Preface

Intended Audience

Welcome to Release 12.1 of the Oracle Bills of Material User's Guide.

This guide assumes you have a working knowledge of the following:

See Related Information Sources for more Oracle E-Business Suite product information.

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Structure

1  Setting Up

This chapter provides information on setting up Oracle Bills of Material.


2  Bills of Material

This chapter provides you with everything you need to know to define and use bills of material.


3  Routings

This chapter tells you everything you need to know to use routings.


4  Deleting Information

This chapter tells you everything you need to know to delete item, bill, and routing information.


5  Configure to Order

This chapter provides an overview of how to use the configure-to-order features within Oracle Bills of Material.


6  Manufacturing Scheduling

This chapter tells you everything you need to know about manufacturing scheduling.


7  Manufacturing Lead Times

This chapter tells you everything you need to know about manufacturing lead times.


8  Oracle E-Records

This chapter discusses the acquisition of electronic signatures (e-signatures) on electronic records (e-records) in Oracle Bills of Material. E-records and e-signatures enable you to comply with the 21 CFR Part 11 regulations.


9  Reports and Processes

This chapter describes Oracle Bills of Material reports and processes and their submission parameters.


A  Oracle Bills of Material Windows and Navigator Paths

This appendix shows you the default navigator path for each Oracle Bills of Material window. Refer to this appendix when you do not already know the navigator path for a window you want to use.


B  Oracle Bills of Material Tools Menu

This appendix describes the options on the Oracle Bills of Material Tools menu.


C  Business Event Data for Oracle Bills of Material
Glossary

Related Information Sources

Integration Repository

The Oracle Integration Repository is a compilation of information about the service endpoints exposed by the Oracle E-Business Suite of applications. It provides a complete catalog of Oracle E-Business Suite's business service interfaces. The tool lets users easily discover and deploy the appropriate business service interface for integration with any system, application, or business partner.

The Oracle Integration Repository is shipped as part of the E-Business Suite. As your instance is patched, the repository is automatically updated with content appropriate for the precise revisions of interfaces in your environment.

Do Not Use Database Tools to Modify Oracle E-Business Suite Data

Oracle STRONGLY RECOMMENDS that you never use SQL*Plus, Oracle Data Browser, database triggers, or any other tool to modify Oracle E-Business Suite data unless otherwise instructed.

Oracle provides powerful tools you can use to create, store, change, retrieve, and maintain information in an Oracle database. But if you use Oracle tools such as SQL*Plus to modify Oracle E-Business Suite data, you risk destroying the integrity of your data and you lose the ability to audit changes to your data.

Because Oracle E-Business Suite tables are interrelated, any change you make using an Oracle E-Business Suite form can update many tables at once. But when you modify Oracle E-Business Suite data using anything other than Oracle E-Business Suite, you may change a row in one table without making corresponding changes in related tables. If your tables get out of synchronization with each other, you risk retrieving erroneous information and you risk unpredictable results throughout Oracle E-Business Suite.

When you use Oracle E-Business Suite to modify your data, Oracle E-Business Suite automatically checks that your changes are valid. Oracle E-Business Suite also keeps track of who changes information. If you enter information into database tables using database tools, you may store invalid information. You also lose the ability to track who has changed your information because SQL*Plus and other database tools do not keep a record of changes.