Project Costs in Supply Chain Flows

The Project-Driven Supply Chain solution integrates several products of Oracle Supply Chain and Oracle Project Management.

Here is an illustration that explains how the project-driven supply chain solution works.

Project-Driven Supply Chain begins with the creation of a project in Oracle Project Management. The integration of Oracle Project Management and Oracle Supply Chain enables supply chain products to support project attributes. Information such as project numbers and project cost attributes are available in the supply chain products to execute activities in the context of a project.

Project Number and Task Number are added as inventory attributes. These are used to segregate and value the inventory, and support project-specific transactions that are based on rules in the Inventory, Shipping, and Receiving applications.

Project attributes are also added to supply chain execution documents such as purchase requisition, purchase order, sales order, manufacturing work order, and maintenance order. The processes driven by these execution documents are also enhanced with project-specific business rules. Life cycle of these project-specific execution documents follows the business rules that are defined for the project. Any transactions associated with these documents that create a commitment or actual cost to the project are captured with project attributes to ensure that these costs are posted as expenditures to the project.