This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:
| Date | Feature | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 13 JUN 2018 | Created initial document. |
This guide outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in this update.
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Oracle Transportation and Global Trade Management
This feature provides you with a new OTM/GTM REST Service that can be used to retrieve resources from OTM or GTM. The new OTM/GTM REST Service is a lightweight-data communications API that has been developed to conform to Oracle’s standard for REST APIs; a standard that is being adopted by all of Oracle’s applications. The Oracle REST API Standard is a comprehensive standard that covers all integration use cases including User Interface and Business Process integration.
With 18C, the first release of the new OTM/GTM REST Service (which will eventually replace the original REST API) you can begin to familiarize yourself with the new API’s style and capabilities, and you can use the new OTM/GTM REST Service to perform data queries.
Long Running Task Monitoring and Control
This feature provides you with the ability to monitor and control long running tasks. The identification and cataloging of the long running tasks (LRT), the ability to view their current status, interrupt their execution, and resubmit the tasks are all prerequisite capabilities required for - ultimately - providing you with a near zero down-time upgrade and patching experience.
The Long Running Task page is accessed via Business Process Automation > Long Running Tasks. You can use this page to see all long-running tasks, and to see whether the tasks are active or completed. This information will aid you in performance analysis and provides you with specific/detailed task related information.
Enhanced and Additional How To Topics
This feature provides you with an expanded library of How To topics in Help. How To topics provide documentation that is focused on configuring and using OTM or GTM to solve a specific business problem or to provide more complete topic specific instructions for how to use a particular feature.
A typical How To topic provides an overview of the topic, the setup steps required to configure the application, and in many cases, the How To topic will provide examples for guiding the setup and usage of the functionality.
This feature provides a universal single Spanish Translation. Previously, two Spanish translation options were provided: European Spanish and Latin American Spanish. These two options have been replaced by one Worldwide Spanish translation.
This feature provides a consistent language translation across your Oracle product set. As a result of this improvement, you may see changes to some of your translations.
Social Panel and Oracle Content and Experience Cloud
This feature provides the ability to use the Social panel to create, edit and view Oracle Content and Experience Cloud (CEC) conversations within the OTM UI. When configured, the social panel appears to the left of the Springboard menu.
The Oracle Content and Experience Cloud allows you to collaborate and communicate with other Oracle Content and Experience users as well as providing you access to content management system capabilities including document storage and retrieval.
Change Background Color of Application Shell
This feature provides the ability to change the background color of the application shell. You can change the background color of the application shell using the Theme Management UI with the branding_background_color variable.
Set the Springboard Background Image
This feature provides the ability to select a background image to appear behind the springboard. You can set this by using the Theme Management functionality and the springboard_background_img variable.
Favorites Added to Search Criteria
This feature provides the ability to search for records based on whether the object has been identified as a user defined favorite or not. The Favorites search criteria (Yes, No and Both) is available for all tables where user defined favorites are supported.
Unified Global Header – Global Search
This feature provides additional usability and data access options for Global Search. Global Search now includes access to Navigator menu links, and links related directly to business objects. This feature also provides improved user interface, navigation and user access controls.
The tremendous opportunities provided by Global Search to simplify system navigation and data access should be considered when defining your saved searches, search results layouts, and manager layouts.
This feature provides the ability to have the Home button on the Springboard return you to your last point of navigation on the Springboard - with a group or sub-group open - versus returning you to a Home state where all your Springboard icons are in a closed state.
Now as you navigate through your Springboard hierarchy moving from a group icon, to a sub-group to a link, at the link level, the Home button will return you to a Springboard with all of your sub-group icons displayed in an open state.
Springboard Menu Manager Edit Menu Group/Link
This feature provides the ability to edit your current menu and change whether a specific group or link is shown on the Springboard. This feature also allows you to change or select the image you would like to display on the Springboard for your groups and links.
This feature provides an improved navigation experience that keeps you within the application shell and Springboard when you navigate within the application using your browser’s back button.
This feature provides two improvements to the Notification functionality. Now when you receive new notifications, a Badge icon will appear on the Global Header Notification Icon to alert you to the fact that new notifications have been received. When you navigate to your new notifications the notifications now open in a new window.
Global Header – Business Monitor
This feature provides an enticing modernized Business Monitor UI which is consistent with the colors, font, font size, contrast and icons used throughout the application.
Global Header – Settings and Actions
This feature provides a set of Setting and Actions improvements. You now have more user level control over the access users may have to the available Setting and Actions capabilities. Using the Settings and Actions Change User Role feature now provides a more consistent User Role specific menu presentation.
Workbench Promote to Production
This feature provides the ability to include your Workbench Layouts in your promote to production migration projects. This allows you to develop and test your Workbench Layouts in a non-production environment and then promote the layouts into your production environment using a migration project.
This feature enables you to select the domain for a workbench when creating a new workbench layout or when copying an existing workbench layout.
The ability to specify a domain when creating or copying a layout allows you to create and share a workbench that has been created in one domain with other domains without having to create the workbench in all of the desired target domains.
When you create or copy a workbench layout, you will now have the option to select a domain to save the layout in by selecting the desired domain name from a drop-down list that has been added to the Create Layout window.
This feature provides a User Access Type of Workbench that allows you to control the workbench layouts that a user has access to.
You can use the User Access Type of Workbench Layout to determine an inclusive or exclusive list of workbenches a user should have access to. The inclusive approach includes all layouts with a defined list of exceptions you do not want the user to have access to the exclusive approach excludes access to all layouts and then allows you to list the workbench layouts you do want the user to have access to.
Workbench Refresh Workbench After UI Action is Completed
This feature provides an automatic refresh for an extensive set of objects and actions within the Workbench.
For the workbench, most OTM UI actions are triggered from the Actions menu on the Workbench table. When the action is completed, the affected objects are passed to the Workbench and those objects on the workbench components will be refreshed. All the components on the Workbench e.g., Table, Map, Gantt, will be refreshed with the new data.
Additional OTM Objects Supported in the Workbench
This feature provides additional OTM objects that are now supported in the workbench. With these added objects, along with the long list of already supported objects, the workbench should become the first place you go to configure any work environment that involves relating multiple objects and components together in one view.
Additional GTM Objects Supported in the Workbench
This feature provides additional GTM objects that are now supported in the workbench. With these added objects, along with the long list of already supported objects, the workbench should become the first place you go to configure any work environment that involves relating multiple objects and components together in one view.
Additional GTM Actions Supported
This feature provides a set of new object specific actions and capabilities that you can use to configure your GTM workbenches. With these new capabilities, you can use the workbench to configure a work environment tailored to the needs of your restricted party list screening users.
Master-Detail Saved Queries for Workbench - OTM
This feature provides an additional set of preconfigured PUBLIC saved queries that simplify the setup of basic master - detail table relationships in your OTM workbench designs.
Master-Detail Saved Queries for Workbench - GTM
This feature provides an additional set of preconfigured PUBLIC saved queries that simplify the setup of the basic master - detail table relationships in your GTM workbench designs.
PUBLIC Workbench Layouts - OTM
This feature provides a set of sample workbenches that you can use as examples to configure Workbench Layouts that are tailored to your specific needs.
PUBLIC Workbench Layouts - GTM
This feature provides a Restricted Party Screening Workbench that you can use out-of-the-box to support your restricted party screening needs or you can use the PUBLIC Restricted Party Screening Workbench layout as a sample layout that you can copy and then configure to your specific needs.
Workbench Tables – Inline Edit for Date Fields
This feature provides you with the ability to perform inline editing of date fields within your workbench tables.
Workbench Tables – Screen Sets
This feature enables you to use OTM screen set capabilities when configuring your Workbench tables.
This feature provides you with the use of Favorites in your Workbench tables. For all the Workbench tables that support Favorites, you can select, deselect, and query for records identified as Favorites.
Workbench Tables – Add and Replace Using Standard Finders
This feature provides access to the standard finder and finder result screens to Add or Replace business objects within a workbench table.
The workbench table Add option uses a standard search and search results page to help you search for and select rows to add to your workbench table. The Add option is selected using the plus sign.
The workbench table Replace option also opens with a standard search page you can replace the rows in your workbench table by selecting the replace rows using a standard search results page.
Workbench Tables Lock/Unlock Detail Table
This feature enables you to lock and unlock the navigation of a detail table in the workbench when you navigate to a different master table row.
To keep the detail view locked, select the Lock View icon in the detail table. To unlock the view, select the Lock View icon again and the master detail table query will run and refresh the detailed table view based on the currently selected master row.
Workbench Detail Table Support Drag/Drop
This feature enables you to perform drag/drop actions against detail tables in your workbench in the same way the available drag/drop actions work for master tables.
Workbench Detail Table Support Inline Edit
This feature enables you to perform inline edits against detail tables in your workbench in the same way that inline editing works for master tables.
Workbench Tables Refresh Table
This feature provides the ability to easily refresh the data in a workbench table when the underlying data in one or more of the rows has changed.
You can refresh the data in a workbench table to reflect any changes to the underlying records by first selecting the row or rows you wish to refresh (only selected rows will be refreshed) and then running the refresh process by selecting the Refresh icon.
Workbench Tables Rerun Saved Search
This feature enables you to easily rerun a workbench table’s saved search so that the records displayed in the table represent the current set of rows matching the saved search criteria.
You can rerun the saved search by simply selecting the Rerun Search icon.
Workbench Gantt Chart Hover Improvements
This feature enables you to easily configure and show and hide the hover text for the objects in the Gantt chart.
The Show/Hide Details Hover allows you to easily activate/deactivate the hovering popup window that displays details for the object (driver, work assignment, or appointment) based on where the mouse pointer is hovering on the Gantt chart.
Workbench Gantt Chart Refresh Icon
This feature provides the ability to easily refresh the data being displayed in a Gantt chart. You can now click the Refresh icon to update your Gantt chart for the rows selected. This feature is useful when shipment, driver, or work assignment information has been edited.
Copy Default Parameter Set and Logic Config
This feature provides an improved copy action process for the PUBLIC Default Parameter Set that leaves the Parameter Values column null after the copy has been completed. This change is also true for the copy action related to your PUBLIC Default Logic Configurations.
Previously, copying the PUBLIC Default Parameter Set or Logic Configuration would create a new copy where the Parameter Values column would be populated with all of the default values. Copying all the default values to the Parameters Values column made it difficult to track changes between the default settings and the copied version. With this change, that difficulty has been removed.
Promote to Production – Migration Project Object Group
This feature provides a set of Promote to Production migration project object group usability enhancements. The migration project object group is used to define an object group of a selected type of data that you want to include in the migration project e.g. a user menu.
Promote to Production – Server to Server Promotion
This feature provides you (the cloud user) with the option of using a web service approach for doing server to server promotion of your migration projects. For the cloud client’s migration project import UI there are two options to import; zip file import (existing) and web service import (new).
Oracle Transportation Management
Oracle Transportation Management (Base)
Workbench Action Infrastructure
This feature provides an improved action infrastructure that uses workbench layouts for a set of OTM actions. The workbench based action infrastructure replaces the advanced layout based action infrastructure and provides the distinct advantage of being able to configure the workbench shown when running the enabled actions.
As part of this feature, each of the enabled actions has been shipped with a public workbench layout that mimics the information provided in the advanced layout UI and pre-populates the workbench layout with the data related to the action being run.
Workbench Table to Table Drag Drop Actions
This feature provides an additional set of workbench table to table enabled drag/drop actions. Drag/drop actions provide a more natural and intuitive interaction between the tables/objects that you have configured in your workbench.
Rate Offering Lane Special Service Rail Route Code and Rate Distance
This feature enables you to configure your rate distance and route code at the rate lane special service level to support scenarios where you need to calculate the distance using a different rate distance than what is on the rate offering.
For example, this feature supports the scenario where your source arbitrary and/or destination arbitrary are based on different rate distances.
This feature also allows you to specify, at the rate offering lane special service level, the rail route code ID to use. Specifying the rail route code ID is critical if the distance for the rate offering lane special service is coming from external distance engine (like PC*MILER|Rail Web Services) that will rely on the route code to determine the route to use and therefore the distance involved.
Diagnostics and Tools – Rating Engine Statistics UI
This feature provides a UI that shows key rating engine statistics that can be used to review and diagnose your rating engine performance.
Enhanced Set of Order Release Auto Assign Rule Auto Assign Types
This feature provides an enhanced set of order release Auto Assign Types that you can use to create your Auto Assignment Rules. Each of these new Auto Assign Types comes with an extensive list of Auto Assign Criteria that you can use to configure your Auto Assign Rules.
With this new capability, you can configure Auto Assignment Rules that can direct the routing constraints for your order releases based on your own business rules.
This feature provides a new action that allows you to copy an existing external service engine.
On the External Service Engine page, the Copy External Service action is provided to copy external service engine configurations to a new engine.
Copy Rate Offering Type Action
This feature provides a new action that allows you to copy an existing rate offering type.
The new Copy Rate Offering Type action is available on the Rate Offering Type manager. This action simplifies the creation of new rate offering types that are similar to an existing rate offering type.
Indicator Added to Tracking Event
This feature enables you to set indicators (White, Green, Yellow or Red) to help categorize your Tracking Events. You can either set the indicator manually using the Set Indicator Action or you can set the Tracking Event indicator using an agent action. You can also search for your Tracking Events by indicator value using the Indicator drop-down list that has been is added to the finder page of Tracking Event.
Equipment Tracking Enhancement
This feature enables you to use the Equipment Finder and Finder Results to monitor the inbound stream of equipment (i.e., rail cars) to any destination location.
You can use the Equipment Finder to search for Equipment that has been assigned to particular product, going to a specific destination location for a specific time period of after month/day.
Additional Shipment Equipment Fields
This feature provides a set of additional equipment fields that can be used to better describe the actual equipment assigned to a shipment.
Additional Mark for Purge Objects Supported
This feature provides you, the DBA, with additional objects to mark for purge.
Tracking Event Purge with Parent Business Object and Mark for Purge
This feature provides you, the DBA, with additional capabilities for purging tracking events. Tracking events related to parent objects (shipment, order base and order release) will now be automatically purged when their related parent objects (shipment, order base and order release) are purged.
In addition, tracking events themselves can now be marked for purge directly using the Mark for Purge action.
External Distance Engine and Map Enhancements
Harmonize External Distance Engine Parameters
This feature provides a harmonized approach for using your selected external distance engine provider’s services for both planning and mapping. You now have the ability to have the external distance engine configuration used in planning be the same or equivalent configuration that will be used in the Workbench to map your shipments. By default, the Workbench map will attempt to map your shipments using the same distance engine parameters and configuration that was used to plan the shipment.
Generate Rush Hour Data – Historical Rush Hour Considering Congestion
This feature provides the ability to generate, from your external distance engine vendor, rush hour data that is based on the historical traffic information provided by your selected external distance engine vendor. Once the data has been generated, the information can then be used in bulk planning to create shipments that consider the impact of traffic information.
The Generate Rush Hour Data process is accessed via Contract and Rate Management > Process Management > Generate Rush Hour Data. The Generate Rush Hour Data process allows you to use historical traffic data in creating shipments. The Generate Rush Hour Data process will generate data in the RUSH_HOUR table for a specified geography and time period, by calling a third party external service engine, such as PC*MILER (ALK) or HERE. The rush hour delays for a specific lane at a specific time are calculated by calling the external service engine multiple times. In the first call, the external distance engine is called without the traffic effects on. In the second call, the external distance engine is called with the traffic effects for the specific time period on. The delta between the two runs (if any) is considered to be the result of traffic congestion and is entered as a rush hour delay.
Standardized Timeout for External Distance Engine
This feature provides a consistent approach for establishing a time out for your external distance engine web services integrations. The External Distance Engine TIMEOUT parameter allows you to define the amount of time, in milliseconds, to time out if there's no response from the external distance engine.
PC*MILER Toll Discouraged Routes
This feature enables you to use the Toll Discouraged routing option provided by PC*MILER. The PC*MILER Toll Discouraged routing option will avoid long stretches of toll roads, but will not take long, impractical detours to avoid toll bridges and tunnels. For example, a route from Boston, MA to Albany, NY will avoid the Massachusetts Turnpike, but a route from Camden, NJ to Philadelphia, PA will include a toll bridge.
This feature provides the ability to use the Road Preference (highway only) routing option provided by PC*MILER. Using the PC*MILER Road Preference option allows you to select a highway only or a highway and streets routing option.
The Highways & Streets option uses local streets in route calculations. The Highways Only routes are calculated using a straight line distance from your stops to the nearest truck-usable highway segment; and routes to stops that include a street-level address are calculated to the truck-usable highway-level road that is closest to the entered address.
PC*MILER WorldWide Street Layer Access
This feature enables you to configure your workbench mapping integration for PC*MILER so that you can seamlessly access PC*MILER|Worldwide mapping data across the different regions of data provided by PC*MILER.
This feature provides you with the ability to use the Hazmat routing option provided by PC*MILER. With this feature you have the ability to map your packaged items to one of PC*MILER’s supported hazardous classifications. OTM will - based on PC*MILER’s interface requirements – transmit the highest value in the PC*MILER classification table to generate a hazardous material routing solution.
This feature provides the ability to configure your HERE routing based on a road’s toll road designation. Using the Toll Preference Route parameter with HERE you have a variety of options for toll road routing, from a strict exclude or less-strict avoid to a normal routing that ignores the toll road designation.
This feature provides the ability to use the Hazmat routing option provided by HERE. Now you have the ability to map your packaged item information to one of the HERE’s supported hazardous classifications. The HERE interface accepts the list of all the HERE hazmat classifications and then HERE determines the “most” hazardous class in the set for determining distance.
HERE Custom Route Extension API
This feature provides you with the ability to take advantage of Here’s Custom Route Extension API capabilities. According to Here’s documentation, the HERE Custom Route Extension API is a REST API that allows you to request routes on a custom road network using overlay maps that you have modified. You can submit overlay maps with modifications, such as block road links, remove restrictions from road links, or insert new road links into the network. The modifications that you submit to Here, as part of your overlay maps, are only visible to you. These modifications are not uploaded to the official HERE map.
Workbench Logic Configuration Parameters for External Distance Engine Selection
This feature provides a set of Workbench logic configuration parameters that provide you with the ability to use the default or to set which external distance engine to use.
Driving Directions Based on External Distance Parameters Used in Rating
This feature provides a consistent routing and mapping experience between how your shipments are planned and rated and how the driving directions are displayed on the map within a workbench.
For all map providers, the Show Driving Direction action uses the same external distance engine parameters that were used when the shipment was rated when retrieving the shipment’s driving directions.
Support Historic Traffic for ALK and HERE Maps
This feature provides the ability to use the historical traffic capabilities provided by PC*MILER ALK and HERE maps to determine the travel time for a shipment on the Workbench Map.
Once configured, the departure time of the first shipment stop will be used to determine the traffic timing.
Modeling Orders with a High Number of Lines
This feature provides you with the capabilities you need to configure OTM to support situations where upstream order management systems are unable to aggregate detailed SKU level details to a level that is more appropriate for transportation planning and execution i.e., to the commodity, freight class, special handling, temperature, or hazardous commodity level.
When orders with unnecessary SKU level detail are brought into OTM for planning, there is a potential to see sluggish performance in OTM’s planning processes since the system becomes burdened with loading and processing excessively detailed SKU level information.
Now, you are able to bring in the SKU level details to OTM as an order base and then use a new aggregation release feature that allows you to create an aggregated order release for planning from the detailed information on the order base. With this approach, you retain the detailed information on the order base/order base line which can be used for documentation, reporting while the aggregated information on the order release is used for planning.
For example, assume you have a customer that orders pens by color – red, blue, green, black, purple etc. With this feature, the color specific order details can be brought in and retained on the order base – but the individual lines can be rolled up to a single aggregated line for pens thus reducing the data that OTM must process in planning.
Agent Action Order Release – Mod-Propagate Changes
This feature provides you with an improved Order Release Mod-Propagate Changes agent action. The agent action has been significantly reworked to add a line, a ship unit, and to modify the line.
Order Release Line Packing Action
This feature provides an Order Release Line Packing action that you can use to manually pack order release lines into ship units. You can use the detail page of the action to enter ship unit packing information, as well as the quantity to pack for each line.
Order Management Guide Moved to Online Help
This feature provides an Order Management Guide that has been updated and integrated into the online Help to make the guide more accessible. You can find the Order Management Guide in the Help Table of Contents under OTM How To/Configuration topics > Order Management.
A PDF version of the guide is embedded in the initial book icon in the Table of Contents for printing. While you are looking at any topic in the guide, you can use the browse sequence arrows at the top of the help topic to page back and forth through the guide.
Freight Payment, Billing, and Claims
European VAT Configuration by Province
This feature enables you to configure your European VAT setup by country and province. Now you can setup different VAT rates based on the combination of country code and province code.
The Canary Islands provides a good example for where you find this feature to be beneficial. Given an import from Ecuador to the Canary Islands (a province of Spain), this feature allows you to setup a province level Canary Island VAT rate that is different from the general/mainland Spanish VAT rate.
Transportation Operational Planning
3D User Defined Loading Patterns Enhancements
This feature provides a set of new 3D User Defined Loading Pattern enhancements that allow you to configure OTM to support a wider variety of loading patterns – including the ability to define loading patterns for cylinders.
This feature provides a Graphical Diagnostics tool that provides you with new insights into why an order or orders may have failed to plan. The Graphical Diagnostics tool also provides an excellent visualization of the planning process that OTM follows when solving a bulk plan run.
This Graphical Diagnostics page is available from the Bulk Plan summary page. Once a bulk plan has completed running, you can access the new Graphical Diagnostics page by clicking the Graphical Diagnostics button. The Graphical Diagnostics tool allows you to drill down through multiple levels of details. The diagnostics are color coded - gray for success and red for failure. Different views are available: Block View, Sunburst and Text View.
New Mixed Integer Programming Diagnostics Files
This feature provides a new approach for generating diagnostic files for the Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) process used in the planning process.
This feature provides a set of internal improvements to the Bulk Plan process that improve both the performance and support for the Bulk Plan process.
This feature provides a way to set up Network Routing so that it uses a much simpler and therefore much quicker method of determining an order’s route. This option is intended to support some common business cases where the Network Routing optimization logic is not needed.
This feature provides a PUBLIC sample dock scheduling workbench that is designed to support the use case where your service providers are required to enter appointments as a requirement before they can pick up or deliver to a stop.
The sample dock scheduling workbench layout brings together table views of your Shipments Requiring Appointments, your Shipment Stops and an Appointment Gantt Chart to manage the assignment of a shipment stop appointment the available Location Resources Group and Location Resources.
This feature enables you to set the Priority to be used in planning by Item.
Support for Additional Currencies
This feature provides a way to see all your cost-related facts in three additional global currencies apart from the base currency.
ODI Work Repository - Import with Export Key
This feature enables use of the Export key when exporting both the Master and Work Repository. With this change, all passwords are now preserved in the ODI repositories and the contacts interested in an ETL run completion are emailed when the ETL finishes.
This feature provides a new PUBLIC user role of DRIVER which includes a new DRIVER VPD profile. This user role and VPD profile are required for any users accessing the new Driver Flow of Oracle Transportation Mobile.
Improved Get the Driver Home Processing
This feature improves the logic used to get your drivers home.
Automatically Disband Work Assignments When Re-Running Bulk Plan
This feature provides the ability to have OTM automatically un-assign and then un-schedule shipments that are assigned to a work assignment and when you re-run a bulk plan. This feature works for any work assignments that have not been assigned to drivers or executed.
Work Assignment and Location Capacity Constraints
This feature provides the ability to have your work assignment processing consider location capacity constraints.
Fleet aware planning now honors the location capacity constraints defined on the locations and will form shipment strings that avoid any conflicts at the locations from a capacity constraint perspective.
Work Assignment Improved Re-Calculation Solution
This feature provides the necessary status types, values and logic to properly configure your work assignment related re-calculation agents to only run when recalculation is possible.
Work Assignment Gantt Chart Usability
This feature provides you with some nice usability improvements for the Work Assignment Gantt Chart.
Oracle Transportation Sourcing
Copy Non-Biddable Fields on the Carrier Response Template (CRT)
This feature provides the ability to have fields marked as non-biddable on the carrier response template copied from either the template rate offering or rate record to the newly created rate offering or rate record.
Upload Carrier Response Template (CRT) with GID Instead of XID
This feature enables you to upload the Carrier Response Template (CRT) with GID values instead of an XID.
Downloaded Carrier Response Template (CRT) Displays GID Instead of XID
This feature provides the ability to have your downloaded Carrier Response Template (CRT) spreadsheet display GID values instead of XID values.
Build Shipment Set Action Moves Shipments to Shipment Domain
This feature provides an improved Build Shipment Set action that will now create sourcing shipments (p_shipments) in the same domain as the rates (rate lanes) and shipment set criteria.
Sourcing Mark for Purge Objects Added
This feature provides Mark For Purge actions for the following objects:
- Bid
- Bid Round
- Project
- Sourcing Shipments (P_Shipments)
Rate Maintenance Upload and Download Performance Improvements
This feature provides significant improvements in both the upload and download performance associated with upload and downloading rates using Rate Maintenance.
As part of the performance improvements, multi-threading has been implemented for both downloading and uploading rates. You can configure OTM to multi-thread time consuming areas within the rate maintenance area.
Action Performance Improvements
This feature improves action performance by running some actions in the background.
Rate Maintenance Process Flow How To
This feature provides a Process Flow How To topic that covers Rate Maintenance. This How To topic will provide you with the information you need to properly use the Rate Maintenance tool.
Sorting for Cost Parameters on RBIs
This feature provides an extension to the fields available for sorting. When the cost type, rate basis items, and the rate basis items on the conditions are all identical, they are sorted first by conditional attributes and then by the effective and/or expiration date.
Oracle Global Trade Management
Global Trade Management (Base)
This feature provides a new default Spring Board and Navigator menu layout for the GTM product. The new layout groups the managers into more logical user focused groupings. In addition, all of the Power Data for GTM has been gathered together into one Power Data screen that appears within the Master Data option.
Restricted Party Screening – Dice Algorithm Performance Improvements
This feature provides a new Match Engine option, Inverse Index that you can select as the Service Preference Configuration to use with your Restricted Party Screening Service. The Inverse Index option is based on the Dice algorithm, but sets up the matching process with an improved caching approach that provides you with significant Restricted Party Screening performance improvements without any reduction in match quality.
Restricted Party Screening Punctuation to Remove Property
This feature adds a property that you can use to identify the punctuation you would like to have removed from your restricted party screening processing.
Within the property, you specify all of the punctuation that you would like to remove from the party and restricted party when performing restricted party screening. For example, “S.A. SMITH” will be changed to “S A SMITH” if you have identified a period mark as a punctuation you would like to remove.
Improved Screening of Single Character Words
This feature provides enhanced capabilities for screening single character words. Now with this improvement, single characters will be directly compared. For example: B R C S.A. was difficult to match previously due to the spaces which would impact the bigram calculation. With this enhancement, each individual letter is compared and matched accordingly.
Additional Actions Supported on the Workbench
Workbench capabilities now support a set of the additional GTM actions that can be used in the configuration of a workbench layout designed for Restricted Party screening.
PUBLIC Workbench Restricted Party Screening Workbench
This feature provides a Restricted Party Screening Workbench that you can use out-of-the-box to support your restricted party screening needs or you can use the PUBLIC Restricted Party Screening Workbench layout as a sample layout that you can copy and then configure to your specific needs.
Enhanced Copy Flexfields Agent Action
This feature provides some additional Copy FlexFields Agent Actions that you can use to copy flex fields.
Logic Configuration for GTM EBS Integration
This feature provides a more accessible logic configuration and parameter driven approach for defining the stylesheets used to transform EBS XML to GTM XML.
Product Classification Code Enhancements
This feature provides a set of product classification code enhancements.
Estimated Landed Cost Enhancements
This feature provides improvements in the calculation of estimated cost.
OTM-GTM Trade and Transportation Flow
This feature provides you with improvements in the OTM-GTM trade and transportation process flow. These changes provide additional configurability and flexibility in the OTM shipment/shipment group to GTM trade transaction flow.
This feature provides migration of properties to more user friendly and accessible parameters.
Generate Customs Commercial Invoice from Trade Transaction
This feature provides the ability to generate the Customs Commercial Invoice from a Trade Transaction. Previously, the Customs Commercial Invoice was only available to be generated from the Declaration.
Power Data Parameter Sets Added to Master Data
This feature provides a new location for your Parameter Sets Power Data. The Parameter Sets Power Data has been added to Master Data > Power Data > General.
Documents Actions Added to Party
This feature provides the ability to use all of the document-related actions and capabilities with your parties.
Data Configuration Enhancements
This feature provides a new Association Type that you can use to specify the ‘from object’ and ‘to objects’ that you wish to copy data to and from as part of your Data Configuration.
License Constraints Moved to Generic Constraint Sets
This feature enables you to manage your license constraints using generic constraint sets. With this change, you can now use the generic Constraint Set Type = TRANSACTION-LINE LICENSE DETERMINATION for your license constraints.
The generic constraints support all the previous license constraints plus additional ones.
Support Other Types of Controls
- Compliance Rule with Control Category = OTHER
- Enables you to model ‘holds’ that are not based on regulatory requirements.
New Fields on Transaction Line and Declaration Line
- Dates grid (This can be used during license assignment.)
- Required Classification grid
This feature provides a set of AES Filing improvements.
Support for Summary Declaration
This feature enables creation of a Summary Declaration. You can group transaction lines into a summary declaration based on date qualifiers and a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly matching pattern. For details, see Constraint Details section on the Constraint Set page.
Remove from Declarations Improvement
This feature provides an improved process for selecting and removing your Trade Transactions, Trade Transaction Lines and Declaration Lines from your Declarations.
In earlier releases, you were required to use a saved query to find the declaration you wanted to remove your Trade Transactions, Trade Transaction Lines and/or Declaration Lines from. Now when you run the Remove From Declarations action, GTM shows you the related declarations and using a check box, you can select the declarations you want to remove the item from.
Edit Declaration Quantities Improvement
This feature provides an improved process for selecting and editing your Trade Transactions, Trade Transaction Lines and Declaration Lines on your Declarations.
In earlier releases, you were required to use a saved query to find the declaration you wanted to edit. Now when you run the Edit Declaration Quantities action, GTM shows you the related declarations and you simply select, using a checkbox, the declarations you want to edit.
Valuation Method Added to Declaration
This feature provides a Valuation Method field on the Declaration. The Valuation Method is used to determine the customs value of imported goods. Use this page to create, edit, and/or remove valuation methods.
Create/Add to Existing Declarations Action
This feature provides you a renamed and enhanced action for creating and adding to your Declaration. The action Create Declaration has been replaced with the Create/Add to Existing Declarations action. The Create/Add to Existing Declarations allows you to both create declarations, and also allows you the option of Adding to an Existing declaration.
With the new action, you can create and add more transactions/lines to an existing declaration without having to create/re-create a declaration. This feature is also available for Create Declarations agent action for both the transaction and transaction line.
Copy Data from Header to Header Improvements
This feature enables you to specify the data to copy from Transaction Header to Declaration. If you are grouping more than one transaction into a declaration, you can specify the rules to determine which transaction has the primary header.
Global Trade Intelligence (GTI)
Additional Columns and General Usability Improvements
This feature provides a set of additional columns, some general usability improvements and improvements to the out-of-the-box dashboards that are shipped with the product.
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