Inventory Management Cloud Service

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Inventory Management Cloud Service
Overview

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Safe Harbor Statement
The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for
information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a
commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon
in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or
functionality described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.
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Oracle Cloud
Application Families
Financials
Accounting
Hub Reporting
Project
Management
Revenue
Management
Project
Financial
Management
Procurement
Transportation
& Global Trade
Management
Product Value
Chain
Inventory and
Costing

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SCM Cloud Services Roadmap
Prior: R8
Inventory (with Procurement), Product Hub
Current: R9
Innovation Management, Product Development, OTM & GTM
Next: R10 (This Calendar Year)
Quote to Cash (CPQ Cloud & DOO/Inventory)
Future: R11 (Late This Calendar Year)
Manufacturing, Planning, Order Management
The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a
commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any
features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

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Oracle ERP Cloud Service
• Casual users or Buyers buy goods by item - OR -
• Stock levels for certain goods are automatically
replenished
• Casual users or Buyers “Receive” goods - OR -
• Receiving Agent receives goods into stocking location
• Goods are managed and distributed by stock /
warehouse personnel
Procure Expensed Goods and Services
Solution:
• Purchasing and Self-service Procurement
– Self-service / Desktop Receiving
• Inventory Management & Supply Chain Managerial
Accounting

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Inventory Key Objects

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Inventory Organizations
Company
Distribution
Center
Warehouse

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Inventory Organization Structure
Organization
Subinventories
Locators

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What is a Subinventory?
Finished goods
Raw materials
Defective items

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Sample Inventory Organization
Receiving
sub
Raw materials
sub
Manufacturing
sub
Finished goods
sub
Inspection
sub
Defective
goods
sub
Shipping sub
Inbound
Outbound Outbound

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Locator Control
Row
Rack
Bin

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Dynamic and Previously Defined Locators
• Dynamic Locators
– Generate during a transaction as
needed
• Previously Defined Locators
– Predetermined

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Subinventory-Locator Relationship
Subinventory: BULK Subinventory: FROZEN
With locator control Without locator control

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Define Items

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• Item Terminology
• Item Attributes
• Item Creation Methods

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Item Terminology
 Item: An entity that represents products/services that a business
manufacturers, stocks or sells.
 Item Revision: Allows tracking changes to an item or its data
over a period of time and generally represents a form/fit/function
of the item at a given point in time.
 Item Attributes: Attributes describe a product or a service in
terms of its characteristics, features or properties.
– Operational Attributes (pre-defined attributes)
– Transactional Item Attributes
– Extended or User Defined Attributes

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Item Attributes
 Attributes are named entities whose values describe various
qualities of a product item.
 The following types of attributes are available:
– Main attributes
– Operational attributes
– User-defined attribute groups and attributes
– Additional information attributes
– Transactional attributes

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Item Attributes – UOM Related

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Item Attributes – Inventory Related

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Item Attributes – Min-Max Related

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Item Attributes – Receiving Related

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Item Creation Methods
 Create item manually – Script 01
 Copy from existing item – Script 02
 Create item using SAAS controlled spreadsheet

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Traditional Challenges of ERP-based Inventory
• Designed for Transaction Reporting not WORK EXECUTION
• Fixed financial events tied to Inventory Movement
• Fragmented reporting and Business Intelligence Solutions
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Fusion Inventory Management Cloud Service
Overview
Returns
Transfers
Supply
Purchases
Transfers
SOA-based Integration
Receive
Inspect
Put Away Replenish
Cycle Count
Move
Pick
Report
Transfer
Physical
Inventory
Consume
Consign
Supply Chain
Managerial Acctg
Procurement Financials

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Receiving

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Receiving
• Supplier ASNs/ASBNs support from Supplier Portal
• 1, 2 or 3 step receiving
– Inspection
– Put Away
• Unordered Receipts
• Correction
• Supplier Returns
• ASN/ASBN, Receiving, Inspection, Put Away, Correct and Return spreadsheet and web-
service capabilities
Key Features

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Procure and Manage Inventoried Goods
Receipts Work Area
Drill into Receiving,
Inspection or Putaway
pages directly
Drill into Receiving,
Inspection or Put
Away pages directly

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Procure and Manage Inventoried Goods
Receipts Work Area Expected, Received and
Outstanding Work
Summary
Hover and drill into
tasks

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Procure and Manage Inventoried Goods
Receiving
Drill into Source
Document
Contextual Action to
get details of items

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Procure and Manage Inventoried Goods
Receiving
Receive one or multiple
lines

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Procure and Manage Inventoried Goods
Receiving
Enter Receipt Details in
summary form
Enter Receipt Details in
detailed form

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Procure and Manage Inventoried Goods
Receiving
Enter Receipt
Information

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Fusion Receiving – User Roles and Objectives
• Process inbound receipts
in a timely manner
• Properly stock inventory
• Return unacceptable
items to the vendor
• Inspect and receive
customer returns back
into the appropriate stock
location

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Inventory

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Inventory
• Manage Item Quantities
• Movement Requests
• Miscellaneous Transactions and Transfers
• Inter-org Transfer
• Cycle Count / Physical Inventory
• Min/Max Replenishment
• Miscellaneous Transaction and Cycle Count spreadsheet and web-service capabilities
Key Features

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Procure and Manage Inventoried Goods
Warehouse Operations
Click Metrics to
view/manage work
load

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Procure and Manage Inventoried Goods
Inventory Work Area
Launch Pad for Role-
based Tasks
Tree-table view of
Inventory Balances
Easy access to reports
and analytics

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Fusion Inventory – User Roles and Objectives
• Comprehensive
Inventory Visibility
• Ensure Inventory
Accuracy
• Minimize
Inventory Levels

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Shipping

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Shipping*
• Manage Reservations
• Manage and Release Pick Waves
• Confirm Picks
• Manage Shipments / Shipment Lines
• Communicate Shipments to Trading Partners
Key Features
* Private Cloud or On-premise

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Proactive Warehouse Work Management
Shipping Work Area
Work Summary in
Different Views
Contextual Actions
Work by Status

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Fusion Shipping – User Roles and Objectives
• Flexibility and ease in
editing, creating or
transferring demand or
supply for a reservation
• Minimize costs by
proactively and
effectively managing
the pick-pack-ship
cycle
• Process shipments
quickly and accurately
to satisfy customer
demand

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Business Intelligence

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Complete Inventory Intelligence Portfolio
Configurable Document
Generation
Configurable
Dashboards, KPIs &
Trend Analysis
Real time, Embedded
Analytics

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BI in Fusion Applications
Inventory Receiving
Balances All Receipts
Supply Receipts by Type
Transactions Intransit by Type
Organization Receipt Transactions
Consistent, Timely, Complete
• Real time, self service reporting
directly off transactional data
• Subject Areas covering all areas
• Easy to create and share reports
Oracle
Transactional
Business
Intelligence (OTBI)
Subject Areas

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