OPM Inventory Vs Discrete Inventory

[rochow]

How is OPM inventory setup different from Discrete inventory setup?

[BradJames]

Refer to the attached file on how Oracle Process Manufacturing (OPM) is
mapped to Oracle Applications (OA) by organizational structure.

OA operating units are mapped to individual OA inventory organizations, which are comprised of location, subinventory, and stock locator. OA operating unit maps to OPM Company while OPM Company is comprised of organization, warehouse, and warehouse location.

[BradJames]

Organization structure defines the reporting hierarchy for plants and warehouses.

An organization is an accounting structure.

It can be a manufacturing plant, a corporate office, or just a convenient shell within which figures from lower-level reporting structures can accumulate.

There can be several parent/child organizations within a single structure

The first step in creating a warehouse is to create a new inventory organization.
To indicate that the inventory organization is an OPM warehouse, you will need to designate it as a process organization warehouse by selecting the Process Organization check box on the Organization Parameters form.

The main advantage to relating the organizational structures for Oracle Process Manufacturing and Oracle Applications is the benefit of added functionality for order management and shipping capabilities available in Oracle Applications.

An OPM Company is equivalent to an Oracle Applications (OA) Operating Unit.
The OPM Warehouse is the equivalent of an OA Inventory Organization, and the OPM Warehouse Location is the equivalent of an OA Stock Locator.

You will enter a maximum of 16 characters in the Stock Locators flexfield to identify the Warehouse Location

[BradJames]

Before you can use the
Oracle Process Manufacturing (OPM) Inventory Control application to process
inventory transactions, you need to define the:
■ Organization - required
■ Inventory Calendar - required
■ Items - required
■ Lots - not required
■ Warehouses - required
■ Locations - not required
The OPM Inventory Control application consists of the data entry windows that are
required to enter inventory details and process several inventory transactions. The
rules that you establish on these data entry windows determine how transactions
will be processed.