Oracle’s Receipt Accounting and Landed Costs Redwood Office Hours provide program and technical guidance for SCM Redwood migration across receipt accounting and landed cost management. The same material also includes SCM Redwood Office Hours for Inventory, focused on Core Inventory Redwood adoption, inventory roadmap, resources and frequently asked questions.
For Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM customers, this content is important because Redwood is becoming the future operating experience across supply chain functions. In receipt accounting, landed costs and inventory management, Redwood is not only a modern user interface. It introduces new workbenches, better visibility, faster search, guided experiences, analytics, AI-assisted summaries and improved operational control.
Why Redwood Matters for SCM Finance and Inventory Teams
SCM teams depend on accurate, timely and traceable information. Accountants need faster accrual reconciliation. Procurement teams need landed cost visibility. Inventory teams need shortage insights, item quantity visibility and better control over operational transactions. Redwood brings these workflows into a more modern, guided and efficient experience.
The Office Hours agenda covers speaker introduction, Redwood highlights, resources, FAQ, upcoming Customer Connect events and live Q&A, showing that the session is designed to help customers understand both the functional value and migration approach for SCM Redwood adoption. The core message is clear: businesses should begin planning Redwood adoption now, understand what has changed, review prerequisites and prepare users for a new way of working.
Next-Generation Receipt Accounting in the Cloud
Oracle describes the next generation of Receipt Accounting in Redwood around three main themes: continuous close, guided intelligence and improved performance. The new Redwood experience includes a landing page with scorecards for continuous monitoring and faster close, a 360-degree view into account-level accrual balances and the Supplier Receipt Accrual Assistant planned for 26A. This is valuable because receipt accounting teams often spend significant time reviewing open balances, reconciling accruals, resolving exceptions and preparing period-close documentation. Redwood helps move these activities from scattered review into a more centralized, insight-led experience.
Oracle also highlights a workbench view that gives centralized access to transactions, distributions and accrual accounting data with in-app navigation. Landed Cost Management is also reimagined so users can capture and review landed costs for purchase orders and transfer orders more efficiently.
Receipt Accounting and Landed Cost Enhancements
The Redwood enhancements cover accrual and expense management, account and PO distribution visibility, exception handling, landed cost journeys, analytics and generative AI. Oracle states that users can review accrual, expense and intercompany balances in one unified interface, quickly review open balances, investigate specific purchase orders and reconcile or substantiate balances. The optimized workbench is intended to support continuous review, audit and faster period close.
The update also improves visibility at both account and PO distribution levels, with summary views, drill-down capabilities and navigation between PO-level and GL-account-level open balances. Oracle specifically calls out aged balances over 90 days as a focus area for investigation. For finance and audit teams, this is a meaningful improvement. Accrual balances are easier to review when users can move from summary to transaction detail without switching between disconnected screens.
Improved Exception and Audit Capabilities
Redwood introduces stronger exception and audit capabilities for receipt accounting. Oracle highlights enhanced exception management, user-definable business rules for defaulting and editing, filters to differentiate automatically cleared versus manually cleared records, and identification of cleared records by process ID and rule name. This matters because audit readiness depends on traceability. Teams must understand not only which records were cleared, but how they were cleared, when they were cleared and whether clearing happened automatically or manually. With stronger filters and rule-based visibility, businesses can improve compliance review, reduce manual investigation and create a clearer record of accounting actions.
Reimagined Landed Cost Journey
Oracle’s Redwood Landed Cost journey is designed to help users create, update, review and analyze landed cost charges more seamlessly. The material highlights a workbench view for create, update, review and analyze flows, transfer orders and trade operations, landed cost allocation for transfer order receipts and a new Quick Create flow for trade operations.
Landed costs are important because true item cost often includes more than purchase price. Freight, duties, handling, insurance and other charges can materially affect margin and inventory valuation. Redwood improves the landed cost experience by giving teams a clearer way to see documents requiring landed cost processing, create charges with less manual input and analyze estimates versus actuals.
Advanced Landed Cost Analytics and Insights
Oracle highlights summarized landed cost insights that help procurement and sourcing teams view cost drivers, compare charges versus variances and understand landed costs in the context of both purchase orders and transfer orders. The material also notes estimates versus actuals visibility and traceability. This is useful for procurement, finance and supply chain leaders because landed cost analysis supports better sourcing decisions. If a supplier appears cheaper on purchase price but creates higher freight or charge variances, the total cost story changes. Redwood makes these insights more accessible and easier to connect to operational decisions.
Receipt Accounting and Landed Costs Redwood Roadmap
Oracle’s roadmap slide states that by 25D, all receipt accounting pages from 24D and landed cost pages from 25D have been migrated to Redwood. The roadmap also lists the Supplier Receipt Accrual Assistant Agent for 26A, and Redwood enhancements based on customer inputs plus Export to Excel for 26B+. Oracle includes a safe harbor statement that roadmap information is intended to outline general product direction and should not be treated as a commitment to deliver specific functionality, timing or pricing. This means customers should use the roadmap for planning, but still confirm release readiness before making project commitments.
Is Redwood Mandatory?
One of the FAQ sections addresses whether Redwood is mandatory. Oracle states that the release from which Redwood will be mandatory will be communicated to SCM customers shortly, and that the decision will apply to the entire SCM pillar rather than being enforced 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 respective profile options. However, from 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 is a strong signal for customers: Redwood adoption should be planned proactively rather than delayed until a mandatory transition.
Why Upgrade to Redwood for Receipt Accounting and Landed Costs?
Oracle lists several reasons to upgrade: enhanced visibility into transactional and accounting data, redesigned distributions, access to the Accrual Workbench, AI-driven features available exclusively in Redwood and a modern interface with improved efficiency for receipt accounting and landed costs. This is a practical business case. Redwood gives finance teams better tools for reconciliation, exception handling, period close and audit documentation. If a business is still relying heavily on classic pages, manual reconciliation and disconnected reporting, Redwood can help streamline the close process and improve operational visibility.
Common Redwood Data Visibility Issues
The FAQ explains that if users upgrade to Redwood but cannot see data, they should review readiness documentation and confirm all privileges and access requirements, including Web Service privileges. If transactional data is still not visible despite all privileges being enabled, users should try adding filters to the search criteria.
Another FAQ 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, while Open Accrual Balances requires the Create Receipt Accruals process. Oracle explains that data is summarized for performance optimization. This is important for implementation teams. Redwood adoption is not only enabling pages. It also requires privileges, background processes, filters and readiness validation.
Accrual Management Workbench
Oracle describes the Accrual Management Workbench as a reimagined 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, drill-downs, age-based views, mass write-off, bulk reversal, better performance and improved reconciliation at both account and PO distribution levels. The page 22 visual also shows the new Accrual Balances by Account view, demonstrating how Redwood presents accrual balances and account-level details for investigation. For accounting teams, this workbench can become the central operating area for accrual review and close readiness.
What’s New in Landed Cost in Redwood?
Oracle’s landed cost FAQ states that Redwood provides a seamless experience to create, update, review and analyze landed cost charges. It supports quicker charge creation by automatically populating common values from setup, while search, filtering and navigation reduce manual effort. The new Transfer Order and Purchase Order Estimation Experience gives visibility into documents requiring landed cost processing. The visual on page 24 shows a Redwood page for orders to estimate, supporting create, update, review and analyze landed cost charges in one flow. This improves productivity because users can focus on reviewing costs and exceptions rather than repeatedly entering common values.
Quick Create for Landed Cost Charges
Oracle explains that users can now use Quick Add Charges to add charges to trade operations. The Quick Add feature prepopulates most attributes from setup, allowing users to attach charges in a few clicks and manage multiple charges with less effort. The page 26 visual shows the Quick Create Landed Cost Charges screen, including charge-related fields such as charge list, charge name, basis, amount, supplier, supplier site and charge currency. This feature directly addresses one of the common operational pain points in landed cost management: charge creation can be repetitive and time-consuming. Redwood simplifies that process.
Receipt Accounting Home Page
The new 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 and monitor receipt accruals older than 90 days. This helps accounting teams monitor close readiness continuously instead of waiting until period-end. It also gives users a faster path to identify and resolve exceptions.
Generative AI in Receipt Accounting
Oracle highlights generative AI capabilities for accrual management. GenAI can automatically generate accrual clearing summaries and create auditable reasons for clearing accruals. The page 29 visual shows a GenAI-generated accrual clearing summary, while page 30 shows GenAI generating an accrual clearing reason for compliance. This is a strong AI use case because audit explanations often require clear, consistent and documented reasoning. Generative AI can help accountants and auditors summarize clearing decisions faster, while still preserving the need for review and control.
Redwood Inventory Highlights
The second half of the Office Hours material focuses on Inventory Redwood. Oracle describes next-generation inventory in the cloud around improved inventory experience, consistent cross-device experience and powerful, intelligent and guided workflows. Key inventory themes include simplified inventory transactions, visibility to item shortages and stockouts across organizations, faster task completion, simplified configuration for subinventories and item transaction defaults, responsive experiences across desktop and mobile, item quantity visibility, shortage workbench, Guided Journeys and AI agents. This shows that Inventory Redwood is designed to improve both operational execution and decision support.
Redwood Inventory New Features
Oracle lists several Redwood Inventory features, including the Inventory Management Landing Page, mass maintenance of subinventories and locators, PAR count monitoring, real-time monitoring with the Shortage Workbench and notifications/actions for expiring lots. These features support inventory managers who need better visibility into stock availability, shortages, replenishment status and lot expiration risk. For organizations managing critical items, healthcare supplies, manufacturing materials or high-volume inventory operations, these capabilities can improve responsiveness and reduce operational risk.
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 such as Item Quantities, Item Supply and Demand and Completed Inventory Transactions. This is a useful adoption strategy. Instead of trying to move every inventory process at once, businesses can begin with high-value, visible areas where users can quickly experience Redwood benefits. A staged approach helps reduce risk and build user confidence.
Cloud Inventory Redwood Roadmap
The Inventory roadmap lists delivered 25D capabilities such as updating scheduled ship dates for transfer order shipment lines, automatically adding new items to cycle counts and ABC assignment groups, retaining user column display changes for saved searches, 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.
Targeted 26A items include counting lot and serial numbers in quantity-tracked PAR locations, purging cycle count schedules, lot-specific UOM conversions, item description on Item Quantities, alternate language translations, min-max and PAR review before updates, label printing preferences and license plate numbers in electronic records. The roadmap also lists AI agents such as Cycle Count Analysis Advisor, Inventory Aging Advisor, Stock Location Advisor, Inventory Reservation Assistant and Inventory Tasking Assistant. As with other roadmap content, Oracle includes a statement that development, release, timing and pricing may change at Oracle’s discretion.
Redwood Inventory Prerequisites and Customization
Oracle’s FAQ states that Redwood pages for Inventory Management can be enabled using profile options, and customers should refer to the Using Inventory Management guide for more detail. For customization, Oracle states that business rules can be configured in Visual Builder Studio to hide fields and designate fields as required, optional, editable or read-only. However, the material notes that Redwood Inventory should be extended in Express mode only, and that Advanced mode changes may not be compatible with future updates. This is critical for implementation teams. Redwood customization should be controlled, future-safe and aligned with Oracle’s technical guidance.
Redwood Inventory Transactions and Item Quantities
Oracle confirms that Redwood Inventory can be used to process inventory transactions. Users can use Item Quantities to view on-hand, receiving and in-transit quantities and initiate actions 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.
Oracle also states that users can view incoming shipments through the Inbound link in the organization view, including in-transit quantities from purchase orders, transfer orders, in-transit shipments or requisitions. Shipment links can be used to view shipment details or scheduled shipment dates. This gives inventory users a more complete operational picture from item quantity review to transaction initiation.
Shortage Workbench and Inventory AI Agents
Oracle confirms that users can view shortages and stockouts for critical items using the Shortage Workbench. From there, users can initiate actions to request additional supply, move material to a location or adjust min-max or PAR levels. Oracle also lists AI advisory agents for Inventory Management. The Item Shortage Analysis Advisor helps inventory managers assess, analyze and resolve item 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 capabilities address two high-impact inventory problems: shortage risk and expiration risk.
PAR Counts and Inventory Operations
Oracle’s FAQ states that PAR counts can be entered offline for locations without internet connectivity, provided offline counting is enabled for a PAR location. It also states that users can automatically adjust on-hand quantities for quantity-tracked PAR locations simply by entering PAR counts. For monitoring, Oracle states that the PAR Counts Overview helps users monitor PAR replenishments and replenishment status across locations to avoid stockouts and identify errors. These features are especially useful for healthcare, service operations, warehouses and other environments where PAR levels are used to maintain stock availability.
Additional Inventory Controls
Oracle also notes that users can perform location-based cycle counts and exclude selected locations from those counts. For ERES-enabled transactions, users can choose between in-line and deferred approval modes for both desktop and mobile transactions. The FAQ also confirms that Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel provides predefined spreadsheet templates to process replenishment requests, count sequences, inventory balances, record tags and reservations. These capabilities support operational flexibility, compliance and productivity.
How NexInfo Helps with Oracle SCM Redwood Adoption
NexInfo helps organizations plan and execute Oracle SCM Redwood adoption across cost management, landed cost, receipt accounting 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
- Access, privilege and Web Service privilege validation
- Background process and summarized data readiness checks
- Inventory quick-win rollout planning
- Shortage Workbench and AI advisor adoption planning
- Testing, training and change management
- Post-go-live support and managed services
NexInfo helps businesses move from feature awareness to practical adoption, ensuring that Redwood is configured, tested and adopted in a way that supports finance, supply chain and inventory users.
Conclusion
Oracle SCM Redwood Office Hours for Receipt Accounting, Landed Costs and Inventory Management shows how Redwood is reshaping key SCM workflows. For Receipt Accounting and Landed Costs, Redwood introduces a stronger close-focused experience with landing pages, accrual workbench capabilities, account and PO distribution visibility, landed cost insights, Quick Create charges and GenAI-supported summaries and clearing reasons.
For Inventory Management, Redwood introduces simplified inventory transactions, item quantity visibility, shortage workbench, PAR count support, expiring lot actions, AI advisors and a roadmap toward more intelligent inventory operations. The message for Oracle SCM customers is clear: Redwood adoption should begin now. Teams should review readiness documentation, enable the right profile options, validate privileges, test background processes, train users and build a phased adoption roadmap. With the right planning, Redwood can help organizations improve visibility, close faster, manage inventory better and prepare for AI-enabled SCM operations.
FAQs
What is Oracle SCM Redwood Office Hours for Receipt Accounting and Landed Costs?
It is an Oracle session focused on SCM Redwood migration guidance for Receipt Accounting and Landed Cost Management, including Redwood highlights, roadmap, resources and frequently asked questions.
What is new in Receipt Accounting Redwood?
Receipt Accounting Redwood includes a new landing page, scorecards, 360-degree accrual visibility, workbench access, improved search, exception handling, audit-optimized pages and GenAI summaries.
What is the Accrual Management Workbench?
The Accrual Management Workbench is a reimagined period-close tool that supports accrual review, notes, GenAI summaries, compliance controls, drill-downs, mass write-off, bulk reversal and reconciliation at account and PO distribution levels.
What is new in Landed Cost Redwood?
Landed Cost Redwood supports create, update, review and analyze flows, Quick Add Charges, better search and filtering, allocated amount visibility and purchase order and transfer order estimation experiences.
What AI capabilities are available in Receipt Accounting Redwood?
Oracle highlights generative AI for automatically generating accrual clearing summaries and creating auditable reasons for clearing accruals. The Supplier Receipt Accrual Assistant Agent is listed for 26A.
What is Redwood Inventory?
Redwood Inventory is the modern Redwood experience for Oracle Inventory Management, focused on simplified transactions, item quantity visibility, shortage workbench, guided experiences, PAR counts, expiring lot actions and AI advisors.
Where should businesses start with Redwood Inventory?
Oracle recommends starting small with quick wins such as Item Quantities, Item Supply and Demand and Completed Inventory Transactions.
Can Redwood Inventory process transactions?
Yes. Users can view item quantities and initiate transactions such as transfer orders, miscellaneous transactions, cycle count requests, movement requests, subinventory transfers, interorganization transfers and lot grade changes.
What AI agents are available for Inventory Management?
Oracle lists Item Shortage Analysis Advisor and Material Expiration Advisor as inventory advisory agents. The roadmap also references additional targeted AI agents such as Cycle Count Analysis Advisor and Inventory Aging Advisor.
How can NexInfo support SCM Redwood adoption?
NexInfo can help with readiness assessment, profile option enablement, workflow review, privilege validation, testing, training, VB Studio guidance, AI adoption planning and managed services for Oracle SCM Redwood adoption.