Health Check for Oracle Inventory in EBS

The Inventory Health Check will provide the client with some suggestions on how to improve or fix their existing issues. In addition, the client will be given some suggestions on how to avoid long term issues, suggestions for better business process, improvement on efficiency, and quick win solutions by leveraging some unused functionality.

This Health Check will include:
A review of the company’s business process flow at a high level such as the inventory control process, inventory replenishment and planning process, and item creation process.
A review of the customer’s pain points and bottleneck issues.
An analysis of high level gap/fit of business process flows and inventory transaction types.
A review of current inventory control and counting practices such as: cycle counting and physical inventory. Some aspects would include:

• ABC analysis
• Cycle count programs
• Physical inventory generation

A review of current inventory replenishment and planning practices such as: min-max planning, reorder point planning, and Kanban replenishment. Some aspects would include:

• Min-max and order modifiers
• Reorder point and forecast generation
• Kanban pull sequences and replenishment

A review of current inventory transactions such as: issues, receipts and movements. Some aspects would include:

• Miscellaneous transactions and account aliases
• Inter-organization transfers and internal sales orders
• Subinventory transfers
• Allocating and transacting move orders
• Receiving transactions

A review of current item creation practices such as: item templates, item attributes, and the process to assign items to organizations. Some aspects would include:

• Item templates and attribute control level
• Item attributes
• Item status
• Item category sets and category codes
• Item catalog groups and descriptive elements
• Item revision
• Units of measure, classes and conversion
• Lot and/or serial number controls

A review of current inventory financial control practices such as: handling transaction issues, view transactions and month end process. Some aspects would include:

• Transaction open interface and pending transactions
• View accounting lines and material distributions for transactions
• Month end reporting and close cycle

A review of inventory availability practices such as: reservations, material availability. Some aspects would include:

• Reservations
• On hand availability and material workbench
• Material status control
• Item supply and demand

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