Oracle® Retail Sales Audit

Release Notes

Release16.0

 

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This document highlights the major changes for Release 16.0 of the Oracle Retail Sales Audit.

Overview

Oracle Retail Sales Audit (ReSA) provides the tools to evaluate point-of-sale data to ensure the accuracy and completeness of information exported to downstream systems used in optimization processes, financial reporting, and analysis.

Hardware and Software Requirements

See the Oracle Retail Sales Audit Installation Guide for information about the following:

n        Hardware and software requirements

n        Oracle Retail application software compatibility

Functional Enhancements

The functional enhancements below are included in this release.

Exception-based Retailing

Beginning with version 14.1 ReSA began offering a set of dashboard and in-context operational reports defined for the Auditor user. These reports were built in the OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition) technology which required a separate license. With version 16, these reports have been rebuilt in ADF DVT (Application Development Framework Data Visualization Tools) and are included as part of the application license. Retailers can also use the framework provided to build reports in their preferred technology - or even link to other sources, such as a news or social media feed.

Mass Audit Error Resolution

ReSA automatically identifies sales and returns transaction conditions and errors to ensure that retailers can make necessary corrections before final financial recording and passing on to other systems. Working with large sales volumes, a retailer may find multiple occurrences of the same error, such as a data issue related to an improper promotion ID. With Release 16.0, users in ReSA now have the ability to resolve multiple instances of the same error across an entire store day, or even across stores for a day, in a single action allowing users to focus more of their time on unique and critical issues.

Updated Data Loading Capabilities

ReSA v15.0.x had the ability to manage certain RMS-related data entities from the Manage Admin Data capability. In v16.0 these RMS data entities have been split out from ReSA into their own RMS screen. The ReSA screen is now used for managing ReSA administrative data only.

Technical Enhancements

The technical enhancements described below are included in this release.

n        Online Help - ReSA now reference cloud-based online help, which allows retailers to ensure they are referencing the most up to date User Guide content via the Online Help.

n        Introduction of short error descriptions, used by the Error Summary report in the ReSA dashboard.

Known Issues

The known issues described below are included in this release.

Known Issue/Defect	Defect Number
When a page is opened with the contextual area collapsed and then the user later opens the contextual area, the contextual reports will be empty until the user takes some action that would cause the contextual reports to refresh.	24665477, 4668691, 25114546, 25119585
All ReSA users have access to ReSA Dashboard as no dashboard specific security privilege has been defined.	25135978

 

Related Documentation

For more information, see the following documents:

n        Oracle Retail Sales Audit Installation Guide

n        Oracle Retail Operational Insights User Guide

n        Oracle Retail Merchandising Batch Schedule

n        Oracle Retail Merchandising Implementation Guide

n        Oracle Retail Trade Management documentation set

n        Oracle Retail Merchandising System documentation set

Supplemental Documentation on My Oracle Support

The following documents are available through My Oracle Support. Access My Oracle Support at the following URL:

https://support.oracle.com

Oracle Retail Merchandising Operations Management Upgrade Guide 16.0 (Doc ID 2184520.1)

This guide describes the approach that each Oracle Retail Merchandising Operations Management application takes for the upgrading process, as well as its upgrade assumptions and considerations. Actual procedures for the upgrade may be included in the application's Installation Guide.

Oracle Retail Merchandising Mock Installation Test Cases 16.0 (Doc ID 2184521.1)

The tests in this document have been created to assist in verifying (smoke testing) that the installation of the following products was successful: RMS, ReSA, RTM, Oracle Retail Allocation, ReIM, and RPM. These tests are not intended to verify all functionality in the suite of products previously listed.

Oracle Retail Merchandising Fusion Applications Customization Guide, Release 16.0 (Doc ID 2018356.1)

This guide helps retailers make modifications to the Merchandising products that use the Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF).

This document covers the recommended approaches for extending and customizing the following Merchandising products:

n        Oracle Retail Allocation

n        Oracle Retail Sales Audit (ReSA)

n        Oracle Retail Invoice Matching

n        Oracle Retail Merchandising System

Information is included to help retailers with the following:

n        Understand the available types of customization and extension and determine when each should be used

n        Learn how to best implement custom components

n        Determine how to effectively leverage seeded customization

n        Identify the areas that are not recommended for customization

Supplemental Training on My Oracle Support

The following document is available on the My Oracle Support Web site. Access My Oracle Support at the following URL:

https://support.oracle.com

Transfer of Information (TOI) Material (ID 732026.1)

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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Access to Oracle Support

Oracle customers that have purchased support have access to electronic support through My Oracle Support. For information, visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=info or visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=trs if you are hearing impaired.

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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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