OPM Vs Discrete Manufacturing

[Dallas]

What are the main differences between Oracle Process Manufacturing and Oracle Discrete Manufacturing

[BradJames]

Process manufacturers produce foods and beverages, chemicals,
pharmaceutical products, primary metals, paper, and petroleum
products.

Their needs are unique and often complex. For example, the
quality of two deliveries of strawberries from the same farmer—
attributes such as color, sugar, and water content—can vary. Chemical
companies face similar challenges. The multiple outputs of a chemical
reaction can vary based on the potency of a catalyst or on the relative
humidity of the surrounding environment.

Historically, process manufacturers have used Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP) systems developed for discrete manufacturing, with
“bolt on” process features.

In process manufacturing, raw material variability is
a tremendous challenge. Differences in quality for the
same item can affect the purchase price, the
manufacturing and storage cost, the formula used,
and the customers to whom you sell your end products.

Oracle Process Manufacturing tracks this variability
precisely with a quality-based view of your raw
materials and your products.

[Diego79]

OPM (Oracle Process Manufacturing) works best when you are manufacturing stuff that are blended together (Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Paint, Food Products) etc.

In process industries, you have variable ingredients, by products and co products. You could have dual base Unit of Measure. Manufacturing the product involes multiple recipes and formulas. The product could be sold differently based on grades or potency. Lots and Shelf life are critical in OPM

Discrete Manufacturing doesn't have this amount of variability in manufacturing. It can be used to make widgets. They have Bill of Material (BOM) instead of Recipes. You can have a single base unit of measure.

[Kristian Mezei]

Can I run both types in the same instance? I have both types of manufacturing to deal with?

[Dallas]

I am making some progress on OPM. Yes, I ran across a articles on metalink that indicate you can run both discrete and OPM and transfer materials between the two if need. Standard functionality of OPM does not allow any such transfer. But, there is one patch # 3479309 available on metalink, which addresses this issue.

[smhodges]

We are running both OPM and Discrete in the same instance in production for approximately one and a half years now (Ver 11.5.10) We do look forward to our R12 convergence however.

[glenfoxman]

When I create a discrete job, it doesnt take the routing based lead time into account. In other words, if there are some purchased components in the BOM and also there are some in-house manufactured sub-assemblies, the discrete job ignores any associated lead time with any of these purchased components or sub-assemblies with in the BOM and just assigns the same start and completion date.

Why is that?

We are on 11i, Discrete Manufacturing Patchset F .
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