Set Postprocessing Lead Times

Postprocessing lead time is the time that your factory needs to do work after it finishes processing the item, such as doing quality control, preparing the item for shipping, and so on. You can specify this lead time.

1. Go to the Product Information Management work area, open your item for editing, click Specifications > Planning, then enter a value in the Postprocessing Days attribute.
2. Set the Make or Buy attribute on your item in the Product Information Management work area to Make, or create a local sourcing rule and set its Type attribute to Make At.
3. Set the mode on the ATP rule that you use to promise the item to Supply Chain Search, and enable the Search Components and Resources option on the rule.

Description

Postprocessing lead time affects the due date on each work order and the schedule date for an item that you manufacture.

Postprocessing lead time is different depending on what you're assembling.

What You're Assembling	Description
Item	The time between when you finish assembling the item and when its available in inventory.
Subassembly	The time between when you finish assembling the subassembly and when its available to use when assembling the item.

Here's how Promising applies a postprocessing lead time.

What You're Promising	Description
Item	Determines the production completion date, and then uses the postprocessing lead time to determine the scheduled ship date.
Item in a back-to-back flow	Determines the dock date, then sends it to Supply Chain Orchestration so Orchestration can create the work order.
Work order	Considers the supply that's available on the due date. The due date includes the postprocessing lead time.
On-hand supply	Doesn't apply a postprocessing lead time. It assumes supply is available as soon as Oracle Inventory Management receives it.
Planned order for an item that you manufacture	Assumes supply is available on the planned order's due date.

Example

Assume item x has these lead times:

• Fixed lead time is 1 day
• Variable lead time is 0.1 day
• Postprocessing lead time is 3 days

Assume:

• You manufacture the item in Organization 1.
• The order quantity is 10 units.
• The requested date is Day 10.
• The manufacturing components and resources that you need to build the item are available.

Here's how Promising calculates the dates:

What Promising Calculates	Equation
Production Duration	Fixed lead time plus the variable lead time, multiplied by the order quantity
Dock Date	Scheduled shipment date plus the postprocessing lead time
Production Start Date	Dock date minus the production duration

For example:

Calendar Constraints	Requested Date	Production Duration	Due Date	Dock Date	Production
None	Day 10	1+ (0.1 * 10) = 2 days	Day 10	Day7	Day5
Five work days a week. Saturday and Sunday are nonworking days.	Day 10	1+ (0.1 * 10) = 2 days	Day10 (Monday)	Day 5 (Wednesday)	Day3 (Monday)

Add Postprocessing Days When You Modify Ship Dates

You can automatically add postprocessing days to the supply's requested delivery date when you modify the sales order's scheduled ship date. You can use this feature to help you meet that ship date in your back-to-back flow.

Try it:

1. Make sure you have these privileges.
   • Process Supply Order Interface (DOS_PROCESS_SUPPLY_ORDER_INTERFACE_PRIV)
   • View Supply Orders (DOS_VIEW_SUPPLY_ORDERS_PRIV)
   • Manage Supply Request Exceptions (DOS_MANAGE_SUPPLY_REQUEST_EXCEPTIONS_PRIV)
   • View Supply Order Exceptions and Status (DOS_VIEW_SUPPLY_ORDER_EXCEPTIONS_AND_STATUS_PRIV)
2. Go to the Setup and Maintenance work area, select the Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management offering, then enable the Add Postprocessing Days When You Modify Ship Dates in Your Back-to-Back Flows opt-in feature.
3. Go to the Order Management work area, then create and submit a sales order.
4. Revise the sales order, update the sales order's scheduled ship date, then submit the revision.

Here’s what happens next:

1. Oracle Global Order Promising calculates the scheduled ship date and updates the sales order. Promising adds the postprocessing days to the scheduled ship date because the shipping warehouse will need them when the item arrives at the warehouse.
2. Oracle Order Management sends the update on the requested delivery date to Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration. The requested delivery date includes the postprocessing days.
3. Promising subtracts the postprocessing days from the scheduled ship date to calculate the recommended requested delivery date that it sends to Supply Chain Orchestration so Supply Chain Orchestration can make the supply available in the warehouse.

   The warehouse manager can then do the postprocessing activities before shipping the item to the customer. For example, if the scheduled ship date is November 30, and if the postprocessing days is 5, then Promising will recommend November 25 as the requested delivery date.

4. Supply Chain Orchestration picks the requested delivery date from Global Order Promising's recommendation, then sends an update to your downstream application, such as Oracle Manufacturing.