Order Management FAQS

Question	What is Difference between Internal Sales order and Intercompany Sales order ? How they are Different in 11i and R12
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Question	What are the Process Constraints?
Answer	Processing Constraints allow Order Management users the ability to control changes to sales orders, at all stages of its order or line workflows to avoid data inconsistencies and audit problems.
Question	What is a Pick Slip Report?
Answer	Pick slip is a shipping document that the pickers use to locate items in the warehouse/ inventory to ship for an order.
Question	At what stage an order cannot be cancelled?
Answer	If the order is Pick Confirmed, it cannot be cancelled.
Question	When the order import program is run it validates and the errors occurred can be seen in?
Answer	Order Management Responsibility >Orders, Returns : Import Orders> Corrections
Question	What is the difference between purchase order (PO) and sales order?
Answer	Purchase Order: The document which is created and sent to supplier when we need to purchase something. (Buying) Sales Order: The document which is created when customer places an order to buy something. (Selling)
Question	What are primary and secondary price lists?
Answer	Price list contains information on items and its prices. The pricing engine uses secondary price lists when it cannot determine the price for an item using the price list assigned to an order.
Question	Name some tables in shipping/order/move order/inventory?
Answer	WSH_DELIVERY_DETAILS,WSH_NEW_DELIVERIES, OE_ORDER_HEADERS_ALL, OE_ORDER_LINES_ALL, MTL_SYTEM_ITEMS_B, MTL_MATERIAL_TRANSACTIONS
Question	How is move order generated?
Answer	When the order is pick released.
Question	What is ONT stands for?
Answer	ORDER MANAGEMENT
Question	What does Back ordered mean in OM?
Answer	An unfulfilled customer order due to non-existence of the ordered items in the Inventory.
Question	What are picking rules?
Answer	A user-defined set of criteria to define the priorities Order Management uses when picking items out of finished goods inventory to ship to a customer. Picking rules are defined in Oracle Inventory.
Question	What is drop ship in OM?
Answer	A method of fulfilling sales orders by selling products without handling, stocking,or delivering them. The selling company buys a product from a supplier and has the supplier ship the product directly to customers.
Question	What are Defaulting Rules?
Answer	While creating the order,you can define defaulting rules so that the default values of the fields pop up automatically instead of typing all information.
Question	What are validation templates?
Answer	A validation template names a condition and defines the semantics of how to validate that condition. Validation templates can be used in the processing constraints framework to specify the constraining conditions for a given constraint.
Question	What are different Order Types?
Answer	Order Only, Mixed, RMA
Question	Explain the Order Cycle?
Answer	Book the order Pick Release Pick Confirm Ship Confirm Close the order
Question	What is packing slip?
Answer	An external shipping document that is sent along with a shipment itemizing in detail the contents of that shipment.
Question	When an order cannot be deleted?
Answer	Order cannot be delted if the Order is Pick Confirmed.
Question	What is pick slip?
Answer	Pick slip is a shipping document that the pickers use to locate items in the warehouse/ inventory to ship for an order.
Question	What is the significance of Line Ordering and Line Grouping? Explain.
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Question	What is the use of Differ interface check box in Ship confirm?
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Question	The item attribute ‘Reservable’ is No - what is the impact?
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Question	Can one ‘operating unit’ user see the sales order of other operating? How can we achieve this?
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Question	What are the attributes we need to define for BOM to raise configuration sales order?
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Question	Auto pick confirm whether required or not where is that set-up done? Other than OM System parameters where else?