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Shared Entities and Integration

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Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to recognize the following:

• Shared entities within R12.x E-Business Suite

• The key integration points and business flows between products in E-Business Suite (EBS)


What Are Shared Entities?

• Shared entities in R12.x EBS enable one-time definition of an object and the use of that object across several products.

• Shared entities are “owned” by a single product for table purposes only.


Shared Entities in E-Business: ExamplesEntity Description

AOL Application administration

Ledger Accounting information records

Unit of Measure Method of quantifying items

Items Raw materials, finished goods, or services

Suppliers Vendors you buy from

Customers Buyers of the end product

Sales Force Individuals credited with sales revenue

Banks Institution for financial transactions

Employees Personnel who perform assigned tasks

Locations Business sites (addresses)

Organizations Logical unit entities


Application Object Library (AOL)

Currencies Languages Menus

Responsibilities

Users

AOL

Site profile options


Ledger

Chart of Accounts Calendar Currency

Owned by General Ledger

Convention


Units of Measure

• Length

• Base Unit = 1 cm

• 1 m = 100 cm

• 1 km = 100,000 cm

Units of Measure are used by a variety of functions and transactions to express the quantity and measurement of items.

Units of MeasureResponsibility: Inventory, Vision Operations (USA)

(N) Setup > Units of Measure


Items

You can define and control all items in an inventory. After the items have been defined, they are assigned to organization.

Responsibility: Inventory, Vision Operations (USA)

(N) Items > Master Items


Suppliers

Suppliers are the individuals or companies from which you procure goods and/or services.

Responsibility: Payables, Vision Operations (USA)

(N) Suppliers > Entry


Customers

Customers are buyers of the end products and/or services.

Responsibility: Receivables, Vision Operations (USA)

(N) Customers > Customers


Sales Force

Responsibility: CRM Resource Manager, Vision Enterprises

(N) Maintain Resources > Resources

Responsibility: Order Management Super User, Vision Operations (USA)

(N) Setup > Sales > Sales persons

Sales Force comprises individuals credited with sales revenue.


Employees

Responsibility: Human Resources, Vision Enterprises

(N) People > Enter and Maintain

Employees are individuals employed by the company to perform certain tasks.


Banks

Responsibility: Cash Management, Vision Enterprises

(N) Setup > Banks > Banks

Internal bank accounts are created in Cash Management and are shared across modules with payment and receipt transactions.


Locations


(N) Work Structures > Location

Locations are physical addresses that may represent your company’s addresses or your customer’s addresses.


Organizations


(N) Work Structures > Organization > Description

Organization is an entity designation used to partition data into logical units.


Key Business Flows

Back Office

Source Make Market Sell SupportPlan

Forecast to

Plan *

Procure toPay *

Demand toBuild *

Campaign to

Order

Order to

Cash *Request to

Resolution *

Click to

Order

Contract to

Renewal *

Inventory to

Fulfillment

Concept toRelease

Plan to Replenish *

People toPaycheck

Project toProfit

Accounting toFinancialReports

Benefits to Payroll


Forecast to Plan

Constraint-basedoptimization

ASCP

Sales Order Info

Order management

Demand planning

Forecasts


Procure to Pay

Payables/ iExpenses

Purchasing/iProcurement

Accounting

General LedgerPayables/ Expenses/ Payments

Banks

Inventory

Requisitions

Inventory Activity

Accruals

Suppliers

Ledger

CashManagement


Demand to Build

WIPInventory

Purchasing/ iProcurement

Requisitions Cost info

Planned Order info

Capacity

Requisitions

Supply/Demandinfo

UOMs

Items

ASCP/MRP

BOM

EngineeringOrder Management

Material/Resource info

Cost Management

Engineering BOM info


Order to Cash

Invoices

General LedgerInventory

Receivables/ Revenue/ Receipts Inventory

Transactions

CashManagement

Order Management

Receivables /iReceivables

Purchasing/ iProcurement

Reqs

Inventory activity

Inter org/ Shipments

Banks

Ledger

Items

UOMs

Customers


Contract to Renewal

Sales Contracts

Quoting

Service Contracts

Order FulfillmentOrder to Cash

Quote to bookedorder

AccountsReceivable

iStore

Service contract for item with warranty

No item – warranty

only

Standard salescontract

Standard salescontract

Invoice


Request to Resolution

iSupport

KnowledgeManagement

Installed Base

Teleservice

Inventory

Order CaptureFoundation

APIs

OrderFulfillment

(Order to Cash)

Solutions

Productsowned

Items

Merchant assistanceCreate SR

Create returnorder

Customer

Customers

Items

Create RMA


Plan to Replenish

Perform Min-Max Planning

Establish Inventory Planning Policies

Plan Min-Max Material

Generate Requisitions

Requisition to Receipt

Inventory PurchasingPurchasing

Purchasing

Enterprise Roles

Inventory Manager

System Automated

Inventory planner


Quiz

Oracle Inventory owns Units of Measure.

a. True

b. False


Quiz

Which module owns Internal Banks?

a. Cash Management

b. General Ledger

c. Payables

d. Receivable


Quiz

In the “Order to Cash” business cycle, details of shipping goods and providing related services are entered in:

a. Purchasing

b. Receivables

c. Order Management

d. Inventory


Quiz

Three products are involved in the “Forecast to Plan” business flow.

a. True

b. False


Summary

In this lesson, you should have learned about:

• The shared entities within R12.x E-Business Suite

• The key integration points and business flows between products in R12.x E-Business Suite

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