Oracle Warehouse Management

Mobile Supply Chain Management

Oracle WMS MSCA Consultant

 What is Warehousing

Internal
Inbound Outbound

Processing
• Purchases • Customer Shipments
• Customer Returns • Vendor Returns
• Transfers • Transfers
• Outside Processing • Outside Processing
• Pick • Assembly
• Pack • Storage
• Inspection • Move
• Count • Replenish

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 Warehousing Functionality Spectrum

High
n ly
o Highly Automated Facilities
m to
Product / Order Complexity

m n Automate
Automate physical
physical inventory
inventory handling
handling
co due atio
ie s R F e gr
a n t t Warehouse Management
p p a x in exity
o m o le pl Implement
Implement true
true “execution
“execution system”
system” using
using
C s p Co
existing t m system
system directed
directed tasks
tasks and
and task
task management
management
o m
c
RF / Barcode Only
Improve
Improve accuracy
accuracy and
and reduce
reduce latency
latency
of
of existing
existing transactions
transactions

Manual Inventory
Record
Record transactions
transactions and
and
Low track
track balances
balances

Small Transaction Velocity / Volume Large

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 RF/Mobile Supply Chain Apps (MSCA)
Out-of-the-Box: Complete and Integrated

Mobile Manufacturing Mobile Quality

Moves, Issues, Returns, Quality Collections,
Specifications
Scrap, Completions

Mobile Receiving Mobile Inventory Mobile Shipping

Direct, Std, Inspect, Misc. Transactions, Pick, Confirm, Ship,

Cross-Dock, Print Transfers, Physical, Confirm, Print
Cycle Counts

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 Current, Fully Integrated Solution
- with Enhanced Execution Support

E-Business Suite
Receiving Order Mgt Manuf.

Pick Release
Inspection Receipts Issues Completions

Quality Inventory Costing

Putaway

Returns Shipments
Oracle
WMS
Shipping

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WMS MSCA Transactions

Transactions entered through a Telnet session

• Receiving/Putaway

• Shipping

• LPN transactions

• Physical/Cycle Counting

• Standard inventory transactions

• WIP Moves and Material Transactions

• Inquiry Screens
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 “…but does your system let me determine …”

 Where should I pick this order line from?

 Where should I put this receipt away to?
 Who is best qualified to perform this activity?
 What container should I use to pack this delivery?
 What is the best way to organize my picking wave?
 What label does this customer want on this delivery?
 How can I automatically adjust this all day-to-day, warehouse-to-
warehouse, customer-to-customer, …?

… and how can I do this without customization?

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Product Overview

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 Oracle Warehouse Management Products

Develop
Contracts Market

Projects Sell
HR Customers, Order
Suppliers,
Finance Products, …
Plan
Inventory Management
Maintain Procure Warehouse
Management
Service Make Mobile Supply Chain
Fulfill Applications
Supply Chain
Intelligence

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 Support for the Integrated Enterprise
Built-In, Not Bolt-On Functionality

Procurement Manufacturing Fulfillment • Eliminate Integration

• Reduce Cost
and Complexity
MSCA & • Reduce Risk and
Warehouse Upgrade Issues
Management
• Eliminate Problems
with Reconciliation

Service Finance Transportation • Simplify Support

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 Introducing
Oracle Mobile Applications Framework

A development framework designed to create

UI’s suitable for these devices
 Java based
 Device independent
 Intuitive UI
 Field level validation
 DFI’s and 2D barcodes
 Multiple languages
 Extensible

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 Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Apps (MSCA)
Support Basic Warehousing Needs…
Built-in Mobile User Interface

Mobile Manufacturing Mobile Quality

Moves, Issues, Returns, Quality Collections,
Scrap, Completions, … Specifications, …

Mobile Receiving Mobile Inventory Mobile Shipping

Direct, Std, Inspect, Misc. Transactions, Pick, Confirm, Ship,
Cross-Dock, Print, … Transfers, Counts, … Confirm, Print, …

Built-in RF Middleware Mobile

Transaction Server
RF Base
Station LAN or WAN Apps /
Database

RF Device Telnet Over TCP/IP SQL Net

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 Oracle Warehouse Management Solution
…or Provide a Complete Warehouse Execution System

Label
Assemble
RMAs Cross Dock Replen-
Receive Inspect Putaway
Purchases ish
Transfers RF Support Tailorable
Cost Rules &
Workflow Move
RTVs Global Visibility Process
Orders Directed WIP
Transfers Ship Pack Issues
Pick Count
Transfer

Seamless
Integration

Transportation Purchasing Manufacturing Fulfillment

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 Oracle Warehouse Management Solution

Enables you to…

 Support Lower Cost of Ownership

 Increase Warehouse Efficiency

 Integrate WMS Throughout the Enterprise

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 Inbound Flow

ASN received ASN not received

Oracle pre-Packs LPN Receive by PO

based on ASN
Receive by LPN or ASN

Inspect Pack Container

Container into LPN

Inventory Warehouse
Directed delivery
to Inventory locations or
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Inbound Flow

 Login & select Org

 Receive PO via LPN
 Drop to Receiving area
 Putaway to Bulk
 Inquiry by LPN

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Outbound Flow

Orders

Pick Release
Create Allocations Drop material

Assign Task type

Load material
Cartonize

Split/Merge tasks
Accept next
Queue Task task

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Outbound Flow

 Login & Request tasks

 Specify current zone
 Accept next task (a pick)
 Perform pick from Bulk
 Enter Short-pick reason
 Drop to Staging area

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WMS Core Part

Core of WMS is the Rules

Engine

Drives the functionality

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 Rules-Driven Processes
Flexibly Meet Needs without Customization

User Defined Suggestions

Transaction
(e.g. Pick) Strategies & Rules (e.g. LPNs
(e.g. > 30 Days Shelf Life) or Locators)

Support for: Directed Picking, Directed Put-away,

Tasks Assignment, Costing, Labeling

• Eliminates customizations • Improves ROI and

• Supports common tool ongoing support
with examples • Accelerates implementation
• Easily changed and evolved • Increases long-term flexibility

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 Defining Rules - Restrictions

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Picking Rule Example
WMS Rules Simulation

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WMS Strategies

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Rules Workbench

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 Additional Ways to Avoid Customization

Characteristics Benefits

• Same application for all • Maximum flexibility of

RF Device certified devices RF device selection
Independence • Automatically adapts to • Lower support costs
any form factor

• User definable fields • Flexible interfaces

Lot & Serial
Attributes • Use throughout WMS • Support your specific
(UI, Rules Engine, etc.) data needs

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 Cost-Effective Global Deployment
Think Locally, Act Globally

• Deploy and manage on

a single global instance

• Support with single

worldwide organization

• Support for statutory and

customary local requirements

• Multi-lingual, multi-currency, multi-org, multi-national capabilities

- 30 languages, all installable in same unicode instance

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 Device & Material Handling Integration
Out-of-the-Box Connectivity with Leading Providers

Voice Automation RF / RFID Hardware

Manifesting / ITM* Material Handling
Automated Data Collection Labeling

Oracle WMS &

Inventory Mgmt

*International Trade Management

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 Oracle Warehouse Management Solution

Enables you to…

 Support Lower Cost of Ownership

 Increase Warehouse Efficiency

 Integrate WMS Throughout the Enterprise

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 Improve Warehouse Management Functions
Increase Efficiency of All Resources

Warehouse Efficiency

Worker Productivity Resource Utilization Inventory Utilization

• Automate Warehouse • Optimize Total • Reduce Inventory
Processes Warehouse Space Carrying Costs
• Optimize Task • Maximize Use of • Streamline
Assignments Equipment Material Flow
• Reduce Worker • Optimally Locate
Travel Time Inventory to Reduce • Reduce Inventory
Travel Time Obsolescence
• Automate
Replenishment

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 Automated Task Management
Create, Organize, Dispatch Tasks to Optimal Resource

Pick Wave Task Queue

Create & Split

Allocate Merge
Task Sort

 Dispatch Tasks To
RF Devices • Create Paperless, Streamlined
Processes
 Support Multiple
Picking Methodologies • Align Pick Plan with Business
Mix
 Match Skills and • Reduce Safety Issues
Equipment to Tasks and Training Costs
 Perform Task Sequencing and • Significantly Reduce
Interleaving Travel Time

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 Task Exceptions

Lauch corrective action workflows for any task

not completed as expected

Cycle Count
Discrepancy Customer Service
Enter Workflow
Quality inspection ...
Reason
Code
 Trigger corrective actions (counts, inspection, …)
 Increases inventory accuracy
 Assist in user performance tracking

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 More Ways to Automate

Characteristics Benefits
• Automate label • Eliminates costly
Compliance printing (correct manual processes
Labeling format, place, & time) • Meet customer needs

Task • Records transaction • Automates corrective

Exception exceptions and actions
Handling triggers workflows • Permits analysis

• Auto-select the right • Reduces packaging

Cartonization size and type of errors and costs
container • Increases efficiency

• Automatically control • Reduces shipment

Material allowable transactions and handling errors
Status by status

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 Container and LPN Support
Complex Inventory Transactions via a Single Number
Multiple Packages
and Products Single Unique Number
|| || | ||| ||| ||
=
A23595P

 A license plate number (LPN) represents any object that exists in a location and holds items.
 All material received through Oracle WMS is associated with a unique LPN. This enables
material to easily be tracked and transacted throughout your warehouse without scanning the
item, quantities, lots or serial numbers.
 It can be box, crate, truck, basket, pallet, vat, tank
 LPN can do Pack, Consolidate, Unpack
 Supports Infinite Levels of Nesting
 Perform Complex Moves via a Single Scan
 Improves Efficiency, Accuracy, and Tracking
 Fully Integrated With ASN’s

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 Automated Compliance Labeling
Meet Customer Specific Requirements
• Support Numerous Types and Variations of Labels
- LPN, LPN content, LPN summary, material, serial, location, shipping, shipping contents, WIP
contents

• Flexible to Meet Business Needs

- Design and rendering choices
- Highly flexible configuration
- Adapts to changing
requirements

• Data Transmitted via XML

directly to printer or via
middleware of choice

• Out of the box Support

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Advantages of Barcode Labels

 Barcode allows the information to be read fast, with accuracy, and with 1
in 1 million substitution error rate.
 It Virtually Eliminates Data Entry Efforts, Errors & Increases Speed.
 Barcode Makes Higher Level of Information Tracking Possible
 It also Allows to Embed the High Volume & Complex Data Information in
Less Space
 Linear Barcode are usually capable of encoding numbers and letters
while Advanced 2D Barcodes are capable of encoding large amounts of
data in a very small barcode.
 Linear Barcode 2D Barcode

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 Barcode and License Plate # Support
Perform Complex Inventory Transactions

Multiple Packages Single Unique Number

and Products for All Information

Barcode Support
• Automatically Track All
Related Product Information
• Capture All Information
with a Single Scan
=
Container and LPN* Support
• Supports Infinite Nesting Levels
• Perform Complex Moves via a
Single Scan
• Fully Integrated with ASNs

Reduces Cycle Time & Improves Efficiency,

Improves Accuracy Accuracy, and Tracking
*License Plate Number

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 Cross-Dock and Direct Ship
Selectively Accelerate Warehouse Material Flow

Peg demand to inbound

receipts based on
flexible optimization
Cross-Dock criteria

Put- Pick
Receive Inspect Deliver Inventory Pick Drop Ship
Away Release

Direct Receipt Direct Ship

• Configurable flows • Adjust implementation to business

• Express ASN receipt • Accelerate receiving process
• Planned & opportunistic • Reduce handling and inventory
cross-docking
• Express picks & load • Increase operator efficiency
• Direct ship • Support lean mfg processes

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 Directed Picking and Put Away Resource
Utilization
Automatically Suggest Optimal Locators

Receipt Locator
Locator

Pick Locator
Business
Logic
 Slot dynamically based
on velocity, size, etc. • Optimize the use of storage
locations
 Control hazardous materials /
co-mingling
• Minimize inventory
fragmentation
 Handle task exceptions with • Reduce chance
reason codes of obsolescence

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Pick Load Page Set Up

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 Advanced Inventory Capabilities Inventory
Utilization
Provide Single Source of Truth for All Inventory

 Maintain Accurate, Real-Time Information

- Physical inventory measurement
- Holding and other associated costs
- Cycle counting

 Manage Inventory Levels

- Automated replenishment
- Kanban management
- Transfers between facilities

 Support Advanced Tracking Capabilities

- Material status control
- Inventory ownership tracking
- Advanced lot and serial control

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 Performance Management Tools
Proactively Manage Warehouse Performance

 View current status, perform transactions and

calculate availability via Materials Workbench

 Monitor & refine facility activity via Control Board

 Provide real-time status

with active alerts and
notification messaging

 Handle last minute

changes with
workflow exceptions

 Keep key personnel

informed with multiple
reporting options

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Warehouse Control Board

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 Cartonization

Automate packing container selection based on

the characteristics of the item and shipment

+ =

 Automates selection of the correct container

 Minimizes the number of containers used

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 Cartonization

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 Oracle Warehouse Management Solution

Enables you to…

 Support Lower Cost of Ownership

 Increase Warehouse Efficiency

 Integrate WMS Throughout the Enterprise

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 Multi Step Picking & Value Added Services
Change system processes as business processes change

P&D Area
Packing
Stations
Broken
Staging
Pallet
Lanes
Area
Consolidation
Locations

Bulk
Inspection Storage
Stations

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Key Learning's

Once you go WMS, you have to use the WMS

methods.
• Cost groups – they have to be used as assigned
through the engine.
• Locator Control must be turned on
• Pick confirm must be manual and use tasks.
• Receiving must be done in MWA

A Lot of Setup
• Cartonization
• Directed Putaway by weight or volume

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Warehouse Management Extension in Subinventory

Oracle Warehouse Management has extended the Subinventory

definition with the following additional parameters:
– Material status
– Default cost group
– LPN controlled option
– Cartonization flag
– Pick UOM
– Picking order
– Dropping order
– Default locator status

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WMA MCA Advantages in Inventory Transfers

 Better Tracking of Materials

 Dynamic Decisions can be taken from Pickers at the time of Picking as per
scenarios
 Pickers are Directed By the system to Task to Pick the Materials as per
Picking Sequence and same is for Dropping of Materials as well.
 Improved Warehouse Management System - Inventory Records
 Maximum Warehouse Efficiency
 It offers more Flexibility, Traceability, Transparency and Visibility.
 It Provides Paperless Workplace and Improved Customer Satisfaction
 Handling Speed ​Up Process & Optimize Your Warehouse Layout and Space
Utilization
 More Efficient Cycle Counting

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 Order Fulfillment in the Warehouse
Plan, Pick, Consolidate, Pack and Ship

Supplier Customer

Inbound Dock Distribution Center

Outbound Dock
Inbound Staging
Crossdock Staging, Packing &
Consolidation
Pick and Drop
High Volume Case
Bulk Storage
High Volume Each

Case Pick
Each Pick

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 Oracle Warehouse Management

Support Lower Total Cost of Ownership

Increase Warehouse Efficiency

Integrate WMS Throughout the Enterprise

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Thank You