Overview of the Integration
Oracle ERP Product Hub is the central repository of items. Items are created and managed in this module. Item data quality, data management and data governance are managed and maintained in this module. This is the source of items for the Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Cloud Service module.
Items are uploaded in Oracle ERP Product Hub using two methods - Bulk Upload using FDBI templates and manually creating/updating the items in the Oracle ERP Product Hub module. When the items are created/updated using Bulk Upload, the items that belong to Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Cloud Service should be simultaneously interfaced with Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Cloud Service. When items are manually created/updated in Oracle ERP Product Hub, the items that meet Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Cloud Service items criteria are interfaced with Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Cloud Service.
This section focuses on the following:
Oracle ERP Product Hub Portal
Product Information Management (PIM) is a central repository of all items in Oracle Cloud Fusion. PIM helps the end users to analyze and make a decision for critical business requirements. It is foundational for an end-to-end supply chain and provides a business process framework around the company's master data.
It centralizes product data across heterogeneous systems so that it can create a blended product master record that is clean, standardized, accurate, and current. From products that are manufactured internally to finished goods that are sourced from suppliers, Oracle ERP Product Hub enables to aggregate, enrich, and share product data for various manufacturing and omnichannel commerce processes.
Use robust business rules and workflows to make sure the data shared across the Enterprise is clean, complete, and valid. Rapidly commercialize the products that use centralized product information for manufacturing, marketing, and sales across global manufacturing sites, sales channels, and trading partners.
Oracle ERP Product Hub Features
Following are the Oracle ERP Product Hub features:
• Managing Imports: Manages the import of items and related entities using industry-standard open interface tables, allowing you to import the data quickly into the production schema as well as enabling migration of data from the existing applications.
• Defining Items: Defines and manages base reference data and profile options related to items, such as cross-reference types, item relationship types, related value sets, item templates, item types, and item statuses.
• Defining Catalogs
• Defines and manages catalogs to categorize items in a structured hierarchy.
• Associates images and attachments to catalogs and categories to help build rich catalog content.
• Shares category and item associations from a source or master catalog with multiple catalogs enabling the reuse of existing data and ease administration of catalogs.
• Defining Product: Creates items and apply predefined templates that provide all of the basic information to help you get started quickly.
• Managing Product Attachments: Associates unstructured content as attachments to a product. Categorize attachments in various predefined and user-defined categories to organize and provide quick access to important documents for the product.
• Defining Product Structures
• Defines and manages product structure types to categorize various product structure hierarchies.
• Creates and administers structure names and associated usage rules, allowing further classification and identification of different product hierarchies.
• Enables lifecycle phase and structure usage rules to make sure to maintain correct and accurate structure information.
• Defines component usage rules to make sure that only valid components are used in the product structure.
Product Information Management allows users to create personal charts and analytic report tools to understand consumption, data metrics of item based on organization and other business-related graphs.
Following are the Main Work Area page details for Product Information Management:
• The Oracle ERP Product Hub implementation details are available here:
• Graphs created by report and analytics.
• Access all pages under Product Information Management from TASK on the right part of the screen.
The following tasks are performed in Product Information Management:
• Item Organizations
• Items
• Catalogs and Structures
• Item Mass Update
• Advanced Catalogs
• Change Orders
• Product Rules
• Audit Trail
• Product Spoke System
• Item Batches
• Data Pool Integration