r12 new features

Oracle Applications R12 - New Features

Features Impacted Modules

1 Modified Bank Account Model AP, AR, PAY, XTR

2 Modified Multi-Org Access Control All Modules

3 New Subledger Accounting GL

4 New GL

5 New Bank Account Transfers

6 New Cash Pooling

7 Modified Bank Statement Accounting

8 Modified Bank Account Signing Authorities HRMS, Work Flow

9 Modified Cash Positioning Intra-day Activities NULL

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Oracle Standard Purge (if added)

Bank Account Balances and Interest Calculation

XTR, AP and OracleSubledger Accounting.

XTR, (All Financials modules)

Oracle Subledger Accounting.


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Source of data1) Shared Service approaches to disbursement and collections are enhanced by

the deployment of Oracle Cash Management’s new Bank Account model. 2) It provides a single access point for defining and managing internal bank accounts for Oracle Payables, Oracle Receivables, Oracle 1) Multi-Org Access Control enables companies that have implemented a Shared Services operating model to efficiently process business transactions by allowing them to access, process, and report on data for an unlimited number of operating units within a single applications responsibility. 1) Oracle Subledger Accounting provides tools that allow users to meet External Reporting (IAS.IFRs, US GAAP, etc.), corporate management, and national fiscal accounting requirements. 2) With a flexible tool called Accounting Methods Builder, users can determine the accounts, lines, descriptions, summarization,1) Many new bank account balance types are supported for all internal bank accounts including ledger, available, value dated, 1-day float, 2-day float, and projected balances. 2) Users are able to track closing ledger and available balances as well as month-to-date and year-to-date averages. 1) Bank Account Transfer functionality was previously supported only through Oracle Treasury. Now, bank account transfers are supported directly in Oracle Cash Management. 2) This feature allows users to create these types of cash transfers between internal bank accounts manually or 1) Organizations frequently use cash pooling techniques to optimize funds by consolidating bank balances from across multiple bank accounts. By consolidating balances and minimizing idle funds, organizations may decrease external borrowing costs and increase overall investment returns. 1) This feature was first released in Oracle Financials Family Pack G. 2) This feature allows users to define mapping rules that can automatically create and reconcile transactions in Oracle Cash Management based on reported priorday bank statement lines. Users are able to define flexible matching rules based on bank 1) This feature allows Oracle Cash Management users to enter, maintain, and report on those people in their organizations with bank account signing authority. Users are able to indicate single and joint signing limits for each bank account as well as signer group categories, effective dates, approval status, and other relevant information. 1) This feature provides additional flexibility in how users view intra-day bank statement activity in their cash positions. It is possible to include all or portions of intra-day bank statement activity in the cash position, and these cash flows are used when calculating projected closing balances. 2) Alternatively, the set up for cash positions still allows users to exclude the intra-day bank statement activity


Features Impacted Modules

1 New Legal Entity

2 Modified Multi-Org Access Control

3 Modified NULL

4 Modified AR, PO

5 Modified Supplier Bank Accounts AR, PO

6 Modified Introduction of Invoice Lines

7 Modified NULL

8 Modified NULL

9 New NULL

10 Modified AR, PO

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All the modules(Not particular)

All the modules(Not particular)

Representation of Suppliers in the Trading Community Architecture (TCA)

New User Interface for Supplier Entry and Maintenance

Oracle Projects and Oracle Assets.

Invoice Processing for Contract Financing, Retainage, and Progress Terms

Enhanced Invoice Approval Includes Line Level Approval

Non PO Invoices Entered via iSupplier Portal

Collaboration with Suppliers to Resolve Disputes

11 New

12 Modified NULL

13 Modified Payment Process Enhancements Oracle Payments

14 Modified NULL

Oracle E-Business Disbursement Requests

Oracle Loans, Oracle Receivables

Enhancements to Payment Banks, Branches, and Accounts

Accounts Receivable / Accounts Payable Netting



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Source of data1) Legal Entity is a new addition to the Oracle E-Business Suite that enhances the ability

to manage one’s legal corporate structure and track data from the legal perspective. 2) The legal entity can be used as selection criteria when preparing pay runs.1) In Oracle Payables, your Multi-Org Access Control and Preferences allow users to enter invoices or batches of invoices for one operating unit, and then seamlessly enter invoices for another operating unit. 2) Select invoices across operating units for payment processing within a single pay run. 3) 1) The Trading Community Model is a highly flexible architecture that allows you to fully model real world entities in your trading community and accurately represent the complex relationships among those entities. 2) Suppliers as part of the trading community, you have access to many of the features provided by TCA. These include: 1) Adding new locations or relationships with additional operating units is streamlined. 2) Additional tax and legal registrations provide key information to meet your reporting and compliance needs. Tailor a quick update page with those values most often updated for even faster maintenance.

1) The bank account is tied directly to the trading partner allowing one bank account definition to be leveraged by a ‘supplier’ trading partner andshared if the trading partner is also an employee or customer. This approach provides for easier and centralized maintenance and security ofthe bank account information 2) This definition is targeted directly towards ‘trading partner’ bank accounts leaving internal bank accounts out of the user interface. In other words, the supplier’s banking information is entered and assigned

1) Oracle Payables incorporates Invoice Lines into the invoice model. Adding Invoice Lines is a key architectural change, which enables Oracle Payables to better model the paper or electronic business document yet maintain key features that exist at the invoice distributions level. 2) Merged into the current invoice transaction business flows, Invoice Lines supports the representation of the goods or services as well as tax, freight, and other charges as lines with distributions tied to each line. Additional fields record attributes such as serial numbers and item descriptions. 3) This feature offers the ability for line level approval and matching between an invoice line and a purchase order shipment pay item, or receipt. Furthermore, it facilitates the capture and transfer of additional, pertinent information to and from Oracle Projects and Oracle Assets.Complex payment terms and conditions for fixed price contracts is captured during the procurement contract flow. This includes options to schedule points of progress for invoicing, request an advance or progressive financing support, and record negotiated amounts to retain until completion of the purchased item, service, or project. These terms and conditions are supported in Oracle Payables when recording invoices and 1) With the introduction of Invoice Lines, users are able to further extend their approval policy granularity in Oracle Approvals Management for individual lines of an invoice. 2) Notification details are targeted to the level of approval required and embedded with a view of the invoice including summary amounts,

1) Invoices entered by Suppliers where a purchase order has not been obtained are represented as Invoice Requests. Invoice Requests are visible in Oracle Payables but are not paid or accounted until the invoice can be verified and approved.1) Holds on invoices that are a result of differences between the invoiced and planned amounts or quantity result in disputes that must be resolved. Invoices that have been approved by the owner of the purchasing transaction but rejected during the approval process may also be subject to disputes with the supplier.

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1) Disbursement Requests are requests to make a payment to a company or individual that is not a supplier. 2) This feature empowers the Payables Manager with visibility and control over the items selected for payment processing. Disbursement requests carry accounting entries and support funds checking for budgetary control. 1) Banks and Bank Branches are represented in Oracle’s Trading Community Architecture and shared by other Oracle E-Business Suite applications. The Bank Account is centrally defined, managed and secured and includes the legal ownership and operating unit access for each bank account. The Oracle Cash Management section of this document provides further details.1) Payment processing is significantly enhanced with this release. Along with a new user interface, the management and visibility of the payment process are much more robust and easier to use. i) Toolset for the Payment Manager:- Manage fewer pay runs by choosing selection criteria with multiple currencies, operating units, and pay 1) When a trading partner is both a customer and a supplier, you may choose to offset open receivables’ against open payables’ items. Netting Agreements add trading partner terms as well as deploying company controls. A selection program automatically pulls information from Oracle Receivables and Oracle Payables taking into consideration discounts, late fees, and withholding taxes prior to determining the final netting amount.


Features

1 New Quote Access Across Operating Units (Multi-Org Access Control)

2 New Defaulting Rules

3 New Available-To-Promise (ATP) Enhancements

4 New End User Information

5 New Automatic Sales Team Assignment Enhancements

6 New Periodic Recurring Charges

7 New Line Level Payments

8 New Pay Now/ Pay Later

9 Modified Extended Warranties In Network Container Models

10 New Line Level Shipping/Billing For Components Of A Configuration

11 New Download/Upload Contract Terms & Conditions

12 New Additional Quote Supplement Response Types

13 New Ability To Change A Saved Quote Supplement Template

14 New Quote Specific Pricing Modes

15 New Quote Specific Tax Computation Modes

16 Modified Web Publishing To Restricted Specialty Stores

17 Modified Specify Language Preference For New iStore Users

18 New Support For XML Publisher RTF Templates

19 New Support For XML Publisher RTF Output

20 Modified Copy Services When Creating A Quote From An Opportunity

21 New Streamlined, Integrated User Interface

22 New Ability To Simultaneously Update Multiple Lines

23 Modified Modify Price Adjustments And Charges

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24 New Pricing Attributes

25 New Non-Automatic Promotion Codes

26 Modified Quote Search Enhancements

27 New Update Quote Detail From Search Results

28 New Data Quality Management

29 Modified Additional Customer, Contact and Address Search Parameters

30 New Customer Search Results Filtered By Territory

31 New Search Functionality For Services

32 Modified Flexibility In Adding/Modifying Services

33 New Quote Templates Embedded In The “Create Quote” Flow

34 New Additional Attachment Types and Line Level Attachments

35 New Long Description In Quote Lines Table

36 New Quote Name Defaulting

37 New One-Click Access To “Request Sales Assistance” Comments

38 New Related Items Enhancements

39 New Icon To Identify Trade-Ins

40 New Oracle Proposals Integration

41 Modified Recurring Charges

42 Modified Payment Due With Order

43 New Telecommunications Service Orders with Equipment


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Available in Form & HTML Quoting

Quote defaulting is based on the Order Management defaulting framework


Global Order Promising, Advanced Supply Chain Planning



















Feature specific for HTML Quoting


Advanded Pricing requird to setup price and charge modifiers


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The attachments functionality in quoting is based on the Oracle Applications Framework attachments component







Feature specific for Forms Quoting

Oracle Advanced Product Catalogue, Oracle Inventory, Oracle Advanced Pricing, Oracle Order Management

MACD(Move, Add, Change, Disconnect) enhancements in Quoting

Oracle Education


Oracle Education

Oracle Install Base, Oracle Configurator, Order Management


Oracle Education


Features

1 Modified All Modules

2 New Worklist Flexfields All Modules

3 Modified Digital Signatures All Modules

4 Modified Notification Mailer All Modules

5 Modified Workflow Engine All Modules

6 Modified Business Event System All Modules

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Impacted Modules


Workflow Directory Service Bulk Synchronization

Enhancement of the notification purge program



Performance improvement through bulk array interface for creating and starting processes.

The Workflow directory service bulk synchronization concurrent program can now recreate a directory service partition that includes roles that are part of a role hierarchy. In Release 11.5.10, after a role was used in a role hierarchy it was no longer possible to resynchronize the partition with the source originating system in its entirety, althoughdata was incrementally synchronized at real time.Oracle E-Business Suite system administrators can now promote information stored innotification message attributes from the notification detail page to a personal worklistview for viewing and sorting. For example, a dollar amount can be published from theworkflow message to a personal worklist view and then used for sorting. The personalworklist views can be assigned to a function and then assigned to a user or group of1.Ability to digitally sign the entire notification contents.2.Ability to verify the signed documents through an evidence store userinterface after the signing process3. Enhancement of the notification purge program to exclude purging ofsignature-enabled notificationsFew new and modified features are addeda) Simplified configurationb) Override addressc) Enhanced error handling for mass failuresd) System alerts integration

Event and subscription caching at the PL/SQL layer:PL/SQL rule function optimizationDeclarative event subscription error handling


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Features1 New Accounting Methods Builder Oracle Assets2 Modified Mass Additions Interface for Legacy Conversion Oracle Assets3 New Automatic Preparation of Mass Additions Oracle Assets4 New Asset Impairment Oracle Assets5 New Energy Units of Production Method Oracle Assets6 New Energy Straight line Method Oracle Assets7 New Flexible Reporting using XML Publisher Oracle Assets

8 Obsolete Automatic Depreciation Rollback Oracle Assets9 New Enhanced Logging for Asset Transactions and Programs Oracle Assets

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Additional attributes added for data conversionAPI's itroduced to automatically prepare mass addition linefunctionality for Energy Industryfunctionality for Energy Industryfunctionality for Energy Industry

introduction of common logging architecture


Intermediate manual step of rolling back depreciation for the entire book in order to process further adjustments on selected assets in no longer necessary


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Features Impacted Modules1 New Multi-Organization Access Control Order Management

2 New Inventory Convergence Order Management3 New Customer Acceptance Order Management

4 Modified Mass Scheduling Order Management

5 Modified Enhanced Header Attribute Cascading Order Management

6 Modified Exception Management Enhancements Order Management

7 Modified Workflow Validation Tool Order Management

8 New Credit Card Security Code Order Management

9 New Create Orders in Contact Center Order Management

10 New Payment Due With Order Order Management

11 New Recurring Charges Order Management

12 New Order Management


14 New Scheduling ATO Items without BOM Order Management


16 Modified Order Management17 Modified Oracle Shipping Execution Changes Order Management

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Telecommunications Service Orders with Equipment

Rosetta Native Message: PO Acknowledgements in Order Management

Customer Credit Check Hold Source Support across Operating Units

Renaming Blanket Sales Agreements to Sales Agreements

18 New Oracle Release Management Changes Order Management


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integration between Oracle Process Inventory and Oracle OrderManagement has been removed

Schedule Orders concurrent program is enhanced to schedule lines that have neverbeen scheduled or those that have failed manual scheduling.

Certain header attributes are changed, thecorresponding line attributes can be changed automatically or the user will be given thechoice of propagating the header changes to the lines.

Exception Management improves visibility to workflow errors and eases the process ofretrying workflows that have experienced processing errors.

The workflow validation toolensures that changes/additions made to workflows by customers are consistent with theirbusiness processes

Credit Card Security Code is supported through Order Import in addition to OrderManagement user interfaces and process order public API. Verifys 3 digit code printed behind the card

The Contact Center form is enhanced to host new Oracle Order Management tab pages tocreate and edit orders.

In the sale of telecommunications services and equipment to consumers, the consumermust sometimes pay for a portion of the total order amount at the time of order placement.

display totals, taxes and discounts ofrecurring and one-time prices when telecommunications services are ordered.

Customers are now able to purchase equipment such as wireless handsets, modems, etc.while ordering telecommunications services.

Oracle Order Management distinguishes between OAUG XML and native Rosettanetmessages and integrates with the Supply Chain Trading Connector to generate nativeRosettanet messages (PIPS).

In this release, the user hasan option of not requiring a BOM to schedule an ATO item even when ATP is based oncollected data (ODS mode).

Order Management honors credit holds placed on customers from AR acrossoperating Units.

Blanket Sales Agreements are renamed to Sales Agreements. There is no functionalimpact.

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1 New Portfolio Creation

2 New Strategic Criteria Definition

3 New Criteria Weighting and Targets

4 New Planning Cycle Initiation

5 New

6 New Scenario Modeling

7 New Scenario Comparison

8 New

9 New

10 Modified

Feature Type

Oracle Standard Purge (if added)Oracle

Project Portfolio Analysis - New

All the products in Oracle Projects




Scoring and Nomination of Projects




Scenario Recommendation and Approval


Refresh Financial Data for Portfolio Analysis


Oracle Project Management

Workplan Definition Enhancements


11 Modified Support for Task Dependencies

Modified Assign Resources to Tasks

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Modified

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Modified Simplified Workplan Navigation

Modified Process Updates on Structures

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Gantt Chart Support for Dependencies and Resources


Visibility of Task Attachments from Workplan View


Workflow Notification for Task Execution


Additional Workplan and Financial Structure Integration Options


Expanded Integration with Microsoft Project




Update Multiple Task Details by Multiple Users


Earned Value Calculation after Selecting New Baseline Version


Mass Refresh for Conversion Rates and Cost and Bill Rates


Modified

Modified Deliverables Management

Modified Defining Deliverables

Modified

Modified Deliverable Progress

Modified

Modified Oracle HRMS

Modified

Modified


Modified Resource Usage on Workplan Oracle HRMS

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As of Date for Financial Percent Complete Derivation




Associating Tasks and Deliverables



Integration of Deliverables with Other Applications

Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning, Oracle Shipping, Oracle

Workplan and Staffing Plan Integration

Assign Team Roles to Workplan Tasks


Team Role Creation Based on Workplan


Project Level Staffing of Requirements Linked to Task Assignments

Progress Management Enhancements


Modified

Modified Progress Rollup Enhancements

Modified

Modified

Modified Progress Entry for All Task Types

Modified Cancel Tasks

Modified As of Date Display Values

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Modified

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Modified

Modified

Multiple Methods for Collecting Progress



Using Progress for Earned Value, Forecasting, and Replanning Workplan


New Client Extension for Workplan Progress





Budgeting and Forecasting Enhancements


Budget Generation from Financial Plan, Staffing Plan, or WorkplanResource


Streamlined Data Entry for Budgets

All the products in Oracle Projects, GL

Flexible Budgeting Options for Entering and Viewing Data


Forecast Generation from Financial Plan, Staffing Plan, and Workplan


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Modified

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Modified

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Modified

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Modified

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Analyze Forecast and Make Adjustments


Creation of Initial Forecast and Data Entry and View Options


Enhanced Budgeting and Forecasting Spreadsheet Integration


Budgeting and Forecasting Enhanced APIs


Budget and Forecast Generation Enhancements


Honor Bill Rate Overrides on Project Assignments


Honor Billability upon Revenue Budget or Revenue Forecast Generation


Generate Cost Budget from Workplan with Cost Disabled


Provide Visibility of Missing Rates for Budget and Forecast Generation


Issue and Change Management Enhancements


Implementation of Financial Impact to Budget


Usability Enhancements to Issue and Change Management


Modified

Modified Project Performance Reporting

Modified Project Financial Information

Modified

Modified

Modified Support for Multiple Calendars

Modified

Modified Custom Measures (Metrics)

Modified

Modified

Modified

Modified

Performance Exceptions Reporting




Task, Resource and Periodic Reporting


Multicurrency Support for Project Performance



Performance Reporting User Interface Enhancements



Enhanced Supplier Mapping for Contingent Workers


Run Concurrent Processes by Operating Unit


View Periodic Data for a Range of Periods


Public Views for Project Performance Summarization Model


Modified

Modified Earned Value Management

Modified Program Management

Modified Unlimited Program Hierarchy

Modified Program Rollup

Modified Program Reporting Enhancements

Modified

Modified

Modified

Modified Multi-Org Access Control All the modules

Financial Planning and Project Status Inquiry (PSI)







Microsoft Project Integration for Programs


Oracle Project Resource Management

Contingent Workers as Candidates

Oracle Projects, Oracle HRMS

Oracle Project Costing

Financial Architectural Enhancements ( Integration with Oracle Subledger Accounting)

GL, OracleSubledger Accounting.

Modified Legal Entity All the modules

Modified All the modules

Modified

Modified

Modified Contingent Worker Support

Modified

Modified

Modified Introduction of Invoice Lines

Modified

Modified

Modified

Standardized Data Model for Multiple Reporting Currencies (MRC)

Budgetary Controls and Public Sector Accounting

GL, OracleSubledger Accounting.

Oracle Purchasing and Oracle Payables Integration

PO, AP, Oracle Time and Labor, Oracle Assets


Labor Cost Processing for Contingent Workers


Expense Report Processing for Contingent Workers



Improved Project Costing with Cash Basis Accounting


Subcontractor Payment Management


Removal of Supplier Cost Adjustment Restrictions


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Modified

Modified

Modified New Expenditure Item Attributes INV, BOM,

Modified Future-Dated People Oracle Projects

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Modified Customer at Top Task Oracle Projects, AR

Modified Invoice Method at Top Task Oracle Projects, AR

Modified Invoice Line-Level Write-Off Oracle Projects, AR

Modified Invoice Concessions Oracle Projects, AR

New Mass Adjust Concurrent Process


Tools for Oracle Payables and Oracle Grants Accounting Reconciliation


Integration with Oracle Project Manufacturing

Oracle Project Manufacturing

Burdening WIP and Inventory Transactions

Oracle Projects, GL, INV, WIP

Oracle Project Billing

Integration with Oracle E-Business Tax

Oracle E-Business Tax

Modified Oracle Projects, AR

Modified Billing Review in a New Interface Oracle Projects

Modified Future-Dated People Oracle Projects

Modified Revenue in Foreign Currency GL

Modified GL

Modified GL

Modified


Modified

Modified Planning Resources

Modified Resource Breakdown Structure Oracle HRMS

Modified Contingent Workers on Projects Oracle HRMS

Accounts Receivable Exchange Rate Conversion Attributes

Convert Revenue to Foreign Currency

View Project UBR/UER amounts in Project Currency

Oracle Project Foundation

Resource Definition Enhancements

Separation of Reporting and Planning Resources

Oracle HRMS, Oracle Financial

Oracle HRMS, Oracle Financial

Modified Oracle Projects


Modified Funding Approval Status Oracle Projects



Modified Configurable Page Layouts Oracle Projects

Modified Selective Project Copy Oracle Projects




Modified Collaborative Work Planning Oracle Projects

Key Performance Areas on Project List

Project Scorecard for Project Portfolio Analysis

Enhanced Configurability of Project Home Pages

Configurable Workbench Tab Structure

Financial Structures in a New User Interface

Oracle Project Collaboration

Additional Regions on Team Member Home Page

Collaborative Progress Entry Enhancements



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With Project Portfolio Analysis, you can define portfolios based on organization, class code, or both. This definition specifies the range of projects that can be considered in a given portfolio.You can define a configurable set of strategic criteria around business goals such as goto-market, competitive differentiation, risk, technology, globalization, efficiency, and more. Oracle Project Portfolio Analysis also comes with a set of standard financial criteria: Net Present Value, Payback Period, Internal Rate of Return, and Return on Investment.With financial and strategic objectives defined, you can enter acceptable target value ranges for these objectives. In addition, you may define the weighting of these different Oracle Projects Release Content Document, Rev. 00 Oracle Project Portfolio Analysis - New Product 4 factors in calculating an overall investment index, which acts as a high-level prioritization guide throughout the Whenever a business change occurs or a new periodic review process (such as annual planning) takes place, you can initiate a planning cycle for a given portfolio. During thiscycle, projects are automatically gathered into an initial scenario from which you can later model other scenarios for analysis. 1) In addition to current work, you can include proposed work within a planning cycle. Oracle Project Portfolio Analysis enables you to manually collect proposed projects or to invite submissions of new projects using Oracle Workflow.2) For project managers, Oracle Project Portfolio Analysis provides a vehicle to assess your project against strategic criteria. If you submit new proposed projects, you must score1) With the projects collected, you can create multiple scenarios for comparison purposes. 2) For each scenario, you can define the funds available, sothat proposals stay within the level of available funds.3) You can also manually rank projects when composing a scenario. You can rank bydifferent criteria helping you determine the optimum scenario.1) You can compare all scenarios in a tabular view based on their investment index scores. 2) You can also compare the top 3 scenarios in a graphical display, with views of their financial and strategic scores to see how they all compare against your target ranges.

1) You can use Oracle Workflow to automate the portfolio approval cycle. 2) You can recommend one or more of the best scenarios to the portfolio reviewer for approval.

For portfolio analysts, Oracle Project Portfolio Analysis enables you to refresh financialdata while you are developing the scenarios.

Enhancements to workplan definition enable you to define, track, and control projectswith greater detail.

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1) You can create dependencies between tasks within a single project or across projects.2) You can select predecessors, successors, and dependency types, including start-to-start, start-to-finish, finish-to-start, and finish-to-finish.

You can now assign planning resources to tasks, including people, equipment, material items, and financial resources. For each resource assignment, you can track detailed schedule information, progress to date, as well as cost impact over time periods.

The Gantt chart view of the workplan has been enhanced to show dependencies between tasks.

You can now easily view which tasks on the workplan have related attachments. From the workplan task list view, you can see which tasks have attachments and drill down to view the related attachments.

You can associate workflows to tasks that can be configured to send notificationsdepending on various businesses.With this release, you can now choose the level of sharing between the workplan and financial structure. The new options are as follows: A) Partially-shared: When structures are parially shared, you can choose specific tasks to be used only for workplan purposes. B) Non-shared: If you use

Further enhancements are now available in Oracle Project Management to providestronger integration with Microsoft Project.

The following enhancements have been made to the process updates on both workplan and financial structures: A) The concurrent process PRC: Process Structure Updates is initiated when you submit process updates, publish a workplan version, or apply latest progress to a working workplan version. B) All financial

The Projects APIs now support updating task information by multiple users simultaneously.

When you change the baseline workplan version, the latest baseline data will be used to compute all future progress information and earned value metrics.

A new public API is available to refresh conversion rates or refresh cost and bill rates onthe entire budget or workplan version.

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When the financial physical percent complete is updated from the workplan physical percent complete, the as-of-date for the financial percent complete is derived from thelatest date of the following:• System date

Oracle Project Management enables you to track deliverables for aproject, such as items and documents.

You can define the deliverables for a project, including all the associated actions needed to complete each deliverable.

You can define your deliverables and work breakdown structure either independently or together, and support both scenarios using associations between the tasks and the deliverables.

You can update progress for a deliverable, including the physical percent complete.

Integrate deliverables with the following Oracle applications: A) Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning B) Oracle Shipping Execution C) Oracle Purchasing D) Oracle Project Billing

You can now leverage the task resources of a workplan to integrate with the project-level staffing plan,

You can roll up workplan resources assigned to individual tasks and create project team roles, thus creating resource requirements or assignments based on your total planned work across the workplan.

You can assign resources associated with project team roles on tasks in the workplan

You now have several ways to collect, roll up, and analyze the progress of a project workplan so that the progress can be more accurately managed and communicated to stakeholders.

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You can either enter all progress centrally for the project or delegate the progress entry to task managers or the project resources. Progress collection consists of the following components: A) Actual Effort or Cost B) Estimate to Complete (ETC) C) Estimated and Actual Completion Dates D) Physical Percent Complete

Many of the collected progress measures are rolled up through the WBS in order to provide a measure of progress at every level of the WBS. These measures include estimated and actual dates, effort, cost, percent spent, percent complete, and physical percent complete.

After progress has been rolled up to the project level, you can perform the following actions to review overall progress: A) Perform earned value analysis from the Project Performance Reporting page B) Generate a financial forecast using the physical percent complete or ETC

The new Progress Client Extension enables you to override the default actual and estimated start and finish dates on lowest level tasks and assignments after execution of summarization or submission of task progress record.

The feature to mark a task as non-progressable has been removed. With this release, all task types will be always enabled for progress entry.

You can no longer cancel a task during submission of task progress. You can cancel a task only from the Task Details page for the working workplan version. If a task is cancelled, the link to any projects from the task is also deleted.

The selection for the Progress As of Date field supports a maximum of 30 progress cycles.

This release introduces enhancements to help you develop and maintain budgets and forecasts more accurately, efficiently, and flexibly.1) In addition to entering quantity, cost, and revenue budget amounts, you can generate budgets based on a financial plan (such as a bid or estimate), the staffing plan, or the workplan resource of the project. 2) Cost amounts are automatically When editing budget versions, you now have a variety of ways to enter the information more efficiently: • Automatically calculate cost and revenue amounts based on effort or quantity using actual or planning rates. • Adjust quantity, cost rate, burden rate, and bill rate by a percentage across a selection of tasks and resources.

Greater flexibility for entering and viewing budget information: A) Budget at Any Level B) View Rolled Up Amounts C) View Budgets in Graphical Format D) Compare Financial Plans E) View Multiple Currencies

The forecast for a project is comprised of the actual transactions logged to date, plus an estimate to complete (ETC). As the project progresses, revised forecasts can be generated based on default options.

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Analyze your forecast at various levels of the financial structure and resource breakdown structure, and you can compare variances of the current forecast to prior forecasts, budgets, or any other financial plan version.

The initial forecast is created automatically when you submit the first baseline version of approved budget.

This release provides tighter integration with Microsoft Excel by supporting planning resources, period profiles, an additional column set for rates, and the ability to Oracle Projects Release Content Document, Rev. 00 Oracle Project Management 15 automatically calculate amounts.This release incorporates the enhanced budgeting and forecasting APIs to support new parameters such as plan type information, plan version information, currency code, and change reason. New parameters are added to the following APIs:• ADD_BUDGET_LINE

The revenue budget and forecast generation process now recognizes bill rates overrides and considers billable status of tasks, assignments, and requirements. Also, you can now generate a cost budget from a workplan with cost disabled.

When you generate revenue budget or revenue forecast from a staffing plan, if the bill rates are overridden on the project assignments or requirements, the overriding rates are used to calculate the revenue amounts. Otherwise, the standard rates on the target version are used.When you generate revenue budget or revenue forecast from a workplan, a financial plan or a staffing plan, the billability of tasks, project assignments or project requirements is evaluated. If the task, project assignment or project requirement is not billable, then the revenue amounts for the budget or the forecast are not generated.

Some businesses need to generate the cost budget based solely on the workplaneffort.The budget or forecast generation is enhanced to provide visibility on rejections of rates such as missing cost rates, bill rates or conversion rates in the source workplan or financial plan. You have the choice to fix the rates setup and correct the source or ignore the planning lines with missing rates for budget or forecast generation.This release includes several enhancements to streamline the creation of issues andchanges, as well as the implementation of changes into budgets and forecasts. Besideshelping you implement changes more efficiently, these enhancements help you better

1) Define user statuses for issues and change documents according to the needs of your organization. 2) Creation, maintenance, and implementation of change documents is further streamlined.

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To help ensure projects stay on course, you can review the overall status of all projects, be alerted to significant issues with the project status, and then drill down to identify the root cause of a problem.

A new centralized view is available to review all the information for a single project, including earned value, cost information, and project status.1) You can view and analyze project revenue, cost, margin, billing, collections, backlog, earned value performance, and effort performance. 2) It is also possible to compare periodto-date and project inception-to-date amounts against budget to determine running variances.

In addition to project level summary amounts, you can also view performance measures by task, by resource, or any combination of task and resource to understand the source of variances.

Project, project functional, and global (enterprise) currency support for all plan and actual amounts is provided in project performance reporting. Therefore, you can view performance measures in all currencies used to manage and report on your projects.

1) Project performance reporting supports PA, GL, and global (enterprise) calendars. 2) This feature enables analysis by the corporate reporting calendar, the local (fiscal) calendar, and the project calendar.

The following enhancements are now available for performance reporting: A) Graphical Display Enhancements for Performance Measures B) Display of Performance Information C) ustomizable User Interface

The custom measures can be included in the pages to be viewed alongside predefined measures.

Support for mapping amounts and data associated with contingent workers to appropriate resources (suppliers) has been introduced in this release.

A new parameter has been introduced for project performance concurrent processes to allow it to run for a particular operating unit. This addition enables you to run the processes at different times for operating units that are located globally.

Periodic reporting pages that show data by week, month, quarter, and year now have a filter that lets you select a range of periods for which you want to view the data.

This release incorporates public views to access the data model behind the summarization so that you can create your own reports.

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You can now access your financial plan information as well as the forms-based budget information through Project Status Inquiry (PSI) taking advantage of the benefits of both reporting models.

Earned Value Management (EVM) is a way to manage projects by understanding the mathematical relationship between project scope, work, and budget.

Oracle Project Management enables you to track programs by grouping projects in a hierarchy, which then provides visibility of aggregate project data into a program.

A program may have an unlimited number of levels of projects associated with it. The program hierarchy can be independently maintained for workplan and financial structures if they are not shared in within a project or program.

Workplan information such as scheduled dates roll up through the program, with control points at each of the linked project levels.

You can now link more than one project to multiple programs so that the project data will be reflected in the rolled up amounts for each program.

When you receive a program in Microsoft Project, the tasks with linked projects will be received as regular tasks without any links to other projects.

1) You can now search for and track contingent workers, or contract labor, as candidates and staff them on projects. Staffing managers can track contingent workers in the application just like any other employee resource.

1) Oracle Project Costing has been enhanced to fully support Oracle Subledger Accounting. To provide customers with a reasonable timeframe to migrate their accounting rules, Oracle Project Costing honors both the accounting rules defined in AutoAccounting and the accounting rules defined in Oracle Subledger Accounting. In either case, all accounting entries are stored in Oracle Subledger

Oracle Project Costing supports multi-org access for expenditure entry, expenditure inquiry, and transaction processing.

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For Cross Charge processing, a legal entity is associated with each operating unit using Project Costing.This association is used to identify the provider and receiver legal entities for all charge transactions. Multiple reporting currencies provide customers with the capability to account and report in multiple currencies in addition to the primary ledger currency. With this release, MRC amounts are calculated by Oracle Subledger Accounting and stored in alternate ledgers. The MRC information in Oracle Projects is no longer used.The budgetary control features supported in Oracle Financials and Oracle Project Costing have been enhanced to support Oracle Subledger Accounting. When General Ledger accounts are required to perform funds checks or to generate encumbrance accounting entries, the Subledger Accounting engine is used to generate the account numbers

This is a new features related to integration with Oracle Purchasing and Oracle Payables.

A contingent worker, or contract labor, can fill any project role, including the project manager. The procure-to-pay process provides buying organizations improved methods for procuring and managing contingent workers. You can optionally process contingent worker labor as supplier costs or labor costs. When processing cost as labor, contingent worker timecards must be entered. The following entry methods are supported:• Oracle Time and Labor• Transaction Import/Microsoft Excel UploadThe transaction flow for expense reports is the same for contingent workers and employees. All expense report entry methods available for capturing employee expenses are also supported for contingent workers. However, payment processing differs for contingent workers in that the payee for contingent worker expense reports is the contingent worker supplier rather than the worker incurring Oracle Payables incorporates Invoice Lines into the invoice model. Adding Invoice Lines is a key architectural change, which enables Oracle Payables to better model the paper or electronic business document yet maintain key features that exist at the invoice distributions level. This feature offers the ability for line level approval and matching between an invoice line and a purchase order shipment

This enhancement provides for recognizing partial payments or for reversing the cost when a payment is made. It also allows a reconciliation of the cost recorded in Oracle Project Costing with the cost recognized in Oracle General Ledger, therefore, improving the accuracy of costing your projects.

The commitment and cost reporting processes in Oracle Project Costing have been enhanced to support these new features.

With this release, you can now adjust supplier cost in Oracle Project Costing under some some conditions. When supplier cost is adjusted in Oracle Grants Accounting, the accounting entries required to report the adjustment activity are generated and interfaced to Oracle General Ledger by Oracle Project Costing.

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To improve usability, a concurrent process is now available to perform adjustments to a large number of transactions at one time.This release provides several new reconciliation tools. First, accounting information for all subledgers will be stored in Oracle Subledger Accounting. Second, Oracle Project Costing has a new supplier cost adjustment report. Finally, Oracle Payables now provides a drilldown to the Project Expenditure Inquiry window from the invoice workbench.

This release introduces two enhancements to the integration between Oracle Project Costing and Oracle Project Manufacturing.You can optionally use the burdening feature of Oracle Project Costing to calculate the burdened cost of inventory and work-in-process transactions. When this option is enabled, raw cost amounts are derived in Oracle Project Manufacturing and burdened cost is calculated in Oracle Project Costing. To prevent reconciliation issues, you can optionally interface both raw cost and When inventory and work-in-process transactions are interfaced to Oracle Project Costing, two new attributes are passed, the inventory item and the BOM resource. These attributes are used with the planning resource enhancements to update progress data against the workplan and to compare actual project cost with budgeted and forecasted amounts.

You can enter actual project transactions for future-dated people only after they become active. In a future-dated expenditure batch, you can enter people who will be active as of the transaction dates.

Oracle E-Business Tax is a new infrastructure for tax knowledge management and delivery using a global system architecture that is configurable and scalable for adding country specific tax content.

Customers can now be defined at the top task level. This enhancement enables you to invoice customers for specific project work by top task. Additionally, if all the customers of a project are not known up front or change over time, you can add more customers on the project by associating them with new top tasks.

Invoice methods can now be defined at the top task level. This enhancement enables you to invoice customers with different methods such as, fixed price and time and materials, within the same project.

This enhancement enables you to write off invoice amounts for specific line items on an invoice as opposed to prorating the amount across all lines on the invoice.

Concession invoices are processed like existing credit memos. Also, you can apply concessions at either the invoice header or invoice line level.

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You can now use the project functional currency conversion attributes to convert to Oracle Accounts Receivable functional currency. Oracle Accounts Receivable uses these conversion attributes to derive the exchange rate based on the invoice date.You can perform the following functions through the new user interface:• View Billing Summary – Revenue, Funding Backlog, Invoice Collections, Invoicing Status• View Invoice Summary by Customer• Review and Approve Invoices

To support revaluation of Unbilled Receivables and Unearned Revenue (UBR/UER) accounts in Oracle General Ledger at period close, Oracle Project Billing now derives revenue in a currency that is different from the functional currency, and interfaces both project functional and revenue transaction amounts to Oracle General Ledger.

You can now optionally choose to convert the revenue amount in project functional currency to revenue transaction currency. Invoice transaction currency is treated as your revenue transaction currency.

You can now view unbilled receivables and unearned revenue amounts in project currency in the Billing Review page. The project-level UBR/UER balance in project functional currency (PFC) is converted to project currency and displayed in the billing review page.

1) You now have greater flexibility in how you can define resources within a project. 2) With people resources, you can better manage the costs and work of a complex organization. 3) You also have

This enhancement enables you to perform work and financial using varying levels of granularity, and at the same time view reports based on a hierarchy of resources called the Resource Breakdown Structure.

Planning resources enable you to have greater flexibility in how you can define resources for work and financial planning within a project.1) You can now define a resource breakdown structure, or resource hierarchy, with several levels of resources for reporting purposes. 2) The resource breakdown structure provides an alternate view of the WBS for analyzing your workplan, financial plan, and project performance.A contingent worker is a non-employee people resource who works for your enterprise, and for whom your enterprise is responsible for their costs and expenses. Oracle Projects enables you to define and utilize contingent workers on projects in the same capacities and manner as employees. You can define requirements and perform searches for contingent worker candidates, and you

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You can quickly determine the health of projects by viewing the project list. For each project, a series of colored graphical indicators are used to connote project health.

You can now define how a project scores against a configurable hierarchy of strategic investment criteria.1) You can now designate your project’s funding approval status. 2) This status enables you to define the workplan, resources, and financial plan for a proposed project without it going into a portfolio planning cycle. 3) You can set a

This release provides a configurable work list, which is a consolidated view of the work to be accomplished for project. The work list can include open items such as tasks, issues, change requests, change orders, and deliverables – which can all be sorted by due date, priority and class.1) You can now hide tabs that are not relevant for the project, change the order of the tabs, and rename the tabs. 2) The default tab structure is assigned to the project template and can be overridden on individual projects with the appropriate security.

You can use the OA Personalization Framework features to configure the Project Home, Team Member Home, and Project Performance reporting pages.When you copy a project to create another project, you now have the option to define which elements of the original project should be copied. The project information that can be copied includes the following: • Project information, such as

1) You can now create and maintain financial structures and some select features in a new user interface. 2) You can also enter percent complete against the financial structure

To streamline work, new regions are available on the Team Member Home page.• Assigned Actions: Lists all of the actions that are assigned to the team member, including actions from issues, change requests, and deliverables.• Task Assignments: Lists all of the tasks across projects where the resource has an assignment.

You now can update progress for tasks, assignments, and deliverables in a streamlined manner.

You can choose to include task managers in the planning process without granting them access to the entire project and workplan. A task manager has the ability to update the workplan structure level to which they are assigned.


Features

1 Modified Simultaneous Accounting for Multiple Reporting Requiremen GL

2 Modified Centralized Accounting Setup GL

3 Modified Enhanced Reporting Currency Functionality GL

4 Modified GL

5 Modified GL

6 Modified Cross-Ledger and Foreign Currency Allocations GL

7 Modified Simultaneous Currency Translation of Multiple Ledgers GL

8 Modified Financial Reporting Across Ledgers GL

9 Modified Automatic Journal Copy GL

10 Modified Streamline Automatic Posting GL

11 Modified Streamline AutoReversal Criteria Setup GL

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Simultaneous Data Access to Multiple Legal Entities andLedgers

Simultaneous Opening and Closing of Periods for MultipleLedgers

12 Modified Streamline Consolidation Mappings GL

13 Modified Replacement for Disabled Accounts GL

14 Modified Data Security across Legal Entities and Ledgers GL

15 Modified Management Reporting Security GL

16 Modified Prevent Reversal of Journals with Frozen Sources GL

17 Modified Prevent Reversal of Unposted Journals GL

18 Modified Control Accounts GL

19 Modified Definition and Setup Security GL

20 Modified Accounting and Reporting Sequencing GL

21 Modified Journal Line Reconciliation GL

22 Modified Entered Currency Reporting and Analysis GL

23 Modified Foreign Currency Recurring Journals GL

24 Modified Intercompany Balancing Support for Encumbrances GL

25 New New iSetup API’s GL

26 New Integration with Subledger Accounting GL

27 New Enhanced Intercompany GL

28 New Account Analysis and Drilldown GL

29 New GL Standard Reports Integration With XML Publisher GL



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Companies that are global in nature and that have operations in different localities often have multiple reporting requirements. These companies and their subsidiaries often need to satisfy the accounting and reporting requirements for each country as well as those of the parent company. This involves performing The Accounting Setup Manager is a central location to define your accounting-related setup across all financial applications. Here you can define your legal entities and their accounting context, which includes the ledgers* that contain the accounting data for each legal entity. If a legal entity has multiple reporting requirements, you can include additional reporting currencies or ledgers in the Multiple Reporting Currencies functionality is enhanced to support all journal sources. Reporting sets of books are now simply reporting currencies. Every journal that is posted in the primary currency of a ledger can be automatically converted into one or more reporting currencies. This conversion can be performed by Subledger Accounting, to convert all subledger journal entries, or by

You can access multiple legal entities and ledgers when you log into Oracle General Ledger using a single responsibility. This improves processing efficiency by reducing the need to switch between responsibilities when trying to access data for different ledgers or legal entities.The Open and Close Periods Programs has multiple enhancements. You are able to run any of the Open and Close Periods Programs from the Concurrent Manager. This allows you to take advantage of scheduling and request set capabilities for greater processing efficiency. Also, if you manage multiple ledgers, you can open or close periods for multiple ledgers simultaneously. You can even You are able to allocate financial data from one or more ledgers to a different target ledger. This enables you to perform cross-ledger allocations, which is useful for purposes such as allocating corporate or regional expenses to local subsidiaries when each entity has its own ledger. This is possible even if the target ledger is in a different currency than the source ledger(s) because you can

If you manage multiple ledgers, you can run the Translation program for multiple ledgers simultaneously.You are able to run Financial Statement Generator (FSG) reports for multiple ledgers simultaneously. This is useful if you manage multiple ledgers and want to run a balance sheet or income statement report for all of your ledgers at the same time. You can also create an FSG report that includes data from multiple ledgers in a single report; the data in each ledger can be displayed in a separate row or You are able to automatically copy an existing journal batch to create a new journal batch with the same journals and journal lines. This reduces the amount of work you need to do to re-create a journal that has already been defined. During the copying process, you have the option to change the period and effective date of the journal batch.

AutoPost Criteria can be shared across ledgers that have the same chart of accounts and calendar. This dramatically reduces the number of AutoPost Criteria sets you need to define. Furthermore, you can automatically post journals across multiple ledgers simultaneously.

AutoReversal Criteria can be shared across ledgers. This dramatically reduces the number of AutoReversal Criteria sets you need to define.

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You are able to define Chart of Accounts Mappings (formerly known as Consolidation Mappings) between two charts of accounts. Therefore, if youhave multiple Consolidation Definitions for parent and subsidiary ledgers that share the same chart of accounts pair, and their mapping rules are the same, you only have to define a single Chart of Accounts Mapping. This significantly reduces the number of mappings you need to define if your Consolidation Definitions When an account is disabled, you can prevent transactions that include the account from erroring during journal import by defining a replacementaccount for the disabled account. Journal import replaces the disabled account with the replacement account and continue the journal importprocess if the replacement account is valid. This improves processing efficiency by preventing the journal import process from erroring andIn this release, since you can access multiple legal entities and ledgers when you log into Oracle General Ledger using a single responsibility, Oracle General Ledger provides you with flexible ways to secure your data by legal entity, ledger, or even balancing segment values or management segment values. You are able to control whether a user can only view data, or whether they can also enter and

You can designate any segment (except the natural account segment) of your chart of accounts to be your management segment and use Oracle General Ledger’s security model to secure the management segment for reporting and entry of management adjustments.

Journals with frozen journal sources are prevented from being reversed to streamline the reconciliation of data from Subledger Accounting sources.

You are able to control data entry to an account by ensuring it only contains data from a specified journal source and to prevent users from entering data for the account either in other journal sources or manually within general ledger.You can secure your setup and definitions by granting specific privileges to users to view, modify, and/or execute a definition. This enables you tocontrol which of your users can view a definition, but not modify or execute it, or execute a definition without modifying it, or vice versa. For example, since MassAllocations and Financial Statement Generator components are sharable across ledgers that have the same chart of accounts, you can secure these Sequential numbering of accounting entries is a strong business requirementin many countries in Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America and is used byfiscal authorities to check the completeness of a company’s accountingrecords. You can assign sequence numbers to journals during the postingprocess to ensure that finalized journal entries are properly sequenced.The ‘GL Entry Reconciliation’ feature within Oracle Financials Common Country features is part of Oracle General Ledger and renamed ‘Journal Line Reconciliation’. This feature enables you to reconcile journal lines that should net to zero. This is often done to reconcile suspense accounts, or in countries like Norway, Germany, or France, it is used to audit or reconcile payroll and tax

Oracle General Ledger tracks the balances that are entered in your ledger’s primary currency. This enables customers to perform currency analysis on amounts that are entered in the ledger’s primary currency for the purposes of currency valuation and hedging.

You can use Recurring Journals to create foreign currency journals. This enables you to pre-define journals that are recurring in nature and that are in foreign currencies and simply generate them when you need them. For example, a subsidiary (with a different primary currency than its parentcompany) that has borrowed money from its parent company can generate a recurring monthly interest payable entry to the parent company in the parent’s currency.

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Intercompany encumbrance journals are automatically balanced during journal posting.

Oracle General Ledger adds the following iSetup API’s to enable you to quickly create your setup data and definitions:• Ledger Sets• Data Access SetsOracle Subledger Accounting provides tools that allow users to meet multigaap, corporate, and fiscal accounting requirements. With a flexible toolcalled Accounting Methods Builder, users can determine the accounts, lines, descriptions, summarization, and dates of their journal entries. Users can also add detailed transaction information to journal headers and lines. Detailed subledger accounting journals are available for analytics,

The Global Intercompany System (GIS) feature from previous releases has been incorporated into the Oracle Advanced Intercompany System product. Please refer to the Oracle Advanced Global Intercompany System section of this document for more information.Account Analysis & Drilldown is a new web-based interface that allows you to easily review and analyze your general ledger financial data. You can view the balances of multiple detail or summary accounts in a single page and drill down to supporting journal entries and subledger transactions all within a browser window. You can control the display of your data by choosing from various layouts,

Oracle General Ledger’s Account Analysis, General Journals and Trial Balance standard reports are now integrated with XML Publisher. UsingXML Publisher allows you to leverage the formatting features of a word processing application to design the layout of your report. You canpersonalize your report by changing fonts, adding images, inserting headers and footers, creating borders, changing column widths, and reordering/ adding/deleting columns. This enables you to create professional-quality reports directly from the general ledger, which ensures the integrity and auditability of the


Features

1 Modified MFG

2 New COGS Deferral MFG

3 New AR, CST

4 New Un-invoiced Order Lines OM, CST, AR

5 New RMAs with Sales Order Reference OM, CST

6 New Drop Shipment Support OM, CST

7 New Support for Configured Items OM, CST

8 Modified INV

9 Modified AR, CST

10 New OM

11 New SLA - Subledger Accounting OSLA

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Matching Cost of Goods Sold to Revenue

Revenue Recognition Drives COGS Recognition

Cost Ownership for RMA receipt transactions

Accounting Period Synchronization between Receivables and Costing

Deferred COGS Reconciliation Report

12 New Flexible Journal Entry Setups GL, OSLA

13 New GL

14 New Inquiries, Drilldown, and Reporting GL, OSLA

15 Modified CST

16 Modified Enhanced Load Program CST

17 New APPO

18 Modified Enhanced Write-Offs Process APPO

19 Modified CST

20 Modified CST

21 Modified CST

22 Modified Periodic Costing Support for EAM EAM

23 Modified Support for Final Completion CST, WIP

Multiple Accounting Representations

Accrual Reconciliation and Write-Off Enhancements

Flexible Accrual Reconciliation Reports

Accounting for Inter-Organization Transfers

Enhanced Periodic Costing Algorithm

Enable MOH Absorption Rules for PAC

24 Modified CST, BOM

25 Modified Scrap Absorption CST

26 Modified Value Reports Enhancements INV


28 Obsolete Value Reports Enhancements INV

29 Modified Period Close Diagnostics INV

30 Modified Forms Drilldown INV

31 Modified INV

32 Modified INV

33 Modified CST, INV

34 Modified Fixed Component Usage Support WIP

35 Modified Component Yield Support

Completion Costs Based on Required Quantity

Workflow to Notify Users of Errors in Costing

Period Close Pending Transactions Report

Discrete/ OPM Inventory Convergence

WIP, OSFM, BOM

36 Modified CST

37 Modified PO

38 Modified PO

39 New GL

40 New Multi-Org Access Control ALL modules

41 Modified Cost Rollup Enhancements BOM

42 Modified EAM Enhancements CST, EAM

43 New CST

44 New AP

Period End Accruals Enhancements

Calculate Accrual Balances at PO Distribution Leve

Exclude Prepayment type of Invoices

Ledger Architecture/Legal Entity uptake

Costing Support for Chargeable Subcontracting

Payables Invoice Lines Architecture

45 Modified Bonus During Moves OSFM, CST

46 Modified Job Close in PL/SQL NULL


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The Matching Principle is a fundamental accounting directive that mandates that revenueand its associated cost of goods sold must be recognized in the same accounting period.This enhancement will automate the matching of Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) for a salesorder line to the revenue that is billed for that sales order line. Prior to this enhancement,the value of goods shipped from inventory were expensed to COGS upon ship confirm,

The Cost Processor defers the recognition of COGS for a sales order issue transactionby placing the balance of the cost of the shipment into a deferred COGS account andjournal line type.1) The Cost Processor now transfers the balance from the deferred account to the COGSaccount in the same proportion of revenue recognized for an order line.• Oracle Receivables publishes a business event when the revenue recognitionpercentage changes.• Oracle Cost Management subscribes to this event and adjusts the balances in

1) If a sales order shipment line does not get interfaced to Receivables, its associateddeferred COGS balance is transferred to COGS when it is closed. Oracle OrderManagement will raise a business event to Cost Management when the noninterfacedshipment line is closed.

1) RMAs that reference a sales order shipment line with a deferred COGS balance willcredit that balance when the accounting for the RMA receipt is performed. Thecredit will be apportioned between the deferred and actual COGS balances tomaintain the existing revenue/COGS recognition percentage.

1)Revenue/COGS matching is supported in the customer-facing operating unit for dropshipments to customers. Intermediate (internal) operating units will not defer interorgCOGS or match it to the inter-org revenue.1)Revenue/COGS matching is supported configured items.• Assemble-to-Order (ATO) – synchronize and match revenue/COGSrecognition for the top model.• Pick-to-Order (PTO) – synchronize and match revenue/COGS recognitionfor any shippable item for its nearest invoiceable parent, whether that is theThe way RMA receipts into inventory are valued.Previously an RMA receipt replenishes inventory at the current on-hand inventory valuation. With this enhancement a referenced RMA is received into inventory at itsoriginal sales order issue cost. This ensures accurate and consistent revenue/COGS matching for RMA receipts.

Introduces a dependency in the Receivables and Costing period close processes. Since the goal is to match revenue and COGS in each accountingperiod, Costing will process COGS recognition events in a closed inventory period until the Receivables period status is set to CLOSED.This report lists revenue/COGS matching by sales order line, displaying the deferred/actual COGS balances as well as the unearned/earned revenue balances. The report R12 Discrete Mfg. Release Content Document, Rev. 01 Oracle Cost Management - CST 25 flags lines where the COGS recognition percentage does not match the revenuerecognition percentage.The new Oracle Subledger Accounting (SLA) architecture allows users to customize the standard Oracle accounting entries. As a result of Cost Management’s uptake of this newarchitecture, users can customize Receiving, Inventory and Work in Process transactions. Accounting entries are generated in a manner consistent with previous releases but arenow created within the framework of the new Subledger Accounting architecture.

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Users can control every aspect of the subledger journal entries associated with a subledger transaction. Users can define rules based on data drawn from subledger transactions, controlling which types of journal lines are created, how accounting flexfields are derived and how journal entries are described.1) Using multiple accounting representations, users can generate journal entries tomultiple accounting ledgers. Each accounting representation generated for a Legal Entity could represent alternate accounting for the underlying subledger transactions.2) Each accounting representation may use different charts of accounts, calendar and subledger accounting method. If a transaction-level alternate currency is used the accounting presentation may also have different accounting currencies.1) Based on its common data model, SLA provides detailed subledger accounting reports and inquiries that satisfy local fiscal and business requirements for the reconciliation between subledger and accounting transactions.2) Previously, users could customize certain aspects of the standard accounting in CostManagement using distribution hooks. These customizations will need to reimplement

The Accrual Reconciliation report and the associated Write-Off process are enhanced to improve processing performance and feature usability.• The transaction data load process is run independently from the AccrualReconciliation report generation process.• Data for balanced accrual transactions are no longer stored. This significantlyreduces the volume of generated data increases processing performance.R12 Discrete Mfg. Release Content Document, Rev. 01 Oracle Cost Management - CST 261) The Accrual Reconciliation Summary Report allows users to view the accrual accounts with outstanding balances. For each account the accrual balance by transaction type is displayed.2) The Payables and Purchase Order Accrual Reconciliation Report allow users to view Payables and PO transactions at the PO distribution and/or transaction level. At the PO distribution level the report shows the summarized balances from each transaction source. At the transaction level the report shows the details of all transactions within a distribution.• Three new accrual Write-Offs forms allow users to write-off aged or erroneous accrual balances.• The Payables and Purchase Order Write-Off form displays accrual balances at the PO distribution level. The user can select a specific distribution and view the associated transactions for that distribution.• The accounting template for periodic costing inter-organization transfers isnow consistent with the template used for perpetual cost methods. Thetemplate adds inter-org Payables/Receivables, in-transit and accounting bycost group.R12 Discrete Mfg. Release Content Document, Rev. 01 Oracle Cost Management - CST 27• The periodic item cost is calculated after taking into account all cost owned transactions rather than being calculated after each transaction. This enhancement produces a more accurate periodic item cost and minimizes the generation of variances.• The Periodic Item Cost Change report provides details on the calculation of each item’s period end cost.

• Material overhead absorption rules are now supported in periodic average cost organizations.• Enterprise Asset Management work orders are now supported in periodic average costing organizations.• The Periodic Cost Estimations processor allows users to estimate EAM work order costs based on an item’s periodic average cost.• The Periodic EAM Work Order Report can be used to compare estimated charges against the actual charges incurred for each EAM work order.

• Periodic average cost processes respect the WIP job final completion flag. If the final completion flag is checked, all incurred costs will be absorbed intothe completion cost.

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• Users can optionally base the completion costs on the required quantity defined on the job’s Bill of Material rather than the actual quantity issued to the job.

• When the completion cost is based on actual quantity, unrelieved scrap values are absorbed into the completion cost.• When the completion cost is based on required quantity, unrelieved scrap values are absorbed into the completion cost only when the final completion flag is checked.As-of Date1) On-hand, Intransit, and Receiving valuation reports have a new optional ‘As-Of Date’ parameter. When the user specifies an as-of date, the reports display valuation data up to the specified ‘As-Of Date’. If no date is specified, the report displays valuation data up to the current system date.Reports Changes1) The submission process for existing value reports is consolidated to reflect whether the report displays value by sub-inventory or by cost group. Users of the existing reports will now run the corresponding reports listed in the New Report column-- Inventory Value Report – by Subinventory

The Receiving Value by Destination Account Report, Subinventory Account Value Report, and Cost Group Account Value Report are now obsolete.

The period close process is enhanced to allow users to easily identify the pending and uncosted transactions that prevent period close.

The existing Inventory Accounting Periods form now supports drilldown to the associated transaction forms. This allows users to more quickly view the details of the transactions that preventing period close

A new workflow notifies users of transactions that fail the costing process. This facilitates the timely identification and resolution of costing errors and minimizes problems during the period close process.

This new report displays the details of all transactions preventing period close. This report, based on Oracle XML Publisher technology can be easily customized to meet user requirements.Oracle Cost Management adds its support to the OPM (Oracle Process Manufacturing)Inventory convergence initiative. In the past, Oracle process manufacturing customersused OPM’s Inventory Management module. With this release OPM customers canmigrate to Oracle Inventory for their inventory management needs.R12 Discrete Mfg. Release Content Document, Rev. 01 Oracle Cost Management - CST 29

Support for lot-based materials that have a fixed usage regardlessof the job size for discrete WIP jobs, OSFM lot-based jobs and Flow Manufacturing. Thisfeature provides a more accurate valuation of assembly cost where fixed quantities ofmaterials are used for a job.

1) Users now have the flexibility to control the value of component yield factors at WIP job level. The transaction logic now considers pre-yield BOM quantity per assembly rather than the quantity inflated by shrinkage. This enhancement eliminates the generation of unrealizable decimal quantities in WIP jobs.2) Users can continue to have the backflush transactions include the yield by using the new “Include Component Yield” parameter in the WIP Parameters form. If the parameter is unchecked, backflush transactions will not consider component yield. The user can control the actual quantities used by either overriding the quantity during backflush transactions or by

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Period End Accruals program and the Uninvoiced Receipts reportprovide performance and usability improvements.• In prior releases, the period-end accruals process calculated an accrual amount at the PO shipment level and prorated it among its associated accounting distributions. In this release the accrual amount is calculated at the accounting distribution level more accurate accrual accounting entries. R12 Discrete Mfg. Release Content Document, Rev. 01 Oracle Cost Management - CST 30

The period end accruals program and the Uninvoiced Receipts report processnow correctly exclude factor prepayments in the accrual calculations.1) Oracle Cost Management processes are enhanced to support the new Ledger and Legal Entity architecture. In this new architecture, Ledgers replace Set of Books. Each Operating Unit is associated with a Primary Ledger. Multiple Legal Entities can be tied to a Ledger through the accounting set up flow. The existing link between Operating Unit and Legal Entity is no longer be maintained.Multi-Org Access Control enables companies that implement a Shared Services operating model to efficiently process business transactions by allowing them to access, process, and report on data for an unlimited number of operating units within a single applications responsibility. This increases the productivity of Shared Service Centers as users no longer have to switch applications responsibilities when simultaneously processing transactions for i) Creating Snapshot of Bill of Materials:-The Supply Chain Rollup process is enhanced to optionally store a snapshot of the Bill of Materials used. The snapshot is copied to an alternate Bill of Material as specified by the user. Ii) Decommission Assembly Cost rollup:- 1) Oracle Cost Management now supports direct item delivery of service line types to EAM work orders. There is however no support for Outside Processing. i) EAM Direct Item Delivery of PO Service Lines:- Oracle Cost Management now supports direct item delivery of service line EAM work orders. There is however no support for Outside Processing.ii) Install Base Convergence:- The Cost Estimations process and the Cost processor are enhanced to support the mapping between an EAM Asset and an IB Instance. iii) EAM Budgeting and Forecasting Support:- In prior releases costs calculated by the cost estimations process are stored on thebasis of maintenance cost buckets:• Equipment• Labor• MaterialThis method of bucketing estimated charges does not provide visibility as to the GLaccounts being charged. The Cost Estimations process is modified to specify the GLaccounts that are setup to be charged. This information can then be used forbudgeting and forecasting purposes.

Oracle Cost Management now supports costing for Chargeable Subcontracting. Chargeable Subcontracting is a concept used in Japan, Korea and Taiwan with subcontract manufacturers. On delivery of OSA items any difference between current standard cost and OSA price is posted to a Chargeable Subcontracting Variance account instead of a Purchase Price Variance account.

Oracle Cost Management adds support for the architectural changes introduced by Oracle Payables in this release.The Period-End Accruals, Accrual Reconciliation and Periodic Costing processes and the associated reports are enhanced to support the new Payables architecture.

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Oracle Cost Management adds support for the new Bonus During Move transaction introduced by Oracle Shop Floor Management. The Bonus transaction entered during a move is costed in the same manner as an Update Quantity transaction.

1) The job close program and the job close variance program are migrated from Pro*C to PL/SQL. 2) This enhancement provides performance improvements but does not change job close functionality.


Features

1 Modified MFG

2 New COGS Deferral MFG

3 New AR, CST

4 New Un-invoiced Order Lines OM, CST, AR

5 New RMAs with Sales Order Reference OM, CST

6 New Drop Shipment Support OM, CST

7 New Support for Configured Items OM, CST

8 Modified INV

9 Modified AR, CST

10 New Deferred COGS Reconciliation Report OM

11 New SLA - Subledger Accounting OSLA

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Matching Cost of Goods Sold to Revenue

Revenue Recognition Drives COGS Recognition

Cost Ownership for RMA receipt transactions

Accounting Period Synchronization between Receivables and Costing

12 New Flexible Journal Entry Setups GL, OSLA

13 New Multiple Accounting Representations GL

14 New Inquiries, Drilldown, and Reporting GL, OSLA

15 Modified CST

16 Modified Enhanced Load Program CST

17 New Flexible Accrual Reconciliation Reports APPO

18 Modified Enhanced Write-Offs Process APPO

19 Modified CST

20 Modified Enhanced Periodic Costing Algorithm CST

21 Modified CST

22 Modified Periodic Costing Support for EAM EAM

23 Modified Support for Final Completion CST, WIP

Accrual Reconciliation and Write-Off Enhancements

Accounting for Inter-Organization Transfers

Enable MOH Absorption Rules for PAC

24 Modified CST, BOM

25 Modified Scrap Absorption CST



28 Obsolete Value Reports Enhancements INV

29 Modified Period Close Diagnostics INV

30 Modified Forms Drilldown INV

31 Modified INV

32 Modified INV

33 Modified Discrete/ OPM Inventory Convergence CST, INV

34 Modified Fixed Component Usage Support WIP

35 Modified Component Yield Support

Completion Costs Based on Required Quantity

Workflow to Notify Users of Errors in Costing

Period Close Pending Transactions Report

WIP, OSFM, BOM

36 Modified Period End Accruals Enhancements CST

37 Modified PO

38 Modified Exclude Prepayment type of Invoices PO

39 New GL

40 New Multi-Org Access Control ALL modules

41 Modified Cost Rollup Enhancements BOM

42 Modified EAM Enhancements CST, EAM

43 New CST

44 New Payables Invoice Lines Architecture AP

Calculate Accrual Balances at PO Distribution Leve

Ledger Architecture/Legal Entity uptake

Costing Support for Chargeable Subcontracting

45 Modified Bonus During Moves OSFM, CST

46 Modified Job Close in PL/SQL NULL



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Source of dataThe Matching Principle is a fundamental accounting directive that mandates that revenue

and its associated cost of goods sold must be recognized in the same accounting period.This enhancement will automate the matching of Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) for a salesorder line to the revenue that is billed for that sales order line. Prior to this enhancement,the value of goods shipped from inventory were expensed to COGS upon ship confirm,

The Cost Processor defers the recognition of COGS for a sales order issue transactionby placing the balance of the cost of the shipment into a deferred COGS account andjournal line type.1) The Cost Processor now transfers the balance from the deferred account to the COGSaccount in the same proportion of revenue recognized for an order line.• Oracle Receivables publishes a business event when the revenue recognitionpercentage changes.• Oracle Cost Management subscribes to this event and adjusts the balances in

1) If a sales order shipment line does not get interfaced to Receivables, its associated deferred COGS balance is transferred to COGS when it is closed. Oracle Order Management will raise a business event to Cost Management when the noninterfacedshipment line is closed.

1) RMAs that reference a sales order shipment line with a deferred COGS balance will credit that balance when the accounting for the RMA receipt is performed. The credit will be apportioned between the deferred and actual COGS balances to maintain the existing revenue/COGS recognition percentage.

1)Revenue/COGS matching is supported in the customer-facing operating unit for drop shipments to customers. Intermediate (internal) operating units will not defer interorg COGS or match it to the inter-org revenue.1)Revenue/COGS matching is supported configured items.• Assemble-to-Order (ATO) – synchronize and match revenue/COGSrecognition for the top model.• Pick-to-Order (PTO) – synchronize and match revenue/COGS recognitionfor any shippable item for its nearest invoiceable parent, whether that is theThe way RMA receipts into inventory are valued.Previously an RMA receipt replenishes inventory at the current on-hand inventory valuation. With this enhancement a referenced RMA is received into inventory at itsoriginal sales order issue cost. This ensures accurate and consistent revenue/COGS matching for RMA receipts.

Introduces a dependency in the Receivables and Costing period close processes. Since the goal is to match revenue and COGS in each accountingperiod, Costing will process COGS recognition events in a closed inventory period until the Receivables period status is set to CLOSED.This report lists revenue/COGS matching by sales order line, displaying the deferred/actual COGS balances as well as the unearned/earned revenue balances. The report R12 Discrete Mfg. Release Content Document, Rev. 01 Oracle Cost Management - CST 25 flags lines where the COGS recognition percentage does not match the revenue recognition percentage.The new Oracle Subledger Accounting (SLA) architecture allows users to customize the standard Oracle accounting entries. As a result of Cost Management’s uptake of this newarchitecture, users can customize Receiving, Inventory and Work in Process transactions. Accounting entries are generated in a manner consistent with previous releases but arenow created within the framework of the new Subledger Accounting architecture.

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Users can control every aspect of the subledger journal entries associated with a subledger transaction. Users can define rules based on data drawn from subledger transactions, controlling which types of journal lines are created, how accounting flexfields are derived and how journal entries are described.1) Using multiple accounting representations, users can generate journal entries tomultiple accounting ledgers. Each accounting representation generated for a Legal Entity could represent alternate accounting for the underlying subledger transactions.2) Each accounting representation may use different charts of accounts, calendar and subledger accounting method. If a transaction-level alternate currency is used the accounting presentation may also have different accounting currencies.1) Based on its common data model, SLA provides detailed subledger accounting reports and inquiries that satisfy local fiscal and business requirements for the reconciliation between subledger and accounting transactions.2) Previously, users could customize certain aspects of the standard accounting in CostManagement using distribution hooks. These customizations will need to reimplement

The Accrual Reconciliation report and the associated Write-Off process are enhanced to improve processing performance and feature usability.• The transaction data load process is run independently from the AccrualReconciliation report generation process.• Data for balanced accrual transactions are no longer stored. This significantlyreduces the volume of generated data increases processing performance.R12 Discrete Mfg. Release Content Document, Rev. 01 Oracle Cost Management - CST 26

1) The Accrual Reconciliation Summary Report allows users to view the accrual accounts with outstanding balances. For each account the accrual balance by transaction type is displayed.2) The Payables and Purchase Order Accrual Reconciliation Report allow users to view Payables and PO transactions at the PO distribution and/or transaction level. At the PO distribution level the report shows the summarized balances from each transaction source. At the transaction level the report shows the details of all transactions within a distribution.• Three new accrual Write-Offs forms allow users to write-off aged or erroneous accrual balances.• The Payables and Purchase Order Write-Off form displays accrual balances at the PO distribution level. The user can select a specific distribution and view the associated transactions for that distribution.• The accounting template for periodic costing inter-organization transfers isnow consistent with the template used for perpetual cost methods. Thetemplate adds inter-org Payables/Receivables, in-transit and accounting bycost group.R12 Discrete Mfg. Release Content Document, Rev. 01 Oracle Cost Management - CST 27• The periodic item cost is calculated after taking into account all cost owned transactions rather than being calculated after each transaction. This enhancement produces a more accurate periodic item cost and minimizes the generation of variances.• The Periodic Item Cost Change report provides details on the calculation of each item’s period end cost.

• Material overhead absorption rules are now supported in periodic average cost organizations.• Enterprise Asset Management work orders are now supported in periodic average costing organizations.• The Periodic Cost Estimations processor allows users to estimate EAM work order costs based on an item’s periodic average cost.• The Periodic EAM Work Order Report can be used to compare estimated charges against the actual charges incurred for each EAM work order.

• Periodic average cost processes respect the WIP job final completion flag. If the final completion flag is checked, all incurred costs will be absorbed intothe completion cost.

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• Users can optionally base the completion costs on the required quantity defined on the job’s Bill of Material rather than the actual quantity issued to the job.

• When the completion cost is based on actual quantity, unrelieved scrap values are absorbed into the completion cost.• When the completion cost is based on required quantity, unrelieved scrap values are absorbed into the completion cost only when the final completion flag is checked.As-of Date1) On-hand, Intransit, and Receiving valuation reports have a new optional ‘As-Of Date’ parameter. When the user specifies an as-of date, the reports display valuation data up to the specified ‘As-Of Date’. If no date is specified, the report displays valuation data up to the current system date.Reports Changes1) The submission process for existing value reports is consolidated to reflect whether the report displays value by sub-inventory or by cost group. Users of the existing reports will now run the corresponding reports listed in the New Report column-- Inventory Value Report – by Subinventory

The Receiving Value by Destination Account Report, Subinventory Account Value Report, and Cost Group Account Value Report are now obsolete.

The period close process is enhanced to allow users to easily identify the pending and uncosted transactions that prevent period close.

The existing Inventory Accounting Periods form now supports drilldown to the associated transaction forms. This allows users to more quickly view the details of the transactions that preventing period close

A new workflow notifies users of transactions that fail the costing process. This facilitates the timely identification and resolution of costing errors and minimizes problems during the period close process.

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Support for lot-based materials that have a fixed usage regardlessof the job size for discrete WIP jobs, OSFM lot-based jobs and Flow Manufacturing. Thisfeature provides a more accurate valuation of assembly cost where fixed quantities ofmaterials are used for a job.

1) Users now have the flexibility to control the value of component yield factors at WIP job level. The transaction logic now considers pre-yield BOM quantity per assembly rather than the quantity inflated by shrinkage. This enhancement eliminates the generation of unrealizable decimal quantities in WIP jobs.2) Users can continue to have the backflush transactions include the yield by using the new “Include Component Yield” parameter in the WIP Parameters form. If the parameter is unchecked, backflush transactions will not consider component yield. The user can control the actual quantities used by either overriding the quantity during backflush transactions or

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Period End Accruals program and the Uninvoiced Receipts reportprovide performance and usability improvements.• In prior releases, the period-end accruals process calculated an accrual amount at the PO shipment level and prorated it among its associated accounting distributions. In this release the accrual amount is calculated at the accounting distribution level more accurate accrual accounting entries. R12 Discrete Mfg. Release Content Document, Rev. 01 Oracle Cost Management - CST 30

The period end accruals program and the Uninvoiced Receipts report processnow correctly exclude factor prepayments in the accrual calculations.1) Oracle Cost Management processes are enhanced to support the new Ledger and Legal Entity architecture. In this new architecture, Ledgers replace Set of Books. Each Operating Unit is associated with a Primary Ledger. Multiple Legal Entities can be tied to a Ledger through the accounting set up flow. The existing link between Operating Unit and Legal Entity is no longer be maintained.Multi-Org Access Control enables companies that implement a Shared Services operating model to efficiently process business transactions by allowing them to access, process, and report on data for an unlimited number of operating units within a single applications responsibility. This increases the productivity of Shared Service Centers as users no longer have to switch applications responsibilities when simultaneously processing transactions for i) Creating Snapshot of Bill of Materials:-The Supply Chain Rollup process is enhanced to optionally store a snapshot of the Bill of Materials used. The snapshot is copied to an alternate Bill of Material as specified by the user. Ii) Decommission Assembly Cost rollup:- 1) Oracle Cost Management now supports direct item delivery of service line types to EAM work orders. There is however no support for Outside Processing. i) EAM Direct Item Delivery of PO Service Lines:- Oracle Cost Management now supports direct item delivery of service line EAM work orders. There is however no support for Outside Processing.ii) Install Base Convergence:- The Cost Estimations process and the Cost processor are enhanced to support the mapping between an EAM Asset and an IB Instance. iii) EAM Budgeting and Forecasting Support:- In prior releases costs calculated by the cost estimations process are stored on thebasis of maintenance cost buckets:• Equipment• Labor• MaterialThis method of bucketing estimated charges does not provide visibility as to the GLaccounts being charged. The Cost Estimations process is modified to specify the GLaccounts that are setup to be charged. This information can then be used forbudgeting and forecasting purposes.

Oracle Cost Management now supports costing for Chargeable Subcontracting. Chargeable Subcontracting is a concept used in Japan, Korea and Taiwan with subcontract manufacturers. On delivery of OSA items any difference between current standard cost and OSA price is posted to a Chargeable Subcontracting Variance account instead of a Purchase Price Variance account.

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Oracle Cost Management adds support for the new Bonus During Move transaction introduced by Oracle Shop Floor Management. The Bonus transaction entered during a move is costed in the same manner as an Update Quantity transaction.

1) The job close program and the job close variance program are migrated from Pro*C to PL/SQL. 2) This enhancement provides performance improvements but does not change job close functionality.


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2 Modified Configuration preferences WIP

3 Modified Dispatch lists WIP

4 New Transaction Enhancements Oracle Quality

5 Modified Streamlined lot and serial capture INV

6 New WIP

7 Modified Shop Floor Supervisor Activities WIP

8 Modified AR, INV, BOM

9 Modified INV

10 New Inverse Component Usage BOM, INV

11 Modified INV

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Discrete Execution Workstation for Shop Floor Operator and Supervisor

MES (Manufacturing Execution System), WIP

Exceptions Reporting and Resolution

Fixed Component Usage Independent of Build Quantity

Optional Inclusion or Exclusion of Component Shrinkage in Material Transactions

Reservation of Discrete Job as Source of Supply through Inventory Reservation Form

12 New INV

13 New OM, INV

14 Modified

15 New WIP

16 Modified WIP

17 Modified WIP

18 New Genealogy Enhancements INV

19 Modified INV

Reservation of Completed Serialized Assemblies through Inventory Reservation Form

Mobile Return of Assembly Reserved to a Sales Order

Scheduling Workbench Enhancements: Print Gantt Charts

System Administrator

Restore last-worked customized views

Additional tool tip for Resource and Job Workbench

Schedule over long time ranges in the Resource Workbench

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Source of data1) With the new Discrete Execution Workstation,

discrete manufacturing users will have deeper shop floor execution capabilities as well as an improved user experience in performing and monitoring shop floor activities. 1) The workstation is highly configurable with a system of preferences controlling both overall behavior at the organization level as well as access to information and actions at the user level based on each user’s role. Based on the 1) The display is modifiable allowing filtering, ordering, and grouping to improve production efficiencies. 2) Columns in the list display information about each job operation like 1) Some of these transaction enhancements are in the area of reporting good and bad assembly units through an operation – move or completion transaction combined with an assembly scrap or reject -- all in a single user entry. 1) When component and assembly lot/serial data need to be entered as part of a transaction, the workstation provides more efficient ways of doing that than is available currently through desktop forms. 1) Exceptions are reported manually to bring attention to events and occurrences that prevent operators from performing work on a job operation that otherwise appears to the system as “ready” to be worked. 1) The supervisor’s home page is a screen that contains a variety of information related to current shop status and issues requiring resolution. Visibility to problem parts, problem machines, and problem jobs can all be viewed in one place. 1) Customers can define and use components whose consumption quantity does not directly vary with the assembly quantity produced. This can be deployed in situations where a fixed amount of a component is expended either to 1) An added flexibility has been provided to specify whether to include or exclude component shrinkage in material transactions. This control has been introduced through a new organization parameter which when enabled, factors 1) Users now have a way to enter inverse component usage through the new inverse usage field on the bill of material. The resulting quantity per assembly is stored unrounded for accurately determining the total required quantity of a 1) In addition to the currently available modes to reserve supplies from a Discrete Job, users can manually reserve the output of jobs through Inventory reservation forms by selecting a Discrete Job as a source of supply while

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1) Users can reserve completed serialized assemblies against sources of demand through Inventory reservations forms. A reservation record can be created by selecting and reserving specific serialized assemblies against a sales 1) Mobile Assembly Return screens have been enhanced to provide greater flexibility in referencing Sales Order details while performing assembly return transactions. When such a transaction is performed, assembly quantity 1) Users now have the ability to print Gantt charts, often used as referable hard copies ina production shop floor. Apart from generating the print preview, this featuresupports customizing the printout content such as printing the Gantt chart by:1) When users of the job and resource workbenches create a preferred view through pane sizing, time bucket selection, row height adjustment, etc., it is possible for that view to be saved and recreated in subsequent launches of 1) With the new “Bar Inspector” as a tool tip, users are guided with necessary information (such as, start and end times) while performing a drag & drop to achieve greater scheduling accuracy. This is available for Job bars,

1) Users are also provided with an ‘Edit Schedule’ option in the Resource Workbench, for an easy way to schedule over a long time range, instead of dragging a bar object.1) To support this critical need, users now have a combined view of lot and serial genealogy in one inquiry. 2) These enhancements enable stricter controls in material movement such as validation of lot 1) When there are multiple backflush transactions for the same component for the same job, you can set the system to automatically default lot numbers used in the previous transactions. Usability features have been added including


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