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ITEM — Oracle Transportation Management Reference

Item records containing product and material master data.

This page documents the ITEM table in Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) -- columns, primary key, incremental cursor, and the exact REST API endpoints used to extract it. This is one of 18 OTM tables that Supaflow's Oracle Transportation Management connector syncs natively into Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, or Postgres.

Overview

AttributeValue
OTM export table nameITEM
OTM metadata resource nameitems
Primary keyITEM_GID
Incremental cursor fieldUPDATE_DATE
CategoryCore

OTM REST API endpoints

OTM exposes every table through the logistics REST API. Paths depend on the authentication method you use.

Export API (fetch rows)

POST one of the following URLs, depending on your OTM authentication mode:

  • OAuth 2.0 (IDCS): https://{your-otm-host}/logisticsRestApi/data/v1/exportRequests/
  • Basic Auth: https://{your-otm-host}/logisticsRestApi/data-int/v1/exportRequests/

Example request body for ITEM:

{
"schema": "PRIMARY",
"contentType": "text/plain",
"tables": {
"items": [
{ "tableName": "ITEM", "partSize": 5000 }
]
}
}

To pull only rows updated after a given timestamp (the recommended pattern for incremental sync), add a rangeAfter block:

{
"schema": "PRIMARY",
"contentType": "text/plain",
"rangeAfter": { "value": "2026-04-01T00:00:00Z" },
"tables": {
"items": [
{ "tableName": "ITEM", "partSize": 5000 }
]
}
}

The response is a CSV payload with the table name on line 1, column headers on line 2, and data rows starting on line 3.

Metadata catalog (fetch schema)

GET the schema for ITEM:

  • OAuth 2.0: https://{your-otm-host}/logisticsRestApi/resources/v2/metadata-catalog/items
  • Basic Auth: https://{your-otm-host}/logisticsRestApi/resources-int/v2/metadata-catalog/items
note

The OTM metadata-catalog endpoint returns HTTP 400 for several tables. If you receive a 400 here, fall back to data-driven type inference by sampling rows from the Export API. See the OTM integration guide for the full pattern.

Columns

ColumnTypeNullablePKForeign key
ITEM_GIDVARCHAR2(101)Yes
ITEM_XIDVARCHAR2(50)
ITEM_NAMEVARCHAR2(240)Yes
COMMODITY_GIDVARCHAR2(101)YesCOMMODITY
NMFC_ARTICLE_GIDVARCHAR2(101)YesNMFC_ARTICLE
NMFC_CLASS_GIDVARCHAR2(101)YesNMFC_CLASS
STCC_GIDVARCHAR2(101)YesSTCC
HTS_GIDVARCHAR2(101)YesHTS
SITC_GIDVARCHAR2(101)YesSITC
DESCRIPTIONVARCHAR2(500)Yes
USER_DEFINED_COMMODITY_GIDVARCHAR2(101)YesUSER_DEFINED_COMMODITY
UDC_CLASSIFICATION_LIST_GIDVARCHAR2(101)YesUDC_CLASSIFICATION_LIST
BRAND_NAMEVARCHAR2(101)Yes
EFFECTIVE_DATEDATEYes
EXPIRATION_DATEDATEYes
MANUFACTURED_COUNTRY_CODE_GIDVARCHAR2(101)YesCOUNTRY_CODE
IS_DRAWBACKVARCHAR2(1) Y/N
IATA_SCR_CODE_GIDVARCHAR2(101)YesIATA_SCR_CODE
MARKED_FOR_PURGEVARCHAR2(1) Y/NYes
DOMAIN_NAMEVARCHAR2(50)
INSERT_USERVARCHAR2(128)
INSERT_DATEDATE
UPDATE_USERVARCHAR2(128)Yes
UPDATE_DATEDATEYes
UNIT_OF_MEASUREVARCHAR2(20)Yes
PRICE_PER_UNITNUMBER()Yes
PRICE_PER_UNIT_BASENUMBER()Yes
PRICE_PER_UNIT_CURRENCY_GIDVARCHAR2(101)YesCURRENCY
IS_TEMPLATEVARCHAR2(1) Y/N
ATTRIBUTE1VARCHAR2(150)Yes
ATTRIBUTE2VARCHAR2(150)Yes
ATTRIBUTE3VARCHAR2(150)Yes
ATTRIBUTE4VARCHAR2(150)Yes
ATTRIBUTE5VARCHAR2(150)Yes
ATTRIBUTE6VARCHAR2(150)Yes
ATTRIBUTE7VARCHAR2(150)Yes
ATTRIBUTE8VARCHAR2(150)Yes
ATTRIBUTE9VARCHAR2(150)Yes
ATTRIBUTE10VARCHAR2(150)Yes
ATTRIBUTE11VARCHAR2(150)Yes
ATTRIBUTE12VARCHAR2(150)Yes
ATTRIBUTE13VARCHAR2(150)Yes
ATTRIBUTE14VARCHAR2(150)Yes
ATTRIBUTE15VARCHAR2(150)Yes
ATTRIBUTE16VARCHAR2(150)Yes
ATTRIBUTE17VARCHAR2(150)Yes
ATTRIBUTE18VARCHAR2(150)Yes
ATTRIBUTE19VARCHAR2(150)Yes
ATTRIBUTE20VARCHAR2(150)Yes
ATTRIBUTE_NUMBER1NUMBER()Yes
ATTRIBUTE_NUMBER2NUMBER()Yes
ATTRIBUTE_NUMBER3NUMBER()Yes
ATTRIBUTE_NUMBER4NUMBER()Yes
ATTRIBUTE_NUMBER5NUMBER()Yes
ATTRIBUTE_NUMBER6NUMBER()Yes
ATTRIBUTE_NUMBER7NUMBER()Yes
ATTRIBUTE_NUMBER8NUMBER()Yes
ATTRIBUTE_NUMBER9NUMBER()Yes
ATTRIBUTE_NUMBER10NUMBER()Yes
ATTRIBUTE_DATE1DATEYes
ATTRIBUTE_DATE2DATEYes
ATTRIBUTE_DATE3DATEYes
ATTRIBUTE_DATE4DATEYes
ATTRIBUTE_DATE5DATEYes
ATTRIBUTE_DATE6DATEYes
ATTRIBUTE_DATE7DATEYes
ATTRIBUTE_DATE8DATEYes
ATTRIBUTE_DATE9DATEYes
ATTRIBUTE_DATE10DATEYes
INDICATORVARCHAR2(1)Yes
USER_DEFINED1_ICON_GIDVARCHAR2(101)YesICON
USER_DEFINED2_ICON_GIDVARCHAR2(101)YesICON
USER_DEFINED3_ICON_GIDVARCHAR2(101)YesICON
USER_DEFINED4_ICON_GIDVARCHAR2(101)YesICON
USER_DEFINED5_ICON_GIDVARCHAR2(101)YesICON
PRIORITYNUMBER PRIORITY BETWEEN 1Yes
ITEM_TYPE_GIDVARCHAR2(101)YesITEM_TYPE
COUNTRY_OF_ORIGIN_GIDVARCHAR2(101)YesCOUNTRY_CODE
ITEM_TEMPLATE_GIDVARCHAR2(101)Yes
PROD_CLASS_TEMPLATE_GIDVARCHAR2(101)Yes
ATTRIBUTE_DATE11DATEYes
ATTRIBUTE_DATE12DATEYes
ATTRIBUTE_DATE13DATEYes
ATTRIBUTE_DATE14DATEYes
ATTRIBUTE_DATE15DATEYes
ATTRIBUTE_DATE16DATEYes
ATTRIBUTE_DATE17DATEYes
ATTRIBUTE_DATE18DATEYes
ATTRIBUTE_DATE19DATEYes
ATTRIBUTE_DATE20DATEYes
ATTRIBUTE_NUMBER11NUMBER()Yes
ATTRIBUTE_NUMBER12NUMBER()Yes
ATTRIBUTE_NUMBER13NUMBER()Yes
ATTRIBUTE_NUMBER14NUMBER()Yes
ATTRIBUTE_NUMBER15NUMBER()Yes
ATTRIBUTE_NUMBER16NUMBER()Yes
ATTRIBUTE_NUMBER17NUMBER()Yes
ATTRIBUTE_NUMBER18NUMBER()Yes
ATTRIBUTE_NUMBER19NUMBER()Yes
ATTRIBUTE_NUMBER20NUMBER()Yes
WHOLLY_ORIGINATINGVARCHAR2(1) Y/N
Column list source

The column list above is extracted from Oracle's OTM data dictionary included with the February 2025 release snapshot of this connector. Oracle publishes an updated dictionary with every Transportation and Global Trade Management release; for the current version, consult Oracle's Transportation and Global Trade Management documentation.

Incremental sync

The ITEM table supports incremental sync via the UPDATE_DATE cursor. Supaflow's connector handles:

  • Server-side clock skew -- measured once from OTM's RFC 1123 Date header and applied to every cursor comparison.
  • Late-arriving updates -- configurable lookback window (recommended 300-600 seconds in production) re-scans the tail of the previous window.
  • Identical-timestamp batches -- tracks record count at the maximum cursor timestamp so batch updates that stamp thousands of rows with the same UPDATE_DATE don't cause missed or duplicated rows.

Full pattern: The Complete Guide to Oracle Transportation Management Integration.

Sync ITEM with Supaflow

Supaflow's Oracle Transportation Management connector syncs ITEM -- along with 17 other OTM tables -- into your cloud data warehouse with:

  • Sync and async (Object Storage PAR) export modes
  • Proactive OAuth token refresh (60-second safety margin on IDCS tokens)
  • Composite primary key preservation for tables with multi-field keys
  • Automatic handling of the five OTM-specific data quirks (metadata 400s, "0" temporal sentinels, Z-suffixed date fields, 1 MB sync-mode truncation, _TEXT / _COMMENT column type overrides)
  • Predictable connector-based pricing -- not per-row, not per MAR

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