Reserve the Supply of a Discrete Job as Demand for Another Discrete Job

You can reserve a discrete job as the supply to a component in another discrete job as the demand. This helps you to reserve sub-assemblies as supply work orders that are then used as component items for a parent assembly work order as demand.

Prior to Release 12.2.15, you could reserve a discrete job as supply only with a sales order as demand.

In the following example, a demand job is created for "G-15 Gearbox" assembly item. The component item is "Housing" subassembly.

A supply job is created for the "Housing" subassembly item.

Discrete Job

Supply job

Click on the action link - Maintain Job Reservations

Click on the action link - Maintain Job Reservations

You can update the demand job details in the Item Reservations window.

Reserve the supply job with the demand job

Reserve the supply job with the demand job

Complete the subassembly item

Complete the supply job

On completing the supply job to inventory, the supply job reservation is relieved. The reservation is updated in the demand job with Inventory as supply source.

To view the reservation details, navigate to the demand job and view the component item reservations.

Demand job

Demand job

Click on the action link - Maintain Component Reservations

Click on the action link - Maintain Component Reservations

Component item reservations

Component item reservations

You can also see the reservation quantity for the "Housing" subassembly item in the Material Requirements window.

Material Requirements window

Material Requirements window

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

  • When you decrease the demand job quantity, the supply job reservation is automatically updated.
  • When you increase the demand quantity, the supply job reservation quantity remains unchanged. You have to manually increase the reservation quantity in the supply job.
  • On completing the supply job the material is transferred to inventory. The demand job will retain the reservation with inventory. To return the subassembly item, the reservation must be cancelled in the demand job.
  • When a sales order reservation exists for the item in the supply job, the demand job reservation will only allow for the balance quantity.
  • Supply jobs with reservations cannot be cancelled, closed, or changed to the Complete-No Charges due to unfulfilled sales orders or demand job linked to the supply job. You can change the status to Cancelled, Closed, or Complete-No Charges only after deleting the reservations.

Key Resources

  • Oracle E-Business Suite News and Information: oracle.com/ebs
  • Oracle E-Business Suite Product Documentation: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/index.htm
  • Oracle University: https://www.oracle.com/education
  • Oracle Support: https://www.oracle.com/support