Update 22C

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
17 JUN 2022			Created initial document.

Overview

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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

Collaboration Messaging Framework

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.

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.

NOTE: This feature was also made available in the May monthly update of 22B.

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

In general, 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 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)

Send UBL PEPPOL Invoice Responses to Suppliers

Use the new predefined message definition UBL-2-1-InvoiceApplicationResponse-Out to send details about rejected invoices in the UBL PEPPOL format to your suppliers.

Enable the procure-to-pay business process to exchange the associated document, Invoice Acknowledgment-Outbound.

Set up this message definition as an outbound collaboration message for a trading partner and then associate the trading partner, and the Invoice Acknowledgment-Outbound document with a supplier using the Manage Supplier B2B Configuration task in the Collaboration Messaging work area.

UBL-2-1-InvoiceApplicationResponse-Out Message Definition

Enables automated invoice status communication using the UBL PEPPOL application response 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:
  • Supply Chain Application Administrator (ORA_RCS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)

• Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
  • Manage B2B Supplier Trading Partners (CMK_B2B_SUPPLIER_TRADING_PARTNERS_PRIV)
  • Manage B2B Trading Partners (CMK_B2B_TRADING_PARTNERS_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.

Manage the Definitions of Collaboration Documents

You can now configure the time fence horizon, history, and data lock period for forecast and historical data and specify the time frame of historical data being displayed for each measure. In addition, you can also manage which participant types can edit each measure. Previously, this capability was managed through REST services, but is now also available through the Document Definitions page in Demand Collaboration.

The following screenshot shows the Forecast document definition page where your administrator can update settings for your document.

Forecast Document Definition

The following screenshot shows the Order Forecast measure drawer on the Forecast document where your administrator can update measure controls and the time fence.

Order Forecast Drawer

Use the new Document Definitions page to more readily manage the demand collaboration measures and associated parameters.

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:
  • 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 Demand Collaboration (VCS_MANAGE_DEMAND_COLLABORATION)

Notify Demand Planners When Collaboration Data Is Available

After order forecasts and consumption history are synchronized with Oracle Demand Management, you can set up demand planners to be notified with a bell notification that new demand data is available. These notifications enable demand planners to readily stay up to date on the latest collaboration data from their customers and generate demand plans in a timely fashion.

You can add notifications recipients to demand collaboration to synchronization profiles.

Navigation: Supply Chain Planning > Demand Collaboration > Synchronization Profiles

After you have updated your synchronization profiles to include notification recipients, all of the defined notification recipients will receive a bell notification when data is synced from demand collaboration to demand management.

Oracle Fusion Bell Notification

Ensure demand planners are notified when the latest customer order forecasts and history information is available.

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: 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:
  • 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 Demand Collaboration (VCS_MANAGE_DEMAND_COLLABORATION)

Extract Customer Demands Using Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Connector

Oracle’s Business Intelligence Cloud Connector (BICC) enables you to extract a copy of your customer demand collaboration data into comma-separated value (CSV) files for offline analysis, reporting, archiving, or integration purposes. Your data extracts can include collaboration objects representing customer demands, such as order forecasts and consumption history.

You can extract customer demand collaboration data from the following data stores:

• Demand Collaboration Identity (FscmTopModelAM.ScmExtractAM.VcsBiccExtractAM.VcsDemandCollabIdentityExtractPVO)
• Demand Measure Attributes (FscmTopModelAM.ScmExtractAM.VcsBiccExtractAM.VcsDemandMeasureAttributesExtractPVO)
• Demand Measures (FscmTopModelAM.ScmExtractAM.VcsBiccExtractAM.VcsDemandMeasuresExtractPVO)
• Historical Demand Measures (FscmTopModelAM.ScmExtractAM.VcsBiccExtractAM.VcsHistDemandMeasuresExtractPVO)
• Document Measures (FscmTopModelAM.ScmExtractAM.VcsBiccExtractAM.VcsDocumentMeasuresExtractPVO)
• Document Definitions (FscmTopModelAM.ScmExtractAM.VcsBiccExtractAM.VcsDocumentDefinitionsExtractPVO)
• Document Definition Translations (FscmTopModelAM.ScmExtractAM.VcsBiccExtractAM.VcsDocumentDefinitionTranslationsExtractPVO)
• Measure Definitions (FscmTopModelAM.ScmExtractAM.VcsBiccExtractAM.VcsMeasureDefinitionsExtractPVO)
• Measure Definition Translations (FscmTopModelAM.ScmExtractAM.VcsBiccExtractAM.VcsMeasureDefinitionTranslationsExtractPVO)

From BICC, you can select the data stores from which to extract data, and specify whether you want to store the extracts on external storage for future retrieval and use or load them into Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM). Here is what you can do with BICC to extract data from the products available in your implementation:

• Configure an external storage location that works for your data needs.
• Extract complete or partial data. You can select offerings or specific objects.
• Run extracts on-demand or schedule them to run at specified intervals during the day, in a week, or throughout the month.
• Run incremental extracts if you need only the data that changed since your last extract.
• Schedule multiple independent extracts at convenient intervals.
• Monitor extracts and review logs.
• Export configured offerings and associated data stores.
• Manage refresh metadata and specify dates for incremental refresh comparison.

Use Business Intelligence Cloud Connector to extract bulk data for reporting, external integration, and offline data analysis.

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: 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.

Key Resources

• Oracle Cloud Applications, Application Common books: Creating a Business Intelligence Cloud Extract book on Oracle Help Center
• Oracle Supply Chain Management: Extract Data Stores for SCM book on Oracle Help Center

Role Information

To access BICC and create and manage schedules for global data extracts or jobs, you need this role:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • ESS Administrator Role (ESSAdmin)

To access BICC global offerings and data stores or jobs, you need this role:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  •  Application Implementation Administrator (ORA_ASM_APPLICATION_IMPLEMENTATION_ADMIN_ABSTRACT)

To access BICC Content on UCM Server, you need this role:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Upload and download data from on-premise system to cloud system (OBIA_EXTRACTTRANSFORMLOAD_RWD)

Extract Historical Supply Collaboration Measures Using Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Connector

Previously, you could extract historical collaboration objects, such as order forecasts and commits from historical cycles. With this update, your Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Connector (BICC) extracts will also include historical supply on hand, supplier on hand, and purchasing measure data from previous cycles to use for offline analysis, reporting, archiving, or integration purposes.

NOTE: The supply on-hand and purchasing measures are inline with the transaction data collected to run the supply plan that generates the order forecasts.

You can extract historical supply on hand and supplier on hand data from supply chain collaboration from the following data stores:

• External Historical Supply Forecasts (FscmTopModelAM.ScmExtractAM.VcsBiccExtractAM.VcsExtHistSupplyForecastExtractPVO)
• Historical Supply Forecasts (FscmTopModelAM.ScmExtractAM.VcsBiccExtractAM.VcsHistSupplyForecastExtractPVO)

You can extract historical purchasing measure data from supply chain collaboration from the following data stores:

• External Supply Forecast Reference Measures (FscmTopModelAM.ScmExtractAM.VcsBiccExtractAM.VcsExtSupplyForecastReferenceMeasureExtractPVO)

• External Historical Supply Forecast Reference Measures (FscmTopModelAM.ScmExtractAM.VcsBiccExtractAM.VcsExtHistSupplyForecastReferenceMeasureExtractPVO)

• Supply Forecast Reference Measures (FscmTopModelAM.ScmExtractAM.VcsBiccExtractAM.SupplyForecastReferenceMeasureExtractPVO)

• Historical Supply Forecast Reference Measures (FscmTopModelAM.ScmExtractAM.VcsBiccExtractAM.VcsHistSupplyForecastReferenceMeasureExtractPVO)

From BICC, you can select the data stores from which to extract data, and specify whether you want to store the extracts on external storage for future retrieval and use or load them into Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM). Here is what you can do with BICC to extract data from the products available in your implementation:

• Configure an external storage location that works for your data needs.
• Extract complete or partial data. You can select offerings or specific objects.
• Run extracts on-demand or schedule them to run at specified intervals during the day, in a week, or throughout the month.
• Run incremental extracts if you need only the data that changed since your last extract.
• Schedule multiple independent extracts at convenient intervals.
• Monitor extracts and review logs.
• Export configured offerings and associated data stores.
• Manage refresh metadata and specify dates for incremental refresh comparison.

Use Business Intelligence Cloud Connector to extract bulk data for reporting, external integration, and offline data analysis.

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.

Key Resources

• Oracle Cloud Applications, Application Common books: Creating a Business Intelligence Cloud Extract book on Oracle Help Center
• Oracle Supply Chain Management: Extract Data Stores for SCM book on Oracle Help Center

Role Information

To access BICC and create and manage schedules for global data extracts or jobs, you need this role:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • ESS Administrator Role (ESSAdmin)

To access BICC global offerings and data stores or jobs, you need this role:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  •  Application Implementation Administrator (ORA_ASM_APPLICATION_IMPLEMENTATION_ADMIN_ABSTRACT)

To access BICC Content on UCM Server, you need this role:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Upload and download data from on-premise system to cloud system (OBIA_EXTRACTTRANSFORMLOAD_RWD)

Control Supplier Visibility to Collaboration Data

Use the options provided on the Manage Supply Chain Collaborations Settings page to select the type of collaboration data that will be visible to your suppliers. These options are applicable to all suppliers in the instance:

• Show enterprise user names to suppliers
• Show enterprise on-hand quantities to suppliers
• Show purchase order quantities to suppliers

By selecting one or more of these options based on your business goals, you ensure all suppliers have visibility to the applicable information.

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

Control the type of collaboration data that is visible to your suppliers based on your business objectives.

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)