Oracle Work in Process is a production management system which supports discrete, project, repetitive, assemble-to-order, work order-less, or a combination of manufacturing methods.
Manufacturing Support
- Build discrete jobs, both standard and non-standard (prototype, rework, maintenance, and special projects).
- Build project jobs, both standard and non-standard
- Build repetitive schedules by production line/assemblyBuild final assembly orders for configure-to-order
- Complete assemblies without having to create a job or schedule
Production Scheduling
- Load and sequence repetitive production by assembly and production line
- Schedule start and stop times to the minute
- Schedule fixed, variable, and overlap time elements
- Use forward, backward, manual, and midpoint rescheduling
- Update the master production schedule automatically
Material Control
- Issue and return components from and to inventory.
- Replenish supply subinventories by item, job, or day.
- Backflush components automatically using operation or assembly completion.
- Generate bill of material requirements using standard and alternate bills and revisions.
- Modify job and schedule material requirements as required.
- Control engineering change implementation.
- Issue and build serial number, lot-controlled, and revision controlled components and assemblies.
- Scrap components and assemblies
- Control MRP netting (production quantities can be non-nettable quantities)
- Display on-hand and available to transact quantities during material transactions.
- Setup transaction processing options as required
Shop Floor Control
- Move assemblies between and within operations
- Use outside suppliers
- Combine move and completion transactions
- Charge resources and overheads automatically
- Generate routing operations using standard and alternate routings and revisions
- Modify routing operations as required
- Setup transaction processing options as required
- Resource Tracking
- Charge labor, machine, and outside resources automatically or manually
- Charge resources at standard, employee, or actual rates
- Charge labor by resource or employee
- View and report efficiency, usage, and transaction history
Costing
- Cost discrete jobs using standard or weighted average costs
- Segregates costs for project jobs
- Track costs by product line
Import
- Import move transactions from data collection devices, factory floor machines or controllers using the Open Move Transaction Interface
- Import material transactions (component issue/return, assembly completion/return, replenishment) from data collection devices, custom data entry forms, and other manufacturing inventory systems using the Open Inventory Transaction Interface
- Import resource transactions from data collection devices and labor tracking systems using the Open Resource Cost Transaction Interface
- Import planned orders, update recommendations, and planned repetitive schedules directly from external sources using the Open Job and Schedule Interface
- Update scheduling dates at the operation or resource level using the WIP Scheduling Interface
Increase Productivity
- Automate manufacturing information processing
- Eliminate the need to define and update orders after each planning run by loading and rescheduling shop floor activity based on master schedule and material plans
- Eliminate excess navigation within windows by setting first field defaults that correspond to your primary manufacturing environment (discrete, repetitive, or assemble-to-order)
- Eliminate the need to transact at non-critical operations by defining them as no count point or no autocharge operations
- Eliminate the need to manually define job names by using the automatic sequence generator
- Eliminate the need to manually assign and verify lots during transaction processing by specifying default lot selection and verification rules.