Redwood: Assess Material Availability for Work Order Prioritization

Between material requirement planning and work order release for production execution, manufacturers typically confirm that the required materials are available and allocated to work orders. To reduce production delays caused by shortages, they need a systematic and flexible way to prioritize scarce materials to work orders.

You can now assess and allocate available materials to prioritize work orders for production release and execution using the Redwood user experience.

Using the Material Availability UI, you can:

• Configure Material Availability Rules: Identify the sorting rules for prioritizing work orders. You can also specify inclusion criteria to define the scope of work orders and exclusion criteria for non-critical materials and work orders with materials that cannot be unallocated.
• Review and Prioritize Work Orders: View a prioritized list of work orders after running a scheduled process to calculate the availability of critical materials based on the configuration rules. You can assess material availability as full, partial, or unavailable for each work order, factoring in recommended substitutes.
• Manage Material Shortages: Identify short or unavailable materials and the impacted work orders, and review expected supplies from all inventory sources.
• Adjust Material Assignments: Easily reassign material allocations across work orders, considering the configuration rules for enforcing critical materials to remain assigned. You can also exclude non-critical materials from availability calculations.
• Release or Hold Work Orders: Release work orders with all critical materials assigned and hold or delay work orders with outstanding shortages.

Configuration -Work Order Assignment Priority

Work Order Material Availability Assignments

Material Availability Actions

Work Order Material Availability Assignment Details

Materials View - Affected Work Orders

Proactive management of available materials for work orders streamlines manufacturing execution with fewer delays and better use of resources.

Steps to Enable and Configure

Follow these steps to use this feature:

1. Set up the Profile to enable the Redwood experience for material availability, as follows:

• In the Setup and Maintenance work area, search for and select the Manage Administrator Profile Values task.  
• On the Manage Administrator Profile Values page, search for and select the ORA_WIE_MATERIAL_AVAILABILITY_REDWOOD_ENABLED profile option code. 
• In the Profile Values section, set the Site level to Y or N. The default value of the profile option is Y. 
  • Y = Enables the feature.
  • N = Disables the feature.
• Click Save and Close. Changes in the profile value will affect users the next time they sign in.

Redwood Material Availability Rules and Assignments Enabled Profile

Tips And Considerations

• The two ADF tasks of ADF UI 'Material Availability Rules' and 'Material Availability Assignments' have been replaced in Redwood UI with one task 'Material Availability'. 'Configuration' and 'Assignments' are two tabs in the same UI.
• Priority sequence in Configuration is automatically generated by the application. You can 'Change Sequence' to edit the order.
• For a consistent user experience with work order management, you can also enable these Redwood pages:
  • Redwood: Create and Edit Work Orders Using a New User Experience in 25C
  • Redwood: Search and Perform Mass Actions for Work Orders Using a New User Experience in 25B
  • Redwood: Manage and Execute Production Using a New Home Experience in 25A

Key Resources

• Watch the Redwood: Assess Material Availability for Work Order Prioritization demo.
• Refer to the Work Order Material Availability Workbench topic in the documentation for more information about material availability rules and assignments.
• Refer to the Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM: Using Manufacturing guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.
• Refer to the Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM: Implementing Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.

Access Requirements

Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges and codes can access this feature:

• Manage Material Availability Rules and Assignments (WIP_MANAGE_MATERIAL_AVAIL_RULES_AND_ASSIGN_PRIV)

This privilege was available prior to this update.