Project Manufacturing Fundamentals - Part 1

1. What is PJM Manufacturing and what kind of industries it is employed in ?

Oracle Project Manufacturing supports companies in the Engineer-To-Order, Make-To-Order, Seiban, and Aerospace and Defense industries. These industries  plan, track, procure, and cost based on project, contract, or Seiban numbers.

2. Project Setup

A project is a primary unit of work that you can break down into one or more tasks. You charge the transactions you enter in Oracle Projects to a project and a task. When you set up a project, you must set up the work breakdown structure (WBS), and enter project and task information. 

After your project structure and budgeting have been defined in Oracle Projects, you need to define the Project Manufacturing parameters for your project.

3. What activities are involved during Project Manufacturing execution phase ?

The execution system addresses the inventory, shop floor, and procurement activities.

 
 

4. What are the diff. flows which can be performed for PJM org in Order Management ?

Oracle Project Manufacturing supports:

• Project Sales Orders Oracle Order Management enables user to link sales order lines to projects and project tasks.

• Project Return Material Authorization (RMA) Oracle Order Management enables user to process Project RMAs using the line type category ‘Return.’ Examples of the line types available are return for credit without receipt of goods, return for credit with receipt of goods, and return for replacement.

• Project Assemble-To-Order (ATO) and Pick-To-Order (PTO) Oracle Project Manufacturing enables user to use Oracle Configurator with Oracle Order Management with propagation of project and task on the configured

model, options, and included items. For ATO, the Final Assembly Schedule process creates a WIP Job with the configuration’s project and task.

• Project Drop Shipments You can specify a project and task on a sales order line and use drop shipment to automatically create a project purchase requisition. Drop-shipped materials ship directly from supplier to customer.

• Project Fulfillment Oracle Order Management and Oracle Shipping Execution support delivery-based shipping with user-definable picking rules for order fulfillment. After manufacturing is complete, finished goods are picked automatically from the project inventory upon pick release. You can also pick all items for a project and task.

• Project Order Import If you use external systems to capture order information you can use Order Import to import external sales orders or quotations, including project and task references.

5. What are the various activities which can be performed in WIP for PJM org ?

• Project WIP Jobs You can create WIP Jobs with project/task references. Project Manufacturing supports standard and non-standard WIP Jobs. You can create Standard Project WIP Jobs automatically.

• Project Outside Processing You can use existing outside processing functionality to support Project Outside Processing. The system transfers the project/task on the work order once the outside processed purchase requisition generates.

• Project Repair Orders You can link non-standard WIP Jobs to a project / task to capture project repair.

• Project Flow Schedules You can use flow schedules in a work order-less production environment.

6. What features are supported for Project Procurement ?

• Project Requisitions You can create requisitions with project/task references. You can define project requisitions for inventory and expense destination types.

• Project Purchase Orders You can create purchase orders with project/task references. You can define project purchase orders for inventory and expense destination types.

• Project Blanket Releases You can create purchase blanket releases with project/task references.

• Project RFQs You can create purchase Request For Quotations (RFQ) manually or auto-create an RFQ from a requisition.

  

7. What different types of Project Material transactions one can perform in Inventory ?

Tracking inventory by project and dealing with permanent and temporary transfers from one project to another or from common inventory to project inventory is essential for a project-based environment. Oracle Project Manufacturing supports:

• Project Inventory You can use project locators to segregate inventory by project. Purchase order receipt locators validate automatically for project purchase orders. You can reference existing project locators or dynamically create project locators upon receipt. The issue, back-flush, and completion locators validate automatically for project WIP jobs and associated material. Similar logic applies in processing flow schedules using work order-less completions.

• Project Material Transactions You can use existing material transactions such as Miscellaneous Issue/Receipt, Move Orders, PO Receipt, WIP Issue, WIP Return, and WIP Completion.

• Permanent Project to Project Transfers You can use project transfer transactions to transfer material from one project to another with appropriate transfer of inventory value.

• Temporary Project to Project Transfers You can use borrow payback transactions to borrow material from one project to another, and ensure payback against the original value.

• Common-to-Project and Project-to-Common Transfers You can use project transfer transactions to transfer material from common inventory to project inventory and vice versa, with the appropriate transfer of inventory value.

• Project Mass Transfers You can use the mass transfer wizard to initiate the mass transfer of material from one project to another based on criteria you define, with the appropriate transfer of inventory value.

• Consigned Material from Supplier You can perform implicit and explicit consumption of consigned items to demand/supply documents with project references, with appropriate transfer of inventory value into a project.