Oracle ERP Inventory Management Cloud 26C
Low
Feature Enablement
Redwood Features
Generative AI Features
26C Update Features Covered:
- Redwood Experience
- Generative AI
- AI Agentic App: Warehouse Operations Workspace – Use Improved Stockout and Outbound Recommendations
- AI Agent: Inbound Goods Advisor
- AI Agent: Inventory Label and Document Printing Assistant
- Redwood: Scan a Barcode with Item Number, GTIN, MPN, or SPN Without a Barcode Format to Find Items
- Redwood: Export All Search Results Records on the Item Quantities Page
1. Redwood Experience
Oracle Cloud 26C Inventory Management introduces significant Redwood experience enhancements, focusing on improved efficiency and data accuracy. Users can now calculate and adjust LPN weight and volume more flexibly, ensuring precise logistics data. Barcode scanning capabilities are expanded to intelligently recognize items without strict format dependencies, streamlining mobile transactions. Furthermore, the ability to export all search results from the Item Quantities page empowers comprehensive offline analysis and reporting, providing a more intuitive and productive user experience across inventory operations.
2. Generative AI
Oracle continues to expand its Generative AI capabilities within Inventory Management, delivering intelligent automation and actionable insights. The Inbound Goods Advisor AI Agent automates cross-docking and optimizes put-away locations, while the Inventory Label and Document Printing Assistant streamlines label generation with natural language prompts. Additionally, the Warehouse Operations Workspace now features AI-driven advisors for slow-moving items and expiring lots, alongside proactive reservation reallocation recommendations. These advancements empower organizations to enhance operational efficiency, reduce manual effort, and make more informed inventory decisions.
3. AI Agentic App: Warehouse Operations Workspace – Use Improved Stockout and Outbound Recommendations
Quick Notes:
The Warehouse Operations workspace now offers an enhanced, unified experience for warehouse managers, integrating operational insights with advanced AI-driven recommendations and intelligent assistance. This update introduces powerful new AI-powered advisors: the Slow-Moving Item Advisor and the Expiring Lot Advisor. These tools provide actionable insights into stock health, moving organizations beyond manual monitoring.
Furthermore, the workspace delivers proactive recommendations for reallocating reservations, ensuring that priority orders are fulfilled on time and in full. These autonomous capabilities empower warehouse managers to better manage inventory, significantly reduce manual effort, and optimize outbound processes for improved efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Business benefits:
- Proactive identification of slow-moving and expiring inventory.
- Optimized reservation reallocation for priority orders.
- Reduced manual monitoring and improved decision-making.
- Enhanced visibility into stock health and operational efficiency.
4. AI Agent: Inbound Goods Advisor
Quick Notes:
Cross-docking significantly boosts warehouse efficiency by minimizing steps for outbound demand fulfillment. While existing functionality in Oracle Fusion Cloud Advanced Inventory Management identifies cross-docking opportunities, it previously lacked automatic association with specific outbound demand or status updates.
The Inbound Goods Advisor AI Agent bridges this gap by intelligently identifying cross-docking opportunities and autonomously executing the necessary fulfillment steps, ensuring outbound demand is properly staged and ready for shipment. For goods not suitable for cross-docking, this AI Agent recommends optimal put-away locations, leveraging historical transaction data or existing prioritization rules when data is limited.
This comprehensive approach streamlines inbound logistics, reducing manual intervention and accelerating order fulfillment.
Business benefits:
- Enhanced warehouse efficiency through automated cross-docking.
- Optimized put-away strategies using historical data.
- Reduced manual effort in managing inbound goods.
- Improved fulfillment accuracy and speed.
5. AI Agent: Inventory Label and Document Printing Assistant
Quick Notes:
In dynamic warehouse and logistics environments, the task of printing labels and documents is often time-sensitive and fragmented across various systems and ad-hoc requests. This new AI agent addresses these challenges by enabling users to swiftly identify, generate, and print a wide array of required labels and documents with minimal effort.
It supports critical label types such as item, serial, lot, location, receipt delivery, and LPN labels, allowing for flexible parameter usage like receipt, shipment, or subinventory. This significantly streamlines operations, reduces manual intervention, and ensures accurate and timely documentation for inventory management, shipping, and compliance, enhancing overall operational agility.
Business benefits:
- Streamlined label and document generation.
- Reduced manual effort and errors in printing.
- Faster response to ad-hoc printing requests.
- Support for diverse label types and parameters.
6. Redwood: Scan a Barcode with Item Number, GTIN, MPN, or SPN Without a Barcode Format to Find Items
Quick Notes:
Traditional barcode scanning systems often rely on specific formats or identifiers, creating inefficiencies when goods arrive with varied manufacturer part numbers (MPN), supplier part numbers (SPN), or global trade item numbers (GTIN). This often necessitated manual lookups or relabeling, slowing down warehouse operations and increasing error potential.
This enhancement significantly improves the process by allowing the system to automatically search scanned values against item number, GTIN, MPN, SPN, and item cross-reference values if no predefined barcode format is initially matched. This intelligent resolution enables users to perform Redwood mobile inventory and receiving transactions using any identifier found on product or supplier labels, boosting efficiency and accuracy.
Business benefits:
- Eliminates dependency on predefined barcode formats.
- Speeds up mobile inventory and receiving transactions.
- Reduces manual lookups and relabeling efforts.
- Increases accuracy by supporting multiple identifiers.
7. Redwood: Export All Search Results Records on the Item Quantities Page
Quick Notes:
For organizations managing inventory across diverse warehouses and stockrooms, the ability to quickly access and analyze on-hand quantities is paramount for effective decision-making. While the Item Quantities page provides a centralized view, the need to work with this data offline or share it across teams for reporting and reconciliation is a common requirement.
This enhancement introduces an “Export All” button, allowing users to download the complete set of search results directly from the Item Quantities page. The export, delivered as a CSV file, accurately reflects all applied filters, organization scope, and selected unit of measure, streamlining data extraction for comprehensive analysis.
Business benefits:
- Enables comprehensive offline analysis and reporting.
- Eliminates manual scrolling for large datasets.
- Ensures accurate data extraction with applied filters.
- Improves efficiency in inventory data reconciliation.
