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Release 16.0
E82952-01
December 2016
This document highlights the major changes for Release 16.0 of Oracle Retail Price Management.
RPM is a pricing and promotions execution system that provides the ability to define, maintain, and review 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 for information about the following:
Hardware and software requirements
Oracle Retail application software compatibility
The technical enhancements described below are included in this release. For more information on them, see the Oracle Retail Price Management (RPM) Operations Guide.
A new batch process has been introduced that purges future retail data that is beyond the established retention periods for price event data. The batch process runs for a configurable amount of time.
In previous releases, RPM included multiple small purge/cleanup batch processes. These batch processes have been combined into one batch process that utilizes existing batch logic.
In previous releases, the Rollup Batch was designed to take in a specified merchandise hierarchy to process data in the system by working through departments/classes/subclasses in order. Each batch run would then start in the same place every time. Because of this design, retailers either needed to identify significant time to allow the batch run to completion, or find a way to wrap the batch script with logic that used bookmarks. In this release of RPM, the Rollup Batch batch process was modified to use packaged bookmark logic and process merchandise hierarchies in a round robin fashion, while only running for a configurable amount of time.
To allow for the easier troubleshooting of retailer issues, the system has been enhanced to autonomously capture data from Global Temporary Tables (GTTs) in the Conflict Checking functionality.
Additional logging capabilities have been added to the core logic in the New Item Location processing, Location Move (schedule and execution) processing, and the Conflict Checking engine to add information level calls to the LOGGER utility at key points in the processing. This enhancement enables the system to reflect progression through the functionality.
The integration enhancements described below are included in this release.
An additional module is available in the Oracle Commerce application that creates a unified shopping experience merging the capabilities of the digital store with the physical store. This module ensures that sales associates and/or other consumer-facing users and applications have access to the same information, such as customer, order, item, inventory, and price.
Although the solution is not part of the merchandising suite of Oracle Retail applications, RPM provides regular, clearance, and promotional pricing information to support this extension module.
For more information, see the following documents in the Oracle Retail Price Management, Release 16.0 documentation set:
Oracle Retail Price Management User Guide
Oracle Retail Price Management Operations Guide
Oracle Retail Price Management Installation Guide
Oracle Retail Price Management Data Model
Oracle Retail Merchandising Implementation Guide
Oracle Retail Merchandising Batch Schedule
Oracle Retail Merchandising Security Guide
Oracle Retail Merchandising Data Conversion Operations Guide
Oracle Retail Xstore Suite 16.0/Oracle Retail Merchandising 16.0 Implementation Guide
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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.
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For applicable products, online training is available to Oracle supported customers. 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, Release 16.0
E82952-01
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Oracle Retail VAR Applications
The following restrictions and provisions only apply to the programs referred to in this section and licensed to you. You acknowledge that the programs may contain third party software (VAR applications) licensed to Oracle. Depending upon your product and its version number, the VAR applications may include:
(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.
You acknowledge and confirm that Oracle grants you use of only the object code of the VAR Applications. Oracle will not deliver source code to the VAR Applications to you. Notwithstanding any other term or condition of the agreement and this ordering document, you shall not cause or permit alteration of any VAR Applications. For purposes of this section, "alteration" refers to all alterations, translations, upgrades, enhancements, customizations or modifications of all or any portion of the VAR Applications including all reconfigurations, reassembly or reverse assembly, re-engineering or reverse engineering and recompilations or reverse compilations of the VAR Applications or any derivatives of the VAR Applications. You acknowledge that it shall be a breach of the agreement to utilize the relationship, and/or confidential information of the VAR Applications for purposes of competitive discovery.
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.
