Welcome to Release 12.2 of the Oracle Flow Manufacturing User's Guide.
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This chapter will give you an overview of the features contained in Oracle Flow Manufacturing.
This chapter describes the processes involved in setting up Oracle Flow Manufacturing.
This chapter describes the steps to design Flow manufacturing lines.
This chapter describes the features of the Mixed Model Map Workbench, a graphical interface used to balance your production lines.
This chapter describes Flow sequencing, the process of determining when items are built on the production line to create Flow schedules.
This chapter describes Outbound Broadcast Sequencing—a process that enables the creation of replenishment signals on a Flow line where the supplier has special requirements, preferences, or conditions.
This chapter describes the Flow Execution Workstation—used to track the flow of shop floor work, view schedule and line operation information, and complete schedules.
This appendix contains examples of the calculations used to create flow schedules in the Line Scheduling Workbench.
This appendix provides information about the Flow Manufacturing client extensions.
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Oracle Bills of Material User's Guide
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Oracle Cost Management User's Guide
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Oracle General Ledger User's Guide
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Oracle Inventory User's Guide
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Oracle Order Management User's Guide
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Oracle Purchasing User's Guide
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Oracle Quality User's Guide
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Oracle Work in Process User's Guide
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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.