Categories: E-Business Suite
Hello all, been quite a while since I have last posted. I generally try to keep my posts related to past presentations that I have done or things I am currently working on. I have two active engagements right now where the client is actively using (or trying to use) AGIS or Advanced Global Intercompany System in Oracle R12 and yet my clients rarely understand what AGIS is or how it should be used.
Categories: E-Business Suite, Oracle Application Services
Recently, I arrived bright and early to support the first month-end close after a large client R12 upgrade from 11.5.9 to support closing of the books. The invoices for the month were 10 million dollars, but the revenue in General Ledger was only 5 million and the CFO looked a bit concerned. Where was the rest of the revenue hiding?
If you've been waiting to take Oracle E-Business Suite for a test drive, now is your chance!
Multiperiod accounting is a flexible, powerful tool available with Release 12 of the Oracle e-Business Suite which allows users to systematically record accounting entries across multiple periods. This post will focus on real world applications of this functionality, and present the detailed steps required to implement the functionality within Payables and Purchasing.
Multiperiod accounting is a flexible, powerful tool available with Release 12 of the Oracle e-Business Suite which allows users to systematically record accounting entries across multiple periods. This blog entry will focus on real world applications of this functionality, and present the detailed steps required to implement the functionality within Payables and Purchasing.
Recently I received a request to develop a custom interface to update the salaries of approximately 1000 employees. My response was, “why re-invent the wheel”? Several Web ADI Integrators are delivered out of the box including the HR Update Salary Proposals Integrator.
The HRMS Web ADI Integrators are extremely powerful as long as you know how to use them. They can be tricky to setup since they are dependent on the settings of the browser and the security settings within Excel, however within 10 minutes I was able to get the users up and running and updating salaries for their end of year merit increases. Within a few hours, they had entered and updated the salaries for all of their employees.
Here is a quick summary of the required setups and steps to utilize the HR Update Salary Proposals Integrator:
With the release of R12, Oracle had retired Client ADI, a tool that had been used for many things, amongst which was making FSG reports look pretty, and allowing users to drilldown into the financial information displayed on the reports to get more detailed information.
With the retirement of Client ADI, Oracle began to push Report Manager, a Report Repository tool that allows users to drill-down into FSG reports, as long as they have a report-specific Excel template assigned to them. I've been using Report Manager for some time, and I think it is a great tool to provide Management with access to the financial reports they need, as well as allowing them to discover what is behind the numbers (without bothering the folks in Accounting).
Communicating Purchase Orders to suppliers as PDF documents via email has been around for quite some time but there are some features that I find are under-utilized and are often not presented to customers. For example, did you know that you can have every PO copied to a generic email address? What about attaching documents to the email such as Terms and Conditions or any other files?
Although yet to be confirmed, Oracle is expected to release version R12.2 of it’s eBusiness Suite in October 2011. BizTech has analyzed the following modules, and has determined that significant functionality is expected to be added in R12.2. Some of the more significant functionality has been backported to older releases, and where appropriate, BizTech has identified the necessary patches.
Although yet to be confirmed, Oracle is expected to release version R12.2 of it’s eBusiness Suite in October 2011. BizTech has compiled a list of the Tax, Legal and Regulatory updates that are expected to be added, amended, or removed in this latest release.
