A quote status indicating that the customer has accepted the quote terms.
API
Application Programming Interface
ATO
Assemble to Order. 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. An item you make in response to a customer order.
baseline configuration
The existing configuration, used as the basis for computing a new configuration. Generally, the baseline configuration is the latest booked, provisioned, or installed configuration revision. When updating a configured item, you must reconfigure from this baseline. You can update the baseline to meet your new needs.
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.
BOM
See bill of material.
BOM item
The node imported into Oracle Configurator Developer that corresponds to an Oracle Bills of Material item. Can be a BOM Model, BOM Option Class node, or BOM Standard Item node.
BOM Model
A Model that you import from Oracle Bills of Material into Oracle Configurator Developer. When you import a BOM Model, effective dates, ATO rules, and other data are also imported into Configurator Developer. In Configurator Developer, you can extend the structure of the BOM Model, but you cannot modify the BOM Model itself or any of its attributes.
BOM Model node
The imported node in Oracle Configurator Developer that corresponds to a BOM Model created in Oracle Bills of Material.
BOM Option Class node
The imported node in Oracle Configurator Developer that corresponds to a BOM Option Class created in Oracle Bills of Material.
BOM Standard Item node
The imported node in Oracle Configurator Developer that corresponds to a BOM Standard Item created in Oracle Bills of Material.
category
Code used to group items with similar characteristics, such as plastics, metals, or glass items.
CIO
See Oracle Configuration Interface Object (CIO).
Component item
An item associated with a parent item on a bill of material.
concurrent manager
Components of your applications concurrent processing facility that monitor and run time–consuming tasks for you without tying up your terminal. Whenever you submit a request, such as running a report, a concurrent manager does the work for you, letting you perform many tasks simultaneously.
concurrent process
A task in the process of completing. Each time you submit a task, you create a new concurrent process. A concurrent process runs simultaneously with other concurrent processes (and other activities on your computer) to help you complete multiple tasks at once with no interruptions to your terminal.
concurrent processing facility
An Oracle Applications facility that runs time-consuming, non-interactive tasks in the background.
concurrent program
Executable code (usually written in SQL*Plus or Pro*C) that performs the functions of a requested task. Concurrent programs are stored procedures that perform actions such as generating reports and copying data to and from a database.
concurrent request
A user-initiated request issued to the concurrent processing facility to submit a non-interactive task, such as running a report.
configurable item
A base Model item that a user can configure by adding Components.
configuration
A specific set of specifications for a product, resulting from selections that a user made in Oracle Configurator. See also: partial configuration.
configuration attribute
A characteristic of an item that is defined in the host application (outside of its inventory of items), in the Model, or captured during a configuration session. Configuration attributes are inputs from or outputs to the host application at initialization and termination of the configuration session, respectively.
Configuration Interface Object
See Oracle Configuration Interface Object (CIO).
configuration Model
Represents all possible configurations of the available options, and consists of Model structure and rules. It also commonly includes User Interface definitions and Configurator Extensions. A configuration Model is usually accessed in a runtime Oracle Configurator window.
configuration session
The time from launching or invoking to exiting Oracle Configurator, during which end users make selections to configure an orderable product. A configuration session is limited to one configuration Model that is loaded when the session is initialized.
configurator
The part of an application that provides custom configuration capabilities. Commonly, a window that can be launched from a hosting application so end users can make selections resulting in valid configurations.
Configurator Extension
An extension to the configuration model beyond what you can implement in Oracle Configurator Developer.A type of configuration rule that associates a Model node, a Java class, and an event binding so that the rule operates when an event occurs during a configuration session.A Java class that provides methods that can be used to perform configuration actions.Configurator Extensions have replaced Functional Companions.
connected-to relationships
Models network connections and shows the service configuration. You can view the connected-to relationships of a configured instance from Oracle Install Base. If you define items in Oracle Inventory as link items, you can then use Oracle Install Base to show the start and end locations of the link. The locations for the link instance are the geographic addresses of the instance items.
Connector
The node in the Model structure that enables an end user at runtime to connect the Connector node's parent to a referenced Model.
Container Model
Also called network Container Model. A pick-to-order bill of material (BOM) Model that you import from Oracle Bills of Material into Oracle Configurator Developer which supports multiple instantiation reconfiguration and active and passive Components from Oracle Install Base. This item is not tracked in Install Base.
CTO
Configure to Order
delta
The difference between the new and the baseline configuration.
discontinued item
A discontinued item is one that exists in an installed configuration of a component (as recorded in Oracle Install Base), but has been removed from the instance of the component being reconfigured, either by deletion or by deselection.
Drafted
A quote status indicating that the quote is in the initial phase.
Entered
A quote status indicating that the quote has been successfully submitted as an order in Oracle Order Management. You can modify orders with this status in Oracle Order Management.
equipment
Any tangible item.
fulfillment
Fulfilled sales order lines have successfully completed all Workflow processing activities up to the point of becoming eligible for invoicing.
Functional Companion
An extension to the configuration Model beyond what you can implement in Configurator Developer.An object associated with a Component that supplies methods that you can use to initialize, validate, and generate customer-centric views and outputs for the configuration.Functional Companions have been replaced by Configurator Extensions.
ICX
Inter-Cartridge Exchange
installed base/install base
The sum total of all products that a company has responsibility to provide service for at customer sites.
instance
A single representation of an item in a configuration. Actual record of a provisioned product. See also: instantiate. Also, the memory and processes of a database.
instance name
A method of capturing additional information about a product or instance. An instance name can be either automatically generated or manually assigned during a configuration session.
instantiate
To create an instance of something. Commonly, to create an instance of a Component in the runtime user interface of a configuration Model. See also: multiple instantiation.
item
Anything you make, purchase, or sell, including Components, subassemblies, finished products, supplies, or services. Oracle Manufacturing also uses items to represent planning items that you can forecast, standard lines that you can include on invoices, and Option Classes you can use to group options in Model and Option Class bills.
item attributes
Specific characteristics of an item, such as order cost, item status, revision control, account, and so on.
kit item
A Model defined in Oracle Inventory for the purposes of bundling pre-defined set of items in Oracle Bills Of Material (BOM). At the time of placing an order, a kit does not provide the ability to choose items within it.
location
A point in geographical space that a street address describes. Also, a shorthand name for an address. Location appears in address lists of values to let you choose the correct address based on an intuitive name. For example, you can specify the location name of Receiving Dock to the Ship To business purpose of 100 Main Street.
kit
A BOM Standard Item that has other required BOM Standard Items included in it.
LOV
A list of values in a text field, from which the user must choose.
MACD
An acronym for the following actions: move, add, change, and disconnect. The Oracle Telecommunications Service Ordering solution enables these actions for a customer's telecommunications services.
multiple instantiation
The ability to configure a child Model or Component of a top-level Model multiple times during the same configuration session. The child Model appears in the bill of materials only once, but you can individually configure it as many times as needed while running Oracle Configurator.
network Model
Refer to the Container Model definition.
notifications (notification id)
Notifications are instances of messages which some role receives. The message includes a row that shows status flags to record the state of the notification, date fields for when the notification was sent, due, and responded to. A new row appears in the Notifications table each time a role receives a message. The row persists even after the notification has been responded to, until a purge operation moves to close notifications to an archive.
one-time charge
A charge that a customer pays only one time. Examples include installation fees, activation fees, and change fees.
Oracle Configuration Interface Object (CIO)
A server in the runtime application that creates and manages the interface between the client and the underlying representation of Oracle Configurator Model structure and rules in the generated logic.The CIO is the API that supports creating and navigating the Model, querying and modifying selection states, and saving and restoring configurations.
partial configuration
The ability to modify part of an existing configuration without launching the entire configuration in Oracle Configurator.
pick-to-order (PTO)
A configure-to-order environment where the options and included items in a Model appear on pick slips and order pickers gather the options when they ship the order. Alternative to manufacturing the parent item on a work order and shipping it. Pick-to-order is also an item attribute that you can apply to standard, Model, and Option Class items.
pick-to-order (PTO) item
A previously defined configuration order that pickers gather as separately finished included items just before they ship the order.
pick-to-order (PTO) Model
An item with an associated bill of material with optional and included items. At order entry, the configurator is used to choose the optional items to include for the order. The order picker gets a detailed list of the chosen options and included items to gather as separately finished items just before order shipment.
provisioning or provisionable
When Oracle Order Management passes the sales order information on to Oracle Service Fulfillment Manager for provisioning. Provisioning involves capturing an order request, validating the order, analyzing the order, fulfilling the order, completing the order, and if necessary, managing order fallout. When you provision the order, Oracle Install Base receives the reconfigured item information and the sales order is complete.
quote
A collection of items with pricing that a sales representative with a Sales Representative role creates on behalf of a customer in Oracle Quoting.
quote status
The quote status indicates the stage of preparation that a quote is in. Possible quote statuses include drafted, bid, accepted, entered, ordered, order problem, order reviewed, lost, and inactive.
reconfigure
Make changes to a configured Model that a customer has already purchased.
recurring charge
A charge that the customer pays periodically (such as per month, quarter, or year) like a subscription fee.
RMA
Return Material Authorization
SFM
Oracle Service Fulfillment Manager (SFM) provisions the telecommunication services that the customer ordered. See also: provisioning or provisionable.
standard item
An item defined in Oracle Inventory that does not have any components defined in the bill of material (BOM).
tangible item
Any physical BOM Standard Item or Kit that is shippable, inventory transactable and serializable. ATO standard items cannot be tangible items.
TSO
An acronym for the Oracle Telecommunications Service Ordering solution.
tangible item
An item that is Transactable and Shippable. (In the Item definition, these are flagged as Inventory transactable and Shippable).
update
A change to an installed configuration of a Container Model, made in the context of the Telecommunications Services Ordering solution. This document replaces the term with reconfigure. See also: upgrade.
upgrade
In the parlance of the telecommunications service industry, the reconfiguration of a service by moving, adding, changing, or disconnecting items. This document replaces the term with reconfigure. See also: update.
WIP (Work in Progress)
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.
Workflow
This determines the header flow for an order transaction type or line flows possible for a line transaction type. There can be only one header flow associated with an order transaction type but a line transaction type can be coupled with different order types and item types and there can be different flow couplings for the permitted transaction type and item type combinations.