New Placeholder Item Integration

New Placeholder Items (Style/Color or Styles) created in APCS can be integrated with RMFCS. It involves multiple levels of process which are detailed below:

• First, the RMFCS Server should be connected with APCS during deployment, after mapping the dimensions (style/color, style) to item in RMFCS. New Placeholder items created in APCS will directly use the reserved item numbers from RMFCS. A Service Request (SR) can be created to request to connect the RMFCS server with the Planning Servers. This is needed only if the customer already has RMFCS as the master source for defining new items. New Placeholder Items created in APCS will directly use the reserved item numbers from RMFCS. For more details, refer to the RPASCE-RMS Integration for Item Management - Slow Item Build section in the Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server Cloud Edition Administration Guide. The customer should ensure that max_item_resv_qty and max_item_expiry_days are set on the RMFCS DB side to allow reserving of items from the RMFCS side.

• The customer can then create new placeholder items within APCS and assign attributes to them. RMFCS does not contain style/color as a separate level, so an attribute should be selected as the RMFCS Color attribute in the Product Setup view in Planning Administration. All new style/colors created should be assigned with a unique color attribute. The customer should then select the style/color ready for Export to RMFCS. The process only allows for creating new placeholder items and assigning initial attributes. Any further updates/maintenance of the item or RMFCS specific item attributes should be managed in the RMFCS side.

• The customer can run the Export to RMF CS custom menu which exports all items marked for Export to RMFCS in real time to the RMFCS Item Induction process. It exports new item details, and its assigned attributes (UDA).

• In batch, the customer needs to run Rename Style/Color that renames the style/color positions created as style concatenated with a color attribute as it will be identified in the RMFCS product hierarchy file. This process is scheduled to run as part of weekly batch before the hierarchy load process.

• Once RMFCS approves the newly interfaced items, the same items will be coming in the product hierarchy file as regular items. Since it will use the same position names for Item and Style/Color, the standard hierarchy load process in the APCS side will then formalize those informal placeholder Item and Style/Color.