Update 21D

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
17 SEP 2021			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

Manufacturing

Manufacturing

Enforce Required Lot and Serial Attributes During Orderless Transactions

Lot and serial attributes are used to provide additional details about product outputs and material inputs. While they are set up at the item, lot, or serial level, the additional details are entered during the production process.

Until this update, unless the user opened the descriptive flexfield window while doing an orderless transaction, the application didn't enforce them to enter the required flexfields.

With this update, if a descriptive flexfield is set up as required, the user is prompted to enter the details before completing the orderless transaction.

You Are Prompted to Enter the Required Descriptive Flexfield Attribute Values

This new feature improves procedural compliance by ensuring that you enter the required descriptive flexfields (or lot and serial attributes) before completing orderless transactions.

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 22A

Role Information

• Users who are assigned with any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Production Operator (ORA_WIE_PRODUCTION_OPERATOR_JOB)

Generate a Work Order Traveler with Additional Attributes

Many production environments need to have flexibility to add information to the work order traveler to enable efficient business processes.

Until this update, you couldn't add attributes to the traveler report if those attributes weren’t in the BI Publisher data model.  In some cases, this caused users to have to print multiple reports to access all the information they needed.

With this update, a second report has been delivered that is editable in BI Publisher.  You can print this new report using a scheduled process job "Generate Extensible Work Order Traveler Report" from the Schedule Process UI.

A few important things to note:

• The Print Work Order Traveler task on the task menu, Manage Work Orders,  Dispatch List will continue to print the old report.  If required, Page Composer can be used to remove the Print Work Order Traveler task from screens to prevent errors.   

• By default, the new traveler report won't print PDF attachments, however, you can configure bursting in BIP reports to embed the PDF attachments, if required. 

Scheduled Process Job "Generate Extensible Work Order Traveler Report"

Work Order Traveler with Additional Attributes

By adding information to the standard work order traveler, you can improve efficiency on the shop floor by having all necessary information in one report.

Steps to Enable

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

Role Information

• Users who are assigned with the predefined job role are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Production Operator (ORA_WIE_PRODUCTION_OPERATOR_JOB

• Users who are assigned with the privilege below are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Privilege : WIP_PRINT_WORK_ORDER_TRAVELER_PRIV

Improve Lead Time Accuracy for Partial Shift Resource Assignment Scenarios

The calculation of lead time components for manufactured goods now supports an adjustment when resources of the first operation do not start in the first shift of the plant. In such cases,  the scheduled start time is different from the start time of the first shift. A correction factor is computed which considers the difference between the schedule start time and the first shift’s start time. This correction factor adjusts the calculated manufacturing lead time.

For manufactured products that require very short lead times and have partial shift resource assignments, the calculated lead time value is more realistic now.

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

Role Information

• Users who are assigned this predefined job role are automatically able to access this feature:  
  • Manufacturing Engineer (ORA_WIE_MANUFACTURING_ENGINEER_JOB)

Quality Management

Quality Management

Copy an Inspection Plan Within an Organization

Quality engineers often create and update inspection plans as quickly as they introduce or change items and production resources. It is also common practice to copy similar inspection plans as a baseline for further modification to adapt to changes in inspection standards, conditions, and procedures. Previously, you could copy inspection plans across organizations to facilitate the multi-site rollout of quality inspection requirements. Now you can copy an inspection plan to create a new plan name and apply to another item catalog, item, or resource within an organization. You can copy inspection criteria, inspection plan action rules, and attachments. Inspection plan specifications are always copied. Copying an inspection plan automatically creates a new inspection plan version, so you can modify the details before approving it.

Copy Plan Dialog Box

Copying inspection plans within an organization speeds the implementation and maintenance of your quality control standards as your products and processes change.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

You can't copy a resource inspection plan across organizations.

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)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Edit Inspection Plans (QA_EDIT_INSPECTION_PLANS)

Search for and Select an Item Using Autosuggest and Additional Information in Quality Inspection Plan and Inspection Pages

When you search for and select items in quality inspection plans and inventory inspections, you get automatic suggestions. Make your search easier by using these suggestions from the keyword index, keyword search, and parametric search based on operational attributes, key flexfields, and extensible flexfields. As you enter the minimum number of characters into the Item field, suggestions are automatically displayed to filter the item search results into groups including item number, attributes, item class, and item relationships. You can select an item based on the automatic suggestions or refine the search by launching the Search and Select Item dialog box. In the dialog box, you can use keyword and additional parametric search fields and selectively add attributes as columns in the item search results before you select an item.

You can use the automatic suggestions for item search on these UIs:

• Create Inspection Plan page
• Enter Inspection Details dialog box - for inventory inspection

In addition, you can enable item data security checking when items are in a private state. Item data security is enforced through the autosuggestion and the Search and Select Item dialog box.

Item Search on Create Inspection Plans Page

Searching for items is faster and more efficient by using a consistent item search experience.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• Refer to the Filter Your Item Selections for Transactions Using Automatic Suggestions feature in the 21C Product Lifecycle Management readiness materials for Product Hub.

• The item selection search uses the item keyword index. By default, the selected indexes include Item Number, Item Description, Long Description, Item Class, Organization, and Manufacturer Trading Partner Item Relationship. Additional attributes, organization, and languages can be added to the item keyword index using the Manage Item Keyword Search Attributes task in the Setup and Maintenance work area.

• The enhanced item search experience is not supported when performing inline inspections, ad hoc WIP inspection, or searching for an item in a nontransactional page such as the Search page.

Key Resources

• Building an Item Keyword Index: https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/supply-chain-management/21a/faipr/items-and-documents.html#FAIPR3351567
• Set Up Data Security for Item Classes: https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/supply-chain-management/21a/faipr/index.html

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)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Edit Inspection Plans (QA_EDIT_INSPECTION_PLANS)
  • Edit Inspection Results (QA_EDIT_INSPECTION_RESULTS)

View Parent Lot, Country of Origin, Project, and Task in Genealogy OTBI

Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) lets you create ad hoc reports using real-time transactional data from Oracle Cloud Inventory Management and Manufacturing to analyze your lot and serial genealogy data. In this update, you can view additional lot details by adding the new Parent Lot, Country of Origin, Project, and Task columns to your reports in OTBI.

• Parent lot in genealogy
• Country of origin, project, and task in genealogy

These new columns are now available in the following Genealogy OTBI subject areas:

• Genealogy Instance Real Time
• Genealogy Object Composition Real Time
• Genealogy Object Where Used Real Time
• Genealogy Structure Real Time
• Genealogy Transaction Real Time

For example:

The new columns in the Genealogy OTBI subject areas provide you with additional reporting capability to help you quickly verify lot details.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

Organization need to be set up with manage Project & Task and Country of Origin Plant Parameters.

Role Information

• Predefined job role name and code:
  • Asset Administrator (ORA_CSE_ASSET_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)
  • Maintenance Manager (ORA_MNT_MAINTENANCE_MANAGER_JOB)

• Privileges:
  • Manage Customer Assets (CSI_MANAGE_CUSTOMER_ASSETS_PRIV)
  • Manage Maintainable Assets (MNT_MANAGE_MAINTAINABLE_ASSETS_PRIV)

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.

Correct Count of Canceled Quality Issues and Actions in OTBI Reports

The count of canceled issues and actions is now correctly reflected in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) reports.

Bug reference: 31691712