Update 22A

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Overview

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Global Trade Management

Transportation and Global Trade Platform

Workbench

Next Generation Enhanced Workbench

This feature provides you with the first release of the next generation of Workbench Layouts and Workbench Designer developed using Oracle JET technology. The new Enhanced Workbench provides you with most of the same features and functionality of the original Workbench (developed using ADF technology) while providing you with a long list of usability, functionality and performance improvements.

The new Enhanced Workbench and the old Workbench capabilities will continue to coexist to provide you with ample time to migrate all of your Workbench Layouts.

This first release of the Enhanced Workbench is provided for you to review and test the capabilities; the first release should not be promoted into production.

User Interface

Display User Defined Image Description When Hovering

This feature provides you with the ability to configure your Screensets to have the Description field displayed as the hover text when you hover over your User Defined Images.  This enhancement applies to finder results only; this will be enabled for Workbench Tables in a later release.

Screen Set Inline Edit and Mass Update Supports Flex Field Types

Screen Set Inline Edit and Mass Update supports editing Flex Fields that have field types of:

• FlexPickList
• FlexDropList
• FixedDropList

New Property to Configure the Tables to Not Validate XID Characters

This feature provides you with a new property - glog.ui.validateXid.suppress - that you can use to select the table or tables you do not wish to have your XIDs validated for when the Validate ID feature is enabled.  Until promoted (always on/enabled), the Optional Feature Validate ID (released in 21A) allows you to enable or disable the validation functionality.   Once the feature is promoted, the only way to "skip" the XID validation for a table will be to add the table to this property.

UI Logic Configuration Parameter - Show Domain Name for Duplicate Values

This feature provides you with a new UI Logic Configuration Setting - Show Domain Name For Duplicates Values - that will, when configured, in situations where duplicate drop down values are found, display the domain name next to the drop down list value so you can select the right value based on the domain.

Document Management

SharePoint Online Content Management System Integration Using MS Graph API

This feature adds SharePoint Online as an additional content management system option that you can use to store and manage your documents.  This feature provides you with the ability to add, view, modify and delete documents that are stored in SharePoint Online using OTM/GTM's document management capabilities.

Upload Document Action with Document Type Assignment

This feature provides you with the ability to - as part of the Upload Document Action - specify the Document Type for the uploaded documents.  The feature supports Document Type assignment for one or multiple documents.

Integration

Consolidated Schema

This feature provides you with a consolidated schema definition - OTMGTM.xsd -  that consolidates the separate schema files into one root document.  The consolidated schema has been provided to simplify the use of third party tools for the validation and processing of messages.

DBXML Maximum Message Size Increased to 10MB

This feature doubles the DBXML export and import maximum message size to 10 MB (megabytes).

Inbound Integration Acknowledgement Pre-Staging

This feature breaks up the processing of inbound XML transmissions into two-steps - step 1 receives and saves the transmission - allowing OTM/GTM to transmit the acknowledgement (ACK) for the inbound transmission, then step 2 involves processing the transactions in the transmission.  This two-step process, for transmissions containing a large number of transactions, allows for the transmission ACK to be returned more quickly.

Override Dataqueue Parameter

The optional feature OVERRIDE DATAQUEUE PARAMETER overrides parameter settings so that inbound transmissions always use integration data queues.

Technical Features

Historical Metrics Enhanced

This feature provides you with a set of enhancements to the Historical Metrics capabilities.  The Historical Metrics feature allows you to proactively monitor the health and performance of your OTM/GTM instances. In this update, you will find enhancements across the Historical Metric platform, including improvements in your ability to collect metrics, set thresholds and send notifications when your performance metrics exceed defined thresholds.

Protect Security Caches

The optional feature, PROTECT SECURITY CACHES - disallows any cache clears from affecting security caches.

Timeout Property Access

The optional feature, TIMEOUT PROPERTY ACCESS - supports timeouts for property retrieval and update.

DBXML Security Updates with Auto Cache Handling

This optional feature - DBXML SECURITY UPDATES WITH AUTO CACHE HANDLING - allows DBXML import of various security records without the need for any manual cache refresh. 

Transportation and Global Trade Management UI Automation Sample Selenium Scripts

A set of sample Selenium scripts with documentation, is now available for you to review and consider using as a basis for creating your own Selenium scripts to help with your OTM/GTM UI testing efforts.  The scripts and documentation are found under MOS Note 2822896.1.

Automatic Indexing Enabled for Archive Schema

This feature enables Automatic Indexing on the archive schema to facilitate queries on archived data to support your audit reporting requirements.

REST Services

Outbound REST

This feature provides you with the ability to send outbound REST in the same REST resource formats used for inbound messages.

Send REST Event Notification Agent Action

This feature provides you with a new agent action - SEND REST EVENT, that you can use to communicate to external systems that a lifetime event has been triggered against an object. The event information received can then be used to initiate a GET for the related object.  With the event notify and GET approach, you have the option to either GET the complete object or parse down your GET request to just the elements of interests. 

Batch Asynchronous Support for Power Data Resources

This feature provides you with the option to asynchronously load your Power Data resources in batch. See online REST API documentation for available resources.

Global Trade Management (Base)

Copy Formula Expression

In order to improve the usability of the application, this feature provides you with the ability to copy existing formula expressions, modify them, and use them in other areas of GTM. This helps to make the setup of trade agreement qualification, and other processes, simpler and take less time for a user to complete.

Prorate RPLS Empty Parameter Weight

In order to improve the user experience of the application, the restricted party screening engine has been enhanced to better support instances where data is missing on either the party or the restricted party. When an empty parameter exists, either on the party or the restricted party, the restricted party screening DICE engine provides a higher quality result when using this enhancement through prorating of weighting amongst fields that can have comparisons performed and excluding those that can't from the final calculation. This better supports instances where a match exists between the party and restricted party even though some of the data is missing.

RPLS Adhoc Audit Purge

In order to better support our customers historical archive needs, enhancements have been made which enable you to purge and archive the Restricted Party Screening ad-hoc audit records. This enables you to purge ad-hoc audit records from the operational database but continue to store the audit records in the archive database for up to 10 years. By default, GTM will purge all records older than 30 days from the operational database and store them in the archive database for 10 years. If you want to purge and archive more frequently, you can use the RPLS Ad Hoc Audit Purge process at any time.

New Fields Available on Item Classification

In order to improve visibility and usability of the application, new fields have been added to item classification which provide additional details about the corresponding item including Item Type, Item Name, and Description. You can view these fields from within the Item Classification manager or when you access item classifications via the Item manager. If you are classifying items, this information provides a visual confirmation of the item being classified and useful reference information in the description to support the classification process.

Configure the Number of Lines Displayed Across Objects

In order to improve the performance and usability of the application, you can now manage the number of lines displayed on the Trade Transaction and Declaration via a property. You can also manage the number of components displayed on the Trade Item Structure via a property. This enables you to configure the number of lines you want to see for these objects. If the number of lines exceeds the number you've configured, GTM displays a message and a hyperlink to access the appropriate finder results page. Opening a finder result with the details can be quicker and easier to manage large volumes of information. This feature is configurable so you can determine the number of lines that you want to see based on your business needs.

Trade Item Structure Values Added to XML Integration and REST API

In order to improve the ease of deployment, the Trade Item Structure XML integration and Trade Item Structure REST API resource have been updated to include value information. On the Trade Item Structure and Trade Item Structure Components, you can specify a Value Qualifier and its corresponding Value and Currency can be sent to or received from other systems allowing you to easily integrate value data between GTM and other systems.

Display Quantity for Component on Trade Item Structure

In order to improve the user experience of the application, when you navigate to the Trade Item Structure manager, the Trade Item Structure Components grid now includes Quantity and Quantity UOM for each of the components listed. Displaying this quantity information for each component directly on the trade item structure allows users to clearly see the quantity and the unit of measure for each component that is part of the bill of material from a single screen.

New Constraint Set Types Available

To improve the ability to automate workflow and tasks in the application, new Constraint Set Types are available to support trade agreement scenarios. The new Constraint Set Types are: TRANSACTION-LINE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN LOOKUP and TRANSACTION-LINE QUALIFICATION LOOKUP. By adding these new constraint sets, you are able to define how to copy static information on the item to a transaction line. For example, if you are shipping a manufactured good which has already been qualified for a trade agreement at the item level, you can copy the country of origin and qualification information from the item to the trade transaction line saving a user from having to perform the process.

Expand GTM Document Actions and Features to Additional Objects

To improve the usability and user experience of the application, this feature allows you to assign documents to objects where the uploading, adding or attaching of documents was not previously supported.  Providing direct document Upload, Add or Attach capabilities simplifies the process of assigning documents to these objects, makes interactions easier for users and improves the use of the application for the management and archive of all your trade related documentation.

Archive and Purge Documents Associated with Business Objects

In order to improve the archiving capabilities of the product, documents that are associated with certain GTM business objects are now archived and purged along with the associated object, providing for a more consistent process for managing older data.

Improvements to GTM Workbench

To improve the usability and user experience of workbenches in the application, enhancements have been made to better support use cases such as managing documents and creating workbenches for your bills of materials modeled as trade item structures. Support for the Documents table has been added to certain objects enabling quicker access to documents, and more saved searches have been added to help with the linkage between master and child objects, such as between a trade item structure and its related components. These enhancements provide better support for managing documents from the workbench and to be able to easily create workbenches to manage your trade item structures and their components.

Item Origin Values Replaced by Item Trade Values

To improve the usability and ease of deployment of the application, the Values grid on the Item Origin has been replaced by the use of the Trade Values tab on the item. Using trade values on items provides more robust functionality for your cost/value data and can be used as part of the Trade Agreement Qualification process. It is designed to work seamlessly with the data available from your costing system. This provides you with greater flexibility than the values on the Item Origin to manage your cost/value information, as well as better alignment with your costing system or ERP.

Trade Agreements

Qualify for Trade Agreement Action on Trade Transaction Line

In order to continue to expand the trade agreement qualification capabilities of the application, a new Qualify for Trade Agreement action has been added to enable you to qualify a trade transaction line for a trade agreement. GTM will first check if there is a matching qualification record on the item. If so, the qualification information is copied from the item qualification to the trade transaction line. If not, GTM will qualify using the item and value information on the trade transaction line combined with the information on the related item structure. This process enables you to better support your customers by qualifying goods you manufacture for trade agreements and then generating certificates of origin as needed allowing your customers to save money on duty payments.

Qualify for Trade Agreement Automation Agent Action on Item

In order to improve the user experience and workflow automation of the application, you can now automatically qualify your items for trade agreements using automation agents. A new agent action called Qualify for Trade Agreement is available on the Item. For example, you can have an automation agent listening to agent events for when the item is created or modified. When this happens, GTM can automatically qualify, or re-qualify your item for trade agreements. This process enables you to see if a finished good qualifies for a trade agreement allowing you or your customers to take advantage of a reduced duty rate. By automating this process, you can proactively determine if your items qualify for trade agreements at very large scale with minimal user interaction.

Search for Items Based on Qualification Status

In order to improve the usability and user experience in the application, you can now search for items based on their qualification status. For example, you can find all items that are eligible for a particular trade agreement so that you can create a campaign to solicit for certificates of origin and other information to support products you source from suppliers. Or, you can search for all finished goods that have been fully qualified for a trade agreement. The addition of item qualification status to the Item finder enables you to narrow down the list of items you are viewing. This is particularly important as you run various trade agreement processes such as tariff eligibility or qualification.

Trade Compliance

Improvements to Look Up Trade Program Action and Automation Agent Action on Trade Transaction Line

To improve the usability and workflow capabilities of the application, the existing Look Up Trade Program action has been enhanced to (1) support a default constraint set as part of the action and (2) copy additional information to the trade transaction/declaration line. This action enables you to take advantage of the qualification information stored on the item qualification record associated with an item and copy it to lines for both purchased and manufactured items.

Look Up Country of Origin Action on Trade Transaction Line

To improve the usability of the application, the Look Up Country of Origin action enables you to look up the country of origin information for an item associated with a trade transaction line and copy it to the line. When you are qualifying trade transaction lines for trade agreements, the country of origin is key. If this information already exists on the item, you can copy the country of origin from the item to the transaction line so that it's available for trade agreement qualification and document production.

New Fields Available on Trade Transaction and Trade Transaction Line

In order to improve usability and user experience of the application, new fields have been added to the trade transaction and trade transaction line which help you to view country of export, country of import and qualification information both enabling improved visibility of information and new business processes.

Use Country of Import Export Direct Field

To improve usability and visibility in the application, two new fields, the Country of Import and Country of Export, have been added to the Trade Transaction and the Trade Transaction Line. The fields are available on the finder, finder results, view and edit pages. By adding the Country of Import and Country of Export as explicit fields, you can easily see this information from the trade transaction and trade transaction line making it easier to understand where goods are going from and to.

Global Trade Intelligence (GTI)

Data Visualization

This feature provides access to Oracle Data Visualization capabilities that you can use to generate configurable visual analysis (maps, charts, graphs) for your existing subject areas in Transportation Intelligence, Global Trade Intelligence, Logistics Network Modeling and Logistics Machine Learning.