Oracle Applications That Support Back-to-Back Fulfillment
There are several Oracle Fusion Cloud applications that support back-to-back fulfillment, however, some additional setup is required.
The following table lists those applications, a brief description of their importance in back-to-back fulfillment, and when you must perform additional setup for the applications. The supply flow columns indicate which applications support which flows, and the comments describe at a high-level the product-specific back-to-back setup that's required for the flows to work. For setup instructions, see Setting Up Back-to-Back Fulfillment: Roadmap.
Oracle Application |
Make Supply Flow |
Buy Supply Flow |
Transfer Supply Flow |
On-Hand Supply Flow |
Comments |
For More Information |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oracle Product Information Management |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
You must identify items for back-to-back orders. This is a mandatory first step in implementing back-to-back fulfillment. Depending on your supply demand needs, setup of additional applications might also be necessary. |
Enable Items for Back-to-Back Fulfillment: |
Oracle Global Order Promising |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
You must create available-to-promise (ATP) rules so that Global Order Promising can send scheduling information (when product can ship and where from) to Oracle Order Management. In addition, you must also set up sourcing rules so that Global Order Promising can send Supply Chain Orchestration buy, make, transfer and on hand recommendations for where to obtain supply to fulfill the sales order. |
How You Configure Global Order Promising to Support Back-to-Back Fulfillment |
Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Supply Chain Orchestration provides predefined back-to-back processes for all supply creation flows (buy, make, transfer, and on hand). |
Set Up Supply Chain Orchestration for Back-to-Back Fulfillment |
Oracle Fusion Cloud Manufacturing |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
For each item that will be fulfilled through back-to-back make flow, you must set up a work definition to describe the manufacturing process to build that item. This definition also allows automatic creation of the work order. |
How You Configure Manufacturing to Support Back-to-Back Fulfillment |
Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
By default, Procurement isn't configured for back-to-back fulfillment. However, you can set up Procurement to support back-to-back fulfillment to:
Also, if you want to automate purchase order creation, you must create blanket purchase agreements for your back-to-back order items. |
Enable Procurement to Support Back-to-Back Fulfillment How You Automate Purchase Order Creation for Back-to-Back Items Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement: Implementing Procurement guide |
Oracle Fusion Cloud Order Management |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
There's no setup required beyond the normal order-to-cash (OTC) setups. Order Management has predefined processes for back-to-back fulfillment that are automatically assigned. |
Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM: Implementing Order Management guide |
Oracle Fusion Cloud Inventory Management |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
There's no setup required for Inventory Management specific to back-to-back. However, this application plays an important role in back-to-back fulfillment. Inventory Management creates transfer orders for internal transfers and reserves supply against demand for all supply creation flows. |
Oracle Inventory Management documentation |