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| Date | Product | Feature | Notes |
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| 20 DEC 2021 | Created initial document. |
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Pre-Update and Post-Update Tasks
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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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Collaboration Messaging Framework
Collaboration Messaging Framework
Receive Order Forecasts from Customers
Use the new predefined message definition Oracle-1-0-B2B-Order-Forecast-In to receive an order forecast message from your customers and use it for your organization’s demand planning.
Enable the Customer Collaboration business process to allow the Order Forecast – Inbound document to be exchanged. Then associate it with a customer in the Manage Customer Collaboration Configuration task.
Set up this message definition as an inbound collaboration message for a trading partner and then associate the trading partner and Order Forecast- Inbound document with a customer using the Manage Customer Collaboration Configuration task.
After the message is received and transformed, a compressed file is placed in Oracle WebCenter Content and processed by the Collaboration Customer Demand Uploads resource.
Oracle-1-0-B2B-Order-Forecast-In Message Definition
Increase the accuracy of your organization's demand plan by allowing customers to share their order forecast data using a B2B XML message.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Key Resources
- Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging for Oracle Applications Cloud 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 any of these predefined job roles can access this feature:
- B2B Administrator (ORA_CMK_B2B_ADMINISTRATOR)
- Supply Chain Application Administrator (ORA_RCS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)
- Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains this privilege can access this feature:
- Manage Customer Demand as Customer User (VCS_MANAGE_CUSTOMER_DEMAND_CUSTOMER_PRIV)
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 Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Collaboration 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’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.
You can collaborate with your customers to plan and smoothly execute your supply chain operations. Your customers, such as retail outlets, distributors, franchisees, or channel partners, may share their consumption information or order forecasts with you using Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Collaboration. The customer forecast and consumption information are validated in Oracle Supply Chain Collaboration for correctness and then collected into Oracle Fusion Cloud Demand Management. In Oracle Demand Management, you may use the customer order forecast as a demand signal to generate a consensus supply forecast. This supply forecast incorporates customer input into your demand and supply planning processes.
You can use customer demand collaboration to:
- Receive order forecasts and consumption information from customers.
- Enable customers to share their order forecast or consumption information via a secure login, B2B messaging, or REST services, depending on their capability or preference.
- Monitor the data being received for correctness and communication status. While checking for data correctness, highlight exceptions to display data errors.
- Review the customer data and make edits as needed.
- Sync the customer data with applicable measures in Oracle Demand Management using a scheduled process.
- Capture and display metrics on a dashboard, such as upload status of data files by customers, number of forecast or consumption relationships received, and whether the measure order forecast or history is synced with Oracle Demand Management.
- Respond to order forecasts from customers by publishing the plan-generated forecast from Oracle Demand Management to Oracle Fusion Cloud Demand Collaboration.
- Interact with demand planners to review the plan-generated forecast and make edits as needed to minimize the forecast deviations from the prior cycle.
- Share the plan-generated forecast with customers. A customer may download this information using a secure login or may use REST services to extract the data.
- Search by several criteria, such as Customer, Customer Site, Item, Plans, and Organization, to refine the scope of collaboration.
- Compare the order forecasts and consumption information from the current planning cycle with values from the prior cycle.
The following screenshot shows the Overview page where you can check the overall health of your customer demand. You have metrics providing visibility to customer demand received, upload status, and synchronization status to demand management.
Demand Collaboration Overview
The following screenshot shows the Demand Collaboration Details page where you can review all demand received by your customers before publishing it to demand management.
Demand Collaboration Details
Improve your overall forecast accuracy and streamline your business processes by incorporating customer inputs into your demand planning process.
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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
- When synchronizing data to demand management, you have two new seeded demand measures to select from. Sync your customer's measure data to either Customer Order Forecast or Customer Consumption History. Or, update the ORA_VCS_SCC_SCP_MEASURE_MAPPING parameter using collaborationParameters to allow users to select from more demand measures available in the application.
- If sending customer demand via B2B messaging, use the Oracle-1-0-B2B-Order-Forecast-In message.
Key Resources
Role Information
You have a few 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 Collaboration Planner (ORA_VCS_SUPPLY_COLLAB_PLANNER)
- Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privilege are able to access this feature:
- Manage Customer Demand as Enterprise User (VCS_MANAGE_CUSTOMER_DEMAND_ENTERPRISE)
- Customer users who are assigned this predefined job role are automatically able to access this feature:
- Customer Demand Planner (ORA_VCS_CUSTOMER_DEMAND_PLANNER)
- Customer users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privilege are able to access this feature:
- Manage Customer Demand as Customer User (VCS_MANAGE_CUSTOMER_DEMAND_CUSTOMER)
Configuration
- Users who are assigned this predefined job role are automatically able to configure 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 configure this feature:
- Manage Demand Collaboration (VCS_MANAGE_DEMAND_COLLABORATION)
- Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privilege are able to configure demand collaborators:
- Manage Demand Planners (VCS_MANAGE_DEMAND_PLANNERS)