This section provides an overview of the setup requirements for Oracle Warehouse Management system (WMS). For instructions, see the detailed setup instructions that are associated with each step.

Setting up Oracle WMS includes setting up related Oracle applications, such as Oracle Inventory and Oracle Bills of Material. Therefore, you might only need to make WMS modifications specific to existing data, like existing items. Check with your implementation team to determine which setup requirements have already been fulfilled.

Oracle Warehouse Management system requires that Oracle Inventory, Oracle Purchasing (Receiving), and Oracle Order Management (Shipping) are installed and set up.

Set up Oracle Inventory as described in Overview of Setting Up.

Set up Oracle Bills of Material as described in, Overview of Setting Up

Set up Oracle Purchasing as described in Overview of Setting Up.

Set up Oracle Cost Management as described in Overview of Setting Up

Set up Oracle Quality as described in Overview of Setting Up

Warehouse Setup

Warehouse configuration requires that you set up your warehouse as an inventory organization, and then select parameters that identify the organization as a warehouse. Warehouse configuration also includes defining the appropriate subinventories to represent the zones within your warehouse, as well as defining appropriate locators, and assigning dock doors to their related staging lanes.

The following list provides the attributes in Oracle Inventory that you set up for warehouse related organizations:

• Organization parameters

  • WMS enabled check box

  • Default cost group

  • Serial control generation

  • License Plate Number (LPN) information

  • Capacity weight and volume unit of measures

  • Crossdocking information

  • Time zone

  • Default cycle count header

  • Default picking rule

  • Default put away rule

  • Cartonization option

  • Default pick task type

  • Default replenishment task type

  • Default move order transfer task type

  • Default move order issue task type

  • Putaway tasks

  • Maximum clusters

  • Outbound consolidation plan

• Subinventory attributes

  • Subinventory status

  • Default cost group

  • Cartonization option

  • LPN controlled option

  • Locator controlled option

  • Default locator status

  • Picking unit of measure (UOM)

  • Picking order (functionality change)

• Locator attributes

  • Locator type

  • Locator status

  • Locator capacity

  • Pick UOM associated with the locator

  • Locator dimensions (length, width, and height)

  • Locator coordinates (X, Y, and Z)

• Dock door to staging lane relationships

To set up a warehouse, set up an inventory organization and make modifications as described in the following instructions. For specific instructions on setting up organizations, see: Defining Default Inventory Parameters.