Oracle Order Management Interview Questions &

Answers | Oracle Order Management FAQs

1) What are the Base Tables and Interface Tables for Order Management?

Interface Tables :
OE_HEADERS_IFACE_ALL,

OE_LINES_IFACE_ALL

OE_PRICE_ADJS_IFACE_ALL,

OE_ACTIONS_IFACE_ALL OE_CREDITS_IFACE_ALL (Order holds like credit check holds etc)

Base Tables :
OE_ORDER_HEADERS_ALL: Order Header Information
OE_ORDER_LINES_ALL: Items Information
OE_PRICE_ADJUSTMENTS: Discounts Information
OE_SALES_CREDITS: Sales Representative Credits.

Shipping Tables :
WSH_NEW_DELIVERIES,
WSH_DELIVERY_DETAILS,
WSH_DELIVERY_ASSIGNMENTS,
WSH_DELIVERIES.

2) What is Order Import and What are the Setup's involved in Order Import?
Answer: Order Import is an open interface that consists of open interface tables and a set of API's. It imports New,
updated, or changed sales orders from other applications such as Legacy systems. Order Import features include
validations, Defaulting, Processing Constraints checks, Applying and releasing of order holds, scheduling of
shipments, then ultimately inserting, updating or deleting orders from the OM base tables. Order management checks
all the data during the import process to ensure its validity with OM. Valid Transactions are then converted into
orders with lines, reservations, price adjustments, and sales credits in the OM base tables. B) Setups: Setup every
aspect of order management that we want to use with imported orders, including customers, pricing, items, and bills.
Define and enable the order import sources using the order import source window.
3) Explain the Order Cycle?
i) Enter the Sales Order
ii) Book the Sales Order(SO will not be processed until booked(Inventory confirmation))
iii) Release sales order(Pickslip Report is generated and Deliveries are created) (Deliveries details about the
delivery. Belongs to shipping module (wsh_deliveries, wsh_new_deliveries, wsh_delivery_assignments etc) they
explain how many items are being shipped and such details.

iv) Transaction Move Order (creates reservations determines the source and transfers the inventory into the staging
areas)
v) Launch Pick Release
vi) Ship Confirm (Shipping Documents(Pickslip report, Performa Invoice, Shipping Lables)) vii) Auto invoice and
closed
4) Explain the Order to Cash Flow?
I. Enter the Sales Order
II. Book the Sales Order(SO will not be processed until booked(Inventory confirmation))

III. Release sales

order(Pickslip Report is generated and Deliveries are created) (Deliveries details about the delivery. Belongs to
shipping module (wsh_deliveries, wsh_new_deliveries, wsh_delivery_assignments etc) they explain how many items
are being shipped and such details.
IV. Transaction Move Order (Selects the serial number of the product which has to be moved/ shipped)
V. Launch Pick Release
VI. Ship Confirm (Shipping Documents(Pickslip report, Performa Invoice, Shipping Lables))

VII. AutoInvoice

(Creation of Invoice in Accounts Receivable Module)

VIII.Autolockbox ( Appling Receipts to Invoices In AR)
IX. Transfer to General Ledger ( Populates GL interface tables)
X. Journal Import ( Populates GL base tables)
XI. Posting ( Account Balances Updated).
5. What are the Process Constraints?
Answer: Process Constraints prevent users from adding updating, deleting, splitting lines and canceling order or
return information beyond certain points in the order cycle. Oracle has provided certain process constraints which
prevent data integrity violations. Process constraints are defined for entities and attributes. Entities include regions
on the sales order window such as order, line, order price adjustments, line price adjustments, order sales credits and
line sales credits. Attributes include individual fields (of a particular entity) such as warehouse, shit to location, or
agreement.
6. What are Validation Templates?
Answer: Validation Templates are used to define the validation conditions in process constraints. A validation
template names a conditions and defines the semantic of how to validate that condition. These are used in processing
constraints framework to specify the constraining conditions for a given constraint. These conditions are based on
1.Where the entity is in its work flow.
2.The state of attributes on an entity.
3.Any other validation condition that cannot be modeled using the above condition.
7. What are different types of Holds?
1. GSA(General Services Administration) Violation Hold(Ensures that specific customers always get better pricing for
example Govt. Customers)
2. Credit Checking Hold( Used for credit checking feature Ex: Credit Limit)
3. Configurator Validation Hold ( Cause: If we invalidate a configuration after booking)
8. What is Document Sequence?

Answers: Document sequence is defined to automatically generate numbers for your orders or returns as you enter
them. Single / multiple document sequences can be defined for different order types. Document sequences can be
defined as three types Automatic (Does not ensure that the numbers are contiguous), Gapless (Ensures that the
numbering is contiguous), Manual Numbering. Order Management validates that the number specified is unique for
order type.
9. What are Defaulting Rules?
Answers: A defaulting rule is a value that OM automatically places in an order field of the sales order window.
Defaulting rules reduce the amount of information one must enter. A defaulting rule is a collection of defaulting
sources for objects and their attributes. It involves the following steps:
1. Defaulting Conditions - Conditions for Defaulting
2. Sequence Priority for search
3. Source Entity ,Attribute, Value 4 Defaulting source/Value
10. When an order cannot be cancelled?
Answer: An order cannot be cancelled if:
1 It has been closed
2 It has already been cancelled
3 A work order is open for an ATO line
4 Any part of the line has been shipped or invoiced
5 Any return line has been returned or credited.
11. When an order cannot be deleted?
Answer: you cannot delete an order line until there is a need for recording reason.
12. What is order type?
Answer: An order type is the classification of order. It controls the order work flow activity, order number sequence,
credit check point and transaction type. Order Type is associated to a work flow process which drives the processing
of the order.
13. What are primary and secondary price lists?
Answer: Every order is associated to a price list as each item on the order ought to have a price. A price list is contains
basic list information and one or more pricing lines, pricing attributes, qualifiers, and secondary price lists. The price
list that is primarily associated to an order is termed as Primary price list. The pricing engine uses a Secondary Price
list if it cannot determine the price of the item ordered in the Primary price list.
14. What is pick slip? Types?
Answer: It is an internal shipping document that pickers use to locate items to ship for an order. 1 Standard Pick Slip
Each order will have its own pick slip with in each picking batch. 2 Consolidated Pickslip Pick slip will have all
the orders released in the each picking batch.
15. What is packing slip?
Answer: It is an external shipping document that accompanies the shipment itemizing the contents of the shipment.

16. What are picking rules?

Answer: Picking rules define the sources and prioritization of sub inventories, lots, revisions and locators when the
item is pick released by order management. They are user defined set of rules to define the priorities order
management must use when picking items from finished goods inventory to ship to a customer.
17. Where do you find the order status column?
Answer: In the base tables, Order Status is maintained both at the header and line level. The field that maintains the
Order status is FLOW_STATUS_CODE. This field is available in both the OE_ORDER_HEADERS_ALL and
OE_ORDER_LINES_ALL.
18. When the order import program is run it validates and the errors occurred can be seen
in?
Answer: Responsibility: Order Management Super User Navigation: Order, Returns > Import Orders > Corrections
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Oracle Apps :- Iprocurement Interview Questions and

Answers

Some Interview Question for I-Procurement.

Que:-What is iProcurement?

Ans:- iProcurement is a self-service web Purchasing application. Consider it as an alternate application

for creating purchase requisitions and simple receiving.

Que:- : What is a punchout?

Ans :- : Punchout enables buyers to click a link that goes to a suppliers catalog, search
for
items on the suppliers site, and return those items directly to the buyers shopping
cart.

Que:- : Do we create purchase orders in iProcurement ?

Ans :- : No, you can create requisitions in iProcurement.

Que:- : We need to submit PO Creation as soon as the Requisition gets submitted & auto-approved in
iProc. How can we do it?
Ans :- : In Workflow "PO Requisition Approval", The item attribute
SEND_CREATEPO_TO_BACKGROUND needs to be assigned value of N.
This will enable Real-Time processing of requisition mainly because the user can get a PO
Number within the same browser session if auto-approval is enabled.

Que:- : If a requisition has been approved in iProc, we want such requisitions to be Auto-Approved once
they get converted to PO. How you achive it?
Ans :- : In Workflow "PO Create Documents", assign a default value Y to attribute
"Is Automatic Approval Allowed?"

Que:- : What are the key advantages of punch-out over catalog management?
Ans :- :
1:- No need to maintain the price information. Supplier will maintain it at there end in their
Istore
2. No need to uplaod supplier item in our system

Que:- : When shopping basket is brought back from suppliers website after punchout, how does the item
category code of supplier item get mapped to the category code in Oracle?
Ans :- : Suppliers punchout basket will always contained universally recognized category
codes i.e. UNSPSC codes. You will need to define the mapping for each such expected code
in eCommerce gateway. These will be mapped to your inventory category codes (the good
old mtl_categories ).

Que:- : After the purchase order gets approved, you wish to send Purchase Order electronically to the
supplier. Which XML document format is used?
Ans :- : "PO 007" is the OAG format that is used for electronically sending XML Purchase
Order to supplier.

Que:- : Have you done any customization in Oracle iProcuremnt?

Ans :- : All the implementations of iProcurement will involve customization of workflows to
some extent.
Customization to Account Generator workflow is a must for any iProc implementation

Difference Between Inbound Interfaces and Conversions

Difference Between Inbound Interface and Conversion:
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Interface
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Conversion
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1) Interface will be used to upload the data multiple times. 1) Conversion is one-Time Data Transfer
Regularly every week or month or
day.
2) Client Will be using Legacy system.
2) Client will use Only Oracle Applications.
and also Oracle Applications
once data is uploaded from legacy then
legacy system will be closed.
3) We will not be knowing the Data file volume.
volume

3) Here we will be knowing the data file

exactly.

4) In Customization and as well as

we
implementation projects we will be
developing Interface.

4) Normally in the Implementation Projects

will be using.