1 Features and Updates

This chapter describes the features and updates contained in this release. There are no new features or updates for the Gift and Loyalty module.

• Enterprise Back Office
  
• Reporting and Analytics
  
• Forecasting and Budget
  
• Labor Management
  
• Inventory Management
  

Enterprise Back Office

This release contains the following features and changes for the Enterprise Back Office suite:

• Microsoft Windows 10 Support
  
• Microsoft Edge Support
  

Microsoft Windows 10 Support

This release adds support for accessing all Oracle Hospitality Enterprise Back Office products using Microsoft Windows 10.

Microsoft Edge Support

This release adds support for accessing Oracle Hospitality Enterprise Back Office products using Microsoft Edge, with the exception of:

• Inventory Management

• Remote Transfer Agent download

• MyTask download

Reporting and Analytics

This release contains the following features and changes for Reporting and Analytics:

• Scheduled Reports After Report Mail Service Downtime
  
• Increased the Maximum Number of Signature Images for Oracle Hospitality Simphony Check Journals
  

Scheduled Reports After Report Mail Service Downtime

Depending on system configurations, reports scheduled in Report Mail may retroactively send after the Info Delivery service resumes operations. For example, if the system administrator configures an eighteen-hour threshold, Report Mail runs and sends all reports scheduled in the eighteen hours prior to the service resuming operations. Reports scheduled to run more than once during the interval only run once with the last set of information. If the business date changed while the Report Mail service was stopped, all reports are run as if they were scheduled to run on the current day. They do not run for the day they were scheduled. As a result, reports scheduled to show:

• Daily information, such as the Daily Operations report, show information for the previous business day instead of retrieving information from two days prior.

• Up-to-date information, such as the Today’s Operations report, show information for the current business day instead of retrieving information for the previous business day.

Increased the Maximum Number of Signature Images for Oracle Hospitality Simphony Check Journals

Audit and Analysis now supports retrieving and viewing up to nine images of signatures from the Oracle Hospitality Simphony Point-of-Sales when viewing a check summary journal entry.

Forecasting and Budget

This release contains the following features and changes for Forecasting and Budget Cloud Service:

• Net Sales Components with Value-Added Tax (VAT)
  

Net Sales Components with Value-Added Tax (VAT)

You can now forecast net sales with a value-added tax (VAT) before and after applying discounts. You can view and manipulate the generated forecast values for the two components in the following locations:

• On the Forecast Profile page, the Forecast Components table now includes the Sales Net VAT before Discount and Sales Net VAT after Discount components.

• On the Forecast Approval/Rejection page, you can now select Sales Net VAT before Discount and Sales Net VAT after Discount from the Component drop-down list.

• On the Forecast Advanced View or the Forecast Information pages, you can now view the Sales Net VAT before Discount and Sales Net VAT after Discount components. You cannot view the components on the Forecast Basic View page.

Labor Management

This release contains the following features and changes for Labor Management:

• Non-Sales-Driven Hours for Advanced General Staffing
  
• Generate New Passwords for Employees (RES 3700 Only)
  

Non-Sales-Driven Hours for Advanced General Staffing

When configuring staffing using the Advanced General method, you can now add and configure hours for tasks that are not directly related to sales, such as for cleaning equipment and for performing administrative duties.

To configure the additional resources in Advanced General staffing:

1. In Reporting and Analytics, click Labor, click Staffing Profile, and then click Staffing Profile Creation.

2. Create or select a staffing profile that uses the Advanced General method, then click Edit Job.

3. Update the Staff Job fields and then click Next.

4. Select the time slice method and then click Next.

5. Select the Additional Resources tab.

6. Select the applicable Revenue Center.

7. Select the Forecast Profile to use to generate the requirements.

8. Select the Forecast Component to which the task belongs.

9. Select the applicable Order Type.

10. If you selected the Sales Quantity, Gross Sales, Net Sales, or Discount forecast component, you can select the applicable Menu Item.

11. You can then assign the staffing requirements.

Generate New Passwords for Employees (RES 3700 Only)

For Oracle Hospitality RES 3700 environments, the Employee Configuration now includes the Generate Password button on the POS Configuration tab under Location Configuration. When an administrator clicks the button and then saves the form, Labor Management sends the employee an automatically generated password by email. Administrators use this button to:

• Generate a password for new employees.

• Reset passwords so employees have to create new passwords on subsequent logins.

Inventory Management

This release contains the following features and changes for Inventory Management:

• Validation for Suggested Lists
  
• Cost Center Column for Ordering Overviews
  
• Close Purchase Orders After Booking B2B Receipt
  
• Standardized Button Format
  
• Cost of Sales Reports with Excluded Item Groups
  
• Microsoft Windows 10 Support for Mobile Solutions Client
  

Validation for Suggested Lists

List Management now performs the following validation checks regarding Suggested lists:

• If a list contains more than one vendor, the order list cannot be saved as the suggested list.

• If a list contains a single vendor and is set as the suggested list, users cannot add items from a different vendor.

Cost Center Column for Ordering Overviews

The following Ordering Overview tables can now include a column for viewing and filtering the Cost Center for each order or order list:

• Suspended Orders

• Pending Orders

• Booked Orders

To add this column to the overview screens:

1. In Inventory Management, click Maintenance, click Settings, and then click the Order tab.

2. Select or deselect Show Cost Center Name in Overview Sorting, and then click Save.

Close Purchase Orders After Booking B2B Receipt

When the B2B Receipt option Book Receipt immediately is enabled, you can now also enable the Close Order automatically option to automatically close the corresponding Purchase Order for imported B2B receipts. This option does not perform checks to make sure that all items on the purchase order were received. To enable this option:

1. In Inventory Management, click Master Data, click Vendor, and then click the B2B Receipt tab.

2. Make sure Book Receipt immediately is selected, click Close Order automatically, and then click Save.

Standardized Button Format

This release standardizes buttons throughout Inventory Management to show as links and removes the Linked button type option in the General settings.

Cost of Sales Reports with Excluded Item Groups

When the Exclude from myinventory reports option is enabled, Cost of Sales reports now include the following message to specify when the report is excluding any item groups:

There may have been Item Groups optionally excluded from this report

Microsoft Windows 10 Support for Mobile Solutions Client

This release adds support for using the Mobile Solutions Client on Microsoft Windows 10, but you must meet the following prerequisites:

• Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 or later

• Mobile Device Center 6.1 or later

You must install the Mobile Solutions Client to the root of the drive to prevent access violation errors.