Update 20B

Revision History

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

Date	Feature	Notes
29 MAY 2020	Accept Complex Change Requests in Inbound Purchase Order Acknowledgments	Updated document. Corrected feature name and added Steps to Enable.
29 MAY 2020	Simplify Republishing of Order Forecasts for New Relationships	Updated document. Added information to feature description.
20 MAR 2020		Created initial document.

Overview

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

Security and New Features

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

If you have created job roles, then you can use this information to add new privileges to those roles as needed.

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Optional Uptake of New Features (Opt In)

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

Access the Opt In page from the New Features Work Area

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

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

Collaboration Messaging Framework

Business-to-business (B2B) messaging is a key component of collaborative relationships and can increase the quality, quantity, and frequency of information that can be exchanged between trading partners.  However, the differences in B2B standards, technical capabilities of trading partners, and the diversity of trading partners can make this costly to establish and maintain.  Oracle Supply Chain Collaboration and Visibility Cloud manages B2B communications with trading partners by leveraging the Oracle Collaboration Messaging Framework, a next-generation B2B messaging platform that maps and routes standards-based B2B messages through a B2B solution provider, on-premise B2B application, or direct to the trading partner.  Oracle Collaboration Messaging Framework is a common infrastructure component that is included with all Oracle Cloud Applications environments at no additional charge.  It is also tightly integrated with Oracle Cloud Applications, making it easy for Oracle Supply Chain Collaboration Cloud customers to set up and manage multiple trading partner connections.

Accept Complex Change Requests in Inbound Purchase Order Acknowledgments

In addition to accepting and rejecting orders at the purchase order header level and the purchase order line level, the inbound purchase order acknowledgment document now accepts changes specified by the supplier. These changes include:

• Price
• Quantity
• Promised Ship Date
• Promised Delivery Date
• Partial Back Orders

A list of acknowledgment codes and values to identify these types of changes is defined in the XSL file, and you can define your own list of values to represent these codes by modifying them in the  XSL file.

Steps to Enable

In the Purchase Orders work area, you must set the Required Acknowledgment option on the purchase order to Document and Schedule to process your line changes.

Key Resources

• Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging for Oracle Applications Cloud guide available on the Oracle Help Center.

Role Information

To use this feature, you need this role:

• Duty Role Name and Code
  • B2B Administrator (ORA_CMK_B2B_ADMINISTRATOR)

Exchange B2B Messages Using the AS2 Protocol

To improve security and reliability, you can now exchange B2B messages using the AS2 protocol via Oracle B2B. The AS2 protocol uses digital certificates to establish keys for the encryption and decryption of B2B messages exchanged with your trading partners.

In the Collaboration Messaging Work area, you can use the new Manage B2B Certificates task to:

• Generate certificates
• Generate signing requests to transform certificates from self-signed to trusted
• Export certificates
• Import certificates
• Delete certificates

The following screenshot shows the new Manage B2B Certificates page.

You use OracleB2B to complete the setup required to exchange messages using the AS2 protocol. In Oracle B2B, you set the keystore password and define an AS2 identifier for your company and your trading partners.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

The key store password you used in the Manage B2B Certificates task needs to be the same as the key store password entered in Oracle B2B.

Key Resources

• Oracle SCM Cloud Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging 
• User's Guide for Oracle B2B

These guides are available on the Oracle Help Center.

Role Information

To use this feature, you need these privileges or roles:

• Privilege Name and Code
  • Send Outbound Collaboration Messaging Document(CMK_SEND_OUTBOUND_COLLAB_MESG_DOC_PRIV)

• Duty Role and Code
  • B2B Messaging Administration (ORA_CMK_B2B_MESG_ADMIN_DUTY)
  • Collaboration Messaging Manager (ORA_CMK_COLLAB_MESG_MANAGER_DUTY)

• Job Role and Code
  • Supply Chain Application Administrator (ORA_RCS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)

Simplify B2B Setup for Suppliers

Set up your suppliers for B2B messaging on Oracle Business Network using a simplified task flow.

This opt-in feature will replace the Manage Supplier Collaboration Configuration task with a new one, Manage Supplier B2B Configuration.  Suppliers may be set up for both procure to pay and supply chain operation documents using this new task. You can search for and make connection requests with your trading partners on the Oracle Business Network during this set up process.

After enabling this feature, select the Manage Supplier B2B Configuration task.

You can search for suppliers that you define in your Oracle Fusion application by Supplier Name or Supplier Number, and optionally D-U-N-S Number.

Select the supplier that you want to set up for B2B and click the Edit Supplier B2B Configuration option to open the Edit Supplier B2B Configuration page.

The page has two tabs:

• Trading Partner Assignment
• Document Setup

On the Trading Partner Assignment tab, you can define the trading partners for each of your supplier’s sites and business units.

A new search dialog is available from the Trading Partner ID field.

The service provider on this dialog defaults to what you optionally define as the “Default Service Provider” in Manage Collaboration Messaging Configuration. Using this search dialog you can also search the Oracle Business Network directly for trading partners. When you select a trading partner on the Oracle Business Network to add to your supplier’s B2B setup, a connection request is made to that trading partner and a new trading partner record is created in Collaboration Messaging.

On the Document Setup tab, you can define the documents that you exchange with trading partners for each site and business unit for either of your procure to pay or supply chain operations business processes.

In the Documents section you define the primary recipients for the documents you set up. Any additional recipients for a document are defined in the Additional Recipients section.

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management  No Longer Optional From: Update 20D

Tips And Considerations

You can define a Default Service Provider in Manage Collaboration Messaging Configuration and that Service Provider will be defaulted in the trading partner search dialog each time you launch it.

Key Resources

• Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging for Oracle Applications Cloud guide available on the Oracle Help Center.

Role Information

To use this feature, you need these roles or privileges:

• Privilege Name and Code
  • Manage B2B Supplier Trading Partners (CMK_B2B_SUPPLIER_TRADING_PARTNERS_PRIV)
  • Manage Associated External Partner (CMK_MANAGE_ASSOCIATED_EXTERNAL_PARTNER_PRIV)
  • Manage Application Partner (CMK_MANAGE_APPLICATION_PARTNER_PRIV)

• Duty Role Name and Code
  • B2B Messaging Administration (ORA_CMK_B2B_MESG_ADMIN_DUTY)
  • Collaboration Messaging Setup (ORA_CMK_COLLAB_MESG_SETUP_DUTY)

Supply Chain Collaboration

Today’s global supply chains increase manufacturers’ reliance on suppliers, contract manufacturers, and other trading partners. To be successful, companies must synchronize their activities across multiple tiers of trading parties. Oracle Supply Chain Collaboration Cloud enables companies to jointly plan supply, gain visibility into trading partner data, coordinate contract manufacturing execution, and measure performance across their trading networks. Trading partners are actively involved in the decision-making process, so they can exchange early warning signs and collaboratively resolve supply chain issues. Depending on the size and technical sophistication of each supplier, your company can interact using a portal-based user interface, standards-based B2B messages, or web services. Customers can also tailor Oracle Supply Chain Collaboration Cloud’s flexible, predefined business processes to their unique requirements. Enhanced collaboration results in more dynamic trading relationships, as well as increased reliability and efficiency of supply.

View VMI Items Needing Replenishment in Requiring Attention Infolet

In a typical vendor-managed inventory process, a supplier manages a large number of items for an enterprise. With this update, the supplier can identify specific items that require a replenishment request to be raised in the Requiring Attention infolet. This streamlines the supplier's replenishment tasks in the context of their other customer-focused activities. When a supplier selects the count for vendor-managed inventory items that require attention in the Requiring Attention infolet, the Manage Inventory page displays the list of items that require a replenishment request to be created.

In this image, you can view 4 items that require replenishment in the Requiring Attention infolet.

Oracle Supplier Portal Cloud - Requiring Attention Infolet

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• The Items Requiring Replenishment count may not display an accurate value immediately after you upload the spreadsheet.
• The Items Requiring Replenishment count is disabled when the vendor-managed inventory (VMI) implementation has more than 100,000 items.

Role Information

Access to this feature is available through the shipped job roles and privileges. Use the Supplier Inventory Manager role to view the Items Requiring Replenishment count in the Requiring Attention infolet.

• Privilege Name and Code:
  • Manage Inventory as Supplier (VCS_MANAGE_INVENTORY_SUPPLIER)

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Supplier Inventory Manager (ORA_INV_SUPPLIER_INVENTORY_MANAGER_JOB)

View Supplier On-Hand Quantities

Enterprise planners can view their supplier’s on-hand quantities for items that they collaborate on. Visibility to upstream on-hand quantities improves the planning process by showing gaps between actual and planned components or material supply that could contribute to the bullwhip effect. With this update, in Oracle Supply Chain Collaboration Cloud, enterprise planners can view the supplier’s on-hand quantities on these pages:

• Manage Supplier On-Hand Quantities
• Manage Order Forecasts and Commits
• Edit Order Forecast Details

Enterprise and supplier planners can update the on-hand quantities by uploading a spreadsheet or by using the Collaboration Supplier On-Hand Quantities REST API.

On the Manage Supplier On-Hand Quantities page, the enterprise and supplier user can upload, search for and view, or delete supplier on-hand quantities for inventory items for the participating supplier sites.

Manage Supplier On-Hand Quantities

On the Upload Supplier On-Hand Quantities page, the enterprise and supplier user can upload supplier on-hand quantities for their items. They can monitor the status of the upload process and view any errors that may have occurred.

Upload Supplier On-Hand Quantities

On the Manage Order Forecast and Commits and the Edit Order Forecast Details pages, the enterprise and supplier user can view the supplier on-hand quantities for the collaboration order forecast.

Watch a Demo

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management  No Longer Optional From: Update 20D

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

Tips And Considerations

• A collaboration relationship must exist in the supply collaboration network for a supplier site and item combination to collaborate on supplier on-hand quantities.

• Supplier on-hand quantities will be available in both the published and item’s primary unit of measure.

Key Resources

• Watch View Supplier On-Hand Quantities Readiness Training

Role Information

Access to this feature is available through the shipped job roles and privileges. Use the Supply Chain Collaboration Planner or Supplier Demand Planner job roles to view and manage supplier on-hand quantities in Supply Chain Collaboration or Oracle Supplier Portal Cloud, respectively. To use this feature, you need these privileges or roles:

SUPPLY CHAIN COLLABORATION 

• Privilege Name and Code:
  • Manage Supplier On-Hand Quantities as Enterprise User (VCS_MANAGE_SUPPLIER_ONHAND_ENTERPRISE)

• Job Role Name and Code: 
  • Supply Chain Collaboration Planner (ORA_VCS_SUPPLY_COLLAB_PLANNER)

SUPPLIER PORTAL 

• Privilege Name and Code:
  • Manage Supplier On-Hand Quantities as Supplier User (VCS_MANAGE_SUPPLIER_ONHAND_SUPPLIER)

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Supplier Demand Planner (ORA_POS_SUPPLIER_DEMAND_PLANNER)

REST API

For application integration use cases where data security is not needed, this privilege or job role can be used:

• Privilege Name and Code:
  • Manage Supplier On-Hand Quantities using a Web Service  (VCS_MANAGE_SUPPLIER_ONHAND_WEBSERVICE)

• Job Role Name and Code: 
  • Supply Chain Integration Specialist (ORA_RCS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_INTEGRATION_SPECIALIST)

Simplify Republishing of Order Forecasts for New Relationships

When a collaboration relationship doesn't exist for a new item-location-supplier site combination, Oracle Supply Chain Collaboration Cloud creates a collaboration relationship candidate. A supply chain application administrator can convert the collaboration relationship candidate into a collaboration relationship and republish the order forecast. Republishing order forecasts transmits them to suppliers. With this update, when the administrator creates the collaboration relationship from a collaboration relationship candidate, the order forecasts are automatically republished. This change improves efficiency of the overall collaboration process by making the published order forecasts visible to the supplier as soon as possible.

After collaboration relationship candidates are converted to collaboration relationships, any unprocessed order forecasts still within the interface tables will be published automatically using the Prepare Candidate Order Forecasts for Decomposition scheduled process. This scheduled process is automatically initiated after the candidates are converted.

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management  No Longer Optional From: Update 20D

Tips And Considerations

• After converting candidates, you can edit relationships before republishing. It is important that collaboration attributes calculated during the first publish of a collaboration cycle such as UOM Definition Source, Commit SLA, and Forecast and Commit Horizons be set at the time of editing relationships so that they are considered during republishing.

• If you don’t want the collaboration order forecasts published for the current collaboration cycle, set the effective start date on the relationship to the desired start date.

Key Resources

• Watch Supply Planning Collaboration Relationships Onboarding (update 18A) Readiness Training to learn more about relationship candidates

Role Information

To use this feature, you need these privileges or roles:

• Privilege Name and Code:
  • Manage Supply Planning Network Relationships (VCS_MANAGE_SUPPLY_RELATIONSHIPS)

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Supply Chain Application Administrator (ORA_RCS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)

Supply Chain Orchestration

Use a Spreadsheet to Request Transfer Orders That Include Project Data and Descriptive Flexfields

Use a spreadsheet to create supply requests for transfer orders that include project data and descriptive flexfields on transfer order lines. Create transfer order requests.

• Between different organizations
• Within a single organization
• For an inventory destination
• For an expense destination

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• Set the Detail Type attribute to DISTRIBUTION to capture project data.

• Capture only the project number and task number, or capture part of or all of the full set of project data.

• If you capture only the project number and task number, then Supply Orchestration gets default values for all the other project attributes.

• If you capture part of or all of the full set of project data, then Supply Orchestration keeps the values you capture and gets default values for the project attributes that you don't specify.

• If validation fails for the project cost transaction, then manually correct the errors and use the Supply Orchestration work area to resubmit the supply request. For example, if the expenditure type isn't active as of the expenditure item date, then go to the Manage Expenditure Types task and make sure the expenditure type date is valid. Resubmit the supply request.

Key Resources

See these books on Oracle Help Center under Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud:

• Implementing Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management
• Using Supply Chain Orchestration

Also, refer to the readiness training forTransfer Project-Specific Inventory, update 20A.

Role Information

To use this feature, you need this role:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Supply Chain Operations Manager (ORA_DOS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_OPERATIONS_MANAGER_JOB)

Close Supply Orders in Outside Processing and Plan-to-Produce Flows

You can now search for supply orders in outside processing flows when you run the Close Supply Orders scheduled process. You can also search for supply orders in plan-to-produce flows in contract manufacturing.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

Set parameters differently when you run the scheduled process, depending on the type of flow. 

Type of Flow	Supply Request Source	Supply Type
Outside processing	Oracle Fusion Common Work Execution	Buy
Plan-to-produce	Oracle Fusion Planning Central	Make

Key Resources

• Close Supply Orders That Are Open topic in the Supply Chain Orchestration chapter of the Implementing Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management book, available on Oracle Help Center.

Role Information

To use this feature, you need this role:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Supply Chain Operations Manager (ORA_DOS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_OPERATIONS_MANAGER_JOB)

Create Supply in Response to a Request for an Internal Material Transfer

Route an internal material transfer that includes a back-to-back item through Order Management Cloud. You can also update or cancel the internal material transfer, then send these details to Order Management and Supply Chain Orchestration.

For example.

1. Create internal material transfer 218891 with a quantity of 20, then submit it to Inventory. 
2. Use a routing rule to route the transfer to Order Management. 
3. Order Management creates sales order 54735 and sends a supply request to Supply Chain Orchestration. 
4. Supply Chain Orchestration communicates with Global Order Promising.
5. Global Order Promising applies rules that result in a Make request.
6. The flow sends a request to Oracle Fusion Manufacturing to create a work order.

Assume Manufacturing can only create a quantity of 15 at first, so Manufacturing creates that amount and places it in inventory.

1. The shipping manager manually splits the transfer order shipping line into line A with a quantity 15 that's in Ready to Ship status, and line B with a quantity of 5 that's not yet in stock.
2. Shipping ships line A, then sends the update to Order Management. 
3. Order Management splits the order fulfillment line into a shipped fulfillment line with a quantity 15 and another fulfillment line with a status of Awaiting Shipping with a quantity 5. 
4. The inventory manager examines the transfer order and decides not to wait for manufacturing to create more supply. Instead, the inventory manager reduces the quantity on the original internal material transfer to the shipped quantity of 15, then closes the work order.
5. Inventory sends a change request to Order Management to cancel the remaining quantity. 
6. Order Management updates Supply Chain Orchestration, which sends a request to Manufacturing to close the work order.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• You can't route a configured item through Order Management because Order Management doesn't accept a configured item as a line item, but you can include a configured item on an internal material transfer that you don't route through Order Management.

• You can't include a kit on an internal material transfer because Inventory doesn't process kits, but you can include a kit on a sales order in Order Management.

Key Resources

• The option to route an internal material transfer through Order Management for tracking purposes has been available since Release 11.  For information about this capability and other setup details, see the Set Up Rules for Supply Orders topic. It describes how to do the Manage Supply Order Defaulting and Enrichment Rules task. The topic is in the Supply Chain Orchestration chapter of the Implementing Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management book, available on Oracle Help Center.

Role Information

To use this feature, you need these roles:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Supply Chain Operations Manager (ORA_DOS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_OPERATIONS_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Supply Chain Administrator - setup (ORA_DOS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_ADMINSTRATOR...)

Use an Alternative Supply Source to Fulfill Sales Orders in Back-to-Back Flows

If you are fulfilling a sales order in a back-to-back flow that has a cancelled supply source or reduced supply quantity, then you can automatically get an alternative supply source.

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management  No Longer Optional From: Update 20D

Tips And Considerations

• Set up more than one sourcing rule in Supply Chain Planning or Global Order Promising to automatically get an alternative supply source.
• You can transfer the alternative supply source from an internal warehouse or organization, or you can procure it from an external supplier.

Key Resources

See these books on Oracle Help Center under Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud:

• Implementing Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management
• Using Supply Chain Orchestration

Role Information

To use this feature, you need this role:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Supply Chain Operations Manager (ORA_DOS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_OPERATIONS_MANAGER_JOB)