The Feature

Confused About Setting Up MOAC in R12?

August 20, 2010 on 12:48 pm | by Marian Crkon | In Feature of the Week | Enter Comments |  Print |  Email

Don’t despair, you are not alone. This feature applies to Oracle EBS R12. If you are implementing, or upgrading to R12, you’ve probably already heard of the new Multi-Org Access Control (MOAC) functionality. In fact, it is one of our main talking points, when we solicit new R12 projects…

Multiple Organizations feature (MOAC) provides security profiles which enable users to access, process, and report data in multiple operating units from a single “global” responsibility.

Both in 11i and R12, the MO:Operating Unit profile option ties a responsibility to a single operating unit. If the MO:Operating Unit profile option is blank at the responsibility level, the MO: Default Operating Unit profile is used for all responsibilities.

In order to make responsibilities “global” and give them access to multiple operating units, you have to define the MO: Security Profile system profile option. Note that if the MO: Security Profile is set, then the MO: Operating Unit profile is ignored, (regardless of which level the options are set at).

When it get tricky is when you need to define a combination of responsibilities intended for one operating unit and responsibilities that cross multiple operating units. In this case you need to carefully design the use of both MO Operating Unit and MO Security Profile options.

And another heads up: you should probably never set the MO: Security Profile at the site level because this overrides the MO: Operating Unit setting at the responsibility level and all responsibilities have access to all operating units.

Changes to Web ADI Documents in R12

February 13, 2008 on 8:35 pm | by Marian Crkon | In Feature of the Week | 2 Comments |  Print |  Email

This feature is for everyone who is trying to create Web ADI documents in Release 12. The documents in R12 are cleaner, more user-friendly and intuitive; they are easier to create and update. Finding them, however, might be a challenge.

The main difference between R11 and 11i was introduction of function security. You either need to figure out which module-specific responsibilities include the Web ADI integrators you want to use, or you need to find out which integrators (functions) need to be associated with the new Desktop Integrator responsibility. Either way, this is not well documented in the Oracle Web ADI User Guide R12; and you have to figure it out by reading product-specific user guides. It took us a couple of hours to find the right Metalink note (472160.1), in which these changes were described…

The Feature

In R12, the existing responsibility Oracle Web ADI is obsolete! The Create Document function does not work and integrators are missing.

The Solution

Add a new responsibility Desktop Integrator. The Create Document function under this responsibility should work for a handful of seeded integrators. You will need to research the user guides to find out how to include additional integrators.

The seeded integrators included in the new Desktop Integrator responsibility:

• Enterprise Performance Foundation: Hierarchy Integrator
• Enterprise Performance Foundation: Member Integrator
• Financial Consolidation Hub: Intercompany maps
• Financial Consolidation Hub: Dimension Hierarchies
• Financial Consolidation Hub: Value Set Mapping
• General Ledger – Budgets
• General Ledger – Journals
• Intercompany – Single Batch Entry

To include additional integrators, you need to include additional menu functions in the menu assigned to your Desktop Integrator responsibility. Navigate to System Administrator > Application > Menu, and include the following sub-menus in your menu (Desktop Integration Menu if you use Desktop Integrator responsibility. Here are few examples of Projects Integrators:

• For Project Budgets and Forecasts, include Financials: Project: Budgets and Forecasts function. This is documented in Oracle Projects Implementation Guide.
• For Project Expenditures (Transaction Import), include Expenditure Entry Using Microsoft Excel menu. The seeded integrators are also available in the Project Super User responsibility and documented in the Oracle Project Costing User Guide.

I find Oracle’s approach to document setup steps in multiple user guides and make them accessible in multiple responsibilities troubling. It makes implementation workflow very confusing. Along with Web ADI, other examples of this approach include iExpenses, Project Management, Resource Management, or iProcurement…

Oracle Published Release Content Documents for eBusiness Suite Release 12

January 16, 2007 on 10:01 am | by Marian Crkon | In Oracle Press, Worth Noting | 4 Comments |  Print |  Email

Hooray, the wait is finally over all users and implementors waiting to see what is new in Oracle eBusiness Suite Release 12. Read about the new R12 features in the the content documents available in the Metalink Note 404152.1 [Click on the note link and login to Metalink first to access these links]:

• Advanced Planning

• Apps Technology

• Customer Data Management

• Customer Relationship Management

• Customer Service

• Discrete Manufacturing

• E-Business Suite

• Financials

• HRMS

• Intelligence
  

• Logistics

• Maintenance Management

• Marketing and Sales

• Order Management

• Process Manufacturing

• Procurement

• Product Lifecycle Management

• Projects

• Property Manager

• Service Execution

• Supply Chain Management

• Student Systems

New Features in Oracle HRMS Release 12

December 15, 2006 on 9:11 pm | by Marian Crkon | In Oracle Press | 7 Comments |  Print |  Email

The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remain at the sole discretion of Oracle. For more information, refer to the Metalink Note: 400061.1.

R12 will deliver a new user interface, which translates to a standard process flow, standard fonts, colors, and user-modifiable skins, and consistent navigation across all product families. R12 will also use Oracle’s 10g technology.

New User Experience

• iRecruitment – Completely re-designed Candidate Registration
• Absence Management – Updated business flows and entire look-and-feel
• Salary Administration – Vastly improved UX for Salary Information, including high-interactivity embedded analytics
• Competency Profile – Completely re-designed user experience

Oracle’s Top 5 Reasons to Upgrade to Release 12

• Supports HR Best Practices
• Reduces Administrative Costs
• Improves Productivity
• Key New Features/Functions
• Extended Maintenance & Support

The following are few selected new features that are planned for HCM in R12.

Checklists

Some HR actions, such as employee hiring, transfer, or termination, require the completion of standard tasks, such as printing contracts, reassigning resources, and creating users. The checklist functionality in Oracle HRMS enables you to link the HR action to a life event and generate ‘to do’ lists or checklists when the life event is initiated.

Global Deployment

This has been a long-awaited feature. Oracle HRMS Global Deployments function controls the temporary or permanent transfer of an employee to a different business group by means of a deployment proposal. In the case of secondments, which is a temporary transfer from the home business group to the host business group, at the end of which the employee will return to the Home business group, the employee in the home BG is not terminated and he/she will continue to be an employee.

Workforce Performance Management

Combines objective setting and appraisal processes into a manageable plan to track. Allowing consistency enforcement via corporate objectives and eligibility criteria, tracking objectives with copying and duplicating objectives for multiple appraisals during a period.

Salary Administration

New UI with the ability to delete, allows for gaps, end dating, retroactive and future changes in salary proposals.Display current grade and step on assignment with FTE on salary proposal. Viewing salary history of terminated employees.

Compensation Workbench

Manage budget awards across multiple currencies, business groups and compensation types in a single worksheet with a new task oriented interface with worksheet that can be personalized. Integration points between Oracle Incentive Compensation and Compensation Workbench are established so that target amounts, actual amounts, and commissions can be displayed on the worksheet. You now have the ability to change a manager’s location, organization, and supervisor within Compensation Workbench.

Sub-Ledger Accounting (SLA)

Sub-ledger accounting is an intermediate step between the sub-ledger product (e.g., Payroll) and the Oracle General Ledger. It allows multiple accounting representations for a single business event, resolving conflicts between corporate and local fiscal accounting requirements. It retains the most granular level of details in the Subledger accounting model, with different summarization options in the General Ledger, allowing full audit ability and reconciliation.

Applications Unlimited For Oracle E-Business Suite

Oracle’s plan to continue providing ongoing enhancements to current Oracle applications beyond the delivery of Oracle Fusion Applications

Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Pre-Release Product Demos

August 24, 2006 on 1:05 pm | by Marian Crkon | In Oracle Press | 4 Comments |  Print |  Email

In late September, Oracle will be hosting a series of pre-release demonstrations of E-Business Suite R12 applications. Through this program, OAUG members will have the unique opportunity to preview new features and functionality of selected R12 applications before they are generally available. The demonstrations will be held remotely via Web conferencing, and will be conducted by members of the Oracle Applications development team who have a deep understanding of the products.

To participate in the demonstrations, user group members must sign the Oracle Confidential Disclosure Agreement (CDA), and must have licensed and implemented (or be in the process of implementing) a current version of the Oracle Applications product(s) being demonstrated. Oracle will use the customer contact information submitted via the online enrollment form to send the CDA and other pre-demo materials.

Participation is limited to OAUG members in good standing, and each session is limited to 50 dial-in ports, to be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. To enroll in the individual demonstrations, please complete the online enrollment form by Friday, September 8, 2006.

Oracle will be soliciting feedback from the program participants and may ask you to participate in marketing activities associated with the demonstrations, including providing customer quotations that may be used for R12 marketing purposes, such as presentations at Oracle OpenWorld 2006.

More information on the E-Business Suite R12 user group/special interest group demonstration program including detailed descriptions for each demo and a demo schedule, is available here.

The Importance of Being 12

August 18, 2006 on 11:23 am | by Floyd Teter | In Worth Noting | Enter Comments |  Print |  Email

With apologies to Oscar Wilde for the title of this post, may I take a moment to consider the importance of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12? R12 is due for release in the last quarter of 2006. As more information becomes available, each Oracle customer will have to decide for themselves whether or not a move to R12 has value for them. Some of us may opt to stick with what we have until the Fusion Applications picture becomes clear. Some will see value in R12 and make the leap in relatively short order. Others may move to another product line (or apps vendor) altogether. Irregardless of our individual choices, R12 is important to everyone in the applications market space (including those who are not Oracle customers) because it’s an important step in the progress to achieving Oracle’s ambitious vision for Fusion Applications.

Please don’t misconstrue my meaning: R12 has importance, at least for Oracle E-Business customers, for reasons other than Fusion. R12 has 12 new application modules and over 2,300 new features, including the SWAN user interface, sub ledger accounting, new HRMS localizations, improved support for APAC manufacturing practices, Retek integration, and several new industry-specific business flows. Discounting R12 without seriously considering whether it holds significant value for your organization would be foolish, and I don’t mean to do so here. But my contention is that Release 12 represents a significant proof-point in the Fusion Applications evolution, and that the importance to Fusion is R12′s most essential feature.

R12 will be the first complete E-Business Suite release on Fusion middleware. This is the next step in a series of iterations toward Fusion applications technology that started with the Early Adopter Program for integration of 11i with the 9i Applications Server. While R12 is definitely not a Fusion Applications release, delivery of a high-quality E-Business Suite release on Fusion middleware will constitute a major milestone on the road to Fusion Applications.

E-Business Suite customers are about to find out just how well and reliably Fusion technology works with our apps environment, and the entire applications space is about to discover just how much progress Oracle has made in integrating all the moving pieces of this giant and complex technical puzzle. In other words, the rubber is about to meet the road…it should be an interesting drive!

Sneak Peek at Oracle e-Business Suite User Interface in Release 12

June 24, 2006 on 6:51 am | by Marian Crkon | In Worth Noting | Enter Comments |  Print |  Email

Steven Chan of the Oracle E-Business Suite Technology blog has posted several informative posts regarding Oracle eBusiness Suite Release 12. Peoplesoft customers will be happy to hear that Oracle Applications will look more like Peoplesoft. Personally, I like the blue. As for Oracle users, let’s hope the changes will also bring some usability improvements. For now we know there will be no need for JInitiator anymore. To see samples of new Release 12 forms, look at this article by Steven.