New Features in Oracle Work in Process Release 11
New features in this release are as follows:
Project Manufacturing
Define, track, and cost job assemblies by project or by project and task. Projects and tasks are set up in Oracle Projects.
See: Project Jobs and Comparison of Manufacturing Methods.
Manufacturing Average Costing
Cost items at a weighted average perpetual cost.
See: Setting Up Average Costing.
Work Order-less Completions
Complete assemblies without having to create a job or schedule. Work order-less completions do all of the following in one simple step:
- Backflush pull and push components
- Charge resources and overhead based on the routing
- Complete assemblies to a designated completion subinventory/locator
Component requirements for work order-less completions are determined by the assembly bill. You can optionally add components not on the assembly bill and delete components that are on the assembly bill. You can also specify lot/serial information for components under lot, serial, or lot and serial number control.
See: Overview of Flow Manufacturing and Performing Work Order-less Completions.
Saving Simulated Discrete Jobs
Save the jobs you simulate to determine anticipated material and resource requirements. You no longer need to redefine simulated jobs in the Discrete Jobs window.
See: Simulating and Saving Simulated Jobs.
Component Available to Promise (ATP) Information
View the ATP component status information of discrete job component requirements as you simulate, define, and view jobs. In prior releases, you could view the current on-hand quantities of components but these quantities did not include quantities allocated to outstanding jobs and schedules.
See: Viewing Component ATP Information.
Viewing Job Details as Jobs are Defined
View job details -- material requirements, operations, and resource requirements -- as you define and update jobs. You no longer need to use the View Discrete Jobs window to view the details of a job.
See: Defining Discrete Jobs Manually.
Viewing Pending Job Transactions
Use the Transaction Summary window to view pending discrete job transactions which might prohibit you from closing, purging, or changing the status of a job. In previous releases, you were warned that pending transactions existed but no indication of what the problem was -- outstanding material transactions, resource transactions, or PO requisitions -- was given. This window can be invoked using the Special Menu from the Discrete Jobs, View Discrete Jobs, Close Discrete Jobs, and Purge Discrete Jobs windows.
See: Viewing Pending Job Transactions and Special Menu.
Folder Technology in Discrete Jobs window
The Discrete Jobs Summary window is a folder block. It can be customized to exclude fields that are not required.
See: Defining Discrete Jobs Manually and Customizing the Presentation of Data in a Folder.
Enhanced Restrictions for Outside Processing Resources
You can no longer delete outside processing operations or resources at those operations if a purchase requisition or a purchase order has been created.
See: Deleting Resource Requirements and Deleting Operations.
WIP Scheduling Interface
Schedule discrete jobs at the operation or resource level through the WIP scheduling interface.
See: WIP Scheduling Interface, Oracle Manufacturing Open Interfaces Manual, Release 11.
Material Transaction Processing Enhancements
The following enhancements have been added to make WIP Material Transaction processing from the WIP Material Transactions window more flexible and intuitive:
- Issue components from a specific supply subinventory. Specifying which subinventory to issue from is convenient when assembly components have different subinventories and these subinventories are controlled by different users.
- Specify one or several criteria -- Assembly Quantity, Operation Sequence, or Department, Supply Subinventory -- in any combination when issuing material using the All Components option.
- Specify one or several criteria transaction criteria in any combination -- Assembly Quantity, Operation Sequence, or Department, Supply Subinventory -- when replenishing supply subinventories.
- Optionally select a supply subinventory/locator selection in the WIP Material Transaction window when issuing or returning material. These fields were required in previous releases. Supply subinventories and locators, if required by the subinventory, are still required when replenishing supply subinventories.
- A change to the transaction quantity no longer clears the values in the subinventory/locator fields.
See: Issuing and Returning Specific Components, Issuing and Returning All Push Components, and Replenishing Supply Subinventories and Locators.
