Scheduling in Oracle Order Management

Scheduling is a concept, which helps to place the demand in the inventory based on the availability.

Scheduling helps with the following:

•        Find the availability of the item

•        Populate the Schedule Ship Date, Arrival Date and the Last Acceptable Date based on the calculate ATP date

Setup Available to Promise in Order Management

ATP is acronym to Available to Promise.

Oracle Order Management enables you to advise your customers when items will be available based on current on-hand inventory plus the expected incoming supply and outgoing demand.

Calculating ATP requires as input the item, the order quantity, the order quantity unit of measure and the request date. In general the user will enter the item and order quantity on every order line.

Oracle Inventory Integration with other modules

Oracle Inventory interacts with the other applications by sharing information:

Ø       Oracle Cost Management: From cost Information to transaction rates

Ø       Oracle Work in Progress: From WIP activity and ATP supply information to UOM, items, and on-hand quantity.

Ø       Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP: From ATP supply information to on-hand quantity and forecasts

Ø       Oracle Bill of Materials to UOM and items