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Material Workbench and Benefits

Oracle Material Workbench is the integrated Function of Oracle Inventory. We cancheck the Item availability in the Organization. This availability can be under 

different status such as On Hand Quantity, Available to Reserve and Available to

Transact.

The Material status is drilled down from Organization to Sub-inventory and more

detailed to Locator level. Oracle Inventory has provided the facility to check the Item

Stock using different grouping such Item Wise, Location wise, Statuses wise, Grade

wise etc. As Oracle Inventory is tightly integrated with Other Oracle Application the

data displayed in Material workbench is fetched from all related modules.

We can check the Item position using the Material query wherein we can define thecombination of the Item Name, Organization, Sub inventory etc. The Quantity of the

Item is displayed in both Primary and secondary UOM if applicable. Material work 

 bench displays only those Items having the attribute stock able and Quantity should

 be more than 0.

There are different values which are displayed in material workbench:

On Hand Quantity: On hand quantity is the physical quantity of the item which we

can transact.

Reservation: A reservation of the material means the logical booking of the Item

 based on the demand source. Physical on hand quantity of the Item is not required at

the time of reservation. At the time of the reservation the quantities from the Pending

Purchase Orders, WIP Jobs are consider.

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The above figure displays different quantities which are calculated based on the

formulae. It depends on two things: Demand source (order line or Demand Source

 Name in case of manual reservations) and subinventory you are transacting with.

Subinventory: If you are performing a transaction with a subinventory that is not

reservable, then ATR is zero, but ATT is whatever you can transact.

If you take manual reservations, can go manually reserve quantity up to lot level inthe reservations screen (the same orders do automatically). If the Subinventory test is

 passed, now the logic looks at who is trying transacting. If the demand source is same

as who has reserved it then the ATR and ATT are same. If not ATR is subtracted from

the Quantity On Hand and resulting is ATT.

Available To Reserve (ATR):

ATR = On Hand – Reservations.

Here system considers reservations against Sales Order, Purchase Order, WIP Job

order etc.

Available To Transact (ATT):ATT = Quantity already reserved + ready to transact

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Benefits of Material Work Bench:

As we have seen the material work bench displays the exact quantities available for 

Promise and transaction, The Material work bench is very useful for the Sales Team

to agree upon the delivery schedule of the sales order.

It is also useful to the Procurement team to plan the future procurement of the

material and other related services related to the material.

The Material Work bench is also helpful to the Planning team; the production plans

can be prioritized based on the delivery schedules and requirement of the Item.