1 Overview

The integration of the Merchandising applications and the Xstore Suite consists of two major data flows:

Foundation and price data from Oracle Retail Merchandising Foundation Cloud Service (RMFCS) and Oracle Retail Pricing Cloud Service (RPCS) to Oracle Retail Suite flow into the Omnichannel Data Service (OCDS).

OCDS is a component of the Oracle Retail Integration Cloud Service (RICS).

Xstore Office communicates directly with OCDS to request data-changes reported to OCDS by RMFCS and RPCS. When changes to merchandising and pricing data are detected, Xstore .mnt files are automatically generated and distributed for data loading into Xcenter and Xstore databases.
Point of Service transactions from Oracle Retail Xstore Point of Service to Oracle Retail Sales Audit (ReSA).

In combination, these data flows represent the round trip of data between the stores and headquarters. New items, other foundation data, and prices from headquarters are communicated to Xstore. Sales and returns from Xstore are communicated to Merchandising, where these transactions impact inventory. Merchandising further integrates summarized sales and inventory information from Xstore to other Oracle Retail applications, such as Planning and Analytics.

The details of the integration are covered in the remaining sections of this guide:

Chapter 2, "Data Flow from Merchandising to Xstore using Ominchannel Data Service (OCDS)": This chapter describes the flow of data from the Merchandising applications to Omnichannel Data Service to the Xstore Suite.
Chapter 3, "Transaction Flow from Xstore to ReSA": This chapter describes the flow of transactions from Xstore Point of Service to ReSA.
Chapter 4, "OCDS Integration Configuration": This chapter provides information on the configuration changes that can be made for the integration.
Chapter 5, "Integration Considerations": This chapter covers functional and technical points about the integration that need to be taken into consideration when implementing the integration.
Chapter 6, "RTLog Generator On-Premises": This chapter covers how to install, deploy, and configure the RTLog Generator application.
Chapter 7, "RTLog Generator Cloud": This chapter covers the RTLog Generator Cloud.
Appendix A, "Appendix: POSLog to RTLog Mapping Details": This appendix provides tables that describe the mappings.