Discrete and Repetitive Manufacturing

Discrete and Repetitive Manufacturing

There are two basic kinds of factory layouts: the flow shop and the job shop.

In a flow shop, the machines are set up and the floor is laid out so that items flow uninterrupted from one operation to the next, hence the name. An assembly line is the standard example for a flow shop. In a job shop, the movement between operations is not as seamless; there may be significant move and queue time between them. A metal fabrication plant where each part is make-to-order and each must be bent, lathed and milled is a good example of a job shop.

When an item is manufactured in a flow shop, The machines that perform tasks will tend to be smaller than I the equivalent job shop, and the tasks they perform will be more defined. In order to reduce wait and queue time, the same task may be performed by several different machines.

In a job shop, the factory is laid out in a way that the flow of production; it is laid out into functional areas. The cutting machines are in one area or department the lathes are in another. Layout into functional areas usually prevents the smooth flow of inventory through the factory, because the production of a single item may require that it criss-cross the shop floor.

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Key Profile option in Order Management

Key Profile option in Order Management

OM: Discounting Privilege
This profile option provides the choice of controlling user’s ability to apply
discounts on an order or order line.

Either of the below 3 values can be selected for the profile option

Full:
Ability to apply any valid discount against an order or order line, as long as
the order type of the order does not enforce list prices (Default value)

Non-Overridable Only:
Ability to apply only non-overridable discounts against an
order or order line.

Unlimited:
Ability to apply any valid discount against any order or order line,
regardless of whether the order type of the order enforces list prices

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What is Oracle Workflow ?

Business processes revolve around routing information through various users through set of constantly changing rules. The flow of information is governed by various conditions and checking for outcome of previous steps. An established process of routing will be subject to continuous monitoring and rounting. Each organization follows a different set of business practices.

Workflow gets the right information to the right people. Workflow lets you provide each person with all the information they need to take an action. Workflow can route supporting information to each decision maker in a business process.

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What is Oracle Workflow ?

Business processes revolve around routing information through various users through set of constantly changing rules. The flow of information is governed by various conditions and checking for outcome of previous steps. An established process of routing will be subject to continuous monitoring and rounting. Each organization follows a different set of business practices.

Workflow gets the right information to the right people. Workflow lets you provide each person with all the information they need to take an action. Workflow can route supporting information to each decision maker in a business process.

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Single function in a responsibility

If a single function is attached to a inventory organization sensitive function such as subinventory transfer (in Inventory), please beware that the function would open in a wrong inventory organization. This might result in user entering transactions in wrong inventory organization.

For example, User "A" is attached to 3 Inventory responsibilities - "INV User X", "INV User Y" and "INV User Z".

Suppose each of these 3 responsibilities has only 'active' function attached

In the above scenario, you would note that form/function opens in a wrong inventory organization

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Oracle Demantra

Hello Friends,

Recently BearingPoint announced the sucessful deployment of Demantra at renowned wireless manufacturer 'Kyocera', the San Diego, California- based company.

Looking at the growing interest in Demantra, applearn team is looking for 'Demantra' professionals who would help us all understand the basics, how it integrates & fits in the E-business suite. If anyone from you have either got trained or already working on Demantra, it would be wonderful to have you as our author to post articles here.

If we realize that none of us knows much about it much, then we might request each one of you for help to reach someone who could help us

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Sharing Costs across Organizations

Costs of items can be shared across organizations using standard costing. This is a unique feature of Standard Costing method.

If standard costs are shared across multiple organizations, costs are maintained by the cost master organization and shared by the child cost organizations. Costs cannot be entered into the child cost organizations. All reports, inquiries, and processes use the shared costs.

Oracle Cost Management - What is Cost Rollup?

Cost Rollup is a process by which the costs of assemblies are built, starting with the lowest level and working up the structure to top-level assemblies. This process is specifically called a ‘full cost rollup’. This method gives the most current bill of material structure and component costs.

There is another way of rolling up Costs, which is the single–level rollup, which only looks at the first level of the bill structure for each assembly in the rollup and rolls the costs for the items at this level into the parent. This method does not reflect structure or cost changes that have occurred at a level below the first level of assemblies.