Set Up Back-to-Back Fulfillment

Learn how to set up an Oracle application so it supports your back-to-back fulfillment.

You can set up back-to-back so it works with your predefined standard or drop ship fulfillment flows.

Here's a summary to help you get started.

Set Up	Details
Enable your item for back-to-back fulfillment. This is a required step.	Enable Your Item for Back-to-Back Fulfillment
If you want to build the item, then you must set up a sourcing rule in Oracle Global Order Promising so your factory can use a make recommendation.	Set Up Promising to Support Your Back-to-Back Flow
If you want to make a standard item or an assemble-to-order (ATO) item, then you must create a work definition for it Oracle Manufacturing. The work definition provides the operation, resource, and component details that Manufacturing needs to create the work order. You must enable the Used in Planning option on the work definition.	How You Configure Manufacturing to Support Back-to-Back Fulfillment How You Set Up Manufacturing
If you want to use a purchase order instead of a transfer order to fulfill the back-to-back sales order, then you must do some set up in Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration. Global Order Promising sends a transfer recommendation to Supply Chain Orchestration, then Supply Chain Orchestration creates a transfer order. As an option, you can set up a rule that specifies to use a purchase order instead of a transfer order. For example, you might have a financial incentive to use a purchase order.	Set Up Supply Chain Orchestration for Back-to-Back Fulfillment
If you want to use a buy recommendation, or if you want to use a purchase order with an internal material transfer, then you must enable the Customer Sales Order Fulfillment feature in the Procurement offering.	Enable Procurement to Support Back-to-Back Fulfillment
If you want your flow to automatically create a purchase order, then you must set up Oracle Procurement so it can create a blanket purchase agreement for each item in your back-to-back flow.	How You Automate Purchase Order Creation for Back-to-Back Items
If you want to outsource your manufacturing process, then you must set up contract manufacturing.	How You Configure Manufacturing to Support Back-to-Back Fulfillment Overview of Contract Manufacturing

How Order Management Orchestration Works in Back-to-Back Fulfillment

You don't need to do any special set up for Oracle Order Management. Order Management comes predefined with the DOO_OrderFulfillmentGenericProcess orchestration process to fulfill a back-to-back item.

Order Management orchestrates three different types (branches) for the standard, back-to-back, and drop ship shipment flows. The back-to-back branch in Order Management is selected after the sales order line is scheduled for shipment from a warehouse. If the scheduled warehouse has the indicator Enable Back-to-Back Fulfillment set to Yes for the ordered item (enabled in Product Model), Order Management automatically routes the order line to the back-to-back process branch. For more information on setting this attribute, see Enabling Items for Back-to-Back Fulfillment: Procedure.

In the back-to-back process branch, Order Management sends the item to Supply Chain Orchestration. Then, Order Management sends the item, quantity, and ship-from warehouse information to Supply Chain Orchestration so that Supply Chain Orchestration can make sure there's ample supply available in that warehouse by the scheduled ship date. Order Management, in turn, receives supply status updates from Supply Chain Orchestration (appears in the Supply Details tab).

For more information about Order Management orchestration and the shipment fulfillment flows, see Supply Chain Management Cloud, Implementing Order Management guide.