R12 Enhancements R12: Legal Entity (LE) Legal entity is created as a party of party type ORGANIZATION or PERSON An establishment is created as a party of party type ORGANIZ ATION. TCA creates a new c lassification category called “Business Function”. It is used mainly to model what business functions a party can perform i n E-Business Suite For modeling legal entities and establishments in TCA, classification code “Legal Entity” and “Establishment” are created under the “Business Function” class category. An establishment is created as a party and always link to a pa rty that is classif ied as a legal entity through the relationship model R12: TCA(TradingCommunity Architecture): What is TCA?Oracle Trading Community Architecture (TCA) is a data model that allows you to manage complex information about the parties, or customers. The Trading Community Manager Responsibility, allows users to create a setup or update data sharing and securityOracle Introduced a brand new HTML UI built using OA Frame works leveraging TCA that can be used to manage Customers, Accounts, etc. Before TCA: There are multiple customer definitions across the enterprise. It was very difficult to track current and historical information about the customers.