Oracle Retail Data Extractor for Merchandising

Release Notes

Release 16.0

E81282-01

December 2016

This document highlights the major changes for Release 16.0 of Oracle Retail Data Extractor for Merchandising.

Overview

Oracle Retail Data Extractor for Merchandising (ORDE) is packaged within the Oracle Retail Integration Bus (RIB) product suite. It provides packaged data extraction capabilities for sourcing data from the Oracle Retail Merchandising System (RMS) into a flat file format that facilitates loading into the Oracle Retail Merchandising Insights Cloud Service application or the Oracle Retail Merchandising Insights on-premise analytic application.

The Oracle Retail Data Extractor for Merchandising provides the functionality to integrate with RMS and extract data in ORDE staging tables and then unload the data into the respective flat files for Oracle Retail Insights consumption.

The primary characteristics of the Oracle Retail Data Extractor for Merchandising are:

Source Integration Solution: The Retail Data Extractor provides data integration with source applications such as RMS and Retail Price Management (RPM).
Performant ETL Code: The Retail Data Extractor data processing tool, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), offers high performance for the database batch processes on an Oracle database.
Extensibility: The Retail Data Extractor ETL code can be customized and extended for client-specific needs.

Hardware and Software Requirements

See the Oracle Retail Data Extractor for Merchandising Installation Guide for information about the following:

Hardware and software requirements
Oracle Retail application software compatibility

Functional Enhancements

The functional enhancements below are included in this release.

Purchase Order and Allocation data integration

Purchase order data and the associated allocations are now extracted from the Retail Merchandising System. Buyer information, Purchase order attributes, and Purchase order revisions to support history are extracted. Allocations with allocated quantity information against the given purchase orders are also extracted.

Coupon, Gift Card Data and Tender Information for Sales Transactions

Gift cards are prepaid, stored-value money cards issued by retailers to be used instead of money for purchases. Gift Card Issue and Redemptions are extracted from the RDWT and RDWF files from Oracle Retail Sales Audit (ReSA).
A coupon is a voucher entitling the holder to a discount for a particular product. Coupon attributes are extracted from the merchandising system and the discount coupon transaction data is extracted from the RDWT file from Retail Sales Audit (ReSA).
Transaction Tender typically contains data on how customers pay for their purchases. A tender can be associated with cash, check, credit cards, gift cards, and coupons. Transaction Tender data is extracted from the RDWF files from Oracle Retail Sales Audit (ReSA).

Competitor Pricing

The competitor entity holds information about each competitor store and associates it with a location in the organization. Competitor pricing details can be associated with a specific competitor location and mapped to an item in the product hierarchy.
Competitor, Competitor Store link, Competitor Shop list and the Competitor price are extracted from the Oracle Retail Merchandising System (RMS).

Inventory Receipts

In previous releases, only PO receipts (tran code = 20) were extracted as inventory receipts by RDE. In Release 16.0, inventory received via Transfers and Allocations (tran code = 44) were also added to inventory receipt extraction in order to calculate inventory aging.

Globalization Changes in Response to RMS 16.0 Integration

Translation in RMS 16.0 underwent technical changes where the TL_SHADOWS table has been replaced with other _TL tables. The mapping of RI for translations has been changed in response to continue support of translation.

Technical Enhancements

The technical enhancements described below are included in this release.

ODI

The system has been enhanced. Previously, it used Oracle Data Integrator 11g (11.1.1.9) and now it uses Oracle Data Integrator 12C (12.2.1).

Oracle Fusion Middleware

The system has been enhanced to now support Oracle Fusion Middleware 12C Release (12.2.1). In previous versions, it supported Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.9).
The system has been enhanced. Previously, it used Oracle WebLogic Server 11g and now it uses Oracle WebLogic Server 12C.

Supplemental Training

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

https://support.oracle.com

Transfer of Information (TOI) Material (ID 732026.1)

For applicable products, online training is available to Oracle supported customers. 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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Oracle Retail Data Extractor for Merchandising Release Notes, Release 16.0

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Value-Added Reseller (VAR) Language

Oracle Retail VAR Applications

The following restrictions and provisions only apply to the programs referred to in this section and licensed to you. You acknowledge that the programs may contain third party software (VAR applications) licensed to Oracle. Depending upon your product and its version number, the VAR applications may include:

(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.

You acknowledge and confirm that Oracle grants you use of only the object code of the VAR Applications. Oracle will not deliver source code to the VAR Applications to you. Notwithstanding any other term or condition of the agreement and this ordering document, you shall not cause or permit alteration of any VAR Applications. For purposes of this section, "alteration" refers to all alterations, translations, upgrades, enhancements, customizations or modifications of all or any portion of the VAR Applications including all reconfigurations, reassembly or reverse assembly, re-engineering or reverse engineering and recompilations or reverse compilations of the VAR Applications or any derivatives of the VAR Applications. You acknowledge that it shall be a breach of the agreement to utilize the relationship, and/or confidential information of the VAR Applications for purposes of competitive discovery.

The VAR Applications contain trade secrets of Oracle and Oracle's licensors and Customer shall not attempt, cause, or permit the alteration, decompilation, reverse engineering, disassembly or other reduction of the VAR Applications to a human perceivable form. Oracle reserves the right to replace, with functional equivalent software, any of the VAR Applications in future releases of the applicable program.