Update 22D

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
18 OCT 2022	Replenishment Planning	Integrate Inventory Rebalancing with Replenishment Plans Enabled for End Item Substitution	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 22D.
16 SEP 2022			Created initial document.

Overview

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Pre-Update and Post-Update Tasks

Depending on the features you're using in your Cloud applications, you may be required to perform certain steps immediately before or after your quarterly update. For details of these pre-update and post-update steps and the product areas that are affected, refer to Oracle SCM Cloud: Performing Your Quarterly Update (doc ID 2337485.1) on My Oracle Support.

Optional Uptake of New Features (Opt In)

Oracle Cloud Applications delivers new updates every quarter. This means every three months you'll receive new functionality to help you efficiently and effectively manage your business. Some features are delivered Enabled meaning they are immediately available to end users. Other features are delivered Disabled meaning you have to take action to make available. Features delivered Disabled can be activated for end users by stepping through the following instructions using the following privileges:

• Review Applications Offering (ASM_REVIEW_APPLICATIONS_OFFERINGS_PRIV)
• Configure Oracle Fusion Applications Offering (ASM_CONFIGURE_OFFERING_PRIV)

Here’s how you opt in to new features:

1. Click Navigator > My Enterprise > New Features.
2. On the Features Overview page, select your offering to review new features specific to it. Or, you can leave the default selection All Enabled Offerings to review new features for all offerings.
3. On the New Features tab, review the new features and check the opt-in status of the feature in the Enabled column. If a feature has already been enabled, you will see a check mark. Otherwise, you will see an icon to enable the feature.
4. Click the icon in the Enabled column and complete the steps to enable the feature.

In some cases, you might want to opt in to a feature that's not listed in the New Features work area. Here's how to opt in:

1. Click Navigator > My Enterprise > Offerings.
2. On the Offerings page, select your offering, and then click Opt In Features.
3. On the Opt In page, click the Edit Features (pencil) icon for the offering, or for the functional area that includes your feature.
4. On the Edit Features page, complete the steps to enable the feature.

For more information and detailed instructions on opting in to new features for your offering, see Offering Configuration.

Opt In Expiration

Occasionally, features delivered Disabled via Opt In may be enabled automatically in a future update. This is known as an Opt In Expiration. If your cloud service has any Opt In Expirations you will see a related tab in this document. Click on that tab to see when the feature was originally delivered Disabled, and when the Opt In will expire, potentially automatically enabling the feature. You can also click here to see features with Opt In Expirations across all Oracle Cloud Applications.

Feature Summary

Demand Management

Demand Management

Link to External Systems with Context

When you’re analyzing data in Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Planning, you might need to understand additional aspects of the displayed information, and some of the details may not be directly in Oracle Supply Chain Planning. For some details you may need to refer to other systems, such as Oracle Fusion Cloud Analytics Warehouse. With this update, you can configure links to drill to external systems using the context of the data to gain a 360-degree understanding of your data to aid in your decision making.

For example, you’re viewing historical shipments and notice a significant spike in one month for a particular product and customer. You can configure a link to an external system for additional information about the historical shipments using industry standards to pass the product, customer, and date range.

Create or edit links to external systems using the application name defined in the Setup and Maintenance work area and context parameters.

Configure linking parameters to pass the context for the link to the external system.

Watch a Demo.

Steps to Enable

To make an external system available for linking, you must first define it in the Setup and Maintenance work area:

1. Navigator > My Enterprise > Setup and Maintenance.
2. Select Manage Setup Content from Tasks.
3. Select Manage Integration for Additional Applications from Topology Definition.
4. Select Create Application Integration in Manage Integration of Additional Applications:
   • Application Name must start with SCP_EXT_LINK_ for the application to be available for linking.
   • Full URL should be the base portion of the URL to the external system including the host and, if applicable, the port. The context to be passed will be append to this.
   • Partner Name is for reference only.
5. Apply, then Save and Close.

Tips And Considerations

• The external page will be opened, as specified per the link configuration and contextual parameters, in a new browser tab each time the link is invoked.

• The planner invoking the link must have the required security for the external system for the page to be opened.

Key Resources

• Watch Link to External Systems with Context Readiness Training

Role And Privileges

To configure and invoke links to external systems, no new roles or security privileges are needed. Users who currently have access to planning tables and graphs will automatically be able to use this feature.

You have a couple options for giving additional 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 are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Demand Planner (ORA_MSC_DEMAND_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Sales and Operations Planner (ORA_MSC_SALES_AND_OPERATIONS_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Maintain Planning Tables (MSC_MAINTAIN_PLANNING_TABLES_PRIV)
  • Maintain Planning Graphs (MSC_MAINTAIN_PLANNING_GRAPHS_PRIV)

To perform the setup for this feature, an administrator must have access to the Manage Integration of Additional Applications task. You have a couple options for giving people access to this task, 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 are automatically able to access this task:
  • Supply Chain Application Administrator (ORA_RCS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)
  • Application Implementation Consultant (ORA_ASM_APPLICATION_IMPLEMENTATION_CONSULTANT_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain the following privilege are able to access this task:
  • Manage Third Party Applications (ASM_MANAGE_THIRD_PARTY_APPLICATIONS_PRIV)

Include the Time Dimension in Multidimensional Filters

When you work with large volumes of multidimensional data, it’s important to gain visibility to the subset of data that meets data conditions you specify. Previously, you couldn’t include the time dimension in your data conditions. With this update, you can now configure data conditions to be evaluated on time-varying measures across dimensions, as well as nontime-varying measures, and you can display the resulting information in a planning table or chart to perform an effective analysis.

For example, you can filter a pivot table or chart to show the item and customer combinations where the forecast has increased or decreased for any month by more than a specified number between the latest forecast run and the previous forecast run.

Watch a Demo.

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

• Watch Include the Time Dimension in Multidimensional Filters Readiness Training

Role And Privileges

There are no new roles or security privileges needed to access this enhancement. Users who currently have access to planning tables and graphs will automatically be able to use this feature.

You have a couple options for giving additional 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 are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Demand Planner (ORA_MSC_DEMAND_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Sales and Operations Planner (ORA_MSC_SALES_AND_OPERATIONS_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Maintain Planning Tables (MSC_MAINTAIN_PLANNING_TABLES_PRIV)
  • Maintain Planning Graphs (MSC_MAINTAIN_PLANNING_GRAPHS_PRIV)

Filter Tables by Configure-to-Order Option Class

To efficiently analyze forecasts for complex configure-to-order models, it’s desirable to filter and view only the option classes that are relevant to your analysis. With this update, you can use the page filter option for a planning table to narrow down the displayed model to only the option class you’re interested in.

To use this feature:

1. Open a table containing configure-to-order models
2. On the table toolbar, click on View
3. Select the check box for Set Page Filter to Base Model
4. Page through your selected base model and option class using the list of values in the page filter
   • The option class filter will be visible next to the base model page filter and in the table if selected
   • To view all option classes for a base model, select blank or same base model in options class filter
5. Use the toolbar Action menu choice Save Layout to preserve the setting, if desired

When the option isn't on, use the scroll bar for the table to see base models and their options in a column.

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

• Watch Configure-to-Order Efficient User Experience Readiness Training

Role And Privileges

There are no new roles or security privileges needed to access this enhancement. Users who currently have access to planning tables will automatically be able to use this feature.

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:
  • Demand Planner (ORA_MSC_DEMAND_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Maintain Planning Tables (MSC_MAINTAIN_PLANNING_TABLES_PRIV)

Dynamically Link an End Item to Its Configured Item Structure

In a configure-to-order (CTO) environment, you may want to analyze the overall demand, and then upon identifying a model of interest, you want to see the full CTO bill-of-material tree that shows the various option classes and options for that model. With this update, you can create a 2-pane view where the view showing the full bill-of-material is immediately refreshed when you select a model in the summary view. You can now configure this automatic refresh by enabling a dynamic link between the 2 panes to efficiently analyze the demand for a configure-to-order model and the details of the demand for its option classes and options.

You can use the Two Pane, Horizontal Split or Vertical Split view and open a table with only base model products in the left or top pane, and open a table with details of configure-to-order in the right or bottom pane.

1. From the source table (left or top), configure the options in the Manage Links dialog to the target table (right or bottom) 

2. Enable dynamic linking and save the configuration

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

• Watch Configure-to-Order Efficient User Experience Readiness Training

Role And Privileges

There are no new roles or security privileges needed to access this enhancement. Users who currently have access to planning tables will automatically be able to use this feature.

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:
  • Demand Planner (ORA_MSC_DEMAND_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Maintain Planning Tables (MSC_MAINTAIN_PLANNING_TABLES_PRIV)

Configure Preferred Date Format for the Planning Table Data REST Service

When loading data using the Planning Table Data REST service, you may want to use your own date format to ease the transformation burden and use a consistent format. With this update, the user preference configured for date formats is honored by the REST service.

The Planning Table Data REST service is a child service of the Planning Tables service, which is part of the Supply Chain Plans parent service.

Example of Date Formats in User Settings

The preceding example shows the different date formats available in a user's general preferences settings. With this feature planning honors all of these formats.

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: Supply Chain Planning  No Longer Optional From: Update 23B

Role And Privileges

• No new privileges are needed for this feature.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNER_JOB)

Calculate User-Defined Planning Exceptions On Demand

Planning exceptions can result due to plan generation through the plan run process or data changes to a plan made by a planner. Previously, you could only get visibility to planning exceptions by running a plan. With this update, you can now run the new Calculate Measure Based Exception scheduled process on demand to get timely visibility to planning exceptions that use any user adjustments without having to run a full refresh of the plan. The process will evaluate the conditions specified in your user-defined exception criteria and generate exceptions when they’re encountered.

You can use the Scheduled Processes page in the Scheduled Processes work area to provide the process details for the Calculate Measure Based Exception process and start the process.

You can also start the process from:

• The Manage Plans page
• The page-level plan actions menu for plans

Watch a Demo.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

Take these points into consideration when using this feature:

• The Calculate Measure Based Exception process and Plan Run process are incompatible. 

• If the Exception Set parameter is left blank in the Calculate Measure Based Exception process, then it will use the exception set associated with the plan.

• The Calculate Measure Based Exception process will recalculate only the exceptions included in the exception set parameter. Any other exceptions in the plan won't be deleted or updated.

• The Calculate Measure Based Exception process doesn't recalculate predefined order based exceptions.

Key Resources

• Watch Calculate User-Defined Planning Exceptions On Demand Readiness Training

Role And Privileges

• No new job roles or privileges are delivered with this feature.
• The process is accessible with the existing privilege Run Plan with Snapshot. (MSC_RUN_PLAN_WITH_SNAPSHOT_PRIV)

Extract and Upload Data from External Systems with Improved Performance

A large volume of data resident in your supply chain execution systems may be required in Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Planning for effective planning. It’s imperative that this data is loaded in the most efficient manner so that the data is available for running the planning processes with the minimum of delay. With this update, the process to load data from external systems using the Load Interface File for Import scheduled process has been streamlined with an optional setup to sequentially load data into the interface tables based on predefined logical grouping of entities expected to have large volumes of data. If you have a large volume of data for entities, such as shipment history, this feature enables a more optimized usage of computing resources during the load process and can lead to improved performance.

If you're extracting data from Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), the extraction process has additional parameters to split the extracted data into multiple files when the data file exceeds a certain size for better overall performance as well.

Steps to Enable

Steps you must take to enable sequential processing of Supply Chain Planning Cloud file-based data import (FBDI) files with predefined grouping for improved performance while using the Load Interface File for Import scheduled process:

1. Navigate to Setup and Maintenance and open task Manage Standard Lookups
2. Create a standard lookup with lookup type as FUN_FBDI_LOOKUP and select Financials Common Module for the Module field
3. Add the lookup code as ALLOW_ORDERED_PARALLEL with meaning as 135

Example of how you can set up the standard lookup type and lookup code in Manage Standard Lookups for enabling sequential processing of Oracle Supply Chain Planning Cloud FBDI large files with a predefined logical grouping for improved performance while using Load Interface File for Import scheduled process:

Steps to enable splitting of extracted files for an entity from E-Business Suite:

1. Navigate to System Administrator responsibility in E-Business Suite
2. Navigate to task Profile and subtask System
3. Set value for profile MSC: Threshold Size (MB) for SCP Cloud CSV Files
4. Save

Tips And Considerations

• If you haven't configured the lookup type FUN_FBDI_LOOKUP and lookup code ALLOW_ORDERED_PARALLEL,  then the Load Interface File for Import scheduled process loads data for Supply Chain Planning Cloud with existing parallel processing logic.

• You must set a minimum value of 20MB for the profile MSC: Threshold Size (MB) for SCP Cloud CSV Files in E-Business suite to split extracted files for an entity into multiple files

Key Resources

• Watch Extract and Upload Data from External Systems with Improved Performance Readiness Training

Role And Privileges

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 are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Demand and Supply Planner(ORA_MSC_DEMAND_AND_SUPPLY_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Demand Planner (ORA_MSC_DEMAND_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Sales and Operations Planner (ORA_MSC_SALES_AND_OPERATIONS_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Order Promising Manager (ORA_MSC_ORDER_PROMISING_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Backlog Manager (ORA_MSC_BACKLOG_MANAGER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Monitor Supply Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_SUPPLY_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
  • Monitor Demand and Supply Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_DEMAND_AND_SUPPLY_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
  • Monitor Demand Management Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_DEMAND_MANAGEMENT_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
  • Monitor Sales and Operations Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_SALES_AND_OPERATIONS_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
  • Monitor Replenishment Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
  • Monitor Order Promising Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_ORDER_PROMISING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
  • Monitor Backlog Management Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_BACKLOG_MANAGEMENT_WORK_AREA_PRIV)

Replenishment Planning

Maintain optimum inventory levels at each node of your supply chain to meet customer service targets at the lowest inventory cost. Use automated processes to maintain inventory policy parameters and improve customer service levels. These automated processes dynamically update the inventory to keep on hand and reduce costs by calculating the economic order quantity for replenishment when appropriate.

After you opt in to the feature named Replenishment Planning, you can use the features described in this section.

Respect the Attributes for Create Supply for All Items in Replenishment Planning

In some industries, such as healthcare, there may be scenarios where no new buy orders can be placed on a supplier location until a specified date, such as a temporary product recall. With this update, you can honor this business requirement using new attributes in Oracle Replenishment Planning. Replenishment Planning will create new buy order recommendations only when the Create Supply attribute is set to YES. Optionally, if the Create Supply After attribute is also populated, then new buy orders are created only after the date that was provided.

Ensure the Create Supply attribute is set correctly for your business needs for all of your item-organizations combinations. If this feature is opted in to and the Create Supply attribute isn't set to YES, then Replenishment Planning won't create new buy order recommendations.

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: Supply Chain Planning  No Longer Optional From: Update 23B

If you want to use the Respect the Attributes for Create Supply for All Items in Replenishment Planning feature, then you must opt in to these two features:

1. Replenishment Planning. If you’ve already opted in to Replenishment Planning, then you don’t have to opt in again

2. Respect the Attributes for Create Supply for All Items in Replenishment Planning

Key Resources

• Watch Replenishment Planning Enhancements Readiness Training

Role And Privileges

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 to this predefined job role are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Monitor Replenishment Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
  • Manage Segments (MSC_MANAGE_SEGMENTS_PRIV)

Plan Replenishment Items with Relationships Across Segments

The sales pattern of a substitute item can vary from its parent item, which can result in the two items being in different segments at the same location. Previously, Oracle Replenishment Planning supported item relationships within only the same segment.

With this update, items with relationships are planned in Replenishment Planning even if the items belong to different segments. This capability is supported in daily, weekly, monthly, and incremental replenishment plans.

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: Supply Chain Planning

Tips And Considerations

If you want to use the Plan Replenishment Items with Relationships Across Segments feature, then you must opt in to its parent feature: Replenishment Planning. If you’ve already opted in to this parent feature, then you don’t have to opt in again.

Key Resources

• Watch Replenishment Planning Enhancements Readiness Training

Role And Privileges

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 to this predefined job role are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Monitor Replenishment Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
  • Manage Segments (MSC_MANAGE_SEGMENTS_PRIV)

Segment Only Applicable Item Subinventories

The segmentation logic used by Oracle Replenishment Planning is enhanced to segment only applicable item subinventories based on attributes you selected in your supply network model in addition to selecting the Plan Subinventories attribute.  Previously, segmentation was enabled at only the subinventory level when you selected the Plan Subinventories attribute. With this update, you can additionally select the new Collect Nonnettable Item-Subinventories attribute in the supply network model, to include only the item-subinventories in the segmentation that have the item-subinventory records available for a specific subinventory defined in the segmentation location criteria.

Example of how to set the Collect Nonnettable Item-Subinventories attribute to Yes in the Maintain Supply Network Model to enable segmentation of only valid item-subinventories for a specific organization:

Any additional segmentation criteria defined will also be respected during segmentation.

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: Supply Chain Planning

Tips And Considerations

If you want to use the Segment Only Applicable Item Subinventories feature, then you must opt in to its parent feature: Replenishment Planning. If you’ve already opted in to this parent feature, then you don’t have to opt in again.

Key Resources

• Watch Replenishment Planning Enhancements Readiness Training

Role And Privileges

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 to this predefined job role are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Monitor Replenishment Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
  • Manage Segments (MSC_MANAGE_SEGMENTS_PRIV)

Link to External Systems with Context

When you’re analyzing data in Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Planning, you might need to understand additional aspects of the displayed information, and some of the details may not be directly in Oracle Supply Chain Planning. For some details you may need to refer to other systems, such as Oracle Fusion Cloud Analytics Warehouse. With this update, you can configure links to drill to external systems using the context of the data to gain a 360-degree understanding of your data to aid in your decision making.

For example, you’re viewing historical shipments and notice a significant spike in one month for a particular product and customer. You can configure a link to an external system for additional information about the historical shipments using industry standards to pass the product, customer, and date range.

Create or edit links to external systems using the application name defined in the Setup and Maintenance work area and context parameters.

Configure linking parameters to pass the context for the link to the external system.

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: Supply Chain Planning

Feature: Replenishment Planning. If you want to use the Link to External Systems with Context feature, then you must opt in to its parent feature: Replenishment Planning. If you’ve already opted in to this parent feature, then you don’t have to opt in again.

To make an external system available for linking, you must first define it in the Setup and Maintenance work area:

1. Navigator > My Enterprise > Setup and Maintenance.
2. Select Manage Setup Content from Tasks.
3. Select Manage Integration for Additional Applications from Topology Definition.
4. Select Create Application Integration in Manage Integration of Additional Applications:
   • Application Name must start with SCP_EXT_LINK_ for the application to be available for linking.
   • Full URL should be the base portion of the URL to the external system including the host and, if applicable, the port. The context to be passed will be append to this.
   • Partner Name is for reference only.
5. Apply, then Save and Close.

Tips And Considerations

The external page will be opened, as specified per the link configuration and contextual parameters, in a new browser tab each time the link is invoked.

The planner invoking the link must have the required security for the external system for the page to be opened.

Role And Privileges

To configure and invoke links to external systems, no new roles or security privileges are needed. Users who currently have access to planning tables and graphs will automatically be able to use this feature.

You have a couple options for giving additional 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 are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Demand Planner (ORA_MSC_DEMAND_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Sales and Operations Planner (ORA_MSC_SALES_AND_OPERATIONS_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Maintain Planning Tables (MSC_MAINTAIN_PLANNING_TABLES_PRIV)
  • Maintain Planning Graphs (MSC_MAINTAIN_PLANNING_GRAPHS_PRIV)

To perform the setup for this feature, an administrator must have access to the Manage Integration of Additional Applications task. You have a couple options for giving people access to this task, 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 are automatically able to access this task:
  • Supply Chain Application Administrator (ORA_RCS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)
  • Application Implementation Consultant (ORA_ASM_APPLICATION_IMPLEMENTATION_CONSULTANT_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain the following privilege are able to access this task:
  • Manage Third Party Applications (ASM_MANAGE_THIRD_PARTY_APPLICATIONS_PRIV)

Include the Time Dimension in Multidimensional Filters

When you work with large volumes of multidimensional data, it’s important to gain visibility to the subset of data that meets data conditions you specify. Previously, you couldn’t include the time dimension in your data conditions. With this update, you can now configure data conditions to be evaluated on time-varying measures across dimensions, as well as nontime-varying measures, and you can display the resulting information in a planning table or chart to perform an effective analysis. For example, you can filter a pivot table or chart to show the item and customer combinations where the forecast has increased or decreased for any month by more than a specified number between the latest forecast run and the previous forecast run.

For example, you can filter a pivot table or chart to show the item and customer combinations where the forecast has increased or decreased for any month by more than a specified number between the latest forecast run and the previous forecast run.

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: Supply Chain Planning

Tips And Considerations

If you want to use the Include the Time Dimension in Multidimensional Filters feature, then you must opt in to its parent feature: Replenishment Planning. If you’ve already opted in to this parent feature, then you don’t have to opt in again.

Role And Privileges

There are no new roles or security privileges needed to access this enhancement. Users who currently have access to planning tables and graphs will automatically be able to use this feature.

You have a couple options for giving additional 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 are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Demand Planner (ORA_MSC_DEMAND_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Sales and Operations Planner (ORA_MSC_SALES_AND_OPERATIONS_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Maintain Planning Tables (MSC_MAINTAIN_PLANNING_TABLES_PRIV)
  • Maintain Planning Graphs (MSC_MAINTAIN_PLANNING_GRAPHS_PRIV)

Configure Preferred Date Format for the Planning Table Data REST Service

When loading data using the Planning Table Data REST service, you may want to use your own date format to ease the transformation burden and use a consistent format. With this update, the user preference configured for date formats is honored by the REST service.

The Planning Table Data REST service is a child service of the Planning Tables service, which is part of the Supply Chain Plans parent service.

Example of date formats in user settings

The preceding example shows the different date formats available in a user's general preferences settings. With this feature planning honors all of these formats.

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: Supply Chain Planning  No Longer Optional From: Update 23B

Tips And Considerations

If you want to use the Configure Preferred Date Format for the Planning Table Data REST Service feature, then you must opt in to these two features: 

• Replenishment Planning. If you’ve already opted in to Replenishment Planning, then you don’t have to opt in again

• Configure Preferred Date Format for the Planning Table Data REST Service

Role And Privileges

• No new privileges are needed for this feature. Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNER_JOB)

Calculate User-Defined Planning Exceptions On Demand

Planning exceptions can result due to plan generation through the plan run process or data changes to a plan made by a planner. Previously, you could only get visibility to planning exceptions by running a plan. With this update, you can now run the new Calculate Measure Based Exception scheduled process on demand to get timely visibility to planning exceptions that use any user adjustments without having to run a full refresh of the plan. The process will evaluate the conditions specified in your user-defined exception criteria and generate exceptions when they’re encountered.

You can use the Scheduled Processes page in the Scheduled Processes work area to provide the process details for the Calculate Measure Based Exception process and start the process.

You can also start the process from:

• The Manage Plans page
• The page-level plan actions menu for plans

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: Supply Chain Planning

Tips And Considerations

If you want to use the Calculate User-Defined Planning Exceptions On Demand feature, then you must opt in to its parent feature: Replenishment Planning. If you’ve already opted in to this parent feature, then you don’t have to opt in again.

Take these points into consideration when using this feature:

• The Calculate Measure Based Exception process and Plan Run process are incompatible. 

• If the Exception Set parameter is left blank in the Calculate Measure Based Exception process, then it will use the exception set associated with the plan.

• The Calculate Measure Based Exception process will recalculate only the exceptions included in the exception set parameter. Any other exceptions in the plan won't be deleted or updated.

• The Calculate Measure Based Exception process doesn't recalculate predefined order based exceptions.

Role And Privileges

• No new job roles or privileges are delivered with this feature.
• The process is accessible with the existing privilege Run Plan with Snapshot. (MSC_RUN_PLAN_WITH_SNAPSHOT_PRIV)

Extract and Upload Data from External Systems with Improved Performance

A large volume of data resident in your supply chain execution systems may be required in Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Planning for effective planning. It’s imperative that this data is loaded in the most efficient manner so that the data is available for running the planning processes with the minimum of delay. With this update, the process to load data from external systems using the Load Interface File for Import scheduled process has been streamlined with an optional setup to sequentially load data into the interface tables based on predefined logical grouping of entities expected to have large volumes of data. If you have a large volume of data for entities, such as shipment history, this feature enables a more optimized usage of computing resources during the load process and can lead to improved performance.

If you are extracting data from Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), the extraction process has additional parameters to split the extracted data into multiple files when the data file exceeds a certain size for better overall performance as well.

If you're extracting data from Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), the extraction process has additional parameters to split the extracted data into multiple files when the data file exceeds a certain size for better overall performance as well.

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: Supply Chain Planning

If you want to use the Extract and Upload Data from External Systems with Improved Performance feature, then you must opt in to its parent feature: Replenishment Planning. If you’ve already opted in to this parent feature, then you don’t have to opt in again.

Steps you must take to enable sequential processing of Supply Chain Planning Cloud file-based data import (FBDI) files with predefined grouping for improved performance while using the Load Interface File for Import scheduled process:

1. Navigate to Setup and Maintenance and open task Manage Standard Lookups
2. Create a standard lookup with lookup type as FUN_FBDI_LOOKUP and select Financials Common Module for the Module field
3. Add the lookup code as ALLOW_ORDERED_PARALLEL with meaning as 135

Example of how you can set up the standard lookup type and lookup code in Manage Standard Lookups for enabling sequential processing of Oracle Supply Chain Planning Cloud FBDI large files with a predefined logical grouping for improved performance while using Load Interface File for Import scheduled process:

Steps to enable splitting of extracted files for an entity from E-Business Suite:

1. Navigate to System Administrator responsibility in E-Business Suite
2. Navigate to task Profile and subtask System
3. Set value for profile MSC: Threshold Size (MB) for SCP Cloud CSV Files
4. Save

Tips And Considerations

• If you haven't configured the lookup type FUN_FBDI_LOOKUP and lookup code ALLOW_ORDERED_PARALLEL,  then the Load Interface File for Import scheduled process loads data for Supply Chain Planning Cloud with existing parallel processing logic.

• You must set a minimum value of 20MB for the profile MSC: Threshold Size (MB) for SCP Cloud CSV Files in E-Business suite to split extracted files for an entity into multiple files.

Role And Privileges

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 are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Demand and Supply Planner(ORA_MSC_DEMAND_AND_SUPPLY_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Demand Planner (ORA_MSC_DEMAND_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Sales and Operations Planner (ORA_MSC_SALES_AND_OPERATIONS_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Order Promising Manager (ORA_MSC_ORDER_PROMISING_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Backlog Manager (ORA_MSC_BACKLOG_MANAGER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Monitor Supply Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_SUPPLY_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
  • Monitor Demand and Supply Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_DEMAND_AND_SUPPLY_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
  • Monitor Demand Management Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_DEMAND_MANAGEMENT_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
  • Monitor Sales and Operations Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_SALES_AND_OPERATIONS_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
  • Monitor Replenishment Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
  • Monitor Order Promising Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_ORDER_PROMISING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
  • Monitor Backlog Management Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_BACKLOG_MANAGEMENT_WORK_AREA_PRIV)

Review Sales Order Line Number

As a planner, it’s desirable to view sales order demand in a planning UI that enables easy comparison with what is in the execution system. Previously, sales order demand was displayed using the fulfillment line number from Oracle Order Management. This display approach required additional navigation to correlate the data to the actual sales order line in Order Management. With this update, you can now directly view the sales order line number in planning UIs and seamlessly correlate the sales order demand in Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Planning with the sales order line numbers in Order Management.

Screenshot of line numbers as they appear in planning

For example, the preceding example shows the order line number in the same format as it would appear in the order management application, thereby making it easy to reference when working between the two applications.

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: Supply Chain Planning  No Longer Optional From: Update 23B

Tips And Considerations

If you want to use the Review Sales Order Line Number feature, then you must opt in to these two features:

• Replenishment Planning. If you’ve already opted in to Replenishment Planning, then you don’t have to opt in again
• Review Sales Order Line Number

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 any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users will need one of the following privileges in planning to access this feature:
  • MSC_EDIT_DEMANDS_AND_SUPPLIES_PRIV
  • MSC_VIEW_DEMANDS_AND_SUPPLIES_PRIV

Integrate Inventory Rebalancing with Replenishment Plans Enabled for End Item Substitution

With this update, you can run inventory rebalancing as a preprocessing step for a replenishment plan that is enabled for end item substitution. Previously, inventory rebalancing wasn't supported in replenishment plans that are enabled for end item substitution.

NOTE: The substitution relationships aren't considered within the inventory rebalancing 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: Supply Chain Planning

Tips And Considerations

If you want to use the Integrate Inventory Rebalancing with End Item Substitution Enabled Replenishment Plan feature, then you must opt in to its parent feature: Replenishment Planning. 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 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 to this predefined job role are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Monitor Replenishment Planning Work Area (MSC_MONITOR_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNING_WORK_AREA_PRIV)
  • Manage Segments (MSC_MANAGE_SEGMENTS_PRIV)