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Oracle WMS Rule

Oracle WMS provides a complete advanced set of

tools which enables a warehouse to work effectively
dispatching tasks in time error free to the correct
destination and operators.
Non WMS warehouses are mostly managed by
manual interventions and decisions taken by the
operators which increases the scope for manual error,
delay in delivering a task, sometimes serious mistakes
which incur huge loss in inventory management.
Also some complex decisions cannot be taken by
human operators which can increase the warehouse
optimization.

To all these questions, concerns and mistakes, oracle

has answered in the WMS in the form of WMS rule
engine.

The rules engine enables directed picking and put

away, assigns newly received material to a cost group,
ensures customer compliant labeling, assigns tasks to
a resource with the appropriate training and
equipment, and selects the correct operation plan for
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a task. You can also use the cartonization criteria to

assign the four options of the cartonization algorithm
at the organization or subinventory level. Rules can be
based on nearly any attribute in the database,
including user-defined flexfields. Strategies, or a
collection of rules, can be organization specific,
customer specific, item specific, or specific to one of
many additional business objects. Below are the
different types of rules which can be defined in WMS
rule engine.

Below are the different types of rules which can be

defined in WMS rule engine:

Directed Picking and Putaway

The rules engine provides intelligent suggestions for

put away locations of new material, based on virtually
any business process. Some common processes the
rules are capable of modeling include: minimizing item
fragmentation, requiring no lot commingling in a
locator, directing hazardous materials to a
corresponding hazardous storage location, or placing
seasonal items in a subinventory dependent on time
of year. Other put away possibilities include: basing
the location on inspection results, purchase order
type, or item category. The rules engine also suggest
material put away to intelligent locations suggested by
the rules engine, for any items anywhere within the
warehouse.

When the system releases a pick wave to the

warehouse floor, the rules engine determines the
allocation suggestions. You can create picking rules to
model business practices such as: to ensure stock
rotation, meet customer requirements such as stock
condition or quality, lot expiration date, or country of
origin. You can allocate material by a simple FIFO or

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FEFO (first expired, first out) rule at the organization

level, picking rules that pick to deplete a location to
free up additional warehouse space, or rules to pick
by cost group ownership. You can also model
customer requirements so a single lot fills an entire
order, or warehouse preferences so an item is picked
from a single locator.

Task Type Assignment

Task type assignment captures the skill sets and
equipment required for a warehouse task so work is
assigned to appropriate users. Operators can sign
onto a mobile RF device, optionally specifying the
equipment available to them. Tasks are assigned to
operators based on the operators skill set, equipment
requirements and capacity, or the subinventory in
which the task occurs. For example, you can assign
hazardous tasks to personnel with the appropriate
HAZMAT training, and limit put aways to the top racks
to operators who signed on with a high-reach forklift.

Cost Group Assignment

Cost groups capture the material valuation accounts

necessary for tracking inventory value. For instance,
you can set up different accounts for refurbished,
consigned, and company-owned inventory. You can
also keep different cost groups for different sales
channels. When you receive new material into the
warehouse the owning cost group must be
determined.
Material handlers should not make Cost group
decisions. The rules engine automates this decision
making, removes complexity from the floor and still
provides material valuation accounts tracking. Cost
group assignment can be made by inspection results,
with a failed item assigned to a Hold for MRB cost
group. Cost groups can also be assigned by supplier
site, item category, or by item. The system uses
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default cost group of the items storage subinventory

when it cannot find a rule for the transaction.

Label Format Assignment

Compliant labeling is becoming increasingly

important, but also increasingly difficult as different
customers or carriers may require a different label
format. The rules engine can select the appropriate
label format based on customer, carrier, item category,
or transportation method. These formats are
associated with the required information, barcode
symbologies, and appropriate layout for each item or
container. Additionally, odd sized items may require
different label types, or some order types may require
weather-resistant labels. The rules engine can print
different labels for different freight carriers or shipment
types. The rules engine can also select label formats
for use inside the warehouse. When you receive lot
controlled items, the rules engine can print the
appropriate lot stickers automatically.

Operation Plan Assignment

Operation plans determine the routing, packing, and

consolidation operations that a task must go through.
Some outbound processes may require LPN-based
consolidation, whereby the system suggests which
LPN to consolidate a delivery into when dropping an
LPN in a staging lane, while other deliveries do not
use this LPN consolidation. The operation plan
selected during task creation controls these options as
well as several additional features. The Rule Engine
selects the operation plan based on the source
subinventory, destination staging lane, customer
class, or item type, or any number of different criteria.

<<Read More on Rule Simulation/Debugging>>

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3 COMMENTS:

Laura Bush January 4, 2020 at 12:42 PM

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Laura Bush January 4, 2020 at 12:45 PM

Amazing post, Which you have shared here

about the Warehouse Management. Your
article is very informative and useful to
know more about the Oracle Warehouse
Management Rule. Thank you so much.
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jassibush June 25, 2020 at 12:03 PM

Thanks for sharing such an amazing article,

really informative 3PL WMS Software

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