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Overview

APPS.EAM_MATERIALS_V is a VALID database view owned by the APPS schema in Oracle E-Business Suite, registered under FND Design Data as EAM.EAM_MATERIALS_V. It belongs to the Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) product family and is classified as a supplementary view used to simplify forms coding. The view presents the material requirements associated with EAM work orders, joining work order header information, operation department references, and item-level cost and quantity details into a single flattened result set.

Because the documented view type is explicitly a forms-support view, Oracle's standard warning applies: querying or altering data through this view is not recommended, and its definition may change dramatically across minor or major releases. The view is read-only in practice and is therefore relevant primarily for reporting, diagnostics, and integration extracts, not as a supported update path. The metadata notes that EAM_MATERIALS_V is not referenced by any other database object, confirming it sits at the leaf of the dependency chain rather than acting as a building block for further views or packages.

Underlying Base Objects

EAM_MATERIALS_V is defined over three APPS synonyms that resolve to the following base objects:

The join between the estimate detail table and the departments table provides the department context for each work order operation, while the item key flexfield view provides the human-readable item identifier. This combination allows a single query to return work order, operation, department, and item cost information without the caller needing to know the underlying key flexfield structure.

Key Columns

  • WIP_ENTITY_ID (NUMBER) — the work order identifier, the primary link to the EAM work order entity.
  • ORGANIZATION_ID (NUMBER) — the inventory organization that owns the work order and the material.
  • OPERATIONS_DEPT_ID (NUMBER) — the numeric identifier of the operations department.
  • OPERATIONS_SEQ_NUM (NUMBER) — the operation sequence number within the work order routing.
  • OPERATION_DEPT_CODE (VARCHAR2(10)) — the short, user-facing code for the operation department. This is the column referenced by the search term and is the most convenient filter when identifying materials belonging to a specific department such as a maintenance shop or repair cell.
  • CONCATENATED_SEGMENTS (VARCHAR2(40)) — the concatenated key flexfield representation of the material item, functioning as the item name in reports.
  • REQUIRED_QUANTITY (NUMBER) — the quantity of the material required for the work order operation.
  • ITEM_COST (NUMBER) — the unit cost of the material item.
  • TOTAL_ITEM_COST (NUMBER) — the extended cost, generally equivalent to required quantity multiplied by unit item cost.

Common Use Cases and Queries

The view is typically used to review material requirements and estimated costs for EAM work orders, segmented by operation and department. A common reporting scenario lists all materials for a given work order:

  • SELECT wip_entity_id, operation_dept_code, concatenated_segments, required_quantity, item_cost, total_item_cost FROM apps.eam_materials_v WHERE wip_entity_id = :p_wip_entity_id ORDER BY operations_seq_num;

To aggregate estimated material cost by department code, a query such as the following is used:

  • SELECT operation_dept_code, SUM(required_quantity) req_qty, SUM(total_item_cost) est_cost FROM apps.eam_materials_v WHERE organization_id = :p_org_id GROUP BY operation_dept_code ORDER BY operation_dept_code;

A third pattern identifies materials for a specific item across work orders in an organization, using CONCATENATED_SEGMENTS as the filter. Because the view is unsupported for direct data manipulation and its definition may change between releases, any integration or custom report that depends on it should isolate the query in a dedicated layer and validate results against CST_EAM_WO_ESTIMATE_DETAILS and BOM_DEPARTMENTS after patching or upgrade.