Setup Tasks to Define Items

Before you can define items in Oracle Product Hub, you must complete several tasks in the Setup and Maintenance work area.

Task	Description
Manage Item Profile Options	Profile options manage configuration data centrally and influence the behavior of applications.
Manage Advanced Item Profile Options	This task is used by Product Hub. If you don't install Product Hub, you don't need to define these options.
Define Units of Measure	Units of Measure must be created before you can create or import items.
Manage Lifecycle Phases	Item Lifecycle Phases are used as an indicator of the stage for an item within the lifecycle process. Each phase represents a set of tasks and deliverables that are required before promoting an item to the next phase.
Manage Product and Child Value Sets	In Product Hub, value sets are primarily used to define attributes that have a specific set of values. Each value set is associated with one or more attributes in the same attribute group or in a different attribute group.
Manage Attachment Categories for Product Management	Used to create attachment categories and associate them with item classes.
Manage Operational Attribute Groups	Operational attributes determine the behavior of the item with respect to various applications outside of Product Hub, such as Oracle Fusion Cloud Purchasing or Oracle Fusion Cloud Inventory Management.
Manage Item Attribute Groups and Attributes	Used to determine how the attributes appear in the user interface, as well as how they're used in the application.
Manage Item Classes	Item classes are created at the root item class or within a parent item class, and inherit values based on selections made when defining the item class. For Product Hub customers, the Manage Item Classes task is used to create and manage item classes, user defined attributes and data security.
Manage Item Class Descriptive Flexfields	Descriptive flexfields appear in the user interface as additional information and can also appear in search results tables.
Deploy Item Flexfields	After you associate attribute groups and pages with an item class, you must deploy flexfields to view the pages or attribute groups at runtime. The metadata that was created for the attribute group isn't synchronized with the production data in Product Hub until the flexfield is deployed.
Manage Item Statuses	Item statuses are used to define the state an item is in and based on the state, the default values for item operational attributes.
Manage Item Types	Item types are date effective and are made active or inactive by adjusting the start and end dates.
Manage Cross Reference Types	Cross-References provide the functionality to map additional information about an item in the form of a value and cross-reference type. For example, the cross-reference can map a relationship between an item and an old part number.
Manage Item Descriptive Flexfields	Used to define descriptive flexfields that are specific to items.
Download Import Template	Each template includes table-specific instructions, guidelines, formatted spreadsheets, and best practices for preparing the data file for upload.
Upload Item Data	After you have created the CSV file, the next step in the Import process will upload the CSV Zip file to the designated location within Oracle WebCenter Content.
Load Interface File through Scheduled Process	Once the CSV file is uploaded to Oracle WebCenter Content , you use the Load Interface File for Import scheduled process to move the data from Oracle WebCenter Content folder to the interface tables.
Import Items	The Item Import task creates an Enterprise Scheduled Service (ESS) process that takes the data that's loaded in the interface tables and uses the import process to move the data to the production tables.
Monitor Item Imports	Use this task to monitor the ESS process status in the search results table
Manage Related Item Subtypes	A related item is an item relationship between two existing items. How the two items are related is defined by a subtype.
Manage Item Revision Descriptive Flexfields	Use descriptive flexfields associated at Item Revision level to capture item revision information whose values may differ between revisions of the same item.
Manage Item Relationship Descriptive Flexfields	Item types are date effective and are made active or inactive by adjusting the Start Date and End Date.
Manage Trading Partner Item Descriptive Flexfields	When defining descriptive flexfields associated with trading partner items, you must use certain prefixes when naming the context segments, in order for the segments to be displayed for the respective trading partner type.
Define Item-Specific UOM Conversions	After you define units of measure, define the conversions used for items.