Update 23B

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
31 MAY 2023	IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations		Updated document. Added section.
03 MAR 2023			Created initial document.

Overview

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Optional Uptake of New Features (Opt In)

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• Review Applications Offering (ASM_REVIEW_APPLICATIONS_OFFERINGS_PRIV)
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Feature Summary

Supply Chain Orchestration

Supply Chain Orchestration

Use REST API to Get Supply Sources for Internal Material Transfers

Use the availableSupplySources REST resource to get the supply sources that can fulfill a request for an internal material transfer. Get the one source that can most effectively fulfill the request, or get a list of up to six sources, ranked according to how effectively they can fulfill the request. Get the actual quantity that's currently on hand in each source.

Add flexibility to how you select and use the supply source for each of your internal material transfers.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• Use the findBestAvailableSupplySource finder to get the most effective source.

• Use the findAllAvailableSupplySources finder to get the list of all supply sources. This finder gets a maximum of 6 sources, ranked according to how effectively each one fulfills the request.

• Get the actual quantity that's currently on hand for each supply source.

• You can only read data, so you can use only the GET operation.

Key Resources

• Using Supply Chain Orchestration
• Supply Chain Orchestration
• availableSupplySources in REST API for Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud

Access Requirements

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:
  • Supply Chain Operations Manager (ORA_DOS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_OPERATIONS_MANAGER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
  • Process Supply Order Interface (DOS_PROCESS_SUPPLY_ORDER_INTERFACE_PRIV)
  • View Supply Orders (DOS_VIEW_SUPPLY_ORDERS_PRIV)
  • Manage Supply Request Exceptions (DOS_MANAGE_SUPPLY_REQUEST_EXCEPTIONS_PRIV)
  • View Supply Order Exceptions and Status (DOS_VIEW_SUPPLY_ORDER_EXCEPTIONS_AND_STATUS_PRIV)
  • Manage Inventory Transfer Order (INV_MANAGE_INVENTORY_TRANSFER_ORDER_PRIV)
  • Get Best Or All Available Supply Sources (DOS_GET_BEST_OR_ALL_AVAILABLE_SOURCES_PRIV)
  • View Total On Hand Quantity in Supply Source (DOS_VIEW_AVAILABLE_ONHAND_QTY_PRIV)

Include Reference Details for Supply Requests on REST API Error Messages

Add the value of the SupplyOrderReferenceNumber attribute and the SupplyOrderReferenceLineNumber attribute as a prefix on each error message that REST API returns when it processes a supply request. Use the prefix to troubleshoot problems with the request.

Reduce the amount of time you need to troubleshoot and fix problems when you import through REST API.

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 23D

Tips And Considerations

Here's an example of an error message that REST API returns.

{

  "title": "Bad Request",

  "status": "400",

  "o:errorDetails": [

  {

    "detail": "SupplyOrderReferenceNumber:A190102, SupplyOrderReferenceLineNumber:100, MessageType:ERROR, MessageText:The supply order wasn't created because the destination subinventory code, source subinventory code, or both aren't correct."

    },

  {

    "detail": "SupplyOrderReferenceNumber:A190102, SupplyOrderReferenceLineNumber:100, MessageType:ERROR, MessageText:The supply order wasn't created because the shipment priority isn't correct. Ensure that a valid shipment priority is specified in the supply request."

  }

  ]

}

Key Resources

• Using Supply Chain Orchestration
• Supply Chain Orchestration
• REST API for Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud

Access Requirements

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:
  • Supply Chain Operations Manager (ORA_DOS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_OPERATIONS_MANAGER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
  • Process Supply Order Interface (DOS_PROCESS_SUPPLY_ORDER_INTERFACE_PRIV)
  • View Supply Orders (DOS_VIEW_SUPPLY_ORDERS_PRIV)
  • Manage Supply Request Exceptions (DOS_MANAGE_SUPPLY_REQUEST_EXCEPTIONS_PRIV)
  • View Supply Order Exceptions and Status (DOS_VIEW_SUPPLY_ORDER_EXCEPTIONS_AND_STATUS_PRIV)
  • Manage Inventory Transfer Order (INV_MANAGE_INVENTORY_TRANSFER_ORDER_PRIV)

If you're maintaining your own job roles, no new privileges were introduced to support this feature.

Use Service Mappings to Extend Supply Chain Orchestration's Integration with Inventory

Use a service mapping to help integrate your Oracle applications. Use the service mapping to meet your specific integration requirements in your transfer order flow. Create a sales order in Oracle Order Management, orchestrate supply in Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration, then create a transfer order in Oracle Inventory Management. As an option, use an extensible flexfield to integrate data that's specific to your implementation. You can also use a service mapping to integrate data that travels from planning and purchasing, to supply chain orchestration, and then to inventory.

For example, here's a service mapping that uses the TransferOrderRequest entity in the TransferRequestSource service to send a request to create a transfer order from Supply Chain Orchestration to inventory:

Modify supply orchestration data so it meets your requirements.

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

1. Get the privileges that you need to manage service mappings and algorithms.

2. Go to the Supply Chain Orchestration work area, click Tasks, then click one of:

• Manage Service Mappings
• Manage Algorithms

Watch a Setup Demo.

Tips And Considerations

• Make sure your integration can send the validations that Inventory Management applies. Your request payload might be fine, but Inventory Management might not accept the request. 

• Check for empty values when you write expressions in your integration algorithm, especially when you for query more than one request line. A empty value at runtime might create errors.

• If you encounter an error, fix it, then use the Supply Chain Orchestration work area to resubmit your request.

Key Resources

• Watch Use Service Mappings to Extend Supply Chain Orchestration's Integration with Inventory Readiness Training

Access Requirements

• Use these predefined privileges to set up this feature:
  • Manage DOS Service Mappings
  • Manage DOS Algorithms
  • Administer Sandbox
  • View Modified Data, so you can view the runtime results

Selected Supply Chain Orchestration Bug Fixes in This Update

This update includes some bug fixes that can change the way Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration works. This isn't a full list of all the bug fixes in this update. This list includes the bug fixes that can cause a noticeable change in application behavior.

Create Transfer Orders That Are Valid When You Import Through File-Based Data Import

Before update 23B, if you used the DosSupplyOrderImportTemplate.xlsm file to import a transfer request, and if the project details in your import weren't valid, then the Load Interface File for Import scheduled process finished successfully, reported the error in its error log, and the Process Supply Chain Orchestration Interface scheduled process created the transfer order without project details.  

After you update to 23B, if the project details in your import aren't valid, then the Process Supply Chain Orchestration Interface scheduled process won't create the transfer order but will instead report the error in its error log. 

Oracle reference: 34862468

Map the Project Organization ID from Supply Chain Orchestration to Procurement

Before update 23B, Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration ignored any mapping that you provided for the ProjectOrganizationId attribute to Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement. After you update to 23B, if you map the ProjectOrganizationId attribute to Oracle Procurement, then Supply Chain Orchestration will include it when it communicates supply details to Procurement.

Oracle reference: 34902854

Steps to Enable

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

Quality Management

Quality Management

View Inspection Characteristic Description in Inspection Plans and Inspection Results

You can now view the description of an inspection characteristic when you create, edit, or view the list of inspection characteristics and their specifications on the Inspection Plan page. You can opt to either add or remove the Characteristic Description column from the Specifications table. By default, the Characteristic Description column is hidden.

View the Characteristic Description on the Inspection Page

You can also click the information icon for a specific inspection characteristic on the Inspection page to view the inspection characteristic description.

View the characteristic description under Inspection Results

The feature provides clarity and context around the meaning of the result value to be collected.

Steps to Enable

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

Access Requirements

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

Manufacturing

Manufacturing

Create a Process Manufacturing Work Definition Using an Item Structure

Currently, you can create process manufacturing work definitions without a predefined set of inputs and outputs by manually adding them as ad hoc items.

With this update, you now can use an item structure to provide a bill of inputs in a process manufacturing work definition (similar to discrete manufacturing). Outputs are still assigned as ad hoc items. This feature is supported in the UI, file-based data import (FBDI), and REST interfaces. The item structure supports change management – whether inline or through change orders, in addition to input item effective dates and component substitutes, while also providing an item where used inquiry to facilitate a material trace through multiple item structure levels or across items. You can run the existing Process Item Structure Changes to Work Definitions scheduled process to synchronize or notify of item structure changes to the impacted work definitions.

Input quantities in the item structure are expressed in terms of making one unit of the primary output in its primary unit of measure. If an item structure is referenced, you will need the Override Item Structure Components in Work Definition privilege to perform the following:

• Update operation item quantity to exceed item structure quantity
• Override input item UOM and yield
• Add ad hoc inputs

The following is a screenshot of the Create Work Definition page showing structure name can now be specified for work method process manufacturing.

Structure Name for Process Manufacturing Work Definition

The following is a screenshot of the Edit Work Definition Details page showing an item structure where the components have been assigned manually as input items.

Item Structure Providing Bill of Inputs

File-based data import (FBDI) Changes:

The FBDI process work definition template, ProcessWorkDefinitionTemplate.xlsm, has been enhanced to enable the creation of a process manufacturing work definition using an item structure, and the assignment of the item structure components to operations. A new column Structure Internal Name has been added to the Work Definition Headers worksheet. New columns Start Date and Ad Hoc Item have been added to the Operation Items worksheet. Use the latest template after upgrade to 23B.

REST API Changes:

You now can create a process manufacturing work definition using an item structure and assign the item structure components to operations using Work Definition Requests REST API.

Process manufacturing work definitions can now use an item structure with visibility to the bill of inputs, and hence support change management, component start date and end date, and manage substitutes.

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 23D

Tips And Considerations

If you want to opt in and use the Create a Process Manufacturing Work Definition Using an Item Structure feature, then you must first opt in to its parent feature Manage Item Substitution during Work Order Execution. If you’ve already opted in to this parent feature, then you need to opt in to Create a Process Manufacturing Work Definition Using an Item Structure only.

Other tips and considerations:

• With this update, there won't be an ability to associate an item structure with an existing process manufacturing work definition. You'll have to create a new process manufacturing work definition to be able to associate an item structure.

• Outputs will continue to be assigned manually as ad hoc items. 

• There won't be any automatic scaling of inputs and outputs quantity based on the batch quantity and batch quantity UOM.

• With this update, process manufacturing work definitions created using item structures can also use the Manage Item Substitution during Work Order Execution feature that's made available in the 23A update.

• For more information about the automated changes and considerations in using the Process Item Structure Changes to Work Definitions scheduled process, refer to the How You Process Item Structure Changes to Work Definitions topic and the Synchronize Item Structure Changes to Work Definitions topic in the Using Manufacturing documentation.

Access Requirements

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 this predefined job role can access this feature:
  • Manufacturing Engineer (ORA_WIS_MANUFACTURING_ENGINEER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains this privilege can access this feature:
  • Manage Work Definitions (WIS_MANAGE_WORK_DEFINITIONS_PRIV)

Control Material Planning Based on Item Supply Type

Input materials for a work order are considered by planning based on the work order operations item Include in planning attribute.

Until this update, materials of supply types push, operation pull, assembly pull, supplier, and bulk were considered for planning by default.

With this update, you can now control the include in planning behavior for item supply types supplier and bulk by checking the new plant parameter, Supply Types to Include in Planning by Default for Operation Items.

Manage Plant Parameters

If you don't want to include the supplier and bulk supply type items, you can deselect these items in the plant parameter and all work orders created after that wouldn't consider these items for planning by default.

Edit Operation Items

The Include in planning indicator is unchecked for the operation item with supply type as Supplier, based on the plant parameter.

This feature provides flexibility in determining if supplier and bulk supply type items must be planned.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

The plant parameter to control the Include in planning indicator is applicable to all work order types for all work methods, and also are applicable to work orders created through UI, FBDI, REST, and ADFdi.

Access Requirements

• Users who are assigned this predefined job roles can setup and access this feature:
  • Application Implementation Consultant (ORA_ASM_APPLICATION_IMPLEMENTATION_CONSULTANT_JOB)
  • Production Supervisor (ORA_WIE_PRODUCTION_SUPERVISOR_JOB)
  • Maintenance Manager (ORA_MNT_MAINTENANCE_MANAGER_JOB)

Initiate Item Substitution Using REST Service and Capture Electronic Records and Signatures, and Enable Audit Trail

Prior to this update, you could view and replace the substitute items on discrete work orders before release to the shop floor.

With this update, you also can view and replace substitute items during production for process manufacturing work orders.

Work order traveler and component list reports now include items substitution information for both discrete and process work orders.

              Work Order Traveler

You now can view and replace substitute components for discrete and process work orders using the Replace with a substitute action on the Work Order Materials REST service, which is a child of the Discrete Work Orders REST service.

REST API to Replace Component with Substitute

Item substitution information is included in the electronic record and is enabled for audit trail.

Substitute Material Details in Audit Report  

If a planner replaces an item during the planned order release, the substitute item is now visible in the work order operation items. In addition, the primary item is now visible as a substitute along with any other substitutes for the primary item.

You can manage shop floor exigencies of material shortages and replace with substitute items using REST services to ensure production schedule adherence.

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 23D

Tips And Considerations

If you want to use this Initiate Item Substitution Using REST Service feature, then you must opt in to its parent feature: Manage Item Substitution During Work Order Execution. If you’ve already opted in to this parent feature, then you don’t have to opt in again.

Key Resources

• Refer Cloud Readiness / Oracle Fusion Cloud Manufacturing What's New update 23A 

Access Requirements

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 this predefined job role can access this feature:
  • Production Supervisor (ORA_WIE_PRODUCTION_SUPERVISOR_JOB)

• Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains this privilege can access this feature:
  • Manage Work Order Operations (WIP_MANAGE_WORK_ORDER_OPERATIONS_PRIV)
  • Manage Material Availability Rules and Assignments (WIP_MANAGE_MATERIAL_AVAIL_RULES_AND_ASSIGN_PRIV)

Create Copies of Inventory Organizations

Quickly make one or more copies of an existing inventory organization. You only need to provide a name, code, and location to create a new inventory organization and to duplicate the selected dependent data from the selected inventory organization.

This feature is suited for customer implementation projects where a warehouse for a new country or region is created and tested, with the intent to then duplicate that setup in a series of near identical facilities. The newly copied organizations will have unique names, codes, and locations. The newly created organizations are able to be further modified for additional setup tasks, or to have minor edits made. 

Steps to Enable

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

Determine the Duration of Supplier Operations Accurately While Scheduling Work Orders and Calculating Lead Times with Overnight Shifts

The algorithm that generates the availability duration of supplier operations was modified so that it behaves similar to 24 hour resources. The modified algorithm won't generate the availability duration for supplier operations on nonworking days, if overnight shifts are used.

This ensures that accurate duration information is used for supplier operations during work order scheduling and lead-time calculations.

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 23D

Tips And Considerations

Enabling this feature will only impact future work orders and lead time calculations. To apply the duration information to existing work orders and lead times, you will need to manually reschedule the work order or rerun the program.

Access Requirements

• Users provisioned with the following job role will automatically be able to use this feature:
  • Manufacturing Engineer (ORA_WIS_MANUFACTURING_ENGINEER_JOB)
  • Production Supervisor (ORA_WIE_PRODUCTION_SUPERVISOR_JOB)

SCM Analytics Support for Manufacturing Resource Availability Data

Provides business intelligence for the resource availability data in a manufacturing plant. This data includes extract view objects with the resource unit availability for each working day in a plant, and the shift and work center resource exceptions that adjust the working and nonworking time, in addition to the resource unit availability.

Your enterprise may find these views useful if you need to know the availability of resources in your manufacturing plant or maintenance facility. The views are also used by key performance indictors that are part of analytics used for manufacturing.

Steps to Enable

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

IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations

Replaced and Removed Features

From time to time, Oracle replaces existing Cloud service features with new features, or removes existing features. Replaced features may be put on a path to removal. As a best practice, you should use the newer version of a replaced feature as soon as the newer version is available.

This section identifies the features in this Cloud service that have been replaced or will be removed.

Module	Removed Feature	Target Removal	Replacement Feature	Replaced In	Additional Information
Manufacturing	Oracle Manufacturing Cloud Supervisor Mobile Application	TBD	See Additional Information	NA	As of update 23B, the Oracle Manufacturing Cloud Supervisor Mobile Application will no longer be enhanced or updated, nor will technical support be provided for issues. As of July 31, 2023, the mobile application will no longer be available for download. If you're using the mobile app, please evaluate using mobile solutions provided by Oracle Partners in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace.