GLOSSARY
A
- activity
- A business action or task which uses a resource or incurs a cost.
- alternate bill of material
- An alternate list of component items you can use to produce an assembly.
- alternate routing
- An alternate manufacturing process you can use to produce an assembly.
- ANSI
- American National Standards Institute which establishes national standards for the United States. The parent organization for X12 and also serves as the North American representative to ISO (International Standards Organization).
- approval list
- A group of employees that review and control engineering change orders (ECOs). When you create an ECO, you can assign an approval list and an approval status. Oracle Alert automatically notifies each approver when an ECO requires their approval.
- approval status
- A classification you can use to track an ECO's approval cycle. Approval statuses include: Not ready to approve, Ready to approve, Approval requested, Approved, and Rejected. Oracle Alert automatically notifies each approver when an ECO's approval status is set to Ready to approve.
- assigned units
- The number of resource units assigned to work at an operation in a routing. For example, if you have 10 units of machine resource available at a department, you can assign up to 10 of these units to an operation in a routing. The more units you assign, the less elapsed time Work in Process schedules for the operation.
- autocharge
- A method of charging a discrete job or repetitive schedule for the resources consumed at an operation.
- autoimplement
- To implement an ECO's revised item automatically on its effective date by setting the revised item status to Scheduled and running the autoimplement manager.
- autoimplement manager
- An Engineering program that automatically implements all ECO revised items with a status of Scheduled and whose effective date is less than or equal to the current date.
- autonumber
- A function to automatically default engineering change order (ECO) numbers when you create a new ECO. You can define an autonumber prefix and sequence for all users across all organizations, all users in one organization, one user across all organizations, and one user in one organization.
B
- bill of material
- A list of component items associated with a parent item and information about how each item relates to the parent item. Oracle Manufacturing supports standard, model, option class, and planning bills. The item information on a bill depends on the item type and bill type. The most common type of bill is a standard bill of material. A standard bill of material lists the components associated with a product or subassembly. It specifies the required quantity for each component plus other information to control work in process, material planning, and other Oracle Manufacturing functions. Also known as product structures.
- bill revision
- A specific version of an item which specifies the components that are active for a date range.
- BOM item type
- An item classification that determines the items you can use as components in a bill of material. BOM Item types include standard, model, option class, and planning items.
- by-product
- Material produced as a residual of a production process. Represented by negative usage in the bill of material for an assembly.
C
- capacity units
- The number of units of a resource available in a department. For example, the number of machines.
- charge type
- See autocharge
- common bill of material
- An assembly that uses the bill of material of another assembly as its bill. This enables you to reduce your maintenance effort by sharing the same bill structure among two or more assemblies. For example, if you have identical bills of material that produce the same product in two different organizations, you can define common bills of material for the identical structures.
- common routing
- A routing that uses the routing of another assembly as its routing. This enables you to reduce your maintenance effort by sharing the same routing and operations for two or more assemblies.
- component demand
- Demand passed down from a parent assembly to a component.
- component item
- An item associated with a parent item on a bill of material.
- component yield
- The percent of the amount of a component you want to issue to build an assembly that actually becomes part of that assembly. Or, the amount of a component you require to build plus the amount of the component you lose or waste while building an assembly. For example, a yield factor of 0.90 means that only 90% of the usage quantity of the component on a bill actually becomes part of the finished assembly.
- configurator
- A form that allows you to choose options available for a particular model, thus defining a particular configuration for the model.
- configure-to-order
- An environment where you enter customer orders by choosing a base model and then selecting options from a list of choices.
- count point operation
- A default operation to move to and from where you record move and charge resource transactions. Also known as pay point.
- cumulative manufacturing lead time
- The total time required to make an item if you had all raw materials in stock but had to make all subassemblies level by level. Bills of Material automatically calculates this value. Purchased items have no cumulative manufacturing lead time.
- cumulative total lead time
- The total time required to make an item if no inventory existed and you had to order all the raw materials and make all subassemblies level by level. Bills of Material automatically calculates this value.
D
- delete entity
- An item, bill of material or routing you choose to delete.
- delete group
- A set of items, bills, and routings you choose to delete.
- delete subentity
- A component or operation you choose to delete.
- deletion constraint
- A business rule that restricts the entities you can delete. A deletion constraint is a test that must succeed before an item, bill, or routing can be deleted.
- detailed scheduling
- A method of scheduling production that considers minute to minute resource availability information as well as exact resource requirements from routings.
- disable date
- A date when an Oracle Manufacturing function is no longer available for use. For example, this could be the date on which a bill of material component or routing operation is no longer active, or the date a forecast or master schedule is no longer valid.
- disposition
- Directions that describe how to dispose of inventory affected by an ECO. Engineering uses ECO disposition for informational purposes only.
- dynamic lead time offsetting
- A scheduling method that quickly estimates the start date of an order, operation, or resource. Dynamic lead time offsetting schedules using the organization workday calendar.
E
- effective date
- Date when an Oracle Manufacturing function is available for use. For example, this could be the date a bill of material component or routing operation becomes effective, or the date you anticipate revised item changes become part of a bill of material and can no longer be controlled by an ECO.
- engineer-to-order
- An environment where customers order unique configurations for which engineering must define and release custom bills for material and routings. Oracle Manufacturing does not provide special support for this environment beyond the support it provides for assemble-to-order manufacturing.
- engineering change order (ECO)
- A record of revisions to one or more items usually released by engineering.
- engineering change order department
- A group of users that use the engineering change order system. You assign users to an ECO department to control access to your ECOs.
- engineering change order reason
- The purpose of an ECO.
- engineering change order status
- A classification you can use to track and control an ECO's life cycle. ECO statuses include: Open, Hold, Release, Schedule, Implement, and Cancelled.
- engineering change order type
- An ECO field that identifies the originating ECO department and the items you can include on an ECO (manufacturing or engineering).
- engineering item
- A prototype part, material, subassembly, assembly, or product you have not yet released to production. You can order, stock, and build engineering items.
F
- fixed lead time
- The portion of the time required to make an assembly independent of order quantity, such as time for setup or teardown.
- flow manufacturing
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H
I
- implement
- To make an ECO active so that no further changes can be made to that ECO. Usually, the day you implement an ECO is also the effective date for component changes. After that date, you must make further changes through a new ECO or directly to the bill.
- implementation date
- The date a component becomes part of a bill of material and is no longer controlled through an ECO. Implementation date does not necessarily equal the effective date.
- included item
- A standard mandatory component in a bill, indicating that it ships (if shippable) whenever its parent item is shipped. Included items are components of models, kits, and option classes.
- item
- Anything you make, purchase, or sell, including components, subassemblies, finished products, or supplies. Oracle Manufacturing also uses items to represent planning items that you can forecast, standard lines that you can include on invoices, and option classes you can use to group options in model and option class bills.
- item sequence
- The sequence of the component item on the bill of material used to sort components on reports.
J
K
L
- lead time lot size
- The item quantity used to compute the fixed and variable portions of manufacturing lead time. For manufactured items, the processing lead time represents the time required to build this quantity.
M
- make-to-order
- An environment where customers order unique configurations that must be manufactured using multiple discrete jobs and/or final assembly orders where the product from one discrete job is required as a component on another discrete job. Oracle Manufacturing does not provide special support for this environment beyond the support it provides for assemble-to-order manufacturing.
- mandatory component
- A component in a bill that is not optional. Bills of Material distinguishes required components from options in model and option class bills of material. Mandatory components in pick-to-order model bills are often referred to as included items, especially if they are shippable.
- mass change order
- A record of a plan to replace, delete, or update one or more component items in many bills of material at the same time.
- minimum transfer quantity
- The minimum number of assemblies to move from your current operation to the next. Work in Process warns you when you move less than the minimum transfer quantity.
- model bill of material
- A bill of material for a model item. A model bill lists option classes and options available when you place an order for the model item.
- model item
- An item whose bill of material lists options and option classes available when you place an order for the model item.
N
O
- occurrence
- An individual quality result. For example, a measurement that falls in or out of a specified tolerance. Occurrences can be charted using Oracle Quality.
- offset percent
- An operation resource field that holds the percent of total manufacturing lead time required for previous operations. For example, if all operations require a total of ten hours to perform and the offset percent for a resource is 40%, then the resource is used four hours after the start of the first operation.
- operation
- A step in a manufacturing process where you perform work on, add value to, and consume department resources for an assembly.
- operation code
- A label that identifies a standard operation.
- operation instructions
- Directions that describe how to perform an operation.
- operation offset
- Elapsed days from the start of your first operation until the beginning of your current operation.
- operation sequence
- A number that orders operations in a routing relative to each other.
- option class item
- An item whose bill of material contains a list of related options.
- option dependent operation
- An operation in a model or option class item's routing that appears in a configuration item routing only if the configuration contains an option that references that operation.
P
- postprocessing lead time
- The time required to receive a purchased item into inventory from the initial supplier receipt, such as the time required to deliver an order from the receiving dock to its final destination.
Q
R
- reference designator
- An optional identifier you can assign to a component on a bill. For example, when the bill requires four of a component, you can assign four reference designators to that component, one for each usage.
- requestor
- The employee that creates an ECO or requests approval for an ECO.
- resource
- Anything of value, except material and cash, required to manufacture, cost, and schedule products. Resources include people, tools, machines, labor purchased from a supplier, and physical space.
- resource basis
- The basis for resource usage quantity that indicates whether that quantity is required per item or per lot.
- resource sequence
- The number that indicates the order of a resource in an operation relative to other resources.
- revised component
- Component changes to an assembly that is a revised item on an ECO.
- revised item
- Any item you change on an engineering change order. Revised items may be purchased items, subassemblies, finished goods.
- revised item status
- A classification you can use to track and control a revised item's life cycle. Revised item statuses include Open, Released, Scheduled, Hold, Implemented, and Cancelled.
- revision
- A particular version of an item, bill of material, or routing.
- revision control
- An inventory control option that tracks inventory by item revision and forces you to specify a revision for each material transaction.
- routing
- A sequence of manufacturing operations that you perform to manufacture an assembly. A routing consists of an item, a series of operations, an operation sequence, and operation effective dates.
- routing revision
- A specific version of a routing that specifies the operations that are active for a date range.
S
- setup time
- The time required to for a machine or work center to convert from the production of one item to another.
- shift
- A scheduled period of work for a department within an organization.
- standard operation
- A commonly used operation you can define as a template for use in defining future routing operations.
- standard rate
- The frozen standard unit cost for a resource.
- subinventory
- Subdivision of an organization, representing either a physical area or a logical grouping of items, such as a storeroom or receiving dock.
- substitute item
- An item that can be used in place of a component. Master Scheduling/MRP suggests substitutes items on some reports.
- supply
- A quantity of materials available for use. Supply is replenished in response to demand or anticipated demand.
- supply type
- A bill of material component field that controls issue transactions from inventory to work in process. Supply types supported by Work in Process include: Push, Assembly pull, Operation pull, Bulk, Supplier, Phantom, and Based on bill.
T
- teardown time
- The time required to clean up or restore a machine or work center after operation.
- total lead time
- An item's fixed lead time plus the variable lead time multiplied by the order quantity. For lead time calculations, Bills of Material sets the order quantity to the item's standard or lead time lot size. The planning process uses the total lead time for an item in its scheduling logic to calculate order start dates from order due dates.
U
- Update WIP
- When Engineering automatically implements a released revised item, the work in process requirements are automatically updated for the revised item.
- usage rate
- The amount of a resource consumed at an operation.
- use-up item
- A revised component whose MRP-planned order date and lead time offset determine the effective date of the revised item.
V
- variable lead time
- The time required to produce one additional unit of an assembly. To compute an item's total lead time multiply variable lead time by order quantity, and add an item's fixed lead time.
W
- workday calendar
- A calendar that identifies available workdays for one or more organizations. Master Scheduling/MRP, Inventory, Work in Process, and Capacity plan and schedule activities based on a calendar's available workdays.
- workday exception set
- An entity that defines mutually exclusive sets of workday exceptions. For each organization, you can specify a workday calendar and exception set.
- workday exceptions
- Dates that define plant or shift workday variations, including holidays, scheduled maintenance, or extended downtime.
X
Y
- yield
- See component yield
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