Inventory Process Flow
A Comparison
Current Process
Receipt in Stores Application
Maintain Suppliers, Print SRV
Register the
Items, and sent to
Receipts
Purchase orders Finance dept.
Receipt in Oracle Inventory
Create
Maintain Items, transaction for
Receive SRV
Suppliers and POs SRV with
accounting Info.
Current Process
Issue from Stores Application
Maintain Customers Print DN
Create an issue
Projects, and sent to
transaction
Purchase orders Finance dept.
Issue from Finance Application (Oracle)
Maintain Customers Create an issue
Projects, Receive DN Transaction with
Purchase orders Accounting info
Drawbacks of Existing System
Data duplication leading to extra man
hours.
Inventory Information is not centralized.
Need to maintain two applications.
No Process Continuity available.
Difficulty in Stock Control.
Instable Application in Stores
Future Process Flow
Receipt
Supplier, PO Receive items
Print SRV
and Items against PO or
if required
already available Supplier
Future Process Flow
Issue
Receive DN and
Create an Issue
Sent DN update accounting
transaction
to Finance Info online
in store
by Finance
w.o account info
Advantages of the Oracle Inv.
No overhead of duplicate data
Centralized Information/ data.
Single application maintenance
Process Continuity available along with
online status updates
Reliable Application with up-to-date
backup.