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Release 15.0
E69066-01
December 2015
This document highlights the major changes for Release 15.0 of Oracle Retail Warehouse Management System (RWMS).
Oracle Retail Warehouse Management System (RWMS) is an N-tier warehouse management system with a flexible and robust technical architecture. It has thin client support for industry standard browsers and can be accessed through the internet. RWMS supports both Radio Frequency (RF) terminals and GUI clients.
RWMS mainly helps to control the movement of products within a warehouse and complete the different value added services. It ensures that resources such as people, equipment, space, and so on are utilized efficiently in the distribution process.
See the Oracle Retail Warehouse Management System Installation Guide, Release 15.0, for information about the following:
Hardware and software requirements
Oracle Retail application software compatibility information
RWMS 15.0 includes the following functional enhancements.
A responsive new Labor Management dashboard allows warehouse managers and supervisors to monitor productivity levels in their facility. Actual work performance is compared against established labor standards so areas of high and low productivity are easily identified. Performance can be viewed by activity type, labor code, shift, or by user. Filtering capabilities facilitate a targeted focus and configurable display settings allow users to arrange data and choose between graphic and tabular formats. Dashboard data can also be exported into a Microsoft Excel workbook.
For more information, see the Oracle Retail Warehouse Management System User Interface (UI) User Guide.
Many retail facilities want to communicate to their workers the amount of time expected to perform a task at the time it is assigned. In order to display this information prior to starting an assignment, a new labor standard prediction engine was added.
At the time a worker begins an assignment, the labor standard is displayed in minute/second format in the top window title bar of the radio frequency device's window. This allows users to see the projected time without having to clear any kind of pop-up message. Displaying this information can be turned on/off at the activity level.
The calculation of the labor standard takes into consideration all aspects of the assignment, including all warehouse locations involved, the distance between each location, the expected travel speed based on the equipment being used, and all setup involved in the labor standard itself such as element times, factors, conditions, and allowances.
For more information, see the Oracle Retail Warehouse Management System Radio Frequency User Guide.
A new Appointment Calendar view has been added to provide for a more robust and efficient delivery scheduling process. It includes an All Doors view to show all existing appointments for all doors for a date in graphical, horizontal bar Gantt chart format, color coded by appointment status. By pointing to any appointment, a pop-up window will display corresponding details such as vendor, carrier, start and end times, duration, appointment type, and expected number of pallets and cases.
An individual door display is also available on the calendar which can show all appointments for a single door in day, week, month, and list views. This provides the ability to view usage of a door over a longer period of time.
The All Doors view can be used to search for available time slots prior to creating a new appointment. By estimating either the number of cases or pallets on the delivery, or the amount of time needed, the calendar will highlight all open door/time slots in which that appointment can fit.
In addition to streamlining the appointment setup process, the calendar will serve as a monitoring tool for managers and supervisors. This ensures that inbound activity is properly spread among the facility's dock door capacity.
For more information, see the Oracle Retail Warehouse Management System UI User Guide.
The following technology has been upgraded for RWMS 15.0:
ADF 12.1.3 update for the Enhanced Navigation Server
For more information, see the Oracle Retail Warehouse Management System Installation Guide.
Tablet-optimized versions of the following user workflows allow warehouse personnel, especially supervisors, the convenience and flexibility of monitoring warehouse operations without being tethered to a desktop computer:
Activity Monitoring Dashboard
Labor Management Dashboard
Appointment Calendar
For more information, see the Oracle Retail Warehouse Management System UI User Guide.
The following table contains known issues for the current release.
| Known Issue/Defect | DefectNumber |
|---|---|
| The substitute pick process in unit picking is causing a DMS error. | 18324157 |
| When performing preplanned container picks (generic labels) from forward case locations to shipping with transport assets enabled, the F5 Full function is not working and errors are encountered. | 19466508 |
| When unit picking an item with an associated transport item, the transport item is not being captured in container asset table. | 20891330 |
| When performing Case Picks in Labeled Reserve with Labeled Picking set to Yes; the process is not picking the correct child containers. | 22136902 |
For more information, see the following document in the Oracle Retail Warehouse Management System 15.0 documentation set:
Oracle Retail Warehouse Management System Data Model
Oracle Retail Warehouse Management System Implementation Guide
Oracle Retail Warehouse Management System Installation Guide
Oracle Retail Warehouse Management System Operations Guide
Oracle Retail Warehouse Management System Radio Frequency User Guide
Oracle Retail Warehouse Management System Security Guide
Oracle Retail Warehouse Management System UI User Guide
The following documentation is available through My Oracle Support at the following URL:
Enterprise Integration Guide (located in the Oracle Retail Integration Suite library on the Oracle Technology Network)
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 and run time of Web Service flows within Oracle Retail Suite of applications.
The following document is available on the My Oracle Support Web site. Access My Oracle Support at the following URL:
Transfer of Information (TOI) Material (ID 732026.1)
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.
For information about Oracle's commitment to accessibility, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program website at http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=docacc.
Access to Oracle Support
Oracle customers that have purchased support have access to electronic support through My Oracle Support. For information, visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=info or visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=trs if you are hearing impaired.
Oracle® Retail Warehouse Management System Release Notes, 15.0
E69066-01
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Value-Added Reseller (VAR) Language
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.
