12 Inventory

Most inventory processes in Merchandising are performed via the UI and near real time RIB integrations. However, some inventory related batch processes exist to manage inventory data.

Program Summary

The following batch designs are included in this chapter:

• Adjust Inventory for Wastage Items (wasteadj)

• Purge Aged Customer Orders (customer_order_purge.ksh)

• Purge Aged Customer Orders (customer_orders_purge_job) - background job

• Purge Aged Inventory Adjustments (inv_adj_purge_job) - background job

• Purge Aged Inventory Adjustments (invaprg)

• Refresh End of Day Inventory Snapshot (refeodinventory)

Adjust Inventory for Wastage Items (wasteadj)

Module Name	wasteadj.pc
Description	Adjust Inventory for Wastage Items
Functional Area	Inventory
Module Type	Business Processing
Module Technology	ProC
Catalog ID	RMS388
Wrapper Script	rmswrap_multi.ksh

Schedule

Oracle Retail Merchandising Batch Schedule

Design Overview

This program reduces inventory of spoilage type wastage items to account for natural wastage that occurs over the shelf life of the product. This program affects only items with spoilage type wastage identified on ITEM_MASTER with a waste_type of ‘SP' (spoilage). Sales type wastage is accounted for at the time of sale.

This program should be scheduled to run prior to the stock count and stock ledger batch to ensure that the stock adjustment taken during the current day is credited to the appropriate day.

Restart/Recovery

The logical unit of work is an item/location. This batch program commits when the number of records processed has reached commit_max_ctr. If the program aborts, it restarts from the last successfully processed item /location.

Design Assumptions

N/A

Purge Aged Customer Orders (customer_order_purge.ksh)

Module Name	customer_order_purge.ksh
Description	Purge Aged Customer Orders
Functional Area	Purchase Orders
Module Type	Admin
Module Technology	ksh
Catalog ID	RMS205
Wrapper Script	rmswrap_shell.ksh

Schedule

Oracle Retail Merchandising Batch Schedule

Design Overview

This module will serve as the wrapper for the package function which will purge the store fulfillment customer order records from the customer order tables based on the history months system parameter. This will also purge the obsolete records having the status 'X' where the customer order could not be created.

Restart/Recovery

N/A

Design Assumptions

N/A

Purge Aged Customer Orders (customer_orders_purge_job)

Module Name	customer_orders_purge_job
Description	Download Sales and Stock On Hand From RMS to Suppliers
Functional Area	Inventory
Module Type	Integration
Module Technology	ProC
Catalog ID	RMS47
Wrapper Script	b8dwrap.ksh

Schedule

Oracle Retail Merchandising Batch Schedule

Design Overview

This background job is composed of one step processing only. It will retain the business logic processing from original KSH script algorithm.

The Business logic program will remove all store fulfillment customer order records from customer order and customer order detail tables based on the purge criteria from the system parameter setting, customer order history months. This will also purge the obsolete records having status 'X' where the customer order could not be created.

Restart/Recovery

N/A

Key Tables Affected

Table 12-1 Key Tables Affected

Table	Select	Insert	Update	Delete
ORDCUST	Yes	No	No	Yes
ORDCUST_DETAIL	Yes	No	No	Yes
ORDCUST_CUSTOMER_DETAIL	Yes	No	No	No
PURGE_CONFIG_OPTIONS	Yes	No	No	No
PERIOD	Yes	No	No	No

Security Considerations

N/A

Purge Aged Inventory Adjustments (inv_adj_purge_job)

Module Name	inv_adj_purge_adj
Description	Purge Aged Inventory Adjustments
Functional Area	Inventory
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-step processing. It will have a threading assignment and a business logic processing.

Thread assignment program will filter eligible records from inventory adjustment table based on its purge criteria from system parameter settings. The Inventory Adjustment Months parameter will determine records to kept before they are purged whole adjustment date has elapsed from a pre-determined number of months. 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 inventory adjustment 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 12-2 Key Tables Affected

Table	Select	Insert	Update	Delete
PURGE_CONFIG_OPTIONS	Yes	No	No	No
PERIOD	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_INV_ADJ_PURGE_STG	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
INV_ADJ	No	No	No	Yes

Design Assumptions

N/A

Purge Aged Inventory Adjustments (invaprg)

Module Name	invaprg.pc
Description	Purge Aged Inventory Adjustments
Functional Area	Inventory
Module Type	Admin
Module Technology	ProC
Catalog ID	RMS251
Wrapper Script	rmswrap.ksh

Schedule

Oracle Retail Merchandising Batch Schedule

Design Overview

This batch program will delete all inventory adjustment records whose adjustment date has elapsed a pre-determined number of months. The number of months that inventory adjustment records are kept before they are purged by this batch is defined by the system parameter Inventory Adjustment Months.

Restart/Recovery

N/A

Design Assumptions

N/A

Refresh End of Day Inventory Snapshot (refeodinventory)

Module Name	refeodinventory.ksh
Description	Refresh End of Day Inventory Snapshot
Functional Area	Inventory Tracking
Module Type	Business Processing
Module Technology	Ksh
Catalog ID	RMS303
Wrapper Script	rmswrap_shell.ksh

Schedule

Oracle Retail Merchandising Batch Schedule

Design Overview

This script refreshes the item/location stock on hand end of day snapshot. This end of day snapshot is used for assorted history build programs. The script does the following:

• Truncates the item/location stock on hand end of day snapshot table.

• Inserts all records from the item/location stock on hand table into the item/location stock on hand end of day snapshot table.

Restart/Recovery

N/A

Design Assumptions

• All of the daily updates pertaining to stock on hand have been performed during prior batch phases.

• The executing schema has DROP ANY TABLE privileges. This is needed to perform the truncate on the item/location end of day snapshot table.

• The item/location end of day snapshot table is owned by the schema name specified in the TABLE_OWNER column of the SYSTEM_OPTIONS view.