How You Disable Inventory Lots

On the Manage Lots page you can disable inventory lots, enable inventory lots, and search disabled lots. Disabling inventory lots improves transaction processing time because you can reuse disabled lots for other items.

Once you disable a lot for an item, you can't use the lot for performing transactions in Oracle Fusion Cloud Inventory Management or Oracle Fusion Cloud Manufacturing, but you can search and view the lot's transaction history. You can enable a disabled lot if you disabled it by mistake.

Disable an Inventory Lot

On the Manage Lots page, search for and select the lot that you want to disable. Select Disable Lot from the Actions menu. You can disable inventory lots for lot-controlled items only.

Validations take place before you can disable the lot. For example, you can't disable an item and lot combination if it's present in multiple inventory organizations, has open in-transit shipments, has material shipped using sales order and transfer orders or drop-ship sales orders, or exists as an active asset.

Also, you can disable a lot only when there's no on-hand balance and no:

• Pending inventory transactions

• Cycle count sequences

• Physical inventory adjustments

• Inventory balance transactions

• Recall count transactions

• Shipment lines

• Pending receiving transactions

• Open ASNs

• Receipt awaiting put away

• Not referenced RMA receipts

• Open picks

• Movement request lines

• Not referenced supplier receipts

Search for Disabled Lots

You can search for disabled lots on the Manage Lots page by selecting the Show disabled lots only check box. To view disabled lots in the Search Results section of the page, enable the Disabled column by selecting the field from the View menu. Use View > Columns > Disabled.

E-Signatures, E-Records, and Auditing for Disabled Lots

When you initiate the disable lot action for an inventory organization requiring E-Signatures and E-Records, the lot details require approval before the lot can be disabled. E-Signature and E-Records show the disabled lot attribute. You can also configure the disabled attribute (LotItemDisableFlag) in audit functionality to track for data changes on the new attribute on the lot business object.

Important Notes

Here are a few important notes about disabling lots:

• You can only disable inventory lots for lot-controlled items. You can't disable lots for items that are both lot and serial number-controlled.

• You can only disable one lot at a time using the Manage Lots page.

• Parent lot functionality isn't impacted by disabling a lot. You can disable a parent lot independent of the child lot, and you can disable a child lot independent of the parent lot.

• Inventory Management transactions don't accept disabled item-lot combinations.

• You can't use disabled lots in manufacturing transactions.

• The Warehouse Manager job role has the ability to disable lots by default. For other users, you must assign the functional privilege Disable or Enable Item Lot (INV_DISABLE_OR_ENABLE_ITEM_LOT) before they can disable or enable a lot.