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Oracle Applications Implementation Wizard

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. See: Implementation Wizard and Oracle System Administration.

Set Up Oracle Applications Technology

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:

• performing systemwide setup tasks such as configuring concurrent managers and printers

• managing data security, which includes setting up responsibilities to allow access to a specific set of business data and complete a specific set of transactions, and assigning individual users to one or more of these responsibilities

See Also

Oracle System Administration

Oracle Workflow

In Oracle Inventory:

• Defining Items

Step 1 Set Profile Options (Required)

Profile options specify how Oracle Bills of Material controls access to and processes data. In general, profile options can be set at one or more of the following levels: site, application, responsibility, and user.

Oracle Bills of Material users use the Update Personal Profile Options form to set profile options only at the user level. System administrators use the Update System Profile Options form to set profile options at the site, application, responsibility, and user levels. See: Oracle Bills of Material Profile Options

Step 2 Define Exception Templates (Optional)

You can define your own exception templates. When you assign an exception template to your workday calendar, you can assign workday exceptions to account for plant workday differences--such as holidays, scheduled maintenance, or extended downtime.

Step 3 Define and Build your Workday Calendar (Required)

You define a workday calendar for one or more organizations, and assign an exception set to each calendar. For each workday calendar and exception set, you assign a list of holidays or workday exceptions. You then define shifts for your workday calendar, and assign any shift workday exceptions.

After you define your workday calendar information, you build your workday calendar with the exception set. If you associate one calendar with multiple organizations, you can build your workday calendar with multiple exception sets to account for workday differences across organizations.

Attention: If you use Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP, choose the calendar options 445 weekly quarter pattern or 544 weekly quarter pattern if you want to report MRP information in weeks and months. Otherwise, if you choose 13 period calendar or Regular calendar months, you can only report MRP information in monthly buckets.

Step 4 Assign Workday Calendar to Organization (Required)

You assign a workday calendar and exception set to each of your organizations. You can share the same workday calendar across organizations with either the same or a different exception set for each organization.

Step 5 Define Bill of Material Parameters (Required)

You assign the maximum number of bill of material levels for bill explosions, loop checks and implosions. For assemble to order manufacturers, you assign configuration item information.

Oracle Cost Management does require that you assign values to each parameter if you compute an organization's manufacturing costs based on bill of material and routing information defined in Oracle Bills of Material.

Step 6 Define Department Classes (Optional)

You can define department classes to group departments and to identify manufacturing cells. This information is for your reference only.

Step 7 Define Resources (Optional)

You can define a resource as anything of value, except material and cash, required to manufacture, cost, and schedule products. Resources include people, tools, labor purchased from a supplier, and physical space.

Step 8 Define Resource Groups (Optional)

You can group department resources by resource group to facilitate bill of resource generation and capacity planning in Oracle Capacity.

Step 9 Define Simulation Sets (Optional)

You can group deviations to available resource capacity for resource shifts and use each set in shop floor scheduling and capacity planning.

Step 10 Define Locations (Optional)

You define delivery locations for departments with outside processing resources.

Step 11 Define Departments (Optional)

You can define departments as areas within your organization where you perform work and/or collect costs.

Step 12 Assign Resources and Resource Shifts to Departments (Optional)

You can assign resources to a department and then assign shifts to those resources. You can group department resources by resource group, and assign a simulation set with capacity modifications for each resource shift.

Step 13 Define Overheads (Optional)

You can define resource overhead by using the Define Overhead form. Each overhead sub-element has a default basis, default activity, and absorption account. The overhead absorption account offsets your corresponding overhead cost pool in the general ledger.

Step 14 Associate Overheads with Departments (Optional)

You can assign overhead rates or amounts to your department by cost type and department. The cost rollup uses the assigned basis type to allocate the overhead charge. The cost rollup assigns the activity to the calculated overhead cost. You can define pending rates and use the cost rollup/update process to change the pending rates to Frozen overhead rates.

Step 15 Define Alternates (Optional)

You can define any number of alternate names that you use when you create alternate bills of material and routings. You use alternate bills and routings to produce an identical product using a different bill or routing. You can apply the same alternate name to a bill of material and a routing.

Step 16 Define Standard Bill of Material Comments (Optional)

You can define any number of standard bill of material comments that you can assign to your bills of material.

Step 17 Define Standard Instructions (Optional)

You can define any number of operation instructions that you can assign to a routing operation or standard operation.

Step 18 Define Change Order Types (Optional)

You can define mass change order types, using your own terminology, to describe mass changes to your manufacturing bills of material.

Step 19 Define Delete Constraints (Optional)

Oracle Bills of Material provides a list of rules to determine if an item, bill of material or routing can be deleted. Each rule insures data integrity across all Oracle Manufacturing applications. You can add to this list with your own business rules to further restrict the entities that can be deleted. You write each of your delete constraints as a SQL select statement that either prevents or lets a user delete an item, bill, or routing.