Overview of Item Replacement

Item replacement is a unified solution across the Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement and Oracle Fusion Cloud Inventory Management applications.

When there are supply disruptions from external supply sources, you can replace the original item with a replacement item. Or you can choose an alternate supplier for the same item. Based on the nature of the supply disruption, the replacement can be permanent or temporary. For example, if the item is discontinued by the manufacturer, it’s a permanent replacement. When the supply is expected to be restored in future, it can be treated as a temporary replacement. You can replace items using the master item number or the manufacturer part number.

In Oracle Procurement, you can:

• Create replacement tasks when there are supply disruptions such as back order or recall.
• Review alternate options for each impacted organization and initiate replacement.
• Notify stakeholders about the replacement in effect and switch the replenishment attributes for the disrupted and replacement items. This helps planners and PAR counters to ensure that they don’t create any new replenishment requests for the disrupted item until supply is restored.
• Replace unfulfilled purchase orders in bulk with the selected alternate item or supply source.
• Review purchase orders that were impacted due to mass replacement or reinstatement.
• Review errors that occurred during mass replacement and reprocess the records.
• Delete an item replacement task.
• Make a temporary replacement permanent.
• Reinstate the original item or supplier for temporary replacements.

In this guide, you’ll find information about the actions that a buyer can take for item replacement in Oracle Procurement. For more information about the actions that a planner can take in Oracle Inventory Management, see Item Replacement in the Using Inventory Management guide.