What is Backflush

In Bills of Material module when you create a bill for any assembly or sub assembly or a
finished good, you define component supply type for each component in a bill. These supply
types are push, operation pull, assembly pull, Bulk, vendor/supplier, phantom etc. This Bills
of material is used in Work in Process module for manufacturing a job. When you manufacture
an assembly, it requires components at the shop floor as per the list given in a bill. If your
supply type of a component is Push you have to manually issue components to shop floor for
manufacturing process but if the supply type of a component is either assembly pull or
operation pull, you need not to issue components manually to the shop floor but when a
particular operation or an assembly is completed during manufacturing ie during move
transactions or completion transactions, Oracle application system automatically backflushes
components from the supply subinventory and locator Here ,backflushing means
deduction( reducing) of required quantity from Inventory on hand quantity. In case of push
supply type you have to deliver materials to shopfloor and deduct quantity yourself .Incase of
backflushing you have to delivery materials to shopfloor and need not deduct quantity
yourself but system( Oracle Applications) automatically deducts quantity from subinventorylocator on hand quantity when any assembly or an operation is completed in WIP module
manufacturing process.
Once any assembly is completed in WIP, please go to inventory module and check the
subinventory and locator quantity for the item for which assembly is completed. You will
observe that on hand quantity has reduced .If total was 100 numbers and 10 numbers are
pulled, by WIP assembly or operation pull, balance will be 90 numbers.