Material Status Enhancement in Oracle EBS R12.2

Material Status Enhancement Introduction

The material status feature was originally developed for Oracle Warehouse Management (WMS). Since R12, the material status feature is also available in Oracle Inventory. Material status controls which types of transactions are allowed/disallowed for material and whether the material is reservable/included in ATP/nettable. Common material statuses include Active, Immature, Expired, Obsolete, Hold, Quarantine, and Rejected. Some of the most popular requirements for status control are whether or not material can be picked or shipped on an internal order, picked or shipped to a customer, or issued for a production job. In addition, some material may be quarantined until some activity such as inspection is performed on it. In R12, material status may be associated at the lot, subinventory, locator or serial number level and applies to all of the material in that lot, subinventory, or locator.Material statuses for serial numbers do not support planning attributes for performance reasons.

Since R12.1, we are providing flexibility to associate material status to onhand records. However, this material status was assigned to an individual onhand record based on the pre-built defaulting logic implemented in the Oracle Inventory code. Users did not have an option to specify the material status of the new onhand receipt, other than ensuring that the defaulting logic results into the desired status. In R12.2, With this enhancement, we are providing the users a flexibility to capture the material stauts in the UI itself while performing certain receipt transactions, which will ultimately create onhand records with the user-specified material status.

Scope

• Allowing user to specify material status while performing Misc Receipt/Account Alias receipt, PO receipts, IOT/ISO Intransit reecipt transactions.

• User can specify the desired material status when performing the transactions via Oracle Forms, Inventory Interface table (mtl_transactions_interface) or Inventory MSCA application or Receiving Open Interface (ROI).
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Onhand Status New Feature

This feature is going to be an enhancement on top of the existing onhand material status functionality. Currently, the users do not have an option to specify the material status of the new receipt. With this enhancement, we are providing the users a flexibility to capture the material stauts in the UI itself while performing certain receipt transactions, which will ultimately create onhand records with the user-specified material status. Since, we are building this extension on the current framework, the technology would be the same. The back end APIs would be developed in pl/sql and the front end would use Oracle forms to support new UI changes.

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