Oracle E-Business Suite
Why ERP?
Why ERP? – Changing business needs
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Stage-1
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Daily Job:
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Collect goods from vendor.
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Sell items/goods to customers.
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If any goods out of stock note it down to order it from vendor.
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Daily accounting - Profit & loss.
Stage-2 : After a year you business is developed & you are becoming a whole sole
dealer.
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Changes in Business
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Many branches.
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Hire People for working.
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Maintaining a small database for the business.
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Transportation services.
Daily Job:
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Collect goods from vendor & store it in inventory.
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Take order from shop keepers.
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Maintain small database for goods, shopkeepers & employees.
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Using a computer for accounting. & Delivering items to customers.
Why ERP? – Business changing needs
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Stage-3
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Changes in business
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Worldwide Branches and customers.
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Developed as a Multinational Organization.
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International Transportation.
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Ecommerce, Phone marketing. etc.
Workload in business
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Now the owner of the business cannot go to sites (all over the world) daily.
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He has to maintain a big database for his business to run continuously.
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Need to manage inventory activities (how much is sold, received items etc.).
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Need to maintain the employees and their benefits (Needs HR
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Need to calculate accounting (profit & loss for worldwide business).
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Asset management.
team).
ERP Benefits
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Software package that allows organizations to manage key business processes.
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Enable organizations to
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Make better decisions
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Reduce costs
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Increase performance.
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No Integration cost
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Common data
Why ERP?
Other Names
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Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
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Oracle Apps
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Oracle Applications
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Oracle Financials
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E-Biz
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EBS (E-Business Suite).
Architecture: From Past to Now
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Past
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Character based
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Input → Dumb terminals
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Oracle Forms & DB at back end
GUI
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SmartClient
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Oracle form at Client Tier
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Access DB over network
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Difficult to upgrade, as need to update on all clients.
Three Tier Architecture
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Oracle Form → HTML & Other Web Based Technologies.
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Browser, remove applets also.
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Light
Other Vendors
Modules
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Modules
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Responsibility
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Level of Authority
Let user access function/data that they are authorized
to.
EBS Terminology
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Responsibility
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Collection of business functionality
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what a user can do
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Assigned Menu & Request Group
Menu
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represents a hierarchy of functions and other menus
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reusable grouping of application functionality and consists of functions and other menus
Request Group
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grouping of reports and concurrent programs that is assigned to a responsibility
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allows access to programs and reports relevant to the organizational role.
Screen
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Functions call screen.
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Different functions can create different looking screen using one screen, by passing different
parameters
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Why Workflow?
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Large data.
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Data should reach to all required persons.
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Internal or External.
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Nick Name → Routing Information.
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B2B data.
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Modifying rules.
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Notifications
WorkFlow Builder
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Navigate workflow
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Worklist
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link to display your list of workflow notifications
Find Notification
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Search
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Notification Rules
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Find Process
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To serach list of workflow process instance & STATUS.
User Preference
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Language, date
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Business Requirement
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When Item created in inventory
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Launch workflow
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Collect details of created item.
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Send notification to a group.
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Send link of item form.
Implementation: Process flow
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When item is created, entry would go to TableX
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Create workflow.
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Create DB trigger to launch workflow.
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Back office functions
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Financial
Manufacturing
HR
Front office functions
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Customer Relationship & Management
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Call center
Internet sales & marketing
E-commerece
Business Terminology
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Purchase Order (PO)
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Commercial document issued by a buyer to a seller.
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Indicates the type, quantities and agreed prices for products or services the seller will provide to the
buyer.
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Sending a PO to a supplier constitutes a legal offer to buy products or services.
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Acceptance of a PO by a seller usually forms a once-off contract between the buyer and seller so no
contract exists until the PO is accepted.
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Pack Slip
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A pack slip denotes what should be “packed’ for a delivery. It may consolidate several
orders to a route, truck or customer.
Item
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A physical quantity
Invoice
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Bill
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Commercial document issues by seller to buyer.
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Contains the products, quantities, and agreed prices for products or services the seller has
provided the buyer.
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Indicates the buyer must pay the seller, according to the payment terms.
Financial Module overview
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Environments
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Master
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Configuration setup
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No Transactional Data
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Development
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Test
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Deployment
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After Testing, attach with patches & Scripts.
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Patching
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Support
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Clone production, reproduce issue.
CRP
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Conference room pilot, during sign off
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Migration – Data Migration
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Production
Building Blocks/Tools
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Oracle DB
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PL/SQL
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Forms
 Limitation: JInitiator
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Report tool
 Available XML/BI publisher
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Java
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Can generate template using ms-word
To replace Forms
ADI: Application Desktop Integrator
 Operations from spreadsheet.
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Project Manager
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Functional consultant
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Creating scripts, reports, additional screens.
System Admin/DBA
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Interact with business users, collect info
Create functional documentation
Technical consultant
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Connects client & implementation team.
Security, user access management, scripts, patches.
User
Super User
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e.g Setting up bank accounts
Navigation
Navigation: Help
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Made up of
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Web Pages
Java Forms
Mobile
Log in Types
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Normal
Single Sign on
Navigation: Help
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Made up of
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Web Pages
Java Forms
Mobile
Log in Types
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Normal
Single Sign on
Navigation: Log In Screen
Navigation: Home Page
Navigation: Home Page Break up
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Header and footer
 Favorites
 Log out
 Preferences
 Help
Navigation: Application Types
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→ to access web-based applications
→ icon allows you to access java-based
applications.
Navigation: Application Types
Directory Structure
Directory Structure
<APPL_TOP>
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product directories
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E.g General Ledger (GL), Purchasing (PO)
<COMMON_TOP>
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Common directories and files such as log files & Java libraries shared across different products
<ORACLE_HOME>
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Contains the technology stack components such as Oracle Database RDBMS and Oracle Developer
Tools (Forms, Reports) software.
<DATA_TOP>
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Contains database data files for Oracle Applications.
<INST_TOP>
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This is new to R12.
Contains various configuration files to provide the ability to share Applications and technology stack
code between multiple instances.
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Login with user which have system admin
responsibility access.
System Admin → Security → Responsibility →
Define
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Entry Mode
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F4
Query Mode
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F11 – query mode
Ctrl + F11 – execute query
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Login with user which have system admin
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System Admin → Security → Responsibility →
Define
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Customizable data field.
Types
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KeyFlexfield
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Multi Value field
 e.g display empNo.empDesignation, 10727639.Software
Engineer
Intelligent
 Display – Married, in DB - M
Descriptive Flexfield
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For additional info
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Login with user which have system admin
responsibility access.
System Admin → Application → FlexFields → Key →
Segments
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Login with user which have system admin
responsibility access.
System Admin → Concurrent → Program → Define
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Login with user which have system admin
responsibility access.
System Admin → Concurrent → Executable
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Executable Types
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Host → Shell
Intermediate
Java Stored Procedure
Java concurrent program
PL/SQL stored procedure
Complete Example:
Creating function, menu, responsibility for
one business requirement.
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Business requirement
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Employes should be able to access one business
document.
Create responsibility
Create document
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Create document, say HTM document
Transfer to application server using tool like WinSCP
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/u01/apps/oracle/testcomn/html
Run dos2unix command
Create function
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System Admin → Application → Function
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Create function
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System Admin → Application → Function
Fill section Description, Web Host & Properties in order
WebHost
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http://testsrvr:8000/OA_HTML/W2_employee_ltr.htm
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Create Menu for responsibility.
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System Administrator → Go to “Application Administrator”
responsibility → user → define
Information of Responsibility is stored in FND_USER Table.
User Responsibilities stored in FND_USER_RESP_GROUPS
Table.
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Open Report Builder
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SQL statement: Write query
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Express Query: connect to DB, select columns.
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Save as .rdf
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Attach with concurrent program
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Move report to reports directory.
Thank you.