Welcome to Release 12.1 of the Oracle Work in Process User's Guide.
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This chapter describes Oracle Work in Process and its integration with other Oracle Applications.
This chapter provides information about setting up Oracle Work in Process and other integrated Oracle Applications.
This chapter explains how to use and define jobs.
This chapter explains the differences between non-standard and standard discrete jobs and illustrates how non-standard discrete jobs can be used.
This chapter explains how to use Flow Manufacturing in Work in Process.
This chapter explains how to use and define repetitive schedules.
This chapter explains how materials are transacted, controlled, and tracked in Work in Process.
This chapter explains how assemblies are moved, controlled, and tracked on the shop floor.
This chapter describes the Job Workbench and Resource Workbench, two graphical displays enabling you to view and reschedule jobs and resources.
This chapter explains how to manage resources in Work in Process.
This chapter explains how you can manage your outside processed resources in Work in Process.
This chapter describes how discrete job and repetitive schedules statuses can be used to control production activities.
This chapter explains how costs are calculated and controlled in Work in Process.
This chapter describes how discrete jobs and repetitive schedules are scheduled.
This chapter explains how descriptive flexfields are used in Work in Process.
This chapter explains how to submit report and process requests, and briefly describes each Work in Process report.
This appendix shows you the default navigator path for each Oracle Work in Process window.
This appendix describes supply types and how they are used in Oracle Work in Process and other Oracle Manufacturing Applications.
This appendix provides detailed information about the workflow process in Oracle Work in Process.
The Oracle Integration Repository is a compilation of information about the service endpoints exposed by the Oracle E-Business Suite of applications. It provides a complete catalog of Oracle E-Business Suite's business service interfaces. The tool lets users easily discover and deploy the appropriate business service interface for integration with any system, application, or business partner.
The Oracle Integration Repository is shipped as part of the E-Business Suite. As your instance is patched, the repository is automatically updated with content appropriate for the precise revisions of interfaces in your environment.
This guide describes how to use Oracle’s supply chain planning performance for forecasting and managing both supply and demand for your items. You plan your requirements, and execute and release the plan for discrete jobs, repetitive schedules, and flow schedules.
This guide describes how to create various bills of materials to maximize efficiency, improve quality and lower cost for the most sophisticated manufacturing environments. By detailing integrated product structures and processes, flexible product and process definition, and configuration management, this guide enables you to manage product details within and across multiple manufacturing sites.
This guide describes how to use Oracle Cost Management in either a standard costing or average costing organization. Cost Management can be used to cost inventory, receiving, order entry, and work in process transactions. It can also be used to collect transaction costs for transfer to Oracle Projects. Cost Management supports multiple cost elements and multiple sub–elements. It also provides comprehensive valuation and variance reporting.
This guide describes how to use Oracle’s Flow Manufacturing functionality to support the processes of Flow manufacturing. It describes design features of demand management, line design and balancing, and kanban planning. It also describes production features of line scheduling, production, and kanban execution.
This guide explains how to plan and define your chart of accounts, accounting period types and accounting calendar, functional currency, and set of books. It also describes how to define journal entry sources and categories so you can create journal entries for your general ledger. If you use multiple currencies, use this manual when you define additional rate types, and enter daily rates.
This manual explains how to enter your employees. It also explains how to set up organizations and site locations. Even if you do not install Oracle HRMS, you can set up your employees, site locations, and organization using Oracle HRMS windows.
This guide describes how to define items and item information, perform receiving and inventory transactions, maintain cost control, plan items, perform cycle counting and physical inventories, and set up Oracle Inventory.
This guide describes performing shop floor and warehouse transactions using a mobile client device interfaced with a networked computer system. The Mobile Server enables you to perform Oracle Work in Process shop floor transactions, enter Oracle Inventory and Oracle Warehouse Management transactions, and record Oracle Quality collection plan results.
This guide describes how to enter sales orders and returns, copy existing sales orders, schedule orders, release orders, confirm shipments, create price lists and discounts for orders, run processes, and create reports.
This guide describes the unique set of features Oracle Project Manufacturing provides for a project–based manufacturing environment. Oracle Project Manufacturing can be tightly integrated with Oracle Projects; however, in addition to Oracle Projects functionality, Oracle Project Manufacturing provides a comprehensive set of new features to support project sales management, project manufacturing costing, project manufacturing planning, project manufacturing execution and project quality management.
This guide describes how to create and approve purchasing documents, including requisitions, different types of purchase orders, quotations, RFQs, and receipts. This guide also describes how to manage your supply base through agreements, sourcing rules and approved supplier lists. In addition, this guide explains how you can automatically create purchasing documents based on business rules through integration with Oracle Workflow technology, which automates many of the key procurement processes.
This manual provides information about managing complex shop floor relationships using network routings, lot based jobs, co–products, and lot genealogy.
This manual provides information about warehouse resource management, warehouse configuration, and advanced pick methodologies for material handling for warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and distribution centers. This product is one of the components of Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications.
Oracle STRONGLY RECOMMENDS that you never use SQL*Plus, Oracle Data Browser, database triggers, or any other tool to modify Oracle E-Business Suite data unless otherwise instructed.
Oracle provides powerful tools you can use to create, store, change, retrieve, and maintain information in an Oracle database. But if you use Oracle tools such as SQL*Plus to modify Oracle E-Business Suite data, you risk destroying the integrity of your data and you lose the ability to audit changes to your data.
Because Oracle E-Business Suite tables are interrelated, any change you make using an Oracle E-Business Suite form can update many tables at once. But when you modify Oracle E-Business Suite data using anything other than Oracle E-Business Suite, you may change a row in one table without making corresponding changes in related tables. If your tables get out of synchronization with each other, you risk retrieving erroneous information and you risk unpredictable results throughout Oracle E-Business Suite.
When you use Oracle E-Business Suite to modify your data, Oracle E-Business Suite automatically checks that your changes are valid. Oracle E-Business Suite also keeps track of who changes information. If you enter information into database tables using database tools, you may store invalid information. You also lose the ability to track who has changed your information because SQL*Plus and other database tools do not keep a record of changes.