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Extending EBS with Apex and other tools
Tony Scholefield Santos Ltd
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Agenda
• Audience survey • About Santos • History of E-‐Business Suite • My Santos Financials • GL ReconciliaAon Helper • Catalogue Search
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Audience survey
• Where are you from? – Sydney – Elsewhere in Australia – Overseas
• What is your role? – Technical – Business – User – DBA
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Acknowledgements
• Santos colleagues / team members – Mahree Waldeck – Andrew ConstanAne – Tony Winn – Stephen Denison
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About Santos • Oil & Gas ExploraAon & ProducAon • An Australian company providing energy for Australia and Asia – Offices (using Oracle) in Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, Jakarta, Gladstone and Roma
– Field sites in Cooper Basin, Southern Queensland, offshore WA, offshore Victoria, Indonesia and Bangladesh
• Approximately 2,500 employees, numerous contractors
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Footprint
• Oracle E-‐Business Suite Release 11i.10.2 (+) • Financials – GL, PA, FA, AR, AP, iExpenses, Treasury
• Supply – PO, INV, OM, iProcurement, Sourcing, Intelligence
• Human Resources – HR, Payroll, OTL, OLM, Self Service, iRecruitment
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History of E-‐Business Suite
• 1997 Oracle ApplicaAons 10.7 • 2002 E-‐Business Suite 11i (11.5.5) • 2004 11.5.9 • 2006 11.5.10 • Now 11.5.10.2 • October 2011 R12.1.3
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My Santos Financials
• What is it? – Projects Data Mart
• Who uses it? – Project managers, Responsible Officers, all staff have access
• Developed in 2004
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My Santos Financials
Base Table 1 Base Table 2
Project Summary Table
Project Summarization Process MSF Table 1
MSF Table 2
ETL
User Interface
HTML DB
Database View
Discoverer EUL Discoverer Application
Discoverer Reports
Oracle Applications Database
MySantosFinancials
Datamart
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My Santos Financials
• Architecture – ApplicaAon Express
• User Interface – IdenAty Management
• Synchronised with EBS every night – Portal
• 4 pages: myProjects, Search, Preferences, Admin
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My Santos Financials
• Four custom schemas: OWNER OBJECT_TYPE NUM_ROWSSPA_DM_HTML FUNCTION 2
INDEX 3PACKAGE 20TABLE 5VIEW 2
SPA_DM_OA_IFACE VIEW 32SPA_DM_WARE INDEX 78
PACKAGE 2TABLE 47VIEW 30
SPA_DM_WARE_APP PACKAGE 35
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My Santos Financials
• DemonstraAon
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GL ReconciliaAon Helper
• What is it? – Tool to assist with Month End, Half Year and Year End reconciliaAon of accounts
• Who uses it? – Accountants
• Developed in 2010 / 2011, scheduled to go live this week
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GL ReconciliaAon Helper
• Architecture – ApplicaAon Express – IdenAty Management
• Synchronised with EBS every night – Portal
• 3 pages: Home, Reports, Admin
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GL ReconciliaAon Helper
Reconciler Performance
Cost to Corporate
Reconciliation Status Report
Audit trail for reconciliations
Notify reconcilers
after approval
Notify approvers of completion
Upload data
Maintain accounts
Unlock and delete
reconciliations
Administration
Reconciliation Workspace
Reports
Notifications
Homepage
Login
Create reconciliations and pre-populate tables with closing ledger
balances.
Individual Reconciliation
Group Reconciliation
Business Unit Reconciliation
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GL ReconciliaAon Helper • 4 sets of books: AUD, USD, IND, VNM • 6 “reporAng ledgers”: JVAUD, JVUSD, JVIND, JVVNM,
CORPUSD, CORPAUD • Accounts are reconciled by “natural account”, across all
ledgers in all sets of books. • There are three different types of account reconciliaAons:
– Individual: the reconciliaAon of one account across all ledgers – Group: the reconciliaAon of a group of accounts across all ledgers
– Business Unit: the reconciliaAon of one account that is contributed to by Financial Analysts from the Business Units.
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GL ReconciliaAon Helper Reports • ReconciliaAon RaAng and Unreconciled Balance Report
– Shows reconciliaAons that have an unreconciled balance. It can be used to monitor progress of any balance that is not totally reconciled.
• ReconciliaAon Audit Trail report – Displays an audit trail of all changes that have been made to all reconciliaAons
• Cost to Corporate Report – Outlines for any given account or group of account the joint venture, parAcipaAon factor and Santos share of balances a selected range.
• ReconciliaAon Status Report – Shows an overview of the status of individual reconciliaAons.
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GL ReconciliaAon Helper
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Catalogue Search
• What is it? – Query page
• Who uses it? – Staff who purchase items
• Developed in 2002
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Catalogue Search
• Architecture – Mod pl/sql
• One package with 4 procedures – HTML
• Who uses it? – Staff who need to buy things
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Catalogue Search
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