Demantra 7.3 release - Features Part2 - NPI

7.3 simplifies New Product Introduction cycle, by providing following abilities on worksheet application itself:

- create new product based on existing product
- manage product launch and life cycle end
- cannibalization of existing product

Instead of using Demand Planner > Member/Chaining Management application which was quite complex for end users. This new functionality gives end users a simple and faster way of managing new products introduction.

This function has been provided as a level method on worksheet application. New level method "Create similar product" is context based and is called from existing SKU from which the history shall be copied over to NEW product. Filters of worksheet are used for managing combinations and target location members. The option of setting a launch date and cannibalization% is also provided.

Overall this functionality eases out end users life, who have been using sophisticated Demand planner>Member/chaining management till date.

Demantra 7.3 release - Features Part1

Demantra's much awaited 7.3 release happened as promised by Oracle in mid of august09. The current release has lot of new functionality changes and enhancements, from simple ones like UI changes to complex ones like CTO offering.

Complete list of documentation is available in Metalink Demantra document library.

(http://oracledemantra.blogspot.com/2008/07/demantra-documentation-on-metalink.html)

Internationalization:

Open the CWB login screen and you would see the first change, which appears as "Language" button at bottom of logon screen.

This release has internationalized the product by supporting, 8 languages (Russian, Japanese, Canadian French, Korean, Spanish, Chinese and Portuguese), by making web based applications available in these languages for end users.

You need to pick the language at time of installation and only one language per install is supported.

Remember that, the language support is targeted for business users and not for implementers, so don't be surprised when you see your good old Business modeler menu options still showing up in English.

more on 7.3 release features will be posted soon.....