Oracle MWA Personalization

This personalization can be done in 3 levels

1. Function
2. Organization
3. Responsibility

Personalization Setup

Below profile options need to be setup

• MWA: Enable Personalization: This will decide whether you want to enable the personalization or not
• MWA: Cache Personalized Metadata: This profile option controls whether or not you need to bounce the MWA server.

Supported Mobile Pages

• Pick Load
• Pick Drop
• Manual Load
• Item Load
• Move Any LPN
• Putaway Drop
• Update LPN
• Mobile PO receipt
• Mobile PO receipt information
• LPN Ship
• Mobile Ship confirm

Personalizing Mobile Pages

Step:1 Navigate to the Warehouse Manager Responsibility and choose MWA Personalization framework option under the Setup sub-menu

Step:2 Select a page and click on personalize, this will show all the fields in that page and their function level values with an edit option in the light of every field

Step:3 After clicking the edit button, make the required changes and click apply

Step:4 Navigate to the mobile page and review your personalization done for the page. Note: If the profile option “MWA: Cache Personalized Metadata” is set to “Yes” then, the personalization made will come into effect only after bouncing the mobile server

The Personalized Update LPN Page displays the page name as “* Update LPN (W1)” The “ * ” indicates that the page involved has been personalized.

The above picture shows the before and after view of the “Update LPN” page with the following personalization:

• LPN field’s prompt changed to “Custom LPN”.
• Default value is set to weight field and is made read-only.
• LPN Attributes LPN DFF is enabled/rendered for the LPN field.
• Content Vol. field is made hidden
• Container field is made mandatory/required
• Update LPN button’s prompt is changed to Custom Update

Activate/Deactivate Personalization

Personalization created for a page can be Activated/Deactivate from the activate/deactivate personalization page

These Personalizations can be done in Organization and Responsibilitry level too.

Step1: For doing personalization in Organization level, you have to select the page name and then give the organization name and click personalize

Step2: This will show value at organization level too

Step3: Click Edit button, do the changes and click Aply

Step4: Click Activate/Deactivate Personalization and make changes

Enabling Descriptive Flexfields for Mobile Pages

You can use mobile personalization to display descriptive flexfields on mobile pages. The LPN descriptive flexfield is WMS: License Plate Numbers. You can choose to enable users to update the descriptive flexfield, or display it as a read-only field on the mobile page. How the field appears, depends on the choices you select in the Personalization Field Properties page. To personalize descriptive flexfields on mobile pages, follow the procedure for personalizing mobile pages. The personalization options for descriptive flexfields are:

• Display Inline: If you set the field to yes, then the descriptive flexfields are displayed on the same page. If you set the field to no, then the user enter the descriptive flexfield values on a separate page.
• Default Context: If you set the field to yes, then the user can enter a default context for the descriptive flexfield

Source: docs.oracle.com

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Difference between Oracle Inventory and WMS

Both Inventory and WMS modules are used to hold the inventory and do transactions like receiving and picking goods but WMS is more expensive then inventory coz WMS has got some important premium features which is not there in Inventory module.

So to explain the differences are

Inventory without WMS is basically small in size and where the granular level management and information are not required like labor cost, resource cost, etc. For example small shops or small manufacturing units who basically holds the stocks and ship it to their customer where not much of resources involved from warehouse point of view, they can simply fulfil their business requirement by using the Inventory module but if you will consider big transportation companies like UPS, DHL or big retail or FMCG manufacturing companies who manufacture thousands of products and they have their warehouse worked by number of resources, machines maintained by various departments and spread across large locations, they cannot fulfil their business requirement by simply with Inventory module, they need bit more detailed analysis of warehouse resources, cost, efficiency, effectiveness and want to track the time and labour to fulfil the customer demand in a more efficient and cost effective ways then need to go with Warehouse Management System which comes with all these features.

These are the basic features which WMS provides but not in Inventory

• WMS comes with rule workbench which makes warehouse management lot easier and efficient by defining different rules, pick rules, putaway rules, label printing rules.
• WMS provides cost involved in granular level in different tasks like shipping, picking, fuel costs by machine, labour costs, etc.
• From finance or accounting point of view, suppose business maintains a line of products (more than one number of products but in one line, suppose a health care company in its hair care product line makes different products like 100 ml, 200 ml bottles, 10 ml sachets) stores in one subinventory but want to get valuation accounting details for each product. It is not possible by Inventory as in inventory all products are comes under one accounting which is defined in subinventory but the same can be derived in WMS by using cost group rule.
• So in Inventory module, accounting details canot be given down the subinventory level but in WMS it can be derived in many different levels, in locator level, lot level, supplier level, etc.
• Lot more features are there like operation management, task dashboard where warehouse manager can check each and individual resources and how much they are occupied, according he can assign the task to complete in timely and cost effective way which is lacking in Inventory.
• From technology point of view, Mobile devices enabled with RF can be used with WMS, so that means you can do transaction in real time on the go when you do physical movement, you can do the same in system and also get the required label printed on the go. But in Inventory these are two different tasks, you have to physically do the transaction then need to come to the machine and do the transaction in system. In big warehouses where everyday thousands of transactions are happening, this is not a cost effective or efficient solution. But with WMS, all these things will be ease.

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