Update 22B

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
27 APR 2022	Collaboration Messaging Framework	Retrieve Large Purchase Order Payloads for B2B Messaging	Updated document. Added a feature that was backported to update 22B in the May monthly maintenance pack.
18 MAR 2022			Created initial document.

Overview

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are being updated directly from 21D to 22B you should review the content of both 22A and 22B sections to ensure you see all the changes included in the update.

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Feature Summary

Collaboration Messaging Framework

Retrieve Large Purchase Order Payloads for B2B Messaging

Configure Oracle Collaboration Messaging Framework to process large purchase orders (typically more than 2,000-lines) when you initiate B2B communication. The payload for a large purchase order is retrieved in small parts from Oracle Purchasing and then combined and delivered as one purchase order, resulting in improved performance. This feature is available in the May monthly maintenance pack for update 22B.

After you enable the feature, enter a value in the Large PO Processing section of the Manage Collaboration Messaging Configuration page in the Large PO Minimum Line Count field to specify the minimum number of lines in a large PO. Then enter a value in the PO Lines Retrieved in a Single Query field to specify the number of lines to retrieve from Oracle Purchasing in each part (1000 lines by default). The values you set in the Large PO Delivery Duration (30 minutes by default) and Large PO Delivery Attempt Interval (3 minutes by default) fields indicate how long and how often to attempt delivery of the PO.

Large Purchase Order Processing in Manage Collaboration Messaging Configuration

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: Order Management

Tips And Considerations

A purchase order with more than 2,000 lines is considered a large purchase order, but you can determine the minimum line count for your large purchase orders based on your specific business needs.

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 can 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 Collaboration Messaging Configuration (CMK_MANAGE_COLLAB_MESG_CONFIG_PRIV)

Supply Chain Collaboration

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 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.

Publish Collaboration Data from a Demand Plan

The Demand Collaboration work area provides your customers the ability to collaborate on their forecast with you.  With this update, you can now publish a forecast generated by you in Oracle Fusion Cloud Demand Management to Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Collaboration as a response to your customers’ demand.

Use the new Publish for Demand Collaboration action in the Oracle Demand Management work area, to publish a response to Oracle Supply Chain Collaboration. Your customers can then download the forecast response to a spreadsheet from Oracle Supply Chain Collaboration or access it using REST services. Prior to this update, publishing a response from Oracle Demand Management was performed using only the Oracle Fusion Enterprise Scheduler.

The following screenshot shows the Publish for Demand Collaboration dialog available within a demand plan where you select a source plan measure and a destination document measure.

Publish for Demand Collaboration dialog

Achieve seamless synchronization of customer demand response from Oracle Demand Management to Oracle Supply Chain Collaboration.

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

To use this feature, you must opt in to the feature named: Customer Demand Collaboration. Opting in to the Customer Demand Collaboration feature also enables the feature described here. If you previously opted in to the Customer Demand Collaboration feature, then this feature is automatically enabled.

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:
  • Demand Planner (ORA_MSC_DEMAND_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privilege are able to access this feature:
  • Schedule Publish Planning Data for Collaboration (VCS_SCHEDULE_PUBLISH_PLANNING_DATA)

Display Commit Date and Committed By to Supplier Users

When you collaborate on a larger number of product lines with your supplier, it’s likely that the supplier has multiple users, and each user is assigned to one or more products. A supplier user is responsible for various tasks for the products the user is assigned to. To facilitate daily work for supplier users, the following attributes are added to Oracle Fusion Cloud Supplier Portal.

• The Commit Date, Committed By, Commit Source, Buyer, Supply Plan Publisher, Supplier On-hand Published By, and On-hand Published By attributes were added to the Manage Order Forecasts and Commits page. A supplier user can also use these attributes as part of a search.

• The Buyer attribute was added to the Manage Inventory and Manage Replenishment Requests search results pages.

• The new Show enterprise user names to suppliers option controls the display of these new attributes. Set this option to YES to display these attributes. The default value of this attribute NO. This option is available for both supply collaboration and buy-side vendor-managed inventory. You set this option in Manage Supply Chain Collaboration Settings.

Navigation: Setup and Maintanence > Manage Supply Chain Collaboration Settings > Collaboration Settings

Navigation: Setup and Maintanence > Manage Supply Chain Collaboration Settings > Replenishment Settings

Improve your supplier user’s ability to view and analyze collaboration data using additional attributes.

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 you opt in to use this feature, you must opt in to the feature named: Supply Collaboration. Opting in to the Supply Collaboration feature also enables the feature described here. If you previously opted in to the Supply Collaboration feature, then this feature is automatically enabled.

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:
  • Manage Collaboration Settings (VCS_MANAGE_SCC_SETTINGS)

Display and Analyze Multiple Customer Forecasts in a Single View

From the Demand Collaboration work area, on the Demand Collaboration Details page, you can select and analyze customer forecast measures associated with multiple collaboration relationships in a single view. This capability provides a time-phased view of customer forecast measures for each of the selected collaboration relationships.

In this time-phased view, you can edit the data or download it into a spreadsheet in vertical format. The downloaded file can then be uploaded again using the Customer Demand Uploads UI. Prior to this update, you could only access a time-phased view of customer forecast measures for a single collaboration relationship.

The following screenshot show the Demand Collaboration Details page where you can select multiple rows to edit, delete, or download.

Demand Collaboration Details

The following screenshot shows the edit document page where you can view multiple demands in a single time-phased view.

Edit Document Page

The following screenshot shows the Demand Collaboration Details page with the download file.

Downloaded File

Increase your efficiency by viewing customer forecast measures for multiple collaboration relationships in a single view.

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

To use this feature, you must opt in to the feature named: Customer Demand Collaboration. Opting in to the Customer Demand Collaboration feature also enables the feature described here. If you previously opted in to the Customer Demand Collaboration feature, then this feature is automatically enabled.

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:
  • Demand 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)

Switch Between Weekly and Daily Buckets to View Order Forecasts

In the Supply Collaboration work area, the Edit Order Forecast Details page displays the order forecasts aggregated to a week or month level based on the aggregation schedule selected. In some instances, supplier users would like to review the order forecast at the day level before providing commits. Using the Expand All Buckets action, a supplier user can expand all buckets across the entire forecast horizon to view order forecasts at day level and then provide their commits.

A supplier user can also use the Collapse All Buckets action to collapse the day level buckets and display the measures in weekly or monthly buckets. Prior to this update, a supplier user had to expand each bucket manually to view the day level details.

Navigation: Supply Collaboration > Manage Order Forecasts and Commits > Edit Order Forecast Details: Collapsed View

Navigation: Supply Collaboration > Manage Order Forecasts and Commits > Edit Order Forecast Details: Expanded View

Improve supplier-user experience by providing the ability to switch between weekly to daily or monthly to daily buckets to review order forecasts.

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 you opt in to use this feature, you must opt in to the feature named: Supply Collaboration. Opting in to the Supply Collaboration feature also enables the feature described here. If you previously opted in to the Supply Collaboration feature, then this feature is automatically enabled.

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 Collaboration Planner (ORA_VCS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_COLLABORATION_PLANNER)
  • Supplier Demand Planner (ORA_POS_SUPPLIER_DEMAND_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privilege are able to access this feature:
  • Commit to Order Forecasts as Enterprise User (VCS_COMMIT_ORDER_FORECAST_ENTERPRISE)
  • Edit Forecasts as Enterprise User (VCS_EDIT_ORDER_FORECAST_ENTERPRISE)
  • Commit to Order Forecasts as Supplier (VCS_COMMIT_ORDER_FORECAST_SUPPLIER)
  • Edit Order Forecasts as Contract Manufacturer (VCS_EDIT_ORDER_FORECAST_SHIPTO)

Simplify Synchronization of Forecasts with Oracle Fusion Cloud Demand Management

You can now use the Sync for Demand Management button to simplify the synchronization of forecasts with Oracle Fusion Cloud Demand Management. You access this button from the Demand Collaboration work area, on the Demand Collaboration Details page. Prior to this update, you could only sync forecasts with Oracle Demand Management using Oracle Fusion Enterprise Scheduler.

You can also specify a Synchronization Profile, which includes parameters for Source System, Demand Measure, Collaboration Document, Document Measure, and Plan Name (optional). Define a synchronization profile to avoid the manual selection of parameters each cycle.

The following screenshot shows the Sync for Demand Management drawer on the Demand Collaboration Details page where you select a profile to publish data for demand management.

Sync for Demand Management Drawer

Achieve seamless synchronization of demand measures with Oracle Demand Management.

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

To use this feature, you must opt in to the feature named: Customer Demand Collaboration. Opting in to the Customer Demand Collaboration feature also enables the feature described here. If you previously opted in to the Customer Demand Collaboration feature, then this feature is automatically enabled.

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:
  • Demand Planner (ORA_MSC_DEMAND_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privilege are able to access this feature:
  • Perform Order Orchestration and Planning Data Collection (MSP_PERFORM_ORDER_ORCHESTRATION_AND_PLANNING_DATA_COLLECTION)