One of your ideas has been delivered from your suggestion.Redwood: Use Improved Logic for Goods in RFID-Enabled Cabinets

When you store high-value items that require perpetual tracking in a radio frequency identification (RFID)-enabled cabinet to automate goods transactions, you expect the on-hand quantity at those locations to be accurate. Previously, each time an RFID-tagged item was placed in the cabinet, the on-hand quantity increased, even if it was the first time that specific item and tag combination was put into the cabinet. This initial placement typically occurs when the item is being replenished. However, inventory transactions such as receipts or subinventory transfers already account for the item’s initial on-hand quantity as part of the replenishment flow, so this additional increment could result in inaccurate double counting. Now, when an item and tag combination enters an RFID cabinet for the first time, no on-hand quantity increase transaction occurs. Instead, the combination is simply recorded, and the quantity is only increased if the item is subsequently returned to the cabinet after being removed.

How It Works

Each RFID tag now maintains a Usage status that determines whether inventory transactions are triggered by RFID events in an RFID-enabled cabinet.

Usage Status Lifecycle

  • When an RFID mapping is created, the Usage status is Defined
  • An RFID Add event updates the status to In use
  • An RFID Remove event updates the status to Issued

Tag Mapping

Tag Mapping

When an RFID Add event changes the tag status from Defined to In use, the associated process type isn’t executed. As a result, no inventory transaction is triggered during the item’s initial placement into the cabinet.

Example Scenario

In this example, RFID Add events are configured to create miscellaneous receipts, and RFID Remove events are configured to create miscellaneous issues.

Initial Move to Cabinet

  1. The item is moved into the cabinet using a replenishment transaction (movement request)
  2. On-hand quantity is increased by the transaction
  3. An RFID Add event occurs
  4. The Usage status is updated to In use
  5. No miscellaneous receipt is created because the prior Usage status was Defined

Item Removed from Cabinet

  1. An RFID Remove event occurs
  2. A miscellaneous issue transaction is created
  3. The Usage status is updated to Issued

Item Returned to Cabinet

  1. An RFID Add event occurs
  2. A miscellaneous receipt transaction is now created because the prior Usage status was Issued
  3. The Usage status is updated to In use

Restore Consigned Ownership on Return

The feature also enhances how consigned inventory is handled in RFID-enabled cabinets. When a consigned item is removed from a cabinet and later returned, the item isn't actually consumed. Previously, the RFID Remove event triggered a miscellaneous issue that implicitly converted the material from consigned to owned inventory. When the item was later placed back into the cabinet, the RFID Add event created a miscellaneous receipt, but the material remained owned and was not restored to consigned ownership.

With this update, when consigned material is removed from an RFID-enabled cabinet and later returned, the system automatically restores the item to consigned ownership. When an item is removed, the miscellaneous issue transaction identifier is recorded on the RFID tag mapping. If the item is subsequently returned, the RFID Add event that triggers the miscellaneous receipt checks whether the prior issue included an ownership transfer and, if so, restores the material back to consigned ownership.

This feature reduces the risk of physical stockouts by ensuring the on-hand quantity tracked in your RFID cabinets is accurate.

Steps to enable and configure

Refer to the What’s New documentation for the 24D feature, Replenish Locations Using Radio Frequency Identification, for details about the setup required to enable RFID-enabled cabinets in Inventory.

Tips and considerations

  • If you reuse RFID tags that were previously associated with material that has been issued out, you can use the Reset Usage Status action on the RFID tag mapping to reset the status from Issued to Defined, allowing the tag to be reassigned to new material.
  • RFID tag information is displayed on the Completed Inventory Transactions and Pending Inventory Transactions Redwood pages.

Key resources

  • Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM: Using Inventory Management guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.
  • 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 duty roles can access this feature:

  • Map RFID Tags Using Responsive Inventory Duty (ORA_INV_MAP_RFID_TAGS_PWA_DUTY)
  • Monitor RFID Events Using Responsive Inventory Duty (ORA_INV_MONITOR_RFID_EVENTS_PWA_DUTY)
  • Process Inventory RFID Events Duty (ORA_INV_PROCESS_INVENTORY_RFID_EVENTS_DUTY)

These duty roles were available prior to this update.