Purge of Aged End of Year Inventory Positions (nwp_purge_job)

Module Name	nwp_purge_job
Description	Purge of Aged End of Year Inventory Positions
Functional Area	Stock Ledger
Module Type	Admin - Ad hoc
Module Technology	Background Processing
Catalog ID	N/A
Wrapper Script	b8dwrap.ksh

Schedule

Oracle Retail Merchandising Batch Schedule

Design Overview

This background job is composed of two steps processing. It will have a threading assignment and a business logic processing.

Thread assignment program will filter eligible records from year-end inventory position table based on its purge criteria from system parameter settings. The NWP Retention Period parameter will determine certain amount of years have passed for NWP records before purging. These records are chunked and Thread ID is assigned for each. They will be stored temporarily in a staging table.

The Business logic program will process all records from the staging table. Using bulk processing, this program will delete the records from year-end inventory position table. It will free up and clean the staging table afterwards. There is a STOP ON NEXT feature in bulk processing (through a loop) where Administrators can stop this batch with a flip of this indicator.

Restart/Recovery

N/A

Key Tables Affected

Table 17-1 Key Tables Affected

Table	Select	Insert	Update	Delete
PERIOD	Yes	No	No	No
SYSTEM_OPTIONS	Yes	No	No	No
RMS_BATCH_STATUS	Yes	No	No	No
B8D_PROCESS_CONFIG	Yes	No	No	No
JOB_AUDIT_LOGS	No	Yes	No	No
B8D_NWP_PURGE_STG	Ys	Yes	No	Yes
NWP	Yes	No	No	Yes

Design Assumptions

• NWP refers to 'Niederstwertprinzip' and is a legal German accounting financial inventory reporting requirement for calculating year-end inventory position based on the last receipt cost.

• The NWP Indicator system parameter supports this German specific inventory reporting requirement. For German customers, this needs to be 'Y' to allow for the annual NWP calculations & processes.

• This is not relevant for customers outside Germany.