Order Management Concepts - Shipping Execution Flow

After a sales order has been booked, the sales order lines must complete all workflow activities leading up to the shipping activity. Two typical preceding workflow activities are Schedule - Line and Create Supply.

Schedule – Line:


Scheduling the line makes the order lines demand visible to Oracle Inventory for planning. It
also sets the Shipment Schedule Date.

Create Supply:

Variety of subflow paths can be taken within Create Supply Line based on the type of item
shipped. They are as follows:
Configurable Items: Configurable items must complete the Create Supply activity
which takes an order line through a build cycle. The final assemblies that are completed
out of Oracle Work in Process are received into Oracle Inventory as Reserved for a
specific customers order.
Drop ship: Drop ship order lines must complete the Create Supply activity too. After a
Purchase Requisition has been passed to Oracle Purchasing the order line advances to the
Shipping Activity.
Standard Shippable Items: Standard shippable items don't need to perform any of the
Create Supply activities so directly advance to the Shipping activity.

Shipping:

What happens when the order line reaches ‘Ship Line’ workflow activity?

• Oracle Order Management calls Oracle Shipping Execution APIs to indicate that a line is Ready to Release.
• The sales order line status is changed to Awaiting Shipping. Order lines that are awaiting shipping are called Delivery Lines in the Oracle Shipping Execution module
• Pick Release process creates move orders to move items to the staging location and create
• reservation in Oracle Inventory
• From the staging area shipments are weighed, packed and shipped 
• Deliveries are Ship Confirmed out of the staging location
• When a delivery is Ship Confirmed, Oracle Shipping Execution calls OM APIs to communicate the event, triggering the line flow to move forward