Oracle OPM Interview Questions

1)      What are the different types of manufacturing processes? And what are the primary differences between them? OR

Explain Process Manufacturing v/s Discrete manufacturing?

Answer - http://www.inspirage.com/2007/03/understanding-the-primary-differences-between-opm-and-discrete-processes/

2)      What are the modules that come under oracle’s OPM solution?

Answer: OPM includes OPM Process Planning, Product Development(which includes Formula,Recipe,Quality), Production, Financials(Costing,MAC), Logistics, Regulatory Management etc. These are products which come under this umbrella..

·         OPM Cost Management

·         OPM Formula Management

·         OPM Intelligence

·         OPM Inventory Management

·         OPM Laboratory Management

·         OPM Master Production Scheduling

·         OPM Material Requirements Planning

·         OPM Production Management

·         OPM Purchasing Management

·         OPM Quality Management

·         OPM Capacity

·         OPM Sales Management

·         Oracle Financial

3)      Name and explain frequently used terms in Oracle Process Manufacturing?

Answer: http://souravpupu.blogspot.in/2011/08/brief-identity-of-process-manufacturing.html

4)      Name some important tables used in OPM? ORWhich tables stores the formula information?

Answer:

1)      select a.FORMULA_ID,a.formula_no,a.FORMULA_DESC1,b.INVENTORY_ITEM_ID,c.description,b.organization_id,decode(b.line_type,-1,’Ingredient’,'Product’) Type
from FM_FORM_MST a,FM_MATL_DTL b,mtl_system_items c
where a.formula_id=b.FORMULA_ID
and b.ORGANIZATION_ID=:your_Org_id
and a.FORMULA_CLASS<>’COSTING’
and b.INVENTORY_ITEM_ID=c.inventory_item_id
and b.ORGANIZATION_ID=c.organization_id
order by a.FORMULA_ID

2)      Select b.RECIPE_DESCRIPTION,a.RECIPE_VALIDITY_RULE_ID,c.INVENTORY_ITEM_ID,d.description,decode(c.line_type,-1,’Ingredient’,'Product’) Type,
sum(e.TRANSACTION_QUANTITY) quantity
from apps.GME_BATCH_HEADER a,apps.gmd_recipes b,gmd_recipe_validity_rules grr,apps.gme_material_details c,apps.mtl_system_items d,apps.mtl_material_transactions e
where a.FORMULA_ID=b.FORMULA_ID
and a.ROUTING_ID=b.ROUTING_ID
and a.RECIPE_VALIDITY_RULE_ID=grr.RECIPE_VALIDITY_RULE_ID
and grr.RECIPE_ID=b.recipe_id
and a.BATCH_ID=c.BATCH_ID
and a.ORGANIZATION_ID=c.ORGANIZATION_ID
and c.INVENTORY_ITEM_ID=d.INVENTORY_ITEM_ID
and c.ORGANIZATION_ID=d.organization_id
and a.batch_id=e.TRANSACTION_SOURCE_ID
and a.ORGANIZATION_ID=e.ORGANIZATION_ID
and c.INVENTORY_ITEM_ID=e.INVENTORY_ITEM_ID
and a.batch_no in (select batch_no from apps.GME_BATCH_HEADER where trunc(plan_start_date) between :from_date and :to_date)
and a.ORGANIZATION_ID=:your_org_id
and trunc(e.transaction_date) between :from_date and :to_date
group by b.RECIPE_DESCRIPTION,a.RECIPE_VALIDITY_RULE_ID,c.INVENTORY_ITEM_ID,d.description,c.line_type
order by RECIPE_DESCRIPTION

5)  Explain what do you mean by  Formula and Recipe?
Formula is Ingredients and their proportions
Receipe is Formula + Routing.

6) What are different kinds of losses?
Fixed loss and Variable loss.


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