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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 SEP 2021 | Created initial document. |
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:
- 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 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.
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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Find a Document Using a Description Instead of a Coded Value |
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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.
Use Business Unit Resolution Rules for Oracle-Sourced Plans
A supplier site may serve multiple procurement business units which can lead to ambiguities in assigning the correct business unit to a collaboration relationship when collaborating on order forecasts and supplier commits.
With this update, you can indicate the procurement business unit to use for Oracle-sourced collaboration plans. On the Manage Supply Collaboration Network page, you can select Business unit resolution rules and search by organizations, suppliers, or supplier sites for the procurement business unit to use. You can associate only a valid procurement business unit that already exists for the specific supplier and supplier site in Oracle Cloud Procurement. You can also use the Collaboration Business Unit Resolution Rules REST service to set the procurement business unit.
The updated Manage Supply Collaboration Network: Business Unit Resolution Rules page helps enterprise administrators manage business unit resolution rules for Oracle-sourced collaboration plans. You can search using attributes such as Organization, Supplier, Supplier Site, Procurement BU, Source System, Created Date, and Created By.
Manage Supply Collaboration Network: Business Unit Resolution Rules
To ensure smooth business operations, you can use business unit resolution rules to assign a unique procurement business unit for Oracle-sourced collaboration plans.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Tips And Considerations
- If your supplier data model has unique supplier site names across all procurement business units, meaning the same supplier site name for a single supplier isn't assigned to multiple procurement business units, then you don't need to create any business unit resolution rules.
- If your new business unit resolution rules resolve your supplier site names to different procurement business units for existing order forecasts, then you may need to:
- Create new collaboration relationships prior to publishing a new cycle, or convert relationship candidates after publishing a new cycle.
- Evaluate the impact your Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) historical supplier performance and waterfall reports. This new procurement business unit association for a given order forecast could disrupt your reports since you are now resolving to a new supplier site and business unit.
- You also need to consider the impact to your suppliers’ data access. If you control supplier data access at the supplier site level, you need to determine if any new business unit resolution rules will resolve supplier sites to a different procurement business unit and adjust supplier data access as needed.
Key Resources
- The Use Business Unit Resolution Rules readiness training available on Oracle Cloud Readiness for Supply Chain Collaboration.
Role Information
You have a couple 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:
- Supply Chain Application Administrator (ORA_RCS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR)
- Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privilege are able to access this feature:
- Mange Supply Planning Network Relationships (VCS_MANAGE_SUPPLY_RELATIONSHIPS)
Collaboration Messaging Framework
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.
Add a new delivery method for Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), using either the Manage B2B Trading Partners or Manage Collaboration Messaging Service Providers tasks, depending on whether or not you are using a service provider.
The layout of the Delivery Methods tab has been updated, delivery methods are listed on the left hand side of the screen and the details for each delivery method displayed on the right, with only the fields that are relevant to the selected delivery method displayed.
Select a trading partner or service provider and then select Edit, on the Delivery Methods tab, add a row with a name for the delivery method and select the Delivery Method Type of SFTP. On the right side of the screen enter the details including the SFTP Host, SFTP Port, the User Name and Password required to access the directory, the File Name and the Remote Directory.
Messages delivered via SFTP will be delivered to the remote directory listed and the file name is generated using the file name from the delivery method with the Message GUID and the date time stamp appended i.e., filename_<MessageGUID>_<dateTimeStamp>.
Delivery Methods Tab
You have an additional secure protocol for sending your B2B messages.
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 Hep 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)
Find a Document Using a Description Instead of a Coded Value
Document selection in all tasks now uses an easy-to-understand descriptive value instead of a coded name. For example, "Purchase Order - Outbound" is used instead of the coded name "PROCESS_PO_OUT". You can see this in all tasks where you select documents including:
- Manage Collaboration Messaging History
- Edit Customer Collaboration Configuration
- Edit Supplier B2B Configuration
- Edit Customer Account Collaboration Configuration
- Manage External Message Definitions
- Manage Collaboration Message Definitions
Document Selection in Manage Collaboration Messaging History
You can easily recognize documents when configuring B2B setup for your organization.
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 Hep 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)