Admin API for Retail Merchandising System

Abstract

Oracle Retail Merchandising System (ORMS) provides the processes that are fundamen- tal part of a retail business. At the core of ORMS is Oracle Retail merchandise operations management is set of integrated solutions that support pricing,buying,inventory evalu- ation for channels,management of inventory,brands and countries.ORMS (Oracle Retail Merchandising System) supports daily operations and provides foundation for subsystems that involves Transaction-level systems and Support and Predictive solutions. Admin API requirements basically cater to RMS functionality /features for which data can easily be set or maintained through Excel data upload and extraction. Admin APIs will allow the user to store data in the spreadsheets and it will directly fetch the data from the excel sheets of the retailers and store it in the main table of the RMS system.Once Admin API is completed the forms will be obsoleted. The only way user can enter data to these tables would be through API. Spreadsheet ashback feature provides the ability to check history of data or to revert back the errors made during insertion of new data. Flashback feature provides the data as of particular date and time. It also allows user to compare data at particular date and time with current data. Graph creation and scheduling program allows to create graph having complete de- pendencies. It will be easy for user to check the dependencies and it will provide rich user interface.So Admin API will provide bulk uploading and rich user interface to user.That will be very helpful for overall product.