Release 12 – Inventory Convergence

With this release, customers of Oracle’s Process Manufacturing applications can now use Oracle Inventory and Oracle Warehouse Management. The use of a single inventory application provides the Oracle Process Manufacturing user seamless integration with the rest of the e-Business Suite. This feature opens up additional functionality that was previously only available to Discrete Oracle Inventory users, such as vendor-managed and consigned inventory, reservations, move order requisitions, kanban, min-max replenishment and robust physical inventory and cycle counting functionality. The ability to implement Oracle Warehouse Management allows users to leverage sophisticated picking rules, license plates (LPN’S), putaway rules and task management.

Oracle Inventory, is the one source of all material management information. Key areas that have been enhanced for Oracle Order Management include improved allocation (picking) rules and added features to Move Orders. Additionally, the ability to price by a secondary quantity is available to all users who track their inventory in two quantities. Process users can leverage all of the functionality in Oracle Order Management, such as enhanced scheduling and reservations, and international drop shipments, as well as Oracle Warehouse Management functionality.

Oracle Inventory’s Dual Unit of Measure Control enables users to transact inventory in two unrelated units of measure where the conversion between the measures vary from lot to lot or from one transaction to the next. If an item is dual unit of measure control enabled, during transactions, users are prompted to enter the transaction quantity in both units and are able to query on hand balances, availability and reservations in both units for full supply chain visibility to all required handling units of measure.

This particular feature has an impact on the following functionalities

Product Development Workbench
Formula Management
Routings
Operations
Recipe Management
Simulator
Formula Analysis, Formula Inquiry,Indented BOM
Mass Search and Replace
Product Development Workflow and ERES