Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud: Order to Cash

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1 Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud: Order to Cash (includes Order Management, Pricing, Configurator, Global Order Promising, Inventory and Cost Management, Supply Chain Financial Orchestration, and Advanced Fulfillment) Release 12 New Feature Summary December 2016

2 TABLE OF CONTENTS REVISION HISTORY... 4 ORDER TO CASH... 5 ORDER MANAGEMENT... 5 Send Notifications Based on Order Status Events... 5 Create Business Rules Using Visual Editor... 6 Manage Order Changes More Efficiently... 6 Customize Pages for Optimized User Experience... 6 Enhance Collaboration Using Oracle Social Network... 6 Integrate Faster with External Capture and Fulfillment Systems... 7 View Printed Order Summary... 7 Delete Orders from Interface Tables... 8 PRICING... 9 Customize Pages for Optimized User Experience... 9 Calculate Transfer Prices... 9 CONFIGURATOR Expand Configurator Rules Functionality Through Extension Rules Utilize Selectable Images in Product Configuration Leverage Transactional Item Attributes in Configurator Rules Customize Pages for Optimized User Experience GLOBAL ORDER PROMISING Use Web Services to Check Availability and Schedule Orders Promise Orders When the Global Order Promising Server is Down Promise Orders Based On Planned Supply from Planning Central Include Externally Managed Manufacturing Supplies in Promising Results INVENTORY MANAGEMENT Expense Internal Material Transfers Enhance Collaboration Using Oracle Social Network Integrate and Enrich Your Materials Management Processes Use Additional Web Services Support Oracle Integration Cloud Service Support B2B Electronic Messaging Comply with Italian Packing Slip Requirements Simplify Setup of Shipping Facilities COST MANAGEMENT Cost Expense-Based Internal Material Transfers Simplify Your Standard Cost Updates Define Retroactive Standard Cost Effectivities Preview Standard Cost Impact on Inventory Valuation Use Mapping Sets to Simplify Setups in Subledger Accounting Easily Analyze On-Hand Inventory Valuation SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCIAL ORCHESTRATION Calculate Transfer Price Using Pricing Strategy Define Enhanced Financial Orchestration Qualifiers Use Dual View of Supply Chain Financial Orchestration Flow Support Expense Destination Transfer Orders COLLABORATION MESSAGING FRAMEWORK Define B2B Trading Partners and B2B Messaging Configuration

3 ADVANCED FULFILLMENT Use Internal Material Transfer Flows Transfer to Expense Destinations Create and Update Internal Material Transfers Using an Open Interface Support Additional Transfer Costs SUPPLY CHAIN ORCHESTRATION Purge Orders Create Business Rules Using Visual Editor COMMON TECHNOLOGIES APPLICATIONS SECURITY User Account Management Administrator Password Management User Password Management (Self-Service) User Account Locking Enhanced Role Visualization Tabular Role Hierarchy View Search in Role Hierarchy Visualization User Name Generation Rules Password Policies Notification Templates Upgrade-Safe Management of Factory Shipped Roles Bridge for Microsoft Active Directory User Password Changes Audit Report Integrate Custom Identity Management Solution Password Reset Security Console

4 REVISION HISTORY This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates are logged below, with the most recent updates at the top. Date What s Changed Notes 05 DEC 2016 Initial Document Creation 4

5 ORDER TO CASH Modern order-to-cash business flows must operate in a multi-faceted, dynamic environment. These business flows must support: Multiple sources of order capture Multiple methods of order fulfillment Consistency of process governance and order promising Streamlined customer experience Seamless integration with billing and finance To facilitate these business flows, Oracle provides a multichannel order management capability with a central order hub at its core. This hub includes capabilities for order capture and fulfillment orchestration, pricing, product configuration, inventory management, and order promising. Oracle s innovative supply orchestration architecture provides the flexibility required for differing order policies and promising and fulfillment methods, while managing any exception conditions that may arise. ORDER MANAGEMENT Oracle Order Management Cloud is the center of your multichannel order-to-cash system. It provides the central order hub and associated services, such as order capture, pricing, and configuration. You can receive orders from external sources, modify them in Order Management, and then process them for fulfillment. Alternatively, you can enter and process orders directly in Order Management. Order Management provides prebuilt integrations with other Oracle Cloud services, and supports centrally managed orchestration policies, global supply availability, status monitoring, and exception order management. This release increases the flexibility of order to cash process by extending integration architectures and enhanced user experience. SEND NOTIFICATIONS BASED ON ORDER STATUS EVENTS Timely customer communication of order status and situations that may affect delivery is critical to improving customer satisfaction. Administrators can set up notifications to the customer contact for the order and the ship-to contact for the shipping notice when key events occur during order fulfillment. Administrator users can format s using Microsoft Word and embed order attributes into the notification. You can now send a ship notice as soon as an order has shipped. 5

6 CREATE BUSINESS RULES USING VISUAL EDITOR Order Management answers the business need for improved flexibility, and the ability to configure business rules is a key driver of this flexibility. This feature provides the ability to: Create rules for pre-transformation, process assignment and routing functions. Drag and drop for rule logic (if/then rules) and selection of attributes (for example, order information or item properties). Validate, save, and publish business rules for execution. Understand errors or warnings and take corrective actions like disabling the rule or modifying the rule to overcome errors. Order Management allows business users to create rules without technical assistance using the intuitive rules builder user interface. It also improves the quality of process flow definitions, reduces errors, and saves both implementation time and cost. MANAGE ORDER CHANGES MORE EFFICIENTLY Order change management enhancements include the ability to allow external systems to send only changed order lines and assign individual fulfillment orchestration processes to split lines. This provides more streamlined integration with external order capture systems and allows split lines to take advantage of existing Order Management features (for example, view fulfillment progress of each split line, find alternate supply sources for exception order lines). CUSTOMIZE PAGES FOR OPTIMIZED USER EXPERIENCE The specific needs and preferences for the look and feel of the Order Management system can vary by organization and changes can improve end-user efficiency and accuracy. With this enhancement, administrators can customize Order Management page layouts including hiding infrequently used attributes, changing the default widths of columns and panels, reordering the columns in a table, and rearranging the tab layout on a page. This results in improved end-user experience and productivity. ENHANCE COLLABORATION USING ORACLE SOCIAL NETWORK Real-time communication between fulfillment personnel helps to rapidly identify and resolve problems and explore alternate solutions, thereby increasing customer satisfaction. The Oracle Social Network is an embedded, central method of capturing interactions between users. It associates these conversation threads with specific transactions (such as an order) or specific parties (such as a customer). 6

7 With this feature, users can: Stream updates on Oracle Social Network. Collaborate through real time conversations. Participate in Oracle Social Network conversations on a mobile device. Receive and mobile phone-based alerts and notifications. With Oracle Social Network enabled for Order Management, all users involved in the order to cash process, such as order managers, warehouse managers, billing managers, and end customers, have a forum to discuss sales orders and make business decisions efficiently and keep the conversation linked to the associated content for easy reference. INTEGRATE FASTER WITH EXTERNAL CAPTURE AND FULFILLMENT SYSTEMS One of the key benefits of working in the cloud is rapid implementation. To leverage this benefit, the following capabilities have been added: Leverage Oracle Integration Cloud Service: visually maps and integrates Order Management business events (for example, order shipped, order billed). Order capture web service: send create order and get order status to external systems. Allow external order capture systems to check with Order Management if changes can be made based on the current state of a fulfillment process. For example, external order capture systems can determine whether an order has shipped. Use Oracle Collaboration Messaging Framework Cloud to enable business-to-business messages between businesses and trading partners. Collaboration Messaging Framework receives an order document in Open Applications Group Integration Specification (OAGIS) format from a trading partner, and then converts the order to the format that is supported by Order Management. Order Management processes the order and notifies Collaboration Messaging Framework after accepting the order. Collaboration Messaging Framework then creates and sends the acknowledgement message in OAGIS format to the trading partner. These capabilities reduce integration costs and implementation times to external systems. VIEW PRINTED ORDER SUMMARY Order information needs to be shared with a variety of internal and external consumers, each with their own formatting preference. Order Management users can selectively view a PDF order summary for review, or send it to customers using . Predefined document formats are included, or users can create their own using Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher. Ease of sharing this information improves overall process efficiency. 7

8 DELETE ORDERS FROM INTERFACE TABLES Orders imported into Order Management from external systems are first loaded into interface tables, and then into the Order Management tables. Even after successful order creation, the orders can be retained in the interface tables in case of order import errors and intentional retention. You can enable this feature using a scheduled process that provides the flexibility to delete orders from the interface tables using various selection criteria. 8

9 PRICING Oracle Pricing Cloud provides an advanced, flexible price management capability so that you can price products and services for each targeted customer segment while supporting your corporate pricing practices. The price administration functionality allows you to design pricing rules that meet your specific revenue and business objectives. The pricing architecture allows you to configure and customize the software so that you can implement your new pricing rules and processes. Oracle Pricing Cloud is included with the Oracle Order Management Cloud subscription. CUSTOMIZE PAGES FOR OPTIMIZED USER EXPERIENCE To adapt Pricing to the specific needs of an organization, administrators can customize price administration page layouts. This includes hiding infrequently used attributes, marking attributes as required, changing the default widths of columns and panels, reordering the columns in a table, and rearranging the tab layout on a page. CALCULATE TRANSFER PRICES Oracle Supply Chain Financial Orchestration Cloud is a powerful tool that enables you to set up and automate the rules and processes that govern the financial orchestration flows for intercompany transactions. With the integration to Supply Chain Financial Orchestration, you can now use Pricing on internal orders to: Calculate transfer price (in the document) Business attributes of the financial orchestration transaction are passed to Pricing to calculate the transfer price. Pricing supports markup and markdown as a percentage of the source document cost for standard and configured items. Determine Pricing Strategy - Details of the From and To legal entities and business units or agreement types can be used to determine the pricing strategy for financial orchestration flows. A new service mapping (Material Transfer) and a pricing algorithm (Price Material Transfers) have been introduced in Pricing to enable the integration with Supply Chain Financial Orchestration and the calculation of transfer prices. This new feature enables you to model all of your internal order pricing scenarios in a central price management application. For more details, see the section on Supply Chain Financial Orchestration in this document. 9

10 CONFIGURATOR Oracle Configurator Cloud is a powerful selling and configuration product that enables you to model products and services that are configurable, multi-option, and customizable. Using underlying constraint-based technology, you can model complex customizable products as a series of rules and options. These options guide customers to the best solutions and ensure that only valid configurations can be created. This integrated, flexible process eliminates order errors and rework costs. It also automates the order-to-production process to reduce overall sales cycle times. EXPAND CONFIGURATOR RULES FUNCTIONALITY THROUGH EXTENSION RULES Configurator runtime logic can be complex and difficult to model through configurator statement rules. Extension rules allow you to expand configuration behavior at runtime to model logic that is more complex. These user-defined extension rules, based on the Groovy programming language, can be associated with a model item or any of its components. Extension rules are executed every time the value of the associated item changes in the configuration at runtime. This allows you to augment the functionality of your runtime Configurator beyond what is provided natively through configurator rules. UTILIZE SELECTABLE IMAGES IN PRODUCT CONFIGURATION The configuration user s experience is greatly enhanced by the inclusion of images. Selectable images can be included in the Configurator runtime user interface to drive product configuration and selections. New user interface templates called Selectable Image Group and Selectable Image Group with Header can be assigned to an option class or feature. This allows the product configuration modeler to associate images with the selectable options. When configuring a product at runtime, users can now select these images to choose their options. LEVERAGE TRANSACTIONAL ITEM ATTRIBUTES IN CONFIGURATOR RULES In some instances, you many need to capture additional information about an item during order entry; for example, to specify a broadband speed on an internet service or specify monogramming for item personalization. You may also want to leverage these details when configuring a product at runtime. You can define item transactional attributes on an item class to represent this additional information so that when an order for any item of that item class is captured, those attributes can also be captured on the order. For example, if you have an item that is of item class Trophy, you can now define an attribute such as Winner Name. When you create an order for any item that is a Trophy, you can then capture, on the order line, the specific winner name that is to be applied to the trophy. With this release, you can use these item transactional attributes in configuration rules to drive component selection during runtime product configuration. 10

11 CUSTOMIZE PAGES FOR OPTIMIZED USER EXPERIENCE Increasing the number of possible item attributes is very helpful, but if users are able to view all attributes, their efficiency could be reduced when attempting to locate the correct options. To address this, administrators can customize Configurator modeling page layouts, including hiding infrequently used attributes, marking attributes as required, and changing page formatting and data arrangement on each page. This streamlines users efficiency by customizing their user interface to their specific work demands. 11

12 GLOBAL ORDER PROMISING Oracle Global Order Promising Cloud is an optional addition to Oracle Order Management Cloud that intelligently matches order demand with available supply. As each order arrives, Global Order Promising selects the best fulfillment approach, accounting for current and future availability, destination, expected delivery dates, and preferred delivery methods. Promising alternatives can include manufacturing or buying items to meet demand. You can also handle complex fulfillment scenarios, such as configure-to-order, contract manufacturing and drop shipment. When supply is limited, Global Order Promising can allocate fixed quantities or percentages to your preferred customers or channels. By promising orders more effectively, you can satisfy customers by quoting more accurate delivery dates, while better leveraging your all your supply sources. USE WEB SERVICES TO CHECK AVAILABILITY AND SCHEDULE ORDERS External order capture systems (such as e-commerce sites and mobile ordering applications) can now use web services to check supply availability and schedule orders for delivery without routing them through Order Management. They can also cancel or reschedule orders when conditions change. The following services are available: Check Availability. Make a quick availability check of on-hand quantities (available to promise), or full availability check of transferred, purchased or make-to-order supply (capable to promise) for a set of demands Schedule Order Lines. Allocate supply to order lines within Global Order Promising. Take advantage of any scheduling alternative that Global Order Promising supports, such as backto-back orders, drop shipments, and shipment sets. Cancel Scheduling. Unschedule lines that were previously scheduled, so that their supply can be used for other lines. PROMISE ORDERS WHEN THE GLOBAL ORDER PROMISING SERVER IS DOWN Continuous access to availability checking and order scheduling is critical to many businesses, which need to be able to take orders even when a system fails or the server is otherwise down. Beginning with this release, Global Order Promising continues promising orders based upon lead-time availability until the server or backup server can be restarted. Affected orders may be rescheduled based upon supply chain availability search after server recovery, if desired. A more fail-safe order promising solution minimizes disruptions, so you can focus on growing your business. PROMISE ORDERS BASED ON PLANNED SUPPLY FROM PLANNING CENTRAL Future supply might also include planned manufacturing work orders or planned purchase orders that have not yet been released or executed. Global Order Promising can collect these planned supply orders from Oracle Planning Central Cloud to schedule sales orders based upon this future supply. As a result, 12

13 you can accurately promise long lead-time orders for items that are beyond the horizon of current inventory movement, manufacturing or purchasing activities. INCLUDE EXTERNALLY MANAGED MANUFACTURING SUPPLIES IN PROMISING RESULTS Some companies may continue to operate on-premise manufacturing applications as they move order management to the cloud. This release extends the file-based upload of supply information in Global Order Promising Cloud to include manufacturing routings, resources, work orders, and related manufacturing data. This allows you to include production facilities managed by an on-premise manufacturing application (such as Oracle E-Business Suite Manufacturing) in your promising results. This release also includes support for importing shipping networks to complete the set of reference data file load sources. Global Order Promising offers a comprehensive supply picture by supporting your upload of select reference data and all transactional data using flat files. As such, you can promise against more accurate supply availability information in facilities managed using external enterprise systems. 13

14 INVENTORY MANAGEMENT Oracle Inventory Management Cloud offers a complete materials management solution that allows your company to successfully manage the flow of goods: inbound, within the warehouse, and outbound. This functionality optimizes the flow of material so that it meets customer demand in a cost-effective manner. EXPENSE INTERNAL MATERIAL TRANSFERS Employees or departments that need materials may use inventory from another location before purchasing additional quantities. When transferring material between facilities, the location providing the material needs to generate shipping documents and the location accepting the material needs to receive the material when it arrives. In this release, when you use transfer orders to transfer goods between facilities, you can expense material to a destination for those cases where materials are not tracked on-hand. This is common for goods received directly by employees or departments that use the goods immediately. This enhancement provides full shipping and receiving support for moving material between parts of an enterprise expensed at the destination. In particular, automatically generating shipping documents for outbound shipments significantly increases productivity and reduces errors. ENHANCE COLLABORATION USING ORACLE SOCIAL NETWORK Real-time communication between fulfillment personnel helps to rapidly identify and resolve problems and explore alternate solutions, thereby increasing customer satisfaction. The Oracle Social Network is an embedded, central method of capturing interactions between users. It associates these conversation threads with specific transactions (such as a receipt or shipment) or specific parties (such as a supplier, customer, or carrier). With this feature, users can: Stream updates on Oracle Social Network. Collaborate through real time conversations. Participate in Oracle Social Network conversations on a mobile device. Receive and mobile phone-based alerts and notifications. With Oracle Social Network enabled for Inventory Management, all users involved in the order to cash process, such as order managers, warehouse managers, billing managers, and end customers, have a forum to discuss sales orders and make business decisions efficiently and keep the conversation linked to the associated content for easy reference. 14

15 INTEGRATE AND ENRICH YOUR MATERIALS MANAGEMENT PROCESSES One of the key benefits of working in the cloud is rapid implementation. Inventory Management provides a rich set of web services that you can use to integrate with other Oracle, third-party cloud, and on-premise applications that support your supply chain. New integration features in this release include: Additional web services. Use web services to integrate to and/or enrich your inventory operations. Examples include expanded mobile inventory services, par replenishment support, and internal ordering. Support Oracle Integration Cloud Service. Take advantage of Oracle s Integration Cloud Service as one of your options for integrating Inventory Management to other cloud applications or on-premises solutions. Support B2B electronic messaging. Communicate with business partners via electronic messaging for your order-to-cash processes, including sending an outbound advanced shipment notice. The ability to support a wider variety of web services and integration methods reduces integration costs and implementation times to external systems. USE ADDITIONAL WEB SERVICES Inventory Management has introduced a comprehensive set of web services to support setup and core transactions in Inventory Management and Receiving. The web services support real-time validation and editing needs of partner and PaaS (Platform as a Service). For example, values entered for a lot attribute can be restricted to a list of valid lots for that item in that organization. Alternatively, you can create material transactions such as receipts, inspections, returns, and cycle counts. Resources to post transactions provide the same behavior as the corresponding SOAP services except for providing the results back to the clients synchronously. REST resources can also be used to view lines to receive, lines to inspect, lines to put away, pick slips, cycle count sequences, and so on. This help to collect related transactions beforehand and can be used to achieve additional operational efficiencies, such as bulk picking, and building into a pallet while using a warehouse management system. SUPPORT ORACLE INTEGRATION CLOUD SERVICE Oracle Integration Cloud Service simplifies how you use the Cloud for integration, letting you connect securely to applications and services both in the cloud and on-premises. Users can enable the receipt advice flow for external systems to make it available in Oracle Integration Cloud Service. Users have flexibility to control publishing of events for various receiving transactions. A new receiving parameter Publish transactional business events allows users to publish events for various receiving transactions. 15

16 Receiving events, such as create ASN, cancel ASN, create receipt, create correction, and create put away, can be published. SUPPORT B2B ELECTRONIC MESSAGING Support is available for B2B electronic messaging for communication with business partners for orderto-cash and procure-to-pay business process flows. Users can manage supply chain business collaboration messaging across both internal applications of an enterprise as well as external business partners. External collaboration messaging includes both customers and suppliers. For example, the ASN (Advance Shipment Notice) is integrated with Fusion Collaboration Messaging Framework to produce an electronic message to communicate outbound shipment information to a customer. Supply chain administrators have the ability to manage collaboration messages including managing undelivered messages and reviewing messaging history. The following Inventory Management document types are supported: 1. Process Receipt Advice Outbound 2. Process Receipt Acknowledgment Inbound 3. Process Shipment Inbound 4. Process Shipment Outbound COMPLY WITH ITALIAN PACKING SLIP REQUIREMENTS Companies that operate globally need to support a range of regional operational requirements. When shipping in Italy, specific requirements for Italian packing slips include the Documento di Trasporto (DDT). For example, shipments in Italy often involve multiple carriers, and the secondary carrier is included on the packing slip. With the packing slip enhancements in this release, you can: Tailor your packing slip to meet global requirements Select Italy as a region and include a secondary carrier on your packing slips With the combination of the enhancements to the packing slip in Release 11 and Release 12, companies that ship out of Italian facilities can now produce compliant packing slips. This enhancement furthers support for global companies to run their European supply chain operations. SIMPLIFY SETUP OF SHIPPING FACILITIES Companies with a large number of shipping facilities need tools to help automate configuration. The Quick Setup feature guides you through the setup process, reuses existing setups, asks important questions, and, for some tasks, provides default values for setups according to recommended practices. In Release 11, Quick Setup provided an automated approach to setting up objects in Inventory 16

17 Management and Receiving. In this release, you can also use Quick Setup to default general shipping parameters and pick release attributes for the shipping parameters of inventory facilities. Realize the benefits of your implementation and deploy shipping facilities more quickly using this Quick Setup enhancement. 17

18 COST MANAGEMENT Your company materials management and manufacturing operations require careful cost management when running operations in the cloud. Oracle Cost Management Cloud provides a comprehensive set of capabilities that enable you to effectively manage cost planning, landed cost, and product costing activities. Oracle Cost Management Cloud is included with the Oracle Inventory Management Cloud subscription. COST EXPENSE-BASED INTERNAL MATERIAL TRANSFERS This release adds support for internal material transfers delivered to expense destinations. Such transfers with and without explicit receipts are costed and may be analyzed in the In-Transit Inventory Valuation Report. In addition, when you enter internal freight charges on an internal shipment, the freight charges are now expensed and accounted in the sending inventory organization, allowing you to charge for the freight cost incurred for shipments. SIMPLIFY YOUR STANDARD COST UPDATES Prior to this release, the tasks related to the entry and rollup of standard costs for manufactured items were performed in separate application pages. All standard cost entry tasks are consolidated and are now performed directly in the Manage Cost Scenario page. When creating a cost scenario for a cost organization/cost book combination, you specify the applicable standard costs at the cost element level for materials, resources and overheads. Then you perform and view the results of a cost rollup. Finally, you publish the standard costs to accounting. You can define standard costs on the Manage Cost Scenario page at one of the following valuation unit levels: Cost organization: Standard costs are defined for a cost organization, and these costs are shared with the cost organization s associated inventory organizations/plants. Inventory organization or plant: Standard costs are defined for each inventory organization or plant associated with a cost organization. Combination cost organization and plant: Standard costs for an inventory organization/plant may be individually defined or defaulted from the parent cost organization. A new process is now available that allows you to undo the previously published costs in a scenario, and to revise and republish them after a prior cost update. The consolidation of standard cost tasks into a single page allows you to more efficiently enter and publish your standard costs. 18

19 DEFINE RETROACTIVE STANDARD COST EFFECTIVITIES Standard costs occasionally need an effectivity date that is in the past. This occurs when a new standard costed item is created and immediately transacted in inventory or manufacturing without a defined standard cost. You can now enter standard costs for items whose effectivity date is in the past. This capability allows you to more quickly address raised exceptions due to missing standard costs in transactions. PREVIEW STANDARD COST IMPACT ON INVENTORY VALUATION Unless care is taken, mass changes of component and assembly standard costs can create unexpected and adverse impacts in the reported amounts of inventories in corporate financial statements. Entry errors when revising item standard costs or work definitions can lead to incorrect transaction costs and on-hand inventory valuations. Before publishing standard costs to accounting, you can preview the financial impact of standard cost changes to on-hand inventory valuations. The Compare Standard Costs page now displays the pending inventory valuation changes when revising standard costs in a cost scenario. Analyzing the results of the preview of pending changes in standard cost allows you to easily detect and proactively eliminate unintended changes to cost. USE MAPPING SETS TO SIMPLIFY SETUPS IN SUBLEDGER ACCOUNTING The Subledger Accounting application provides you with increased flexibility, control, and accuracy for generating accounting entries by allowing you to configure account defaulting rules based on key attributes of a transaction. However, for more complex customer implementations, setting up Subledger Accounting rules is time intensive. To facilitate the setup and maintenance of account rules for inventory and manufacturing transactions, seeded mapping sets provide you with an efficient way to define a segment or account combination value. This value can be for one or more transaction values or reference attributes. This release adds predefined mapping sets for each of the more than 60 accounting line types that Cost Accounting and Receipt Accounting support. EASILY ANALYZE ON-HAND INVENTORY VALUATION Excess levels of inventory expose your company to financial liabilities in the form of obsolete stock as well as excess levels of working capital investment. To facilitate the monitoring of your investment in inventory you can now query and view on-hand inventory valuation on the Review Inventory Valuation page. You can view and analyze the on-hand costed quantities, unit costs, and valuations as of a current or past date. 19

20 SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCIAL ORCHESTRATION Trade that occurs between internal parties requires complex financial relationships. Oracle Supply Chain Financial Orchestration Cloud is a configurable application that manages these relationships. This functionality allows you to separate your physical flow of goods from the financial accounting of these goods. Oracle Supply Chain Financial Orchestration Cloud is included with the Oracle Inventory Management Cloud subscription. CALCULATE TRANSFER PRICE USING PRICING STRATEGY Transfer pricing rules can be complex. Further, the way that the price is calculated can vary by many attributes, such as the parties or item category involved in the sale. Prior to this release, users with a lot of variation or a lot of complexity needed to use a third party pricing engine to accommodate more complex internal pricing scenarios. With this release, users can now choose to use the advanced pricing capabilities of Oracle Pricing Cloud to calculate the transfer prices on any financial route. Business attributes of financial orchestration transactions can be modeled as dimensions on the pricing strategy assignment. This allows the system to derive the optimal pricing strategy for transfer price calculations. The base price in Pricing can be a price list, a cost list, the price in the purchase order line, or the price in the sales order line for which the financial orchestration is applicable. The transactions business attributes can also be used to specify rules. For example, a rule can be created to derive one or more price charges that can be applied over the base price. DEFINE ENHANCED FINANCIAL ORCHESTRATION QUALIFIERS Often, the financial path that a given transaction must take can vary based on attributes of the transaction, such as item number, ship-from address, or ship-to address. You can use financial orchestration qualifiers in Supply Chain Financial Orchestration to determine the applicability of the financial flow to a business transaction. This feature is now enhanced with set of advanced business attributes to provide more flexibility in identification of financial orchestration flow pertaining to a business flow. The following new business attributes are now available for the different business process types of a financial orchestration flow: 20

21 Item Number Item Class User Item Type Destination Type (Expense/Inventory) Ship-to Party Number Ship-to Address Ship-to Country Sold-to Party Number Supplier Number Supplier Site Code Supplier Country Shipment Procurement Internal Transfers Drop Ship Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y USE DUAL VIEW OF SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCIAL ORCHESTRATION FLOW Prior to this release, the financial orchestration flow pages were optimized for primary routes that have multiple financial flows (multi-node). This results in the page showing three different objects in a hierarchy: the financial orchestration flow header, the primary routes, and the financial routes. This may be a complex user interface in a simple implementation where no financial intermediary organizations are involved. The new feature will provide a simplified, more intuitive view of the financial orchestration flow for simple implementations where the financial orchestration flows do not have multiple financial routes. When a new financial orchestration flow is created, the user will determine if multiple financial routes are allowed for the flow. The financial orchestration flows in which multiple financial routes are allowed will continue to use same behavior as in prior releases. However, single-node financial routes will now show only the financial routes directly under the financial orchestration flow header. When created, the financial flow will always be shown in the single-node view or multi-node view for both viewing and updating. This enables you to keep the single node flows simple while preserving the ability to define more complex flows when needed. The financial orchestration flow cannot be switched from single-node view to multi-node view or vice versa. 21

22 SUPPORT EXPENSE DESTINATION TRANSFER ORDERS Companies need to be able to price internal transfers even when the material is expensed in the receiving organization. Financial orchestration for expense destination transfer orders is now supported. Unlike inventory destination transfers, a transfer order shipped to an expense destination may or may not be received at the destination. When a receipt is not required for a transfer order shipment, the financial orchestration is executed at the time of shipment irrespective of the ownership transfer event specified in the documentation accounting rules of the financial orchestration flow. 22

23 COLLABORATION MESSAGING FRAMEWORK You can use a common business-to-business (B2B) messaging framework to enable the automated flow of B2B messages for business processes such as order to cash. Oracle Collaboration Messaging Framework Cloud is tightly integrated with all SCM Cloud products to deliver a single, consistent B2B experience for Oracle customers and implementers of B2B messaging. All B2B messages are implemented using a global, industry-standard XML format: OAGIS Pre-built integration with B2B service providers allows trading partners to maintain their existing B2B processes (and existing B2B format, such as EDI) to provide a complete, end-to-end B2B solution. Oracle Collaboration Messaging Framework Cloud is included with all Oracle SCM Cloud and Oracle Procurement Cloud subscriptions. DEFINE B2B TRADING PARTNERS AND B2B MESSAGING CONFIGURATION The Collaboration Messaging Framework allows you to define customers as trading partners and select which B2B messages apply for the trading partner. If a B2B service provider is used, you can select which B2B service provider is used by the trading partner. Order to Cash B2B messages are: Functional Name OAGIS B2B Message Other B2B Standards (Provided Through Partner) Inbound Order ProcessPurchaseOrder EDI ANSI ASC X Outbound Order Acknowledgement EDI UN/EDIFACT ORDERS AcknowledgePurchaseOrder EDI ANSI ASC X EDI UN/EDIFACT ORDRSP Inbound Change Order ChangePurchaseOrder EDI ANSI ASC X EDI UN/EDIFACT ORDCHG Outbound Change Order Acknowledgment Inbound Cancel Order AcknowledgeChangePurchaseOrder EDI ANSI ASC X CancelPurchaseOrder Outbound ASN ProcessShipmentNotice EDI ANSI ASC X EDI UN/EDIFACT DESADV 23

24 ADVANCED FULFILLMENT To reduce cycle times, deliver an excellent customer experience, and increase revenues, Oracle Supply Chain Management (SCM) Cloud supports advanced fulfillment strategies. These strategies include configure-to-order, drop-ship, back-to-back, and internal material transfer flows. Fueled by a powerful and innovative supply orchestration architecture, Oracle SCM Cloud has unsurpassed fulfillment capabilities. USE INTERNAL MATERIAL TRANSFER FLOWS Internal material transfer is an end-to-end solution that orchestrates transfers according to business rules. It can also orchestrate across multiple supply chains. You can manage transfers separately, and you can combine them with sales orders to improve customer service. New features in this release include the following Transfer to expense destinations. Transfer materials to an expense destination and perform associated costing. Create and update internal material transfers using an open interface. On-premise users can request the creation and update of internal material transfers in the cloud. Additional Transfer costs. Support additional transfer costs or charges at the transfer order line level. Using internal material transfers, you can centrally manage internal inventory transfers across Oracle SCM Cloud to improve efficiency in your supply chain and to optimize working capital. TRANSFER TO EXPENSE DESTINATIONS Employees or departments that need materials may use inventory from another location before purchasing additional quantities. When transferring material between facilities, the location providing the material needs to generate shipping documents and the location accepting the material needs to receive the material when it arrives. In this release, when you use transfer orders to transfer goods between facilities, you can expense material to a destination for cases where materials are not tracked on-hand. This is common for goods received directly by employees or departments that use the goods immediately. This enhancement provides full shipping and receiving support for moving material between parts of an enterprise expensed at the destination. In particular, automatically generating shipping documents for outbound shipments significantly increases productivity and reduces errors. 24

25 CREATE AND UPDATE INTERNAL MATERIAL TRANSFERS USING AN OPEN INTERFACE In this release, support is provided to create, update, and cancel internal material transfers via spreadsheet or web service. Both the spreadsheet and the web service support expense destination transfers and additional transfer order charges. The import supply order file-based data import template has been extended to support the update and cancel supply operations, in addition to the create supply operation which was introduced in the prior release. The Integration Cloud Service (ICS) enabled web service is new in this release. The web service provides comprehensive support allowing the ability to create, update, and delete internal material transfers. Spreadsheet and web service support streamline integration to external systems and reduce integration costs. SUPPORT ADDITIONAL TRANSFER COSTS Additional transfer order charges can be applied to transfer orders. The charges are automatically interfaced to Oracle Fusion Cost Management Cloud when inventory shipping transactions are processed. The Spreadsheet and web service support is provided to create, update, and delete additional transfer order charges at the transfer order line level. Transfer order charges are supported for both expense and inventory destination transfer orders. The existing shipping cost functionality has been extended to support transfer order charges. Charges can be viewed, updated, and canceled within Oracle Fusion Shipping Cloud. 25

26 SUPPLY CHAIN ORCHESTRATION Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration Cloud provides the backbone infrastructure that delivers end-to-end supply execution and management across Oracle SCM Cloud. Supporting various business processes and flows, Supply Chain Orchestration receives supply requests from multiple Oracle SCM Cloud products. You can run business process steps and tasks across the Oracle SCM Cloud according to predefined orchestration flows. Supply Chain Orchestration provides visibility and alerts when exceptions or jeopardy conditions occur. It improves the efficiency of the supply chain and helps to reduce the cycle time that is required to get supply where it is needed so that it meets demand. Supply Chain Orchestration allows you to create both standard and configured products. Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration Cloud is included with the Oracle Inventory Management Cloud, Oracle Manufacturing Cloud, Oracle Order Management Cloud, and Oracle Procurement Cloud subscriptions. PURGE ORDERS Purging old, legacy, or unwanted data improves both application performance and user productivity, as applications reduce the working set data and users do not see data that s not relevant. This feature provides the capability to: Purge data based on closed supply orders or other selections such as order source, order type (make, buy, or transfer), destination organization, order lifecycle event dates, and so on. Publish the results of purge operation for reference or error correction. CREATE BUSINESS RULES USING VISUAL EDITOR The ability to configure business rules is a key driver of the flexibility of Supply Chain Orchestration. This feature allows business users to create rules without technical assistance using the intuitive Rules Builder page. The new rules builder improves the quality of process flow definitions, reduces errors, and saves both implementation time and cost. 26

27 COMMON TECHNOLOGIES At Oracle, delivering products that reflect a superior and secure user experience is the result of an enormous investment. To understand your pain points, we spent countless hours examining how people like you actually work and use our enterprise applications. We then work closely with product management, security experts, strategy, and development to design innovative applications that help you to be more productive, secure, efficient, and effective. APPLICATIONS SECURITY Oracle Fusion Applications Security provides a single console where IT Security Managers and Administrators can perform various functions including user lifecycle management, role definition, security policy management (both functional and data), role hierarchy maintenance, username and password policy administration, and certificate management. The console also enables users to simulate the effect of security changes, to run security reports, and download a connector for integration with Microsoft Active Directory. In Release 12, Oracle Fusion Applications Security offers several new capabilities that offer customers the following benefits: A Simplified User Experience for the IT Security Manager - Prior to Release 12, security administration functions were distributed across Oracle Identity Management (OIM) and Authorization Policy Manager (APM). In Release 12, these functions are delivered through a single interface the Security Console. OIM and APM are no longer available in R12. Easy Integration with Identity and Access Management (IDM/IAM) Systems - New capabilities to synchronize user account information with Identity and Access Management (IDM/IAM) systems. This synchronization enables the delivery of a Single Sign-On experience through these systems. 27

28 For Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and Oracle Identity Management (OIM), customers can download and install connectors that will automatically synchronize user account information between Oracle Fusion Applications and these IDM systems. As in Release 11, customers must continue to log a Service Request (SR) to set up federated Single Sign-On (SSO) between these systems. Once federation is enabled, the connectors will synchronize the information. Release 12 also delivers a REST API based on the SCIM (System for Cross-Domain Identity Management) standard. Customers can use this API to create user accounts, modify user attributes (e.g. ), enable/disable users, and fetch user account and role information. An Upgrade-Safe Reference Role Model - Starting in Release 12, pre-defined roles that are shipped with Oracle Applications Security will be locked down. Customers will not be able to modify the functional and data security policies that are associated with these roles. They can, however, add new data security policies to these pre-defined roles. In addition, privileges and resources are protected. Users cannot create or modify these artifacts Locking down these security artifacts enables safe upgrades to pre-defined roles, since the possibility of conflict with customer introduced changes to these roles is now eliminated. This, in turn enables customers to safely adopt new enhancements that may be delivered with pre-defined roles in future releases. As in Release 11, customers can make copies of pre-defined roles and freely customize these copies. Enhanced Set of Self-Service Capabilities - Administrators are able to manage the entire user lifecycle. They can customize how notifications are generated and sent for various user lifecycle events including user account creation, and password management. Administrators can also tailor username and password generation by choosing from a list of shipped policies. USER ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT Create, manage, and assign user accounts using the Security Console. You can also search, retrieve, and manage user accounts automatically created for employees, contingent workers, supplier contacts, or partner contacts. ADMINISTRATOR PASSWORD MANAGEMENT Manage passwords of other user accounts as an administrator. You can auto-generate or manually enter a password for a user account. You can also define password lifecycle and complexity policies. Passwords will be automatically validated against these policies. 28

29 USER PASSWORD MANAGEMENT (SELF-SERVICE) Manage your own user account password. Your password will be automatically validated against the defined password lifecycle and complexity policies. USER ACCOUNT LOCKING Lock user accounts as an administrator. If you lock a user account, you will be temporarily preventing the user from logging in with that user account. You can also unlock a locked user account. ENHANCED ROLE VISUALIZATION View only certain components of a role in the graphic visualizer. You can view only the privileges, aggregate privileges or roles assigned to a role. You can also view the graphic visualizer in full screen mode and pan over a specific region in the graph. For complex roles, these features enable you to reduce the amount of information visualized and to focus on the area within the role hierarchy that requires your attention. TABULAR ROLE HIERARCHY VIEW View role hierarchies in a tabular view. You can switch between the graphic visualizer view and the tabular view. You can also export the data you view in the tabular view. SEARCH IN ROLE HIERARCHY VISUALIZATION Search and quickly locate security artifacts (nodes) in the role hierarchy visualization. You can search for privileges, roles or users in the visualization. USER NAME GENERATION RULES Define user name generation rules that will be used to auto-generate the user name when a user is created. You can define user name generation rules to be based on the user s first and last names, first initial plus last name, or person or party number. You can also choose to use a system generated user name if the rule fails to generate a user name. PASSWORD POLICIES Define policies for password management. These policies can define the duration for various password lifecycle events like password expiration and password warning generation. You can also set the complexity of generated passwords by choosing from a pre-defined list of rules. 29