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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


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.


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


Imagine the ease of Working on MANY Items at once in Excel


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


Easily apply an increase or decrease of a flat amount


Easily apply a mass increase or decrease by a Percentage


Apply ANY Excel Formula


Use Forms with Validations when you need/want them


Upload data when you are ready. Robust error message feedback – Find and Correct problematic data BEFORE its loaded into the interface tables


Submit “Item Cost Import” or “Standard Cost

Update” jobs directly from the Wizard

Example Submit “Standard Cost Import” job


Click “View Concurrent Requests” to monitor the Job



Use the “Refresh” button to update job status till

“Completed”. View the “LOG” and/or “OUTPUT” files.


Click “Refresh Interface Status” to update the results in the Wizard


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


Download and Work with Groupings of Items

Download Form • Organization

• Specific Item

• By Category Set – Range of Category Values

• Cost Group


Easily Apply a Mass Increase/Decrease or directly

enter a New Average Cost or Percentage Change


Enter Changes at the Item Level or Enter at

the Cost Element Level


Headache #3: Actual Costing

The Remedy: Coming soon !!


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


6 Great Reasons

to choose More4Apps ...


#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


#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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