License Plate Numbers (LPNs)

In Oracle Warehouse Management,a license plate number (LPN) is any object that holds items. Although LPNs are associated with containers, they do not need to represent a physical entity, such as a box. Thus, you can define an LPN as a collection of items. A single LPN contain many quantities of the same item and or/ differnt item Ex: LPN L001 contains the item 001 LPN L002 contains 10 quantities of item 001 LPN L003 contains 10 quantities of item 001 and 1 qty of item 002 LPN L004 contains 10 quantities of item 001, item 002 and item 003 Oracle Warehouse Management enables you to track, transact, and nest LPNs. You can use LPNs in the following ways: 1. Store information about an LPN such as item, revision, lot, serial, organization, subinventory, or locator 2. Track contents of any container in receiving, inventory, or in-transit 3. Receive, store, and pick material by LPN 4. View on hand balances by LPN 5. Move multiple items in a transaction by LPN 6. Transfer LPN contents 7. Pack, unpack, consolidate, split, and update LPNs 8. Print labels and reports for referencing container contents 9. Track nested LPNs Oracle Internal & OAI Use OnlyOracle Only 10. Reuse empty LPNs 11. Receive and send LPN information on an ASN Nesting License Plate Numbers

Oracle Warehouse Management enables you to nest LPNs. For example, pallet LPN P5555 contains three nested LPNs: LPN P5552, LPN P5553, and LPN P5554. In the system, you would see LPN P5555 as the top-level LPN, and each of the of the three box LPNs would fall under LPN P5555. You can nest LPNs within other LPNs. In the above example, item A is packed in LPN 2, and LPN1, LPN2, and LPN3 are nested within LPN4. When you transact LPN4, all of the LPNs nested within it are transacted. Note:If Oracle Warehouse Management is enabled in an Oracle Project Manufacturing organization, co-mingling of project and task material is not allowed in an LPN at any level of nesting. Also, project and task material cannot be mixed with non-project and task material in an LPN.

Generating License Plate Numbers

You can generate LPNs using one of the following methods: 1.Automatically by submitting a concurrent request 2.Manually by generating LPNs using a mobile device You can submit a concurrent request to generate multiple LPNs. 1> These LPNs might be associated with a particularcontainer item, or they could be simply labels with no physical container association. 2> Those LPNs can be generated at thesubinventory and locator, or they could have no location until they are packed. For example, assume that you want to assign LPNs to large boxes that will be stored in a particular subinventory and locator. In this case, you can submit a request to direct the system to generate the number of LPNs that you need, based on the parameters that you specify in the concurrent request. In another example, a warehouse manager might pregenerate hundreds of LPN labels and distribute these preprinted labels to the warehouse operators. This way, whenever an operator needs a new LPN, he or she can peel off the next label and use it, rather than having to print a label with each new transaction. Submitting a concurrent request

To submit the LPN generation request, you must select the Generate License Plates option from the Oracle Warehouse Management Navigator. Next, select Generate LPN as the request that you want to submit, and then indicate the appropriate LPN generation parameters in the Parameters window

Using a Mobile Device to Generate LPNs

LPNs can be generated at their point of use in mobile receipt and task forms. When the cursor is in the LPN field, press Generate to automatically generate the LPN. The system default shortcut key, for Generate is [CTRL]+[G]. This can be customized for each mobile device. The actual key mapping is stored in the default.ini file

Inventory Transactions with LPNs

You can use Oracle Warehouse Management to pack LPNs with any grouping of material into a locator. You can then enter the LPN to transact the material. The system transacts all contents of the LPN, including the contents of any LPN nested within the LPN. You can associate LPNs with the following inventory transactions: Miscellaneous issues Subinventory transfers Direct inter-organization transfers Move order transactions

You use a mobile device to perform LPN inventory transactions. When you enable Oracle Warehouse Management, you can enter the LPN or the item information for each transaction. If you enter the LPN, then the system transacts all the contents of the LPN. If you do not enter an LPN, then you can enter the item, quantity, source locations, and all necessary revision, lot, and serial information. Note: You must use the mobile user interfaces to transact material in LPNs. The desktop transaction windows do not include LPN fields. Furthermore, the availability value in the forms reflect unpacked quantities. All inventory transactions update the weight, volume, and units stored in locators. The Oracle Warehouse Management Rules Engine uses these values to determine locator for put away suggestions. The weight and volume of a container item assigned to an LPN is also used to update the weight and volume of the locator. The locator is updated by the gross weight of the LPN, which is the net (weight of contents) plus tare (weight of container). The volume of the LPN is approximated by the maximum of the volume of the contents and the volume of the LPN defined on the container item. You can use the mobile device to perform miscellaneous issues for an LPN. The following figure provides an example of what occurs when you perform a miscellaneous LPN issue. In this example, assume that LPN L2679A contains five items. When you perform a miscellaneous issue for the LPN, the system allocates all of the items in the LPN. Thus, this transaction includes issuing the five items included in the LPN.

Note: Because only Oracle Warehouse Management enabled organizations use LPNs, organization transfers can only be performed using LPNs if the destination organization is also Oracle Warehouse Management enabled. If the destination is not Oracle Warehouse Management enabled, the LPN must be unpacked, and the individual contents must be transferred.