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Oracle Enterprise Asset Management R12 – An Overview

( Part – I )

17th June 2010 Vinod Menon Email: vinodkumar.n.menon@accenture.com

Purpose

• Understand the high level overview of Oracle EAM R12 functionalities.

• Understand the mandatory modules that requires to support Oracle EAM.

• Quick understanding of Maintenance Solution in Oracle(eAM/cMRO).

• Understand the integration touch point and business process flows for each oracle modules.

• Overview of some important end-to-end process ( For example, Asset Acquisition to Maintenance/Tracking).

Fixed Assets/Capital Assets may need Periodic orPreventive Maintenance

• Fixed Asset

Property, Buildings, and Equipment/Tools Property:

o Land

Buildings: o Office Buildingso Shop Floor

Equipment/Vehicles: o Equipments, Trucks/Support Vehicles, Arms, Computers, Cars

• On time preventive maintenance saves a lot of money for organizations in terms of productivity, shutdowns etc.• Preventive maintenance also saves money by extending life of an asset.

Inventory items : May also need maintenance

In a maintenance world there are two types of items:• Repairable or Re-buildable items• Consumable items

• Re-buildable inventory An item that is sub-assembly/part of an Asset but need maintenance periodically and

can be repaired then re-used.– Motors– Engines – Tires

• Consumable inventoryAn item that are used for maintenance or one time used item in an asset. Once it is not functioning or broke or consumed, it is scrapped.– Oil– filters– Nuts/bolts

Oracle EAM support preventive maintenance as well as incidental repairs for re-buildable Inventory.Again, on time maintenance of re-buildable inventory saves lot of money for organizations. For example, recommended Tire rotation extend life for tires.

Decision making when to use EAM or cMRO ?

Maintenance – Quick Overview of eAM v/s cMRO

• EAM can be used for maintaining Assets and Re-buildable /Repairable Inventory items. Assets can include:-– Equipments/Tools/Vehicles– Repairable/Re-buildable Inventory– Land/Facilities/Buildings

• cMRO is a maintenance solution for the entire maintenance life cycle for complex assets specifically Aerospace industry & supports the following:– Aircraft induction– Flight Line maintenance– Heavy maintenance planning– Heavy maintenance execution– Engine and component overhaul

When to use EAM ( Enterprise Asset Management) and cMRO ( Complex Material, Repair & Overhaul ? Why can’t we use the same the product formaintaining all the Assets?

Maintenance – Quick Overview of eAM v/s cMRO – Contd.

In short , Airlines/Missiles - anything that fly is cMRO ! The main reason being complexity In maintenance and Govt. regulations/policies on maintenance like FAA, DoD etc. Also these assets needs seasonal maintenance plans. For example, War time v/s peace Time maintenance plan for Military Aircrafts or Winter maintenance v/s Summer maintenance for commercial Airlines.

• Maintaining assets that fly (such as jets)

• cMRO have Govt./Military configuration control and regulatory functionality

• cMRO run a ‘depot’ that manages major repairs on a regularly scheduled basis (think of a major overhaul for an airplane).

• cMRO more of a “maintenance depot” business process

• Maintaining Assets and Re-buildable parts that doesn't fly

•  EAM does not have all Govt. configuration and regulatory controls to support Aircraft, Ships, Missile etc.

• EAM is a “maintenance planning” tool

cMRO eAM

Oracle eAM Mandatory & Optional Modules

As you can see Oracle eAM is not a stand alone module. In order to function there are some mandatory modules need to be setup. Also based on the business requirements for each customerAdditional modules may be needed.

Mandatory Modules Implementation of Enterprise Asset Management includes configuration of shared components from the following products:

• Oracle Inventory• Oracle Bills of Material• Oracle Human Resources• Oracle Cost Management• Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling• Oracle Work In Process• Oracle Quality

Optional Modules• Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP• Oracle Property Management• Oracle Financials• Oracle Fixed Assets• Oracle iProcurement• Oracle Projects• Oracle Project Manufacturing• Oracle Purchasing• Oracle Order Management• Oracle Time and Labor

Oracle eAM Standard Integration - Overview

Product & Maint WO

TransactionsCosts

Updates

WO Updates, Catalogs

Changes to Capitalized Asset Depreciation

Service Request Linked to

WOR / WOWO Materials, Reqs Linked to

WO & Workflow

Receiving

Project / Task, WO Costs

Posting Integration

Chart of Accounts

WOBilling

Req & PO Changes, AP-to-PO Matching/Reconciliation

Employees & Skills

MaintainableAssets

Time Entry

Suppliers Customers

T&A

HR AP GL AR FA Property

Purchasing Manufacturing ProjectsInventory Service

eAM

PO

DepreciableAssets/WO

Capitalization

Now you have the asset recorded into the Financial Asset Books as well as in EAM. If you setup And apply appropriate templates the Asset is ready for maintenance schedule in EAM. This savesLot of data entry efforts.

R12 - Asset Creation in FA, eAM & OAT (Oracle Asset Tracking)

– Any Asset purchased needs to be added to Assets using Mass Addition process.– In R12, upon purchase order receipt, assets can be created in EAM and

templates can be applied so that the maintenance strategy is established automatically.

– After receipt, the same asset can be interfaced to Fixed Assets, via concurrent processes. ( Mass Addition Program )

– You can also add assets from other sources. ( Using API’s – say from Legacy systems,).

– If OAT ( Oracle Asset Tracking ) is installed a record will be created in OAT so that the asset tracking will be initiated.

– You can manually create Assets in EAM too.

This is an enhanced version of Rel 11i Enterprise Install base module and tighly integrated with eAM and other modules using XML messages.

Oracle Asset Tracking - R12 – Quick Overview

• Oracle Asset Tracking provides an enterprise tracking and asset management system where all inventory, project, customer, and asset-related material information is stored, providing a 360-degree view of your assets ( Inventory, Fixed or Capital Assets). You can locate materials anywhere in the system in warehouses, on trucks, installed in the network, or on project sites facilitating financial transactions using physical movements of material and equipment. In addition, Oracle Asset Tracking can provide a life-cycle history of all activity for that equipment.

• Provides automatic handling of costs, units and location updates in Fixed Assets for inventory transfers, asset deployment and internal sales order shipments

• Oracle Asset Tracking is tightly integrated with other oracle modules like Assets, Inventory, Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Purchasing, Order Management, Projects etc.

Asset Tracking receives XML based messages when an inventory or asset transaction occurs if it is marked as “Asset Trackable” in the item master. Messages can be setup for legacy Systems too.

Asset Tracking XML integration with other modules - High Level Flow

Asset Acquisition and Tracking Business Process – R12

Make sure that the Asset Group set up in the Inventory and EAM. Also Activity , Activity BOM’s, Maintenance Templates etc. are setup and applied to the Asset Group.

Create a PO for the Asset Group in EAM

PO is approved and sent out to the Supplier. Ready to receive it from the Supplier.

Approve the PO

Search using PO and Supplier

Receive the Assets

Make sure that the Assets are received into a Sub-inventory that is setup as “Asset Sub-inventory”Also eAM category has been setup and selected. This will trigger API to populate eAM .

Receive the Asset into the Asset Sub-Inventory

It is important that the asset Group is setup as serial control so that each asset can be uniquely Identified and maintained. . In this case since it is vehicle VIN number can be used.

Assign Serial Numbers to the Asset while receiving

In R12, receiving will kick off the asset creation automatically in eAM and OAT ( Oracle Asset Tracking) using API.

Verify that eAM Asset is created automatically

You can see that using Pre-defined Meter Templates assigned to the Asset Group the meter has been created automatically too.

Check Meter

You can see that pre-defined activity templates resulted in automatic assignment of activities for the eAM Asset just received.

Check the Activity Association

You can see that the sub-inventory location received will be initially assigned to the Asset.

Check the Activity Association

Assigning PM Schedule for the Asset using the PM Schedule Template. Or you can create one new..

Assigning PM Schedule

Remember that PM Schedule can be rules based or List Dates. ( maintenance to be performed on a Specific day )

Assigning PM Schedule using the Templates

Using PM Schedule templates assigned to the Asset Group, the PM schedule was assignedautomatically.

View PM Schedule Details

Using the Meter Template, the associated meter was created and will be used with the defined Rules for the PM Schedule.

View Meter Association of PM Schedule

Service Date & Meter Reading information can also be viewed. Since this asset has just been acquired, the default reading for the service is zero (0).

View Meter Rules and Readings

The same asset can be viewed from OAT. 

To perform this, change responsibility to: Asset Tracking Super User.

View Asset Tracking Module

In the General tab, the Organization, eAM Asset Description (Instance Name) display. Also note that the Accounting Classification is Inventory . This value will change after we create the Fixed Asset.

View Asset Tracking Details

This Information will also change after Fixed Asset has been created ( FA ).

View Asset Tracking – Maintenance Information

After searching for the parent Asset associated with one of the newly purchased assets, you can see that the EAM Asset & the VIN (entered as the SN for the asset at receipt) is now part of the hierarchy. The asset has been established and now part of maintenance and work can be performed on the asset. Because it is inventoried, it can also be transferred to another EAM Organization should the asset change location or require service in another maintenance organization.

View Asset Hierarchy

Before creating Fixed Assets, you must cost the Receipt. ( Inventory Manager must be running) and the Sub ledger Accounting process is required to run.

Creating Fixed Assets – Create Accounting

Select the process Create Assets: Interface Inventory Transactions to Oracle Assets. This process will pass the Asset information to Oracle Assets.

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Creating Fixed Assets – Create Accounting Object

From the Assets or Asset Tracking Responsibility Select the Post Mass Additions. This will create Assets in the Asset Book.

Creating Fixed Assets – Run Post Mass Additions

Creating Fixed Assets – Verify the Asset Creation

Verify EAM Asset Information after FA asset creation

See that Accounting class has now changed to Maintenance from “Inventory”

Verify EAM Asset Information after FA asset creation

See that EAM Asset and The fixed Asset has been linked after running the Mass Addition.

Verify the Asset Tracking History

Summary

Streamlined process and integration between Financials (Procurement & Assets), Supply Chain (Inventory), OAT and eAM.

Assets can more easily be created for maintenance as they are purchased. This reduces duplicate efforts while improving accuracy & visibility through transaction history. The use of templates makes the maintenance definition more efficient and consistent.

The FA integration provides an accurate link for maintenance and procurement.

The user has full visibility of asset lifecycle with views that are important to respective operations of the organization.

Single source of truth about the lifecycle of an Asset from Acquisition to Maintenance to Retirement.