Oracle Fusion Cloud 26C: what changed

Import B2B XML invoices in Fusion Payables with supplier Remit-to Bank Account Number and Supplier IBAN using the Collaboration Messaging. The Collaboration Messaging inbound payload containing the supplier external bank account information, are interfaced to Fusion Payables.

Import midlife leases with exempt payments by capturing accrued expense migration balances and recognizing exempt payments as expenses evenly over the remaining lease term.

Correct active ownership definitions and rebill affected joint venture transactions. This enhancement eliminates the need to end an active ownership definition and create a new one when ownership changes are required.

Automatically create intercompany transactions, intercompany invoices, and accounting entries by enabling autoapproval of intercompany transactions. This feature streamlines intercompany processing while maintaining the flexibility to apply manual controls when required.

Assign a control budget when creating a budget from revenue using the Create Budget Entry from Revenue process. The assignment of a control budget aligns the expense budget scenario to a control budget when importing the budget into both Budgetary Control and General Ledger.

Generate lease amortization schedules and accounting entries for the secondary representation using a calculation calendar that is different from the primary representation.

Use carried interest payout processing to configure penalties associated with carried interest agreements. Track the costs, revenue, and balances being carried for non-consenting stakeholders; report on payout balances to the stakeholders; and close agreements after final payout.

Select a carrier for goods fiscal documents created from Receivables transaction and include the carrier’s address, taxpayer ID, and tax registration information in the fiscal document XML.

The Cash Processing Agent improves cash processing exception handling and increases cash application matching accuracy. It combines AI-assisted cash processing automation with guided insights to help users identify and resolve exceptions more efficiently.

Use enhanced revenue recognition support for allowance-based usage rating models in Oracle Subscription Management. You can now manage revenue recognition for subscriptions where customers purchase a defined quantity-based allowance, consume against that allowance during a balance period, purchase top-ups, roll over unused allowance, and incur overage when usage exceeds the available allowance- all this in accordance…

Record lease impairments by capturing impairment percentages and recoverable values separately for primary and secondary representations. Lease administrators can create impairment transactions to write down the right-of-use asset balances for each representation, supporting compliance with varying regulatory or reporting requirements across different jurisdictions.

Capture separate right-of-use asset and accumulated amortization balances for both primary and secondary representations when importing midlife expense leases. Record either gross or net right-of-use asset balances and their corresponding accumulated amortization for each representation during the migration of lease portfolios.

Use the Rebill Source Transaction field in the Create or Edit Transaction page to associate a rebill invoice with its original invoice, improving traceability during rebill transactions.

Use the Receivables transaction date as the fiscal document date when generating fiscal documents. This capability supports business scenarios that require issuing a fiscal document with a past date, such as recognizing ICMS tax credits for fixed assets or aligning transaction recognition with the appropriate fiscal document period.

Reassign performance obligations between revenue contracts to correct any misidentified contract arrangements, ensuring that obligations originating from multiple orders are accurately consolidated into a single contract.

Our ongoing investment in service excellence has a focus on overall usability, resiliency, performance, and security. This work is based on monitoring performance trends, reviewing common use patterns, analyzing service requests, and participating in many discussions with customers.

Retirement Assistant is designed to simplify and streamline the asset retirement process through an intuitive conversational experience that helps fixed asset accountants submit, review, and process retirement activity more efficiently.

This dashboard enables users to review intra-role access violations. For the selected access algorithm(s), the Intra-Role Access Violations Dashboard includes:

Use a pre-built dashboard to monitor requesters’ access request activity and approvals based on the new Advanced Access Requests subject area introduced in 26B.

Use the Additional Satisfaction Events REST API to release revenue on performance obligations by recording the completion of customer acceptance, payments, or service provisioning events.

Procure to Pay - Asset Acquisition, Maintenance, and Lease: The “Transaction-addAsset” service of the ERP Integration REST API supports the following additional attributes in 26C, which can now be added during asset addition:

Automatically generate periodic invoices and recognize revenue for equipment leases. Lease administrators can invoice lessees for rent, service, maintenance, and other charges defined in the lease.

Generate and report fiscal documents in Brazilian Real for shipments associated with sales orders entered in foreign currency. The process automatically converts foreign currency amounts to the local currency and displays the converted values on the Fiscal Document page and in the XML sent to the tax authority.

The Budget Adjustment Assistant helps budget office users create budget entries using natural language for control budgets sourced from Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) .

Cash Processing Agent The Cash Processing Agent for Cash Positioning and Improved Liquidity helps cash managers review daily liquidity through an insights-driven conversational experience.

You can control the Connections experience with the Configure Page Properties feature. You can now apply these settings with conditional rules based on:

Enhance the user experience by letting users directly access the following Redwood-enabled HCM pages where the Redwood profile option is turned on by default in 26D.

Enhance the user experience by letting users directly access the following Redwood-enabled Employment pages where the Redwood profile option is turned on by default in 27A.

Effective from release 26D, the Redwood person pages will be enabled by default. This update was initially planned for release 26C, but it's being moved to release 26D.

Learning specialists can now manage assignment status changes with more precise control. Some actions were already available in Redwood, and this release adds new restrictions and expands support for specific statuses.

These Redwood catalog management enhancements let you manage courses, offerings, events, self-paced learning, learning paths, catalog security, and catalog administration more efficiently.

We have enhanced the sync of local tax jurisdictions to the employee’s Tax Withholding card to provide more consistent, controlled, and auditable behavior. When you create or update a valid address (latitude/longitude present), the system automatically synchronizes any affected local tax jurisdictions from the Tax Jurisdiction card to the following regional components on the tax card.

The following Payroll setup pages are now available in the Redwood user experience: Oracle Search for HCM is now integrated within these setup pages.

This feature delivers a detailed online tax calculation statement for a specific employee and payroll run. Access the content using the new Tax Calculation Statement tab on the Person Results page.

Enhancements were made to the Tax Credit Information pages to support additional fields for the federal and provincial forms. These enhancements impact both the employee self-service and the professional Tax Credit Information pages.

Two new enhancements to the compensatory time integration are being introduced in this release. Entry-Level Approval Support for Payroll Users

You can now use Visual Builder studios to further extend the Redwood absence entry page. Extend the enhanced Redwood Absence entry page which now supports guided journeys, setting up of default values, and allows to show or hide buttons based on user roles.

Two new enhancements to the compensatory time integration are being introduced in this release. With this enhancement, when customers use the Timecard Approval ELA task, compensatory time earned entries are now sent to Absence Management as soon as each individual time entry is approved.

Previously, we introduced a feature in 26B to display unpaid break on the absence Redwood pages when the break is automatically deducted from the absence duration.

When you enter absences against past or future assignments using the enhanced Redwood pages, the date picker now allows selection of only the valid dates for the chosen assignment.

You can now configure absence plans to mandate reason selection when disbursing balances. You can define your list of acceptable reasons using the new ORA_ANC_DISBURSEMENT_REASONS lookup code.

Previously, if an employee edited and resubmitted an already approved absence, the status changed to Awaiting Approval status and the employee could withdraw the absence without the manager's approval.

Absence Management enables users to record absences for past assignments that concluded within the last year, as well as, for all active future assignments. You can now further refine these options using two new page properties in the Visual Builder Studio.

Benefits Redwood page properties can now use rules in Visual Builder Studio. Previously, page properties were typically configured as static values, such as enabling or disabling a setting, adding a guided journey, or defining text for the welcome area.

Certification-related pending actions in Redwood Benefits now display document type names based on Benefits configuration. Previously, the document type shown in the panel drawer was derived from the Document of Record (DOR) document types.

The Benefits Analyst Agent now includes additional tools to answer more Benefits-related questions for employees. The agent continues to answer questions only for the logged-in employee.

Benefits administrators now have greater flexibility when a certification document has already been approved and a later life event requires additional documentation.

You can now preview the supported certification attachments directly in the Redwood Benefits Summary page of Benefits Service Center. PDF and image attachments open in an inline preview.

Benefits administrators can now simulate a life event for a person from the Benefits Summary page. The simulation allows administrators to: The simulation is read-only.

Employees can now upload required certification documents in Redwood Self-Service Benefits after the enrollment window closes, provided the certification action item is associated with the employee’s latest life event.

Redwood is the new user interface for Oracle Transportation and Global Trade Management. The 26C "Try the New Redwood Experience" extends the Redwood Experience by adding an additional set of UIs that have been migrated to the modern look and unified user interface provided by Redwood.

Redwood is the new user interface for Oracle Transportation and Global Trade Management. The 26C "Try the New Redwood Experience" extends the Redwood Experience by adding an additional set of UIs that have been migrated to the modern look and unified user interface provided by Redwood.

This feature provides you with a set of thirty pre-seeded OTM/GTM business objects that are available within the AI Agent Studio to simplify the development of your AI Agents.

This feature enables you to copy dates and zone status information from your inventory to an exit declaration. When moving goods out of a Free Trade Zone (FTZ), you must create an exit declaration.

This feature introduces enhancements to the Restricted Party Screening Workbench. Business Benefit: This enhancement improves the usability and efficiency of the Restricted Party Screening Workbench by:

This feature enhances license management to better support scenarios that use both license reservation and license assignment. With these enhancements, you can: License management enables you to reserve license quantities and values upon receipt of a sales order to help ensure compliance.

A new Entry-Exit Configuration section is now available for Trade Incentive Programs. This enhancement provides greater flexibility when configuring trade incentive programs, including: Within the Entry-Exit Configuration section, you can define the following:

This feature changes the behavior for the Enhanced Workbench Inline Edit so that the External ID (XID) is now always shown. Previously, the option to switch from the Global Identifier (GID) to the External Identifier (XID) was controlled using the Logic Configuration Parameter SHOW XID IN INLINE EDIT.

This feature incorporates several of the Redwood style elements into the Enhanced Workbench. The enhancements provided include the following: Enhanced Workbench - Redwood Theme Improvements

This feature allows you to designate a party in your party master as either prohibited or trusted by assigning a new status. This status provides greater control over how parties are handled during screening.

The Type ID is now available in the Trade Transaction Line and Declaration Line user interfaces. Business Benefit: This enhancement improves visibility and access to transaction type and declaration type information directly within key workflow pages.

This feature provides you with a set of thirty pre-seeded OTM/GTM business objects that are available within the AI Agent Studio to simplify the development of your AI Agents.

This feature provides you with the option of copying your Parameter Override. The new Copy Parameter Override action can be found by navigating to Logistics Network Modeling > Power Data > Parameter Overrides.

This feature changes the behavior for the Enhanced Workbench Inline Edit so that the External ID (XID) is now always shown. Previously, the option to switch from the Global Identifier (GID) to the External Identifier (XID) was controlled using the Logic Configuration Parameter SHOW XID IN INLINE EDIT.

The Multi-Day Calendar Override feature allows you to define both a start date and time and an end date and time for your calendar override entries. With the addition of the end date, you can now apply closures or schedule exceptions across a continuous date range without needing to create multiple records.

This feature introduces the ability for you (the planner) to upload and share documents directly within the tendering workflow. Document Actions have been added to the Spot Bid Tender screen, the Online Booking and Tendering (OBT) screen, and the (buy) Shipment to support the use case.

This feature provides visibility to the Rate Service in external rate shopping setups where a Rate Offering setup can apply to multiple Rate Service options. In the Change Service Provider action results, you can now clearly see and select the full-service combination, including the rate service.

This feature incorporates several of the Redwood style elements into the Enhanced Workbench. The enhancements provided include the following: Enhanced Workbench - Redwood Theme Improvements

The Wave Research Advisor AI Agent now supports additional wave-related operational inquiries, enabling warehouse personnel to obtain more detailed allocation information through natural language interactions.

Pick and Allocate now validates picked inventory against an Expiry Date Range rule before allocation. A new mobile screen parameter , Expiry Date Range Rule, controls this behaviour.

Direct Allocation now supports expiry date validation during allocation. A new screen parameter, Expiry Date Range Rule , lets customers define which expiry date range rule WMS applies when users allocate inventory from a scanned LPN or pallet to an order.

Warehouses use flowthrough to move received inventory directly to outbound orders instead of storing it first. When several orders can receive the same inventory, users need a consistent way to decide which inventory should flow through and which order should receive it.

Warehouse operators and supervisors can now view real-time shipment receiving progress directly within Mobile receiving transactions. The enhancement provides shipment-level visibility into key receiving metrics, allowing users to monitor receiving progress without navigating to other screens or running reports.

UPS Standard integration now supports international shipping to Canada by sending invoice line total information. You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Warehouse managers need a simple way to review how employees spend time during the day. They need visibility into facility time, work area activity, and break time so they can understand labor usage, identify gaps, and support daily workforce decisions.

Deploy the Surrogate Response Assistant to automate creation of supplier negotiation responses. This new AI Agent template enables category managers to create surrogate responses from supplier response documents received in email.

Use the Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration Supply Requests REST API and the Supply Order Import FBDI template to create transfer orders with header level descriptive flexfields.

Supply Chain Orchestration now supports receiving find numbers for substituted components from Oracle Supply Chain Planning and passing them to Oracle Manufacturing during work order creation.

Cancel approved work confirmations as a buyer. Before this update, you couldn't cancel approved work confirmations.

Add multiple email recipients when communicating purchase agreements to suppliers. You can now notify internal stakeholders and additional supplier contacts through the same email sent when a new purchase agreement or change order is issued.

Select multiple schedules and edit the cost center and natural account segments directly from the Purchase Orders page. You can choose to split partially delivered or billed distributions, and the application will update the segments on the new distribution for the unprocessed remainder.

Review the B2B account number associated with a supplier on purchasing documents using Redwood purchasing pages. Use the supplier information drawer to review the B2B account number when viewing a purchasing document.

Use extensibility capabilities to set a default document style when creating purchasing documents using the Redwood experience. You can now define a default document style for the New purchase order and New agreement drawers, as well as for staged documents.

View additional information about supplier, ship-to location, bill-to location, and deliver-to location when viewing purchase orders and purchase agreements using a Redwood page.

This update includes some bug fixes that can change the way Oracle External Purchase Prices works. This isn't a full list of all the bug fixes in this update.

This update includes some bug fixes that can change the way Oracle Purchasing works. This isn't a full list of all the bug fixes in this update.

This update includes a bug fix that can change the way Oracle Sourcing works. This isn't a full list of all the bug fixes in this update.

You can now view additional information about the preparers, requesters, buyers, and approvers on requisitions and purchase orders. In addition to details such as name, job title, manager name, and department, you can also view contact information such as email, work phone, and work address.

You can now access shopping cart details directly while creating a requisition, which improves visibility and makes navigation easier during the request creation process.

Use the Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration Supply Requests REST API and the Supply Order Import FBDI template to create transfer orders with header level descriptive flexfields.

Supply Chain Orchestration now supports receiving find numbers for substituted components from Oracle Supply Chain Planning and passing them to Oracle Manufacturing during work order creation.

This enhancement improves the confirmation message you receive after creating a noncatalog or smart form request. You can select Create another request with the same supplier to create a new request with the same supplier information that was entered.

In update 26B, we introduced the Identify Attachments and Notes on Requisition Lines feature, which displays an icon next to requisition lines with notes or attachments in the shopping cart and on the Requisition Line Details page.

In update 25D, we introduced the AI Agent: Quote to Purchase Requisition Assistant feature, which parses emails containing supplier quotations and automatically converts them into purchase requisitions.

Catalog administrators can now manage public shopping lists using a Redwood experience. After opting into this feature, you can access the Redwood Public Shopping Lists page from the quick links under Catalogs.

Manage shopping catalog category hierarchies using a Redwood page to create, manage, and reorganize procurement catalog categories for browsing and shopping. You can access the Shopping Catalog Category Hierarchy page from the quick links under Catalogs.

Search for deliver-to locations using additional attributes in the Self Service Procurement application. With ‘More search options’ on location LOVs, you can filter your search by these attributes: The enhanced deliver-to location search, previously available in the Preferences drawer, is now available on these pages:

Easier Access to Charge Account Combination Details With this update, you can more easily review charge account combination details in both edit and read-only modes.

Sort shopping search results by item number and supplier item. This feature is also available for shopping lists.

You can now view additional information about the deliver-to location on a requisition line, including the address of the location and location code. To use this feature, use the link for the deliver-to location when viewing a requisition line.

Cancel and rebill project contract invoices with a single action. Rebill invoices contain the same invoice lines and transactions as the original invoice when the cancel and rebill invoice action is initiated without performing any transaction-level adjustments, thereby allowing adjustments as needed on the rebill before resending them to the customer.

Leverage Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence, or OTBI, to report on labor commitment information for project planning and control. Labor commitment reporting helps you analyze future labor commitments and related cost distributions so you can validate project spend, review commitment liquidation, and manage labor-related project costs more efficiently.

Enable project managers to view a detailed approval history for each milestone, including status changes, initiators, approvers, and timestamps for all approval actions.

Extract data with improved reliability and speed, with less impact on core application performance. The simplified extraction experience includes support for full or incremental extracts, on-demand runs or schedules, and status monitoring.

Specifying ship-to details on contract lines may be unnecessary when billing for projects or professional services, or when ship-to information is not used as a sales tax determinant.

Drive program success with AI-enabled program analysis and actionable plans. Oracle AI helps uncover program-specific trends and generates actionable recommendations, empowering data-driven decision-making and optimizing program execution.

Reduce time spent on report writing with AI-powered summaries for project programs. Generative AI automatically drafts summaries highlighting key achievements, insights, and recommendations.

Helps users create recurring invoice and revenue events for eligible external fixed-price contracts through a guided conversational experience. The assistant validates the contract or contract line, billing frequency, event type, contract line dates, contract line amount, and existing event details.

Investigate project capitalization issues through a guided, conversational experience. Project accountants can review pending capitalization costs for a project, narrow large result sets by business dimensions such as transaction source, task, or expenditure type, and diagnose why selected project cost transactions didn’t generate asset lines.

Leverage generative AI to create a change order from a project issue. For issues that need a change order, using the information available in the issue, the project manager can now create a change order effortlessly.

Create a comprehensive summary of a project change order with a single click. The summary highlighting the impact of the change order on the project financials helps align stakeholders with project updates and eases approvals.

Helps users find, review, and summarize bill transactions through a guided conversational experience, enabling faster billing review and decision-making. Use the Project Contract Bill Transactions Assistant to:

The Project Contract Invoicing Assistant enables you to search and review invoices by business unit, customer, contract number, and status. It also allows you to process invoices to Released status after review and create cancel credit invoices for original standard invoices.

Validate project contracts by checking delivered and custom validation rules, providing resolution details, and enabling corrective action using the Project Contract Validation Assistant .

Reconcile project contracts with attached customer purchase order documents by comparing key attributes and identifying mismatches so corrective action can be taken.

Reconcile project contracts with attached sales orders by comparing key attributes and identifying mismatches so corrective action can be taken. This automated reconciliation helps reduce contract approval cycles, accelerate funding, and achieve faster invoicing and revenue recognition.

Perform project cost transfer adjustments for individual transactions using natural language prompts. Transfer costs across projects, tasks, awards, and funding sources, and adjust attributes such as cost type and project role.

Identify and analyze unprocessed project cost exceptions using natural language requests. The assistant streamlines exception investigation and resolution by summarizing and categorizing exceptions and proposing resolution options for each type of exception.

Gain clear insight into project costs, capitalization, and billing to improve financial oversight and keep projects aligned with business objectives. With the Project Financial Control Agents, project teams can quickly understand cost distribution flows and monitor financial progress through guided, conversational interactions.

Improve project oversight with timely performance insights and guided analysis throughout the project lifecycle. Project Performance Agents analyze project performance data in the background and surface proactive insights when defined conditions are met.

Accelerate project delivery by transforming business inputs into execution-ready project plans, adapting to change faster, and enabling more informed planning decisions throughout the project lifecycle.

Accelerate project delivery with faster project initiation and governed budget planning using the Project Planning Workspace. Initiate projects from Statements of Work, Requests for Proposal, sales opportunities, or natural-language prompts.

Create a comprehensive project proposal that covers project objectives, scope, timeline, budget estimates, and staffing plans, using Oracle AI during project planning.

In organizations enabled for advanced scheduling, maintenance technicians can now clock in and clock out for an operation to track execution time accurately. When the first technician clocks in to an assigned and qualified operation, the operation is automatically started and the actual start date is updated.

Maintenance technicians can now create and manage follow-up work orders directly from a source work order to track additional maintenance issues discovered during or after execution.

Maintenance technicians can now edit work order details directly from My Maintenance Work , Preview Work , and Report Work pages. This enhancement provides in-context access to the Edit Work Order page, so technicians can make updates without leaving their current workflow.

In the previous release, you could track rework activities and costs for materials and resources in the original work order that produces a product. For significant or complex rework, a dedicated process may be required for operational visibility and detailed tracking of the physical quantity being reworked, but without the additional steps of completing into inventory to rework in another work order.

Manufacturing and inventory teams need an accurate, repeatable way to size Kanban replenishment, so point-of-use materials stay available without driving excess inventory.

You can now resolve selected fulfillment, functional, and technical order exceptions directly from the Oracle Exception Assistant. You can also review affected orders and lines, understand why processing stopped, and take guided actions such as processing pending fulfillment responses, canceling eligible tasks, recovering orders, checking availability, or continuing orchestration.

You can use the Redwood user experience to manage order promising for sales order lines collected from an order management system. Use search criteria to filter and select order lines, then prioritize and schedule them in required sequence.

Work definitions are defined at the maintenance organization level based on organization-specific work areas, work centers, material items, and resources. In this update, if you have work definitions with the same scope across multiple maintenance organizations, you can manage them globally.

You can now use the AI agentic application named Inventory Planning Command Center to quickly analyze replenishment plan stockouts and receive actionable recommendations to resolve them.

Use the Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration Supply Requests REST API and the Supply Order Import FBDI template to create transfer orders with header level descriptive flexfields.

Supply Chain Orchestration now supports receiving find numbers for substituted components from Oracle Supply Chain Planning and passing them to Oracle Manufacturing during work order creation.

In manufacturing and distribution environments with many items that have minor differences, it’s easier to plan at an aggregate level, such as a product family, and have automated mechanisms to disaggregate the forecast to items.

You can now use the Redwood interface to compare a plan to its archived versions. You can select a total of three plans and archived versions.

You can now use the Redwood interface to compare a plan to its archived versions. You can select a total of three plans and archived versions.

You can use the Redwood user experience to add, edit, and manage AI Agents as links tied to specific visualization, such as a table or a graph. The links can be reused across plans that include the visualization and can be edited or deleted by the link owner.

You can use the Redwood user experience to add, edit, and manage AI Agents as links tied to specific visualization, such as a table or a graph. The links can be reused across plans that include the visualization and can be edited or deleted by the link owner.

You can now navigate between planning pages using deep links that preserve context such as plan, page, page group, visualization, and filter details. It improves analysis efficiency by directly accessing relevant pages or visualizations with up to five filter context values applied.

You can now use the asterisk (*) wildcard in searches to accelerate discovery of content across key areas: pages, page groups, visualizations (including the content library), and measures in Edit Properties and Build Plan.

You can now use the asterisk (*) wildcard in searches to accelerate discovery of content across key areas: pages, page groups, visualizations (including the content library), and measures in Edit Properties and Build Plan.

You can now create, edit, delete, and apply analysis sets from the Visualizations and Analysis Sets page in Redwood. Analysis sets let you save commonly used measures and members and apply them to tables and graphs or use them as focused data views without creating filters.

You can now create, edit, delete, and apply analysis sets from the Visualizations and Analysis Sets page in Redwood. Analysis sets let you save commonly used measures and members and apply them to tables and graphs or use them as focused data views without creating filters.

Stacked Visualizations lets you assemble multiple analytic layers, such as line, stacked bar, area, scatter, waterfall graphs, and pivot-table snapshots, into one composite view.

Stacked Visualizations lets you assemble multiple analytic layers, such as line, stacked bar, area, scatter, waterfall graphs, and pivot-table snapshots, into one composite view.

In previous updates, using the classic interface, you could configure tables and graphs to easily visualize trends and comparisons across plans and plan versions.

In previous updates, using the classic interface, you could configure tables and graphs to easily visualize trends and comparisons across plans and plan versions.