1. Using Inventory Management
  2. Overview of Item Replacement

Overview of Item Replacement

Item replacement is a unified solution across the Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement and Oracle Fusion Cloud Inventory Management applications.

When there are supply disruptions from external supply sources, you can replace the original item with a replacement item. Or you can choose an alternate supplier for the same item. Based on the nature of the supply disruption, the replacement can be either be temporary or permanent. For example, if the item is discontinued by the manufacturer, it’s a permanent replacement. When the supply is expected to be restored in future, it can be treated as a temporary replacement.

The alternate items are retrieved from the substitute relationship defined in Oracle Product Hub. The alternate source agreements are retrieved from the BPA defined in Oracle Purchasing.

In Oracle Procurement, a buyer can manage item replacement by creating replacement tasks or deleting item replacement tasks, initiate replacement, notify stakeholders, replace unfulfilled purchase orders in bulk, review errors that occurred during mass replacement, and reinstate the original item or supplier for temporary replacements.

In Oracle Inventory, you can:

  • Notify stakeholders on replacement in effect and help them initiate item replacement on the item subinventories, item locators, and item transaction defaults.
  • Perform mass updates on these inventory entities for an impacted organization or a group of impacted organizations. Updates include disabling the min-max or par replenishment planning for the disrupted item and creating new item subinventories, item locators, and item transaction defaults for the replacement item.
  • Manually define item subinventories, item locators, and item transaction defaults for the replacement item through a guided process.
  • Perform mass reinstatement on the inventory entities for temporary replacements once the supply is restored.

For more information about the actions that a buyer can take in Oracle Procurement, see Item Replacement in the Using Procurement guide.

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