1. Implementing Product Management
  2. Product Spoke Systems

Product Spoke Systems

Spoke systems (also called source systems) enable users to identify the source of data imported into or published from the Oracle Fusion Cloud application.

Spoke System Setup

To setup the spoke system:

  1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, navigate to the following:

    • Offering: Product Management
    • Functional Area: Product Spoke Systems
    • Task: Manage Trading Community Source Systems
  2. From the Actions menu, click Create.

    The Create Source System page appears.

  3. Enter the following information:
    • Code: Code number for the spoke system.
    • Name: Name of the spoke system.
    • Type: Spoke
    • Description: Brief description about the spoke system.
  4. Select the following options:
    • Enable for Items
    • Enable for Trading Community Members
    You can enable it for other entity types also depending on your business requirements.
  5. Click Save and Close.

    The spoke system is created.

After setting up the spoke system, you must define additional information. To do this, in the Setup and Maintenance work area, go to the Manage Spoke Systems task in the Product Management offering.

A spoke system is identified by a unique code and name. The types of entities that are supported are:

  • Items
  • Trading Community Members
  • Order Orchestration and Planning
  • Assets

The spoke system used by Product Hub must have the Items entity enabled.

Note: In the Product Information Management work area, Product Hub is represented as a spoke system with the name Product Information Management Data Hub.

Import Options

If the spoke system is used to import items into Product Hub, you can define options such as a schedule, a default organization, and whether to process per item or per bundle.

You can also define additional options such if the application should check data quality on upload, pack update options, new item request options, item structure name and update options, and change order options. For information about the displayed options, see:

Publish Options

If the spoke system is used to publish items from Product Hub, in addition to general publication options, you can define item class, trading partner item and catalog publication criteria.

Item Publication Criteria:

  • Revisions: controls what revisions will be published for the items; choices are: Current Revision or Current and Future Revisions.

  • Days in the Future: number of days in future that will be used to determine what future revisions will be published.

  • Item Entities: select the child entities of the items that will be published for the items, by default only the item attributes will be published. The entities that are published:

    • Attributes

    • Attachment URL

    • Supplier Site Associations

    • Item Category Assignments

    • Item Relationships

    • Structures

    • Packs

    • Item Revisions

Item Select Rules: one or more rules that are based on business entities that include:

  • Item Class Business Entity Rule: equal/does not equal to an Item Class with option to select to include the child item classes for the item class in the rule

  • Catalog Business Entity Rule: equal/does not equal to an Item Class with option to select to include the child item classes for the item class in the rule

  • Organization Business Entity Rule: equal/does not equal to an Organization

  • Organization Hierarchy Business Entity Rule: equal/does not equal Organization hierarchy and sub-organization within the hierarchy

Item Validation Rules: a validation rule set that will be used to determine which items are published. The rule set may contain one or more rules and is defined using the Manage Item Rule Sets task.

  • Example: A validation that rule that would publish only the items with an active status: If Expression: INVENTORY_ITEM_STATUS_CODE == 'Active'

  • Item Validation Rules are evaluated prior to publishing.

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