Depending on the features you’re using in your Cloud applications, you may be required to perform certain steps immediately before or after your quarterly update.
Maintenance
SCM Common Components
- Create Guided Journeys for Redwood Pages
A guided journey helps users complete tasks by facilitating a business process. Administrators can create a guided journey to embed tutorials, company policies, and best practices at the page or section level. For example, a guided journey could be created to help an employee place a sales order.
Maintenance
- Enhance Maintenance Management OTBI Subject Area for Maintenance Management Forecast Real-Time
Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) offers real-time self-service reporting, directly from Oracle Fusion Cloud Maintenance. Here’s the list of updates to the OTBI subject area folders:
Subject Area: Maintenance Management – Forecast Real Time
The Forecast Details folder includes these attributes:
- Work Order Start Date
- Work Order Location
- Skip Forecast Flag
The Forecast Line folder includes these attributes:
- Day Interval Value
- Meter Utilization Value
Using OTBI, you can make better decisions based on real-time transactional information. In this update, you can use the enhanced subject area to generate reports and queries depending on your needs.
- Synchronize Changes Between Installed Base and Fixed Assets for Asset Terminations
The fixed and installed base assets can be terminated from either the installed base or fixed asset sides. This action is supported if the installed base asset happens to be serial-controlled and the fixed asset unit quantity is one.
Termination and retirement synchronization between the installed base and fixed assets can be done in any of these two ways:
- End date the installed base asset and then retire the associated fixed asset.
- Retire the fixed asset, which automatically ends the associated installed base asset.
- Control Child Asset Sequence in the Hierarchy Navigator Using REST API in Oracle Visual Builder Studio
Oracle Visual Builder Studio is an intuitive development experience on top of a development and hosting platform that empowers you to create engaging and responsive applications. Focusing on ease of use and a visual development approach, it provides an easy way for you to create applications that are hosted in Oracle’s secure and scalable cloud platform.
Before this update, you could add a new hierarchy name, associate an existing asset to a hierarchy name, and add a child asset to an existing parent asset’s root node in a logical hierarchy name. In this update, you can edit an existing asset to a hierarchy name or update the position of an asset within a hierarchy. You achieve this using the Asset Logical Hierarchy Relationships REST resource, which communicates with Oracle Visual Builder Studio to show asset logical hierarchy data in the Oracle Visual Builder spreadsheet.
- Add Data to Descriptive Flexfields on the Material Transactions Page Using REST API
Use the segments of the Inventory Material Transaction history descriptive flexfield (DFF) to record data while performing material transactions using the Maintenance Work Order Material Transactions REST resource. To use these DFF segments while executing your material transaction REST payloads, you first need to set up your descriptive flexfield segments for transaction history, and then deploy your flexfields.
- Assign Assets for Repair to a Maintenance Work Order and Return to Inventory After Repair
Create maintenance work orders that allow completion to inventory. In addition, you can repair multiple asset items on a single maintenance work order. To create a repair-to-stock work order, first create a work order for an asset item, select the Allow completion to inventory check box, and then add the number of assets to be repaired.
- Disable Meter Readings Using REST API
Asset meters let you define and use them to track your asset utilization. You can define multiple reusable meter templates that can then be assigned to the applicable assets. You can also set up multiple meters for an asset to track different parameters of an asset. Meter readings provide a historical record of the usage and condition of an asset at user-defined intervals. They also provide insight into asset conditions and requirements that can be useful in scheduled and unscheduled maintenance. Typically, the meter readings are tracked by a physical counter on the asset or by the computer controls that are used to operate and monitor the asset.
Before this update, you could remove historical meter readings using the Manage Asset page, but you couldn’t remove them through the Meter Readings REST service. In this update, you can do all of these actions using the REST service as well:
- Disable the last active reading or any historical reading in history after the last locked reading in history.
- Disable asset or subscription meter readings.
- Disable, cancel and recreate any historical records after the disabled reading.
The ability to delete historical readings through REST Service leads to greater efficiency and visibility
- Maintain Multiple Assets of the Same Item on a Single Work Order
Create maintenance work orders with multiple assets of the same item on a single maintenance work order. To create a work order with multiple assets, you start by creating a work order for an asset item and also set the quantity of assets.
- Limit Changes to Schedules That Are Assigned to Organizations, Plants, or Work Centers
To prevent system performance degradation or process disruptions, we’ve implemented some limitations to schedule changes. When you update an existing schedule, a new process detects whether the schedule is assigned to one or more organizations, plants, or work centers. If so, you won’t be able to change the schedule start date or period type.
This process change improves the ability to identify if a schedule is assigned to another business object in Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing applications. If the schedule is assigned, you won’t be able to alter key details of the existing schedule, thus preventing unexpected changes to the behavior of these applications.
- Redwood Experience
These features were built in Redwood, Oracle’s next-generation user experience. Redwood brings state-of-the-art, consumer-grade user experiences across devices to the sophisticated enterprise scenarios that Oracle enables.
- Use the New Maintenance Technician Workbench
Oracle Fusion Cloud Maintenance lets you execute work orders in the maintenance dispatch list with each operation step designated as a count point. As part of operation completion, you can also report the following transactions:
Material issue or return.
Resource consumption or reversal.
Meter readings.
- Manage Maintenance Work Definitions Using a Redwood Page
Create and manage maintenance processes in your organization more efficiently with the maintenance work definition feature. This feature speeds up the deployment of maintenance and saves time by allowing you to reuse work definitions in different work orders.
A maintenance work definition includes operations, operation items, and resources required for a maintenance or repair process. You can create more than one work definition to outline the recommended service tasks for an asset.
Before this update, the Work Definition pages focused on visualizing the data relationships within a work definition, displaying a limited view of the dataset, and utilizing mouse-driven navigation and techniques like drag and drop or expand and collapse. However, maintenance managers prefer spreadsheet-like interfaces for quick editing and better information density for work definitions with extensive operational data.
In this update, maintenance managers can define and manage maintenance work definitions using the new Redwood user interface. Here’s more about the flows you can do as a maintenance manager:
- Manage maintenance work definitions
- Create a work definition
- Edit a work definition
- Perform work definition actions
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