Oracle eAM uses work orders to create demand for asset maintenance. Operations within work orders are completed using the work orders' associated material and resource requirements (See: Overview eAM Work Management). Cost savings and work management efficiencies can be achieved by generating predictive work activities, and then using a planning process to balance the work load for resource management.

The process is as follows:

1. A Master Demand Schedule is created.

2. This Master Demand Schedule is attached to Material Requirements Planning (MRP) options.

3. MRP is launched, creating planned work order suggestions.

   You can use the Planner Workbench to implement the suggestions into purchase requisitions or manufacturing orders.

4. Using the Purchasing AutoCreate feature, purchase orders are created from the requisitions.

5. After the purchase orders are received into inventory, you can issue material into a maintenance work order.

This section includes the following topics:

• eAM Planning

• eAM Scheduling

eAM Planning

Oracle eAM uses Material Requirements Planning (MRP) to calculate net material requirements from gross material requirements, by evaluating:

• The master schedule

• Bills of material

• Scheduled receipts

• On-hand inventory balances

• Lead times

• Order modifiers

MRP then plans material replenishment by creating a set of recommendations to release or reschedule orders for material, based on net material requirements. MRP assumes infinite capacity is available to meet the material requirements plan.

The following illustration depicts how eAM uses MRP.

eAM Material Requirements Planning

This section includes the following topics:

• Defining a Master Demand Schedule Name

• Defining a Material Requirements Plan Name

• Defining Plan Options

eAM Scheduling

Oracle Enterprise Asset Management (eAM) uses the Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling application to schedule work orders and operations. The scheduling process calculates work order and operations scheduled duration and dates, based on the forward or backward scheduling goal (See: Routine Work Orders), and Work in Process parameters. The concurrent program is triggered after a work order is released (See: eAM Work Order Statuses). The work order is automatically moved to a Pending Scheduling status, until the concurrent program finishes scheduling. At that time, the work order is moved back to a Released status.

The Scheduler Workbench enables a planner to graphically view and reschedule single work orders and operations. It provides you with a visual display of work orders. You can interactively reschedule work orders, operations, and resources.