Oracle A75089-02 User Manual

                                                                                      

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This guide describes how to define items and item information, perform receiving 
and inventory transactions, maintain cost control, plan items, perform cycle 
counting and physical inventories, and set up Oracle Inventory.

This guide describes how to anticipate and manage both supply and demand for 
your items.  Using a variety of tools and techniques, you can create forecasts, load 
these forecasts into master production schedules, and plan your end-items and their 
component requirements.  You can also execute the plan, releasing and rescheduling 
planning suggestions for discrete jobs and repetitive schedules.

This guide describes how to use Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling to view and 
reschedule single discrete jobs or the entire shop floor. Specifically, this guide details 
how to easily use the drag and drop functionality to view and reschedule jobs, 
operations, and resources. 

This guide describes how to create and approve purchasing documents, including 
requisitions, different types of purchase orders, quotations, RFQs, and receipts.  
This guide also describes how to manage your supply base through agreements, 
sourcing rules and approved supplier lists.  In addition, this guide explains how 
you can automatically create purchasing documents based on business rules 
through integration with Oracle Workflow technology, which automates many of 
the key procurement processes.

This guide describes how you can use Oracle Supplier Scheduling to calculate and 
maintain planning and shipping schedules and communicate them to your 
suppliers.

This guide describes how accounts payable transactions are created and entered in 
Oracle Payables.  This guide also contains detailed setup information for Oracle 
Payables.