ORACLE DISCRETE MANUFACTURING 11i DATA SHEET
ORACLE DISCRETE
MANUFACTURING 11i
FEATURES
ORACLE DISCRETE
MANUFACTURING 11i
CONTAINS:
• Engineering
• Bill of Materials
• Work in Process
• Quality Management
• Cost Management
KEY BENEFITS:
Oracle offers a complete
family of manufacturing
solutions to allow you to:
• Adapt to Changing Market
Demand
• Deploy the Most Efficient
Method of Manufacturing
• Streamline Collaboration
with Subcontractors
• Drive Continuous Process
Improvement
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Oracle Discrete Manufacturing supports engineer-to-order, discrete,
flow, lot based, and project manufacturing simultaneously, globally and
in real time. In today's consumer driven economy, companies must
respond to manufacture to demand, collaborate with suppliers and
subcontractors, and produce at the highest quality at the lowest possible
cost. Oracle Discrete Manufacturing manages the complete lifecycle
from Engineering, Bill of Materials, Work in Process through Quality
Management and Cost Management.
Engineering
Oracle Engineering bridges the gap between product design
and production process. Oracle Engineering allows engineers
to quickly pilot new designs into production, and is a complete
engineering change control system to manage engineering
and production changes. You can specify both engineering
and manufacturing items, as well as bills and routings,
independent of your manufacturing environment. And, in a
single step, you can automatically transfer engineering
specifications into production items, bills of material, and
routings.
• Complete Engineering Change Control
• Change Order Approval Definition
• Integrated Document Management
Bill of Materials
Oracle Bill of Materials improves the accuracy of your
manufacturing data with an extensive data repository, a
powerful set of analytical tools, secure access controls, and a
complete mass-change capability. You can centralize your
manufacturing data or control product details within each
plant, and control product and process structures across
multiple sites.
• Complete Product Hierarchies
• Integrated Configuration Management
• Comprehensive Routings
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Work in Process
Oracle Work in Process is a complete production management
system that improves productivity, flexibility, quality, and
responsiveness while maximizing throughput. You can
automatically load and reschedule the shop floor based on
master schedules and material plans, eliminating the tedious
task of defining and updating orders after each planning run.
With countpoints, backflushing, floor stock replenishment, and
automatic resource charging, you can eliminate nearly all of
your manual transactions.
• Flexible Shop Floor Control

• Total Materials Management

• Resource and Transactions Tracking

Quality Management
Oracle Quality Management is a flexible enterprise-wide
quality system that lets you collect, distribute, and analyze
critical quality data throughout your supply chain. You can
proactively manage quality data as you release products,
measure yield, track defects, and monitor supplier
performance.
• Self Service Quality Data Collection for Suppliers and Subcontractors

• Access to Real-time Quality Results

• Comprehensive Data Collection

Cost Management
Oracle Cost Management is a comprehensive cost accounting
solution that helps you control your costs and supports a
variety of complex cost valuation, simulation, and margin
analysis techniques that enable you to control, manage, and
analyze the profitability of your business.
• Advanced Product Costing

• Powerful Cost Simulations

• Full Accounting Life Cycle

Summary
Oracle Discrete Manufacturing is fully integrated with Oracle
E-Business Suite 11i. Customers in high-technology, industrial
products, automotive, aerospace and defense, and electronics
are gaining a competitive advantage with Oracle Discrete
Manufacturing.