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Oracle Cloud
Application Families
Transportation
Accounting Product Value
Financials & Global Trade
Hub Reporting Chain
Management
Project
Financial Procurement
Management
Prior: R8
Inventory (with Procurement), Product Hub
Current: R9
Innovation Management, Product Development, OTM & GTM
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R11 includes:
Manufacturing support
Discrete
Contract Manufacturing
Planning Central support
Advanced fulfillment
Drop Ship, Back to Back, Internal Material Transfers
Landed Cost Management
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Inventory Organizations
Distribution
Center
Company Warehouse
Inventory Organizations
An inventory organization is a facility where you store and transact items. Before you can use Oracle
Inventory, you must define one or more inventory organizations. Inventory organizations represent distinct
entities in your enterprise and can be one of the following:
A physical entity such as a manufacturing facility, warehouse, or distribution center.
A logical entity such as an item master organization, which you use to define items.
An inventory organization may have the following attributes:
An inventory organization can have its own location, ledger, costing method, workday calendar, and items.
An inventory organization can share one or more of these characteristics with other organizations.
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Organization
Subinventories
Locators
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What is a Subinventory?
Finished goods
Raw materials
Defective items
What Is a Subinventory?
A subinventory is a physical or logical grouping of inventory such as raw material, finished goods, defective
material, or a freezer compartment. A subinventory can be the primary place where items are physically
stocked. You must specify a subinventory for every inventory transaction.
Subinventory
Physical or logical separation of material
You must define at least one subinventory for each organization
Defining Subinventories
You define subinventories by organization. Each subinventory must contain the following information:
Unique alphanumeric name
Status
Parameters
Lead times
Sourcing information
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Shipping sub
Outbound Outbound
Here are some examples of a sample inventory organiation, starting with the receiving subinventory for
inbound goods and ending with a shipping subinventory for outbound goods.
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Locator Control
Rack
Row
Bin
Locator Control
Locators are structures within subinventories. Locators are the third level in the enterprise structuring scheme
of Oracle Inventory. Locators may represent rows, aisles, or bins in warehouses. You can transact items into
and out of locators. You can restrict the life of locators.
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Dynamic locators are generated during a transaction. Previously Defined locators are setup in advance.
Both use Key flexfields.
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Subinventory-Locator Relationship
Subinventory-Locator Relationship
You can structure Oracle Inventory in such a way that some of the subinventories and items have locator
control while others do not. If locator control is turned on at the item level, you must specify a locator when
transacting the item into or out of a subinventory. If locator control is turned on at the subinventory level, you
must specify a locator when transacting any item into or out of that subinventory. Each stock locator you
define must belong to a subinventory, and each subinventory can have multiple stock locators. The possible
locator control types are:
None
Previously Defined
Dynamic entry
Item Level
You cannot use the same locator names within any two subinventories within the same organization.
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Define Items
Item Terminology
Item Attributes
Item Creation Methods
Item Terminology
Item Terminology
Items are used to represent product and services you sell or transact, resources you maintain, and
components that make up your products and services.
Each item that you create has several standard operational attributes that determine the behavior of
the item with respect to various functions, such as Purchasing, and Inventory Management. In addition
to these operational attributes, the item has several user-defined attributes defined by its item class.
These user-defined attributes capture item specifications and other information relevant to the product
definition.
Item Relationships: Allows you to relate an item to another item for various contexts.
Item Associations: Allows you to associate items to different business contexts i.e. organization, supplier
items, sites. These are also sometimes referred to as intersections.
Trading Partner Items: Items that represent products from external parties such as manufacturers,
customers, competitors.
Item Class: A classification hierarchy to logical group products sharing similar characteristics to create a
product taxonomy.
Item Catalogs: A hierarchy for categorizing products belonging to similar product families.
Product Structure/Bills of Material: A product hierarchy consisting of child items that make up a end
item.
New Item Request: A formal workflow that allows orchestration of the definition and approval of an
item.
Change Order: A formal workflow to define, manage, approve and implement product related changes.
Packs: Manage packaging information using a hierarchical representation of items representing the
logical structure of the product packaging needs. Each packaging level is modeled as an item so you can
easily track inventory and orders against them.
Structures: Contains information on the parent item, components, attachments, and descriptive
elements using descriptive flexfields.
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Item Attributes
Main Attributes
Main attributes are common to all items, and are part of the item's data model. They describe
essential aspects of the item.
Examples of main attributes are:
Item Number
Description
Long Description
Status
Lifecycle Phase
User Item Type
Approval Status
Revision
Pack Type
Item Class
Unit of Measure (a group containing eight attributes)
Operational Attributes
Operational attributes are part of the item's data model. They determine the behavior of the item
with respect to various applications outside Oracle Fusion Product Hub, such as Oracle Fusion
Purchasing or Oracle Fusion Inventory. You choose the control level for operational attributes
on the Manage Operational Attributes Control page. For each listed operational attribute group,
you select the control level for each of the group's attributes. You can control the operational
attributes at the master organization level or at the organization level. You can define
operational attributes as part of a new item request.
Examples of operational attributes, with the attribute groups they belong to, are listed below:
Inventory - Shelf Life Days
Order Management - Shippable
Purchasing - Negotiation Required
Receiving - Allow Substitute Receipts
Transactional Attributes
Transactional attributes capture values that are generated during transaction flows involving an
item, rather than when the item is created. Create transactional attributes on the Transactional
Attributes tab of the Edit Item Class page. For each attribute, specify its effective dates. Based
on these effective dates, choose the downstream applications where the attribute is effective,
associate the attribute with a predefined set of allowed values, and specify an optional default
value and unit of measure. You can also set the attribute to be inactive, required, read-only, or
hidden during the effective dates. The transactional attributes of an item class are inherited by
its item class descendants. You can overwrite the metadata for a transactional attribute in a
child item class, but doing so breaks the inheritance. Transactional attributes can be defined on
all types of items.
Attributes that exist for each instance of an item and the values for the attributes can be
different.
For example:
The number of megabytes (MB) or gigabytes (GB) of e-mail storage on a digital subscriber line
(DSL) account.
The monogram text on a shirt pocket.
The color of a music player.
These attributes are defined at the item class and their attribute value is captured at the time of
a transaction by downstream applications. The metadata values of these attributes are
maintained at the item class. Order orchestration and order capture systems are two examples
of downstream use. All transactional attributes must be associated with a value set.
Transactional attributes are inherited across the item class hierarchy. The metadata is data-
effective. Changes in the metadata will be reflected immediately at the item level.
For example:
Any of the metadata of a transactional item attribute belonging to a specific domain, if modified
in the child item class would break the inheritance. Any changes done at the parent item class
for this
transactional item attribute would not get inherited. Multiple records with same date range can
exist if they belong to different domains. For example, the transactional item attribute Memory is
associated with
a Domain and order capture. Each of the domains may use a different set of metadata for its
own purpose. Hence, for the same date range, two different records can exist. Only Start Dates
for a transactional item attribute would be entered by a user. End date would be calculated
automatically based on the next Date Effective record.
Users can modify (either Start Date and metadata) of a future effective record. Records with
Starting date as Past cannot be modify or edited.
Only start dates can be set to permit updating by a user, and the end date of a record will
automatically be pulled from the next record.
Any changes performed in the parent item class would be inherited by the child item class. If the
corresponding record is modified in the child, then these changes will not be inherited.
Item pages provide a mechanism with which to customize the user interface.
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Traditional ERP Inventory Systems have evolved into more after-the-fact reporting repositories and
dont lend themselves to showing the current state of warehouse operations and require users to
know what needs to be done. Fusion Inventory was designed to show management and users the
current state of operations for the warehouse and guide users to problem areas and work to be
done in fulfillment, receiving and inventory
Fusion Inventory and Cost Management continues to decouple physical and financial flows allowing
users to focus on their role of materials management and let the Financial systems determine
financial events and charging of those events to the proper place.
Oracle Fusion Inventory allows you to decouple the typical fixed financial events that are tied to inventory movement.
Across Fusion, reporting has been standardized to enable business users to create, modify and
publish reports easily
The same toolset is used for both transactional reporting as well as deeper analytical types of
reporting
Internal and External facing transactional documents use familiar applications such as pdf and Word
to allow easy customization to those reports
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Returns
Transfers Physical
Supply Pick Inventory
Consume Transfer
Report
SOA-based Integration
Supply Chain
Procurement Financials
Managerial Acctg
The Oracle Fusion Inventory Management Cloud Service enables companies to effectively manage the
inbound flow of goods, inventory storage, and outbound order fulfillment.
Oracle Inventory Management Cloud offers an integrated inventory, cost and financial trade management suite that is
designed to automate, streamline, and control inventory, cost processes and internal trade end-to-end without expensive
hardware and system management overhead costs.
The Oracle Cloud offers self-service business applications delivered on an integrated development and deployment
platform with tools to rapidly extend and create new services. The Oracle Cloud is ideal for customers seeking
subscription-based access to leading Oracle applications, middleware and database services, all hosted and expertly
managed by Oracle. The application services are designed for ease-of-use, enabling business users to manage the
solution directly with no IT involvement.
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Receiving
Receiving
Key Features
Supplier ASNs/ASBNs support from Supplier Portal
1, 2 or 3 step receiving
Inspection
Put Away
Unordered Receipts
Correction
Supplier Returns
ASN/ASBN, Receiving, Inspection, Put Away, Correct and Return spreadsheet and web-
service capabilities
Return unacceptable
items to the vendor
This slide depicts the user job roles and associated business process model activities that can be
performed. The Receiving Agent is responsible for performing receiving related activities within the
warehouse. Additionally, the Receiving Agent can also inspect, disposition, and return receipts. The
Warehouse Operator is responsible for performing the put away of received material into inventory. The
Procurement Requester is responsible for receiving, correcting, and returning self-service receipts
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Inventory
Inventory
Key Features
Manage Item Quantities
Movement Requests
Miscellaneous Transactions and Transfers
Inter-org Transfer
Cycle Count / Physical Inventory
Min/Max Replenishment
Miscellaneous Transaction and Cycle Count spreadsheet and web-service capabilities
Click Metrics to
view/manage work
load
Tree-table view of
Inventory Balances
Ensure Inventory
Accuracy
Minimize
Inventory Levels
This slide depicts the user job roles and associated business process model activities that can be
performed. The Warehouse Manager is responsible for reviewing inventory balances. The Inventory
Manager defines ABC classifications and plans inventory replenishment. The Warehouse Operator is
responsible for performing transactional tasks in the warehouse such as movement of material between
subinventories and organizations. Additionally, the Warehouse Operator performs cycle and physical
inventory counting activities.
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Shipping
Shipping*
Key Features
Manage Reservations
Manage and Release Pick Waves
Confirm Picks
Manage Shipments / Shipment Lines
Communicate Shipments to Trading Partners
Contextual Actions
Work by Status
This slide depicts the user job roles and associated business process model activities that can be
performed. The Warehouse Manager is responsible for managing inventory reservations and releasing
pick waves. The Warehouse Operator performs picking related tasks such as generating pick slip reports
and confirming pick slips. The Shipping Agent is responsible for processing and confirming shipments.
Additionally, the Shipping Agent communicates shipping message and updates with trading partners and
captures related shipping costs.
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Business Intelligence
Configurable
Dashboards, KPIs &
Trend Analysis
BI in Fusion Applications
Consistent, Timely, Complete
Subject Areas
Inventory Receiving
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