Oracle Contract Manufacturing is a feature of Oracle Order Management Cloud Order to Cash that enables you to outsource your manufacturing operations to a third-party supplier. Oracle Contract Manufacturing supports two types of flows: Plan-to-Produce and Back-to-Back fulfillment 1 . In the Back-to-Back fulfillment flow, the supplier creates the supply based on the customer’s demand, without any prior planning. The Back-to-Back fulfillment flow involves three documents: Work Order, Purchase Order, and Sales Order 2 . These documents are kept in sync as a parameter setting for the Back-to-Back flow. This means that any changes or updates to one document are automatically reflected in the other documents, ensuring data consistency and accuracy 3 .

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Overview of Contract Manufacturing

Overview of Back-to-Back Fulfillment

Back-to-Back Supply Creation Flows

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The drop ship flow is a variation of the order-to-cash flow, where ordered items are sourced from a supplier 1 . A revision on a drop ship sales order line to increase the quantity will be accepted only if the requisition is created from the drop ship sales order but the purchase order is yet to be created. This is because once the purchase order is created, the quantity on the sales order line cannot be changed 2 . If the purchase order is partially or fully shipped by the supplier, the sales order line is also partially or fully fulfilled and cannot be revised.

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How Drop Ship Works in Order Management

How Order-to-Cash Works in Order Management

SmartView integration is a reporting tool that enables you to create ad hoc reports in Excel, Word, or PowerPoint by using BI subject areas. BI subject areas are predefined data sets that contain the business metrics and attributes that you can use to create reports and analyses. SmartView integration allows you to access the BI subject areas from within the Microsoft Office applications, and use the familiar features and functions of those applications to create and format your reports 1 .

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Overview of SmartView Integration