Work in Process Overview

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.