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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 NOV 2021 | Cross-Product Enhancements | Access SCM Application Pages Using Quick Actions | Updated document. Revised feature information. |
| 30 JUL 2021 | Cross-Product Enhancements | Access SCM Application Pages Using Quick Actions | Updated document. Revised feature information. |
| 25 JUN 2021 | Supply Chain Orchestration | Search and Select Items More Efficiently While Creating a Transfer Order | Updated document. Revised feature information. |
| 18 JUN 2021 | Created initial document. |
This guide outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in this update, and describes any tasks you might need to perform for the update. Each section includes a brief description of the feature, the steps you need to take to enable or begin using the feature, any tips or considerations that you should keep in mind, and the resources available to help you.
SECURITY AND NEW FEATURES
The Role section of each feature identifies the security privilege and job role required to use the feature. If feature setup is required, then the Application Implementation Consultant job role is required to perform the setup, unless otherwise indicated. (If a feature doesn't include a Role section, then no security changes are required to use the feature.)
If you have created job roles, then you can use this information to add new privileges to those roles as needed. For details about how to compare your configured job roles to predefined job roles and add security artifacts to your configured job roles, see the Security Console and Roles and Role Assignments chapters in the Oracle SCM Cloud: Securing SCM guide on the Oracle Help Center.
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Pre-Update and Post-Update Tasks
Depending on the features you're using in your Cloud applications, you may be required to perform certain steps immediately before or after your quarterly update. For details of these pre-update and post-update steps and the product areas that are affected, refer to Oracle SCM Cloud: Performing Your Quarterly Update (doc ID 2337485.1) on My Oracle Support.
Optional Uptake of New Features (Opt In)
Oracle Cloud Applications delivers new updates every quarter. This means every three months you'll receive new functionality to help you efficiently and effectively manage your business. Some features are delivered Enabled meaning they are immediately available to end users. Other features are delivered Disabled meaning you have to take action to make available. Features delivered Disabled can be activated for end users by stepping through the following instructions using the following privileges:
- Review Applications Offering (ASM_REVIEW_APPLICATIONS_OFFERINGS_PRIV)
- Configure Oracle Fusion Applications Offering (ASM_CONFIGURE_OFFERING_PRIV)
Here’s how you opt in to new features:
- Click Navigator > My Enterprise > New Features.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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:
- Click Navigator > My Enterprise > Offerings.
- On the Offerings page, select your offering, and then click Opt In Features.
- On the Opt In page, click the Edit Features (pencil) icon for the offering, or for the functional area that includes your feature.
- 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.
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 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 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. |
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Accept Additional Complex Change Requests in Inbound Order Acknowledgments |
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Search and Select Items More Efficiently While Creating a Transfer Order |
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Use Different Units of Measure on Supply Requests and Purchase Orders |
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Manually Select an Alternative Supply Source to Fulfill Sales Orders in Back-to-Back Flows |
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Supply Chain Collaboration and Visibility
Access SCM Application Pages Using Quick Actions
In this update, Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud delivers new quick actions that provide easy navigation from the home page directly to specific application pages without using the menu structure. With a single click, you can initiate tasks from the home page.
Each tab group on the home page displays an initial set of quick actions that are based on your function security privileges. The actions available to you are controlled by the job roles you're assigned. Click Show More to see all of the quick actions that are available to you in that tab group:
Quick Actions on the Home Page for the Supply Chain Execution Tab Group
Quick actions are automatically available if your environment has a theme that includes the news feed layout on the home page. See the Tips and Considerations section for additional details.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Tips And Considerations
- To see quick actions, your environment must have a theme that includes the news feed layout on the home page, such as the Redwood theme, which was the default theme as of update 20C. If your administrator created and applied a configured theme to your environment, however, the Redwood theme won’t override your configured theme. Administrators can use the Themes page of the Appearance work area to manage environment themes.
- Users who are assigned the predefined Application Implementation Consultant job role, or a similar configured job role, can perform selected configurations of the Quick Action links. For details and instructions, see Configure Quick Actions on the Oracle Help Center.
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.
Receive UBL PEPPOL Invoice Responses
Use the new predefined message definition UBL-2-1-InvoiceApplicationResponse-In to receive UBL PEPPOL invoice responses from your customers.
Your customer can provide a status and a reason code that update and display the XML Delivery Status and XML Delivery Error Message in Oracle Receivables.
Sellers in countries that mandate electronic invoicing can receive processing status of invoices from buyers in the UBL PEPPOL message format.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Tips And Considerations
The two lookups XML_DELIVERY_ERROR and XML_DELIVERY_STATUS available in Receivables contain lists of values that may be specified in the UBL-2-1-InvoiceApplicationResponse-In message. You will need to add any values that you expect to receive to these lookups.
Key Resources
- Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud: Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging guide available on the Oracle Hep Center.
- Oracle Financials Cloud: Using Receivables Credit to Cash guide available on the Oracle Hep Center.
Role Information
- Users who are assigned this predefined job role are automatically able to access this feature:
- B2B Administrator (ORA_CMK_B2B_ADMINISTRATOR_ABSTRACT)
Accept Additional Complex Change Requests in Inbound Order Acknowledgments
Use the new predefined message definition ORACLE_1.0_B2B_PURCHASE_ORDER_ACKNOWLEDGMENT_IN to receive complex change requests using the OracleB2B messaging standard.
Multiple acknowledgment codes can be specified for each line. Flexfields need to be configured to handle acknowledgment codes that cannot be processed by a change order such as item substitution, item hold, part number correction, unit of measure change, and partial backorder.
This message closely resembles the purchase order acknowledgment content model in the EDI X12 855 transaction, which makes it easier to receive EDI purchase order acknowledgments and communicate to the purchasing application.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Tips And Considerations
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
- Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud: Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging guide available on the Oracle Help Center.
Role Information
- Users who are assigned this predefined job role are automatically able to access this feature:
- B2B Administrator (ORA_CMK_B2B_ADMINISTRATOR_ABSTRACT)
Find Messages Without Specifying a Document
In Manage Collaboration Messaging History you are no longer required to select a document as a search criteria, and the From Date defaults to a date time that is a set number of hours prior to the current date time.
Search Criteria in Manage Collaboration Messaging History
You can set the default From Date in Manage Collaboration Messaging History by specifying a number of hours for Default Messaging History Display Duration in Manage Collaboration Messaging Configuration.
Default Messaging History Display Duration
Readily see all messages sent or received recently when you click the Manage Collaboration Messaging History task.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Key Resources
- Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud: Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging guide available on the Oracle Help Center.
Role Information
- Users who are assigned this predefined job role are automatically able to access this feature:
- B2B Administrator (ORA_CMK_B2B_ADMINISTRATOR_ABSTRACT)
Search and Select Items More Efficiently While Creating a Transfer Order
Use the keyword index to take advantage of automatic suggestions when you search for and select an item to add to a supply request.
The automatic suggestions make selecting an item more efficient.
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
Tips And Considerations
Use the Offerings work area to opt in to the feature named Search and Select Items More Efficiently. This feature is available in the Items functional area of the Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management offering.
Key Resources
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For more information about the improvements in searching and selecting items in transactions, refer to the Filter Your Item Selections for Transactions Using Automatic Suggestions feature in the Oracle Product Lifecycle Management What's New, Update 21C.
- See the Create Supply Request topic on Oracle Help Center.
Role Information
- Supply Chain Operations Manager
Use Different Units of Measure on Supply Requests and Purchase Orders
Each purchase requisition will use the UOM from the order line. Each purchase order will use the Blanket Purchase Agreement that you use for the UOM.
You can use this feature to improve your profit margins. For example, you can negotiate price with your supplier in a unit of measure that's different from the measure that you use on the order line.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Key Resources
- See the Overview of Supply Orchestration topic on Oracle Help Center.
Role Information
- Supply Chain Operations Manager
Manually Select an Alternative Supply Source to Fulfill Sales Orders in Back-to-Back Flows
Sometimes the original supply source for a sales order might get canceled in your back-to-back flow, or an unexpected supply disruption might occur when fulfilling the sales order. For example, a supplier might cancel a purchase order, or someone might allocate a reserved work order to a higher priority sales order.
You can now create a replacement supply on demand to recover from an unexpected disruption. You can use the Supply Orchestration work area to manually select an alternative supply source, and Supply Orchestration will use it to fulfill the sales order. Supply Orchestration will update the supply status for each sales order in your back-to-back flow so you can track fulfillment in real time.
Use this feature to quickly recover from an unexpected disruption in real time and keep fulfillment on track and on time.
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
Tips And Considerations
Try it.
- Go to the Supply Orchestration work area, then click Tasks > Manage Supply Lines.
- On the Manage Supply Lines page, use the Exception Date attribute to search for supply lines that are in exception.
- In the search results, click a link in the Supply Order Number column.
- On the Supply Order Details page, click the supply line that's in exception, then click Action.
- Click Create Supply from the Best Alternate Source or Recreate Supply from Original Source.
Key Resources
Role Information
The Supply Chain Operations Manager job role comes predefined with these permissions:
- Create Supply from the Best Alternate Source
- Recreate Supply from Original Source
You can remove them to meet your requirements.
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.
Use Default Values for Forecast and Commit Horizons
The forecast horizon specifies the period for which forecasts are shared with your suppliers while the commit horizon specifies the duration for which your suppliers provide commit data. With this update, predefined default values are specified for both the forecast and commit horizons. If either the forecast or commit horizon isn’t specified on the collaboration relationship, then the predefined default value is used.
The predefined default values for forecast horizon and commit horizon are set to 730 days. You can review and update these values on the Manage Supply Chain Collaboration Settings page for the planning collaboration business process. You can also update the values for the horizons by using the Collaboration Parameters REST service using the DEFAULT_FORECAST_HORIZON and DEFAULT_COMMIT_HORIZON parameters.
Manage Supply Chain Collaboration Settings: Collaboration Settings
Improve your planning productivity by using predefined default values for the forecast horizon and commit horizon on your collaboration relationships.
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 21D
Role Information
You have a couple options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.
- Users who are assigned this predefined job role are automatically able to access this feature:
- Supply Chain Application Administrator (ORA_RCS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR)
- Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privilege are able to access this feature:
- Manage Collaboration Settings (VCS_MANAGE_SCC_SETTINGS)