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:
The principles and customary practices of your business area.
Oracle Bills of Material
If you have never used Oracle Bills of Material, Oracle suggests you attend one or more of the Oracle Bills of Material training classes available through Oracle University.
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This chapter provides information on setting up Oracle Bills of Material.
This chapter provides you with everything you need to know to define and use bills of material.
This chapter tells you everything you need to know to use routings.
This chapter tells you everything you need to know to delete item, bill, and routing information.
This chapter provides an overview of how to use the configure-to-order features within Oracle Bills of Material.
This chapter tells you everything you need to know about manufacturing scheduling.
This chapter tells you everything you need to know about manufacturing lead times.
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.
This chapter describes Oracle Bills of Material reports and processes and their submission parameters.
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.
This appendix describes the options on the Oracle Bills of Material Tools menu.
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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.
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