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A&IP Cloud Service supports integration with RMF CS using Bulk Data Interface (BDI) and Planning Data Storage (PDS). It also allows using only PDS to share data across different RPAS Planning applications if they are registered against it and have common shared hierarchies and positions.
For information on the BDI process flow, see the BDI Process Flow appendix in the Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server Cloud Edition Implementation Guide.
BDI allows sharing data across the enterprise. If the customer implements RMF CS and BDI, then the use of PDS is mandatory, as currently the data loaded into BDI can only be internally transformed to PDS shared measures. For more details about PDS, see "Using PDS".
If BDI is enabled, there is no need for retailers to export flat files from RMS. In order for the batch process to not wait for the files from RMS, the Batch Uses BDI Boolean flag needs to be set to true.
Different RPAS applications can share measures across shared applications if they share common hierarchies and measure data. RPAS uses PDS which can hold the shared dimensions and fact data (shared measures).
A PDS-enabled domain needs an Integration Configuration which contains Shared Dimension data and also shared measures as Fact data that is grouped as Fact Group across different RPAS applications.
All RPAS GA Planning applications have one common GA Integration Configuration which is part of the RPAS Application Standard Libraries (RASL) package called RGBU_RDM.xml that is pre-configured.
The following section describes the shared dimension and measure data from the A&IP CS solution which is present in Integration Configuration.
Shared Hierarchies in PDS should have the union of all dimensions across the different RPAS applications without any User Defined Dimensions and also all of them should have the same names for common hierarchies and common shared dimensions. If RMF CS integration and BDI are used, those hierarchies will be loaded as part of that scheduled process in BDI. If the customer is only using PDS and not using BDI, the customer has to first load the shared hierarchies into one of the RPAS applications by calling the loadDimData utility by using Standard Admin Tasks after uploading the shared dimension file named as <hier>.csv.dat with header information including all shared dimension positions with position labels. In the header, the dimension name should be the shared dimension name in the hierarchy file and the dimension label should be <dim>_label.
The file should be uploaded into the $INCOMING_FTP_PATH/rdm_input/dimdata directory.
If the domain is registered against PDS, then the Batch Uses PDS Boolean flag will be set during batch. It controls the flow of the weekly batch.
The Regular Weekly Batch in A&IP CS, in turn calls the batch frame work service dimdataload to load those dimension data files into PDS, if the domain is registered against PDS (Batch Uses PDS flag is set) and not using BDI (Batch Uses BDI flag is not set) to get its data.
Loading dimension data will only load the dimension details into the PDS. The customer needs to run the standard loadHier utility without any input files, in order to synchronize the domain dimension data with PDS for updated positions. That will also be run by default as part of the weekly batch process.
The following tables list the shared hierarchies and dimensions for A&IP CS available in the GA Integration Configuration. Any additional dimensions present in those hierarchies which are not present in A&IP CS can be from another shared application. Those also need to be provided if the customer loads those positions into PDS.
Calendar Hierarchy (clnd)
| Shared Dimension | Shared Dimension Label | Aggregate Dimension |
|---|---|---|
| day | Day | Not Applicable |
| week | Week | day |
| mnth | Month | week |
| qrtr | Quarter | mnth |
| half | Half | qrtr |
| year | Year | half |
| woyr | Week of Year | year |
| dow | Day of Week | day |
Product Hierarchy (prod)
| Shared Dimension | Shared Dimension Label | Aggregate Dimension |
|---|---|---|
| sku | Item | Not Applicable |
| skup | Style/Color | sku |
| skug | Style | skup |
| scls | Subclass | skug |
| clss | Class | scls |
| dept | Department | clss |
| pgrp | Group | dept |
| dvsn | Division | pgrp |
| cmpp | Company | dvsn |
| brnd | Brand | sku |
| vndr | Vendor | sku |
Location Hierarchy (loc)
| Shared Dimension | Shared Dimension Label | Aggregate Dimension |
|---|---|---|
| stor | Location | Not Applicable |
| dstr | District | stor |
| regn | Region | dstr |
| chnl | Channel | regn |
| chan | Chain | chnl |
| comp | Company | chan |
| loct | Location Type | stor |
| phwh | Physical Warehouse | stor |
| fflt | Fulfillment Type | stor |
| tdar | Trade Area | stor |
| strc | Store Cluster | stor |
| chnc | Cluster Channel | strc |
| sfmt | Store Format | stor |
| stcl | Store Class | stor |
Product Attributes (patr)
| Shared Dimension | Shared Dimension Label | Aggregate Dimension |
|---|---|---|
| patv | Currency | Not Applicable |
| patt | patv |
Currency (curh)
| Shared Dimension | Shared Dimension Label | Aggregate Dimension |
|---|---|---|
| curc | Currency | Not Applicable |
Cluster (clrh)
| Shared Dimension | Shared Dimension Label | Aggregate Dimension |
|---|---|---|
| clus | Cluster | Not Applicable |
| chnl | Channel | clus |
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Note: If the customer implementation will use RMF CS flat files for integration and will not use BDI but would like to use PDS, it is only partially supported. The customer has to customize the batch transform process to transform the RMS files to create the shared hierarchy files from the RMS files as needed by PDS with headers |
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Note: GA batch control files contain entries only to load shared hierarchies used by the application into PDS, but PDS can have more hierarchies not used by the current application. If not using BDI to load PDS, it is recommended to load the shared hierarchies common across multiple applications into only one application which contains most of the shared hierarchies. That way the customer can avoid uploading shared hierarchies data into multiple applications. |
PDS shared measure data is called as Fact Data to share across different planning applications. Shared fact data are grouped together as fact groups to enable them to be accessed together. If RMF CS Integration and BDI are used, those shared fact measures are directly loaded as part of the scheduled process in BDI. If the customer is only using PDS and not using BDI, then they have to load the fact data into one of the RPAS applications by calling the loadFactData utility by using Standard Admin Tasks after uploading the shared fact file named as <fact_group>.csv.ovr or <fact_group>.csv.rpl with the header as the shared fact name. The customer can use any single file with any name or split them into multiple files to load different fact measures if all of them have the same base intersection, but it is recommended to load the files after grouping them as per the fact groups to allow them to load in parallel.
The file should be uploaded into the $INCOMING_FTP_PATH/rdm_input/factdata directory.
If the domain is registered against PDS, then the Batch Uses PDS Boolean flag will be set during batch. It controls the flow of weekly batch.
The regular Weekly Batch in A&IP CS also calls the batch frame work service loaddata, with control entries containing "H" and file names as parameters, to load the fact data into PDS, if the domain is registered against PDS and not using BDI to get its data.
Loading fact data will only load the fact data into PDS and will automatically make the mapped shared measures available into the registered domains The customer does not have to load those shared measures again into domains.
The following table lists the shared measures for A&IP CS available in the GA Integration Configuration.
| Fact Name | Fact Label | Fact Group Name | Shared Measure Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| drtynslsregr | Ty Net Sales Reg R | nsls | drtynslsregr |
| drtynslspror | Ty Net Sales Promo R | nsls | drtynslspror |
| drtynslsclrr | Ty Net Sales Clr R | nsls | drtynslsclrr |
| drtynslsregc | Ty Net Sales Reg C | nsls | drtynslsregc |
| drtynslsproc | Ty Net Sales Promo C | nsls | drtynslsproc |
| drtynslsclrc | Ty Net Sales Clr C | nsls | drtynslsclrc |
| drtynslsregu | Ty Net Sales Reg U | nsls | drtynslsregu |
| drtynslsprou | Ty Net Sales Promo U | nsls | drtynslsprou |
| drtynslsclru | Ty Net Sales Clr U | nsls | drtynslsclru |
| drtyrtnregr | Ty Returns Reg R | rtn | drtyrtnregr |
| drtyrtnpror | Ty Returns Promo R | rtn | drtyrtnpror |
| drtyrtnclrr | Ty Returns Clr R | rtn | drtyrtnclrr |
| drtyrtnregc | Ty Returns Reg C | rtn | drtyrtnregc |
| drtyrtnproc | Ty Returns Promo C | rtn | drtyrtnproc |
| drtyrtnclrc | Ty Returns Clr C | rtn | drtyrtnclrc |
| drtyrtnregu | Ty Returns Reg U | rtn | drtyrtnregu |
| drtyrtnprou | Ty Returns Promo U | rtn | drtyrtnprou |
| drtyrtnclru | Ty Returns Clr U | rtn | drtyrtnclru |
| drtyeopc | Ty EOP C | eop | drtyeopc |
| drtyeopr | Ty EOP R | eop | drtyeopr |
| drtyeopu | Ty EOP U | eop | drtyeopu |
| drtyeopb | Ty EOP Affected | eop | drtyeopb |
| drtyslsprcc | Ty Base Unit Price C | slsprc | drtyslsprcc |
| drtyslsprcr | Ty Base Unit Price R | slsprc | drtyslsprcr |
| drtyporcptc | Ty PO Receipts C | rcpt | drtyporcptc |
| drtyporcptr | Ty PO Receipts R | rcpt | drtypocptr |
| drtyporcptu | Ty PO Receipts U | rcpt | drtyporcptu |
| drtytraninu | Ty Transfers In U | tranx | drtytraninu |
| drtytraninc | Ty Transfers In C | tranx | drtytraninc |
| drtytraninr | Ty Transfers In R | tranx | drtytraninr |
| drtytraninbu | Ty Transfers In Book U | tranx | drtytraninbu |
| drtytraninbc | Ty Transfers In Book C | tranx | drtytraninbc |
| drtytraninbr | Ty Transfers In Book R | tranx | drtytraninbr |
| drtytranoutu | Ty Transfers Out U | tranx | drtytranoutu |
| drtytranoutc | Ty Transfers Out C | tranx | drtytranoutc |
| drtytranoutr | Ty Transfers Out R | tranx | drtytranoutr |
| drtytranoutbu | Ty Transfers Out Book U | tranx | drtytranoutbu |
| drtytranoutbc | Ty Transfers Out Book C | tranx | drtytranoutbc |
| drtytranoutbr | Ty Transfers Out Book R | tranx | drtytranoutbr |
| drtytraniniu | Ty Transfers In ICT U | tranx | drtytraniniu |
| drtytraninic | Ty Transfers In ICT C | tranx | drtytraninic |
| drtytraninir | Ty Transfers In ICT R | tranx | drtytraninir |
| drtytranoutiu | Ty Transfers Out ICT U | tranx | drtytranoutiu |
| drtytranoutic | Ty Transfers Out ICT C | tranx | drtytranoutic |
| drtytranoutir | Ty Transfers Out ICT R | tranx | drtytranoutir |
| drtyicmkur | Ty Inter-Company Markup R | tranx | drtyicmkur |
| drtyicmkdr | Ty Inter-Company Markdown R | tranx | drtyicmkdr |
| drtyoou | Ty On Order U | oo | drtyoou |
| drtyoor | Ty On Order R | oo | drtyoor |
| drtyooc | Ty On Order C | oo | drtyooc |
| drtylcratex | Ty Local Currency Rate | curc | drtylcratex |
| addvlocendd | Location Close Dt | stor_metrics | addvlocendd |
| addvlocrefd | Location Refurbish Dt | stor_metrics | addvlocrefd |
| drtypclsst | TY RMS Display Class Id | item_metrics | drtypclsst |
| drtypsclst | TY RMS Display | item_metrics | drtypsclst |
| drdvprdattt | Product Attribute - Item Level | prdatt | drdvprdattt |
| drdvppatvt | RMS Product Attribute Value | patv | drdvppatvt |
| drtyudab | TY RMS UDA | patt | drtyudab |
| drtyaggwb | Ty Aggregate Elapsed Week | aggw | drtyaggwb |
| IECPAsrtSkuB | CP Assorted Item | iecp | IECPAsrtSkuB |
| IECPEventT | CP Event | iecp | IECPEventT |
| IECPSlsRegU | CP Sales Reg U | iecp | IECPSlsRegU |
| IECPSlsRegR | CP Sales Reg R | iecp | IECPSlsRegR |
| IECPSlsProU | CP Sales Promo U | iecp | IECPSlsProU |
| IECPSlsProR | CP Sales Promo R | iecp | IECPSlsProR |
| IECPSlsClrU | CP Sales Clr U | iecp | IECPSlsClrU |
| IECPSlsClrR | CP Sales Clr R | iecp | IECPSlsClrR |
| IECPSlsC | CP Sales C | iecp | IECPSlsC |
| IECPEOPU | CP EOP U | iecp | IECPEOPU |
| IECPEOPC | CP EOP C | iecp | IECPEOPC |
| IECPRcptU | CP Receipts U | iecp | IECPRcptU |
| IECPRcptC | CP Receipts C | iecp | IECPRcptC |
| IECPRtnU | CP Customer Returns U | iecp | IECPRtnU |
| IECPRtnR | CP Customer Returns R | iecp | IECPRtnR |
| IECPRtnC | CP Customer Returns C | iecp | IECPRtnC |
| IECPTrafficU | CP Traffic Count U | iecp | IECPTrafficU |
| IECPTransactU | CP Transaction Count U | iecp | IECPTransactU |
| ISCPAsrtSkuB | CP Assorted Item | iscp | ISCPAsrtSkuB |
| ISCPEventT | CP Event | iscp | ISCPEventT |
| ISCPSlsRegU | CP Sales Reg U | iscp | ISCPSlsRegU |
| ISCPSlsRegR | CP Sales Reg R | iscp | ISCPSlsRegR |
| ISCPSlsProU | CP Sales Promo U | iscp | ISCPSlsProU |
| ISCPSlsProR | CP Sales Promo R | iscp | ISCPSlsProR |
| ISCPSlsClrU | CP Sales Clr U | iscp | ISCPSlsClrU |
| ISCPSlsClrR | CP Sales Clr R | iscp | ISCPSlsClrR |
| ISCPSlsC | CP Sales C | iscp | ISCPSlsC |
| ISCPEOPU | CP EOP U | iscp | ISCPEOPU |
| ISCPEOPC | CP EOP C | iscp | ISCPEOPC |
| ISCPRcptU | CP Receipts U | iscp | ISCPRcptU |
| ISCPRcptC | CP Receipts C | iscp | ISCPRcptC |
| ISCPRtnU | CP Customer Returns U | iscp | ISCPRtnU |
| ISCPRtnR | CP Customer Returns R | iscp | ISCPRtnR |
| ISCPRtnC | CP Customer Returns C | iscp | ISCPRtnC |
| ISCPTrafficU | CP Traffic Count U | iscp | ISCPTrafficU |
| ISCPTransactU | CP Transaction Count U | iscp | ISCPTransactU |
| APCPBuyQtyU | AP Buy Quantity U | apcp | APCPBuyQtyU |
| DSCPAsrtCoreB | AP Assorted Item | apcp | DSCPAsrtCoreB |
| S1DBCoreB | AP Mandatory | apcp | S1DBCoreB |
| appwkfrcst | Approved Forecast | fcst | appwkfrcst |
| MPCPEOPC | Cp EOP C | mfp_cp | MLCPEOPC |
| MPCPEOPR | Cp EOP R | mfp_cp | MLCPEOPR |
| MPCPEOPU | Cp EOP U | mfp_cp | MLCPEOPU |
| MPCPRcptC | Cp Receipts C | mfp_cp | MLCPRcptC |
| MPCPRcptR | Cp Receipts R | mfp_cp | MLCPRcptR |
| MPCPRcptU | Cp Receipts U | mfp_cp | MLCPRcptU |
| MPCPRtn1R | Cp Returns Reg+Promo R | mfp_cp | MLCPRtn1R |
| MPCPRtn2R | Cp Returns Clr R | mfp_cp | MLCPRtn2R |
| MPCPRtn1U | Cp Returns Reg+Promo U | mfp_cp | MLCPRtn1U |
| MPCPRtn2U | Cp Returns Clr U | mfp_cp | MLCPRtn2U |
| MPCPSlsC | Cp Sales C | mfp_cp | MLCPSlsC |
| MPCPSls1R | Cp Sales Reg+Promo R | mfp_cp | MLCPSls1R |
| MPCPSls1U | Cp Sales Reg+Promo U | mfp_cp | MLCPSls1U |
| MPCPSls2R | Cp Sales Clr R | mfp_cp | MLCPSls2R |
| MPCPSls2U | Cp Sales Clr U | mfp_cp | MLCPSls2U |
| MPWPOOAdjC | Wp On Order Adj C | mfp_wp | MLWPOOAdjC |
| MPWPOOAdjU | Wp On Order Adj U | mfp_wp | MLWPOOAdjU |
| MPWPOTBC | Wp OTB C | mfp_wp | MLWPOTBC |
| MPWPOTBU | Wp OTB U | mfp_wp | MLWPOTBU |
| lpapslsu | LP AP Sales U | lp_ap | lplaslsu |
| lpapslsr | LP AP Sales R | lp_ap | lplaslsr |
| lpapslsc | LP AP Sales C | lp_ap | lplaslsc |
| lpaprcptu | LP AP Receipts U | lp_ap | lplarcptu |
| lpaprcptr | LP AP Receipts R | lp_ap | lplarcptr |
| lpaprcptc | LP AP Receipts C | lp_ap | lplarcptc |
| lpapeopu | LP AP EOP U | lp_ap | lplaeopu |
| lpapeopr | LP AP EOP R | lp_ap | lplaeopr |
| lpapeopc | LP AP EOP C | lp_ap | lplaeopc |
| lpaprtnu | LP AP Returns U | lp_ap | lplartnu |
| lpaprtnr | LP AP Returns R | lp_ap | lplartnr |
| addvchwhmapt | Warehouse - Channel Mapping | whmap | addvchwhmapt |
| drtywfslsu | Ty W/F Sales U | wfsls | drtywfslsu |
| drtywfslsc | Ty W/F Sales C | wfsls | drtywfslsc |
| drtywfslsr | Ty W/F Sales R | wfsls | drtywfslsr |
| drtywfrtnu | Ty W/F Returns U | wfsls | drtywfrtnu |
| drtywfrtnc | Ty W/F Returns C | wfsls | drtywfrtnc |
| drtywfrtnr | Ty W/F Returns R | wfsls | drtywfrtnr |
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Note: If the customer implementation is using RMF CS flat files for integration and not using BDI but would like to also use PDS, it is only partially supported. The customer has to customize the batch transform process to transform the RMS files to fact files with fact names as headers to load into PDS. |
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Note: Currently, the BDI-PDS existing integration allows limited extensibility. For allowed changes to the PDS Integration Configuration, see Appendix E, "Appendix: Extensibility". Only existing measures present in the GA Integration Configuration for PDS can now be integrated with BDI. Any added hierarchies or facts to the Integration Configuration will not be readily integrated using BDI. The customer can only load those components into PDS using the standard file-based integration allowed for PDS. |
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Note: Enterprise Edition (EE) customers and non-EE customers can use PDS to create shared hierarchies and share measures across multiple applications, but they can also use the BDI process only if the hierarchy and measures conform to the GA Integration Configuration. They can use the GA Integration Configuration as the base and can only add custom changes on top of it, without changing any GA components. The PDS build or patch process will merge GA component changes and validate for removal of any GA components in the customer uploaded Integration Configuration.For details about creating and editing an Integration Configuration, see the Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server Cloud Edition Configuration Tools User Guide. For details about building and patching an Integration Configuration for creating PDS, see the Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server Cloud Edition Administration Guide. |
If BDI implementation with RMF CS is used for implementation, the following steps need to be done in this order. The steps assume that RPAS, RASL, UI, and BDI are already installed:
Once the A&IP Cloud Service environment is provisioned, use the bootstrap build A&IP domain using the initial set of customer hierarchy data. For Shared Hierarchies which are expected to come from BDI/PDS, load only with the valid positions which are in BDI. It is not necessary to have all records, but at least one valid position in each of the shared hierarchy files is needed.
Build PDS using the default integration configuration, without uploading any data and without using any overwrite option of PDS data. After PDS is built, it will also register the domain against that PDS.
Integrate with BDI and load PDS by running the BDI Process Flows. That should load the PDS schemas with data from BDI for both shared dimensions and shared measure (fact) data.
Upload the hierarchy files for non-shared hierarchies and run the Load Hierarchies OAT task under Configured Batch Tasks. It will synch up the shared hierarchies with PDS and load the non-shared hierarchies from the uploaded files.
Set the Batch Uses BDI and Enable RMF CS Boolean measures in the Admin workbooks.
Set up the necessary Admin data or load the admin data files.
Run the weekly batch to process all loaded actuals (from PDS for shared data).
