1 Overview

The Oracle Retail Store Inventory Operations Cloud Services (SIOCS) is an umbrella term that comprises of the following two cloud services:

Enterprise Inventory Cloud Service (EICS):

• Hosted cloud service platform.

• Purpose built for desktop using browser technology (Oracle JET).

• Includes Browser UI with Administration and subset of business functionality, along with Server, Database, and web service API.

Store Operations Cloud Service (SOCS):

• Not hosted by Oracle.

• Mobile application to be built and deployed onto mobile devices.

• Uses Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF) technology.

• Has workflows for functional store inventory executions.

• Dependent on EICS (connects to EICS server/DB).

When starting a Store Inventory Operations Cloud Services 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 into the following phases:

• Pre-Provisioning

• Provisioning

• Post Provisioning

• Deployment

Audience

This document is intended for your service administrator. The service administrator is the key person in your business that manages your Store Inventory Operations Cloud Services. Oracle will target important communications to the service administrator, such as the initial welcome email that is described in this document. If the person who receives this email 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 the name updated.