Update 22C

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Overview

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Global Trade Management

Transportation and Global Trade Platform

Database Data Type Changes

This feature provides a data type change for the tables columns below so that the parent and child column lengths are consistent.

Enhanced Workbench

Enhanced Workbench Enhancements

This feature provides a set of new capabilities and features for the Enhanced Workbench.  Enhancements have been provided in a number of areas, including:

• Action Checks for Table to Table Drag/Drop Actions - with option to not allow Drag/Drop Actions
• Power Actions supported for Dock Scheduling
• Table Filters for Table objects
• New Gantt Parameters
• Additional Gantt Logic Configurations for UI Settings
• Enhanced Workbench Layout option to Collapse All Tabs
• Pre-existing PUBLIC Layouts are now in Enhanced Workbench Format including all Action related Workbenches and all Menu Workbenches.

User Preference Option to Set Home Page As Enhanced Workbench

This feature provides you with the option of setting your Home Page to a specific Enhanced Workbench instead of the Springboard. You will find this feature particularly beneficial if your day-to-day usage of the system is workbench focused.

REST Services

REST Content Type Support for Oracle Visual Builder Add-In for Excel

This feature extends the flexibility of the REST services to support the Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel content type requirements. With this feature, you can now develop Excel based solutions using Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel and the system's standard REST capabilities. 

XML Integrations

Inbound Integration Status Alignment

This Optional Feature, when enabled, provides common processing of the initial status value for all your inbound XML integrations.  Specifically, this feature avoids the error scenario that occurs when - on an II (insert ignore) XML transaction the transaction incorrectly provides an initial value for a status.  This feature, when enabled, will ignore the incorrectly provided initial status value for the new record and will appropriately set the status value based on the Status Type's initial value setup in the system.  

Analytics - TI and GTI

Oracle Analytics Server (OAS) Upgrade

This feature upgrades the Oracle Analytics Server (OAS) to the latest version - 2022 v6.4.  The new version of OAS provides you with the latest set of corrections, along with improvements in performance, user experience and stability.

Performance and Stability

File Management

This feature provides a new diagnostic infrastructure that is used to monitor the accumulation of files and control the creation of files. These files can result from many processes, including:

• temporary file creation
• logging
• export
• user uploads

In each case, there is a need to monitor the use/accumulation of files to avoid disk space exhaustion.

Limit Saved Query Results

This Optional Feature - when enabled - limits the number of records returned by saved queries and saved conditions that provides the benefit of avoiding system performance degradation from queries that return an excessive record count.

Optimize Transaction Synchronization

This Optional Feature, when enabled - allows  transactional operations to execute without the requirement of thread coordination and synchronization.

Optimize REST Finder

This Optional Feature, when enabled, provides additional logging of retrieved data volumes and provides the statistics required to set - if necessary - a limit to avoid excessive resource usage.

Email Compliant HTML

This Optional Feature - when enabled - will make logos and detail data within HTML workflow notifications compliant with HTML requirements.

User Administration

Allow Restricted Password Characters

This Optional Feature - when enabled - allows for the use of restricted characters '[', '#', and ']' when defining the password for a user in the system.  

Force Use of Nickname

This Optional Feature, when enabled, requires every end user of the system to have a Nickname configured.

Global Trade Management (Base)

Item Qualification - Deprecate Qualified Field

This optional feature - ITEM QUALIFICATION - DEPRECATE QUALIFIED FIELD - when enabled - deprecates the QUALIFIED field on Item Qualification.

New Service Parameter for Restricted Party Screening

A new parameter has been added to the Restricted Party Screening Service Parameter to enable you to screen based on address data. Within the Master Data > Power Data > Configurations > Service Parameters menu option, there is a new parameter called 'addressCityProvincePostalCodeCountry' which allows you to screen parties based on full address, city, province, postal code, country. This enhancement allows for an alternative screening configuration that some customers may find useful or easier to tailor to their restricted party list screening needs.

New Item Values Manager

This feature provides a new Item Values manager. The Item Values manager gives you visibility into a specific set of trade item values. Since an item can model both the buy side and the sell side, you can specify information for either your suppliers or your inventory organizations. You can also model both the inventory organization and the supplier in one record indicating that the inventory organization purchased parts from a certain supplier. Ideally this data is interfaced in from your costing system to provide the necessary information required for the trade agreement qualification process. The addition of the new manager allows for direct access to this information without traversing via the Item screen.

RPLS Supports AND Condition for Match Direction

This feature enables you to have additional flexibility in configuring the restricted party screening engine which helps to improve the match quality. When you opt in to this feature, you can set a new property called gtm.rpls.matchDirection.both.<service_preference_gid>. For example, if you are using a service preference called RESTRICTED_PARTY_SCREENING in the RPLS domain and you want to use the average match factor, the property would be set to 'gtm.rpls.matchDirection.both.RPLS.RESTRICTED_PARTY_SCREENING = forwardAndReverseWithAverageMatchFactor'. This enhancement provides increased flexibility in the Restricted Party Screening capability, allowing customers to tailor it to their specific needs.Set as In Review

Generate Certificates of Origin from GTM Objects

You can generate a certificate of origin from certain objects in GTM. A generic certificate of origin document is now available in GTM. You can use this document to generate a certificate of origin from campaign lines or transaction lines. You can use the out of the box document or use it as a template to create one specific to your business needs. This enhancement significantly reduces the setup required to generate certificates of origin for distribution to your customers or by your own vendors if they lack the appropriate tools themselves.

Trade Agreements

Enhancements to Qualification of Multi-Level Bills of Material

This enhancement improves the function of the trade agreement qualification process when analyzing multi-level bills of material. Prior versions performed an analysis conducted at only the leaf nodes of the structure. This enhancement enables the system to include costs captured at the intermediate component level and include them if that intermediate component is originating. This allows for a more thorough qualification analysis process and may help some finished goods that were near the threshold for regional value content to now qualify.

Enhancement to Currency Conversion During Qualification

An enhancement has been made to better support currency conversion during qualification. GTM can convert the currencies from the finished good and the components during the qualification process. This has been enhanced so that when currency conversion is performed, GTM converts the currency based on the country of origin of the finished good. This process improves the usefulness of the currency conversion process and aligns the resulting currency with the manufacturer's facility location.

Enhancements to the Qualification Report

The Qualification Report has been enhanced to support multi-level bills of material and to provide you with more information about the qualification process. These improvements provide better visibility to the user of how the trade agreement qualification was performed and significant new information is provided to the user detailing each level of a multi-level BOM analysis.

Enhancements to Trade Agreement Formulas for Qualification Calculations

Improvements have been made to the required setup for trade agreement regional value content formulas to reduce the number of formulas that must be modeled and simplify their structure. This enhancement will decrease the effort required to setup and configure the use of a new trade agreement in the system.

New Qualified Status of Requires Review

A new Status is available on the item qualification which enables you to see when a finished good cannot be fully qualified. When this occurs, GTM sets the item qualification status to REQUIRES REVIEW and adds a Reason Code and Reason Description to the item qualification. The Reason Code and Reason Description provides more information as to why a finished good cannot be fully qualified. The new REQUIRES REVIEW status enables you to manage this process by exception enabling tools and workflows to work with very high volumes of qualifications. You can create a business monitor which looks for items which have an item qualification status = REQUIRES REVIEW. You can then review any items that have this item qualification status and make changes so that the finished good can be fully qualified.

Approve Campaign Action Copies Data to Multiple Objects

Additional flexibility has been added enabling you to solicit your suppliers for data and copy it back to the appropriate business object when a campaign is approved. In previous releases, suppliers could enter classification data, origin data, and qualification data on a campaign line but the campaign administrator could only specify one object to be updated when a campaign line was approved. Now, all three sets of data can be solicited from suppliers in one campaign line. Once a supplier responds and a campaign administrator approves the campaign, the data is copied back to the appropriate item-based object. This enhancement allows for soliciting multiple data sets, simultaneously from a supplier reducing both the number of campaigns that need to be executed as well as the amount of data entry required of your vendors.

Use New Trade Agreement Qualification Parameters

A new logic configuration to support trade transactions has been added. To simplify the setup of GTM, a new logic configuration with a type = GTM TRANSACTION LOGIC CONFIGURATION is available. You can assign this logic configuration to your trade transaction type. By adding a transaction-specific logic configuration and identifying it by transaction type, you can configure GTM to use different match criteria when running certain actions. When the trade transaction type is specified on the transaction and certain actions are trigger, the logic configuration drives the logic of these actions within GTM. This enhancement greatly improves your ability to tailor how different processes respond to different transaction types improving the flexibility and configurability of the platform to match your business needs.

Trade Compliance

Enhanced View of Trade Item Structure on Transactions and Transaction Lines

To better view the trade item structure data on the trade transaction and the trade transaction line, a new field has been introduced and an existing field renamed. On the trade transaction line, the following fields are now clearly articulated: "Item Structure ID" and "Component of Trade Item Structure".

This improvement provides clarity around which item structure is directly related to the item on a specific transaction line versus when that transaction line is a component of another item's larger structure.

Look Up Country of Origin Agent Action Available on Transaction Line

A new agent action called Look Up Country of Origin is available which 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. This enhancement helps reduce the amount of data entry required of the user in scenarios where the country of origin is not available on the transaction line and there are tasks requiring that data such as document generation, compliance screening or performing trade agreement qualification.

Search for Transaction Lines by Transaction Involved Party

You can search for trade transaction lines based on the trade transaction involved party. This enhancement improves a user's ability to identify relevant transaction lines when working at that level in the application, reducing clicks and saving the user time and effort.

Add Objects to Campaign Available in Process Management

The Add Items to Campaign feature enables you to add items to a campaign as a bulk process and can now be used to add the results of an Item Saved Query or all the components of a specific Trade Item Structure. If you are soliciting many suppliers for data such as classification data, origin data or certificates of origin, you can now use this process to create campaign lines on a campaign. The campaign lines are created across all suppliers based on a saved query you define. This process helps save users time by making it easier to load extremely large volumes of items to a supplier solicitation campaign.