Oracle Transportation and Global Trade Management 26B introduces important updates across logistics execution, AI-enabled transportation workflows, platform enhancements, shipment visibility, mobile operations, freight claims, network modeling and global trade compliance. The Oracle material positions the update around announcements, platform enhancements, Transportation Management and Global Trade Management.
For logistics, transportation and trade compliance teams, this release is especially relevant because it brings AI deeper into operational workflows. Oracle’s 26B update shows AI being used for diagnostics, rate inquiry, shipment summaries, explain plan analysis and agent-based experiences, while also strengthening shipment management, appointment scheduling, planning, claims and customs-related capabilities. The broader direction is clear: OTM and GTM are moving toward smarter logistics operations where AI, automation, visibility and compliance work together.
Oracle AI for OTM-GTM
One of the strongest themes in the 26B material is Oracle AI for OTM-GTM. The page 9 visual organizes AI capabilities across predictive AI, AI agents, AI agent apps, embedded generative AI and platform infrastructure. It lists predictive AI examples such as transit lead time and ETA prediction, product classification and order route prediction. It also shows AI agent capabilities such as Diagnostics Analyst and Rate Inquiry Assistant, and AI agent app direction through the OTM-WMS Logistics Execution Command Center. This matters because logistics operations generate large volumes of transactional, planning, shipment and compliance data. AI can help users interpret that data faster, troubleshoot issues, summarize activity and make operational decisions with better context.
Analyze SQL for Automation Agent Using AI
Oracle’s platform enhancements include Analyze SQL for Automation Agent Using AI. The visuals on pages 10 and 11 show an AI-supported workflow where SQL analysis can generate a SQL statement summary, system and performance issue insights and recommendations. This is valuable for administrators and technical teams managing automation agents. SQL logic can become complex, especially when agents support planning, tendering, ratings, exceptions or integration processes. AI-assisted SQL analysis helps users better understand what the SQL is doing and where performance issues may exist.
Summarize Explain Plan Using AI
Oracle also introduces Summarize Explain Plan Using AI. The screenshots on pages 12 and 13 show AI being used to analyze explain plans and provide readable performance insights and summaries. This improves supportability. Instead of requiring every user to manually interpret complex explain plan details, AI can help summarize key performance issues, identify bottlenecks and guide troubleshooting. For logistics systems with high transaction volumes, this can help reduce issue resolution time and improve technical productivity.
Fusion AI Agent Studio Support
The release includes Fusion AI Agent Studio support for OTM-GTM. Oracle’s material lists AI configuration areas such as AI Agentic Trusts, AI Agentic Links, AI Agent Query Types, AI Agent Queries and AI Prompts. These configurations help create credentials, connect to Fusion instance URLs and API versions, define query content types, combine Fusion Agent Team with AI Prompt and control which authorized users can run agent tools. This is important because enterprise AI needs governance. AI agents should not operate without proper credentials, access roles, prompt configuration and execution controls. The 26B material shows that OTM-GTM AI adoption is not just about adding a chat button. It requires structured setup, security and role-based access.
New Redwood Experience
Oracle’s material also highlights the new Redwood experience. The page 16 visual shows Redwood navigation, settings and actions, a modern OTM-GTM landing page and order management qualifier screens in the new experience. This supports the broader Oracle direction toward Redwood as the modern UX layer. For OTM-GTM users, Redwood can improve navigation, consistency and usability across logistics and trade workflows.
OTM AI Agent Enhancements
In the OTM section, Oracle highlights AI agent access through an AI button on the global header. This places AI access directly inside the OTM user experience. Oracle also lists two important AI agent examples: OTM Bulk Plan Diagnostic Analyst and OTM Rate Inquiry Assistant. The Bulk Plan Diagnostic Analyst can support transportation planners and administrators by helping diagnose bulk plan issues. The Rate Inquiry Assistant can support users who need faster access to rate information and rating insights. The material also notes that access to and usage of Fusion AI Agent Studio requires a Fusion Application subscription, and that a setup and configuration guide is coming soon.
Shipment Summary Using AI
Oracle’s 26B update includes Shipment Summary with Generative AI. The material shows shipment summary available as a UI action in the workbench. It also shows the ability to respond to follow-up questions, use formatting options through prompts, copy chat to clipboard and download chat history. This is one of the most practical user-facing AI capabilities in the release. Shipment operations often require users to review multiple data points: shipment stops, service providers, routes, events, exceptions, costs, statuses and performance indicators. A generative AI shipment summary can help users quickly understand what is happening without manually reviewing every detail. The ability to ask follow-up questions makes the experience more interactive. Users can move from a static summary to a conversational analysis of shipment activity.
Document Management for Shipment Ship Unit
The 26B OTM enhancements include document management support for Shipment Ship Unit. The page 27 visual shows document actions associated with shipment ship unit records. This can help logistics teams manage documentation more closely at the shipment unit level. For industries where individual shipment units require specific documentation, this provides more granular document handling.
Bulk Secondary Charge Shipment Creation
Oracle introduces a Process Management action called Bulk Secondary Charge Shipments Creation, which allows users to create many secondary charge shipments at once. This improves operational efficiency for organizations that manage accessorials, secondary charges or related freight cost structures. Instead of creating secondary charge shipments one by one, users can perform the process in bulk.
Spot Bid Tender Audit Trail
The 26B update adds an audit trail for Spot Bid Tender. The page 29 visual shows audit trail detail, including data changes such as before and after values. This supports transparency and governance. Spot bid tendering can involve rate changes, carrier responses and time-sensitive decisions. Audit visibility helps teams understand what changed, when it changed and who performed the action.
Appointment Management Enhancements
Oracle’s appointment management enhancement allows users to display appointment options from the current time forward. This improves usability by focusing appointment choices on relevant future time slots. For transportation planners, dock teams and schedulers, filtering out unavailable or past options can reduce confusion and speed up scheduling.
Enhanced Workbench Gantt
The update includes a Task Height Parameter for Gantts in the enhanced workbench Gantt. This helps users adjust visual display and improve readability in workbench planning views. Gantt charts are heavily used for scheduling, capacity, resource and timeline visualization, so small display improvements can have meaningful usability value.
OTM Mobile Updates
Oracle 26B includes mobile enhancements such as Planner Flow Dock Appointment Scheduling and Offline Feature Improvements. Mobile capabilities matter for logistics teams because users are not always working from a desktop. Mobile dock appointment scheduling can support operational users who need access to appointment workflows while moving across facilities, yards or warehouses. Offline improvements also matter because logistics operations may occur in environments with inconsistent connectivity.
Transportation Planning Enhancement
The release adds the ability to Move Order to Flexible Route Shipment. The page 34 visual shows orders being added to a flexible route shipment, with the route and 3D load view changing after the orders are added. This supports more flexible planning execution. Transportation planners may need to move orders into flexible route shipments to improve routing, consolidation or operational feasibility.
Freight Pay, Billing and Claims
Oracle’s Freight Pay, Billing and Claims enhancement adds a text template to claims. This can help standardize claim communication. Claims often require consistent wording, supporting context and repeatable documentation. Text templates reduce manual effort and help maintain process consistency.
Logistics Network Modeling: SCP to OTM Integration
Oracle’s 26B material includes Logistics Network Modeling updates around SCP to OTM integration for pulling forecast orders. The material shows a Pull SCP Orders option under Forecast Orders. This is important because planning and execution are closely connected. Forecast orders from Supply Chain Planning can support logistics network modeling and transportation planning decisions in OTM. Better integration between planning and transportation can help organizations model future logistics demand more accurately.
GTM Enhancements: New Penalty Fields on Trade Program
In Global Trade Management, Oracle introduces new penalty fields on the Trade Program to support identification and processing of penalty-related programs. The added fields include Penalty Type, such as steel, aluminum or copper, and Split Allowed, which indicates whether a declaration line can be split for reporting purposes. This is highly relevant for trade compliance teams dealing with penalty duties, special tariffs or product-specific reporting requirements.
Tracking and Reporting Penalty Duties
Oracle also enhances the tracking and reporting of penalty duties. GTM can receive additional penalty data from third-party content providers, define code mappings to associate penalty types with percentage content, set up data configurations for copying data from original declaration lines to split declaration lines, define logic configurations for splitting rules, specify declaration line details for splitting and automatically split declaration lines based on percentage content using an automation agent. This improves trade automation for complex penalty duty scenarios. When products include content such as steel, aluminum or copper, declaration line splitting may be needed for accurate reporting. Automating this process reduces manual compliance effort and improves consistency.
Regulatory Updates for AES Filing
Oracle’s 26B GTM update includes regulatory updates for AES Filing. The material states that the feature enhances AES Filing to address recent regulatory updates affecting the X12.601 Customs and Border Protection Export Shipment Information specification. It also adds BIS License Code C78 for Syria Peace and Prosperity to the default AES filing code mapping included with GTM. This helps exporters stay aligned with regulatory filing requirements and reduces the manual effort needed to maintain code mappings.
Ad Hoc Restricted Party Screening Improvements
Oracle improves the ad hoc Restricted Party Screening user experience. Enhancements include a progress indicator, completion message with date and user details, a no-match message when no records are found, a property to set the maximum number of denied parties retrieved, a Cancel button and a Clear Inputs button. These improvements make restricted party screening more usable and transparent. Users can better understand whether screening is still processing, who performed screening and whether matching records were found.
Save Party from Restricted Party Screening
The release also allows users to save a party directly to GTM Party records from the ad hoc Restricted Party Screening UI using the Save Party button. The entered information is stored as a GTM party record, and GTM displays the newly created Party ID after saving. Access controls must be configured for users who are allowed to quick-save records from the screening UI. This improves workflow continuity. Users can move from screening to party creation without leaving the screening process, while still requiring appropriate access controls.
Duty and Tax Calculation for FTZ and Other Programs
Oracle enhances duty and tax calculation for Foreign Trade Zone and other trade incentive programs. GTM can calculate duties and taxes for both privileged foreign and non-privileged foreign goods when entering and exiting the FTZ, including goods manufactured within the FTZ. At admission, GTM uses the Estimate Duty and Tax action on the declaration. For privileged foreign status, duties and taxes calculated at admission become the basis for the amount paid to customs. For non-privileged foreign status, the admission calculation is an estimate.
For FTZ exit, Oracle explains that declaration type configuration can define Duty Tax Configuration details for both privileged foreign and non-privileged foreign zone status. GTM can use inventory source value qualifiers and store calculated results on the declaration line using target value qualifiers. This gives trade teams stronger support for FTZ duty and tax handling across admission and exit processes.
Country of Origin Tracking Through Trade Incentive Programs
Oracle’s 26B update adds enhancements to support tracking Country of Origin through a trade incentive program from admission to exit. Data configurations for copying data when entering and exiting now support Country of Origin, including Entry Line to Inventory and Inventory to Exit Line. The Revert Entry/Exit Recording action has also been updated to handle Country of Origin. This improves traceability for trade compliance. Country of Origin is critical for classification, duty treatment, program qualification and reporting. Maintaining it through the program lifecycle reduces compliance risk.
Business Value of Oracle OTM-GTM 26B
Oracle OTM-GTM 26B delivers value across logistics execution, technical administration, shipment management and trade compliance.
Key benefits include:
- AI-assisted diagnostics for SQL and explain plan analysis
- AI agents for bulk plan diagnostics and rate inquiry
- Generative AI shipment summaries with follow-up questions
- Better shipment documentation at ship unit level
- Bulk creation of secondary charge shipments
- Audit trail visibility for spot bid tender
- Improved appointment scheduling usability
- Enhanced Gantt display controls
- Mobile dock appointment scheduling and offline improvements
- Flexible route shipment planning
- Claims text templates
- SCP to OTM integration for forecast orders
- Better penalty duty tracking and declaration line splitting
- AES filing regulatory updates
- Improved restricted party screening experience
- FTZ duty and tax calculation enhancements
- Country of Origin tracking through trade incentive programs
The strongest theme is operational intelligence. Oracle is bringing AI, automation and user experience improvements into the daily workflows of transportation and trade teams.
How NexInfo Helps with Oracle OTM-GTM 26B Adoption
NexInfo helps organizations assess, implement and optimize Oracle Transportation Management and Global Trade Management capabilities.
For OTM-GTM 26B, NexInfo can support:
- OTM-GTM 26B readiness assessment
- AI agent and Fusion AI Agent Studio adoption planning
- Shipment summary and AI workflow enablement
- Rate inquiry and diagnostics use case planning
- Redwood experience readiness review
- Transportation planning and mobile workflow review
- Freight pay, billing and claims process alignment
- Logistics Network Modeling integration support
- GTM penalty duty configuration review
- Restricted Party Screening workflow optimization
- FTZ duty and tax configuration support
- Country of Origin tracking process review
- Testing, training and post-go-live managed services
NexInfo helps logistics and trade teams turn Oracle release capabilities into practical business outcomes: faster troubleshooting, smarter shipment visibility, better transportation execution and stronger compliance control.
Conclusion
Oracle Transportation and Global Trade Management 26B is a meaningful release for organizations managing complex logistics and global trade operations. The release brings AI into technical diagnostics, shipment summaries, bulk plan analysis and rate inquiry. It improves transportation workflows through document management, secondary charge shipment creation, spot bid tender audit trails, appointment scheduling, Gantt enhancements, mobile capabilities and flexible route planning. It also strengthens GTM with penalty duty tracking, AES filing updates, restricted party screening improvements, FTZ duty and tax calculation and Country of Origin tracking. For businesses, the opportunity is clear: OTM-GTM 26B can help teams move from manual review and fragmented troubleshooting toward smarter, AI-assisted and more governed logistics and trade operations.
FAQs
What is Oracle OTM-GTM 26B?
Oracle OTM-GTM 26B is an update for Oracle Transportation Management and Global Trade Management covering platform enhancements, transportation management updates and global trade management enhancements.
What AI capabilities are introduced for OTM-GTM?
Oracle highlights predictive AI, AI agents, AI agent apps, embedded generative AI and platform infrastructure across OTM-GTM.
What is Analyze SQL for Automation Agent Using AI?
It is an AI-supported capability that helps analyze SQL used in automation agents and generate summaries, performance insights and recommendations.
What is Shipment Summary using AI?
It is a generative AI capability that summarizes shipment details, supports follow-up questions, allows formatting through prompts and supports copying or downloading chat history.
What AI agents are shown for OTM?
Oracle shows OTM Bulk Plan Diagnostic Analyst and OTM Rate Inquiry Assistant as AI agent examples.
What is new for Spot Bid Tender?
The release adds audit trail support for Spot Bid Tender, helping users review data changes and transaction history.
What are the GTM penalty duty enhancements?
GTM adds penalty fields on trade programs and supports tracking, reporting and automated declaration line splitting based on penalty-related percentage content.
What changed in Restricted Party Screening?
Ad hoc Restricted Party Screening now includes progress indicators, completion messages, no-match messages, clear input options and the ability to save a party to GTM records with proper access controls.
What FTZ capabilities are included?
GTM can calculate duties and taxes for privileged foreign and non-privileged foreign goods when entering and exiting FTZ programs, including manufactured goods.
How can NexInfo help with OTM-GTM 26B?
NexInfo can help with readiness assessment, AI adoption planning, transportation workflow optimization, GTM configuration, restricted party screening setup, FTZ duty and tax support, testing, training and managed services.