Implementing

Warehouse Management,
Mobile Supply Chain Applications,
and
RFID-Enabled Solutions
with
Oracle’s Warehouse Control System

David Brossette
Oracle Practice Development Manager
Data Systems International
 Implementing
Warehouse Management,
Mobile Supply Chain Applications,
and
RFID-Enabled Solutions
with
Oracle’s Warehouse Control System
Presentation & Video
Presenter Introductions

In this session, we will…

Discuss

Oracle Warehouse Management

Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications, and the

Warehouse Control System functionality of the Oracle
Sensor Edge Server

Present a video of an integrated automated conveyor system
that includes the use of:

handheld scanners and fixed RFID interrogators to ship
and receive goods

mandate-compliant EPC UHF Gen 2 integrated label / tags

Presented by:
David Brossette, Oracle Practice Development Manager
Joe Clay, Oracle Practice Development Manager
Data Systems International

Leadership

Founded in 1979

Proven Industry Leadership

Nearly three decades of
software development experience
Worldwide Coverage

Offices in the U.S. (Overland Park, KS), Canada, United Kingdom,
Australia and strategically located business partners
Experience

More than 1,500 man-years of data collection experience

Over 2,000 Oracle data collection solutions deployed

With more than 50,000 dcLINK users in 47 countries
DSI is an Oracle Certified Partner

Certified Oracle Business Partner

Database

Applications
DSI participates in these Oracle programs

Worldwide ISV

Application Integration Initiative

Sensor Edge Services Initiative

Application Specific Full Use Oracle Licensing

Oracle Applications Resale
Oracle has validated DSI integrations with

Oracle E-Business Suite

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

JD Edwards World
Premier Partnerships

Value to our clients:

Integrated solutions even for the
most complex implementations

The latest technology

Single point of accountability
Session Outline

Oracle Logistics – Inventory, MSCA, WMS

Integrating Material Handling Equipment

Oracle WCS Overview

Video: WMS, WCS, RF and RFID together

Q&A
 About DSI’s Oracle Practice

Maintenance Order Mgmt.

• Enterprise Asset Mgmt Develop • Order Management
• Self-Service Work Reqs
Contracts Market • Advanced Pricing
• Property Manager Projects Sell • Configurator
Customers,
• iStore
HR Order
Suppliers,

Service Finance Products, …

• iSupport
• TeleService
• Mobile Field Service
• Service Contracts
• Depot Repair
Logistics
• Inventory
• Mobile SC Apps (MSCA)
• Warehouse Mgmt (WMS)
• Transportation Mgmt (OTM)
Maintain
Service
Fulfill
Manufacturing
• Discrete Manufacturing
• Flow / Lean Mfg
• Process Manufacturing
• Project Manufacturing
• Shop Floor Mgmt
Plan
Planning
Procure
• Adv. Supply Chain Planning
Make
• Inventory Optimization
• Global Order Promising
• Strategic Network Opt.
• Demand Planning
Procurement
• iSupplier Portal
• Sourcing Optimization
• Procurement Contracts
• iProcurement
Inventory Options
Modular integrated applications to fit varying needs

High
Warehouse Control System (WCS)
Interface tools – automate MHE – PLCs, sortation
conveyor, carousels, pick-to-light, etc.
Shipment Complexity

* Included w/WMS as of 11i10

Warehouse Management (WMS)

MSCA + LPN support and Rules Driven Optimization
of Storage, Tasks, Pick Allocation, Labeling, RFID
existing

Mobile Supply Chain Application (MSCA)

Inventory + RF Mobile Terminal Capability

Inventory
Receipts, Moves, Adjustments, Ships, and other
Low workstation based inventory related transactions

Small Transaction Velocity / Volume Large

Add Mobility and WMS to Inventory for maximum results

In a WMS enabled organization you also get

When WMS is Installed you also get • LPN tracking
• Cartonization
Mobile Supply • Lot Split • Task
Chain Applications • Lot Merge Management
Provides mobile (RF) • Material Status • Rules Engine
user interfaces for • Lot/Serial Attributes • Cost Groups
• Receiving • Compliance
• WIP Labeling
• Quality • Equipment
• Inventory Integration
• Shipping • Directed Pick &
• Label Printing Put away
WMS - Capabilities Beyond MSCA
Ability to optimize fulfillment operations
Inbound
Inbound:
Express (ASN) Receipt
Rules Engine
• Storage Locator Selection
• Labeling – multiple formats
• Cost Group Assignment
Opportunistic Cross Docking
Adv. Task Framework
RFID Initiated Receiving
*Planned Crossdocking
*Dual UOM
* = R12 release feature
Infrastructure and
Internal Processes
Infrastructure/Internal:
Multi-item and Nested LPNs
Task Dispatching
User Defined Lot & Serial
Attributes, Mat’l Status
GTIN and EPC Support
Mobile RF GUI
WCS Automation I/F Toolkit
WMS Business Intelligence
*Process (OPM) Inventory
*Labor Mgmt
*Material Aging Workflow
Outbound
Outbound:
Rules Engine
• Pick Allocation
• Compliance Labeling
Containerization
Pick Methods
• Bulk, Cluster, Zone, Label
Container Packing
Catchweight Support
Trailer Loading
RFID Initiated Shipping
*Multi-Delivery Consolidate
*XML Pub. based Shipping
Paperwork
Session Outline

Oracle Logistics – Inventory, MSCA, WMS

Integrating Material Handling Equipment

Oracle WCS Overview

Video: WMS, WCS, RF and RFID together

Q&A
Oracle Form and “wedged” data input

You can use any type of laser input device to speed data entry.
Oracle forms just thinks someone is typing fast.

Oracle Inventory
Integrate RFID and Bar Code Printing

Print directly from Oracle

or
At-Location / On-Demand using a print server

Oracle ERP, Oracle MSCA

Wireless Scanning

Mobile devices enabled for Receiving, Inventory, WIP and/or

Shipping

Oracle ERP, MSCA, and Mobile Transaction server

RFID Data Collection and Material Handling Interface

RFID enabled for Shipping and Receiving

This requires:

Oracle ERP and WMS

Oracle Sensor Edge Server

Oracle Warehouse Control System (WCS)
PLC’s, Conveyers, Carousels, etc..
Session Outline

Oracle Logistics – Inventory, MSCA, WMS

Integrating Material Handling Equipment

Oracle WCS Overview

Video: WMS, WCS, RF and RFID together

Q&A
Sensor Edge Server and Oracle E-Business Suite Apps

Sensor Edge Server E-Business Apps

WMS Enabled

Processor
Event
Streams Streams
• Receiving
Driver Groups • Shipping
Device Drivers

Dispatchers
JMS Existing APIs
Internal • Inventory
Driver De-queue,
Queue • QA
SOAP parse and • WIP
prep API • EAM
Driver Filters & Rules
calls • and others
HTTP

E-Business Suite includes support for WMS Receipt and Shipping

transactions.
RFID enabling other transactions is possible via enhancement and can
leverage existing API calls.
Material Handling Equipments

Broad range of warehouse automation equipments

Enhance efficiency
Improve accuracy
Reduce costs

Store Move Update

• Pick-to-light system • Conveyors / diverters • Fixed mount barcode/RFID
• Carousels • AGV • Weighing Scales
• ASRS • Sortation devices • Dimensioning devices

Customers often want integrated E-Business Suite solution support

for complex material automation within WMS
Integration Challenges

MATERIAL
HANDLING
EQUIPMENTS
Multiple equipment types

Pick to Light, Carousel, Scales, etc.
Multiple equipment vendors

White Systems, Siemens, etc.
Multiple business processes

Pick, Putaway, etc.
Complexity of Integration

PLC commands to and from TCP/IP socket
Absence of Standards

Inconsistent Data formats and protocols

How to integrate with MHE to automate warehouse transactions?

Introducing WCS

Introducing Warehouse Control System (WCS)

in WMS

Integrated with WMS: "Built-in, not, Bolt-on"
integration

Available in WMS 11.5.10 and beyond

Existing WMS device definition can be used
Configurable MHE Integration

Flexible construction of bi-directional vendor
specific message

Real time dynamic integration with devices

Uniform approach for broad range of
equipments and processes
 MHE Integration Framework

MATERIAL WAREHOUSE CONTROL SYSTEM (WCS) BACKEND

HANDLING ERP
EQUIPMEN Configuration Layer
TS
WMS Device
Device Configuration Directive Configuration
Definition
Process Layer

Process Directives Monitor Equipments Business

Event
Transport Layer Association

Carousel Bridge Device Simulator Pick and

Putaway
Custom MHE Integration Tasks
Process XML/CSV File
Seamless WMS Integration

Business Event in WMS

Define devices and associate with business WMS
events in WMS Business Event WMS Transaction
Process Device Request in WCS

Vendor specific message structure
dynamically constructed in WCS

WCS transmits request message to MHE
using IP and Port information in WCS
WCS
Physical Transaction in MHE Device Request Device Response

MHE performs the physical transaction and
sends a response to WCS
Process Device Response in WCS

WCS interprets MHE response message and
initiates WMS transaction confirmation MHE
Transaction Confirmation in WMS

WMS transactions are confirmed manually or
automatically based on device response
Devices
Easy Setup and Configuration

Ease of Setup:
•Activate settings
•Copy, Edit and Export

Easy configuration of
Vendor Specific
Directive Request
and Response
messages
WMS Device Integration Options

Batch Mode: Tasks are pushed in batch to MHE when a WMS

business event occurs
Example: Batch Integration with Pick to Light system based on
pick release event in WMS
Single Task Mode: Individual task is pushed to MHE when a WMS
business event occurs
Example: Task Integration with Vertical Carousel based on Pick
Load event in WMS
Use Case#1: Pick to Light

Batch Interface with pick to light WMS Pick Release

system on pick release
Directive message for Pick Tasks sent
WCS Batch Interface
to pick to light

Pick to light system maintains the Task presented to
task queue User in Pick to Light
System
Task presented to user by pick to light
system User picks and
User confirms the pick task in pick to confirms In Pick to
Light System
light system
Pick task confirmed in WMS WCS Interface

Task Confirmed
in WMS
Use Case #2: Vertical Carousel

User identifies the task to be

performed WMS Pick Task
Dispatched to user

Device Integration Auto Invoked
when task is presented on mobile
screen
WCS Interface
Directive request message is sent
to carousel to rotate and Carousel rotates
and positions
position locator for picking locator for picking
Carousel rotates to bring the pick
locator in front WCS Interface
Operator confirms pick task on
User picks and
mobile screen confirms the task in
WMS pick load page

Task Confirmed
in WMS
WMS-MHE Integration

Integration with a wide variety of equipment

White Systems ASRS – Vertical and Horizontal
Carousels
White Systems Light Bar – Supports ASRS
CiMatrix / Rapistan Conveyor System – Tote routing
system
SK Daifuku ASRS – Automated Crane Storage Mini-
Load System with Conveyor routing to Workstations
Matthews Conveyor System
…and many more
Session Outline

Oracle Logistics – Inventory, MSCA, WMS

Integrating Material Handling Equipment

Oracle WCS Overview

Video: WMS, WCS, RF and RFID together

Q&A
Automated Conveyor Video

Look for

E-Business Suite

WMS

WCS

Wireless Scanning

Automated Conveyor

Integrated RFID tag and bar code
label printing

RFID Portals

RFID data integration via Sensor
Edge Server

Automated Ship Confirm

Automated PO Receipt
QUESTIONS
&
ANSWERS