Oracle R12 Inventory Management Fundamentals

Audience:

• Functional Implementer
• End Users

Required Prerequisites:

• Basic understanding of Inventory Management principles
• R12 eBusiness Suite Essentials for Implementers

Course Objectives:

• Understand the structure of an inventory organization in Oracle Inventory
• Understand how to perform inventory transactions using a mobile device
• Understand the planning and replenishment methods available in Oracle Inventory including min-max planning, reorder-point planning, replenishment counting, and Kanban replenishment
• Understand the role of an item-master organization
• Define items in Oracle Inventory
• Understand the concept of move orders
• Learn to implement locator, revision, serial, and lot control for items
• Perform inventory transactions such as subinventory transfer and interorganization transfer
• Set up shipping networks between inventory organizations and understand the significance of direct shipment and in transit shipment
• Understand how to create units of measure
• Understand how to create reservations
• Understand how to view on-hand quantities
• Understand how to define material statuses
• Understand how to define and maintain a cycle count
• Create an ABC ranking of items to be used in cycle counting
• Understand the overall inventory process in Oracle Inventory

Course Topics:

Overview of Oracle Inventory

• Receiving Inventory
• Transferring Inventory
• On-hand and Availability
• Issuing Inventory
• Inventory Accuracy
• Discussing Inventory Application Integration

Inventory Structure

• Overview of Inventory Structure
• Setting up the Inventory Organization Structure
• Defining Organization Parameters
• Defining Shipping Networks
• Defining Subinventories and Locators

Units of Measure

• Defining Units of Measure

Defining and Maintaining Items

• Defining Items Process
• Using Item Templates
• Assigning Items to Organizations
• Categories, Category Sets, and Catalogs
• Deleting Items

Lot and Serial Control

• Setting up Lot Control
• Maintaining Serial Information
• Maintaining Lot and Serial Genealogy

Transaction Setup

• Defining Transaction Types
• Defining Picking Rules
• Defining Account Aliases
• Opening and Closing Accounting Periods
• Setting up Move Orders
• Material Shortage Alerts and Notifications

Issuing and Transferring Material

• Managing Receipts
• Performing Transactions
• Performing Move Orders
• Performing Mobile Transactions
• Managing Shipments

On-hand and Availability

• Using the Material Workbench
• Creating Available to Promise Rules
• Managing Reservations

Material Status Control

• Material Status Setup

Inventory Replenishment

• Defining Replenishment
• Inventory Forecasting Methods
• Replenishment Counting
• Kanban

Inventory Accuracy

• Defining Counting
• ABC Analysis
• Cycle Counting
• Physical Inventory

Table Information

• Accessing eTRM

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