Update 21D

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date	Module	Feature	Notes
13 OCT 2022	Product Hub	Control Role Expansion: New Item Request Definition	Updated document. Revised Tips and Considerations section.
10 AUG 2022	Product Hub	Control Role Expansion: New Item Request Definition	Updated document. Revised Tips and Considerations section.
08 APR 2022	Product Development and Product Hub Common	Accelerate Error Debugging for Changes	Updated document. Revised Role details.
05 JAN 2022	Product Development & Product Hub Common	Accelerate Error Debugging for Changes	Updated document. Added a feature that was backported in the January monthly maintenance pack for 21D.
08 NOV 2021	Product Hub	Query Additional Attributes Using the Items List of Values REST Resource	Updated document. Added a feature that was backported in the November monthly maintenance pack for 21D.
21 OCT 2021	Product Development	Other Product Development Changes in This Update	Updated document. Edited the entry for bug 32505430.
17 SEP 2021			Created initial document.

Overview

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

Security and New Features

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

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

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Pre-Update and Post-Update Tasks

Depending on the features you're using in your Cloud applications, you may be required to perform certain steps immediately before or after your quarterly update. For details of these pre-update and post-update steps and the product areas that are affected, refer to Oracle SCM Cloud: Performing Your Quarterly Update (doc ID 2337485.1) on My Oracle Support.

Optional Uptake of New Features (Opt In)

Oracle Cloud Applications delivers new updates every quarter. This means every three months you'll receive new functionality to help you efficiently and effectively manage your business. Some features are delivered Enabled meaning they are immediately available to end users. Other features are delivered Disabled meaning you have to take action to make available. Features delivered Disabled can be activated for end users by stepping through the following instructions using the following privileges:

• Review Applications Offering (ASM_REVIEW_APPLICATIONS_OFFERINGS_PRIV)
• Configure Oracle Fusion Applications Offering (ASM_CONFIGURE_OFFERING_PRIV)

Here’s how you opt in to new features:

1. Click Navigator > My Enterprise > New Features.
2. On the Features Overview page, select your offering to review new features specific to it. Or, you can leave the default selection All Enabled Offerings to review new features for all offerings.
3. On the New Features tab, review the new features and check the opt-in status of the feature in the Enabled column. If a feature has already been enabled, you will see a check mark. Otherwise, you will see an icon to enable the feature.
4. Click the icon in the Enabled column and complete the steps to enable the feature.

In some cases, you might want to opt in to a feature that's not listed in the New Features work area. Here's how to opt in:

1. Click Navigator > My Enterprise > Offerings.
2. On the Offerings page, select your offering, and then click Opt In Features.
3. On the Opt In page, click the Edit Features (pencil) icon for the offering, or for the functional area that includes your feature.
4. On the Edit Features page, complete the steps to enable the feature.

For more information and detailed instructions on opting in to new features for your offering, see Offering Configuration.

Opt In Expiration

Occasionally, features delivered Disabled via Opt In may be enabled automatically in a future update. This is known as an Opt In Expiration. If your cloud service has any Opt In Expirations you will see a related tab in this document. Click on that tab to see when the feature was originally delivered Disabled, and when the Opt In will expire, potentially automatically enabling the feature. You can also click here to see features with Opt In Expirations across all Oracle Cloud Applications.

Feature Summary

Quality Management

Quality Management

Copy an Inspection Plan Within an Organization

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

Copy Plan Dialog Box

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

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

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

Role And Privileges

You have a couple options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Quality Engineer (ORA_QA_QUALITY_ENGINEER_JOB)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Item Search on Create Inspection Plans Page

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

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

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

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

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

Key Resources

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

Role And Privileges

You have a couple options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Quality Engineer (ORA_QA_QUALITY_ENGINEER_JOB)

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

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

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

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

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

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

For example:

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

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

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

Role And Privileges

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

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

Other Quality Management Changes in This Update

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

Correct Count of Canceled Quality Issues and Actions in OTBI Reports

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

Bug reference: 31691712

Product Lifecycle Management

Dual Units of Measure

Set up your Oracle Cloud applications so you can order, price, receive, pick, pack, and ship an item that you enable with primary and secondary UOM tracking. You might need to order, transfer, outsource, or buy an item in a unit of measure that's different from the unit of measure that you use to price, invoice, and cost it.

For example, you might stock and sell meat in cases, but price it in pounds. Each case of meat has a different price because the total weight in pounds varies from one case to the next, but you need to give your buyers an estimated price for each case.

You can use the dual UOM solution to meet this requirement. It's an end-to-end, integrated solution that works across the Oracle Cloud applications and helps you:

• Simultaneously track an item in the primary UOM and secondary UOM throughout your order-to-cash process and procure-to-pay processes.
• Capture the actual weight of the item that you sell, transfer, or purchase, so you can accurately price, invoice, and cost the item.
• Provide a price estimate at the time of sale or purchase and maximize value according to the exact weight that you ship or receive.

Here are the Oracle Product Lifecycle Management Cloud enhancements to the dual UOM solution that are available in this update:

• Update Pricing UOM for Dual UOM Items
• Define and Use Dual UOM Items and Substitutes Effectively by Leveraging New Validations

Update Pricing UOM for Dual UOM Items

You can change the Pricing Unit of Measure (UOM) from Primary to Secondary for dual UOM items.

Pricing UOM

This feature gives your enterprise additional flexibility for products that have dual UOMs.

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: Order Management  No Longer Optional From: Update 22B

Tips And Considerations

To opt in to use this feature, you must opt in to one of these two features:

• In the Order Management offering: Create and Fulfill Sales Orders and Transfer Orders in Dual Units of Measure
• In the Procurement offering, Purchasing functional area: Purchase Items That Are Priced in Their Secondary UOM

If you have opted in to either or both of those features, then you can change the pricing UOM on items that are set up with dual units of measure.

With this feature, you can:

• Change pricing UOM from primary to secondary, but not vice versa.
• Update the pricing UOM only on certain conditions. For example, when there are open orders, it can’t be updated.
• View the Pricing UOM attribute in the Affected Objects redline view of commercialization change orders in the Simplified Change Management interface.

Key Resources

• Watch Item Management, Data Consolidation and Analytics Readiness Training.
• Refer to the Oracle SCM Cloud Using Product Master Data Management guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.

Role And Privileges

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 are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • View Item (EGP_VIEW_ITEM)
  • Maintain Item Main Group Data (EGO_MAINTAIN_ITEM_MAIN_GROUP_DATA)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature in commercial change orders.
  • View Change Orders (ACA_VIEW_CHANGE_ORDERS_PRIV)
  • Manage Change Orders (ACA_MANAGE_CHANGE_ORDERS_PRIV)

Define and Use Dual UOM Items and Substitutes Effectively by Leveraging New Validations

New validations ensure that the respective primary and secondary units of measure of a dual UOM item and its substitute are the same.

Substitute Relationship for Dual UOM Item

Substitute Relationship for Dual UOM Item Report Showing Primary and Secondary UOMs of Related Items

The validations enforce these requirements:

• Respective primary and secondary UOMs of a dual UOM item and its substitute are the same in the respective inventory organizations.
• Dual UOM item can’t be added as a substitute of a non-dual UOM item, and vice versa.

NOTE: This feature was also made available in the August monthly update of 21C.

This feature ensures that additional governance measures are enforced for product substitutions.

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: Order Management  No Longer Optional From: Update 22B

Tips And Considerations

To opt in to use this feature, you must opt in to one of these two features:

• In the Order Management offering: Create and Fulfill Sales Orders and Transfer Orders in Dual Units of Measure
• In the Procurement offering, Purchasing functional area: Purchase Items That Are Priced in Their Secondary UOM

If you have opted in to either or both of those features, then you can use the Define and Use Dual UOM Items and Substitutes Effectively by Leveraging New Validations feature.

Key Resources

• Watch Item Management, Data Consolidation and Analytics Readiness Training.
• Refer to the Oracle SCM Cloud Using Product Master Data Management guide, available on the Oracle Help Center, for setting up of primary and secondary UOM and defining Item Relationships.

Role And Privileges

You have a couple of options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Product Data Steward (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_DATA_STEWARD_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Manage Item (EGP_MANAGE_ITEM_PRIV)
  • Manage Item Relationship (EGP_MANAGE_ITEM_RELATIONSHIP_PRIV)

Innovation Management

Leverage a Unique Number Attribute for Proposals

You can now configure a number generation method for proposals and concepts so that unique numbers are automatically assigned to the objects when you create them.

This unique number is displayed along with other object details such as the name and description of the concept or proposal on the General Information page, the Manage Concepts or Manage Proposals pages, in notifications, and in the proposal export page.

You can set up the numbering method to use a prefix and suffix to help classify and identify the type of object. For example: PROTO_1002_NAO.

Example of Unique Number Generated for Proposal

Use automatically generated unique numbers to ensure an easily identifiable, consistent pattern of reference for your proposals and concepts.

Steps to Enable

In the Setup and Maintenance work area, go to the following:

• Offering: Product Management
• Functional Area: Product Concept Design
• Task: Manage Product Concept Classes

1. Open the concept class for which you want to configure number generation.
2. In the Method of Generation field, select an option:
   1. Inherited from Parent : Applies the same number generation method to all child classes of this parent class. This is the default setting.
   2. Sequence-generated : Automatically generates values in a specified sequence, based on the increment setting. If you select this option, then enter the following criteria:
      1. Prefix: text that automatically appears before the number
      2. Suffix: text that automatically appears after the number
      3. Starting Number: the first number in the sequence (Default Value =1)
      4. Increment: Incremental difference between two numbers in the sequence (Default Value =1)
      5. Maximum Number of Attempts: the number of attempts the application must make to generate the next available unique number (Default Value =50)
      6. Description* : Description of the number generation method for that class.  This is a mandatory field.
3. Save your changes.

Number Generation Tab in Concept Class Setup

Tips And Considerations

• For existing or old data, the Number attribute will be set to NULL.
• Once you convert a concept to an item, the Number attribute will no longer be available.
• Avoid duplicating the number generation criteria for different concept classes.

Key Resources

• Refer to the Oracle SCM Cloud Using Innovation Management guide, available on the Oracle Help Center

Role And Privileges

You have a couple of options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Product Design Manager (ORA_ACD_PRODUCT_DESIGN_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Product Design Engineer (ORA_ACD_PRODUCT_DESIGN_ENGINEER_JOB)

• To access the setup task:
  • Supply Chain Application Administrator (ORA_RCS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • To create and manage concepts and proposals:
    • Create Product Concept (ACD_CREATE_PRODUCT_CONCEPT_PRIV)
    • Manage Product Concept (ACD_MANAGE_PRODUCT_CONCEPT_PRIV)
    • Manage Product Proposal (ACD_MANAGE_PRODUCT_PROPOSAL_PRIV)
  • To access the setup task:
    • ACA_SETUP_PRODUCT_INNOVATION_PRIV

Extend Innovation Management REST Services

Product Concepts REST services enable external applications to access concept structure data.  With this update, you can update and extract additional concept and proposal details, such as alternatives and solution alternatives for concept structures. You can also extract metric values such as Cost, Weight, and Power for the concept structure.

Use the following existing resources to additionally extract alternatives and solution alternatives.

• Get one line item - To retrieve alternative and solution alternatives of one line item
• Get all line items - To retrieve alternative and solution alternatives of all line items
• Update a line item - To update an alternative and solution alternative

Use the following new resources to extract metric values:

• Get one metric: To retrieve metric values for one solution alternative
• Get all metrics: To retrieve metric values for all solution alternatives

Use the following new resources to retrieve all available status information for a proposal workflow:

• Get one next status: To retrieve one next status of a proposal 
• Get all next statuses: To retrieve all next statuses of a proposal 

Oracle Project Management Cloud uses this information to define dependency rules between project tasks and proposals. For example, you can create a dependency rule to initiate the completion of a project task when the proposal is moved to a specific status.

Use these new and modified REST services to update and extract additional concept and proposal details, and to extend integrations between Product Development and Project Management applications.

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.

Tips And Considerations

1. For Get one line item, Get all line items and Update a line item: Solution Alternative is retrieved as FlagAlternative (From FlagAlternative1 to FlagAlternative15)
2. For Get one line item, Get all line items and Update a line item APIs, you can update the alternative (Example: "Alternate"= Y/N) and solution alternative (Example: "FlagAlternative1"= Y/N)
3. The Roll Up Metrics action can't be performed using Get one metric and Get all metrics
4. In case there are multiple versions of a concept or proposal, use the Concept ID or Proposal ID of a specific version to retrieve the information.

Role And Privileges

You have a couple of options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Concepts: For Get one line item, Get all line items, Update a line item, Get one metric and Get all metrics
    • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
    • Product Design Manager (ORA_ACD_PRODUCT_DESIGN_MANAGER_JOB)
    • Product Design Engineer (ORA_ACD_PRODUCT_DESIGN_ENGINEER_JOB)
  • Proposal: For Get one next status and Get all next statuses
    •  Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • For Get one line item, Get all line items and Update a line item
    • For GET action : ACD_REVIEW_PRODUCT_CONCEPT_PRIV
    • For Update action : ACD_MANAGE_PRODUCT_CONCEPT_PRIV
  • For Get one metric and Get all metrics (Concept)
    • ACD_REVIEW_PRODUCT_CONCEPT_PRIV
  • For Get one next status and Get all next statuses (Proposal) 
    • ACD_GET_PROPOSAL_REST

Other Innovation Management Changes in This Update

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

Save As on Proposals with Configured Attributes

You can now use the Save As action on proposals that include configured attributes. Prior to this update, this action returned an error.

Bug reference: 32869309

Product Development

Quickly Enter Reference Designators

Enter reference designators inline with the item component directly on the item structure tab in the Product Development work area, instead of in the side panel. Use a comma-separated list of values, a range, or a mix of both, to enter multiple values.

For example, if your administrator has selected '+' as a range indicator, you can enter 'A1+ A5' and the system will expand the range to create 5 reference designators: A1, A2, A3, A4, and A5.

Here are the changes to the item structure table:

• Quantity Related and Align Quantity icons are now available at the top of the item structure table.
  • The clipboard icon with a check box is the Quantity Related setting. For Product Development structure items, the Quantity Related icon is selected by default. If the Quantity Related icon is enabled and reference designators are entered, the application validates whether the structure item quantity matches the reference designator count. If the 'Quantity Related' icon is disabled, the application disables the validation of the structure item quantity against the Reference Designator count.
  • The calculator with a check box is the Align Quantity action. If the structure item quantity doesn't match the count of reference designators, select the Align Quantity icon. This would allow automatic update of Item Quantity, to match the Reference Designators count.

• The Reference Designator column is now visible and editable.

• You can click the expansion button '...' in the reference designator cell to open a dialog where you can view and edit the expanded values for the reference designators. The expansion button is only available for the row that's being edited. You can also enable or disable the quantity check, and align quantity from this dialog.

• Export to Excel now includes the reference designator column so that you can easily view reference designators in collapsed mode.

Here are the changes to the item structure side panel if the feature is enabled (by setting the value for Reference Designator Range Indicator to a special character):

• Reference designators are read-only. They are edited in the item structure table.
• Only Reference Designator Descriptive flexfields are edited in the side panel.

Inline Editing of Reference Designators

Empower your users to define reference designators quickly and efficiently, with minimal navigation.

Steps to Enable

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

• Offering: Product Management
• Functional Area: Structures
• Task: Manage Item Structure Types

2. In the Manage Item Structure Type Details page, set the value for Reference Designator Range Indicator to a special character. The default value is None. (If set to None, you can continue to manage reference designators using the side panel on the item structure.) If the special character selected for the Reference Designator Range Indicator (for example '-') is already used as a part of the name of an existing reference designator, you must select a different range indicator.

Available Values for Reference Designator Range Indicator

Tips And Considerations

• This feature is only available for Product Development item structures that haven't been added to any pending or released change orders. It's not yet supported on Product Hub structures, change orders, import, REST, or SOAP services.
  • If you select a particular character as your reference designator range indicator (for example '-'), you won't be allowed to add reference designators containing the same special character on change orders or Product Hub item structures using import, REST, or SOAP services, as these clients don't yet support expansion of reference designator ranges.

• In the side panel:
  • Add and Remove buttons are no longer available.
  • Quantity Related and Align Quantity check boxes aren't available.
  • Only descriptive flexfields are editable.

• Although not recommended, you can change the Reference Designator Indicator back to 'None' after selecting an indicator.

Key Resources

• Refer to the Oracle SCM Cloud Using Product Development guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.

Role And Privileges

You have a couple of options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • User Role: Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Administrator Role:  Application Administrator (ORA_FND_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Manage Item (EGP_MANAGE_ITEM_PRIV)
  • Manage My Application Profile Values (FND_APP_MANAGE_MY_PROFILE_VALUES_PRIV)

Allow Suppliers to View Only Item Structure and Where Used Reports

You can now use a new duty role to provide access exclusively to Item Structure and Where Used OTBI reports.

• New duty role: External Product Catalog Transaction Analysis Duty (FBI_EXTERNAL_SUPPLIER_PRODUCT_CATALOG_TRANSACTION_ANALYSIS)

This role provides access only to analyses created in OTBI using the following subject areas:

• Product Management - Structures and Components
• Product Management - Where Used

External Product Catalog Transactional Analysis Duty Role

Use this new duty role to give your suppliers granular access to view Item Structure and Where Used reports, without having to modify your existing internal user roles and privileges.

Steps to Enable

Make the feature accessible by assigning or updating privileges and/or job roles. Details are provided in the Role section below.

If the supplier is already assigned a configured role with access to engineering items in the Supplier Portal:

1. Add the new duty role External Product Catalog Transaction Analysis Duty (FBI_EXTERNAL_SUPPLIER_PRODUCT_CATALOG_TRANSACTION_ANALYSIS) to the supplier role.
2. Remove the duty role FBI_PRODUCT_CATALOG_TRANSACTION_ANALYSIS_DUTY if it was assigned earlier.
3. In OTBI, navigate to Shared Folders > Custom, and set the permissions for the supplier role to No Access.
4. Create a new folder within the Shared Folders/Custom/Supply Chain Management/Product Management path or a similar path within the Custom folder. Save any analyses you want to share with supplier users to this folder and ensure that the supplier role is given view access to this folder.
5. Additionally, add the View Product Management Reports privilege to the supplier role, so that the supplier can use the View Reports action from the Actions menu of an item and publish item structure and where used data for analysis.

Note that the supplier user or the configured role can publish item data for analysis only if they are added to the Security tab of the item with the appropriate privileges (such as View Item Basic). In addition, EGP_MANAGE_ITEM_PRIV is required to run and view the scheduled process related to the Publish for Analysis action.

If you are creating a new supplier user who needs access to engineering items in the Supplier Portal:

1. Create a new role with the same privileges as the predefined role Supplier Product Design Engineer.
2. Perform steps 1-5 for the newly created role, just as you would for a configured role.

Tips And Considerations

A supplier user with this duty role will have access to all the factory-shipped folders, but can only run analyses that are created using the following subject areas:

• Product Management - Structures and Components
• Product Management - Where Used

You can thus prevent inadvertent access to analyses created using other subject areas.

Key Resources

Refer to the following:

• Access OTBI Reports Securely  to create secured analyses in Product Management - Structures and Components and Product Management- Where Used subject areas. (20D feature)

• Set Folder Permissions and Attributes section in the Oracle SCM Cloud Creating and Administering Analytics and Reports for SCM guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.

• Launch Item Reports Directly from Product Development (20C feature)

• Use a Single Dialog to Publish and View Reports (21C feature)

Role And Privileges

• To use this feature, you must have these predefined job roles and privileges.
  • IT Security Manager (ORA_FND_IT_SECURITY_MANAGER_JOB)

Other Product Development Changes in This Update

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

Limit of 500 Records Removed for Reference Designator GET Operation

Prior to this update, you could only retrieve up to 500 reference designator records in a REST API call. This limitation is now removed. You can pass the limit parameter to retrieve more than 500 records.

Bug reference: 32798400

Display Limit of Affected Objects in Email Notifications

Prior to this update, the email notification for effective change orders listed only 16 out of the total number of affected objects.

To fix this, a threshold has been set for the number of affected objects displayed in an email notification. If the number of affected objects exceeds this threshold, a link to the change order page is provided so that you can navigate to the object and view the full list.

For change order approval task notifications, the threshold is 25. For FYI notifications, the threshold is 100.

Bug reference: 31431717

Import of Items with Past Effective Date Restricted

You are now restricted from importing any item revisions with a past date if the item is assigned to any existing change orders in Scheduled or Completed status. You can still import item revisions with a past date if the item is assigned to any existing change orders in Open status.

This prevents change orders from getting stuck after the import.

Bug reference: 32180421

Consistent Display of Recent Items

With this update, the Recent Items list in the global header also includes items you opened from the advanced search results.

Bug reference: 32628293

Change Manufacturer Status from Active to Inactive Without Errors

You can now change the manufacturer status from Active to Inactive without any errors. You can also enter the location details before saving your changes.

Bug reference: 31242045

Display of Rejection Comments for Change Orders

In the change order approval email notification, the change creator can now view the comments entered by approvers while rejecting the change.

Bug reference: 32505430

Imported Items Show Redlines in Affected Objects Tab

Prior to this update, the Affected Objects tab on a change order would appear blank when you imported items that were marked private, or had entries in the Team tab. This issue is fixed.

Bug reference: 32832629

Product Hub

Export and Import Item Class Attribute Group Assignments

The export and import of item class content from the Setup and Maintenance work area has been enhanced to include user definable attribute group assignments including the Product Hub Portal attributes, Functional Item Pages, Matching, and Item Overview pages. The user definable attribute group assignments will be included in the packages that are generated from Setup and Maintenance.

The following image shows the attribute groups that are assigned to the item class.

Attribute Group Assignments for Matching, Item Overview, Functional Item Pages, and Product Hub Portal Supported for Export and Import Item Class

This feature increases your company's efficiency by migrating your base configuration with ease to new environments.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• The import of the user definable attribute group assignments will show warnings when the attribute groups referenced in the assignment are not available on the target system, but the remainder of the import will continue.

• Item class attribute group assignments and pages are exported and imported using the Manage Item Attribute Groups and Attributes task in the Setup and Maintenance work area.

• User definable attributes must be exported and imported prior to running the item class import to ensure all attribute group assignments are imported without any warnings.

Key Resources

• Watch Analytics, Setup and Web Services Readiness Training
• Customer Connect Session: Setup Migration Best Practices
• Refer to the Oracle SCM Cloud Using Product Master Data Management guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.

Role And Privileges

You have a couple of options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Product Data Steward (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_DATA_STEWARD_JOB)
  • Product Hub Administration Duty (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_HUB_ADMINISTRATION_DUTY)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Manage Item Classes (EGP_MANAGE_ITEM_CLASS_PRIV)

Purge Automatically Generated Import Maps

Product Data Stewards can now run the Upgrade Product Management Data scheduled process to delete import maps that were generated automatically while mass editing items. To delete the import maps, set the following parameters on the scheduled process:

• Functional Area = Import maps.
• Feature = Delete automatically generated import maps.
• Parameter 1 = the name of the import map to be deleted.

There is also a new Import Map attribute in the Smart Spreadsheets that indicates the name of the import map for which the smart spreadsheet was generated.

The following screen capture illustrates this feature and its benefits.

Upgrade Product Data Management Scheduled Process

This feature allows your application to run more efficiently by cleansing your application of redundant data that is no longer needed.  

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• Use this scheduled process with caution because you can accidentally delete all automatically-generated import maps that get created while mass editing items. These import maps will get generated only if you have opted in for Use Import Map Smart Spreadsheets For Item Mass Update feature in 21C Update.

• The automatically-generated import maps are internal and not visible on Manage Import Maps page. There is no need to delete these import maps as they get reused internally. Deletion is only needed if you encounter issues with a specific smart spreadsheet used for mass editing the items.

• To delete all automatically-generated import maps of all users, you can specify Parameter 1 as ALL.

• If Parameter 1 is left blank, then none of the automatically-generated import maps will get deleted.

• If the name of a non-system generated import is specified as Parameter 1, then that import map will not get deleted. The scheduled process only deletes automatically-generated import maps.

• The Import Map attribute will display only if you have opted in for Use Import Map Smart Spreadsheets For Item Mass Update feature in 21C Update.

• The Import Map attribute will not display in the Smart Spreadsheets generated for import maps marked as external.

• Changing the import map name in the Import Map attribute will not use the specified import map for generating the data file or uploading the data to an item batch. This attribute is for information purposes only.

Key Resources

• Customer Connect Event, Importing Items using Import Maps
• The help topic on importing items using import maps in the Oracle SCM Cloud Using Product Master Data Management guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.

Role And Privileges

You have a couple options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Product Data Steward (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_DATA_STEWARD_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Manage Product Management Data Upgrade (EGO_MANAGE_PRODUCT_MANAGEMENT_DATA_UPGRADE_PRIV)

Leverage New Item Attribute for Controlling the Supply Creation Date

Leverage a new item attribute used to control the date, after which the item can be used to create supply for Oracle Supply Planning cloud. This image shows the new field MPS and MPR planning sub section of the Item Organization page. 

Create Supply After field

This feature gives your enterprise a tighter integration with downstream systems by allowing additional information to be captured on the item that can be used with Oracle Supply Chain Planning Cloud.  

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• The Create Supply After attribute is enabled only when the Create Supply attribute is set to Yes.
• The past date cannot be set for this attribute.
• Attribute value can be set via UI, import, or service.
• In the Simplified Change Management Interface, the Affected Objects redline view of commercialization change orders now shows the Create Supply After attribute.

Key Resources

• Watch Item Management, Data Consolidation and Analytics Readiness Training.
• Refer to the Oracle SCM Cloud Using Product Master Data Management guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.

Role And Privileges

• Users who are assigned this predefined job role are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature.
  • Create Item Class Item Data (EGO_CREATE_ITEM_CLASS_ITEM_DATA)
  • View Item (EGP_VIEW_ITEM)
  • Maintain Item MRP and MPS Group Data (EGO_MAINTAIN_ITEM_MRP_AND_MPS_GROUP_DATA)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature in commercial change orders.
  • View Change Orders (ACA_VIEW_CHANGE_ORDERS_PRIV)
  • Manage Change Orders (ACA_MANAGE_CHANGE_ORDERS_PRIV)

Use Enhanced Import Map Smart Spreadsheet User Interface

You can now use the enhanced smart spreadsheet layout for creating and updating items. The Validate, Generate Data File, and Upload Data buttons are now moved to the Add-ins tab on the ribbon bar. The instruction text is moved to a new Instructions sheet.

The following screen capture illustrates this feature and its benefits.

Enhanced Smart Spreadsheet

This feature makes your enterprise more efficient by giving users an improved layout that lends itself to being more intuitive and user friendly.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• There is no change in the workings of the Validate, Generate Data File, and Upload Data actions.

• The Item Batch Name and Spoke System Name attributes are shifted to the first two rows of the smart spreadsheet.

• The Upload Data action, and Item Batch Name, Spoke System Name, and Import Map attributes are available only if you have opted in for the Use Import Map Smart Spreadsheets For Item Mass Update feature in 21C Update.

• The header row is now shifted to the fourth row of the smart spreadsheet if you have opted in for the Use Import Map Smart Spreadsheets For Item Mass Update feature in 21C Update. Otherwise, it will be the first row of the smart spreadsheet.

Key Resources

• Customer Connect Event, Importing Items using Import Maps

• The help topic on importing items using import maps in the Oracle SCM Cloud Using Product Master Data Management guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.

Role And Privileges

You have a couple options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Product Data Steward (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_DATA_STEWARD_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Manage Item Batch (EGI_MANAGE_ITEM_BATCH)
  • Manage Item Import Map (EGI_MANAGE_ITEM_IMPORT_MAP)

Control Role Expansion: New Item Request Definition

Reduce the number of unnecessary rows or details in the Definition Workflow table for a new item request when you add roles that have a long list of members.

If only one response is required from an assignee and a role is added as the assignee, the role is no longer expanded to show its members. All members of the role receive definition notifications, and you can track the task owner and task status. The Assigned To field in the notification won't be expanded to show all role members. If the assignee is a role and Response Required From is set to All, the role will continue to be expanded to show all its members.

Enhanced Definition Workflow Details Table

A flat list replaces the tree table for quicker loading and readability. You can quickly filter the table using QBE (Query by Example) or predefined criteria: Current Tasks, My Tasks, All Tasks, or My Current Tasks. The default view is set to Current Tasks. New columns such as Owner, Started On, and Completed On are now available to help you track who claimed the task, who completed the task, when the task was started, and when it was completed.

Predefined View Filters in the Definition Table

This feature benefits your business by allowing for a clean, focused view of the data you really want to see in the new item request definition table.

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 22C

Tips And Considerations

• After you opt in to this feature, you won't be able to opt out.

• If the definition assignee is a role and Response Required From is set to All, the role will continue to be expanded to show all its members. It's still recommended to limit the number of members in a role to less than 50.

• Notifications will be sent to all the assignees added directly or inherited from the role hierarchy, whether the response is required from all or one.

• OTBI reports don't support the new columns Owner, Started On, and Completed On in this update.

• After you opt in to this feature, the Owner column isn't automatically populated on your existing new item requests. To populate the Owner column, run the following scheduled process in the Scheduled Processes work area: Upgrade Product Management Data. This is a one-time activity. The Owner column is automatically populated on the new item requests you create after you opt in.

Impact on Ongoing Definition Workflows

When you opt in for this feature, here's what happens to pending new item requests that are already in Definition status:

• If a task was assigned to a role and Response Required From was set to One, the role will stay expanded. For all the incomplete definition tasks assigned to roles, you can use the Go to Task icon on the Worklist notification to continue defining the tasks of a pending new item request, or you can terminate and restart the definition workflow.

• If you haven’t opted in for this feature, you can terminate the definition workflow, opt in, and restart the definition workflow.

Key Resources

• Refer to Oracle SCM Cloud: Performing Your Quarterly Update (Doc ID 2337485.1) before proceeding with the upgrade.

Query Additional Attributes Using the Items List of Values REST Resource

Use the existing Items List of Values REST resource to get additional item attributes, associated item categories, item relationships, and trading partner relationship details. You can continue to use this REST resource to build a list of values using the Visual Builder Cloud Service.

NOTE: This feature was also made available in a monthly update of 21C.

This feature benefits your business by allowing you to efficiently and programmatically retrieve additional item data using a REST resource.

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.

Tips And Considerations

Here’s a list of additional data you can query:

• Additional item attributes such as PlanningMethodValue, BackToBackEnabledFlag, SerialGenerationValue, UserItemTypeValue, and ItemStatusValue.

• Various item relationships such as CrossReferenceRelationships, GTINRelationships, SpokeSystemItemRelationships, and TradingPartnerItemRelationships.

• Item category assignment details.

Key Resources

• Refer to the REST APIs for Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud documentation, available on the Oracle Help Center.

Role And Privileges

You have a couple of options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Get Items REST (EGP_ITEM_REST)

Other Product Hub Changes in This Update

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

Validate Start Dates When Importing Item Revisions

Before update 21D, when you imported item revisions, the effective start date of your item revisions wasn't validated to verify that no data conflicts existed. This led to data corruption and stuck change orders in some cases. After you update to 21D, when you import items that were previously added to a completed or scheduled change order, a validation ensures that the effective start date of the item revision is greater than the effective start date of the most recent change order that includes that item. This validation is applicable only when the Item Data Conversion Mode profile option is set to No (site-level setting).

Bug reference: 32180421

Disabling Parent Item Class Disables All Child Item Classes

Before update 21D, when you disabled an item class, the child item classes weren't disabled. This led to unexpected behavior in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) and item search. After you update to 21D, disabling a parent item class disables all the child item classes. You'll see a warning message before you complete this action.

Bug reference: 32430969

Product Development & Product Hub Common

Accelerate Error Debugging for Changes

Improve error logging without enabling finest logging. This helps support and development teams to quickly debug and determine the root cause of stuck and canceled change orders.

Key changes:

• The error table (EGO_CHANGE_ERRORS) has been enhanced to add a new CLOB column (ERROR_DETAIL) to capture the entire stack trace without truncation.

• The service server name and the execution ID are added to the threads table (EGO_VERSIONS_BATCH_THREADS) and the error table (EGO_CHANGE_ERRORS) as new columns to help in debugging when changes get stuck in scheduled status.

• Error details are available in these tables even after scheduling logs are purged.

• The Activation Process ID column now displays the ID of the actual process that failed, not the ID of the parent process.

When a rule fails validation, both error tables and logs show an appropriate error message providing details.

ESS Log with Rule Validation Error

When a scheduling process fails, the process ID is displayed in the change affected objects table and the Enterprise Scheduler Service (ESS) log.

Scheduling Error Process ID in Affected Objects Table

You can use this ID to query the errors and get debugging information related to the failed process from the EGO_CHANGES_ERRORS table.

Sample query:

select * from fusion.ego_change_errors where request_id=[process ID];

You can use this feature to provide visibility into the details of change order validation errors directly in the implementation logs, which supports faster debugging and issue resolution.

Steps to Enable

1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, go to the following task: Manage Administrator Profile Values 
2. Search for the profile option code: ORA_EGO_CHANGE_DEBUG_MODE or profile option name: Enable Change Debugging
3. Set the profile value to Yes. The default is No. 

Tips And Considerations

When an activation process fails, the ID displayed is now the correct process that is in error.  It's no longer necessary to search for the subprocess that failed.

If you have an activation status failure, follow these steps to gather debug information before moving change lines to a new change:

1. Navigate to the change order’s Affected Objects tab.
2. Locate the Activation Process ID column, and copy the process ID. You may have to scroll horizontally to locate the column.
3. Use this process ID to query the EGO_CHANGES_ERRORS table for debug information.

Activation Error Process ID

You can create a BI data model with similar queries to view data in the EGO_CHANGES_ERRORS table.

Key Resources

• Oracle SCM Cloud Using Product Development guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.

Role And Privileges

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.

• The following roles and privileges are required to view change order scheduling and activation processes:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • View Change Orders (ACA_VIEW_CHANGE_ORDERS_PRIV)
  • Manage Change Orders (ACA_MANAGE_CHANGE_ORDERS_PRIV)

• Business users who are assigned the following predefined job role are automatically able to view the ESS logs:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)

• To access change objects and view scheduling and activation statuses for affected objects, you must have the following privilege along with Monitor Product Management Workflow Objects (ACA_MONITOR_PRODUCT_MANAGEMENT_WORFLOW_OBJECTS_PRIV) privilege:

  • Manage Change Orders (ACA_MANAGE_CHANGE_ORDERS_PRIV)

• The following roles are required to build a BI report:
  • BI Publisher Data Model Developer (BIPDataModelDeveloper)
  • BI Consumer Role (BIConsumer)
  • BI Author Role (BIAuthor)
  • BI Administrator Role (BIAdministrator)

• The following roles are required to view a BI report:
  • BI Publisher Data Model Developer (BIPDataModelDeveloper)
  • BI Consumer Role (BIConsumer)

Product Hub Portal

Enrich Supplier-Specific Item Attributes Using Product Hub Portal

Your suppliers can now associate their addresses to products and specify the corresponding extensible flexfield values. They can search for their addresses using Global Location Numbers, if they are set up for the addresses. You can then, optionally, review the supplier provided data before importing it in Oracle Product Hub Cloud as supplier organization associations.

You can use the Product Hub Portal sub-tab under the Pages and Attribute Groups tab on the Edit Item Class page to give your suppliers access to supplier-level extensible flexfields while creating or editing products from the Product Hub Portal UI.

The following screen capture illustrates this feature and its benefits.

Supplier Organization Associations Tab

Empower your suppliers to manage details of the products they supply in a self service mode, thereby making them accountable for the quality of the data provided.

Steps to Enable

In the Setup and Maintenance work area, go to the following:

• Offering: Product Management

• Functional Area: Items

• Task: Manage Item Classes
  1. Open an item class and navigate to the Product Hub Portal sub-tab under the Pages and Attribute Groups tab.
  2. In the Attribute Groups table, select and add supplier-level extensible flexfield attribute groups.

Tips And Considerations

• You can add only those supplier-level extensible flexfield attribute groups to the Product Hub Portal sub-tab on the Edit Item Class page that are already added to the Attribute Groups sub-tab of the item class.

• The new Data Level column on the Product Hub Portal sub-tab indicates whether the attribute group is Item-level or Item Supplier-level.

• The sequences for the extensible flexfield attribute groups added to the Product Hub Portal sub-tab of an Item Class can be specified in any order.

• The supplier-level extensible flexfields added to the Product Hub Portal sub-tab of the Item Class will get inherited to child item classes.

• Suppliers can associate their addresses to a product using the new Supplier Organization Associations tab on the create and edit product pages.

• The new Supplier Organization Associations tab will only display if the supplier-level attribute groups are added to the Product Hub Portal sub-tab of the item class associated to the category of the product being created or edited.

• Supplier won’t be able to search and select addresses of other suppliers.

• The suppliers can select the added address to provide the extensible flexfield values for the address in the details region of that address. Only those attribute groups will display in the details region that are added to the Product Hub Portal sub-tab of the item class associated with the category of the product being created or edited. The attribute groups will display in the same sequence as defined on the Product Hub Portal sub-tab of the item class.

• Suppliers can delete an address only if the product is in a Draft status. Once the product is submitted, the delete action is disabled and suppliers will no longer be able to delete the address since import does not support the deletion of supplier organization associations. To delete supplier organization associations of non-draft status products, the Supplier Products REST service can be used.

• The supplier organization associations along with their respective extensible flexfields created by the suppliers using product uploads or Supplier Products REST service will display on the new Supplier Organization Associations tab of the create and edit product pages.

• You can optionally review the supplier organization associations and their respective extensible flexfields provided by the suppliers from Review Supplier Uploads page by viewing the products.

• After successful import, the supplier organization associations along with the corresponding extensible flexfields will get imported into Oracle Product Hub cloud.

Key Resources

• Customer Connect Event, Importing Items using Import Maps

• The help topic on importing items using import maps in the Oracle SCM Cloud Using Product Master Data Management guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.

• The chapter on supplier products in the Oracle SCM Cloud Using Product Master Data Management guide, on the Oracle Help Center.

Role And Privileges

You have a couple of options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Product Data Steward (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_DATA_STEWARD_JOB)
  • Supplier Product Administrator (ORA_EGS_SUPPLIER_PRODUCT_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature:
  • Manage Item Batch (EGI_MANAGE_ITEM_BATCH)•    Manage Item Import Map (EGI_MANAGE_ITEM_IMPORT_MAP)
  • Manage Product Upload (EGS_MANAGE_PRODUCT_UPLOAD_PRIV)

Product Lifecycle Management Common

Use Assignee Role As Backup for Assignee

You can now view and edit the assignee role on change orders, change requests, problem reports, and corrective actions. If you define a role as the default assignee for a change type, this role will be automatically assigned to change objects of that type. The assignee role can be edited in the draft and open statuses.

Use the Assignee Role field to limit the selection of Assigned To users to only those users who are members of the role. (See Tips and Considerations for best practices on using this feature).

Assignee Role Selection on the General Information Tab

You can provide additional flexibility in your change workflows by introducing this new assignee role, and improve the overall change management process.

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 22B

Tips And Considerations

• Change orders, change requests, problem reports, and corrective actions that were created prior to this feature being available won't have the Assignee Role field populated automatically from the change type.

• It's recommended that you always populate the Assignee Role field on the General Information tab so that the new Assigned To user can add approvers during the current workflow approval status. The assignee role can only be edited in the Draft and Open statuses and when the change is terminated.

• You can set a default assignee role and a default assignee on the change order type. When a change order of this type is created, it's automatically assigned to a specific role and user.

• If the assignee role isn't defined, the new assignee must have the BPMWorkflowAdmin privilege in order to terminate the workflow.

• If the assignee role isn't defined, and the new assignee wants to reassign or delegate a task from BPM Worklist, he must have the BPMWorkflowSCMAdmin role to view all the approval tasks under Administrative Tasks.

• To modify the Assignee Role and Assigned To fields, you must have the Manage Assignee privilege. You must also have permission to manage change header attributes (defined in the Additional Workflow Controls table in change type setup.) 

• In addition to adding an assignee role, it's also recommended that you grant the creator and the requester the ability to edit the change header attributes during Interim Approval and Approval statuses. This will allow them to modify the assignee in the event that the current assignee becomes unavailable during these statuses.

• Supplier users aren't allowed to edit the Assignee Role or Assigned To fields. Only Product Development users can edit these fields.

• You can't edit the Assignee Role or Assigned To fields for change orders, change requests, problem reports, and corrective actions that were added prior to the support of Additional Controls in update 20B.

Key Resources

• Refer to the Oracle SCM Cloud Using Product Development guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.

Role And Privileges

You have a couple of options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Quality Engineer (ORA_ENQ_QUALITY_ENGINEER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles must have the Monitor Product Management (ACA_MONITOR_PRODUCT_MANAGEMENT_WORKFLOW_OBJECTS_PRIV) privilege along with the following privileges:
  • Change Orders 
    • Manage Change Orders (ACA_MANAGE_CHANGE_ORDERS_PRIV)
  • Change Requests
    • Manage Change Requests (ACA_MANAGE_CHANGE_REQUESTS_PRIV)
  • Problem Reports 
    • Manage Problem Report (ACA_MANAGE_PROBLEM_REPORT_PRIV)
  • Corrective Actions 
    • Manage Corrective Action (ACA_MANAGE_CORRECTIVE_ACTION_PRIV)

Identify Who Assigned a Change Task

See who has assigned a task and when the task was assigned.  Two new columns, Assigned By and Assigned On, show you this information in the Tasks Table and in the task notification for change orders, change requests, problem reports, and corrective actions.

Tasks Table with Assigned By and Assigned On Columns

Task Notification with Assigned By and Assigned On Columns

This feature enriches the user experience by introducing additional task attributes across change tasks and notifications.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• If the same task has been assigned by different users, details of the latest assignment are displayed.

• The Assigned By and Assigned On columns are only populated for tasks added or modified after this feature is available.

• For completed change orders, the Assigned By and Assigned On columns will appear blank.

• Existing tasks for change orders that are already in progress will show blank values for Assigned By and Assigned On columns. If you add more tasks to these change orders after the upgrade, the columns are populated for the new tasks.

Role And Privileges

You have a couple of options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

• Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to create and reassign tasks:
  • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Quality Engineer (ORA_ENQ_QUALITY_ENGINEER_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles must have the Monitor Product Management (ACA_MONITOR_PRODUCT_MANAGEMENT_WORKFLOW_OBJECTS_PRIV) privilege along with the following privileges:
  • Change Orders 
    • Manage Change Orders (ACA_MANAGE_CHANGE_ORDERS_PRIV)
  • Change Requests 
    • Manage Change Requests (ACA_MANAGE_CHANGE_REQUESTS_PRIV)
  • Problem Reports 
    • Manage Problem Report (ACA_MANAGE_PROBLEM_REPORT_PRIV)
  • Corrective Actions
    • Manage Corrective Action (ACA_MANAGE_CORRECTIVE_ACTION_PRIV)