The WMS system also supports the following:

Optional inbound material inspections: The system supports an inbound inspection flow that includes a receipt step, an inspection step, and a put-away step. The system does not increment on-hand balances until the inspection and put away are complete. Inspections can be performed using standard Oracle Purchasing Inspection or using the optional module of Oracle Quality. Commingling of accepted and rejected material into the same LPN is not prevented by the system. It should be done operationally. If WMS is enabled in a Project Manufacturing organization, Oracle Quality can be set up to trigger collection plans based on project and task numbers.

System assigned cost groups: At the time of receipt, the system will assign a cost group–providing that you have set them up–to the inbound material. WMS separates physical inventory accounting from standard cost group accounting. This enables you to assign split portions of an LPN different cost groups.

System suggested put-away locations: Using the WMS Rules Engine, the system will suggest an optimal put away location for inbound material. Put away suggestions are not enforced by the system and therefore, you can override them at the time of put away.

Workflow enabled discrepancy actions: If you override a put away suggestion at the time of put away, then you must provide a reason for the change. You can optionally build workflow notifications and corrective actions that are triggered on put away override reasons.

System suggested opportunistic cross-docking: If you enable cross docking for your warehouse, then before suggesting a put away location, the WMS will attempt to cross-dock inbound material directly to an outbound staging area to fulfill backordered sales order lines.

Monitor and track inbound material using receiving locators: The inbound area can be defined as a receiving subinventory and segmented into locators. The inbound material can be received in receiving locators in order to monitor and  track movement within the inbound area.

Describing Receiving Documents
The WMS supports the following receiving documents:

• Purchase orders, with or without ASNs
• Return material authorizations (RMAs)
• Inter-org intransit shipment documents
• Internal requisitions
• Blanket purchase orders

Oracle WMS supports two modes of receiving: Express and Confirm. To enter receipts using Express mode, you need only enter the document number, and optionally the LPN. For Confirm mode, you need to enter all of the information about the material being received.

Describing Receiving Methods
Oracle WMS supports receiving material according to the same three routings that are used in standard Oracle Purchasing: Standard Routing, Inspection Required, and Direct Delivery.

Direct Delivery includes the following steps:
■ Material receipt
■ Material put away (optional in this routing, because on-hand inventory has already been incremented)

This routing should be used when it is important that material show up in the on-hand balance immediately after it is received into the warehouse, or whenever the receiver will be receiving the material directly into its inventory
storage location.
With WMS, you can receive material directly into an on-hand storage location. That material can optionally be put away from that storage location into a final storage location. Direct delivery can be effectively used to model a receiving staging lane, where material is initially received into the warehouse and it is important that on-hand balances are incremented at the time of receipt. Later, the material can be put away from the temporary staging lane to a final storage location.

Standard routing includes the following steps:
■ Receiving the material
■ Later putting the material away

You should use this routing when the material needs to be received (checked-in) initially and then, at some later point, put away into an inventory storage location. You can assign receiving locators to items with a purchase order.

Receiving locators have infinite capacity. You can enter a capacity, but it has no influence on putaway rules. With Standard Routing, the system does not increment the on-hand balance, until the put away task has been completed.

Inspection Required includes the following steps:
■ Material receipt
■ Material inspection
■ Material put away

You should use Inspection Required when the material that you are receiving requires inspection. You can accept or reject material during the inspection, and put away to separate locations, based on the inspection result. The system does not increment the on-hand balance until the put away step task been completed. You can assign receiving locators to inspected items that have a purchase order. Receiving locators have infinite capacity. You can enter a capacity, but it has no influence on putaway rules.