Overview of Routings and Operations
You can define operations and routings in Oracle Bills of Material. Operations and routings are the basis of shop floor control.
Operation Sequence
Routings define the step-by-step operations required to manufacture an assembly. Routing operations describe a specific portion of the manufacturing process. Work in process routing operations help you locate (through the assigned department) assemblies on the shop floor and identify the quantity complete or remaining at an operation. See: Operations.
Resource Requirements
You can associate multiple resources with a routing operation. For each resource, you can determine if you want to include that resource in scheduling calculations. Resources can be charged and scheduled on an item-by-item or lot basis. The system calculates the time required for all scheduled resources at an operation to get the operation start and end dates and times. The system then calculates the time required for all operations to get the job and repetitive schedule start and end dates and times. See: Overview of Resource Requirements.
Resource Charge Types
You can determine how operation resources are charged. You can automatically charge resources as you move assemblies in Work in Process and as you enter purchase receipts for outside processing resources in Oracle Purchasing. You can also manually charge resources. See: Resource Charge Types.
Outside Processing
You can define outside processing resources and assign them to routing operations.
Specify Where Material is Used
You can specify at what operations are required in the routing. Thus, you only issue (push) or backflush (pull) material where and when it is needed.
Backflush Operations
You can use the operation backflush option to specify at what point in the routing Operation Pull components are backflushed. Pull components at non-backflush operation are not backflushed when assemblies are completed at the operation. Instead, they are backflushed when a backflush operation later in the routing is completed. It is often useful to postpone backflushing at time-critical operations.
Autocharge/Count Point Operations
You can specify whether an operation is a count point and whether it should be automatically charged. The autocharge and count point options for an operation work together. See: Count Point and Autocharge Fields.
Minimum Transfer Quantities
You can define minimum transfer quantities for your operations. If you move fewer assemblies than the minimum quantity, a warning is displayed but you can complete the transaction.
Establish Standard Costs
You specify the resources required to build an assembly when you define a routing. Resources have costs associated with them. By defining the routing with specific resources, you establish standard resource costs for any item that uses the routing.
Alternate Routing
You can choose an alternate routing for an assembly when you define a discrete job or repetitive schedule. See: .
Routing Revision
You can use routing revisions to control date effective revisions on a routing. You specify the routing revision and the revision date for the assembly when you define discrete jobs and repetitive schedules. See: Item and Routing Revisions.
Engineering Routing
You can set your WIP:See Engineering Items profile option to Yes so that you can use engineering routings. See: Engineering Bills of Material and Routings.
See Also
Overview of Routings
Creating a Routing
Intraoperation Steps
