1 Introduction

Oracle Retail Regular Price Optimization (RPO) assists retail price mangers in pricing hard-line and grocery items. It is suited for long lifecycle items with infrequent price changes. It recommends permanent prices based on initial estimates of an item's total sales volume over a planning period and on price-related sales of items and related items.

RPO includes grouping in its pricing analysis because it considers cross-item elasticities; that is, RPO considers how price changes for one item may affect the sales volume of other items. Users can input objective functions and pricing constraints that define the optimization problem. After these inputs are defined, the pricing optimizer recommends prices. Multiple scenarios can be created and evaluated side by side, and what–if analysis can be performed within the context of a pricing scenario. After analyzing the what-if results and recommended prices, the user can make a final decision to submit the recommended prices for the given set of merchandise items and locations.

About This Document

This document provides detailed instructions on how to install a Regular Price Optimization domain using a configuration created with the RPAS Configuration Tools. This document does not describe how to create the actual configuration.

This document contains information for full and patch installations:

Chapter 2, "Full Installation: UNIX Environments". Refer to this section if you are performing a full installation.
Chapter 3, "Patch Installation". Refer to this section if you are performing a patch installation.

Read this entire guide before beginning the installation process to ensure you understand the installation process and have all the necessary documentation, hardware, and software available.

You will find supplemental installations guides referenced throughout this document; note that the Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server Installation Guide and the Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server Configuration Tools User Guide must be obtained prior to beginning the installation process. Oracle Retail recommends that you read these documents in their entirety before beginning the RPO installation process.

Hardware and Software Requirements

Table 1-1 provides information on the hardware and software requirements.

Table 1-1 Hardware and Software Requirements

Requirement	Details
Supported RPAS Version	14.1.2
Oracle Retail Batch Script Architecture (BSA)	14.1.2
Required Software	Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.7u91 Note: There are specific JDK versions needed for each of the supported operating systems for the Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server (RPAS). For the list of JDK versions, see the Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server Installation Guide. Note: When installing Java, avoid enabling AutoUpdate because it may update the Java version without prompting.

Requirement

Details

Supported RPAS Version

14.1.2

Oracle Retail Batch Script Architecture (BSA)

14.1.2

Required Software

Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.7u91

Note: There are specific JDK versions needed for each of the supported operating systems for the Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server (RPAS). For the list of JDK versions, see the Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server Installation Guide.

Note: When installing Java, avoid enabling AutoUpdate because it may update the Java version without prompting.

Note:

RPAS applications, such as RPO, run on the Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server (RPAS) platform. For information about the hardware and software requirements for RPAS, see the supported RPAS version of the Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server Installation Guide.

Supported Oracle Retail Products

Table 1-2 provides information about the supported Oracle Retail products:

Table 1-2 Supported Oracle Retail Products

Product	Version
Oracle Retail Analytic Parameter Calculator for Regular Price Optimization (APC-RPO)	14.1.2
Oracle Retail Demand Forecasting (RDF)	14.1.2

Requesting Infrastructure Software

If you are unable to find the necessary version of the required Oracle infrastructure software (database server, application server, WebLogic, and so on.) on the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud, you should file a non-technical &rsquor;Contact Us' Service Request (SR) and request access to the media. For instructions on filing a non-technical SR, see My Oracle Support Note 1071023.1 – Requesting Physical Shipment or Download URL for Software Media.

Road Map for Installing RPO

This guide explains how you can install and set up the RPO application. In order to install RPO for production, you must perform the following tasks in a sequence:

Task	Description
Pre-installation Tasks
1.	Install and set up the RPAS Infrastructure. For more information, refer to the Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server Installation Guide.
2.	Install and set up the RPAS Client. RPAS Release 14.1.2 includes the RPAS Classic Client and RPAS Fusion Client. For more information, refer to the Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server Installation Guide.
3.	Oracle Retail Batch Scripting Architecture (BSA) must be installed prior to installing RPO. For information about installing BSA, see the Oracle Retail Batch Script Architecture Implementation Guide.
Installation Task
4.	Access the RPO installation software and install the application. For more information, see Chapter 2, "Full Installation: UNIX Environments".

Note:

Refer to chapter, ”Creating a Multi-solution Taskflow” in the Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server Configuration Tools User Guide for information about the Multi-solution Taskflow.