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| Date | Module | Feature | Notes |
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| 02 DEC 2022 | Created initial document. |
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Pre-Update and Post-Update Tasks
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Optional Uptake of New Features (Opt In)
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- 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
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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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Improve Supply Tracking for Sales Orders in Your Back-to-Back Flows |
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Selected Supply Chain Orchestration Bug Fixes in This Update |
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View and Collaborate on Demands Using a Customer's Preferred Unit of Measure |
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Collaborate with Customer Demands Specified at Customer Level |
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Improve Supply Tracking for Sales Orders in Your Back-to-Back Flows
Keep up-to-date with the latest changes in supply and manage supply requests in your back-to-back flow even when you ship only part of the order line.
Assume only some of the quantity for your order line is available to ship, so Order Management splits the order line into two fulfillment lines, fulfillment line x and fulfillment line y. Line x has the quantity that is available to ship. Line y has the quantity that isn't yet available to ship.
If you enable this feature, then Supply Chain Orchestration doesn't close the supply order when Oracle Shipping ships line x. Instead, Orchestration keeps the supply order open until Shipping also ships line y, or until Oracle Order Management cancels the request. Orchestration continues to orchestrate changes in demand and supply for line y as long as the supply order remains open.
Realize these benefits:
- Save time and work more efficiently. You don't have to manually create a new line for supply that isn't yet available. Supply Chain Orchestration will automatically create new supply for you.
- Track how much supply you have used even when Shipping has shipped only line x.
- Get timely updates so you can accurately track the progress that Orchestration is making to create supply for line y.
- Reduce or eliminate supply disruptions for line y. Orchestration will automatically update supply so it has the latest details for your line.
- Modify line y, and Orchestration will manage that change in your purchasing, inventory, or manufacturing organization.
- Manage an interruption to supply on line y in the same way that you do when you haven't partially shipped the line.
- Manage supply recommendations even when you have partially shipped one or more of them.
- Manage any number of shipments.
- Track each partial or full cancellation.
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: Order Management No Longer Optional From: Update 23C
Tips And Considerations
Consider these guidelines:
- If you need to take action on line y, then you must first use the Unschedule action on line y, and then use the Schedule action on line y. Orchestration will then create a new a supply order for the quantity on line y. For details, see Schedule Fulfillment Lines Manually.
- If you modify the warehouse or the item on line y, then Orchestration will cancel the supply order and make that supply available to other demand. It will also cancel any new supply that it's currently creating for line y. Orchestration will do this even if you enable the Defer Online Processing of Inventory Updates shipping parameter for the warehouse.
- If you enable the Defer Online Processing of Inventory Updates shipping parameter for the warehouse, then Supply Chain Orchestration won't use the Improve Supply Tracking for Sales Orders in Your Back-to-Back Flows feature for that warehouse.
- The split behavior in Order Management doesn't affect your purchase orders, work orders, or transfer orders.
Use This Feature with Other Features
You can enable only the Improve Supply Tracking for Sales Orders in Your Back-to-Back Flows feature, or you can also enable the Order Management's Update Attributes On Split Order Lines For Partial Shipments feature.
| Features That You Enable | Description |
|---|---|
| Enable only the Improve Supply Tracking for Sales Orders in Your Back-to-Back Flows feature. |
Orchestration keeps the supply order open, and it will track supply for line y until Shipping ships line y. You can modify the scheduled ship date or warehouse on line y, and Orchestration will automatically update supply so it has the latest details for line y. You can't modify the quantity on line y after Shipping ships line x. |
| Enable both features. | You can modify the quantity, scheduled ship date, or warehouse on line y even after Shipping ships line x. Order Management will use your revised values to fulfill the line and Orchestration will automatically update supply so it has the latest details for the line. If you enable the Update Attributes on Split Order Lines for Partial Shipments feature, then you also automatically enable the Improve Supply Tracking for Sales Orders in Your Back-to-Back Flows feature. For details, see Update Attributes on Split Order Lines for Partial Shipments. |
| Don't enable either feature. |
Orchestration will close the supply order as soon as Shipping ships any part of the order line, and Orchestration won't track any other modifications that you make on the line. You can't modify the quantity on line y after Shipping ships line x. |
Key Resources
- Watch Improve Supply Tracking for Sales Orders in your Back-to-Back Flows Readiness Training
- Implementing Order Management
- Using Supply Chain Orchestration
Role And Privileges
- Supply Chain Operations Manager (ORA_DOS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_OPERATIONS_MANAGER_JOB)
Selected Supply Chain Orchestration Bug Fixes in This Update
This update includes some bug fixes that can change the way Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration 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.
Display Your Own Work Order Status
The Supply Chain Orchestration work area displayed only predefined statuses prior to update 23A. For example, assume you created your own status named MyStatus. The work area displayed one of the predefined statuses even if the work order's run time status was MyStatus. With this update, the work area will display MyStatus.
Oracle reference: 34543645
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Collaboration Messaging Framework
Collaboration Messaging Framework
Receive a Brazil Electronic Freight Other Services Invoice
Use the new secretaria de fazenda (SEFAZ) Brazil Electronic Freight Other Services Invoice V3.00 message (BR_CTEOS_3.00_IN) to receive electronic freight invoices for other transportation-related services.
This predefined message definition is available as an inbound message (ORA_SZ_BR_CTEOS_3.0_IN) for the SEFAZ service provider on the Manage Collaboration Messaging Service Providers page. This message is processed with other Brazilian messages when using the Import Brazil Electronic Documents scheduled process.
ORA_SZ_BR_CTEOS_3.00_IN
This new predefined message allows you to implement conhecimento de transporte eletrônico (CT-e) electronic bill of lading for other services by taking advantage of the information that can be extracted from XML, reducing user manual intervention.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Key Resources
- Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging for Oracle Applications Cloud guide available on the Oracle Help Center.
Role And Privileges
You have a couple of options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.
- Users who are assigned this predefined job role can access this feature:
- Supply Chain Application Administrator (ORA_RCS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)
- Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains this privileges can access this feature:
- Manage Service Provider (CMK_MANAGE_SERVICE_PROVIDER_PRIV)
Send and Receive UBL PEPPOL Electronic Invoices
Use the new predefined message definitions UBL-2.1-PEPPOL-Invoice-Out and UBL-2.1-PEPPOL-Invoice-In to send and receive universal business language (UBL) pan-European public procurement online (PEPPOL) invoice messages to and from PEPPOL access points.
UBL-2.1-PEPPOL-Invoice-Out Message
UBL-2.1-PEPPOL-Invoice-In Message
Set up these message definitions as outbound and inbound collaboration messages for a trading partner. Associate the trading partner and the invoice outbound document with a customer by using the Manage Customer Account Collaboration Configuration task. Associate the trading partner and invoice inbound document with a supplier by using the Manage Supplier B2B Configuration task in the Collaboration Messaging work area.
These new messages enrich the e-invoicing process by providing additional data elements to meet PEPPOL standards and some country-specific requirements.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Tips And Considerations
You must create the following list of domain value maps before you can exchange UBL PEPPOL messages. Populate each domain value map with the values from the code lists.
| Domain Value Maps | Code Lists |
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| CURRENCY_CODE |
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| INVOICE_TYPE_CODE |
https://docs.peppol.eu/poacc/billing/3.0/codelist/UNCL1001-inv/ |
| INVOICE_TRX_TYPE_CODE |
https://docs.peppol.eu/poacc/billing/3.0/codelist/UNCL1001-inv/ |
| EAS_CODE |
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| ICD_CODE |
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| CHARGE_REASON_CODE |
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| UOM_CODE |
https://docs.peppol.eu/poacc/billing/3.0/codelist/UNECERec20/ |
| COUNTRY_CODE |
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| PAYMENT_METHOD |
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| TAX_CATEGORY_CODE |
Key Resources
- Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging for Oracle Applications Cloud guide available on the Oracle Help Center.
Role And Privileges
You have a couple of options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.
- Users who are assigned this predefined job role can access this feature:
- Supply Chain Application Administrator (ORA_RCS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)
- Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:
- Manage B2B Supplier Trading Partners (CMK_B2B_SUPPLIER_TRADING_PARTNERS_PRIV)
- Manage B2B Trading Partners (CMK_B2B_TRADING_PARTNERS_PRIV)
- Manage Customer Account Collaboration Configuration (CMK_B2B_CUSTOMER_ACCOUNT_TRADING_PARTNERS_PRIV)
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 Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Collaboration 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’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 Notes to Share Comments on Order Forecasts and Commits
With this update, you can add notes on your order forecasts and share them with your trading partners. Note to Supplier is a text field on collaboration relationships in which you can add comments about the order forecast to the supplier. For example, you can add a comment to share that an increase in order forecast for the upcoming month is to address a new promotion. Similarly, Note to Planner is a text field that your supplier user uses to respond to your note or comment on their commits, such as unable to meet order forecast in the next 3 weeks due to shortage of labor and parts. These two note fields are added to the Edit Order Forecast Details page.
The two note fields make it easier for both you and your suppliers to understand the changes in order forecasts and commits. Additional points on the note fields:
- The note fields will persist as part of the collaboration plan and will be available for historical reporting.
- You can search based on the note fields in the Manage Order Forecast and Commits page.
- Excel-based upload and download templates in the Manage Order Forecast and Commits and Edit Order Forecast Details pages are updated with the note fields.
- The note fields are also added to CollaborationOrderForecast and CollaborationOrderForecastRequest REST services.
- Both Process Forecast and Acknowledge Forecast B2B messages are updated with the note fields.
- Collaboration Order Forecasts in Oracle file-based data (FBDI) import is also updated to include the note fields.
After enabling the feature, you and your suppliers enter notes on the Edit Order Forecast Details page.
Edit Order Forecast Details
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
If you want to use notes to share comments on order forecasts and commits, then you must opt in to its parent feature: Supply Collaboration. If you’ve already opted in to this parent feature, then you don’t have to opt in again.
You enable the feature in the settings on the Manage Supply Chain Collaboration Settings page. When Enable notes for order forecasts is set to Yes, the notes fields are available with your order forecast.
Setup and Maintenance > Manage Supply Chain Collaboration Settings > Collaboration Settings
Key Resources
Role And Privileges
You have a couple options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.
- Users who are assigned this predefined job role are automatically able to access this feature:
- Supply Chain Collaboration Planner (ORA_VCS_SUPPLY_CHAIN_COLLABORATION_PLANNER)
- Supplier Demand Planner (ORA_POS_SUPPLIER_DEMAND_PLANNER_JOB)
- Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privilege are able to access this feature
- Edit Forecasts as Enterprise User (VCS_EDIT_ORDER_FORECAST_ENTERPRISE)
- Edit Order Forecasts as Contract Manufacturer (VCS_EDIT_ORDER_FORECAST_SHIPTO)
View and Collaborate on Demands Using a Customer's Preferred Unit of Measure
The unit of measure (UOM) used in planning applications may differ from the UOM used to sell goods. With this update, you can receive demand from your customers using their preferred UOM. This preferred UOM will persist as the collaboration UOM, and all quantities including customer forecasts, supply forecasts, and history are converted and displayed in the specified collaboration UOM. Both you and your customer may view data in demand collaboration in the collaboration UOM.
However, when customer demands are synched with Oracle Cloud Demand Management, the customer demands are converted to the item’s primary UOM. In Oracle Demand Management, the forecasting process uses the item’s primary UOM in determining the consensus forecast. Likewise, when supply forecast is published to Demand Collaboration, the demand quantities are converted from item’s primary UOM to the collaboration UOM.
The Collaboration Customer Demand Requests REST service and scheduled processes Load Collaboration Customer Demand, Process Collaboration Customer Demands, Receive Collaboration Customer Demand, and Publish Planning Data for Collaboration are also enhanced to support the collaboration UOM.
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
If you want to use the View and Collaborate on Demands Using a Customer's Preferred Unit of Measure feature, then you must opt in to its parent feature: Customer Demand Collaboration. If you’ve already opted in to this parent feature, then you don’t have to opt in again.
Key Resources
- Watch View and Collaborate on Demands Using a Customer's Preferred Unit of Measure Readiness Training
Role And Privileges
You have a few 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:
- Demand Planner (ORA_VCS_SUPPLY_COLLAB_PLANNER)
- Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privilege are able to access this feature:
- Manage Customer Demand as Enterprise User (VCS_MANAGE_CUSTOMER_DEMAND_ENTERPRISE)
- Customer users who are assigned this predefined job role are automatically able to access this feature:
- Customer Demand Planner (ORA_VCS_CUSTOMER_DEMAND_PLANNER)
- Customer users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privilege are able to access this feature:
- Manage Customer Demand as Customer User (VCS_MANAGE_CUSTOMER_DEMAND_CUSTOMER)
Collaborate with Customer Demands Specified at Customer Level
Previously, your customers could share their demand forecasts and consumption information only at the item, organization, and customer site level. With this update, your customers can also share their forecasts and consumption information at the item, organization, and customer level. To enable this flow, changes made:
- Added Customer Level Forecast Document and Customer Level Consumption Document. Two new collaboration documents were created at the customer level to make it easy for customers to share order forecasts and history at the customer level. These customer level collaboration documents are included as part of the customer demand upload templates.
- Updated the Receive Collaboration Customer Demand schedule process to take the demand at the customer level from demand collaboration and populate the seeded measure in demand management at the customer site level. The disaggregation of data from customer level to customer site level is performed by Oracle Demand Management.
- Updated the demand collaboration details page to view all measures (order forecasts, supply forecasts, and history) at the customer level.
- Updated the Publish for Demand Collaboration from the action menu of Oracle Demand Management and Publish Planning Data for Collaboration schedule process to aggregate selected consensus forecast measure from customer site level to customer level in Oracle Demand Management and populate the supply forecast measure in demand collaboration.
- Added Planning Calendar and Planning Time Level to the synchronization profiles to facilitate collaboration on your customers demand forecasts that combine manufacturing, Gregorian, and fiscal calendars as a demand schedule.
- Updated the REST services associated with demand collaboration to seamlessly work with customer level forecasts.
NOTE: The metrics displayed in the dashboard reflect the forecasts at the customer level.
Screenshot of the demand edit page where you view and edit demand at the customer level.
Supply Chain Planning >> Demand Collaboration>> Demand Collaboration Details > Edit demand
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
If you want to use the Collaborate with Customer Demands Specified at Customer Level feature, then you must opt in to its parent feature: Customer Demand Collaboration. If you’ve already opted in to this parent feature, then you don’t have to opt in again.
Key Resources
Role And Privileges
You have a few 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 Collaboration Planner (ORA_VCS_SUPPLY_COLLAB_PLANNER)
- Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privilege are able to access this feature:
- Manage Customer Demand as Enterprise User (VCS_MANAGE_CUSTOMER_DEMAND_ENTERPRISE)
- Customer users who are assigned this predefined job role are automatically able to access this feature:
- Customer Demand Planner (ORA_VCS_CUSTOMER_DEMAND_PLANNER)
- Customer users who are assigned configured job roles that contain this privilege are able to access this feature:
- Manage Customer Demand as Customer User (VCS_MANAGE_CUSTOMER_DEMAND_CUSTOMER)
Use Supplier Sites Codes That Are Up to 240 Characters
Supplier site codes are typically a short alphanumeric character set. However, in some business situations, it may be useful to have a longer site code to improve readability. In this update, the maximum length of the supplier site code has been increased to 240 characters in conjunction with the same capability in Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement. This change is applicable for both Oracle Fusion source systems and external source systems for which you can collect supplier site codes up to the new maximum using the Oracle file-based data import (FBDI) template for Supply Chain Planning Suppliers (ScpSupplierImportTemplate.xlsm.)
Here's an example of the Supply Network Model page showing supplier sites for Big Computers. Two of the sites have a supplier site code longer than 30 characters, which was the maximum supported by planning in previous updates.
Depending on the width of the column, the data may be truncated, in which case the ellipses are displayed. If you hover over the field, the full supplier site code is displayed in the hover text.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Tips And Considerations
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Whether a longer supplier site code can be entered in Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement is controlled through an opt in feature named Create Supplier Sites with Longer Names.
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Planning collects the full supplier site codes (up to 240 characters) that have been saved to the Oracle Fusion database regardless of whether the opt-in feature noted in the preceding bullet is enabled or not.
Role And Privileges
You have a couple options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.
- Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
- Supply Chain Planner (ORA_MSC_SUPPLY_CHAIN_PLANNER_JOB)
- Materials Planner (ORA_MSC_MATERIALS_PLANNER_JOB)
- Demand Planner (ORA_MSC_DEMAND_PLANNER_JOB)
- Replenishment Planner (ORA_MSC_REPLENISHMENT_PLANNER_JOB)
- Sales and Operations Planner (ORA_MSC_SALES_AND_OPERATIONS_PLANNER_JOB)
- Backlog Manager (ORA_MSC_BACKLOG_MANAGER_JOB)
- Order Promising Manager (ORA_MSC_ORDER_PROMISING_MANAGER_JOB)
- There's no change to existing privileges needed to take advantage of this feature. If a user has access to a page that displays supplier site code, then the user will see the longer value for a supplier site code after it's collected into planning.