Oracle Warehouse Management labeling helps you to move inventory more efficiently through the warehouse. Supplier labeling speeds-up the receiving process by enabling bar code scanning of inbound purchase orders, that results in less receipt processing time, immediate recognition of available materials, and higher receiving accuracy.

Labeling also enables you to comply with customer requirements for barcoding. You can produce customer-specific labels on demand for each shipment and for advanced shipment notices (ASNs).

You can also use labeling in manufacturing. You can generate labels for WIP jobs and flow manufacturing. You can also use the Oracle Manufacturing Execution System (MES) to generate labels from the desktop.

• Prior to the start of the first operation: For example, you can create a label that contains routing information.

• During any operation: The location of the next assembly routing maybe dynamically determined based on the outcome of the operation. For example, material may need to be scrapped during an operation. A label can be printed to route the material to the scrap subinventory.

• After quality inspection of an operation: Material may not be of quality; therefore, it might be sent to a prior operation, or to scrap, or sent forward to the next operation.

• At completion: An organization may build items to stock, in which case the finished product requires a label for stocked material. An organization may also assemble to order, in which case finished products are not stored in inventory, rather they are sent directly to shipping. A label can be printed with shipping instructions, address, sales order number, and so on.

Oracle Warehouse Management labeling features enable you to:

• Produce supplier or customer bar code labels for products and containers

• Produce partner-compliant shipping labels that are specific to the carrier and customer

• Add the material status to certain types of labels.