Oracle® Retail Brand Compliance Management Cloud Service

Release Notes

Release 18.1.16.11

January 2021

This document highlights the major changes for Release 18.1.16.11 of Oracle Retail Brand Compliance Management Cloud Service.

Overview

Oracle Retail Brand Compliance Management Cloud Service is an application designed to meet all aspects of sourcing, developing, and protecting retailer brands. The application provides solutions for product development, compliance, quality, and traceability. It is designed specifically for retail, food service, and manufacturing businesses to develop and protect their brands, manage their suppliers, and ensure full end-to-end product lifecycle management.

Oracle Retail Brand Compliance Management Cloud Service is composed of the following modules:

Library - enables the issue, receipt, and acceptance of policies, guidelines, and key working documents.
Product - supports the development of products and production specifications.
Project - supports the development of project briefs, plans, and workflow management.
Supplier - enables the identification, selection, and approval of suppliers.
Reports - reporting tool for reporting across the system, using standard templates and custom reports.

Oracle Retail Cloud Services and Business Agility

Oracle Retail Brand Compliance Management Cloud Service is hosted in the Oracle Retail Cloud with the security features inherent to Oracle technology and a robust data center classification, providing significant uptime. The Oracle Cloud team is responsible for installing, monitoring, patching, and upgrading retail software.

Included in the service is continuous technical support, access to software feature enhancements, hardware upgrades, and disaster recovery. The Cloud Service model helps to free customer IT resources from the need to perform these tasks, giving retailers greater business agility to respond to changing technologies and to perform more value-added tasks focused on business processes and innovation.

Oracle Retail Software Cloud Service is acquired exclusively through a subscription service (SaaS) model. This shifts funding from a capital investment in software to an operational expense. Subscription-based pricing for retail applications offers flexibility and cost effectiveness.

Client System Requirements

The following technology is supported:

The following web browsers are supported:

Note:
Oracle Retail assumes that the retailer has ensured its Operating System has been patched with all applicable updates.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 11
- Mozilla Firefox ESR 60+
- Google Chrome (Desktop) 73+

Fixed Issues

The following table lists issues fixed in this release:

Table 1 Application Program Interfaces (APIs) Fixed Issues

Defect Number	Description
31848442, 31899248, 32152011, 32208007	Product Record numbering A fix has been made to the Product Record REST API to ensure that when creating a Product Record, the next available product number is correctly assigned. When calling the API to create a Product Record, if the <code> element to identify the product number is missing, is empty, contains zero, is negative, or an invalid number, the next sequence number is automatically assigned. The fix also prevents an existing Product Record being assigned a new product number when updating a Product Record through the API.
32123736, 32131031	Status Change History in Product Record API A change has been made to the way the Status Change History data is handled by the Product Record REST API. While new Status Change History can be created, the modification of existing Status Change History is restricted to the Comments field only. The deletion of Status Change History is not permitted. This change effectively locks the Status Change History data. The API description has been updated to reflect that Status Change History now includes Status Changed By. Also, the Created On and Updated On values are now output in the XML, along with Status Changed By. Additionally, a modification has been made to the Status Change History section within the application UI, to display System (a system text value) in the Status Changed By field if no value is present, rather than a dash. This applies to all record types that contain the Status Change History log (such as Suppliers, Audits, Projects, and so on). Note: This fix may require a change to be made to the way the Product Record API is called from external systems. See Post Release Tasks.

Defect Number

Description

31848442, 31899248, 32152011, 32208007

Product Record numbering

A fix has been made to the Product Record REST API to ensure that when creating a Product Record, the next available product number is correctly assigned.

When calling the API to create a Product Record, if the <code> element to identify the product number is missing, is empty, contains zero, is negative, or an invalid number, the next sequence number is automatically assigned.

The fix also prevents an existing Product Record being assigned a new product number when updating a Product Record through the API.

32123736, 32131031

Status Change History in Product Record API

A change has been made to the way the Status Change History data is handled by the Product Record REST API.

While new Status Change History can be created, the modification of existing Status Change History is restricted to the Comments field only. The deletion of Status Change History is not permitted. This change effectively locks the Status Change History data.

The API description has been updated to reflect that Status Change History now includes Status Changed By. Also, the Created On and Updated On values are now output in the XML, along with Status Changed By.

Additionally, a modification has been made to the Status Change History section within the application UI, to display System (a system text value) in the Status Changed By field if no value is present, rather than a dash. This applies to all record types that contain the Status Change History log (such as Suppliers, Audits, Projects, and so on).

Note: This fix may require a change to be made to the way the Product Record API is called from external systems. See Post Release Tasks.

Post Release Tasks

The following post release task must be taken into account as part of the release.

Product Record API

The fix to the Product Record API (items 32123736, 32131031) includes a change to the XML structure and processing of the Status Change History data used by the Product Records REST API. If you currently use this API, and access the status history data, it may be necessary to make a change to how the external system calls the API.

The changes that have been made as part of the fix are as follows:

The product.wadl API description has a change to the XML structure, to include statusChangedBy within the statusHistory element.
The outbound XML data now has createdOn and updatedOn populated in the statusHistory element (along with statusChangedBy).
The statusChangedBy value is now accepted within the inbound XML (createdOn and updatedOn already are).
The ability to modify existing status history data is now limited to the comments element only, and the system will simply ignore changes for any other elements in the inbound XML (such as createdOn, updatedOn, and statusChangedBy).
Within the application, if Status Changed By within the status history is not populated with a user name, the system text value System is shown, rather than the dash that is currently displayed. This applies to all record types that contain the Status Change History log (such as Suppliers, Audits, Projects, and so on).

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Oracle Retail Brand Compliance Management Cloud Service Release Notes, Release 18.1.16.11

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Oracle Retail VAR Applications

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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.

(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.

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