1 Overview
The Oracle Retail Analytics and Planning solutions are the common and extensible delivery platform for analytics and planning applications.
The platform supports Oracle Retail applications across each major analytical category, including:
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Descriptive and diagnostic with merchandise, customer, and consumer insights.
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Predictive with demand forecasting, customer, and location clustering.
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Prescriptive with merchandise, financial, assortment, pricing, and inventory optimization.
The platform also supports Oracle Retail merchandise and inventory planning solutions. These solutions support business responsiveness through a highly interactive user experience and drive the best outcomes with the application of advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI).
Application Overview
Oracle Retail Insights is a software product that includes the following modules (all new subscriptions of RI include these modules by default):
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Merchandise Insights
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Customer Insights
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Consumer Insights
Oracle Retail AI Foundation Cloud Services are comprised of the following services:
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Retail AI Foundation Cloud Service (AIF)
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Retail Assortment and Space Optimization Cloud Service (RASO)
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Retail Promotion and Markdown Optimization Cloud Service (RPMO)
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Retail Offer Optimization Cloud Service (OO)
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Retail Inventory Optimization Cloud Service (IO)
Oracle Retail Planning and Optimization Cloud Services comprise the following services:
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Oracle Retail Merchandise Financial Planning Cloud Service
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Oracle Retail Demand Forecasting Cloud Service
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Oracle Retail Assortment Planning Cloud Service
Oracle Retail Merchandise Financial Planning Cloud Service (MFP Cloud Service) provides flexible and easy-to-use merchandise financial planning solution templates that enable retailers to create high-level strategic and low-level detailed financial plans. The solution guides users through best-practice planning processes in an efficient, streamlined manner while providing top-down and bottom-up functionality for developing, reconciling, and approving plans.
Oracle Retail Demand Forecasting Cloud Service (RDF CS) provides accurate forecasts enabling retailers to coordinate demand-driven outcomes that deliver connected customer interactions. With a single view of demand, RDF CS provides pervasive value across retail processes, including driving optimal strategies in planning, increasing inventory productivity in supply chains, decreasing operational costs, and driving customer satisfaction from engagement to sale to fulfillment.
Oracle Retail Assortment Planning Cloud Service (AP CS) establishes the breadth and depth of your product offering for all Points-of-Commerce and for a given period of time. The analysis of past performance (such as color effectiveness, trend adoption, styling visualization, in-store placement, and geographic selling) are key inputs into revising a currently planned/executed assortment or building a new assortment. AP helps the business anticipate and proactively manage exceptions by utilizing robust real-time alerts to highlight and focus a planner's attention on item issues that need immediate attention.
When starting a Retail Analytics and Planning implementation, there are a number of key considerations and actions you will need to take. This document outlines the most important actions and provides a general timeline for when many of these actions should be completed to ensure success for your implementation. These actions are divided up in the following phases:
Audience
This document is intended for your service administrator. The service administrator is the key person in your business that manages your Retail Analytics and Planning cloud services. Oracle will target important communications to the service administrator, such as the initial welcome e-mail that is described in this document. If the person who receives this e-mail is not the person or part of the group of people that will be taking responsibilities for the tasks in this document, please work with your Customer Success Manager (CSM) to have that name updated.
Subscription
Your subscription to any of the Retail Analytics and Planning cloud services includes one Production environment and one Non-Production environment. Additional Non-Production environments may be provisioned per your subscription agreements.
Each Production environment and Non-Production environment comes with:
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management (OCI IAM)
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Retail Predictive Application Server Cloud Edition (RPAS CE) Platform, application configuration and Planning Data Schema (PDS) (if applicable)
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Process Orchestration and Monitoring (POM)
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Retail Home
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Oracle Analytics Server
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Application Express (APEX)
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Object Storage
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Only one instance of OCI IAM is provisioned. This is shared across all of your Cloud Services and environments.Note:
Oracle merged and upgraded Identity Cloud Service (IDCS) with OCI IAM. Customers provisioned in November 2021 or later will use OCI IAM for Cloud Identity, and existing customers will be automatically migrated. This document was written focusing on OCI IAM. For more details on Oracle Identity Cloud Service capabilities, see the following:
https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/identity-cloud/uaids/get-started.html
To understand which service you have, refer to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure documentation: