Oracle WMS

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 Warehouse Management System

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Warehouse Components
• Warehouse is a substitute to capacity.
• Warehouse is an integral part of business that gives the competitive
• advantage to the organization by reducing the transportation cost and
• improving the customer service level.

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Organization Hierarchy
• Statutory Definition: Operating Unit

• Physical Entity: Organization

• Zone: Sub-inventory

• Row, Rack, Bin: Locator

For Ex :
• KPIT is Business Group
• KPIT Pune is Operating unit
• SDB1 & SDB2 are Inventory Org.

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Activities / Functions in a Warehousing?

Internal
Inbound Outbound
Processing • Customer Shipments
• Purchases • Vendor Returns
• Customer Returns • Transfers
• Transfers • Outside Processing
• Outside Processing
• Pick • Assembly
• Pack • Storage
• Inspection • Move
• Count • Replenish
WMS Process

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Warehouse Layout

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Warehouse Management Application Hierarchy

Oracle Warehouse Management Rules

LPNs
Engine

Material Lot Split

Task Mgt.
Mgt. Merge

Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications

Oracle Mobile (RF) Technology

Existing: Oracle Manufacturing & Distribution Applications

WIP Project Order Mgt Purchasing

Quality Inventory
BOM Mfg. Shipping Receiving

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Oracle Mobile Applications Architecture

Application /
Data Base

SQL
Net

Mobile
Transaction
Server
RF Base
Station
RF Device (Router) LAN or WAN
Telnet over TCP/IP
Automated Task Dispatching

•Assign tasks to the optimal, qualified resource and send them

directly to that users RF device.
•Eliminates manual, parallel systems
•Correctly matches skills and equipment to tasks
•Minimizes travel time

Move Task
Orders Queue
Line 1 Task 1
Line 2 Task 2
Line 3 Task 3
... ...
Product Comparison

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Inbound Flow

Create & update Update Supplier Arrival of goods from

PO with PO details supplier to our warehouse

Receiving goods against Physical unloading of

PO by barcode scanning goods from truck

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Inspection Flow

Scan the LPN barcode to Perform physical

Segregated & pack the
initiate the inspection inspection of goods accepted good in a new
process LPN

Segregated & pack the

rejected good in a new
LPN

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Putaway Flow

Scan the LPN barcode to Based on WMS rules

Task dispatched to HHT
initiate the inspection configured system to for putaway
process create a putaway task

Confirmation of task after Physical movement of

storage material to storage area

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Outbound Flow

Book & Pick release a Based on WMS rules

Task dispatched on HHT
Sales Order configured system would for qualified picker
allocate available
inventory

Ship confirm by Physical movement of Picker to physically pick

confirming on HHT stock to staging area the material from suggest
location

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Inbound Process

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Types of Routing

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LPN System
• An LPN is an object that exists in a location and hold items. It is used to Track, Transact and nest LPN's.

Use of LPN's in following ways

• Store information about an item, Lot, Serial, Sub–Inventory, Locators.

• Track contents of container
• Receive, store and pick material by LPN
• View on hand balances by LPN
• Transfer LPN contents
• Pack, unpack, Consolidate, Split and update LPN's.
• Track nested LPN's.

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License Plate Numbers (LPNs)

Containers

LPNs

Groups of Items
Nesting LPNs

Item A

LPN2
LPN3
LPN1

LPN4

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 Generating LPNs

cense Plate Number

– Unique across organizations
– Manually generated or automatically generated through a concurrent request
cense Plate Naming Logic
– Defined at organization level
– Can be manufacturer code assigned by UCC

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LPN Context

Resides in WIP Resides in Inventory

Resides in
Receiving

In-transit

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LPN Context

Pre-generated Picked

Issued out of Stores Packing

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LPN Context

– Defined but not Used

– Resides at Vendor Site

– Pre-Pack of WIP

– Loaded for Shipment

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LPN Material Status
Allowed Transaction Types
• Put Away
• LPN Load
• LPN Ship
• Subinventory Transfer
• Organization Transfer
• Planning Transfer
• Xfer to Regular
• Alias Issue
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• Miscellaneous Issue
• Consigned / VMI Issue
• Normal Cycle Count
• Normal Physical Count
• Consolidate
• Unpack
• Split
• Split by Order
Types of Labeling

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Types of Label

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WMS Rule Engine
Rules engine provides a repository for restrictions and business policies. You define and implement rules, directly from standard Oracle Applications
windows. You select from the elements in the lists of values to compose rules. The rules engine also does not allow you to modify rules currently in use.
Based on the restrictions that you define, the rules engine performs the following activities:
Enables directed picking
Enables directed put away
Assigns tasks to a resource with the appropriate training and equipment
Assigns cost groups to received material
You can base rules on nearly any attribute in the database, including user-defined flexfields. You can create rules based on the following rule types:
• Put Away
• Picking
• Task Type Assignment
• Cost Group Assignment
• Label Format Assignment
• Operation Plan Selection

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Cycle Count

Cycle Count functionality has always been a integral part of Oracle Inventory. Cycle counting is the process of periodically
counting individual items to ensure accuracy of inventory quantities and value. With Oracle Warehouse Management, this
functionality has become more user friendly, less time consuming, and more accurate.

The most significant improvement is in the way the actual count is entered and the flexibility in entering the count. In an
Oracle Warehouse Management enabled environment the Mobile Radio were formerly performed on the desktop. Counts
are recorded immediately in the database. Frequency (RF) devices essentially provide a new interface for the same
cycle count transactions

Cartonization
Oracle Warehouse Management uses cartonization to suggest the best packaging configuration for a group of items. The
system can present the packaging suggestion to you in one of many ways, including automatically generating license plates,
printing container and shipping labels, and presenting the suggestion to you as part of a task.

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 Difference between Oracle Inventory and WMS

Inventory and WMS modules are used to hold the inventory and do transactions like receiving and picking goods.

 Key Business Processes supported by Oracle WMS are:

 Inbound Logistics (Receiving from Supplier, Returns, Corrections)
 Outbound Logistics (Picking, Packing, Shipping)
 Reverse Logistics (Customer Returns)
 Stocking and Internal Inventory Movements
 WIP JOB Assembly completion, Component issues

WMS comes with rule workbench which makes warehouse management lot easier and efficient by defining different rules,
pick rules, putaway rules, label printing rules.

In nventory module, accounting details cannot be given down the sub inventory level but in WMS it can be derived in many
different levels, in locator level, lot level, supplier level, etc.

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 Reports

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Mobile User Interface (Character Based / GUI)
Barcode & License Plate # Support
Multiple Packages
and Products
Barcode Support
• Automatically Track All
Related Product Information
• Capture All Information
with a Single Scan
Reduces Cycle Time &
Improves Accuracy
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Single Unique Number
for All Information
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Container and LPN* Support
• Supports Infinite Nesting Levels
• Perform Complex Moves via a Single Scan
• Fully Integrated with ASNs
Improves Efficiency,
Accuracy, and Tracking
*License Plate Number
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