oracle e-business suite

Oracle E-Business Suite

Why ERP?

• Stage-1

– Daily Job:• Collect goods from vendor.

• Sell items/goods to customers.

• If any goods out of stock note it down to order it from vendor.

• Daily accounting - Profit & loss.• Stage-2 : After a year you business is developed & you are becoming a whole sole

dealer.

– Changes in Business

• Many branches.

• Hire People for working.

• Maintaining a small database for the business.

• Transportation services.

– Daily Job:• Collect goods from vendor & store it in inventory.

• Take order from shop keepers.

• Maintain small database for goods, shopkeepers & employees.

• Using a computer for accounting. & Delivering items to customers.

Why ERP? – Changing business needs

• Stage-3– Changes in business

• Worldwide Branches and customers.

• Developed as a Multinational Organization.

• International Transportation.

• Ecommerce, Phone marketing. etc.

– Workload in business• Now the owner of the business cannot go to sites (all over the world) daily.

• He has to maintain a big database for his business to run continuously.

• Need to manage inventory activities (how much is sold, received items etc.).

• Need to maintain the employees and their benefits (Needs HR team).• Need to calculate accounting (profit & loss for worldwide business).

• Asset management.

Why ERP? – Business changing needs

Software package that allows organizations to manage key business processes.

Enable organizations to

Make better decisions

Reduce costs

Increase performance.

No Integration cost

Common data

ERP Benefits

Why ERP?

Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Oracle Apps

Oracle Applications

Oracle Financials

E-Biz

EBS (E-Business Suite).

Other Names

Past Character based Input → Dumb terminals Oracle Forms & DB at back end

GUI SmartClient Oracle form at Client Tier Access DB over network Difficult to upgrade, as need to update on all clients.

Three Tier Architecture Oracle Form → HTML & Other Web Based Technologies. Browser, remove applets also. Light

Architecture: From Past to Now

Other Vendors

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Modules

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Modules

Responsibility Level of Authority Let user access function/data that they are

authorized to.

Responsibility

Collection of business functionality

what a user can do

Assigned Menu & Request Group

Menu

represents a hierarchy of functions and other menus

reusable grouping of application functionality and consists of functions and other menus

Request Group

grouping of reports and concurrent programs that is assigned to a responsibility

allows access to programs and reports relevant to the organizational role.

Screen

Functions call screen.

Different functions can create different looking screen using one screen, by passing different parameters

EBS Terminology

Why Workflow? Large data.

Data should reach to all required persons. Internal or External. Nick Name → Routing Information.

B2B data.

Modifying rules.

Notifications

WorkFlow Builder

Navigate workflow

Worklist link to display your list of workflow notifications

Find Notification Search

Notification Rules

Find Process To serach list of workflow process instance & STATUS.

User Preference Language, date

Business Requirement When Item created in inventory

Launch workflow Collect details of created item. Send notification to a group. Send link of item form.

Implementation: Process flow When item is created, entry would go to TableX Create workflow. Create DB trigger to launch workflow.

Back office functions Financial Manufacturing HR

Front office functions Customer Relationship & Management

Call center Internet sales & marketing E-commerece

• Purchase Order (PO)

– Commercial document issued by a buyer to a seller.

– Indicates the type, quantities and agreed prices for products or services the seller will provide to the buyer.

– Sending a PO to a supplier constitutes a legal offer to buy products or services.

– 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.

• Pack Slip

• A pack slip denotes what should be “packed’ for a delivery. It may consolidate severalorders to a route, truck or customer.

• Item

– A physical quantity

• Invoice

– Bill

– Commercial document issues by seller to buyer.

– Contains the products, quantities, and agreed prices for products or services the seller hasprovided the buyer.

– Indicates the buyer must pay the seller, according to the payment terms.

Business Terminology

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Financial Module overview

Master

Configuration setup

No Transactional Data

Development

Test

Deployment

After Testing, attach with patches & Scripts.

Patching

Support

Clone production, reproduce issue.

CRP

Conference room pilot, during sign off

Migration – Data Migration

Production

Environments

• Oracle DB

• PL/SQL

• Forms Limitation: JInitiator

• Report tool Available XML/BI publisher

Can generate template using ms-word

• Java To replace Forms

• ADI: Application Desktop Integrator Operations from spreadsheet.

Building Blocks/Tools

Project Manager Connects client & implementation team.

Functional consultant Interact with business users, collect info Create functional documentation

Technical consultant Creating scripts, reports, additional screens.

System Admin/DBA Security, user access management, scripts,

patches. User Super User

e.g Setting up bank accounts

Navigation

Made up of Web Pages Java Forms Mobile

Log in Types Normal Single Sign on

Navigation: Help

Made up of Web Pages Java Forms Mobile

Log in Types Normal Single Sign on

Navigation: Help

Navigation: Log In Screen

Navigation: Home Page

Header and footer Favorites Log out Preferences Help

Navigation: Home Page Break up

→ to access web-based applications

→ icon allows you to access java-based applications.

Navigation: Application Types

Navigation: Application Types

Directory Structure

Directory Structure

<APPL_TOP>

product directories

E.g General Ledger (GL), Purchasing (PO)

<COMMON_TOP>

Common directories and files such as log files & Java libraries shared across different products

<ORACLE_HOME>

Contains the technology stack components such as Oracle Database RDBMS and Oracle Developer Tools (Forms, Reports) software.

<DATA_TOP>

Contains database data files for Oracle Applications.

<INST_TOP>

This is new to R12.

Contains various configuration files to provide the ability to share Applications and technology stack code between multiple instances.

Login with user which have system admin responsibility access.

System Admin → Security → Responsibility → Define

Entry Mode F4

Query Mode F11 – query mode Ctrl + F11 – execute query

Login with user which have system admin responsibility access.

System Admin → Security → Responsibility → Define

Customizable data field. Types

KeyFlexfield Multi Value field

e.g display empNo.empDesignation, 10727639.Software Engineer

Intelligent Display – Married, in DB - M

Descriptive Flexfield For additional info

Login with user which have system admin responsibility access.

System Admin → Application → FlexFields → Key → Segments

Login with user which have system admin responsibility access.

System Admin → Concurrent → Program → Define

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System Admin → Concurrent → Executable

Executable Types Host → Shell Intermediate Java Stored Procedure Java concurrent program PL/SQL stored procedure

Complete Example:Creating function, menu, responsibility for

one business requirement.

Business requirement Employes should be able to access one business

document. Create responsibility Create document

Create document, say HTM document Transfer to application server using tool like

WinSCP /u01/apps/oracle/testcomn/html

Run dos2unix command Create function

System Admin → Application → Function

Create function System Admin → Application → Function Fill section Description, Web Host & Properties in

order WebHost

http://testsrvr:8000/OA_HTML/W2_employee_ltr.htm

Create Menu for responsibility.

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.

Open Report Builder

SQL statement: Write query

Express Query: connect to DB, select columns.

Save as .rdf

Attach with concurrent program

Move report to reports directory.

Thank you.