Update 22B

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
18 MAR 2022			Created initial document.

Overview

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are being updated directly from 21D to 22B you should review the content of both 22A and 22B sections to ensure you see all the changes included in the update.

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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

Quality Management

Quality Management

View Origination Lot and Resultant Lot in Genealogy OTBI

Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) lets you create ad hoc reports using real-time transactional data from Oracle Cloud Inventory lot split, merge, and translate transactions to analyze your lot genealogy data. In this update, you can view additional lot details by adding the Origination Lot and Resultant Lot column to your genealogy reports in OTBI.

These new columns are now available in these Product Genealogy OTBI subject areas:

• Product Genealogy - Genealogy Instance Real Time
• Product Genealogy - Genealogy Instance Structures Real Time
• Product Genealogy - Genealogy Object Composition Real Time
• Product Genealogy - Genealogy Object Where Used Real Time
• Product Genealogy - Genealogy Transaction History Real Time

The new columns in the Product Genealogy OTBI subject areas give you additional reporting capability to help you quickly trace the genealogy of lot splits, merges, and translations and verify the details of the origination lot or resultant lot.

Steps to Enable

Leverage new subject area(s) by adding to existing reports or using in new reports. For details about creating and editing reports, see the Creating and Administering Analytics and Reports book (available from the Oracle Help Center > your apps service area of interest > Books > Administration).

Tips And Considerations

The lot split, merge, and translate transactions are already supported in the Inventory - Inventory Transactions Real Time subject area. You can create an OTBI report that combines data from this Inventory subject area and any Genealogy subject area using common dimensions such as Item and Lot. Refer to the documentation on cross-subject area joins for more information.

Key Resources

• Refer to the 21A Inventory Management What's New for Perform Lot Split, Merge, and Translate Using REST APIs and FBDI for more information about this feature.

Role Information

To use this feature, the following privileges or roles are required:

• Privilege Name and Code: 
  • Get Product Genealogy by Service (CSE_GET_PRODUCT_GENEALOGY_BY_SERVICE_PRIV)
  • Manage Product Genealogy by Service (CSE_MANAGE_PRODUCT_GENEALOGY_BY_SERVICE_PRIV)

• Job Role Name and Code: 
  • Asset Administrator (ORA_CSE_ASSET_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)

Use Long Text Attributes in Quality Reports for In-Depth Analysis

Add long text attributes into your quality reports to enable in-depth analysis of quality issues and quality actions. For example, you could add these fields to your reports to view quality issue descriptions, closure reasons, or resolution notes.

These attributes are Character Large Object (CLOB) fields configured using Application Composer. You can now find them under the Quality Issues and Quality Actions subject areas in Oracle Transactional Business Analytics.

Sample Analysis with Long Text Attributes in Quality Actions Subject Area

Include configured long text attributes to provide additional holistic analysis of quality issue and quality action objects.

Steps to Enable

To view these attributes, you must first add them to your reports from the relevant Custom Attributes folder under the subject area.

For quality action reports:

• Enterprise Quality Actions Real Time subject area > Quality Actions Custom Attributes

For quality issue reports:

• Enterprise Quality Issues Real Time subject area > Quality Issues Custom Attributes

Tips And Considerations

• Long text attributes enabled in quality issue and quality action objects using Application Composer are automatically visible in the respective subject areas.

• For faster loading of reports, limit the number of long text attributes in an analysis.

Key Resources

• For details on configuring long text fields, see the topic Long Text Fields in the Configuring Applications Using Application Composer guide under Applications Common, on the Oracle Help Center.

• For instructions on creating reports, refer to the Creating and Administering Analytics and Reports for SCM guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.

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 can access this feature:
  • Quality Engineer (ORA_ENQ_QUALITY_ENGINEER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges can access reports:
  • Transactional Analysis Duty (FBI_TRANSACTION_ANALYSIS_GENERIC_DUTY)
  • Product Transaction Analysis Duty (FBI_PRODUCT_TRANSACTION_ANALYSIS_DUTY)
  • BI Consumer Role (BIConsumer)

Manufacturing

Project-Driven Supply Chain

Project-Driven Supply Chain is an end-to-end, integrated solution across the Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Management and Oracle Fusion Cloud Project Management applications. This solution is designed to support various business processes of manufacturing and asset-intensive companies.

You can use the Project-Driven Supply Chain solution to manage your supply chain processes in the context of projects without creating separate organizations for each project. You can also capture supply chain costs as project expenditures.

After you opt in to the feature named Project-Driven Supply Chain, you can use the feature described in this section.

Release Recommendations for Transfers of Project Supplies

In a variety of project-driven enterprises, only a subset of supplies of an item can be used to satisfy the demand for that item. The typical approach is to dedicate supplies to particular projects or tasks by striping the supplies and demands by project and task attributes. For example, on-hand inventory or purchase orders would be striped by project and task. In this scenario, only the on-hand or purchase order supply that match the project and task requirements can be used to satisfy say, a sales order demand. However, this approach may lead to situations where you have excess supplies for some projects.

To reduce inventory costs, it’s useful to check for excess supplies across projects prior to ordering new supply for a project. You can set up flexible rules to enable this type of search when plans are created using the Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Planning work area.

With this update, the result of such a plan will produce a recommendation to move supplies from one project or task with excess to another with a shortage. Planners can choose to reduce excess in your project supplies by releasing recommendations from the plan to change the project attribution on the following documents, and the subsequent execution steps will proceed accordingly:

• Purchase order schedules that aren't received or invoiced
• Transfer order lines that aren't shipped
• Work orders with unreleased status
• On-hand inventory  which is either striped with project and task or not striped with project ans task common inventory

Example of how you can configure plan options to release recommendations for transfer of project supplies:

Example of how you can release recommendations for transfer of project supplies from Supply Planning:

Example of how you can release recommendations for transfer of common supplies to a project from Supply Planning:

Enable efficient use of on-hand and on-order supplies in a project-driven supply chain environment.

Watch a Demo.

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

Enable the Plan Project-Specific Supply feature as follows:

• If your enterprise doesn’t use Oracle Supply Chain Execution Cloud:
  • In the Offerings work area, select the Supply Chain Planning offering. Click Opt In Features.
  • On the Opt In: Supply Chain Planning page, click the Features icon for the Supply Chain Planning offering.
  •  Enable the Project-Driven Supply Chain feature, and then enable the Plan Project-Specific Supply  feature.

• If your enterprise uses Oracle Supply Chain Execution Cloud and has already opted in to the Project-Driven Supply Chain feature:
  • In the Offerings work area, select either the Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management offering or the Supply Chain Planning offering. Click Opt In Features.
  • On the Opt In page, click the Features icon for the offering.
  •  Enable the Plan Project-Specific Supply feature.

• If your enterprise uses Oracle Supply Chain Execution Cloud and hasn't already opted in to the Project-Driven Supply Chain feature:
  • In the Offerings work area, select either the Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management offering or the Supply Chain Planning offering. Click Opt In Features.
  • On the Opt In page, click the Features icon for the offering.
  • Enable the Project-Driven Supply Chain feature, and then enable the Plan Project-Specific Supply feature.
  • Perform the required setup for the Project-Driven Supply Chain feature. For details, refer to the Project-Driven Supply Chain chapter in the Implementing Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management guide on the Oracle Help Center.

After opt in is enabled, perform these steps to begin consuming forecasts by planning attributes including project and task:

1. Create an unconstrained supply plan or demand and supply plan
2. Assign an attribute-based netting rule with Project Group, Project, and Task planning attributes
3. Select the Enable movement of supply between projects and tasks option in the General subtab of the Supply tab
4. Run the plan
5. Release recommendations for transfer  of project supplies to Oracle Cloud SCM

Tips And Considerations

• Common supplies reserved to project demands can't be released for transfer of project supplies to Oracle Cloud SCM.

• Common and project In-transit shipments, shipments in receiving, and purchase requisition supplies pegged to project demands with a different project and task can't be released for transfer of project supplies to oracle Cloud SCM.

• Common transfer orders interfaced to order management pegged to project demands can't be released for transfer of project supplies to Oracle Cloud SCM.

• On hand project transfers in Inventory will be transacted in First In First Out basis

• The Number of Days to Calculate Pegging plan option should be either null or equal to plan horizon. Release of recommendations for transfer of project supplies is supported for supplies and demands for which pegging is computed by the plan.

Key Resources

• Watch Release Recommendations for Transfers of Project Supplies Readiness Training.

Role Information

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles or configured job roles that contain these privileges in Supply Chain Planning are automatically able to access this feature and release recommendations:
  • Job Roles
    • Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
    • Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_JOB)
  • Privileges
    • 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)

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles or configured job roles that contain these privileges in Supply Chain Orchestration are automatically able to access this feature and release recommendations:
  • Job Role
    • Supply Chain Operations Manager (ORA_DOS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_OPERATIONS_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Privileges
    • Edit Supply Orders (DOS_EDIT_SUPPLY_ORDERS_PRIV)
    • Manage Supply Request Exceptions (DOS_MANAGE_SUPPLY_REQUEST_EXCEPTIONS_PRIV)
    • Process Supply Order Interface (DOS_PROCESS_SUPPLY_ORDER_INTERFACE_PRIV)
    • Purge Supply Order Interface Data (DOS_PURGE_SUPPLY_ORDER_INTERFACE_PRIV)
    • View Supply Order Exceptions and Status  (DOS_VIEW_SUPPLY_ORDER_EXCEPTIONS_AND_STATUS_PRIV)
    • View Supply Orders (DOS_VIEW_SUPPLY_ORDERS_PRIV)
    • View Purchase Order (PO_VIEW_PURCHASE_ORDER_PRIV)
    • Manage Inventory Transfer Order  (INV_MANAGE_INVENTORY_TRANSFER_ORDER_PRIV)
    • View Work Orders (WIP_VIEW_WORK_ORDERS_PRIV)

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles or configured job roles that contain these privileges in Purchasing are automatically able to access this feature and release recommendations:
  • Job Role
    • Buyer (ORA_PO_BUYER_JOB)
  • Privilege
    • View Purchase Order (PO_VIEW_PURCHASE_ORDER_PRIV)

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles or configured job roles that contain these privileges in Inventory are automatically able to access this feature and release recommendations:
  • Job Roles
    • Inventory Manager (ORA_INV_INVENTORY_MANAGER)
    • Warehouse Manager (ORA_INV_WAREHOUSE_MANAGER)
  • Privilege
    • Process Inventory Attribute Transaction Request (INV_PROCESS_INVENTORY_ATTRIBUTE_TRANSACTION_REQUEST)

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles or configured job roles that contain these privileges in Manufacturing are automatically able to access this feature and release recommendations:
  • Job Role
    • Production Supervisor (ORA_WIE_PRODUCTION_SUPERVISOR_JOB)
  • Privilege
    • View Work Orders (WIP_VIEW_WORK_ORDERS_PRIV)

Manufacturing

Enable Audit Trail for Manufacturing Work Definitions and Standard Operations

Currently, you can enable electronic records and electronic signatures to track and sign off on any data changes made through the user interface for a manufacturing work definition and its child objects. In this update, you can also capture audit trail for manufacturing work definitions and standard operations created, updated, and deleted through the user interface, spreadsheet upload, import, or REST services.

Audit trail for work definitions includes creation, update, and deletion to the following:

• work definition header and version attributes
• operations
• operation items, including documents and substitute components
• operation outputs, if it is a process manufacturing work definition
• operation resources, including alternate resources
• attachments at any level
• descriptive flexfields (DFFs) at any level

The following screenshot shows the audit report for work definition changes. Selecting the Show Attribute Details check box displays the old value and new value for each update.

Audit Report: Work Definition

Audit trail for standard operations includes creation, update, and deletion to the following:

• standard operation attributes
• operation resources, including alternate resources
• attachments at any level
• descriptive flexfields (DFFs) at any level

The following screenshot shows the audit report for standard operation changes. Selecting the Show Attribute Details check box displays the old value and new value for each update.

Audit Report: Standard Operation

With built-in capabilities to support audit trail for work definition and standard operation creation, update, and deletion made through any method, you can ensure compliance with the US Code of Federal Regulations (21 CFR Part 11) for manufacturing master data audit requirements.

Watch a Demo.

Steps to Enable

To enable audit trail for manufacturing work definitions and standard operations, perform the following steps:

1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, navigate to the following:

• Offering: Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management
• Functional Area: Application Extensions
• Task: Manage Audit Policies

2. On the Manage Audit Policies page, navigate to the Configure Business Object Attributes page.
3. Select Common Work Setup under Product.
4. Select the Standard Operations and/or Work Definitions objects. You can enable audit for all or any of the child objects.
5. Select an object and use the Create action to add additional attributes or remove existing attributes of that object.

Enabling Audit for Work Definition and Standard Operation

Watch a Setup Demo.

Tips And Considerations

• Item structure component attributes that are referenced from Product Information Management (PIM), such as basis type and substitute material UOM, can't be audited as part of the manufacturing work definition. You can implement change orders to track these item structure component attribute changes.

• Work definition audit trail shows the impacted work definition versions for any changes to operations, operation items, operation outputs, or operation resources that are done for an operation that is effective in multiple versions.

• Audit can be enabled and disabled at any point in time. Similarly, any attributes of the work definition and standard operation can be included or excluded at any point in time.

• Not all attributes are enabled out of the box. Ensure you enable those that are critical to your business.

• Audit trail can't be enabled retroactively.

Key Resources

• Watch Enable Audit Trail for Manufacturing Work Definitions and Standard Operations Readiness Training
• Implementing Common Features for SCM > Audit Policies

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 can access this feature:
  • Internal Auditor (ORA_FND_INTERNAL_AUDITOR_JOB)
  • Application Administrator (ORA_FND_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)

• Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
  • View Audit History (FND_VIEW_AUDIT_HISTORY_PRIV
  • Manage Audit Policies (FND_MANAGE_AUDIT_POLICIES_PRIV)

View Document Items on a Dispatch List

Production operations need operators to execute the right steps to produce quality products. In addition to training in manufacturing procedures, they also need visual cues to execute the steps systematically in an error proof manner.  Work instructions of various types are best suited to help production operators perform the job accurately. They can be either written documents, sketches, pictures, 3D views, or any form of visual document to help operators perform their job.

With this update, you can create a document item in Oracle Fusion Cloud Product Development, add attachments to the document item, and invoke the engineering change order to release the latest revision of the document item and attachment. When the document item with an attachment is engineering change order controlled, any further updates to the attachment can only be done through engineering change order to ensure there is always change control and latest release of the attachment is available.

You can add the document item to the item structure or directly add it to the work definition operation as an item.

You can view the document item attachment in the dispatch list, and in the Manage Supplier Operations page using the attachment icon. You will always see the active revision of the attachment from currently effective revision of the document from Master Organization.

Work Order Operation Instructions

Execute production exactly to the specifications of the latest work instructions reducing errors on the shop floor and achieving the right quality.

Watch a Demo.

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

Tips And Considerations

Implementation considerations needing to be well thought-out are:

• You can enable and disable the Opt-in at any point of time.

• After opt-in, the attachment icon moves from the work order operation row in the Review Dispatch List page and the Manage Supplier Operation page to the expanded region of the row.

Key Resources

• Watch View Document Items on a Dispatch List Readiness Training

Role Information

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles can access this feature:
  • Production Supervisor (ORA_WIE_PRODUCTION_SUPERVISOR_JOB)
  • Production Operator (ORA_WIE_PRODUCTION_OPERATOR_JOB)

Generate Extensible Work Order Traveler from Work Execution Pages

Work order traveler is a critical document that travels with the physical material during production. This document helps operators to exactly know what to do during each production step.

Prior to this update, the extensible work order traveler could be generated only through a scheduled process.

With this update, the production operator can invoke the extensible work order traveler from the Manage Work Orders, Review Dispatch List, and Manage Supplier Operations page using the Generate Extensible Work Order Traveler Report task.

Generate Extensible Traveler from Manage Work Orders Page

Generate Extensible Traveler from Review Dispatch List Page

This feature improves the ease of use for the operator by generating the extensible work order traveler from the Manage Work Orders, Review Dispatch List, and Manage Supplier Operations pages.

Watch a Demo.

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 22D

Tips And Considerations

After opted in or when the opt in expires, you will be able to generate work order traveler and extensible work order traveler from Manage Work Order, Review Dispatch List and Manage Supplier Operation pages. You can use page composer to display only the required actions in the menu.

Key Resources

• Watch the Generate Extensible Work Order Traveler from Work Execution Pages Demo

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