Rework and Transform Work Orders

Rework and transform work orders are collected during the data collections process and they are shown as nonstandard work orders in Planning Central, Supply Planning, and Demand and Supply Planning work areas.

You create rework work orders in Oracle Manufacturing to perform rework activities on items that have issues or defects. The objective of rework is to make those items usable to satisfy customer demand.

You create transform work orders in Oracle Manufacturing to enhance or upgrade existing items by adding or removing selective components from existing items. The objective of transform work orders is to transform the existing item into a new item.

The rework and transform activities can result in the removal of components from the item being reworked or transformed. You can use the removed components to satisfy future demands. Data collection collects the removed components and you can search for the removed components when you select the order type as nonstandard work order by-product in the Supplies and Demands table. The data collection process filters out all work order demands for an item, when the item itself is manufactured by the rework work order.

The planning process considers all nonstandard work orders as firm orders. Like other firm orders, nonstandard work orders will be included in the calculation of the natural time fence for an item.