The Changed Features in R12 Inventory Convergence in R12- The Integrated Organization Structure In R12 and beyond there

will be only one inventory module supporting both process and discrete organizations. Note that the organization type distinction (process vs discrete) will still be required as the manufacturing, costing and quality applications are not converging in this release. Although Oracle Inventory will integrate with both product suites, users must still determine their organization type in order to indicate which costing application, which production application and which quality application they will use. With the use of one inventory system, to support the needs of both discrete and process manufacturers, users will have a seamless integration to the entire e-Business Suite. Process manufacturers will be able to leverage the full functionality of Oracle Inventory and Warehouse Management and Discrete Manufacturers can implement dual units of measure and other process features for those industries which straddle the worlds of process and discrete. The OPM organization structure is replaced by the Oracle Applications org structure. Some of the functionality given to an OPM Company is transferred to the legal entity level, so that the OPM Company definition is completely removed. Plants, labs and warehouses all map directly to inventory organizations. During the migration, warehouses can be converted into subinventories. Stock locators already map to the warehouse location in Process Inventory and already exist in the Oracle Inventory tables. Till 11i

Order Management

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The following provides an example of how the new structure may apply to a company. SOB Each Set of Books has the 4 Cs the same: Accounting Method, Calendar, Currency, and Chart of Accounts. Legal Entity Primarily used for tax purposes, Operating Units typically departments, branches or the like. Inventory Orgs are typically either manufacturing orgs and/or warehouses within an Org. Subinventories are typically represent various warehouse or areas of a warehouse. Locators typically identify inventory locations (i.e. row, rack, and bin) Process Inventory features and functionality are now incorporated into Oracle Inventory. With this release, customers of Oracles Process Manufacturing applications can now use Oracle Inventory and Oracle Warehouse Management. The use of a single inventory application provides the Oracle Process Manufacturing user seamless integration with the rest of the eBusiness Suite. This feature opens up additional functionality that was previously only available to Discrete Oracle Inventory users, such as vendor-managed and consigned inventory, reservations, move order requisitions, kanban, min-max replenishment and robust physical inventory and cycle counting functionality. The ability to implement Oracle Warehouse Management allows users to leverage sophisticated picking rules, license plates (LPNS), putaway rules and task management. Process Inventory forms and reports are available for viewing and reporting of historical data. This release also includes the migration of Process Inventory data into Oracle Inventory. In order to support the needs of process manufacturing organizations, several additional features have been added to Oracle Inventory: Dual unit of measure control for any item Advanced lot control Material Status Enhanced inventory allocation rules

OPM Inventory Control Prior to R12 Items Item organizations Inventory calendar Warehouse Warehouse locations Item lot conversions Lot and sublot Session parameters Lot status Allocation parameters OPM category sets Profile options Lot genealogy Public APIs

Oracle Inventory Setup for R12 Master items and organizations items Obsolete Inventory calendar Organization/sub-inventory Stock locators Item conversions and lot specific conversions Parent lot and child lot Change organizations Material status Picking rules Default category sets Organization parameters Genealogy workbench Public API signatures may have changed

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Event Sub-Event Account Titles Sub-Event Account Titles Accounting Template Account Mapping Attributes Priorities and Account Mapping Test Account Mapping OPM Currency, OPM Ledger, OPM Exchange Rates Sub ledger Program Test and Actual Sub ledger Accounting

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Event Class Event Type Journal Line Types (JLT) Journal Line Definition (JLD) Application Accounting Definitions (AAD) (SLA) Sources Account Derivation Rules (ADR) Test Accounting Builder Use GL set ups Accounting Pre-Processor Draft and Final Accounting

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Select method and Applications like Order processing Select Application and All Events Class and Event Type

For every Events Class and Event Type select JLT and ADR

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