What’s new in PeopleSoft 9.1 Inventory? Oracle has delivered several enhancements in PeopleSoft Enterprise release 9.1 Inventory. These enhancements touch several functional areas, including: Item Maintenance, Fulfillment, Return to Vendor, Delivery Management, Freight Management, and Inter-Unit Transfer Visibility.
One enhancement, in particular, that caught my eye was the ability to create configurable Item templates to streamline the item set up process. During my fifteen years of implementing Inventory and Purchasing I’ve seen varied needs, from client to client, when it comes to setting up new items. This new functionality allows you to create multiple templates and, for each one of those different templates, identify the fields available for the user to populate and any default values you want populated by the system. You have the flexibility to create templates based on your company’s needs.
For instance, if when setting up finished goods items you populate volume and weight fields but don’t use these fields for raw materials then you can configure the templates to display those fields in the finished goods template and not the raw materials template. In that same example, if you use item family to distinguish between finished goods, raw materials, and MRO items, you can configure the template to default in the appropriate item family value based on the type of item being defined. This is one example of new Inventory functionality delivered in 9.1 that may help you streamline inventory related processes.
Will these enhancements add value to your inventory operations? Comment and let me know what you think.
Facebook
Jim,
Have you implemented Maintenance Management? What if any new enhancements to it are in 9.1?
Thx
Robin Perry
Robin, funny you should ask. Although I have not implemented Maintenance Management I have been doing some research on that module for a potential client. There are several new enhancements. The following is the list at a high level:
1. Personal Time Entry on the Technician Workbench
2. Service request and work order usability enhancements including the following:
– Ability to create a service request directly from the Service Request Inbox
– Case insensitive search for assets by description
– Filtering of eligible assets by tag number smart coding
– Additional asset search criteria
3. Work Order Usability Enhancements including the following:
– Tracking of work order durations by fractions of an hour
– Ability to view and update work order and task descriptions from the express work order
– Ability to display work order and task descriptions on the work order, crew scheduling, technician and labor assignment workbenches
– Hyperlink to the Project/Activity page from a work order
4. Asset searches initiated from the service request and work order provide the ability to search for components within an asset hierarch
5. Capability to Create eProcurement Requisitions from a Work Order if ePro is installed
6. The capability to add to equipment parts lists from the work order, express work order and work order task template
7. The capability to track and analyze equipment failure incidents for various operational and regulatory needs
8. The Asset Maintenance Cost Analysis feature provides the capability to summarize maintenance costs by various dimensions
9. Web services integration with mobile devices allows maintenance organizations the flexibility of entering and retrieving work order data from a handheld device
10. Preventive Maintenance Schedule Linking
11. Preventive Maintenance Work Order Generation Based on Lead Days
12. Preventive Maintenance Mass Schedule Updates
Hope this helps!