Cloud Readiness / Oracle Fusion Cloud Product Lifecycle Management
What's New
Expand All


  1. Update 22D
  1. Revision History
  2. Overview
  3. Pre-Update and Post-Update Tasks
  4. Optional Uptake of New Features (Opt In)
  5. Feature Summary
  6. Quality Management
    1. Quality Management
        1. Create, Update, and Get Inspection Characteristics Using a REST Service
        2. Create Problem Reports and Corrective Actions Directly from Engineering Items
        3. Selected Quality Management Bug Fixes in This Update
  7. Product Lifecycle Management
    1. Innovation Management
        1. Associate Proposals to Portfolios
    2. Product Development
        1. Configure Manufacturer Search
        2. Automate Change Order Publication Using Web Services
        3. Give Suppliers Quick Access to Changes and Quality Data
        4. Item Quality Tab Enhancements
        5. Selected Product Development Bug Fixes in This Update
    3. Product Hub
        1. Govern Item Data Efficiently Using Improved Item Rule Capabilities for Multirow Attributes
        2. Verify Item Category Assignment Dynamically Using Improved Validation Rules
        3. Improved Item Import FBDI Template
        4. Avoid Potential Runtime Errors Caused by Dormant Data Inconsistencies in Items
        5. Create OTBI Reports for Item Supplier Associations
        6. Modify Default Tab and Subtab for an Item
        7. Bypass New Item Request for Configured Items
        8. Query Deleted Item Data Using Items Version 2 REST Resource
        9. Create Multiple Item Relationships to the Same GTIN
        10. Selected Product Hub Bug Fixes in This Update
    4. Product Development & Product Hub Common
        1. Accurately Track System User Modifications on Changes and New Item Requests
        2. Eliminate Unnecessary Notifications for Future Change Workflow Status Participants
        3. Streamline Validations on Changes
        4. Selected Product Development and Product Hub Common Bug Fixes in This Update
    5. Product Lifecycle Management Common
        1. Configure Commenting Options for Change Workflow Participant Removal
        2. Enhance OTBI for Product Development and Innovation Management Work Areas
        3. Enhanced BI Publisher Approval Notification Template for Change Requests, Problem Reports and Corrective Actions
        4. Redline Item Attributes and Manage Reviewers Using Change Order REST APIs
        5. Use Additional Workflow Controls to Provide Granular Control on Who Can Manage Change Tasks

Update 22D

Revision History

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

Date Product Feature Notes
25 OCT 2023 Product Development Configure Manufacturer Search Updated document. Changed feature name, changed opt-in expiration from update 23B to update 23D, and removed references to Application Composer extensibility.
09 DEC 2022 Product Development and Product Hub Common Selected Product Development and Product Hub Common Bug Fixes in This Update Updated document. Edited the description of fix 34149207.
10 NOV 2022 Product Development and Product Hub Common Eliminate Unnecessary Notifications for Future Change Workflow Status Participants Updated document. Revised feature description.
16 SEP 2022     Created initial document.

Overview

HAVE AN IDEA?

We’re here and we’re listening. If you have a suggestion on how to make our cloud services even better then go ahead and tell us. There are several ways to submit your ideas, for example, through the Ideas Lab on Oracle Customer Connect. Wherever you see this icon after the feature name it means we delivered one of your ideas.

GIVE US FEEDBACK

We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content. Please send us your feedback at oracle_fusion_applications_help_ww_grp@oracle.com.

DISCLAIMER

The information contained in this document may include statements about Oracle’s product development plans. Many factors can materially affect Oracle’s product development plans and the nature and timing of future product releases. Accordingly, this Information is provided to you solely for information only, is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

This information may not be incorporated into any contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Oracle specifically disclaims any liability with respect to this information. Refer to the Legal Notices and Terms of Use for further information.

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

Column Definitions:

Report = New or modified, Oracle-delivered, ready to run reports.

UI or Process-Based: Small Scale = These UI or process-based features are typically comprised of minor field, validation, or program changes. Therefore, the potential impact to users is minimal.

UI or Process-Based: Larger Scale* = These UI or process-based features have more complex designs. Therefore, the potential impact to users is higher.

Features Delivered Disabled = Action is needed BEFORE these features can be used by END USERS. These features are delivered disabled and you choose if and when to enable them. For example, a) new or expanded BI subject areas need to first be incorporated into reports, b) Integration is required to utilize new web services, or c) features must be assigned to user roles before they can be accessed.

Ready for Use by End Users
(Feature Delivered Enabled)

Reports plus Small Scale UI or Process-Based new features will have minimal user impact after an update. Therefore, customer acceptance testing should focus on the Larger Scale UI or Process-Based* new features.

Customer Must Take Action before Use by End Users
(Feature Delivered Disabled)

Not disruptive as action is required to make these features ready to use. As you selectively choose to leverage, you set your test and roll out timing.

Feature

Report

UI or
Process-Based:
Small Scale

UI or
Process-Based:
Larger Scale*

Quality Management

Quality Management

Create, Update, and Get Inspection Characteristics Using a REST Service

Create Problem Reports and Corrective Actions Directly from Engineering Items

Selected Quality Management Bug Fixes in This Update

Product Lifecycle Management

Innovation Management

Associate Proposals to Portfolios

Product Development

Configure Manufacturer Search

Automate Change Order Publication Using Web Services

Give Suppliers Quick Access to Changes and Quality Data

Item Quality Tab Enhancements

Selected Product Development Bug Fixes in This Update

Product Hub

Govern Item Data Efficiently Using Improved Item Rule Capabilities for Multirow Attributes

Verify Item Category Assignment Dynamically Using Improved Validation Rules

Improved Item Import FBDI Template

Avoid Potential Runtime Errors Caused by Dormant Data Inconsistencies in Items

Create OTBI Reports for Item Supplier Associations

Modify Default Tab and Subtab for an Item

Bypass New Item Request for Configured Items

Query Deleted Item Data Using Items Version 2 REST Resource

Create Multiple Item Relationships to the Same GTIN

Selected Product Hub Bug Fixes in This Update

Product Development & Product Hub Common

Accurately Track System User Modifications on Changes and New Item Requests

Eliminate Unnecessary Notifications for Future Change Workflow Status Participants

Streamline Validations on Changes

Selected Product Development and Product Hub Common Bug Fixes in This Update

Product Lifecycle Management Common

Configure Commenting Options for Change Workflow Participant Removal

Enhance OTBI for Product Development and Innovation Management Work Areas

Enhanced BI Publisher Approval Notification Template for Change Requests, Problem Reports and Corrective Actions

Redline Item Attributes and Manage Reviewers Using Change Order REST APIs

Use Additional Workflow Controls to Provide Granular Control on Who Can Manage Change Tasks

Quality Management

Quality Management

Create, Update, and Get Inspection Characteristics Using a REST Service

Companies need an efficient way to set up quality inspection characteristics, so that they can be used in inspection plans or directly added to inspections to facilitate the reporting of results. Once inspection characteristics are defined, they may also need a way to get inspection characteristic details to integrate with an external system or device for test measurement or data collection. Now you can use an Oracle REST API to manage and view inspection characteristics stored in Oracle Fusion Cloud Quality Management to enable these integration scenarios.

Use the Inspection Characteristics REST service to do the following:

  • Create or update an inspection characteristic for any source object and data type supported, including the value set if applicable
  • Add and delete attachments to an inspection characteristic
  • Associate an inspection characteristic with one or more characteristic groups
  • Enable or disable an inspection characteristic
  • Get inspection characteristics and their details

With the Inspection Characteristics REST service, you can streamline the initial data load or ongoing updates to inspection characteristics and easily share this information with an external system or through a mobile or connected device.

Steps to Enable

Review the REST service definition in the REST API guides to leverage (available from the Oracle Help Center > your apps service area of interest > APIs & Schema). If you are new to Oracle's REST services you may want to begin with the Quick Start section.

Tips And Considerations

  • You can consider taking the opportunity for data cleansing and data synchronization before using this REST service to migrate or integrate inspection characteristics, since they serve as the basis for inspection plans and inspection results.

  • You can update an inspection characteristic under certain conditions. Refer to the Considerations for Updating Inspection Characteristics in the Oracle Help Center.

  • You can't delete an inspection characteristic using a REST service. Instead, you can use this REST service to disable an inspection characteristic.

  • You can leverage the Visual Builder Cloud Service add-in for Excel with the Inspection Characteristics REST service to mass load inspection characteristics through a spreadsheet. Refer to the Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel available in the Oracle Help Center.

Key Resources

Access Requirements

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

  • Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles 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 Characteristics (QA_EDIT_CHARACTERISTICS)

Create Problem Reports and Corrective Actions Directly from Engineering Items

With this update, you can:

  • Create a problem report and corrective action from an engineering item
  • Create a corrective action from a problem report.

You can now access these two new actions directly from the Actions menu of an engineering item:

  • Create Problem Report
  • Create Corrective Action

And one new action directly from the Actions menu of a problem report:

  • Create Corrective Action

These new actions are available for both internal users as well as supplier users.

Create a Problem Report and a Corrective Action from an Engineering Item

Here's what happens when you create a problem report or a corrective action from an engineering item:

  • The object opens in a new dynamic tab within the Product Development work area for editing for an internal user.
  • For a supplier user, the page reloads with the newly created object.
  • It's automatically linked to the item and added to its Quality tab.
  • Organization data is carried over from the item.

Create a Corrective Action from Problem Report

Here's what happens when you create the corrective action from a problem report:

  • You get additional options of copying over the descriptive flexfields, attachments, relationships, and tasks from the problem report. For affected objects, you get the option to copy over the affected objects and their descriptive flexfields to the newly created corrective action.
  • The object opens in a new dynamic tab within the Product Development work area for editing for an internal user.
  • For a supplier user, the page reloads with the newly created object.
  • It's automatically linked to the problem report in the relationships tab.
  • Organization data is carried over from the problem report.

This feature enables users who don't often access the Quality Management work area to create problem reports and corrective actions directly from the engineering item record in the Product Development work area. A visible link is created automatically between the problem report or corrective action and the item. When creating a corrective action from a problem report details are easily copied through a selection of options.

Easy access to the Create actions simplifies training and drives efficiencies in reporting quality events as they occur.

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

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

Access Requirements

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

  • Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles along with the following privileges can access this feature:
    • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Users who are given any of these functional privileges can view items.
    • View Item (EGP_VIEW_ITEM_PRIV)
    • Manage Item (EGP_MANAGE_ITEM_PRIV)

For Internal Users:

  • Problem Report:
    • Create Change Order (EGO_CREATE_CHANGE_ORDER_PRIV)
    • View Problem Report (ACA_VIEW_PROBLEM_REPORTS_PRIV)
    • Manage Problem Report (ACA_MANAGE_PROBLEM_REPORT_PRIV)
  • Corrective and Preventive Action: 
    • Create Change Order (EGO_CREATE_CHANGE_ORDER_PRIV)
    • View Corrective Action (ACA_VIEW_CORRECTIVE_ACTIONS_PRIV)
    • Manage Corrective Action (ACA_MANAGE_CORRECTIVE_ACTION_PRIV)

To provide granular View or Manage access to the user for problem reports and corrective actions, you must provide the Monitor Product Management Workflow Objects (ACA_MONITOR_PRODUCT_MANAGEMENT_WORFLOW_OBJECTS_PRIV) privilege along with the object-specific View or Manage privileges.

To view the Product Development work area, you must have the Monitor Product Development privilege (ACA_MONITOR_PRODUCT_DEVELOPMENT_PRIV).

For Supplier Users:

  • Problem Report: 
    • Create Change Order (EGO_CREATE_CHANGE_ORDER_PRIV)
    • View Problem Report in Supplier Portal (ACA_VIEW_PROBLEM_REPORT_SUPPLIER_PORTAL_PRIV)
    • Manage Supplier Problem Report (ACA_MANAGE_SUPPLIER_PROBLEM_REPORTS_PRIV)
  • Corrective and Preventive Action: 
    • Create Change Order (EGO_CREATE_CHANGE_ORDER_PRIV)
    • View Corrective Action in Supplier Portal (ACA_VIEW_CORRECTIVE_ACTION_SUPPLIER_PORTAL_PRIV)
    • Manage Supplier Corrective Actions (ACA_MANAGE_SUPPLIER_CORRECTIVE_ACTIONS_PRIV)

To provide granular View or Manage access to the user for problem reports and corrective actions, you must provide the Monitor Product Management Workflow Objects (ACA_MONITOR_PRODUCT_MANAGEMENT_WORFLOW_OBJECTS_PRIV) privilege along with the object-specific View or Manage privileges.

If you're using a user-defined role, then the role must be assigned a data security policy with the following predefined condition to have access to the item change.

  • Predefined condition: "Access the item change for table EGO_ENGINEERING_CHANGES_B for the item changes they created"

Selected Quality Management Bug Fixes in This Update

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

Copy Relationships

In previous updates, when you saved a problem report as a change order, the relationships weren’t copied over, even if you selected the option to copy relationships.

With this update, the issue is fixed.

Oracle reference: 34109293

Steps to Enable

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

Product Lifecycle Management

Innovation Management

Associate Proposals to Portfolios

The new Portfolios attribute on the General Information tab of a proposal allows you to associate one or more portfolios to a proposal.

This feature is supported through

  • User Interface 
  • productProposals REST API
  • File-Based Data Import (FBDI).

You can search for the proposals by adding the Portfolios attribute in the Advanced Search of Manage Proposals and view the portfolios in the Business Intelligence Publisher report (available from Actions | Export).

Portfolios Attribute on the Proposal Page

Advanced Search Using Portfolios Attribute

FBDI Template with Portfolios Associated with a Proposal

With this update, you can easily add new portfolios and assign proposals to one or more portfolios to enable an analysis of alternative business strategies and strategic initiatives.

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 ManagementNo Longer Optional From: Update 23B

You can configure the portfolio list using Manage Portfolios task through the panel drawer.

Manage Portfolios Task in the Panel Drawer

You can manage portfolio lookups by using Manage Portfolios task.

Manage Portfolio Lookups Page

Tips And Considerations

  • When you delete a portfolio from the lookups, it can't be retrieved. It is also de-linked from all associated proposals.
  • If the portfolio is Disabled or End dated, it remains in the existing proposals but can't be added to a new proposal.
  • If the Portfolio Name and Portfolio Code are passed at the same time in the REST API, the Portfolio Name will take precedence.
  • If you want to link a portfolio to a proposal using Oracle Visual Builder Excel Add-in, make sure both Portfolio Name and Portfolio Code are entered in the Excel sheet.
  • You can't take the Export to Excel action on the Manage Portfolio page if it's followed by the Add Portfolio action. This will trigger an error that requires you to reload the page.
  • You can search for proposals with multiple portfolios using comma-separated values in the Portfolios attribute.

Key Resources

Access Requirements

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

  • Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles can access this feature:
    • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
    • Supply Chain Application Administrator (ORA_RCS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)
  • Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges can access this feature :
    • Create Product Concept (ACD_CREATE_PRODUCT_CONCEPT_PRIV)
    • Manage Product Proposal (ACD_MANAGE_PRODUCT_PROPOSAL_PRIV)
  • Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges can access 'Manage Portfolio lookups' from the Manage Portfolios option:
    • Manage Application Standard Lookup (FND_APP_MANAGE_STANDARD_LOOKUP_PRIV)

Product Development

Configure Manufacturer Search

The Manage Manufacturers search page now displays Location fields.

Here’s what you can do on the Manage Manufacturers page:

  • You can add D-U-N-S number to the Search Criteria region of the Manage Manufacturers page. This is also available in the Search Results region of the Manage Manufacturers page.
  • Use the Create Saved Search dialog box to create a saved search that includes the D-U-N-S number of the manufacturer.

In this update, you can use the new manufacturers REST API to create and update manufacturers with standard and location fields.

This feature benefits your business by:

  • Allowing users to search for manufacturers using D-U-N-S number.
  • Improving productivity by enabling users to include D-U-N-S number in their saved searches. Users need not enter the search criteria manually every time they search.

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 ManagementNo Longer Optional From: Update 23D

To enable this feature, you must opt in to the feature: Update Manufacturer Management (ORA_ACA_MFR_ADDL_INFO)

Tips And Considerations

  • After upgrade, manufacturers that are created from hubOrganizations Rest API (not the new manufacturers created from REST API) or import will automatically be upgraded as each manufacturer is opened, until a subsequent upgrade is performed.
  • The new Manage Manufacturers page doesn’t display manufacturers that haven't been upgraded. You can search for existing manufacturers using quick search and they're upgraded when you open them.
  • Manufacturers created with the new REST API don’t have to be upgraded.
  • Users without Manage or View Manufacturer privileges can’t search or navigate to manufacturers.
  • After this update, you must recreate your saved searches in the Manage Manufacturers page.

Key Resources

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

  • Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM: Configuring and Extending Product Lifecycle Management guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.

Access Requirements

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

  • Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles can access this feature:
    • To view, create, and manage manufacturers:
      • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
    • To access manufacturer data:
      • Create Manufacturer (EGP_CREATE_MANUFACTURER_PRIV)
        • Users with Create Manufacturer privilege should also be given Manage Manufacturer privilege (EGP_MANAGE_MANUFACTURER_PRIV)
      • View Manufacturer (EGP_VIEW_MANUFACTURER_PRIV)
      • Manage Manufacturer (EGP_MANAGE_MANUFACTURER_PRIV)
  • Users who are assigned configured roles also need a data security policy.
    • Here’s how you create a new data security policy for a configured role:
  1. Sign in to Security Console.
  1. Search for the role. Click Actions > Edit Role.
  1. On the Edit Role page, click Data Security Policies.
  1. Click Create Data Security Policy.
  1. In the Create Data Security Policy dialog box, enter the following:
  • Data Resource: Search for and add the resource named HZ_PARTIES (Trading Community Party).
  • Data Set: Select All values.
  • Actions: Select all the actions.
  • Policy Name: <name>
  • Click OK and click Next.
  1. Save your changes.

Automate Change Order Publication Using Web Services

You can now automate publishing of engineering change orders by leveraging the following SOAP web services:

  • Enterprise Scheduler Service: Use this service to publish a change order.

  • Item Batch Maintenance Service: Use this service to get the publication status. If change order publishing is complete, then the response includes the version ID of the zipped publication file. To generate the ID of the zipped publication file, use the JobID parameter from the Enterprise Scheduler Service publishing step.

  • Generic SOAP port: Use this service to download the physical zipped file by passing the attachment version ID.

Publication Flow

Automate with Oracle Integration Cloud

This feature benefits your business by automating the change order publication process. It enables better integration and provides a scalable way of publishing change order data to downstream systems or to suppliers for further consumption.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

  • This feature supports the publishing of engineering change orders only.

  • After a publication job is completed, an item publication event is triggered. The response includes the attachment version ID of the zipped file.

  • You can retrieve the publication files from Oracle WebCenter Content programmatically, or by using the File Import and Export option. To access this click Navigator > Tools > File Import and Export.

Key Resources

  • Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM: SOAP Web Services for SCM guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.
  • Oracle Support Document Doc ID 1334471.1 Sample Soap Requests for Use in WebCenter Content (WCC/UCM) 11g Calls to the GenericSoapService (GenericSoapPort)
  • Oracle Support Document Doc ID 2885473.1 Invoke, monitor and download the change order publication using SOAP Web services.

Access Requirements

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

  • Users who are assigned any of the following predefined job roles or duty roles can access this feature:
    • To publish change orders:
      • Attachments User (AttachmentsUser)
      • CRM Stage Write (CRMStageWrite)
    • To automatically publish change orders:
      • 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)
      • Supplier Product Design Engineer (ORA_ACA_SUPPLIER_PRODUCT_DESIGN_ENGINEER_JOB)
    • To view the change order publishing processes:
      • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
    • To view the Enterprise Scheduler Service logs:
      • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
    • To publish change orders:
      • Publish Change Order (ACA_PUBLISH_CHANGE_ORDER_PRIV)
    • To view the change order publishing processes:
      • View Change Orders (ACA_VIEW_CHANGE_ORDERS_PRIV)
      • Manage Change Orders (ACA_MANAGE_CHANGE_ORDERS_PRIV)
  • Integration users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can retrieve the publication file from WebCenter Content (WCC/UCM) using GET_FILE operation in UCM Web Service GenericSoapService (GenericSoapPort):
    • AttachmentsUser
    • AttachmentsAdmin

Give Suppliers Quick Access to Changes and Quality Data

You can quickly identify and access content on Supplier Portal using additional content presence indicators and side tabs on the following pages:

  • item page
  • change order redline item structure page

Content Presence Indicators

  • New blue dot icons on structure component rows indicate the presence of pending changes and quality-related data. You can click the blue dot to navigate to the corresponding details in the side tab.

  • For quality-related data, the blue dot appears if there is at least one quality issue, quality action, problem report, or corrective action in any workflow status against any item revision.

  • You can only see problem report and corrective actions in the Quality side tab.

New Item Side Tabs

  • The item structure view includes two new side tabs, Changes and Quality.

Here’s a screenshot of the item structure page with blue dot icon indicating the presence of content in the Quality tab. You can click the blue dot to open the Quality side tab for the selected component.

Blue Dot Content Indicator and Quality Side Tab

Here’s how the item page looks with blue tab icons indicating content.

Item Page with New Changes and Quality Tabs

Here's how the redline item structure page looks with dots and side tabs indicating content. 

Blue Dot Content Indicator Along with New Side Tabs for Changes and Quality

Leverage these enhancements to:

  • Increase productivity by visually identifying which tabs on an item or component have content.
  • Speed up navigation to component and item details without losing the task context.

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 ManagementNo Longer Optional From: Update 23B

Tips And Considerations

  • The General Information tab icon isn't displayed in blue since it always has content.

  • On Supplier Portal, only problem reports and corrective actions appear on the Quality tab.

  • You can only see and navigate to problem reports and corrective actions for which you have access to.

  • A blue dot is displayed on the structure table if there are any pending or released quality objects such as quality issues, quality actions, problem reports, or corrective actions.

Key Resources

Access Requirements

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

  • Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles can access this feature:
    • Supplier Product Design Engineer (ORA_ACA_SUPPLIER_PRODUCT_DESIGN_ENGINEER_JOB)
  • Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
    • Monitor Product Management (ACA_MONITOR_PRODUCT_MANAGEMENT_WORFLOW_OBJECTS_PRIV)
    • View Supplier Items (ACA_VIEW_SUPPLIER_ITEMS_PRIV)
    • View Change Order In Supplier Portal (ACA_VIEW_CHANGE_ORDER_SUPPLIER_PORTAL_PRIV)

Item Quality Tab Enhancements

You can now view quality issues and quality actions for all the revisions of an item and perform the following actions from the Quality tab:

  •  
  • Query by Example
  • Export to Excel
  • Detach the table

You can access quality issues and quality actions from:

  • Item Quality tab in Product Development and Product Hub
  • Item Structure Component side panel in Product Development
  • Redline Item Structure Component side panel in Product Development and Product Hub

Quality Issues and Quality Actions Sub Tab from the Quality Tab

This feature enhances the user's ability to:

  •  easily view quality issues and quality actions while working with an item, item structure component, or redline item structure component to improve item selection during new product development.
  •  improve risk analysis with a comprehensive view of quality issues and actions across a specific revision or all revisions of an item.
  •  leverage filtering to quickly locate specific quality issues or quality actions.

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 ManagementNo Longer Optional From: Update 23B

Tips And Considerations

  • When doing QBE on Severity, enter only the text value, not the numeric prefix. For example, if the severity is '1 - High', enter 'High' in QBE.
  • You can access the components Quality side tab only from Product Development Item Structures, and not from the Product Hub Item Structures view.

Key Resources

Access Requirements

  • Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles can access this feature:
    • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges can access this feature::
    • For items:
      • View Item (EGP_VIEW_ITEM_PRIV)
      • Manage Item (EGP_MANAGE_ITEM_PRIV)
    • For quality actions:
      • View Quality Action (ENQ_VIEW_QUALITY_ACTION_PRIV)
    • For quality issues:
      • View Quality Issue (ENQ_VIEW_QUALITY_ISSUE_PRIV)

Selected Product Development Bug Fixes in This Update

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

Approve Change Orders from My Worklist

Prior to this update, the options to approve and reject a change order from My Worklist were unavailable for change orders created through REST APIs and import maps.

With this update, the issue is fixed.

Oracle reference: 33363597

Approve Change Requests

If you used BPM Worklist to approve a change request created through REST, an error appeared.

With this update, the issue is fixed.

Oracle reference: 33769668

Search for Manufacturer Part Numbers

When you search for manufacturer part numbers using both manufacturer name and part number, the search results didn’t show any parts even if parts were available.

With this update, the issue is fixed.

Oracle reference: 34185184

Manufacturer Name in Search Results

When you search for manufacturer part numbers on the Manage Manufacturer Parts page, the Manufacturer column in search results appeared blank.

With this update, the Manufacturer column shows the manufacturer name.

Oracle reference: 34083391 and 34083391

Download Item Attachments

When you download an item attachment that didn’t include a file extension, it would result in an error.

With this update, you can use the application severity and Enterprise Scheduler Service logs to identify attachments with missing file extensions, file path, and associated components.

Oracle reference: 33980233

Use Import Maps

When you use import maps to import reference designators for item structures, duplicate reference designators were created.

With this update, the issue is fixed.

Oracle reference: 34001853

Steps to Enable

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

Product Hub

Govern Item Data Efficiently Using Improved Item Rule Capabilities for Multirow Attributes

You can validate whether a row was deleted from a multirow extensible flexfield (EFF) attribute group using the isMrRowDeleted function in validation or assignment rules. For example, you can enforce change order approval when a row is deleted using the isMrRowDeleted function in a validation rule.

The syntax of the function is:

isMrRowDeleted(<Attribute Group>)

The following screenshot shows a validation rule expression using the isMrRowDeleted function.

Validation Rule Setup

Validation Rule Setup

The following screenshot shows the validation rule triggered at runtime when a row of a multirow attribute group is deleted.

Validation Rule Triggered When a Row of a Multirow Attribute is Deleted

Validation Rule Triggered When a Row of a Multirow Attribute Group is Deleted

With this feature, you can extend and include governance across your business’s multi-faceted data architecture.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

You can use the isMrRowDeleted( ) function along with the changed( ) function to validate modifications or delete operations on a multirow attribute.

Key Resources

Access Requirements

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

  • Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles can access this feature:
    • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
    • Product Data Steward (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_DATA_STEWARD_JOB)
  • Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains this privilege can access this feature:
    • Manage Item Rule Set (EGO_MANAGE_ITEM_RULE_SET_PRIV)

Verify Item Category Assignment Dynamically Using Improved Validation Rules

When you create a validation rule to verify a catalog category assignment, you can use variables and expressions for the category argument in the assignedToCatalog( ) function. Using these expressions, the rule derives category codes and validates whether the item is assigned to the category. You can also pass attributes or functions that get values from your own configured objects or services as category arguments in the function.

For example, assignedToCatalog(Catalog[Channel_Auto], [Item].[Category_Info].[Cat_Code]). This function derives the category code from an attribute dynamically and performs validation.

Category Validation Rule

This feature improves your business by:

  • Decreasing the number of rules that your users need to write and maintain.
  • Simplifying the overall readability of all rules within Oracle Product Hub.
  • Improving overall Product Hub performance because committing changes to an object will no longer need to traverse through as many rules.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

You can use string functions like Substring, Decode, and so on that can return category codes in the function. You must provide the catalog code in the catalog argument of the function. You can’t use variables for the catalog argument.

Key Resources

Access Requirements

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

  • Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles can access this feature:
    • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
    • Product Data Steward (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_DATA_STEWARD_JOB)
  • Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains this privilege can access this feature:
    • Manage Item Rule Set (EGO_MANAGE_ITEM_RULE_SET_PRIV)

Improved Item Import FBDI Template

An additional row is added in the Item Import FBDI template that provides the column details and its associated entities available in the FBDI template. The details include important information like the description of the attribute, associated data type, attribute name, and the necessary setup tasks associated with the attribute to get the details. 

The following image shows the column details row that was added within the Item Import FBDI template.

Additional Column Details in Item Import FBDI Template

Additional Column Details in Item Import FBDI Template

The column descriptions provide a better understanding of the import column mapping. This helps speed up and ease the creation of new import maps.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

Review the descriptions associated with the attributes that have their own setups in a different UI.

Key Resources

  • Refer to the Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM: Using Product Master Data Management guide, available on the Oracle Help Center
  • Refer to the File-Based Data Import (FBDI) for Oracle SCM guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.

Access Requirements

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

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

Avoid Potential Runtime Errors Caused by Dormant Data Inconsistencies in Items

Oracle Product Hub offers the flexibility to convert an existing non-mandatory attribute of an Item extensible flexfield (EFF) attribute group into a mandatory attribute, if your business needs change for an item class. Similarly, you can also disable or end date a specific value of a value set during the value's lifecycle.

Since these changes may occur at anytime during the lifecycle of your system, some of the existing items may result in data inconsistency with respect to the changed configuration. For example, an item may have NULL values for a non-mandatory attribute. But the attribute of the item will become inconsistent with the attribute's configuration if the attribute has been converted into a mandatory attribute recently. Such data inconsistency is dormant until the item is accessed through Product Hub’s standard functionalities.

You can use the Product Hub Diagnostics Dormant Data Inconsistencies in Items diagnostic report (available in the Run Diagnostics Tests work area) to periodically review such dormant data inconsistencies and resolve the issues. The report contains the following sections that provide details of the data, and a tips for resolution as applicable:

  • Items with missing values for mandatory attributes
  • Items with inactivated values
  • Items with duplicate data rows for single row EFF
  • Items with duplicate data rows for EFF rows for translated data

Potential Dormant Data Inconsistencies in Items

This feature improves operational reliability by periodically reviewing potential data issues and reduces troubleshooting efforts when working with Oracle Support.

Watch a Demo.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

  • In each section, the data is presented as a table. You can copy the table and paste it into a compatible tool such as word processors or spreadsheets to leverage their native functionalities such as sorting, filtering, and formatting as applicable.
  • To review a specific attribute group, specify the attribute group name in the Attribute Group Name parameter of the report. If no value is specified, then all attribute groups are included in the report. 
  • To review a specific attribute within an attribute group, specify the attribute group name in the Attribute Group Name parameter and the attribute name  in the Attribute Name parameter of the report. If no value is specified, then all the attributes of the attribute group are included in the report.
  • To eliminate such dormant data inconsistencies, its recommended that you periodically review the Disabled Attributes – Summary section in the Product Hub Diagnostics – Item Classes diagnostics test report available in the Run Diagnostics Tests work area.
  • To avoid stuck change orders, its recommended that you periodically review the Non-Active Values – Summary section in the Product Hub Diagnostics – Item Classes diagnostics test report available in the Run Diagnostics Tests work area.

Key Resources

Access Requirements

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

  • Users who are assigned this predefined job role can access this feature:
    • Application Diagnostics Administrator (ORA_FND_DIAG_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)

Create OTBI Reports for Item Supplier Associations

You can create Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) reports for item supplier associations data using the new OTBI subject area called Product Management - Item Supplier Associations Real Time. You can include item attributes, item supplier and supplier address attributes, item supplier association attributes, and extensible flexfield (EFF) attributes in the report.

The following image shows the OTBI report for item supplier associations.

OTBI Report for Item Supplier Associations

OTBI Report for Item Supplier Associations

Use this feature to display additional information specific to your suppliers and provide a more comprehensive view of your data.

Watch a Demo.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

You must run the Import Oracle Fusion Data Extensions for Transactional Business Intelligence scheduled process to make Supplier EFF attributes available in OTBI.

Key Resources

Access Requirements

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

  • Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles can access this feature:
    • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
    • Product Data Steward (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_DATA_STEWARD_JOB)
  • Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
    • Transactional Analysis Duty (FBI_TRANSACTION_ANALYSIS_GENERIC_DUTY)
    • Product Transaction Analysis Duty (FBI_PRODUCT_TRANSACTION_ANALYSIS_DUTY)
    • BI Consumer Role (BIConsumer)

Modify Default Tab and Subtab for an Item

You can modify the default tab and subtab within the View Item, Create Item, and Edit Item pages using the Page Composer extensibility functionality. This allows your users to land in a more commonly used tab instead of navigating to the required tab after selecting a task. For example, you can make the Specifications tab as the default tab on the page. This tab will always display by default when the users land on the item page instead of the Overview tab. Similarly, you can also set the Supplier Associations subtab as the default on the Associations tab. This subtab will always display by default when the users land on the Associations tab instead of the Organizations subtab.

The following screenshot shows Supplier Associations as the default subtab displayed when you click the Associations tab.

Supplier Associations Displayed as Default Sub Tab

Supplier Associations Displayed as Default Sub Tab

To change the default tab and subtab:

  1. Inside the Sandbox, go to Tools and click Page Composer.
  2. Click the Structure tab. A panel displays at the bottom of the page.
  3. Click on the tab that you want to edit.
  4. Expand <>panelTabbed:above and double-click on switcher. A message is displayed asking whether you want to edit.
  5. Click Edit. The Component Properties dialog box is displayed.
  6. Modify the Default Facet name to the facet name of the tab that you want to set as the new default.
  7. Click Apply and then click OK to save the changes.
  8. To modify the default subtab, you must edit the corresponding default subtab component and change the default facet name of the subtab to the required facet name. Repeat steps 4, 5, 6 and 7.

Use this feature to reduce the number of clicks to navigate to more commonly used user interface pages. It streamlines everyday data processes and improves the overall user experience.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

  • The facet names for the main tabs in the item page are:
    • OVERVIEW 
    • SPECIFICATIONS 
    • STRUCTURES
    •  ATTACHMENTS
    •  ASSOCIATIONS
    •  RELATIONSHIPS
    •  CATEGORIES
    •  ITEMPEOPLE
  • The facet names for the subtabs under the Structure tab are:
    • ITEM_STRUCTURES   
    • WHERE_USED   
    • PACKS
  • The facet names for the subtabs under the Associations tab are:
    • ORGANIZATIONS 
    • SUPPLIER
  • The facet names for the subtabs under the Relationship tab are:
    • RELATED_ITEMS   
    • TP_ITEM_XREFS   
    • GTIN   
    • ITEM_XREFS   
    • SYS_ITEM_XREFS

Key Resources

  • Refer to the Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications: Configuring and Extending Applications guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.
  • Refer to the Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM: Using Product Master Data Management guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.

Access Requirements

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

  • Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles can access this feature:
    • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER)
    • Product Data Steward (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_DATA_STEWARD_JOB)
  • Users who are assigned a configured job role that contain these privileges can access this feature:
    • Create Item Class Item Data (EGO_CREATE_ITEM_CLASS_ITEM_DATA)
    • View Item (EGP_VIEW_ITEM)

Bypass New Item Request for Configured Items

Configured items are automatically created when users configure the end items based on the model items in a sales order. Such configured items aren’t relevant for the new item request process. Hence, configured items created based on model items that belong to an item class and mandates new item request are ignored.

This feature reduces unnecessary new item introduction processes, thus allowing downstream processes to start earlier.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

Configured items follow the item numbering schema defined in the item class setup of the model item.

Key Resources

  • Refer to Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM: Using Product Master Data Management guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.

Access Requirements

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

  • Users who are assigned this predefined job role can access this feature:
    • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Users who are assigned this configured job role that contain these privileges can access this feature:
    • Create Item Class Item Data (EGO_CREATE_ITEM_CLASS_ITEM_DATA)

Query Deleted Item Data Using Items Version 2 REST Resource

You can fetch deleted item details and the details of its child entities using the Items Version 2 REST resources based on the audit table data. To fetch the entity details, you must pass the appropriate header parameters in the REST resource.

Use this feature to retrieve additional item data programmatically and potentially reduce manual data errors and effort.

Steps to Enable

Review the REST service definition in the REST API guides to leverage (available from the Oracle Help Center > your apps service area of interest > APIs & Schema). If you are new to Oracle's REST services you may want to begin with the Quick Start section.

Tips And Considerations

To view deleted objects, invoke the Items Version 2 REST resource with the following additional headers:

  • deleted-rows : Y
  • rest-framework-version: 8

Key Resources

  • Refer to the REST API for Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.

Access Requirements

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

  • Users who are assigned this predefined job roles can access this feature:
    • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privilege can access this feature:
    • Get Items REST (EGP_ITEM_REST)

Create Multiple Item Relationships to the Same GTIN

You can create item relationships by associating the same GTIN with more than one item when the GTIN UOM and the item's primary UOM are the same. For example, when two or more items vary only by labels, you may want to use the same GTIN for those items. In such cases, you can create item relationships by associating the same GTIN to those items.

The following screenshot shows the same GTIN associated with more than one item.

Same GTIN Associated With More Than One Item

Same GTIN Associated With More Than One Item

This feature allows your business to accurately associate related items that may have different packaging arrangements.

Steps to Enable

  1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, go to the Manage Administrator Profile Values task.
  2. Search for the profile option Allow Multiple Item Relationships to Same GTIN  (ORA_EGP_ALLOW_GTIN_REUSE).
  3. Set the profile value to Yes.

Tips And Considerations

You can set the profile value at site-level or user-level.

Key Resources

Access Requirements

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

  • Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles can access this feature:
    • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
    • Product Data Steward (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_DATA_STEWARD_JOB)
  • Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
    • Manage Item (EGP_MANAGE_ITEM_PRIV)
    • Manage Item Relationship (EGP_MANAGE_ITEM_RELATIONSHIP_PRIV)

Selected Product Hub Bug Fixes in This Update

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

Limit on the Number of Rules in an Item Rule Set

Before update 22D, if a rule set had more than 500 rules, the rules didn't run properly. After update 22D, an error message is displayed when you try to create more than 500 rules in a rule set. Instead, you can split and create multiple rule sets or create rules more efficiently so that the number of rules in a rule set doesn't exceed the limit.

Oracle reference: 33855218

Enforce Descriptive Flexfield Entity Attribute in Import Maps, Smart Spreadsheets, and Data File Upload Process

Before update 22D:

  • Mapping the descriptive flexfield Entity attribute in import maps wasn't required if any descriptive flexfield attribute was mapped for item relationships, trading partner items, and structures.
  • In smart spreadsheets, a value for the descriptive flexfield Entity attribute wasn't required if values were provided for any descriptive flexfield attribute.
  • Uploading the descriptive flexfield attribute data from the data file to an item batch didn't cause errors if the descriptive flexfield Entity attribute value wasn't provided in the data file. 

After update 22D:

  • If any descriptive flexfield attribute is mapped for item relationships, trading partner items, and structures entity, you must map the descriptive flexfield Entity attribute for that entity in the import map. Otherwise, you can't save the import map and an error message is displayed.
  • In smart spreadsheets, if you provide values for any descriptive flexfield attribute, you must provide a value for the descriptive flexfield Entity attribute. Otherwise, you can't validate the data, generate a data file, or upload the data file, and an error message is displayed.
  • You must provide the descriptive flexfield Entity attribute value in the data file so that the descriptive flexfield attribute data is uploaded from the data file to an item batch. Otherwise, an error message is displayed during the upload process. 

Oracle reference: 34026902

Display Valid List of Values for Attributes in Smart Spreadsheets

Before update 22D, end-dated, future-dated, disabled, and inactive list of values were displayed for a few attributes in the smart spreadsheets. Also, the list of values for the Item Class attribute included item classes that had the Item Creation Allowed option set to No. After update 22D, the list of values will display only valid values for all the attributes in the smart spreadsheets. End-dated, future-dated, disabled, and inactive values aren't displayed. Also, the list of values for the Item Class attribute will include only item classes that have the Item Creation Allowed option set to Yes.

Oracle reference: 34040713 and 34217154

Definition Notification in New Item Requests

In previous updates, when you marked a definition task as complete and returned to the definition notification, the Go to Task column displayed a green icon indicating that the task was still open.

With this update, you can use the new Refresh icon on the notification to update the task status.

Oracle reference: 34175151

Steps to Enable

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

Product Development & Product Hub Common

Accurately Track System User Modifications on Changes and New Item Requests

Use the enhanced History and Action Log tabs to track modifications made on changes and new item requests.

  • An entry has been added against the Created action to indicate that the change order or new item request was created through item batch. The Batch name and Batch Number are captured in the Comment column.

History tab on Change Order

  • If the action is performed by the application, the Author column shows System.

Here’s a table that shows actions performed by the application.

Actions Comment Author
Approved by application   System
Auto-Approve   System
Auto-Cancel   System
Auto-Demote   System
Auto-promote   System
Line <LINE_NUMBER> approved by the application   System
Promoted to Completed   System
Promoted to Scheduled   System
Scheduled   System
System

Items effective on approval: <ITEMS>.

Can't be promoted.

Autopromote from {OLD_STATUS} status to {NEW_STATUS} status failed.

System

This feature allows you to trace what actions were performed by the application versus a user on a change order or new item request.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

  • If the item batch is an FBDI file, then the action log shows only the batch ID with the message Through item batch ID: {BATCH_ID}.
  • In this update, this feature is supported only from the UI and not from OTBI.

Key Resources

Access Requirements

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

  • Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles can access this feature:
    • For changes:
      • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
    • For new item requests:
      • Product Data Steward (ORA_EGI_PRODUCT_DATA_STEWARD_JOB) or
      • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
    • For changes:
      • Monitor Product Management Workflow Objects (ACA_MONITOR_PRODUCT_MANAGEMENT_WORFLOW_OBJECTS_PRIV) and one of the following:
      • Manage Change Orders (ACA_MANAGE_CHANGE_ORDERS_PRIV) 
      • View Change Order (ACA_VIEW_CHANGE_ORDERS_PRIV)
    • For new item requests:
      • Privileges to view the action log:
        • Manage New Item Request (EGO_MANAGE_NEW_ITEM_REQUEST_PRIV)

Eliminate Unnecessary Notifications for Future Change Workflow Status Participants

Workflow participants (approvers, optional approvers, and reviewers) will no longer receive FYI notifications for change workflow events that are not relevant to them.

Only participants added to the current and previous workflow statuses receive notifications when:

  • The change is rejected or completed.
  • Autopromotion fails.

Participants added to future workflow statuses or skipped workflow statuses don't receive FYI notifications for these events.

This feature streamlines communication by eliminating redundant and unnecessary notifications to future status participants, or for statuses that are manually skipped.

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

Access Requirements

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

  • Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles can access this feature:
    • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
    • Quality Engineer  (ORA_ENQ_QUALITY_ENGINEER_JOB)
  • Users who are assigned configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
    • Monitor Product Management (ACA_MONITOR_PRODUCT_MANAGEMENT_WORFLOW_OBJECTS_PRIV)
    • Modify Change Status (EGO_MODIFY_CHANGE_STATUS_PRIV)
  • Additionally, users require the following privileges:
    • For change orders:
      • View Change Orders (ACA_VIEW_CHANGE_ORDERS_PRIV) ,
      • Manage Change Orders (ACA_MANAGE_CHANGE_ORDERS_PRIV)
    • For change requests:
      • View Change Request (ACA_VIEW_CHANGE_REQUESTS_PRIV) ,
      • Manage Change Request (ACA_MANAGE_CHANGE_REQUESTS_PRIV)
    • For problem reports:
      • View Problem Report (ACA_VIEW_PROBLEM_REPORTS_PRIV) 
      • Manage Problem Report (ACA_MANAGE_PROBLEM_REPORT_PRIV)
    • For corrective actions and preventive actions:
      • View Corrective Action (ACA_VIEW_CORRECTIVE_ACTIONS_PRIV)
      • Manage Corrective Action (ACA_MANAGE_CORRECTIVE_ACTION_PRIV)

Streamline Validations on Changes

You can now use several enhancements that help improve change order resilience and performance. Here are three key enhancements that help prevent stuck change orders during scheduled processes.

  • Skip Needs Approval Validation

With this update, the Needs Approval validation (where Severity level is set to Needs Approval in Manage Item Rule Sets task) is skipped during the scheduled status.

Previously, this would cause problems if you updated the attribute name, API name or prompt of an extensible flexfield attribute while the change order was in progress.

  • Skip Validation on Extensible Flexfield Value Set

With this update, the validations on extensible flexfield attribute value set to check whether the values are deactivated or end dated in a change order are skipped during the scheduled status.

Previously, this would cause problems.

  • Skip Compulsory Validation on Extensible Flexfield Attributes

With this update, the validations to check the compulsory extensible flexfield attributes during the scheduled status are skipped.

Previously, this would cause problems if the compulsory flexfield attributes were added in the change order.

This feature improves change resiliency and performance by skipping unnecessary or redundant validations.

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

Access Requirements

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

  • Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles can view the Enterprise Scheduler service logs, as well as change order scheduling and activation processes:
    • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
    • To view or manage change order scheduling and activation processes:
      • Monitor Product Management Workflow Objects (ACA_MONITOR_PRODUCT_MANAGEMENT_WORFLOW_OBJECTS_PRIV) and
      • View Change Orders (ACA_VIEW_CHANGE_ORDERS_PRIV) or Manage Change Orders (ACA_MANAGE_CHANGE_ORDERS_PRIV)

Selected Product Development and Product Hub Common Bug Fixes in This Update

This update includes some bug fixes that can change the way Oracle Product Development and Oracle Product Hub work. This isn't a full list of all the bug fixes in this update. This list includes the bug fixes that can cause a noticeable change in application behavior.

Open Multiple Objects

When you created or opened an object after opening ten tabs, the application restricted you from performing any action and there was no message to explain why.

With this update, a  message appears indicating that the maximum number of tabs are open, so you must close at least one tab and try again.

Also, when you use the Save As action on an object, the Save As dialog box opens on a new tab. You can’t copy data from the tab you’ve already opened, or switch between the tabs.

Oracle reference: 34149207

Advanced Search for Change Orders

When you use the advanced search on the Manage Change Orders page, the Reason column in search results displayed a value even if the actual reason wasn’t available in the change order.

With this update, the Reason column displays a value only if it’s available in the change order.

Oracle reference: 34054164

Restart Change Order Workflow

When you put a terminated change order on hold and restarted the workflow, the change order was stuck in the Hold status.

With this update, the Restart Workflow action in a terminated change order is no longer available. To remove the change order from hold, you can click Continue.

Oracle reference: 33747691

Reviewers in Change Workflow

If you added a role as a reviewer in the workflow and even if the role included view or manage privileges, an error appeared indicating that the role doesn’t include view or manage privileges.

You can now add roles with view or manage privileges in change orders, change requests, problem reports, and corrective actions.

Oracle reference: 34267665

Import Item Structures

After you imported an item structure using file-based data import (FBDI), the double quotes in the component item names were removed.

With this update, the double quotes are retained.

Oracle reference: 33738543

View Structure Components

When you marked the item class as public and the item as private, users with required privileges were unable to view the structure component.

With this update, users with required privileges can view the structure component.

Oracle reference: 33268052

Lifecycle Phase

The lifecycle phase displayed in the response for findChangeObject web service was different from the lifecycle phase on the UI page.

With this update, the lifecycle phase in response for the web service is same as the one in the UI.

Oracle reference: 33089773

Steps to Enable

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

Product Lifecycle Management Common

Configure Commenting Options for Change Workflow Participant Removal

You can now choose a commenting option in the change type setup to enforce, allow, or prevent entering of comments when users remove workflow participants.

Participants can be removed:

  • for a future change status
  • for the current change status 
  • while routing the change to an approval status

The names of the removed participants appear in the Remove Participants dialog box.

The change History tab captures the comments entered while removing participants.

You can also provide comments when removing participants through deleteParticipants method of the Product Design Change Order SOAP Web Service.

Enter Required Comments When Removing a Participant

With this feature, you can:

  • Provide information when removing participants from a change according to your business needs.
  • Enforce stakeholders to provide a reason for removing participants from a change.

Steps to Enable

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

  • Offering: Product Management
  • Functional Area: Change Orders
  • Task: Manage Change Order Types
  1. Select the change type for which you want to configure commenting options for participant removal.

  2. Click Edit and click the Policy tab.

  3. In the Mandate Comments Before Removing Participants field, select one of the following commenting options.

  • Required: Enforce users to enter comments.
  • Optional: Make it optional for users to enter comments.
  • Not Applicable: Don’t provide an option to enter comments.
  1. Click Save and Close.

NOTE: To retain the existing behavior, the default value is set to Not Applicable.

Change Type Policy Tab with New Mandate Comments Before Removing Participants Setting

Tips And Considerations

  • The dialog box with the comments field doesn’t appear if the participant is added and removed before you save your changes.

  • You can’t enter specific participant removal comments while using the following REST APIs: Product Change Orders V2, Product Change Requests, Quality Problem Reports, and Quality Corrective and Preventive Actions. The REST API log captures a default comment Removed by integration user.

  • To provide your users a chance to confirm removal of participants, select Optional in the Mandate Comments Before Removing Participants field. Users will then have an option to confirm or cancel removal of participants.

  • The deleteApprovers method of the Product Design Change Order Web Service doesn’t support entering comments for participant removal.

Key Resources

Access Requirements

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

  • Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles can access this feature:
    • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
    • Monitor Product Management (ACA_MONITOR_PRODUCT_MANAGEMENT_WORFLOW_OBJECTS_PRIV)
    • Modify Change Status (EGO_MODIFY_CHANGE_STATUS_PRIV)
  • Additionally, users require the following privileges:
    • For change orders:
      • Manage Change Orders (ACA_MANAGE_CHANGE_ORDERS_PRIV)
    • For change requests:
      • Manage Change Request (ACA_MANAGE_CHANGE_REQUESTS_PRIV)
    • For problem reports:
      • Manage Problem Report (ACA_MANAGE_PROBLEM_REPORT_PRIV)
    • For corrective and preventive actions:
      • Manage Corrective Action (ACA_MANAGE_CORRECTIVE_ACTION_PRIV)

Enhance OTBI for Product Development and Innovation Management Work Areas

You can now leverage the new columns added to Product Management and Innovation Management in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) to improve user analysis. The new columns are available in the following subject areas:

  • Innovation Management - Product Proposals Real Time and Innovation Management - Product Proposals Cash Flow
    • Folder Proposal Details > Portfolios
  • Innovation Management - Ideas Real Time 
    • Folder Idea Details > Idea Number
  • Product Management - Structure and Components Real Time and Product Management - Where Used Real Time
    • Folder Component Assembly Attributes > Item > Planning > Lead Time 
      • Postprocessing Lead Time
      • Preprocessing Lead Time
      • Processing Lead Time
  •  Product Management - Structure and Components Real Time and Product Management - Where Used Real Time
    • Folder Component Assembly Attributes > Component Details
      • Auto Request Material
      • Basis Type
      • Created By
      • Creation Date
      • Enforcement Requirements
      • Last Update Date
      • Last Update By

OTBI Report Using Portfolios Attribute

Graphical Representation of Portfolios Based on Funding Amount

OTBI Report with Idea Number Attribute

OTBI Report with Lead TIme Attributes

The new columns in OTBI enhance reporting and analysis of structure and component cycle time. You get more powerful, more flexible, aggregated analyses of the product portfolio so that you can determine where to make the investments that will help achieve your growth and profit strategies.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

Instead of the Portfolio Details folder which is deprecated, use the newly introduced Portfolios attribute in the Proposal Details folder in these subject areas - Innovation Management - Product Proposals Real Time and Innovation Management - Product Proposals Cash Flow.

Key Resources

Access Requirements

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

  • Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles can access this feature:
    • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges can access this feature :
    • Transactional Analysis Duty (FBI_TRANSACTION_ANALYSIS_GENERIC_DUTY)
    • Product Transaction Analysis Duty (FBI_PRODUCT_TRANSACTION_ANALYSIS_DUTY)
    • BI Consumer Role (BIConsumer)

Enhanced BI Publisher Approval Notification Template for Change Requests, Problem Reports and Corrective Actions

You can view the object-specific labels for change requests, problem reports, and corrective actions in the Change Order Approval Worklist and Email Notification Report template available in the Business Intelligence Publisher.

You can also configure approval notifications to add descriptive flexfields in the Additional Information section and view the impacted products for the engineering change orders, non-revision control change orders, problem reports, and corrective actions.

Problem Report Approval Notification

This feature benefits your business by clearly:

  • identifying the object type in the notification title
  • including more contextual information such as descriptive flexfields and impacted products for the change object types.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

  • Change request and commercial change order approval notifications won't display the Impacted Products section.
  • To view the configured descriptive flexfields in the Additional Information section, set isAdditionalInformationEnabled to true in the template.

           Change Order Approval Worklist and Email Notification Report Template

Key Resources

Access Requirements

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

  • Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles can access this feature:
    • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
    • Quality Engineer  (ORA_ENQ_QUALITY_ENGINEER_JOB)
  • Users who are assigned configured job roles must have these privileges:
    • Monitor Product Management (ACA_MONITOR_PRODUCT_MANAGEMENT_WORFLOW_OBJECTS_PRIV)
    • Modify Change Status (EGO_MODIFY_CHANGE_STATUS_PRIV)
  • Additionally, you require the following privileges:
    • Change Orders:
      • View Change Orders (ACA_VIEW_CHANGE_ORDERS_PRIV)
      • Manage Change Orders (ACA_MANAGE_CHANGE_ORDERS_PRIV) 
    • Change Requests:
      • View Change Request (ACA_VIEW_CHANGE_REQUESTS_PRIV)
      • Manage Change Request (ACA_MANAGE_CHANGE_REQUESTS_PRIV)
    • Problem Reports:
      • View Problem Report (ACA_VIEW_PROBLEM_REPORTS_PRIV) 
      • Manage Problem Report (ACA_MANAGE_PROBLEM_REPORT_PRIV)
    • Corrective and Preventive Actions:
      • View Corrective Action (ACA_VIEW_CORRECTIVE_ACTIONS_PRIV)
      • Manage Corrective Action (ACA_MANAGE_CORRECTIVE_ACTION_PRIV)
    • Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles can configure the notification template:
      • BI Author Role (BIAuthor)
      • BI Publisher Data Model Developer (BIPDataModelDeveloper)

Redline Item Attributes and Manage Reviewers Using Change Order REST APIs

You can now redline Item Extended Flexfields and Item AML Descriptive Flexfields using Product Change Orders V2 REST API.

You can also add reviewers as participants to the future workflow statuses using the following REST APIs: Product Change Orders V2, Product Change Requests, Quality Problem Reports, and Quality Corrective and Preventive Actions.

Additionally, you can see the correct ACD value in the response when you add, update, disable, or replace a component in an item structure using Item Structures Version 2 SOAP Web service and item structure REST API.

Item Extended Flexfields Updated Using Product Change Orders V2 REST API PATCH Operation

Redline Item AML Descriptive Flexfields Using Product Change Orders V2 REST API

Add Reviewers to Change Order in Scheduled Status Using Product Change Orders V2 REST API

This feature allows you to streamline your business processes by efficiently and programmatically authoring changes and managing reviewers through web services.

Steps to Enable

Review the REST service definition in the REST API guides to leverage (available from the Oracle Help Center > your apps service area of interest > APIs & Schema). If you are new to Oracle's REST services you may want to begin with the Quick Start section.

Tips And Considerations

  • You will see the correct ACD type after you perform the following:
    • A Get operation request using Product Change Orders V2 REST API and Product Design Change Order SOAP Web service, and
    • Add, update, disable, or replace a component in redline context.
  • You can use the query parameter to filter participants added to a certain status in the change order by passing Status Code and Assignee Type Code:

For example: ?q=StatusCode=8 AND ActivityTypeCode='REVIEW'

You must set the following header parameter rest-framework-version =2  to perform the operation.

Key Resources

Access Requirements

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

  • Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
    • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
    • Monitor Product Management (ACA_MONITOR_PRODUCT_MANAGEMENT_WORFLOW_OBJECTS_PRIV)
  • Additionally, users require the following privileges:
    • For change orders:
      • Manage Change Orders (ACA_MANAGE_CHANGE_ORDERS_PRIV)
    • For change requests:
      • Manage Change Request (ACA_MANAGE_CHANGE_REQUESTS_PRIV)
    • For problem reports:
      • Manage Problem Report (ACA_MANAGE_PROBLEM_REPORT_PRIV)
    • For corrective and preventive actions:
      • Manage Corrective Action (ACA_MANAGE_CORRECTIVE_ACTION_PRIV)

Use Additional Workflow Controls to Provide Granular Control on Who Can Manage Change Tasks

You can now control who can add, update, and remove change tasks for the open, interim approval, approval, scheduled, or completed workflow statuses in Additional Workflow Controls. You can also control the display order of the actions in Additional Workflow Controls.

Here are the three new actions added to Additional Workflow Controls:

  • Add Tasks
  • Update Tasks
  • Remove Tasks

Following are the additional workflow control configuration in open status:

Add, Remove, and Update Tasks Actions in Additional Workflow Controls

Change Order Task Tab for a User Allowed to Update Tasks

This feature gives you granular control over who can add, remove, or update tasks.

Watch a Demo.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

  • These configurations are honored in REST API.

  • In this update, the configuration for actions Add Tasks, Update Tasks, and Remove Tasks is defaulted from the Manage Tasks action configuration in update 22C.

  • As an administrator, you can re-order the display sequence of the Action in the Additional Workflow Controls. To reorder the display sequence, in the Setup and Maintenance work area, search for the following:

    • Task: Manage Standard Lookups 

    • Lookup Type: ORA_EGO_CO_WORKFLOW_CONTROLS

      In the ORA_EGO_CO_WORKFLOW_CONTROLS: Lookup Codes region, change the order of the workflow controls in the Display Sequence column.

Modify Display Sequence of Additional Workflow Controls Actions on Manage Standard Lookups Task

Key Resources

Access Requirements

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

  • Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles can access this feature:
    • Product Manager (ORA_EGP_PRODUCT_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Users who are assigned configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
    • Monitor Product Management (ACA_MONITOR_PRODUCT_MANAGEMENT_WORFLOW_OBJECTS_PRIV)
  • Additionally, users require the following privileges:
    • For change orders:
      • View Change Orders (ACA_VIEW_CHANGE_ORDERS_PRIV)
      • Manage Change Orders (ACA_MANAGE_CHANGE_ORDERS_PRIV)
    • For change requests:
      • View Change Request (ACA_VIEW_CHANGE_REQUESTS_PRIV)
      • Manage Change Request (ACA_MANAGE_CHANGE_REQUESTS_PRIV) 
    • For problem reports:
      • View Problem Report (ACA_VIEW_PROBLEM_REPORTS_PRIV)
      • Manage Problem Report (ACA_MANAGE_PROBLEM_REPORT_PRIV)
    • For corrective actions and preventive actions:
      • View Corrective Action (ACA_VIEW_CORRECTIVE_ACTIONS_PRIV)
      • Manage Corrective Action (ACA_MANAGE_CORRECTIVE_ACTION_PRIV)