How You Configure Manufacturing to Support Back-to-Back Fulfillment
This topic provides supporting documentation for a step in the Setting Up Back-to-Back Fulfillment roadmap. Depending on your business needs, you might need to configure Oracle Fusion Cloud Manufacturing for back-to-back fulfillment.
Oracle Manufacturing doesn't require setup that's specific to back-to-back manufacturing of standard or configured items. However, for Oracle Global Order Promising to recommend a back-to-back make supply source, work definitions must be defined in Manufacturing and collected by Oracle Planning. Therefore, for any item that's designated as a candidate for a back-to-back make flow, you must create work definitions and setup operations that constitute the work definition. The work definition also provides automatic creation of the work order. You configure these settings using the Work Definition task list in the Manufacturing application.
Make sure to select the Used in Planning check box in the Work Definitions Names task when creating new work definitions names for back-to-back items. This enables Oracle Planning Central to plan back-to-back item components and resources.
Back-to-back flow is currently supported for only discrete manufacturing. You only need to create new work definition names if no applicable names have been defined. For information about creating new work definitions, see the Implementing Manufacturing chapter in this guide.