The Oracle Warehouse Management System (WMS) is an integral part of the Oracle E-Business Suite comprised of transaction source systems, like Oracle Purchasing and Oracle Order Management, and execution systems, like WMS, residing and operating within the same instance. This integrated solution eliminates the need for reference and transaction data integrations which are typically required when WMS is implemented as a "bolted-on" solution (that is, installed independent from the E-Business Suite).
However, when a business is required to implement Oracle EBS WMS outside the framework of the Oracle E-Business solution, Oracle Warehouse Management provides a distributed deployment option that supports all the routine warehouse and inventory functions currently available in the Oracle E-Business suite. This solution enables WMS to be independent from the enterprise resource planning (ERP) instance while still capable of serving multiple independent warehouses or organizations.
The following list describes the main features of the Distributed WMS solution:
Distributed WMS can integrate with any host system including legacy systems, other ERP systems like SAP, or another Oracle ERP system.
Distributed system is an independent WMS solution with minimal setup requirements. It supports all the routine warehouse and inventory functions currently available in the E-Business suite.
Distributed system is a pure execution system without any costing or accounting implications of material transactions. The financial implications of the transactions are maintained in the host system.
The distributed system executes the transactions and sends the confirmations back to the host system.
Any change management supported for the transaction documents like sales orders and purchase orders in the E-Business Suite is supported in the Distributed WMS system.
Distributed WMS solution provides a view from which the host system can pull the current on-hand inventory snapshots or adjustments when needed.
The profile option WMS: Deployment Mode identifies the instance as distributed.
For detailed information about setting up and using the Oracle Distributed Warehouse Management System, see the following documents available on My Oracle Support:
Oracle Distributed Warehouse Management System (Architecture and Solution Overview)
Oracle Distributed Warehouse Management System (Setup Document)
Oracle Distributed Warehouse Management System (Technical Implementation)
Oracle Distributed Warehouse Management System (Integration)
Oracle Distributed Warehouse Management System Post Patch Application Steps
EBS 11i10 to Distributed WMS Integration paper
This section provides tips on handling situations involved when running the Oracle Data Integrator (ODI):
| Issue | Description |
|---|---|
| Transaction type appears corrupted after Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is synchronized from the Oracle Distributed Warehouse Management System to the host environment: the transaction type is changed to Accounted transactions instead of Misc Txns (miscellaneous transactions). | Not an error. After the ODI mapping INV Txn Interface completes normally, and the records are inserted into the host instance, the system identifies the miscellaneous receipt as an alias receipt so that user-defined transaction types can be accommodated too. |
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For technical briefs and documents, see My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 821294.1, Distributed Warehouse Management System.