Oracle E-Business R12.2.4

Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.4 now available which enables high availability for global operations

1. Online Patching for reduced downtime

• Functionality leverages Oracle 11g R2 Edition-Based Redefinition features to support online patching
• Patches can be applied while the production system is fully operational
• Only a short downtime is required to complete patching process
• The amount of downtime required by any patch will be consistent.
• Online Patching cycle includes 5 phases.

• Application is only offline during the “Cutover” phase
• Online Patching is used to apply all patches in 12.2.

R12.2 Functional  Highlights:

ERP

– Enhanced Labor Costing with Projects & Payroll
– Project Cost Breakdown Structure
– Contract Lifecycle Mgt for Public Sector (CLM): Electronic Contract File, Concurrent Modifications, more
– Channel Revenue Mgt: Simplified HTML Flows
– Global Enhancements
– Supplier Governance & Oversight with SLM
– Comprehensive Contract Mgt with CLM
– Improve Projects-Based Procurement

SCM

– Order Mgt: Selling Subscriptions
– Order Mgt / WMS: Advanced Catch Weight
– WMS: Mobile Personalization
– MES: Electronic Kanban (E-Kanban)
– MES: Express Transact for Serialized Mfg
– SCM: Contingent Worker Support.
– Outsourced Manufacturing for OPM
– Seller’s Workbench: Margin Analysis, Upsell
– Yard Management

Multi-Unit of Measure Fulfillment:

1. R12 Dual Unit of Measure

• Enter transactions in primary and secondary UOM
• Allocate in primary UOM but record fulfillment in both UOM
• Price iu primary or secondary.

2. R12.X Multi UOM  Fulfillment.

• Fulfill in primary or secondary UOM
• Allocate & reserve in multiple UOMs
• Enhanced inventory tracking, invoicing & shipping in multiple UOMs

New HTML Order Managment UI

- HTML Web UI
- User Configurable
- Modern Look and feel
- Tablet Friendly layout.

-Weblogic server for application server
-simplified User flows

New User Interface Features in Release:

1.New skin
2.Rich table interactions
3.Simplified home page
4.Support for gestures on tablets.

The most obvious user interface change for this release is our new skin for both desktops and tablets. The new skin provides a cleaner look and feel in Oracle Application Framework-based pages, with responsive features that give you more space for controlling the application with your fingers on a tablet while saving space on a desktop. Here is the new look on a tablet and on a desktop.

A streamlined touch-oriented, icon-based global header (the top navigation bar on the page). Users can choose whether to display icons, text links, or both by setting a user preference. This feature is one of the results of the usability testing we did last year, where we got user feedback for fine tuning the new look and feel. 
 
New Table Features :

The new user interface enhancements in tables and hierarchical grids (a special type of table that lets you expand and collapse rows, also known as HGrids).

Our new table enhancements provide a much more interactive experience for tables. Customers have been requesting these enhancements for a long time:

• Reordering columns
• Resizing columns
• Hiding and showing columns
• Detaching tables from the base page (except HGrids)
• Scroll horizontally if the contents of a table exceeds the browser width
• Refresh a table by querying for the latest records
• Reset a table back to its original definition

When reordering, hiding, and resizing columns, the changes are specific to each user and will persist until the user changes them again.
These features are available on:
• Desktop versions of OA Framework-based pages
• iPads running Safari
• Android tablets.

Prerequisites:
You must have the following profile options set in EBS 12.2.4:
• Oracle Applications Look and Feel profile option to "Skyros Look and Feel"
• FND: Enable Rich Table Interactions profile option to "True"

The table button bar contains the following new icons:
1. Detach Table
2. Refresh Data
3. Reset Table Settings
4. Table Settings.