Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud:

Plan to Produce
(includes Manufacturing, Planning Central,
Inventory and Cost Management, Supply Chain
Financial Orchestration, Collaboration Messaging
Framework, and Advanced Fulfillment)

Release 12

New Feature Summary

December 2016
TABLE OF CONTENTS
REVISION HISTORY .................................................................................................................................................4

PLAN TO PRODUCE ................................................................................................................................................5

MANUFACTURING ..................................................................................................................................................5
Work Definition .................................................................................................................................................... 5
Automatically Generate Work Definitions ......................................................................................................................... 5
Work Execution .................................................................................................................................................... 5
Use the Supervisor Mobile Application.............................................................................................................................. 5
Seamlessly Integrate Between External Systems ............................................................................................................... 6
Manage Production Exceptions ............................................................................................................................ 6
Report an Exception ........................................................................................................................................................... 6
Send Exception Notifications ............................................................................................................................................. 6
Manage Exceptions ............................................................................................................................................................ 7
Customize Pages for Optimized User Experience ................................................................................................. 7
PLANNING CENTRAL ................................................................................................................................................8
Configure the User Interface More Extensively ................................................................................................................. 8
Manage By Exception More Efficiently .............................................................................................................................. 8
Integrate with Global Order Promising More Closely ........................................................................................................ 8
Analyze Plan Recommendations More Effectively............................................................................................................. 9
Load External Data Into Planning Central .......................................................................................................................... 9
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT .................................................................................................................................... 10
Expense Internal Material Transfers ................................................................................................................................ 10
Enhance Collaboration Using Oracle Social Network ....................................................................................................... 10
Integrate and Enrich Your Materials Management Processes ........................................................................... 11
Use Additional Web Services ........................................................................................................................................... 11
Support Oracle Integration Cloud Service ........................................................................................................................ 11
Support B2B Electronic Messaging .................................................................................................................................. 12
COST MANAGEMENT............................................................................................................................................. 13
Cost Expense-Based Internal Material Transfers ............................................................................................................. 13
Simplify Your Standard Cost Updates .............................................................................................................................. 13
Define Retroactive Standard Cost Effectivities ................................................................................................................ 14
Preview Standard Cost Impact on Inventory Valuation ................................................................................................... 14
Use Mapping Sets to Simplify Setups in Subledger Accounting ....................................................................................... 14
Easily Analyze On-Hand Inventory Valuation ................................................................................................................... 14
SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCIAL ORCHESTRATION ................................................................................................................ 15
Calculate Transfer Price Using Pricing Strategy ............................................................................................................... 15
Define Enhanced Financial Orchestration Qualifiers ....................................................................................................... 15
Use Dual View of Supply Chain Financial Orchestration Flow.......................................................................................... 16
Support Expense Destination Transfer Orders................................................................................................................. 17
COLLABORATION MESSAGING FRAMEWORK ............................................................................................................... 18
Define B2B Trading Partners and B2B Messaging Configuration ..................................................................................... 18

ADVANCED FULFILLMENT .................................................................................................................................... 19

Use Internal Material Transfer Flows ............................................................................................................................... 19
Transfer to Expense Destinations .................................................................................................................................... 19
Create and Update Internal Material Transfers Using an Open Interface ....................................................................... 20
Support Additional Transfer Costs ................................................................................................................................... 20

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 SUPPLY CHAIN ORCHESTRATION .............................................................................................................................. 21
Purge Orders .................................................................................................................................................................... 21
Create Business Rules Using Visual Editor ....................................................................................................................... 21

COMMON TECHNOLOGIES ................................................................................................................................... 22

APPLICATIONS SECURITY ........................................................................................................................................ 22

User Account Management ............................................................................................................................................. 23
Administrator Password Management ............................................................................................................................ 23
User Password Management (Self-Service) ..................................................................................................................... 24
User Account Locking ....................................................................................................................................................... 24
Enhanced Role Visualization ............................................................................................................................................ 24
Tabular Role Hierarchy View ............................................................................................................................................ 24
Search in Role Hierarchy Visualization ............................................................................................................................. 24
User Name Generation Rules ........................................................................................................................................... 24
Password Policies ............................................................................................................................................................. 24
Notification Templates..................................................................................................................................................... 25
Upgrade-Safe Management of Factory Shipped Roles .................................................................................................... 25
Bridge for Microsoft Active Directory .............................................................................................................................. 25
User Password Changes Audit Report.............................................................................................................................. 25
Integrate Custom Identity Management Solution ........................................................................................................... 25
Password Reset ................................................................................................................................................................ 25
Security Console .............................................................................................................................................................. 25

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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

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PLAN TO PRODUCE

The plan-to-produce business flow provides an end-to-end solution to enable you to plan, schedule, and
manage your discrete manufacturing operations and optimize your supply chain. Advanced fulfillment
features, such as contract manufacturing and back-to-back shipments, optimize the flow of your
organization’s transactions and enable you to capture and analyze landed costs. A simplified setup helps
you quickly set up supply chain common components, as well as basic features of inventory,
manufacturing, and cost management.

MANUFACTURING

Oracle Manufacturing Cloud delivers a broad set of discrete manufacturing capabilities. These
capabilities allow you to efficiently set up, manage, and operate your production operations for a
variety of in-house and contract manufacturing modes. Manufacturing is fully integrated with other
functionality of the Oracle Supply Chain Management (SCM) Cloud, and with the other Oracle Cloud
Applications.

WORK DEFINITION

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATE WORK DEFINITIONS

Some kitting and light assembly manufacturing environments do not require shop floor control and
capacity requirements planning. In these situations, a simple, single-level item structure (that is, bill of
materials) with standard costs and an overhead charge may be sufficient for executing and costing
production. With this release, you can select an item’s primary structure to initiate a system-generated
work definition to use when creating a standard work order for execution. From that point forward, all
changes to the item structure will be automatically reflected in the work definition, eliminating the
explicit maintenance of work definitions and streamlining the production process with an accurate, up-
to-date components list from the item structure.

WORK EXECUTION

USE THE SUPERVISOR MOBILE APPLICATION

As a production supervisor, you require immediate access to critical shop floor execution status to take
quick actions on the go. The supervisor mobile application allows the production supervisor to access
work order execution status and take actions using a smart phone, such as an iPhone or any Android
phone.

Using the supervisor mobile application, you can review and monitor several key work order metrics.
After logging in, you will be provided with a count of work orders that are starting today, completing

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today, are past due, or on hold. You can drill into any of the metrics to see a detailed list of work orders
in any of those statuses, or you can search for a specific work order. From there, you can further drill to
view the all the operation details, including materials, resources, reservations against a sales order, and
so on. You can also take a one-click action to put a work order on hold, cancel the work order, or e-mail
the details to other stakeholders.

The supervisor mobile application gives you a complete handle on the health of your plant in the palm
of your hand - not only to review, but also to take action.

SEAMLESSLY INTEGRATE BETWEEN EXTERNAL SYSTEMS

All enterprises have multiple applications to run multiple business functions that form the foundation of
the enterprise. It’s no surprise, therefore, that organizations want to integrate applications to ensure
that people across the enterprise have access to the critical information required to perform their tasks.

You now have greater flexibility to integrate your Oracle Manufacturing Cloud applications with other
enterprise systems and extensions running on Oracle Platform as a Service (PaaS). Several additional
representational state (REST) web services are also available. From any external application, you can use
the Get / Update actions for work area, work center, work order header, work order details, material
transactions, resource transactions, operation transactions, dispatch list, and so on. This gives you
complete control of your integration between applications.

MANAGE PRODUCTION EXCEPTIONS

Production activities on the shop floor do not always go as planned. You may experience unplanned
events (exceptions), such as equipment malfunctions, that need to be reported and then tracked for
correction and analysis. With this release, you can report an exception, automatically notify key
stakeholders, and manage and close exceptions after they are resolved.

REPORT AN EXCEPTION

With this release, you can quickly record any unexpected shop floor events, which will notify and inform
stake holders who can take action to resolve the issue. You can record the exceptions related to work
area, work center, materials, resources, or other details, and an exception can automatically be
associated to the job you were working on when you found the issue.

SEND EXCEPTION NOTIFICATIONS

To ensure shop floor efficiency, all key stakeholders must be notified as soon as a shop floor exception
occurs. With this feature, you can set up notification rules based on exception attributes to
automatically notify one or more key stakeholders as soon as an exception is logged. The recipient of
the notification can drill down to the exception details to review and take action. In addition, if the
exception is associated with a work order, an icon will appear on both the Manage Work Orders page

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and on the dispatch list, alerting the supervisor and production operator to the fact that an exception
exists. Clicking on the icon enables you to drill into the exception to review and take action.

This easy-to-use notification enables a production supervisor to expedite resolution of an exception by

engaging with additional stakeholders as soon as the problem occurs.

MANAGE EXCEPTIONS

As a supervisor, you need keep an eye on all unplanned activities in addition to managing planned
activities. Use the Manage Exceptions page to get a quick overview of all the exceptions for the
manufacturing plant, filtered by search criteria of your choice. You are able to get a bird’s-eye view of all
the exceptions in the plant represented graphically through infotiles. These infotiles not only give you a
summary; they also help you filter the exception list by clicking on a specific infotile. For example, you
can review only the list of open exceptions, or review exceptions filtered by exception type, severity, or
the date that the exception was reported.

In addition, you can use the detailed search panel to find a specific exception for timely and directed
action. You are also able to drill into a specific exception and quickly identify whether it might affect
other work orders on the shop floor. If so, you can associate the exception with all of the impacted work
orders with a single click. You are also able to close multiple exceptions with a single click.

On the Manage Exceptions page, you can access a specific exception to review the details of the
exception. After reviewing the exception details, you can put all the impacted work orders on hold or
reschedule them due to the issue that was found.

The Manage Exceptions page gives you a complete handle on all your shop floor exceptions and helps
you review and take quick action to resolve them.

CUSTOMIZE PAGES FOR OPTIMIZED USER EXPERIENCE

With this enhancement, administrators can customize Manufacturing page layouts as follows:

• Hide infrequently used attributes.

• Change the default widths of columns and panels.
• Reorder the columns in a table.
• Rearrange the tab layout on a page.

You can manage page customization using Oracle Page Composer, a run-time page editor that supports
simple user interface edits. Adapting the Manufacturing pages to the specific needs of your organization
can improve end-user efficiency and accuracy.

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PLANNING CENTRAL

Oracle Planning Central Cloud is an integrated demand and supply chain planning solution that
combines forecasting, inventory, and supply planning with a multi-dimensional analytics framework.
This enables you to simultaneously balance supply and demand and derive management insight for your
extended supply chain.

This release features important additions to better monitor and respond to changing conditions in the
supply chain and enhanced integration with execution.

CONFIGURE THE USER INTERFACE MORE EXTENSIVELY

To further simplify the user experience and increase productivity, you can extensively personalize the
user interface. You can change and update the style of field labels, adjust column sorting in tables, and
show or hide fields. For example, you can change the label on a field from “Item” to “SKU,” or hide
certain plan options so that planners can’t select them. The resulting user experience is tailored to your
enterprise standards and processes, which improves accuracy, efficiency, and user acceptance.

MANAGE BY EXCEPTION MORE EFFICIENTLY

Taking rapid action on the most important exceptions in the plan is critical to an effective response. You
are now able to prioritize actions by quickly identifying high-impact exceptions at an aggregate level,
and drilling down to explore detailed plan information related to an exception. This enhancement
includes the following capabilities:

• Planners can efficiently pinpoint where and when planning exceptions are occurring using
summarized reports of exceptions on items, resources, suppliers, and customers. You can
drill from these reports to the Material Plan page, the detailed Supplies and Demands page,
or to the Exception Details page to further investigate.
• You can configure your tables and graphs to access more specific information related to the
exception you are interested in by drilling down to the Material Plan page, the Supplies and
Demands page, or the Exception Details page.

This enhancement results in increased productivity by allowing planners to access all data related to
critical problems, and to take quick action to resolve those problems.

INTEGRATE WITH GLOBAL ORDER PROMISING MORE CLOSELY

Providing accurate promise dates to customers at the time of order entry is one of the most important
components of customer satisfaction. Oracle Global Order Promising Cloud maintains a real-time picture
of all available sources of supply. As orders arrive, it selects the best fulfillment location based on
current and future supply availability. Future supply can also include planned manufacturing work
orders or planned purchase orders that have not yet been released or executed. Planning Central now

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provides this information to Global Order Promising to enable full visibility, thus increasing the accuracy
of the provided promise date.

ANALYZE PLAN RECOMMENDATIONS MORE EFFECTIVELY

A key task in a planner’s daily activities is to understand the recommendations provided by Planning
Central and to prioritize actions based on those recommendations. Planning Central provides numerous
infographics to aid in making good decisions related to planning. To further help the planner prioritize
actions on plan recommendations, this release includes a new predefined graph called Plan
Recommendations. This graph shows the orders to be rescheduled in, out, or canceled in various time
buckets. The recommendation can then be acted on by drilling down into the Supplies and Demands
page. This ability to identify the most time-sensitive orders allows planners to prioritize the orders to be
worked on.

LOAD EXTERNAL DATA INTO PLANNING CENTRAL

Most enterprises have a variety of demand fulfillment systems they must plan; some of these may be
from systems other than the Oracle SCM Cloud. To enable Planning Central to include visibility to this
data coming from other enterprise systems, this release allows you to load external data using flat files.

Key data that you can load from other systems includes:

• Reference Data: Organizations, currencies, units of measure, calendars, and shipping

networks.
• Demand Planning Data: Booking and shipment history, price lists, causal factors, and
external forecasts.
• Manufacturing Data: Collect routings, resources, work orders, and related manufacturing
data.
• Inventory Data: On-hand inventory and transfer orders between locations.
• Purchasing Data: Suppliers, supplier sites, item suppliers, purchase orders, and purchase
requisitions.

This enhancement allows enterprises to support a variety of execution systems and consolidate the data
in Planning Central for planning.

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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 e-mail 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.

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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.

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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 order-
to-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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The following new business attributes are now available for the different business process types of a
financial orchestration flow:

Shipment Procurement Internal Transfers Drop Ship

Item Number
Y Y Y Y
Item Class
Y Y Y Y
User Item Type
Y Y Y Y
Destination Type (Expense/Inventory)
Y Y
Ship-to Party Number
Y
Ship-to Address
Y Y
Ship-to Country
Y Y
Sold-to Party Number
Y Y
Supplier Number
Y
Supplier Site Code
Y
Supplier Country
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

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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.

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.

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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 Oracle 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 10.1. 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 X12 850
• EDI UN/EDIFACT ORDERS
Outbound Order AcknowledgePurchaseOrder • EDI ANSI ASC X12 855
Acknowledgement • EDI UN/EDIFACT ORDRSP
Inbound Change Order ChangePurchaseOrder • EDI ANSI ASC X12 860
• EDI UN/EDIFACT ORDCHG
Outbound Change Order AcknowledgeChangePurchaseOrder • EDI ANSI ASC X12 865
Acknowledgment
Inbound Cancel Order CancelPurchaseOrder
Outbound ASN ProcessShipmentNotice • EDI ANSI ASC X12 856
EDI UN/EDIFACT DESADV

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ADVANCED FULFILLMENT

To reduce cycle times, deliver an excellent customer experience, and increase revenues, Oracle 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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 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. email), 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.

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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, e-mail 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.

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NOTIFICATION TEMPLATES

Define custom notification templates for your user account life cycle events. You can also use pre-
defined notification templates. These templates will be used to generate notifications for events like
user account created, user password reset and user password expiry warning.

UPGRADE-SAFE MANAGEMENT OF FACTORY SHIPPED ROLES

Identify a predefined (factory shipped) Oracle role when viewing the role. Predefined Oracle roles are
locked, and you cannot customize the Oracle-delivered functional and data security policies associated
with these roles. You can, however, add data security policies to these roles.

BRIDGE FOR MICROSOFT ACTIVE DIRECTORY

Simplify Single Sign-On with Microsoft Active Directory by downloading and installing the Active
Directory Bridge from the Security Console. Automatically synchronize user account information
between Oracle Fusion Applications Security and Microsoft Active Directory.

USER PASSWORD CHANGES AUDIT REPORT

Generate a report that lists password changes made by users. The report can be generated for changes
made by specific users or for all changes made during a specific period.

INTEGRATE CUSTOM IDENTITY MANAGEMENT SOLUTION

Integrate optionally with your Identity Management solution for user and role management using
industry standard System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) REST APIs and ATOM feeds.

PASSWORD RESET

Enhanced password reset flow. Now a notification email will be sent to the user who requests a
password reset. The user will be required to click on this link within a specific period of time to change
the password. This replaces the previous flow where users were required to answer a series of challenge
questions to reset the password.

SECURITY CONSOLE

Streamline use of some of the functionality that you have used in the past with the Security Console.
The Security Console now includes the following functionality:

• User account information such as password, lock, and unlock are managed in the security
console.

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 • Roles are now managed directly in the Security Console and are no longer managed within
Oracle Identity Manager or Authorization Policy Manager.
• Privileges are predefined by Oracle and are no longer created or managed by the user.
• You can now view, create or change roles without first selecting an application.
Resources are now granted through privilege and are no longer granted directly to roles.

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