According to the Oracle SCM Business Process Certified Foundations Associate Rel 2 document1, WIP,

Contract Manufacturing, and Supply type are three item attributes that belong to the Manufacturing

Attribute group. The Manufacturing Attribute group contains attributes that define how an item is

manufactured or procured. WIP is an attribute that indicates whether an item is enabled for work in

process (WIP) transactions, such as creating and releasing work orders, reporting material and

resource usage, etc. Contract Manufacturing is an attribute that indicates whether an item is

manufactured by a contract manufacturer (CM) or by an original equipment manufacturer (OEM).

Supply type is an attribute that determines how material is issued to a work order, such as push, pull,

bulk, supplier, etc.

According to the Oracle SCM Business Process Certified Foundations Associate Rel 2 document1, the

Manufacturing Engineer and Production Supervisor are the two job roles required to define the

Manufacturing Master Data. The Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for creating and maintaining

the manufacturing master data, such as items, bills of materials, routings, and work definitions. The

Production Supervisor is responsible for creating and maintaining the production resources, such as

work areas, work centers, and resources.

According to the Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud: Plan to Produce training course3, contract

manufacturing deliver good to a customer is the process of delivering the finished goods produced

by a contract manufacturer to the end customer based on a sales order (D). A sales order is a

document that captures and validates the customer’s request for goods or services. A transfer order

(A) is a document that initiates an internal material transfer between two inventory organizations. A

purchase order (B) is a document that initiates a procurement transaction with an external supplier.

A shipment request © is a document that initiates a shipment transaction from one location to

another.

According to the Oracle Demand Management Cloud User Guide1, decomposition groups are used to

simulate demand by making certain changes in holidays, events, or other factors that affect demand

patterns. A demand planner can use decomposition groups to create different scenarios and

compare them with the base forecast. Forecasting methods (A), forecasting parameters ©, and

simulation output (D) are not forecasting profile options that can be used to simulate demand by

making changes in holidays.

According to the Oracle Manufacturing Cloud User Guide, a work area represents a physical,

geographical, or logical cluster of work centers. A work area can contain one or more resources that

perform similar operations or activities. A resource instance (A) is an individual machine, tool,

person, or crew that performs an operation in a work definition. A resource (B) is a generic

representation of a resource instance that defines its attributes, such as cost, availability, and

capacity. A manufacturing calendar (D) is a calendar that defines the working days and hours for a

plant or a work area.