Oracle OPM designed exclusively for catering the business need for process manufacturers industry like
What you should know about Oracle OPM products
· Consumer Packaged Goods
· Industrial Products
Chemical,
Pharmaceutical, Petroleum, Metals, Mining,Paper and Glass
The difference between Discrete and
Process manufacturing can be best
understood in my
Oracle
OPM product Strengths
For those who are very new or not aware to Oracle OPM product,
here are some of high points of Operational Functionality that product
offered.Moreover there is significant changes has been seen in age of internet
that has re-defined the operation of the supply chain(SCM) thus Oracle OPM
Products too.
Please
Check with Oracle OPM Page, to see what are the recent changes has been
incorporated. based out of my exposure very long time back, these are the
functionlity that product had.
· Lot Traceability :In
this some features like Lot/Sub lot,Forward/Backward Genealogy,Status Control
,Grade Control,Lot Expiration,Allocation for Shelf Days
,Grade Control,Lot Expiration,Allocation for Shelf Days
· Multiple Formulas (Bills) :These
are typically used for formulas for production, costing planning,
MSDS,Effectivities By Date for Seasonality,Effectivities by
Quantity,Scaling,Alternate Routings,
Scrap factors and theoretical yield
Scrap factors and theoretical yield
· Support for A and V type Formulas :
All three kind of formula like well suited here:
o V Bills
are constructive- Multiple ingredients one product
o A Bills
are destructive- One ingredient, multiple products
o A Bills
support co-products and- by-products
·
Ingredient Substitutions
o The
features like mass ingredient substitutions for formulas
o Designed for
ingredient substitutions in manufacturing orders (batches)
o Manufacturing
variances for substitutions tracked and reported.
·
Dual UOMs functionlity
o Item
specific UOMs
§ Count to
Mass
§ Count to
Volume
§ Mass to
Volume
§ User
defined UOM types
o Lot
specific UOMs
o Dual UOM
Types
§ Fixed
§ Defaulted
with tolerance
§ No
relation
o Uses
§ Sell by
count, invoice by weight
§ Dry
pounds, wet pounds
§ % solids,
% moisture
Specification Matching Functionlity
Some of the great features like
o QC Specs
and Results : This may be based out of vendor,customer,plant or by lot
o There was
yet another feature for customer spec matching.
Regulatory Compliance
o Material
Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) are configurable, also formulas for MSDS
Other features are flexible Costing, which can be
either processIf Costing (Standard,Actual) or Organization Level basis
(Warehouse,Item)
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