Check it out all the important facts about How OPM benefits your business?

1. How OPM benefit your business?
benefits
In my previous post, Understanding OPM we have briefly touched upon what Process Manufacturing is
OPM,
all about and how it could be synchronized with the day to day plant operations. In this blog entry we’ll
look at how the entire manufacturing process (let’s call it manufacturing for now) is divided
anufacturing
divid
procedurally, strengths and usefulness of OPM solution suite and a sneak peek into OPM extensions for
Endeca.
In terms of ERP, Manufacturing can be divided into 3 types:
1. Flow manufacturing
2. Discrete Manufacturing
3. Process Manufacturing
Flow Manufacturing is an innovative manufacturing method which synchronizes production with
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customer demand. Flow manufacturing production lines are designed to support the inter
inter-mixed
production of multiple products within a family on the same line at a constant rate. It can be used in
Inventory module to replenish kanbans and in Work in Process to complete assemblies without having
to create a job or a schedule (work order less job)
Discrete manufacturing on the other hand is a different business altogether. Discrete ma
manufacturing is a
manufacturing process in which distinct items/products(which you can easily count, see and touch) are
built or manufactured in discrete batches on manufacturing floor. It creates physical products which go
directly to business and consumers, and assemblies that are used by other manufacturers. The resulting
s,
product is easily identifiable. It is different from process manufacturing where products are
undifferentiated (cannot tell the difference between one product and another) such as oil, n
natural gas
and salt.

2. Oracle Process manufacturing, or batch production as it is popularly known, is a process of
,
pressing/mixing/chemical processing/heating/boiling liquid/semi liquid/solid and powder or raw
xing/chemical
materials. Once you manufacture a product by using process manufacturing, the output cannot be
brought to it's original basic form Every individual product here is identical in terms of quality and
form.
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composition. The production process, raw material quantities, packaging pattern etc. is predetermined.
The machines combine and give out the product at the rate of multiple units per hour. Human
intervention is minimal and confined only to monitoring, maintenance and post production processes.
confined
All the FMCG companies fall under this category.
OPM Products and their usability
Oracle OPM has been designed exclusively to cater to the business need of manufacturing industry:
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Consumer Packaged Goods :Food, Beverage, Health and Beauty, Household Products
Food,
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Industrial Products:Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Petroleum, Metals, Mining, Paper and Glass
Chemical,
For those of you who are new to OPM, a generalized bunch of benefits, have been compiled below.
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Readers kindly note that these are excerpts taken from some qualified sources based on years of
practical experience. The technical details might vary from the official product documentation issued by
Oracle.
1. Lot Traceability : Features like Lot/Sub lot,Forward/Backward Genealogy,Status Control,Grade
eatures
lot,Forward/Backward
Control,Lot Expiration,Allocation for Shelf Days are included under this category
2. Multiple Formulas (Bills) :These are typically used for formulas of production, costplanning,
MSDS, effectiveness By Date for Seasonality,effectiveness by Quantity,Scaling,Alternate
Routings,Scrap factors and theoretical yield

3. 3. Support for A and V type Formulas : All three types of formulaecan be included here:
ecan
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V Bills are constructive- Multiple ingredients one product
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A Bills are destructive- One ingredient, multiple products
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A Bills support co-products and by-products
products and-
4. Ingredient Substitutions
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The features like mass ingredient substitutions for formula
formulae
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Designed for ingredient substitutions in manufacturing orders (batches)
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Manufacturing variances for substitutions tracked and reported.
5. Dual UOMs functionality
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Item specific UOMs
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Count to Mass
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Count to Volume
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Mass to Volume
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User defined UOM types
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Lot specific UOMs
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Dual UOM Types
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Fixed
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Defaulted with tolerance

4. 
No relation
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Uses
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Sell by count, invoice by weight
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Dry pounds, wet pounds
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% solids, % moisture
6. Specification Matching Functionality
7. Regulatory Compliance
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Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) are configurable, also formulas for MSDS
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Other features are flexible Costing, which can be either process Costing (Standard,Actual) or
Costing,
Organization Level basis (Warehouse,Item)