Key takeaways
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Redwood is becoming the standard UX across Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM, delivering cleaner interfaces, simplified workflows, and embedded AI to improve productivity and adoption.
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Customers will encounter Redwood across all SCM modules, with modernized pages in Procurement, Planning, Manufacturing, Inventory, Order Management, and new solutions like Fusion Sustainability.
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Migration to Redwood is mandatory over time. Planning ahead and using tools like the Redwood Personalization Helper Tool can smooth adoption.
Oracle’s Redwood user experience (UX) is becoming the standard across Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, and that includes Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (Fusion SCM). Many customers have already encountered Redwood in Fusion SCM products like Procurement and Product Lifecycle Management. Others are just beginning to evaluate what this transition means for their business. If you’re wondering why Redwood matters, what changes to expect, and how best to prepare, this post can help you get oriented.
Why the Redwood UX matters
Redwood is more than a new look. It’s a complete rethinking of how enterprise applications should work for the people who use them. In practice, that means cleaner and more consistent experiences across modules, simplified workflows that reduce manual steps, and interfaces that are intuitive and efficient. The result is greater productivity, fewer errors, and faster time to value from your SCM investment.
Redwood also shortens the time it takes to move from novice to expert, which has big implications for training. In supply chain and manufacturing, where roles range from planners to warehouse operators and line workers, adoption is often the deciding factor in whether a transformation succeeds. Redwood makes that adoption easier by providing both office-based and frontline workers with tools that fit the ways they actually work.
Perhaps most importantly, embedded AI features and agents are delivered in Redwood pages. For example, generative AI can already help with tasks like product descriptions, planner notes, and exception summaries. Oracle is delivering prebuilt AI agents for common scenarios, such as assisting with returns, providing procurement policy guidance, and supporting maintenance technicians. And customers who want even more personalization and control can build their own AI agents using AI Agent Studio, the same no-code environment Oracle development teams use.
Where you’ll see the Redwood UX
Redwood pages are rolling out across the full suite of Fusion SCM applications, with redesigned or new experiences in:
- Product Lifecycle Management: modern item and bill-of-material grids, personalized searches, and AI-assisted descriptions
- Supply Chain Planning: flexible workspaces where planners can drag and drop visualizations, compare scenarios side by side, and apply AI-powered analytics directly to their decisions
- Procurement: a redesigned self-service buying experience, a new supplier portal, and a buyers’ workbench that helps resolve exceptions quickly
- Manufacturing and Maintenance: dedicated workbenches tailored to the roles of shop floor operators, maintenance technicians, and supervisors
- Inventory Management: mobile-first transaction support for receiving, shipping, and inventory operations
- Order Management: streamlined entry screens and embedded AI to summarize revisions or process returns faster
Entirely new solutions, like Fusion Sustainability, have been built from the ground up in Redwood, including an emissions calculator, auditable ledger, and business intelligence and analytics for sustainability reporting.
Adoption timeline
Redwood is not optional in the long term. For the self-service workflows in Procurement, Redwood became the required standard with the 25C update. Other SCM products are on a similar path, with additional deadlines coming soon. Once a milestone is reached, the existing pages for equivalent processes will be decommissioned. That means no new features, no bug fixes, and no enhancements, making it critical to begin planning your migration now.
How to prepare and migrate
Enabling Redwood is done through profile options and opt-ins, and customers control when they turn on features in their environments. The best first step is to use the Redwood Personalization Helper Tool, which inventories your current personalizations and helps you determine which to carry forward. From there, build, test, and QA any business-critical modifications in Redwood before rolling out the pages. Staying current with the quarterly What’s New documentation and product roadmaps will help you anticipate when features become available or mandatory. Just as important, take advantage of Oracle Cloud Customer Connect sessions, FAQs, and office hours to educate your teams and get answers to specific questions.
The bottom line
Redwood represents the future of Fusion Applications. For Fusion SCM customers, it means modernized workflows, faster adoption, and AI capabilities that make supply chains work more effectively. The transition does require planning—especially around personalizations and extensions—but the resources to support you are already available. Now is the time to build your Redwood adoption plan so you’ll be ready to take advantage of new capabilities as they arrive and avoid being caught off guard when older pages are retired.
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