BOM Calendars
Description:
Bill of material calendars and calendar dates
Parameters
Calendar, Show Organizations, Organization Code, Show Dates, Future only
Used tables
bom_calendars, bom_calendar_dates, mtl_parameters, hr_all_organization_units_vl
Categories
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Case Study & Technical Analysis: BOM Calendars Report
Executive Summary
The BOM Calendars report provides a comprehensive operational view of the manufacturing and planning calendars defined within Oracle E-Business Suite. These calendars are the backbone of supply chain planning, determining working days, shifts, and exceptions for manufacturing resources. This report offers a streamlined way to audit, validate, and visualize calendar configurations across the enterprise, ensuring that production schedules align with actual working capacity.
Business Challenge
In complex manufacturing environments, maintaining accurate calendars is critical but often overlooked.
- Scheduling Errors: Incorrect calendar definitions (e.g., missing holidays or incorrect shift patterns) can lead to unrealistic production schedules and missed delivery dates.
- Visibility Gaps: Standard Oracle forms make it difficult to compare calendars across multiple organizations or to see a holistic view of working vs. non-working days over a long horizon.
- Planning Failures: MRP and ASCP engines rely heavily on these calendars. Discrepancies between the system calendar and the physical plant reality result in planning exceptions and material shortages.
The Solution
The BOM Calendars report solves these challenges by extracting calendar definitions and their associated dates directly from the database into a flexible Excel format.
- Operational View: Users can quickly list all calendars, their start/end dates, and their assignment to specific inventory organizations.
- Detailed Audit: The report allows for expanding the view to individual calendar dates, making it easy to spot-check holidays, weekends, and exception days.
- Cross-Organization Comparison: By enabling organization details, planners can verify that all relevant plants are using the correct master calendar.
Technical Architecture (High Level)
This report is built on a robust SQL query that joins calendar header information with detailed date records and organization assignments.
Primary Tables
BOM_CALENDARS: Stores the header information for calendars (Code, Description, Start/End Dates).BOM_CALENDAR_DATES: Contains the individual dates for each calendar, indicating working or non-working status.MTL_PARAMETERS: Links calendars to Inventory Organizations.HR_ALL_ORGANIZATION_UNITS_VL: Provides human-readable organization names.
Logical Relationships
- The core logic starts with
BOM_CALENDARS. - It performs an Outer Join to
BOM_CALENDAR_DATESto optionally retrieve the specific dates associated with each calendar. - It also performs an Outer Join to
MTL_PARAMETERS(and subsequentlyHR_ALL_ORGANIZATION_UNITS_VL) to identify which organizations are utilizing a specific calendar code. - The query uses dynamic columns (controlled by parameters) to toggle the display of detailed date rows and organization mappings, ensuring the output is not cluttered when high-level summaries are needed.
Parameters & Filtering
The report includes several parameters to tailor the output to specific needs:
- Calendar: Allows filtering for a specific calendar code (e.g., ‘MFG-01’).
- Show Organizations: A ‘Yes/No’ toggle. When set to ‘Yes’, the report lists every organization assigned to the calendar.
- Organization Code: Filters the results to show calendars associated with a specific inventory organization.
- Show Dates: A ‘Yes/No’ toggle. When set to ‘Yes’, the report expands to show every individual date record (working/non-working) for the selected range.
- Future only: Restricts the output to dates from the current day forward, useful for planning future capacity.
Performance & Optimization
- Efficient Joins: The report uses standard Oracle joins on indexed columns (
CALENDAR_CODE,ORGANIZATION_ID), ensuring fast execution even with large datasets. - Dynamic Granularity: By making the “Dates” and “Organizations” joins optional via parameters, the report avoids retrieving millions of rows of date details when only a header-level list is required.
- Direct Extraction: Data is pulled directly from the base tables, bypassing the overhead of XML parsing often found in standard Oracle reports.
FAQ
Q: Why don’t I see any dates in the output? A: Ensure the “Show Dates” parameter is set to ‘Yes’. By default, the report may only show the calendar header information to keep the output concise.
Q: How can I see which organizations are using a specific calendar? A: Set the “Show Organizations” parameter to ‘Yes’. This will add columns for Organization Code and Name to the output.
Q: Can I use this report to find expired calendars?
A: Yes, the report includes Calendar End Date. You can filter the Excel output to find calendars that have already ended or are expiring soon.
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