Available Item Synchronization from Inventory Management to Oracle Fusion Field Service

The Inventory Management orchestrates the end-to-end physical transactions of materials within Oracle Supply Chain Management.

As part of the Inventory Management integration flow, the accelerator can sync the available inventory items (available to transact quantities) required for processing the work order from the Inventory Management system to Oracle Fusion Field Service. These items are stored in the resource inventory pool in Oracle Fusion Field Service.

• In Inventory Management, storage facilities, warehouses, and distribution centers are implemented as inventory organizations, and subinventory is a section of inventory where items are physically stocked. The accelerator synchronizes the organization or subinventory as resources within Oracle Fusion Field Service.
• The accelerator updates the available (On Hand Available to Transact) quantities from Inventory Management and stores it in the resource inventory pool. The resource in Oracle Field Service can be of role Warehouse, Vehicle, or Bucket.
• Serialized items are updated with the Serial Numbers in the resource inventory.
• Non-serialized items are updated with the quantities within the resource inventory.
• The item quantities in the Inventory Management system can be defined at the organization, subinventory, or locator level. After updating the quantities in Oracle Fusion Field Service, mobile workers can view the quantities at the organization, subinventory, or locator level through the resource inventory pool.
• Inventory item synchronization is a scheduled integration that updates the items in bulk to Oracle Fusion Field Service.
• Inventory items deleted from the inventory management system are also removed from the Oracle Fusion Field Service resource pool.
• A new inventory property, "Inventory_identifier", is available as the model property for the inventory. The value of this property is a concatenation of subinventory, locator, and item names for non-serialized inventory types.

Sometimes, you may not need to sync all the inventory organizations or subinventories to Oracle Fusion Field Service. For example, you can keep an organization or subinventory for storing returned items. Items from this organization or subinventory may not be required in the resource pool in Oracle Fusion Field Service. You can configure the organizations and subinventories to be synced with Oracle Fusion Field Service as part of the accelerator setup configuration, as shown in ORCL-BRT-INV-OFS-CONFIG Lookup topic.