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Overview

APPS.GR_ITEM_REPORT_V1 is a reporting view in Oracle E-Business Suite that consolidates item identifiers and their associated descriptive text into a single, uniform result set. It is not a stored table; it is a query definition whose output is materialized at runtime. The view is designed to present one row per item code paired with a single human-readable description column, regardless of whether the source item originates in the inventory master or in the Oracle Process Manufacturing (OPM) / Oracle Manufacturing item general tables. This makes it particularly valuable in EBS 12.1.1 and 12.2.2 environments where both the discrete inventory item master and the process manufacturing item tables coexist and must be reconciled for reporting, integration, and data extraction purposes.

The view answers the recurring question of how to obtain a unified item number and description list when item data is split across multiple schemas and tables. Because it standardizes the output column names as ITEM_NO and ITEM_DESC1, downstream reports, interfaces, and extracts can consume the result without knowing which underlying table supplied the record. The view is defined and owned by the APPS schema, which is the standard publishing schema for cross-module EBS objects.

Underlying Base Objects

The view metadata documents three referenced base objects, all exposed through APPS synonyms:

  • IC_ITEM_MST (SYNONYM) — The inventory item master. This is the primary source for the first branch of the UNION ALL, supplying ITEM_NO and the native ITEM_DESC1 description.
  • GR_ITEM_GENERAL (SYNONYM) — The OPM item general table, referenced by alias L. It supplies the item code (L.ITEM_CODE) and acts as the driving table for the second branch of the query.
  • GR_MULTILINGUAL_NAME_TL (SYNONYM) — The multilingual name translation table, referenced by alias M. It provides the NAME_DESCRIPTION column used as the description output in the second branch.

The view is constructed as a UNION ALL of two SELECT statements. The first selects directly from IC_ITEM_MST. The second selects from GR_ITEM_GENERAL outer-joined to GR_MULTILINGUAL_NAME_TL, filtered by LABEL_CODE '11007' and by the session language via USERENV('LANG'), and excludes any item already present in IC_ITEM_MST through a NOT IN subquery. A final ORDER BY 1 sorts the combined result by item number. The outer-join syntax (+) ensures that items without a matching translation row are still returned.

Key Columns

  • ITEM_NO — The item identifier. In the first branch it comes from IC_ITEM_MST.ITEM_NO; in the second it is aliased from GR_ITEM_GENERAL.ITEM_CODE. This column is the ordering key and the logical primary identifier of the view.
  • ITEM_DESC1 — The item description. For inventory-master items it is the native description; for OPM items it is the NAME_DESCRIPTION drawn from the multilingual translation table, with LABEL_CODE '11007' and the current session language applied.

Note that the NAME_DESCRIPTION column referenced in the view text is exposed internally through the GR_MULTILINGUAL_NAME_TL alias M and renamed to ITEM_DESC1 in the projection. Consumers should therefore expect only these two columns from the view.

Common Use Cases and Queries

Typical uses include item validation extracts, cross-module reconciliation reports, and feeding item lists into interfaces or BI Publisher reports where a single description column is required regardless of source module.

  • Retrieve all items and descriptions: SELECT ITEM_NO, ITEM_DESC1 FROM APPS.GR_ITEM_REPORT_V1 ORDER BY ITEM_NO;
  • Search by description text: SELECT ITEM_NO, ITEM_DESC1 FROM APPS.GR_ITEM_REPORT_V1 WHERE UPPER(ITEM_DESC1) LIKE '%VALVE%';
  • Look up a single item: SELECT ITEM_NO, ITEM_DESC1 FROM APPS.GR_ITEM_REPORT_V1 WHERE ITEM_NO = :item_no;
  • Count unified items across sources: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM APPS.GR_ITEM_REPORT_V1;

Because the view applies language-sensitive filtering and a UNION ALL with subquery exclusion, performance depends on indexing of ITEM_CODE and ITEM_NO in the underlying tables. Reports should filter on ITEM_NO where possible rather than relying solely on description searches.