This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:
| Date | Update Version | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 06 OCT 2017 | Update 17D | New features delivered in update 17D. |
| 11 AUG 2017 | Update 17C | New features delivered in update 17C. |
| 07 APR 2017 | Update 17B | New features delivered in update 17B. |
This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:
| Date | Feature | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 06 OCT 2017 | Created initial document. |
This guide outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in this update.
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The information contained in this document may include statements about Oracle’s product development plans. Many factors can materially affect Oracle’s product development plans and the nature and timing of future product releases. Accordingly, this Information is provided to you solely for information only, 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 remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.
This information may not be incorporated into any contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Oracle specifically disclaims any liability with respect to this information. Refer to the Legal Notices and Terms of Use for further information.
Display Issued Quantities by Assembly Serial Number
Ensure accurate genealogy for serialized assemblies. You can view the issued quantities for lot, serial, and uncontrolled components by assembly serial number.
Optionally Report Materials for an Assembly Serial From the Dispatch List
Ensure error free issue or return of materials for assembly serials. You now have an option to report materials for an assembly serial number based on dispatch status.
Integrate with External Systems with Additional REST Services
Add to Oracle Manufacturing Cloud capabilities using REST services. You can now use REST services to create and update the details of a work order, and to start and stop an operation.
Use Simplified Scanning for Reporting Materials
Improve your productivity with simplified scanning. You can scan the component number once and capture multiple serial numbers. You can also scan item attributes.
Prioritize Work Order Execution Based on Material Availability
Prioritize work orders for release to execution based on a material availability check. You can identify material shortages and view expected supplies to determine which work orders should be started, and which work orders should be held until materials become available.
Capture Lot and Serial Attributes During Work Order Transactions
Capture, view, or modify lot and serial attributes during manufacturing transactions for products and components.
Enable Inline Electronic Records and Electronic Signatures for Manufacturing
Enforce the capture of an inline electronic signature immediately upon creation and update of standard operations, as well as the completion of work execution transactions. You can sign off on standard operations, material transactions, operation transactions, product completion transactions, and orderless transactions and maintain your electronic records for compliance with regulatory requirements.
Analyze Production Exceptions and Impacted Work Orders
Analyze production exceptions and their impact on work orders using Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence. You can now analyze performance metrics for production exceptions such as material shortages and resource breakdowns, and the affected or delayed work orders.
This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:
| Date | Feature | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 11 AUG 2017 | Created initial document. |
This guide outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in this update.
DISCLAIMER
The information contained in this document may include statements about Oracle’s product development plans. Many factors can materially affect Oracle’s product development plans and the nature and timing of future product releases. Accordingly, this Information is provided to you solely for information only, 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 remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.
This information may not be incorporated into any contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Oracle specifically disclaims any liability with respect to this information. Refer to the Legal Notices and Terms of Use for further information.
Oracle Manufacturing Cloud delivers discrete manufacturing capabilities in the cloud that allow you to efficiently set up, manage, and operate your production operations. Oracle Manufacturing Cloud supports in-house manufacturing, contract manufacturing, and new in this release, outside processing.
Analyze Work Orders and Transactions Combined with Supply Chain Details
Today, real-time, self-service reporting for production supervisors is available through Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) for Oracle Manufacturing Cloud, covering in-house and contract manufacturing work orders, operations, material, and resource transactions. You can build custom reports for real-time manufacturing visibility and combine data such as item and inventory details from other subject areas supported for Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud in OTBI. However, additional attributes in manufacturing as well as common dimensions and attributes to cross join with item, order management, receiving, shipping, and inventory information are required in order to complete the detailed reporting needed for internal and external manufacturing.
With this release, you can build reports to satisfy the following types of business needs:
- Comparison of work order material shortages versus on-hand inventory
- Material pick list for one or multiple work orders
- Resource requirements for one or multiple work orders
- Production performance and delays with assemble to order model, item category, buyer, planner, sales order, work area, and work center details
- Outside processing lead times, quantities, and delays
- Production transaction history with parent-child lot and serial details
As a result, self-service reporting is quicker and gives you additional insight into manufacturing operations.
View Sales Order Attachments During Work Execution
When building products based on customer orders, companies may need to capture documents from their customer that are specific to an order, such as customer-specific product specifications, testing procedures, packing instructions, and so on. These documents can be in pdf format, or could be word documents, or picture attachments. Some of these documents are important for the production personnel to use during the production process. Other documents may contain pricing or other confidential information that is intended only for the sales or order management personnel.
With this release, for back-to-back enabled work orders for standard or configured products, the following features are enabled:
- Production supervisors are now able to view sales order attachments on the Reservations tab of the Edit Work Orders page.
- Production operators are now able to view sales order attachments from the Dispatch List. This gives them direct access to information from the sales order to use during production.
- Production personnel are able to view all attachments added to the miscellaneous attachments category in the sales order, or any attachment that is assigned to any other category that they have privileges to view.
- Using the Setup and Maintenance work area and the Security Console, you are able to configure user defined attachment categories and assign specific privileges to these categories. These privileges can then be assigned to specific users, so that only users with this particular privilege will be able to view the attachments from these categories. Using these security privileges, a company can restrict users of other departments from accessing certain confidential and pricing related attachments in its organization.
Integrate with External Systems Using Updated REST Services
Oracle Manufacturing Cloud provides web services to enable integration with external systems, such as external manufacturing execution systems (MES), shop floor devices, or mobile devices. With this release, the following REST services are updated:
MATERIAL TRANSACTION
- You can now capture and update descriptive flexfield information during orderless transactions.
- You can now issue controlled components (for example, lot controlled or serial controlled) during orderless transactions.
RESOURCE AND OPERATION TRANSACTION
- You can now capture and update descriptive flexfield information for all resource and operation transactions.
This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:
| Date | Feature | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 07 APR 2017 | Created initial document. |
This guide outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in this update.
Disclaimer
The Information contained in this document may include statements about Oracle’s product development plans. Many factors can materially affect Oracle’s product development plans and the nature and timing of future product releases. Accordingly, this Information is provided to you solely for information only, 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 remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.
This information may not be incorporated into any contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Oracle specifically disclaims any liability with respect to this information. Refer to the Legal Notices and Terms of Use for further information.
Oracle Manufacturing Cloud delivers discrete manufacturing capabilities in the cloud that allow you to efficiently set up, manage, and operate your production operations. Oracle Manufacturing Cloud supports in-house manufacturing, contract manufacturing, and new in this release, outside processing.
Gain Visibility Into Item Structure Change Orders in Work Definitions
As a product design evolves, it is critical to communicate engineering changes with formal documentation of the modifications and revision control. In this release, you can identify the change order and line that initiated the item structure (such as bill of materials) changes, both in the item structure change notification and in the Work Definition page. This enhanced visibility of change orders contributes to quicker, more accurate execution of engineering changes that impact work definitions.
View Multilevel Item Structure in Assemble-To-Order Model Work Definitions
On the existing Work Definition page, the manufacturing engineer can only assign components at the first level of an item structure to specific operations. The lower-level components inherit their operation assignment based on their parent’s assignment. Viewing the hierarchical structure for a highly configurable product (such as the indented list of subassemblies and components that comprise it) and assigning components to operations becomes a tedious, error prone task. As a consequence, you might have created additional option classes and work definitions in order to build multilevel configurations.
With this release, you have the ability to expand the nested levels in a multilevel item structure for an assemble-to-order (ATO) model and assign a component from any level to a work definition operation. Operation assignments for child ATO models, option classes, option items, phantoms, and mandatory components are easily verified by viewing the parent-component hierarchy and operation where-used information on the Work Definition page, exporting to Microsoft Excel, or printing the work definition report. In addition, changes to quantity, inverse quantity, unit of measure, yield, basis, optional, and planning percent attributes at any level in a multilevel ATO model item structure are automatically synchronized with the work definitions using it.
This visibility enables more flexible and accurate data setups for the configure-to-order (CTO) process, which dynamically generates the work definition for a product configuration based on the work definition for the ATO model and options selected during order capture.
Select and Access Favorite Work Definitions
To support easy and quick retrieval of a specific work definition (which might be undergoing revision, completion, or collaboration), you can now mark a work definition as a favorite. In prior releases, setting a favorite was managed through the Favorites and Recent Items toolbar, which required a few extra clicks. In this release, you can easily establish work definitions as favorites with a click on the Star icon that appears next to the object title. One click identifies the object as a favorite (solid yellow star), and one click removes it from favorites (empty star). Establishing a favorite provides you with easy access to revisit those objects by opening your Favorites and Recent Items list and clicking on the title.
Use Supplier Operations for Outside Processing
Outsourcing of one or more manufacturing operations is done to achieve lower manufacturing cost and to extend the manufacturing capability and capacity. It also requires close coordination with your manufacturing partner. You can now perform outside processing using this feature. This feature supports additional tracking and handling requirements that are associated with outside processing. In this release, you can define a supplier operation for outside processing and associate key details, such as the preferred supplier, service item, expected lead time, and automatic shipment document generation. A supplier operation can be specific to an item’s work definition or reusable as a standard operation across work definitions. Supplier operations promote better visibility of outside processing activities and proper tracking of the supplier-sourced components and service.
Rework and Transform Work Definitions
Manufacturing requires alternate processes for reworking or transforming one product into another. To formalize the associated steps and the required materials and resources, you can now model rework and transform processes as separate work definition names, independent of supply chain planning. In addition to the operations, components, and resources you need for rework or transformation, you can identify a component for replacement with a negative quantity or specify the product for conversion, respectively. For information on the execution of these processes, see the associated content in the Work Execution section.
Work Execution Work Area Landing Page
At any time during the day, as a production supervisor or an operator, you need to draw your attention to things that need immediate action. This helps you keep the shop floor activities on track. The Work Execution work area landing page has been enhanced to give you additional key metrics of the shop floor that you need to focus on, filtered for the plant, a work area, or a work center, and where you can drill down to the underlying objects.
Metrics for the operator include:
- Counts of the work order operations that are past due, ready, and rejected, enabling you to quickly drill down to the operations that you need to work on.
- Graphical representation of the number of units that were scheduled for the current shift versus what has been completed, rejected, or scrapped. This depiction gives you a bird’s eye view of the current status of your shop floor. You can also expand the infolet to get the operation performance at a work center level sorted with worst performers listed first.
- Percentage of work-in-progress inspection rejections in the plant for the last 7 days.
Supervisors are able to see all of the operator metrics, plus:
- Counts of work orders that are past due, on hold, or in unreleased status. You can now focus on work orders that need attention and drill down to view the work order, reschedule it, unrelease it, or take it off hold to get the work order back on track.
- Counts of the open production exceptions for the plant. You can expand this infolet to see the details of specific categories of the exceptions and also drill down to the Manage Exceptions page to take necessary action.
- Counts of the number of open rework or transform work orders.
The Work Execution work area landing page helps guide both supervisors and operators to the most important tasks for them at any moment in time.
Manage and Close Exceptions Using the Supervisor Mobile Application
The Supervisor Mobile application allows the production supervisor to access the work order execution status and take actions using a smart phone, such as an iPhone or any Android phone. With this release, you can also view the exceptions of a work order and close the exceptions after they are resolved.
Additionally in this release, you can keep the count of work orders with open exceptions and quickly drill down into the list of work orders and their exceptions. On the Work Orders page, you can access the exceptions of a work order and review the details of an exception, as well as view a list of other work order operations impacted by the exception. With a single touch, you can quickly email the details of the exceptions to other stakeholders. After reviewing an exception, you can close the exception for one or more impacted work order operations of the exception.
Perform Operation Start or Pause
In order to better understand shop floor operations, it is important to track the cycle time, elapsed time, idle time, or run time for the various products being manufactured on the shop floor.
With this release, the Operation Start or Pause feature enables the operator to record the exact times a specific work order operation was either running or paused. This enables the system to capture the actual run time for a work order operation. You are also able to record this information for every assembly serial number when the assembly is serial tracked.
After this data is captured, using Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence, you are able to aggregate the actual run time for the plant, and every operation, allowing you to analyze time over runs and unusual production stops.
Manage and Execute Rework Work Orders
Even the highest quality companies occasionally have to rework a finished product due to a quality issue found after the unit was completed.
In this release, you can create a rework order for product that has already been completed and moved to inventory. This specific type of work order allows you to create work orders based on a rework work definition or manually identify the operations required to rework the product, as well as the components that need replacement and the resources required. The operator is then able to remove the damaged component and issue a new component to the work order, as well as capture any resource time required to complete the rework.
The rework work order functionality enables you to plan and cost your rework. Additionally, it provides full traceability for products on your shop floor.
Manage and Execute Transform Work Orders
In some scenarios, it is possible to take an existing finished product, make some changes, and then transform that result into another finished product. This process can be helpful to meet immediate demand for finished goods that are in short supply.
In this release, you can upgrade, downgrade, or otherwise transform one product into another by creating, tracking, and executing a transform work order. You can create transform work orders using a transform work definition. Or, you can manually transfer work orders by specifying the operations required, the on-hand item you want to transform, the existing components you want removed, the new components you want to add, and the resources required. Even complex manufacturing processes involving assembly and component serial or lot numbers can be tracked through this process, which updates genealogy based on the work performed.
This enables organizations to quickly react to customer orders by transforming existing, in-stock product into what the customer has ordered.
Increase Productivity with Improved Assembly Serial Scanning
In the previous release, the item serial numbers associated with a work order are displayed in a drop-down list. Users were forced to search the item serial numbers from the drop-down list to report material usage. There was no quick way for users to choose the item serial number when there was a large number of item serial numbers associated with the work order.
In this release, the item serial numbers associated with the work order are now displayed on the left panel. Operators can either scan the item serial number or manually pick from the list, which further improves the user experience and increases productivity while reporting material usage.
Manage Material Negative Issue and Negative Return Transactions
In this release, new material transaction types (negative issue and negative return) were introduced. When you want to remove a defective component or replace a component from an assembly, then you can indicate a negative quantity in the work definition and the work order. Also, you can add adhoc components during material transaction and perform a negative issue transaction. These transactions are supported for rework and transform definitions and work orders only.
Additional Manufacturing Enhancements
Manufacturers are faced with an ever-increasing requirement to provide inclusive lot and serial tracking from supplier through production and shipment. The Oracle genealogy solution provides you with tracking capabilities for serialized and lot-tracked finished products and components from the receipt of the component from suppliers, to the work orders and work centers that worked on the product, and to the final shipment to the customer.
Genealogy becomes most important when a failure occurs with a product or component. You want to identify:
- The source and scope of a failure.
- What the relevant identifying pieces of information for the failure are.
- What other items might be impacted due to a relationship or common origin.
- Where the item has been during its lifecycle.
- What occurred at each location or event.
You also want to manage, control, and correct a failure and determine where the problem product is at the moment, where the other potentially impacted items are, and if the failure has been corrected or if it’s ongoing. You can use enhanced search to quickly and easily retrieve genealogy and component information detailing manufacturing and inventory transactions. The Genealogy Search page provides key word search, autosuggest, filters, and a combination of autosuggest or keyword search and filters. In one view of the data, you can identify a lot or serial’s complete transaction history with a graphical timeline that depicts each movement. In an alternate view, you can identify what went into making the item and where the finished product was used, as well as trace the consumption to the end customer.
Outside processing is a common business process in which one or more operations of a work order is outsourced to a supplier. Typically, manufacturers use outside processing when they don’t have the capabilities or equipment to perform a specialized and costly service (such as plating) in house.
Outside processing can be burdensome without system support because you must:
- Understand which step in the process is outsourced.
- Create a service purchase order for the work that is to be performed by your subcontractor.
- Ship the semi-finished product to the subcontractor.
- Track the material and cost when it leaves your facility.
- Receive the semi-finished product back and deliver it to the next operation in the process.
- Apply the outside processing cost to the overall cost of the finished good.
With this release, the entire process is automated, allowing you to streamline and effectively manage your extended supply chain to reduce cost, improve on-time delivery, and improve visibility. You can:
- Create and manage work definitions with supplier operations. You can create a work definition that defines supplier operations as internal or at supplier, identify who the supplier is, and the lead time for the supplier operation. You can define back-to-back supplier operations, where the material can directly go from one supplier to another, and then back to your facility for internal manufacturing. You can also identify if you need to generate shipping documents to facilitate shipping the processed assembly to your supplier.
- Plan for supplier operations. Oracle Planning Central Cloud understands supplier operations, their sourcing, and the lead time required to perform those operations, and creates planned orders appropriately.
- Create and manage work orders with supplier operations. You can create work orders, which include operations to be performed internally, as well as at your supplier location.
- Automatically create and manage purchasing documents for the service. The system will automatically create the purchase requisitions and purchase orders to buy the outside manufacturing service, either at release of the work order or when the prior operation is completed, depending on your setups.
- Automatically create shipping documents for the partially finished assembly. In this release, as soon as the prior operation is complete, the system will create a shipment line for the partially finished assembly. Users can generate all necessary shipping documents, such as bill of lading, pack slip, commercial invoice, and so on.
- Receive partial finished assemblies. In this release, you can receive the partially finished assembly on the receiving dock and deliver the material directly to the shop floor. Receipt of the partially finished assembly automatically completes the supplier operation, except in the case of serialized manufacturing, where a user must indicate which serial numbers were received.
- Manage and execute supplier operations. As a production supervisor, you can also keep an eye on the status of all supplier operations using the Manage Supplier Operations page. This gives you a simple and easy-to-use page to review, monitor, and manage all supplier operations for which you are responsible. In addition, you are able to complete transactions that are not automated by the system (such as completing the supplier operation for serial-tracked assemblies). Also, you can review and print the work order traveler, including the details of supplier operations.
- Monitor and review supplier operation details. Most of the time, the process of shipment and receipt between your plant and the supplier is without issues. However, you might encounter some instances where there are issues related to shipment errors, receipt errors, and so on. After review of the supplier operation details, you have a bird’s eye view of the purchase request, purchase order, shipment, receipts, overreceipts, and so on. You can make any corrections to receipts, shipments, returns, and submit new purchase requests. You can also resolve any of the exceptions raised due to purchasing or demand issues. The Supplier Operation Details page gives you a complete control on the current status of the supplier operation and also helps you take corrective actions.
- Automatic demand and supply changes. In outside processing, a service purchase order is created for every work order. Therefore, you must reflect any change in either the quantity or schedule dates of the work order in the purchase order. Similarly, you must reflect any change in the supplier delivery schedule or quantity in the work order. For work order quantity or schedule date changes, Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration Cloud attempts to automatically adjust the purchase order and logs a manufacturing exception if the purchase order can’t be changed for any reason. If the purchase order changes, Supply Chain Orchestration Cloud automatically logs a manufacturing exception, which serves as a notification for the production supervisor to take immediate action on the work order.
Use Quality Inspection Plans to Selectively Inspect at Work Order Operations and Collect Inspection Results
Early detection of defects in the manufacturing process and proactive initiation of corrective actions is important to ensure superior product quality. You can now enforce quality checks and inspection results collection inline to work order operation transactions. Based on the inspection results collected by the production operator, disposition actions can be initiated, which in turn may result in logging of a quality issue.
The production operator can also initiate standalone inspections to collect results for a work order operation, an item in inventory, or a production resource. For example, resource inspection allows for proactive monitoring of equipment, so that you can detect potential problems early. Production supervisors can query and view the inspection results collected as part of inline and standalone inspections.
Quality inspection plans and results are available with manufacturing execution transactions. Supported features include:
- Selective inspection of operations
- Data collection using quality inspection plans to complete operation transactions
- Disposition driven by inspection results
- Automatic generation of an action in Oracle Quality Management Cloud to perform further analysis and corrective action when a quality inspection results in nonconformance to the quality inspection plan specifications
NOTE: Additional capabilities for quality issues and actions require Oracle Quality Management Cloud. Oracle Quality Management Cloud delivers a unified platform for enabling quality visibility, collaboration, and execution through quality control techniques and closed-loop quality management. For more information, see the Oracle Quality Management Cloud section in the Oracle Product Lifecycle Management Cloud: New Features document.
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