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  1. Update 20D
  1. Revision History
  2. Overview
  3. Pre-Update and Post-Update Tasks
  4. Optional Uptake of New Features (Opt In)
  5. Feature Summary
    1. Cross-Product Enhancements
        1. Link to SCM Application Pages Using Deep Links
    2. Collaboration Messaging Framework
        1. Raise a Public Business Event for Outbound B2B Messages
        2. Implement User-Defined Messages for the SEFAZ Service Provider
        3. Receive cXML Advance Shipment Notices from Your Suppliers
        4. Receive B2B Message Processing Status Updates from B2B Service Providers
        5. Receive Universal Business Language Invoices with Embedded Attachments from Suppliers
        6. Send Universal Business Language Invoices to Customers with Embedded Attachments
    3. Supply Chain Collaboration
        1. Analyze Current Collaboration Cycle Performance in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence Cloud
        2. Retain User Preference in Number Formats During Uploads and Downloads
    4. Supply Chain Orchestration
        1. Request Internal Material Transfers When On-Hand Supply Isn't Available
        2. Don't Display Closed Supply Orders in the Default Query on the Manage Supply Lines Page of the Supply Orchestration Work Area

Update 20D

Revision History

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

Date Product Feature Notes
18 SEP 2020     Created initial document.

Overview

This guide outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in this update, and describes any tasks you might need to perform for the update. Each section includes a brief description of the feature, the steps you need to take to enable or begin using the feature, any tips or considerations that you should keep in mind, and the resources available to help you.

SECURITY AND NEW FEATURES

The Role section of each feature identifies the security privilege and job role required to use the feature. If feature setup is required, then the Application Implementation Consultant job role is required to perform the setup, unless otherwise indicated. (If a feature doesn't include a Role section, then no security changes are required to use the feature.)

If you have created job roles, then you can use this information to add new privileges to those roles as needed. For details about how to compare your configured job roles to predefined job roles and add security artifacts to your configured job roles, see the Security Console and Roles and Role Assignments chapters in the Oracle SCM Cloud: Securing SCM guide on the Oracle Help Center.

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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 SCM Cloud: 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:

  1. Click Navigator > My Enterprise > New Features.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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:

  1. Click Navigator > My Enterprise > Offerings.
  2. On the Offerings page, select your offering, and then click Opt In Features.
  3. On the Opt In page, click the Edit Features (pencil) icon for the offering, or for the functional area that includes your feature.
  4. 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 Offering Configuration.

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.

Feature Summary

Column Definitions:

Features Delivered Enabled

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
(Features Delivered Enabled)

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.

Action is Needed BEFORE Use by End Users
(Features Delivered Disabled)

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.

Feature

Report

UI or
Process-Based:
Small Scale

UI or
Process-Based:
Larger Scale*

Cross-Product Enhancements

Link to SCM Application Pages Using Deep Links

Collaboration Messaging Framework

Raise a Public Business Event for Outbound B2B Messages

Implement User-Defined Messages for the SEFAZ Service Provider

Receive cXML Advance Shipment Notices from Your Suppliers

Receive B2B Message Processing Status Updates from B2B Service Providers

Receive Universal Business Language Invoices with Embedded Attachments from Suppliers

Send Universal Business Language Invoices to Customers with Embedded Attachments

Supply Chain Collaboration

Analyze Current Collaboration Cycle Performance in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence Cloud

Retain User Preference in Number Formats During Uploads and Downloads

Supply Chain Orchestration

Request Internal Material Transfers When On-Hand Supply Isn't Available

Don't Display Closed Supply Orders in the Default Query on the Manage Supply Lines Page of the Supply Orchestration Work Area

Cross-Product Enhancements

Link to SCM Application Pages Using Deep Links

In this update, Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud delivers new deep links that provide easy navigation directly to application pages without using the menu structure. You can use these links in a variety of ways, such as in business intelligence reports and third-party application pages.

New deep links introduced in this update are listed by product:

  • Manufacturing
    • Work Order (WIE_WORK_ORDER,EDIT)
    • Exception (WIE_PRODUCTION_EXCEPTION,EDIT)
    • Work Definition (WIS_WORK_DEFINITION,EDIT)
    • Edit Resource (WIS_RESOURCE,EDIT)
  • Supply Chain Collaboration
    • Manage Supply Collaboration Network (COLLABORATION_RELATIONSHIP,EDIT)
  • Supply Chain Financial Orchestration
    • Monitor Financial Orchestration Execution (FOS_MONITOR_UI,NONE)
  • Supply Chain Orchestration
    • Supply Order Details (SUPPLY_ORDER,NONE)
    • Supply Order Details (SUPPLY_ORDER,VIEW)
  • Configurator
    • Workspace (CONFIGURATOR,WORKSPACE)
    • Overview (CONFIGURATOR,OVERVIEW)
    • Overview (CONFIGURATOR,NONE)
  • Maintenance
    • Customer Asset (ORA_CSE_ASSET,EDIT)
    • Edit Work Order (ORA_MNT_WORK_ORDER,EDIT)
    • Manage Maintenance Work Orders (ORA_MNT_WORK_ORDER,NONE)
    • Work Order (ORA_MNT_WORK_ORDER,VIEW)
  • Order Management
    • Manage Orders (SALES_ORDER,VIEW)
    • Manage Orders (SALES_ORDER,FULFILLMENT_VIEW)
    • Manage Orders (SALES_ORDER,NONE)
    • Manage Orders (SALES_ORDER,CREATE)
  • Product Hub
    • Item (PIM_ITEM,EDIT)
    • Items (ITEMS,EDIT)
    • Manage Items (PIM_ITEM,NONE)
  • Collaboration Messaging Framework
    • Collaboration Message: {MESSAGEGUID} (B2B_MESSAGE_TRANSACTIONS,VIEW)
  • Channel Revenue Management
    • Manage Supplier Claims (SUPPLIER_CLAIM,NONE)
    • Supplier Claim (SUPPLIER_CLAIM,EDIT)
  • Quality Inspection Management
    • View Inspection Results (INSPECTION_EVENTS,VIEW)
    • View Inspection Plan (INSPECTION_PLANS,VIEW)
  • Supply Chain Planning
    • Manage Sourcing Rules (SOURCING_RULES,NONE)
    • Edit Sourcing Rule (SOURCING_RULES,EDIT)
    • Manage Assignment Sets (SOURCING_ASSIGNMENTS,NONE)
    • Edit Assignment Set (SOURCING_ASSIGNMENTS,EDIT)
    • Manage ATP Rules (ATP_RULES,NONE)
    • Edit ATP Rule (ATP_RULES,EDIT)
    • Manage Planning Allocation Rules (ATP_ALLOCATION_RULES,NONE)
    • Edit Allocation Rule (ATP_ALLOCATION_RULES,EDIT)
  • Receiving
    • Receive Items (SSP_RCV_PO,NONE)
  • Fiscal Document Capture
    • Fiscal Document (INBOUND_FISCAL_DOCUMENT,VIEW)
  • Cost Management
    • Review Work Order Costs (WORK_ORDER_COST, VIEW)
    • Review maintenance work order costs(MNT_WORK_ORDER_COST,VIEW)
    • Review Item Costs (ITEM_COSTS,VIEW)
    • Review Cost Accounting Distributions (COST_ACCOUNTING_DISTRIBUTIONS, VIEW)
    • Receipt Accounting Distributions (RECEIPT_ACCTG_DISTRIBUTIONS,VIEW)

When you add deep links to reports or third-party application pages, users can simply click those links to go directly to the application pages they need to use, without any additional clicks or navigation. When a user clicks a deep link, that user's security assignment is honored; that is, users can access application pages only if they're assigned a job role that allows them access.

Steps to Enable

You can find all of the available deep links in the Deep Links work area. Some deep links, such as those assigned the NONE action, are ready to use as is. Other deep links, such as those assigned the EDIT action, require you to edit the link details before you can add the deep link to a report or third-party application page. Refer to the documentation listed in the Key Resources section for details and instructions.

Key Resources

For details about how to work with deep links, refer to these books on the Oracle Help Center:

  • Oracle Applications Cloud: Configuring and Extending Applications
  • Oracle SCM Cloud: Implementing Common Features for SCM

Role Information

You have a couple of options for giving people access to the Deep Links work area, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access the Deep Links work area:

  • Application Developer (FND_APPLICATION_DEVELOPER_JOB)
  • Application Implementation Administrator (ORA_ASM_APPLICATION_IMPLEMENTATION_ABSTRACT)
  • Application Implementation Consultant (ORA_ASM_APPLICATION_IMPLEMENTATION_CONSULTANT_JOB)
  • Procurement Application Administrator (ORA_PO_PROCUREMENT_APPLICATION_ADMIN_JOB)
  • Supply Chain Application Administrator (ORA_RCS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)

Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privilege are able to access the Deep Links work area:

  • View Administration Link (FND_VIEW_ADMIN_LINK_PRIV)

If you're using deep links specifically for reports, here are the privileges you need:

  • For Business Intelligence Publisher:
    • BI Author Role (BIAuthor)
    • BI Consumer Role (BIConsumer)
    • BI Administrator (BIAdministrator)
  • For Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI):
    • BI Author Role (BIAuthor)
    • BI Consumer Role (BIConsumer)

Collaboration Messaging Framework

Business-to-business (B2B) messaging is a key component of collaborative relationships and can increase the quality, quantity, and frequency of information that can be exchanged between trading partners.  However, the differences in B2B standards, technical capabilities of trading partners, and the diversity of trading partners can make this costly to establish and maintain.  Oracle Supply Chain Collaboration and Visibility Cloud manages B2B communications with trading partners by leveraging the Oracle Collaboration Messaging Framework, a next-generation B2B messaging platform that maps and routes standards-based B2B messages through a B2B solution provider, on-premise B2B application, or direct to the trading partner.  Oracle Collaboration Messaging Framework is a common infrastructure component that is included with all Oracle Cloud Applications environments at no additional charge.  It is also tightly integrated with Oracle Cloud Applications, making it easy for Oracle Supply Chain Collaboration Cloud customers to set up and manage multiple trading partner connections.

Raise a Public Business Event for Outbound B2B Messages

Subscribe to a B2B message event, B2B Message Created, using an Oracle Integration Cloud ERP adapter. Every time a new B2B message is generated an event is raised and the subscription process is immediately notified so that message processing can continue within Oracle Integration.

To enable this, you need to select the Business Event delivery method with outbound B2B messages using the Manage B2B Trading Partners or the Manage Collaboration Messaging Service Providers task.

You can implement real-time processing of outbound B2B messages with Oracle Integration using the B2B message event B2B Message Created.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

  • Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud: Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging guide available on the Oracle Help Center.
  • Oracle Integration Cloud: Using the Oracle ERP Cloud Adapter with Oracle Integration guide available on the Oracle Help Center.

Role Information

Users who are assigned this predefined job role are automatically able to access this feature:

  • B2B Administrator (ORA_CMK_B2B_ADMINISTRATOR_ABSTRACT)

Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:

  • Manage Service Provider (CMK_MANAGE_SERVICE_PROVIDER_PRIV)
  • Manage B2B Trading Partners (CMK_B2B_TRADING_PARTNERS_PRIV)
  • Manage B2B Supplier Trading Partners (CMK_B2B_SUPPLIER_TRADING_PARTNERS_PRIV)

Implement User-Defined Messages for the SEFAZ Service Provider

You can override the SEFAZ service provider's message definitions to implement your own message transformations using a modified XSL file.

Use the Manage Collaboration Messaging Service Providers task to search for the predefined SEFAZ service provider. Then, on the Edit Collaboration Messaging Service Provider page, on either the outbound or inbound collaboration messages tab, select the message for which you want to implement a different message transformation. Duplicate that message and use your modified XSL file for the new message definition.

Duplicate Outbound Collaboration Message to Implement User-Defined Message Transformation for the SEFAZ Service Provider

You can override the SEFAZ service provider's message definitions and implement your own message transformations to meet your specific business needs.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

  • Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud: Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging guide available on the Oracle Help Center.

Role Information

You have a couple of options for giving people access to this feature depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

Users who are assigned this predefined job role are automatically able to access this feature:

  • B2B Administrator (ORA_CMK_B2B_ADMINISTRATOR_ABSTRACT)

Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privilege are able to access this feature:

  • Manage Service Provider (CMK_MANAGE_SERVICE_PROVIDER_PRIV)

Receive cXML Advance Shipment Notices from Your Suppliers

You can use the message definition cXML_1.2.007_PROCESS_SHIPMENT_IN on the Manage Collaboration Message Definitions page to receive cXML advance shipment notices.

Message Definition for Receiving cXML Advance Shipment Notices

To use this message definition you need to set up your service providers on the Manage Collaboration Messaging Service Providers page or your trading partners on the Manage B2B Trading Partners page with an inbound collaboration message using the message definition.

You also have to associate the service provider or trading partner with the specific suppliers on the Manage Supplier B2B Configuration page and select the PROCESS_SHIPMENT_IN document in the Document Setup section.

You can view received shipment messages on the Manage Collaboration Messaging History page.

You can receive cXML advance shipment notices from your trading partners.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

  • Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud: Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging guide available on the Oracle Help Center.
  • Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud: Using Receiving guide on the Oracle Help Center.

Role Information

Users who are assigned this predefined job role are automatically able to access this feature:

  • B2B Administrator (ORA_CMK_B2B_ADMINISTRATOR_ABSTRACT)

Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:

  • Manage Service Provider (CMK_MANAGE_SERVICE_PROVIDER_PRIV)
  • Manage B2B Trading Partners (CMK_B2B_TRADING_PARTNERS_PRIV)
  • Manage B2B Supplier Trading Partners (CMK_B2B_SUPPLIER_TRADING_PARTNERS_PRIV)
  • Manage Collaboration Messaging History (CMK_COLLAB_MESG_HISTORY_PRIV)

Receive B2B Message Processing Status Updates from B2B Service Providers

You can use the Manage Collaboration Messaging Service Providers task to enable service providers to send message delivery status updates using the Enable message delivery status update check box.

Enable Message Delivery Status Update on Edit Collaboration Messaging Service Provider

If this check box is selected then, when messages are sent to the service provider, the status is displayed as Delivery in progress. The service provider will update the status to Delivered on successful delivery of the message to the trading partner, or Error if delivery wasn’t successful. Use the Collaboration Messaging History task to view the status updates.

You can see the message delivery status for your outbound messages on the Collaboration Message History page for messages transmitted by a service provider.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

  • Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud: Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging guide available on the Oracle Help Center.

Role Information

Users who are assigned this predefined job role are automatically able to access this feature:

  • B2B Administrator (ORA_CMK_B2B_ADMINISTRATOR_ABSTRACT)

Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:

  • Manage Service Provider (CMK_MANAGE_SERVICE_PROVIDER_PRIV)
  • Manage Collaboration Messaging History (CMK_COLLAB_MESG_HISTORY_PRIV)

Receive Universal Business Language Invoices with Embedded Attachments from Suppliers

Your suppliers can include attachments with inbound Universal Business Language (UBL) Invoice and Credit Note payloads. These predefined message definitions for inbound invoices process attachments.

  • UBL_2.1_INVOICE_IN
  • UBL_2.1_EN_16391_INVOICE_IN

This predefined message definition for inbound credit notes also processes attachments.

  • UBL_2.1_CREDIT_NOTE_IN

Use the Manage Supplier B2B Configuration task to set up your suppliers to receive inbound invoices or credit notes.

Your suppliers can include attachments when sending UBL invoices or credit notes.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

  • Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud: Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging guide available on the Oracle Help Center.

Role Information

Users who are assigned this predefined job role are automatically able to access this feature:

  • B2B Administrator (ORA_CMK_B2B_ADMINISTRATOR_ABSTRACT)

Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:

  • Manage B2B Trading Partners (CMK_B2B_TRADING_PARTNERS_PRIV)
  • Manage Service Provider (CMK_MANAGE_SERVICE_PROVIDER_PRIV)
  • Manage B2B Supplier Trading Partners (CMK_B2B_SUPPLIER_TRADING_PARTNERS_PRIV)

Send Universal Business Language Invoices to Customers with Embedded Attachments

The XSL transformation that is associated with the predefined message definition for outbound UBL invoices, UBL_2.1_INVOICE_OUT, includes embedded attachments.

You can set up an outbound collaboration message using the predefined message definition on the Manage B2B Trading Partners page and then use the Manage Customer Account Collaboration Configuration task to set up your customers for that outbound UBL invoice.

You can include attachments with UBL invoices that you send to your customers.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

  • Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud: Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging guide available on the Oracle Help Center.

Role Information

Users who are assigned this predefined job role are automatically able to access this feature:

  • B2B Administrator (ORA_CMK_B2B_ADMINISTRATOR_ABSTRACT)

Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:

  • Manage B2B Trading Partners (CMK_B2B_TRADING_PARTNERS_PRIV)
  • Manage Service Provider (CMK_MANAGE_SERVICE_PROVIDER_PRIV)
  • Manage Customer Account Collaboration Configuration (CMK_B2B_CUSTOMER_ACCOUNT_TRADING_PARTNERS_PRIV)

Supply Chain Collaboration

Today’s global supply chains increase manufacturers’ reliance on suppliers, contract manufacturers, and other trading partners. To be successful, companies must synchronize their activities across multiple tiers of trading parties. Oracle Supply Chain Collaboration Cloud enables companies to jointly plan supply, gain visibility into trading partner data, coordinate contract manufacturing execution, and measure performance across their trading networks. Trading partners are actively involved in the decision-making process, so they can exchange early warning signs and collaboratively resolve supply chain issues. Depending on the size and technical sophistication of each supplier, your company can interact using a portal-based user interface, standards-based B2B messages, or web services. Customers can also tailor Oracle Supply Chain Collaboration Cloud’s flexible, predefined business processes to their unique requirements. Enhanced collaboration results in more dynamic trading relationships, as well as increased reliability and efficiency of supply.

Analyze Current Collaboration Cycle Performance in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence Cloud

Enterprise planners need to review supplier performance and ensure supplier accountability on a consistent basis. With this update, you can generate reports on current collaboration cycle order forecasts and commitments in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence Cloud.

The Supply Chain Collaboration – Supply Planning Real Time subject area now contains these new folders:

  • Current Order Forecast Details
  • Current Order Forecast Exceptions
  • Current Order Forecast Quantities

Supply Chain Collaboration – Supply Planning Real Time Subject Area

The Current Order Forecast Details folder contains the attributes for the current collaboration cycle:

Current Order Forecast Details Folder

The Current Order Forecast Exceptions folder contains the attributes for the current collaboration cycle:

Current Order Forecast Exceptions Folder

The Current Order Forecast Quantities folder contains the attributes for the current collaboration cycle:

Current Order Forecast Quantities Folder

The Collaboration Item folder is updated to include Buyer email, Buyer Full Name, Buyer Username, as well as Planner email, Planner Full Name, and Planner Username. Buyers and planners are defined for an item-organization in the Product Information Management work area.

Collaboration Item Folder

Using the current collaboration cycle data, you can now create reports to compare the current collaboration cycle measures with a supplier’s historical commitments to see how the values changed over a given period of time.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

You can use agents to notify enterprise users like the item planners or buyers based on current cycle data conditions such as newly published forecast changes, late supplier commitments, or new commit mismatches. You can use the Supplier Commit Mismatch Notification to Buyer example analysis to investigate notification option. The example is located in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence Catalog: Shared Folders > Supply Chain Management > Supply Chain Collaboration > Transactional Analysis Samples > Supply Planning > Report Components.

The Supply Chain Collaboration – Supply Planning Real Time subject area does not support supply plans from external source applications.

Key Resources

  • For details about using the Supplier Commit Mismatch Notification to Buyer example analysis, see the discussion about how to send notifications to buyers or item planners when a supplier commits in the Using Supply Chain Collaboration guide available on the Oracle Help Center.
  • For details about creating agents, see the discussion about delivering content in the User's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition guide available on the Oracle Help Center.

Role Information

To use this feature, you need these roles:

  • Job Role Names and Codes:
    • Supply Chain Collaboration Transaction Analysis Duty (FBI_SUPPLY_COLLAB_PLANNER_TRANSACTION_ANALYSIS_DUTY)
    • Supply Chain Collaboration Planner (ORA_VCS_SUPPLY_COLLAB_PLANNER) (inherits Supply Chain Collaboration Transaction Analysis Duty)

Retain User Preference in Number Formats During Uploads and Downloads

Number formats and delimiters around the world may vary from place to place. Collaboration planners and suppliers can now view their quantity values, such as, order forecasts, commitments, replenishment requests, on-hands, minimum quantity, or maximum quantity in the format specified when uploading or downloading spreadsheets for vendor-managed inventory and planning collaboration business processes.

You can upload and download spreadsheets for the quantity values on these pages:

  • Manage Order Forecasts and Commits
  • Edit Order Forecast Details
  • Manage Inventory
  • Manage Supplier On-Hand Quantities

You can specify the default number format and delimiter on the Manage Supply Chain Collaboration Settings page for both vendor-managed inventory and planning collaboration business processes. The options include:

  • Number Format: Valid values are -1234.567 or User preference. If number format is set to User preference, the number format is determined by the individual user's preferred format, which is set in the Set Preferences work area, the General Preferences > Regional task.
  • Delimiter: Valid values are User preference, Comma, Tab, Semicolon, or Pipe. If delimiter is set to User preference, the delimiter is determined by the individual user's number format:
    • If the number format uses a comma as the decimal separator, then the delimiter is a semicolon.
    • If the number format uses a period as the decimal separator, then the delimiter is a comma.

With this feature, trading partners can interpret the quantities correctly and take actions that are consistent with the enterprise's business objectives.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

The default settings for both the number format and delimiter are set to the current behavior; for example, Number Format = -1234.567 and Delimiter = comma(,), so no changes are necessary if the current behavior is satisfactory.

Key Resources

  • For details about general preferences for users, see the discussion about setting general preferences for all users in the Implementing Common Features for SCM guide available on the Oracle Help Center.

Role Information

To use this feature, you need this privilege or role:

  • Privilege Name and Code:
    • Manage Collaboration Settings (VCS_MANAGE_SCC_SETTINGS)
  • Job Role Name and Code:
    • Supply Chain Application Administrator (ORA_RCS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR)

Supply Chain Orchestration

Request Internal Material Transfers When On-Hand Supply Isn't Available

Set up sourcing rules in Oracle Global Order Promising Cloud to determine the source organization to use for each internal material transfer. You can view and select a source organization that doesn't have any on-hand supply that's currently available. You can use an Oracle Cloud Application to request the internal material transfer, such as Self Service Procurement, Inventory Management, or Supply Chain Orchestration.

Setting up these sourcing rules gives you better access to your in-process supply.

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management

Tips And Considerations

Here are some additional sources you can use to choose supply from more than one location.

  • Oracle Self Service Procurement Cloud
  • Internal Material Transfer, available from Oracle Inventory Management Cloud or Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration Cloud

A source that has on-hand availability will provide a quantity. A source that’s in progress won’t provide a quantity.

Role Information

  • Use the Supply Chain Operations Manager role for the Supply Chain Orchestration work area.

Don't Display Closed Supply Orders in the Default Query on the Manage Supply Lines Page of the Supply Orchestration Work Area

Use this new opt-in feature to improve performance. If you opt in, then the Manage Supply Lines page of the Supply Orchestration work area doesn't include closed supply orders when you navigate to the page, by default.

Omitting closed supply orders from the default query makes the page load faster, and helps you focus on the supply orders that need your attention.

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials ManagementNo Longer Optional From: Update 21B

Tips And Considerations

You can continue to search for supply orders that are closed just like you've been able to do in prior updates.

Role Information

  • Supply Chain Operations Manager