Tuesday, October 16, 2012

What is the Purpose of Internal Sales Order in OM ?


Why do we need Internal Requisitions and Internal Sales Orders?
Internal Requisitions (IR) and Internal Sales Orders (ISO) are used to transfer material from one inventory organization or warehouse to another, within the same company.

Why not use Inter Organization Transfer Feature?
IR and ISO provide us with a way to transfer material where we can introduce an approval mechanism for ordering material, and also track the transaction through documents. These features are not available in the Inter Organization Transfer utility.

The inventory organizations involved in the transaction may belong to the same Operating Unit or they may belong to different Operating Units.

The Data Flow for Internal orders




Why Back to Back Order or Drop-Shipment ?


Why Back to Back Order or Drop shipment ?

In B2B Order the shipment process is completed throu Order Management as a standard order after the item is received againts a Purchase order
Example: A order X from B
B Order Item X from C
C ship Item X to B
B Ships Item X to A
B bills A for the Order, C bills B for the order

Drop shipment is a method of order fulfillment where the organization taking the order may or may not maintain their own inventory for the drop shipped product, but fulfill their orders though 3rd party vendors who directly ship to the end customer ordering for the product.

Example:A orders item X from B
B orders Item X from C
C Shps Item X to A
B bills A for the Order, C bills B for the order

In B2B the source is Internal, the item would be procured after the order is created or after the demand is made
In Drop Ship the Source is External, inventory not effected Logial receiving, logical receiving is done against the ASN received from Supplier

B2B can be used across all showroom retailers and wholesale type of business to cater to challenge of maintaining stocks to handle unexpected large demands from certain customers where it is not in the best interest of such organizations to stock for them.

Drop Ship is suitable for agency typ eof business where companies book orders on behalf of other manufacturers and businesses not willing to do by themselves , also Suitable for MNCs which have a central warehouse design to meet customer demand over a large geographical area.

Monday, October 15, 2012

What does scheduling do?

Scheduling on order management 

1. Determines source (warehouse) for the sales order line based on the sourcing rules
2.It derives Schedule ship date, Schedule arrival date,  Delivery lead time and Shipping method.
3. Scheduling also set the VISIBLE_DEMAND_FLAG to Yes and makes order line visible to the planning applications .

We can schedule the line automatically by setting either of below options 

1. Setting Profile option - OM:AutoSchedule
2. Set the Autoscheduling check box while defining the Order Transaction type.
3. From Order UI , Sales order line Tools > Autoschedule.
4.Set scheduling Manually by 
Right click the line and then Select  progress Order.
Run Concurrent Program "Schedule Orders".
Use workflow to schedule line.
Select the Order line then Tools > Scheduling from Sales Order form

What is Supply Chain Management?



A supply chain is a network of supplier, manufacturing, assembly, distribution, and logistics facilities that perform the functions of procurement of materials, transformation of these materials into intermediate and finished products, and the distribution of these products to customers.

This model organized and focused on the five primary management

  1. PLAN
  2. SOURCE
  3. MAKE
  4. DELIVER
  5. RETURN

A typical supply chain involves the following stages or entities

  1. Customers
  2. Retailers
  3. Distributors
  4. Manufacturer/Enterprise
  5. Vendors

What is Oracle’s SCM Solution for Customer

1. Design:
SCM start with designing & developing new products where Product specifications are created. Few Important applications play major role in this phase.

1.     Oracle Product Life cycle Management
2.     Oracle Advanced product Catalog
3.     Engineering & Bills of Materials

2. Market:
Marketing and Sales generates demand for the Product by publicizing its features and how it would address customer priorities. In the process, Marketing also gets customer feedback and communicates to Product development group. These are application potentially can be used.

1.     Telesales
2.     Trade Management
3.     Incentive Compensation
4.     Order Capture
5.     Oracle sales

3. Plan: 
Planning is the strategic portion of SCM. You need a strategy for managing all the resources that go toward meeting customer demand for your product or service.

1.     Advanced Supply Chain Planning
2.     Global Order Promising
4. Sell & Manage Order: 
Maintain and manage the customer orders, order holds, notes and release the orders to warehouse for fulfillment based on requested date, product availability and customer credit limit.

1.     Order management
2.     Advanced Pricing
3.     Configurator
4.     iStore

5. Procure:
Here you normally choose the suppliers that will deliver the goods and services you need to create your product. Develop a set of pricing, delivery and payment processes with suppliers and create metrics for monitoring and improving the relationships.

1.     Purchasing
2.     iProcurement

6. Manufacture:
Schedule the manufacturing activities necessary for production, testing, packaging and preparation for delivery.

1.     Cost Management
2.     Process Manufacturing
3.     Project Manufacturing
4.     Quality
5.     Work in Process

7. Fulfill & Release Management :
Coordinate the receipt of orders from customers, develop a network of warehouses, pick carriers to get products to customers and set up an invoicing system to receive payments.

1.     Shipping Execution
2.     Inventory Management
3.     Warehouse Management System
4.     Transportation Execution

8. Service & Maintain: 
Create a network for receiving defective and excess products back from customers and supporting customers who have problems with delivered products.

1.     Depot Repair
2.     Field Service
3.     Install Base
4.     Service Contracts

Oracle SCM Solutions
Oracle provides two streams to capture entire supply chain planning.
1.    Manufacturing: Consists of Inventory, Bills of Material & Work in process to capture details of every type of manufacturing like discrete, batch, mass production.
2.    Distribution: Consists of Inventory, Purchasing, and Order Management to capture entire procure to pay & order to cash business processes.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Transaction Types in Order Management


Transaction Types

          Transaction types are used to associate workflows for various phases of sales document processing.
          The Define Transaction Types window is used to define both order and line types.
          For order header the transaction type code will ORDER and for the lines it will be LINE.

Navigation : OM: Setup > Transactions >Transaction Types



Transaction Types – Assign Lines

          Define your line types first. You should define line types for both order lines and return lines.
          Once you define the Order Transaction types, assign the Line Transaction Type using the option Assign Line flows.



Document Sequences
          Define Document Sequences for automatic or manual numbering of orders.
          This step is required. You can define multiple document sequences that are assigned to different order types.

Navigation : OM: Setup -> Documents -> Define


Document Categories
Whenever we create a new transaction type, a new document category gets created automatically.
You must define a category for each bill of lading and packing slip you wish to create.

Navigation: OM: Setup -> Documents -> Categories

Assign document sequences
After defining document sequences and categories, assign document sequences to document categories.

Assigning sequences is application and category specific. You cannot change a document category definition. If you find incorrect information, create a new category with the correct information, re-assign document sequences to the new category, and disable the old category.

Navigation : OM: Setup -> Documents -> Assign


Friday, January 6, 2012

Landed Cost Management and Accounts Payable Accounting flow




Landed Cost Management Set Ups


The below are the listed Landed Cost Management Set Ups for a process flow:


1. Enable the LCM flag in inventory organization parameters and define the LCM Variance account.


2. Define the LCM accounts in Receiving options 


3. Enable the Pre-Receiving flag if required depending on the business requirement.
Navigation: Purchasing responsibility > Setup > Organizations > Receiving Options


4. Define the Organization Access to the inventory organization which is enabled for LCM for the responsibility 'Landed Cost Management' without which the organization will not appear in the LOV of LCM workbench.
Navigation: Inventory responsibility > Setup > Organizations > Organization Access


5. Define the Cost Factors in Purchasing which will be used as charges in the LCM Shipment. Based on the allocation basis (quantity/value/weight/volume) and pricing basis (per unit or fixed amount or % of line price) defined for the charges in the Cost factor page, the allocation of amount to the charges will be decided.
Navigation: Purchasing Responsibility > Setup > Purchasing > Cost Factors


6. Define the LCM options, Shipment line types and Shipment types in LCM workbench


7. Associate the default Shipment line type to the Shipment type in LCM workbench


8. Define the Party types allowed, Party usages allowed and Source types allowed for the Shipment types defined in LCM workbench


9. Define the modifiers in Advanced Pricing for the charges that need to be used in LCM shipment. This setup shows whether the charges need to be applied at PO line level or header level and the rate at which the charge allocation should be done.
Navigation: Purchasing Responsibility > Advanced Pricing > Modifiers > Modifier setup


10. Define the following Landed Cost Management profile options


INL: Default Currency Code for QP Charges Generation
INL: Default Currency Conversion Type for QP Charges Generation
INL: Default Shipment Type for Open Interface


11. Define the following QP profile options at Landed Cost Management responsibility level


QP: Blind Discount Option = Yes
QP: Licensed for Product = Purchasing
QP:Item Validation Organization = <Set the item master organization>
QP:Pricing Perspective Request Type = Purchase Order
QP:Pricing Transaction Entity = Procurement
QP:Source System Code = Oracle Purchasing