To define and update Work in Process parameters:WIP parameters define modes of operation and default values that affect Work in Process.
Suggestion: You cannot define WIP parameters if the current organization shares costs with another organization. If the current organization does share costs, you must change the organization's control level for the Costing Enabled and Inventory Asset Value item attributes (Costing Group) to Item/Organization. This can be done using the Item Attribute Controls window in Oracle Inventory. Before changing these attributes, however, you must confirm that item costs have been defined in the current organization. See: Cost Organizations and Shared Costs and Defining Item Attribute Controls.
To define and update Work in Process parameters:Navigate to the Work in Process Parameters window. See: WIP Parameters.
In the Discrete tabbed region, enter the Default Discrete Class. See: Default WIP Classes.
Select the Default Lot Number Type.
Determines how lot numbers are assigned to discrete jobs.
Select one of the Respond to Sales Order Changes options.
Determines whether and how the system responds to changes to configure-to-order (CTO) sales orders and their related discrete jobs.
In the Repetitive tabbed region, select the Recognize Period Variances option.
Determines which repetitive schedule variances are posted to the general ledger when an accounting period is closed.
Enter the number of repetitive Autorelease Days.
Determines the time period within which the system automatically releases the next Unreleased schedule.
In the Costing tabbed region, select a Default Completion Cost Source. The options are System Calculated and User Defined. See: Costing Parameters.
Note: You can only set parameters in the Average Costing tabbed region if your current organization has been defined as an average cost organization in the Oracle Inventory Organization Parameters window. See: Organization Parameters Window and .Defining Costing Information
If you select the System Calculated as your default completion cost source, you must select a System Option. The options are Use Actual Resources and Use Predefined Resources.
Select a Cost Type.
Determines which Cost Type is defaulted for when completing jobs. You must select a cost type if the Default Completion Cost Source parameter is User Defined.
Check the Auto Compute Final Completions check box to indicate whether the system should automatically determine when a completion transaction completes a job (quantity complete + scrap quantity = job quantity). The system calculates completion costs by taking the incurred job costs and dividing them by the completion quantity.
In the Move Transactions tabbed region, select or deselect the Require Scrap Account check box.
Determines whether a scrap account is required when you move assemblies into and out of the Scrap intraoperation step of an operation.
Select or deselect the Allow Creation of New Operations check box.
Determines whether you can or cannot add an operation to a discrete job work in process routing during a move transaction.
Select or deselect the Allow Moves Over No Move Shop Floor Statuses.
Determines whether moves are disallowed if an intraoperation step that disallows moves exists at an autocharge operation and intraoperation step between the From and To operations and intraoperation steps.
In the Material tabbed region, choose the defaults for material backflushing. The Include Component Yield check box controls if component yield is factored into component quantities during material transactions. You can disable this parameter to avoid rounding transaction quantities. See: Component Yield and Shrinkage
In the Backflush Controls region, select a backflush Supply Subinventory and, if required, a Supply Locator.
These two parameters determine which supply subinventory/locator is used when backflushing Operation Pull and Assembly Pull components that do not have defaults defined at the bill of material component level or at the item level.
You can select an expense subinventory, if the Oracle Inventory Allow Expense to Asset Transfer profile option is set to Yes. See: Inventory Profile Options.
Select a backflush Lot Selection Method.
Determines how lot controlled Assembly Pull and Component Pull component items are selected during backflush transactions.
If you choose Transaction History for the Lot Selection Method, select a value for the Alternate Lot Selection Method. These two parameters are used in combination with lot number defaulting. If there is no transaction history for defaulting, this value is used for lot selection. This occurs in instances such as the initial backflush transaction, or the lots defaulted from the previous backflush do not have sufficient on-hand quantity.
Select a backflush Lot Verification Method.
Determines how lots are verified during backflush transactions.
Check the Release Backflush Components check box to indicate if operation pull and assembly pull supply type components are included in the Component Pick Release window.
Check the Allow Quantity Changes During Backflush to make changes to the transaction quantity - therefore Bill of Material required quantity default is not used - for assembly move and completion transactions. This provides the ability to over or under issue pull components for assembly moves, completions; and mobile work order-less completions requiring lot and serial information.
In the Interoperation Steps tabbed region, enable Intraoperation Steps as required.
Determines which intraoperation steps are enabled in your WIP routing operations.
In the Outside Processing tabbed region, select which status is assigned to the Shop Floor Status for PO Move Resources parameter.
This parameter determines which shop floor status is assigned to the Queue intraoperation steps of outside processing operations when you create discrete jobs and repetitive schedules.
Select a Requisition Creation Time option.
Determines whether or not requisitions for outside processing resources operations are created, and when in the outside processing process they will be created (At Job/Schedule Release, At Operation, or Manual).
The Requisition Status at Creation sets the status for requisitions created in the outside processing step:
Approved: Requisitions created are set as approved, and depending on other settings, the approval process can automatically be initiated.
Incomplete: Requisitions are set as incomplete until approval is granted.
If you have outside processing operations, and you have set the WIP:Enable Outside Processing Workflows profile option to Yes, select the employees that you want to associate with the Production Scheduler and the Shipping Manager job roles.
The employee associated with either of these roles receives all notifications for all jobs that have an outside processing operation.
The Job Change Controls for Purchasing Documents region is used to set parameters when the Purchase Order Approval and Requisition workflows are launched. In the Propagate job Change to Purchasing field, set how quantity and date changes are forwarded to purchasing documents. Your choices are:
Automatic - Changes are passed routinely through the workflow. You can choose to have them propagated as fully automatic, or subject to approval.
Manual - You must update changes directly in the purchasing documents.
In the Need-By Date Tolerance fields, set values used to initiate the workflow for automatic job date changes. The workflow is initiated when the number of days either in the Days Early or Days Late fields is exceeded.
Select the Scheduling tabbed region to include resource factors in scheduling jobs.
Check the Include Resource Efficiency box if you want job scheduling to consider resource efficiency.
Efficiency effects resource loading and is always considered in lead time calculations.
Check the Include Resource Utilization box if you want job scheduling to consider resource utilization.
Utilization is always considered in lead time calculations. Resource availability is divided by the utilization percentage for capacity.
Select a simulation set in the Simulation Set field to enable the adjust resource capacity capability.
Simulation sets are used to link resource changes to available resource capacity for scheduling and planning.
The Mobile tabbed region is used if you are using Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications. Select a Default Scrap Account value for scrap transactions, entering either an account number, or selecting an alias from the list of values.
Note: This account number is only used in Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Application scrap transactions. It is not used in standard Work in Process scrap transactions.
Select a Transaction Processing Mode.
Your choices are Online, for immediate processing-or Background for periodic processing.
Use the Serial tabbed region to select parameters for serial number control tracking. See: Serial Number Tracking Throughout Manufacturing
Use the Default Serialization Start Operation box to determine the job operation where tracking of the serial number begins. The choices are:
Enabled: If the serialization start operation is defined on the bill of material item routing, it is copied to the job routing. If this value is not defined on the item routing, the first operation is defaulted to be the serialization start operation on the job routing.
Disabled: The serialization start operation on the job routing is blank.
Use the Auto Associate Serial Numbers parameter to determine if serial numbers are automatically generated and associated with a job when the job is released. The job start quantity determines the number of serial numbers created. Choices are:
On Job Release: Serial numbers are automatically generated and associated with a job when it is created and released.
Never: Serial numbers are not automatically generated and associated with a job. Use parameter Auto Reserve Serial Numbers on Job Completion for another option for associating serial numbers.
Enable the Auto Reserve Serial Numbers on Job Completion check box if you want to reserve serial numbers for completed serialized assemblies. The Item Reservation window in Oracle Inventory is used to create a reservation record for specific serialized assemblies associated to a sales order line. See: Item Reservations
Select a value in the Default Intraoperation Step for Assembly Moves field. This value is used when the move quantity is at the intraoperation step, your choices are Queue, Run, To move, and null.
For example, when moving assemblies, if this value is set to Queue - the default intraoperation To step for the next move transaction is the next Queue step in the routing.
If the value is set to Run - the default intraoperation To step for the next move transactions is the next Run step in the routing.
If set to To move - the default intraoperation To step for the next move transaction is the next To move in the routing.
However, if this value is set to null - a default is not set and you must specify the step in your move transaction.
In the Other tabbed region, select a Component ATP Rule. See: ATP Parameter
Enter the Default Overcompletion Tolerance % (percent) of assemblies that can be over-completed on all jobs or schedules.
Select a Default Pick Slip Grouping Rule.
This value displays on the Component Pick Release window for this organization, but can be changed during requirement picking. It is used to group tasks based on the pick method such as order pick or bulk pick. See: Using the Component Pick Release Window
If you are setting up an Oracle Warehouse Management organization, use the Default Plan Tasks to determine the default value displaying on the Component Pick Release window. Your choices are:
Enabled: Pick tasks are created, you can choose the time to release the tasks using the concurrent program.
Disabled: Pick tasks are created and released when you choose Release on the Component Pick Release window.