Oracle Product Information Management Implementation Guide

Contents

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Preface

Setup Overview

Setting Up Oracle Applications Technology

Setup Prerequisites

Using Oracle iSetup

Setup Steps

Profile Options

Other Default Options

Defining Responsibilities and Users

Defining Responsibilities and Users

Creating Responsibilities

Creating Internal Users

Setting Up Supplier Users

Setting Up Customer Users

Setting Up the Item Catalog

Overview of Item Catalogs

Building the Item Catalog Text Index

Defining Item Catalog Categories

Defining Item Attachment Categories

Adding Attachment Categories to an Item Catalog Category

Defining Item Templates

Managing Item Statuses

Defining Change Policies

Defining New Item Request Types

Defining New Item Request Workflows

Associating New Item Requests with an Item Catalog Category

Defining Item Numbers and Descriptions

Creating Pages for an Item Catalog Category

Managing Search Criteria

Managing Display Formats

Defining Item Catalog Import Formats

Assigning Systems to an Item Catalog Category

Publishing Item Catalog Categories

Defining Report Templates Using XML Publisher

Defining Cross Reference Types

Importing Item Catalog Metadata

Setting Up Attributes and Functions

Defining Value Sets for User-Defined Attributes

Defining Value Set Versions for Transaction Attributes

Defining Table Value Sets

Creating Independent Values

Publishing Value Sets

Defining Item Attributes and Attribute Groups

Defining Transaction Attributes

Using Seeded Attributes

Using Additional Attributes

Creating User-Defined Functions for Item Attributes

Defining Attribute Usages

Displaying Attachments on Item Attribute Pages

Associating Attribute Groups with an Item Catalog Category

Adding Actions to an Attribute Group

Setting Up Catalogs

Overview of Catalogs

Defining Catalog Categories

Defining Catalogs

Assigning a Category to a Catalog

Mapping Catalog Categories

Administering a Category Hierarchy within a Catalog

Administering Item Business Rules

Overview of Item Business Rules

Administering Rule Sets

Building Rule Expressions

Viewing Attributes Used in Rule Sets

Including other Rule Sets

Viewing Rule Set Dependencies

Assigning Rule Sets to Entities

Setting Up Change Categories and Types

Overview of Change Categories and Types

Building and Optimizing the Change Management Text Index

Defining Change Categories

Creating Priority Codes

Creating Reason Codes

Creating Classification Codes

Creating Statuses

Defining Workflow Templates

Customizing Change Management Workflows

Creating Task Templates

Defining Header/Line Type Attributes and Attribute Groups

Defining Header Types

Defining Line Types

Associating Change Type Attributes

Associating Change Line Type Attributes

Implementing User Defined Functions for Change Type Attribute

Defining Change Category Search Criteria

Defining Change Category Display Formats

Defining Change Category Reports

Subscribing to a Change Management Business Event

Setting Up Item Structures

Overview of Item Structures

Searching for Structure Types and Names

Defining Display Formats and Search Criteria for Structures

Defining Structures

Associating Component Attribute Groups with a Structure Type

Creating an Item Catalog Category Structure

Setting Up Content Management Repositories

Integrating Oracle E-Business Suite Applications with Content Management Repositories

Setting Up a Content Management Repository

Setting Up E-Business Suite Attachments

Overview of E-Business Suite Attachments

Structuring Folders

Attachment Review and Approval

Change Management for Attachments

Implementing Roles and Role Based Security

Overview of Roles and Role Based Security

Administering Roles

Administering People, Groups, and Companies

Implementing Role Based Security

Implementing Change Management Role Based Security

Creating Custom Privileges

Setting Up For The Global Data Synchronization Network

Overview of the Global Data Synchronization Network

Overview of the Inbound GDSN Implementation Architecture

Administering the Network and Servers

Administering BPEL

Setting Up Inbound Product Data Synchronization and Data Quality Management

Setup Overview of Inbound Product Data Synchronization

Creating a 1SYNC Target System and Global Location Number

Creating Match Rules

Defining Source Systems

Applying the 1SYNC Library

Defining Units of Measure for GDSN Attributes

Mapping Values Between 1SYNC Codes and Oracle Codes

Mapping Categories Between GPC Alternate Catalogs and Item Catalogs

Workflows for Change and Document Management

Workflows for Change and Document Management

Item and Catalog Business Events

Business Events

Reading Data for User-Defined Attributes

Overview

Synchronizing Item User-Defined Attributes with Item Descriptive Elements

Overview

Change Management Business Events

Description of Change Management Business Events

Seeded Item Metadata Libraries

Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN) Library

Sellable Product Information Library - Horizontal

Product Management Library - Horizontal

Communications Services Billing Library - Vertical

Communications Product Details Library - Vertical

Web Services for Publishing

Oracle Product Information Management Web Services Overview

Item Catalog Category Web Service

Value Set Web Service

Item Web Service

Controlling the Output Payload

Error Reporting

Index