Release 12 Overview Gary Lyons Principal Sales Consultant

Release 12 Overview

Gary Lyons

Principal Sales Consultant

The following is intended to outline our general product direction and is intended for information purposes only. The development, release and timing of any features or functionality remains at the sole discretion of Oracle. This presentation is not a commitment to deliver any material, code or functionality.

Agenda

• Release 12 Overview• eAM – Integrated Maintenance Solution• Q&A


• 10gR2 Database

• Fusion Middleware – Apps Server 10.1.3

• BI Publisher (a.k.a. XML Publisher)

• Cross-Application Flows with BPEL(ex. Retek to Oracle Financials)

• Integration with Data Hubs

• New User Interface

Preview:Preview: E-Business Suite R12 E-Business Suite R12

Includes Numerous Fusion Components


A New User Experience for R12Accelerate global roll-outs with simplified user interface and business flows

• Reduced pop-ups and duplicate screens

• Re-designed and streamlined entire workflows

• Reduced the number of steps to complete key tasks

• Improved overall look & feel and visual style

• Increased personalization capabilities

• Campaign Management• Customer Support• Collections & Payments• Loan Management

Improved Workflow in Targeted Areas

• Financial Consolidation• Online Candidate Registration• Absence Management• Salary Administration

• Self-Service Purchasing• Sourcing• Supplier Collaboration• Business Intelligence

iExpenses – Current (OAF) UI

iExpenses – New SWAN UI


NewNewFontsFonts

NewNewIconsIcons

NewNewButtonsButtons

New New BackgroundBackgroundPatternPattern

NewNewColorsColors

NewNewColorsColors

Subledger AccountingCentral Repository and Engine for Bookkeeping

Event Class: InvoicesEvent: Invoice Approved Ledger: France (EUR)GL Date: 20-Sep-2005 Description: Office supplies Type Account Description Debit Credit

Asset purchase 01.9100010.100 Paris: furniture 10,000Misc expense 01.9100020.100 Paris: supplies 400Misc expense 01.9100020.200 Nantes: supplies 100Misc expense 01.9100020.300 Nice: supplies 300VAT 01.3100060.000 VAT@17% 1,836Accounts Payable 01.7000010.000 ABC Supplies 12,636

12,636 12,636

Control All Aspects Control All Aspects of Journal Entries of Journal Entries

• Control accounting entries for all entities, even non-Oracle • Easy definition and maintenance of rules• Drilldown to fully auditable and transparent entries• Synchronize Proprietary and Budgetary entries



Define Legal Entities& Associated Rules

Define Multiple Ledgers for Rules & Currencies

Set Accounting Rulesfor All EBS Apps

You Define the Rules!You Define the Rules!

Ensure Complete & AccurateSetup via Online Checklist


Subledger AccountingDescription

• What is Subledger Accounting?

• SLA is an intermediate step between subledger products and the Oracle General Ledger

• Journal entries are created in Subledger Accounting and then transferred to Oracle General Ledger

• Each subledger transaction that requires accounting is represented by a complete and balanced subledger journal entry stored in a common data model


• Infrastructure to centralize accounting setup

• Subledger Accounting is the engine used to store the rules for accounting transactions from various applications across the Oracle E-Business Suite

• Infrastructure to standardize accounting policies

• Business users can extend predefined accounting rules or create their own rules allowing organizations to react immediately to change.

• Extensible list of sources to derive accounts

Subledger AccountingBenefits – Contd.

Straightforward Upgrade

Product Accounting

Product Accounting

Subledger AccountingSubledger

Accounting

Operating Unit

Operating Unit

Operating

Unit (MOAC)Operating

Unit (MOAC)

Set of BooksSet of Books LedgerLedger

Same Responsibilities

Same Tables and IDs

Customization Continuity

TodayToday Release 12



• Improved drilldown• drilldown from General Ledger encumbrance account

balances to the originating transactions

• Improved reporting and inquiry• reporting on encumbrance journal entry lines

• Improved flexibility• Accounting methods builder

• Multiple representations• multiple accounting representations for encumbrance

Encumbrance Accounting Benefits


Oracle Purchasing

New and Changed Features forImproved Purchasing User Experience

• Professional Buyer’s Work Center• Enhanced Catalog Access• Document Styles


Professional Buyer’s Work CenterDescription

• Oracle Purchasing Release 12.0 speeds up daily purchasing tasks with an enhanced Professional Buyer’s Work Center. Based on the latest web-based user interface models, the Work Center is a central ‘Launch Pad’ from which buyers can efficiently perform their daily tasks:• View and Act upon Requisition Demand• Create and Manage Orders and Agreements• Manage Contract Deliverables • Run Negotiation Events including Auctions and RFxs• Manage Supplier Information


• Increases Productivity• Optimized for Shared Service Centers• Streamlined Interface Increases Efficiency• Pre-Seeded or Custom Views for quicker access to

information and prioritize tasks

Professional Buyer’s Work CenterBenefits


Professional Buyer’s Work CenterOverview

• Requisitions• View and Process Requisitions into Orders or Sourcing Events

• Orders• Create and Manage Purchase Orders

• Agreements• Create and Manage Blanket and Contract Purchase Agreements

• Deliverables• Manage Procurement Contract Deliverables

• Negotiations• Access Oracle Sourcing

• Suppliers • Create and Manage Supply Base


Professional Buyer’s Work CenterRequisition Management

Demand Workbench - View and Process Requisition Queue

Requisition Summary – Inquire draft, approved and

processed requisitions

Consolidated Demand View across OUs


Professional Buyer’s Work CenterPurchase Order Management

Easily Access All Levels of the Order

Directly Submit or Specify Additional Approval Details Prior to Submission


Professional Buyer’s Work CenterPurchase Order Management

• Optionally Enter Data in Single Page Format

Enter Schedule and Delivery Information along with Line Details


Professional Buyer’s Work CenterPurchase Agreement Creation and Management

• Multiple Formats for Data Entry

• Tabular• Single Page


Professional Buyer’s Work CenterDependencies and Interactions

• Oracle Sourcing• Directly Access Oracle Sourcing to Create and Manage

Negotiations

• Oracle Procurement Contracts• Associate Clauses and Deliverables with Purchasing

Documents

• Oracle Services Procurement• Create Purchase Orders to Procure Complex Services


• Invoice Lines

• Improved Invoice Approval and Dispute Management

• Self Service Entry

• Receipt Matching

• Complex Work Purchase Orders

• Non-PO Invoices

• Controls for Contract Financing, Retainage, and Progress Terms

• Native AP / AR Netting

Top New Features of Payables


HRMS Release 12


Workforce Performance ManagementDescription

• New functionality combines objective setting and appraisal processes into a manageable plan to track workforce performance and achievements

• Objectives Library, to hold organizations objectives model

• Performance Management Plans, based on supervisor or organizational hierarchy

• Objective Setting and Tracking during plan period• Appraisal process (can include multiple appraisals

during plan period)• Monitoring of plans


• Enforce consistency of objectives across workforce • Define corporate objectives• Allocate objectives efficiently, based on eligibility criteria

• Align worker objectives with business strategy and goals

• Reduce effort in copying/duplicating objectives between appraisals and plan periods• Copy from Objectives Library, previous plan, previous appraisal

• Track worker achievement of objectives

Workforce Performance ManagementBenefits


Employee Summary Status Report


Drill and Pivot

New!

New!


Salary Administration

Human Resources

Benefits Solutions

Payroll Solutions

ePerformance

Absence Management

• All New User Interface • Ability to delete salary proposals• Allow gaps between salary proposals, end dating,

retroactive and future changes• Display current grade and step on assignment• Display FTE on Salary Proposal• View salary history for terminated employees


Salary Administration New User Interface


Compensation Workbench Salary Statistics Reporting


Payroll

• Enhanced Financials Integration• Payroll Support of Sub-Ledger Accounting• Cash Management Interface to Single Bank Account

schema• Enhanced Multiple Jurisdiction Taxation

• Allows for dynamic distribution of regular earnings for Salaried employees based on ‘Informational Time’

• Support taxation only after meeting a fixed hours worked threshold – Configuration at State, County and City levels

FP K RUP 1 – May 2006


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