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Drive Productivity using Excel & More4Apps
Our Background
• Formed in 2000, by 6 Consultants specializing in Oracle Applications.
• Gap in the market for tools that enabled end-users to easily use excel to load many transactions into Oracle.
Excel Integration Options • Keyboard Macros
• Custom Interfaces
Custom Table
Custom
Concurrent Program
Interface Table
Save file
on Server
SQL*Loader
Run
Job
Interface E
rror F
ixes
Manual
Update
• Web ADI Integration
Excel Integration Options
• More4Apps – Upload Wizard Platform
– End User Wizards
Interface Table
Upload after Validation
In Spreadsheet
Update Record StatusMore4Apps
Why More4apps…
• Highly Productive User Interface
• We understand the APIs so you don’t have to
• Designed for the end user, not the IT department
• Works out of the box
• Proven track record
• Try before you buy
Item Cost Maintenance Headaches? Excel and More4Apps Relieve Your Pain! ____________________________________
Updating Costs in Oracle is Tedious/Time Consuming
• Working Item-by-Item • Slow, Time Consuming • Quarterly / Monthly / ? • Many repeated
keystrokes (F11, Item Numbers, CTRL-F11, Open, Save, etc.)
• Multiple Forms to Open and Close
Headache #1: Standard Cost Update Process
Item Cost Maintenance Headaches? Excel and More4Apps Relieve Your Pain! ____________________________________
The Remedy: Item Cost Wizard
• Enables Mass Creation & Updating of Standard Cost Elements through Excel.
• Easily copy Item Cost Details from one Cost Type to another
• Easily add/create new Cost Elements to existing Items
• Enables updating of Item Lot Size and MFG Shrinkage Rate
• Run Standard Cost Update directly from the Wizard
• Being able to maintain your Item Costs through Excel can lead to a HUGE savings in time and effort, AND reduce errors.
Item Cost Maintenance Headaches? Excel and More4Apps Relieve Your Pain! ____________________________________
The Remedy: Item Cost Wizard
• Requires NO PROGRAMMING OR MAPPING EFFORT whatsoever
• Standard Oracle Security – Requires Sign-in with valid Username and Password, and Responsibility with access to Update Item Costs function
Item Cost Maintenance Headaches? Excel and More4Apps Relieve Your Pain! ____________________________________
Imagine the ease of Working on MANY Items at once in Excel
Item Cost Maintenance Headaches? Excel and More4Apps Relieve Your Pain! ____________________________________
Download and Work with Logical “Groupings” of Items
Download Form • Organization selection
• Specific Item or Item Range
• By Category Set – Range of Category Values
• Cost Type / Cost Element
• Item Status
• Include “Last PO Price” and “Last Invoice Price” for reference
Item Cost Maintenance Headaches? Excel and More4Apps Relieve Your Pain! ____________________________________
Easily apply an increase or decrease of a flat amount
Item Cost Maintenance Headaches? Excel and More4Apps Relieve Your Pain! ____________________________________
Easily apply a mass increase or decrease by a Percentage
Item Cost Maintenance Headaches? Excel and More4Apps Relieve Your Pain! ____________________________________
Apply ANY Excel Formula
Item Cost Maintenance Headaches? Excel and More4Apps Relieve Your Pain! ____________________________________
Use Forms with Validations when you need/want them
Item Cost Maintenance Headaches? Excel and More4Apps Relieve Your Pain! ____________________________________
Upload data when you are ready. Robust error message feedback – Find and Correct problematic data BEFORE its loaded into the interface tables
Item Cost Maintenance Headaches? Excel and More4Apps Relieve Your Pain! ____________________________________
Submit “Item Cost Import” or “Standard Cost
Update” jobs directly from the Wizard
Example Submit “Standard Cost Import” job
Item Cost Maintenance Headaches? Excel and More4Apps Relieve Your Pain! ____________________________________
Click “View Concurrent Requests” to monitor the Job
Item Cost Maintenance Headaches? Excel and More4Apps Relieve Your Pain! ____________________________________
Item Cost Maintenance Headaches? Excel and More4Apps Relieve Your Pain! ____________________________________
Use the “Refresh” button to update job status till
“Completed”. View the “LOG” and/or “OUTPUT” files.
Item Cost Maintenance Headaches? Excel and More4Apps Relieve Your Pain! ____________________________________
Click “Refresh Interface Status” to update the results in the Wizard
Item Cost Maintenance Headaches? Excel and More4Apps Relieve Your Pain! ____________________________________
Headache #2: Average Cost Update Process
The Remedy: Material Transaction Wizard
• Enables Mass Updating of Average Costs and Cost Elements through Excel.
• Being able to maintain your Item Costs through Excel can lead to a HUGE savings in time and effort, AND reduce errors.
• Just like all our end user wizards:
– Requires NO PROGRAMMING EFFORT whatsoever
– Standard Oracle Security - Requires Sign-in with valid Username and Password, Responsibility, Organizations with access to Average Cost Update function
Item Cost Maintenance Headaches? Excel and More4Apps Relieve Your Pain! ____________________________________
Download and Work with Groupings of Items
Download Form • Organization
• Specific Item
• By Category Set – Range of Category Values
• Cost Group
Item Cost Maintenance Headaches? Excel and More4Apps Relieve Your Pain! ____________________________________
Easily Apply a Mass Increase/Decrease or directly
enter a New Average Cost or Percentage Change
Item Cost Maintenance Headaches? Excel and More4Apps Relieve Your Pain! ____________________________________
Enter Changes at the Item Level or Enter at
the Cost Element Level
Item Cost Maintenance Headaches? Excel and More4Apps Relieve Your Pain! ____________________________________
Headache #3: Actual Costing
The Remedy: Coming soon !!
Item Cost Maintenance Headaches? Excel and More4Apps Relieve Your Pain! ____________________________________
The Advantages of More4Apps’s Wizards More4apps Wizards are designed with the end user in mind. Simple implementation, no tricky mapping or custom programming required.
Easy To Implement
No User or PC Setup
No Middleware
Very little user training
required
Process Oriented Interface
Tightly Integrated with EBS
Secure & Stable
Full Flexfield Support
Validation to EBS from
within Excel
Uses Standard APIs
High Productivity
Download existing Costs from Oracle
Full pre-validation
before loading
Invalid Data highlighted as it
is loaded
High efficiency in data
processing
Beyond Expectations
Applicable for various
circumstances
IT Support not required, end users setup
Update with Oracle EBS
new versions
Intricate knowledge of
the APIs
Item Cost Maintenance Headaches? Excel and More4Apps Relieve Your Pain! ____________________________________
6 Great Reasons
to choose More4Apps ...
Item Cost Maintenance Headaches? Excel and More4Apps Relieve Your Pain! ____________________________________
#1 Easy to Use Out of the Box solution designed for the end user. Reduced labor and Improved data accuracy
#2 Simple to Install No client install Simple Server Installation
#3 Low Cost of ownership No new client software, ODBC, SQL*NET
Item Cost Maintenance Headaches? Excel and More4Apps Relieve Your Pain! ____________________________________
#4 Secure Enforces Oracle Security, uses Oracle e-Business usernames and Passwords and Single-Sign On.
#5 Compliant with Oracle Support Wizards function using Oracle’s open interfaces & API’s, ensuring your ongoing support agreement with Oracle is unaffected.
#6 Robust Integration Wizards are connected to Oracle, uploading and download data as you
work with it. Error and success messages are clearly reported in the
spreadsheet. Wizards configure themselves to your system setup
e.g. lists of values, validation, DFF’s.
Solution Footprint – Cure ALL your Headaches!
More4Apps Procure to Pay
Accounts Payable • Invoices
• Suppliers
Purchasing • Requisitions
• Orders
• Receiving
Quote to Cash
Receivables • Invoices • Receipts
• Customers
Order Management • Orders
• Quotes
• Price Lists • Price
Modifiers
Projects • Budgets
• Projects
• Transactions
• Events
• Agreements & Funding
• Labour Cost Rates
Human Resources • Employees
• Special Information
• Element Entries
Assets • Asset Wizard
Product Maintenance
• Bill of Materials • Routings
• Items
Inventory • Item Costs
• Transactions
And finally………
• Download a free trial of any of our products
• The simple installation process enables you to be up-and-running the trial against your Oracle instance in minutes.
• Evaluate the Wizard using real setup & business scenarios
… And Buy with Confidence!
Try Before You Buy….
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