Update 20D

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	Product	Feature	Notes
29 SEP 2020	Quality Management	Use REST Services to Manage Approvers for Future Approval Statuses	Updated document. Revised feature description.
18 SEP 2020			Created initial document.

Overview

This guide outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in this update, and describes any tasks you might need to perform for the update. Each section includes a brief description of the feature, the steps you need to take to enable or begin using the feature, any tips or considerations that you should keep in mind, and the resources available to help you.

SECURITY AND NEW FEATURES

The Role section of each feature identifies the security privilege and job role required to use the feature. If feature setup is required, then the Application Implementation Consultant job role is required to perform the setup, unless otherwise indicated. (If a feature doesn't include a Role section, then no security changes are required to use the feature.)

If you have created job roles, then you can use this information to add new privileges to those roles as needed. For details about how to compare your configured job roles to predefined job roles and add security artifacts to your configured job roles, see the Security Console and Roles and Role Assignments chapters in the Oracle SCM Cloud: Securing SCM guide on the Oracle Help Center.

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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

Cross-Product Enhancements

Link to SCM Application Pages Using Deep Links

In this update, Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud delivers new deep links that provide easy navigation directly to application pages without using the menu structure. You can use these links in a variety of ways, such as in business intelligence reports and third-party application pages.

New deep links introduced in this update are listed by product:

• Manufacturing
  • Work Order (WIE_WORK_ORDER,EDIT)
  • Exception (WIE_PRODUCTION_EXCEPTION,EDIT)
  • Work Definition (WIS_WORK_DEFINITION,EDIT)
  • Edit Resource (WIS_RESOURCE,EDIT)

• Supply Chain Collaboration
  • Manage Supply Collaboration Network (COLLABORATION_RELATIONSHIP,EDIT)

• Supply Chain Financial Orchestration
  • Monitor Financial Orchestration Execution (FOS_MONITOR_UI,NONE)

• Supply Chain Orchestration
  • Supply Order Details (SUPPLY_ORDER,NONE)
  • Supply Order Details (SUPPLY_ORDER,VIEW)

• Configurator
  • Workspace (CONFIGURATOR,WORKSPACE)
  • Overview (CONFIGURATOR,OVERVIEW)
  • Overview (CONFIGURATOR,NONE)

• Maintenance
  • Customer Asset (ORA_CSE_ASSET,EDIT)
  • Edit Work Order (ORA_MNT_WORK_ORDER,EDIT)
  • Manage Maintenance Work Orders (ORA_MNT_WORK_ORDER,NONE)
  • Work Order (ORA_MNT_WORK_ORDER,VIEW)

• Order Management
  • Manage Orders (SALES_ORDER,VIEW)
  • Manage Orders (SALES_ORDER,FULFILLMENT_VIEW)
  • Manage Orders (SALES_ORDER,NONE)
  • Manage Orders (SALES_ORDER,CREATE)

• Product Hub
  • Item (PIM_ITEM,EDIT)
  • Items (ITEMS,EDIT)
  • Manage Items (PIM_ITEM,NONE)

• Collaboration Messaging Framework
  • Collaboration Message: {MESSAGEGUID} (B2B_MESSAGE_TRANSACTIONS,VIEW)

• Channel Revenue Management
  • Manage Supplier Claims (SUPPLIER_CLAIM,NONE)
  • Supplier Claim (SUPPLIER_CLAIM,EDIT)

• Quality Inspection Management
  • View Inspection Results (INSPECTION_EVENTS,VIEW)
  • View Inspection Plan (INSPECTION_PLANS,VIEW)

• Supply Chain Planning
  • Manage Sourcing Rules (SOURCING_RULES,NONE)
  • Edit Sourcing Rule (SOURCING_RULES,EDIT)
  • Manage Assignment Sets (SOURCING_ASSIGNMENTS,NONE)
  • Edit Assignment Set (SOURCING_ASSIGNMENTS,EDIT)
  • Manage ATP Rules (ATP_RULES,NONE)
  • Edit ATP Rule (ATP_RULES,EDIT)
  • Manage Planning Allocation Rules (ATP_ALLOCATION_RULES,NONE)
  • Edit Allocation Rule (ATP_ALLOCATION_RULES,EDIT)

• Receiving
  • Receive Items (SSP_RCV_PO,NONE)

• Fiscal Document Capture
  • Fiscal Document (INBOUND_FISCAL_DOCUMENT,VIEW)

• Cost Management
  • Review Work Order Costs (WORK_ORDER_COST, VIEW)
  • Review maintenance work order costs(MNT_WORK_ORDER_COST,VIEW)
  • Review Item Costs (ITEM_COSTS,VIEW)
  • Review Cost Accounting Distributions (COST_ACCOUNTING_DISTRIBUTIONS, VIEW)
  • Receipt Accounting Distributions (RECEIPT_ACCTG_DISTRIBUTIONS,VIEW)

When you add deep links to reports or third-party application pages, users can simply click those links to go directly to the application pages they need to use, without any additional clicks or navigation. When a user clicks a deep link, that user's security assignment is honored; that is, users can access application pages only if they're assigned a job role that allows them access.

Steps to Enable

You can find all of the available deep links in the Deep Links work area. Some deep links, such as those assigned the NONE action, are ready to use as is. Other deep links, such as those assigned the EDIT action, require you to edit the link details before you can add the deep link to a report or third-party application page. Refer to the documentation listed in the Key Resources section for details and instructions.

Key Resources

For details about how to work with deep links, refer to these books on the Oracle Help Center:

• Oracle Applications Cloud: Configuring and Extending Applications
• Oracle SCM Cloud: Implementing Common Features for SCM

Role Information

You have a couple of options for giving people access to the Deep Links work area, 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 the Deep Links work area:

• Application Developer (FND_APPLICATION_DEVELOPER_JOB)
• Application Implementation Administrator (ORA_ASM_APPLICATION_IMPLEMENTATION_ABSTRACT)
• Application Implementation Consultant (ORA_ASM_APPLICATION_IMPLEMENTATION_CONSULTANT_JOB)
• Procurement Application Administrator (ORA_PO_PROCUREMENT_APPLICATION_ADMIN_JOB)
• Supply Chain Application Administrator (ORA_RCS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)

Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privilege are able to access the Deep Links work area:

• View Administration Link (FND_VIEW_ADMIN_LINK_PRIV)

If you're using deep links specifically for reports, here are the privileges you need:

• For Business Intelligence Publisher:
  • BI Author Role (BIAuthor)
  • BI Consumer Role (BIConsumer)
  • BI Administrator (BIAdministrator)

• For Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI):
  • BI Author Role (BIAuthor)
  • BI Consumer Role (BIConsumer)

Manufacturing

Enhanced Material Picking for Work Orders

In industries with long lead times or many common materials, there is a need to move material from the warehouse  subinventory to a shop floor supply subinventory based on the jobs that are scheduled for production in the near future. To ensure uninterrupted production, the production supervisor requests material from the warehouse to be moved to the shop floor in time. This request is made on a periodic basis so that only required materials for a specific period or work orders are moved to the shop floor.

Until this update, you were able to filter the work orders for picking based on organization, work method, work order type, hours ahead, pick slip grouping rule, project, and task.

With this update, the production supervisor can submit or schedule the materials picking request based on many additional parameters:

• Partially picked orders:  Pick only work orders that have been partially picked.
• Work order range: Pick materials for a range of work orders.
• Work order operations: Pick for specific operations of a work order.
• Hours behind: Pick materials that were required within the specified number of hours behind the time you run the program

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Additional Attributes to Support to Select Required Work Order Operations for Picking

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Watch a Setup Demo

Picking materials with enhanced filters enables shop floor personnel to more effectively control which materials get picked and moved to the shop floor for use in production.

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

• Watch Material Picking Enhancements for Work Orders Readiness Training

Role Information

Users provisioned with the Production Supervisor role will automatically be able to use the enhanced features for picking.

Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain the WIP_MANAGE_WORK_ORDER_COMPONENT_PICKING_PRIV privilege will also be able to access the enhanced features for picking.

View IoT Production Monitoring Metrics in Manufacturing

You are now able to view your most important plant level IoT Production Monitoring metrics in Manufacturing and drill directly into IoT Production Monitoring Cloud to get additional information.

By default, any IoT enabled organization will have the following new infolets displayed on the Work Execution landing page:

• IoT OEE: Displays the Operational Equipment Effectiveness for the plant
• IoT Machines in Use: Displays a count of plant machines that are in use
• IoT Machines Idle: Displays a count of plant machines that are idle
• IoT Machines Down: Displays a count of plant machines that are down
• IoT Dashboard Metrics: Displays an ordered list of pre-defined and user-defined metrics configured to be displayed in the dashboard of IoT Production Monitoring

Work Execution landing page

Clicking on any of the infolets will take you to the Factory Dashboard in IoT Production Monitoring Cloud.

You can hide any of the IoT metrics infolets that are not relevant to you, so that you can focus only on those that are most important to you.

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This feature provides you a view of the real time metrics from IoT Production Monitoring Cloud directly onto the Manufacturing Cloud landing page. This empowers supervisors to monitor the health of the manufacturing plant and make better decisions about the manufacturing operations of the plant. You can also improve the operational efficiency of your shop floor by tracking the Overall Equipment Effectiveness metric. You can focus on key aspects of your shop floor to help maximize capacity, increase throughput, and improve quality.

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 21B

Tips And Considerations

Some of the considerations to be kept in mind are:

1. The manufacturing plant should be enabled for synchronization with IoT Production Monitoring in order to use this feature. 
2. Only those IoT metrics configured in the Factory Dashboard of IoT Production Monitoring will be displayed in the Work Execution landing page.
3. You can hide infolet cards which are not relevant for your implementation.

Key Resources

• Watch View IoT Production Monitoring Metrics in Manufacturing Readiness Training

Role Information

Users provisioned with the Production Supervisor role will be able to view the IoT related infolets. 

Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain the View Infolets for IoT Production Monitoring (WIP_IOT_PM_METRIC_INFOLETS_PRIV) privilege will be able to access this feature.

Manage Work Order Picking Document Output Preferences

Picking materials for production and moving them from stores to production is a critical process.

Until this update, you were able to create a picking request for work orders based on a scheduled process or request picking for a specific set of work orders.

However, you weren't able to email the pick slip report or send it directly to a printer or fax machine.

With this update, you can now set up manufacturing pick slip output preferences using a specific task. After you have set up the output preferences, whenever you run the picking request using a schedule or for a specific set of work orders, the pick slip is automatically sent as an email or to a printer based on the setup.

Setup of Output Preferences

Create an Output Preference

This feature helps you to seamlessly send the work order pick slip reports to your desired device.

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

After you opt in, perform these steps to complete your setup:

1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, search for and select the task named: Manage Inventory Document Output Preferences.
2. On the Manage Inventory Document Output Preferences page, add a new record in the Search Results table. Select a Job Set Name and Job Name. Click Save and Close.
3. On the Manage Inventory Document Output Preferences page, select your new record in the Search Results table.
4. In the Generate Movement Request Documents: Output Preferences table, use the Actions menu to create your output preferences.

Tips And Considerations

Opting in to the feature will enable the enhanced logic to route pick slip reports to output devices.  Opt in for the feature only if it is required to configure output preferences for work order pick slip reports.

Role Information

Users provisioned with the Supply Chain Application Administrator role will automatically be able to use the enhanced features for picking.

Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain the INV_MANAGE_INVENTORY_DOCUMENT_OUTPUT_PREFERENCES_PRIV privilege will also be able to access the enhanced features for picking.

Capture Parent Lot at Work Order Product Completion

When producing finished goods that are lot controlled, several companies need to group the material under a single lot, namely the parent lot. While the parent lot identifies the overall lot, the child lots are produced over a period of time and in manageable quantities.

Until this update,  you were only able to report the lot number of the product upon completion in a work order. It’s applicable to operation completions for discrete and process work orders. It’s also applicable to output and orderless completions.

With this update, you can now report the parent lot and the child lots of the finished good upon completion in a work order.  You can also use the Generate Parent Lot button to automatically generate the parent lot.

After you set up the item inventory attribute to be child lot-enabled, you can enter the parent lot and child lots at work order completion.

Capture Parent Lot during Work Order Completion

In addition to entering the parent lot details using the user interface, you can enter the details using FBDI and REST services.

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This feature helps companies control the lots and enable regulatory compliance and audits.

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 21B

Tips And Considerations

Existing items with transactions cannot be enabled to capture parent lot.

Key Resources

• Watch Capture Parent Lot at Work Order Product Completion Readiness Training

Role Information

Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:

• Production Operator (ORA_WIE_PRODUCTION_OPERATOR_JOB)

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

• Report Operation Transactions(WIP_REPORT_OPERATION_TRANSACTIONS_PRIV)
• Report Material Transactions(WIP_REPORT_MATERIAL_TRANSACTIONS_PRIV)
• Report Orderless Transactions(WIP_REPORT_ORDERLESS_TRANSACTIONS_PRIV)
• Import Operation Transactions(WIP_IMPORT_OPERATION_TRANSACTIONS_PRIV)
• Import Material Transactions(WIP_IMPORT_MATERIAL_TRANSACTIONS_PRIV)

Reserve Materials for Work Orders

Material availability for production is a crucial aspect of maintaining production schedule adherence and on-time delivery. Factories use various processes to ensure material is available for production to enable uninterrupted manufacturing, including using a material planning solution, such as Supply Chain Planning, to make sure products are available based on projected demand. However, even with the best planning, production supervisors sometimes need to guarantee material availability for a specific work order. To enable this, supervisors may need to reserve the materials to specific work orders before the actual commencement of production.

Until this update, such reservations were possible for sales orders and transfer orders.  With this update, you can now include work orders.

Here are the capabilities supported in this process:

• Reservation Creation: Creation of the reservation either at the organization level or detailed at subinventory, locator, lot or serial 
• Reservation Visibility: Ability to identify, view, and edit the reservation, if present
• Honoring Reservations: Respecting the reservation in all related processes
• Issuing Reserved materials
• Undo Material Reservations
• Analyze Material Reservations

Each of these capabilities are modeled and supported by appropriate REST services. This services-oriented structure is leveraged throughout this capability.

CREATE MATERIAL RESERVATIONS

All material reservations are performed in Oracle Inventory Management Cloud.  Like a sales order or transfer order, a work order is a demand placed on the warehouse to reserve and pick material.  You can manually reserve material in the Inventory Management Create Reservations page.  Select demand document type Work Order to reserve material for one or more work orders.  You can perform reservations for work orders or work order materials using any of the following methods.  Note that materials are always reserved for a work order and not to a specific parent serial number associated with that work order.

Create and Manage Reservations in Inventory

In the Inventory Management Cloud, the Create Reservations page is used to reserve materials for all demand types manually.  Use this page and the new demand document Work Order to easily find your work orders and reserve material.  You can create the reservation in the following ways:

To create a reservation, search for the work order materials you want to reserve by searching with the demand document Work Order and optionally the work order number.  Select the materials from the search results and select the Reserve Automatically button to create an organization level reservation for the selected items. To manually create a reservation, select the line item from the search result list and enter the lot, subinventory, locator, or serial information.  When you save this transaction, you create a reservation with details.

Create Reservations

Create Reservations from Manage Work Orders and Material Availability Workbench

In both the Manage Work Orders screen and the Material Availability Workbench, you can select multiple work orders and click on the Reserve Automatically button to create organization level reservations for all the materials on the selected work orders.

When you choose the Manually Reserve task for a particular work order, you will be directed to the Inventory Reservations page, where you can manually reserve the material with details of subinventory, locator, lot, serial number, and so on.

While creating a reservation for a work order, if there is no on hand quantity in the inventory organization, you can reserve for a purchase order expected in the future or transfer order or any other supply.

When performing a manual reservation, you will be able to choose the supply document type as purchase order, transfer order, or another work order and choose a specific document number and reserve for the material requirement. This reservation can only be performed manually.

You can reserve a partial quantity of a supply document to a work order. You can also reserve one supply document for multiple work orders or multiple supply documents for one work order.

Manage Work Orders

Create & Manage Reservations from Work Order Edit Operations Item

If you want to create a reservation against a specific material on the work order, you can select the Reserve Manually task from the work order operation.  This will open the Inventory Manage Reservations page where you can choose a specific sub inventory and locator, lot or serial. After you complete the reservation and click on save, you are directed back to the edit work order page.

Serial numbers for assembly items of a rework order are captured in the serial tab. You can click on the Reserve Serials button to automatically reserve the assembly materials for the serials numbers.

Edit Operation Items

VIEW MATERIAL RESERVATIONS

Throughout the application, anywhere a source of demand is visible, the quantity reserved is also visible, and is drilled to the details of the reservation.  With appropriate security privileges, you can also update the reservation.

In manufacturing, the following screens have been updated to support this:

• Material Availability Workbench details
  • Reserved quantity is shown for each material

• Work Order Operation Items
  • Reserved quantity is shown for each material

• Report Material Transaction
  • An icon for reservation is shown on the screen. You can click on the icon to review the details of the reservation

HONOR MATERIAL RESERVATIONS

The following tasks have been updated to honor work order reservations:

Honor Material Reservations When Viewing Material Availability

The material availability workbench will always consider existing inventory reservations to be hard allocated. You are not able to force reassign an already reserved item.  If the user needs to reallocate a reserved item, they need to navigate to the inventory reservation window and manually undo reservations of materials and reserve materials to the new work order.

Honor and Persist Reservation Upon Picking

Oracle Manufacturing and Maintenance Cloud applications support the ability for the shop floor or maintenance personnel to pick material for specific work order demand.  Until this update, users had the option to direct issue the materials to the work order or move it to the supply sub-inventory without a reservation.

With this update, the detailed reservation created for the work order are honored by pick release process and this reservation persists when the work order materials are moved to the reservable destination subinventory.

When reservations are not created for the work order, the component pick release creates the reservations for the work order materials.

If you need the reservations to persist only for a few critical materials, you can create one supply subinventory which is reservable for such materials and another supply subinventory that is not reservable, for the less critical materials.

ISSUING RESERVED MATERIAL IN MANUFACTURING

When manually issuing material or backflushing, existing reservations are used to simplify the issue transaction for the operator in these ways:

When a reservation exists, the details of the reserved materials can be viewed by clicking the Reservations icon from the report material transaction page. The operator reviews the details of the reservation and then can choose to issue the reserved materials or search for a different lot or serial manually.

On completion of the material transaction using reserved material, the reservation is relieved.

If you choose to issue materials that are not reserved, the pending reservations are not adjusted and only deleted when the work order is completed or cancelled.

Transact Reserved Materials

UNDO MATERIAL RESERVATIONS

You can undo material reservations from the inventory reservations screen manually, accessed either from inventory or from the work order screen, or using the REST service.

The reservation for the work order components cannot be deleted when there are open picks associated to the reservation. Other than that, you can delete the reservation at any time.

ANALYZE MATERIAL RESERVATIONS

The existing OTBI subject areas have been updated to enable you to report on the reservation quantities for the required and issued quantities.

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By reserving materials for a work order, you can ensure the reserved materials are not used for any other demand, thereby maintaining production schedule adherence and on-time delivery. By reserving the right lot of materials for a work order, you also ensure that the desired quality of the output is achieved.

Steps to Enable

The feature is enabled using the plant parameter - Allow reservations for work order materials.

Manage Plant Parameters

Tips And Considerations

When reserving critical materials for the work order, you can note the following:

The detailed reservations created for the work order are honored by pick release process and this reservation persists when the work order materials are moved to the reservable destination subinventory.

If you need the reservations to persist only for a few critical materials, you can create one supply subinventory which is reservable for such materials and another supply subinventory that is not reservable, for the less critical materials.

Key Resources

• Watch Reserve Materials for Work Orders Readiness Training

Role Information

Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:

• Production Supervisor (ORA_WIE_PRODUCTION_SUPERVISOR_JOB)

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

• Reserve Materials Automatically for Work Orders (WIP_MANAGE_WORK_ORDER_MATERIAL_RESERVATIONS_PRIV)
• Manage Inventory Reservation (INV_MANAGE_INVENTORY_RESERVATION_PRIV)

Pick Reserved Assemblies for Rework Work Orders

Customer requirements, quality requirements, and sometimes production constraints require rework of finished assemblies.

Until this update, you were required to issue the assemblies to be reworked directly from their current inventory location.

With this update, you can now optionally pick the assemblies to be reworked and move them to a supply subinventory before issue.

The assembly to be reworked will automatically be included in picking if the supply subinventory of the assembly is different than the current subinventory, and a reservation exists to the specific items you will be reworking, including details such as the current sub inventory, serial numbers, lot numbers, and so on.

Customer requirements, quality requirements, and sometimes production constraints require rework of finished assemblies.

Until this update, you were required to issue the assemblies to be reworked directly from their current inventory location.

With this update, you can now optionally pick the assemblies to be reworked and move them to a supply subinventory before issue.

The assembly to be reworked will automatically be included in picking if the supply subinventory of the assembly is different than the current subinventory, and a reservation exists to the specific items you will be reworking, including details such as the current sub inventory, serial numbers, lot numbers, and so on.

Reserve Serials - Rework Work Order Assembly

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Picking of the assembly item enables you to use the same warehouse process to pick the reserved assembly and move the assembly that are required for a rework work order.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

You must ensure that the rework assembly is reserved before it is picked.

Key Resources

• Watch Pick Reserved Assemblies for Rework Work Orders Readiness Training

Role Information

Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:

• Production Supervisor (ORA_WIE_PRODUCTION_SUPERVISOR_JOB)

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

• Reserve Materials Automatically for Work Orders (WIP_MANAGE_WORK_ORDER_MATERIAL_RESERVATIONS_PRIV)

Manage Inventory Reservation (INV_MANAGE_INVENTORY_RESERVATION_PRIV)

Reduced Time Required to Schedule Work Orders

Performance improvements result in less time needed to generate the availability information of work center resources in a manufacturing plant. This information is used to schedule manufacturing and maintenance work orders when they are created or updated using the product task flows, file-based data import (FBDI), or REST services.

Customers that model anywhere from several hundred to several thousand work orders each month will see dramatic performance improvements when scheduling work orders or importing via FBDI or REST services.

Also, the Calculate Lead Times and Roll Up Cumulative Lead Times scheduled process is expected to take less time to complete the calculation of manufacturing lead time for products.

Steps to Enable

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

Improved Performance When Generating Schedule Data

When creating a schedule, one process generates only the first year of the schedule working time data to speed up the response time. A separate process creates the remaining data after the first year of the calendar.

Customers using the Schedules REST resource will experience significant performance improvements because only the first year will be generated synchronously, while remaining years will be generated as an asynchronous process.

Steps to Enable

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

Other Manufacturing Changes in This Update

This section includes details about additional changes in this update that can change the way Oracle Manufacturing Cloud works.

Modified Work Order-Based Search and Display of Search Results in the Dispatch List

The Review Dispatch List page has been modified with the following:

• “Contains”-based work order search has been replaced with “starts with” search 
• Application default search will not run and display the search results automatically upon navigating to the dispatch list. Users can select to define a saved search and run it automatically to display the search results based on the saved search attribute values

Bug reference: 31364024

Quality Management

Assign Organizations to Quality Actions

When you add an organization to a quality action, it defines the primary location where that quality action must be executed or resolved.  With this update, you can assign a specific organization to a quality action when you create the action, or any time prior to workflow approval.

New Organization Attribute in Create Dialog

New Organization Attribute in Search

Users have the ability to filter quality actions by organization in searches and restrict visibility of the quality action to only the users from the assigned organization.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

Existing quality actions aren't automatically assigned to organizations during the update.

Key Resources

• Watch Improved Notifications and REST Services Readiness Training

Role Information

Users who are assigned this predefined job role is automatically able to access this feature:

• Quality Analyst (ORA_ENQ_QUALITY_ANALYST_JOB)

Enable Suppliers to Create and Manage Problem Reports and Corrective Actions

Enable suppliers to create and manage problem reports and corrective actions from the Quality section of the Supplier Portal. Suppliers can initiate a problem report to report a problem or raise corrective action when a problem is reported and submit it to internal users. Internal users can initiate problem reports or corrective actions and share them with suppliers for further collaboration.

Quality Section in Supplier Portal Tasks Pane

Manage Problem Reports in Supplier Portal

Manage Corrective Actions in Supplier Portal

Leveraging Oracle's Supplier Portal Cloud, quality engineers in your supplier organizations can create and respond to quality problem reports using a secure, integrated work area, and engage in collaboration to take quick corrective action.

Centralized visibility and streamlined, standardized collaboration improves the completeness and timeliness of response to quality events. You can also improve product quality by eliminating communication gaps and promoting close collaboration with suppliers on problem reports and corrective actions.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• You can control the access and actions available to suppliers during object type setup. A Portal Users column is now available in the Additional Workflow Controls table for this purpose.
• Make sure you define the approvers and the default assignee for the problem report or corrective action type during the object type setup.   

Key Resources

• Watch Improved Notifications and REST Services Readiness Training

Role Information

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:

• Supplier Quality Engineer(ORA_ENQ_SUPPLIER_QUALITY_ENGINEER_JOB)

The supplier quality engineer must be assigned a data security policy with the following seeded condition to have access to the item change.

• Seeded condition "Access the item change for table EGO_ENGINEERING_CHANGES_B for the item changes they created".

Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain all these privileges are able to access this feature:

• Access Supplier Portal Overview (POS_ACCESS_SUPPLIER_PORTAL_OVERVIEW_PRIV)
• Manage Supplier Problem Reports (ACA_MANAGE_SUPPLIER_PROBLEM_REPORTS_PRIV)
• Manage Supplier Corrective Actions (ACA_MANAGE_SUPPLIER_CORRECTIVE_ACTIONS_PRIV)
• Create Change Order(EGO_CREATE_CHANGE_ORDER_PRIV)
• View Item Change Order (EGO_VIEW_ITEM_CHANGE_ORDER_PRIV)
• Approve Item Change Order (EGO_APPROVE_ITEM_CHANGE_ORDER_PRIV)
• Modify Change Status (EGO_MODIFY_CHANGE_STATUS_PRIV) 

The user with above privileges must be assigned data security policy with the following seeded condition to have access to the item change.

• Seeded condition "Access the item change for table EGO_ENGINEERING_CHANGES_B for the item changes they created".

Enforce Sampling Inspection Based on Acceptable Quality Limit

Most industries can use an acceptance sampling based on zero defects or a fixed percentage of the total quantity received.  If you work in an industry that has a higher probability of rejection during acceptance sampling, this may not work. You require an objective way of controlling the quality of purchased materials based on varying quantities received, and even accepting defects within a tolerance limit.

Now you can define inspection levels with acceptance sampling based on different acceptable quality limits and apply them to mandatory receiving inspection plans that accommodate varying lot sizes. This type of sampling plan provides built-in, statistical quality control standards for determining the sample size based on the lot size. The acceptable quality limit is the percentage of the sample that can be rejected while still accepting the sample. For example, if the quantity received should contain no more than 2.5% of rejected material, then you enter the acceptable quality limit as 2.5.

When defining an inspection level, you can select the following information as part of an acceptable quality limit sampling plan:

• Sampling Standard: Single sampling plan for Normal, Tightened, or Reduced inspection
• Level: General Inspection Levels I, II, and III and Special Inspection Levels S1, S2, S3, and S4
• Acceptable Quality Limit: 0.065 to 1000

Acceptable Quality Level Sampling Inspection Level Definition

During the inline receiving inspection process, the quantity received is used to determine the number of units to be inspected and the number of accepted versus rejected units required to accept or reject the lot. In this scenario, the inspection lot is represented as the receipt line quantity instead of an inventory lot.

For example, if you receive 20 each for quality inspection, have a single sampling plan for normal inspection with general inspection level II, and have an acceptable quality limit of 2.5, the sample size is 5 each. The number of rejected units must be equal to or less than the acceptance number of zero to accept the receipt line quantity. If the rejected units are equal to or greater than the rejection number of one, the receipt line quantity is rejected.

Inspection with Acceptable Quality Level Sampling

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To reduce the cost of an incoming inspection, you and your suppliers can agree on an acceptable quality limit that is appropriate for the criticality of the material being received. With acceptable quality limit-based sampling, you can enforce a standards-driven sampling scheme that reduces your risk of receiving unacceptable materials and encourages suppliers to achieve quality levels better than the process averages.

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

• Watch Enforce Sampling Inspection Based on Acceptable Quality Limit Readiness Training

Role Information

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:

• Quality Engineer (ORA_QA_QUALITY_ENGINEER_JOB)
• Receiving Agent (ORA_RCV_RECEIVING_AGENT)
• Warehouse Manager (ORA_INV_WAREHOUSE_MANAGER)

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

• Edit Inspection Results (QA_EDIT_INSPECTION_RESULTS)

Notify Users About Assignment Changes for Quality Issues and Quality Actions

Automatically send a notification to the assignee when you add an assignee to a newly created quality issue or action or the assignee is changed. The assignee receives an FYI notification and optionally an FYI notification email.

Sample Notification

Assignees to quality issues and quality actions get immediate notification of issues and actions that have been assigned to them, thus eliminating delays and improving time to response.

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

• Watch Improved Notifications and REST Services Readiness Training

Role Information

Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:

• Quality Analyst (ORA_ENQ_QUALITY_ANALYST_JOB) or
• Quality Engineer (ORA_ENQ_QUALITY_ENGINEER_JOB)

Search Inspections Based on Lot Number or Date Range

With this update, you can use the new lot number search filter to quickly find inspection results for an item and lot. You can also search for inspections using the new date range filter, rather than being limited to searching for a specific date and time.

Inspections Search

These new search filters provide better accuracy and efficiency for searching inspection records.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• Lot number is not shown by default on the Search Inspection page. You must add the search filter and search result column for Lot to search and view inspections by lot number.
• The search filters for From Inspection Date and To Inspection Date reflect the server time zone in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

Role Information

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:

• Quality Engineer (ORA_QA_QUALITY_ENGINEER_JOB)
• Receiving Agent (ORA_RCV_RECEIVING_AGENT)
• Warehouse Manager (ORA_INV_WAREHOUSE_MANAGER)
• Production Operator (ORA_WIE_PRODUCTION_OPERATOR_JOB)

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

• Edit Inspection Results (QA_EDIT_INSPECTION_RESULTS)
• View Inspection Results (QA_VIEW_INSPECTION_RESULTS)

Use REST Services to Manage Approvers for Future Approval Statuses

Add or remove approvers in quality management workflows using a REST API. You can now add or remove approvers for future approval statuses using the Workflow Approvers child resource in either the Quality Issues REST resource or the Quality Actions REST resource. The issue or action must not be in Draft status nor in Approval status.

Sample Call

curl -H "Content-Type: application/vnd.oracle.adf.resourceitem+json"-u user:pwd -X POST -d@payload "https://server:port/fscmRestApi/resources/latest/qualityIssues/123456789/child/workflowApprovers “

Sample Payload

{"AssigneeType":"Role|User",  "AssigneeName":“quality_analyst",   "WorkflowStatusCode":"ORA_APPROVAL",   "ActivityType":"Approval|Optional"}

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You can now programmatically set or update approvers from external clients or from Application Composer groovy scripts. Improve productivity by eliminating the manual step of searching and adding users as approvers.

Steps to Enable

Review the REST service definition in the REST API guides, available from the Oracle Help Center > your apps service area of interest > REST API. If you're new to Oracle's REST services you may want to begin with the Quick Start section.

Key Resources

• Watch Improved Notifications and REST Services Readiness Training

Role Information

Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:

• Quality Analyst (ORA_ENQ_QUALITY_ANALYST_JOB) or
• Quality Engineer (ORA_ENQ_QUALITY_ENGINEER_JOB)

Other Quality Management Changes in This Update

This section includes details about additional changes in this update that can change the way Oracle Quality Management Cloud works.

Create a Receiving Inspection Plan for all Purchase Order Suppliers of an Item or Item Category

After updating to 20D, you can define a Receiving inspection plan that's applicable to all suppliers without specifically adding inspection criteria records for each supplier. This allows you to create an inspection criterion for a document type of Purchase Order, while leaving the Supplier field blank.  The unique combination of item or item category and inspection criterion is validated during inspection plan approval and is used to select the appropriate inspection plan during inline receiving inspection.

Bug reference: 27754623