Oracle® Retail Merchandising System

Release Notes

Release 15.0.3

 

F18986-01

May 2019

Oracle Retail Merchandising System (RMS) Release 15.0.3 is a patch release for RMS 15.0. RMS 15.0.3 includes selected defect fixes and enhancements for RMS 15.0 code.

Oracle Customer Support investigates submitted issues assuming that all released updates have been applied. It is the customer's decision when to apply a new release; however, delays in applying updates can complicate the support process.

This document contains the following topics:

n    Overview

n    About Patch Releases

n    Hardware and Software Requirements

n    Applying the Patch Release

n    Running Scripts

n    Integration Enhancements

n    Technical Enhancements

n    Defect Fixes and Documentation

n    Noteworthy Defect Fixes

n    Documentation Accessibility

Overview

Oracle Retail Merchandising System (RMS) executes core merchandising activities, including merchandise management, inventory replenishment, purchasing, vendor management, and financial tracking.

About Patch Releases

Oracle Retail patch releases are periodic releases that can include the following:

n    New defect fixes

n    Product enhancements

n    Technical upgrades

Documentation for patch releases includes the following:

n    New and updated guides (for example, operations guides) that apply to the patch release level.

n    Defect reports for new fixes and enhancements for the patch release.

Note

Customers must apply the entire patch release to update their installation to the currently supported level.

 

See the Oracle Retail Merchandising System Installation Guide for instructions about how to apply the defect fixes and enhancements that you have not already applied.

Hardware and Software Requirements

See the Oracle Retail Merchandising Installation Guide for additional information about the following:

n    Hardware and software requirements

n    Oracle Retail application software compatibility

Applying the Patch Release

Before applying the RMS 15.0.3 patch release, be sure that:

n    RMS 15.0 has been installed.

Before applying the new files over your code:

n            Note whether any modules have been customized. If so, the customizations must be reapplied to the new version of the module, or the fix may need to be applied to the custom version of the code.

n            Copy the original files to a different directory before you copy over them, in case you need to refer to them at a later date.

Running Scripts

Back up data before running any script, because the scripts provided do not preserve data. See defect reports for details.

Check with your database administrator to determine whether your database should be analyzed after a script is run. In many cases, an analysis of the database is necessary to take advantage of new or modified indexes intended to improve performance of the application.

Integration Enhancements

This section addresses the integration enhancements included in Oracle Retail Merchandising System Release 15.0.3.

Defect

Description

27200278

When ranging on the fly during transaction processing (transfer, inventory adjustment, sales/returns), if the newly ranged item/location is on an active clearance, the transaction that triggered the ranging process will be written with the clearance retail value.

28138567

When deleting a merchandise level below Department (for example, Class or Subclass) in RMS, the same level will also be deleted from the RPM_MERCH_RETAIL_DEF table in RPM.

28188549

As part of the bug added fields in the item integration to be used by RWMS to ensure that catch weight items can be correctly processed using the same assumptions made in RMS

 

Technical Enhancements

This section addresses the technical enhancements included in Oracle Retail Merchandising System Release 15.0.3.

Fusion Middleware Support

Oracle Retail Merchandising System 15.0.3 is supported for use with the following Fusion Middleware components:

n    Oracle WebLogic Server 12.2.1.3

n    Oracle Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Server 12.2.1.3

n    Oracle BI Publisher 12.2.1.3

n    Oracle Forms 12.2.1.3

Browser Support

Oracle Retail Merchandising System Release 15.0.3 is supported for use with the following browser:

n    Mozilla Firefox ESR 60+

n    Microsoft Edge 41+

Defect Fixes and Documentation

A defect fix is a modification to the base Oracle Retail code (for example, a bug fix, a performance enhancement, or a functional enhancement). Each defect fix that is included in this patch has a corresponding defect report titled <defect-number>.PDF (for example, 1234567.PDF) that is posted to My Oracle Support at the following location: Oracle Retail Defect Document Listings (MOS ID:2021275.1).

In the same folder, the file named DEFECT MODULE XREF RMS 15.0.3.XLS lists every defect number and the modules and scripts that are included in the patch. Review each defect report carefully before implementing the defect fixes. Note that scripts do not preserve data. Make sure that all data is backed up before you run any script.

Noteworthy Defect Fixes

The following noteworthy defects are fixed in this release:

Defect

Description

25494040

When searching clearance using the Dept, Item Level, Status and Zone Id, users are experiencing a delay of 15 minutes or longer in many cases before it returns with any results. As part of the fix we have introduced indexing to resolve the performance issue.

26923731

When a Return To Vendor (RTV) comes from RWMS to RMS against a physical warehouse which contains multiple virtual warehouses, it is not creating entries into RTVITEM_INV_FLOW table.

25214777

Incorrect elc values on few rms windows viz [ALCHEAD], [ALCORDFN] AND [ORDSKUS]

25880662

RMS allows user to create a new Vat Rate for a Vat Code with Active Date as the current day, but the Vat Rate does not apply to existing items, it only applies to any newly created item.

27083215

The markup and selling unit retail are calculated incorrectly for an item with foreign currency as item_cost.

27271127

When a sales return comes for a location on the current date and the item was not ranged to that location, the data is incorrectly inserted into the TRAN_DATA_HIST table. This should have written a Tran_date of the first date of the open month and not for a closed period

28963917

If there is no data entered in retail by zone, code should take a reference of item_master standard UOM which happens in the UI. If and only if data entered in retail by zone tab. then only the default data proposed by RPM/RMS should get overwritten by the data entered in excel by the user. UI and Induction functionality is not in sync

28916764

Expenses in ordhead screen are getting doubled

28848299

The System should not allow the creation of VAT details with previous dates.

28837569

Code (TC) 15, Promotional Markdown, records with Old Unit Retail equal to 0 and the New Unit Retail equal to the sum of Unit Retail from PRICE_HIST table and New Unit Retail from the TC 1, Net Sales. RMS should not create the TC 15 record

28784396

The pricing cost is wrong when there is a cost template with margin and an upcharge in another currency different from the default. The application of the converted upcharge value is incorrect, causing the pricing cost to be higher than the value it should be.

28713605

When there are multiple items in Customs Entry, the non-merchandise amount for the invoice created is double the value in Customs Entry.

28325790

Clearance sales showing as regular, and TRAN_CODE 15 records created, when they should not have been.

29400152

User unable to create a Customer Order Return to Virtual Warehouse since the RTLOG files still expects a Physical warehouse as Input parameter.

29295279

Tran Code 15 records are posted with negative retail when a sale transaction is posted for an item that is on clearance.

26281795

RTM_UNIT_OPTIONS.RTM_TRNSPRT_OBL_ALLOC_METHOD = `ASN when Customer creates TRANSPORTATION records and maps V/V/E to ASN/SHIPMENT in TRANSPORTATION_SHIPMENT.

Receive the shipments. Customer creates Customs Entry and allocates ALC for CE.

When the ALC is allocated, ALC_HEAD.SHIPMENT will be populated. Finalization will be allowed even though the PO is not closed.

 

Documentation Accessibility

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