About the Authors
by Dan Natchek, Nigel King, Bastin Gerald
Oracle E-Business Suite Manufacturing & Supply Chain Management
- Cover Page
- Oracle E-Business Suite Manufacturing & Supply Chain Management
- About the Authors
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- PART I Introduction
- PART II Design and Manufacturing Engineering
- 2 Enterprise Structure
- 3 Managing Items
- 4 Managing Bills and Routings
- 5 Design Engineering
- 6 Assemble to Order and Pick to Order
- 7 Manufacturing Engineering
- PART III Supply Chain Planning
- 8 Planning Fundamentals
- 9 Demand Planning
- 10 Single Organization Planning
- 11 Advanced Supply Chain Planning
- PART IV Supply Chain Execution
- 12 Order Management
- 13 Procurement Management
- 14 Receiving
- 15 Inventory and Warehouse Management
- Units of Measure (UOM)
- Material Transactions
- Managing Lots
- Managing Serialized Items
- On-Hand Balances
- Implementing Consigned Inventory
- The Rules Framework
- Applications of the Rules-Strategy-Business Object Framework
- Inventory Accuracy
- Data Field Identifiers in Barcode Scanning
- Attribute-Level DFI
- Region-Level DFI
- The DFI String
- Compliance Labeling
- Container Management
- Task Management
- Receiving and Putaway
- The Order Fulfillment Process
- Dock Scheduling
- Pick Methodologies
- Wave Picking
- Pick Execution
- Loading the Vehicle from the Staging Lane
- Currently Loaded Tasks
- Kanban Materials Management
- Open Interfaces and Application Programming Interfaces
- Summary
- 16 Manufacturing Execution
- Overview
- Configuring Oracle Work in Process
- Defining Jobs and Production Schedules
- Material Control
- Material Requirements
- Component Issues and Returns
- Backflushing
- By-Product Recovery
- Phantom Assemblies
- Open Transaction Interface
- Shop Floor Control
- Manufacturing Scheduling
- Resource Management
- Oracle Shop Floor Management System
- Completions
- Closing and Purging Jobs and Schedules
- WIP Costing
- Summary
- 17 Outbound Logistics
- PART V Support Functions
- 18 Costing
- 19 Quality Management
- 20 Pricing
- PART VI Business Intelligence
- 21 Business Intelligence for Manufacturing and Supply Chain
- 22 Case Study: Neptune Corporation
- Index
About the Authors
Bastin Gerald is a software architect at Oracle Corporation. He is currently leading the designs for the various modules of Oracle Product Development Exchange. He played a significant role in designing the Oracle Warehouse Management System. He worked in the Consulting Organization before joining Development, and has lead Oracle Applications implementation for various clients. Bastin has acquired the CPIM and CIRM certifications from APICS. He is also a Sun Certified Java Programmer.
Nigel King is senior director of design and architecture. His professional career spans finance, manufacturing, and distribution in three countries. He has worked as in both pre- and post-sales consulting before joining development at Oracle six years ago. Nigel’s career within development has seen many if not most of the major initiatives within the manufacturing and supply chain applications. He chairs the Architecture Review Group for Oracle Applications, a design oversight group that coordinates the design across the more than 100 applications that make up the E-Business Suite. Nigel is a certified Manufacturing engineer, a certified instructor for the American Production and Inventory Control Society, and a chartered management accountant.
Dan Natchek has documented and taught manufacturing and distribution systems, as well as implemented and sold them, for more than 20 years. He is an APICS-certified Fellow in production and inventory management. For the past eight years he has been employed by Oracle Corporation in the areas of customer education, consulting, and pre-sales support. He participates on several Field Advisory boards, including Flow Manufacturing, Warehouse Management, and Manufacturing Scheduling.
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