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Overview of Order Entry/Shipping Setup

Order Entry/Shipping provides several features that enable you to set up your system and begin processing order information. You must define business policies, such as how you classify your orders, as well as various control features.

Oracle Order Entry/Shipping Recommended Setup

Setup involves several phases, including setting up other integrated applications, which include Oracle General Ledger, Oracle Receivables, and Oracle Inventory. Some setup steps are optional, depending on whether you have the integrating applications installed and whether you use the associated feature. For example, if your business supports drop shipments, you should also set up Oracle Purchasing. If you sell models and kits, set up Oracle Bills of Material and Oracle Product Configurator.

If you are setting up Order Entry/Shipping without one of the integrating applications fully installed, Order Entry/Shipping provides the necessary windows or defaults for a stand-alone installation.

If you are using a multiple organization structure, your system administrator must change the OE: Item Validation Organization and OE: Set of Books profile options to be visible and updatable at the responsibility level. These changes allow Oracle Order Entry/Shipping to default tax code and revenue account information correctly. See: Setting Up, Multiple Organizations in Oracle Applications.

Oracle Applications Implementation Wizard

If you are implementing more than one Oracle Applications product, you may want to use the Oracle Applications Implementation Wizard to coordinate your setup activities. The Implementation Wizard guides you through the setup steps for the applications you have installed, suggesting a logical sequence that satisfies cross-product implementation dependencies and reduces redundant setup steps. The Wizard also identifies steps that can be completed independently--by several teams working in parallel--to help you manage your implementation process most efficiently.

You can use the Implementation Wizard as a resource center to see a graphical overview of setup steps, read online help for a setup activity, and open the appropriate setup window. You can also document your implementation, for further reference and review, by using the Wizard to record comments for each step.

Set Up Oracle Applications Technology

The setup steps in this chapter tell you how to implement the parts of Oracle Applications specific to Oracle Order Entry/Shipping.

The Implementation Wizard guides you through the entire Oracle Applications setup, including system administration. However, if you do not use the Wizard, you need to complete several other setup steps, including:

Also, if your product uses Oracle Workflow to, for example, manage the approval of business documents or to derive Accounting Flexfield values via the Account Generator, you need to set up Oracle Workflow.

See Also

Implementation Wizard

Oracle System Administration

Oracle Workflow

Setup Flow

While you can set up Order Entry/Shipping in many different ways, the following flow chart shows the order we recommend.

Step 1 Flexfields

Define key and descriptive flexfields to capture additional information about orders and transactions. See: Flexfields in Order Entry/Shipping.

Step 2 Inventory Organizations

Define inventory organizations (warehouses), organization parameters, subinventories, and picking rules in Oracle Inventory. See: Overview of Inventory Structure and Defining Picking Rules.

You must define at least one item validation organization and at least one organization that acts as an inventory source for orders fulfilled internally. If you plan to drop ship some orders, you must also define at least one logical organization for receiving purposes. Your item validation organization can be the same as your inventory source or your logical receiving organization, but you cannot use one organization for all three purposes. See: Drop-ship Order Flow.

Step 3 Profile Options

Define profile options to specify certain implementation parameters, processing options, and system options. See: Order Entry/Shipping Profile Options.

Step 4 Invoicing

Define Receivables invoicing information, including payment terms, invoicing and accounting rules, transaction types, AutoAccounting parameters, territories, and invoice sources. See: Payment Terms, Invoices with Rules, Transaction Types, AutoAccounting, Territories, and Invoice Batch Sources.

Step 5 Salespersons

Define information on your sales representatives. See: Salespersons.

Step 6 Tax

Define tax features, such as codes, rates, exceptions, and exemptions. See: Overview of Tax.

Step 7 QuickCodes

Define QuickCodes that provide custom values for many lists of values used throughout Order Entry/Shipping. See: Defining Order Entry/Shipping QuickCodes.

Step 8 Freight Charges and Carriers

Define freight charges and freight carriers to specify on orders. See: Defining Freight Charges and Defining Freight Carriers.

Step 9 Order Cycles

Define order processing flows to meet different order type requirements. See: Defining Cycle Actions, Defining Cycle Results, Assigning Cycle Action Results, and Defining Order Cycles.

Step 10 Order Number Sources

Define order number sources for automatic numbering of orders. See: Defining Order Number Sources.

Step 11 OrderImport Sources

Define sources for importing orders into Order Entry/Shipping. See: Defining OrderImport Sources.

Step 12 Security Rules

Define security rules to prevent users from adding, updating, deleting, and cancelling order or return information beyond certain points in your order cycles. Use the rules Order Entry/Shipping provides, which prevent data integrity violations, or create your own. See: Defining Security Rules.

Step 13 Units of Measure

Define the units of measure in which you supply items. See: Defining Units of Measure.

Step 14 Item Information

Define item information, including item attribute controls, categories, and statuses. See: Defining Item Attribute Controls, Defining Categories, and Defining Item Status Codes.

Step 15 Items

Define the items that you sell, as well as container items. See: Overview of Item Setup and Control.

Step 16 Configurations

Define the configurations that you sell. See: Creating a Bill of Material.

Note: Before you set up configurations, define the OE: Included Item Freeze Method profile option. See: Oracle Order Entry/Shipping Profile Options.

Step 17 Pricing

Define price lists for each combination of item and unit of measure that you sell. Optionally, you can define pricing rules and parameters to add flexibility. See: Overview of Pricing and Enabling Parameters.

Step 18 Customer Classes

Define customer profile classes. See: Defining Customer Profile Classes.

Step 19 Customers

Define information on your customers. See: Entering Customers.

Step 20 Agreements

Define binding or non-binding customer agreements. You can assign pricing, accounting, invoicing, and payment terms to each agreement. See: Customer Agreements.

Step 21 Standard Value Rule Sets

Define standard value (defaulting) rules for order information to help you enter orders quickly and accurately. See: Defining Standard Value Rule Sets.

Step 22 Order Types

Define order types to classify orders and returns. For each order type, you can assign a default price list, standard value rule set, approval actions, payment terms, and freight terms. See: Defining Order Types.

Step 23 Discounts

Define discounts to allow price adjustments based on customer agreements, order types, purchase order numbers, specific products, or specific customers. Before you define discounts, enable your Pricing Attributes descriptive flexfield in the Enable Parameters window. See: Discounts.

Step 24 Credit Checking

Define your credit checking rules. See: Automatic Credit Checking of Orders, Defining Credit Check Rules, and Defining Sales Credit Types.

Step 25 Holds

Define automatic holds to apply to orders and returns. See: Defining Holds.

Step 26 Notes

Define standard documents to attach automatically to orders and returns. See: Defining Note Categories and Defining Notes in Advance.

Step 27 Shipping Documents

Define groups of shipping documents that print automatically to specified printers when you confirm shipments. See: Choosing Printers for Shipping Documents and Defining Document Sets.

Step 28 Release Sequence Rules

Define the order in which picking lines are released. See: Defining Release Sequence Rules.

Step 29 Release Rules

Define and save picking criteria that can be used when running Pick Release. See: Creating Release Rules.

Step 30 Pick Slip Grouping Rules

Define grouping rules to determine how released picking lines are grouped onto pick slips. See: Defining Pick Slip Grouping Rules.

Step 31 Container-Load Relationships

Define the relationship between container items and load items to specify which items can be contained within other items. See: Defining Container-Load Relationships.

Step 32 Shipping Parameters

Define default Shipping parameters. See: Defining Shipping Parameters.


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