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INV:Capable to Promise
Indicates whether to enable the CTP calculation.
This profile has a predefined value of NULL (no predefined value) upon installation. This site level option determines how
a promise data is derived. It can have the below values:
1 Enable Product Family ATP and CTP
2 Enable Product Family ATP
3 Enable ATP
4 ATP / CTP Based on Planning Output
5 ATP Based on Collected Data
This profile is updateable only at the site level.
INV:Genealogy Delimiter
Allows client to pick the character that appears between the item name and lot number in the genealogy tree Any character
can be used as a delimiter. You can change the delimiter profile at any time. The default value is "-".
INV:External ATP
Indicates whether non-Oracle ATP products can be integrated with Oracle. Set this profile option in the Source instance if
the Source is 10.7 or 11.0. If you select ’Global ATP’, the system uses the new Global Order Promising program. If you
select ’None’, the system uses the old ATP program. If you do not select a default value, the
system assumes ’None’ for 10.7 and 11.0 instances, and ’Global’ ATP for the 11i instance.
This profile is updateable only at the site level.
Indicates the currency conversion for intercompany invoices using different currencies. Available values are:
Corporate An exchange rate you define to standardize rates for your company. The corporate exchange rate
is generally a standard market rate determined by senior financial management for use throughout the organization.
Spot An exchange rate you enter to perform conversion based on the rate on a specific date. It applies to the immediate
delivery of a currency.
User An exchange rate you specify when you enter a foreign currency journal entry that does not have a daily exchange
rate.
Inventory predefines a value of Corporate for this profile upon installation.
The profile is updateable at the Site, Application, and Responsibility levels.
INV:RC Line Failure Indicates the action taken when a failure is detected while processing a replenishment
count line. Available values are:
Continue processing Other (successful) lines for the replenishment header are processed to requisition lines.
Halt processing Do not process other (successful) lines for the replenishment header. Inventory predefines a value of
Continue processing for this profile for all levels upon installation.
This profile is updateable at all levels.
INV: RC Requisition Approval
Indicates the status of Subinventory Replenishment requisitions created by the replenishment processor. Available values
are:
Approved Requisitions created by the replenishment processor are approved.
Unapproved Requisitions created by the replenishment processor are not approved.
Inventory predefines a value of Approved for this profile for all levels upon installation. If you choose Unapproved, you
can optionally load Subinventory Replenishment requisitions as unapproved and use the document approval functionality
in Oracle Purchasing. This profile is updateable at all levels.
INV:VMI Enabled
Functionally for vendor managed inventory, or VMI, has been added with Family pack ’H’ of Oracle Inventory and Oracle
Purchasing. Both products must be at ’H’ level or above for the VMI features to function correctly. The profile options is
defaulted to No when Purchasing ’H’ is installed. Upon installation of Inventory ’H’ the profile option is automatically set
to yes.
The profile option is updateable at site level. You should update it manually only if the automatic changes fails to occur.
INV:CCEOI Workers
Indicates the number of workers to be processed when running the cycle count entries open interface.
This profile is updateable at the site level.
INV:Purchasing by Revision
This profile determines the purchasing interfaces tables that are populated with revision information from Oracle
Inventory. If you set the profile to ’Yes’, the revision information passes to the purchasing interface tables whenever you
create a requisition in Inventory. If you set the profile to ’No’, it creates the requisition without revision information. This
profile is updateable at all levels.
INV:Debug Trace
This profile specifies if Inventory and WMS transaction activities are logged to a debug file. You set the value to ’Yes’ to
enable logging. You set the value to ’No’ to disable logging. This profile is updateable at all levels.
INV:Debug Level
Determines the amount of detail printed to the Oracle Inventory debugging log file. Level 10 is the highest level of logging
supported. This profile is updateable at all levels.
INV: Item Form Uses Master Set of Folders in the Org Items Form
This profile option determines if the Organization Items window uses the same set of folders as the Master I tems window.
- This profile is updateable at the user level only. The available value are
Yes Uses the same set of folders as the Master Items window.
No Stores a separate set of folders for the Organization Items window.
MRP:Consume Forecast
Indicates whether to enable or temporarily disable forecast consumption. Forecast consumption is the process that
replaces forecasted demand with actual demand and is handled by the Planning Manager process. Available values are
listed below:
Enable forecast consumption.
Update the forecast set when you place sales order demand.
Disable forecast consumption.
Do not update the forecast set when you place sales order demand.
The planning manager verifies the setting of this option before performing forecast consumption. If it is set to No, the
planning manager does not update forecast entries. The planning manager processes any sales order demand occurring
while this profile is set to No when you set the profile option back to Yes. This profile has a predefined value of Yes upon
installation.
MRP:Consume MDS
Indicates whether to enable or temporarily disable shipment relief of a master demand schedule. Available values are
listed below:
Enable shipment relief.
Disable shipment relief.
The planning manager verifies the setting of this option before performing shipment relief. If it is set to No, the planning
manager does not update MDS entries. The planning manager processes any sales order shipments occurring while this
profile is set to No when you set the profile option back to Yes. This profile has a predefined value of Yes upon installation.
MRP:Consume MPS
Indicates whether to enable or temporarily disable production relief of a master production schedule. Available values are
listed below:
Enable production relief.
Disable production relief.
The planning manager verifies the setting of this option before performing production relief. If it is set to No, the planning
manager does not update MPS entries. The planning manager processes any purchase requisitions and discrete jobs
occurring while this profile is set to No when you set the profile option back to Yes. This profile has a predefined value of
Yes upon installation.
MRP:Debug Mode
Indicates whether to enable debug messages within Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP. Available values are listed below:
Enable debug messages.
Do not enable debug messages.
This profile has a predefined value of No upon installation.
MRP:Purchasing by Revision
Indicates whether to pass on item revision to the purchase requisition.
MRP:Snapshot Workers
Indicates the number of workers that are launched during the execution of the Snapshot process. A larger value means
that more tasks are performed in parallel. Too many workers, however, can result in system degradation and diminishing
performance benefits. In general, do not define a value for this profile that exceeds the maximum number of concurrent
programs that can run simultaneously. This profile has a predefined value of 5 upon installation.
MRP:Trace Mode
Indicates whether to enable the trace option within Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning. Available
values are listed below:
Enable the trace option within Oracle Master
Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning.
Do not enable the trace option within Oracle
Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning.
This profile has a predefined value of No upon installation.
PO: Convert Requisition UOM to Source Doc UOM During Release Creation
A Null setting (default value) indicates that the functionality continues as in the past (AutoCreate of releases from a
requisition will fail with different UOMs, but the Create Releases concurrent program will convert UOMs and create a
release). If set to Yes, users can create requisitions in a different UOM from the UOM on the blanket agreement line and
the conversion will be done by Purchasing when the release is created. No means the UOM on the requisition must match
the UOM on the blanket purchase agreement for a release to be created by any process.
Online :-Completes an entire approval workflow process before letting you proceed to the next activity, but provides you
with an updated Status (for purchase orders) as soon as it finishes.
Background : Enables you to proceed to the next activity while the approval process completes in the background.
Whichever option you choose, you can always view the current status of a requisition or purchase order through the
Requisitions Summary or Purchase Orders Summary windows.
The default value is Background.
Note: When this profile option is set to Background, you must start the Workflow Background Engine, which you access
through the System Administrator responsibility. It is recommended that you set this process to run frequently, if you
are using it for Background mode approvals.
These are some of the profile option values from the core modules
HR: Cross Business Group. Allows requisition preparers to change the requestor to someone in a different business
group, and for buyers to be placed on POs from a different business group.
ICX: Date Format Mask. Updates the default displayed date format from DD-MON-YYYY.
ICX: Default Requisitions Template. Default Requisition Template (becomes default Shopping List).
ICX: Media Directory. Directory on the application server holding media files, typically set to /OA_MEDIA/.
holding media files.
ICX: Numeric Characters. Updates the default numeric display type to 10,000.00 or 10.000,00. Default is 10,000.00 if
this is NULL.
MRP: Default Sourcing Assignment Set. TBC
PA: Allow Override of PO Distributions in AP/PO. Allows project-related distributions to have their accounts overwritten
from the default generated.
PO: Allow Requisition Approval Forward Action. Allow approvals to be forwarded, with either Transfer ownership (i.e.
the approval shows as the new user and is validated with the new user’s authority), or Delegate Authority (approval still
shows as by forwarding user and is tested against the forwarding user’s authority.
PO: Enable Services Procurement. Set to Yes if Services Procurement is installed, and determines if the Contractor
Request is shown in iProcurement.
PO: Notification Lines Display Limit. Limits the number of lines displayed on requisition approval notifications. The
default is 20.
PO: Validate Need-by Time for Requisition Submit.
PO: Workflow Processing Mode. If this is Online, workflow is invoked straightaway, if Background then the scheduled
request Workflow Background Processor picks this up.
POR: Allow manual Selection of Source. Allows a user to choose whether to source from Inventory or from a supplier for
internally-orderable items.
PO: Legal Requisition Type. Determines whether the requester can buy from Suppliers, Inventory or both. Default is
Both.
POR: Allow P-Card Use with Encumbrance. Allows a P-card to be used, even if encumbrance is switched on. For all
purchase orders charged to a P-Card, the purchase order encumbrance should be manually relieved using Oracle General
Ledger.
POR: Apply Expense Account Rules to Favorite Charge accounts. If no expense default is set, and its not an inventory
purchase, Oracle defaults in the account from the Favorites. This profile when set overrides the segments of the Favorite
account from the Expense Account Rules (e.g. nominal account from category)
POR: Auto Load Category Descriptors
POR: Auto Load Root Descriptors
POR: Auto Load Shopping Categories
POR: Autocreate Shopping Category and Mapping
POR: CA Certification File Name.Location of punchout security certificate.
POR: Change Catalog Language. Controls whether the PO item category can be shown in another language.
POR: Context Value for Requisition distribution descriptive flexfield. Context value for DFF (as OAF pages don’t work the
same as forms)
POR: Context Value for Requisition header descriptive flexfield. Context value for DFF (as OAF pages don’t work the
same as forms)
POR: Context Value for Requisition line descriptive flexfield. Context value for DFF (as OAF pages don’t work the same
as forms)
POR: Goods Line Type. PO Line Type to use for Goods By Quantity.
POR: Amount Based Services Line Type. PO Line Type to use for Services by Amount.
POR: Contractor Expense Line Type. PO Line Type to use for Contractor Requests.
POR: Rate Based Services Line Type. PO Line Type to use for Services by Rate.
POR: Days Needed By. Number of days past the current data that the Need By Date defaults to. Implications for Confirm
Receipt workflow.
POR: Default Need By Time. Default time that goods are needed (e.g. 8am)
POR: Default Currency Conversion Rate Type. Default exchange rate type for foreign currency purchases.
POR: Display Graphical Approval List. Controls the graphical display of the approval hierarchy.
POR: Enable Advanced Search and Category Browse. Set to No if the only purchases are non-catalog or punchout and
there is no local content. Adv search and browse are irrelevant for punchout and non-catalog.
POR: Enable Automatic Debit Memo Create for Returns. Automatic debit memo created in AP when a return is made.
POR: Generate and Display Account at Checkout. If set, the charge account is shown at checkout, if not, this is hidden.
POR: Hosted Images Directory. Location for hosted images.
POR: One Time Location. Location code to be used when a one-time-location is selected. The actual address is then held
on a field on the requistion line.
POR: Override Location. Contols whether a requisition preparer can change the Deliver-To location.
POR: Override Requester. Contols whether a requisition preparer can change the requistion Requester.
POR: Preferences – Deliver To. Default for the Deliver-To.
POR: Preferences – Requester. Default for the Requester.
POR: Preferences – Selected Items Deliver to Inventory. Defaults inventory delivery.
POR: Preferences – Subinventory. Defaults inventory subinventory.
POR: Preferences – Projects. Default projects fields (e.g. Project, Task, Expenditure Type etc)
POR: Proxy Server Name. Punchout proxy server.
POR: Proxy Server Port. Punchout proxy port.
POR: Purchasing News Location. Directory holding PORPNEWS.htm file. Can be set by Operating Unit to allow different
news by organization.
POR: Require Blind Receiving. If this is set, and this setting matches the PO setting defaulting fromReceiving Controls,
the quantities are hidden when entering a receipt.
POR: Select Internal Requisition for Confirm Receipt. If set, Confirm Receipts picks up internal requisitions as well as
purchase requisitions.
POR: Select Inventory Replenishment Lines for Confirm Receipt. If set, Confirm Receipts picks up inventory min/max
requisitions as well as purchase requisitions.
POR: Support Review for Express Receive. This profile determines if the receiver sees a review page prior to the system
committing the receipt,
POR: System Approvers are Mandatory. Prevents system approvers being replaced.
POR: Transparent Punchout Timeout Limit. Timeout for punchout.
POR: Use Sequence for Requisition Number. If set, the requisition number is not the same as PO, and instead if a
number shared across all operating units. Used for performance reasons.