Update 23D

Revision History

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

Date	Module	Feature	Notes
01 SEP 2023			Created initial document.

Overview

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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 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 Configure Offerings.

Opt In Expiration

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Feature Summary

Supply Chain Orchestration

Supply Chain Orchestration

Extend the View Manual Reservations for Your Back-to-Back Sales Orders Feature

Extend the View Manual Reservations for Your Back-to-Back Sales Orders feature so you can view all of the reservations that you create manually in a back-to-back flow. Before this release, you could view manual reservations only for lines that have an Unassigned supply type on the supply order. Now you can view the supply orders, transfer orders, purchase orders, and work orders that fulfill all of your manual reservations even while Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration is still processing that supply. Also, before this release, you couldn't cancel a manual reservation when you cancel the order line. Now you can.

If a manual reservation might cause excess supply, then the Supply Orchestration work area displays a new icon on the supply line. If you hover over it, you'll see the Excess Supply text.

Quickly see what excess supply you have reserved for each sales order in your back-to-back flows.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• You must manually opt into the View Manual Reservations for Your Back-to-Back Sales Orders feature until update 24A.

• Supply Chain Orchestration doesn't automatically modify a manual reservation for a change in demand that it receives from Oracle Order Management. You must manually modify the reservation.

• The quantity for the work order, purchase request, or transfer order might be different from the reservation's quantity or the quantity on the supply or tracking line because other requests might also use the work order, purchase request, or transfer order.

Access Requirements

The feature is available to any privilege that can create and submit a sales order.

Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:

• Initiate Order (FOM_CREATE_ORDER_PRIV)
• Submit Order (FOM_SUBMIT_ORDER_PRIV)

Hold Changes from Manufacturing Until Purchase Orders Are Ready in Outside Processing Flows

Use Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration to temporarily hold the changes that you receive from Oracle Manufacturing. Use this feature in your outside processing flow when a work order or an operation undergoes change, but Oracle Purchasing hasn't created the purchase order or is revising it.

Here's how it works:

1. A work order or an operation undergoes a change in your outside processing flow, and then Oracle Manufacturing sends an update request to Supply Chain Orchestration. Manufacturing might send another request each time a work order or operation undergoes change.

2. If Purchasing hasn’t created the purchase order or is revising it, then Supply Chain Orchestration temporarily holds the update request.

3. Purchasing creates or finishes revising the purchase order, and then Supply Chain Orchestration automatically sends the most recent update request that it has received from Oracle Manufacturing to Purchasing.

Increase your processing efficiency and prevent failures that happen when you send an update request to Purchasing. Instead of having Supply Chain Orchestration send every request that it receives from Manufacturing to Purchasing, wait until Purchasing creates or finishes revising the purchase order, then send only the latest request.

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 24D

Key Resources

• See Setting Up Supply Chain Orchestration and Using Supply Chain Orchestration.

Access Requirements

Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:

• Process Supply Order Interface (DOS_PROCESS_SUPPLY_ORDER_INTERFACE_PRIV)
• View Supply Orders (DOS_VIEW_SUPPLY_ORDERS_PRIV)
• Manage Supply Request Exceptions (DOS_MANAGE_SUPPLY_REQUEST_EXCEPTIONS_PRIV)
• View Supply Order Exceptions and Status (DOS_VIEW_SUPPLY_ORDER_EXCEPTIONS_AND_STATUS_PRIV)

No new privileges were introduced to support this feature.

Use Redesigned Pages to Create Transfer Supply Requests

Use a redesigned page to help you create a transfer request on your desktop, tablet, or mobile device. Supply Chain Orchestration will display the supply source that provides the optimal fulfillment for your request, by default. You can accept the default supply source or pick another one from a list of sources when you create the request. You can create the request for a standard item or for an item that's part of a project.

Improve your user experience when you need to create a transfer request on your desktop, tablet, or mobile device.

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

Here's some of the cool new stuff you can do:

• Use the New Supply Request task in the Supply Chain Orchestration work area to create a transfer request.

• Use the Manage Item Quantities task in the Inventory Management work area to create the request.

• Set the Destination Type attribute on your request to Inventory or to Expense.

• Set the Transfer Type attribute on your request to Inter Organization or to Intra Organization.

• Create and submit more than one request for one or more destination organizations.

• Your request can use the item's primary UOM or a nonprimary UOM.

• Accept the supply source that provides the optimal fulfillment, or select another source from a list of sources that Supply Chain Orchestration automatically ranks for you according to availability.

• Create a transfer request for a project.

Key Resources

• See Setting up Supply Chain Orchestration and Using Supply Chain Orchestration.

Access Requirements

Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:

• Process Supply Order Interface (DOS_PROCESS_SUPPLY_ORDER_INTERFACE_PRIV)
• View Supply Orders (DOS_VIEW_SUPPLY_ORDERS_PRIV)
• Manage Supply Request Exceptions (DOS_MANAGE_SUPPLY_REQUEST_EXCEPTIONS_PRIV)
• View Supply Order Exceptions and Status (DOS_VIEW_SUPPLY_ORDER_EXCEPTIONS_AND_STATUS_PRIV)

Collaboration Messaging Framework

Collaboration Messaging Framework

Exchange B2B Messages with Your Trading Partners Using Avalara

A new predefined service provider, Avalara, is available for your electronic invoicing needs. If you subscribe to Avalara’s services, you can use it to connect with your trading partners via the Pan-European Public Procurement Online (PEPPOL) network. Avalara is a certified PEPPOL access point and solution provider.

Avalara's messages and delivery methods are predefined, thereby streamlining B2B setup in the Collaboration Messaging work area.

Steps to Enable

Steps to Enable

At a high level, to set up the predefined Avalara service provider:

1. Configure Avalara to exchange messages with your trading partners.
2. Create trading partners.
3. Associate the trading partners with your suppliers or customers.
4. Select the documents you want to exchange with your suppliers or customers.

These steps are detailed in the Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging for Oracle Applications Cloud guide.

Configure the Predefined Service Provider Avalara

1. Select Manage Collaboration Messaging Service Providers from the Tasks panel tab, and search for the Avalara service provider.

2. On the Edit Collaboration Messaging Service Provider page, select Test or Production in the Outbound Delivery Connection Type field to reflect the environment you are setting up.

3. Select the Delivery Methods tab, and enter the username and password for the selected connection type.

Outbound Delivery Connection Type and Delivery Method

4. Select the Outbound Collaboration Messages tab, link the delivery method with the message, and activate the message you want to exchange with your trading partners:

• UBL 2.1 PEPPOL Invoice Outbound (Avalara_UBL-2.1-PEPPOL-Invoice-Out)

Avalara Outbound Collaboration Message

5. Select the Inbound Collaboration Messages tab, and activate the messages you want to use. The following messages are available:

• UBL 2.1 Invoice Application Response Inbound (Avalara_UBL-2-1-InvoiceApplicationResponse-In)
• UBL 2.1 PEPPOL Invoice Inbound (Avalara_UBL-2.1-PEPPOL-Invoice-In)

Avalara Inbound Messages

Create Trading Partners

After completing the service provider setup, create your trading partners.

1. Select Manage B2B Trading Partners on the Tasks panel tab.
2. On the Manage B2B Trading Partners page, select Actions > Create, and add your trading partners.
3. Select Avalara as the service provider.

Create a Trading Partner

Associate Trading Partners with Your Suppliers or Customers

Next, associate the trading partners with your suppliers or customers for your electronic invoicing documents.

1. Select Manage Supplier B2B Configuration on the Tasks panel tab, and search for your suppliers.

2. Select a supplier and then select Edit Supplier B2B Configuration.

3. On the Edit Supplier B2B Configuration page, select the Trading Partner Assignment tab and click Actions > Add Row to add a trading partner and the Avalara service provider.

Supplier Trading Partner Assignment

4. On the Edit Supplier B2B Configuration page, select the Document Setup tab, and add the Invoice-Inbound to exchange with the selected supplier.

Supplier Document Setup

5. Select Manage Customer Account Collaboration Configuration on the Tasks panel tab, and search for your customers.

6. Select a customer. On the Edit Customer Account Collaboration Configuration page, select the Avalara service provider and trading partners in the Associated Service Providers section.

7. In the Collaboration Documents for Service Provider section, select the documents you want to exchange (outbound invoices or inbound invoice acknowledgments).

Customer Account Collaboration Configuration

Tips And Considerations

Make sure you select the correct endpoint for your message delivery, Test or Production, in the Outbound Delivery Connection Type field on the Edit Service Provider page. If you don’t select a message delivery type, you’ll get an error message during message processing that you didn’t specify an endpoint for Avalara.

Key Resources

• Refer to the How You Configure Predefined Service Providers section of the Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging for Oracle Applications Cloud guide on the Oracle Help Center.

Access Requirements

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)
• Manage Service Provider (CMK_MANAGE_SERVICE_PROVIDER_PRIV)

These privileges were available prior to this update.

Receive Streamlined Error Message Reporting for B2B Messages Sent Using Web Services

The validation process for inbound messages received through synchronous web service operations has been improved. Now, the caller receives only relevant and correctable errors that can be fixed before the message is processed. The refined process validates the following:

• Authentication:  The caller of the service is a valid user.

• Authorization: The caller of the web service is assigned a job role with the privilege Invoke Collaboration Message Inbound Service (CMK_INVOKE_INBOUND_COLLAB_DOC_SERVICE_PRIV).

• Sender party: The SENDER_ID and SENDER_ID_TYPE in the payload have a valid trading partner ID and ID type.

• External message definitions: The external message definition in the payload exists in Oracle Collaboration Messaging Framework.

• Invalid order numbers Inbound messages that reference a PO such as PO acknowledgments, invoices, and shipments, have valid PO numbers

Other B2B setup errors are logged and managed in the Collaboration Messaging work area. The asynchronous operation remains unchanged, with the credentials validated and errors returned for invalid credentials.

As the sender of B2B messages, you only receive errors that are in your control to fix. As the receiver of B2B messages, you can review errors in Collaboration Messaging Framework that you have access to correct, ensuring a more efficient process for troubleshooting any issues encountered during the exchange of B2B messages.

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

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

Simplify the Exchange of Purchase Orders with Other Oracle Cloud Enterprises

There are six new message definitions available for sending and receiving POs. These message definitions use the Oracle B2B messaging standard and enable you to exchange POs directly with your trading partners, B2B service providers, and other Oracle cloud enterprises:

• Oracle-1-0-B2B-Purchase-Order-In
• Oracle-1-0-B2B-Purchase-Order-Change-In
• Oracle-1-0-B2B-Purchase-Order-Cancel-In
• Oracle-1-0-B2B-Purchase-Order-Out
• Oracle-1-0-B2B-Purchase-Order-Change-Out
• Oracle-1-0-B2B-Purchase-Order-Cancel-Out

These messages provide additional options for you to exchange POs with your trading partners and B2B service providers.

Steps to Enable

At a high level, there are two steps to enable these message definitions:

1. Set up the message definitions with either a service provider or a trading partner directly.
2. Associate the trading partner with your suppliers or customers.

Set Up Message Definitions with a Service Provider or Trading Partner

1. Select Manage Collaboration Messaging Service Providers or Manage B2B Trading Partners from the Tasks panel tab, and search for the service provider or trading partner you want to set up.

2. If you are sending POs, on the Outbound Collaboration Messages tab, select the new outbound PO message definition you want to exchange with your trading partners:

• Oracle-1-0-B2B-Purchase-Order-Out
• Oracle-1-0-B2B-Purchase-Order-Change-Out
• Oracle-1-0-B2B-Purchase-Order-Cancel-Out

3. Associate a delivery method with the message definition and set the status to Active.

Outbound PO Messages

4. If you are receiving POs, on the Inbound Collaboration Messages tab, select the new inbound PO message definition you want to exchange with your trading partners and set the status to Active:

• Oracle-1-0-B2B-Purchase-Order-In
• Oracle-1-0-B2B-Purchase-Order-Change-In
• Oracle-1-0-B2B-Purchase-Order-Cancel-In

Inbound PO Messages

Associate the Trading Partners with Your Suppliers or Customers

Next, associate the trading partners with your suppliers or customers to exchange POs with them.

1. Select Manage Supplier B2B Configuration on the Tasks panel tab, and search for your suppliers.

2. Select a supplier and then select Edit Supplier B2B Configuration.

3. On the Edit Supplier B2B Configuration page, select the Trading Partner Assignment tab and click Actions > Add Row to add a trading partner, and select your trading partner.

4. Select the Document Setup tab, and add the PO documents (Purchase Order-Outbound, Purchase Order Change – Outbound and Purchase Order Cancellation – Outbound) to exchange with the selected supplier.

Supplier and Associated PO Documents

5. Select Manage Customer Collaboration Configuration on the Tasks panel tab, and search for your customers.

6. Select a customer. On the Edit Customer Collaboration Configuration page, select your trading partners in the Associated Service Providers section.

7. In the Collaboration Documents for Service Provider section, select the PO documents you want to exchange (Purchase Order- Inbound, Purchase Order Change - Inbound and Purchase Order Cancellation - Inbound).

Key Resources

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

Access Requirements

Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:

• Manage B2B Trading Partners (CMK_B2B_TRADING_PARTNERS_PRIV)
• Manage Service Provider (CMK_MANAGE_SERVICE_PROVIDER_PRIV)