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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 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.
View Your Customers' On-Hand Inventory
You can now view your customer’s on-hand quantities for items that you collaborate on. Visibility to customer on-hand quantities improves the planning process by showing gaps between actual and planned material supply that could contribute to the bullwhip effect. With this update, you can view your customer on-hand data in Demand Collaboration Details page.
More information about customer on-hand inventory:
- Add customer on-hand inventory to an existing collaboration document.
- Enable customers to share their on-hand inventory information via a secure login, or existing Collaboration Customer Demands REST service, depending on their capability or preference.
- Review the customer on-hand inventory on the Demand Collaboration Details page.
- Note that you sync customer on-hand data to plan inputs, not to a plan, in Oracle Cloud Supply Chain Planning.
After your Demand Collaboration administrator adds the On-hand measure to an existing collaboration document:
Navigation: Supply Chain Planning > Demand Collaboration > Document Definitions
Customer and enterprise users can upload on-hand quantities utilizing the existing upload template by populating the Measure Code column with the ON_HAND_INVENTORY code. Date isn't required for on-hand because the system will default the upload date as your on-hand date.
Example of Customer On-Hand Upload File
After successfully uploading your on-hand data, you can review on-hand on the Demand Collaboration Details page.
Navigation: Supply Chain Planning > Demand Collaboration > Demand Collaboration Details
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
If you want to use the View Your Customers' On-Hand Inventory feature, then you must opt in to its parent feature: Customer Demand Collaboration. If you’ve already opted in to this parent feature, then you don’t have to opt in again.
Role And Privileges
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)
Manage Reason Codes for Order Forecast Commits in Collaboration
Supplier users account for prevailing business conditions while reviewing and committing to the order forecasts published to them by you. Suppliers may not be able to meet the order forecasts for various reasons, such as lack of manufacturing capacity, maintenance shut down, and delay in incoming supply. In such scenarios, supplier commits create a mismatch between the requested and committed quantity. Enterprises would like to understand the reason for a mismatch and the duration of similar mismatches to enable them to take preventive steps.
With this update, your suppliers can use reason codes while committing to the order forecasts so that your enterprise has better visibility to the mismatch created.
More information about reason codes:
- You can enable reason codes using the Manage Supply Chain Collaboration Settings task in the Setup and Maintenance work area.
- You can create the reason codes using the Manage Supply Chain Collaboration Lookups task in the Setup and Maintenance work area.
- Both supplier and enterprise users may add, update, or review the reason codes on the Edit Order Forecast Details page or by using the Collaboration Order Forecast REST service.
- Both supplier and enterprise users may download the reason codes into a spreadsheet, edit them, and then upload the spreadsheet. Both vertical and horizontal formats are supported
Screenshot that shows the ORA_VCS_REASON_CODES lookup code that needs to be updated with your commit mismatch reason codes on the Manage Supply Chain Collaboration Lookups page.
Setup and Maintenance > Manage Supply Chain Collaboration Lookups
Screenshot that shows the Edit Order Forecast Details page where your supplier can review and enter commit mismatch reasons as a measure in the pivot table.
Edit Order Forecast Details
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
If you want to use the Manage Reason Codes for Order Forecast Commits in Collaboration feature, then you must opt in to its parent feature: Supply Collaboration. If you’ve already opted in to this parent feature, then you don’t have to opt in again.
You enable the Manage Reason Codes for Order Forecast Commits in Collaborationin the settings on the Manage Supply Chain Collaboration Settings page. When Allow suppliers to provide commit mismatch reasons is set to Yes, a new measure for Commit Mismatch Reason will be available in your order forecast.
Setup and Maintenance > Manage Supply Chain Collaboration Settings > Collaboration Settings
Key Resources
Role And Privileges
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)
Manage Supply Forecast B2B Message
Using the Oracle-1-0-B2B-Supply-Forecast-Out predefined B2B message definition, you can now share supply forecasts with your customers as a response to their inbound forecast message. The supply forecast is generated in Oracle Demand Management and published to Oracle Supply Chain Collaboration to be shared with your customers.
You can set up the supply forecast message definition as an outbound collaboration message for a trading partner and then associate the trading partner and Supply Forecast Outbound document with a customer using the Manage Customer Collaboration Configuration task.
With this B2B message, you can automate and seamlessly integrate supply forecasts with your customers.
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
If you want to use the Manage Supply Forecast B2B Message feature, then you must opt in to its parent feature: Customer Demand Collaboration. If you’ve already opted in to this parent feature, then you don’t have to opt in again.
Role And Privileges
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_JOB)
- Demand Planner (ORA_MSC_DEMAND_PLANNER)
Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privilege are able to access this feature
- Manage Demand Collaboration (VCS_MANAGE_DEMAND_COLLABORATION)
- Schedule Publish Planning Data for Collaboration (VCS_SCHEDULE_PUBLISH_PLANNING_DATA)
Download Purchase Order Numbers from Collaboration Pages
Use the new Include reference numbers option, available on both the Manage Order Forecasts and Commits and Edit Order Forecast Detail pages, to download purchase order numbers. Prior to this update, only the aggregated quantities of open purchase orders, in-transit purchase orders, and purchase orders in receiving status were made available.
As part of the download process a new file is created that will contain the purchase order numbers. There will be a reference number to link back to the order forecast file. Use of these two files makes it easier for both you and your supplier users to cross-reference and validate the open quantities.
The new Include reference numbers option is enabled in the Manage Supply Chain Collaboration Settings. When this option is selected the Include reference numbers option is displayed in the Download Forecast dialog. This option is unselected by default.
Navigation: Setup and Maintenance > Manage Supply Chain Collaboration Settings > Collaboration Settings
After you enable this option, users will be prompted to Include reference numbers in the Download Forecasts dialog. When this option is selected, an additional download file will be included in the download .zip file that contains the purchase order numbers associate to the downloaded order forecast data.
Navigation: Supply Chain Planning > Supply Collaboration > Manage Order Forecasts and Commits > Actions > Download Search Results or Download All Records
Example of Reference Number Download File
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
If you want to use the Download Purchase Order Numbers from Collaboration Pages feature, then you must opt in to its parent feature: Supply Collaboration. If you’ve already opted in to this parent feature, then you don’t have to opt in again.
Key Resources
Role And Privileges
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)
Selected Supply Chain Collaboration Bug Fixes in This Update
This update includes some bug fixes that can change the way Oracle Supply Chain Collaboration works. This isn't a full list of all the bug fixes in this update. This list includes the bug fixes that can cause a noticeable change in application behavior.
Enhanced Drop Ship Functionality to Support Drop Ship Validation Organizations
With this update, Oracle Supply Chain Collaboration's drop ship aggregation feature has been extended to include order forecasts sent to the drop ship validation organization that you defined on the Maintain Supply Network Model page, which is available in the Supply Chain Planning work areas. Now, when you create a relationship in Supply Chain Collaboration where the organization is marked as the drop ship validation organization, order forecasts that include the customer will be aggregated into a single order forecast for the supplier to review.
See the Manage Drop Ship Collaboration Order Forecasts feature for more information on how order forecasts are managed for drop ship scenarios.
You will need to run the Set Collaboration Relationship Drop Ship scheduled process in the Scheduled Processes work area to enable drop ship for any existing relationships where the ship-to organization is the drop ship validation organization.
Oracle reference: 33661862
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.