Component picking, obtaining requirements for specific jobs and schedules, is the process of moving items from source locations and issuing them to work orders. You can use a rules based system to determine a recommended source location for each issued component item specified on the bill of material. The features for component picking include:
The Component Pick Release window is used to select requirements and create move orders for discrete jobs, lot based jobs, repetitive schedules, and flow schedules.
Move orders are created for picked items. Move orders are requests for the movement of material within an organization. They enable the replenishment of material within a warehouse or manufacturing shop floor.
There is a distinct and individual window for the manufacturing mode selected.
The source for material picked is based on Oracle Inventory allocation rules entered on the Picking Rules window. Or, if Oracle Warehouse Management is installed, rules based picking recommendations.
Rules based picking uses the Warehouse Management Rules engine. This employs user defined rules to recommend locations to pick from, specific items to pick, and item revision.
Pick methodologies, or grouping rules, control how pick tasks are grouped to individual picking. All grouping rules, available during picking for shipment against a sales order, are supported for component picking. These grouping rules include order pick, bulk pick, cluster pick, and user defined grouping rules.
The destination for picked material depends on the supply type. It can be a staging area, or directly to a job or schedule.
You have the option to release picking tasks at the time of the pick release. Or you can choose another time to release. See: Component Pick Release Submit Requests Program
You can link a supply subinventory to a machine resource. Defining this subinventory to a resource enables backflush components required on operations to have the specified subinventory as their supply subinventory.
You can issue a quantity of a component greater than the total quantity allocated during previous runs of pick releases.
Material requirement and move order changes are synchronized to account for changes in job status, job or component quantities, component deletions, assembly scrap, supply type, and location. Corresponding material handling related events include changes to picking instructions, warning messages, or move order line cancellations.
Component pick release picks across projects and common locators if cross project issues is allowed. If cross project issue is not allowed, then the pick release can pick components for project locators only. For soft pegged assemblies, components can be picked from common locators even if cross project issues are not allowed.
Note: Even if cross project issue is allowed, component picking occurs only across projects in the same cost and planning groups.
Serialized and lot controlled components defined as push type, without a subinventory value in a serialized job, are not considered in a component pick release. You must manually perform component issue to associated components to the assembly serial number. Non-serialzed push type components without a subinventory are considered in the component pick release since they do not need to capture the assembly serial number.
Depending on the job or schedule type, specific values control which records display on the Component Pick window, and how material issues are transacted:
Discrete Jobs
Status must be Released or Complete - Charges Allowed
Material is defined at the operation and autocharge is enabled
Item status attribute in Oracle Inventory is Transactable
Lot Based Jobs
Status must be Released or Complete - Charges Allowed
Components are picked based on the network routing
Item status attribute in Oracle Inventory is Transactable
Move order quantities are calculated as assemblies per operation multiplied by components per assembly, or:
The sum of all the quantities in each intraoperation step (Queue, Run, To Move, Reject and Scrap)
Multiplied by the component's quantity per assembly
Flow Schedules
Material must be defined at a valid line operation
Status must be Open
Item status attribute in Oracle Inventory is Transactable
Move orders are generated when all quantities for the flow schedule components can be filled
Components must be a supply type of Push
Note: In flow schedules, material and resources are specified in the events associated with the line operation. If components are not assigned to specific events, or events are not assigned to line operations - the value in the Line Operation field is 1. This indicates an unassigned line operation for that material requirement.
Repetitive Schedules
Status must be Released or Complete - Charges Allowed
Material is defined at the operation and autocharge is enabled
Item status attribute in Oracle Inventory is Transactable
The Days of Supply value is used to calculate the quantity of components to pick.
The Component Pick Release program only considers supply type push components in processing, unless the Release Backflush Components parameter is enabled. The Release Backflush Components parameter enables both operation pull and assembly pull supply type components are included in the pick release process.
Enable the Release Backflush Components check box on the WIP Parameter window if you want both operation pull and assembly pull supply type components included in picking. See: Material Parameters, and Supply Types
Material destination is automated with move orders in the component picking process; it depends on the supply type:
Operation Pull and Assembly Pull
Components are moved from the supply subinventory to a specific staging area. The staging area location is defined on the Bills of Material window, the Subinventory field (and applicable Locator) in the Material Control tabbed region. See: Creating a Bill of Material. If not defined, the default value on the Material tab of the WIP Parameters window is used. See: Defining WIP Parameters
Push
Push transactions are performed automatically by the system. Components are moved directly to the job or schedule. Specifically, the destination is defined as the department, job, and operation combination. The source of the material is the subinventory (and locator, if applicable) recommended by the sourcing rules. You can override this recommendation and enter another location as the source of the material.
Push items with predefined staging subinventory
You can define a staging subinventory on the bill of material if you do not want the push transaction automatically generated. If the staging subinventory is defined on the bill of material, the components are considered the same way as pull items - they are moved to that staging area. However, another step must be performed: you will have to manually move the parts to the job or schedule.
Link Supply Subinventory to Resources
You have the ability to associate a subinventory and locator, if under locator control, to any machine resource. Defining this subinventory to a resource enables backflush components required on operations to have the specified subinventory as their supply subinventory. The supply subinventory changes if the alternate resource is machine type, and has a different supply subinventory linked. This is applicable to discrete, repetitive, and lot based jobs. This relationship is defined on the Bills of Materials Resources window, in the Type, Subinventory, and Locator fields. See: Defining a Resource
Kanban Components in Component Picking
The Component Pick Release program only considers supply type push components in its' processing, unless the Release Backflush Components parameter is enabled. You typically do not want kanban items considered in a pick release, but they are often defined as assembly pull components. Check the setting on this parameter to decide the appropriate behavior for your kanban environment, see: Material Parameters