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Meeting RecapSIG Leaders: Sherrod Hoffman, Stein Mart;

Randy Bolette, American Eagle


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Discussion Topics

Price Management (RPM) Merchandising (RMS) Patching and Upgrade Best Practice Allocation Roundtable Allocation Roadmap Prioritization Exercise Technology from a Business Perspective Follow Up Items

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RPM Key Discussion Points

RPM Performance was top area of concern and discussion – New Item Location process: Key area of concerns across several customers. Some

had done performance tuning and seen improvements – Frustration with need to invest to get performance in acceptable range – Some cases of “step back” in performance after upgrades – Oracle Dev working on consolidation of some batch process – Desire for “performance patch” that would be available for existing version – Development resource – many different factors in configuration and process use can

impact performance, difficult to pinpoint common cause – Plan for future Merch SIG session on RPM Performance and Tech Tuning

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Roundtable Discussion


Upgrade – Lessons Learned points:

• Start with retesting existing functionality, then move on to new • Be aware of technology changes • Would like better information from Oracle ahead of time new features in release to help with

upgrade decisions • Desire for more modular approach to apps to better enable upgrades of one app without upgrades

of others

Other – Managing Item and Location Lists in RPM – Location Moves

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Roundtable Discussion RPM Key Discussion Points


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Merchandising (RMS)

Item Setup – Focus on complexity of maintaining item attribution/UDAs as well as ability to load item data or have vendor portal – Different retailers with different approaches: PLM Interface, PIM, Vendor Spreadsheets

– Desire to use new Induction feature to help with complexity

Replenishment Setup – Extensive use of Replenishment across attendees – Challenges and manual processes for Replenishment in RMS (item and location lists)

– Interest in including Induction in Replenishment (Roadmap item)

Ranging Locations – Most customers range all items to all locations: support pricing of returns, stores ordering of items

Other – Clearance Ranging and buyer packs

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Upgrade and Patching Best Practices

Upgrade and Patching Best Practices Open Discussion – Key Discussion Points:

• General effort level of upgrades is large – Testing and technical changes (i.e. Java) – Regression test existing functionality first and then new functionality

• Staying close to current release helps reduce overall effort – Technology may drive need for upgrade

• Desire for better visibility for what is new and what is fixed in upcoming versions – MOS Knowledge Base

• Compatibility matrix: Tech Stack Support Notice Doc ID 857142.1

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Allocation Roundtable – Discussion Points

Allocation overview presentation and view to Dashboards in newer versions Some use of external system (MFP, Spreadsheet) to do planning and push

to Allocation to execute Desire for ability to constrain allocations based on shelf/display space:

don’t allocate more than can be put on display

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Allocation Prioritization Process

30 different requirements provided – broken into 8 categories – UI Enhancements, Demand Source, Prioritization, Manual Allocation, Store Orders,

Integration, Documentation and Other

Top votes went to: – UI Enhancements – Manual Allocation – Integration

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Technology from a Business Perspective

Open Q&A with a cross section of Oracle Development, Solution Management and other key Merchandising teams – RPM performance discussions – Specific functional questions across applications – Requirement on roadmap

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Follow Up Items

Plan for Future Sessions based on in depth discussions – V16 – November session – Joint Merch and Tech session on RPM performance – Clearance Reset and Location Moves session Materials:

– Merchandising Functional Library (MOS: Doc ID 1585843.1) • Includes white papers on many topics including Replenishment and Allocation

– Compatibility Matrix: MOS Doc ID 857142.1 – Patch Value Proposition Documents – Merch V12-V15: Doc ID 1996991.1

• https://support.oracle.com/rs?type=doc&id=1996991.1 – Oracle Retail 15.0.x Release Value Propositions (RVP) (Doc ID 2061335.1)

• https://support.oracle.com/rs?type=doc&id=2061335.1

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