Welcome to Release 12.2 of the Oracle Inventory Optimization Users Guide.
Welcome to the Oracle Inventory Optimization User's Guide, Release 12.
This guide assumes you have a working knowledge of the following:
The principles and customary practices of your business area.
Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning and Oracle Inventory Optimization
If you have never used Oracle Advanced Planning or Oracle Inventory Optimization, Oracle suggests you attend one or more of the Oracle Applications training classes available through Oracle University.
Oracle Self-Service Web Applications
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This chapter describes Oracle Inventory Optimization and its benefits. It also provides an overview of how Oracle Inventory Optimization works and its input and output data.
This chapter details various options that you can set for your inventory plan by using Oracle Inventory Optimization.
This chapter describes the key setups such as the target service levels and performance indicators that you need to specify before you run your inventory plan.
This chapter details how to view the output after you run an inventory plan.
This chapter describes the Analysis Workbench and how you can use it to analyze your inventory plans.
This chapter documents procedures for planning safety stock inventory.
This chapter details the integration between Oracle Inventory Optimization and Oracle Demand Planning.
Oracle Inventory Optimization shares business and setup information with other Oracle Applications products. Therefore, you may want to refer to other guides when you set up and use Oracle Inventory Optimization.
You can access other guides from the Oracle E-Business Suite Online Documentation Library CD that was included with your media pack:
Oracle E-Business Suite User's Guide
Oracle Advanced Planning Command Center User's Guide
Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning Implementation and User's Guide
Oracle Bills of Material User's Guide
Oracle Collaborative Planning Implementation and User's Guide
Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrade Guide: Release 11i to Release 12.1.1
Oracle E-Business Suite Installation Guide: Using Rapid Install
Oracle Global Order Promising Implementation and User's Guide
Oracle Inventory Optimization User's Guide
Oracle Inventory User's Guide
Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center Implementation Guide
Oracle Order Management Using Oracle Workflow in Oracle Order Management
Oracle Production Scheduling Implementation Guide
Oracle Project Manufacturing User's Guide
Oracle Project Manufacturing Implementation Guide
Oracle Purchasing User's Guide
Oracle Service Parts Planning Implementation and User's Guide
Oracle Shopfloor Management User's Guide
Oracle Strategic Network Optimization Implementation Guide
Oracle Work in Process User's Guide
Oracle Workflow User's Guide
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 Oracle 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.
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.