Custom Extensions of Oracle E-Business Suite

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Custom Extensions of Oracle E-Business Suite Andrew Archibald/Lindsay Smith

Scottish OUG 2012Linlithgow13th June 2012

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Custom Extensions of

Oracle E-Business Suite R12

Realizing your ERP's full power.

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AGENDA

• Introduction• Cairn• Rocela•Extending E Business Suite

Joint Venture AccountingTravel Form

• Questions

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PresentersLindsay SmithOracle E-Business Senior AnalystCairn Energy

Andrew ArchibaldSenior ConsultantRocela

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Cairn Energy

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Cairn Energy FTSE 250 listed (FTSE 100 until recent return of $3.5bn to shareholders)

One of Europe's largest Oil and Gas exploration and development companies

Based in Edinburgh, approx 150 employees with another 30 in overseas offices

Varied portfolio with interests in Greenland, North West Europe & Greater Mediterranean

Currently looking to expand the portfolio

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Cairn Energy

• Recently upgraded E Business Suite to R12.1.3 from 11.5.10.2

• Ebusiness: Payables/Purchasing/Projects/GL/HR modules

• Team of 4: Oracle SDM, 3 analysts. External support provided by Rocela

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Cairn Energy

• 4 APEX Applications running in Production

• First Application in Production 15 Months ago.

• Implementation of Joint Venture Accounting application in progress

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Rocela

• Independent Oracle Consultancy and Microsoft Consultancy

• Headquartered in Edinburgh with offices in Knutsford.

• Oracle Certified Advantage Partner

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Rocela•Provides Oracle License Optimisation •Managed Services •Professional services consultancy

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Extending E Business Suite

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Tools to build extensions

• OAF (Oracle Applications Framework)• Oracle APEX (Application Express)• Oracle ADF (Application Development

Framework)• Oracle E-Business Suite SDK for Java

• Reference – support.oracle.com white paper : 1435894.1 (Upgrading your Customizations to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1)

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Oracle APEXThe Tool of Choice

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Custom Extensions

• Built using Oracle APEX (Application Express)

• Easy Integration with E business

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Custom Extensions

Cairn have 5 APEX applications extending EBS.

• Joint Venture Accounting (currently under development)

• Travel Form• Flexi Time Summary• Well Cost Tracking• P2P Dashboard

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Architecture11.2.2 DB

Web Logic APEX Listener

Forms Server

Web Server

Discoverer

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Joint Venture Accounting (JVAcc)

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Joint Venture Accounting (JVAcc)• The Problem:• Oracle Projects/GL used to account and report for Joint Venture

assets – Greenland/Albania etc• A need to decouple Joint Venture Accounting from Supply Chain

process

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Joint Venture Accounting (JVAcc)• Proposed Solution:

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The Solution

• APEX Application• Search screens allow for allocation of

data• Validation of data• Transfer to GL Interface

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The Integration Points

• AP, Cost Management, Project and GL Data Pull

• GL Interface population and GL Import• Concurrent Requests

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The Issues

Developer• Sub Ledger Accounting• Split import to GL tables

End - User• Data not matching Oracle• Search query performance• Posting to Corporate – rounding

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Development Time

•Project started in Nov-11•Work stopped for 2 – 3 months during the R12 upgrade

•Testing now resumed•Estimated go live date – Sep 2012

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JV Accounting Application

Demonstration

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Travel Lookup Form

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The Problem• New Corporate Travel agency selected• Opportunity to streamline travel booking

service to prevent having to raise a Requisition/PO for every individual travel request

• All travel, even within policy, must be approved

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The Solution

• Apex form completed by administrator• Administrator to complete details of

Travel• On submission, email sent to Budget

holder requesting approval to travel• Form to replicate iPROC coding

customisation i.e. only specific Project/Task/Expenditure Types available

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Development Time

•7 Days Development Time•2 Days User Testing

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Travel Lookup Form

Demonstration

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Thank You

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Questions?

Andrew.Archibald@rocela.com