Overview of Implementing Product Management

To start an implementation of Product Management, the implementation consultant must opt into the offerings applicable to your business requirements.

Refer to the Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Using Functional Setup Manager guide to manage the opt-in and setup of your offerings.

Product Management Cloud Offering

Configure how you create and manage items, catalogs and related processes, as well as the structures in a product lifecycle.

Use this offering to configure services that support the following work areas:

• Ideas

• Concepts

• Product Development

• Product Information Management

Note: Before you begin to set up Product Management, you must perform implementation tasks that are common to Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM offerings.

In the Setup and Maintenance work area, tasks are grouped within functional areas. Each functional area has a list of setup tasks. Complete the setup tasks for the functional areas that are applicable to the services you have subscribed to. These tasks are described in more detail in subsequent chapters. This table lists the offering and the associated functional areas.

For the full list of functional areas and features in this offering, use the Associated Features report that you review when you plan the implementation of your offering.

Functional Area	Description
Product Requirements and Ideation Management	Enables your organization to set up processes that can manage new ideas and requirements for a product.
Concept Design Management	Enables your organization to set up processes that can manage conceptual design of a product.
Product Development	Enables your organization to set up processes for product development.
Product Management Business Intelligence Analytics (if your users require BI Reports for Product Development)	Enables your organization to set up processes for using business intelligence analytics for product management.
Item Organizations	Enables your organization to set up and manage item organizations.
Items	Enables your organization to set up and manage items.
Catalogs	Enables your organization to set up and manage catalogs.
Structures	Enables your organization to set up and manage item structures.
Item Mass Update	Enables your organization to set up processes for mass update of items.
Advanced Catalogs	Enables your organization to set up processes for managing catalog mappings.
New Item Requests	Enables your organization to set up processes for managing new item request type and managing task configurations for BPM Worklist.
Change Orders	Enables your organization to set up processes for managing change orders types.
Product Rules	Enables your organization to set up processes for creating and managing item rule sets.
Audit Trails	Enables your organization to set up processes for managing audit policies.
Product Spoke System	Enables your organization to set up processes for managing source systems, trading community source systems, lookups, and descriptive flexfields.
Item Batches	Enables your organization to set up processes for managing item classes.
Data Pool Integration	Enables your organization to set up processes for managing review codes, rejections codes, correction codes, and synchronize item data.
Suppliers for Product Management	Enables your organization to create suppliers in Procurement, and manage supplier type lookups.
Supplier Portal	Enables your organization to manage suppliers' portal.