Oracle Cloud SCM 24C Release: What's New?

The tentative Oracle 24C release date is set for July 2024. Are you prepared?

This blog offers a high-level summary of the new features that come with the Oracle SCM 24C release. We think you’ll love some of the new benefits and enhanced capabilities.  

We'll also emphasize why thorough testing is crucial for the Oracle SCM 24C release rollout and how Opkey’s AI enabled, No-Code test automation platform can make updates quick and painless. As an official Oracle partner, we are uniquely equipped to assist in Oracle update testing.  

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

What Are the Best Testing Practices for the Oracle SCM 24C New Features?

• Define the scope of testing. Determine which tests are required and which are not during the quarterly Oracle Cloud Quarterly Update.  

• Quickly develop sanity tests to ensure business continuity.  

• Determine which critical business processes should be automated and which require manual testing.
• Use impact analysis reports to show differences between releases.

What Are Some Key Changes Coming in the 24C Update?

• Fixing bugs from previous releases.  

• Security alerts and data fixes.

• New tax, legal, and regulatory updates.

• New upgrade scripts.

• Certification with new third-party products and versions.

• Certification with new Oracle products.

Why You’ll Love the Oracle 24C SCM Update

• Clear Communication and Verification: Improved order acknowledgments and change messages minimize misunderstandings and potential conflicts.

• Efficient Procurement Processes: Streamlined requisition and purchase order management reduces manual effort and enhances accuracy.

• Enhanced Inventory Management: Improved tools for managing lot and serial numbers and cycle count approvals ensure accurate and efficient inventory control.

Details of the Oracle SCM 24C Release Notes: What’s New?

Inventory Management

• 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.

• Mass updates on item transaction defaults were possible only when the disrupted item had item sub-inventory associations.

Manufacturing

• To incorporate best practices, company regulations, and lessons at the page or section level, administrators can design a guided tour. An employee could be assisted in placing a sales order, for instance, by creating a guided journey.

• It is now possible to generate work orders and execute specific update actions that result in unconstrained scheduling or rescheduling, considering the minimum transfer amount to overlap activities and operation resources.

• With this update, you can Track the time an operator spends at an assigned location, as all check-ins and checkouts are recorded.

Maintenance

• Create maintenance work orders that allow completion to inventory. In addition, you can repair multiple asset items on a single maintenance work order.

• This feature empowers maintenance teams by streamlining the process of repairing multiple assets on a single work order.

Order Management

• 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.

• When you sell a commodity that frequently varies in price such as corn, coffee, or gasoline, and you need to recalculate the total, you can check the latest price.

Procurement

• With this Oracle SCM 24C new feature, users can quickly identify the requisition lines that were created from different item sources and process them into a negotiation or purchase order with appropriate values.

• We can now include the special handling type and special handling details when you import requisitions and purchase orders using file-based data import.

• By linking attributes from one or more dimensions, users can now use mapping sets to configure approval authority and direct purchasing documents for approval to the approvers specified in the setup.

Technical Updates

• Real-time self-service reporting from Oracle Fusion Cloud Maintenance is available through Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI).

• Oracle Visual Builder Studio is an easy-to-use development tool that makes it easier to create dynamic, responsive apps on Oracle's scalable, safe cloud infrastructure.  

• Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement and Oracle Fusion Cloud Self Service Procurement have introduced new REST resources, including a Purchasing Line Types List of Values, for improved integration with external systems.  

How Can Test Automation Streamline Update Testing?

Oracle Cloud updates have the potential to negatively impact existing configurations and integrations. Thoroughly testing each Oracle Cloud Updates is recommended. We advise test automation because it is a difficult undertaking to manually test these improvements in just two weeks.  

Learn more: A Practical Guide to Testing Oracle Cloud Quarterly Updates

How Opkey Can Help

Opkey is the leading AI-enabled, No-Code test automation platform for Oracle. As an official Oracle testing partner, Opkey can expedite Oracle Cloud quarterly update certifications, cutting timelines from weeks to days. Before each update, Opkey runs a comprehensive series of automated tests to validate the features being released against your environment.  

Learn how Opkey helped Cottage Health with Oracle Cloud Testing, Reducing Testing Cycle times by 87%

Opkey’s predictive intelligence tells you clearly what changes in your transactions, configurations, and custom screens. It takes all the guesswork out of determining what needs to be tested before changes are deployed to your Oracle Cloud apps. Instead of testing all cases, you only need to test cases that are highly risky and their dependent components. This eliminates hours of manual effort and struggle.

Learn how The Wonderful Company Reduced Testing Efforts by 90% While Achieving 98% Test Coverage with Opkey

Testing Guidance from Opkey

Before each update is applied to customers’ environments, Opkey runs a comprehensive series of automated tests to validate the features being released against your environment.

These tests validate:

• The health of the builds in a simulated existing customer environment.

• Successful execution of tests in a simulated new customer environment.

• End-to-end business process flows.

• Primary use-case scenarios.

• Alternate use-case scenarios.

• Oracle Cloud’s security tests.

• Reports and integration tests.

• Additional scenarios derived from design specifications.