Project Manufacturing Fundamentals - Part 2

8. What is the use of Profile INV: Project Miscellaneous Transaction Expenditure Type?
This profile Governs the entry of expenditure types for project miscellaneous transactions.
Values that are available are:
User Entered (Default value): If the profile is set to User Entered, the user has to enter expenditure types for project miscellaneous transactions.
System derived from cost elements If the profile is set to this value, user cannot enter the expenditure types for project miscellaneous transactions.

9. Parameters that are to be given or can be used to verify if an organization is PJM enabled or not?
1. Organization has ‘Project Manufacturing Organization’ classification defined in Organization form.

2. Check that Project Cost Collection Enabled (check box) is enabled in Organization Parameters form under Costing Tab. This indicates whether subinventories can be associated with a given project and task.

3. And Enable Project References check box, located in the Project Manufacturing Parameters form, is also selected. So the cost collector process can transfer costs to project accounting.

10. How can we create User defined transaction types for a project?
At the time of creation of User defined transaction type we need to check the Project Check box.

11. What are the Project locators and common locators ?

Oracle Project Manufacturing reserves segment19 and segment20 of the Stock Locator key flexfield to store the project and task numbers.

Project Locator A project locator is a locator with a project or project and task reference. It is also a logical partition of a physical location. Project locators are used to track project hard pegged material. Project inventory needs to be stocked in a project locator and needs to be transacted in and out of a project locator. Since locators can be dynamically created, it is not necessary to predefine project locators.

A project locator must be tied to the same subinventory as its corresponding physical locator. For non-project Locators, physical_locator_id and inventory_locator_id are supposed to be same or physical_locator_id may be null , but inventory_locator_id is populated always.

Common Locator
A common locator is a locator without a project or project and task reference. It is also a
real, physical location. Common locators are used to track common (soft pegged)
material.

12. What is the common validation done for Project locators ?

The system validates the project and task segments of a locator based on the value of the
Project Control Level parameter you set up in Organization Parameter as described in the following
table –

Project Control = Null,  Level Project Segment = Cannot enter any value, Task Segment = Cannot enter any value

Project Control = Project,  Level Project Segment = Optional,  Task Segment = If Project is entered, Task is optional. If Project is not entered, Task cannot be entered.

Project Control =Task,  Level Project Segment =  Optional, Task Segment =   If Project is entered, Task is mandatory.If Project is not entered, Task cannot be entered.