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Release 16.0
E81194-01
December 2016
This document highlights the major changes for Release 16.0 of Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management (SIM).
Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management increases store efficiency by helping store associates to execute and monitor all store inventory transactions, which allows store managers and corporate merchandisers to make better business decisions, reduce out of stock positions, and simultaneously decrease total stock on hand, and increase customer satisfaction.
SIM improves customer satisfaction by providing accurate and up-to-date in-store inventory positions, reserving inventory for layaway, managing customer orders, and allowing for cross-store inventory lookup. SIM can also streamline inventory processes in the supply chain through its integration with merchandising systems (such as Oracle Retail Merchandising System), point-of-service systems (such as the Oracle Retail Xstore), and warehouse systems (such as Oracle Retail Warehouse Management System).
Accurate inventory is especially important in an omni-channel setting, which SIM can fully support by providing accurate near real-time inventory positions to Customer Order systems as well as provide efficient pick, pack, and ship functions.
SIM helps enforce best-of-breed in-store processes and allows increased efficiency by allowing store personnel to walk the shop floor with mobile devices while performing inventory tasks. Shrinkage is one of the main concerns retailers have, and SIM functionality can help prevent its occurrence by showing where shrink is happening. Serialized inventory can be tracked at every stage. It can be touched by an employee, and an extensive detailed security model can control what employees can do. In addition, specific system-based transactions allow for inventory monitoring.
The SIM client can be run on the PC/desktop and mobile devices that use Wavelink studio and Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF) on a variety of operating systems. SIM clients are deployed in store. They communicate with the SIM server deployed at the corporate/back office over WAN.
See the Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management Installation Guide, Release 16.0 for information about the following:
Hardware and software requirements
Oracle Retail application software compatibility
The following functional enhancements are included in SIM 16.0:
New MAF workflows are added that are optimized and can be deployed on small handheld screens or tablets. The following flows are added:
Transfer Shipping
Transfer Receiving and Quick Receiving
Stock Counts
Inventory Adjustments
Customer Orders:
Lookup
Picking
Deliveries
Item Lookup
Container Lookup
The following features and benefits result from the new MAF workflows:
List display of items and transactions.
Configurable picture display next to each item.
Search capabilities to find specific transactions.
Filter capabilities within an item or transaction list to find an item or transaction.
Visual indicators if an item is completed on a transaction, if a container is received, or if an error happened.
Access to open and closed transactions (such as, view of closed inventory adjustments).
If sequencing is enabled, a view of where items can be located when picking or performing an item lookup.
Selection of reports to print.
Use of touch to get into an item's details.
Swipe to indicate an item should be deleted; also, an undo feature.
Reset items - undo changes to an item from within a session.
Scan type - Auto or Unique Identification Number (UIN).
Session Unit Of Measure (UOM).
Item description - configurable to display diffs with the item description.
Notes.
Within item lookup, the ability to go into the details of the related or pack item without having to do a new search.
Android, Windows 10, and iOS compatible.
For more information, see the Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management Store User Guide.
The following User Interface (UI) themes are added:
The Oracle Merch theme is added to more closely align with the RMS 16.0 theme.
The Oracle Store theme is added to more closely align with Xstore 16.0 theme.
Wavelink studio client is now available for Android devices, which is in addition to Windows Mobile, CE, and iOS.
For more information, see the Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management Wavelink Studio Client Guide.
The following enhancements are provided for Commerce Anywhere:
Oracle Retail Order Broker (OB) integration:
Bulk inventory data integration batch
Web service call from OB to SIM for current available inventory across all stores
Restrictive Picking - New configuration option:
Fully Restricted - do not allow to under or over pick or ship
Transaction determined - multiple picks allowed
The technical enhancements described below are included in this release.
Barcode support is added for Zebra DataWedge on Android by incorporating a Cordova plug-in. Additional customization hooks are also added beyond those supplied by MAF itself.
Database directory dependency on batch-data-file locations is removed. Batch execution statuses (0=sucess, 1=failure, 2=warning) are now captured at the database.
Access control permissions are now validated on the server side when actions are requested. The context of the call is used to verify that the store and user have the granted permissions to execute the server logic. The server is significantly secured so that data and services are only used by authorized users.
JMX/MBean support is added for changing system and store configuration values. This allows administrators to use Java's standard JConsole to control technical configurations.
Session timeout is added to the PC Client with a configurable length of idle time before the user is logged out.
For the MAF client, performance improvements are made for initial user log in time. Paging support is also added on all MAF UI's list screens; this enhances performance and improves usability. Background threading is also enhanced to improve item image loading and overall speed of the client.
The following improvements are made for integration.
The StoreInventory web service added two new operations:
A lookupFutureInventory operation is added to support a detailed view of future inventory arriving at the store.
A lookupAvailableInventoryAllStores operation is added to find available inventory for a single item at every store.
The following enhancements are made to support the PAAS Cloud:
Integration framework for foundation data in/out (RTG)
RIB to web service is interchangeable, allowing direct web service communication to SIM instead of using the JMS Queue architecture.
Batch
Batches are moved to the to the app server.
Security
All UI-specific permissions are collapsed to a single permission applicable to all PC Swing, Wavelink, and MAF client, where applicable.
Technical admin and config parameters are moved to the server UX.
The Item Inventory SOAP web service is split into current and future inventory views.
On MAF clients, session times out without warning: On all MAF UIs, active users do not get session-expiry warning. They have to log back in to the application. This is a known MAF issue. The workaround is to use an appropriate session value. The default session value on the server is 60 minutes and on the client-session, it should be just under the server-session. For information on updating these values to suit your needs, see the Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management MAF Guide.
For more information, see the following documents in the Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management Release 16.0 documentation set:
Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management Batch Operations Guide
Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management Configuration Guide
Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management Integration Guide
Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management Extension Guide
Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management Installation Guide
Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management MAF Guide
Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management MAF Installation Guide
Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management Security Guide
Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management Store User Guide
Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management Wavelink Studio Client Guide
Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management Data Model
Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management Upgrade Guide
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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.
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