Oracle Cloud Redwood 25C Release: What's New?

Oracle Cloud Redwood 25C Release is just around the corner. The expected Oracle Redwood 25C release date is August 1, 2025, and it will go live in production environments by August 15, 2025. With UI features now mandatory across core modules like Inventory, Order Management, Order Management, Procurement and more, full adoption is no longer optional but a necessity. Leveraging the right testing strategy, you can embrace Redwood UX with confidence, minimizing disruption and unlocking the full potential of Oracle’s modern UI.

In this post, we’ll walk you through a high-level overview of the key updates in Oracle Redwood 25C release. We will also highlight how Opkey’s Agentic AI-powered ERP Lifecycle Optimization platform simplifies Oracle updates by automating testing, improving coverage, and reducing risk.

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

Oracle's 25C Redwood Updates in SCM Module

Inventory Management

• You can use Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration to create a flow schedule in Oracle Manufacturing and fulfill supply requests coming from Supply Chain Planning.

• To access these features, you’ll need specific roles assigned—such as Process Supply Order Interface, View Supply, Manage Supply Request Exceptions, and View Supply Order Exceptions and Status.

Order Management

• Use the new Reservation Priority page to specify the sort order of your attributes and create rules that reserve lines according to your priorities.

• Search and select order lines on the redesigned Sales Order Lines page in the Order Management work area, then use the new attributes to prioritize them.

Procurement

• You can now split, return, or reassign requisition lines. Additionally, you can add requisition lines to an existing staged document or select suppliers from past purchase orders for your staged documents.

• You can now process requisition lines into a new negotiation or add them to an existing one. Previously, requisition lines could only be processed into a purchase order.

Manufacturing

• As part of the Redwood user experience, you can navigate from a specific work order to review the requisition, purchase order, and receipt information for procured materials.

• On the work order detail page in Redwood, you’ll see a tab called Purchased Items if the organization is enabled for direct procurement.

Oracle's 25C Redwood Updates for HCM Module

Global Human Resources

• Redwood pages now allow you to display up to four person attributes (such as Person Number, Job Name, or Business Title) in the page header across various HCM pages. You can control which fields are shown and whether labels are displayed, helping to provide clearer context about the individual across both single pages and guided processes. 

• A new privilege has been added to the Human Resource Analyst role to fix errors on Redwood pages when accessing the Country list of values. If you are using a custom version of this role, you must manually add this privilege and assign a country security profile to ensure smooth access. 

Payroll

• You can now record Foreign Tax Credit for PAYE on the Statutory Deduction Information card for resident employees working abroad. To do this, use the PAYE Additional Information component and enter the amount in the Yearly Foreign Tax Credit field, since this information isn’t provided in the RPN. 

• A new PHI calculation card is now available to process both employee and employer contributions for approved or unapproved PHI schemes. Contributions can be recorded as a flat amount or a percentage, and you can indicate whether the scheme is approved (and thus eligible for statutory relief) or not. The payroll process leverages new elements, classifications, and balances to ensure accurate statutory deductions, including PRSI, PAYE, and USC. 

Absence Management 

• You can now use two new DBIs within fast formulas to retrieve the shifts that make up an absence. Additionally, a new DBI is available for use in extracts. No action is required to enable this feature. 

• Absence processing has been enhanced to correctly deduct unpaid breaks from the absence duration for shifts that cross midnight and/or the day divide, provided the worker is absent for the entire shift. This builds upon the enhancement introduced in the 25B release, which first enabled unpaid breaks to be subtracted from absence duration when a worker is absent for the full shift. 

Performance Management

• Associate Touchpoints check-in documents with performance review periods. You can also add position, job, and talent profile competencies as discussion topics in check-ins. 

• For a check-in template, use the Role Actions section to define permissions for managers and employees. These actions include creating, closing, deleting, and reopening a check-in. 

Help Desk

• Help Desk Agents now have the ability to quickly edit attributes displayed in the Help Desk spotlight area. Previously, these could only be modified through the details page. 

• Agents now have two options for creating a Help Desk request based on an integrated real-time interaction, which can be either a chat or a call transcript provided through Computer Telephony Integration (CTI). For simplicity, we’ll refer to both types of interactions as "chat." 

Learning

• The Manage Activities action on the Learning Assignments page was previously available only for offering assignments. This action is now also enabled for course assignments that have a primary offering assignment. 

• You can now manage when a learner is allowed to reattempt SCORM and HACP content after failing a specified number of attempts in self-paced learning. This is done using two new configuration options available on the Self-Paced Learning Rules tab. 

Compensation

• You can now use business rules to control who can edit or delete individual compensation allocations based on criteria such as role, plan, or business unit—providing finer control beyond just adding allocations. 

• You can now customize Redwood page headers to display key person and assignment information, such as Person Number, Job Name, or Position Code, making it easier to identify the individual associated with the transaction. 

Benefits

• Oracle has added a safeguard to the Back Out Life Events process to prevent the accidental deletion of key life events (such as Open and Unrestricted) that would result in a Voided status. This safeguard requires an estimated impact and stops the process if actuals exceed the estimate by more than 5%. 

• You can now hide the annual cost of benefit plans across Redwood enrollment and summary pages by enabling the new Hide Annual Rate setting during plan configuration. This helps maintain a cleaner and more compliant user experience. 

We understand that Oracle customers have a tight window of just two weeks to ensure these upcoming changes won’t disrupt critical business processes. It’s a daunting task, especially with so much at stake. This is where Opkey's ERP Lifecycle Optimization Platform comes in. 

How Opkey Can Help 

Opkey’s AI-enabled, ERP Lifecycle Optimization platform helps businesses validate new Oracle releases seamlessly, helping them to unlock the full potential of their Oracle environment. Opkey reduces test cycles and helps businesses to achieve improved risk coverage with the power of Agentic AI.