Update 24A

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
01 DEC 2023			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 Fusion Cloud SCM: 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 Configure Offerings.

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

Supply Chain Orchestration

Supply Chain Orchestration

Improve Processing After Supply Chain Orchestration Updates Supply or Demand

Manually reduce or cancel the quantity that remains open on a transfer order or purchase order even when only part of the supply is available. Reduce the errors that might come up when you make these adjustments. Let Oracle Order Management know when Oracle Inventory Management closes a transfer order that's within the shipment tolerance but under the quantity that you requested. Use this functionality in your back-to-back flows.

Manage the response that you get from your fulfillment systems when Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration closes one transfer order but the supply order has other transfer orders that remain open. Use this functionality with your internal material transfers when you might have more than one transfer line in a single supply order.

Reduce errors and user interaction when changes are required to supply or demand.

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 24B

Key Resources

• Using Supply Chain Orchestration
• Supply Chain Orchestration

Access Requirements

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

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

• Initiate Order (FOM_CREATE_ORDER_PRIV)
• Submit Order (FOM_SUBMIT_ORDER_PRIV)

Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges and can create a supply order in the Supply Orchestration work area can access other parts of this feature.

• Create Supply Request (DOS_CREATE_SUPPLY_REQUEST)
• View Supply Line Details (DOS_VIEW_SUPPLY_LINE_DETAILS)

Add Postprocessing Days When You Modify Ship Dates in Your Back-to-Back Flows

Add postprocessing days to the supply's requested delivery date when you modify the sales order's scheduled ship date. Use this feature to help you reliably meet that ship date in your back-to-back flow.

Here's how it works:

1. You update the sales order's scheduled ship date, then submit the sales order for scheduling and fulfillment.

2. Oracle Global Order Promising calculates the scheduled ship date and updates the sales order. Promising adds the postprocessing days to the scheduled ship date because the shipping warehouse will need them when the item arrives at the warehouse.

3. Oracle Order Management sends the update on the requested delivery date to Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration. The requested delivery date includes the postprocessing days.

4. Promising subtracts the postprocessing days from the scheduled ship date to calculate the recommended requested delivery date that it sends to Supply Chain Orchestration so Supply Chain Orchestration can make the supply available in the warehouse. The warehouse manager can then do the postprocessing activities before shipping the item to the customer. For example, if the scheduled ship date is November 30, and if the postprocessing days is 5, then Promising will recommend November 25 as the requested delivery date.

5. Supply Chain Orchestration picks the requested delivery date from Global Order Promising's recommendation, then sends an update to your downstream application, such as Oracle Manufacturing.

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 24C

Key Resources

• Consider Your Lead Times
• Use Supply Chain Orchestration in Your Back-to-Back Flows

Access Requirements

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)

These privileges were available prior to this update.

Collaboration Messaging Framework

Collaboration Messaging Framework

Exchange B2B Messages with Your Trading Partners Using GHX Marketplace

A new predefined service provider, GHX, is available for your electronic healthcare B2B messaging needs.  If you subscribe to GHX’s services, you can connect to the GHX supply chain network and exchange B2B messages with your trading partners.

GHX's messages and endpoints are predefined, and a new simplified process is provided to streamline the B2B setup in the Collaboration Messaging work area.

Steps to Enable

At a high level, to set up the predefined GHX service provider:

1. Configure GHX to exchange messages with your trading partners.
2. Create trading partners.
3. Associate the trading partners with your suppliers and select the documents you want to exchange.

These steps are detailed in the Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging for Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM guide.

Configure GHX to Exchange Messages with Your Trading Partners

1. Select Manage Collaboration Messaging Service Providers from the Tasks panel tab, search for the GHX service provider, and select Actions > Edit.

The overview tab displays the following GHX details:

• Connection type that's configured.
• Check box to indicate whether credentials are configured.
• Number of trading partners configured for GHX.
• Number of trading partners with override message definitions.
• Number of suppliers set up with GHX as the service provider.

Service Provider Overview 

2. Select Actions > Manage Delivery Settings to configure the settings for outbound message delivery.

2. 1. Select Test or Production from the Outbound Delivery Connection Type drop-down list to reflect the environment you're setting up.

   2. Enter the username and password provided by GHX for sending messages to their network in the Service Provider User Name and Password fields.

   3. You can modify the outbound purchase order message to email POs to suppliers conditionally, for example, bill-only orders. The email address for these POs is provided in the payload. You can enter an email address in the Recipient Email ID field to use if an email address isn't found in the payload.

   4. If some POs are being emailed to a supplier who doesn’t accept specific file extensions as attachments, you can specify a File Extension. After the supplier receives the file, they can rename the extension.

   5. By default, the file is zipped when a PO is being sent to a supplier by email. Select the Transmit the PO PDF as an unzipped file when it’s the only attachment check box if you want to send the PO as a PDF file when it's the only attachment.

Manage Delivery Settings

3. Select the Outbound Message Setup tab to activate the outbound purchase order message, GHX-OAGIS-10.1-Purchase-Order-Collaboration-Message-Out.

The PO message will be sent as an XML message using the web service delivery method by default. Alternatively, you can conditionally send the PO as a PDF file via email to some suppliers by modifying the XSL associated with this message definition. For example, this can be done when sending bill-only orders.

Outbound Message Setup

4. Select the Inbound Message Setup tab to activate the messages you plan to use. There are three messages available:

• GHX-OracleB2B-1.0-Purchase-Order-Acknowledgment-In-V2
• GHX-OAGIS-10.1-Invoice-Collaboration-Message-In
• GHX-OAGIS-10.1-Shipment-Collaboration-Message-In-V2

Inbound Message Setup

Create Trading Partners

After completing the service provider setup, create your trading partners.

1. Select Manage B2B Trading Partners on the Tasks panel tab.
2. On the Manage B2B Trading Partners page, select Actions > Create, and add your trading partners.
3. Select GHX as the service provider.

Create a Trading Partner

Associate Trading Partners with Your Suppliers

Next, associate the trading partners with your suppliers and select the documents you plan to exchange.

1. Select Manage Supplier B2B Configuration on the Tasks panel tab and search for your suppliers.

2. Select a supplier and then select Edit Supplier B2B Configuration.

3. On the Edit Supplier B2B Configuration page, select the Trading Partner Assignment tab and click Actions > Add Row to add a trading partner and the GHX service provider.

Supplier Trading Partner Assignment

4. On the Edit Supplier B2B Configuration page, select the Document Setup tab and add the documents you want to exchange with the selected supplier.

Supplier Document Setup

Tips And Considerations

• If you want to conditionally send POs to suppliers, i.e., for bill-only orders, refer to the Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging for Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM guide for details about modifying the XSL.

• Make sure you provide the email address in the PO payload for sending orders by email. The Recipient Email ID XPath associated with the message definition for GHX-OAGIS-10.1-Purchase-Order-Collaboration-Message-Out determines its location within the payload.

Key Resources

• Refer to the Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging for Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM guide 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 Supplier Trading Partners (CMK_B2B_SUPPLIER_TRADING_PARTNERS_PRIV)
• 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.

Connect with Your Trading Partners using SPS Commerce Fulfillment for Oracle Cloud

A new predefined service provider, SPS Commerce, is available for your order-to-cash electronic messaging needs. If you subscribe to SPS Commerce services, you can connect with your trading partners and exchange messages using SPS Commerce fulfillment for Oracle Fusion Cloud.

SPS Commerce messages and endpoints are predefined, and a new simplified process is provided to streamline the B2B setup in the Collaboration Messaging work area.

Steps to Enable

At a high level, to set up the predefined SPS Commerce service provider:

1. Configure SPS Commerce to exchange messages with your trading partners.
2. Create trading partners.
3. Associate the trading partners with your customers and select the documents you want to exchange.

These steps are detailed in the Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging for Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM guide.

Configure SPS Commerce to Exchange Messages with Your Trading Partners

1. Select Manage Collaboration Messaging Service Providers from the Tasks panel tab, search for the SPS Commerce service provider, and select Actions > Edit.

The overview tab displays the following SPS Commerce details:

• Connection type that is configured, Test or Production.
• Check box to indicate whether credentials are configured.
• Number of trading partners configured for SPS Commerce.
• Number of trading partners with override message definitions.
• Number of customers set up with SPS Commerce as the service provider.

Service Provider Overview

2. Select Actions > Manage Delivery Settings to configure the settings for outbound message delivery.

• • Select Test or Production in the Outbound Delivery Connection Type drop-down list to reflect the environment you're setting up.

• • Enter the username and password provided by SPS Commerce for sending messages to their network in the Service Provider User Name and Password fields.

Manage Delivery Settings

3. Select the Outbound Message Setup tab to activate these outbound messages:

• Purchase Order Acknowledgment
• Advance Shipment Notice
• Invoice

Outbound Message Setup

4. Select the Inbound Message Setup tab to activate the inbound PO.

Inbound Message Setup

Create Trading Partners

After completing the service provider setup, create your trading partners.

1. Select Manage B2B Trading Partners on the Tasks panel tab.
2. On the Manage B2B Trading Partners page, select Actions > Create, and add your trading partners.
3. Select SPS Commerce as the service provider.

Create a Trading Partner

Associate Trading Partners with Your Customers

Next, associate the trading partners with your customers and select the documents you plan to exchange.

1. Select Manage Customer B2B Configuration on the Tasks panel tab, and search for your customers.

2. Select a customer and then select Edit Collaboration Configuration.

3. On the Edit Customer B2B Configuration page in the Associated Service Providers section, select Actions > Add Row to add a trading partner and the SPS Commerce service provider.

4. On the Collaboration Documents for Service Provider section, select Actions > Add Row. Add the following three inbound documents, and set their Association Status to Enabled.

• Purchase Order - Inbound
• Purchase Order Acknowledgment - Outbound
• Advance Ship Notice - Inbound

Customer B2B Collaboration

5. To set up the outbound invoice for your customers, select Manage Customer Account B2B Configuration on the Tasks panel tab, then select Order to Cash from the Collaboration Business Process drop-down list and search for your customers.

6. Select a customer and then select Edit Collaboration Configuration.

7. On the Edit Customer Account B2B Configuration page in the Associated Service Providers section, select Actions > Add Row to add a trading partner and the SPS Commerce service provider.

8. On the Collaboration Documents for Service Provider section, select Actions > Add Row. Add the outbound invoice document and set the Association Status to Enabled.

Customer Account B2B Collaboration

Key Resources

• Refer to the Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging for Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM guide 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 Customer Trading Partners (CMK_B2B_CUSTOMER_TRADING_PARTNERS_PRIV)
• Manage Customer Account Collaboration Configuration (CMK_B2B_CUSTOMER_ACCOUNT_TRADING_PARTNERS_PRIV)
• 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.

Support Additional Electronic Invoicing Requirements in the New UBL PEPPOL Invoice Message

A new version of the outbound invoice message definition for UBL-2.1-PEPPOL-Invoice-Out-V2 is available.

This message definition supports additional invoicing data items required for electronic invoicing in France. It includes payer details such as their address and contact information. It also includes order rounding amounts and ship-to addresses.

The details of the updated data mapping for this message are described in the Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging for Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM guide.

Steps to Enable

At a high level, to use this new message definition to send outbound invoices:

1. Add the message definition as an outbound message to your trading partners.
2. Associate your trading partners to your customer accounts and select the outbound invoice document.

Add the Message Definition as an Outbound Message to Your Trading Partners

1. Select Manage B2B Trading Partners on the Tasks panel tab.
2. On the Manage B2B Trading Partners page, search for and select your trading partner.
3. Select Actions > Edit.
4. On the Edit Trading Partners page, select the Outbound Collaboration Messages tab. Select Actions > Add Row.
5. Select the UBL-2.1-PEPPOL-Invoice-Out-V2 message definition and set the Status to Active.

Add Outbound Message to Trading Partner

Associate Trading Partners to Customer Accounts

1. To set up the outbound invoice for your customers, select Manage Customer Account B2B Configuration on the Tasks panel tab.

2. Select Order to Cash from the Collaboration Business Process drop-down list and search for your customers.

3. Select a customer and then select Edit Collaboration Configuration.

4. On the Edit Customer Account B2B Configuration page in the Associated Service Providers section, select Actions > Add Row to add a trading partner.

5. In the Collaboration Documents for Service Provider section, select Actions > Add Row.

6. Add the outbound invoice document and set the Association Status to Enabled.

Customer Account Collaboration

Key Resources

• Refer to the Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging for Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM guide on the Oracle Help Center.

Access Requirements

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

• Manage Customer Account Collaboration Configuration (CMK_B2B_CUSTOMER_ACCOUNT_TRADING_PARTNERS_PRIV)
• 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.