R12 Release Content Documents
R12 Release Content Documents
R12 Release Content Documents
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Multi-Org Access Control
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Multi-Org Access Features
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Multi-Org Access Multi-Org access control provides ability to Productivity: This feature increases the productivity of
Control access, process and report on data for an Shared Service Centers, as users and processes no
unlimited number of operating units within longer have to switch applications responsibilities
a single applications responsibility. when processing transactions and reporting for
multiple operating units at a time.
Multi-Org Security User can setup preferences to limit the Flexibility and Ease of Use: Provides flexibility to user
Profile Preferences operating units available during to limit the list of operating units available during
transactions processing if user needs only transaction processing.
a subset of operating units available in the
security profile.
Enhanced Multi-Org Provides with ability to run the reports at 2 Reduced reporting time and increased efficiency
Reporting levels.
I. Ledger : Report runs for all operating
units within a ledger
II. Operating Unit : Report runs for selected
operating unit
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Order Management
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Order Management Enhancements
Number of Enhancements
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Order Management Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Customer Allows the users to defer the invoice and/or Reduces Administrative costs
Acceptance Process revenue recognition for shipped goods until Compliant to Corporate Governance regulations
customer receives and formally accepts
the goods
Rosettanet Native Order Management Integrates with Supply Efficient and cost effective way of exchanging
Messaging Chain Trading Connectors to generate messages with trading partners
native Rosettanet Messages (PIPs). Error free message transmission for Business-to-
Business data exchange
IR/ISO Change Cancellation, Change in qty, Schedule Productivity : Reduces time in internal order
Management Ship Date/Arrival Date on Internal Sales changes
Order line will be automatically propagated Enhanced data accuracy and reliability
to Internal Requisition and vice versa Improved cross-divisional communication
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Order Management Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
International Trade Supports master data synchronization Better communication between EBS & GTM for party
Mgmt Adapter for of items & parties between GTM & EBS synchronization and order export compliance, delivery
Communication between EBS & GTM export compliance
Global Trade Mgmt is enabled via XML messaging
for Order and Delivery compliance
Item Orderability Allows users to define business rules to Allows businesses to introduce new goods and
control “who can order what?” services to select customers ,locations and
and enforce these rules during order expand to general availability
entry. Ability to enforce the orderability on goods &
These rules can be defined for an item services that can be fulfilled
or item category and allows control by
11 attributes
Integration with Leverages the capabilities of Approval Centralized approval policies to improve audit
Oracle AME rules engine to dynamically and accountability
determine the list of approvers for Rapid and easy implementation
Quotes, RMAs and Sales Agreements.
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Order Management Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Tax Calculation on Estimated taxes on freight charges will Enables to quote accurately with estimated tax in
Freight charges be calculated & displayed in Order sync with AR Tax amount
Management. Improves performance when Tax calculation is
In addition to Order Entry form, this deferred to the time of saving order
feature is supported in Process Order
API, Order Import & High Volume Order
Processing
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Order Management Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Scheduling ATO Scheduling actions on ATO items having Avoids creation of unnecessary BOMs
items w/o BOM no BOM set up in item validation or ship Additional flexibility while processing pre-
from org configured/ sourced models
Delayed Scheduling Scheduling only on saving the sales order Reduces discrepancy between OM and MRP
rather than during entry demand
Eliminates redundant GOP calls and thereby
Improves overall performance of order processing
Scheduling/substituti In case of partial availability on requested Increased C-Sat with timely fulfillment
on of partial available date, line will be split and scheduled with Inventory Optimization
available quantity or with substitution item
quantity
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Order Management Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
HTML user interface The OM HTML user interface can be used It’s an additional option for customers who desire a
in managing sales orders. This is in modern, easily configurable, tablet friendly user
in managing sales interface.
addition to and co-exists with the existing
orders sales order and OIP. This interface offers functional parity with Sales Orders,
Order Organizer, and Scheduling Organizer.
Substitute items on Before R12.2.4, item substitution is not Order Management now enables to substitute items on
supported for ISO. Now can be used by ISO lines to manage item availability.
Internal Sale Orders In addition, with the new profile option user can opt in or
selecting newly added value in the system
out of sending notifications when there are changes to
parameters.
internal sales orders.
Configurator for For non-referenced RMAs, Order The customers have the option to configure PTO Models
Management now allows you to configure or Kits in non-referenced RMAs. To enable this
Return Orders functionality, the value should be set to “Yes” in the new
the model from Sales Order / Quick Sales
profile option.
Order windows.
In addition, re-configuration and/or deletion of any line is
not allowed if any line in the same configuration is either
received, fulfilled, closed, cancelled or split.
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Order Management Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Order Management Order Management has been enhanced to New product YMS for managing the resources/inventory
support Oracle Yard Management System Perform returns of material in YMS-enabled
Support for Yard organizations from Order Management.
(YMS) to process return of materials in
Management System YMS-enabled organizations. Enter/update trailer details on return lines in Order
Management and update YMS for the changes.
Performance Bulk processing is now enabled for Bulk Processing of Workflow Item Creation and Order
workflow item creation and order purge Purge Processes
Improvements - Bulk Significant performance improvement in Sales Order
processes to improve performance.
Processing creation, especially with large number of Order Lines
Notable improvement in performance of Order Purge
program.
Increase Productivity Benefit from the new capabilities available External order capturing applications such as Quoting,
to increase productivity while entering and iStore or third party applications can use Order
while Entering and Management item orderability rules
managing sales orders
Managing Sales Another enhancement is related solely to the display of
Orders QTY Reserved in the Sales Order window
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Order Management Key Enhancements - Summary
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Shipping Execution
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Shipping Execution Enhancements
Number of Enhancements
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Number of Enhancements
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R12.0 R12.1.1 R12.1.3 R12.2
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Shipping Execution Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Workflow-enabled Business processes automation with Reduction in integration & automation costs
Oracle workflow for Deliver, Trip and
Shipping ship to deliver workflows Improved audit trail using workflow monitor
Transactions Information routing as per defined
business rules Flexible printing of shipping documents any time
Ship Confirm User can determine if an error/warning Improves flexibility: user can control the ship
Message message should be given when confirm behavior
- ship sets are broken
Configuration - inventory controls are missing
- ship models are broken proportionally
Flexible Documents Leveraging XML publisher to print No dependency on 3rd party printing applications
Customer facing shipping documents like
‘Packing Slip’ in PDF format Enhanced business accuracy of shipping
documents
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Shipping Execution Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Over/Under-shipment Incremental shipment of SO line with Improved usage frequency of customer order
Tolerances over/under-shipment tolerances set,
until the maximum shipment quantity is Can be switched on/off as per shipping
reached requirements
Integration with 3PL/ Shipment request/advice via XML No need to create deliveries on the host instance
3rd party distributed to communicate shipment requests
WMS
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Shipping Execution Key Enhancements - Summary
•Miscellaneous Shipping
Transactions
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Inventory
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Inventory Enhancements
Number of Enhancements
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R12.0 R12.1.1 R12.1.2 R12.2 R12.2.3
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Inventory Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Material Aging Create work order, send notification to Efficient management of products with limited shelf
Workflow planner or move expired product for life or nearing expiry or requires refurbishment
inspection/quarantine
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Inventory Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Optional Lot Allocation based on quantity available Flexibility in picking the lot resulting in faster and
Allocation Lot numbers can be chosen during efficient picking
picking
Return to Vendor Return material with a return request Return material from any warehouse irrespective
without the reference of PO of Inventory Org in which it was received initially
Print documents and export compliance
check
Deferred Electronic Defer material status update until the Easier for approver to manage the tasks and
Record and ERES approving the change gets doesn’t have to be present at the time of the
recorded transaction
Electronic Signature ERES framework adheres to industrial standards
(ERES) of electronic record keeping
Physical Inventory Update physical inventory records from Gives more flexibility in updating the inventory
Integration external systems for high volume records
transactions with public API
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Inventory Key Enhancements - Summary
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Purchasing
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Purchasing Enhancements
Number of Enhancements
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Purchasing Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Document Publishing Files of types MS Word, Excel, PDF etc., can Enables buyers to communicate all necessary
and communication be attached to purchasing document attachments to suppliers
documents to communicate to suppliers. Document generation in PDF & RTF format
Purchasing documents can be generated in complies with reporting requirements of regulatory
RTF and PDF format. bodies & Organizations
Sourcing Rule/ASL Finer control in enabling blanket agreements for streamlines automatic document sourcing in
for agreement items automatic document sourcing specific inventory organizations
PO and Requisition Mass update the buyer, approver and deliver- Reduction in time for maintaining the document
Mass Update to in PO and preparer, requester and changes
approver details in requisition. Productivity improvement in closure of Std
Mass close the purchasing documents. Purchase Orders, Blanket Purchase Agreements,
Planned Purchase Orders, Contract Agreement &
Blanket Releases in batch mode
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Purchasing Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Spreadsheet based This facilitates buyers to add or modify Buyer Work In Web ADI buyers can
Center purchase order lines, schedules, and Add new records to lines, schedules, and distributions to
authoring of PO lines distributions using the Oracle Web Applications existing purchase orders by importing data .
Desktop Integrator (Web ADI) integration with Modify records of lines, schedules, and distributions of
Microsoft Excel. existing purchase orders by exporting data and then
uploading newly added or corrected records.
Split lines of existing orders.
New ASL API Users can use API to create new ASLs as well as The ASL API enables to create, update, and delete
update the existing ones. This API comes with error approved supplier lists in bulk.
and warning messages to simplify troubleshooting. Using the API, users can create ASL with details that
include type, commodity, item details etc
Buyer Work Center This release provides the ability to define default The values set in the Purchasing Preferences page are
values for key attributes in Buyer Work Center applicable during the user-session only.
Session preferences purchase order documents. A new Purchasing The values set in the Purchasing Preferences page
Preferences page is available from the Preferences default when lines, shipments, or distributions are
page, Purchasing Defaults link to set default values for created. The values re-default whenever there are line
purchase order documents. The Purchasing Defaults type or item changes.
feature enables users to manage commonly used Preferences set for Purchasing defaults display multiple
attributes and improve the purchase order authoring organizations if the Multi-Org Access Control (MOAC)
process in Buyer Work Center. feature is setup.
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Purchasing Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Purchasing Several enhancements are now offered with the • Import the requisition reference number of purchase
Purchasing Document Open Interface (PDOI) which documents.
Document Open were mentioned in ‘Business Value’ section. • Import the global blanket purchase agreement and
Interface (PDOI) global contract purchase agreement reference number
Enhancements in purchase documents.
• Utilize Advance Pricing setup when importing purchase
documents.
• The “Import Contract Purchase Agreements”
concurrent program enables users to import contract
agreements.
Lead-time based At times the promised date is not provided by the user Purchasing now references the lead time specified in the
for new Purchase Order lines. These cases were Blanket Purchase Agreement line to automatically
Promise Date handled by enhancement to automatically populate populate the promised date on the corresponding
Calculations the promised date on the Purchase Order Lines. Purchase Order Lines.
The defaulting happens for purchase order documents
and not requisitions.
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Purchasing Key Enhancements - Summary
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Advanced Pricing
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Advanced Pricing Enhancements
Number of Enhancements
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Advanced Pricing Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
MOAC for Pricing Pricing Security can work with MOAC, enabling Ease of use and increase in productivity without
users to efficiently process business transactions compromising on Pricing Security features
Security
by allowing a user to set up data pertaining to
multiple Operating Units through a single
responsibility
Price Book Provides a robust self-service capability for users Self service application can be used by external users
to generate and publish lists of products they sell as well. Gives list of items with discounts as well as
with their related prices. charges, if any.
Support TCA Party Enable users to easily set up party qualifier based No need to set up a separate qualifier for each party
price lists and modifiers such that they apply not (parent company and all its subsidiaries), hence
Hierarchy only to the qualifying party but also to all parties saves lot of time
that are in levels below the qualifying party
New charge Advanced Pricing can now price based on the Useful where recurring charges are quoted or ordered
value of a new charge periodicity pricing attribute (e.g. Telecom services)
periodicity pricing (e.g. Monthly, Quarterly etc.)
attribute
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Advanced Pricing Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Support for BPA Users can price releases based on pricing rules Purchasing users can also use Advanced Pricing
pricing defined in Advanced Pricing rules for flexible and dynamic pricing
Dynamic pricing Dynamic formula is supported for Price Break Users can now have dynamic pricing calculations for
formula support Lines with Application method as ‘Unit Price price break lines
Extended integration User can manually enter a price modifier, Greater granularity and flexibility in pricing purchase
with Oracle change a modifier rate, and recalculate the price. orders and agreements
They can query existing manual modifiers and
Purchasing apply them to PO and/or BPA unit price
Service Item Support Users can setup promotional modifiers where a Cuts down order creation time, adds efficiency and
in Promotional service item gets added automatically when a accuracy of order creator
certain finished good is added to the order
Modifiers
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Advanced Pricing Key Enhancements - Summary
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Quoting
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Quoting Enhancements
Number of Enhancements
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R12.0 R12.1.2 R12.1.3 R12.2
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Quoting Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
MOAC for Quotes Offers the ability to create and update quotes Ease of use and increase in productivity
access created in different operating units without
requiring the user to switch responsibilities
Defaulting Rules When the user creates or updates a quote, Reduces user effort by eliminating the need to
specified attributes of the quote get manually populate several quote values
automatically populated based on predefined
rules
ATP Enhancements ATP Information is expanded to display Ease of use because of display of additional attributes
additional attributes such as estimated ship at one place
date, estimated arrival date, shipping
warehouse, shipping method etc.
Pay Now/Pay Later Translates the Payments Terms on the header Allows the sales representative to determine and
as well as each line to determine the portion of communicate to the customer the proportions of the
the quote total that is due immediately. immediate and deferred payments
Payment on the balance is deferred as per
Payment Terms
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Quoting Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Download /Upload Extends the ability to modify contractual terms Allows flexibility to user for download/upload Option of
Contract Terms and conditions by allowing a sales representative RTF format output in addition to PDF
to download the terms and conditions to desktop
(RTF format), modify them and upload the
changes to the quote
Quoting of Services Allows the Quoting user to specify a service Useful in scenarios where the Sold To Customer is
to End Customer reference for a Serviceable item in the Install not the same as the End Customer (e.g. Reseller
Base for the End Customer on the quote case)
Service item point to Allows the service item to point to a serviceable Useful where a service is quoted long after the original
a serviceable item item from the Product Catalog. The service item purchase
can be priced based on the price for the
serviceable item in the Product Catalog
Configurator If there are changes to the configuration rules or User gets the flexibility to choose either creation date
the Bill of Materials for the model item, then or current date as the effective date for model
enhancements
these changes are available when the user configuration
reconfigures the model item
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Quoting Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Usability Amend the “Quote To” Customer on the quote, Saves time and hence increases productivity
copy a quote to a customer different from that on
enhancements the original quote, Create Quote template from a
quote, apply a quote template from an operating
that is different from the quote operating unit
Configurator Configurator session is launched in a separate Improves the scalability and performance of
session page that is wholly dedicated to the configuration Configurator session
enhancement of the model item
Quoting to Prospects This enhancement provides the flexibility to User gets flexibility to use an additional option
completely turn off the automatic creation of
financial account for the prospect customer in the
quote
Parallel Approvals Ability for multiple approvers to concurrently Expedites the overall approval process and enhances
review and approve the quote. Approvers in a the approval efficiency
group can now simultaneously review and
indicate their approval after completing the
review
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Quoting Key Enhancements - Summary
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iStore
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iStore Enhancements
Number of Enhancements
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R12.0 R12.1.2 R12.1.3 R12.2 R12.2.4
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iStore Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Procurement Procurement users can add items available in Instead of feeding product information into multiple
Collaboration supplier catalog into their procurement system and procurement systems of buyer organizations,
proceed to create requisitions from procurement suppliers can own and manage their catalog
system information centrally in iStore
Risk Management Merchants can detect, in real time, fraudulent Fraudulent and unauthorized orders do not get
credit card payments using Oracle iPayment’s risk placed
management functionality
Capture end Partners can provide this information during the In multi-tier scenarios, companies need to capture
customer information checkout process, either by selecting the end such information
customer from a predefined list or by creating new
customers
Order Tracker Companies can enable advanced search Multiple search criteria available for users to do
advanced search functionality for business and partner users search
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iStore Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Split configurations The original configured item can be split to Fulfils the business need of shipping some
allow separate billing/shipping configurations to multiple locations
Online Return The customer can specify the “ship from Useful where merchants pick up items to be returned
Enhancements address” during the return process from the user-specified address
Product Comparison Provides users the ability to select items User can compare two or more products side by side
from the product catalog and display a and make wise decision
product comparison page showing the
products selected and their attributes
Secondary Users Provides the automatic generation of Eliminates the extra steps, thus streamlining the
enhancements password and automatic assignment of secondary user creation process.
application roles and responsibilities when
a primary user creates a secondary user
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iStore Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
One-Click Shopping Users can now add a product directly to an More streamlined and intuitive shopping list
List Management existing shopping list or a brand new management process
shopping list with a single click
Product Detail Pop- Upon invoking new UI control, the user can Eliminates the need to navigate to the product detail
up view more information about the product, for viewing more information about the product, hence
and can add that product directly to the saves time
shopping cart
Add To Cart Allows the Oracle iStore user to add Streamlines the shopping cart process flow by
Navigation products to their shopping cart while eliminating additional steps
remaining positioned on the current
product catalog page
Carousel Views for Provides an alternate way of displaying More streamlined and less cumbersome interface
Related Products long lists of related products by introducing when viewing related products
a sliding carousel control
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iStore Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Direct Item Entry Functionality allows users to quickly add • Direct Item Entry page allows users to add multiple items
multiple items to a shopping cart without the to a shopping cart without having to add items one at a
enhancement need for browsing items from the product time from the product catalog.
catalog. • Six new messages are created based on different cases
Default Order Type iStore merchants can specify the rule for
• This profile option determines how an order must be
displaying the default order type for their users
profile option through a new profile option.
processed in Oracle Order Management. By default, this
profile is set to NULL.
• If the profile is not set, then the Quoting parameter
“Default Order Type” will be used instead.
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iStore Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Bill-To Address The ability to change the Bill-to customer • Enhancement done in eight different categories for B2B
address or use the primary Bill-to address as users if they have the requisite permission.
Permission the default Bill-to address by a reseller can be • New permission enables B2B users to select and change
enhancement done only when they have the requisite the Bill-To customer address which is applicable for the
permission. few roles.
Show Item Number Part number column added on the Product • Part number column added on the Product category page.
category page.
on the Product
Category page
Multi-customer With the Multi-customer Access feature, an • An iStore B2B user can now view and place orders on
iStore B2B user can now view and place orders behalf of multiple customers using a single login ID.
Access on behalf of multiple customers using a single • The user can view or place orders for their default
login ID. customer, search for customers they have been assigned
to, and select a different customer-account context.
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iStore Key Enhancements - Summary
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Warehouse Management System
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WMS Enhancements
Number of Enhancements
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R12.0 R12.1.1 R12.1.2 R12.1.3 R12.2 R12.2.4
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WMS Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
OPM and EAM Supports transactions in organizations that Supports process industries which comprise 40% of
Support leverage Oracle Process Manufacturing and all manufacturing. Helps to optimize enterprise asset
Oracle Enterprise Asset Management for their management cost which is one of the biggest costs in
production support industry
Control Board Schedule a concurrent program to manage Easier and flexible to select and manage the tasks
Enhancements certain aspects on a regular basis. Queue a
group of tasks to a user task type. Cancel
inbound tasks. Manage Crossdock tasks as a
group
LPN Visibility in This functionality stores License Plate Numbers Ensures that LPNs in WMS and Shipping are unique
Shipping Execution in Oracle Shipping Execution and WMS in a
common data structure
Labor Management The two main analyses offered by the Labor Since labor costs constitute a major portion of the
Management feature are the Expected operating expenses in a distribution center, labor
resource/time requirements analysis and the management features help distribution managers
Labor Productivity analysis optimize their resources
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WMS Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Multi Delivery Allows warehouses to consolidate multiple Useful for shippers whofsend products to
Consolidation deliveries residing in various License Plate deconsolidation centers managed by a third party
Numbers (LPNs) into an outer/consolidation LPN
prior to shipment and perform ship confirmation
by scanning the outer LPN
Automated Task Supports the ability to automatically set the task Provide more intelligent priority setting capabilities
Prioritization priority for each task in a sales order picking without requiring any additional user execution steps
wave when that wave is pick released through the WMS Control Board
RFID Compliance Allows RFID labels to be printed alongside Allows customers to easily meet the various RFID
Update standard non-RFID labels, greater control over mandates with standard functionality, thereby avoiding
printer selection, and printing EPC labels for costly customizations or supplier fines
serialized product
Forward Pick New replenishment features like Pull Replenishment to forward pick area allows distribution
Replenishment Replenishment, Push Replenishment and centre to reap the benefits of bulk procurement and
Dynamic Execution are introduced in R12.1.1 optimized storage in a reserve area as well as
optimized picking for order profiles with smaller
quantities
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WMS Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Task Extensibility Task Extensibility features provide tremendous Using these features, WMS task functionality can be
Enhancements implementation flexibility in the execution of extended for customer or industry specific needs
WMS tasks. This feature will deliver a public API
to modify, update, split and cancel a WMS task
Dock Scheduling and With this feature, the dock doors, dock door Drives distribution efficiencies for organizations that
Load Sequencing appointments and sequence of loads into a trailer leverage both OTM and WMS
can be synchronized with WMS.
WMS uses this additional information to plan
outbound activities
LPN Status The material status model has been extended to Useful in scenarios where quality issues affect only
provide LPN level holds some of the LPNs produced in a manufacturing batch
Reusing LPNs The REUSE_LPNS API enables to physically re- Provides cost effectiveness
use returned containers after their contents have
been issued out of stores, or returned using an
RMA
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WMS Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Distributed WMS With Distributed WMS deployment, it’s possible This feature makes it possible to use Oracle WMS for
Deployment for WMS to be installed on a separate physical warehousing operations along with an EBS or a non-
instance that is independent from the remaining EBS host system
applications of EBS
Advanced Wave Offers flexible order grouping, wave creation and Wave Planning is particularly useful for warehouses
Planning release using advanced filters and dashboards to that fulfil a high volume of small order lines
monitor wave progress along with configurable
proactive exception handling
Task Cancellation Warehouse managers can cancel a task and Gives warehouse managers the flexibility to stop
may release lines with new allocated material execution of certain tasks without the need to
and task assignment at a later time backorder sales order lines
Lot Substitution Provides the flexibility to the pick operator to Offers tremendous amount of flexibility and
override the system suggested lot. WMS will convenience to warehouses that stock lot controlled
continue to direct the picker to a location and a products
lot; however the picker can pick a different lot by
entering an exception
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WMS Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
LSP Management LSP management feature allows quick on Addresses a critical requirement of Logistics Service
boarding of client in the warehouse, allows Providers (LSP)
automatic segregation of activities for every
client and also enables process level
differentiation for each client using client level
rules
Return to Vendor RTV process is enhanced to manage the Allows customers an extended functionality for RTV
enhancements fulfilment process of any outbound shipments process
associated with the return and to offer greater
flexibility in determining which org can ship
return goods
Material Workbench Material workbench has been enhanced to This provides a real time on-hand and availability
Enhancements accommodate for material that has been picked picture to the user
from LPNs and loaded for tasks, but has not yet
been dropped to the destination location
Warehouse Control Warehouse Control Board has been enhanced to This facilitates any corrective actions to reduce or
Board enhancements show additional details for the exceptions related eliminate such exceptions to improve productivity
to the tasks that are queried up by the user
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WMS Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Multiple Cycle Count Oracle WMS supports multiple task types for cycle • This provides the flexibility to dispatch counting tasks
Task Types counts that enable you to leverage task type based on customer specific business logic and setup.
assignment rules to assign cycle count tasks. This • This feature could be used to assign cycle count tasks for
provides the flexibility to dispatch counting tasks different subinventories to different operators that may be
based on customer-specific business logic and setup. using different equipment.
Cycle Count Skip The Cycle Count Task Mobile page enables you to • This provides consistency between cycle counts and
Task skip the current cycle count task and get the next picking tasks around the skipping operation and improves
eligible cycle count task. efficiency by eliminating extra keystrokes.
Drop by Location This feature enables you to drop all outbound loaded • This eliminates the need to perform separate drop for
LPNs destined to the same locator in a single step. each LPN loaded and increases the efficiency of the
dropping process.
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WMS Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Configurable Picking During picking can be configure the exception Exception handling to either:
Exceptions handling in either ways which is mentioned in • Backorder only the current tasks on which the exception
Business Value. was raised, or
• Backorder the current task and all other tasks for the
same SKU.
Cycle Count The picking exception Change Locator/LPN, can now • This provides the functionality to create new cycle count
Workflow for be associated with the ‘cycle entries/reservations when the user raised a Change
count' workflow. Locator/LPN exception.
Locator/LPN • This ensures the on hand inaccuracy does not translate to
Exception incorrect tasks downstream and improves overall picking
efficiency.
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Mobile Supply Chain Applications
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MSCA Enhancements
Number of Enhancements
4
3 3
3
2
2
1 1
1
0
R12.0 R12.1.1 R12.2 R12.2.3 R12.2.4
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MSCA Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
OPM and EAM Supports transactions in organizations that Supports process industries which comprise 40% of
Support leverage Oracle Process Manufacturing and all manufacturing. Helps to optimize enterprise asset
Oracle Enterprise Asset Management for their management cost which is one of the biggest costs in
production support industry
Locator Inquiry Locator Inquiry feature enables a user to perform Locator Inquiry feature makes the daily tasks of a
instant queries on Warehouse locations through warehouse worker much smoother
the mobile UI
Cycle Count Allow the warehouse operator to directly enter This functionality provides flexibility to the user
Enhancements the lot numbers and their quantities without
having to enter the total item quantity first if
multiple lots are cycle counted in a location
Mobile User Interface Personalization is available for Receipt Improves transaction execution speed and
Personalization transactions, Detail Pick, Cycle/Physical Count, transaction accuracy
Item Inquiry, Lot Attributes, Account Alias
Receipt/Issue, Subinventory Transfer, IO
Transfer and Replenishment mobile pages in
MSCA
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MSCA Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Mobile Page Personalization is made available on Ship Confirm, Improves transaction execution speed and transaction
Personalization Quick Ship and Load Truck mobile pages. accuracy.
Enhancements
Mobile Page With the release of a new product - Oracle Yard This enhancment helps in new product YMS in sink with
Management, the existing MSCA mobile pages for MSCA.
Enhancements
‘Receipts’, ‘Quick Ship’, ‘LPN Ship’, ‘Load/Unload
Truck’ and Inventory Ship Confirm’ have been
enhanced.
New Mobile Pages With the release of a new product - Oracle Yard This helps in new product YMS.
Management, the existing MSCA mobile pages for
for YMS ‘Seal Equipment’, ‘Unseal Equipment’, ‘Equipment
Update’ and ‘Yard Move’ have been introduced.
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MSCA Key Enhancements - Summary
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General Ledger
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General Ledger Enhancements
Number of Enhancements
30
25
20
15
Number of Enhancements
10
0
R12.0 R12.1.1 R12.1.2 R12.1.3 R12.2
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General Ledger Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Multiple Reporting Allows users to perform accounting in Simplified & Unified Accounting Process
Requirements accordance with accounting principles and Reduced costs of accounting to meet regulatory and
standards of multiple countries and in corporate consolidation requirements
different currencies, chart of accounts and
calendars simultaneously
Data Access to LE’s Allows users to access Multiple legal Productivity : Reduces time in journals processing
and Ledgers entities and ledgers from a single and financial reporting
responsibility without the need to switch
between responsibilities.
Data & Definitions Flexible ways of securing data by legal Enhanced data security when data is accessed from
Security entity, ledger, balancing or management single responsibility
segment values. Enhanced definitions security in an environment
Secure definitions and setups by granting where setups are performed by multiple users
specific privileges to view, modify or
execute a definition.
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General Ledger Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Accounting Setup Manager – Central Ease of setup and maintenance: All accounting
location to define and maintain Legal related setups across financial applications can be
Centralized entities and their accounting context. maintained with ease from a central location
Accounting Setup Also, setup reporting currency or
secondary ledgers to meet additional
accounting requirements.
Allows to secure management segment for Increased Data Security: Securing management
reporting and entry of management segments prevents users not having access to view
Management adjustments. management adjustments
Reporting Security Any segment (except the natural account
segment) of your chart of accounts can be
designated to be a management segment.
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General Ledger Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Ability to control data entry to an account Streamlined reconciliation with sub-ledgers: Ability
by ensuring it only contains data from a to control data entry to account by specified sources
Control Accounts specified journal source and to prevent helps in streamlining sub-ledger reconciliation to GL
users from entering data for the account
either in other journal sources or manually
within general ledger.
Account Analysis & Drilldown is a new Efficient Data Analysis : Provides immediate access
web-based interface that allows to easily live GL data which eases for better business
Account Analysis review and analyze general ledger decisions.
and Drilldown financial data and drill down to supporting
journal entries and sub-ledger transactions
all within a browser window.
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General Ledger
•Management Reporting
Security
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E-Business Tax
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E-Business Tax Features
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Configuration Users using a subscription model can Reduced effort of Setups: Tax Setups can be
Options and share the tax setup. Owner of Tax Setup is shared between Legal Entities and Organizations with
configuration owner which could be Legal the possibility of having common configuration at
Provider Service Entity or Organization. Supports the enterprise level reducing the effort of duplicating
Subscriptions concept of a Global Configuration Owner, setups and maintenance
an enterprise level configuration owner that
can hold data which is common and visible
to all configuration owner
Tax Determination Tax Determination Services component Automated Tax Determination: Configurable options
Services calculates transaction taxes based on & rules allows for automatically determining taxes
transaction details and tax setup applicable for a transaction
information.
Centralized Tax Tax transactions and all the noteworthy tax Centralized Repository: Stores all the tax related
Record Repository information for each transaction is information in a centralized repository that helps is
recorded in a centralized Tax Record auditing and reporting of taxes
Repository
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E-Business Tax Features
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Tax Reporting Users are able to use the information in the Flexible Tax Reporting & Compliance : Tax
centralized tax record repository to create Reporting is flexible enough to provide data in a user-
legal documents and reports that facilitate friendly format that allows the standard and identified
tax compliance. country specific requirements to be met.
Tax Simulator A valuable tool for tax managers who can Reduced error in tax calculations: This Feature
use this interface to ensure that the tax helps in simulating transactions and reviewing tax
configuration, including any rules that have calculations for any new setups performed thus
been setup, provide the expected results. reducing the chance of errors
Guided E-Business Tax assists users with tax Performing setups with ease from a centralized
Configuration configuration by providing a setup task list location
that lists sequence of tasks to be
completed and a guided rule definition
process
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E-Business Tax Features
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Customer Tax Customer Interface program can be used Reduced effort of manual setup: Import of tax
information import to import the tax information information for customers reduces effort of manually
• Party Tax Profile setting up tax information
• Tax Registrations
• Exemptions
• Reporting Code Association.
Additional Oracle E-Business Tax also supports new Support for Business & Regulatory requirements
Enhancements local and regional tax requirements:
• Deferred Tax in Payables
• Enhanced handling of Tax on Freight
• Sales and Use Tax in procurement
• Enhanced exemptions and exceptions
• Multiple Tax Registrations
• Multiple Recovery types
• Tax reporting codes
• Cash as well as Accrual Basis reporting
for tax
• Enhanced handling of Tax on
Intercompany Movements
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Payables
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Payables Enhancements
Number of Enhancements
16
14
12
10
8
Number of Enhancements
6
0
R12.0 R12.1.1 R12.1.2
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Payables Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Legal Entity Provides ability to capture and track legal Regulatory compliance: : Ability to mange a legal
Ownership entity owner of Invoices corporate structure and track data from the legal
and Payments perspective.
Payables / Offset open receivables against open Cost saving : Instead of processing payments and
Receivable Netting payables items deploying netting capturing receipts for same trading partner,
agreements and company controls automatic offset of payables against receivables
provides a cost benefit for organizations in terms of
Scheduling of netting batches to run saved processing time.
periodically without user intervention
Invoice Lines Ability of capturing and approval of Line A key architectural change to provide a better model
level Information for an invoice to capture the paper of electronic business document
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Payables Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Support for Contract Automatic recovery of prepayments made Better Control and Tracking of Contracts: Provides
Business Process to contractors efficiency and better control in tracking the
Automatically retain a amount on invoice transactions during the life time of the contract
as per contract terms
Invoices matching to Purchase Order with
information of work progress
Disbursement Processing payments to a company or a Unified Payments Processing and Better Visibility
Requests individual not setup as a supplier. : Provides visibility and control to Payments manager
over items selected for payments processing
Disbursement Requests supports funds
check for budgetary control and carry their
accounting entries
Enhanced Payments Manager supports better Cost Saving : A robust and automated payments
Payments selection criteria for invoices to manage processing leading to time and cost savings for
fewer pay runs. Include / Exclude Invoices organization.
Processing to a pay run during processing.
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Payables Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Third Party Support for recording third party Business process support : Many businesses
Payments relationships and process third party require to make payments to third parties as per
payments. agreement with suppliers. This feature will support the
business process.
Withholding and 1099 processing to occur
for invoicing suppliers only
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Payables
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Receivables
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Receivables Enhancements
Number of Enhancements
25
20
15
Number of Enhancements
10
0
R12.0 R12.1.1 R12.1.2 R12.2.2
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Receivables Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Legal Entity Provides ability to capture and track legal Regulatory compliance: : Ability to mange a legal
Ownership entity owner on receivable transactions corporate structure and track data from the legal
perspective.
Auto Lockbox Ability to schedule concurrent requests to Automated Receipts Processing : Receipts can be
Processing launch auto lockbox programs without user processed automatically without user intervention
intervention providing for timely processing of customer
Automation receivables.
E-Business Tax Taxes for item lines are generated Automated & Unified Tax Processing : E-Business
Integration automatically depending on tax-jurisdiction Tax uniformly serves as a tax engine for calculating
and configured tax determining rules transaction taxes
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Receivables Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Enhanced Late Enables creation of standard late charge Flexibility and Standardization: Provides
Charges policies and assignment to customer businesses with standard process for calculation of
accounts or account sites. late charges with the flexibility of configurations to
Functionality meet business needs
Support Flexible Policy Configurations viz.,
Multiple interest formulas, thresholds etc.,
Golden Tax Adaptor Integration of Receivables with Aisino Efficient Tax-Reporting : Integration with Aisino
for Mainland China Golden Tax Software to generate, provides businesses with efficiency in tax-reporting
reconcile discrepancies and print VAT and compliance to laws of land
invoices and tax reporting to Chinese tax
authorities.
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Receivables Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Cash Application Efficiently manage user workloads, review Work-Load Management & Efficiency in Receipts
Work Queue and take actions on unapplied receipts Processing
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Receivables
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Assets
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Assets Enhancements
Number of Enhancements
7
Number of Enhancements
3
0
R12.0 R12.1.3
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Assets Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Enhanced Mass Additional attributes are made available in Ease of Use: Additional attributes provide ease the
Additions Interface the Mass Additions interface to ease process of legacy data conversions
legacy data conversions
for Legacy
Conversions
Automatic A set of extensible API's available to Automation: API's available minimize the manual
Preparation of Mass automatically prepare a mass addition line intervention by user in the process of mass additions
for all required attributes
Additions
Enhanced New features are made available to Business process support for Energy Industry:
functionality for support requirements of Energy Industry New features support depreciation calculations as per
• Asset Impairment requirement of Energy Industry
Energy Industry • Energy Units of Production Method
• Energy Straight line Method
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Assets Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Automatic Depreciation is rolled back automatically Automation: Automatic roll back of depreciation only
Depreciation for specific assets on which adjustments for specific assets reduces time taken for rollback of
are made after depreciation run without depreciation for whole book and increases the
Rollback period close. processing efficiency
Asset Impairment Impairment functionality has been Regulatory Requirement: Assets impairment
for Japan Tax extended to perform and account for asset functionality meets regulatory requirements of Japan
impairments in compliance with Japanese Tax Reform of 2007 and previous regulatory initiatives
Reform 2007 accounting regulations. Impairment losses of Japan
can now be derived and recorded for
Japan-specific depreciation methods.
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Assets
R12.0 R12.1.3
•Automatic Preparation of Mass Additions • Asset Impairment for Japan Tax Reform 2007
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Cash Management
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Cash Management Enhancements
Number of Enhancements
8
4
Number of Enhancements
3
0
R12.0 R12.1.1 R12.1.2 R12.1.3
91 12/30/2019
Cash Management Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Bank Account New Bank Account Model provides a Better control & Ease of Use: Centralized bank
Model single access point for defining and account model helps in having reduced number of
maintaining internal bank accounts. bank accounts setup for use by applications &
Ownership of each internal bank account is organizations
granted to a Legal Entity. One or more
Organizations are granted usage rights to
a bank account.
Cash Pooling Supports common cash pooling techniques Optimize Funds and reduced costs of borrowing:
by allowing users to group bank accounts Cash pooling can be used to optimize funds by
into different types of pooling structures consolidating bank balances from across multiple
and by managing the associated activity bank accounts. With consolidating balances and
for either centralized or decentralized minimizing idle funds it increase overall investment
business environments. returns.
Bank Statement Allows users to define mapping rules that Automation & Reduced Issues : This feature
Accounting can automatically create and reconcile significantly reduces reconciliation issues associated
transactions. with repetitive first notice items like bank fees or bank
account interest.
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Cash Management Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
IBAN & BIC Cash Management validates IBAN & BIC International standards support : Supports
Support at the time of recording bank account international standards of banking industry reducing
details minimizing the risk of propagating transaction errors
transaction errors.
Copy Bank New concurrent program supports copying Reduced setup time : Bank transaction codes can be
Transaction Codes bank transaction codes from a bank copied to multiple bank accounts thus reducing setup
account to other bank accounts. time
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Cash Management
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Configurator
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Configurator Enhancements
Number of Enhancements
6
3
Number of Enhancements
0
R12.0 R12.1.1
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Configurator Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Integration of APC Customers who own both Advanced Product More options of item properties to Configurator user
User-Defined Catalog and Configurator can use some or all of
Attributes the user-defined attributes created in APC as
Item Properties in Configurator
Model Migration Provides a utility that allows configuration Saves time by copying configuration models
administrator to move specified configuration
model(s) across instances
TSO Bundled with Oracle Configurator rules are used to maintain Fulfils the business need of allowing simple tangible
Customer Premise validity between the tangible items and services items to be procured, in addition to ordering
Equipment in both an initial offering to the end-user and as servicesservices
part of a reconfiguration
Numeric Handling The allowable range for numeric inputs is now The improvements in numeric handling create a
dynamically displayed, resulting in fewer configuration session that is easier to use and
contradictions for the end user and an improved provides more feedback
configuration experience
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Configurator Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Improved Defaulting Defaults are more flexible than ever before Finding the right solution becomes easier
since any constraint can now be defined as
a default
Auto-instantiation Provides the ability for component Much easier to model complex system configurations
structure to be automatically created by
constraints when required for a solution
Auto-completion With the new Fusion Configurator Engine, Little input from the end user can efficiently find a
partially completed configurations can be solution using engine implicit strategies
completed automatically for the end user
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Configurator Key Enhancements - Summary
R12.0 R12.1.1
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Service Contracts
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Service Contracts Enhancements
Number of Enhancements
18
16
14
12
10
17 Number of Enhancements
8
6
11
4
1 1
0
R12.0 R12.1.1 R12.1.3+ R12.2
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Service Contracts Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Partial Periods Provides the options of Default Period, Period Flexibility in defining how pricing, billing and
Computation Type and Period Start for partial period termination amounts are calculated for partial periods
calculations
Partial Period Service Contracts integrates with Oracle Enables prorated revenue recognition based on the
Revenue Recognition Receivables to enable partial period revenue number of days in each accounting period
recognition for services billed from service
contracts
Usability A new HTML page, View Impacted Contracts, Streamlines IB and contract maintenance processes
Improvements is now available from Install Base that shows and improve data consistency between IB item
the service contracts impacted by an IB instances and their associated service contracts
transaction (Split, Termination, Quantity
updates etc.)
HTML View of Offers a user-friendly, HTML-based view of Fulfils the business need of Sales Representative
Service Contracts contracts that can be easily personalized to suit while renewing, transferring or terminating contracts
the needs of a specific business flow
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Service Contracts Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Contract Renewals A new Service Contracts administration Dramatically improves process efficiency and
Improvements workbench offers advanced search capabilities customer experience
and display options to better track renewal
opportunities. The online customer acceptance
process is also enhanced to improve function
and usability
Enhanced Order line fulfillment process directly inserts data Efficiently handles both single order line processing
integration with OM into the service order interface table. Service and High Volume Order Processing
Contracts Order Processing Program can be run
to create contracts from the data stored in the
service order interface table
MOAC for Service Oracle Service Contracts leverages the Multi- Ease of use and increase in productivity
Contracts Org Access Control model to allow users to
author contracts and contract templates in
multiple operating units without switching
responsibilities
Service Contract Offers a feature to import Warranties, Extended Allows a service contract to be captured from an
Import program Warranties, unbilled or fully-billed Service external system
Contracts and intangible Subscription Contracts
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Service Contracts Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
SC Renewal Date Assembler Workflow Manager feature has Improves the performance of the service contract
Performance been introduced to control the number of service renewal process when large number of service
Enhancement contracts to be processed concurrently for contracts expire on the same date
renewal. Performance enhancements have been
done to re-pricing of service contracts during
contract renewal
Mass Update Tool A new Mass Update Tool, which is available Besides the ability to mass update, an important thing
from the Service Contract Authoring form, can is that changes are processed in the background, so
help users manage service contracts with a large that the user can immediately continue onto their next
number of lines / sublines task
Prevent Deletion of Oracle Service Contracts has introduced the Improves contract revenue leakage analysis
Line during Contracts ability to disallow deletion of lines / sublines
Renewal during contracts renewal. Instead, the line /
subline should be cancelled during the renewal
process
Solution Ordering Users can now order Subscriptions using Oracle Ease of use and flexibility to users
Order Management and have the application
create the subscription contracts automatically
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Service Contracts Key Enhancements - Summary
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Manufacturing
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Manufacturing Enhancements
Number of Enhancements
30
25
20
15
Number of Enhancements
10
0
R12.0 R12.1 R12.1.1 R12.1.2 R12.1.3 R12.2
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Manufacturing Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Discrete Execution With the new Discrete Execution Maximizing the value-added manufacturing time and
Workstation for Shop Workstation, users will have deeper shop catering to customers requiring MES (Manufacturing
floor execution capabilities through a Execution System) like capabilities in Oracle Work in
Floor Operator and simplified user interface, this workstation Process.
Supervisor provides, all in one place, the information
needed for shop floor workers to perform
their work
Batch Import Users can segment the import data by This allows to break down large datasets and process
Capability for Open assigning a batch identifier and launching them concurrently.
the open interface using that identifier
Interface for Bills of
Material
Inverse Component A new attribute is introduced in the BOM Storing the raw fractional quantity per assembly
Usage definition form to support an inverse of prevents any undesirable component
component quantity. usage variances to occur particularly in discrete jobs
with large build quantities.
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Manufacturing Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Include Component Users now have the flexibility to control the This enhancement eliminates the generation of
Yield value of component yield factors at WIP unrealizable decimal quantities in WIP jobs.
job level. The transaction logic now
considers pre-yield BOM quantity per
assembly rather than the quantity inflated
by shrinkage.
Material Control While retaining the common BOM Attributes like Operation sequence,WIP Supply type,
Attribute Updates for relationship, user’s can now update certain Sub inventory, Locator & and included in cost roll up
component attributes at the organization now can be changed to common bom at the org level
Common BOM level.
Fixed Component Users can now define fixed component With this enhancement, customers can define and use
Usage usage regardless of the number of components whose consumption quantity does not
assemblies that are manufactured through directly vary with the assembly quantity produced
a Discrete Job or a Work Orderless
transaction. This is achieved by defining
components with a basis as “Lot” in an
assembly’s bill of material.
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Manufacturing Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Serialized To improve product traceability and In the past, in-process serialized transactions were
Manufacturing genealogy, many production environments supported only through Mobile Supply Chain
require that an assembly serial number be Applications. In this release, MES for Discrete
identified and associated with the product Manufacturing supports this functionality by allowing
at either the start of production, or at a operators) to retrieve work content information, easily
specific step within the production process record component serial information and quality
results, and perform transactions
Shop Floor Device This release will allow this device data to This will facilitate more automated Quality data
and Test Equipment be captured directly into a quality collection collection
plan associated with the move, scrap,
Integration reject, complete and return assembly
transactions in the MES module.
Electronic Records ERES capabilities have been provided for Electronic Records and Electronic Signatures (ERES)
and Signatures moves, completions, returns and capability is required to support FDA’s 21 CFR Part
component material transactions 11compliance for medical device manufacturers who
(ERES) associated with the discrete jobs in the need to adhere to the functional requirements of the
MES workstation quality system specified in 21 CFR Part 820
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Manufacturing Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Labor Skill Validation MES for Discrete Manufacturing can check This leverages HRMS for defining competencies, skill
for required skills for the operator who levels, certifications and qualifications, and
performs the operation when the operator associating them with the employee.
clocks into a job operation or during critical
move transactions, such as move, scrap,
reject or return transactions
Quality Workbench Retrieving quality results from collection The performance of the quality workbench (QWB) in
Performance plans that either have a large number of retrieval of quality results has been improved to
records or have complex parent child ensure a better user experience
Improvements collection plans and attachments linked to
the results.
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Manufacturing Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Oracle Inventory Leveraging Oracle Endeca commonly used Oracle E-Business Suite Extensions for Oracle
Management in internet shopping sites, these unique Endeca provide a solution set that allows users to
business applications allow users to “shop” quickly find the information they need to respond to
Extensions for for issues and opportunities in current real-time issues and opportunities
Oracle Endeca operational data, and then drill to the
relevant application pages to take action
Endeca Information Various aspects of the business such as A business user can get complete and real-time
Discovery subcontracting order status, inventory visibility into the overall health of the outsourced
balances, financial position, and quality manufacturing business using the rich user interface
issues can be visualized intuitively using powered by Endeca
these interfaces.
Ability to Perform An implementation option is now provided Currently, MES works on top of Oracle WIP and
Manufacturing using the Oracle Data Integrator, to run the requires the Oracle E - Business Suite production
MES independently, in a standalone mode, instance to be up and running for performing shop
Execution without allowing shop floor personnel to report floor transactions through MES. Due to this
any Dependency on transactions even when the ERP instance dependency, shop floor personnel do not have a way
the ERP System) is down.Transactions reported through to report transactions through MES if ERP production
MES are synchronized later when the instance is temporarily unavailable due to bandwidth
backend ERP system is functional issues
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Manufacturing Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Ability to Interface Currently, MES for Discrete Manufacturing Several existing customers running on 11i10 can now
with Oracle EBS is available for deployment on Release 12 use MES on top of their current EBS installation
and above. MES is now able to interface
Releases Prior to and work with Oracle EBS releases prior to
Release 12 Release 12, specifically Release 11i10.
Web Services for Web services are being provided for key The following can be performed
Work in Process WIP transactions. As part of this • WIP Discrete Job: Create WIP discrete job
enhancement, web services are provided • WIP Move Transaction: Create WIP Move
(WIP) by exposing business logic contained Transaction
within Oracle forms through Java APIs. • WIP Completion Transaction: Create WIP
Completion Transaction
Simplified UIs for Using Oracle ADF, the web services being Custom-made simplified UIs for shop floor operators
Users provided in WIP can be leveraged to easily can be created as an alternative to out of the box UIs.
create custom-made simplified UIs for
shop floor operators as an alternative to
out of the box UIs.
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Manufacturing Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Full Outsourcing Full Outsourcing, also referred as Contract A company can implement Full Outsourcing when it
Manufacturing or Subcontracting assembly has the following business needs Outsourcing the
is a business practice where an OEM assembly to MP, dropship Assembly / Components
outsources the complete manufacturing of etc..
an assembly to a Manufacturing Partner
(MP) and Supply the components (used to
build the assembly) to the MP, but retains
the ownership of the components
Oracle Discrete It allows shopfloor users to quickly find It enables customers manage their manufacturing
Manufacturing actionable information in real time, improve operational costs and leverage their investment in
their productivity and meet customer Oracle EBS Discrete Manufacturing and MES for
Extensions for Oracle commitment. Discrete Manufacturing.
Endeca
Oracle In-Memory Provides a bottoms-up approach to Cost accountants and finance / operations managers
Cost Management maximizing profit margins by enabling near now can use Oracle In-Memory Cost Management to
real-time insight into all aspects of cost quickly perform what-if simulations on complex cost
management data and instantly visualize the impact of changes to
their business
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Manufacturing Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
Oracle Cost Allows users to discover transactions and There are two intuitive user-interfaces – the Period
Management related accounting information in real time Health Check helps to discover transactions that are
thereby providing opportunity to effectively either preventing or delaying period close and the
Extensions for Oracle manage the period close process, Transaction Accounting Register assists in
Endeca reconcile accounting as well as ensure reconciliation of accounting for all supply chain
accuracy of accounting across sub ledgers subledgers
Oracle Electronic User friendly, and configurable E-Kanban Oracle Electronic Kanban (E-Kanban) provides a
Kanban workstation provides you with both an complete solution for kanban management enabling
overall view of kanban cards and pull complex kanban planning, setup, execution, and
sequence details as well as allowing you to kanban related analytics and notifications
perform transactions within a single user
interface
Enhanced Serialized Improved scanner friendly user interface to • Ability to easily identify required, issued & open
Manufacturing perform express material issue and return component quantities.
transactions for both serialized and non- • User friendly warning and error messages in the
serialized components, including ability to context of specific assembly serial number during
provide component serial attributes for material transactions.
specific assembly serial number. • A clear 360 degree detail view user
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Manufacturing Key Enhancements
Enhancement Capability Business Value
MES Operator The MES operator user interfaces are The MES operator user interfaces are enhanced to
Workstation enhanced to display the Clock-In Context display the Clock-In Context Information and provide
Information and provide control over control over Operator simultaneous Clock-In.
Enhancements Operator simultaneous Clock-In.
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Manufacturing Key Enhancements - Summary
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