Update 23C

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	Module	Feature	Notes
15 NOV 2023	Supply Chain Orchestration	Use Your Own Group Codes to Manage Purchase Requests in Buyer Planning	Updated document. Revised feature description.
02 JUN 2023			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:

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 Configure Offerings.

Opt In Expiration

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Feature Summary

Supply Chain Orchestration

Supply Chain Orchestration

Use REST API to Process Supply Request Lines that Pass Validation

Use the Create Supply Request REST API to process supply request lines that pass validation. If your supply request includes more than one supply request line, and if you set the AllowPartialRequestFlag attribute to Y in your REST API payload, then REST API will process the lines that pass validation. It won't process the lines that don't pass validation and mark them in error. If you set AllowPartialRequestFlag to N, and if any line in the supply request doesn't pass validation, then REST API will reject all lines in the request, including the ones that do pass validation. The default value for AllowPartialRequestFlag is N.

Use this feature to process the supply request lines that pass validation when your supply request includes more than one supply request line.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

• See Use REST API to Manage Supply Chain Orchestration and Using Supply Chain Orchestration on Oracle Help Center.

Access Requirements

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 Operations Manager (ORA_DOS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_OPERATIONS_MANAGER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
  • Process Supply Order Interface (DOS_PROCESS_SUPPLY_ORDER_INTERFACE_PRIV)
  • View Supply Orders (DOS_VIEW_SUPPLY_ORDERS_PRIV)
  • Manage Supply Request Exceptions (DOS_MANAGE_SUPPLY_REQUEST_EXCEPTIONS_PRIV)
  • View Supply Order Exceptions and Status (DOS_VIEW_SUPPLY_ORDER_EXCEPTIONS_AND_STATUS_PRIV)

If you're maintaining your own job roles, no new privileges were introduced to support this feature.

Use the Supply Chain Orchestration Work Area to Synchronize Supply Documents

Use the Supply Chain Orchestration work area to synchronize supply documents between Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration and Oracle Procurement. Use this feature in your outside processing flow when Supply Chain Orchestration can't record a purchase requisition or purchase order because of a technical failure.

Keep your data up to date so Supply Chain Orchestration has the latest purchasing details and can accurately orchestrate supply for your sales orders.

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  No Longer Optional From: Update 24A

Tips And Considerations

Synchronize your purchase requisitions and purchase orders:

1. Go to the Supply Orchestration work area, then click Tasks > Manage Supply Lines.
2. On the Manage Supply Lines page, click a link in the Supply Order Number column, such as 300100083428746.
3. On the Supply Order Details page, click Actions > Synchronize Supply Documents.

Supply Chain Orchestration will synchronize data for your purchase requisitions and purchase orders between Supply Chain Orchestration and Procurement.

Key Resources

• See Using Supply Chain Orchestration and Supply Chain Orchestration on Oracle Help Center.

Access Requirements

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 Operations Manager (ORA_DOS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_OPERATIONS_MANAGER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
  • Process Supply Order Interface (DOS_PROCESS_SUPPLY_ORDER_INTERFACE_PRIV)
  • View Supply Orders (DOS_VIEW_SUPPLY_ORDERS_PRIV)
  • Manage Supply Request Exceptions (DOS_MANAGE_SUPPLY_REQUEST_EXCEPTIONS_PRIV)
  • View Supply Order Exceptions and Status (DOS_VIEW_SUPPLY_ORDER_EXCEPTIONS_AND_STATUS_PRIV)
  • Synchronize Supply Document (DOS_SYNC_SUPPLY_DOCS)

Use Your Own Group Codes to Manage Purchase Requests in Buyer Planning

Use your own group codes to manage purchase requests in the Buyer Planning work area, which is available as part of Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Planning starting in update 23D. You can already use predefined codes such as Buyer, Category, Item, Location, Supplier, and None. This new feature allows buyer planners to create their own group code, and then use it to organize purchase requests into a group and take advantage of price breaks, order minimums, and so on. Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration will send the group code for each purchase request to Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement. Oracle Procurement will group these purchase requests into purchase requisitions according to the value in the Group Code attribute.

Use this feature to group purchase requests to take advantage of price breaks, order minimums and other constraints.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

• See Using Supply Chain Orchestration and Supply Chain Orchestration on Oracle Help Center.

Access Requirements

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 Operations Manager (ORA_DOS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_OPERATIONS_MANAGER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
  • Process Supply Order Interface (DOS_PROCESS_SUPPLY_ORDER_INTERFACE_PRIV)
  • View Supply Orders (DOS_VIEW_SUPPLY_ORDERS_PRIV)
  • Manage Supply Request Exceptions (DOS_MANAGE_SUPPLY_REQUEST_EXCEPTIONS_PRIV)
  • View Supply Order Exceptions and Status (DOS_VIEW_SUPPLY_ORDER_EXCEPTIONS_AND_STATUS_PRIV)

If you're maintaining your own job roles, no new privileges were introduced to support this feature.

Extend Supply Chain Orchestration's Integration with Inventory Management

Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration allows you to create service mappings to integrate with Oracle Inventory Management starting in update 23B. This feature extends that capability. You can include a change entity and other attributes when you map attributes between Supply Chain Orchestration and your inventory management system. Here are the new attributes that you can map:

• SourceOrganizationId 
• SourceSubinventoryCode 
• DestinationLocationId
• ItemRevision 
• FreightCarrierId 
• ModeOfTransportLookup
• ServiceLevelLookup 
• ShipmentPriorityLookup 
• FirmFlag 
• RepriceFlag 
• AllowItemSubstitutionFlag

Use service mappings to tailor how you process the change that happens in your supply chain during order fulfillment. You can now use service mappings to integrate with inventory, procurement, or manufacturing.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

• This is an enhancement to an existing opt-in feature that is always optional.

• Make sure your integration can satisfy the validations that Inventory Management applies. Your request payload might be fine, but Inventory Management might not accept the request. 

• Make sure the objects that you reference in your integration algorithm exist, especially when you query for more than one request line. If you reference an object that doesn't exist at runtime, you might encounter an error.

• If you encounter an error, fix it, then use the Supply Chain Orchestration work area to resubmit your request.

Access Requirements

Use these predefined privileges to set up this feature:

• Manage DOS Service Mappings
• Manage DOS Algorithms
• Administer Sandbox
• View Modified Data, so you can view the runtime results

Prevent Duplicate Supply Requests for Back-to-Back Sales Orders

Prevent Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration from creating excess supply when a communication problem happens. Sometimes there's a disruption that prevents Oracle Order Management from sending a supply request to Supply Chain Orchestration. The disruption might never get resolved and orchestration never receives the request, or receive it only after a long delay. If Order Management doesn't receive a reply from Supply Chain Orchestration after a specific amount time, then Order Management might resend a create, update, or cancel request, and this makes it difficult for Supply Chain Orchestration to interpret how to handle the resent request.

Use this feature to prevent Supply Chain Orchestration from creating duplicate supply requests for the same demand when there's a communication problem between Order Management and Supply Chain Orchestration.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Access Requirements

The feature is available to any privilege that can create and submit a sales order.

View Manual Reservations for Your Back-to-Back Sales Orders

You might need to manually create a reservation when Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration can't create enough supply to meet Oracle Order Management's demand. You can view these reservations in the Supply Orchestration work area:

• View details about each reservation that you create manually in a back-to-back flow for your sales order.
• View the work orders, purchase requests, and transfer orders that create supply for these reservations.
• Click a link that takes you to the work order, purchase request, or transfer order.
• View the current state of the supply lines and tracking lines for each manual reservation.
• View an icon on each supply line and tracking line to quickly determine whether you're using it for a manual reservation.
• The Supply Orchestration work area displays a manual reservation only when supply doesn't meet the requested quantity.

Get a picture of the supply that's allocated to the sales order outside of automated processing.

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  No Longer Optional From: Update 24A

Tips And Considerations

• Supply Chain Orchestration doesn't modify a manual reservation for a demand change that it receives from Order Management.  Any necessary changes must be done manually.

• The quantity for the work order, purchase request, or transfer order might be different from the reservation's quantity or the quantity on the supply or tracking line because other requests might also use the work order, purchase request, or transfer order.

Access Requirements

The feature is available to any privilege that can create and submit a sales order.

Use High-Volume Order Processing with Supply Chain Orchestration for Configured Items

Use High-Volume Order Processing with Supply Chain Orchestration to orchestrate the supply that you need to fulfill configured items when you have a high volume of sales orders to process.

Improve performance when you need to orchestrate fulfillment for sales orders that have a lot of configured items, or your configured items are large and complex and have many child components.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Access Requirements

The feature is available to any privilege that can create and submit a sales order with configured items.

Collaboration Messaging Framework

Collaboration Messaging Framework

Define the File Extension for Your B2B Messages Delivered by Email or an Oracle Content Repository

You can specify a B2B message file extension for the email and file export delivery methods. The extension you specify is used for B2B messages delivered by email or messages retrieved from an Oracle content repository by your trading partner.

To specify a file extension:

1. In the Collaboration Messaging work area, click Manage B2B Trading Partners or Manage Collaboration Messaging Service Providers in the Tasks panel tab.

2. Search for the trading partner or user-defined service provider associated with the delivery method.

3. Select a trading partner or user-defined service provider, and then select Actions > Edit.

4. On the Edit Trading Partner page, select the Delivery Methods tab to add a new delivery method type of Email or File Export and specify the file extension. You can also add a file extension for existing delivery methods of these types.

5. Enter up to four characters in the File Extension field. B2B messages will have the file extension you entered. If you don’t enter a file extension, the .zip default is used.

Email Delivery Method

You can send B2B messages to trading partners by email without triggering corporate firewall rules that strip zipped email attachments.

NOTE: This feature was also made available in the April monthly update of 23B.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

The file extension you enter doesn’t change the file compression method. The file remains a Zip compressed file, but with the file extension you entered. Your trading partner will need to change the extension back to .zip to extract B2B messages upon receipt.

Key Resources

• Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging for Oracle Applications Cloud guide available on the Oracle Help Center.

Access Requirements

Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:

• Manage B2B Trading Partners (CMK_B2B_TRADING_PARTNERS_PRIV)
• Manage Service Provider (CMK_MANAGE_SERVICE_PROVIDER_PRIV)

These privileges were available prior to this update.

Retransmit Unsuccessful B2B Messaging-Enabled Purchase Orders

You can get a list of untransmitted purchase orders and either retransmit them in bulk or download the list for further review. To generate the list, use the new Retransmit Purchase Orders dialog box on the Manage Collaboration Messaging History page. You invoke the new dialog box by clicking on a warning icon or from the Actions menu on that page.

You'll see a warning icon on the Manage Collaboration Messaging History page if there are purchase orders that B2B message transmission wasn't initiated for when you select one of these document types:

• Purchase Order - Outbound
• Purchase Order Change - Outbound
• Purchase Order Cancellation - Outbound

When you click the warning icon, a warning message appears.

Retransmit Warning Icon and Message

If you click Yes, the Retransmit Purchase Orders dialog box appears. Or you can select Actions > Retransmit on the Manage Collaboration Messaging History page to invoke the dialog box.

Retransmit Purchase Orders Dialog Box

The From Date and Orders to Retransmit fields are required. The other fields are optional.

The Orders to Retransmit field includes these options:

Menu Option	Explanation
Orders for which B2B transmission wasn't initiated	Retransmits all untransmitted purchase orders, including prior untransmitted versions
Orders with the B2B messaging status of Terminated	Retransmits purchase orders that have a status of Terminated
All	Retransmits all untransmitted purchase orders and those with a status of Terminated

Click Search on Retransmit Purchase Orders dialog box to see the number of orders found. You can download the list of purchase orders found or initiate retransmission of the orders.

To set the minimum time an order can be in process before you can terminate processing:

1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, go to the Manage Collaboration Messaging Configuration task in the Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management offering.

2. Enter a value in the Minimum In-Process Duration field on the General Setup tab of the Manage Collaboration Messaging Configuration page. The value you enter determines the minimum time an order can be in process before you can terminate it. The default value is 60 minutes.

The Terminate Processing option is available on the Actions menu.

Minimum In-Process Duration

NOTE: This feature was also made available in the May monthly update of 23B.

You can now review untransmitted purchase orders with the option to transmit them in bulk. This feature reduces any potential interruption of B2B message exchange with your suppliers.

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.

Access Requirements

Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:

• Manage Collaboration Messaging Configuration (CMK_MANAGE_COLLAB_MESG_CONFIG_PRIV)
• Manage Collaboration Messaging History (CMK_COLLAB_MESG_HISTORY_PRIV)
• Extensible Data Model Used for Electronic Messaging Profile (PO_ELECTRONIC_COMM_DATA_MODEL)
• These privileges were available prior to this update.

Specify the Sender's Email Address for Outbound B2B Messages

You can configure an email address for the sender of your B2B documents instead of using the application-generated one. And you can monitor the inbox of the email address you configured for replies.

Your trading partners can add the sender email address to their approved list of emails to ensure continued communication.

NOTE: This feature was also made available in the April monthly update of 23B.

Steps to Enable

In Setup and Maintenance, select the Manage Collaboration Messaging Configuration task.

1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, go to the Manage Collaboration Messaging Configuration task in the Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management offering.

2. Select the Business Process Setup tab on the Manage Collaboration Messaging Configuration page.

3. In the Collaboration Business Process section, select the business process that includes the document you want to transmit using the new sender email address you configured.

4. In the Configure Collaboration Documents section, select the outbound document.

Business Process and Outbound Document Selection

5. Click the Configure Additional Details button and enter the sender's email address in the dialog box. This email address is used as the sender for all outbound B2B messages associated with the selected document.

Configure Additional Details Dialog Box

Tips And Considerations

For best practices on email security, refer to the Configure Email Security documentation available on the Oracle Help Center.

Key Resources

• Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging for Oracle Applications Cloud guide available on the Oracle Help Center.

Access Requirements

Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains this privilege can access this feature:

• Manage Collaboration Messaging Configuration (CMK_MANAGE_COLLAB_MESG_CONFIG_PRIV)

This privilege was available prior to this update.

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.

Republish Previous Order Forecast as Current Order Forecast at the Start of Current Collaboration Cycle

Use the new Republish Forecast Data from Previous Collaboration Cycle scheduled process to republish the previous order forecasts as the current order forecasts at the start of a new collaboration cycle.

In the Collaboration Plan field for the Republish Forecast Data from Previous Collaboration Cycle scheduled process, you select which collaboration plan you want to republish order forecasts for.

Screenshot of the process details and parameters for the Republish Forecast Data from Previous Collaboration Cycle scheduled process.

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 Republish Previous Order Forecast as Current Order Forecast at the Start of Current Collaboration Cycle 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

Access Requirements

Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privilege are able to access this feature:

• Schedule Order Forecast Decomposition (VCS_SCHEDULE_ORDER_FORECAST_DECOMP)

This privilege was available prior to this update.