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Oracle Warehouse Management: Dave Herring - Lion Apparel, Inc. Brian Pellot - Pelley Consulting, LLC

The document provides an overview of Oracle Warehouse Management (WMS) functionality being implemented at Lion Apparel, Inc., a 100-year-old manufacturer of protective clothing. Key points include: Lion Apparel is in the process of implementing several Oracle modules including WMS; WMS augments other modules and uses a rules engine to direct tasks; a mobile interface allows receiving, shipping, and inventory transactions to be entered from handheld devices; license plate numbers are used to track groups of items through processes like packing, consolidating, and transferring; and the rules engine drives tasks, material allocation, and other warehouse operations.

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Oracle Warehouse Management: Dave Herring - Lion Apparel, Inc. Brian Pellot - Pelley Consulting, LLC

The document provides an overview of Oracle Warehouse Management (WMS) functionality being implemented at Lion Apparel, Inc., a 100-year-old manufacturer of protective clothing. Key points include: Lion Apparel is in the process of implementing several Oracle modules including WMS; WMS augments other modules and uses a rules engine to direct tasks; a mobile interface allows receiving, shipping, and inventory transactions to be entered from handheld devices; license plate numbers are used to track groups of items through processes like packing, consolidating, and transferring; and the rules engine drives tasks, material allocation, and other warehouse operations.

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Oracle Warehouse

Management

Dave Herring – Lion Apparel, Inc.


[email protected]
Brian Pellot – Pelley Consulting, LLC
[email protected]
Overview
 Project Status and Background
 WMS Basics
 LPN Concepts and Processing
 Task Processing
 Rules Engine
 Key Learnings
 Wrap-up
Background and Project Status
 100 years plus
 World’s largest
maker of
protective
clothing
 Turn-out gear,
helmets, boots ...
Background and Project Status
 Implementing OM, Configurator,
Inventory, Quality, BOM, WIP, Cost, AR
and WMS
 Starting second round of system testing
 Planning to go-live March, 2004
WMS Basics
 WMS augments other modules’ functionality
(Inv, Shipping, WIP, Quality)
 Additional responsibility and set of forms plus
forms from the other modules
 Rules engine – Core of WMS functionality
 Mobile Web Applications(MWA), Mobile
Supply Chain Apps (MSCA) – Handheld/RF
ready interface
WMS Basics - MWA
Mobile Web Applications
•Intended for handheld, RF
devices
•Device Evaluation and
Selection
•Many are portable PCs with
other capabilities
•Easily integrated with flexible
setups in the application
WMS Basics - MWA
Transactions entered through a Telnet session
 Receiving/Putaway

 Shipping

 LPN transactions

 Physical/Cycle Counting

 Standard inventory transactions

 WIP Moves and Material Transactions

 Inquiry Screens
WMS Basics - MWA
Data can be entered, scanned
or selected.

Think about the amount of


information to be
entered(keyed) through the
handheld.

Subinventory Transfer
LPN Concepts and Processing
 License Plate Number – unique identifier for a
group of items/instances
 Like a box, crate, truck, basket, pallet, vat,
tank, etc.
 LPNs can contain other LPNs, boxes in boxes,
boxes in trucks
 Pack, consolidate, unpack
 Herring’s law of packing (with regards to
Newton)
LPN Concepts and Processing

Items
Pack Consolidate Transfer the
Truck LPN
(one transaction)
LPN Concepts and Processing
Receive the
Truck LPN Un-Pack Un-Pack
(one transaction)
Task Processing
 Tasks are actions performed in the
warehouse. Putaway, pick
 Tasks assigned to WH resources (people and
machines)
 Rules engine assigns correct task to correct
resources
Task Processing

Task List Resources


Pick 2 smiles Joe in a Forklift
Pick 3 circles Rules Engine
Putaway LPN X Alice on Foot
Pick 4 bolts
Betty in Crane

Task assignment, progress and efficiency can be


directed and monitored through a control board.
Task Processing

Control Board used to monitor and manager tasks on the


floor.
Rules Engine
 Core of WMS is the
Rules Engine
 Drives the
functionality
Rules Engine

Dave’s first thoughts…

“Rules, we don’t need


no stinking rules”
Rules Engine
 Uses Rules, Strategies and Assignments
to:
 Assign Tasks
 Allocate Material to Move Order (pick
waves)
 Assign Cost Groups (inventory accounting)
 Direct Putaways
 Drive label printing
Rules Engine

 Example Rules
 If item to be putaway has a category of Frozen
Goods and is larger than 200lbs, place in
subinventory Bulk Frozen Goods
 Pick material for customer X from a Grade A lot
 Put internal order receipts in FG subinventories
Rules Engine

 This is very flexible but can be difficult to


achieve the desired result
 Some programming experience is necessary
Rules Engine

Example Rule:
These quickly get complex and technical.
Key Learnings
 WMS is fairly immature
 Bugs
 Seemingly logical functionality is not
available
 Much of the functionality only available
in MWA
 LPNs
 Pick confirmation by tasks
Key Learnings
 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
Key Learnings
 Rules Engine requires functional and
technical help
 Open interfaces do support much of the
functionality for extensions. However,
only briefly documented.
 Some features are difficult to implement
since all information must be entered
through MWA
Questions

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