The April 2025 Oracle Cloud Redwood 25B release marks a significant milestone in Oracle’s shift toward a unified, modern user experience. With Redwood UI becoming the default—and in many modules, mandatory—organizations must now accelerate their adoption across critical areas like Inventory, Order Management, Procurement, Manufacturing, and more. This isn’t just a visual update; it’s a strategic evolution that impacts workflows, user interactions, and system behavior.
While the transition may feel demanding, it also brings a wealth of opportunities to streamline operations, improve usability, and align with Oracle’s future-forward design principles. As a trusted Oracle partner, Kovaion is committed to supporting enterprises through this transformation—from planning and configuration to testing and seamless rollout—ensuring that you leverage the full capabilities of the Redwood experience without disruption.
What’s New in Oracle Cloud Redwood 25B: A Closer Look at SCM Module Enhancements
The April 2025 release (25B) brings significant enhancements to Oracle Cloud’s SCM modules, all centered around the Redwood user experience. These updates are more than just a visual refresh—they introduce functional upgrades, smart workflows, and simplified navigation across core processes. Here’s an in-depth look at what’s new.
Inventory Management
- Unified Inventory Transactions Page: The new Redwood-style Inventory Transactions page brings all pending and completed transactions into one intuitive view. This enhancement eliminates the need to toggle between multiple screens, saving time and reducing the chance of errors. With a single source of truth, inventory managers can track, verify, and analyze transactions more effectively. It also improves training time for new users by simplifying navigation. This feature can be accessed directly from the Inventory Management work area.
- Supplier View of Consumption Advice: Oracle has introduced a Redwood-based page within the Supplier Portal that allows suppliers to view consumption advice. This gives external partners better visibility into how their materials are being used, fostering transparency and collaboration. With this proactive insight, suppliers can plan replenishment with greater precision. The modern UI also enhances usability and supplier satisfaction. This update supports a more integrated supply chain ecosystem.
Order Management
- Flexible Return Order Processing: Sales orders can now be revised to return items or initiate returns through new sales orders, even from unrelated transactions. This eliminates previously rigid workflows, offering greater flexibility for customer service teams. It enhances the customer experience by supporting faster, simplified returns across channels. The feature aligns with Oracle’s goal of creating adaptive, customer-centric supply chain operations. It also reduces the manual workaround that was often required in earlier versions.
- Item Availability & Scheduling in Order Lines: Users can now check item availability and delivery schedules directly within the Sales Order Lines page. This real-time visibility eliminates guesswork and reduces order processing delays. It empowers customer service and operations teams to make informed decisions on fulfillment options without leaving the order screen. This integration reduces context-switching and increases efficiency. It is especially helpful during peak ordering seasons or for complex orders.
- Assigning Order Representatives: Oracle now allows users to assign a dedicated Order Representative to each sales order. This representative acts as the single point of contact for routing, escalations, and approvals, based on the employee hierarchy. It brings clarity and accountability to the order fulfillment process. This feature is especially useful for high-touch or strategic accounts that require dedicated handling. It also improves workflow automation and simplifies approval chains.
Manufacturing
- Redwood Configured Items Page with AI Support: A newly designed Configured Items page offers enhanced control over personalized product configurations. Users can now manage descriptions, attributes, and exceptions through a streamlined interface. Built-in generative AI can suggest optimized descriptions, reducing manual input and ensuring consistency. This page helps ensure accuracy in the production process, especially for custom-built items. It also supports rapid updates during order changes or engineering modifications.
- FYI Notifications for Structure Sync Issues: After running the Process Item Structure Changes to Work Definitions task, users will now receive Redwood-styled FYI notifications. These alerts highlight unsynchronized structure changes, helping manufacturing teams identify and resolve discrepancies early. This proactive approach reduces delays and ensures alignment between product structures and work definitions. The notifications promote transparency in engineering-to-production handoffs. It’s a critical improvement for managing product lifecycle changes at scale
Maintenance
- Enhanced KPI Metrics in Supervision Dashboard: The Maintenance Supervision workbench dashboard now includes interactive KPIs with added metrics such as Future and All. In addition, the existing Open Work Orders metric has been renamed to Current for better clarity. These changes provide maintenance supervisors with a clearer snapshot of upcoming and in-progress work. Users can drill down into data for faster decision-making and prioritization. The Redwood interface makes KPI interactions smoother and more actionable.
- New Maintenance Landing Pages: Two Redwood-designed landing pages—Maintenance Management and Maintenance Execution—have been introduced to centralize operations. These dashboards highlight urgent work orders and allow maintenance personnel to quickly launch tasks, track progress, and manage exceptions. The layout offers a holistic view of ongoing and planned activities, improving coordination and reducing downtime. It also improves productivity by offering tailored shortcuts and visual cues. The improved user experience enhances adoption across technical teams.
Procurement
Purchasing
- Staging Requisition Lines Using Redwood: A new feature now allows users to select individual lines from search results and stage them for document creation. This replaces the older Add to Document Builder action with a more modern and flexible Stage function. Users can create staged documents with greater control, reducing clutter and improving accuracy. The Redwood interface makes the process more guided and intuitive. This change brings efficiency and clarity to procurement workflows.
Self-Service Procurement
- Advanced Item Search Capabilities: Users can now conduct item searches using a wide range of attributes on the Enter Requisition Line page. These include item number, description, category, manufacturer, supplier part number, and GTIN. The improved search capability significantly reduces time spent locating items, especially in large catalogs. It helps procurement users make better, faster purchasing decisions. This update enhances the self-service experience, aligning with Redwood’s goal of simplicity and speed.
Oracle Cloud 25B Redwood HCM Updates: What’s New?
The 25B release brings a transformative wave to Oracle Cloud HCM, empowering HR professionals and employees with a more flexible, intuitive, and AI-driven experience. The Redwood UI continues to replace legacy pages with modern designs, offering guided flows, enhanced search capabilities, and automation tools across HR, compensation, payroll, and talent processes. Here’s a detailed look at what’s new in this release.
Global Human Resources
- Define Custom Shift Durations in Minutes: Oracle now allows you to configure work and break durations in shifts and work patterns using any minute-based value—not just in 15-minute increments. This means you can set breaks of 25 minutes or shifts like 7 hours and 15 minutes, giving you the flexibility to align workforce schedules with real-world business needs. These custom timings are supported even if break rounding validations are in place. It’s particularly useful for industries with dynamic shift structures.
- Add Notes During Employment Changes: HR teams can now include additional notes when updating assignments or processing local/global transfers using Redwood flows. This feature enhances documentation and provides context for every change made to an employee’s record. These notes help maintain compliance and improve communication across HR teams. The update also supports better historical auditing. It’s part of Oracle’s continuous push to make HR transactions more informative and user-friendly.
Compensation
- Save Progress in Guided Flow Pages: With the new release, users can now save their progress while working through Redwood’s compact salary and individual compensation guided flow pages. This is particularly helpful when dealing with complex compensation plans that require input from multiple stakeholders. You can pause and resume without losing any data, increasing productivity and accuracy. It supports better coordination during compensation cycles. The guided UI makes the process clear and easy to navigate.
- Exclude Plans Using Business Rules: Oracle now allows you to exclude specific individual compensation plans and options using business rules, offering a more dynamic and automated approach than the previous plan access or eligibility configurations. This gives compensation administrators better control over visibility and allocation based on real-time business logic. It reduces manual overhead and enhances compliance. It’s a powerful step toward intelligent compensation design.
- Manage Compensation Zones with Geography Zones: You can now use the Geography Zone object, alongside the Import Management tool, to create, update, or delete compensation zones. This helps simplify the administration of geographic-based compensation strategies. Whether managing global pay structures or aligning incentives with market data, this feature enhances accuracy and agility. The ability to automate these changes ensures smoother updates during reorganizations or location expansions.
Payroll
- Enhanced Logging for Issue Investigation: New diagnostic logging features make it easier to troubleshoot payroll processes when issues aren’t easily detected through standard error messages. These logs provide deeper insights into process behavior, helping payroll admins pinpoint the root cause of delays or errors. This reduces resolution times and improves payroll reliability. It’s especially helpful during critical payroll runs. Better transparency leads to fewer payroll disruptions.
- Extend Payroll Activity Center with VB Studio: Oracle now allows you to customize the Payroll Activity Center using Visual Builder Studio (VB Studio). You can control which attributes and regions appear on the summary, milestone overview, and milestone detail pages. This enables you to tailor the experience to your business needs—whether you’re focusing on key KPIs or specific compliance milestones. It enhances usability and supports role-based personalization.
- Redesigned Person Results Page in Redwood: The Person Results page has been reimagined with Redwood styling and backend enhancements. Users can now view all payroll processes associated with an employee in a single, clean, and responsive layout. The redesign supports quicker access, better data organization, and more efficient decision-making. It simplifies post-payroll analysis and employee inquiries. The experience is more seamless and aligned with Oracle’s UX roadmap.
Talent Management
Career Development
- View Skill Requirements by Role: On the Role Guide detail page, employees can now clearly see the skills required to prepare for a target role, as well as the skills needed to fully master it. This update gives employees clear learning targets and helps them align their development plans with organizational needs. HR teams can use this insight to support upskilling and career mobility initiatives. It fosters a culture of growth and internal advancement.
- Explore AI-Suggested Career Paths: Within the Opportunity Marketplace, users can now explore AI-recommended roles based on their current or past positions. The Explore tab displays detailed role insights, helping employees discover potential career moves. This update encourages proactive career development and increases transparency in internal mobility. It also helps HR teams identify succession paths. The integration of AI makes the career exploration process smarter and more personalized.
Performance Management
- Improved Security for Feedback Center Access: Oracle has enhanced the security model of the Feedback Center to ensure users only see the pages and regions they are authorized to access. This protects sensitive performance data and ensures compliance with access policies. It also allows organizations to configure feedback visibility based on roles and permissions. The update strengthens data privacy and governance across the feedback lifecycle.
- Enable Target Proficiencies & Ratings in Performance Docs: HR users can now activate target proficiencies and performance ratings directly within Redwood performance documents. This enhancement enables a more standardized approach to evaluating employees against defined expectations. Managers can assess development gaps more accurately, and employees gain clarity on what success looks like. It promotes alignment between individual performance and business goals.
Bottom Line
The Oracle Cloud Redwood 25B release introduces a wide array of enhancements across HCM and SCM modules, streamlining user experience, increasing process flexibility, and empowering employees and administrators alike. With Redwood’s modern design and deeper functionality, organizations now have the tools to elevate operational efficiency and workforce engagement. However, adopting these features requires a thoughtful change management approach and seamless configuration. Staying proactive with these updates will ensure your business remains agile, compliant, and future-ready.
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As a trusted Oracle partner, Kovaion is ready to help you maximize the value of the Redwood 25B release. From strategic planning and testing to personalized configuration and post-go-live support, our experts ensure a smooth transition without disrupting your business. Whether you’re upgrading SCM, HCM, or both, Kovaion’s deep domain expertise and Oracle-certified services make us your ideal transformation partner.
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