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Release Notes
Release 14.1
E59341-01
December 2014
This document highlights the major changes for Release 14.1 of Oracle Retail Price Management (RPM).
RPM is a pricing and promotions execution system. RPM functionality includes the definition, maintenance, and review of price changes, clearances, and promotions.
RPM capabilities range from simple item price changes at a single location to complex multi-buy promotions across zones.
See the Oracle Retail Price Management Installation Guide, Release 14.1 for information about the following:
Hardware and software requirements
Oracle Retail application software compatibility
The following are functional enhancements for Oracle Retail Price Management Release 14.1.
Many retailers manage pricing information in external planning systems and wish to interface this information into RPM for execution. This release provides even more flexibility for retailers wishing to leverage this type of integration with enhancements to the RPM price event injector integration with added flexibility to do the following:
Upload complex promotions, such as multi-buy and threshold promotions
Define reset events for clearances
Create promotion headers and include customer segments
Create vendor funded price events
For more information, see the Merchandising Implementation Guide for functional details and the Oracle Retail Price Management Operations Guide for technical details.
In order to support the needs of some retailers to customize RPM to meet their unique business needs by tracking additional information with a price event, version 14.1 has added functionality in the form of custom attributes to support the most common types of customizations. These custom attributes can be independently enabled for each of the price event types in RPM, including price changes, clearance, and at multiple levels for promotion events.
For more information, see the Merchandising Implementation Guide for functional details and the Oracle Retail Price Management Operations Guide for technical details.
The technical enhancements described below are included in this release.
A new ad-hoc batch process has been introduced to remove orphaned data created by the conflict checking process. Typically, this conflict data is purged by running an event through the conflict checking engine again, but it is possible that users would not re-run events. Also, users do not always maintain data around conflict check results after processing events.
This new batch purges all conflict check results and errors (conflicts) for any event that is no longer in the system. The process can be run on an as needed basis.
A connection factory is now included with the RPM installation rather than relying on a default connection factory from WebLogic. This connection factory allows RPM to utilize database threads more efficiently and effectively results in balanced database thread processing.
This section addresses the technical enhancements included in Oracle Retail Price Management Release 14.1.
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Note: The list below announces the addition of Oracle Retail support for the technology described. See the Installation Guide requirements section for critical information, such as whether the enhancement below replaces previous versions or is supported in addition to already existing versions. |
Oracle Retail Price Management (RPM) Release 14. 1 is supported for use with the following database server:
Oracle Database Enterprise Edition 12cR1 (12.1.0.1.4)
The installation scripts for RPM do not create all of the necessary batch control data for the price event injector batch which leds to the batch not being able to execute successfully.
The following documents are available through My Oracle Support. Access My Oracle Support at the following URL:
The Enterprise Integration Guide is an HTML document that summarizes Oracle Retail integration. This version of the Integration Guide is concerned with the two integration styles that implement messaging patterns: Asynchronous JMS Pub/Sub Fire-and-Forget and Web Service Request Response. The Enterprise Integration Guide addresses the Oracle Retail Integration Bus (RIB), a fully distributed integration infrastructure that uses Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) to integrate applications, and the Oracle Retail Service Backbone (RSB), a productization of a set of Web Services, ESBs, and Security tools that standardize the deployment.
This guide describes the approach that each Oracle Retail Merchandising Operations Management application takes for the upgrading process, as well as its upgrade assumptions and considerations. Actual procedures for the upgrade may be included in the application's Installation Guide.
The tests in this document have been created to assist in verifying (smoke testing) that the installation of the following products was successful: RMS, ReSA, RTM, Oracle Retail Allocation, ReIM, ARI, and RPM. These tests are not intended to verify all functionality in the suite of products previously listed.
The following document is available on the My Oracle Support Web site. Access My Oracle Support at the following URL:
https://support.oracle.com
This whitepaper provides guidance to retailers around creating staged data for the price event injector batch to bring Multi-Buy promotion components into Oracle Retail's Price Management system from an external source. This type of promotion component has flexibility to address the challenges in creating this data effectively.
For more information, see the following documents in the Oracle Retail Price Management Release 14.1 documentation set:
Oracle Retail Price Management Data Model
Oracle Retail Price Management Installation Guide
Oracle Retail Price Management Operations Guide
Oracle Retail Price Management User Guide and online help
Oracle Retail Merchandising Batch Schedule
Oracle Retail Merchandising Data Conversion Operations Guide
Oracle Retail Merchandising Implementation Guide
Oracle Retail Merchandising Security Guide
Oracle Retail POS Suite/Merchandising Operations Management Implementation Guide
Also see the following:
Oracle Retail Integration Bus documentation set, including the Oracle Retail Enterprise Integration Guide
The following document is available on the My Oracle Support Web site. Access My Oracle Support at the following URL:
https://support.oracle.com
Online training is available to Oracle supported customers at product release. These online courses provide release-specific product knowledge that enables your functional and technical teams to plan, implement and/or upgrade and support Oracle Retail applications effectively and efficiently.
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Oracle® Retail Price Management Release Notes, 14.1
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Oracle Retail VAR Applications
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(i) the MicroStrategy Components developed and licensed by MicroStrategy Services Corporation (MicroStrategy) of McLean, Virginia to Oracle and imbedded in the MicroStrategy for Oracle Retail Data Warehouse and MicroStrategy for Oracle Retail Planning & Optimization applications.
(ii) the Wavelink component developed and licensed by Wavelink Corporation (Wavelink) of Kirkland, Washington, to Oracle and imbedded in Oracle Retail Mobile Store Inventory Management.
(iii) the software component known as Access Via™ licensed by Access Via of Seattle, Washington, and imbedded in Oracle Retail Signs and Oracle Retail Labels and Tags.
(iv) the software component known as Adobe Flex™ licensed by Adobe Systems Incorporated of San Jose, California, and imbedded in Oracle Retail Promotion Planning & Optimization application.
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The VAR Applications contain trade secrets of Oracle and Oracle's licensors and Customer shall not attempt, cause, or permit the alteration, decompilation, reverse engineering, disassembly or other reduction of the VAR Applications to a human perceivable form. Oracle reserves the right to replace, with functional equivalent software, any of the VAR Applications in future releases of the applicable program.