Oracle Cloud Redwood 24C Release: What’s New?

The much-anticipated July 2024 release of Oracle Cloud Redwood 24C is here! Oracle maintains your environment up to date with the newest features, updates, and fixes through mandated quarterly releases.  

This blog will provide a high-level overview of the new features described in the Oracle Redwood Cloud 24C release notes. We will also discuss the importance of comprehensive testing for the Oracle Redwood 24C version rollout, as well as how Opkey's AI-powered, No-Code test automation solution can facilitate a simple and rapid update certification process.

Oracle Redwood is Oracle's new UI, notable for its cohesive set of guidelines and tools that prioritize simplicity, accessibility, and a unified user experience. The sleek, minimalist aesthetic is designed to be intuitive and user-centric, allowing you to create personalized systems that are both beautiful and highly functional. The goal here is to achieve consistency and high-quality user interfaces that align with the latest standards in design and usability. For more information on Redwood, download Navigating the Shift to Oracle Redwood with Test Automation.

If you want info beyond these Oracle Redwood 24C release notes, check out the 24C Concise Summary Advisory or the Comprehensive 24C Advisory.

Highlights: Benefits you’ll get from Oracle’s 24C Update of Redwood Experience‍

• Redwood brings state-of-the-art, consumer-grade user experiences across devices to the sophisticated enterprise scenarios that Oracle enables.  
• Enrich the user experience with the new HCM Data Roles and Security Profiles pages developed using the Redwood toolset.
• Enrich the user experience with several new Security Profiles pages developed using the Redwood toolset.

Why You'll Love the Changes Coming in 24C:  

• Enhanced Efficiency: These updates reduce manual processes and improve UI experience.

• Improved Compliance: The enhancements adhere to regulations and industry standards.

• Detailed Reporting: Generate comprehensive reports showing the source and purpose of each budget entry, aiding in better planning and decision-making.  

• Accurate Budget Management: Reduces the risk of data mismatches and ensures accurate accounting of all budget entries.

What Are the Best Test Practices for Applying Oracle Redwood 24C's New Features?

• Define the testing criteria. Identify which tests are necessary and which aren't during the quarterly Oracle Cloud Redwood upgrade.  

• Create sanity tests as soon as possible to guarantee business continuity.  

• Ascertain which business operations should be tested manually and which ones should be automated.  

• Reports on impact analyses can be used to highlight variations between releases.  

Updates from the Oracle Cloud Redwood 24C Release  

Supply Chain Orchestration

• View information about supply request lines by using the new pages. Obtain information on the supply, including specifics about the work order, transfer order, or purchase order that satisfies each supply request line.

Collaboration Messaging Framework

• Using the new Import B2B Account application, you may designate B2B account numbers to ship-to locations for each of your suppliers. These account numbers are included in the purchase orders that you send to your suppliers through the GHX service provider. Any necessary adjustments can be made using the task for B2B Account Numbers.

Supplier Model

• Use an elastic-based smart search to find suppliers. It supports searchable attributes from different providers and has filters and fuzzy matching built in to help you narrow down your search results. The Redwood design system powers this enhanced search experience.

Sourcing

• Improvements The Negotiation Abstracts listing on a Redwood page can now be enabled. The updated page provides a more sophisticated and user-friendly interface with more features.  

• On a Redwood page, suppliers can conduct a modern, user-friendly search for agreements. Suppliers are first shown all open talks when they select the Supplier Portal task menu, View talks.

Inventory Management

• A newly designed page within the Redwood experience allows you to conveniently manage your lot and serial numbers. Click the Lots and Serial Numbers link from the task list in the Inventory Management work area to open the updated Lots and Serial Numbers pages.  

Shipping

• From the Inventory Management workspace, you can navigate to the New Outbound Shipment Request page. The task can be accessed through the Picks and Shipments categories. As an alternative, you can pick the task from the quick actions and navigate to the page.  

• From the Inventory Management work area, you may navigate to the New Pick Wave page.

Cost Management

• The Redwood pages now allow you to add, edit, remove, and search for overhead rates. Using the multiedit feature of the new Redwood pages, you may carry out complex edit operations for specific records.

Fiscal Document Capture

• On this updated page, you can now quickly search for various fiscal document tolerances and create, alter, or mark them as inactive in response to your evolving business needs.

Manufacturing

• The Redwood user experience now allows you to search for and examine user-defined and predefined work order statuses along with the system statuses that correspond to them.  

• You can now use the following Redwood pages to manage work centers.

• Use filters and keywords to find work centers.

• Create a new work center and provide further details by setting up descriptive flexfields according to your implementation.

• You can inspect, update, and delete work centers.

• Redwood user experience now allows you to search for, create, and administer standard operations.

• It is now possible to look for job definitions that take effect on a given date. To limit the search for work definition versions based on the version start and end dates, use the Work Definition As-of-Date filter and choose a past date, current date, or future date.

Maintenance

• This update allows you to execute tasks using the workbench mobile user interface. Maintenance technicians can enter transactional data and conduct maintenance tasks using the My Maintenance Work user interface.

• With this release, maintenance managers can utilize the new Redwood user interface to establish and manage maintenance task definitions. Here are more details about the tasks you can perform as a maintenance manager.

Pricing

• This update allows you to use Oracle Pricing to build a pricing promotion. For one or more categories, products, or all the goods in a single promotion, you can set up a straightforward or tiered discount.  

• With this version, you can apply promotions to specific areas of Oracle Pricing rather than each individual item by using categories.

• With this update, you may use Oracle Pricing to identify sales orders that qualify for your pricing offer based on a preset set of customers, order line, and item attributes.  

• With this upgrade, you may target your pricing promotions by utilizing customer attributes in Oracle Pricing.  

Customer Channel Management

• Export earned accruals from the Program Checkbook to Microsoft Excel to give customer programs supporting rebate information. Utilize these details to investigate accruals and determine whether a program requires manual adjustments. They can also give you further details on the process by which accruals are obtained by matching invoiced orders.

• You can now use product exclusions to keep particular goods out of a category or out of all items.

Deductions and Settlements

• Extend claim settlement choices to develop a manual claim settlement strategy specific to your company's operations. For manual claims, whether promotional or nonpromotional, there is a bespoke settlement option. Custom settlement systems also take care of the accounting of channel revenue for promotional claims.

Learn more: Streamline Oracle Fusion Redwood Migration with Continuous Testing

Global Order Promising

• To check the planning calendars and make sure they are accurate, use the newly designed Redwood page. Calendars is a single task that contains all of the tasks that were previously available to examine shifts, assignments, and calendars for planning.

• The calendar shifts gathered from source systems, like Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Execution, may be viewed using the new Redwood page.

• The new Redwood page allows you to examine how calendars are associated with different entities, including carriers, suppliers, and organizations. You may make sure the plans are accurate by utilizing this Redwood page to examine calendar associations.

Watch Now: Unlocking Oracle Redwood: An Actionable Guide to UI Challenges and How to Properly Utilize Testing

Test Guidelines From Opkey

We are aware that Oracle clients will only have two weeks to verify that these changes won't have an adverse effect on their ongoing business operations. This can be difficult, but test automation is already changing the way firms test. It’s even reducing quarterly update cycles from weeks to three days.  

Opkey's Oracle Cloud quarterly certification will assist you in navigating the Oracle Cloud 24C update.