13 Control & Tactical Center

Using the Control & Tactical Center, a user can access Strategy & Policy Management. This is the central place for managing the configurations of different applications and for setting up and configuring the demand forecasting runs.

In addition, the user can access the modules for managing product attributes (Attribute Extraction and Attribute Binning) as well as the link for managing web service-related credentials under the Control & Tactical Center.

Depending on the role, the user will see one or multiple of the following links, as shown in Figure 13-1. The administrator user will have access to all of the following.

Strategy and Policy Management
Manage Credential Stores
Attribute Extraction
Attribute Binning

Figure 13-1 Control and Tactical Center

Description of ''Figure 13-1 Control and Tactical Center''

Strategy & Policy Management

In Strategy & Policy Management, a user can edit the configurations of different applications via the Manage System Configurations functionality. In this screen, the tables can be filtered by applications.

To edit a row in any table, click the row and click the Edit icon. You can override the values for the columns that are editable.

Use the Manage Forecast Configurations to set up, manage, and configure the demand forecasting runs for different applications such as Offer Optimization (OO), Inventory Optimization (OO), Retail Demand Forecasting (RDF), and Merchandise Financial Planning (MFP).

Figure 13-2 Strategy & Policy Management Dashboard

Description of ''Figure 13-2 Strategy & Policy Management Dashboard''

Figure 13-3 Manage System Configurations

Description of ''Figure 13-3 Manage System Configurations''

Manage Credential Stores

Oracle Customer Engagement web service-related credentials are managed in the credential stores using the interface shown in Figure 13-4. The administrator can use this screen to configure the name and password. This information is used to generate the authentication key that is sent as part of the message to Oracle Customer Engagement.

Figure 13-4 Manage Credential Stores

Description of ''Figure 13-4 Manage Credential Stores''

The Credential Stores dialog box requires the following information:

Label - describes the credential store map and key
Username - user name provided by Oracle Customer Engagement
Password - password provided by Oracle Customer Engagement
Confirm Password - prompt to confirm user password
Description - used by the administrator to describe the credential store used for Customer Segment integration with Oracle Customer Engagement.

Attribute Extraction and Attribute Binning

For details about the screens of Attribute Extraction, refer to Chapter 6, "Attribute Extraction."