In Work in Process, you can define and control resources (people, machines, and so on) during your production process using these features:
You can charge resources based upon their charge type: WIP Move, Manual, PO Move, and PO Receipt.
When you move job and schedule assemblies forward in their routing, pre-assigned WIP Move resources are automatically charged at their standard rate. If you move assemblies backward, WIP Move resource charges are reversed.
When you receive purchasing items that are associated with PO Move and PO Receipt resources back from an outside processing supplier, they are automatically charged. In the case of PO Move resources, the purchasing items are also completed at the operation. If you return assemblies to an outside processing supplier or enter correcting receipts for an outside processing supplier, resource charges and moves are reversed.
Automatic Overhead Charging
The appropriate overhead costs are automatically charged as you move assemblies through the shop floor. You can charge overheads directly based on move transactions or based on resource charges. You can base the material overhead charge on the number of units, or on the percentage of resource value. The overhead rate with the basis of resource value must be directly assigned to the resource's respective routing. Overhead charges are automatically reversed during a backward move transaction.
Oracle provides constraint-based scheduling enabling you to consider resource and material constraints. Oracle Production Scheduling is a constraint-based automated scheduling tool using sophisticated scheduling algorithms. It optimizes production, enforcing minimum run length constraints, and minimizing changeover times on your resources. See: Oracle Production Scheduling Implementation Guide
You can charge person-type resources with or without entering an employee. If you enter an employee, the employee hourly rate is used to calculate the resource charge. Otherwise, the charge is calculated using the standard resource rate.
You can manually charge resources associated with discrete job and repetitive schedule operations. Manual resources can be charged as you move assemblies. They can also be charged independent of move transactions resource transaction. You can correct erroneously entered Manual resource charges. See: Charging Resources Manually
If Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications is installed, the Mobile Manufacturing component enables you to perform resource transactions using a mobile client device networked with a computer system. You can charge resources defined to operation sequences. See: Resource Transactions, Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications User's Guide.
You can load resource transaction information from external systems - such as bar code readers, payroll systems, time cards, routing sheets, and custom data entry forms - into the Open Resource Transaction Interface table. When this data is processed, it is validated, and invalid records are marked so that you can correct and resubmit them. See: Open Resource Transaction Interface.
You can assign outside processing resources to job and schedule routing operations. You can move assemblies to and receive them back from these outside operations. The system automatically charges outside processing resources, tracks your supplier costs, and directly interfaces with Oracle Purchasing for closed loop control. See: Overview of Outside Processing.
You can include phantom resources in your routings. When the phantom is the parent or higher level assembly, its component costs are included in the parent cost, they inherit the operation sequence number from the parent, and their resources and overheads are excluded from the parent or higher level assembly cost. If you want phantom components to maintain their own operation sequence numbers, and if you want resource costs included in the parent cost - set the Bills of Material parameters BOM:Use Phantom Routings and BOM:Inherit Phantom Operation Sequence parameters. See: Phantom Assemblies.
You can define specific machines to any of your machine type resources. You can also define specific employees to labor type resources. Resource instances are defined on the Resource Instance window. See: Adding and Updating Material Requirements
You can report on resource transactions, efficiencies, and costs by job, repetitive schedule, department, or resource to get a complete history of resource activities. See: Resource Performance Report and Resource Transaction Report.
You can set up simultaneous and alternate resources. Simultaneous resources consist of two or more resources scheduled with the same start date and time. Alternate resources consist of other resources used instead of the primary resource. You can also use alternate resource sets. In constraint-based scheduling, this gives you the option to specify an alternate for a group of resources spanning multiple schedule sequences. See: Simultaneous and Alternate Resources