How You Create and Manage Work Orders with Supplier Operations
To support outside processing, Oracle Manufacturing provides the ability to distinguish between work order operations that are processed in-house and those that are outsourced to suppliers through the Operation Type attribute.
The Operation Type attribute of an operation is set to Supplier to indicate that the attribute is processed by a supplier. You can create and manage all types of work orders with one or more supplier operations, define consecutive supplier operations, and maintain additional details for a supplier operation.
You can also import work orders with supplier operations using the predefined .xlsm template.
Work orders with supplier operations are scheduled using the unconstrained logic in Oracle Planning Central and Oracle Supply Planning taking into account the fixed and variable lead times maintained for the supplier operation.
The fixed and variable lead times specified for the supplier operation are also considered by Planning Central and Supply Planning while creating a planned order for an item that includes one or more supplier operations within its work definition. Additionally, the manufacturing lead time calculation program takes into account fixed and variable lead times maintained for the supplier operation.