Pull Replenishment

Today We discuss about one of the latest advanced feature introduced in Oracle R12 Warehouse Management System. 

Pull Replenishment: A replenishment suggestion is auto-created as soon as a shortfall is detected during the order release process. This type of replenishment is useful for items with high uniform demand in forward pick areas. Pull Replenishment improves productivity and reduce pick area stock outs. Automated replenishment of pick area happens based on order demand and min-max quantities.

• Initiated by the Pick Release process

• Pick release will spawn a new concurrent request named ‘Pull Replenishment’ (if replenishment is needed)

• A new concurrent program has been created for this functionality.

Move Order approval & Notification to Subinventory Planners

We will see How to setup Move Order Approval process in OracleApps and also we will explore a way to send a notification to a list of planners who are associated with a specific subinventory.

Define Item Planner in 'Planners' window. In this example, I am using J. Smith as Item Planner.

Oracle Bulk Picking Functionality

Bulk picking will reduce the number of times goods are processed and returned to a user. After pick release occurs for both outbound sales orders and internal orders, or for manufacturing component picks, Oracle Warehouse Management consolidates tasks of similar characteristics into a single bulk task. This process can be initiated either at the time of pick release, or through a concurrent program(“WMS Bulk Task Generation”) separate from the pick release process.

Bulk picking only works effectively if the same item is picked repeatedly from the forward pick location causing frequent replenishments.

GTIN - Global Trade Item Number

As businesses become interconnected using various technology options such as EDI and XML, there is a need for global product identification standards that are usable by all trading partners in the extended supply chain. A major goal of these standards is to guarantee unique and unambiguous identification of products and services across the supply chain.  A Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) is a unique number assigned to a product within the EAN/UCC framework for standard product identification.

The Oracle Warehouse Management and Inventory Mobile Supply Chain Applications are capable of resolving items defined in the system using GTIN. You can scan a GTIN barcode and the system will translate the scanned value to an internal item.

Catch Weight Functionality

Dual UOM or Catch Weight management is used primarily in the meat and metal Industries. In these industries due to variability of each piece logistic unit of measure will generally differ from the valuation unit of measure. Shipping and receiving generally happens in Each or Box but payment happens on the weight. The key requirement for this business process is to track the inventory in two different unrelated UOMs where the relationship between both the UOMs is not fixed.