Update 20A

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	Feature	Notes
20 DEC 2019		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.

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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 in a couple of ways:

Access the Opt In page from the New Features Work Area

1. Click the Navigator, and then click New Features (under the My Enterprise heading)
2. On the New Features page, select the offering that includes new features you’d like to review
3. Click Go to Opt In for any feature you want to opt in
4. On the Edit Features page, select the Enable option for the feature, and then click Done

or...  Access the Opt In page from the Setup and Maintenance Work Area

1. Click the Navigator, and then click Setup and Maintenance
2. On the Setup page, select your offering, and then click Change Feature Opt In
3. On the Opt In page, click the Edit Features icon for any area that includes features you want to opt in
4. On the Edit Features page, select the Enable option for any feature you want to opt in to. If the Enable column includes an Edit icon instead of a check box, then click the icon, select your feature options, and click Save and Close. 
5. Click Done.

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

Product Development

Provide Comments or BOM Notes in Your Structure

Provide comments or BOM notes for components within the structure using View > Columns > Comments. Comments for components are revision-specific, which allows for distinct information to be visible at the item-revision level.

Adding the Comments to the Structure

Steps to Enable

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

Role Information

To use this feature, the following role is required:

• Job Role and Code:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)

Mass Download Item Attachments

Download text and URL type of attachments in addition to files, and manage duplicate attachments.With this update, the general behavior is improved to manage the following scenarios:

• Special characters in the attachment title
• Duplicate filenames in the attachment title

Download item attachments using Actions > Download Attachments from the item page. In addition to the top-level item attachments, you can select Single Level to download attachments of the first-level components in the structure, or All Levels to download attachments of components at all levels.

Download Item Attachments

The content of a text attachment is stored in a text file, and the file name is composed of the text attachment title with the suffix .txt. If the title information is unavailable or the title contains special characters, then the file name is composed as TEXT.txt. To distinguish multiple instances of the same file name, the system adds a number (#) to the file name. For example, TEXT.txt, TEXT(1).txt, TEXT(2).txt.

A similar behavior is available for attachments of type URL. However, the standard file name is URL.txt.

To distinguish multiple instances of the file name of type DOC, the system adds a number (#). For example, FILE.doc, FILE(1).doc, FILE(2).doc.

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

Watch Item Management and Change Management Improvements Readiness Training

Role Information

To use this feature, the following roles are required:

• Job Role and Code:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Product Design Engineer (ORA_ACD_PRODUCT_DESIGN_ENGINEER_JOB)
  • Product Design Manager (ORA_ACD_PRODUCT_DESIGN_MANAGER_JOB)

Submit Change Requests from Draft to Open Status

Submit change requests from draft to open status using the View Changes task in the Supplier Portal. You can give your suppliers additional control to move the status of the change request from draft to open status. 

Additionally, suppliers can now add a comment to the change request to give internal change analysts additional information when moving the change request from draft to open status.

Edit Change Request Page in the Supplier Portal

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

Watch Item Management and Change Management Improvements Readiness Training

Role Information

To use this feature, the following roles are required:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Create Change Order (EGO_CREATE_CHANGE_ORDER_PRIV)
  • Supplier Product Design Engineer (ORA_ACA_SUPPLIER_PRODUCT_DESIGN_ENGINEER_JOB)

Use Enhanced User Interface to Manage Affected Objects and Redlines

Leverage the enhancements in the user interface to manage change lines more productively. You can quickly identify redlined items, toggle between views, and see more components at one time.

With this update, you can:

• Identify items with redlines using the red dot icon in the Affected Objects tab.

• Click the red dot icon to navigate to the Redline Summary view. 

• Click an item in the Redline Summary view to navigate to the Affected Objects view. 

• Navigate better because the list view and table view icons now show reader-friendly hover text: View Redline Summary and Manage Affected Objects.

• Also navigate better because the pencil icon replaces the eyeglasses icon in the Affected Objects view to be consistent across the Product Development work area.

• See more information with compact table rows that help you view more components at a time while redlining your structures. 

Red Dot Icon to Indicate Redlined Item Components

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

• Watch Item Management and Change Management Improvements Readiness Training

Role Information

To use this feature, the following role is required:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)

Use Component Search and Panel View Within Structures

Search for Components Within a Structure

Search for component items in the item’s structure tab to quickly locate the components that you're interested in.  You'll find this especially helpful when you’re working with a large bill of material structure.

Search for Components in a Structure

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: Product Management  No Longer Optional From: Update 20D

Tips And Considerations

To enable this feature, opt in to the feature named Use Component Search and Panel View Within Structures.

Key Resources

• Watch Item Management and Change Management Improvements Readiness Training

Role Information

To use this feature, the following roles are required:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Product Design Engineer (ORA_ACD_PRODUCT_DESIGN_ENGINEER_JOB)
  • Product Design Manager (ORA_ACD_PRODUCT_DESIGN_MANAGER_JOB)

Visually Identify and Access Reference Designators

Quickly identify whether a reference designator exists for a component item or not, with a new reference designator dot icon that appears against the component on the Structure tab.  In addition, you can easily access reference designators in a new side panel so that you can view and edit them in the context of structure components.  

You can click the components' reference designator icon to expand the side panel within the Structure tab.

Reference Designator Panel in a Structure

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: Product Management  No Longer Optional From: Update 20D

Tips And Considerations

To enable this feature, opt in to the feature named Use Component Search and Panel View Within Structures.

Key Resources

Watch Item Management and Change Management Improvements Readiness Training

Manage Component Descriptive Flexfields in a Side Panel

Quickly access and manage component descriptive flexfields in a side panel. With this update, an Additional Information icon allows you to easily access an expandable side panel without losing context of the component.

Additional Information About Component Descriptive Flexfields

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: Product Management  No Longer Optional From: Update 20D

Tips And Considerations

To enable this feature, opt in to the feature named Use Component Search and Panel View Within Structures.

Key Resources

Watch Item Management and Change Management Improvements Readiness Training

Role Information

To use this feature, the following role is required:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)

Product Hub

Sort Variant Attributes and Value Sets While Creating SKUs

When creating SKUs for a style item, improve productivity by controlling the order of the attributes and values for quick selection in the variant value selection shuttle of the UI.

Shuttle with Attribute Values Sorted in the Create SKU Page

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

• Customer Connect session on Managing Product Variants in Product Hub Cloud

Role Information

Create SKUs need the standard privileges associated with creating items. There are no specific roles associated for this enhancement.

Use Additional System Attributes to Create Item Rules

You can now create rules expressions based on the attributes Last Updated By, Last Update Date and Created By. For example, by including the new attributes in expressions, you can create rules to stop publishing item data if it was last updated by a less trusted user.

Validation Rule with Last Updated By Attribute

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

Note that the who-column attributes for item primary and operational attributes are different from those of Supplier entity, Revision entity and EFF attribute groups.

For example to reference the ‘Last Updated By’ of item primary attributes in the rule, you need to use the expression, [Item].[Who].[Last Updated By]

For ‘Last Updated By’ of revision entity, [Revision].[Who].[Last Updated By]

For ‘Last Updated By’ of the EFF attribute group – EFF_AG, [Item].[EFF_AG].[Last Updated By]

Role Information

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

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Product Data Steward (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_DATA_STEWARD_JOB)

• Privilege Name and Code:
  • Manage Item Rule Set (EGO_MANAGE_ITEM_RULE_SET_PRIV)

View Quality Issues and Actions for an Item in the Product Information Management Work Area

View quality issues and actions related to an item from the Manage Items, Edit Item page in the Product Information Management work area. Now you can view the quality issues and actions of a child organization item as well. The Quality tab on the Edit Item page enables you to easily access quality issues and actions for an item in the context of the organization.

Quality issues and actions for a child organization item

Steps to Enable

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

Role Information

To use this feature, the following privilege and role is required:

• Privilege Name and Code:
  • View Item (EGP_VIEW_ITEM_PRIV)

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER)

Associate Item and Trading Partner Item Attachments Using Item Batch Maintenance SOAP Service

You can now upload files first to Oracle WebCenter Content using Document Transfer Utility and then import them as attachments using Item Batch Maintenance SOAP service. This makes the process of importing attachments using Item Batch Maintenance SOAP service more efficient. You can use Item Batch Maintenance SOAP service for importing specific files residing in Oracle WebCenter Content as item or trading partner item attachments by specifying the document ID and version number of the files.

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

• Review details of the Item Batch Maintenance SOAP service in Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud: SOAP Web Services for SCM, available on the Oracle Help Center.

• Oracle WebCenter Content (WCC) Document Transfer Utility Readme (Doc ID 1624063.1)

Role Information

To use this feature, the following privilege and role is required:

• Privilege Name and Code:
  • Manage Item Batch (EGI_MANAGE_ITEM_BATCH)

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Product Data Steward (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_DATA_STEWARD_JOB)

Leverage Improved Performance When Importing Attachments Using Compressed Files

Currently, you can import attachments by compressing them into zip files. However, importing attachments using these zip files is time-consuming and inefficient. With this enhancement, attachments import performance is now improved by up to 300% in some cases by reducing the import-processing time. You can now also import larger-sized zip files containing attachments. This makes the import process more efficient.

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

• Importing Item Attachments white paper (Doc ID 2238241.1)

Role Information

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

• Privilege Name and Code:
  • Manage Item Batch (EGI_MANAGE_ITEM_BATCH)

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Product Data Steward (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_DATA_STEWARD_JOB)

Enable or Disable Lifecycle Validation for Structures

Build structures to suit your needs using the Enable Lifecycle Validation check box. Select the check box to allow users to manually correct any mismatches in lifecycle phase. Deselect the check box to allow creation of item structures with components at a lower lifecycle phase than the parent item. With this update, you can provide greater flexibility for creating structures and also educate users about configuration change caveats.

Enable or Disable Lifecycle Validation from Item Structure Type Setup

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

• Watch Item Management and Change Management Improvements Readiness Training

Role Information

To use this feature, the following roles are required:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Product Design Manager (ORA_ACD_PRODUCT_DESIGN_MANAGER_JOB)        
  • Product Data Steward (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_DATA_STEWARD_JOB)

Specify Document IDs When Importing Files in Oracle WebCenter Content Using FBDI and Import Maps

You can now upload files first to Oracle WebCenter Content using Document Transfer Utility and then import them as attachments using FBDI and Import Maps. This makes the process of importing attachments using FBDI and Import Maps more efficient. You can import item, item revision, and trading partner item attachments by specifying the document ID and version number of specific files residing in Oracle WebCenter Content using FBDI and Import Maps.

The following screen capture illustrates this feature and its benefits.

Document ID and Version Number Attributes In Import Map

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

• Oracle WebCenter Content (WCC) Document Transfer Utility Readme (Doc ID 1624063.1)

Role Information

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

• Privilege Name and Code:
  • Manage Item Batch (EGI_MANAGE_ITEM_BATCH)
  • Manage Item Import Map (EGI_MANAGE_ITEM_IMPORT_MAP)

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Product Data Steward (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_DATA_STEWARD_JOB)

Map Change Order Line Effective Date Attribute Using Import Maps

With this enhancement you can now use an Import Map to add item changes to a Change Order and set them to be effective on specific dates. You can set the effective date of the Change Order line using an Import Map while importing item data changes when the change order type batch option is set to User entered.

The following screen capture illustrates this feature and its benefits.

Change Order Line Effective Date Attribute In Import Map

Steps to Enable

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

Role Information

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

• Privilege Name and Code:
  • Manage Item Batch (EGI_MANAGE_ITEM_BATCH)
  • Manage Item Import Map (EGI_MANAGE_ITEM_IMPORT_MAP)

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Product Data Steward (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_DATA_STEWARD_JOB)

Route Item Changes Dynamically Using Rules with Specific Change Order Types

Use validation rules to select change order types.  This allows you to have a more dynamic workflow routing that is selected based on your validation rule criteria.

Associate Change Order Type to Item Rule

Change Order Type is Defaulted

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

After the rule is created, you must add it to the master rule set, otherwise the rule will not get executed.

Role Information

To use this feature, the following roles are required:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Product Data Steward (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_DATA_STEWARD_JOB)

Analyze New Item Request Definition Step Cycle Times Using OTBI

Get insights into definition step cycle times and aging with the New Item Request Definition Cycle Time subject area. Your change analysts can now pinpoint bottlenecks in the new item request definition process and make process improvements as needed. 

New Definition Step Measures and Dimensions in New Item Request Subject Area

Sample Analysis for Definition Step Cycle Time by Assigned To User

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).

The new folders in the 'New Item Request Approvals Real Time' subject area are:

• New Item Request Definition
• New Item Request Definition Details

Key Resources

• Watch Item Management and Change Management Improvements Readiness Training

Role Information

To use this feature, the following roles are required:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Transactional Analysis Duty (FBI_TRANSACTION_ANALYSIS_GENERIC_DUTY)
  • Product Transaction Analysis Duty (FBI_PRODUCT_TRANSACTION_ANALYSIS_DUTY)
  • BI Consumer Role (BIConsumer)

Analyze New Item Request Cycle Times by Status Using OTBI

Monitor the cycle time of all your new item requests by status (draft, open, interim approval, approval, scheduled, complete) in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI).  With this capability, your product data steward can closely monitor the age of each status within the new item requests, and ensure that all statuses within the workflow are processed in a timely manner.

New Item Request Status Cycle Time Measures

Sample Analysis of New Item Requests Aging by Status with Counts

Sample Analysis of New Item Request Cycle Time in Each Status with Counts

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).

New folders are added in the subject area 'New Item Request Approvals Real Time'

• New Item Request Approval

Key Resources

• Watch Item Management and Change Management Improvements Readiness Training

Improve Change Order Data Loading with a Maximum Limit Setting for Affected Objects

Limit Number of Items Added to a New Item Request

Validate and limit the number of items added to a new item request through the user interface or web service, or during import. With this update, you have greater flexibility in handling a large number of items, and the import process is streamlined. 

A new profile option (EGO_MAX_LINES_PER_CO) allows you to set a maximum limit for the number of items added to a new item request. For imports, use the new import option Split automatically to split the new item request automatically when the set limit is exceeded. This feature works in conjunction with the following groupings during import: One per item batch with the Create new option, and One per item class.

For example, if you set the limit to 50, and there are 70 items in total, the application automatically creates another new item request and moves 20 items onto it.

If you choose not to split the new item request, then a message appears listing the maximum limit that has been set for affected objects and the number of objects you can still add.

Error Message on Exceeding the Affected Object Limit

Automatically Split New Item Requests

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: Product Management  No Longer Optional From: Update 20D

Feature: Improve Change Order Data Loading with a Maximum Limit Setting for Affected Objects

After you opt in, perform these steps to set the profile value (or limit for affected objects):

1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, access the Manage Administrator Profile Values task.
2. Search for the profile option code EGO_MAX_LINES_PER_CO.
3. In Profile Value, set the limit. You can set values from 1 to 100. The default limit is 50.

Set the Limit for Number of Affected Objects

Tips And Considerations

1. You must opt in to the feature named Improve Change Order Data Loading with a Maximum Limit Setting for Affected Objects.
2. For this feature to work, you must opt in to this as well as set the profile value.
3. Although the default profile value is set, it doesn’t function until you opt in to this feature.

Role Information

To use this feature, the following role is required:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Product Data Steward (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_DATA_STEWARD_JOB)

Integrate and Extend Product Hub Using REST Services

Manage Item Categories Using a REST Service

You can now use the Item Categories REST service to find create and manage item categories and and category-related information. This service already supports searching for a list of categories, category attributes and category attachments. It has been now enhanced to include support for creating and updating of categories. Also you can use this service to copy and share item categories.

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 Web Services Enhancements Readiness Training

Manage Item Catalogs Using a REST Service

You can now use the Item Catalogs REST service to create and manage item catalogs and catalog-related information. This service already supports searching for catalogs, catalog attributes, catalog attachments, category hierarchies, and functional area assignments. It has been now enhanced to include support for creating and updating of catalogs. Also you can use this service to assign catalogs to functional areas.

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 Web Services Enhancements Readiness Training

Role Information

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

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Product Data Steward (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_DATA_STEWARD_JOB)

• Privilege Name and Code:
  • Manage Item Catalog (EGP_MANAGE_ITEM_CATALOG_PRIV)
  • Manage Item Default Functional Area (EGP_MANAGE_ITEM_DEFAULT_FUNCTIONAL_AREA_PRIV)

Associate Unique Attachments in Oracle WebCenter Content Using Items REST Services

You can now upload files to Oracle WebCenter Content using the Document Transfer Utility, and then attach them to items as attachments using the Items Version 2 REST service. This makes the process of creating attachments using the Items Version 2 service more efficient. You can use this REST service to specify the document ID and version number of specific files that reside in Oracle WebCenter Content and associate them as attachments to items or item revisions.

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 Web Services Enhancements Readiness Training
• If you're using REST services with your Oracle Cloud implementation for the first time, then follow the instructions in the Quick Start section of the REST API for Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud guide, available on the Oracle Help Center

• Oracle WebCenter Content (WCC) Document Transfer Utility Readme (Doc ID 1624063.1)

Role Information

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

• Privilege Name and Code:
  • Create Item Class Item Data (EGO_CREATE_ITEM_CLASS_ITEM_DATA)
  • Manage Item (EGP_MANAGE_ITEM)

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Product Data Steward (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_DATA_STEWARD_JOB)

Manage Security Grants for Items and Trading Partner Items Using a REST Service

With this update, you can use a REST API to to build and maintain data security for items and trading partner items. Integrate with upstream and downstream applications, and automate the creation, update, or deletion of data security for items and trading partner Items.

Use the Product Management Data Securities REST service to do the following:

• Create, read, update, or delete item data security for both the item class level and the item instance level.
• Create, read, update, or delete trading partner item data security for both the trading partner level and the trading partner item instance level.

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

• Refer to the REST APIs for Oracle SCM Cloud documentation available on the Oracle Help Center.

Role Information

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

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Product Data Steward (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_DATA_STEWARD_JOB)

• Privilege Name and Code:
  • Manage Item  (EGP_MANAGE_ITEM_PRIV)
  • Manage Trading Partner Item (EGP_MANAGE_TRADING_PARTNER_ITEM_PRIV)

Add Product Attachments from Oracle WebCenter Content Using Product Uploads REST

You can now upload files to Oracle WebCenter Content using the Document Transfer Utility, and then attach them to products as attachments using the Product Uploads REST service. This makes the process of uploading product attachments using the Product Uploads REST service more efficient. You can use this REST service to associate specific files that reside in Oracle WebCenter Content as attachments to products by mapping the document ID and version number attributes in import maps.

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 Web Services Enhancements Readiness Training

• If you're using REST services with your Oracle Cloud implementation for the first time, then follow the instructions in the Quick Start section of the REST API for Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud guide, available on the Oracle Help Center

• Oracle WebCenter Content (WCC) Document Transfer Utility Readme (Doc ID 1624063.1)

Role Information

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

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Supply Chain Application Administrator (ORA_RCS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)
  • Supply Chain Operations Manager (ORA_DOS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_OPERATIONS_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Product Data Steward (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_DATA_STEWARD_JOB)
  • Supplier Product Administrator (ORA_EGS_SUPPLIER_PRODUCT_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)

• Privilege Name and Code:
  • Manage Product Upload (EGS_MANAGE_PRODUCT_UPLOAD_PRIV)

Product Development & Product Hub Common Features

View Changes by Structure Component Using OTBI

View released and pending change orders per component of a structure using Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence. You can review pending change orders on components and assess their potential impact on the item structure.

New Folders in Structures and Components Subject Area

Sample Analysis Using Newly Added Change Orders in Structures and Components Subject Area

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).

The new folders are added in Structures and Components Real Time Subject Area

Key Resources

• Watch Item Management and Change Management Improvements Readiness Training

Role Information

To use this feature, the following roles are required:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Transactional Analysis Duty (FBI_TRANSACTION_ANALYSIS_GENERIC_DUTY)
  • Product Transaction Analysis Duty (FBI_PRODUCT_TRANSACTION_ANALYSIS_DUTY)
  • BI Consumer Role (BIConsumer)

Find Change Order Redlines and Define Data to Include in Event Response

Use the new findChangeOrderRedlines method in the Product Design Change Order SOAP web service to search for specific redlined change order data.

With this update, you can use a new version (V2) of the change order business events to retrieve only the change number and corresponding ID in the response payload. The findChangeOrderRedline method can be used in Oracle Integration Cloud Service orchestration to retrieve further details of the change order for the integration process flow. This allows for more reliable orchestration and enhanced performance.

New Versions of Change Order Events

Change Order Events
Change Order Open Event V2
Change Order Interim Approval Event V2
Change Order Approval Event V2
Change Order Scheduled Event V2
Change Order Completed Event V2

Steps to Enable

Review the SOAP service definition in Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud: SOAP Web Services for SCM, available on the Oracle Help Center.

Tips And Considerations

Here’s what you can do with the findChangeOrderRedlines method:

• Define which attribute or child component must be included in the response.  You can access the following:
  • Change orders
  • Items with extensible flexfields
  • Change lines with descriptive flexfields
  • Redlined item structures (with reference designators, substitute components, and descriptive flexfields)
  • Approved manufacturers list
  • Revision-level attachments

• Retrieve redlined information. The following restrictions apply:
  • The response includes all revision-level attachments excluding redlined attachments.
  • The item structure includes redlined item structure components only. But if reference designators and substitute components are queried, then these include data independent of whether the item is redlined.
  • The approved manufacturers list shows only the redlined data.
  • For item extensible flexfield attributes which are redlined, the web service retrieves old and new values in the selected attribute group.
  • For item extensible flexfield attributes which aren’t redlined, the production values appear.

Key Resources

To use this feature, the following roles are required:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)   
  • Product Design Engineer (ORA_ACD_PRODUCT_DESIGN_ENGINEER_JOB)   
  • Product Design Manager (ORA_ACD_PRODUCT_DESIGN_MANAGER_JOB)        
  • Product Data Steward (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_DATA_STEWARD_JOB)

Rerun Unsuccessful Change Order Jobs Automatically

Automatically rerun the change order workflow if the initial workflow doesn’t progress due to locked affected objects. An item can be simultaneously updated from different sources. A record can be updated through the user interface, while another can be updated through a web service or scheduled process.  This results in locked schedule process jobs containing incomplete change orders. 

With this update, such jobs are reinitiated in case of any locks in the initial run. Locked jobs are rerun systematically and proactively without user intervention. Each failed job is rerun up to 5 times with increasing time gaps in between each job.

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

• Watch Item Management and Change Management Improvements Readiness Training

Role Information

To use this feature, the following roles are required:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)   
  • Product Design Engineer (ORA_ACD_PRODUCT_DESIGN_ENGINEER_JOB)   
  • Product Design Manager (ORA_ACD_PRODUCT_DESIGN_MANAGER_JOB)        
  • Product Data Steward (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_DATA_STEWARD_JOB)

Copy Additional Change Order Data When Using Save As

Use Save As to quickly create a new change order of any type from a commercialization change order, with the same descriptive flexfields, contextual attributes, attachments, tasks, affected objects, and affected object descriptive flexfields.

In the Product Information Management work area, you can use Save As to create any type of commercialization change order. In the Product Development work area, you can use Save As to create any type of engineering change order or change order without revision control.

Save As Commercialization Change Order

With this update, you can also copy tasks from engineering change orders or change orders without revision control.

Copy Tasks Using Save As

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

Engineering change orders or change orders without revision control can only have engineering items (items created in the Product Development work area) as affected objects. Commercialization change orders can have non-engineering items (items created in the Product Information Management work area) and engineering items that are past Design lifecycle phase as affected objects.

Key Resources

• Watch Item Management and Change Management Improvements Readiness Training

Role Information

To use this feature, the following roles are required:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Product Design Engineer (ORA_ACD_PRODUCT_DESIGN_ENGINEER_JOB)
  • Product Design Manager (ORA_ACD_PRODUCT_DESIGN_MANAGER_JOB)

Prioritize New Item Requests and Change Orders Automatically

Automatically assign a default priority to your new item request or change order workflows. You can now configure a default priority when you set up the new item request type or change order type. 

Business or engineering users can use this feature to determine which tasks to execute first. This can also help with predetermining the different types of change orders created. The predefined type can also be modified at runtime.

Default Priority on Change Type

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

• Watch Item Management and Change Management Improvements Readiness Training

Role Information

To use this feature, the following roles are required:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Product Design Engineer (ORA_ACD_PRODUCT_DESIGN_ENGINEER_JOB)
  • Product Design Manager (ORA_ACD_PRODUCT_DESIGN_MANAGER_JOB)

Identify Completion Errors in Change Orders and New Item Requests Using OTBI

Identify BPM tasks that are yet to be approved or have errored out, to identify change orders or new item request workflows that may be impacted.

Approval Notification Archive Subject Area

Sample Analysis Using Approval Notification Archive Subject Area

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).

New subject area:  Approval Notification Archive Real Time

Tips And Considerations

This subject area is populated when you run the Archive Workflow Tasks scheduled process.

Key Resources

• Watch Item Management and Change Management Improvements Readiness Training

Role Information

To use this feature, the following roles are required:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Transactional Analysis Duty (FBI_TRANSACTION_ANALYSIS_GENERIC_DUTY)
  • Product Transaction Analysis Duty (FBI_PRODUCT_TRANSACTION_ANALYSIS_DUTY)
  • BI Consumer Role (BIConsumer)

Analyze Change Order Cycle Times by Status Using OTBI

Monitor the cycle time of all your change order statuses (draft, open, interim approval, approval, scheduled, complete) in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI).  With this capability, your change analysts can closely monitor the age of change orders that are in each of these statuses, ensuring that approvals are obtained in a timely manner. In addition, you can review the status cycle time of completed change orders by type for process improvements.

New Measures and Dimensions in Change Order Approvals Real Time Subject Area

Sample Analysis for Average Age and Counts in Each Status by Change Order Type

Sample Analysis for Average Cycle Time and Counts in Each Status by Change Order Type

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).

New Folders in Change Order Approval Real Time subject areas:

• Change Order Approval
• Change Order Approval Details

Key Resources

• Watch Item Management and Change Management Improvements Readiness Training

Restrict Update of Change Order Task Status

Update your change order task statuses to Open, Completed, or Canceled.  With this feature, your change analyst can update all task statuses within a change order.  Task assignees can only update the task status for tasks assigned to them.  If task assignees try to update a task that is not assigned to them, they receive the following error message: 'You can't update the task status unless you are the task assignee or the change order assignee.'

Set Task Status

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

• Watch Item Management and Change Management Improvements Readiness Training

Role Information

To use this feature, the following roles are required:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Product Design Engineer (ORA_ACD_PRODUCT_DESIGN_ENGINEER_JOB)
  • Product Design Manager (ORA_ACD_PRODUCT_DESIGN_MANAGER_JOB)

Add More Flexibility to Change Order Approval Management

Add ad hoc approvers to a change order during an approval step.  You can provide your change analysts with the additional flexibility to add approvers when there are unforeseen resource changes such as: sick leave, vacation, or termination.  Newly added approvers will receive notifications.  If the change order requires all approvers to approve and one of the ad hoc approvers rejects the change, the change order abides by the approval rules and is marked as rejected.

You can add approvers during interim approval status, if the Allow Updates option is selected.

Add Ad Hoc Approvers During Interim Approval

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: Product Management  No Longer Optional From: Update 20D

Tips And Considerations

To enable this feature, opt into the feature named Add Approvers to Change Orders Already in Progress.

Key Resources

• Watch Item Management and Change Management Improvements Readiness Training

Role Information

To use this feature, the following roles are required:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Supply Chain Application Administrator (ORA_RCS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)
  • Supply Chain Operations Manager (ORA_DOS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_OPERATIONS_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Product Design Engineer (ORA_ACD_PRODUCT_DESIGN_ENGINEER_JOB)
  • Product Design Manager (ORA_ACD_PRODUCT_DESIGN_MANAGER_JOB)

Improve Change Order Data Loading with a Maximum Limit Setting for Affected Objects

Limit Number of Affected Objects on a Change Order

Validate, limit and split the number of affected objects added to a change order through the user interface, web service or during import.

With this update, a new profile option (EGO_MAX_LINES_PER_CO) controls the number of affected objects added to the change order. This provides flexibility to manage a large number of affected objects.

If you exceed the limit set for affected objects when adding them through the UI, an error message appears. You can then split the affected objects to a different change order.

During the change order import, you can choose whether to split the change order. This feature works in conjunction with the following groupings during import: One per Item Batch with the Create new option, and One per Item Class.

If you choose to split the change order (during the import), the affected objects are added to a new change order. This helps to streamline the import.

If you choose not to split the change order, then a message appears listing the maximum limit for affected objects and the objects you can still add.

Error Message on Exceeding the Affected Object Limit

Automatically Split and Create New Change Orders

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: Product Management  No Longer Optional From: Update 20D

Feature: Improve Change Order Data Loading with a Maximum Limit Setting for Affected Objects

After you opt in to this feature, perform these steps to set the profile value (or limit for affected objects):

1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, access the Manage Administrator Profile Values task.
2. Search for the profile option code EGO_MAX_LINES_PER_CO.
3. In Profile Value, set the limit. You can set values from 1 to 100. The default limit is 50.

Set the Limit for Number of Affected Objects

Tips And Considerations

1. You must opt in to the feature named Improve Change Order Data Loading with a Maximum Limit Setting for Affected Objects.
2. For this feature to work, you must opt in to this as well as set the profile value.
3. Although the default profile value is set, it doesn’t function until you opt in to this feature.

Key Resources

• Watch Item Management and Change Management Improvements Readiness Training

Role Information

To use this feature, the following roles are required:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)    
  • Product Design Engineer (ORA_ACD_PRODUCT_DESIGN_ENGINEER_JOB)  
  • Product Design Manager (ORA_ACD_PRODUCT_DESIGN_MANAGER_JOB)         
  • Product Data Steward (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_DATA_STEWARD_JOB)

Quality Management

Set Up Quality Object Types in Setup and Maintenance Work Area

Set up quality object types directly from the Setup and Maintenance work area. You now have all major configuration tasks for quality management in the same place, and you can also migrate your data configuration from one environment to another with ease. 

To configure quality object types, use the two additional tasks appearing in the Quality Issue and Action Management functional area, under the Product Management offering:

• Manage Quality Issue Types
• Manage Quality Action Types

New Tasks  in Quality Issue and Action Management Functional Area

Steps to Enable

To create and enable new Quality Issue and Quality Action types, go to the Setup and Maintenance work area, select the Product Management offering, and then click the Quality Issue and Action Management functional area.  Then click either the Manage Quality Issue Types link to create and manage quality issues, or click the Manage Quality Action Types link to create and manage quality actions.

Key Resources

• Watch Setup and Maintenance Readiness Training

Include Additional Attributes for Quality Objects in REST Services and Groovy Expressions

Include additional attributes for quality issues and quality actions when you work with REST services and Application Composer.  In addition to ID, you can now use a user-friendly name and code for Workflow Template, Status, Organization, and Type. With REST or Groovy, these attributes can be read or written to execute event triggers such as changing a workflow status.

Steps to Enable

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

Inspect Inventory Prior to Serial Number Generation

To minimize the cost of serialization, some companies choose to serialize each unit of an item at the point of use and want the flexibility to skip serial number entry at inspection and require it later when performing material transactions. With this feature, you can now inspect material in inventory without specifying serial numbers for the units inspected if the method of serial generation requires entry at sales order, transfer order or work order issue. Once serialization occurs, you can also record serial numbers for inventory inspection to track the quality of each individual serial number. As a result, the quality inspection process becomes more adaptive to support the serialization strategy at your company.

Samples and Serials radio buttons have been added to the Enter Inspection Details page: 

Samples or Serials Radio Buttons

These buttons will be made available when you create an Inventory or Ad Hoc Work In Process inspection of an item with a serial generation value set to “Entry at sales order, transfer order, or work order issue” and “Entry at inventory pick.” You can specify if results should be entered against samples or serial numbers based on whether serial numbers have been assigned to the material.

This new functionality is also supported through the use of the Inspection Events REST service.

Watch a Demo

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

• Watch Quality Inspection Management Usability Enhancements Readiness Training

Role Information

To use this feature, the following roles are required:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Quality Engineer (ORA_QA_QUALITY_ENGINEER_JOB)
  • Production Operator (ORA_WIE_PRODUCTION_OPERATOR_JOB)
  • Warehouse Manager (ORA_INV_WAREHOUSE_MANAGER)

Mark Inspection Characteristic as Optional or Default Specification Target Value for Result Entry

For inspections with a long list of characteristics and high number of samples, it is time-consuming for quality inspectors to enter results for every characteristic in order to progress the inspection samples from pending to accept or reject. Whereas, certain test scenarios only require a subset of inspection characteristics to determine conformance to quality specifications, while the rest of the inspection characteristics are either skipped or entered selectively.

With this feature, you can now identify which inspection characteristics are considered optional for results entry or default their result value from the specification target in the inspection plan. With optional characteristics, you can define the full list of quality specifications in an inspection plan and distinguish the mandatory vs. non-mandatory set of requirements. This flexibility allows you to conditionally enter results and evaluate them to determine the inspection disposition of acceptance and/or rejection. In addition, results defaulted from the specifications help streamline data entry of pass/fail data by allowing you to override specific results to record failures.

As a result, data collection against the inspection plan and across samples becomes a quicker task of required and exception reporting, reducing the overall cost related to inspection activities.

"Optional" and "Default Target Value" checkboxes have been added on the Inspection Plan Specifications page:

Optional and Default Target Values Checkboxes

In addition, Select All and Deselect All actions are available from the Actions menu for both the optional and default target value checkboxes.

If you check the "Optional" checkbox for a characteristic, the sample disposition can be determined and the inspection completed even if you have not entered a value has been entered for that characteristic. If you do enter a result value for an optional characteristic, the value will be included in the determination of the sample disposition.

If you check the "Default Target Value" checkbox  for a characteristics, the specification target value will be used as a default when you are entering result values during an inspection. All defaulted result values will be marked as pass, but you will be able to override the defaulted value and the value entered will be used to determine pass or fail.

The optional and default target value flags are also supported through the use of the Inspection Plan and Inspection Events REST services.

Watch a Demo

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

• Watch Quality Inspection Management Usability Enhancements Readiness Training

Role Information

To use this feature, the following role is required:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Quality Engineer (ORA_QA_QUALITY_ENGINEER_JOB)

Increase Sampling Size to 100% Inspection for a Receipt Line

When acceptance sampling is employed to reduce the cost of incoming inspection for a good supplier, organizations want the flexibility to determine when the entire receipt is deemed acceptable or unacceptable based on the initial sample(s) as well as the option to continue inspecting the rest of the received material. With this feature, you can switch from sampling to 100% inspection of a receipt line if a visual check or inconclusive results indicate that further inspection is required. By inspecting every unit received, you can separate defective or nonconforming material by splitting the receipt line into the accepted quantity to put away into inventory and the rejected quantity to return to supplier or quarantine for material review. This capability enables your organization to tighten incoming quality control to fully inspect materials with high value or higher probability of defects, while minimizing the risk of accepting bad materials or rejecting good materials from suppliers.

A new "Inspect All" button has been added to the Inspection Results page:

Inspect All Button

The button will appear if you are performing an inspection against an inspection plan where sampling is enabled.  Once you press the button, additional samples will be created so that the number of samples will be equal to the receipt line quantity. You will then be able to enter results values against all of the material received on that line.   

The Inspect All functionality is also supported through the use of the Inspection Events REST service.

Watch a Demo

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

NOTE: This feature is not enabled for high volume receipts, where the receipt line quantity is greater than 800.

Key Resources

• Watch Quality Inspection Management Usability Enhancements Readiness Training

Role Information

To use this feature, the following roles are required:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Receiving Agent (ORA_RCV_RECEIVING_AGENT)
  • Warehouse Manager (ORA_INV_WAREHOUSE_MANAGER)

View Quality Issues and Actions for an Item in the Product Information Management Work Area

View quality issues and quality actions related to an item from the Manage Items > Edit Item page in the Product Information Management work area.  You can now directly and easily access quality issues and actions for an item in the context of the organization from the additional quality tab of the item page. You can also view the quality issues and actions of a child organization item.

Quality Issues and Actions for Child Organization Item

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

Quality issues and actions are only displayed if an affected object for the issue or action is for the same item organization combination.

Key Resources

• Watch Setup and Maintenance Readiness Training

Role Information

To use this feature, the following privilege and role is required:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER)

• Privilege Name and Code:
  • View Item (EGP_VIEW_ITEM_PRIV)

Use the Audit Report to View Changes to Quality Issue Attributes and Attachments

Provide an audit trail for any changes made to a quality issue. This is an important function of quality system controls for regulated industries. You can access the audit report through the side panel on the right. In the report, you can see all changes to attributes or attachments of a quality issue, including production exceptions. The report records changes made through the user interface and through REST services, along with details of who performed each change and when. The audit report promotes accountability, enables traceability, and provides adherence to regulatory compliance across quality issue transactions.

Steps to Enable

To configure the attributes in audit trail:

• Navigate to the Manage Audit Policies task in the Setup and Maintenance work area.
• Click the Configure Business Object Attributes button.
• From the Product list, select Quality Issue and Action Management.

Tips And Considerations

You can access the audit reports through the Manage Audit Report user interface. Please see Audit Lifecycle Feature: AuditTrail for an introduction of the Audit framework.

Key Resources

• Watch Setup and Maintenance Readiness Training

Role Information

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

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Application Administrator
  • Internal Auditor
  • Quality Analyst

• Privilege Name and Code:
  • Manage Audit Policies (FND_MANAGE_AUDIT_POLICIES_PRIV)
  • Manage Audit Reports (FND_VIEW_AUDIT_HISTORY_PRIV)
  • Manage Audit Reports (ORA_FND_INTERNAL_AUDITOR_JOB)

Generate Configuration Report to View Configuration

Application Composer supports configurations such as additions or enhancements to core features, or Groovy code that executes events such as validation rules or triggers to other objects or fields. In Metadata Manager, click Generate Configuration Report to view a summary of configurations made to layout details against a published sandbox.  Reports can be exported to HTML or Excel and are user and time stamped. 

Use the Configuration Report to view configuration modifications across the following:

• Standard and Custom Objects
• Global Functions
• Custom Relationships
• Standard Fields or Custom Fields
• Validations,
• Object Functions
• Triggers
• Object Workflows
• Dynamic Layouts

 You can use this detailed report to help create an efficient and consistent implementation experience, with quicker navigation to resolve issues created with groovy scripts or other configurations.

Configuration Report Showing Custom Fields Added to Requirements

Steps to Enable

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

Integrate and Extend Quality Management Using REST Services

Expand REST Services to Manage Relationships for a Quality Issue or Quality Action

REST services enable external applications to access the quality issue and quality action relationships.  You can link to other related objects like ideas, requirements, and change orders, to create a digital thread that weaves an integrated view of other processes related to a quality issue or action.

The new services include:

• Quality Issues > Relationships
• Quality Actions > Relationships

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 Setup and Maintenance Readiness Training

Expand REST for User-Defined Quality Issue or Quality Action Number

Quality processes may require the transfer of data from legacy or other systems to Oracle Quality Management Cloud.  You can now add the quality issue and quality action number through REST APIs, when required, if the respective number generation method per type allows it.

If the Type attribute is set to:

• User-Defined Number - the number attribute is mandatory through REST.
• Sequence-Generated Number - the number attribute is a read-only through REST.

The updated REST APIs include:

• Quality Issues > Create an issue
• Quality Actions > Create an action

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 Setup and Maintenance Readiness Training

Extensibility

Enable Auditing of Your Configured Objects

Use audit policies to set your selected configured objects and attributes to be audited for configuration changes.  After objects are enabled for audit, you can go to Navigator > Audit Reports to view changes such as when the object or its configured attribution was created, updated, or deleted.

Steps to Enable

To use this feature:

1. Go to Setup and Maintenance > Product Management > Audit Trail > Manage Audit Policies.
2. Click Configure Busines Object Attributes.
3. To enable audit for objects created under the FSCM container, select the following product: Supply Chain Management Common Components
4. Specify the objects and attributes that should be part of the audit.

Role Information

To use this feature, the following roles are required:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • To enable and manage audit: Manage Audit Policies (FND_MANAGE_AUDIT_POLICIES_PRIV)
  • To view the history or to create a report: View Audit History (FND_VIEW_AUDIT_HISTORY_PRIV)