numbers by generating defaults using the default lot number generation method you chose in the
Organization Parameters window.
3. If the item you are receiving is also under Userdefined expiration date Lot Expiration (shelf life) Control, you must specify the
expiration date for the lot.
Issuing Material from Inventory

When you issue items under lot control from inventory, you must specify a lot number for that item. You can specify more than one lot
to cover the transaction quantity. If you attempt to transact an item to or from an expired lot, Inventory displays a warning message
but does not prevent you from using the lot.
Assigning Lot Numbers to Assemblies

When you complete an assembly under lot control into inventory, you must assign a lot number in the WIP Completion Transaction
form in Oracle Work in Process. For assembly completions on discrete jobs, Oracle Work in Process defaults the jobs lot numb er.
Purging Lot Transactions

You can purge all lot transaction information from your current organization. Note that the transactions must be in closed accounting
periods.
Attention: Purging lot transactions eliminates information used in lot genealogy reports and inquiries (Supplier Lot Trace Re port, Job
Lot Composition Report, and Job Lot Composition Inquiry).
Maintaining Lot Number Information

You can use the Item Lots window to update the expiration date of lots for items under lot expiration (shelf life) control. Inventory lets
you view all lots you created in your current organization and the supplier lot information associated with them.
Expired Lots
You can determine whether a lot has an expiration date by assigning a number of lot control shelf life days or by entering an lot
expiration date. The expiration date controls the availability of the lot for transacting and plannin g purposes. An expired lot:
is not considered as onhand supply when performing minmax, reorder point or MRP planning calculations
cannot be reserved for a date beyond the expiration date
can be transacted and is included in onhand quantities
is included in all inquiries and reports, including inventory valuation reports
is included in a cycle count and count entry and adjustments are allowed
is included in a physical inventory and tag entry and adjustments are allowed
Disabled Lots
Disabling a lot only Prevents it from appearing in a list of values when performing receipt transactions . If you type in the lot
number it is valid and accepted even though it was not in the list of values. Disabling is used only for tailoring this specific instance of
the list of values for lot numbers. A disabled lot:
is included in available to transact, available to promise, and available to reserve calcula tions
is included as onhand supply when performing minmax, reorder point or MRP planning calculations
is included as onhand in all inquiries and reports, including inventory valuation reports
can be transacted with Inventory functions and the Transaction Open Interface
can be reserved
Cycle Counting
Inventory includes the lot numbers of the items to cycle count when it generates a cycle count listing. You must assign lot n umbers to
all items under lot control for which you enter counts. If there is a difference between the count quantity and the system on hand
quantity, Inventory adjusts the item quantity in that lot.
Performing Physical Inventories

Inventory includes the lot numbers of the items to count in your physical inventory when it gener ates tags. You must assign lot
numbers to all items under lot control for which you enter counts in the Physical Inventory Tag Counts window. If there is a difference
between the count quantity and the system onhand quantity, Inventory adjusts the item quantity in that lot.
Lot Control Setup
Before using the lot control we need to have the following 3 setups
1. Lot information in inventory tab of item master

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2. Lot information in Revision, Lot & Serial tab of organization parameter

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3. Use the Work in Process Parameters window to set up lot control in Oracle Work in Process. You choose the option by which Oracle Work
in Process defaults and verifies lot numbers during backflush transactions. You also specify the method by which Oracle Work in Process
defaults lot numbers on discrete jobs for lot controlled assemblies.
Maintaining Item Lot Information
You can update the disable status and expiration date associated with item lot information.
1. To view lot Genealogy Choose the View Genealogy button.
2. To view material transactions for an item lot, Select an item and lot and choose the Transactions button.
Serial Number Control
A serial number is an alphanumeric piece of information that you assign to an individual unit of an item. A serialized unit is a combi nation of an
item and a serial number. You can track individual units of items by using serial numbers. Serial number control is a system technique for
enforcing the use of serial numbers during a material transaction. You use serial numbers to track items over which you want to maintain very
tight control.
Steps to Implement Serial Number Control for Your Items
1. Choose organization-level serial number uniqueness and default generation options.

2. Enter item-level serial number control options.
3. Define serial numbers to assign to serial-controlled items./Enter transactions for serial-number-controlled items.
4. Update information for specific serialized units.
Material Transactions: You can enter serial numbers when you use inventory transactions to move serialized units.
Cycle Counts: You can enter cycle counts for items under serial number control.
Physical Inventory: You can enter physical inventory counts for items under serial control.
Reports and Inquiries: Oracle Inventory reports and inquiry windows display serial number information for items and transacti ons.
Types of Serial Number Uniqueness

You can choose one of three types of serial number uniqueness control for your organization:
Within inventory items

Within organization
Across organizations
Uniqueness applies only to the organization establishing the type of control For example, if organization M1 Mfg. establishes unique serial
numbers across organizations, it cannot use a serial number already used by organization Sacramento Mfg. However, M2 Mfg., wi th a different
type of control, can still use serial numbers already used by Austin Mfg. Therefo re, if you choose unique serial numbers across organizations
for one of your organizations, you should make sure that you set the same uniqueness control for all other organizations.
Serial Number Generation Options @organization parameter

At Item Level
You can specify a starting serial number prefix and a starting serial number when you define the item. Oracle Inventory uses th e starting serial
number prefix and the starting serial number for each item to generate serial numbers for that item.
At Organization Level
You can specify a starting serial number prefix and a starting serial number when you enter organization parameters. Oracle I nventory uses
the starting serial number prefix and the starting serial number to generate serial numbers for all items.
Serial Number Generation Options @Item

No Control: Do not enter serial number data when you transact your item.
Predefined: You must enter serial number data whenever you use the item in a material transaction in Oracle Inventory. Use the Generate
Serial Numbers window to generate serial numbers for the item. You can assign predefined serial numbers to receive the item into inventory.
At Receipt: You must enter serial number information whenever you use the item in a material transaction. Create and assign serial numbers
when you receive the item in to inventory. You do not have to generate your serial numbers ahead of time; you can enter them dynamically at
transaction time.
At Sales Order Issue: Create and assign serial numbers when you issue the item against a sales order. You do not have to use serial number
information for any other types of material transaction. You do not have to generate your serial numbers ahead of time; you c an enter them at
transaction time.
If you receive an item with this control option back into inventory on a return materials(s) authorization (RMA), you must specify the serial
numbers you created on sales order issue.
Item Serial Number
Oracle Inventory provides complete serial number support for inventory transactions. You can enable serial number control for specific items in
your inventory.
For items under serial number control, you assign unique serial n umbers to individual units and thereafter reference the same serial numbers
each time you perform material transactions. This allows you to have tight control over every unit of every item in your inventory. If your item is
under dynamic entry At sales order issue, you can only assign serial numbers when you perform a shipment transaction in Oracl e Shipping
Execution.
Serial Number Validation

Oracle Inventory enables you to perform two optional validations for serial numbers that have been used in Oracle Work in Pro cess. This
validation is enabled by setting the profile option, INV: Restrict Receipt of Serials to Yes.
Validation of serialized components:

Enabling the profile option will validate that a given serial number for an item may not be received via purchase order recei pt, miscellaneous
receipt, or account alias receipt, if that same serial number has been issue d to Oracle Work In Process.
Validation of serialized endassemblies:
Enabling the profile option will validate that a given serial number for an end assembly item may not be completed into Oracl e Inventory for a
Discrete Job, Repetitive Schedule, Flow Schedule, and Work Orderless Completion, if that same serial number has a state of, Issued out of
stores.
Issuing Material from Inventory

If you issue items with a serial number control type of dynamic entry At inventory receipt or Predefined, you must ch oose from the list of
serialized units that you have already received into inventory. If you issue items with a serial number control type of dynam ic entry At sales
order issue, you must assign serial numbers when you ship the item
against a sales order.
Assigning Serial Numbers to Assemblies

When you receive into inventory a completed assembly with a serial number control type of dynamic entry At inventory receipt or Predefined,
you must assign a serial number in the WIP Completion Transaction window in Oracle Work in Process. You either accept the default serial
number or enter another valid one.
Returning Serialized Units to Suppliers

You can return serialized units to the supplier in the Enter Returns and Adjustments window. Oracle Inventory updates the serial number
information with the purchase order number and transaction date of the return so that the location of the serialized unit is known.
When you receive replacement units, you can issue new serial numbers. When you receive repaired units, you s hould reference the original
serial numbers so that Oracle Inventory can properly update the existing serial numbers
Detailed Steps to Implement Serial Number Control for Your Items
1. Choose organization-level serial number uniqueness and default generation options.
2. Enter item-level serial number control options
3. Define serial numbers to assign to serial-controlled items Enter transactions for serial-number-controlled items.
4. Update information for specific serialized units.

Setting Up Serial Number Control
1. Item master setup
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2. Organization parameter
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i. Uniqueness
You use the Organization Parameters window to choose a type of serial number uniqueness for your organization. You can choose to enforce
uniqueness Within inventory items, Within an organization, or Across organizations. The three levels for serial uniqueness are cumulative the
definitions are as follows:
Within Inventory Items: Once you assign a serial number to a particular item you cannot assign the same serial number to the same item
regardless of the organization. For example if you assign serial number SN100 to item A, you cannot assign serial
number SN100 to any other instance of item A in any organization. This also includes CTO items derrived from base model A. However you
could receive item B with serial number
SN100 in any organization.
Within Organizations: In addition to the restrictions Within Inventory Items control, the same serial n umber cannot exist twice within the same
organization. For example if you assign SN100 to item A, you will not be able to receive item B with the serial
number SN100 in the same organization. However, you could receive item B with the serial number SN100 i n any other organization.
Across Organizations: In addition to the restrictions Within Organizations, you cannot assign the same serial number to any other item
regardless of the organization. For example if you assign SN100 to item A you will not be abl e to receive item B
with the serial number SN100 in any organization. If you assign Across Organization uniqueness to any organization it restric ts the serial
generation in all other organizations. If one organization dictates Across Organizations, all oth er organizations must do so.
ii. Generation
You can establish serial number control for an inventory item when you define it. You can choose from No control, Predefined serial numbers,
control At inventory receipt, or control At sales order issue.
If you specified Predefined as the serial number control type for an item, you must predefine serial numbers for that item using the Generate
Serial Numbers window. If you specified entry At inventory receipt or At sales order issue, you can optionally predefine serial numbers for the
item. Oracle Inventory uses the starting serial number prefix and the starting serial number you specify in the Item window t o load the number
of predefined serial numbers you request. You can load as many serial numbers as you want for any item under serial number control.
Generating & Assigning Serial Numbers
Generating Serial Numbers
If you specified Predefined as the serial number control type for an item, you must predefine serial numbers for that item.
If you specified entry At inventory receipt or At sales order issue, you can optionally predefine serial numbers for the item. The process of
generating serial numbers does not assign serial numbers to units in inventory, it simply reserves specific serial numbers fo r an item, for later
use. When you run the serial generation program if you have the same serial prefix number across organizations, the concurren t program
searches across the organizations, and generates serial numbers using the highest start number across the organiza tions.
Serial Number Assignment
You must assign serial numbers whenever you receive items under serial number control into inventory. If an item is under Predefined control,
you can choose from the list of predefined serial numbers for that item. If an item is under dynamic entry At inventory receipt, you can choose
from a predefined list of serial numbers or enter any serial number, depending on the uniqueness control for your organizatio n. You can create
and assign serial numbers individually or as a range to speed up data entry. If your item is under dynamic entry At sales order issue, you can
only assign serial numbers when you perform a shipment transaction in Oracle Shipping Execution.
Once you assign a serial number to an item, the combination of the serial number and the item is an entity known as a serialized unit. From
that point on, Oracle Inventory tracks all movements and maintains the following information for each serialized unit:
Receipt or Ship Date
The date on which you last performed a material transaction for your serialized unit. Material transactions update this
information when you move your serialized unit.
Serial State
Oracle Inventory assigns one of the following states to your serialized unit: Defined but not used, Resides in inventory, Issued out of inventory,
or Resides in intransit.
Status Codes
1 Defined but not used
3 Resides in stores
4 Issued out of stores
5 Resides in intransit
6 Pending status
7 Resides in receiving
8 Resides in WIP
Note : You can get a full list of the codes with the following SQL:
SELECT lookup_type, lookup_code, meaning
FROM mfg_lookups
WHERE lookup_type = 'SERIAL_NUM_STATUS'
ORDER BY lookup_type, lookup_code
Location
The organization, subinventory, and locator in which the serialized unit currently resides. Material transactions update
this information when you transfer the serialized unit.
Revision level
The revision of the item when you assign the serial number to the unit.
Lot number
During material transactions, you first specify the lot number and then the serial number. Oracle Inventory tracks the lot from which a specific
serialized unit originates.
Maintaining Serial Number Information

You can view location, job and state information, as well as update supplier in formation associated with your serialized units.
1. Navigate to the Serial Numbers window. The Find Serials window appears.
2. Enter search criteria. If you do not enter criteria, a query for all serial numbers is performed.
3. Choose the Find button to display the serial number and item information in the Serial Numbers window.
Item Control
In this chapter well discuss some advance controls that oracle provides on items
Item Relationships
You can define relationships between items. This allows you to search for items through these relationships. Except in Oracle Purchasing,
these relationships are for inquiry and reporting purposes only.
Item Relationships with Oracle Purchasing

Within Oracle Purchasing you can define acceptable substitute items for receiving. You must define a list of substitutes before you receive a
substitute item in place of an originally ordered item. Attention: If you receive a substitute item, you must have previously defined a unit of
measure conversion between the unit of meas ure on the purchase order and the unit of measure on the receipt.
CrossSell: This relationship indicates that one item may be sold in lieu of another item.
UpSell: This relationship indicates that a newer version of the item exists, and can be sold i n place of the older item.
Service: This relationship establishes service items for a repairable item.
Prerequisite: This relationship indicates that you must possess one of the items as a requirement to possessing the other ite m.
Collateral: This relationship indicates collateral, such as marketing brochures, that you possess for an item.
Superseded: This relationship indicates that one item has replaced another item that is no longer available.
Complimentary: This relationship indicates if a customer purchases one item, the other item is received for free.
Impact: This relationship is used to relate items to each other but only under special conditions.
Conflict: This relationship indicates that these items may never be used together.
Mandatory Charge: This relationship indicates a mandatory charge if the customer purchases both items.
Optional Charge: This relationship indicates an optional charge if the customer purchases both items.
Promotional Upgrade: This relationship enables a customer to upgrade fro m one item to another item or equal or higher value, without an
additional charge.
Split: This relationship enables you to split support for an item so you do not have to manually split support at contract re newal. To use this
relationship, you must be in a planning enabled organization.
Merge: This relationship enables rules based consolidation of contracts. You may use the earliest or latest target end date f or consolidation.
This allows you to choose how contracts are consolidated. To use this relationsh ip, you must be in a planning enabled organization.
Migration: During contact renewal you are given the option of renewing contracts based on new licenses, or old licenses. To u se this
relationship, you must be in a planning enabled organization.
Repair to: You use the Repair to item relationship with field service operations that use spares management functionality. If a part has been
superseded by another part, the Repair to item relationship determines the replacement part.
Assigning Subinventories to an Item
You can assign a list of subinventories to an item. You restrict an item to the list of subinventories by setting the Restric t Subinventories
attribute when you define or update the item.
You also use the item/subinventory relationship to specify valid subinventories for zero quantity cycle counts for an item, and to specify items
for an ABC analysis performed at the subinventory level. In these cases you do not have to set the Restrict Subinventories at tribute, only
establish the relationship between the item and subinventory.
You can also specify planning information and locators for the item in its assigned subinventories. This information is used to perform minmax
planning and replenishment processing at the subinventory level.
Assigning Items to a Subinventory
You can assign items to a given subinventory. Assigning items to a subinventory does not restrict the subinventory to that li st of items. Rather,
the items are restricted to that subinventory. Thus, you can always issue and receive unr estricted items to any subinventory, but you can only
issue and receive restricted items to their list of subinventories. You activate the list of subinventories for a restricted item by setting the
Restrict Subinventories attribute when defining or updati ng items.
You also use the item/subinventory relationship to specify valid subinventories for zero quantity cycle counts for an item, a nd to specify items
for an ABC analysis performed at the subinventory level. In these cases you do not have to set the Re strict Subinventories attribute, only
establish the relationship between the item and subinventory.
You can also specify planning information related to the items you assign to a given subinventory.
Notes:
1. Assigning items to subinventory or subinventory to item does the same thing i.e it 'll restrict the item to those assigned subinventories if
restrict subinventory option is enabled in item master inventory tab for that item.
When an item is restricted to a sub inventory, you 'll only get the restri cted subinventories in LOV of subinventory while doing any transaction
2. While assigning subinventories to an item, go to the required organization parameter first.

3. If you attach an item to a subinventory in item/subinventory then the subinventoryll be available in assigned subinventories form for that
item in item master tool
Rules
Picking Rules
When you define an item you choose a picking rule to determine the order in which revisions, lots, subinventories, and locato rs are picked for
sales order. Oracle Shipping Execution submits requests to Oracle Inventory, which uses the information you enter in the Picking Ru les
window to generate pick lists for sales orders.
If you choose None for any of the criteria fields, Inventory ignores that crite rion. For example, if you choose None for Revision, Inventory picks
units of an item without regard to revision levels.
Oracle Inventory looks at the picking criteria in the order in which they appear in the Picking Rules window. Then, Inventory looks at the
options (except for None options) for each criterion in the order in which they appear beneath each criterion.
To define a picking rule
1. Navigate to the Picking Rules window.

2. Enter a unique name for the rule.
3. Select an option for revision order:

Revision: Pick most recent revision.
Effective Date: Pick earliest revision effective date.
None: Do not consider revision levels in the picking process.
4. Select an option for lot order:

Expiration Date: Pick earliest lot expiration date.
Receipt Date: Pick earliest lot receipt date, the date you received items into their current location.
Lot Number: Pick lowest lot number.
None: Do not consider lot numbers in the picking process.
5. Select an option for subinventory order:

Subinventory: Pick by order defined for each subinventory.
Receipt Date: Pick earliest subinventory receipt date.
None: Do not consider subinventories in the picking process.
6. Select an option for locator order:

Locator: Pick items according to the picking order defined for each locator.
Receipt Date: Pick items according to the earliest locator receipt date.
None: Do not consider locators in the picking process.
After Save Your Work
To delete a picking rule

You can delete a picking rule if there are no references to it.
Move Orders
Move orders are requests for the movement of material within a singl e organization.
They allow planners and facility managers to request the movement of material within a warehouse or facility for purposes like replenishment,
material storage relocations, and quality handling.
You can generate move orders either manually or automatically depending on the source type you use.
Note: Move orders are restricted to trans actions within an organization.
If you are transferring material between organizations you must use the internal requisition process.
Managed Material Flow in a Facility:
Move orders allow you to distinguish between inventory management processes and the actual material transaction process.
This provides for the following:
Quick response You can request a transaction and forward the request to a picker for transaction execution.
The request is tracked in Oracle Inventory, which allows you to avoid manual systems, thus eliminating
inaccurate transfer of information .Also, Oracle Inventory replenishment functionality can automatically
generate move orders without the intervention of an item planner.
This results in faster inventory replenishment, with minimal human intervention.
Warehouse visibility Move orders use inventory picking rules to determine where to source material for a subinventory or
account transfer. This ensures that the same mechanisms created to rotate material properly for deliveries
can be used to rotate material within the facility.
Tracking Move orders can be transacted through APIs.
This allows you to transact material using mobile devices, giving you better material visibility and accuracy.
Move orders can also be created to cross dock material to staging locations.
Move Order Source Types:
Oracle provides three types of move orders:
1) Move order requisitions,
2) Replenishment move orders
3) Pick wave move orders.
4) Manufacturing component pick.
The move order type refers to the entity that created the move order. For all move orders, the final result is one of the two supported
transactions: sub inventory transfer or account issue.
Move Order Requisitions

A move order requisition is a manually generated request for a move order. It is availa ble for subinventory transfers and account transfers.
Once a requisition has been approved, it becomes a move order. These requests can optionally go through a workflow -based approval
process before they become move orders ready to be sourced and transacte d.
Replenishment Move Orders

You can automatically create pre-approved move orders using the following planning and replenishment functions. These processes generate
move orders if the material is sourced from another inventory location within the organiza tion.
Min-Max Planning:
Replenishment Counting
Kanban Replenishment
Pick Wave Move Orders

Pick wave move orders are pre-approved requests for sub inventory transfers to bring material from a source location in the warehouse to a
staging sub inventory. Thes e move orders are generated automatically by the Oracle Shipping Execution pick release process.
Manufacturing Component Pick

Created my component pick release in WIP
Workflow for Move Order Approval Process:
If you require planner approval for move order requisitions, you can use the move order approval process, which forwards move order lines to
the designated item planner for approval. Oracle Inventory manages the approval process through Oracle Workflow.
To govern the move order approval process, you set two inventory organization parameters: Move Order Timeout Period and Move Order
Timeout Action. The Move Order Timeout Period attribute determines the number of days the order can wait for approval. After one time out
period, if the recipient has not approved or rejected the order, a reminder notice is sent. After a second time out period, the order is
automatically approved or rejected, depending on the Move Order Timeout Action attribute you set. Upon approval, additional n otifications can
be sent to specified individuals.
The Item Planner is an item attribute. If no planner is specified on the item, the requisition line will be automatically approved.
Once the order line is approved, notices are sent to a notification list that is attached to the source and destination sub inventories to let the
sub inventory planners know that material will be moved to or from their areas.
Note: Replenishment and pick wave move orders are pre-approved
Express Pick Release

Customers who use Oracle Inventory primarily for financial purposes as opposed to operational purposes can user express pick release to
enhance pick release performance.
The overall process for this method is as follows:
1. Create detailed reservations.
2. Pick release order.
3. Populate reservations in shipping delivery details.
4. Ship confirm order.
Express pick release makes the following assumptions:
There are no locators in the warehouse.
The same subinventory is used for storing and staging shipped material.
Detail level reservations are created before you run pick release, or during order or after order import.
For plain and serial controlled items, the reservation must specify the subinventory.
For lot-controlled items, the reservation must specify the subinventory and lot number.
For revision controlled items, the reservation must specify the revision.
If the above conditions are met, the logic in pick release is set to bypass creating of move order lines, quantity tree and r eservations, and pick
confirm.
Setting Up Move Orders
Define the Subinventory source type
To automatically create move orders using min-max planning and replenishment counting, you must define the sub inventory source type at
once of the following levels:
Subinventory
Item Subinventory
To automatically create move orders using the kanban system, you must define the Subinventory source type at the pull sequence level.
Define approval process parameters

To require planner approval for move order requisitions, you must define two parameters at the organization level: Move Order Timeout Period
and Move Order Timeout Action.
If you want to bypass the move order approval process and automatically approve move order requisitions, enter 0 days for the Move Order
Timeout Period and select Automatically Approve for the Move Order Timeout Action.
You must also assign the planner who approves move order lines to the item or the organization.
You can also specify individuals to be notified if a shortage occurs.
Note: If the requested item does not have an assigned planner, the approval process is not enabled.
Define item transaction defaults

If you want to populate move order line allocations with item transaction defaults for the destination locator, you must firs t define the item
transaction defaults.
Note: You do not need to perform this step if you specify the locator at the time you create or allocate the move order lines.
Define lot level UOM conversions

If you define a lot level conversion for a specific lot the move order quantity reflects the lot quantity to transact.
Setup Material Status

You can transact only material that permits move order transactions. You must that verify you can transact the material befor e you perform
move orders.
Workflow for Move Order Approval Process

If you require planner approval for move order requisitions, you can use the move order approval process, which forwards move order lines to
the designated item planner for approval. Oracle Inventory manages the approval process through Oracle Workflow.
To govern the move order approval process, you set two inventory organization parameters:
Move Order Timeout Period and

Move Order Timeout Action.
The Move Order Timeout Period attribute determines the number of days the order can wait for approval. After one time out per iod, if the
recipient has not approved or rejected the order, a reminder notice is sent. After a second time out period, the order is automatically appr oved
or rejected, depending on the Move Order Timeout Action attribute you set. Upon approval, additional notifications can be sen t to specified
individuals.
The item planner is an item attribute. If no planner is specified on the item, the requisition line will be automatically approved.
Once the order line is approved, notices are sent to a notification list that is attached to the source and destination sub inventories to let the
sub inventory planners know that material will be moved to or from their areas.
Note: Replenishment and pick wave move orders are pre-approved
Defining Pick Slip Grouping Rules

You can create grouping rules to organize how picking lines for released sales orders and manufacturing tasks are grouped on pick slips. For
example, if you select Delivery as a grouping criteria, all picking lines for the same delivery are grouped together on a pic k slip.
You can also select additional grouping attributes for your grouping rules. For example if you select Delivery and Carrier as groupin g criteria,
picking lines for the same delivery and carrier are grouped together on a pick slip.
Move Order Components
A move order comprises the following:
Move order header

Oracle Inventory uses the move order header to store the move order source type. This refers to the entity that created the m ove order. The
header also stores the default source and destination (if known), the order number, and the requested date.
Move Order Number

Status
Move Order Type
Move order lines
Move order lines are the requests on a move order. They store the item, requested quantity, completed quantity (if the move o rder has been
partially fulfilled), and source and destination (if known). The move order lines also include any project and task references if the organiza tion
is Oracle Project Manufacturing enabled. You can also request specific serial and lot numbers on the move order line.
Source
Destination
Control - Status
Move order line allocations

The line allocations are the transactions that occur to fulfill a particular move order line.
You can set up your system to have Oracle Inventory's picking engine automatically fill in the allocatio ns, or you can manually fill in the line
details and edit them before you transact. If the material is locator, lot, or serial controlled, the system fills in this in formation at the line detail
level.
Move Order Process Flow
The move order process follows the following steps:

1.1. Create a move order for required material. You can manually create a move order requisition or set up your system to automati cally
generate replenishment or pick wave move orders.
1.2. Approve the move order lines. If the move order requisitions require approval, the item planner must approve the move order lines.
2. Allocate the move order. Once the move order is approved, you can allocate it, or cancel it. Allocating is the process that u ses Oracle
Inventory picking rules to determine where to source the material to fulfill a request line. The allocating process fills in the move order line
details with the actual transactions to be performed and allocates the material to the move order.
You can also cancel partially allocated move order requisitions and replenishment move orders. Oracle Inventory provides a profile option
INV: Fill & Kill Move Order which allows the system to cancel partially allocated and transacted move orders.
Note: 1. Allocating creates a pending transaction the will be executed when you transact the line. It therefore decrements the available quantity
(i.e. it creates a soft reservation).
2. You can cancel move order lines that have no allocations. You can select an individual move order line, or multiple move order lines. It does
not matter if the move order lines belong to different move orders.
You can cancel move order lines only for move order requisitions and replenishment move orders.
3.1. Print a pick slip. Before you transact the move order, you can print a pick slip or push the move order line allocations to mobile devices for
transaction through the move order APIs.
Print Move Order Pick Slips:
You can print move order pick slips before or after the move order transaction is committed. The Move Order Pick Slip report generates pick
slips for move order requisitions and replenishment move orders.
To generate a pick slip for pick wave move orders, you submit the Oracle Shipping Execution Pick Slip report.
3.2. Transact move order lines. You can either transact all the move order lines at once or transact one allocation line at a time as the items
are moved. If you transact less than the requested quantity, the move order stays open until the total quantity is transacted or until the order is
closed or cancelled. You can cancel partially allocated and transacted Move Order Requisitions and Replenishment Move Order l ines.
Onhand and Availability
Oracle Inventory provides a variety of windows to view
1. onhand quantities,
2. reservations,
3. supply/demand,
4. available to promise,
5. supply chain available to promise,
6. and capable to promise information.
The available to promise (ATP) features help you determine when you can commit to fulfilling a customers request.
The ATP calculation determines the uncommitted portion of your companys inventory and planned supply. This enables you to determine if a
requested item and quantity is available at a specified date.
The supply chain ATP feature provides a global view of material availability for the requested de mand. You can view all possible supply
sources for an order line, ship set, or configuration.
The capable to promise (CTP) feature lets you determine the availability of resources as well as material.
Material Workbench
You use the material workbench to view onhand quantities. The Material Workbench enables you to view on hand balances for inventory
items by
Location: Location information includes the subinventory and associated locators.

You can also view subinventory quantities, including the packed and unpacked quantities.
Cost Group: Cost Group information assigned to the item.
Status: Status information that includes the statuses assigned to subinventories, locators, lots, and serials.
Item: Item information includes the organization, item number, UOM, available quantity lot and serial number.
LPN: If you are in a warehouse management enabled organization you can view LPN information for the item.
Serial: Serial information lists the serial numbers generated for an organization, and the items associated with the serial numbers.
Lot: Lot information lists the lot numbers generated for an organization and the items associated with the lot numbers.
The Material Workbench enables you to query onhand balances for inventory items by: location, project, cost group, ownership, vendor, and
planning party.
You can also use the Material Workbench create move orders, request cycle counts, and change material statuses.
1.
The following information is available on the Quantity alternate region of the Material Workbench
Planning Party: The vendor that manages the inventory.
Owning Party: The third party owner of the inventory.
2. Item Availability
You can use the material workbench to view item availability. Item availability can be calculated for a given item at the subinventory, locator, lot
or revision. Availability cannot be calculated by serial number.
You can view the following information in the Availability window:
Organization: The organization where the item resides
Item / Revision: The item and revision number
Subinventory: The subinventory within the organization where an item resides.
Locator: The row rack and bin where the item resides.
Lot Number: The item lot number.
Cost Group: The item cost group.
On Hand: The number of items available in the subinventory
Available to Reserve: The available quantity of an item you can reserve across an organization.
Available to Transact: The available quantity of an item you can transact across an organization.
3. Item Status Information

You can use the Material Workbench to item view status information. You can view the Subinventory, Locator, Lot or Serial sta tus. You can
also see the allowed and Disallowed transaction types for the item.
Note: If you selected Cost Group as the display option, you cannot choose status.
You can view the following information in the effective status window.
Subinventory Status: The subinventory status.
Locator Status: The locator status. This field is blank if the item is not loca tor controlled.
Lot Status: The lot status. This field is blank if the item is not lot controlled.
Serial Status: The serial status. This field is blank if the item is not serial controlled.
Transaction Types: The transaction types alternative region displays the allowed and disallowed transaction types for the
item.
4. Attribute Information
You can view the attributes of a particular lot, serial, or LPN (warehouse management only) from the Material Workbench. For lots or serials,
the system displays the item attributes and categories. For LPNs the system displays the weight and volume of the selected LPN.
5. Material Workbench Transactions

You can use the Material Workbench tools menu to perform the following transactions:
Mass Move: Moves the selected items to a new subinventory.
Mass Issue: Enabled you to mass issue an item.
Status Update: Enables you to change status information.
Cost Group Transfer: Enables you to transfer the item to another cost group.
Cycle Counting: Enables you to initiate a cycle count for the selected subinventory.
MultiOrganization Quantity Report
Use the Multiple Organization Inventory Report to show the inventory quantity on hand for items in more than one organization . The report has
no limitations on the number of organizations you can enter. The report is sorted by inventory item for all of the organizations. You can inclu de
quantities that are in transit. If you have revision control items, you can report on the revision quantities individually (f or each revision) or
summed for the item. You can run the report for all items, or you can specify a range of items.
Viewing Item Supply/Demand Information
You can view supply/demand information, and the current and projected available quantities of an ite m.
Supply/Demand Type: The supply source or demand source type, such as Account number, Purchase order, Sales order, and WIP discrete
job.
Identifier: The identifier for the supply source or demand source, such as the purchase order number or work in pro cess discrete job number.
Quantity: The scheduled supply quantity or demand quantity for the item. Demand quantities are displayed as negative numbers. Supply
quantities are displayed as positive numbers.
Available Quantity: The projected onhand quantity of the item, defined as Current Available plus all future sources of supply and less all
future sources of demand
InterOrganization Transfer
InterOrganization Information
Account Name Account

Transfer Credit 01-510-5290-0000-000
Receivable 01-000-1810-0000-000
Payable 01-000-2370-0000-000
Intransit Inventory 01-000-1460-0000-000
Select an InterOrganization Transfer Charge option.

None: Do not add transfer charges to a material transfer between organizations.
Predefined percent: Automatically add a predefined percent of the transaction value when you perform the inter organization transfer.
Requested value: Enter the discrete value to add when you perform the interorganization transfer.
Requested percent: Enter the discrete percentage of the transfer value to add when you perform the inter organization transfer.
Interorganization cost accounts

Enter default interorganization cost accounts. These accounts are defaulted when you set up sh ipping information in the
InterOrganization Shipping Networks window
InterOrganization Shipping Network
Use the InterOrganization Shipping Network window to define accounting information and the relationships that exist between shipping and
destination organizations.
You can specify whether an organization is a shipping organization, a destination organization, or both.
For each organization relationship you create, you must indicate what type of shipment is used.
If you choose to use intransit inventory, Oracle Inventory moves material to intransit inventory before it reaches the destination organization
when you perform an inter-organization transfer.
Typically, you transfer material through intransit inventory when transportation time is significant. If you do not choose intransit inventory,
Oracle Inventory moves your material directly to the destination organization when you perform an inter-organization transfer.
You must also specify whether internal orders are required from the destination organization to perform inter-organization transfers.
Oracle Inventory does not allow you to perform inter-organization transfers using the Transfer Between Organizations window to an
organization that requires internal requisitions. See Overview of Internal Requisitions, Oracle Purchasing User's Guide.
If you choose to use intransit inventory, you must specify which organization has ownership of the inventory while intransit. You must also
specify the primary receiving routing: Standard receipt to a receiving location, standard receipt with inspection, or Inventory Structure direct
receipt to the final destination.
Regardless of the intransit type, you must define an inter-organization transfer charge type.
You can choose to add a predefined percentage of the transaction value, to enter a discrete percentage of the transfer value, to enter a
discrete value to add when you
perform the inter-organization transfer, or not to add transfer charges at all.
Also, you must provide general ledger accounts to record debits and credits involved in an inter-organization transfer.
Finally, you can optionally define shipping methods in the Ship Method Quick Codes window and then enter lead times for these shipping
methods in the Inter-org Shipping Methods window. These lead times are used by MRP. See Defining Bills of Distribution,
Oracle Master Scheduling / MRP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning User's Guide.
Oracle Inventory defaults the shipping information you entered in the Organization Parameters window when you create new organization
relationships in the Inter-Organization Shipping Network window.
Inter-organization shipping network information describes the relationships and accounting information that exists between a shipping (from)
organization that ships inventory to a destination (to) organization.
Depending on the function security assigned to your responsibility, you can define a shipping network between the current organization and
another organization or between any two organizations.
The function security assigned to your responsibility determines whether you have the ability to define shipping networks for all organizations
or just the current organization.
1. From-TO organization
Determine if the organization displayed is the To Organization, From Organization, or the From or To Organization.
Item is transferred from the 'From' organization to the 'To' Organization.
2. Transfer Type: (Intransit/Direct)

For each organization relationship you create, you must indicate what type of shipment is used. If you choose to use intransit inventory, Oracle
Inventory moves material to intransit inventory before it reaches the destination organization when you perform an inter organization transfer.
Typically, you transfer material through intransit inventory when transportation time is significant. If you do not choose intransit inventory,
Oracle Inventory moves your material directly to the destination organization when you perform an inter organization transfer.
For direct transfer type the FOB & receipt routing is disabled.
3. FOB (Shipment/Receipt)
Determines the ownership of the material.
If it is shipment then the ownership goes to 'To(receiving)' organization at the point of shipping.
If it is receipt then the ownership is transferred from the 'From(Sending)' organization to the 'To(receiving)' organization when the material is
received at the receiving organization.
Note : Freight On Board (FOB)
The point or location where the ownership title of goods is transferred from the seller to the buyer.
4. Receiving routing
If you selected Intransit in the Transfer Type field, select a receipt routing option:
Standard: Receive this item first, then deliver without inspection.
Direct: At receipt, deliver this item directly to its location.
Inspection: Receive this item first, inspect it, then deliver.
5. Internal orders enabled
You must also specify whether internal orders are required from the destination organization to perform inter organization
transfers. Oracle Inventory does not allow you to perform interorganization transfers using the Transfer Between Organizations window to an
organization that requires internal requisitions.
6. interorganization transfer charge

Select the interorganization transfer charge type for calculating transfer charges:
None: Do not add transfer charges.
Predefined Percent: Automatically add a predefined percent of the transaction value.
Requested Value: Enter a discrete value to add.
Requested Percent: Enter a discrete percentage of the transfer value to add.
The default value is the value you defined in the Organization Parameters window for the shipping organization.
7. Define account information

Also, you must provide general ledger accounts to record debits and credits involved in an interorganization transfer.
1. Enter the general ledger transfer credit account used to collect transfer charges for the shipping organization The default value is the
value you defined in the Organization Parameters window for the shipping organization.
2. Enter the general ledger account used to collect the purchase price variance for interorganization receipts into standard cost
organizations. You must enter an account if your receiving organization is using standard costing.
3. Enter the general ledger receivables account used as an interorganization clearing account for the shipping organization.
4. The interorganization receivable account for the shipping organization should equal the interorganization payables account for the
receiving organization.
Account Name Account

Transfer Credit 01-510-5290-0000-000
Receivable 01-000-1810-0000-000
Payable 01-000-2370-0000-000
Intransit Inventory 01-000-1460-0000-000
8. Intransit lead time
Select Shipping Methods on the Tools menu to open the Interorg Shipping Methods window.
Enter the shipping method for which you want to associate an intransit lead time for the displayed from and to organizations and enter
the intransit lead time in days.
Interorganization Transfers Transactions
You can define multiple inventories, warehouses, and manufacturing facilities as distinct organizations. With Oracle Inventor y you can perform
interorganization transfers as direct or intransit shipments.
Inter-Org transfers can be done within or across operating units but you can not generate intercompany invoice with inter-org transfer.
Intercompany invoicing is possible for inter-org transfers of type In-transit only through Internal sales Orders. No intercompany invoicing is
possible if you perform org transfers between two inventory orgs belonging two different operating units without internal sales Orders. Als o
note that intercompany invoice cannot be raised for inter-org transfers of type Direct Transfer through Internal sales Orders.
You can transfer one or more items in a single transaction. You can also transfer partial quantities of the same item to diff erent subinventories
and locators in a single transaction.
Required Setups
1. The items you transfer must exist in both organizations. You can also transfer expense and asset items from one organization to another
using intransit inventory.
2. There must exist a shipping network(direct/intransit) between the two organizations.
Accountings
1. Direct Org Transfer
From org - Inter-org receivables debited
Inv valuation is cedited
To Org - Inv valuation debited

Inter-org payables credited
Direct Interorganization Transfers
You can use a direct interorganization transfer to move inventory directly from a shipping organization to a destination organization.
The validity of a transfer transaction depends on the controls you have defined in both the shipping and destination organiza tions for the items
you want to transfer.
For example, you can transfer item A from organization X to organization Y, even though i tem A is under lot control only in organization X (you
can specify the lot numbers for item A in organization X during the transfer transaction). However, you cannot transfer item B from organization
X to organization Y if item B is under lot control only in organization Y (you cannot specify lot numbers for item B in the destination organization
because you are performing a direct transfer).
The following tables present direct, interorganization transfers.(As given in oracle user guide)
Example For Lot Control Direct Transfer
Test Case NO Organization Item Code Lot Control From To Direct Org Availability
1 SH 1 SH2 Lot Control NO Control SH1 SH2 No
2 SH 2 SH2 Lot Control Full Control SH2 SH1 Yes
Case 1
The Item Not In LOV Available To Transact
Case 2
If destination is Asset/Serial controlled/Lot controlled/ Revision Controlled then the source needs to be Asset/Serial contro lled/Lot controlled/
Revision Controlled
InterOrganization Transfers via Intransit Inventory
You usually transfer material to intransit inventory when transportation time is significant. When you perform the transfer transaction, you do
not need to specify the delivery location. You only need to enter the subinventory you are shipping from, a shipment number, the freight
information, and, depending on the interorganization transfer charge that applies between the organizations, a percentage of the transaction
value or a discrete amount that Oracle Inventory uses to compute transfer charges.
If the FOB point is set to Receipt in the Shipping Networks window, the destination organization owns the shipment when they receive it. If it is
set to Shipment, the destination organization owns the shipment when the shipping organization ships it, and while it is intr ansit.
While your shipment is intransit, you can update shipping information such as the freight carrier or arrival date in the Maintain Shipments
window.
At the time of shipment, you must define your receiving parameters for the destination organization. You can receive and deliver your shipment
in a single transaction or you can receive and store your shipment at the receiving dock.
The validity of a transfer transaction depends on the controls you have defined in both the shipping and destination organizati ons for the items
you want to transfer. For example, you can transfer item A from organization X to organization Y, even though item A is under lot control only
in organization X (you can specify the lot numbers for item A in organization X during the tran sfer transaction). You can also transfer item B
from organization X to organization Y if item B is under lot control only in organization Y (you can specify lot numbers for item B in the
destination organization when you perform the receiving transaction).
1. The following tables present interorganization transfers via intransit inventory.

2. In case of inter organization transfer via Intransit we required to put the shipment number
Before You Do This Steps You Must Define Financial Option ,Rece iving Option And Purchasing Option For Your OU
Open Purchasing Period
After completing the inter org transfer, go to the receiving form of the 'to org' and receive the shipment with the shipment number.
Defining Intercompany Relations
Use the Intercompany Relations window to define, query, and update intercompany relations between two operating units in a multi
organization environment. These operating units are either the shipping organization and the selling organization, or the rec eiving and
purchasing organization.
When a sales order is entered in an operating unit, the shipping organization is often part of a separate operating unit, bel onging to a separate
set of books. Once the sales order is shipped to the customer, the inventory ass et account for the shipping organization is credited and the
cost of goods sold account is debited. On the other hand, sales revenue must be recognized in the order entry organization. I f the two
organizations belong to different operating units, the syste m must perform accounting distributions to record the intercompany revenue,
receivable, and payable entries.
Oracle Inventory and Oracle Receivables must be installed before you can define intercompany relations. If Oracle Payables is not installed,
the fields in the AP Invoicing for Selling region are not required.
ABC Analysis and Cycle Count
An ABC analysis determines the relative value of a group of inventory items based on a userspecified valuation criterion. ABC refers to the
rankings you assign your items as a result of this analysis, where A items are ranked higher than B items, and so on. You can optional ly use
the ABC analyses you compile to drive your cycle counts, where you might count items of high value (A items) very frequently, items of lower
value less frequently, and items of lowest value very infrequently.
Steps Involved in ABC Analysis
Define ABC classes.

Define and run an ABC compilation.
Define Assignment groups.
Assign items to ABC classes within a group.
Update item ass ignments.
Purge ABC information.
Cycle counting is the periodic counting of individual items throughout the course of the year to ensure the accuracy of inventory quantities
and values. Accurate system onhand quantities are essential for managing supply and demand, maintaining high service levels, and planning
production.
You can perform cycle counting instead of taking complete physical inventories, or you can use both techniques side byside to verify
inventory quantities and values. Inventory supports s erialized cycle counting, and the following chapters discuss the steps involved.
Overview of Cycle Counting & Serialized Cycle Counting

1. Defining and Maintaining a Cycle Count
2. Cycle Count Items & Defining Cycle Count Items
3. Cycle Count Scheduling

Generating Automatic Schedules
Entering Manual Schedule Requests
4.1 Count Requests

Count Requests for Items with Zero Count
Generating Cycle Count Requests
Requesting the Cycle Count List
4.2 Entering Cycle Counts
4.3 Approval Options and Tolerances

Count Adjustments and Approvals
Approving Cycle Count Adjustments
5. Purge Cycle Count
ABC Analysis
Defining ABC Classes
You use ABC classes to identify the value groupings to which your items belong. You define these classes using your own terminology.
For example, you might define classes High, Medium, Low, and later assign your items of highest rank to the High class, those of lower rank to
the Medium class, and those of lowest rank to the Low class. You can add to the list of classes you have already defined.
Attention: You must assign an ABC class to at least one ABC group.
You can use ABC classes to group items for a cycle count where you count A items more frequently than B items. When you u se
ABC classes in this way, you perform an ABC analysis and assign items to classes based on the results of that analysis.
You can also use ABC classes to group items for planning purposes. For example, the Planning Detail Report allows you to choo se
an ABC class to report on.
To define an ABC class:

1. Navigate to the ABC Classes window
2. Enter a unique name for the class.
3. Save your work.
To delete an ABC class:

You can delete a class if it is not in use in a cycle count or ABC assignment group.
To make an ABC class inactive:

1. Enter a date on which the class becomes inactive.
2. As of this date, you can no longer assign the ABC class to an ABC group.
Defining and Running an ABC Compile

You can define and compile an ABC analysis for your entire organization or for a specific subinventor y within your organization.
You choose the compilation criterion, the scope of your analysis, the cost type to use in determining item values, and any ad ditional
information that may be conditionally necessary, based on your compilation criterion. The comb ination of all these parameters constitutes an
ABC compile header, identified by the ABC compile name. You use this name to identify any activity pertaining to this ABC ana lysis.
To define an ABC compile:

Navigate to the ABC Compiles folder window and choose New. The Define ABC Compile window appears.
1. Enter a unique name for the ABC compile.
2. Determine the scope of the analysis by selecting the content level for items to include in the compile. If you use the ent ire organization,
Oracle Inventory includes all items defined for your current organization in the ABC compile, even those with zero cost or zero quantity. If you
use a particular subinventory, Oracle Inventory includes all items for which you have defined an item/subinventory relationsh ip.
Attention: You cannot compile an ABC analysis for a subinventory that is defined as a non quantity tracked subinventory. You can, however,
use nonasset (expense) subinventories for which you track quantities.
3. Select the valuation scope for determining the ranking of items. Ranking must be done at the Organization level if you did not select a
subinventory in the Content Scope field.
If you only want to include items in a subinventory but you want the ranking to be done based on the organization wide rank ing, select
Organization.
4. Select the compile criterion or method of ranking items in the ABC compile.
Oracle Inventory uses the compile criterion to value the items you include in your ABC compile. After determining each items compile value,
Oracle Inventory ranks all the items in your ABC compile.
4.2 Enter a cost type.

You can select a value here only if you selected Current on hand quantity, Current onhand value, Forecasted usage quantity, Forecasted
usage value, MRP demand usage quantity, or MRP demand usage value
in the Criterion field. If you are compiling by quantity criterion, the cost type is used for reporting purposes only.
4.3 Select an MRP forecast name: You can select a value here only if you selected Forecasted usage quantity or Forecas ted usage value in
the Criterion field.
4.4 Select an MRP plan name :You can enter a value here only if you enter MRP demand usage quantity or MRP demand usage value in the
Criterion field.
4.5 Enter a start (from) date: You must enter a value in this fiel d if you choose an option other than Current onhand quantity or Current on
hand value in the Criterion field.
4.6 Enter an end (to) date : You must enter a value in this field if you choose an option other than Current on hand quantity or Current on
hand value in the Criterion field
To view ABC Compile results:

1. Navigate to either the ABC Compiles window or the Define ABC Compile window.
2. Choose View Compile from the Tools menu. The ABC Compile Items window appears.
To print the ABC Descending Value Report:
1. Navigate to either the ABC Compiles window or the Define ABC Compile window.
2. Choose Print Compile from the Tools menu.
Oracle Inventory uses the compile criterion to value the items you include in your ABC compile. After determining each items value, Oracle
Inventory ranks all the items in your ABC compile in descending order to produce the ABC Descending Value Report.
You can use this report as a guide in assigning your items to ABC classes.
ABC assignment groups link a particular ABC compile with a valid set of ABC classes. This allows you to selectively reduce or increase the
number of ABC classes you want to use in your item assignments for a particular ABC compile. For example, you might have five classes, A,
B, C, D, and E, defined for your organization where you perform your ABC analysis by subinventory. The first subinventory is rather small. You
need only three classes in which to divide your items. You define
an ABC group, associating the ABC compile for the first subinventory with the classes A, B, and C. The second subinventory fo r which you
compile an ABC analysis is much larger. There are five distinct value g roupings of items. You define a second ABC group, associating the BC
compile for the second subinventory with all five classes defined for your organization, A, B, C, D, and E.
Oracle Inventory uses these groups when you automatically assign your items to ABC classes. It ensures that you divide your items into the
exact number of groupings you specified in the ABC group. ABC assignment groups associate ABC classes with an ABC compile. Yo u assign
items to ABC classes within a particular group. This allows you to assign items to different ABC classes in different groups.
For example, suppose you define ABC groups Cycle Counting and Planning. You can assign different ABC classes to these two groups.
You can then assign an item to a different ABC class in each group. This allows you to prioritize items differently for cycle counting and
planning.
You must also assign a sequence number to each class associated with the ABC group . The class with the lowest sequence number is
assumed to have the highest rank and will have higher rank items assigned to that class than the next higher sequence number. Using the A,
B, and C classes in the example above, you might assign the A class a sequence number of 1, the B class a sequence number of 2,
and the C class a sequence number of 3. (Sequence numbers 10, 20, and 30 would give the same result.) When you later assign your
items to ABC classes, the first grouping of items in the descending value list are assigned to class A, the next to B, an d the last to C.
You may update an assignment group to add new classes. However, you cannot delete a class. If you need to delete a class, you must create
a new assignment group with only the desired classes.
Assign items to ABC classes within a group.
You can assign and update ABC classes to an ABC assignment group where an ABC compile was also entered. From the ABC Descendi ng
Value Report you determine the cutoff points for assigning ABC classes. You can then use the classifications for other purpos es such as
determining how often you cycle count a given item.
To define ABC assignments:

1. Navigate to the Assign ABC Items window, or navigate to the ABC Assignment Groups window and choose the Assign Items button.
2. Enter the ABC group for which to assign items to classes. If you navigate from the ABC Assignment Groups window this field is already
entered The Compile Name, Subinventory, Number of Items, and Total Compile Value fields display information for the compile u sed by the
ABC Group.
3. Specify the cutoff point for each ABC class. Each ABC class must have at least one item assigned to it, and all items in the ABC compi le
must be assigned to an ABC class. You can use any of the following fields to determine the cutoff points:
Seq: You can enter the sequence number from the ABC Descending Value Report for the last item to be included in each ABC class. Oracle
Inventory automatically calculates this value if you choose to assign classes by another method. Oracle Inventory displays th e last sequence
number as the default for the last class.
Inventory Value: You can enter the cumulative value from the ABC Descending Value Report for the last item to include in each ABC class.
Oracle Inventory automatically calculates the maximum value. This maximum value is restricted to the total inventory value compiled and is
displayed in the Total Compile Value field. Oracle Inventory displays the total inventory value as the default for the last c lass.
% Items: You can enter the percent of number of items compiled from the ABC Descending Value Report to include in each class. Oracle
Inventory automatically calculates this value if you choose to assign classes by another method.
% Value: You can enter the percent of total compile value from the ABC Descending Value Re port to include in each class. Oracle Inventory
automatically calculates this value if you choose to assign classes by another method.
Attention: It is possible to have several items in the ABC compile with zero value. If any item with zero value is in a c lass other than the last
class, you may only assign items using the sequence number or item percent.
For the Inventory Value, % Item, and % Value fields, if the value entered does not exactly match any item, Oracle Inventory c hooses the first
item with a value greater than the value entered.
4. Choose the Assign button to launch the concurrent request to assign the items to the classes in the ABC group.
Updating ABC Item Assignments
If you are not satisfied with the class into which an item falls as a result of the automatic ABC assignment process, you can change it. For
example, assume you compiled your ABC analysis based on historical usage value. You have a relatively new item in your invent ory that was
ranked toward the bottom of your ABC Descending Value Report since it has very little transaction history on record. Therefore, after the
assignment process, this item was assigned to a class of low rank.
However, you know that in the future, this item will have a high usage value and should really be classified as a high rank item. You use the
Update ABC Assignments form to reclassify this item to now be a high rank item.
Attention: Whenever you recompile an ABC analysis or change the method by which you assign your ABC classifications, you lose any
changes you might have made to your item assignments. All items are reclassified based on their new ranks in the ABC Descending Value
Report and the method you choose to determine cutoff points.
You can also update an ABC group to include those items that were not a part of the initial ABC compile. This allows you to expand the scope
of your existing ABC compiles without having to rerun any processes. For example, if you start stocking a new item in your in ventory, you can
make it a part of your existing ABC groupings through the update process. Otherwise, you would have to start all over by recompiling your ABC
analysis and reassigning your items to ABC classes. With the whole process starting from the very beginning, you also run the risk of losing
any changes you might have made to your item assignments.
Purging ABC Information

You can submit a request to purge either ABC assignment group or ABC compile information.
Purging an ABC group deletes all item assignments to ABC classes for the assignment group you specify, as well as the ABC group itself.
Purging an ABC compile deletes all item values and rankings for the ABC compile you specify, as well as the ABC compile itsel f. You can
purge an ABC compile if no ABC groups are using it.
Cycle Counting
Cycle counting is the periodic counting of individual items throughout the course of the year to ensure the accuracy of inventory q uantities and
values. Accurate system onhand quantities are essential for managing supply and demand, maintaining high service le vels, and planning
production.
You can perform cycle counting instead of taking complete physical inventories, or you can use both techniques side byside to verify
inventory quantities and values. Inventory supports serialized cycle counting, and the foll owing modules discuss the steps involved.
Defining and Maintaining a Cycle Count

A combination of parameters constitutes a cycle count header, identified by the cycle count name. You use this name to identi fy any activity
pertaining to this cycle count.
You can define and maintain an unlimited number of cycle counts in Oracle Inventory. For example, you can define separate cycl e counts
representing different sets of subinventories in your warehouse.
Prerequisites
Define ABC classes.
Define your workday calendar.
When determining cycle count classes based on ABC analysis, you must compile an ABC analysis and assign your compiled items ABC
classes.
To define a new cycle count:

Navigate to the Cycle Count Summary folder window by selecting Cycle Coun ts on the menu and choose New to open the Cycle Counts
window.
1. Enter a unique name for the cycle count.
2. Enter the workday calendar to use for this cycle count. Inventory uses this calendar to determine the days on which to automa tically
schedule cycle counts.
3. Enter the general ledger account to charge for cycle count adjustments.
4. Enter the Count Controls:
Optionally, enter the date on which the cycle count becomes inactive. As of this date, you cannot generate schedules or perfo rm any
counting activities for this cycle count.
Enter the number of workdays that can pass after the date the count request was generated, before a scheduled count becomes a
late count.
Enter the sequence number to use as the starting number in the next count request generator. The count sequence number uniquely
identifies a particular count and is used in ordering the cycle count listing.
Determine whether you can enter counts for items not scheduled to be counted (Unscheduled Entries).
Determine whether to display system onhand quantities during count entry.
5. Determine whether Inventory automatically assigns a status of Recount to outoftolerance counts and includes them in the next cycle
count listing.
If you turn this option on, navigate to the Maximum field and enter the maximum number of times Inventory can generate an automatic recount
request. Once this number is reached the adjustment must be approved or rejected.
6. Determine the subinventories to include in the cycle count.

If you choose Specific subinventories, you can navigate to the Subinventory region and select the subinventories to include in the cycle count.
Serial number control and Auto schedule

Four options set in this window govern the handling of serial controlled items:
Count
Not Allowed: Serialized items are excluded from the cycle count.
One Per Request: A separate count request is generated for each serial number.
Multiple Per Request: Serial numbers for the same item/location are grouped in one count request.
Detail
Quantity and Serial Numbers: Serial number and quantity are required and are validated when entering counts.
Quantity Only: Serial number entry is required if the count quantity does not match the system quantity. Serial number entry is
optional if the count quantity matches the system quantity, regardless of whether the serial numbers match. If you do not enter serial
numbers, the count is marked as completed, and no adjustments are performed. If you do enter serial numbers, both quantity an d
serial numbers are validated when determining whether adjustments are required.
Adjustment
Review All Adjustments: No automatic adjustments are attempted. Serialized items that require adjustment must go to an approver for
review.
Adjust if Possible: If a discrepancy exists between the count quantity and system quantity or if the entered serial numbers do not
correspond to the serial numbers already in the specified location, then the system will attempt to make adjustments if the a djustment
variance and value are within tolerances, as long as serial uniqueness constraints are not violated. These adjustments consist of
receipts and issues of the appropriate serial numbers to and from the specified location and are applicable only to instances in which
new serial numbers or shipped serial numbers are counted. If the adjustment quantity or value for a serialized item falls outside the
specified tolerances, the item is sent for recount or approval, just like a non serialized item.
Discrepancy
Allow Discrepancies: When a count includes a serial number already assigned to the same item elsewhere in the system, an
adjustment is created if it would be within tolerances. No adjustment is ever allowed for counts including serial numbers alr eady
assigned to another item.
Do Not Allow Discrepancies: Adjustments are not made for items not found in the specified location.
Automatic Scheduling
If you turn automatic scheduling on, enter the following information:
Frequency: Indicate whether to schedule cycle counts Daily, Weekly, or By period. Inventory uses this information, along with the count
frequency of each cycle count class, when performing automatic cycle count scheduling. The value you enter here dictates the window of time
within which you can enter counts against a schedule bucket.
Schedule Interval Example

If you choose weeks as your schedule interval, Inventory schedules a weeks worth of counts each time the automatic scheduler executes.
You then have that week to complete all these counts. On the other hand, if you choose days, Inventory schedu les only that one days counts,
and you need to complete those counts on that given day.
Last Date: Inventory displays the last date this cycle count was automatically scheduled.
Next Date: Inventory displays the first workday for the next schedule interva l when this cycle count is scheduled. You can enter a later date in
this field if you want to override the automatic schedule and skip one or more intervals. If your schedule interval is Weekly or By period, the
date you enter must be the first workday of the period for which you want to generate schedule requests.
Count items with an onhand quantity of zero: Optionally, determine whether to automatically generate requests to count items with an on
hand quantity of zero.
Adjustments and ABC information
1. Determine when approval is required for adjustments:
Never: Inventory automatically posts adjustment transactions where entered counts differ from system balances.
If out of tolerance: Inventory does not automatically post adjustment transactions for co unts outside a specified approval tolerance.
You must approve such adjustments before posting.
Always: You must approve all cycle count adjustments, regardless of tolerance levels, before Inventory can post any of them.

2. If you choose to require approval for adjustments If out of tolerance, enter positive and negative tolerances.
Qty Variance: Enter the percentage variances of count quantity to onhand quantity beyond which adjustments are held for approval.
Adjustment Value: Enter the adjustment values beyond which adjustments are held for approval.
Hit/Miss Analysis: Enter the percentage variances of count quantity to onhand quantity beyond which Inventory considers a count
entry a miss for hit/miss reporting.
3. Optionally, enter ABC initialization or update information:

Group: Enter the ABC group name on which to base the cycle count item initialization or update.
Option: Choose one of the following options:
None: Do not change to the list of cycle count items.
(Re)initialize: Use the ABC group you specified to load all items and their ABC assignments into the list of items to include in your cycle
count. If you already had items defined for your cycle count, this action deletes existing information and reloads the items from the ABC group.
Update: Use the ABC group you specified to insert new cycle count items.
If you chose the update option:
Indicate whether to update classes. If an items ABC class assignment in the ABC group you specified is different from the cycle count class
this item is assigned, Inventory updates the cycle count class for the item with the ABC assignment in the specified ABC group.
Indicate whether to delete unused item assignments that are no longer referenced in the specified ABC group.
Defining Cycle Count Classes
You can enter ABC classes to include in your cycle count. You can also enter approval and hit/miss tolerances for your cycle count classes.
To define cycle count classes
Navigate to the Cycle Count Summary folder window.
1. Select a cycle count and choose Open.
2. In the Cycle Counts window choose Classes. The Cycle Count Classes window appears.
3. Enter the name of the ABC class to use to define your cycle count classes.
4. Enter the number of times per year you want to count each item in this class .
The counts per year for a class ensures that all items in that class are scheduled at least that many items in a year.That is , if the counts per
year for a class is 10 and the class has 100 items, then each of the 100 items in the class are scheduled at least 10 times.
5. Optionally, enter positive and negative tolerances. If you do not enter tolerances, Inventory uses the values you entered in the Cycle
Counts window.
Quantity %: Enter the percentage variances of count quantity to onhand quantity beyond which adjustments are held for approval.
Adjustment Value: Enter the adjustment values beyond which adjustments are held for approval.
Hit/Miss %: Enter the percentage variances of count quantity to onhand quantity beyond which Inventory considers a count entry a
miss for hit/miss reporting. Note that the hit/miss percentage is based on the first count of an item, not recounts.
Cycle Count Items

You need to load items into your cycle count before you can schedule or count them. There are two methods you can use to do this. The first
is to specify an existing ABC group from which to load your items. Oracle Inventory automatically includes all items in the ABC group you
choose in your cycle count. Inventory also copies the ABC classes for that ABC group into the current cycle count classes and maintains the
same classifications for the included items. You can then change the classifications of your items for your cycle count indep endent of the ABC
classes.
Once you have generated your list of items to count from an ABC group, you can periodically refresh the item list with new or reclassified items
from a regenerated ABC group. Using the Cycle Counts window, you can choose whether to automatically update class information for
existing items in the cycle count based on the new ABC assignments. You can also choose to have any items that are no longer in the ABC
group automatically deleted from the cycle count list. Any new items are added.
The second method of maintaining the cycle count item list is to man ually enter, delete, or update the items you want
included/excluded using the Cycle Count Items window. You may want to use this form to load all your items for a cycle count, or to simply add
items as they are defined in the system rather than recompiling your ABC group and doing a complete reinitialization of your cycle count items.
Defining Control Group Items

When you choose the items to include in your cycle count, you can specify which items make up your control group. When you ge nerate
automatic schedules you can indicate whether to include items in your control group as a control measure.
Schedule Cycle Count

Automatic Scheduling
Oracle Inventory uses the number of items in each cycle count class, the count frequency of each class, and the workday ca lendar of your
organization to determine how many and which items you need to count during the scheduling frequency.
In order for Inventory to perform automatic scheduling you must:
Set the Cycle Count Enabled item attribute to Yes for the items you want to include in the cycle count.
Enable automatic scheduling when you define your cycle count.
Request the schedule using the Generate Automatic Schedule Requests window.
Each time the auto scheduler runs, it schedules counts only for the schedule interval you defined for the cycle count header. So if your
schedule interval is weeks, Inventory schedules all items that need to be counted on all of the workdays in the current week. If your schedule
interval is days, then Inventory only schedules those items tha t are due for counting on the current date.
To generate automatic schedules:

1) Navigate to Cycle Counts Summary folder window or the Cycle Counts window.
2) Select a cycle count and choose Cycle Count Scheduler from the Tools menu. The Cycle Count Sche duler Parameters window appears.
3) Indicate whether to include items belonging to the control group in the list of items for which to generate schedule reque sts.
4) Choose OK to submit the request to the concurrent manager.
Logic for Cycle Count Auto Schedule (As given in metalink)

The first criteria of selecting the items to schedule, is whether these items are marked as a control group items or not and what is the criterion
on which the Cycle count scheduler is being run (Include Control Group Items is checked or not). Based on this the scheduler will select the
Control Group Items or Non Control Group Items to schedule counts.
The second criteria is Max items to Schedule, which is defined as:

MaxItemsToSchedule = (TotalItemsInClass * NWorkingDays) /ClassCountInterval + 1;
where,
TotalItemsInClass = the number of items defined in the class
NWorkingDays = BeginDate - EndDate + 1 (this will be printed in the concurrent log file of the scheduler).
ClassCountInterval = NumWorkDaysThisYear / NumCountsPerYear (these will also be printed in the concurrent log file of the scheduler).
Once MaxItemsToSchedule is calculated, these number of items are picked randomly and will get scheduled and will be marked, s o that these
not picked in the scheduled run.
Now lets cons ider the following possible cases :

CASE : 1
No. of items in class = 100
Counts per year for class = 1
No. of working days in the year = 200 (taken, for easy calculation)
Count Frequency = Daily
Now since the count frequency is 'Daily' you can run the sche duler on every working day.Using the above formula, Maximum Items to schedule
= ((100*1*1)/200)+1 = 0+1 = 1 The above formula has integer division and so instead of 0.5+1 we have 0+1.
So, in this case all the 100 items in the class will be counted twice in a year. But, now if you change the count frequency from 'Daily' to 'Weekly'
as shown in Case 2.
CASE : 2
No. of items in class = 100
Counts per year for class = 1
No. of working days in the year = 200 (taken, for easy calculation)
Count Frequency = Weekly (say 5 work days in a week)
Maximum Items to schedule = ((100*1*5)/200)+1 = 3
Here, all the 100 items will be counted at least once, but some of the items may be counted twice since in our formula we are doing the
ROUNDING off.In this case 80 items were counted only once and 20 items got counted twice.
If we do not do the rounding off (using integer division and adding 1), then in the above case we will have 2.5 items to sche dule. Now, we can
schedule either 2 or 3 items.So, if we schedule 2 items then all the 100 items will not be scheduled at least once (20 items will be left out). So
we do the rounding off so that all the items are scheduled at least once.
You can see that by changing the count frequency from 'Daily' to 'Weekly' the number of items that are getting counted twice have been
reduced from 100 as in Case 1, to 20 in Case 2. Since we are doing 'Rounding off' in the formula, some items of the class may be counted
more than the number of counts specified.But, as I have mentioned before, Counts pe r year is the minimum guaranteed number of counts per
year for all items in the class.
In cases where you have very few items and count frequency is 'Daily', the magnitude of the difference between 'actual number of counts' and
'counts per year specified' will be much higher. In these cases, by changing the count frequency from 'Daily' to 'weekly/period', will reduce the
magnitude of difference. Also, we allow the user to change the 'Counts per year' at any point in time in the year. So, once t his value is changed
then all the items in the class are scheduled afresh,
irrespective of their scheduling before the change of value for counts per year.
The logic for Cycle counting is forward looking.

1. The counts per year for a class ensures that all items in tha t class are scheduled at least that many items in a year.That is, if the counts per
year for a class is 10 and the class has 100 items, then each of the 100 items in the class are scheduled at least 10 times.
2. In cases where you have very few items in the class and have high count frequency (say Daily), there are chances that it will be counted
more number of times, then specified in its class. However, in those cases you would ideally like to reduce the count frequen cy (say, from
'daily' to 'weekly').
3. The counts per year for a class can be changed by the user at a later point in time. Cycle counting does not take into accoun t the number of
counts that have already been done before the change of value for 'counts per year'. It now takes into account the new value of 'counts per
year' for all the items in the class.
Manual Scheduling
You can manually schedule counts in addition to, or instead of those generated with automatic scheduling. You can request cou nts for specific
subinventories, locators, and items, and set the count for any inventory date. For example, you could enter a request to count item A wherever
it can be found in subinventory X. Or you could request to count all item quantities in subinventory Y, locator B 100.
Since manually scheduled counts have no impact on automatically scheduled counts, you can potentially count some items more frequently
than you had initially planned.
To manually schedule cycle count requests:

1) Navigate to the Manual Schedule Requests window or choose the Sche dule button on the Cycle Counts Summary folder window.
2) Enter the cycle count name you are scheduling.
3) Select the item or location (subinventory) for counting. You can manually schedule specific items by entering values in
different combinations of the item, revision, lot, serial number, subinventory, and locator fields.
If you do not enter an item, you must enter a subinventory.
Inventory schedules a count of all items stocked in this subinventory. If you enter an item and a subinventory, Inventor y
schedules the item to be counted only in this subinventory.
4) Enter the date on which Inventory is to schedule the count you have specified. The date you enter cannot be before todays da te and must
be a valid workday as defined by the workday calendar for your cycle count.
5) Indicate whether to generate count requests for this item, revision, lot, serial number, subinventory, or locator combination even if the
system onhand quantity is zero. This may be useful in performing exception based counting to verify that the actual onhand quantity is
indeed zero.
Physical Location Scheduling

You can use this feature to execute locationbased cycle counting. You first need to generate a schedule for counting each subinventory and
locator. You then need to enter the schedule requests for each locator, specifying the schedule date.
Count Requests
After you have successfully scheduled your counts, you can submit the process to generate count requests . This process takes the output of
the automatic scheduler and your manual schedule entries, and generates a count request for each item number, revision, lot number,
subinventory, and locator combination for which onhand quantities exist. These count requests are ordered first by subinventory and locator,
then by item, revision, and lot. Oracle Inventory assigns a unique sequence number to each count request that can be used for reporting ,
querying, and rapid count entry.
Because the count requests are derived from the state of onhand balances at the time the Generate Cycle Count Requests process is run,
you should wait to run it until you are ready to count.
Note: When you schedule an item to be counted using manual scheduling, some schedule requests may have overlapping
count requirements. The count request generator does not create duplicate count requests, but instead cross references
one count request back to each associated schedule request.
Count Requests for Items with Zero Count

By default Inventory does not automatically generate requests to count items with an onhand quantity of zero. To include such items:
Define all sourcing details and inventory controls for the item. For example, if an item is under predefined locator control, be sure it is
assigned to a subinventory and locator.
Select the Generate Zero Counts option when you define your cycle count.
The count request generation process then automatically creates a count request. If a quantity is found and counted, an adjus tment is made.
At count entry, you may receive a warning message stating, Zero count, no adjustment performed. Inventory generates this warning if it
cannot find all levels of inventory control defined for the item. In this situation, enter the count, but no adjustment is pe rformed. To make an
adjustment and update the missing information, enter an unscheduled count using either the Cycle Count Entries or Approve Adjustments
window.
To submit a request set to perform a full cycle count

1. Navigate to Cycle Counts Summary folder window or the Cycle Counts window.
2. Choose Perform Full Cycle Count from the Tools menu. The set includes the following processes and report:
Generate automatic schedule requests: Enter parameters for cycle count to use and indicate whether to include control items .
Generate cycle count requests: Enter parameters for cycle count to use.
Cycle count listing: Enter parameters for cycle count to use, start and end dates, recounts, and subinventory to count.
3. Choose Submit.
To submit the program to generate cycle count requests:

1. Navigate to Cycle Counts Summary window or the Cycle Counts window.
2. Choose Generate Count Requests from the Tools menu to submit the process to the concurrent manager.
Requesting the Cycle Count List

After you generate count requests you can submit the request for the Cycle Count Listing report. This report lists all counts that you need to
perform within a given date range.
To request a cycle count list:
1. Navigate to Cycle Counts Summary folder window or the Cycle Counts window.
You can also navigate to the ABC and Counting Reports window to submit the listing.
2. Choose Cycle Count Listing Report from the Tools menu.
3. Enter start and end dates for the list. Inventory reports counts falling on the start date through the end date.
4. Enter the specific subinventory for which to report scheduled counts.
5. Indicate whether the cycle count list includes only recounts or scheduled counts and recounts.
6. Choose OK to submit the request to the concurrent manager
Count Adjustments and Approvals

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Once you enter and save your cycle counts, Oracle Inventory determines whether any adjustments need to be made depending on t he
approval options and tolerances you set when you defined the cycle count.
Automatic Recounts
If you turned the Automatic Recount option on when you defined your cycle count, Inventory automatically submits recount requests for items
that are outside the limits of the approval tolerances you specify. Inventory submits recounts as many times as necessary, li mited by the
maximum automatic recounts you specify for the cycle count. After you reach the maximum number of recounts, Inventory holds t he count for
approval. Any count request with the Recount status automatically appears on the next cycle count listing.
You can also manually request recounts when you are approving adjustments. The count request for which you want a recount is also
automatically included in the next cycle count listing.
Attention: When generating the cycle count listing, you must include a from date far enough back to include the recounts
original count date, or it is not on the report.
Approving Cycle Counts Held for Approval

Employees with access to the Count Adjustments Approvals Summary window can query, request the recount of, or approve c ycle counts
pending approval. When you select the Find button, you can query all counts or only those pending approval. You can then approve
adjustments, recount an item in question, reject the count or take no action until further investigation.
You can display count history information or open the Count Adjustment Approvals window.
To approve a count check:
Select Approved to approve the selected count entry and post the adjustment to the transaction manager for processing.
To reject a count check:

Select Rejected to reject the selected count record. An adjustment is not posted. No further processing of this count entry take s place.
To request a recount check:

Select Recount to process a recount request for the selected count request. An adjustment is n ot posted.
To display count history information:
Select the Count History button to open the Count History window for the current item. For the current item, this window disp lays count and
variance information for the current, prior, and first counts.
To open the Count Adjustment Approvals window:

Select the Open button to open the Count Adjustment Approvals window for the current line. This window is a combination block which you
can use to view and enter approval and adjustment information for the current line instead of using the Count Adjustment Approvals Summary
window.
Entering Cycle Counts

You can use the same window to enter counts of items requested via automatic or manual cycle count scheduling. If unscheduled count
entries are allowed for your cycle counts, you can enter those also. Oracle Inventory automatically queries up all count requests for which you
have not yet entered a count. You can use flexible search criteria to specify the group of count requests for which you want counts entered to
speed up the count entry process. For example, you can specify a range of count request sequences assigned to one person so th ey can be
entered in the same order they were printed on the count sheet.
To select the cycle count to use:

1. Navigate to the Cycle Count Entries window from the menu or choose Counts from the Cycle Counts Summary folder window.
2. Enter the name of the cycle count for which to enter counts.
This information is provided if you navigate from the Cycle Counts Summary folder window, and the Find button is not available.
3. Enter the date the cycle count was performed.
4. Enter the name of the employee who performed the cycle count.
5. Enter the general ledger account to which to charge adjustments from this cycle count. The default i s the adjustment account you entered
while defining your cycle count.
Inventory performs a cycle count adjustment by creating a material transaction for the quantity and sign (plus or minus) of t he adjustment. The
transaction debits or credits the adjustment account depending on the direction of the transaction.
6. Display the count requests you want to enter.
You can choose the Find button to query all open count requests. If you choose not to query all open requests, you can either :
Enter counts individually by entering existing sequence numbers. When you enter an existing sequence number the details for that
request display. You only need to enter the quantity counted.
Use the find feature on the Query menu to query a subset of count requests matching the search criteria you enter. You can search
by any combination of count sequences, item, revision, subinventory, locator, or lot. You can also indicate whether to includ e
recounts.
To enter scheduled counts:

1. Select the Count tabbed region.
2. Enter the quantity that you counted for your item. Inventory uses this quantity with the specified unit of measure to determine the value of
the cycle count adjustment.
Note: When you perform a recount, the quantity field on the adjustments tab is populated with the previously entered
count.
3. Save your work.
To enter unscheduled counts:
1. Navigate to the Cycle Count Entries window from the menu.
2. Choose the Find button and select No. This enables you to enter items and counts manually.
3. Enter the item for which you are entering counts.
4. If your item is under revision control, enter the revision for which you are entering counts.
5. Enter the subinventory for which you are entering counts. You can enter only subinventories that track quantity on hand.
6. If this item is under locator control, enter the locator for which you are entering counts.
Physical Inventory
Oracle Inventory provides a fully automated physical inventory feature that you can use to reconcile system maintained item onhand
balances with actual counts of inventory. Accurate system onhand quantities are essential for managing supply and demand, maintaining
high service levels, and planning production.
1. Define a physical inventory for your whole warehouse or subdivisions within your warehouse.
2. Take a snapshot of system onhand quantities. You must procedurally coordinate the snapshot of your physical inventory with your actual
counting, and ensure that no transaction activity occurs in a particular location until after you have per formed your adjustments.
3.1 Generate alphanumeric tags.
3.2 Count the TAGs. Void unused or lost tags.
3.3 Approve or reject physical inventory adjustments based on approval tolerances.
4. Automatically post adjustments to inventory balances and general le dger accounts.
5. Purge physical inventory information.
Defining a Physical Inventory

You can define and maintain an unlimited number of physical inventories in Oracle Inventory. A physical inventory is identified by a unique
name you assign. You use this name to identify any activity, such as adjustments, pertaining to this physical inventory.
You can define multiple physical inventories to count selected portions of your inventory, or you can count your total invent ory. For example, if
your warehouse has two large stockrooms, each represented by a subinventory, you can define two physical inventories, one for each
subinventory. You can then perform your physical inventory of the first stockroom, independent of the second.
To define a physical inventory:

Navigate to the Physical Inventories Summary folder window and choose New. The Define Physical Inventory window appears.
1. Enter a unique physical inventory name.

2. Select approval requirements for adjustments.
Always: Require approval of all physical inventory adjustments.
If out of tolerance: Hold for approval those counts that are outside the limits of the positive and negative quantity varianc e or value tolerances.
Never: Allow any adjustment to post without approval.
3. Enter positive and negative approval tolerances.
If approval is required for adjustments out of tolerance you must enter a value in at least one of these fields.
You cannot update these values after you perform physical inventory adjustments.
Qty: Enter acceptable Positive and Negative limits (expressed as a percentage) for the difference between the system tracked onhand
quantity and the actual tag count quantity.
Value: Enter acceptable Positive and Negative limits for the total value of a physical inventory adjustment.
4. Select the scope of the physical inventory.
Determines whether the physical inventory is for all subinventories or for one or more specific subinventories. Only enter a quantity tracked
subinventory.
5. Indicate whether to allow dynamic entry of tags.
Determines whether you can dynamically enter tags you manually created. If you choose not to allow dynamic tag entry all tags must
generated before use If you do not want to allow dynamic tag entry but you need blank tags, you can generate numbered blank tags for
counting miscellaneous items.
Taking a Snapshot of Inventory Quantities

Before you can generate tags for a physical inventory, you must take a snapshot of all system on hand quantities for your items. The
snapshot saves all current item onhand quantities and costs. Oracle Inventory uses this information as the basis for all physical inventory
adjustments. All tag counts you enter for this physical inventory are compared with these static quantities. This allows you to resume normal
inventory operations after you have entered your counts but before you have authorized all final physical inventory adjustments. You can
perform your recounts or investigate certain results without holding up transaction processing.
Notes :
1. Oracle Inventory does not s top inventory processing during a physical inventory. Therefore, you must procedurally coordinate the snapshot
of your physical inventory with your actual counting, and ensure that no transaction activity occurs in a particular location until after you have
performed your adjustments.
2. It is recommended to clear the Pending Transactions and Transactions Open Interface, before taking a snapshot of inventory.
To freeze the system onhand quantities
1. Navigate to the Physical Inventories Summary folder window.

2. Select the physical inventory you want to use.
3. Choose Perform snapshot from the Tools menu. This launches the snapshot concurrent process.
Note: You can also choose Snapshot from the Define Physical Inventory window.
4. When the concurrent process is finished, requery the physical inventory to see the effects of the snapshot. The effects include:
The Snapshot Complete box is checked on the Physical Inventories Summary folder window.
The Snapshot Complete box is checked, the Snapshot Date is updated, and the Tags button is enabled in the Define Physical
Inventory window.
Generating Physical Inventory Tags
You use physical inventory tags to record the physical counts of inventory items . Physical inventory tags represent actual hard copy tags that
some companies use to count inventory items. A tag contains the count for a group of a given item. Although you can record only one item
on a tag, multiple tags can reference the same item, with each tag referring to a unique physical location for an it em.
Note: A tag represent a single item number in a particular subinventory, locator with a given revision, lot, and serial number.
If we are not considering serial and lot number then the single TAG might have n number of items (in a particular sub -inventory, locator
combination)
Oracle Inventory can generate default or blank tags for your physical inventory.
If you choose to generate default tags for each item, specify the starting tag number and the increment by which you want to increase each
digit in the tag number. Your tag numbers may be alphanumeric, but you can increment only the numeric portion. The alphabetic characte rs in
the tag number stay constant. Inventory then uses these tag numbers to generate a tag for every unique combination of item number,
Subinventory , locator ,revision, lot, and serial number for which the system has an onhand quantity not equal to zero.
If you want to have some empty tags handy to record counts for stockkeeping units for which Inventory has no onhand quantity (and
therefore does not generate default tags), you can generate blank tags. Inventory assigns tag numbers to blank tags, but does not include any
item or location detail. You specify this information when you enter your tag counts. You can generate as man y blank tags as you want.
You can also exclusively use blank tags to perform a physical inventory. If you need to perform a complete wall towall physical inventory, you
can go through your warehouse and attach blank tags to every item and/or location you see. As you perform the count, you record the item
and stockkeeping unit information along with the actual onhand quantity.
You can Print Report : Physical inventory tag listing For Hard Copy To Record Counting
PI Tag Counts
Use the tags that you generated to record your physical counts. If you use default tags for your physical inventory, you can automatically
query all tags and fill in the counts. You can also query a subset of your tags by any combination of tag number, item, revis ion, subinventory,
locator, lot, and serial number. You would use this partial tag query feature if you prefer to enter your counts by location or item, or for a
particular tag number range.
If you use any blank tags in your physical inventory, you can query up the tags by tag number. You can then enter the necessary item,
revision, subinventory, locator, lot, and serial number information, as well as the actual count quantity and the name of the employee who
performed the count.
If you enable dynamic tag entry for your physical inventory, you can enter counts for any item and stockkeeping unit combination without a
pregenerated tag number.
Adjustments and Approval
Oracle Inventory uses the counts you enter for your tags to determine if your items need quantity adjust ments; and if so, whether you need to
approve them.
1. If you set your approval option for your physical inventory to Not required for adjustments, you are ready to process your
adjustments.
2. If you set your approval option to Required for adjustments out of tolerance, Oracle Inventory holds for approval all tags with counts that are
outside the limits of the quantity variance or adjustment value tolerances.
3. If you set your approval option to Required for all adjustments, Oracle Inventory holds all c ounts for approval.
Void Tags
It is important for auditing purposes to track the status of each physical inventory tag. Therefore, if you do not use one or more of the tags
Oracle Inventory generates, you should void them in the Physical Inventory Tag Cou nts window. A voided tag is not reported as a missing tag
in the Physical Inventory Missing Tag Listing.
If you generated a certain number of blank tags at the beginning of your physical inventory, and ended up not using all of them, you would void
the unused tags. When you run the Physical Inventory Missing Tag Listing for the whole range of tags you initially generated, the unused ones
are accounted for and appear as missing tags.
If you void a default tag, (i.e. a tag that identifies a stockkeeping unit for which there is system onhand quantity), Oracle Inventory adjusts
the quantity in that location to zero. This indicates that you did not use the tag in question, presumably because the stock keeping unit
corresponding to the tag did not exist.
Entering and Voiding Physical Inventory Tag Counts

Navigate to the Physical Inventory Tag Counts window or choose the Counts button from the Physical Inventories Summary folder window.
1. Enter the physical inventory.
2. Enter the employee that performed the physical inventory in the Default Counter field. Oracle Inventory uses this value as the default for the
Counted By field of each tag.
3. Enter or query the tag numbers for which to enter counts using one of the following options:
Choose the Find button. Choose Yes or No to query all tags. If you choose No, you can either enter tag numbers individually or use
the Find feature on the Query menu to query a subset of tags.
Enter tag numbers individually. You can enter existing tags individually. When you ente r a tag number the item information for that tag
appears.
Use the Find feature on the Query menu. You can query a subset of tags matching the search criteria you enter in the find win dow.
You can search by any combination of tag number, item, revision, sub inventory, locator, lot, serial number, or tag status. With tag status you
can find voided or missing tags.
4. Enter counts for default tags: Since you generated default tags the item, revision, subinventory, locator, lot, and serial number information
for each item is displayed. You enter the count Quantity, unit of measure (UOM), and Counted By information.
5. Enter counts for blank or dynamic tags
Enter the item associated with the tag.

Enter the revision of the item. You can enter a value here if the item is under revision quantity control.
Enter the subinventory in which you counted the item.
Enter the locator associated with the subinventory. You can enter a value here if the item is under locator control.
Enter the count quantity (number counted) for the tag.
Enter the count unit of measure (UOM).
Enter the name of the employee who counted the item (Counted By).
Enter the lot number associated with the item. This entry is required if the item is under lot number control.
Enter the serial number associated with the item. This entry is required if the item is under serial number control.
6. Voiding Physical Inventory Tags
You can void tags that you deliberately discarded during the physical inventory. Voiding tags allows you to account for all t ags; thus, any tag
numbers that appear on the missing tag report are actually missing.
Approving Physical Inventory Adjustments

Approval Tolerances
Oracle Inventory supports two types of physical inventory approval tolerances. For each type, you can specify a positive and a negative limit.
When a particular physical inventory tag count entry results in an adjustment that exceeds any one of these limits, you have a physical
inventory adjustment that exceeds approval tolerances. Based on the approval option you c hose when you defined your physical inventory,
this adjustment is or is not held for approval.
If you decide that approval is required for adjustments out of tolerance you must enter at least one positive or negative val ue for one type of
approval tolerance. The quantity variance tolerance is a userdefined limit for the difference between the system tracked onhand quantity
and the actual tag count quantity. You express positive and negative quantity
variance tolerances as percentages of the system onhand quantity. You enter these percentages when defining your physical inventory.
The adjustment value tolerance is a userdefined limit for the total value of a physical inventory adjustment:
adj value = (system onhand qty actual count qty) x current cost,
where: Current cost is the cost at inventory snapshot.
You express positive and negative adjustment value tolerances as amounts in your functional currency. You enter these toleran ces when
defining your physical inventory.
Approving Physical Inventory Adjustments
You can view, reject, or approve physical inventory adjustments pending approval. The adjustments you can view from this wind ow are
determined by the approval option you defined for your physical inventory. If you approve a particular adjustment, the Process Physical
Inventory Adjustments program adjusts your inventory balance by that quantity. If you reject an adjustment, Oracle Inventory does not change
the system onhand quantity.
Notes:
1. Even after saving a count as approved/or rejected we can change the quantity in TAG count till the physical inventory adjustment is
processed.
Example: we entered quantity 1 for item001 in tag count window and then saved it as approved in approve PI adjustment window. We can
again go back and change the quantity of item001 and save it. if we requry the item in adjustment window then it would be shown in None
status though previously we had saved it as approved.
Processing Physical Inventory Adjustments
After you finish entering all your tag counts and approving those adjustments that need approval, you can submit the process that
automatically posts your physical inventory adjustments. Oracle Inventory automatically creates a material transaction adjusting the item
quantity and debiting or crediting the adjustment account you specify for your physical inventory.
If the count of an item matches the snapshot system onhand quantity, there is no adjustment transaction posted.
Once you run the adjustment program for your physical inventory, Oracle Inventory does not allow new tag generation or any further
updates of tag counts . You are no longer able to make any changes to that physical inventory.
Due to the irreversible nature of this program , Oracle Inventory posts no physical inventory adjustments if you have any adjustments
that are still pending approval. You must approve or reject all of your adjustments before you can process them.
You can preview your adjustments before actually posting them by running the Physical Inventory Adjustments Report. You can run
the actual adjustment program after you have used the report to verify your tag quantities and the value impact of your adjus tments.
Once the process "Perform physical inventory Adjustments" is complete one can verify the physical inventory adjustment
material transactions and corresponding distribution accountings in material distribution window.
Purging Physical Inventory Information
Use this form to purge a physical inventory definition from the database. Oracle Inventory deletes all information associated with the physical
definition. However, the purge does not affect any adjustments or adjustment transactions made using the physical definition . Those
adjustments are not changed. You can also purge just tags if you made a mistake and want to start over.
Consignment Inventory
Consignment Inventory is inventory that is in the possession of the

customer, but is still owned by the supplier. In other words, the supplier places some of his inventory in his customers possession (in their
store or warehouse) and allows them to sell or consume directly from his stock. The customer purchases the inventory only aft er he has resold
or consumed it. The key benefit to the customer should be obvious; he does not have to tie up his capital in inventory. This does not mean that
there are no inventory carrying costs for the customer; he does still incur costs related to storing and managing the invento ry.
From the "Consigned inventory from supplier" User's Guide: Consigned inventory from supplier exists when inventory is in the possession of
one party (a dealer, agent, distributor, and so on), but remains the property of another party(such as the manufacturer or pr imary contractor) by
mutual agreement. Consigned inventory from Supplier refers to one type of consigned inventory practice where you receive and maintain
goods belonging to one or more of your suppliers. Both suppliers and customers benefit through a consigned inventory stra tegy:
Suppliers can compete on the basis of availability and delivery when finished goods are at the customer site, particularly wh en lead
times are lengthy.
Holding material on consignment reduces the lead time for items that might be required to fill sales orders.
Customers experience increased inventory turns thus, reducing funds invested in inventory. Financial resources are free until
customer commitments are ensured, or items are used in production.
Consigned VMI with Customers Is defined as the process that allows you to manage inventory at your customer sites (monitoring of on -hand,
as well as the replenishment), and to operate a consigned inventory (pay-on-use) scenario where the material ownership remains with you until
it is consumed by the custom er. Traditionally, this process is highly laborious and transactional oriented and provides little visibility into the
customer inventory and demand position. It is prone to stock outs and increased expediting costs. What you want to do is move to a more
automated planning and execution process.
Benefits of consignment include:

Supplier:
1. Does not need to store material 2. Reduced delivery costs, less rush orders, transportation efficiencies 3. Material close r to point of
sale Buyer
1. Reduced lead time 2. Reduced funds invested 3. Easier access to material
Consignment Inventory Buyer Prospective (With Supplier)

Currently, Purchasing does not allow encumbrance and consignment to be active at the same time (they are mutually exclusive i n the same
Operating Unit)
Setups
1. Item : Nothing special here, just make sure that the item is stockable and purchasable.
2. Define and assign a Sourcing Rule for this Item :

Create a Sourcing Rule specifying Both a Supplier and Supplier Site. Make sure the supplier site is a valid purchasing site. Assign the sourcing
rule to the Default assignment set (as specified in MRP: Default Sourcing Assignment Set).
3. Create a Blanket Agreement (ASL source document)

Create a normal Blanket Agreement specifying pricing for this Item as appropriate.
Take care that the supplier and supplier site used here must be the same as those in the sourcing rule and ASL.
4. Create ASL entry

Take care that you MUST specify a supplier site here otherwise you will not be able to enable cons ignment for this ASL entry. Also ensure that
the supplier and supplier site used here are the same as those in the Blanket Agreement and Sourcing Rule.
Specify the Blanket Agreement number.

If you are unable to select the Blanket Agreement you have create d here please check for the following :
A The Blanket Agreement is not approved
B The Supplier/Supplier Site combination on the Blanket Agreement is not the same as on the ASL entry
C The Item on the Blanket Agreement is not the same as on the ASL entry
Now click on the Inventory tab. This is the part of the setup that is different from automatic sourcing.
Make sure to check the Consigned from Supplier check box. This is the most important part of the setup.
Business Cycle
1. Create a standard PO
Even though we have created a Blanket Agreement as the source document, consignment requires a PO (and not a Release) to begin the
cycle.
Obviously the PO should contain the same Item, Supplier and Supplier Site as those in the Blanket Agreement, Sour cing Rule and ASL.
Approve the PO. Please note that no accounting is expected at this point since encumbrance is disabled (Encumbrance is not co mpatible with
consignment).
2. Receive the Goods

Receive the goods in the destination inventory.
Save the receipt. The goods are now in the specified subinventory. If this was a normal PO, the appropriate accounting transa ction would have
been created
(Dr Receiving Area account / Cr Inventory AP Accrual account). However, since this is a consigned PO, we do not expect any accounting
transaction to have been created.
we can receive the material w/o creating a standard PO and bu just doing a misc. receipt. The owning party should be selected as the
supplier.
3. Convert consigned goods to regular goods

Consigned stock is automatically converted to regular stock when certain inventory transactions take place (e.g. shipping), h owever there is an
inventory process that allows consigned stock to be transferred to regular stock (and vice versa). Once consigned stock has been converted to
regular stock, the receipt accounting transactions are generated.
To transfer consigned stock to regular stock navigate to Inventory Responsibility->Transactions->Consigned Transactions
Once you specify the Item and Subinventory, the system will check the available and on -hand consigned stock in this subinventory. If you have
received the goods correctly then there will be consigned stock which is eligible for transfer to regular stock.
Once this transaction is saved, the item is now regular stock. If you try to create a new transaction the consigned stock will have d ecreased
and if there is no consigned stock left, you will not be able to complete this transaction. Let us now check that the appr opriate accounting
transaction has been created.
Navigate to Inventory Responsibility->Transactions->Material Transactions form and query the Item.
Goods can also be automatically transferred to regular stock through other means.
From the Oracle Inventory Consigned Inventory from Supplier Process Guide :
The system automatically generates a Transfer to Regular transaction whenever consumption takes place. Consumption transactions are
performed either explicitly or implicitly. Explicit consumption is performed whenever the user specifies the external owning party (the
consignor) whose goods will be transferred to the internal organization. Explicit consumption is performed by using the consi gned transactions
window and performing a transfer to regular transaction, or for example, by performing a miscellaneous issue and indicating the owning party
in the transaction line. Implicit consumption refers to any type of consumption in which the system automatically determines that consumption
is necessary, and selects the owning parties whose stock will be used up to complete the required transaction.
Some transactions always consume consigned materials. These transactions include the following:
1. Sales Order issues

2. WIP issues
3. Inter-organization transfers
4. Miscellaneous issues
Other transactions can be set up to consume according to rules in the Consumption Transaction Setup window located in Oracle Inventory.
These transactions include Subinventory Transfers, Move Orders, Backflush Transfers, and others.
4. Consumption advice
Once the goods have been consumed, the quantities consumed should be communicated to the supplier to provide the necessary in formation
for billing.
Nav: Reports >Consigned Inventory (when you click on this you see a window open for you ).
Once you select all the parameters for example Supplier Item, item and Supplier and select go button. you will information be low that page and
you can drill down that information.This OA framework report it not written in regular Oracle reports.
The normal invoicing and payment cycles and cycle can take place once the supplier has sent the invoice, with the only difference be ing that
invoices are matched to the consumption advice rather than the receipt.
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Available to Promise
Calculating the Available to Promise (ATP) is a method of checking the projected supply of an item at a given time.
The basic formula for ATP is ATP quantity = on-hand quantity + supply - demand.
Oracle Inventory lets you define different rules that govern what is considered supply and demand.
In oracle inventory you can view the earliest available date for a specific quantity of an item or a group of items and the available
quantity of an item for a specific date.
ATP Rule
To implement available to promise, you begin by defining your ATP rules. ATP rules let you tailor the ATP c alculation to suit your business
needs. Each rule is a combination of ATP computation options, time fence options, and supply and demand sources to use during an
ATP inquiry. You cannot delete an ATP rule, but you can rename or redefine existing rules by u pdating fields.
You can define multiple ATP rules to reflect th

e specific needs of your organization, and then use different rules to calculate availability for different items or groups o f items. Each time you
run an ATP check, the rule determines how existing supply and demand are matched. You can choose one of the ATP rules you define as the
default ATP rule for your organization. You can update the item attribute ATP Rule to specify a default ATP rule for each ite m.
ATP Computation Options
You can choose a variety of computation options to suit your business needs. ATP computations use the consumption and accumulate
available features. Consumption resolves negative ATP after it is already determined that there is not enough available inven tory.
Accumulation uses excess inventory from a period to determine where new demand can be placed. You can choose any combination of the
following options:
Backward consumption only
ATP calculates availability for your item period by period. If the available suppl y quantity for the period does not meet the existing demand for
that period, ATP works backward, period by period, and checks if the available supply within each period is sufficient to mee t the excess
demand. ATP does not combine the available quantities from multiple periods to meet an existing demand.
Backward consumption and accumulate available

ATP accumulates the excess supply from period to period. When demand in a period exceeds supply, this accumulated quantity is dipped into
and reduced. When you perform an availability check, the accumulated quantity is available for your demand.
Forward consumption and backward consumption

ATP consumes backwards first. If the available supply quantity for a period is not enough to meet the periods demand, ATP
steps back period by period to try to satisfy demand. If the demand cannot be met, ATP then moves forward into future periods to check on
available supply.
Keep in mind that the ATP rule applies to existing demand and supply, and determines the quantity ava ilable on a period by period basis. Your
quantity check is done against the results. ATP does not try to forward consume or backward consume your ATP check quantity.
ATP Time Fence Options

You can specify time fences for your ATP rules to restrict the use of both supply and demand. Time fences help you filter the noise out of the
ATP calculation. You can implement the following time fence options:
Past Due Demand Days

ATP does not include any demand orders with a due date before this time fence. ATP uses the number of manufacturing workdays you enter
for this fence to back off from the current system date and determine the past due time fence.
Use this time fence if you have sales orders, jobs, repetitive schedules, or other demand outstanding with past du e dates that you do not plan
to fill from existing or planned supply. If the due dates are before the time fence, ATP does not include these orders as dem and.
Past Due Supply Days

ATP does not include any supply orders with a due date before this time fen ce. ATP uses the number of manufacturing workdays you enter for
this fence to back off from the current system date and determine the past due supply fence.
Use this time fence if you have purchase orders, jobs, repetitive schedules or other supply orders with past due dates that you do not want to
rely on as a source of supply for your ATP calculations. If the due dates are before the time fence, ATP does not include the se orders as
supply.
Infinite Supply Time Fence

Use this time fence to specify the end of your ATP horizon. ATP considers any demand that falls beyond this time fence as ava ilable. Use this
time fence as the practical lead time you need to acquire components and build any quantity that a customer may or der. You can choose from
the following options to determine the infinite supply time fence:
Cumulative manufacturing lead time
Cumulative total lead time
Item total lead time (does not include lead time of components)
Userdefined time fence (specify the number of supply days for your rule)
Accumulation Window
If you choose to accumulate expected surplus in one ATP period to the next, you can limit this accumulation to a specific num ber of workdays.
Oracle Inventory does not treat excess supply as available supply beyond this accumulation window. Oracle Inventory also uses this option in
backward consumption calculations, preventing excess supply from a period beyond the accumulation window from covering a shor tage in a
future period.
You can use the accumulation window to prevent the commitment of supply to satisfy demand with requirement dates far into the future. This is
particularly useful if you have an item with high turnover and would likely be able to sell it quickly.
ATP Supply Source Options

You can choose the supply sources for each ATP rule. The ATP rule you use during the ATP inquiry then determines which source s of supply
to include in the ATP calculation. Note that supply that falls on a non manufacturing workday is considered available on the next
manufacturing workday. All supply must have a scheduled due date within the ATP rules past due supply days window.
Inventory Planning and Replenishment
Oracle Inventory lets you manage your inventory levels using any combination of the syste ms planning and replenishment features, including
minmax planning, reorder point planning, kanban replenishment, and a replenishment system for generating orders.
Inventory planning involves answering 3 questions:
When to Order?
Typically, you should order when:
on-hand quantity + supply - demand < minimum inventory level
The minimum level is a safety stock designed to be on an exception basis to meet
demand or inventory while waiting for replenishment.
How Much to Order?

Typically you should order a quantity that balances the cost of placing an order with the cost of carrying inventory while covering expected
demand. You then create a requisition to replenish inventory from another organization or a supplier.
Which Planning Methods to use ?

Reorder-point planning (organization)
Min-max planning (organization and subinventory)
Replenishment Counting
Vendor managed
Kanban planning
Material-requirements planning: Master Production Scheduling/Master Demand Scheduling (organization)
Item Safety Stocks

Oracle Inventory uses item safety stocks in the reorder point planning process. Safety stock is a floor or base level of inve ntory from which
Oracle Inventory performs all planning. In other words, the item is planned as if the safety stock quantity for the period is the zero inventory
balance of the item. This ensures that the safety stock quantity remains in inventory to cover any fluctuations in demand.
In businesses such as aerospace and defense manufacturing, or construction, it is normal to seg rate supplies and demands by inventory
ownership. Safety stock definition in such environments can be project specific. You can enter your own safety stock quantiti es or let Oracle
Inventory calculate them based on an existing forecast for the item.
1. To manually enter a safty stock against an item.

Navigate to Inventory ->Planning -> Safty stock
and enter the item and safty stock
2. To have Oracle Inventory calculate safety stock based on an existing forecast for the item:
Navigate to the Safety Stock Update window or choose Reload from the Tools menu in the Enter Item Safety Stocks window.
Select the method for loading the safety stock:

Mean absolute deviation (MAD): Calculates demand using the meanabsolute deviation method. You must enter the service level percentage
and forecast information.
If you chose Mean absolute deviation (MAD) in the Method field, enter the service level percentage. This is the desired level of customer
service in satisfying the product demand immediately out of inventory. Th e higher this value is, the more safety stock quantity should be carried
to provide protection against irregularities or uncertainties in the demand or the supply of an item.
Enter a value between 50 and 100 as the service level. This represents the probab ility that you can fill an order from available inventory. A
90% service level means that on average you can fill an order immediately 90% of the time.
If there is sufficient demand and forecast history available, you can use the mean absolute deviation method. This method compares the
forecast to actual demand to determine forecast accuracy and, therefore, how much safety stock is required to prevent stock outs. If the
forecast has been very accurate in the past, only a small safety stock is required. Th e formula for safety stock using this method is:
MAD is the mean absolute deviation of the historic forecasts from the actual demand.
Z is the number from the normal distribution probabilities corresponding to the service level specified by the user.
Userdefined percentage: Calculates safety stock based on a userdefined percentage of a demand in specified forecast.
If you chose Userdefined percentage in the Method field, enter the safety stock percentage of demand.
To calculate safety stock as a percentage of forecast demand, enter a forecast name and safety stock percent. Oracle Inventory calculates the
safety stock quantity for each forecasting time bucket by multiplying the two. For instance, if the forecast demand for a par ticular period is 120
units and you specify a 10% safety stock buffer, the safety stock
level is set at 120 * 10% = 12 units.
Enter the starting date on or after which the existing safety stock
quantities are replaced by the results from the safety stock calculation.
Order Modifiers
When you define an item or an item subinventory relationship, you can specify attributes that modify your order quantities. You can use them
to model supplier constraints that restrict the size of an order or mandate a specific lot size. You can sp ecify minimum and maximum order
quantities and fixed lot size modifiers. For replenishing subinventories, these same order modifiers can be set by item at th e subinventory level.
If an order is smaller than the minimum order quantity, Inventory modifies th e order upward to the minimum order quantity. Likewise, if the
order is larger than the maximum order quantity, it modifies it downward to the maximum order quantity. An order must be a mu ltiple of the
fixed lot size multiplier. If it is not, it is revised upward so that the order is such a multiple.
Kanban Replenishment
Kanban is a means of supporting pullbased replenishment in manufacturing systems. A Kanban system is a selfregulating pull system that
leads to shorter lead times and reduced inventory. Kanban systems are typically applied to items that have relatively constant demand and
mediumtohigh production volume.
Kanbans represent replenishment signals that are usually manual and highly visible, such as a color coded card that moves with the material,
a light that goes on when replenishment is required, or an empty bin that is moved to the supply location to trigger replenis hment.
The system includes an API that can be called by external systems, such as bar code readers, to trigger rep lenishment signals. Kanbans can
be replenished from an external supplier or an internal organization.
The four types of kanbans available in the system trigger transactions that pull material from different replenishment source s.
Inter Org Creates internal requisitions
Intra Org Triggers material movement from a subinventory in the same organization
Production Creates or releases a production job (discrete job, repetitive schedule, or flow schedule)
Supplier Creates a purchase requisition
Kanbans are generally replenishable and cycle through the system from full to empty, remaining active until they are
withdrawn. Onetime signals, called nonreplenishable kanbans, are used primarily to manage sudden spikes in demand.
Coined from the Japanese word kan which means card, and ban which means signal, kanban is simply described as a system for pull
production control. When we talk of pull, it is more of a control measure to release materials into production only when they are needed.
On the other hand, the push system is a transposition of the pull production system. Push is thereby releasing materials into production as
customers orders are processed and the materials become available. Material Requirement Planning or Manufacturing Resource Planning
(MRP) modules are typical push systems.
Some may say that Kanban is more of a visual scheduling system. The emphasis here is that Kanban is not a system where everyt hing is put
on schedule, it must be made clear that Kanban is a production control system intended to enable the process owner to easily view production
requirements and ensure that parts or supplies are ordered/procured only if necessary.
Kanban is generally used in two instructional forms:

1. A simple production instruction (shikake) indicating what, where and when it is needed, and where materials are coming from or going to;
and
2. The other form is for parts withdrawal (hikitori) or an illustrated piece to visually communicate materials that have been consumed and their
quantities that need to be replaced by upstream processes.
The purpose of Kanban is, therefore, to automate the inventory controls without the need of analysis or planning.
Defining Pull Sequences

SOURCE TAB
For every kanban planned item, you must define a pull s equence, which is a series of kanban locations that model the replenishment network
on the shop floor. A kanban location can be a subinventory or an inventory locator. The replenishment source for a kanban loc ation can be
another kanban location, a production line, or an external source. You can use locators even if locator control is turned off at the organization,
subinventory, and item levels.
Kanbans can be sourced from an external supplier or an internal organization. A Supplier Source Type kanban triggers a purchase request to
the supplier, while an inter-org. Source Type kanban results in an interorganization transfer.
KANBAN TAB
Planning Only
Choose Planning Only if you want the program to perform the kanban calculations for you, but you will use a manual system to execute the
kanbans. You will be able to calculate kanban sizes but will not be able to generate and print kanban cards or execute the re plenishment cycle.
Auto Request
Select the AutoRequest check box enable auto requests for the pull sequence. This calls the Auto Replenishment for manufacturing
concurrent request, which picks up the pull sequences and generates non replenishable kanban cards for the pull sequences
Caluclate
Specify what you want the kanban system to calculate, it can either be Number of cards, Kanban size and do not calculate.
See next chapter for details
Kanban Size and Number of Kanban Cards

You will choose what you want the program to calculate: kanban size or kanban cards. The product of kanban size and number of kanban
cards (or containers) will satisfy the demand at capacity for the planning horizon. Kanban size refers to the number of items in each kanban
container. Each kanban container has one kanban card, so the number of kanban cards is the same as the n umber of kanbans for each item.
Enter Minimum Order Quantity (Optional)

Minimum Order Quantity represents the minimum number of units per kanban container. It is used when calculating kanban size o r during the
kanban execution process to aggregate kanbans smaller than the minimum order quantity. This field defaults from the Item Master window but
can also be overridden.
Replenishment Lead Time

The Replenishment Lead Time must be expressed in days. This is how long it will take to physically replenish the ka nban. For example, if you
enter two days, the Kanban Planner will size the kanban to two times the average daily demand. If you leave the field blank, the program will
assume replenishment is one day when calculating kanban sizes.
Additional Information: Production kanbans use the replenishment lead time to calculate the size of the kanban but use the Lead Times on the
Item Master window to determine when to schedule jobs created by replenishing the production kanban. This allows you to add l ead time on
the pull sequence of the production item for transportation, or desired queue
time.
Supplier and interorg kanbans use the replenishment lead time to calculate the size of the kanban and to schedule the need date for the
purchase requisition. However, if you leave this field blank, the program will use one day to size the kanban and will use the lead time defined
in the Item Master window for the need date on the requisition. (Need date = sysdate + pre processing + processing + post processing time if
the replenishment lead time on the pull sequence is left blank.)
Allocation Percent (Optional)

The allocation percent represents the percent of independent demand for the kanban item that is to be supplied from this pull sequence.
Lot Multiplier (Optional)

When kanban planning sizes the containers at the location, it will size in multiples of this quantity. For example, if the sup plier sells wire in a roll
of 500 feet, then a multiplier of 500 would result in bin sizes of multiples of 500 feet. If demand call ed for 510 feet, the kanban planner would
size the kanban for 1000 feet (500 + 500).
Safety Stock Days (Optional)

Safety Stock Days is the number of days demand that will be added to the kanban for safety stock. Kanban planning sizes kanba ns to the
average daily demand of the forecasted period.
Kanban Calculation Formula

One of the most important tasks of a kanban planning system is determining the optimal number of kanban cards. The kanban pla nning
software takes care of this calculation provided you enter correct values for kanban size, average daily demand for the kanban item, and the
lead time to replenish one kanban.
By default, the standard calculation is:
(C 1) * S = D * A * (L + SSD)
where:
C is the number of kanban cards

S is the kanban size
D is the average daily demand
A is the allocation percent
L is the lead time (in days) to replenish one kanban
SSD is the Safety Stock Days
In addition to this basic formula, when the calculation program calculates kanban size, it takes into account the values for the following order
modifiers (specified in the pull sequence), in the following order:
Minimum Order Quantity

Lot Multiplier
For example, suppose youve specified the Minimum Order Quantity for a particular item to be 50. You want the formula to calculate the
kanban size (S), so you enter values for C and L. Even though strictly based on the values you enter for C and L the formula should yield 40,
the actual kanban size will be 50 because of the Minimum Order Quantity. If a Lot Multiplier of 15 is specified, the kanban size is rounded to 60
in oder to meeth both the Minimum Order Quantity and Lot Multiplier order modifiers.
Note: The program uses order modifiers only when calculating the kanban size. If you specify the kanban size and want the
program to calculate the number of kanban cards, the program does not use order modifiers.
How the Program Determines Average Daily Demand
The program calculates the average daily demand by following these steps:
It identifies all the kanban items that you want to include in your kanban calculation, using the parameters you enter when you launch
a kanban calculation.
It finds location information for each kanban item.
For each kanban item, it identifies every BOM in which the item appears so that it can explode the demand from the assemblies down
to the kanban item.
Using the MDS, MPS, Actual Production, or forecast you specify in the Kanban Names window it identifies all the demand entries
for each kanban item for which the demand is independent. For example, suppose that from the forecast you specified in Kanban
Names, the program finds independent demand for 600 of kanban item A.
It uses the Allocation Percentage specified in the pull seq uence for each kanban item to determine how to distribute demand for the
item among its different locations. For example, if the allocation percentage for item A at location L1 is 20%, then the prog ram places
demand of 120 (that is, 20% of 600) at location L1.
Using the MDS, MPS, Actual Production, or forecast you specify in the Kanban Names window it calculates demand for each
kanban item for which demand is dependent on the demand for other items. It does so by using the following information:
Quantity per Assembly. For example, if there are 2 of kanban item R per one assembly of item K, and the demand for K is
10, then the demand for R is 20.

Component Yield. The program divides the demand for the child item by that items component yield to determ ine the
actual demand for the child item. For example, if the component yield for item R is 50%, the new demand for R is
40 (because 20 divided by 50% is 40).
Reverse Cumulative Yield. The program further divides the demand for the child item by the Reverse Cumulative Yield
(specified in the operation sequence of the flow routing for the parent item) to determine the actual demand for the child
item. For example, if the reverse cumulative yield for K is 10%, the new demand for R is 400 (because 40 divide d by
10% is 400). See and .
Net Planning Percentage. The program then multiplies the demand for the child item by the Net Planning Percentage
(specified in the operation sequence of the flow routing for the parent item) to determine the actual demand for the child
item. For example, if the net planning percentage for K is 80%, the new demand for R is 320 (because 400 multiplied by
80% is 320).
Finally, the program sums up the demand entries that fall within the kanban planning horizon for each kanban item at each location
and divides the demand for each item at each location by the number of workdays. For example, if the number of workdays on th e
planning horizon is 20, then the average daily demand for item A at location L1 is 6 (because the total demand for item A at location
L1 for the planning horizon is 120). The program prorates the demand from periodic forecasts for those days between the Deman d
window specified for the calculation program.
Using the Kanban Calculation Program

Calculating the kanban size or the number of kanban cards involves two steps:
1. telling the application what demand information to use - we do that by specifying the kanban name in work bench as shown in above
screenshot.
2. submitting a request for the calculation program.
Viewing and Updating Kanban Calculations

You can view the recommended kanban size for each item at each location. You can compare plans and update parts of your produ ction plan
with your kanban simulation plan. You can also relaunch the kanban calculation program to see the effects of changing one or more
variables, including kanban size, number of kanban cards, and source types.
Defining/Generating/Printing Kanban Cards
Defining Kanban Cards
Use the Kanban Cards Summary window to view, define, and upd ate kanban cards. You can also automatically generate kanban cards with
the Generate Kanban Cards process.
Generating Kanban Cards
Use the Generate Kanban Cards process to automatically generate kanban cards. You can generate cards for individual pull sequences in the
Pull Sequences Summary and Pull Sequences windows.
Printing Kanban Cards

Use the Print Kanban Cards process to batch print kanban cards with card status Active and Hold. You can print cards individu ally in the
Kanban Cards window.
Replenishing Kanban Cards

When a kanban is empty, you can replenish it systematically. This will change the card status to empty and will trigger the n ecessary
transactions to refill the kanban.
Prerequisites
Generate kanban cards, with card status as Active and supply status as Full.
Lot based jobs, To replenish lot based jobs you must complete the following prerequisites:
The supply type for the Kanban pull sequence equals production.
The item is lot controlled.
The primary routing for the kanban Item is network routing.
Master Item: MPS/MRP Planning
Inventory: (N) Items>Master Item
To define a kanban planned item, you must set the Release Time Fence attribute in the MPS/MRP Planning attribute gr oup to Kanban Item
(Do Not Release). Only kanban planned items can be used in defining a pull sequence.
Process flow and Kanban Card status

Kanban cards are created for an item, subinventory, and locator (optional). They are uniquely identified by a kanban number. For cards
generated from a kanban pull sequence, the number is automatically generated. For manually defined cards, both replenishable and non
replenishable, you can enter an unused kanban number or let the system create the number.
Card Status
Kanban cards are generated with a default Card Status of Active. When you define a card manually, you can initially give it e ither Active or
Hold status.
If the Supply Status is Full, you can temporarily pull a card out of the replenishment chain by c hanging the Card Status to Hold. You can later
change the status back to Active. You can terminate use of a card by changing the Card Status to
Canceled, but you cannot reverse this change. Only Canceled cards can be deleted.
Supply Status
All the following Supply Status codes can be set either manually or automatically.
New The kanban has just been created and is not yet part of the replenishment chain.
Empty The kanban is empty and a replenishment signal has been generated (available only for Inter Org an d Supplier source types).
Full The kanban has been replenished.
Wait The kanban is waiting until the minimum order quantity has been met by the aggregation of cards.
InProcess For the Supplier source type, the purchase order has been approved. For the Inter Org source type, the internal requisition has
been approved.
All cards are generated with a status of New. You can switch this status to Empty to trigger a kanban replenishment signal. D uring initial setup,
you can switch the status to Full if you are starting out with a full bin. When you are defining a card manually, you can create a card with a
status of Empty, Full, or New.
MinMax Planning
You can use minmax planning to maintain inventory levels for all of your items or selected items. With min max planning, you specify
minimum and maximum inventory levels for your items. When the inventory level for an item (on hand quantities plus quantities on order)
drops below the minimum, Oracle Inventory suggests a new purchase requisition, internal requis ition, move order, or job to bring the balance
back up to the maximum.
Oracle Inventory performs minmax planning for your items at either the organization level or the sub inventory level. Sub inventory level
planning cannot generate jobs and does not consider WIP jobs as supply or WIP components as demand.
Requesting the MinMax Planning Report

To request a minmax planning report you define parameters for minmax planning calculation, choose the sorting criterion for the report, and
choose whether to create internal requisitions. The INV:Minmax Reorder Approval profile option governs the approval status of internal
requisitions created by the MinMax Planning Report. (Move Orders are automatically approved.)
1. When you run the MinMax Planning report, you can have Oracle Inventory create requisitions for buy items and unreleased jobs for make
items by answering Yes to Restock. You must also specify a location to serve as the default deliver to location on the requisitions.
2.
Oracle Inventory creates purchase requisitions for Buy items when the item attribute Replenishment Source Type is set to Supplier . Oracle
Inventory creates internal requisitions for internal sales orders for Buy items when the item attribute Replenishment Source Type is set to
Inventory. For internal requisitions, Oracle Inventory uses the item attribute Source Organization to determine the organization from which the
internal requisition sources the item .
3. You can define a default item source at the organization, subinventory, or item levels. Oracle Inventory uses the information from the lowest
level to determine the source from which to requisition the item. The ascending hierarchy is:
i) Item in a subinventory,
ii) Source in a subinventory,
iii) Item in an organization,
iv) Source in an organization.
Reorder Point Planning
Reorder point planning uses demand forecasts to decide when to order a new quantity to avoid dipping into safety stock.
Reorder point planning suggests a new order for an item when the available quantityonhand quantity plus planned receipts drops below
the items safety stock level plus forecast demand for the item during its replenishment lead time . The suggested order quantity is an economic
order quantity that minimizes the total cost of ordering and carrying inventory. Oracle Inventory can automatically generate requisitions to
inform your purchasing department that a replenishment order is required to supply your organization.
When the sum of onhad and planned receipts reaches the point A( i.e. the reorder point) the system suggests that we should create a
requisition (or the system can automatically create) of the value of reorder quantity. So, at the time (Point B) we receives the material in
inventory the total onhand would be at safety stock and after receipt the total onhand would increase by reorder quantity(EOQ) to C.
Reorder-point planning uses the following pieces of information:

Available Quantity
Reorder point
Safety stock
Item demand
Replenishment lead time
EOQ
Order cost
Carrying cost
Available Quantity
Its the sum of = Inventory On hand + Quantity on order
Quantity on Order: The sum of purchase order, requisition (internal and supplier), and intransit quantities owned by the orga nization. Quantity
on order represents supplies that you have not received in your organization.
Reorder point
Timing of Reorders Reorder when the following is true:
(quantity on hand + quantity on order) < reorder point
where reorder point = safety stock + [(lead time) * (average demand during lead time)]
Safety Stock Safety stock for an item is the quantity of an item that you plan to have in inventory to protect against fluctuations in dem and and
supply. You can enter your own safety stock quantities, or Oracle Inventory can calc ulate safety stock based on an existing forecast for the
item.
Item Demand The reorder point planning routine uses the average demand during the replenishment lead time. Oracle uses forecast
information to calculate average demand.
On a normal circumstance its a summation of all the forecats.
Replenishment Lead Time Replenishment lead time is the total time between recognizing the need for items and the receipt of items. You
can enter three components of order-processing lead times:
Preprocessing lead time
Processing lead time
Postprocessing lead time
Oracle Inventory calculates reorder point planning lead time by adding all three components of processing lead time.
EOQ/Reorder Quantity
Reorder quantity = Economic Order Quantity (EOQ)
The economic order quantity is the quantity that minimizes the total cost of ordering and storing inventory.
EOQ = SQRT {[2 * (annual demand) * (order cost)]/(carrying cost percent *unit cost)}
Annual carrying cost = carrying cost percent*unit cost
Oracle Inventory calculates annual demand information from the forecast that you provide when you perform reorder point planning.
The EOQ increases as demand increases, since the cost of carrying a larger order is smaller because the inventory is not carr ied as long.
EOQ also increases when the cost of preparing an order increases. This is to avoid making too many orders and thus incurring this cost more
often than necessary. On the other hand, the more it costs to carry inventory, the smaller the EOQ since it costs more to carry the excess
inventory.
You can constrain the reorder quantity by specifying the following information for each item:
Fixed-lot multiplier
Minimum order quantity
Maximum order quantity
Order cost
The cost associated in ordering the item.
Carrying cost
The cost associated in carrying the item in inventory.
Shortage Parameters
You can enable the system to send material shortage alerts and shortage notifications when a material shortage occurs in an o rganization. A
material shortage occurs whenever unsatisfied demand exceeds available quantity for incoming supply of material.
Check Shortages: Indicates that the material shortage check is enabled for WIP.
Jobs and Schedules regions:

Released: Indicates that all jobs/schedules with status Released, whose scheduled start date is overdue, are included in the material shortage
check. This parameter is separately controlled for jobs and schedules.
Unreleased: Indicates that all jobs/schedules with status Unreleased, whose scheduled start date is overdue, are included in the material
shortage check. This parameter is separately controlled for jobs and schedules.
Days Overdue: Indicates how many days can go by after the jobs/schedules start date until jobs/schedules with status Released or
Unreleased are included in the material shortage check. This parameter functions only if you checked Released or Unreleased. This parameter
is separately controlled for jobs and schedules.
Hold: Indicates that all jobs/schedules with status Hold are included in the material shortage check. This parameter can be separately
controlled for jobs and schedules.
Component Is Due subregions:

Based on required date: Indicates that the required date specified for each component will be used to de termine whether the open
requirement is late. This parameter is separately controlled for jobs and schedules.
If assigned operation is due: Indicates that all discrete jobs or repetitive schedules with a current operation that has assigned open material
requirements are included in the material shortage check. This parameter can be separately controlled for jobs and schedules.
If operation before assigned operation is due: Indicates that all discrete jobs or repetitive schedules with a current operation before an
operation that has assigned open material requirements are included in the material shortage check. This parameter is separat ely controlled
for jobs and schedules.
Exclusions region:
The shortage check looks at the supply type of components on the j ob or schedule. The supply type may be Based on Bill or manually
overridden when jobs or schedules are created.
Bulk Components: Indicates that components with supply type Bulk will be excluded in the material shortage check.
Supplier Components: Indicates that components supplied by vendor will be excluded in the material shortage check.
Pull Components: Indicates that pull components will be excluded in the material shortage check.
Notify region: Select who will receive a workflow notification about the material shortage.
Oracle E-Business Suite R12.1 Inventory Essentials

Version: 4.0
You are moving items from locator A to locator B within the same Inventory organization. Which
two types of inventory transactions are required? (Choose two.)
A. Move Order
B. Locator transfer
C. Subinventory transfer
D. WIP component Issue
E. Miscellaneous Receipt
F. WIP assembly completion
G. Inter-organization transfer direct
Answer: A,C
What two conditions prevent you from reserving the Inventory? (Choose two.)
A. The inventory module is installed as Shared.
B. The items have a non reservable material status.
C. The Inventory is in a Standard Cost inventory organization.
D. The Inventory is in an Average Cost inventory organization.
E. The reservation will cause the on-hand quantity to be negative.
Answer: B,E
Which two functional areas have default category sets? (Choose two.)
A. Planning, Engineering, Costing
B. Purchasing, Payables, Inventory
C. Inventory, Purchasing, Bill of Materials
D. Order Management, Inventory, Purchasing
E. Inventory, Bill of Materials, Work in Process
F. Planning, Order Management, General Ledger
G. Order Management, Inventory, Work in Process
Answer: A,D
Your customer is planning to dose the accounting period in Inventory. Before closing the period,
the customer would like to view the total number of pending transactions in one form.
Which form would provide this Information?
A. Pending Status
B. View Material Transactions
C. Find Pending Transactions
D. Transaction Open Interface
E. Inventory Accounting Period
Answer: E
Beyond the shelf life days, active lots become expired lots. Expired lots______.
A. Canbe reserved
B. Are not allowed to do subinventory transfer
C. Are not included in Inventory valuation reports
D. Can not be transacted and included in on-hand quantities
E. Are not included in cycle and physical counting adjustments
F. Are not considered as on-hand supply for min-max and re-order point planning
Answer: F
What is the correct sequence when defining units of measure (UOM)?

A. UOM Class, UOM, UOM Conversions
B. UOM Class, UOM Conversions, UOM
C. UOM Conversions, UOM Class, UOM
D. UOM Conversions, UOM, UOM Class
E. UOM, UOM Class, UOM Conversions
Answer: A
Which three statements are true about the item master? (Choose three.)
A. It is possible to copy items across item master organizations.
B. The item master organization is the centralized repository for ail items in different organizations.
C. It is possible to associate items in one item master organization with another item master
organization.
D. When an attribute control is set at the item master level, updates are not allowed at the item or
organization level.
E. There is no functional or technical difference between the item master organization and other
organizations while transacting on an item.
F. When an attribute control is set at the item master level, updates can still be made at the item or
organization level but these updates would not propagate back up to the item master level.
Answer: B,D,E
For the profile option TP: INV Cycle Count Entries form to Background processing.
what are the system requirements for it to be effective? (Choose two.)
A. the Receiving Transaction manager must be active.
B. the Cost Manager Interface manager must be active.
C. the Move Transaction interface manager must be active.
D. the Material Transaction interface manager must be active.
E. the Lot Move Transaction interface manager must be active.
Answer: B,D
Select the true statement about Material Status Control.
A. The profile option "IMV: Default Item Status" must be set to Active at the site level to enforce
Material Status Control.
B. The profile option "INV: Material Status Support" must be set to Yes at the site level to enforce
Material Status Control.
C. The profile option "INV: Transaction Reasons Security" must be set to Yes at the site level to
enforce Material Status Control.
D. The profile option "INV: Allow Expense to Asset Transfer" must be set to Yes at the application
level to enforce Material Status Control.
Answer: B
The warehouse has received new stock from an internal distribution warehouse.
Which two receiving transactions can be used to put stock into the warehouse's inventory using
the In transit Inventory? (Choose two.)
A. Direct Receipt
B. Standard Receipt and Delivery
C. Inter organization Direct Receipt
D. Inter organization Receipt and Delivery
E. Inter organization Miscellaneous Receipt
Answer: C,D
An Item has its lot Control attribute set to Full Control.

The Active material status does not have any transaction types related to lot control enabled for
material status control, this status is assigned to all lot numbers associated with the item.
The subinventory where the Item's lot numbers are all located also has the Active material status.
How will the application respond when a user tries to submit a subinventory transfer transaction?
A. The transaction will be accepted.
B. An error message will be generated.
C. The transaction will be accepted, but will be registered as a transfer to and from the same
subinventory.
D. The transaction will be accepted, but the item cost update will have to be processed separately
by the user.
Answer: A
Which statement is true regarding inventory transactions?

A. Transaction reasons can be used in all transaction forms.
B. Work in Process would not affect inventory transactions.
C. Inventory adjustments are not part of inventory transactions.
D. You can designate, by transaction type, which transaction reasons are available.
E. You must create at least one user-defined transaction reason for each inventory organization,
Answer: A
What is the impact of setting the profile option INV: Override Neg for Backflush = Yes?
A. It would not allow inventory to be driven negative.
B. Backflush transactions would drive inventory negative.
C. Backflush transactions would not drive inventory negative.
D. Backflush and inventory transactions would drive inventory negative.
E. Backflush and inventory transactions would not drive inventory negative.
F. It would permit the driving of on-hand inventory negative for miscellaneous issue transactions.
Answer: B
A. Define segments, but do not compile.

B. Create at least one alias, compile, then disable the alias.
C. Ignore the account alias flexfield because it would not be required.
D. Compile the flexfield structure because it is required by Oracle Inventory.
E. Define default account aliases that can be used at a laterdatebut ensure they are disabled now.
Answer: D
The materials manager has noticed that several items were created and assigned to various
inventory organizations, but the analyst skipped the "Copy from Template" step. The manager
would like to know how to correct the items.
Which three statements are true? (Choose three.)
A. Apply the template in the organization item. It would automatically update the Master Item
window.
B. You can use the Item Attribute Copy form to update the value of an item attribute across
multiple organizations in a given organization hierarchy.
C. You can change an organization-level attribute with the Master Item window. If you do this, it
will update the organization-level attribute across all organizations.
D. You can use the Organization Item window to update organization-level item attributes. This
would update organization-level attributes in your current organization only.
E. To update master-level attributes, use the Master Item window. If an attribute is controlled at
the master level, the value of the attribute applies for all organizations to which the i tem is
assigned.
Answer: B,D,E
Two Customer Service Representatives each book a sales order for an item that is revision and lot
controlled. There are no other open, active sales orders for this Item.
Each Customer Service Representative pick releases their order to the same warehouse
independently.
The Pick Release Rule used by both includes Auto Allocation.
On the resulting Move Orders, Inventory has allocated all the requested quantity for one of the
sales orders, but only half the requested quantity on the second sales order was available to be
allocated.
Using the Transact Move Orders form, which action sequence can the warehouse person use to
reduce the allocation on the first Move Order so that both customer orders can be equally
satisfied?
A. 1. View/Update Allocations;
2. Change the allocated Revision and Quantity values, as appropriate.
B. 1. View/Update Allocations;
2. Change the allocated Revision and Quantity values;
3. Change the allocated Lot and Quantity values, as appropriate
C. 1. View/Update Allocations;
2. Change the allocated Lot and Quantity values, as appropriate;
3. Select the appropriate Missing Quantity Action.
D. 1. View/Update Allocations;
2. Change the allocated Revision and Quantity values, as appropriate;
3. Change the Destination Subinventory.
Answer: C
Identify three valid sources of Inventory Supply. (Choose three.)

A. Approved Requisition Lines
B. Miscellaneous Transactions
C. Scheduled CMRO Work Orders
D. Approved Purchase Order Lines
E. Sales Order Lines in Entered status
F. WIP Work Orders in Released status
G. Sales Orders Lines in Scheduled status
Answer: C,F,G
Company ABC is using serialization in all organizations that manage inventory. It wants each
organization to determine the proper levels of serial control. The products in each organization are
completely different, so having the same serial numbers on different products Is acceptable.
The only global requirement is that serial numbers be generated in advance, to prevent incorrect
serial number types from being created.
Using the table below, choose the cell that represents the correct parameter and attribute
combination to meet Company ABC's needs.
A. B
B. C
C. F
D. H
E. K
Answer: A
ABC Inc. is a semiconductor manufacturing organization. They have all possible inventory controls
items.
Which controls are validated on subinventory transfer transactions?
1. Lot control
2. Locator control
3. Serial Number control
4. Revision Quantity control
5. Subinventory and locator restrictions for specific items
A. l
B. 1 and 3
Q l, 3, and 5
C. 1, 2, and 3
D. 1 through 5
E. 1, 2, 3, and 5
F. 1, 2, 3, and 4
Answer: E
Vision Corporation is a semiconductor discrete manufacturing organization; it has its own
manufacturing and distribution centers located globally,
It has this operating units:
US - USA operating unit
CAN - Canadian operating unit
UK - UK operating unit
MX - Mexican operating unit
IND- India operating unit
SPA -Spain operating unit
FRA - France operating unit
NL - Netherlands operating Unit
GER -Germany operating unit
These are the inventory organizations that exist in each operating unit:
Inventory Org - Operating unit
VC (Master Org)-US
US1 (Child Org)- US
US2 (Child Org)-us
CA1 (Child Org)-CAN
MXl (Child Org)-MX
INI (Child Org)-IND
SP1 (Child Org)-SPA
FR1 (Child Org)-FRA
NLl (Child Org)- NL
GEl (Child Org)-GER
Which two statements are true? (Choose two.)
A. Master Organization VC cannot be shared across operating units.

B. Items cannot be assigned to inventory organizations across operating units.
C. All inventory organizations do not need to be in the same operating unit to assign items.
D. You can define an item in INI inventory organization and assign it to GEl inventory organization
E. Items defined in VC organization can be assigned to US1, US2, NLl, and MXl inventory
organizations.
Answer: C,E
Which two statements apply to a Physical Inventory Tag as defined by Inventory? (Choose two.)
A. Physical Inventory Tags cannot be bar coded.
B. It can contain a count for a group of a given Item.
C. It is produced and printed by the Generate Physical Inventory Tags function.
D. It is unique for every stock locator/item/lot number/serial number combination.
E. It is used to indicate to the warehouse staff that a count has been recorded for that location,
so that a duplicate count is not performed.
Answer: B,D
Identify four elements of the Inventory that can be assigned a Material Status. (Choose four)
A. Lot
B. Serial
C. Locator
D. Subinventory
E. Operating Unit
F. Inventory Sub-ledger
G. Inventory Organization
Answer: A,C,F,G
Which Inventory table stores reservations Information generated for sales orders?
A. MTL_DEMAND
B. MTL_SALES_ORDERS
C. OE_OBDER_LINES_ALL
D. MTL_GENRRIC DISPOSITIONS
Answer: A
Identify four functions that a user can perform using the Material Workbench. (Choose four)
A. Create move orders.
B. Create and save queries.
C. Change material statuses.
D. Perform miscellaneous issues.
E. Perform miscellaneous receipts.
F. Perform pick confirm transactions.
G. Perform ship confirms transactions.
H. View material in receiving, on-hand quantities, and intransit material.
Answer: A,B,C,H
You are implementing the inventory module for XYZ Shoe Manufacturing Company (XYZ).
XYZ wants to identify the finished goods (FG) items based on two major item characteristics: shoe
size and color. The company wants to capture all the FG item descriptions with these two
characteristics.
Which feature is used to capture the item characteristics and control it in the item description?
A. Categories
B. Item catalogs
C. Item key flexfleld
D. Item descriptive flexfield
E. Category Set and Categories
Answer: B
Identify the two statements that directly relate to material status control. (Choose two.)
A. A material status can be enabled or disabled as required.
B. The material status is defaulted when using Order Management.
C. A serial number can be assigned a status that excludes it from reservations.
D. A material status is a combination of transactions and planning actions that are allowed.
E. If status control is not enabled for a transaction type, the transaction type is always allowed.
Answer: D,E
Which two are supply sources for Supplier and Production inventory replenishment? (Choose
two.)
A. Discrete job
B. Intransft order
C. External sales order
D. Replenishment move order
E. Internal purchase requisition
F. External purchase requisition
Answer: A,F
You are defining the staging subinventory for your sales order pick release rule.
Which flag should be enabled (checked. for the rule to work properly?
A. Nettable
B. Depreciable
C. Locator Alias
D. D.Asset Subinventory
E. Allow Reservations
F. PAR (Periodic Automatic Replenishment) Level Planning
Answer: E
Which three statements are true when disabling lots? (Choose three.)
A. Lots are included as on-hand availability in reports.
B. Lots are not included as on-hand availability in reports.
C. Lots do not appear in the list of values during receipt transactions.
D. Lots appear in the list of values for receipts and ail other transactions.
E. Lots are considered as on-hand supply when you perform min-max or re-orderpointplanning.
F. Lots are not considered as on-hand supply when you perform min-max orre-orderpoint
planning.
G. Lots are not included in Available to Promise, Available to Reserve, and Available to transact
calculations.
Answer: A,C,E
ABC Inc. added a new Operating Unit to Its existing Multi-Org Access-enabled responsibility.
When users logged in using their existing responsibility, they could not see the new Operating Unit
in the fist of values.
What could be the cause?
A. Security List Maintenance was not run.
B. The Set MO: Operating Unit profile was not defined.
C. The Set Multi-Org Preferences profile was not defined.
D. The Set MO: Default Operating Unit profile was not defined.
E. The Set MO: Security profile was not defined for the responsibility.
Answer: A
You receive a request to create a new menu. Instead of creating a new menu, you modify an
existing menu and save it to a different User Menu Name.
What happens after saving the menu with a different User Menu Name?
A. There will be two menus.
B. The original menu is disabled.
C. The new menu will not contain any functions.
D. The new menu will overwrite the original menu
Answer: D
You have logged in to the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 Instance and accessed your
work list. You see four FYI notifications in your default Work list view.
You opened the first
notification and clicked the "OK" button after reviewing the content.
Identify three things that can happen after you return to your work list. (Choose three.)
A. You see four notifications in your work list.

B. You see three notifications in your work list.
C. Status of the first notification has been updated to "Delete."
D. Status of the first notification has been updated to "Closed."
E. you can view the first notification by choosing the "All Notifications" view from your worklist.
F. you can view the first notification by choosing the "FYI Notifications" view from your worklist.
Answer: B,D,E
Identify two features of an "Independent" valueset.(Choose two.)

A. There is a predefined list of values for a segment.
B. The values are stored in a product applications table.
C. The values are stored in an Oracle Application Object Library table.
D. You can enter a value other than those in the predefined list of values.
Answer: A,C
ABC Corp. has determined its Accounting Key Flexfleld structure for the Implementation of
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12. The Accounting Key Flexfield structure contains five
Segments: Company ,Business Unit, Department, Account, and Product
They have the following requirements:
1)the Department values should be based on the Business Units,
2)They want to produce a quarterly Balance Sheet for each Company.
Which three statements are true? (Choose three.)
A. The Product Value Set is dependent on the Accounts.
B. The Business Unit Value Set is defined as Independent
C. The Account Segment has a Value Set with no Validation.
D. The Company Segment is qualified as the Balancing Segment.
E. The Department Segment is qualified as an Intercompany Segment
F. Cross validation rules are required to enforce dependency of Departments on theBusiness
Units.
Answer: B,D,F
Which two statements are true regarding partitioning of data by an application? (Choose two.)
A. General Ledger is partitioned by Ledgers.
B. Accounts Payable is partitioned by Ledgers.
C. Fixed Assets are partitioned by Operating Unit.
D. Accounts Receivable is partitioned by Operating Unit.
E. Order Management is partitioned by Inventory Organization.
Answer: A,D
A Ledger is a financial reporting entity. What is new in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 that
facilitates generation of accounting entries?
A. Ledger
B. Chart of Accounts
C. Multi-Org Structure
D. Accounting Convention
E. Financial Accounting Calendar
Answer: D
Which four options are determined by a responsibility in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12?
(Choose four.)
A. inherited roles
B. accessible reports
C. applicable Ledgers
D. accessible Applications
E. accessible menus and forms
Answer: B,C,D,E
Which three statements are true about modifying flexfield values?

A. The values cannot be disabled.
B. The value description can be changed.
C. The effective dates for a value can be limited.
D. The values can be deleted after they are defined.
E. The values cannot be modified after they are defined.
Answer: B,C,E
Which two options would you use to restrict the functionality provided by a responsibility? (Choose
two.)
A. creating an appropriate role
B. creating an appropriate group
C. constructing a new menu hierarchy
D. defining rules to exclude specific functions
Answer: C,D
Identify three modules that can be secured using the Operating Unit in Oracle E-Business Suite
Release 12. (Choose three.)
A. Oracle Assets
B. Oracle Payables
C. Oracle Receivables
D. Oracle General Ledger
E. Oracle Cash Management
Answer: B,C,E
A global company uses Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 for its operations in the U.S. and
Canada. The company is now adding Mexico to the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12
Applications. As a system administrator, you need to set the MO: Operating Unit profile option for
Mexico. Customer is not using Multi-Org Access Control.
You set the MO: Operating Unit profile option at the _____ level.
A. Site
B. User
C. Application
D. Responsibility
Answer: D
Company X has three Operating Units: A, B, and C. Each Operating Unit has the MO: Security
Access profile option called ABC Security assigned. Operating Unit a has froth the MO: Operating
Unit profile option and the MO: Default Operating Unit profile option assigned to it.
Which statement is true?
A. Paul can create transactions for the A, B, and C Operating Units.

B. All transactions created by Paul are automatically assigned to the Operating Unit A.
C. Paul can report on data across A, B, and C Operating Units, but enter transactions only against A.
D. The profile option did not include Operating Unit B and Operating Unit C due to an error by the system
administrator.
E. The Payables responsibility is linked to the Operating Unit A by the
MO: Operating Unit profile option and can create transactions for that Operating Unit alone.
Answer: A
You are Involved In a project to upgrade to Oracle E-Business Suite, Release 12. You need more
information about the upgrade processes and paths.
Where would you find the upgrade guide for Oracle E-Business Suite?
A. Apps Net
B. Bug Database
C. Technical Forums
D. Meta Link Knowledge Base
E. Oracle Technology Network
F. Customer Knowledge Exchange
Answer: D
In the Descriptive Flexfield (DFF. implementation, the purpose of the "Synchronize with Reference
Field" check box is to synchronize_____.
A. The DFF Values with the Reference field
B. The DFF Contexts with the Reference field
C. The DFF Attributes with the Reference field
D. The DFF Segments with the Reference field
E. The DFF Value Sets with the Reference field
Answer: B
Identify the sequence of steps to determine the Descriptive Ffexfield name on a form In Oracle
Business Suite Release 12 with Diagnostics enabled.
1) Select Help > Diagnostics > Examine.
2) The username of the DFF appears in the Value field.
3) Select the DFF name from the list of values in the "Field" field.
4) Select the "$DESOUPTTVE_FLEXFIELD$" value for the Block name.
A. 1, 2, 3, 4
B. 1, 4, 3, 2
C. 1, 3, 4, 2
D. 4, 3,1,2
Answer: B
Identify two features of a Value Set that has a validation type of "None." (Choose two.)
A. It has an approved list of values associated with it

B. The entered value must meet the formatting requirements.
C. The Flexfield value security rules cannot be used for a segment that uses this Value Set.
D. Users can enter any value that they want even if it does not meet formatting requirements.
Answer: B,C
Identify three features of Key Flexfields. (Choose three.)
A. Key Flexfields are used as Identifiers for entities.

B. The Key Flexfield structure comprises Segments.
C. A Key Flexfield structure consists of multiple code combinations.
D. Key Flexfields appear as a single-space field enclosed in brackets.
E. Each segment of a Key Flexfield usually contains meaningful information.
Answer: A,B,E
XYZ Corp. has acquired ABC Corp. XYZ operates with Mufti-Org Access Control. Consequently
XYZ Corp. needs to add additional Operating Units. Identify the statement that describes the
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sequence for adding additional Operating Units.
A. It is not possible to add additional Operating Units.
B. Set the MO: Operating Unit profile option, run the Replicate Seed Data concurrent request,
create the Operating Unit, and create new responsibilities as necessary.
C. Set the MO: Security Profile profile option, run the Replicate Seed Data concurrent request,
createthe Operating Unit, and create new responsibilities as necessary.
D. Create the Operating Unit, run the Replicate Seed Data concurrent request, create new
responsibilities as necessary, and set up the MO: Default Operating Unit profile option.
E. Create the Operating Unit, run the Replicate Seed Data concurrent request, assign the
Operating Unit to a security hierarchy, run Security List maintenance concurrent program, create
new responsibilities as necessary, and set up the MO: Security Profile option.
Answer: E
A user has been assigned with five Operating Units in his or her security profile. The user
transacts In three of those Operating Units, the remaining two are used occasionally.
The user can limit the list of values available to the three Operating Units by_____.
A. setting the preferred Operating Units in user preferences
B. setting the values for the MO: Operating Unit at the user level profile option
C. setting the values for the MO: Default Operating Units at the user level profile option
D. requesting the system administrator, to update the Operating Units in the security profile
E. requesting the system administrator to set up MO: Default Operating Unit for the responsibility
Answer: A
In the Multi-Org model, which organization type Is the highest level that impacts accounting?
A. Ledger
B. Operating Unit
C. Business Group
D. GRE / Legal Entity
E. Inventory Organization
Answer: A
What are the four required fields when defining a request set? (Choose four.)
A. Set
B. Owner D
C. Set Code
D. Application
E. Description
F. Active Date
Answer: A,C,D,F
Employee information in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 is partitioned by

A. Legal Entity
B. Operating Unit
C. Business Group
D. HR Organization
E. Inventory Organization
Answer: C
You are the Human Resources lead for the ERP Implementation of ABC Corporation.
You have defined the employees in Oracle Human Resources. Select three activities that utilize the
employee record.(Choose three.)
A. Approvals
B. Asset assignment
C. Organization creation
D. Journal Entry creation
E. Auto Create Purchase Orders
Answer: A,B,E
Which three statements are true about Oracle Workflow and Oracle Alerts? (Choose three.)
A. Alerts can perform only one action.
B. Workflow can support complex conditional logic.
C. Alerts can be configured for any frequency of occurrence.
D. Workflows can wait for a user response during an activity.
E. Alerts can perform multiple actions In a sequence that you specify.
F. Alerts run only when a database record is either updated or created.
Answer: B,D,E
Identify two features of Oracle Workflow in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12. (Choose two.)
A. enhances data security
B. helps you focus on managing individual business transactions
C. has each activity in a workflow as a PL/SQL function or a notification or a sub process
D. can integrate business functions only between business processes within a single company
E. can integrate business processes within an enterprise, as well as between different
organizations and different systems
Answer: C,E
Identify the two benefits of using Multi-Org Access Control. (Choose two.)
A. View asset information across multiple asset books.
B. Restrict access to users based on their Organization assignments.
C. Submit and view data across different Ledgers using a single responsibility.
D. Enter Payables invoices for different Operating Units using a single responsibility.
E. View Consolidated requisitions across Operating Units using a single responsibility.
Answer: D,E
Identify three true statements about defining actions In Oracle Alert. (Choose three.)
A. An alert can contain only one Action Set.
B. An alert can contain any number of Action Sets.
C. When multiple actions are defined they must be included In an Action Set.
D. Oracle Alert waits for user response before executing next action in an Action Set.
E. When multiple actions are defined, they do not need to be included in an Action Set.
F. Oracle Alert does not wait for user response before executing next action in an Action Set
Answer: B,C,F
You receive a request to create a new responsibility for US Payables Manager. The request states
that the new responsibility should have access to all menu items except Invoice Payments.
Identify two options that you would use to restrict the Invoice Payments option on the new US
Payables Manager responsibility. (Choose two.)
A. Remove the request group from the new US Payables Manager responsibility.
B. Create a Menu Exclusion for Invoice Payments on the US Payables Manager responsibility.
C. Create an Item Exclusion for Invoice Payments on the US Payables Manager responsibility.
D. Create a Security Attribute for Invoice Payments on the US Payables Manager responsibility.
E. Create a new menu excluding the Invoice Payments option and attach the new menu to
the responsibility.
Answer: B,E
What are the three elements involved in submitting a concurrent request? (Choose three.)
A. selecting Operating Unit
B. selecting report language
C. providing completion option
D. defining a submission schedule
E. selecting the request or request set to be submitted
Answer: C,D,E
Identify four tasks that you can perform using Oracle Workflow in Oracle E-Business Suite
Release 12. (Choose four.)
A. Automate business processes.
B. Generate account code combinations.
C. Approve standard business documents.
D. Send notifications using Advanced Queuing.
E. Generate inventory item numbers using item generator workflow.
F. Integrate with third party business systems that are not on a company network.
Answer: A,B,D,F

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What are some of the key features of Oracle Inventory?

What are some of the key features of Oracle Inventory?

What are some of the benefits of using Oracle Inventory?

What are some of the benefits of using Oracle Inventory?

Oracle Inventory

Oracle Inventory Application Integration

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Global HRMS Manager View>Requests> International HRMS Setup

Accounting (Oracle General Ledger)

Subinventory Subinventory Subinventory Subinventory

Locator Locator Locator Locator Locator

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Inventory Organization Structure

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Inventory Organization: An entity used to represent a manufacturing or distribution site.

S ubinventory: Physical or logical locations for storing inventory.

S tock Locator: A physical area within a stockroom.

Profile Option For New Responsibility

Define Inventory Organization SH2

Define Inventory Parameter For Inventory Organization

Indicate whether locator aliases must be unique across the organization.

Indicate whether to Allow Negative Balances.

Auto delete allocation at Move Order cancellation

8 . S elect a Default On-hand Material S tatus tracking option.

6. Default Material S ub element

Enter The Following Valuation Account

Account Type Account

2. Select an option for lot number generation.

2. Select an option for serial number generation.

Enter a default subinventory picking order.

Enter a default locator picking order.

Item-S ourcing Default

S elect the organization used to replenish items.

S elect the subinventory used to replenish items.

Or You Can Use Organization Copy Functionality

Assign to Existing Hierarchies:

Account Type Account

4. Depreciable: Indicate whether to designate items in this subinventory as depreciable.

9. Optionally, enter an inactive date for the subinventory.

Subinventory Account Information

Test Case For Subinventory Locator Control

After You Define Locators On Subinventory

1. Choose the number of segments in the flexfield.

3. Sub Inventory-Level Locator Control Options

4. Item-Level Locator Control Options

1. Define unit of measure classes,

Defining Unit of Measure Classes

1. Enter a unique name for the unit of measure class.

Defining units of measure is the second step in unit of measure management.

Primary Unit of Measure

Enter UOM from UOM Class FORM

1. Enter a unique name for the unit of measure.

S pecifying Which Conversion to Use

1. Itemspecific: Only uses unit of measure conversions unique to this item.

Unit of Measure Conversions During Transactions

Navigate to the Unit of M easure Conversions window.

Defining Unit of Measure Conversions

Unit of measure conversions are not organization-specific.

S pecifying Which Conversion to Use