Batch Process and Scheduling

Batch scripts are lists of commands or jobs executed without human intervention. A batch window is the time frame in which the batch process must run. It is the upper limit on how long the batch can take. Batch scripts are used for loading foundation data received from a merchandising system, importing and exporting data, and generating targets. The retailer must decide the best time for running batch scripts within the available batch window.

How often to upload updated sales and inventory data and how often to recreate targets must be determined.

• You must consider at what interval to load the latest sales and inventory data. A weekly load of transactional type data is supported, since the base intersection is at week. It is recommended that the information transactional system, such as RMS, be loaded daily.

• Product availability and seasonal changes can be reasons for recalculating the targets. This can also be triggered by the addition of new products and availability of substantial new sales and inventory history.

The recommended batch schedule for Assortment Planning Cloud Service is to load historical and actual data on a weekly basis. All hierarchy changes can be loaded on a weekly basis.

In Assortment Planning Cloud Service, batch tasks can be controlled by a system administrator by using the Online Administration Tools. Those tasks, in turn, call the batch scripts with preset parameters to perform the batch tasks. For more information on the Online Administration Tool tasks, see the Oracle Retail Assortment Planning Cloud Service Administration Guide.

For more details about the list of batch control files, the batch process using them, and details about updating them, see the Enterprise Edition Batch framework in the Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server Cloud Edition Implementation Guide.

The customer can use JOS/POM if RAP integration is used and implemented to schedule pre-configured daily and weekly batch tasks in APCS. Those tasks scheduled using JOS/POM in turn call the same Configured batch tasks under the Online Administration Tool tasks. For more details about scheduling of tasks using JOS/POM, see the Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server Cloud Service Administration Guide. For more details about the APCS schedule in JOS/POM, see Appendix: APCS Scheduling in JOS/POM.