How You Manage VMI Analysts
As an Oracle Supply Chain Collaboration user, you work with external suppliers and require profiles with security settings that aren't generally available in other Oracle Fusion applications. You can create and manage a vendor-managed inventory (VMI) analyst and associate the VMI analyst with appropriate access to replenishment data for a specific VMI relationship by setting the enterprise data security by organization and supplier context.
Supply Chain Collaboration supports two modes of data security:
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Exclusive data access: Users have access only to the data explicitly granted to them. The exclusive access mode is restrictive. You use the exclusive access mode if all the relationships are confidential and you need to explicitly grant access to users. It is the default access behavior for VMI.
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Inclusive data access: Users have access to all data explicitly granted to them and the data that doesn't have at least one other user assigned. You use the inclusive access mode if most of the relationships are accessible to users and only a few relationships are confidential.
For more information on data access, see the Implementing Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management guide.
On the Manage VMI Analysts page, you can perform the following actions:
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Search for VMI analysts
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Create new VMI analysts
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Modify VMI analysts
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Delete VMI analysts
You can view this page only when vendor-managed inventory data access is enabled. For more information on enabling vendor-managed inventory data access, see the Implementing Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management guide.