A schedule currently running on a production line. A schedule can be active past its scheduled completion date or before its scheduled start date.
alternate bill of material
An alternate list of component items you can use to produce an assembly.
alternate routing
An alternate manufacturing process you can use to produce an assembly.
assemble-to-order (ATO)
An environment where you open a final assembly order to assemble items that customers order. Assemble-to-order is also an item attribute that you can apply to standard, model, and option class items.
assembly
An item that has a bill of material. You can purchase or manufacture an assembly item. For more information, see assemble-to-order (ATO)bill of material.
assembly completion pull transaction
A material transaction where you backflush components from inventory to work in process as you complete the operation where the component is consumed. See operation completion pull transaction.
assembly completion transaction
A material transaction where you receive assemblies into inventory from a job or schedule upon completion of the manufacture of the assembly.
assembly move completion transaction
A move transaction that completes assemblies into inventory.
assembly scrap transaction
A move transaction where you charge a scrap account as you move assemblies into a Scrap intraoperation step. This reduces the value of your discrete job.
assembly UOM item
A purchasing item associated with an outside resource that you purchase using the assembly's unit of measure. The assembly's unit of measure should be the same as the purchasing item's unit of measure.
asset subinventory
Subdivision of an organization, representing either a physical area or a logical grouping of items, such as a storeroom where quantity balances are maintained for all items and values are maintained for asset items.
assigned units
The number of resource units assigned to work at an operation in a routing. For example, if you have 10 units of machine resource available at a department, you can assign up to 10 of these units to an operation in a routing. The more units you assign, the less elapsed time Work in Process schedules for the operation.
available capacity
The amount of capacity available for a resource or production line.
available-to-promise (ATP)
Ability to promise product for customer orders based on uncommitted inventory, planned production, and material.
Available To Transact (ATT)
Quantity on hand less all reservations for the item which may be transferred within or out of inventory.
backflush transaction
A material transaction that automatically issues component items into work in process from inventory when you move or complete the assembly. Also known as post-deduct or pull.
backward scheduling
A scheduling technique where you specify a production end date and Oracle Manufacturing calculates a production start date based on detailed scheduling or repetitive line scheduling.
bill of material
A list of component items associated with a parent item and information about how each item relates to the parent item. Oracle Manufacturing supports standard, model, option class, and planning bills. The item information on a bill depends on the item type and bill type. The most common type of bill is a standard bill of material. A standard bill of material lists the components associated with a product or subassembly. It specifies the required quantity for each component plus other information to control work in process, material planning, and other Oracle Manufacturing functions. Also known as product structures.
cancelled job
A discrete job you no longer want to work on. You cannot make transactions, move assemblies, or apply or update costs.
closed job
A discrete job that is unavailable for charges or any type of transaction. Closing a job calculates final costs and variances and creates history for the job.
complete charges
The job is complete and charges are allowed.
complete no charges
The job is complete but charges are not allowed.
completed assembly
An assembly you built on a discrete job or repetitive schedule and received into inventory.
completed job
A discrete job whose quantity planned equals the number of assemblies actually completed.
completion date
The date you plan to complete production of the assemblies in a discrete job.
completion subinventory
An inventory location at the end of your production line where you receive completed assemblies from work in process. Often this is the supply subinventory for subassemblies or finished goods inventories for final assemblies.
component demand
Demand passed down from a parent assembly to a component.
component item
An item associated with a parent item on a bill of material.
component yield
The percent of the amount of a component you want to issue to build an assembly that actually becomes part of that assembly. Or, the amount of a component you require to build plus the amount of the component you lose or waste while building an assembly. For example, a yield factor of 0.90 means that only 90% of the usage quantity of the component on a bill actually becomes part of the finished assembly.
current on-hand quantity
Total quantity of the item on-hand before a transaction is processed.
demand class
A classification of demand to allow the master scheduler to track and consume different types of demand. A demand class may represent a particular grouping of customers, such as government and commercial customers. Demand classes may also represent different sources of demand, such as retail, mail order, and wholesale.
department
An area within your organization that consists of one or more people, machines, or suppliers. You can also assign and update resources to a department.
detailed scheduling
A method of scheduling production that considers minute to minute resource availability information as well as exact resource requirements from routings.
discrete job
A production order for the manufacture of a specific (discrete) quantity of an assembly, using specific materials and resources, in a limited time. A discrete job collects the costs of production and allows you to report those costs including variances by job. Also known as work order or assembly order.
discrete manufacturing
A manufacturing environment where you build assemblies in discrete jobs or batches. Different from a repetitive production environment where you build assemblies on production or assembly lines at a daily rate.
efficiency
A productivity measure that focuses on actual performance against a standard. Expressed in a percentage figure, it is calculated by dividing actual resource time charged to a task by the standard resource requirements for the same task.
final assembly order
A discrete job created from a configuration or an assemble to order item and linked to a sales order. Also known as final assembly schedule.
firm flag
Denotes a job that cannot be modified by the planning or rescheduling process. See Oracle Master Planning/MRP User's Guide and Oracle Supply Chain Planning User's Guide.
first unit completion date
The date and time you plan to complete production of the first assembly on a repetitive schedule. This date equals the first unit start date plus the lead time.
first unit start date
The date and time you plan to begin production of the first assembly on a repetitive schedule. This date equates to the start of your lead time.
forward scheduling
A scheduling technique where you specify a production start date and Oracle Manufacturing calculates a production end date using either detailed scheduling or repetitive line scheduling.
immediate dispatch
Used in conjunction with department or resource job filter criteria. Includes jobs where there is quantity in an operation assigned to the selected department or resource.
intraoperation steps
The particular phases within an operation. There are five intraoperation steps in Work in Process: Queue, Run, To Move, Reject, and Scrap.
issue transaction
A material transaction to issue component items from inventory to work in process.
item-based resource
A resource whose usage quantity is the amount required per assembly unit you make.
job status
An Oracle Manufacturing function that lets you describe various stages in the life cycle of a discrete job and control activities that you can perform on the job.
last unit completion date
The date and time you plan to complete production of the last assembly on a repetitive schedule. This date equates to the first unit completion date plus processing days.
last unit start date
The date and time you plan to begin production of the last assembly on a repetitive schedule. This date is the first unit start date plus processing days.
lot based resource
A resource whose usage quantity is the amount required per job or schedule.
manual resource
A resource manually charged to a discrete job or repetitive schedule.
mass loading
An Oracle Manufacturing function to create one or more discrete jobs or repetitive schedules based on planned orders or schedules in your MRP or master production schedule.
mass rescheduling
An Oracle Manufacturing function where you can reschedule or change the status of one or more discrete jobs based on your planned reschedule recommendations in your MRP or MPS.
material requirement
An inventory item and quantity needed to build an assembly on a job or repetitive schedule. Discrete job and repetitive schedule material requirements are created based on the component items defined on the assembly's bill of materials. Issue transactions fulfill material requirements.
material transaction
Transfer between, issue from, receipt to, or adjustment to an inventory organization, subinventory, or locator. Receipt of completed assemblies into inventory from a job or repetitive schedule. Issue of component items from inventory to work in process.
midpoint scheduling
A scheduling technique where you specify an operation start or end date and Oracle Manufacturing automatically calculates production start and end dates.
move transaction
A transaction to move assemblies from operation to operation or within an operation on a discrete job or repetitive schedule.
MRP net quantity
The quantity planning views as supply coming from a discrete job on the scheduled completion date.
on hold job/schedule
A job or repetitive schedule not accepting further activity and is therefore untransactable.
operation
A step in a manufacturing process where you perform work on, add value to, and consume department resources for an assembly.
operation code
A label that identifies a standard operation.
operation completion pull transaction
A material transaction where you backflush components from inventory to work in process as you complete the operation where the component is consumed. For more information, see backflush transaction.
operation completion transaction
A move transaction from one operation to the next where you have completed building the assembly at that operation. In this process, you can also charge resources and overheads and backflush component items.
operation overlap scheduling
A scheduling technique that allows you to schedule resource activities in the prior and next operations to overlap with the current operation.
operation sequence
A number that orders operations in a routing relative to each other.
organization
A business unit such as a plant, warehouse, division, department, and so on. Order Entry refers to organizations as warehouses on all Order Entry windows and reports.
outside operation
An operation that contains outside resources and possibly internal resources as well.
outside processing
Performing work on a discrete job or repetitive schedule using resources provided by a supplier.
outside processing operation
Any operation that has an outside processing resource. See outside resource.
outside resource
A resource provided by a supplier you include in your routings, such as supplier sourced labor or services. This includes both PO move and PO receipt resources.
overload capacity
Number of resource units that are required but already committed.
pending
A status where a process or transaction is waiting to be completed.
planned order
A suggested quantity, release date, and due date that satisfies net item requirements. MRP owns planned orders, and may change or delete the orders during subsequent MRP processing if conditions change. MRP explodes planned orders at one level into gross requirements for components at the next lower level (dependent demand). Planned orders along with existing discrete jobs also serve as input to capacity requirements planning, describing the total capacity requirements throughout the planning horizon.
quantity completed
For an operation on a discrete job or repetitive schedule, the quantity of the assembly that you transacted beyond the Run intraoperation step. For a discrete job or repetitive schedule, the quantity of the assembly that you received into inventory.
quantity in operation
The quantity of an assembly in an operation on a discrete job or repetitive schedule. This includes the quantities in each of the intraoperation steps.
quantity on hand
Current quantity of an item in inventory.
quantity remaining
The quantity of an assembly remaining to be completed at an operation in a discrete job or repetitive schedule. This is the sum of the quantities in all intraoperation steps at all operations before the current operation, plus the quantities in the Queue and Run intraoperation steps at the current operation.
quantity required
The total quantity of a component item required to produce all the assemblies in a discrete job or repetitive schedule as determined by the usage quantity on the bill of materials, the production quantity, and the component yield.
queue
An intraoperation step in an operation where assemblies are waiting to be worked on. The default intraoperation step for every operation in a routing.
release date
The date when you release a discrete job or repetitive schedule to the shop floor signifying that work can begin and the discrete job or repetitive schedule becomes transactable.
released job/schedule
A discrete job or repetitive schedule that you have signified available to be worked on and transactable.
requested due date
The job due date. In Manufacturing Scheduling, you assign the requested due date in conjunction with the scheduling priority. The rescheduling engine uses this information to prioritize and reschedule all jobs or pending scheduling jobs.
required capacity
The amount of capacity required for a resource or production line.
reschedule
To modify the schedule of a discrete job. You can reschedule a discrete job by changing the start date, completion date, job quantity or any operation date on the routing. Planning can automatically reschedule jobs that are not firm based on planning requirement changes.
resource
Anything of value, except material and cash, required to manufacture, cost, and schedule products. Resources include people, tools, machines, labor purchased from a supplier, and physical space.
resource basis
The basis for resource usage quantity that indicates whether that quantity is required per item or per lot.
resource requirement
A resource and quantity needed to build an assembly on a job or repetitive schedule. Discrete job and repetitive schedule resource requirements are created based on the resource requirements specified on the assembly's routing. Resource transactions fulfill resource requirements.
resource sequence
The number that indicates the order of a resource in an operation relative to other resources.
run
An intraoperation step where you move assemblies that you are working on at an operation.
schedule group
An identifier used to group jobs for scheduling and releasing purposes. For example, you might group together all jobs that must be completed on a specific date and are being built on the same production line. Jobs within a schedule group can be sequenced.
scheduled resource
A resource on a routing that is scheduled by Work in Process.
scrap
An intraoperation step where you move assemblies that cannot be reworked or completed.
shift
A scheduled period of work for a department within an organization.
shop floor status
An Oracle Manufacturing function that lets you restrict movement of assemblies at an operation and intraoperation step within a discrete job or repetitive schedule.
standard operation
A commonly used operation you can define as a template for use in defining future routing operations.
start date
The date you plan to begin production of assemblies in a discrete job.
subassembly
An assembly used as a component in a higher level assembly.
subinventory
Subdivision of an organization, representing either a physical area or a logical grouping of items, such as a storeroom or receiving dock.
supplier
Provider of goods or services.
supply subinventory
The subinventory you use as a primary source of supply to meet a specific material requirement in a discrete job or repetitive schedule. In Release 9, this is the backflush subinventory for pull material or the primary issue subinventory for push material.
to move
An intraoperation step where assemblies can either be completed to a subinventory or wait to be moved to another operation.
transaction date
The date you enter and Oracle Manufacturing maintains for any manufacturing transaction. The date must fall within an open accounting period and be greater than the release date for transactions on a discrete job or repetitive schedule.
unit of measure
The unit that the quantity of an item is expressed.
unreleased job/schedule
A discrete job or repetitive schedule planned but not released for work to begin and not yet transactable.
UOM
See unit of measure
upstream dispatch
Used in conjunction with department or resource job filter criteria. Includes upstream jobs where there is quantity in an operation assigned to the selected department or resource.
usage rate
The amount of a resource consumed at an operation.
WIP accounting class
A set of accounts that you use to charge the production of an assembly. You assign accounting classes to discrete jobs and repetitive schedules. Each accounting class includes distribution accounts and variance accounts. Also used in cost reporting.
WIP move resource
A resource automatically charged to a discrete job or repetitive schedule by a move transaction. Resources are automatically charged when a forward move occurs, or uncharged when a backward move occurs.
work in process
An item in various phases of production in a manufacturing plant. This includes raw material awaiting processing up to final assemblies ready to be received into inventory.