Overview of Inventory Structure
You must plan how Oracle Inventory represents your company's inventory sites and business units. This includes defining organizations, locations, subinventories, and locators depending on your company structure. You also must plan how to implement certain parameters and what level of the structure controls them.
Prerequisites
Before you define inventory structures you should define your set of books and set up required key flexfields. See: Setting Up Oracle Inventory, Oracle Manufacturing Implementation Manual.
Steps Involved
- Define locations to use for a variety of functions including receiving and default delivery locations. See: Setting Up Site Locations.
- Define organizations that represent inventory entities (manufacturing facility, warehouse, branch office) in your company. All activity must reference an organization. See: Creating an Organization.
- Enter employee information. This information is the source for lists of values for employee fields throughout the application. See: Entering a New Person.
- Define a workday calendar, also called the manufacturing calendar, that each organization references for planning and scheduling activities. See: Creating a Workday Calendar.
- Define organization parameters. These parameters are the source for default inventory, costing, control, and movement parameters for an organization. See: Organization Parameters.
- Define subinventories that represent physical or logical locations for items within an organization. See: Defining Subinventories.
- Define locators that represent storage structures (for example, aisles or bins) within subinventories. See: Defining Stock Locators.
- Define planners or planning entities for each organization. You assign planners to inventory items at the organization level. See: Defining Planners.
See Also
Overview of Units of Measure