Oracle’s Receipt Accounting and Landed Costs Redwood Office Hours provides overall program and technical guidance for SCM Redwood migration. The material also includes a dedicated SCM Redwood Office Hours – Inventory section, focused on Core Inventory Redwood adoption, roadmap guidance, resources and FAQs.
For Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM customers, this update is important because Redwood is becoming more than a modern user interface. Across receipt accounting, landed costs and inventory management, Redwood introduces new workbenches, improved search, AI-enabled summaries, audit-focused pages, real-time operational visibility and guided user experiences. The result is a stronger foundation for continuous close, landed cost analysis, inventory visibility and smarter supply chain execution.
Redwood for Receipt Accounting: Designed for Continuous Close
Oracle positions the next generation of Receipt Accounting in Redwood around continuous monitoring, faster close and better accrual visibility. The new Redwood landing page includes scorecards tailored for continuous monitoring, while the 360-degree view provides comprehensive visibility into account-level accrual balances. Oracle also highlights the Supplier Receipt Accrual Assistant, targeted for 26A, to help clear accruals faster with policy-backed confidence. This matters because receipt accounting teams often spend considerable time reviewing open balances, investigating purchase orders, substantiating accruals and preparing for period close. Redwood helps bring these activities into a more centralized and guided experience.
The material also highlights a Workbench View that provides centralized access to transactions, distributions and accrual accounting data with in-app navigation. It also calls out enhanced data explainability, GenAI-based summaries, faster search, improved error resolution, audit-optimized pages and analytics to trace landed cost drivers.
Accrual and Expense Management Enhancements
Oracle’s Redwood enhancements allow users to review accrual, expense and intercompany balances in one unified interface. Users can quickly review open balances, investigate specific purchase orders and reconcile or substantiate balances through an optimized workbench. This improves the period-close process because teams no longer need to rely only on disconnected review steps. The Redwood workbench supports continuous review, audit readiness and faster close activities. Oracle also highlights mass accrual clearing support with improved performance and enhanced usability for triaging open accruals.
Account and PO Distribution-Level Visibility
One of the strongest areas in the Redwood update is visibility across account and purchase order distribution levels. Oracle highlights enhanced accrual reconciliation at both account and PO distribution levels, with summary views and drill-down capabilities. Users can navigate between open balances at PO and GL account levels and identify accounts with aged balances older than 90 days. This helps accounting and audit teams understand not only that a balance exists, but also the underlying transactions contributing to it. For finance teams managing large receipt volumes, aged accrual visibility can help focus investigation on balances that require priority review.
Improved Exception and Audit Capabilities
Oracle’s Redwood update includes stronger exception and audit features. Users can manage exceptions with user-definable business rules for defaulting and editing, filter records cleared automatically versus manually, and identify cleared records by process ID and rule name. This is important for organizations that need clear accounting traceability. Audit teams need to understand which records were cleared, why they were cleared, whether the action was automatic or manual and what rule or process supported the activity. Redwood’s audit-focused capabilities help bring more structure and transparency to receipt accounting operations.
Reimagined Landed Cost Journey
Oracle describes the Landed Cost journey in Redwood as a reimagined flow to create, update, review and analyze landed cost charges. The new workbench view supports landed cost functional flows, transfer orders, trade operations, landed cost allocation for transfer order receipts and quick creation of trade operations.
Landed cost management is critical because true item cost often includes more than purchase price. Freight, duties, insurance, handling, trade charges and transfer-related costs can affect item valuation, margins and sourcing decisions. Oracle also highlights advanced analytics and insights for landed costs, including summarized landed cost insights, visibility into cost drivers, charges versus variances, landed cost views for purchase orders and transfer orders, and estimates versus actuals traceability.
Generative AI in Receipt Accounting
Oracle’s material highlights GenAI capabilities in receipt accounting and accrual clearing. Generative AI can help accountants and auditors quickly generate summaries of reasons used to clear accruals and understand write-offs where reasons were not documented properly. The FAQ section further explains that GenAI can automatically generate accrual clearing summaries and create auditable reasons for clearing accruals. Oracle also lists the Supplier Receipt Accrual Assistant Agent as an agent capability targeted for 26A. The visual on page 29 shows a GenAI-generated accrual clearing summary, while page 30 shows GenAI generating an accrual clearing reason for compliance. This is a practical enterprise AI use case because audit explanations and close documentation require clarity, consistency and supporting context.
Receipt Accounting and Landed Costs Redwood Roadmap
Oracle’s roadmap states that by 25D, all receipt accounting pages from 24D and landed cost pages from 25D have been migrated to Redwood. The roadmap lists Supplier Receipt Accrual Assistant Agent for 26A and Redwood enhancements based on customer input, including Export to Excel, for 26B+. Oracle includes a safe harbor statement explaining that roadmap content outlines general product direction and is not a commitment to deliver specific functionality, timing or pricing. For customers, the implication is clear: Redwood readiness should be planned now, but roadmap-dependent items should be validated against confirmed release documentation before implementation decisions.
Redwood Adoption and Classic Screens
Oracle’s FAQ clarifies that the release from which Redwood becomes mandatory will be communicated to SCM customers, and that the decision will apply to the entire SCM pillar rather than being enforced only at the product level. The material also states that Redwood pages are optional for the time being and can be turned on or off through profile options. However, in an upcoming release, Redwood pages will become the default and users will not be able to switch back to the classic version of the page. This makes Redwood adoption a practical planning priority. Customers should not wait until the final transition point. They should review profile options, privileges, readiness documents, background processes, business flows and user training requirements early.
Why Upgrade to Redwood for Receipt Accounting and Landed Costs?
Oracle’s FAQ lists four key reasons to upgrade: enhanced visibility into transactional and accounting data with redesigned distributions, access to the Accrual Workbench for streamlined reconciliation, AI-driven features available exclusively in Redwood, and a modern interface with improved efficiency for receipt accounting and landed costs. This creates a strong business case for Redwood adoption across finance and supply chain accounting functions. The move to Redwood is not only about a new look. It provides capabilities that support faster reconciliation, better visibility, AI-enabled documentation and improved close processes.
Data Visibility Requirements in Redwood
Oracle’s FAQ provides important implementation guidance. If users upgrade to Redwood but cannot see data, they should review the readiness documentation and add all privileges and access requirements for the Redwood page, including Web Service privileges. If users still do not see transactional data despite having privileges enabled, Oracle recommends adding filters to the search criteria.
Oracle also explains that certain Redwood pages do not display data until required background processes are completed. For example, Accrual Balances by Account requires the Match Receipt Accruals process, and Open Accrual Balances requires the Create Receipt Accruals process. This is because data is summarized for performance optimization. This is critical for project teams. Redwood migration requires more than enabling pages. It also requires privilege validation, process execution, summarized data readiness and proper search filtering.
Accrual Management Workbench as a Period-Close Tool
Oracle describes the Accrual Management Workbench as a reimagined comprehensive period-close tool. Key capabilities include inbuilt notes, GenAI support for audit-ready descriptions and summaries, stronger compliance and audit features, faster data access, precomputed accrual summaries, smarter search, mass write-off, bulk reversal, improved performance and reconciliation at both account and PO distribution levels. The page 22 visual shows the Accrual Balances by Account view, which presents account-level accrual balances and supporting details for investigation. For finance teams, this workbench can become a central operating area for accrual monitoring, exception review and period-close readiness.
What’s New in Landed Cost Redwood?
Oracle’s landed cost FAQ states that Redwood provides a seamless experience to create, update, review and analyze landed cost charges. It supports automatic population of common values from setup, intuitive search, filtering, navigation and clear visibility into allocated amounts and charges. It also includes Transfer Order and Purchase Order Estimation Experience for documents requiring landed cost processing. The page 24 visual shows a Redwood landed cost page for creating, updating, reviewing and analyzing landed cost charges. For sourcing and procurement teams, this creates better visibility into landed cost drivers. For finance teams, it improves traceability and cost review.
Quick Create for Landed Cost Charges
Oracle’s material explains that users can use Quick Add Charges to add charges to any trade operation. The quick add feature prepopulates most attributes from setup and helps users manage multiple charges with minimal effort. The page 26 visual shows the Quick Create Landed Cost Charges screen, including charge list, charge name, charge basis, amount, supplier, supplier site and charge currency fields. This capability reduces manual input and supports faster charge setup for trade operations.
Receipt Accounting Home Page
The Redwood Receipt Accounting Home Experience gives users visibility into recent process runs, GL period status and aged accrual balances. Oracle states that users can view operational health and exception details for Receipt Accounting and Landed Cost processes from the past 30 days, drill down into errors, see period-end validation exceptions, switch periods for targeted review and monitor receipt accruals over 90 days old. This supports continuous monitoring and helps teams address exceptions before they become close bottlenecks.
Redwood Inventory: Next-Generation Inventory in the Cloud
The Inventory section of the material positions Redwood Inventory around improved inventory experience, consistent experience across devices and powerful guided workflows. Oracle highlights simplified inventory transactions, visibility to shortages and stockouts across organizations for critical items, faster task completion, simplified configuration for subinventories and item transaction defaults, responsive experience across devices and AI-supported item shortage or material expiration analysis. This is important because inventory users often need to act quickly. They need visibility into stock, shortages, in-transit quantities, replenishment needs and expiration risks across organizations.
Redwood Inventory New Features
Oracle lists new Redwood Inventory features including the Inventory Management Landing Page, mass maintenance of subinventories and locators, PAR Count monitoring, real-time Shortage Workbench monitoring and notifications/actions for expiring lots. These features support day-to-day inventory control and exception management. Instead of waiting for reports or manual checks, users can monitor key inventory conditions directly inside Redwood.
Where to Start with Redwood Inventory
Oracle recommends that customers get started now and build a migration plan. To simplify adoption, Oracle suggests starting small with quick wins: Item Quantities, Item Supply and Demand and Completed Inventory Transactions. This is a practical adoption path. Inventory teams can begin with high-value, lower-complexity areas before expanding to broader Redwood inventory workflows. A phased approach helps reduce risk and improves user confidence.
Cloud Inventory Redwood Roadmap
Oracle’s Cloud Inventory Redwood Roadmap lists several capabilities delivered for 25D, including updating scheduled ship dates for transfer order shipment lines, automatically adding new items to cycle counts and ABC assignment groups, retaining user changes to saved search column display and order, adding a new line to a transfer order, tracking material expiration using an AI agent, accessing setup tasks through Quick Actions and performing cycle counts using locators.
The roadmap also lists targeted 26A capabilities such as counting lot and serial numbers in quantity-tracked PAR locations, purging cycle count schedules, lot-specific unit-of-measure conversions, item description on Item Quantities, alternate language translations, min-max and PAR level review before updates, document output preferences for label printing and license plate numbers in electronic records. Additional targeted AI agents include Cycle Count Analysis Advisor, Inventory Aging Advisor, Stock Location Advisor, Inventory Reservation Assistant and Inventory Tasking Assistant.
Redwood Inventory Prerequisites and Business Rules
Oracle’s FAQ states that Redwood pages for Inventory Management can be enabled using profile options. For customization, Oracle states that business rules can be configured in Visual Builder Studio to hide fields and mark fields as required, optional, editable or read-only. However, Oracle notes that Redwood Inventory Management should be extended in Express mode only, and that Advanced mode changes may not be compatible with future updates. This is a key technical governance point. Customers should avoid unsupported or risky extension approaches and align personalization strategy with Oracle’s guidance.
Processing Inventory Transactions in Redwood
Oracle confirms that users can use Redwood Inventory Management to process inventory transactions. Item Quantities can be used to view on-hand, receiving and in-transit quantities and initiate transactions such as transfer orders, miscellaneous transactions, cycle count requests, movement request issue and transfer, material status changes, subinventory transfers, interorganization transfers, project transfers and lot grade changes. Users can also use the Inbound link in the organization view to view in-transit quantities for items shipped through purchase orders, transfer orders, in-transit shipments or requisitions. The Shipment link provides shipment details or scheduled shipment dates. This gives inventory users a stronger operational view from item quantity review to transaction action.
Shortage Workbench and Inventory AI Agents
Oracle states that users can view shortages and stockouts for critical items using the Shortage Workbench. Users can initiate actions to request additional supply, move material to a location or adjust min-max or PAR levels. Oracle also confirms that Inventory Management includes advisory agents. The Item Shortage Analysis Advisor helps inventory managers assess, analyze and resolve shortages and stockouts. The Material Expiration Advisor provides expiry insights for lots, lot quantities, supply-demand visibility and supports movement requests and interorganization transfers for expiring lots. These AI-driven capabilities directly support two common inventory challenges: avoiding shortages and managing expiry risk.
PAR Counts, Cycle Counts and Inventory Controls
Oracle confirms that PAR counts can be entered offline for locations without internet connectivity if offline counting is enabled for the PAR location. Users can also automatically adjust on-hand quantities for quantity-tracked PAR locations by entering PAR counts. The PAR Counts Overview helps monitor PAR replenishments and their status across locations to avoid stockouts and identify errors. Oracle also states that users can perform location-based cycle counts and exclude selected locations from those counts. These capabilities are especially useful for organizations that manage distributed inventory, critical supplies, healthcare stock, service parts or replenishment-driven operations.
ERES and Spreadsheet-Based Processing
Oracle’s FAQ states that users can choose between in-line and deferred approval modes for ERES-enabled transactions, and that this is supported for both desktop and mobile-initiated transactions. Oracle also states that users can use Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel. Predefined spreadsheet templates allow processing of replenishment requests, count sequences, inventory balances, record tags and reservations. This supports operational flexibility for teams that need controlled approvals and spreadsheet-based processing options.
How NexInfo Helps with Oracle SCM Redwood Adoption
NexInfo helps organizations plan and execute Oracle SCM Redwood adoption across receipt accounting, landed cost management and inventory operations.
For this Redwood transition, NexInfo can support:
- Redwood readiness assessment
- Receipt Accounting Redwood migration planning
- Accrual Management Workbench adoption
- Landed Cost Redwood workflow review
- Inventory Redwood profile option enablement
- Business rules and VB Studio Express guidance
- Privilege and Web Service privilege validation
- Background process readiness checks
- Shortage Workbench and PAR Count rollout planning
- AI advisor adoption planning
- End-to-end testing and training
- Post-go-live support and managed services
NexInfo helps businesses move beyond basic feature activation by aligning Redwood capabilities with real supply chain, finance and inventory workflows.
Conclusion
Oracle SCM Redwood Office Hours for Receipt Accounting, Landed Costs and Inventory Management highlights a major shift in how SCM users will work inside Oracle Fusion Cloud. For Receipt Accounting and Landed Costs, Redwood delivers continuous close support, accrual workbench capabilities, account and PO distribution visibility, landed cost analytics, Quick Create charges and GenAI-supported audit explanations. For Inventory Management, Redwood provides simplified inventory transactions, item quantity visibility, shortage workbench monitoring, PAR count support, expiring lot actions, AI advisors and a roadmap for smarter inventory operations.
The direction is clear: SCM customers should begin Redwood adoption planning now. The transition requires profile options, privileges, background processes, readiness review, testing, user training and change management. With the right adoption plan, Redwood can help organizations close faster, analyze costs better, manage inventory more effectively and prepare for AI-enabled SCM operations.
FAQs
What is Oracle SCM Redwood for Receipt Accounting and Landed Costs?
It is Oracle’s modern Redwood experience for receipt accounting and landed cost workflows, including landing pages, scorecards, accrual workbench capabilities, landed cost insights, audit-focused features and GenAI-supported summaries.
What is the Accrual Management Workbench?
The Accrual Management Workbench is a reimagined period-close tool that supports notes, GenAI audit summaries, compliance controls, drill-downs, age-based views, mass write-off, bulk reversal and reconciliation at account and PO distribution levels.
What is new in Landed Cost Redwood?
Landed Cost Redwood supports creating, updating, reviewing and analyzing landed cost charges, Quick Add Charges, better search and filtering, allocated cost visibility and purchase order and transfer order estimation experiences.
What AI capabilities are available in Receipt Accounting Redwood?
Oracle highlights GenAI capabilities to generate accrual clearing summaries and auditable reasons for clearing accruals, along with the Supplier Receipt Accrual Assistant Agent targeted for 26A.
Is Redwood mandatory for SCM?
Oracle states that the release from which Redwood becomes mandatory will be communicated to SCM customers and will apply to the entire SCM pillar. Current Redwood pages are optional for now but will become default in an upcoming release.
Why might data not appear in Redwood pages?
Oracle notes that users should validate privileges, access requirements and Web Service privileges. Some pages also require background processes, such as Match Receipt Accruals or Create Receipt Accruals, before summarized data appears.
What is Redwood Inventory?
Redwood Inventory is Oracle’s modern inventory management experience that supports simplified transactions, item quantity visibility, shortage monitoring, PAR counts, expiring lot actions, mobile-friendly experiences and AI advisors.
Where should customers start with Redwood Inventory?
Oracle recommends starting with quick wins such as Item Quantities, Item Supply and Demand and Completed Inventory Transactions.
What AI agents are available for Inventory Management?
Oracle lists Item Shortage Analysis Advisor and Material Expiration Advisor. The roadmap also references targeted agents such as Cycle Count Analysis Advisor, Inventory Aging Advisor, Stock Location Advisor, Inventory Reservation Assistant and Inventory Tasking Assistant.
How can NexInfo help with SCM Redwood adoption?
NexInfo can help with readiness assessment, profile option enablement, privilege validation, workflow review, VB Studio Express guidance, testing, training, AI adoption planning and managed services for Oracle SCM Redwood adoption.