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ORACLE BILLS OF MATERIAL 11i
Oracle Bills of Material is a comprehensive manufacturing tool that maximizes efficiency, improves quality, and lowers costs for even the most sophisticated manufacturers. Oracle Bills of Material is part of the Oracle E-Business Suite, an integrated set of applications that are engineered to work together.

Improved Accuracy and Agile Development Oracle Bills of Material improves the accuracy of your manufacturing data with an extensive data repository, a powerful set of analytical tools, secure access controls, and a complete mass-change capability. You can centralize your manufacturing data or control product details within each plant, and control product and process structures across multiple sites. Complete Product Structures Oracle Bills of Material helps you manage all of your essential engineering, business planning, material planning, and material handling information. You can keep revisions up to date, forecast demand for product families, accurately plan your material and resource requirements, and specify automated materialhandling transactions using simple replenishment and back flush techniques. Your cost accountants can also simulate, plan, and analyze costs for items and their alternatives. Product Families You can group similar products into product families. You can specify allocation percentages for each product member in the family. Oracle Planning allows you to specify demand forecasts for product families allowing you to plan at an aggregate level. Streamlined Business Flows Oracle Bills of Materials business flows reduce your learning curve, improve your ability to research and resolve problems, and increase your daily productivity. Oracle allows you to find critical information in a flexible way, see the results in your preferred format, and selectively take appropriate action. For example, the you can view bills based on user defined search criteria and then drill down on a specific bill to view or modify component information. Flexible Product and Process Specification You can define manufacturing products and processes to your exact specifications. You define your own departments, operations, and resources, as well as standard, common, and alternate bills of material and routings. You can define standard operations and reference or copy them to multiple routings. Increased Visibility to Changes You can respond quickly and precisely in your production environment. Online inquiries and reports give you a complete picture of the current bill structure ensuring that you make informed, consistent decisions. Powrful Graphical Features Improve your productivity dramatically with easier access to critical information. Oracle Bills of Materials feature - rich graphical user interface is easy to learn and packed with accelerators for power users. The intuitive windowing, mouse actions, icons, and built-in drill down allow transactions and inquiries to flow naturally and quickly. Multimedia Reference and Communication Oracle Bills of Materials multimedia capabilities can transform communication within your organization. You can store all kinds of data, including important source documents, PC files, video training, and voice annotations with key reference and transactional data. For example, you can link a CAD drawing to a bill of material or video instructions to an operation on a routing.

Complete and Flexible Integration

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Oracle Bills of Material is fully integrated with other Oracle Applications to provide comprehensive, internetbased solutions for your manufacturing needs. Using Oracles market - leading technology, you can rapidly implement solutions that integrate corporate information regardless of system or format, tailor functionality to meet your specific requirements, and expand your system to keep pace with dynamic business evolution. Additionally, you can deploy various manufacturing methods concurrently and flexibly - by plant, by product family, by production line, or by process. Oracles engineering standards ensure that Oracle Applications deliver the highest return on your software investment today and tomorrow. Integrated Document Management Product information management has long been considered critical in managing product design and changes in many industries including automotive, utilities and aerospace and defense. Oracle Bills of Material offers a suite of capabilities aimed at bridging the gap between product design and production process. You can attach version-controlled documents to your bills and routings. Additionally, you can use Document Management capabilities to capture and manage unstructured product information. These capabilities let you create, copy, check-in, check-out and view documents. Comprehensive Routings You can quickly create routing network entities for routings. Oracle Bills of Material allows you to record operation yields at every operation. Oracle Bills of Material also lets you define substitute resources for the purpose of providing alternate resources when a primary resource or group of resources is not available. Oracle E-Business Suite -The Total Solution Oracle E-Business Suite enables companies to efficiently manage customer processes, manufacture products, ship orders, collect payments, and moreall from applications that are built on a unified information architecture. This information architecture provides a single definition of your customers, suppliers, employees, productsall aspects of your business. Whether you implement one module or the entire Suite, Oracle E-Business Suite enables you to share unified information so you can make smarter decisions with better information.

As a provider of global consulting, education, and support services, Oracle provides the most complete ebusiness solution available.

The Oracle E-Business Suite: transforming your business into an e-business

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RapidSTART Key Features

Manufacturing Bills Define primary, alternate, common, phantom, planning, and configuration bills of material (BOM). Define substitute items and enter unlimited comments for each component Control BOM changes by revision and effective date/time/unit number Copy and share BOMs Mass-change BOM Assign component yield information for material planning, production scheduling, and costing Select material-handling supply locations and issue methods by component Delete and archive obsolete BOM and components

Manufacturing Routings Define primary, alternate, and common routings Define completion location Control routing changes by revisions effective date/time Copy and share routings Define unlimited operations, departments, comments, and resources for each operation Simplify shop-floor transactions with count points and backflushing Schedule per resource Assign fixed-usage resources for move, queue, and setup/ teardown activities Calculate fixed and variable manufacturing lead times Roll up manufacturing and total lead times Define substitute Assign operation yields to each operation Assign scrap and expected scrap accounts for a department Assign operation yields to standard operations

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Document Management Issue components from inventory as required Create/register new documents Provide secure access to multiple document vaults Copy, Check-in and Check-out documents Capture and mange document history and status Attach version-controlled documents to bills and routings

Resource Availability Define a manufacturing calendar Enter workday and shift exceptions to represent downtime and holidays Define multiple shifts with specific start and stop times Assign multiple shifts to department resources Simulate the impact of capacity changes for a resource shift Implement short-term capacity modifications

Date/Time Control Use effective dates for components on BOM and for operations on routings Automatically use effective dates in Oracle Master Scheduling /Oracle MRP and Oracle Capacity plans

Queries and Reports View single-level and indented BOM at any level View where used for components, departments, and resources View routings, standard operations, and operation details View historical BOM and routings View BOM components and routings by effective date and time

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