Oracle Cloud Redwood 25A Release: What’s New?

July 13, 2026

Iffat Ara Khanam

The much-anticipated January 2025 release of Oracle Cloud Redwood 25A is here! With its quarterly updates Oracle ensures your environment stays up to date with the newest features, updates, and enhancements.

This blog provides a high-level overview of the new features described in the Oracle Redwood 25A release notes. Oracle has been phasing in Redwood since 2019, but the deadline for adoption is quickly approaching. It’s important for organizations to prepare for this transition to fully leverage the new UX’s capabilities while minimizing disruption to ongoing business processes. The timeline is tight, but with a robust testing strategy, you can smoothly make the transition and enjoy the benefits of the modernized interface.

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Details of the Oracle Cloud Redwood 25A Release Notes: What’s New?

Oracle’s 25A Redwood Updates for SCM Module

Purchasing

• With the 25A release, Redwood introduces enhanced capabilities for managing purchase orders. You can now filter purchase orders using keywords and perform various actions, such as resolving match holds, communicating, canceling, closing, or reopening them. Additionally, you can now create and edit purchase orders seamlessly.
• You can navigate to the View Purchase Order Redwood page from the Redwood Purchase Orders page and navigate back to the originating page. While viewing the purchase order, you can easily see the order summary, schedule details, order life cycle, and order history by just moving across the tabs.

Supplier Portal

• The new Redwood Supplier Portal home page enables suppliers to be more successful in completing tasks and will reduce support requirements so your team can focus on more strategic and value-added activities.

Procurement Common

• Send workflow notifications in a Redwood style and format for procurement documents and transactions. This update brings a consistent and fresh look to both email and work list notifications, providing a seamless Redwood user experience.

Inventory Management

• You can now create and update requisition movement requests effortlessly with the new Redwood UX. Additionally, the enhanced interface allows you to search, view, duplicate, close, or cancel movement requests, providing a streamlined and intuitive experience.
• Review consumption advice using a Redwood page. The new Review Consumption Advices page allows you to search, review, and print consumption advice using various attributes.
• Review and approve these adjustments using a Redwood page.
• Access your consigned transactions using the Redwood Consigned Inventory page.
• Access your item supply and demand using the Redwood Item Supply and Demand page to search and view all your supply and demand per item, delivering an improved user experience.

Receivables

• Put away received goods using a Redwood page. Click the Received Lines task and select the Awaiting Put Away tab to view lines that have been received or inspected and are awaiting put away.
• You can now search for Advance Shipment Notices (ASNs) using the Supplier Shipment Number field on various Oracle Receiving pages to view expected and completed receipts. This feature is available on the Inbound Shipments, Expected Shipment Lines, and Awaiting Put Away Redwood pages.

Manufacturing

• The new Work Execution landing page in Redwood offers a streamlined user experience for production staff, making it easier to manage work orders and execution activities.
• In the new Redwood user experience, you can now enhance ATO model work definitions by adding operational applicability rules based on the optional components selected from the multilevel ATO model item structure.
• Enhance material transactions for work order operations by capturing additional information in descriptive flex fields, scanning serials during returns, validating lot and serials based on item revisions, and controlling additional material issues.

Oracle’s 25A Redwood Updates for HCM Module

Global Human Resources

• Flexfield Parameters for Redwood Jobs, Locations, and Departments – Redwood Jobs, Locations, and Departments pages now support filtering Extensible Flexfield (EFF) and Descriptive Flexfield (DFF) values based on configured parameters. Example: A flexfield like “ Active Positions” on the Jobs page filters its values based on the Effective Start Date, displaying only active positions for that date.
• The Redwood Document Type and Document Records pages now feature an upgraded rich text editor with advanced formatting options.

‍ Supported Fields:

• Description for Document Types
  • Issuing Comments for Document Records
• The Redwood Document Type page now features simplified input widgets by replacing radio buttons with List of Values (LoVs) for options like:
  • Approval Required
  • Allow Multiple Occurrences
  • Publish Required
  • Restrict Create, Update, and Delete

Workforce Structures

• The new Reporting Establishments pages, built with Redwood and Visual Builder Studio, offer enhanced functionality:
  • Search by name or location.
  • Filter by effective date, status, or location.
  • Sort results by name and export search results for convenience.

Benefits

• The Benefits Summary page now offers an intuitive interface for managing enrollment activities through the Enroll button in the Evaluated Life Events section. Access via My Client Groups > Benefits > Benefits Summary.
• The application is now streamlined for benefits administration with the Redwood Experience for the Pending Actions region on the Benefits Summary page. Access this intuitive feature via My Client Groups > Benefits > Benefits Summary.

Job Requisitions

• The Redwood experience now supports attachments for both outbound and inbound emails. Upload attachments to outgoing messages on candidate details pages and send attachments in bulk emails from candidate lists, job applications, prospects, events, and search pages. Receive incoming emails with attachments seamlessly.
• The Redwood Candidate Details page has been enhanced with improved tag placement. Candidate tags have been relocated from the Key Info section to the Candidate Details side card for better accessibility and organization.

Performance Management

• Redwood Performance now lets you enable scoring for questionnaires in Check-In and Touchpoints templates. When configuring a template with questionnaires, you can select Enable Scoring and assign a scored questionnaire for the worker or manager. This adds measurable insights to performance discussions.
• Performance document notifications now feature the Redwood style, enhancing the user experience. These FYI notifications, built with the Redwood toolset Visual Builder Studio (VBS), offer a modern and intuitive interface for seamless interaction.

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We are aware that Oracle clients will only have two weeks to verify that these changes won’t have an adverse effect on their ongoing business operations. This can be difficult but test automation is already changing the way firms test. It’s even reducing quarterly update cycles from weeks to three days.

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Iffat Ara Khanam

Technical Content Lead