Data Sheet ORACLE BILLS OF MATERIAL 11i

Oracle® Bills of Material is a comprehensive manufacturing tool that maximizes efficiency, improves quality, and lowers costs for even the most sophisticated manufacturers. Oracle Bills of Material is part of the Oracle E-Business Suite, an integrated set of applications that are engineered to work together.

Improved Accuracy and Agile DevelopmentOracle Bills of Material improves the accuracy of your manufacturing data with an extensive data repository, a powerful set of analytical tools, secure access controls, and a complete mass-change capability. You can centralize your manufacturing data or control product details within each plant, and control product and process structures across multiple sites.

Complete Product StructuresOracle Bills of Material helps you manage all of your essential engineering, business planning,material planning, and material handling information. You can keep revisions up to date, forecast demand for product families, accurately plan your material and resource requirements, and specify automated material-handling transactions using simple replenishment and back flush techniques. Your cost accountants can also simulate, plan, and analyze costs for items and their alternatives.

Product FamiliesYou can group similar products into product families. You can specify allocation percentages foreach product member in the family. Oracle Planning allows you to specify demand forecasts forproduct families allowing you to plan at an aggregate level.

Streamlined Business FlowsOracle Bills of Material’s business flows reduce your learning curve, improve your ability to research and resolve problems, and increase your daily productivity. Oracle allows you to find critical information in a flexible way, see the results in your preferred format, and selectively take appropriate action. For example, the you can view bills based on user defined search criteria and then drill down on a specific bill to view or modify component information.

Flexible Product and Process SpecificationYou can define manufacturing products and processes to your exact specifications. You define your own departments, operations, and resources, as well as standard, common, and alternate bills of material and routings. You can define standard operations and reference or copy them to multiple routings.

Increased Visibility to ChangesYou can respond quickly and precisely in your production environment. Online inquiries and reports give you a complete picture of the current bill structure ensuring that you make informed, consistent decisions.

Powrful Graphical FeaturesImprove your productivity dramatically with easier access to critical information. Oracle Bills ofMaterial’s feature - rich graphical user interface is easy to learn and packed with accelerators forpower users. The intuitive windowing, mouse actions, icons, and built-in drill down allowtransactions and inquiries to flow naturally and quickly.

Multimedia Reference and CommunicationOracle Bills of Material’s multimedia capabilities can transform communication within your organization. You can store all kinds of data, including important source documents, PC files, video training, and voice annotations with key reference and transactional data. For example, you can link a CAD drawing to a bill of material or video instructions to an operation on a routing.

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Complete and Flexible IntegrationOracle Bills of Material is fully integrated with other Oracle Applications to provide comprehensive, internet-based solutions for your manufacturing needs. Using Oracle’s market - leading technology, you can rapidly implement solutions that integrate corporate information regardless of system or format, tailor functionality to meet your specific requirements, and expand your system to keep pace with dynamic business evolution. Additionally, you can deploy various manufacturing methods concurrently and flexibly - by plant, by product family, by production line, or by process. Oracle’s engineering standards ensure that Oracle Applications deliver the highest return on your software investment —today and tomorrow.

Integrated Document ManagementProduct information management has long been considered critical in managing product design and changes in many industries including automotive, utilities and aerospace and defense. Oracle Bills of Material offers a suite of capabilities aimed at bridging the gap between product design and production process. You can attach version-controlled documents to your bills and routings. Additionally, you can use Document Management capabilities to capture and manage “unstructured” product information. These capabilities let you create, copy, check-in, check-out and view documents.

Comprehensive RoutingsYou can quickly create routing network entities for routings. Oracle Bills of Material allows you to record operation yields at every operation. Oracle Bills of Material also lets you define substitute resources for the purpose of providing alternate resources when a primary resource or group of resources is not available.

Oracle E-Business Suite -The Total SolutionOracle E-Business Suite enables companies to efficiently manage customer processes,manufacture products, ship orders, collect payments, and more—all from applications that are built on a unified information architecture. This information architecture provides a single definition of your customers, suppliers, employees, products—all aspects of your business. Whether you implement one module or the entire Suite, Oracle E-Business Suite enables you to share unified information so you can make smarter decisions with better information.

As a provider of global consulting, education, and support services, Oracle provides the most complete e-business solution available.

The Oracle E-Business Suite: transforming your business into an e-business

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Manufacturing Bills

Define primary, alternate, common, phantom, planning, and configuration bills of material (BOM).

Define substitute items and enter unlimited comments for each component

Control BOM changes by revision and effective date/time/unit number

Copy and share BOMs

Mass-change BOM

Assign component yield information for material planning, production scheduling, and costing

Select material-handling supply locations and issue methods by component

Delete and archive obsolete BOM and components

Manufacturing Routings

Define primary, alternate, and common routings

Define completion location

Control routing changes by revisions effective date/time

Copy and share routings

Define unlimited operations, departments, comments, and resources for each operation

Simplify shop-floor transactions with count points and backflushing

Schedule per resource

Assign fixed-usage resources for move, queue, and setup/ teardown activities

Calculate fixed and variable manufacturing lead times

Roll up manufacturing and total lead times

Define substitute

Assign operation yields to each operation

Assign scrap and expected scrap accounts for a department

Assign operation yields to standard operations

Document Management

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Issue components from inventory as required

Create/register new documents

Provide secure access to multiple document vaults

Copy, Check-in and Check-out documents

Capture and mange document history and status

Attach version-controlled documents to bills and routings

Resource Availability

Define a manufacturing calendar

Enter workday and shift exceptions to represent downtime and holidays

Define multiple shifts with specific start and stop times

Assign multiple shifts to department resources

Simulate the impact of capacity changes for a resource shift

Implement short-term capacity modifications

Date/Time Control

Use effective dates for components on BOM and for operations on routings

Automatically use effective dates in Oracle Master Scheduling™ /Oracle MRP™ and Oracle Capacity™ plans

Queries and Reports

View single-level and indented BOM at any level

View “where used” for components, departments, and resources

View routings, standard operations, and operation details

View historical BOM and routings

View BOM components and routings by effective date and time

 

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