Overview
Oracle Work in Process is a complete production management system. Work in Process is part of Oracle Applications, an integrated suite of business solutions. Work in Process supports discrete, project, repetitive, assemble-to-order, work order-less, or a combination of manufacturing methods. Inquiries and reports give you a complete picture of transactions, materials, resources, costs, and job and schedule progress.
Manufacturing Support
- Build discrete jobs, both standard and non-standard (prototype, rework, maintenance, and special projects)
- Build project jobs, both standard and non-standard
- Build repetitive schedules by production line/assembly
- Build final assembly orders for configure-to-order
- Complete assemblies without having to create a job or schedule
Production Scheduling
- Load and sequence repetitive production by assembly and production line
- Schedule start and stop times to the minute
- Schedule fixed, variable, and overlap time elements
- Use forward, backward, manual, and midpoint rescheduling
- Update the master production schedule automatically
Material Control
- Issue and return components from and to inventory
- Replenish supply subinventories by item, job, or day
- Backflush components automatically using operation or assembly completion
- Generate bill of material requirements using standard and alternate bills and revisions
- Modify job and schedule material requirements as required
- Control engineering change implementation
- Issue and build serial number, lot-controlled, and revision controlled components and assemblies
- Scrap components and assemblies
- Control MRP netting (production quantities can be non-nettable quantities)
- Display on-hand and available to transact quantities during material transactions
- Setup transaction processing options as required
Shop Floor Control
- Move assemblies between and within operations
- Combine move and completion transactions
- Charge resources and overheads automatically
- Generate routing operations using standard and alternate routings and revisions
- Modify routing operations as required
- Setup transaction processing options as required
Resource Tracking
- Charge labor, machine, and outside resources automatically or manually
- Charge resources at standard, employee, or actual rates
- Charge labor by resource or employee
- View and report efficiency, usage, and transaction history
Costing
- Cost discrete jobs using standard or weighted average costs
- Segregates costs for project jobs
- Track costs by product line
Import
- Import move transactions from data collection devices, factory floor machines or controllers using the Open Move Transaction Interface
- Import material transactions (component issue/return, assembly completion/return, replenishment) from data collection devices, custom data entry forms, and other manufacturing inventory systems using the Open Inventory Transaction Interface
- Import resource transactions from data collection devices and labor tracking systems using the Open Resource Cost Transaction Interface
- Import planned orders, update recommendations, and planned repetitive schedules directly from external sources using the Open Job and Schedule Interface
- Update scheduling dates at the operation or resource level using the WIP Scheduling Interface
Increase Productivity
You can setup Oracle Applications and Work in Process to automate manufacturing information processing:
- Eliminate the need to define and update orders after each planning run by loading and rescheduling shop floor activity based on master schedule and material plans
- Eliminate excess navigation within windows by setting first field defaults that correspond to your primary manufacturing environment (discrete, repetitive, or assemble-to-order)
- Eliminate the need to transact at non-critical operations by defining them as no count point or no autocharge operations
- Eliminate the need to manually define job names by using the automatic sequence generator
- Eliminate the need to manually assign and verify lots during transaction processing by specifying default lot selection and verification rules
See Also
Comparison of Manufacturing Methods