Thursday, January 26, 2017

Cloud R11 Upgrade and Product Assessment Details

New feature or enhancement to existing functionality:
Is this something brand new to the module or an improvement to a feature that was available in previous releases?

Automatically available to users as part of upgrade
Will the feature automatically appear coming out of the upgrade, or is effort required by the user to enable it? (in which case see comments)

Deploy after upgrade if desired 
If you elect to make use of new functionality, you will generally do so after you have completed the upgrade (in which case an X appears in the column). If the column is blank, then this feature will appear in Fusion and no decision-making is involved.

Work/re-work (configuration, implementation , security ) required
If an X appears in this column, then user effort is required in any numbers of areas, such as:
• Determining if this functionality is appropriate
• Revisiting decisions around configuration, security and user access, personalization, and reporting
• Effort in terms of loading data, testing, training, and report re-write

Consider Hiding
These are features that you may want to delay revealing to your users because it may be appropriate for a future business event or process or it may perhaps generate unnecessary questions and phone calls from your users.

Customization of the The Simplified Reference Role Model (SRRM) requires that a copies of Job/Abstract roles be made and then changed, not directly changed

Important! The Release 12 upgrade will remove customizations that have been directly applied to the SRRM. Customers will have to re-implement these direct customizations prior to the upgrade.








Oracle EBS R12.2.6 New Features


Oracle EBS Suite R12.2.6 Road Map and New Features:


Oracle E-Business Suite’s roadmap shows that Oracle is still committed to continuing on the R12 series of releases. A projected timeline shows release 12.2.7 is coming at an indefinite date, with release 12.3.






ORACLE EBS 12.2.6 Delivers to Strategic Investments in EBS Products

Cliff Godwin, SVP of Application Development, said that Oracle continues to invest in 3 main areas of focus throughout 12.2: functional innovation, user experience, and operational efficiency.

Functional flows for modern business in integrated global suite
- The subscription economy
- Outcome Driven procurement
- Customer driven enhancements

Modern user experience and Mobility: Simple and actionable user experience for operational roles
- User experience convergence
- Smartphone applications
- EBS Information Discovery.

Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.6 continues an ongoing pattern of user experience modernization that emphasizes simplified layouts, tablet optimization, and consistency with Oracle Cloud products. Key advances include:

More Tablet-Optimized User Interfaces: Additional tablet-optimized UIs are provided in functional areas where users have a high mobility requirement, including shipping, receiving, and reservations.

More HTML User Interfaces: HTML alternatives to several existing Forms interfaces offer simpler layouts and more modern user interactions. Examples include the Update Assets UI in Enterprise Asset Management, and AOL setup UIs for Users, Responsibilities, and Flexfields.
Enhanced Information Discovery Applications:

Operational Efficiency Lower effort and cost to operate and optimize EBS system.
-online patching
- Application management
- Automated Testing.

Oracle Receivables:

Multiple Tax Rates in One VAT Invoice:
Golden Tax Adaptor now allows multiple tax rates in one VAT invoice. VAT invoices with multiple tax rates no longer need to be split by tax rate

Support for Tax-Inclusive and Tax-Exclusive Business Cases:

Golden Tax Adaptor now supports both tax-inclusive and tax-exclusive business cases. The Invoice Export flat file has been modified to support the Aisino Golden Tax System calculation of tax and invoice amounts for tax-inclusive and tax-exclusive business cases.


Oracle iReceivables:
End Date Bank Account without Payment Processing: 
-Customers now have the ability to end date bank accounts without processing a payment against that account, and without restricting end dates to a future date.
-Users can mange Credit Cards and Bank Accounts at Account or Site levels without an Invoice or processing the payment flow

Oracle Advanced Collections:

Collect on Related Accounts
-Customers require the ability to assign collectors at multiple collection levels, enabling them to run scoring and strategies at Customer, Account, and Bill- To levels.
-Customers now group parties with parent and child relationships to score, assign and manage strategies, assign collectors, and view aggregate information on related accounts. Strategy Actionable Work Items.
-Strategy Actionable Work Item template rules are now available to allow users to execute work items based on the percentage amount collected. When the user or system completes the work item, post-wait, based on the amount received and associated rule definition, the system will skip or continue the next work item in the strategy. Additionally, Strategy Templates and Work Item Templates can be defined for a specific Operating Unit.

CHRM:
Period Management, Enhancements in AutoPay
Oracle Financials Information Discovery (Endeca):

-Oracle Financials Information Discovery for Oracle Assets has been enhanced to include two new pages, namely ‘Asset Reconciliation’ and ‘Sub-ledger Additions Pipeline’.
-In the Account Reconciliation page you can view account balance reconciliations and quickly identify any discrepancies between sub-ledger accounting balances for Oracle Assets and Oracle General Ledger balances for asset cost, CIP cost, asset clearing, CIP clearing account, and Accumulated Depreciation.
-The Sub-ledger Additions Pipeline page enables you to get an early estimate of any transactions in Oracle Payables and Oracle Projects, which are tracked as assets but not yet transferred to Oracle Assets, to assess the significance to your asset base
-In addition to the original full asset load into Oracle Financials Information Discovery tables, further capability has been added to enable you to load mass transactions incrementally into Oracle Financials Information Discovery.

-Oracle E-Business Suite Information Discovery applications include more product content and enhancements, enabling users to identify and act on high-priority transactions without custom operational reporting. New capabilities include a 360-degree order view in Order Management, asset reconciliation with GL in Financials, and Boolean search support in Installed Base.
Order Management
-Order Management: Recurring Billing

-Quoting: Document Approvals using Electronic Signatures

Logistics
-WMS: Inbound Task Management & Interleaving
-Invoice: Material Classification
-Yard: Distributed Yard
Procurement
  • iProcurement: Spot Buy, Preferred Items
  • Contract Relationships
  • PCC: Sourcing
  • Project Procurement: Revisions
  • Oracle Procurement Command Center provides an enhanced view of supplier performance that includes employee reviews from Oracle iProcurement and supplier evaluations from Oracle Supplier Lifecycle Management.
  • .Oracle Project Procurement Command Center better aligns project and procurement teams with visibility to line-level changes to procurement plans. Oracle iProcurement now supports a spot buying process that lets privileged requestors create certain purchase orders without involving the procurement team. Procurement buyers can influence search relevance rankings in Oracle iProcurement Information Discovery to guide end users to preferred items and suppliers. Oracle Procurement Contracts delivers a complete view of linkages between procurement documents and contracts.
Projects
  • Accounting Adjustment Options
  • SOV & ARR Effort Coefficient
  • Consolidated Invoice UI
Manufacturing
  • Process Manufacturing: Yield Management
  • Project Manufacturing: LCM Support
  • MES: Serialized Manufacturing Enhancements
Value Chain Planning
  • Inventory Policy Planning
  • Enhanced UIs
Asset Management
  • Linear Assets Enhancement WO Creation
  • Calendar Based Preventive Maintenance
  • WO Package Printing
Service
  • Multiple Products on SR
  • Task Status by Task Type
  • GPS Based Emergency Scheduling
  • Depot: Claims
Human Capital Management
  • Pay: Enhanced Retropay Analysis
  • OTL: Overtime as Absence Accrual, Calendar UI

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