Retail Price Management (RPM) Technical Essentials 13.1

The Retail Price Management (RPM) Technical Essentials course provides a solid understanding of the basic technical details of RPM. It covers a wide variety of topics ranging from data flows to configuration. The course can be taken by consultants or employees wishing to gain a better understanding of how RPM works.

The course is combined with demonstrations and student practice exercises that cover topics such as: navigating through the RPM user interface, modifying RPM properties, restarting RPM through the Oracle Enterprise Manager, creating price events, and running batch for integration with other systems.

Learn to:

• Explain the J2EE layered model and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that RPM utilizes
• Explain the RPM conflict checking process.
• Explain integration with other Oracle Retail Systems.
• Configuration and Implementation topics will be discussed.
• Navigate through key portions of RPM.

A Live Virtual Class (LVC) is exclusively for registered students; unregistered individuals may not view an LVC at any time. Registered students must view the class from the country listed in the registration form. Unauthorized recording, copying, or transmission of LVC content may not be made.

Audience

• Administrator
• Database Administrators
• Functional Implementer
• Support Engineer
• Technical Administrator
• System Integrator
• Technical Consultant

Course Topics Course Overview

• Explain the course overview
• List the lessons in the RPM Technical Essentials course
• Explain the class methods used in the course

Application Overview

• Explain RPM at a high level
• Explain the functional overview
• Explain the technical overview
• Describe the user interface
• Describe navigation in RPM

Zone Structures, Price Events, and Price Strategies

• Define RPM’s functional assumptions
• Explain zone structures
• Define pricing events and strategies

Worksheet, Other Functional Areas, and Concurrency Considerations

• Define what the Worksheet is and how it functions
• Explain other miscellaneous functional areas of RPM
• Explain concurrency considerations

Physical Architecture, Application Architecture, and Conflict Checking

• Describe the physical architecture
• Explain the layered model (application architecture)
• Define conflict checking
• Describe the conflict checking process flow

Integration Data Flow

• Explain the overall data flow of RPM
• Define the integration interface data flows
• Describe the price management status page

Near Real-Time Methods of Integration

• Explain the methods of integration used by RPM
• Define the messages used by RPM in publishing and subscribing
• Show how RPM uses the RSL (Oracle Retail Service Layer)
• List which RMS tables are used by RPM

Batch Integration

• Explain flat file batch integration
• Describe staging table batch integration

Java Batch Processes

• Explain the Java batch process architectural overview
• Describe how to run Java batch processes
• Explain how the Java batches use threading

RETL Batch Processes

• Detail the benefits of using Oracle Retail Extract Transform and Load (RETL) with RPM
• Define the RETL API structure and use
• Explain the RETL restart and recovery process and the use of message logging
• Highlight typical run and debugging situations and RETL flow

Implementation

• Explain key RPM implementation topics
• Identify dependencies of an RPM installation
• Describe RAC and clustering
• Describe the RPM application installer

Configuration

• Describe key RPM configuration settings
• Identify various RPM configuration files
• Identify various logging levels

Retail Security Manager (RSM) Overview and Basic Structure

• Describe the purpose of RSM in the enterprise
• Explain the basic structure of RSM

Retail Security Manager (RSM) Architecture, Data Flow, and LDAP

• Describe the basic architecture of RSM
• Describe the functional overview of how RSM integrates with RPM
• Describe how to configure RSM to utilize an LDAP server

Localization

• Explain internationalization functionality in this release
• Explain where RPM translation information is stored

RPM Technical Essentials Course Review

• Explain the key learning points of the RPM Technical Essentials course

Course Objectives

• Identify the Data Flow between RPM and other Oracle Retail applications
• Explain the Methods of Integration
• Describe the Batch Processes
• Describe Implementation and Configuration
• Explain the Retail Security Manager (RSM)
• Describe the Physical and Application Architecture
• Explain the high-level functional overview of Oracle Retail Price Management (RPM)