Oracle® Retail Merchandising Foundation Cloud Service
Release Notes
Release 16.0.22
E17869-01
July 2017
This document highlights the major changes for Release 16.0.22 of Oracle Retail Foundation Cloud Service.
Overview
Retailers leverage Oracle Retail Merchandising Foundation Cloud Service (RMFCS) functionality to execute core merchandising activities, including merchandise management, inventory replenishment, purchasing, import processes, sales auditing, and financial tracking. Its Trade Management module is used to manage the import process, including automating the steps necessary to import goods, managing file exchanges with trading partners, and providing a central database of critical import order information.
Merchandising Foundation Cloud Service also includes Sales Audit and Pricing modules. The Sales Audit module evaluates sales transaction from all channels, identifying any missing, duplicate, or erroneous data and highlighting any suspicious transactions, to ensure errors are resolved so that downstream systems operate off the same cleansed sales information. The Pricing module provides the ability to define, maintain, and review price changes and clearances, as well as provides the ability to pass approved price events onto downstream selling systems for execution.
Oracle Retail Cloud Services and Business Agility
Oracle Retail Foundation Cloud Service is hosted in the Oracle 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:
Operating Systems
n Microsoft Windows 7
n Microsoft Windows 10
Browser Support
n Mozilla Firefox ESR 52
n Microsoft Internet Explorer 11
n Google Chrome (Desktop) 55+
Functional Enhancement
The functional enhancement below is included in this release.
Clearance Reset
Support for resetting a clearance price back to a regular price is being introduced in this release of Merchandising Foundation Cloud Service. This enhancement allows seasonal merchandise that is carried year over year to be reset to a new regular price, to prepare it for the next season’s selling, once the current season’s inventory has been cleared from inventory.
Integration Enhancement
The integration enhancement below is included in this release.
Oracle GoldenGate Support
Oracle GoldenGate, which is a comprehensive software package for real-time data integration and replication in heterogeneous IT environments, has been added as part of the Oracle Retail Foundation Cloud Service in this release. This capability allows retailers to replicate data in key RMFCS tables to a data access schema (DAS) in a hosted or on-premises environment, in order to support integration with third-party applications, RMFCS extensions, and operational reporting.
See also the Oracle Retail Data Access Schema GoldenGate Target Installation and Configuration White Paper for more details on installing and configuring the target environment.
Supplemental Documentation on My Oracle Support
The following documents are available through My Oracle Support. Access My Oracle
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https://support.oracle.com
Oracle Retail Data Access Schema GoldenGate Target Installation and Configuration (Document ID 2283998.1)
This white paper describes the steps you can take to install and configure Oracle GoldenGate on the target environments to replicate data in key RMFCS tables to a data access schema (DAS) in hosted or on-premises environments to support integration with third party applications.
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Oracle Retail Merchandising Foundation Cloud Service Release Notes, Release 16.0.22
E17869-01
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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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