According to the Oracle SCM Business Process Certified Foundations Associate Rel 2 document1,
production operator is the job role that is required to issue components to a work order. Production
operator is a person who performs the production activities on the shop floor, such as reporting
material and resource transactions, reporting output and scrap, printing labels and documents, etc.
Production operator can use the Issue Material task in Oracle SCM Cloud to issue components to a
work order. Components are the raw materials or subassemblies that are used to produce a finished
good. Issuing components means that the components are moved from the inventory location to the
work order location.
