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Release Notes
Release 14.1
E58932-01
December 2014
This document highlights the major changes for Release 14.1 of Oracle Retail Invoice Matching.
Oracle Retail Invoice Matching (ReIM) supports the verification of merchandise invoice costs and quantities prior to payment. ReIM receives invoice data through Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), or from invoices manually entered through a group or single invoice entry facility.
Invoice records are verified against associated receipts in an automated matching process. If invoices are matched to receipts within tolerance at a summary level, they are evaluated for best payment terms and posted to a staging table. The staging table is interfaced with the retailer's accounts payable system, where payments are processed and corresponding accounting entries are posted.
If invoices and receipts are not matched at the summary level after a specified period of time, the auto-matching process attempts to match at a line level within tolerance. If matches are not identified at the line level, the process calculates a cost or quantity discrepancy. The discrepancy is routed to defined user groups for resolution.
Discrepancies are resolved by applying reason codes based on a set of defined actions (for example, charge-back supplier) that determine disposition of the discrepancies. Discrepancies are routed out of the auto-match process. You can then begin manual identification of summary and detail level matches. The retailer can resolve line level discrepancies.
See the Oracle Retail Invoice Matching Installation Guide, Release 14.1 for information about the following:
Hardware and software requirements
Oracle Retail application software compatibility
The functional enhancements described below are included in this release of ReIM.
Various changes were made to ReIM to improve upon the support of global taxation, or Value Added Tax (VAT) functionality. The changes can be divided into the follow sub-functions:
Posting for Variance Calculation Tolerance (VCT) – allows variances within tolerance for tax to be posted to a different financial account than those variances resulting from merchandise or non-merchandise variances
Tax Posting at VAT Code Level – the ability to post tax values to different General Ledger accounts based on tax code.
Posting Line Groups – enables the financial system in determining which VAT rate(s) and basis are associated to which invoice line items by assigning a group number to invoice line items and corresponding tax lines.
Acquisition VAT – support for self-assessed tax that is associated with purchases from foreign vendors within the European Union.
Reverse Charge VAT – support for specific items wherein under specific conditions, the seller will not include VAT on their invoice, but the purchaser will be liable to pay VAT directly to the tax authority.
For more information, see the Oracle Retail Invoice Matching Operations Guide.
The Oracle Retail Invoice Matching application previously had a batch called the EDI Upload Batch which was the main mechanism for integrating large volumes of EDI data from vendor and/or RMS into ReIM. The new EDI Injector Batch is a replacement for the EDI Upload Batch.
Since the EDI Injector Batch is a replacement for the EDI Upload Batch, it maintains the same functionality. There were some changes to address gaps in the functionality such as the ability to reject documents to file after being re-validated through EDI Maintenance and the ability to inject multiple files in a single batch run. The end result was to fix outstanding technical issues with the previous batch, but keep the intended functionality the same.
For more information, see the Oracle Retail Invoice Matching Operations Guide.
The logout button is now accessible from any page. It still functions the same as it always has, explicitly logging a user out of the application and invalidating their session. Users no longer need to return to the home page to explicitly logout of the application.
For more information, see the Oracle Retail Invoice Matching User Guide.
A new ad hoc batch, User Maintenance Batch, was added to prevent business role inheritance in the application. Previously, if a user was removed from the LDAP, their business role and hence their application privileges were not deleted and still mapped to their username. If a new user was created in the LDAP with the same username then they would have all the privileges of the previous user. The new User Maintenance Batch attempts to circumvent this problem by automating the removal of role mappings for users which no longer exist in the LDAP.
For more information, see the Oracle Retail Invoice Matching Operations Guide.
This section addresses the technical enhancements included in Oracle Retail Invoice Matching Release 14.1.
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Oracle Retail Invoice Matching Release 14.1 is supported for use with the following database server:
Oracle Database Enterprise Edition 12cR1 (12.1.0.1.4)
For more information, see the following documents:
Oracle Retail Invoice Matching Installation Guide
Oracle Retail Invoice Matching User Guide
Oracle Retail Invoice Matching Operations Guide
Oracle Retail Invoice Matching Data Model
Merchandising Security Guide
Merchandising Implementation Guide
Merchandising Batch Schedule
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.
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