Custom Extensions of Oracle EBusiness Suite Andrew Archibald/Lindsay Smith Scottish OUG 2012 Linlithgow 13th June 2012 www.rocela.co m Custom Extensions of Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Realizing your ERP's full power. www.rocela.co m AGENDA • Introduction • Cairn • Rocela • Extending E Business Suite Joint Venture Accounting Travel Form • Questions 3 www.rocela.co m Presenters Lindsay Smith Oracle E-Business Senior Analyst Cairn Energy Andrew Archibald Senior Consultant Rocela www.rocela.co m Cairn Energy www.rocela.co m Cairn Energy FTSE 250 listed (FTSE 100 until recent return of $3.5bn to shareholders) One of Europe's largest Oil and Gas exploration and development companies Based in Edinburgh, approx 150 employees with another 30 in overseas offices Varied portfolio with interests in Greenland, North West Europe & Greater Mediterranean Currently looking to expand the portfolio www.rocela.co m Cairn Energy • • • Recently upgraded E Business Suite to R12.1.3 from 11.5.10.2 Ebusiness: Payables/Purchasing/Projects/GL/HR modules Team of 4: Oracle SDM, 3 analysts. External support provided by Rocela www.rocela.co m Cairn Energy • • • 4 APEX Applications running in Production First Application in Production 15 Months ago. Implementation of Joint Venture Accounting application in progress www.rocela.co m www.rocela.co m Rocela • • • Independent Oracle Consultancy and Microsoft Consultancy Headquartered in Edinburgh with offices in Knutsford. Oracle Certified Advantage Partner www.rocela.co m Rocela • Provides Oracle License Optimisation • Managed Services • Professional services consultancy www.rocela.co m Extending E Business Suite www.rocela.co m Tools to build extensions • • • • • OAF (Oracle Applications Framework) Oracle APEX (Application Express) Oracle ADF (Application Development Framework) Oracle E-Business Suite SDK for Java Reference – support.oracle.com white paper : 1435894.1 (Upgrading your Customizations to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1) www.rocela.co m Oracle APEX The Tool of Choice www.rocela.co m Custom Extensions • • Built using Oracle APEX (Application Express) Easy Integration with E business www.rocela.co m Custom Extensions Cairn have 5 APEX applications extending EBS. • • • • • Joint Venture Accounting (currently under development) Travel Form Flexi Time Summary Well Cost Tracking P2P Dashboard www.rocela.co m Architecture 11.2.2 DB Forms Server Web Logic APEX Listener Web Server Discoverer www.rocela.co m Joint Venture Accounting (JVAcc) www.rocela.co m Joint Venture Accounting (JVAcc) • The Problem: • Oracle Projects/GL used to account and report for Joint Venture assets – Greenland/Albania etc A need to decouple Joint Venture Accounting from Supply Chain process • www.rocela.co m Joint Venture Accounting (JVAcc) • Proposed Solution: www.rocela.co m The Solution • • • • APEX Application Search screens allow for allocation of data Validation of data Transfer to GL Interface www.rocela.co m The Integration Points • • • AP, Cost Management, Project and GL Data Pull GL Interface population and GL Import Concurrent Requests www.rocela.co m The Issues End - User • Data not matching Oracle • Search query performance • Posting to Corporate – rounding Developer Sub Ledger Accounting Split import to GL tables • • www.rocela.co m Development Time • Project started in Nov-11 • Work stopped for 2 – 3 months during the R12 upgrade • Testing now resumed • Estimated go live date – Sep 2012 www.rocela.co m JV Accounting Application Demonstration www.rocela.co m Travel Lookup Form www.rocela.co m The Problem • New Corporate Travel agency selected • Opportunity to streamline travel booking service to prevent having to raise a Requisition/PO for every individual travel request • All travel, even within policy, must be approved www.rocela.co m The Solution • Apex form completed by administrator • Administrator to complete details of Travel • On submission, email sent to Budget holder • requesting approval to travel Form to replicate iPROC coding customisation i.e. only specific Project/Task/Expenditure Types available www.rocela.co m Development Time • 7 Days Development Time • 2 Days User Testing www.rocela.co m Travel Lookup Form Demonstration www.rocela.co m Thank You 31 www.rocela.co m Questions? Andrew.Archibald@rocela.com www.rocela.co m