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Oracle Order Entry/Shipping supports your most complex approval cycles. You can place mandatory or optional approvals anywhere in an order cycle except between Pick Release and Ship Confirm. You can review complete approval histories for all your orders so you always know who approved what and when.

You can customize your order cycle by defining prerequisites for each action so that Oracle Order Entry/Shipping performs these actions in the sequence you define. For example, the prerequisite for the action Pick Release could be the action Legal Review and the result Pass. You would not be able to pick release an order line until it meets this prerequisite.

You can define as many order cycles as you want so that you can handle different processing requirements for different types of orders or for orders from different sales channels. For example, you may have one order cycle that requires legal approval, which you use for international orders, and one without legal approval for domestic orders.

You can modify existing order cycles by querying an order cycle in the Order Cycles window and making changes to the desired cycle action and/or prerequisites.

Prerequisites

   Set up your cycle actions. See: Defining Cycle Actions.

   Set up your cycle action results. See: Defining Cycle Results.

   Assign results to your cycle actions. See: Assigning Cycle Actions Results.

   To define an order cycle:

1. Navigate to the Order Cycles window.

2. Enter a name and description for the order cycle.

3. Optionally, enter the effective dates for the order cycle.

4. Enter the cycle action(s) that make up the order cycle.

You may specify any number of actions for a given cycle. Order Entry predefines several standard actions, and you can define additional cycle actions. See: Defining Cycle Actions.

5. Define cycle action prerequisites by entering action set, action, and result combinations.

Use the same action set (number) for each prerequisite to identify a group of prerequisites that must each be satisfied before you can execute this action. Using the same action set creates an And condition. For example, if both Pass Engineering and Pass Legal are necessary to execute this action, you would assign the same action set to each prerequisite in this field.

Use different action sets to identify independent prerequisites, either of which may be satisfied before you can execute this action. Using different action sets creates an Or condition. For example, if either Pass Engineering or Pass Legal is necessary to execute this action, you would assign a different action set to each prerequisite.

Attention: The only possible results for Manufacturing Release that you can use as prerequisites for Pick Release, to release ATO configurations, are Work Order Completed or Work Order Partially Completed.

6. Save your work.

   To modify an order cycle:

1. Navigate to the Order Cycles window.

2. Query an existing order cycle and make the desired changes to the order cycle.

3. Save your work.

See Also

Sample Order Cycles