1 Introduction

Retail Supply Chain Collaboration Cloud Service enables retailers to collaborate directly with their suppliers for pre-selection and ongoing evaluation of sites, production facilities and items, and to accomplish streamlined merchandising operations, leveraging data provided by partners through a single portal with a common navigation.

Oracle Retail Supply Chain Collaboration Cloud Service is composed of the following modules:

Supplier Evaluation

Supports the on-boarding, evaluation and management of Merchandising suppliers, enabling assessment and governance of ethical, environmental, safety, and quality performance, automatically scoring and grading suppliers and items against multiple business disciplines for actionable insight.

Functions incorporate supplier self-certification survey, item assessment, audit and action management, process management and incident alert notifications.

Retail Supply Chain Hub

Improves collaboration between retailers and suppliers with a platform to share information integrated in the Oracle Retail suite, increasing order and fulfilment efficiency and accuracy and reducing supply chain disruption and risk through direct collaboration on merchandising operations.

Functions include supplier self-configuration and enable collaboration on item, cost and price management, deals, inventory & sales, payments, purchase orders, customer orders and appointments.

This document is divided into seven main sections:

  • Responsibilities - discusses the shared responsibility model of security.

  • Oracle Retail SaaS Security - outlines the policies and procedures Oracle Retail uses to meet its security responsibilities.

  • Supply Chain Collaboration Architecture - details the architecture of the Supply Chain Collaboration Cloud Service, particularly as it relates to security.

  • Supply Chain Collaboration Authentication and Authorization - describes how Supply Chain Collaboration Cloud Service performs authentication and authorization.

  • Supplier Evaluation Permissions - describes the Supply Chain Collaboration Cloud Service role-based security model of roles, authority profiles and permissions.

  • Retail Supply Chain Hub Permissions - describes the Supply Chain Hub role-based permissions rules

  • Frequently Asked Questions - a number of specific questions related to security that are frequently asked by prospects, customers, and implementers.

The goals of this document are to:

  • Explain the security responsibilities of Oracle and the retailer/portal owner in the SaaS model.

  • Educate retailers/portal owners about Oracle's cloud security policies and controls.

  • Describe Supply Chain Collaboration Cloud Services:

    • general architecture, particularly as it relates to security

    • security features

  • Define additional steps customer IT staff must perform to communicate securely with Supply Chain Collaboration Cloud Service.

  • Guide customer administrators in the actions they need to perform to:

    • create application users

    • assign roles to application users

  • Provide answers to frequently asked questions about Supply Chain Collaboration Cloud Service security.

Retail Supply Chain Collaboration Cloud Service enables retailers to collaborate directly with their suppliers for pre-selection and ongoing evaluation of sites, production facilities and items, and to accomplish streamlined merchandising operations, leveraging data provided by partners through a single portal with a common navigation.

Oracle Retail Supply Chain Collaboration Cloud Service is composed of the following modules: