Considerations for Creating Work Orders from Planning With Alternate Resources and Substitute Components

In your enterprise, there can be a scenario where your supplier is unable to deliver components timely, or there is an unexpected breakdown of a critical equipment resource. In such cases, Oracle Fusion Supply Chain Planning can create recommendations for alternate resources and substitute components from the work definition to support the execution of a standard work order.

When planning recommends alternate resources and substitute components for work orders, the following points must be considered:

• Components are replaced with their substitutes at the first level, and not at the phantom level.

• Resources are replaced with the alternates at the first level, and not at the phantom level.

• The required quantity of the substituted component is calculated based on aggregated yield if the same component is repeated at multiple levels.

• A standard item can only be substituted with another standard item and a primary item is added in the list of substitutes.

• The replacement of alternate resources is always a full replacement.

• The replacement of substitute components can be a partial replacement.