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Inbound Goods Advisor

An Oracle Fusion Cloud AI agent in the Advanced Inventory Management functional area (Update 26C) that evaluates expected inbound supply, receipts and outbound demand to generate cross-dock suggestions and, where cross-docking is not applicable, put-away location suggestions. Oracle documents that a reservation is automatically created when a cross-dock demand document is matched against a cross-dock supply document; warehouse personnel still perform the put-away to the staging subinventory, after which shipment lines reach Staged status. Oracle documents that the agent combines two agents, the Inventory Cross Dock Advisor and the Put Away Advisor, which can be run independently.

Recorded characteristics

Function
Oracle documents that existing cross-docking functionality alerts users to potential opportunities and helps move goods to outbound staging but does not automatically associate those goods with specific outbound demand or update the demand status. Oracle states the Inbound Goods Advisor AI Agent addresses this gap by identifying cross-docking opportunities and automatically executing the necessary fulfillment steps so outbound demand is properly staged and ready for shipment, and that for goods not eligible for cross-docking it recommends optimal put-away locations based on historical transaction data or, when such data is limited, existing put-away prioritization rules. Oracle documents that the agent is typically scheduled to run at an interval (for example hourly) and can also be invoked by prompt for a named receipt and organization. Oracle documents support for both opportunistic cross-docking (matching received material with demand) and planned cross-docking (matching incoming supply yet to be received with demand). Oracle documents that put-away suggestions use the most recent put-away transaction or the most frequent put-away location, considering item, organization, document type and supplier attributes, and can alternatively be generated from user-configurable rules defined on the Advanced Inventory Parameters page.
Data access
Oracle documents that the agent uses expected inbound supply, receipts and outbound demand to suggest cross-dock opportunities, and historical put-away transaction data together with user-configurable Advanced Inventory Parameters rules for put-away suggestions. Oracle documents cross-dock reservations, receiving transaction history (including Cross-Dock Order Type, Cross-Dock Order Number and Cross-Dock Order Line columns), demand documents such as sales orders and transfer orders, and item categories used to identify cross-dock eligible goods. Oracle does not publish a complete list of the data objects the agent reads.
Actions
Can take actions
External actions
No
Human confirmation
Conditional
Permission basis
Not established
Administrative control
Oracle documents that the agent is obtained in AI Agent Studio by copying the seeded template into an agent team, and that agent teams can be scheduled. Oracle documents setup on the Advanced Inventory Parameters page in the Advanced Inventory Management functional area: a Cross-Dock Action of None, Notification only, or Process cross-dock (which Oracle states uses the AI Agent to identify and process cross-dock suggestions); parameters for Include existing reservations, Include expected supply, Supply Expected Days, Cross-Dock Item Category, Demand Due Days, Due Date Sort and Include backorders; and a Put Away Action of None, Use Basic Rules, or Use Advanced Rules (which Oracle states uses the AI Agent for suggestions based on historical put-away transactions). Oracle documents a setup duty role Advanced Inventory Management Administration Duty (ORA_INV_ADVANCED_INVENTORY_MANAGEMENT_ADMINISTRATION_DUTY), and administrator provisioning of the Exclude Demand Document from Cross-Dock privilege (AIM_EXCLUDE_DEMAND_CROSS_DOCK_PRIV) so users can exclude selected demand documents or items from cross-docking.
Default state
Disabled
Availability
Oracle lists AI Agent: Inbound Goods Advisor under Advanced Inventory Management for Update 26C in its Supply Chain and Manufacturing AI feature list and in its Redwood adoption list, where the action to enable is recorded as Setup Required and the auto-enable entry reads Does not expire. The 26C Inventory Management feature summary records Impact to Existing Processes as None and Action to Enable as Setup Required. Oracle does not describe the feature as preview or limited access in the readiness documentation reviewed.
Licensing
Oracle documents the capability as part of Oracle Fusion Cloud Advanced Inventory Management within Inventory Management, accessed through AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications. Oracle does not publish separate pricing for the agent in the documentation reviewed.
External model or provider
Not established. Oracle does not name a runtime model or model provider for the Inbound Goods Advisor in the documentation reviewed.
Limitations and uncertainty
Oracle uses two names in the same readiness note, AI Agent: Inbound Goods Advisor and Inbound Advisor AI Agent, for what the note describes as the same agent; the Registry records the feature name. Oracle states the agent combines the Inventory Cross Dock Advisor and Put Away Advisor, which can be run independently. Digital authority is bounded: Oracle documents automatic creation of a cross-dock reservation when a cross-dock demand document is matched against a cross-dock supply document, but warehouse personnel review cross-dock suggestions on the Put Away Goods mobile page and perform the put-away to the staging subinventory, after which shipment lines are in Staged status, and a user completes the shipment on the Ship Goods page. Oracle does not document the agent physically moving goods, loading, or shipping. Oracle documents exclusions: cross-docking is not supported for purchase orders with multiple distributions, for non-reservable and non-shippable items, or for work order demand and movement request demand; Kanban and PAR replenishment requests are not included as inbound supply; planned cross-docking suggestions are removed on partial receipt of the supply document. Oracle does not document, in the sources reviewed, failure handling, retry, rollback, atomicity of the fulfillment steps, or an immutable audit log specific to this agent; monitoring visibility beyond the suggestion pages, cross-dock reservation records and Receiving Transaction History columns is not established.

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