Material issue to work orders and returns to Inventory are typical store room functions.

The Stores tab provides Material Issue Request and Verification functionality, and is used to manage the material availability for a work order. The material requirements for a work order are defined on its Maintenance Bill of Material, and are available to the work order via the Material Issue Request and Verification process.

There are two activities involved in delivering material from stores to a work order. First, a Material Issue Request is generated (Move Order in Oracle Inventory) to request the material to be allocated a work order. This process is automated upon work order release, by selecting a check box in the Enterprise Asset Management Parameters (See: Defining eAM Parameters). The second activity involves Material Issue Verification (Move Order in Oracle Inventory), and is generated when you access the Stores tab and select material for a work order, based on available, unprocessed move orders. A one-step material issue is a substitute for these two activities; a request is not created.

You can return material to Inventory from a maintenance work order. If excess or defective material is issued to a work order, it needs to be returned.