Oracle ERP Supply Chain Cloud 26D
Low
Feature Enablement
Redwood Features
Generative AI Features
26D Update Features Covered:
- Redwood Experience
- Generative AI
- Associate a technician to multiple labor resources
- Assign travel order by subinventory and locator for sorting pick lines
- Approve physical inventory counts using a spreadsheet
- AI-assisted recall notice creation from email attachments
- Derive supplier site from invoice account numbers
1. Redwood Experience
Oracle Cloud 26D enhances the Redwood experience for Supply Chain users, integrating classic functionalities within modern interfaces. Organizations can now access Collaboration Messaging directly from Redwood pages, maintaining existing configuration and processing flows for seamless B2B communication. Additionally, the platform improves maintenance operations by allowing technicians to be associated with multiple labor resources, ensuring work is assigned to qualified personnel and enhancing labor tracking efficiency across various job categories. These updates streamline user workflows and improve operational flexibility.
2. Generative AI
Oracle continues to expand its Generative AI capabilities within Supply Chain, introducing intelligent automation to critical processes. The Inventory Task Allocation Assistant now leverages AI to efficiently assign tasks to qualified personnel, including robotic material handling equipment, optimizing warehouse operations. Furthermore, AI-assisted recall notice creation streamlines product safety management by automatically extracting recall information from email attachments, significantly reducing manual effort and accelerating the creation of recall notices to ensure quicker response times.
3. Associate a technician to multiple labor resources
Quick Notes:
This feature allows organizations to define a single technician as qualified for multiple job categories or skills within Oracle Maintenance. Previously, technicians were often limited to a single labor resource definition, which could complicate scheduling and skill management for multi-skilled employees.
With this enhancement, a technician can be associated with various resource instances, such as being both a “Mechanic” and an “Electrician.” This capability is integrated throughout the maintenance planning and execution lifecycle, ensuring that work is accurately assigned to appropriately qualified technicians.
It also improves the precision of labor tracking and reporting, as advanced scheduling and assignment processes now consider all relevant resource instances when generating recommendations.
Business benefits:
- Ensures work is assigned to qualified technicians.
- Improves accuracy of labor tracking and reporting.
- Enhances scheduling and assignment recommendations.
- Increases operational flexibility for multi-skilled employees.
4. Assign travel order by subinventory and locator for sorting pick lines
Quick Notes:
This feature introduces the ability to assign a specific travel order to subinventories and locators, enabling organizations to dictate the sequence of pick lines presented to warehouse operators. In complex warehouse environments, picking efficiency and safety are influenced by factors beyond just travel distance, including item characteristics, handling requirements, and equipment needs.
Without precise control over picking sequences, operators might face inefficiencies like backtracking, frequent equipment changes, or improper handling, leading to increased costs and potential safety issues. This enhancement allows for the strategic sorting of pick lines based on predefined travel orders, optimizing the picking process to accommodate varying item sizes, weights, and handling restrictions.
It ensures that operators follow an optimized path, improving overall warehouse productivity and safety.
Business benefits:
- Optimizes order picking efficiency and safety.
- Reduces backtracking and unnecessary equipment changes.
- Ensures compliance with item handling restrictions.
- Lowers labor costs and improves warehouse productivity.
5. Approve physical inventory counts using a spreadsheet
Quick Notes:
Maintaining accurate on-hand inventory is crucial for effective supply chain management, impacting everything from customer service to production planning. The process of reconciling recorded inventory with actual physical counts often involves reviewing and approving numerous discrepancies. For organizations managing large volumes of count adjustments, individually reviewing each discrepancy can be a time-intensive and inefficient task.
This new feature significantly enhances efficiency by allowing users to download count adjustment data into a spreadsheet, leveraging the Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel. This enables bulk review, validation, and approval of inventory updates directly within Microsoft Excel, streamlining the reconciliation process.
Users can then submit these approved adjustments back to the application, drastically reducing the time and effort required for physical inventory count approvals.
Business benefits:
- Accelerates physical inventory count approval.
- Enables bulk review and validation of discrepancies.
- Reduces manual effort for large volumes of adjustments.
- Improves efficiency of inventory reconciliation processes.
6. AI-assisted recall notice creation from email attachments
Quick Notes:
This Generative AI-powered feature significantly streamlines the creation of recall notices by automating the extraction of critical information from supplier recall letter attachments. Organizations can now email these attachments directly to a registered mailbox, where the Recall Letters Capture Assistant, an AI agent, automatically processes them.
The AI extracts relevant recall details, such as affected products, dates, and reasons, and then automatically generates a recall notice within the system. This eliminates the manual effort traditionally required for recall managers to upload and transcribe information from these documents.
The process reduces delays and manual intervention, allowing organizations to identify and initiate product recalls much faster, enhancing product safety and compliance.
Business benefits:
- Automates recall notice creation from email attachments.
- Reduces manual data entry and processing delays.
- Accelerates product recall identification and execution.
- Enhances product safety and compliance management.
7. Derive supplier site from invoice account numbers
Quick Notes:
This feature introduces enhanced automation for processing GHX inbound invoices by enabling the derivation of the correct pay site directly from B2B Account Numbers configured in Collaboration Messaging. Previously, organizations might have faced challenges in accurately routing inbound invoices to the appropriate payable supplier site, potentially leading to processing delays or errors.
With this enhancement, the system automatically identifies and assigns the correct pay site based on the established B2B Account Number setup. This automation ensures that invoices are routed precisely, reducing manual intervention, improving data accuracy, and accelerating the overall invoice processing workflow.
It contributes to more efficient financial operations and stronger supplier relationships by minimizing discrepancies and ensuring timely payments.
Business benefits:
- Automates pay site derivation for GHX inbound invoices.
- Ensures accurate routing of invoices to correct supplier sites.
- Reduces manual intervention and processing errors.
- Accelerates invoice processing and improves financial efficiency.
