1 Introduction

Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management (SIM) provides the capability to use a tablet for a subset of available SIM functionality. This guide covers the technical architecture of the tablet, as well as, information on how to use the tablet with SIM.

Overview

A workbench-oriented User Interface (UI) is provided for the manager who wants to understand what is going on in their store and use a tablet to access the information. This UI is based on Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF) technology. The tablet gives access to the most important SIM features, as well as, provides several business intelligence and operational features:

• The Home Page or task list area provides the user an up-to-date view of all open transactions for the store, stock counts, transfer, transfer shipments, transfer receiving, RTV, RTV shipment, DSD receiving, inventory adjustments, item requests, shelf replenishment, customer orders, customer order pick, customer order delivery, and customer order reverse pick.

  Transactions displayed to the user depend on the security level given to the user.

• A notification area indicates alerts to the user that possibly require an action to be taken against it. These notifications are group assigned so one user reviewing them can automatically remove them from the list for other users once read. This allows users to work shifts and eliminates the need for someone at the start of their shift to guess which notifications have been taken care of.

  In addition to just reviewing notifications, the user is also able to forward an alert to another user to take action on an ad-hoc basis for open transactions from the Home Page. This can be helpful, for example, when a manager gets an alert that an inventory adjustment is open and needs approval.

• One of the main tasks for SIM is to provide accurate inventory information to a variety of sources. The item lookup dialog is available to provide the user with the same information as the PC user interface. The user is able to do an item lookup based on a SKU, or use the advanced filter option to allow item information lookup based on different item numbers, description, User-Defined Attributes (UDAs), supplier, warehouse, external finisher, inventory status, or style attributes.

  The information returned is very similar to that on the PC user interface, allowing the tablet user to have all the information to make business intelligence decisions such as how much inventory is available, what happened to certain UINs, or which store has a specific item available. Details include Stock on Hand, Pricing, Item Attributes, Ordering Attributes, Merchandise Hierarchy, Stock Locator, UDAs, Non-Sellable, Item Locations, Deliveries, Show Packs, Show Components, Related Items, Customer Orders, UINs, and Additional Suppliers.

• Supplier Lookup on the tablet displays the same details as that of the PC user interface.

• Operational Views on the tablet is a dialog to display four views to the user for operating business.

• Inventory Adjustments enable the user to create or manage inventory adjustments. This dialog is fully enabled and has the same features as the handheld or PC inventory adjustment dialog. Since the tablet UI uses the same database layer as the handheld and PC, it is possible to share transaction responsibility between devices and users. A mobile unit user could, for example, create the inventory adjustment, while a manger approves it on their tablet.

For more information on the features available on the tablet, see Chapter 2, "Common User Interface".

Contents of this Guide

This guide covers technical information and the functionality of the tablet:

• Chapter 1, "Introduction": Overview of SIM on the tablet and the skills needed for implementation.

• Chapter 2, "Common User Interface": Overview of the user interface on the table.

• Chapter 2, "Common User Interface": Overview of the features available on the tablet.

• Chapter 4, "Technical Overview": Overview of the architecture for the tablet.

Skills Needed for Implementation

The implementer needs an understanding of the following applications and technical concepts.

Technical Concepts

The implementer should understand the following technical concepts:

• JDeveloper 12.1.3

• Technical architecture of the SIM tablet

• Application servers

• Java coding, including REST Java coding concepts

• XML manipulation

• Apple Enterprise Development setup and deployment

• Certificate creation and deployment

For customization of the user interface, the implementer should also understand the following technical concepts:

• Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF) 2.x

• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) programming