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Pre-Update and Post-Update Tasks
Depending on the features you're using in your Cloud applications, you may be required to perform certain steps immediately before or after your quarterly update. For details of these pre-update and post-update steps and the product areas that are affected, refer to Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM: Performing Your Quarterly Update (doc ID 2337485.1) on My Oracle Support.
Optional Uptake of New Features (Opt In)
Oracle Cloud Applications delivers new updates every quarter. This means every three months you'll receive new functionality to help you efficiently and effectively manage your business. Some features are delivered Enabled meaning they are immediately available to end users. Other features are delivered Disabled meaning you have to take action to make available. Features delivered Disabled can be activated for end users by stepping through the following instructions using the following privileges:
- Review Applications Offering (ASM_REVIEW_APPLICATIONS_OFFERINGS_PRIV)
- Configure Oracle Fusion Applications Offering (ASM_CONFIGURE_OFFERING_PRIV)
Here’s how you opt in to new features:
- Click Navigator > My Enterprise > New Features.
- On the Features Overview page, select your offering to review new features specific to it. Or, you can leave the default selection All Enabled Offerings to review new features for all offerings.
- On the New Features tab, review the new features and check the opt-in status of the feature in the Enabled column. If a feature has already been enabled, you will see a check mark. Otherwise, you will see an icon to enable the feature.
- Click the icon in the Enabled column and complete the steps to enable the feature.
In some cases, you might want to opt in to a feature that's not listed in the New Features work area. Here's how to opt in:
- Click Navigator > My Enterprise > Offerings.
- On the Offerings page, select your offering, and then click Opt In Features.
- On the Opt In page, click the Edit Features (pencil) icon for the offering, or for the functional area that includes your feature.
- On the Edit Features page, complete the steps to enable the feature.
For more information and detailed instructions on opting in to new features for your offering, see Configure Offerings.
Opt In Expiration
Occasionally, features delivered Disabled via Opt In may be enabled automatically in a future update. This is known as an Opt In Expiration. If your cloud service has any Opt In Expirations you will see a related tab in this document. Click on that tab to see when the feature was originally delivered Disabled, and when the Opt In will expire, potentially automatically enabling the feature. You can also click here to see features with Opt In Expirations across all Oracle Cloud Applications.
Column Definitions:
Report = New or modified, Oracle-delivered, ready to run reports.
UI or Process-Based: Small Scale = These UI or process-based features are typically comprised of minor field, validation, or program changes. Therefore, the potential impact to users is minimal.
UI or Process-Based: Larger Scale* = These UI or process-based features have more complex designs. Therefore, the potential impact to users is higher.
Features Delivered Disabled = Action is needed BEFORE these features can be used by END USERS. These features are delivered disabled and you choose if and when to enable them. For example, a) new or expanded BI subject areas need to first be incorporated into reports, b) Integration is required to utilize new web services, or c) features must be assigned to user roles before they can be accessed.
| Ready for Use by End Users Reports plus Small Scale UI or Process-Based new features will have minimal user impact after an update. Therefore, customer acceptance testing should focus on the Larger Scale UI or Process-Based* new features. |
Customer Must Take Action before Use by End Users Not disruptive as action is required to make these features ready to use. As you selectively choose to leverage, you set your test and roll out timing. |
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Anchor the Start of the Plan Horizon
You can now specify an earlier start date than the current system date for a sales and operations plan. When planning in aggregate time periods, such as a month, you can now review demand and supply for the full period during process stages, such as the Supply Review stage, that can occur near the middle of a monthly planning cycle.
In the Scope tab of plan options, specify a date in the new Anchor Date field that falls within the first time bucket and is prior to the current system date. If you need plan results for a different start date, then change the anchor date in the plan options and rerun the plan.
Navigation: Actions > Edit Plan Options
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Tips And Considerations
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You can also use the new Consider past due sales orders after netting the first time bucket advanced option to control how past due sales orders are netted in the first time bucket. With this plan option, net demand in the first bucket is calculated without considering past due sales orders, and then these orders are added to the calculated value.
Navigation: Actions > Edit Plan Options > Supply tab
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If an anchor date is set in plan options, then this date is used to determine which sales orders are considered past due instead of the system date.
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Past due sales orders are still reported in the first time bucket even when the new advanced option is selected.
Access Requirements
Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
- Monitor Sales and Operations Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_SALES_AND_OPERATIONS_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
- Run Plan with Snapshot (MSC_RUN_PLAN_WITH_SNAPSHOT_PRIV)
These privileges were available prior to this update.
Import Routings Taking into Account Effectivity Start Dates
You may have routings with future effective start dates defined in your external manufacturing system of record. With this update, a new Effective Date attribute is added to the import template for Routings, ScpRoutingsImportTemplate, so that you can use the file-based data import process to upload routings with future effective start dates. Both unconstrained and constrained supply plans will honor the effective start dates. This capability enables you to flexibly define manufacturing processes in your systems as they evolve over time and have this evolution be part of the planning calculations.
Example of how you can define an effective start date for a routing in the ScpRoutingsImport file-based data import (FBDI) template:
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Tips And Considerations
- Effective start date for a routing can be in the past, the system date, or a future date
- Operation effective start dates can be either equal to or greater than the start date of the routing
- Effective start date is supported for both discrete and process work definition methods from an external source system
- Effective start date for routing can be collected in targeted and incremental or net change collection types
Access Requirements
Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privilege can access this feature:
- Monitor Supply Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_SUPPLY_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
- Monitor Demand and Supply Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_DEMAND_AND_SUPPLY_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)\
- Manage Sales and Operations Planning (MSC_MONITOR_SALES_AND_OPERATIONS_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
- Monitor Backlog Management Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_BACKLOG_MANAGEMENT_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
- Monitor Order Promising Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_ORDER_PROMISING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
These privileges were available prior to this update.
View an Error Icon When Import from Excel Process has Errors
The ability to import data from Microsoft Excel is a popular productivity enhancing mechanism in Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Planning. With this update, error icons alert you when there are some records in the Excel file that didn’t pass validation conditions. Previously, the success icon was displayed to convey that the process was complete even if some of the records had errors. Now you see the success icon only if no rows had errors. This new error icon helps you identify and correct errors more efficiently.
For example, as soon as the Update Planning Table Data scheduled process completes with an error, the status of the icon for import will be updated to an error icon.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Tips And Considerations
If the Update Planning Table Data scheduled process completes with an error or warning condition, the status of the icon for import will be updated to an error icon 
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Access Requirements
Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
- Monitor Supply Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_SUPPLY_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
- Monitor Demand and Supply Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_DEMAND_AND_SUPPLY_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
Export Data in Format Specified in a Planning Table
The planning table layouts in Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Planning enable you to flexibly slice and dice data per your business requirements. Sometimes your configuration of a table can result in data that exceeds the limit set for the amount of data that you can view on the page. Previously, you could export data only when it was within the limits for online viewing. With this update, you can export data even if it exceeds the limits set for online analysis, which enables you to do offline analysis with large volumes of data.
You can now export a table without opening it, so you can now export data even if it exceeds the limits set for online analysis. The exported data retains the table layout, including the positioning of dimension levels and measures in rows and columns, column and row headings, and summaries.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Tips And Considerations
You can export data in table format from:
- The Actions button for the currently open plan
- The Actions menu on the Manage Plans page for the currently selected plan
- The Scheduled Processes work area by running the Export Data in Table Format process and selecting the plan and table name
The format of the export file is based on the layout of the selected table including:
- The positioning of dimension levels and measures in rows and columns
- Column and row headings
- Summaries
Levels on the filter bar will be converted to columns.
All hierarchies will be fully expanded.
Member filters and measure filters configured for the table will be respected.
The export file will be:
- An XLS file that can be opened in Microsoft Excel
- Limited to 65,536 rows and 256 columns
- Zipped and posted in File Import and Export
- Named <Plan Name>_<Table Name>_<Process ID>
Conditional formatting won't be reflected in the export file.
Import of exported file isn't supported.
Access Requirements
There are no new roles or security privileges needed to access this enhancement.
- Users who currently have access to open planning tables will automatically be able to use this feature.
Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains one or both of these privileges can access this feature:
- Maintain Planning Tables (MSC_MAINTAIN_PLANNING_TABLES_PRIV)
- View Planning Tables (MSC_VIEW_PLANNING_TABLES_PRIV)
These privileges were available prior to this update.
IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations
Changes to File-Based Data Import (FBDI) Templates
A Supply Chain Planning FBDI template has changed in this update. For details of the specific changes, refer to the Instructions tab of this FBDI template:
- Organizations (ScpOrganizationImportTemplate)
- Carriers (ScpCarrierImportTemplate)
- Interlocation Shipping Methods (ScpInterLocationShipMethodsImportTemplate)
You can find the latest template in the Supply Chain Planning section of Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM: File-Based Data Import (FBDI) for SCM, available on the Oracle Help Center.