ORACLE E-BUSINESS SUITE RELEASE CONTENT DOCUMENT Release Update Pack 12.0.6 (RUP6) Prepared by E-Business Suite Program Management

Last Updated: December 16, 2008

Version: 1.1

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Table of Contents

1. Disclaimer 1

2. Introduction 2

2.1. Purpose of Document 2

2.2. Release Overview 2

2.3. Reference Documents 2

3. New and Changed Features in Applications Technology 3

3.1. Oracle Application Object Library 3 3.1.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 3

3.1.1.1. Custom Directory Information Tree (DIT) 3

3.2. Oracle Applications Framework 3 3.2.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 3

3.2.1.1. Expose HGrid’s Record Set Size for Administrator Personalization 3 3.2.2. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6) 3

3.2.2.1. Record History 3 3.2.2.2. Reference Fields 3

3.3. Oracle Applications DBA 4 3.3.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2) 4

3.3.1.1. Change Base Language Script 4

3.4. Oracle Applications Technology Stack 4 3.4.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2) 4

3.4.1.1. New Technology Inventory Report 4 3.4.1.2. OC4J Load Balancing 4

3.4.2. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6) 4 3.4.2.1. AutoConfig Performance Enhancements 4

3.5. Oracle E-Business Suite Diagnostics 5 3.5.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 5

3.5.1.1. Diagnostics Execution Engine and User Interface Enhancements 5 3.5.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4) 5

3.5.2.1. New and Revised Diagnostic Tests 5 3.5.3. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6) 7

3.5.3.1. Diagnostics Enhancements 7

3.6. Oracle E-Business Suite Secure Enterprise Search 7 3.6.1. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6) 7

3.6.1.1. Search Modeler 7

3.7. Oracle Report Manager 7 3.7.1. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6) 7

3.7.1.1. Publishing to Multiple Worksheets 7

3.8. Oracle XML Gateway 7

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3.8.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 7 3.8.1.1. Improved Error Notification from XML Gateway 7

4. New and Changed Features in Asset Lifecycle Management 9

4.1. Oracle Install Base 9 4.1.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 9

4.1.1.1. Part or Serial Number Update of Item Instance Used by CMRO 9 4.1.1.2. Processing of MACD Order Lines via Concurrent Program instead of SFM 9

5. New and Changed Features in Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management 10

5.1. Oracle Balanced Scorecard 10 5.1.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 10

5.1.1.1. Enable Trend Icon in Scorecard Views and Strategic Objective Reports 10 5.1.1.2. Five Performance Color Bands 10 5.1.1.3. Enhanced Scorecard Migration 10 5.1.1.4. Multi-Year Display Capability 10 5.1.1.5. New Simulation Designer 10 5.1.1.6. Improved Performance Assessment Capabilities 11 5.1.1.7. Scorecard-level Logo 11

5.2. Oracle Daily Business Intelligence for Financials 11 5.2.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2) 11

5.2.1.1. Receivables and Collections Management 11 5.2.1.2. Profit and Loss Analysis 12 5.2.1.3. Company and Cost Center Security Setup with WebADI 12

5.3. Oracle Enterprise Performance Foundation 12 5.3.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 12

5.3.1.1. Enhanced Data Inspector and Fusion Intelligence for Corporate Performance Management 12

5.4. Oracle Fusion Intelligence for E-Business Suite 13 5.4.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2) 13

5.4.1.1. New Fusion Intelligence Applications 13

5.5. Oracle Profitability Manager 13 5.5.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 13

5.5.1.1. Enhanced Mapping Wizard 13

6. New and Changed Features in Financials 14

6.1. Oracle Assets 14 6.1.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 14

6.1.1.1. Assets: Japan Depreciable Assets Tax Report 14 6.1.2. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5) 14

6.1.2.1. Japan 2007 Fixed Assets Tax Changes 14

6.2. Oracle iSetup 14 6.2.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 14

6.2.1.1. iSetup APIs 14

6.3. Oracle Financials for Asia Pacific 15 6.3.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 15

6.3.1.1. China National Accounting Office (CNAO) Support 15

6.4. Oracle Financials for EMEA 15 6.4.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 15

6.4.1.1. XML Publisher Report Extracts for Fixed Assets and Payments 15 6.4.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4) 15

6.4.2.1. XML Publisher Report Extracts for Fixed Assets, Cash Management, General Ledger, Subledger Accounting, Receivables, Bill Presentment, Payables, Regional Localizations, and Financials Common Modules 15 6.4.2.2. UK Reverse Charges VAT 16

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6.5. Oracle Financials for India 16 6.5.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 16

6.5.1.1. Financials for India: Statutory Updates 16 6.5.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4) 16

6.5.2.1. Financials for India: Statutory Updates and Forward-Ported Bug Fixes 16

6.6. Oracle Payables 17 6.6.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 17

6.6.1.1. Payables: US Form 1099 Legislative Changes 17 6.6.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4) 17

6.6.2.1. Payables: US Form 1099 Legislative Changes 17

6.7. Oracle Payments 18 6.7.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 18

6.7.1.1. Master Card ‘S’ Record Compliance 18 6.7.1.2. Visa Compliance Table / Discover Qualification Table for FDC 18 6.7.1.3. Amex CAPN Enhancement 18 6.7.1.4. FDC Servlet Load Balancing 18

6.7.2. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6) 19 6.7.2.1. Multiple Divisions per Settlement Batch Enhancement 19 6.7.2.2. Paymentech Certification 19 6.7.2.3. SEPA Credit Transfer Initiation Messages 19

6.8. Oracle Public Sector Financials International 19 6.8.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 19

6.8.1.1. Uptake of Construction Industry Scheme and Dossier Functionality 19 6.8.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4) 20

6.8.2.1. Extension of Oracle Financials Functionality 20 6.8.2.2. Inflation Accounting for Assets 21

6.8.3. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6) 21 6.8.3.1. Contract Commitments Integration with Self Service Purchasing 21

6.9. Oracle Subledger Accounting 21 6.9.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 21

6.9.1.1. Supporting References 21

6.10. Oracle Transfer Pricing 21 6.10.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 21

6.10.1.1. Add-on Rates 21 6.10.1.2. Flexible Column Output 21 6.10.1.3. Cross Currency Copy of Assumptions 21 6.10.1.4. Import, Export, and Migrate Business Rules 22

7. New and Changed Features in Human Resources 23

7.1. Oracle Advanced Benefits 23 7.1.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 23

7.1.1.1. Reopen Life Events Process 23 7.1.1.2. Open Enrollment Window Modification 23 7.1.1.3. Tracking Ineligible to Ineligible Row Creation 23 7.1.1.4. Additional Input Parameters for Fast Formulas 23

7.2. Oracle Compensation Workbench 23 7.2.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2) 23

7.2.1.1. View All Compensation Detail Reports without Changing Responsibilities 23 7.2.1.2. Provide Responsibility-Based Plan Access to Administrators 24 7.2.1.3. Reduce Post Processing Time between Multiple Business Organizations 24 7.2.1.4. Perform Dynamic Calculations in Multiple Columns 24

7.3. Oracle HRMS for Australia 24 7.3.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 24

7.3.1.1. Nominate Employee Termination Payments (ETP) as Transitional or Non-Transitional Life Benefit Payments 24

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7.3.1.2. Comply with Statutory Updates for EOY 2007 25 7.3.1.3. Override the Eligibility Set on the Element to Pay the Long Service Leave Amount 26

7.3.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4) 26 7.3.2.1. Multiple ETP Payment Summary 26

7.3.3. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5) 26 7.3.3.1. Pay Multiple Employment Termination Payments (ETP) and Generate Separate ETP Payment Summaries 26 7.3.3.2. Display Multiple ETP’s on Termination Report 26 7.3.3.3. Use the Changed ETP Payment Summary Layout 2007 26 7.3.3.4. Report Employee’s Tax File Number (TFN) to Super Fund 26 7.3.3.5. Calculate Extra Withholding Amounts for Advance Payments 27 7.3.3.6. Deduct Retro Pretax Amounts from Retro Earnings 27

7.4. Oracle HRMS for China 27 7.4.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 27

7.4.1.1. Specify Tax and Social Insurance Contribution Area Codes Using a Maximum of 3 Characters 27 7.4.2. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5) 27

7.4.2.1. Count the Year of Service for Calculating Severance Payments 27 7.4.2.2. Display Employee Numbers Greater Than Five Characters Using Direct Deposit 27 7.4.2.3. Represent Tax Areas and Social Insurance Contribution Area Codes Using a Maximum of Three Characters 28 7.4.2.4. Use New Tax Exempt Amount to Meet Statutory Requirements 28 7.4.2.5. Calculate the Average Monthly Working Days Using New Value 28

7.5. Oracle HRMS for Denmark 28 7.5.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 28

7.5.1.1. Record Maternity/Adoption Absences 28 7.5.1.2. Select Holiday Accrual during Maternity/Adoption Leave 28 7.5.1.3. Record and Use the Public Holiday Accrual and Payment Rates 28 7.5.1.4. Process Multiple Pension Payments for Employees Based on 2006 Legislative Changes 28 7.5.1.5. Use the Notional Pay Classification for Deduction Elements Not Payable to the Employee 29 7.5.1.6. Use the Enhanced Absence Maternity Element to Process Part Time Maternity Absences 29 7.5.1.7. Use the Modified Company Car Benefits in Kind functionality 29 7.5.1.8. Create Lunar Period Payrolls 29 7.5.1.9. Print Batch Payslips 29 7.5.1.10. Process Payments for Employees Based on 2007 Legislative Changes 29 7.5.1.11. Classify the Employees as Salaried/Hourly to Process Payrolls 29 7.5.1.12. Use the Balance Initialization Process 29 7.5.1.13. Use RetroPay Functionality to Pay Backdated Amounts to Employees 29 7.5.1.14. Override the use of Normal Periodic Deduction Value in Tax Calculation 30

7.5.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4) 30 7.5.2.1. Support the Payment Electronic File Format Changes 30

7.6. Oracle HRMS for Finland 30 7.6.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 30

7.6.1.1. Use the New Pension Insurance Type to Generate Pension Payments and Reports 30 7.6.1.2. Generate the Statutory Payroll Reports 30 7.6.1.3. Calculate and Report the Subsidy for Low-paid Employees 30 7.6.1.4. Process Payments for Employees Based on 2007 Legislative Changes 30 7.6.1.5. Use the Balance Initialization Process 31

7.7. Oracle HRMS for Hong Kong 31 7.7.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 31

7.7.1.1. Specify the Format for Your Statement of Earnings 31 7.7.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4) 31

7.7.2.1. Calculate Proportionate Earnings during Changes in a Payroll Period 31

7.8. Oracle HRMS for India 31 7.8.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 31

7.8.1.1. Statutory Change to Exempt Employees from Paying Employee ESI Contribution 31 7.8.2. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5) 32

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7.8.2.1. Rehire Employees Before their Final Close Date 32 7.8.2.2. Generate and Print Provident Fund Monthly Report and e-files 32 7.8.2.3. Comply with Statutory Updates for 2007 32

7.9. Oracle HRMS for Ireland 33 7.9.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 33

7.9.1.1. Run the Tax Credit Upload Process to Validate Accurate Revenue File Checking 33 7.9.2. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5) 33

7.9.2.1. Comply with Recent Statutory Updates 33

7.10. Oracle HRMS for Japan 34 7.10.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 34

7.10.1.1. Print Employee Number on Published Insurance Premium Exemption and Spouse Special Deduction Form for Salary Earner 34 7.10.1.2. Calculate and Archive Accident Insurance Information 34

7.10.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4) 34 7.10.2.1. Statutory Changes for 2007 34

7.11. Oracle HRMS for Korea 35 7.11.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 35

7.11.1.1. Meet the Statutory Updates for the YEA Tax Receipt for 2007 35 7.11.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4) 35

7.11.2.1. Comply with Statutory Changes for 2007 35 7.11.3. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5) 36

7.11.3.1. Comply with the Updated Layout for Year End Adjustment Ledger Report and the RTF Template 36 7.11.3.2. Display Non-Taxable Earnings in Non-Statutory and Statutory Separation Pay Tax Receipt 36 7.11.3.3. Use the Updated Exemption Rate for Investment Partnership 36 7.11.3.4. Calculate the Tax Break Amount Using the New Value 36 7.11.3.5. Identify Korean Citizens as Foreigners and be Eligible for Tax Exemptions 36 7.11.3.6. Record Donation Receipt Number for Easy Identification 36 7.11.3.7. Exclude Double Exemption for Medical Expenses 37 7.11.3.8. Comply with the YEA Reclaim Sheet Layout Changes 37 7.11.3.9. Comply with the Latest Statutory Changes for 2008 37 7.11.3.10. Use the Updated Health Insurance and National Pension Premium Rates 37 7.11.3.11. Calculate Tax Exemptions for Employees With a New Born or Adopted Child 37 7.11.3.12. Use the Updated Foreign Worker Income Exemption Rates 37 7.11.3.13. Record Both Summary and Details for Medical Expenses 38

7.12. Oracle HRMS for Kuwait 38 7.12.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 38

7.12.1.1. Produce Report 166 for the PIFSS Based on Revised Rates 38

7.13. Oracle HRMS for Mexico 38 7.13.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 38

7.13.1.1. Manage Social Security Information through Integrated Archiver 38 7.13.1.2. Successfully Create and Save GRE Organizations 39 7.13.1.3. Implement and Archive Change of GRE for Employees 39 7.13.1.4. Specify Names of Over 15 Characters as Timecard Approvers 39 7.13.1.5. Specify Legal Employer when Running the DIM Report 39 7.13.1.6. Run QuickPay with IDW Elements in Spanish Instances 39 7.13.1.7. View IDSE File Content More Easily 39 7.13.1.8. Access State Tax Rules DFF without Errors 39 7.13.1.9. Use the hr_mx_ex_employee_api.mx_final_process_emp API without Errors 39

7.13.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4) 40 7.13.2.1. North American 2007 Reporting Enhancements and Statutory Updates 40

7.13.3. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5) 40 7.13.3.1. Comply with Employer State Tax Changes 40 7.13.3.2. Comply with ISR Tax Changes 40

7.14. Oracle HRMS for Netherlands 40 7.14.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 40

7.14.1.1. Make the Civilian Service Number Optional (Previously the SOFI Number) 40

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7.14.1.2. Use New Dutch First Day Notification Report 40 7.14.1.3. Group Multiple Assignments by Employer 40 7.14.1.4. Use New Profile Options 41 7.14.1.5. Support Refund of ZVW Contributions to Employees 41 7.14.1.6. Include Latest Assignment Details in the Dutch ATS Reports 41 7.14.1.7. Use Enhanced Life Saving Scheme Features 41 7.14.1.8. Use Updated Reports to Support Legislative Changes 41 7.14.1.9. Use New Wage Subsidies for Payroll Processing 42 7.14.1.10. Support for Late Hire Processing in Payroll 42 7.14.1.11. Use the New Adjustment Component to Carry Forward Earnings 42 7.14.1.12. Process Tax and SI Balances using AAOP instead of IP High and IP Low Pension Schemes 42 7.14.1.13. Use the Modified Dutch Annual Tax Statement Report 42 7.14.1.14. Use New Dutch Element RetroPay Setup Report to Display Retro Setup of User Element 43 7.14.1.15. Reduce Data Volumes and Improve Performance by Producing Fewer Run Result Values 43 7.14.1.16. Configure Precision of Maximum Salary Type 43

7.14.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4) 44 7.14.2.1. Year End Report 44

7.15. Oracle HRMS for New Zealand 44 7.15.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 44

7.15.1.1. Contribute and Report the KiwiSaver Deductions to Inland Revenue 44

7.16. Oracle HRMS for Norway 44 7.16.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 44

7.16.1.1. Use the Documents of Record Functionality to Store Document Information 44 7.16.1.2. Use the Modified NUS-2000 Code for the Employee’s Qualification Type 44 7.16.1.3. Process Holiday Pay for Your Employees 44 7.16.1.4. Process All Absence Categories to Administer Absence Pay Effectively 44 7.16.1.5. Generate Sickness Leave and Absence Statistics Report 45 7.16.1.6. Calculate the Impact of Reimbursements of Absence and Holiday Pay on Employer Contribution 45 7.16.1.7. Use the Self-Service Tax Card Interface to Enter Tax Card Details 45 7.16.1.8. Generate Online Payslip 45 7.16.1.9. Stay informed with New Payroll Reports 45 7.16.1.10. Process Payments for Employees Based on 2006 Taxation Changes 46 7.16.1.11. Process Payments for Employees Based on 2006 Legislative Changes 46 7.16.1.12. Support Recent Legislative Changes 46 7.16.1.13. Use Advance Pay to Pay Employees in Advance 46 7.16.1.14. Use RetroPay Functionality to Pay Backdated Amounts to Employees 46 7.16.1.15. Print Batch Payslips 47 7.16.1.16. Reduce Data Volumes and Improve Performance by Producing Fewer Run Result Values 47 7.16.1.17. Implement Mandatory Occupational Pension Scheme 47 7.16.1.18. Use the Balance Initialization Process 47 7.16.1.19. Improve the Performance of Oracle Payroll Processing 48

7.17. Oracle HRMS for Singapore 48 7.17.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 48

7.17.1.1. Use Revised Foreign Workers Levy Rates and New Permit Categories 48 7.17.1.2. Comply with New Regulations of the Central Provident Fund 48

7.18. Oracle HRMS for South Africa 48 7.18.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 48

7.18.1.1. Generate and Submit Workplace Skills Plan Reports 48 7.18.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4) 49

7.18.2.1. UIF Annual Limit 49 7.18.3. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5) 49

7.18.3.1. Comply with Statutory Updates for End of Year (EOY) 2008 49

7.19. Oracle HRMS for Sweden 49 7.19.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 49

7.19.1.1. Process Holiday Pay for Your Employees 49 7.19.1.2. Use the Balance Initialization Process 49

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7.19.1.3. Process Sickness Pay for Your Employees 49 7.19.1.4. Generate Online Payslip 50 7.19.1.5. Use the Tax Card User Interface to Enter Tax Card Details 50 7.19.1.6. Manage End of Year Changes for 2006 50 7.19.1.7. Generate Payroll Reports for Statutory Compliance 50

7.19.2. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5) 50 7.19.2.1. Generate and Submit ALECTA Report 50 7.19.2.2. Print Batch Payslips 51

7.20. Oracle HRMS for United Kingdom 51 7.20.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 51

7.20.1.1. No Longer Need to Specify the National Identifier When Hiring Employees in SSHR 51 7.20.1.2. Calculate Accurate Average Earnings for Employees with Multiple Assignments 51 7.20.1.3. Generate Accurate Payroll Calculations Subsequent to Performing a Reverse Payroll Run 51 7.20.1.4. Display Accurate Details in the Payroll Summary Report 51 7.20.1.5. Accurately Employ Adjustments Against Court Order Elements 51 7.20.1.6. Specify Average Earning Amounts for Maternity Pay 52 7.20.1.7. Display the Correct Week in the Pay Advice Report 52 7.20.1.8. Use the Date Worked Payment Method to Pay Non-Recurring Claims 52

7.20.2. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5) 52 7.20.2.1. Use the New NUVOS Pension Scheme to Comply with Recent Statutory Updates 52 7.20.2.2. Use the New Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) to Comply with Statutory Changes 52 7.20.2.3. Comply with Statutory Changes to P46 Car EDI 52 7.20.2.4. Comply with Statutory Updates to P14 EDI 52 7.20.2.5. Comply with Pre-Budget Statutory Updates 53 7.20.2.6. Comply with Start of Year Statutory Updates 53 7.20.2.7. Comply with NI Rollup Statutory Updates 53 7.20.2.8. Comply with Statutory Updates to In Year Filing Reports 53

7.21. Oracle HRMS for United States 54 7.21.1. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4) 54

7.21.1.1. Use Ethnic Categories Recognized by Agencies for EEO-1, EEO4, EEO5, and IPEDS Reports 54 7.21.1.2. Obtain VETS-100 Reports Based on the Previous Year 54 7.21.1.3. Statutory Changes to EEO-1 Paper and Magnetic Reports 55 7.21.1.4. Control Resident Wage Accumulation and Tax Calculation 55 7.21.1.5. Use Open Plan Solution Formats for TIAA-CREF Files 55 7.21.1.6. Capture Make-up Amounts for Roth Contributions on W-2s 55 7.21.1.7. Identify Initial and Subsequent Corrections on W-2Cs 55 7.21.1.8. Submit the Florida State Quarterly Wage Listings File in XML Format 56

7.21.2. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5) 56 7.21.2.1. Comply with State of Maryland - W-2 Magnetic Media Updates 56 7.21.2.2. Comply with Social Security Administration Changes 56 7.21.2.3. Comply with JIT and School District Updates 56

7.22. Oracle Labor Distribution 56 7.22.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 56

7.22.1.1. Use Employee Work Schedules to Distribute and Encumber Labor Costs 56 7.22.1.2. Set Up Clearing Accounts for Multiple Payrolls 57 7.22.1.3. Process Payroll Reversals, Balance Adjustments, and Retroactive Payments More Easily 57 7.22.1.4. Specify Accounting Dates When Transferring Distribution Lines to Oracle General Ledger, Oracle Projects, and Oracle Grants Accounting 57 7.22.1.5. Use Parameter Sets to Run Scheduling and Distribution Reports More Easily 57

7.22.2. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5) 57 7.22.2.1. Rollback Create Distribution Lines Process for All Periods by Providing the Highest Time Period Name 57 7.22.2.2. Use New Predefined Salary Cap Rates 58 7.22.2.3. Control the Behavior of the Import Process 58

7.23. Oracle Learning Management 58 7.23.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2) 58

7.23.1.1. Check Duplicate Contacts for External Learners 58

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7.23.2. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5) 58 7.23.2.1. Use Keywords to Search for Courses in OLM 58

7.24. Oracle iRecruitment 58 7.24.1. Release 12.0.3 58

7.24.1.1. Automatically Enroll New Hires into Compensation Plans Included in their Jobs Offers 58

7.25. Oracle Self-Service Human Resources 59 7.25.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2) 59

7.25.1.1. Allow Transition Initiator to Delete “Pending for Approval” Transactions 59 7.25.1.2. Self-Service Change Pay Rate Functionality 59

7.26. Oracle Talent Management 60 7.26.1. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4) 60

7.26.1.1. Manage Offline Appraisals 60 7.26.1.2. Web ADI Support for Succession Planning Data Update 60

7.27. Oracle Time and Labor 60 7.27.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2) 60

7.27.1.1. Automatic Days-to-Hours Conversion 60 7.27.1.2. Mixed Format Entries 60

7.28. Oracle US Federal Human Resources 61 7.28.1. Releases 12.0.5 (RUP5) 61

7.28.1.1. Process Pay for Employees Based on the Title 38 Public Law 61 7.28.1.2. Use Multiple Legal Authority Descriptions When Processing AFHR Employees 61

8. New and Changed Features in Logistics 62

8.1. Oracle Warehouse Management 62 8.1.1. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6) 62

8.1.1.1. API to enable LPN Reuse 62 8.1.1.2. Over-allocation Support for Pick Release 62 8.1.1.3. Transacting Reserved LPNs 62

9. New and Changed Features in Manufacturing 63

9.1. Oracle Discrete Manufacturing 63 9.1.1. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4) 63

9.1.1.1. Iterative Periodic Average Costing (IPAC) for Brazil 63

9.2. Oracle Process Manufacturing 63 9.2.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2) 63

9.2.1.1. Manufacturing Execution System Enhancements 63 9.2.2. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 64

9.2.2.1. OPM Process Execution: Lot UOM Conversion Batch Update 64 9.2.2.2. OPM Financials: Detailed Subsidiary Ledger Report 64 9.2.2.3. OPM Financials: Non-Recoverable Taxes Support in Actual Costing 64 9.2.2.4. OPM Financials: Reconciliation Enhancements in Actual Costing 64

9.2.3. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6) 65 9.2.3.1. OPM Process Execution and OPM Product Development: Fixed Process Loss 65 9.2.3.2. OPM Process Execution and OPM Product Development: DFF for Step Material Associations 65 9.2.3.3. OPM Process Execution: LPN Support in OPM Desktop Forms 65 9.2.3.4. OPM Regulatory Management: European Regulatory Compliance 66

10. New and Changed Features in Marketing and Sales 67

10.1. Oracle Quoting 67 10.1.1. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6) 67

10.1.1.1. Deal Management Integration 67

10.2. Oracle Sales 67 10.2.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 67

10.2.1.1. Item Update 67

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10.2.1.2. CAC Notes Region Uptake 67 10.2.1.3. Address Location Sharing between Organization and Contact 68

10.2.2. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6) 68 10.2.2.1. Sales Representative Dashboard Enhancements 68

10.3. Oracle Sales for Handhelds 68 10.3.1. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6) 68

10.3.1.1. Outlook 2007 Certification 68

10.4. Oracle Sales Contracts 69 10.4.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2) 69

10.4.1.1. User-Defined Variables with PL/SQL Procedures as Source 69

11. New and Changed Features in Order Management 70

11.1. Oracle Order Management 70 11.1.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2) 70

11.1.1.1. Integration between Oracle Order Management (including Oracle Shipping Execution) and Oracle Transportation Management 70

12. New and Changed Features in Procurement 71

12.1. Oracle iSupplier Portal 71 12.1.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 71

12.1.1.1. Forward Port of JFMIP/FSIO from 11.5.10 to R12 for Federal Customers 71

12.2. Oracle Procurement Contracts 72 12.2.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2) 72

12.2.1.1. User-Defined Variables with PL/SQL Procedures as Source 72

12.3. Oracle Purchasing 72 12.3.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2) 72

12.3.1.1. Integration between Oracle Purchasing and Oracle Transportation Management 72 12.3.1.2. iSetup APIs 73

13. New and Changed Features in Projects 74

13.1. Oracle Grants Accounting 74 13.1.1. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6) 74

13.1.1.1. Marking Encumbrance Items for Burden Recalculation 74

13.2. Oracle Project Resource Management 74 13.2.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 74

13.2.1.1. Viewing At-Completion Amounts 74 13.2.1.2. Choosing Displayed Currency 74 13.2.1.3. Reporting Plan Type Data in Context 74

14. New and Changed Features in Service 75

14.1. Depot Repair 75 14.1.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2) 75

14.1.1.1. Pricing Formula Support 75 14.1.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4) 75

14.1.2.1. Display Service Request DFF on Depot Repair Workbench 75

14.2. Oracle Field Service 75 14.2.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 75

14.2.1.1. Google Maps Integration 75

14.3. Oracle Mobile Field Service 76 14.3.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 76

14.3.1.1. Scheduled Task Notification 76

14.4. Oracle Service Contracts 76 14.4.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2) 76

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14.4.1.1. Mass Update Functionality 76

14.5. Oracle Teleservice 76 14.5.1. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6) 76

14.5.1.1. User Hook for Charges Pricing API 76

15. New and Changed Features in Supply Chain Planning 77

15.1. Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning 77 15.1.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 77

15.1.1.1. Strategic Network Optimization - Integration to EBS R12 77 15.1.1.2. Production Scheduling - Integration to EBS R12 77

15.2. Oracle Demantra Demand Management 77 15.2.1. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4) 77

15.2.1.1. Demand Management and Real-Time Sales and Operations Planning Integration 77

16. New and Changed Features for Aerospace, Defense, and Transportation 78

16.1. Oracle Complex Maintenance, Repair, & Overhaul (CMRO) 78 16.1.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 78

16.1.1.1. Item Number and Serial Number Change 78 16.1.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4) 78

16.1.2.1. Associate Access Panels to Routes and Operations 78 16.1.2.2. Search Unit Maintenance Plan based on Visit and Department 78 16.1.2.3. Add Planned End Date to Visit Search Results 78 16.1.2.4. Add Item Description to Material Requirement Search Results 79 16.1.2.5. Add Unit and Serial Number to Workorder Search Results 79 16.1.2.6. Add Maintenance Requirements to a Non-Routine on the Shopfloor 79 16.1.2.7. Ability to Perform a Maintenance Requirement Multiple Times in a Visit 79 16.1.2.8. Option to Automate the Parts Return Process 79 16.1.2.9. Option to Create a Non-Routine Workorder When Removing a Part from Unit Configuration 80 16.1.2.10. Access to Cancel Workorder Functionality Optionally Restricted to Super Users 80 16.1.2.11. Public API for Issuing and Returning Material to a Workorder 80 16.1.2.12. Visit Link within the Unit Maintenance Plan Search Results 80

17. New and Changed Features for Public Sector/University 82

17.1. Oracle Grants Accounting 82 17.1.1. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6) 82

17.1.1.1. Marking Encumbrance Items for Burden Recalculation 82

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1. Disclaimer

This Release Content Document (RCD) describes product features that are proposed for the specified release of the Oracle E-Business Suite. This document describes new or changed functionality only. Existing functionality from prior releases is not described. It is intended solely to help you assess the business benefits of upgrading to the specified release of the Oracle E-Business Suite.

This document in any form, software or printed matter, contains proprietary information that is the exclusive property of Oracle. Your access to and use of this confidential material is subject to the terms and conditions of your Oracle Software License and Service Agreement, which has been executed and with which you agree to comply. This document and information contained herein may not be disclosed, copied, reproduced or distributed to anyone outside Oracle without prior written consent of Oracle. This document is not part of your license agreement nor can it be incorporated into any contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates.

This document is for informational purposes only and is intended solely to assist you in planning for the implementation and upgrade of the product features described. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described in this document remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

Due to the nature of the product architecture, it may not be possible to safely include all features described in this document without risking significant destabilization of the code.

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2. Introduction

2.1. Purpose of Document

The Suite-wide Release Content Document (RCD) communicates information about new or changed functionality introduced in Release Update Packs (RUP) of the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (R12).

Existing functionality in R12 or prior releases is not described in this document. However, content introduced in previous R12 RUP releases has been included in this document and denoted accordingly.

For a complete overview of all new functionality in included in R12 and subsequent Release Update Packs, this document should be read in conjunction with the base product RCD published with Release 12.0.0. The base product RCDs can be found on MetaLink: Release Content Documents for E-Business Suite R12, MetaLink Note 404152.1.

2.2. Release Overview The Release Update Pack (RUP) improves and streamlines the update and maintenance processes, offering a "one-patch" update solution to customers. The RUP combines patches across the E-Business Suite into a single, thoroughly tested, high-quality patch to deliver system updates made available after the initial release of 12.0. The updates are predominantly error corrections and statutory/regulatory updates. For certain products, enhancements to selected functionality may also be included.

2.3. Reference Documents

Name Location Completion Date

Release Content Documents for E-Business Suite R12

MetaLink Note 404152.1 January 8, 2007

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3. New and Changed Features in Applications Technology

3.1. Oracle Application Object Library

3.1.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

3.1.1.1. Custom Directory Information Tree (DIT)

Support Realm configuration in OID for createBase, searchBase, and commonNameAttribute. CreateBase is where an OID user for EBIZ will be created. SearchBase is which OID node to start search with. CommonNameAttribute is what attribute to be used for ’cn’ for example, cn=xxxx or uix=xxxx.

3.2. Oracle Applications Framework

3.2.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

3.2.1.1. Expose HGrid’s Record Set Size for Administrator Personalization

HGrids now expose Record Set Size property at each individual node for administrator personalization. Administrators at the customer site can set different Record Set Size values at different HGrid nodes to show different number of records/rows per node. This ensures that even when Expand All option is used not all the rows are shown at the same time, improving user response time.

3.2.2. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6)

3.2.2.1. Record History

Record history is now available for Oracle Application Framework based pages. Record history allows a user to see data about a particular record, such as who created the record and when, and who most recently updated the record and when.

3.2.2.2. Reference Fields

Reference fields are now available for Oracle Application Framework based applications. A reference field is a web bean which participates in evaluating one or more properties of a flexfield, such as default segment value, value set, and context reference field for descriptive flexfields. Whenever the value in the reference web bean changes, the page is refreshed with changes to the corresponding flexfield properties.

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3.3. Oracle Applications DBA

3.3.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2)

3.3.1.1. Change Base Language Script

E-Business Suite includes single-language tables that must be updated when changing an existing Installed language to be the Base language of the application system. The Change Base Language script, adchgbase.pl, is a new utility being delivered in RUP2 that will update these tables and corresponding seed data to the new base language. This utility is not required when installing a new language as the Base language.

Use Oracle License Manager to change an existing Installed language to be the Base language. Run the Perl script adchgbase.pl; this script will generate a patch driver, u_ChangeBase.drv, based on seed data in your environment. Apply the driver to your application system using Autopatch. Review log files for any issues.

3.4. Oracle Applications Technology Stack

3.4.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2)

3.4.1.1. New Technology Inventory Report

This new Technology Inventory Report delivers standardized accurate version information about the Applications Technology Stack. When an E-Business Suite administrator wants to obtain the version of technology that is installed, he will run this report as a command line utility. This is an administrative feature; there is no impact to customer implementation, business process, or user experience.

3.4.1.2. OC4J Load Balancing

This new feature leverages Oracle Application Server 10g’s native ability to load balance so that customers no longer need to purchase third-party hardware in order to support multiple middle tiers. Please see Oracle MetaLink Note 380489.1 for more details. This is an administrative/technical configuration feature; there is no direct impact to customer implementation, business process, or user experience.

3.4.2. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6)

3.4.2.1. AutoConfig Performance Enhancements

AutoConfig has been enhanced to improve its performance. Other enhancements include an option to run in a Profiler mode, parallelization across different Oracle E-Business Suite nodes, database configuration reporting for the Check Config utility, support for Oracle Database 11g, and Access Control List support.

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3.5. Oracle E-Business Suite Diagnostics

3.5.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

3.5.1.1. Diagnostics Execution Engine and User Interface Enhancements

Diagnostics execution engine will be enhanced to support long running tests as well as tests that generate huge volume reports. The user interface will be enhanced to support long running test execution and monitoring.

3.5.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)

3.5.2.1. New and Revised Diagnostic Tests

The products listed below have new and/or revised diagnostic tests delivered in this release. A list of delivered product tests with links to test details can be found in the E-Business Suite Diagnostics Test Catalog for 12.0.4 Release Update Pack (RUP4) (MetaLink Note 469721.1).

� Advanced Benefits (BEN)

� Advanced Product Catalog (EGO)

� Application Object Library (FND)

� Applications DBA (AD)

� Assets (FA)

� Balanced Scorecard (BSC)

� Bills of Material (BOM)

� Business Intelligence System (BIS)

� Cash Management (CE)

� Collections (IEX)

� CRM Technical Foundation (JTT)

� Customer Care (CSC)

� Document Management and Collaboration (DOM)

� E-Business Tax (ZX)

� Engineering (ENG)

� Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)

� Field Service (CSF)

� Financials Common Module (FUN)

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� General Ledger (GL)

� Grants Accounting (GMS)

� Human Resources (PER)

� Install Base (CSI)

� Inventory Management (INV)

� iProcurement (ICX)

� Item Master (ITM)

� Marketing (AMS)

� Order Management (ONT)

� Partner Management (PV)

� Payables (AP)

� Payroll (PAY)

� Projects (PA)

� Public Sector Financials International (IGI)

� Purchasing (PO)

� Quoting (QOT)

� Receivables (AR)

� Release Management (RLM)

� Sales (ASN)

� Service (CS)

� Shipping (WSH)

� Spares Management (CSP)

� TeleSales (AST)

� Time and Labor (HXT)

� Trade Management (OZ)

� Trading Community Architecture (HZ)

� Work in Process (WIP)

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For a complete list of diagnostic tests available for E-Business Suite R12, please refer to the E-Business Suite Diagnostics Test Catalog for R12 (MetaLink Note 421245.1).

3.5.3. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6)

3.5.3.1. Diagnostics Enhancements

Oracle E-Business Suite Diagnostics has been enhanced to offer a new user interface for managing and running your diagnostic tests. This new UI incorporates the User Management security model based on RBAC. In addition, the reporting engine is now integrated with Oracle XML Publisher.

3.6. Oracle E-Business Suite Secure Enterprise Search

3.6.1. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6)

3.6.1.1. Search Modeler

By leveraging Oracle Secure Enterprise Search, Oracle E-Business Suite Secure Enterprise Search provides a centralized full text search capability on Oracle E-Business Suite. To simplify object design and modeling, Oracle E-Business Suite Secure Enterprise Search now supports searching for and displaying searchable objects created through a lightweight browser-based design tool called the Search Modeler. This tool lets data modelers easily create and modify searchable objects without extensive programming skills.

3.7. Oracle Report Manager

3.7.1. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6)

3.7.1.1. Publishing to Multiple Worksheets

You can now use complex content sets with a combination of Page/Expand and Page/Total display types to publish reports. You can publish these reports to multiple worksheets in Microsoft Excel, or view the entire report data in the report display page using the ’ALL’ option in the expansion value list.

3.8. Oracle XML Gateway

3.8.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

3.8.1.1. Improved Error Notification from XML Gateway

Notify System Administrator and/or Transaction Administrator

For each transaction, users can configure a transaction administrator who will receive error

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error notifications for the transaction (in addition to the system administrator). If required, a transaction administrator can act (reprocess/abort) on the error notification.

Auto re-process erred notification after notification time-out

If the system administrator has not taken explicit action on a notification (i.e., abort or reprocess) after the notification timeout period, the XML Gateway engine will automatically re-process the corresponding erred transactions until it reaches the ’maximum retries’ limit. The ‘maximum retries’ limit is a profile option that governs the number of times the engine will automatically re-process after the notification timeout period. Once the 'maximum retries' limit is exceeded, the erred transactions will not be re-processed until the system administrator and/or transaction administrator explicitly opts for re-processing.

If an error occurs while re-processing, a notification will be sent to the system administrator and/or transaction administrator.

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4. New and Changed Features in Asset Lifecycle Management

4.1. Oracle Install Base

4.1.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

4.1.1.1. Part or Serial Number Update of Item Instance Used by CMRO

Users can update a part and/or serial number on an item instance that is either on a CMRO work order or has been shipped out of the enterprise.

4.1.1.2. Processing of MACD Order Lines via Concurrent Program instead of SFM

Install Base is providing a complete set of user interfaces, based on the OA framework for all Install Base related administrative and operations functions.

MACD (Modify, Add, Create and Delete) is an existing flow which is part of Install base, supports maintaining configurable items which are tangible an intangible in nature used extensively in TELCO industries. The current enhancement is more or an architectural option targeted at improving the performance by bypassing SFM (Services Fulfillment Manager), a message-based processing architecture. Using the new approach, users can bypass SFM and use a concurrent program; this improves the performance for MACD configurations.

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5. New and Changed Features in Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management

5.1. Oracle Balanced Scorecard

5.1.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

5.1.1.1. Enable Trend Icon in Scorecard Views and Strategic Objective Reports

Balanced Scorecard users can now view trend icons, along with the alarm colors on various scorecard views, portlets, and objective reports. Trending allows users to examine whether current performance conditions are improving, stable, or deteriorating by comparing current period data with previous period. Trends prompt early corrective action by objective owners and therefore maintain consistent performance.

5.1.1.2. Five Performance Color Bands

Balanced Scorecard now supports both three and five color bands to measure performance. Additional levels enable accurate performance assessment. This is in compliance with industry and government requirements. A designer can configure the color band, goal type, and the threshold values for each KPI within the Objective. An administrator can modify the definition of performance assessment colors within each band to meet the needs of an organization.

5.1.1.3. Enhanced Scorecard Migration

A performance management administrator can selectively migrate a scorecard and its related components from the source to target instance. New content is appended to the system without affecting the existing content.

5.1.1.4. Multi-Year Display Capability

Users can navigate to a previous year within Strategic Objective reports and view actual and plan data for the previous year. The report behavior, such as alarm colors, trend icons, calculations, comparison, and charting options for the prior year is the same as for the current year. The Objective Designer also enables designers to select the number of periods (months, quarters) to display in a graph.

5.1.1.5. New Simulation Designer

A new Simulation Designer enables users to create simulations using Generated Source KPIs, and attach the simulations to scorecards, dashboards, and portlets. All existing Simulation Trees must be recreated using this new Simulation Designer. Features, such as Filters and Common Dimension that apply to both objectives and simulations, are also available in Scorecard Designer.

For administrators, Simulations is now supported in Generate Database, Data Loader and Migration in addition to Objective and Reports.

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5.1.1.6. Improved Performance Assessment Capabilities

Designers can configure the system to generate performance assessment colors for Strategic Objectives based on one or more key performance indicators (KPIs) using methods like worst, most frequent, weighted average, or default KPI color. These performance assessment colors will display in the Strategic Objective reports for each KPI. All Scorecard Views, specifically Tree View, Detailed View and Scorecard View, can display the color alarm icon for KPIs within an Objective. Designers can hide Alarm Color and Trend for a KPI.

Some of the existing VB Architect features are now available in Objective Designer, such as Key Items, Multi Bar Objectives, and Profit and Loss Objectives. Please refer to Metalink Note 457906.1 to obtain the complete list of features that moved to Performance Management Designer.

5.1.1.7. Scorecard-level Logo

The Scorecard Designer now supports company logo at the scorecard level. Designers can customize a scorecard to display any image as a logo, which is different from the system default and the prescribed size limits in the header of scorecard views and objective reports.

5.2. Oracle Daily Business Intelligence for Financials

5.2.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2)

5.2.1.1. Receivables and Collections Management

With the information provided by the Receivables Management and Status Dashboards, managers can easily determine the most pressing items and clarify the day-to-day agenda for their departments. With up-to-date information about customers’ activities, Receivables and Collections managers can direct their departments to resolving past due accounts before they become a serious problem. The supporting reports provide additional information about delinquent customer enabling collections managers and clerks to identify the most effective collections strategies.

DBI for Receivables empowers managers by enabling the analysis of key performance indicators (“KPIs”) across multiple dimensions, such as time, operating unit, customers, and collectors. The KPIs available out-of-the-box include Days Sales Outstanding, Average Days Delinquent, Open Receivables and Past Due Receivables Amount, and Unapplied Receipts Amount. Managers can evaluate the performance of their organizations and discover systemic processing inefficiencies. In addition they can leverage valuable insight to evaluate the productivity of individual collectors.

The increased visibility enables Receivables and Collections managers to reduce the time of operational problems discovery and resolution, and therefore, increase the effectiveness of their departments. It also provides valuable insight into the state of customers’ receivables payment patterns enabling Credit Managers to formulate Credit Policies that would prevent undesired impact on companies bottom-line.

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5.2.1.2. Profit and Loss Analysis

The Profit and Loss Analysis dashboard targets financial analysts and line managers who are responsible for supporting and analyzing revenue and expenditures for particular cost centers (e.g. facilities, operations and shipping) and company entities (e.g. geographic locations) across different ledgers. It focuses on analyzing and managing the large volume of journals posted to General Ledger. Profit and Loss Analysis Dashboard allows financial analysts and managers to dissect revenue, cost of goods sold and operating expenses by company, cost center, accounts, and ledger, allowing the users to thoroughly investigate activity down to the transaction line level. Profit and Loss Analysis differs from the currently available Profit and Loss Dashboard, which focuses on providing executives a broad view by Line of Business or by Manager.

Profit and Loss Analysis features company and cost-center based security model. It offers expanded drill capabilities into revenue and expense sources down to General Ledger, Payables, Fixed Assets, Internet Expenses, and Purchase Orders. In addition, a user-defined dimension can be assigned to additional segment in the chart of accounts, providing the users with a finer grain of control.

With Profit and Loss Analysis, line managers and analysts are able to investigate and resolve issues concerning operational income and spending and spot anomalies as they occur during the financial period.

5.2.1.3. Company and Cost Center Security Setup with WebADI

Company and Cost Center Security Setup with WebADI is a complementary interface to the current set of pages for managing the security for the dashboards that use the company and cost center dimensions. While the current interface provides a step by step process for adding or editing grants for a single user, the WebADI load interface will allow the administrator to create multiple grants (including overwriting existing grants) at the same time.

System administrators who track, maintain, and version a large number of user security setups can now create a separate Excel spreadsheet that holds the master copy of security grants, and copy-and-paste relevant portions into the WebADI template.

5.3. Oracle Enterprise Performance Foundation

5.3.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

5.3.1.1. Enhanced Data Inspector and Fusion Intelligence for Corporate Performance Management

Enterprise Performance Foundation delivers the next generation of features to better support the Profitability Manager, Transfer Pricing, Enterprise Planning and Budgeting and the Financial Consolidation Hub applications. The new features include:

� Enhanced Data Inspector: Changes to this feature enable you to view data via the enterprise performance foundation, with user friendly codes and names. It also allows for the registration of database views. The registration and use of views allows for easier viewing of data, and simple ad-hoc reporting.

� Fusion Intelligence for Corporate Performance Management: This includes prebuilt

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prebuilt content to report on the results generated within the Enterprise Performance Foundation from the CPM applications. This includes a Performance Management and Financial Consolidation Hub subject area, and provides the ability to perform multi-dimensional profitability analysis on unconsolidated and consolidated data.

5.4. Oracle Fusion Intelligence for E-Business Suite

5.4.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2)

5.4.1.1. New Fusion Intelligence Applications

Previously, Daily Business Intelligence customers needed additional products for their ad-hoc query and custom reporting needs. With Fusion Intelligence for E-Business Suite, users benefit from Oracle’s knowledge of business intelligence, security, and applications technologies, receiving a level of integration unparalleled in the industry. Fusion Intelligence for E-Business Suite includes:

� A unified logical model designed for business users of E-Business Suite Financials, Procurement, Human Resources, Supply Chain, Order Management, and CRM Intelligence modules.

� Selected dashboard templates for each functional area which include guided analysis paths and prebuilt data mappings.

� Delivered integration with the E-Business Suite transactional applications including single sign-on, security, Daily Business Intelligence materialized views and base summaries, and Oracle Portal.

5.5. Oracle Profitability Manager

5.5.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

5.5.1.1. Enhanced Mapping Wizard

In RUP3, the Mapping Wizard has been enhanced with an updated user interface to greatly simplify the creation of business rules that are used to define how data should be allocated within the enterprise performance foundation schema Additional ease of use improvements include a new feature for mapping rule defaults, a mapping rule preview, and a feature called "Factor Table" which is similar to the table ID feature from version 4.5 of the product. Finally, the concept of a "local condition" has been removed; all local conditions are converted to global conditions with the 12.0.3 upgrade.

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6. New and Changed Features in Financials

6.1. Oracle Assets

6.1.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

6.1.1.1. Assets: Japan Depreciable Assets Tax Report

To meet the regional taxation requirements, Japanese companies require the Depreciable Assets Tax reports. The reports summarize the depreciation of Japanese assets in the format mandated by the Japanese taxation law. The reports were enhanced using XML Publisher to provide better layout and to provide more descriptive data including company level information and tax authority level information that were not available in the old report. Additionally, a user interface was developed to capture the Company level and the Tax Authority level information.

6.1.2. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5)

6.1.2.1. Japan 2007 Fixed Assets Tax Changes

In December 2006, the Ministry of Finance for Japan announced that Tax Reforms would be introduced for FY2007. On March 30, 2007 the Tax Reforms details were published outlining new Fixed Asset depreciation rules that would come into effect from April 1, 2007.

The purpose of this legislation is to establish a basis for growth for the Japanese economy by fundamentally revising the Fixed Assets’ depreciation system.

The following enhancements in Oracle Fixed Assets are provided to support the tax reform:

• New Depreciation Methods and Rates for the Depreciable Assets acquired on or after April 1, 2007

o New Rates added to the Straight Line Method

o 250% Declining Balance Method

• Extended Depreciation feature for calculation of Extended Depreciation for eligible assets (Depreciable asset acquired on or before March 31st, 2007 and which have been depreciated up to earlier 95% limit)

• Enhanced reporting as required for compliance

6.2. Oracle iSetup

6.2.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

6.2.1.1. iSetup APIs

Product-level iSetup API's are used by the iSetup application when exporting and importing

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importing setup data between E-Business Suite instances. The APIs help ensure that any prerequisites or dependencies required for successful completion of the export/import process are addressed. iSetup APIs are included for the following products:

� General Ledger

� Accounts Payable

� Accounts Receivable

� Assets

� Cash Management

� Credit Management

� E-Business Tax

� Legal Entity

� Public Sector Financials

� Payments

� WebExpense

6.3. Oracle Financials for Asia Pacific

6.3.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

6.3.1.1. China National Accounting Office (CNAO) Support

The China Accounting Software Data Interface Standard (CNAO) provides a financial data export feature and a cash flow statement feature to comply with legal requirements in China.

6.4. Oracle Financials for EMEA

6.4.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

6.4.1.1. XML Publisher Report Extracts for Fixed Assets and Payments

Oracle Financials is providing standard XML product extracts that European customers can leverage to create both standard and custom templates for their statutory reports. In RUP3, extracts are available for Fixed Assets and Payments.

6.4.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)

6.4.2.1. XML Publisher Report Extracts for Fixed Assets, Cash Management, General Ledger, Subledger Accounting, Receivables, Bill Presentment, Payables, Regional Localizations, and Financials Common Modules

Oracle Financials is providing standard XML product extracts that European customers can

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can leverage to create both standard and custom templates for their statutory reports. In RUP4, extracts are available for Fixed Assets, Cash Management, General Ledger, Subledger Accounting, Receivables, Bill Presentment, Payables, Regional Localizations, and Financials Common Modules.

6.4.2.2. UK Reverse Charges VAT

Reverse charge VAT involves inversing the tax liable party from the “Seller of Goods” to the “Purchaser of Goods” under certain conditions for domestic transactions within EU countries. The UK was the first country to apply these rules on June 1st, 2007. Noncompliance of this law will carry heavy fines, as indicated by the UK Tax Authorizes. Additional EU countries will soon implement the directive.

With this release, Oracle enables you to comply with this new UK VAT regulation by identifying reverse charge VAT transactions and ensuring the appropriate tax rules are applied. A reverse charge message is printed on sales invoices and a UK Reversed Charges VAT report is available.

6.5. Oracle Financials for India

6.5.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

6.5.1.1. Financials for India: Statutory Updates

Oracle Financials for India has provided features that fulfill legal and statutory requirements. The new features available in RUP3 are:

� “Tax Collected at Source” Tax type

� Enhanced capability of additional Tax Precedence’s

� Option of changing taxes on receipts

� Additional CVD tax type and Secondary and Higher Education Cass for each Tax type

� Ability to track and report Service Tax by Inventory Organization and Service Type

6.5.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)

6.5.2.1. Financials for India: Statutory Updates and Forward-Ported Bug Fixes

Oracle Financials for India has provided features that fulfill legal and statutory requirements. The new features available in RUP4 are:

� Tax support for inter-organization inventory transfers

� Tax support in iSupplier

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� Tax support in iProcurement

� Tax support in Projects, Costing and Billing

� Correct encumbrance accounting with taxes

RUP4 also includes many bug fixes that were forward ported from 11i.

6.6. Oracle Payables

6.6.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

6.6.1.1. Payables: US Form 1099 Legislative Changes

This patch incorporates all 2006 1099 changes that were mandated by the IRS. Payables leveraged the XML Publisher functionality, while implementing these changes.

Details of the change:

� For all Forms, Payment Year, Field Positions 2 – 5, will be incremented to update the four-digit reporting year (2005 to 2006), unless reporting prior year data.

� Two fields were deleted, Replacement Alpha Character, positions 21-22 and Electronic File name for a Replacement File, positions 396-410.

� The Contact Email Address was expanded to 50 positions. This means several other fields have new positions. Also the Vendor Contact Email Address was deleted. The new field positions are as follows:

o Contact Email Address, positions 359 – 408

o Cartridge Tape File Indicator, positions 409 – 410

6.6.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)

6.6.2.1. Payables: US Form 1099 Legislative Changes

RUP4 incorporates all of the 2006 US Form 1099 changes that were mandated by the IRS:

� For all forms, Payment Year (field positions 2–5) will be incremented to update the four-digit reporting year (2005 to 2006), unless reporting prior year data.

� Two fields were deleted—Replacement Alpha Character (field positions 21–22) and Electronic File Name for a Replacement File (field positions 396–410).

� Contact Email Address was expanded to 50 positions and Vendor Contact Email Address was deleted. This has resulted in the following new field positions:

o Contact Email Address (field positions 359–408)

o Cartridge Tape File Indicator, positions 409–410

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Payables leveraged the XML Publisher functionality to implement these changes.

6.7. Oracle Payments

6.7.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

6.7.1.1. Master Card ‘S’ Record Compliance

‘S’ record is the code returned by the Master card in response to a Card security verification request. Master card now requires the 'S' record for the settlement processing requests sent by 'Direct marketing companies'. Payments application would include the card security verification code while sending the settlement file. This is applicable to only Direct Marketing companies.

6.7.1.2. Visa Compliance Table / Discover Qualification Table for FDC

As a part of an initiative to increase security for the Discoverer Credit Card transactions, new data elements have been introduced to the Discoverer authorization file ('Discover qualification data'). Oracle Payments application will receive these additional data elements in the authorization file and will store this information on the database. This information will be included while sending the actual settlement file to the payment processor.

6.7.1.3. Amex CAPN Enhancement

Amex CAPN is a new initiative to increase security for the American Express credit card transactions. A new transaction id and POS data field are returned with the authorization response when customers pay using Amex. Oracle Payments application stores that information and sends it during the settlement of the payment to Amex.

6.7.1.4. FDC Servlet Load Balancing

FDC North is a processor model payment system. iPayment integrates with FDC for credit card/purchase card processing on the funds capture side. The current integration in 11i/FP.G and also in R12 has the following limitations:

� FDC North servlet cannot be load balanced because it uses text file (BatchGenMap.txt ) for processing purposes.

� Two processes cannot share a text file concurrently. If two processes share the same file, then each will attempt to write into the file at some point, and this will overwrite whatever was written by the other process. Customers, who implement iPayment integration with FDC North, run into this issue when they attempt to load balance the FDC North servlet. For this reason, we have advised customers who implement FDC North integration, that they cannot load balance the servlet.

� The text file (BatchGenMap.txt) created is a mapping file used by the Transmission Servlet for keeping track of batches sent to FDC North and was used in batch query to recognize the status of the batches processed by FDC.

� The new solution eliminates the need for text file by deriving all the data needed for batch queries from the IBY data model itself. With this elimination, the FDC North servlet was made capable of being load balanced.

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6.7.2. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6)

6.7.2.1. Multiple Divisions per Settlement Batch Enhancement

The Settlement batch process in Oracle Payments generates a number of files, based on system setup. Before 12.0.6, for large customers with multiple internal divisions, the number of files generated can exceed the daily limit set by third party payment processors, due to some limitations within Oracle Payments. In 12.0.6, the payment system accounts with the same set of transmission configurations are being grouped in to a single settlement batch file which reduces the number of settlement batch files generated in a day.

6.7.2.2. Paymentech Certification

Oracle Payments was certified with Paymentech for seamless payment transmissions.

6.7.2.3. SEPA Credit Transfer Initiation Messages

A SEPA Credit Transfer is a payment instrument for the execution of credit transfers in Euro between customer payment accounts located in SEPA. This enhancement creates SEPA Credit Transfer initiation messages for payments in SEPA, per the ISO 20022 framework and SEPA Credit Transfer Scheme implementation guidelines.

6.8. Oracle Public Sector Financials International

6.8.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

6.8.1.1. Uptake of Construction Industry Scheme and Dossier Functionality

Oracle Public Sector Financials International Dossier and Construction Industry Scheme functionality is now available in Release 12.

� Dossier (DOS) functionality controls the movement of budgetary funds using predefined budgetary rule sets that transfer funds between budget organizations. DOS in R12 has been modified to uptake the new R12 Ledger Architecture.* In addition to functionality previously available in the 11i release, Dossier users can now define and execute Dossier processes for multiple ledgers from a single user responsibility, and utilize data access sets to define the level of data within ledgers that a user can view and/or modify.

� Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) functionality allows the verification and accurate calculation of withholding taxes for subcontractors based on the latest 2007 HRMC reforms, and has been enhanced to leverage new R12 architectural features. CIS in R12 has been modified to uptake MOAC and the movement of AP Suppliers to TCA.* In addition to functionality previously available in the 11i release, CIS users operating in a shared services organization can more efficiently generate and submit monthly returns for subcontractors for multiple operating units without having to switch between user responsibilities. The operating units CIS users can access are defined within a Multiple Organization Access Control (MOAC) security profile option.

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* See the R12 documentation library for additional information on the R12 Ledger Architecture, MOAC and TCA.

6.8.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)

6.8.2.1. Extension of Oracle Financials Functionality

Oracle Public Sector Financials International extends Oracle Financials functionality and provides the basis for an integrated financial management solution for public sector agencies.

Oracle Public Sector Financials International provides extensions to the following products:

� Oracle General Ledger

� Oracle Assets

� Oracle Payables

� Oracle Receivables

� Oracle Purchasing

� Application Object Library

Features include:

� Multi-Org Access Control

� Centralized and Configurable Accounting

� Integrated Budgetary Control

� TCA Integration

Features replaced by core functionality:

� AR Combined Basis Accounting (ARC)

� Cash and Accrual Support (COM)

� Enhanced Funds Checker (EFC)

� Gross Based Vat (GBV)

� Multi-Period Posting (MPP)

� Single Third Party (STP)

� Dunning (DUN)

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6.8.2.2. Inflation Accounting for Assets

Modified Historic Accounting (MHCA) is obsolete in R12 and has been replaced by Inflation Accounting for Assets (IAC).

6.8.3. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6)

6.8.3.1. Contract Commitments Integration with Self Service Purchasing

Contract Commitments with Dual Budgetary Control is now integrated with Self Service Purchasing. Users can now create purchase orders and perform funds check and funds reserve using the self service version of Purchasing, when using Contract Commitments with the Dual Budgetary Control feature enabled.

6.9. Oracle Subledger Accounting

6.9.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

6.9.1.1. Supporting References

Supporting References allows customers to capture any piece of information from a transaction and store it as part of the accounting entry. Furthermore, customers can automatically maintain balances by supporting references. So for example, a customer could choose to capture the product and sales channel for all revenue transactions, and store the revenue balance broken out by product and sales channel.

6.10. Oracle Transfer Pricing

6.10.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

6.10.1.1. Add-on Rates

Users can apply Transfer Pricing adjustments to an instrument record to supplement standard charge and credit amounts produced with the Transfer Pricing application. Adjustments can be applied for Liquidity Premiums, Basis Risk Cost, Pricing Incentives (to line managers), Breakage Charges or Other Adjustments defined by the user.

6.10.1.2. Flexible Column Output

Users can optionally define alternate output columns to populate with Transfer Pricing and Option Cost calculation results for each customer account table within a given Transfer Pricing process. Users can output more than one transfer rate or option cost result for each customer account record to support what-if analysis and generation of multi-dimensional profitability measures.

6.10.1.3. Cross Currency Copy of Assumptions

A new feature has been provided to make it easier for users to define certain business rules used within the Transfer Pricing application. Users operating in a multi-currency environment can now copy product assumptions defined for one currency to other currencies, in total or selectively, when defining Transfer Pricing, Prepayment and Adjustment Business Rule types.

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6.10.1.4. Import, Export, and Migrate Business Rules

This feature allows users to create backups of business rules and migrate dimensions, dimension members, dimension hierarchies and certain application business rules from one instance to another. This feature uptakes changes to the Enterprise Performance Foundation’s import, export and migrate implementation, which were previously shipped with R12 and which replaced equivalent functionality in the 11i release.

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7. New and Changed Features in Human Resources

7.1. Oracle Advanced Benefits

7.1.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

7.1.1.1. Reopen Life Events Process

This enhancement provides the benefits users the flexibility to reopen a large volume of life events as a batch. Previously, they had to be manually reopened individually. In combination with the "OE Window Modification" functionality, users can extend enrollment windows after reopening the processed events.

7.1.1.2. Open Enrollment Window Modification

There is now a concurrent process titled "Manage Open Enrollment Window" which provides the flexibility to modify an existing Open Enrollment Window’s Enrollment Period End Date, Processing End Date, Default Enrollment Date, or Provide a Number of Days Extension.

7.1.1.3. Tracking Ineligible to Ineligible Row Creation

When the "Track Ineligible" flag is on, and a participant was initially found ineligible for the compensation object, this functionality writes a new row for a subsequent life event (even though the participant remains ineligible). The new ineligibility row has updated derived factor values for tracking and calculations.

7.1.1.4. Additional Input Parameters for Fast Formulas

Person_id can now be passed an an input value in Fast Formulas. In the past, Person_id had to be derived from the Assignment_id.

7.2. Oracle Compensation Workbench

7.2.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2)

7.2.1.1. View All Compensation Detail Reports without Changing Responsibilities

RUP2 delivers the ability for compensation administrators to view Compensation Detail Reports based on the HR security profile instead of the manager hierarchy. For example, administrators can now view all employees of a particular country without having to access or switch to a senior executive responsibility.

Additional enhancements to the Compensation Detail Report page include:

� Employee information, which was previously displayed in a single table, is now grouped using tabs.

� The plan selection page and the parameters page of the old report have been replaced by filters that can be hidden in the report page.

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� A new check box, Do Not Restrict By Hierarchy is added to the filters.

� A salary statistics tab will display plans that have salary adjustment. The report can be downloaded in a spreadsheet format based on filter specifications.

7.2.1.2. Provide Responsibility-Based Plan Access to Administrators

This enhancement allows organizations to regulate administrator access to plan information in Compensation Workbench. In Release 12, administrators have uncontrolled access to all plans in the Compensation Workbench setup, presenting potential security and data privacy issues. Now, an administrator can be granted super administrator privileges, enabling him/her to access new setup pages where he/she can map the responsibilities of other administrators to the plans that they are allowed to access. These same setup pages can be used to revoke access, if needed.

This security mechanism is not enabled by default and does not change the default behavior of Compensation Workbench. If Plan Security is required, super administrators can enable it from the Compensation Workbench preferences page.

7.2.1.3. Reduce Post Processing Time between Multiple Business Organizations

To enable more powerful filtering capabilities in the Compensation Workbench Post Process, a new parameter—Person Selection Rule—has been added to the Post Process parameters page. By selecting a rule (or fast formula) defined as type ’Person Selection’ users can filter the employee population eligible for processing. Multiple organizations can now be processed in parallel, for example, by using a Person Selection rule defined to identify certain employees across different organizations.

This new parameter is optional and is available when submitting the Compensation Workbench Post Process request from the Compensation Workbench Administrator’s home page or as a concurrent request from the Professional User Interface.

7.2.1.4. Perform Dynamic Calculations in Multiple Columns

This enhancement allows users to define dynamic calculations on the rate columns, specifically the worksheet amount rates, separately from the custom columns (custom segments 1 to 20). Additionally, users can define a condition and condition results using column names, and define custom errors and warnings based on their requirements.

This feature needs to be configured and enabled by the Administrators; therefore customers who do not wish to use it will not be impacted.

7.3. Oracle HRMS for Australia

7.3.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

7.3.1.1. Nominate Employee Termination Payments (ETP) as Transitional or Non-Transitional Life Benefit Payments

Employers pay a lump sum amount to employees on their termination or their death referred to as Employment Termination Payment (or ETP). Employment Termination Payment were previously called as Eligible Termination Payments.

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Employees receive the employee termination payments as:

� Life Benefit ETP or Non- transitional Life Benefit ETP - paid to employees on their termination for any reason other than death

� Transitional Life Benefit ETP - paid to employees between 1 July 2007 and 30 June 2012

� Death Benefit ETP - paid either to a trustee, dependent, or a non-dependent on employee’s death

Employers can now nominate whether a Life Benefit ETP Payment is a transitional ETP or a non-transitional ETP and if it is part of a previously paid ETP. These ETPs can be taxable or tax-free. You can now calculate the taxable and tax-free components of these payments. The Pre 1 July 1983 component of these ETPs and Invalidity ETP Payments are tax-free. Any other payments other than these components are included in the taxable components. The taxation of ETP’s now includes a threshold that depends on preservation age of the employee. The date of birth of employees determines their preservation age. The taxable components of ETP Payments are taxed according to the employee’s age as on 30th June of the current financial year.

Oracle HRMS supports the taxation of these ETP payments to include the taxable and non-taxable components. You can also calculate the tax of Transitional ETPs and partial payment of ETPs.

Oracle also supports the new layout of the ETP Payment Summary Layout to meet the ATO requirements beginning 01-Jul-2007.

7.3.1.2. Comply with Statutory Updates for EOY 2007

Oracle HRMS supports statutory changes for End of Year 2007 for Australia, which include:

� Change to rates to calculate the HELP deductions and the Student Financial Supplement Schemes (SFSS)

� Calculate the HELP and SFSS deductions when an employee has no general exemption

� Change to the Medicare Levy, PAYG tax, and Senior Australian tax rates according to the May budget

� Increase in Superannuation and Lump sum D thresholds

� Removal of the Post 30 June 1983 ETP concession on tax

� Change to the rate for annual leave on termination if less than $300

� Reduced percentage of Payroll Tax for South Australia

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7.3.1.3. Override the Eligibility Set on the Element to Pay the Long Service Leave Amount

You can now override the eligibility set on the element and pay the prorated long service leave balance amount regardless of whether it is accrual or entitlement.

Before you pay the employee, you must end-date the element Long Service Leave on Termination and re-link it.

7.3.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)

7.3.2.1. Multiple ETP Payment Summary

Users can now make multiple employment termination payments (ETP) and generate separate ETP payment summary for each ETP payment type. Individual thresholds determine tax for each ETP. Additionally, users can create a new record in the Termination window to enter multiple ETP payments or add a new ETP element.

7.3.3. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5)

7.3.3.1. Pay Multiple Employment Termination Payments (ETP) and Generate Separate ETP Payment Summaries

You can now pay multiple ETPs and generate separate ETP Payment Summary for each payment type. Oracle HRMS uses appropriate individual thresholds to tax each ETP.

You can now create a new record in the Termination window to enter multiple ETPs or add a new ETP element. You can also rollover amounts from either the Transitional Part of Previous ETP and Transitional Not Part of Previous ETP or both.

7.3.3.2. Display Multiple ETP’s on Termination Report

Currently, the Termination Report does not display multiple ETP’s that an employee receives on termination or their primary address. With this release, the Termination Report now displays the various ETP payments that employee receives on termination within the same financial year. You can now view the Transitional ETP and Non-Transitional ETP within the Termination Report. Additionally, the report displays the employee’s primary address.

7.3.3.3. Use the Changed ETP Payment Summary Layout 2007

Starting 01-July-2007, the layout of the ETP Payment Summary report has changed. A new postscript layout for the ETP Payment Summary report is now available to meet legislative requirements.

7.3.3.4. Report Employee’s Tax File Number (TFN) to Super Fund

Starting 1 July 2007, employers must now report an employee’s TFN to Super fund. Previously, it was optional for employers to report the TFN so the default was No. The default value is now set to Yes on the Superannuation Guarantee Information element.

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7.3.3.5. Calculate Extra Withholding Amounts for Advance Payments

Oracle HRMS now enables you to calculate the extra withholding amounts for advance payments based on advance earnings and advance periods. Previously, you could calculate the extra withholding from the normal payments only.

7.3.3.6. Deduct Retro Pretax Amounts from Retro Earnings

Oracle HRMS now supports the deduction of the retro pretax amounts from retro earnings of each time span separately as follows:

� Retro pretax for current financial year from retro earning for the current financial year and then taxed in the original period

� Retro pretax for previous financial year less than 12 months from retro earnings for previous financial year than 12 months and then taxed marginally

� Retro pretax for greater than 12 months deducted from retro earnings for greater than 12 months and then taxed marginally

7.4. Oracle HRMS for China

7.4.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

7.4.1.1. Specify Tax and Social Insurance Contribution Area Codes Using a Maximum of 3 Characters

With this release, you can now use a maximum of three characters to specify the tax (TAX) and social insurance contribution (SIC) area codes, for example, BJN for Beijing. Previously you could only use two characters to specify these codes.

7.4.2. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5)

7.4.2.1. Count the Year of Service for Calculating Severance Payments

According to Article 47 in the new Labor Law, effective from 01-JAN-2008, while counting the Year Of Service (YOS) to calculate the severance payments, the period not less than six months but less than a year is now counted as one year and any period of less than six months is considered as half-year. Previously, any period less than one year was considered as one year.

Oracle HRMS for China meets this statutory requirement by modifying the logic to count the Year Of Service (YOS) while calculating severance payment using CN_SEVERANCE_PAY and CN_TAX_CALCULATION formulae.

7.4.2.2. Display Employee Numbers Greater Than Five Characters Using Direct Deposit

The output of the Direct Deposit Process (China - CCBS Format) now displays employee numbers greater than 5 characters up to a maximum length of 8 characters.

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7.4.2.3. Represent Tax Areas and Social Insurance Contribution Area Codes Using a Maximum of Three Characters

With this release, the valuesets for the tax areas and Social Insurance Contribution Area (HR_CN_TAX_AREA and HR_CN_SIC_AREA) work with lookup codes up to 3 characters in length. The concurrent programs and flexfields that use these valuesets are modified. Previously, only two characters were allowed.

7.4.2.4. Use New Tax Exempt Amount to Meet Statutory Requirements

With effect from 01-MAR-2008, the tax-exempt amount for Chinese employees is changed from 1600 Yuan to 2000 Yuan. Oracle HRMS includes the updated the tax exempt amount for the cities of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Shenzhen.

7.4.2.5. Calculate the Average Monthly Working Days Using New Value

According to the notice of How to Calculate the Average Monthly Working Time, issued on 3 January 2008, the number of public holidays has increased from 10 days to 11 days. Oracle HRMS supports and includes the changes to monthly average working days calculation effective from 01-Jan-2008 to meet this new requirement. The global AVG_MONTH_WORKING_DAYS that holds the average working days in a month now has a new value of 20.83.

7.5. Oracle HRMS for Denmark

7.5.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

7.5.1.1. Record Maternity/Adoption Absences

To enable Maternity/Adoption absence recording, monitoring, and legislative allowances management, you can use the five new Absence categories. Each Absence category has a descriptive flexfield you can use to enter the necessary information for the Maternity /Adoption absence.

7.5.1.2. Select Holiday Accrual during Maternity/Adoption Leave

When you set up employees for Maternity/Adoption leave, you can select whether or not to accrue holiday hours during the absence. On each Absence category descriptive flexfield there is a Yes/No flag that defaults to Yes, and you can use it to indicate if the accrual is required or not.

7.5.1.3. Record and Use the Public Holiday Accrual and Payment Rates

With the predefined Public Holiday Pay element, you can pay employees during public holidays. To record and use the Public Holiday payment rates of accrual and payment, use the new fields at the Legal Employer and Assignment levels.

7.5.1.4. Process Multiple Pension Payments for Employees Based on 2006 Legislative Changes

Based on the legislative changes for 2006, you can pay into more than one pension scheme for each employee.

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7.5.1.5. Use the Notional Pay Classification for Deduction Elements Not Payable to the Employee

You can use the new Notional Pay classification for elements that are counted for various deductions (such as, Pension) but are not paid to the employee. The elements with this classification do not appear on the payslip automatically. You must select them for printing.

7.5.1.6. Use the Enhanced Absence Maternity Element to Process Part Time Maternity Absences

The Absence Maternity element now includes Part Time Maternity processing functionality. The Part Time Maternity element is no longer available.

7.5.1.7. Use the Modified Company Car Benefits in Kind functionality

There is a change in the way Oracle HRMS calculates the age of a company car when the car is older than 3 years. With release 12.0.4, 3 years are treated as 3 income or calendar years. This calculation impacts the taxable income of the employee.

7.5.1.8. Create Lunar Period Payrolls

You can now set up payrolls using the new Lunar payroll period type. You can use this type to create a Lunar payroll for the employees who are on the 4-week payrolls. The Lunar Payroll has 13 periods with all the payroll features.

7.5.1.9. Print Batch Payslips

You can now use the Batch Printing of Payslip solution to generate the payslips as one PDF output.

7.5.1.10. Process Payments for Employees Based on 2007 Legislative Changes

Oracle HRMS provides legislative updates and changes to help you manage the processes as per the new values for 2007.

7.5.1.11. Classify the Employees as Salaried/Hourly to Process Payrolls

Prior to processing your Payroll, you can specify your employees as Salaried or Hourly. This has no impact on Payroll frequency.

7.5.1.12. Use the Balance Initialization Process

You can set up and load initial balance values before you begin to process payrolls. The balance initialization process helps you to accurately calculate legislative deductions in Oracle Payroll.

7.5.1.13. Use RetroPay Functionality to Pay Backdated Amounts to Employees

The Enhanced RetroPay core payroll process is now available for Denmark. You can use either of the two RetroPay components:

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� Correction: Use this option to recalculate tax on adjusted earnings for each period and carry forward the difference in both earnings and deductions to the current period.

� BackDate: Use this option to recalculate deductions after carrying forward the difference in earnings to the current period.

7.5.1.14. Override the use of Normal Periodic Deduction Value in Tax Calculation

You can now override the use of normal periodic deduction value and use a new element called Tax days to process taxable pay. The new tax calculation will be Tax Days multiplied by Daily Tax Deduction from the tax card.

7.5.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)

7.5.2.1. Support the Payment Electronic File Format Changes

Oracle HRMS for Denmark supports changes to the format of the payment transfer type and the record length in the Payment Electronic File submitted to the PBS.

7.6. Oracle HRMS for Finland

7.6.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

7.6.1.1. Use the New Pension Insurance Type to Generate Pension Payments and Reports

You can generate pension payments and produce reports using the TyEL Pension Insurance type, which is now the only pension insurance type available.

7.6.1.2. Generate the Statutory Payroll Reports

Oracle HRMS generates payroll reports that you can submit to tax authorities to report all payments, tax deductions, and expense payments. These reports include:

� Finnish Yearly Documents of Paid Salaries Report

� Finnish Pay Sheet Audit Report

7.6.1.3. Calculate and Report the Subsidy for Low-paid Employees

The legal employer is eligible to receive subsidies from the government for low-paid employees with certain criteria. You can calculate the amount of statutory subsidies available for the legal employer and generate the following reports to list the amount of subsidy and statutory details per low-paid employee:

� Finnish Monthly Tax Return Report

� Finnish Yearly Document Paid Report

7.6.1.4. Process Payments for Employees Based on 2007 Legislative Changes

Due to 2007 legislative changes, you can now:

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� Enter the tax percentage for the lower income limit. The lower limit is not a fixed value but can be zero or a positive value. The Tax Card element includes an input value for recording this percentage.

� Use the changed percentages for all classes of the Social Security, Daily Allowance, and Employer’s Unemployment Insurance fees.

� Use the changed age categories and reference values for the car benefit.

� Process Lunch Benefit element as a recurring element.

� Use the modified ranges for the scaled tax card.

7.6.1.5. Use the Balance Initialization Process

You can set up and load initial balance values before you begin to process payrolls. The balance initialization process helps you to accurately calculate legislative deductions in Oracle Payroll.

7.7. Oracle HRMS for Hong Kong

7.7.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

7.7.1.1. Specify the Format for Your Statement of Earnings

You can now use the global Statement of Earnings (SOE) pages to view the earnings and deduction information in your statement of earnings. You can view SOE immediately after you run payroll for all employees. Because the application reports SOE from live data, you need not archive the information.

7.7.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)

7.7.2.1. Calculate Proportionate Earnings during Changes in a Payroll Period

Oracle HRMS enables you to calculate proportionate earnings amounts whenever payroll-relevant data is changed during a payroll period, for example, if an employee joins or leaves the company during a payroll period or if an employee's pay grade changes during a payroll period. Proration support is now enabled for Hong Kong.

7.8. Oracle HRMS for India

7.8.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

7.8.1.1. Statutory Change to Exempt Employees from Paying Employee ESI Contribution

With this release, Oracle Payroll supports the ESI wage limit increase from INR 50 to INR 70 effective 1/08/07, to exempt employees from paying their contribution.

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7.8.2. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5)

7.8.2.1. Rehire Employees Before their Final Close Date

To provide greater flexibility in the hiring process, this release enables you to rehire a terminated employee before the Final Process (and after the Last Standard Process) date for their previous period of service.

7.8.2.2. Generate and Print Provident Fund Monthly Report and e-files

The Provident Fund (PF) authorities now require employers to submit a print hard copy and soft copy of their monthly PF returns for each business number in a currency period.

Oracle HRMS enables employers to record and submit:

� Regular Return - for regular payments

� Supplementary Returns - for any additional/missing payments in a regular return

� Revised Returns - for any corrections/updates in the previous returns

Employers must maintain the National Social Security Number (NSSN) for employees and record PF contributions, Penal damages (14B), 7Q details, and other miscellaneous payments. Oracle HRMS enables you to generate and submit monthly PF returns for each business number. You can record NSSN of employees using the Further Benefits Tab in the People window.You can run the following concurrent programs:

� Provident Fund Monthly Returns Archive (India) - to archive the data for the PF Monthly Returns

� India Monthly PF Returns (e-File) - to generate the e-file for PF Monthly Returns

� India Monthly PF Returns (Printed) - to generate the Printed Copy for PF Monthly Returns

7.8.2.3. Comply with Statutory Updates for 2007

The Income-Tax (Fourteenth Amendment) Rules, 2007-Amendment In Rule 3 Valuation Of Perquisites provides the following changes. Oracle HRMS supports these changes:

� Changes in accommodation perquisite rates, effective from 1-Apr-2006

� Re-introduction of perquisites, effective from 1-Apr-2008

o Motor Car

o Free Traveling, Touring

o Accommodation

o Lunch Perquisite Gift

o Voucher Or Token Perquisite

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o Credit Card Perquisite

o Club Expenditure

o Free Transport

� Section 80 C now includes the following:

o Five-Year Post Office Time Deposit Account

o Senior Citizens Savings Scheme - for those employees whose age is 60 or more in a FY

o NABARD Bank Deposits (effective from 1-Apr-2008)

7.9. Oracle HRMS for Ireland

7.9.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

7.9.1.1. Run the Tax Credit Upload Process to Validate Accurate Revenue File Checking

The Tax Credit Upload process now produces an audit report that facilitates accurate checking of the credit file upload process. This report is generated only when you run the process in Validate Only mode.

7.9.2. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5)

7.9.2.1. Comply with Recent Statutory Updates

Statutory updates support the following:

P45 Part 3/P46 XML Report: Oracle HRMS now enables to employers to use the P45 Part 3 XML report to notify the Irish Revenue of new starters. This change helps to comply with the Irish Revenue requirements. The notification generates a new tax certificate from the Revenue. If an employee has not provided a P45 document, then the employer raises a P46 to request a new Tax Certificate, Form P2c.

EHECS Report: Employers who have more than 50 workers need to submit a mandatory Earnings Hours and Employment Cost Survey (EHECS) Report to the Central Statistics Office (CSO) of Ireland every quarter.

Budget Changes: Irish Budget changes for 2008 require the following changes to Oracle HRMS:

The following values change effective 2008:

� Increased taxation and Personal Tax Credits bands

� Increased Tax Credit from 1,760 to 1,830

� Increased Standard Rate Cut Off Point from 34,000 to 35,400

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� Increased employee contribution ceiling based on cumulative earnings for all employment types from 48,800 to 50,700

� Increased threshold for payment of Health Contribution from 480 per week to 500 per week and annual threshold from 24,960 to 26,000

� Increased weekly threshold from 339 to 352

Additionally, predefined global values and user table values are changed to accommodate the statutory requirements.

7.10. Oracle HRMS for Japan

7.10.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

7.10.1.1. Print Employee Number on Published Insurance Premium Exemption and Spouse Special Deduction Form for Salary Earner

You can now print the employee number on published Insurance Premium Exemption and Spouse Special Deduction Form for Salary Earner.

7.10.1.2. Calculate and Archive Accident Insurance Information

You can now calculate accident insurance information and archive it in the Insurance Premium Exemption and Spouse Special Deduction Form for Salary Earner self-service pages. You can also now override the default accident insurance premium displayed these pages.

7.10.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)

7.10.2.1. Statutory Changes for 2007

Users can now:

� Enter earthquake insurance and premium exemption details and print them on the Insurance Premium Exemption and Spouse Special Exemption Form for Salary Earner (ISDF) self-service page.

� Print Social Insurance reports on a single page.

� Calculate the accident insurance premium and print it on the ISDF self-service page.

� Use the improved Social Insurance report format. Additionally, use a combined new report for the Address Change Report for the Insured Employee and the Dependent reports.

� Generate the ISDF report using Oracle XML Publisher. A new archiver process is available to generate the ISDF report.

� Use the improved format of the Withholding Tax Report for Earned Income.

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7.11. Oracle HRMS for Korea

7.11.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

7.11.1.1. Meet the Statutory Updates for the YEA Tax Receipt for 2007

National Tax Service (NTS) of Korea introduced a new layout for the Year End Adjustment Tax Receipt to meet the statutory updates for 2007. Oracle supports this new layout to display the following:

� Stock Purchase Option Execution Earning - Employees can now report to the NTS, the monetary amount they earn for any stock purchase as a Stock Purchase Option Execution Earning. This amount is taxable. Oracle provides a new balance Stock Purchase Option Execution Earning to record this amount.

� Research Payment - The research payment that employers pay employees for research purposes is now a part of the Non-Taxable amount. Previously, this amount was a part of the Other Non-taxable amount. Oracle provides a new balance Research Payment to record this amount.

� Exemption amounts and the number of additional children - You can now display the exemption amount and the number of additional children for the employee.

� Pension Premium and National Pension Premium Exemption amounts - To meet the latest statutory requirements given by the NTS to the Tax Receipt report, the report now displays the Pension Premium and National Pension Premium Exemption amounts as separate items. As of this release, the Tax Receipt report includes these items, but displays blank values for the amounts.

� Female Exemption and Senior Exemption - You can now display if the employees receive exemption for female and senior dependents. You can also record if the employees receive exemptions for senior dependents and for any additional children.

7.11.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)

7.11.2.1. Comply with Statutory Changes for 2007

Users can now:

� Use the improved templates for year-end reporting.

� Claim an employee’s withheld income tax amount in the monthly payroll cycle and bonus.

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7.11.3. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5)

7.11.3.1. Comply with the Updated Layout for Year End Adjustment Ledger Report and the RTF Template

The KR Year End Adjustment Ledger Report and the RTF Template now display the Stock Purchase Option Execution Earning and the Research Payment information to meet the latest statutory requirements.

7.11.3.2. Display Non-Taxable Earnings in Non-Statutory and Statutory Separation Pay Tax Receipt

To comply with the latest Korea 2007 updates, the Non-Statutory/Statutory Separation Pay Tax Receipt layout displays the non-taxable earnings in Separation Pay Tax Receipt for both current and previous employers.

7.11.3.3. Use the Updated Exemption Rate for Investment Partnership

The YEA Entry window and the YEA SSHR pages now include the changed prompts for the Financing Types as Financing (15%) and Financing (10%) to meet the statutory requirements. The maximum limit for the Financing Type1 is now modified to 50% of the Taxable Income and the percentage of the Financing Type1 is now changed from 30% to 15% effective from 01-Jan-2007. The income exemption rate for Investment Partnership Financing (Type2) has changed from 15% to 10% from 1st January 2007.

7.11.3.4. Calculate the Tax Break Amount Using the New Value

Previously, the political donations till KW 100,000 were eligible for tax exemptions. According to the new guideline, calculating the tax break amount based on Political Donation up to KW 100,000 is now changed.

The calculation for tax break amount based on political donation has been updated. A new global variable KR_YEA_POLITICAL_DONATION_EXEM_FAC with a value of 1.1 is available for calculating the tax break amount effective from 01-Jan-2007.

7.11.3.5. Identify Korean Citizens as Foreigners and be Eligible for Tax Exemptions

You can now identify Korean citizens as foreigners and exempt them from certain tax regulations, if they own a residence in a foreign country. By recording the employee as a foreigner, the logic to calculate taxes varies.

You can now record if the employee owns a residence in a foreign country using the new Foreign Residency check box on the Income Tax form.

7.11.3.6. Record Donation Receipt Number for Easy Identification

You can now record the donation receipt number issued by the recipient of the donation. Oracle HRMS includes a new field called Receipt No. in the Donation Details section of the Donation Tax Exemption tab on the YEA Entry window. You can enter alphanumeric characters. Alternatively, you can record this information on the Extra Assignment Information DFF and YEA sections of the Self-Service Entry Page.

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7.11.3.7. Exclude Double Exemption for Medical Expenses

Starting 2007 YEA, the double exemption in medical expense exemption derived from the medical payment paid in cards - credit cards and direct deposit cards is no longer available. Therefore, the double exemption amount, calculated from the medical expense paid in cards is now excluded from the cards exemption.

7.11.3.8. Comply with the YEA Reclaim Sheet Layout Changes

The National Tax Service of Korea has introduced a new layout of Year End Adjustment Reclaim Sheet to meet statutory tax changes for 2007. Oracle HRMS now supports the new version for 2007 for legislative compliance. You can use the Korean version to submit YEA information to the NTS. You can now view the additional children exemption flag and the pension exemption details within the Reclaim Sheet.

7.11.3.9. Comply with the Latest Statutory Changes for 2008

Oracle HRMS supports the following statutory changes for 2008:

� New tax rates for earnings

� Card Exemption Rate is now 20% of the amount exceeding 20% of the taxable earning

� Change to the maximum exemption limit for specified donation to 15% from 10% effective from 01-Jan-2008 and 20% effective from 01-Jan-2010

7.11.3.10. Use the Updated Health Insurance and National Pension Premium Rates

From 1 January 2008, the Health Insurance Premium rate is changed to 5.08%. Employers pay 50% of the insurance premium and employee pays the remaining amount.

Oracle HRMS uses the new rates to calculate the National Pension Premium as follows:

National Pension Premium = Monthly Earning * National Pension Premium Rate

7.11.3.11. Calculate Tax Exemptions for Employees With a New Born or Adopted Child

Starting 1 January 2008, employees are eligible for an exemption of 2,000,000 for expenses on a newborn baby or an adopted child. You can now record the expenses for newborn baby or adopted child using the Contact EIT. You can also record the expenses for a dependent using the Income Tax window and SSHR Yea Entry page.

The YEA and TAX formulas are modified to calculate the tax exemption for employees who have had a new born or adopted child.

7.11.3.12. Use the Updated Foreign Worker Income Exemption Rates

Starting 1 January 2007, the income exemption for foreign worker is 30% of taxable earning (item 21 of 2006 YEA Tax Receipt). The non-taxable earnings are not included within the foreign worker income exemption calculations.

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7.11.3.13. Record Both Summary and Details for Medical Expenses

Previously, you could record the medical expenses either using the Summary region or the Details region on the Medical Exemption tab of the YEA Entry window but not both.

According to the new NTS requirements, you can now record both the summary and details. Oracle HRMS enables you to record both or a part of the medical expense information using the Summary region and the remaining in the Details region.

A new check box - Medical Expense Details Required is now available that enables you to record in both the regions. The application uses the total amount for calculation purposes.

7.12. Oracle HRMS for Kuwait

7.12.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

7.12.1.1. Produce Report 166 for the PIFSS Based on Revised Rates

The Public Institution for Social Security (PIFSS) social insurance schemes for employees include pension fund contributions. As of August 1, 2007, the rate for the employee pension fund contributions increases from 1 to 2 percent, resulting in an increase from 6 to 7 percent for the total employee social insurance. This release revises the values used to calculate the contributions and to produce the Report 166 for the PIFSS. The application now calculates the employee pension fund contributions based on 2 percent (KW_SI_CALCULATION). When you generate Report 166 after August 1 2007, the application displays the appropriate result for the employee pension deduction.

7.13. Oracle HRMS for Mexico

7.13.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

7.13.1.1. Manage Social Security Information through Integrated Archiver

The various Social Security reporting archivers have been consolidated into a single process: Social Security Archiver.

The Social Security Archiver is a concurrent program that archives data used for reporting to the social security institutes. The program archives employee and salary information related to the following areas:

� Employee hire or re-hire

� Personal data, such as National Identifier and Name

� Changes to employee’s salary

� Employee separation/termination

� Absences and Leaves

� Disabilities

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� INFONAVIT data

� SUA transactions

You can then generate the appropriate statutory reports through the following mechanisms:

� Social Security Affiliation Report (employment and salary change reporting)

� SUA Interface Extract (SUA transactions)

� Annual Work Risk Incident Report (Work Risk Incident Premium reporting)

7.13.1.2. Successfully Create and Save GRE Organizations

You can now successfully create and save GRE organizations.

7.13.1.3. Implement and Archive Change of GRE for Employees

When you perform a change of GRE for an employee, that change is now recognized and archived by the Social Security Archive process.

7.13.1.4. Specify Names of Over 15 Characters as Timecard Approvers

When specifying a timecard approver, you can now select employees with names of over 15 characters in length.

7.13.1.5. Specify Legal Employer when Running the DIM Report

When running the DIM report, you are now able to select the Legal Employer field now properly populates its list of values.

7.13.1.6. Run QuickPay with IDW Elements in Spanish Instances

You can now run a Quickpay/Payroll Run on a Spanish language instance, and it will not generate errors when it processes the Integrated Daily Wage element.

7.13.1.7. View IDSE File Content More Easily

When viewing the IDSE file output, its content now appears on multiple lines rather on a single line.

7.13.1.8. Access State Tax Rules DFF without Errors

In environments where both US and Mexican legislations are running, you can now view the State Tax Rules descriptive flexfield without generating errors.

7.13.1.9. Use the hr_mx_ex_employee_api.mx_final_process_emp API without Errors

You can now execute the hr_mx_ex_employee_api.mx_final_process_emp API without generating errors.

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7.13.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)

7.13.2.1. North American 2007 Reporting Enhancements and Statutory Updates

Oracle HRMS supports statutory changes for End of Year 2007 for Mexico, which include:

� Enhancement to the ISR Tax Format 37.

� Enhancement to the Information Declaration Report (DIM) program.

� Revised statutory tax rates for Colima, Guanajuato, Morelos, Puebla and Queretaro.

7.13.3. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5)

7.13.3.1. Comply with Employer State Tax Changes

The Employer State Tax has been updated with the most recent taxability rules.

7.13.3.2. Comply with ISR Tax Changes

Updates have been made for annual ISR tax tables under article 177 and 178 for Year 2007. These rates are effective from 1st Jan 2007.

7.14. Oracle HRMS for Netherlands

7.14.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

7.14.1.1. Make the Civilian Service Number Optional (Previously the SOFI Number)

The SOFI number is now called Civilian Service Number or BSN.

With this release, you can also use the new HR: Make National Identifier Optional profile option to make the SOFI Number optional.

7.14.1.2. Use New Dutch First Day Notification Report

With this release, you can use the new Dutch First Day Notification Report to meet statutory requirements for an employee attached to an HR organization with tax details. This is applicable if an employee is hired, terminated, rehired, or if you update employee records on or after 4th July 2006.

7.14.1.3. Group Multiple Assignments by Employer

You can now use the new Assignment Process Group field on the Dutch Business Group EIT to group multiple assignments by employer or payroll.

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7.14.1.4. Use New Profile Options

With this release, you can use the following new profile options:

� Security profile enabled in the Absence Action List Report and Re-integration Actions Report.

� HR: Display Special Rate Annual Income on Assignment to calculate and display the Special Rate Annual Income. If you set this profile option to No, then the application does not calculate and display the Special Rate Annual Income.

� HR: Default Income Code to set the default income code for all employees.

7.14.1.5. Support Refund of ZVW Contributions to Employees

With this release, Oracle Payroll supports the refund of ZVW contributions to the employees by the tax authorities or employers. You can perform retro calculation when calculating ZVW refund contributions.

7.14.1.6. Include Latest Assignment Details in the Dutch ATS Reports

Oracle Payroll now provides functionality to attach assignments to a payroll throughout the year and display the assignment details in the Dutch ATS Report.

The report displays only those assignments that have payroll runs. Previously, the Dutch Annual Tax Statement Archive did not archive any assignments that you attached later than the beginning of the year.

7.14.1.7. Use Enhanced Life Saving Scheme Features

Oracle Payroll now provides enhanced support for the Life Saving Scheme, so participating employees can withdraw the amount saved to compensate for unpaid leave or in case of retirement. Additionally, employees withdrawing money from their LSS receive a discount, the Life Cycle Leave Discount (LCLD), which is paid as part of the Net Earnings of the employee. To satisfy legislative requirements, any unused LCLD is not carried forward to the next pay period.

7.14.1.8. Use Updated Reports to Support Legislative Changes

With this release, Oracle Payroll provides you with updated reports that use new balances and subsidies for travel allowance, retro travel allowances, and wage tax subsidies to support legislative changes.

The following changes are made to the reports:

� Remuneration report:

o Displays Yes if your yearly values of Travel Allowance or Retro Travel Allowance are non-zero for the assignment in the Travel Allowance indicator.

o Modified to change the display of ZVW Refund amount.

o Displays LSS changes

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� Payslip:

o Displays the Travel Allowance and Retro Travel Allowance values along with the Net Earnings in the Payments and Deductions section.

o Modified to show ZVW refund and Retro ZVW Refund.

� Wage report:

o Displays the Travel Allowance and Retro Travel Allowance values along with the Net Earnings.

o Displays the public sector and own risk cover details.

o Supports reporting for Lunar Month Period Type.

7.14.1.9. Use New Wage Subsidies for Payroll Processing

Wage Tax subsidy now supports two new types of subsidies - Student and EVC. The Wages report displays two new elements, Wage Tax Subsidy EVC and Retro Wage Tax Subsidy in the Wage Tax Subsidy Education Amount.

7.14.1.10. Support for Late Hire Processing in Payroll

With this release, Oracle Payroll supports computation of tax and SI based on the salary-earned date for the payroll process of new hires, where the date paid is in different period.

7.14.1.11. Use the New Adjustment Component to Carry Forward Earnings

With this release, you can use the new Adjustment RetroPay component to calculate deductions after carrying forward the difference only in earnings to the current period. The existing Standard RetroPay component (now changed to the Correction component) calculates deductions by processing tax and social insurance in the original period.

7.14.1.12. Process Tax and SI Balances using AAOP instead of IP High and IP Low Pension Schemes

Starting from January 2007, a new ABP Pension Type -- ABP Disability Insurance (AAOP) is introduced. This pension type replaces the existing IP High and IP Low pension types. The ABP Reporting functionality is updated to reflect these changes. The new pension type is reported via Record 09 with a contribution code of AP.

7.14.1.13. Use the Modified Dutch Annual Tax Statement Report

The Dutch Annual Tax Statement Report has been updated to support legislative changes and the following are the changes:

� Replaced the Insured for ZFW field with the Wage for ZVW field. The Wage for ZVW field reports the YTD balance for ZVW basis that contains normal and special rate calculation.

� Replaced the ZFW or Private Health Insurance Contribution field with the Deducted contribution for ZVW field. The Deducted contribution for ZVW field

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reports the YTD balance for employee contribution for ZVW that contains normal and special rate calculation.

� Changed the layout of the address lines to comply with the Dutch format of address.

� Added a new field called the Period of Service to the report. This field displays the period of service of the employee in the current year in the DD/MM/RRRR - DD/MM/RRRR format.

� Displays the Employer name and tax registration number for each employee in the report. These two values/attributes are either of the legal employer (if attached) or that of the employer derived from the hierarchy.

7.14.1.14. Use New Dutch Element RetroPay Setup Report to Display Retro Setup of User Element

With this release, you can use the new Dutch Element RetroPay Setup Report to view the RetroPay setup of all elements. You run the report to either display all the elements or the elements with RetroPay setup only. Select either All Elements or Elements With RetroPay Setup option for the Element records field in the Concurrent Programs window.

7.14.1.15. Reduce Data Volumes and Improve Performance by Producing Fewer Run Result Values

Oracle Payroll has enhanced the payroll run to eliminate unwanted run result values. The payroll run no longer saves those null run results, that is, those run results that do not contain a value. This change improves the performance of the payroll run and reduces the space needed for the run results.

Do not implement this feature if you have written your own reports that depend on null result values.

Oracle Payroll does not suppress null run results unless your System Administrator has enabled this feature by:

1. Checking that the Generic Upgrade Mechanism contains an upgrade called Enable Sparse Matrix Null Run Result Values Functionality.

2. Running the Enable Sparse Matrix Null Run Result Values Functionality upgrade.

7.14.1.16. Configure Precision of Maximum Salary Type

With this release, you can configure the precision of the Maximum Salary field when defining an SI Type to display three decimals for rounding purposes.

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7.14.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)

7.14.2.1. Year End Report

Using the new Dutch Year End report, users can now generate the year-end payroll data. As the Year End Report is an extension of the Dutch Wage Report, it uses the Dutch Wage Report Generator and Dutch Wage Report concurrent programs to generate the Year End report.

7.15. Oracle HRMS for New Zealand

7.15.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

7.15.1.1. Contribute and Report the KiwiSaver Deductions to Inland Revenue

Employers and employees may contribute to the KiwiSaver scheme. Employers are exempted from paying Specified Superannuation Contribution Withholding Tax (SSCWT), if they contribute to the KiwiSaver on the behalf of their employees. Employers report and submit details of KiwiSaver contributions and deductions to the Inland Revenue Department(IRD). Oracle HRMS for New Zealand provides element, balances, and balance dimensions to enable you to process and calculate these KiwiSaver deductions.

7.16. Oracle HRMS for Norway

7.16.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

7.16.1.1. Use the Documents of Record Functionality to Store Document Information

You can use the updated Documents of Record Self-Service functionality to store document information. You can now capture information specific to the Document Type Follow-up Plan.

7.16.1.2. Use the Modified NUS-2000 Code for the Employee’s Qualification Type

You can now use the value set for the NUS-2000 Code field and add appropriate meanings for the qualification type.

7.16.1.3. Process Holiday Pay for Your Employees

You can record various holiday absences for employees and administer holiday pay. You use the Absence Entry window to record different absences and other absence-related information, and then run the payroll to calculate the holiday pay.

7.16.1.4. Process All Absence Categories to Administer Absence Pay Effectively

You can record all categories of absences such as sickness, parental leave and adoption to administer absence pay. You can use predefined elements and formulas to calculate benefits and deductions amounts easily. Record additional information at the employer and employee level to support absence pay process.

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7.16.1.5. Generate Sickness Leave and Absence Statistics Report

You can generate and submit reports to statutory authorities that list sickness and absence statistics.

7.16.1.6. Calculate the Impact of Reimbursements of Absence and Holiday Pay on Employer Contribution

When you calculate the Absence benefit or Holiday Pay on the Absence amount to be reclaimed from the Social Security Office, Oracle HRMS enables you to calculate the portion of Employer’s Contribution that you reclaim.

7.16.1.7. Use the Self-Service Tax Card Interface to Enter Tax Card Details

The Tax Card User Interface enables you to enter data for a tax card in the Tax Card element. This interface opens in a browser and performs various validations on the data you enter. You can use this interface to manually create tax card details.

7.16.1.8. Generate Online Payslip

Employees can view their payslip online using Self-Service HR. Oracle HRMS generates the payslip based on archived data. Providing this information reduces the number of pay-related questions salary administrators receive.

7.16.1.9. Stay informed with New Payroll Reports

You can generate the following payroll reports using the Submit Request window:

� Employee Deduction reports

o Norwegian Tax Levy Deduction Report: View tax levy deduction details per payee for a given period

o Norwegian Union Due Deduction Report: View union due deduction details per payee for a given period

o Norwegian Support order and other Deduction Report: Use this report to view support order and other deduction details per payee for a given period

� Payroll Accounting Report: Audit and check consistency between the employer’s general ledger application and payroll application. Use this report for reconciliation purposes.

� Employer Contribution and Withholding Tax Report: View bi-monthly report on Employer’s Contribution and Withholding Tax

� End of Year Report: Generates the employee’s earnings and remunerations along with tax deducted information

� Salary Statistics Report: Comply with Statistics Norway and submit reports in their approved format

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7.16.1.10. Process Payments for Employees Based on 2006 Taxation Changes

Oracle HRMS provides legislative updates and changes to help you manage the processes as per the new values for 2006. These changes apply to tax tables, payslip, and holiday pay, and they enable you to upload tax table data per localization rather than per business group.

7.16.1.11. Process Payments for Employees Based on 2006 Legislative Changes

Oracle HRMS provides legislative updates and changes to tax and statutory deductions to help you manage the processes as per the new values for 2006.

7.16.1.12. Support Recent Legislative Changes

The following changes have been made to support legislative updates for 2007:

� The End of year Archiver now archives information for both Employers and Employees. This is useful while generating Certificate of Pay and Tax Deducted report for each employee. The Archiver also archives the information for the new zones.

� The Employee Audit Report has a new field to display Dates/Days only for eligible employees

� A new criteria to group eligible codes to sum up the values or additional information

� Employers and Employees Register Report – this new report displays all current and historic employments of an employee and the number of employees currently and historically employed in the organization. The report supports two formats – Status Control and Continuous Reporting. Both these formats generate an electronic flat file, which you can submit to the NIA, and an Audit file, which lists the contents of the electronic file.

7.16.1.13. Use Advance Pay to Pay Employees in Advance

The Advance Pay process enables you to pay employees in advance for holidays or other events. The process performs payroll runs for the periods to be advanced, using all date effective information in place, and stores the final net figure as the amount to be advanced.

7.16.1.14. Use RetroPay Functionality to Pay Backdated Amounts to Employees

The Enhanced RetroPay core payroll process is now available for Norway. You can use either of the two RetroPay components:

� Correction: Use this option to recalculate tax and SI balances on adjusted earnings for each period and carry forward the difference in both earnings and deductions to the current period.

� Adjustment: Use this option to recalculate deductions after carrying forward the difference in earnings to the current period.

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7.16.1.15. Print Batch Payslips

You can now use the Batch Printing of Payslip solution to generate the payslips as one PDF output.

7.16.1.16. Reduce Data Volumes and Improve Performance by Producing Fewer Run Result Values

Oracle Payroll has enhanced the payroll run to eliminate unwanted run result values. The payroll run no longer saves those null run results, that is, those run results that do not contain a value. This change improves the performance of the payroll run and reduces the space needed for the run results.

Do not implement this feature if you have written your own reports that depend on null result values.

Oracle Payroll does not suppress null run results unless your System Administrator has enabled this feature by:

1. Checking that the Generic Upgrade Mechanism contains an upgrade called Enable Sparse Matrix Null Run Result Values Functionality.

2. Running the Enable Sparse Matrix Null Run Result Values Functionality upgrade.

7.16.1.17. Implement Mandatory Occupational Pension Scheme

Use the Mandatory Occupational Pension scheme to pay employer contributions to group pension funds for your employees. Using this feature, you can:

� Register information about various pension providers

� Register information about different pension types

� Map pension providers or agreements to employer

� Register pension information about employees or assignments

You can also:

� Estimate the employer’s pension premium and the Employer’s Contribution of pension premium per payroll run

� Estimate the Agreement Based Pension premium per payroll run

� Deduct the employee’s pension contribution per payroll run

� Enable an element for entering actual paid collective pension (Employer’s part) per employee

7.16.1.18. Use the Balance Initialization Process

You can set up and load initial balance values before you begin to process payrolls. The balance initialization process helps you to accurately calculate legislative deductions in Oracle Payroll.

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7.16.1.19. Improve the Performance of Oracle Payroll Processing

To improve payroll run performance, Oracle Payroll creates and maintains Latest Balance Values. If these values were not created, the payroll process would calculate balance values by summing the run results for all balances. This has a significant impact on the first payroll run. This release enables you to use Latest Balances for Oracle Payroll processing.

7.17. Oracle HRMS for Singapore

7.17.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

7.17.1.1. Use Revised Foreign Workers Levy Rates and New Permit Categories

Beginning 01-Apr-2007, employers employing workers in the construction and process industry, who are exempted from the Man Year Entitlement (MYE), have to pay a Foreign Workers Levy (FWL) to the Central Provident Fund (CPF) board.

7.17.1.2. Comply with New Regulations of the Central Provident Fund

Beginning 1-Jul-2007, the Central Provident Fund (CPF) regulations have changed. The Oracle payroll application enables you to comply with these regulations and contribute to the CPF.

7.18. Oracle HRMS for South Africa

7.18.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

7.18.1.1. Generate and Submit Workplace Skills Plan Reports

With R12.0.3, you can now generate and submit Workplace Skills and Annual Training Reports annually to your SETA. Submitting the Workplace Skills Plan Report results in a 15% refund of the Skills Development Levies employers pay annually. Submitting the Annual Training Report can result in an additional 45% refund.

This feature includes the following:

� Workplace Skills Plan Setup and Maintenance process

� Workplace Skills Plan Preprocess

� Workplace Skills Plan Report

� ZA SDF Information organization type

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7.18.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)

7.18.2.1. UIF Annual Limit

Oracle HRMS South Africa now supports statutory changes to the increase in the annual Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) earnings limit and the official interest rate. The updates are as follows:

� Global value for Annual UIF Limit is now R149736 with effect from 1 October 2007.

� Global value for Official Interest Rate is now 11% with effect from 1 September 2007.

7.18.3. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5)

7.18.3.1. Comply with Statutory Updates for End of Year (EOY) 2008

Oracle HRMS supports statutory changes for End of Year 2008 for South Africa, which include:

� Budget Speech changes for the 2008-09 tax year

� Tax Year End 2008 changes

7.19. Oracle HRMS for Sweden

7.19.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

7.19.1.1. Process Holiday Pay for Your Employees

You can record various holiday absences for employees and administer holiday pay. You use the Absence Entry window to record different absences and other absence-related information and then run the payroll to calculate the holiday pay. You can process the holiday pay that the employees accrue based on the different kinds of earnings and remuneration they earn in the holiday year.

7.19.1.2. Use the Balance Initialization Process

You can set up and load initial balance values before you begin to process payrolls. The balance initialization process helps you to accurately calculate legislative deductions in Oracle Payroll.

7.19.1.3. Process Sickness Pay for Your Employees

You can process sick pay to calculate sick pay, sickness deductions, and waiting day deductions along with the payroll run. The solution contains predefined examples. These examples cover the basic rules from statutory requirements and are working examples. If your requirement exactly matches the predefined examples, then you can configure the examples to use them as solutions. Otherwise, you must create new formulas and elements with your organization-specific logic. You can then configure these new formulas and

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formulas and elements to work as a solution.

7.19.1.4. Generate Online Payslip

Employees can view their payslip online using Self-Service HR. Oracle HRMS generates the payslip based on archived data. Providing this information fulfils statutory requirements and also reduces the number of pay-related questions salary administrators receive.

7.19.1.5. Use the Tax Card User Interface to Enter Tax Card Details

The Tax Card User Interface enables you to enter data for a tax card in the Tax Card element. This interface opens in a browser and performs various validations on the data you enter. You can use this interface to create tax card details manually.

7.19.1.6. Manage End of Year Changes for 2006

Oracle HRMS provides legislative updates and changes to tax and statutory deductions to help you manage the processes as per the new tax table values and employer tax percentage break-up values for 2006.

7.19.1.7. Generate Payroll Reports for Statutory Compliance

The following new reports are added to meet statutory requirements.

� Swedish Tax Declaration Report

� Swedish Direct File Transfer Report

� Swedish Statistics Office Report

� Swedish Short Term Employment Statistics Report

� Swedish Holiday Pay Debt Report

� Swedish FORA Report

� Swedish Wages and Salaries Statistics Report

� Swedish Tax Declaration XML File Report

� Swedish Work Time Certificate Report

� Swedish Income Statement Report

7.19.2. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5)

7.19.2.1. Generate and Submit ALECTA Report

You can now generate and submit the monthly ALECTA report to the tax authorities. Use this report to submit details of salary changes, terminations, new employees, and internal movement of employees within a group of companies.

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7.19.2.2. Print Batch Payslips

You can now use the Batch Printing of Payslip solution to generate the payslips as one PDF output.

7.20. Oracle HRMS for United Kingdom

7.20.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

7.20.1.1. No Longer Need to Specify the National Identifier When Hiring Employees in SSHR

When using Self-Service HR, the National Identifier field is no longer mandatory in the Hire Employee process flow.

7.20.1.2. Calculate Accurate Average Earnings for Employees with Multiple Assignments

Oracle Payroll now calculates accurate average earnings for employees with multiple assignments when one of the assignments started after the qualifying period.

7.20.1.3. Generate Accurate Payroll Calculations Subsequent to Performing a Reverse Payroll Run

To view a payroll run in the Reversals form, you must set the session date to be on or after the effective date of the run you want to reverse. However, this can cause conflicts for positive offset payrolls, because you would have to set your session date to a date into the next period. That session date would then be used to calculate the Time Period ID of the reversal action (the period start and end dates must span the current effective date). Oracle Payroll would then select the next Time Period ID to be the reversal Time Period ID for a run in the prior time period.

In R12.0.3, you can now use the session date to be the date paid of the run’s payroll action (to view the run action). When you reverse it, Oracle Payroll chooses the same Time Period ID for the reversal as for the run.

When doing a reversal with a positive offset payroll, set your session date to be equal to the date paid (effective date) of the run you wish to reverse. This ensures the effective date and Time Period ID are correct.

7.20.1.4. Display Accurate Details in the Payroll Summary Report

The Payments Summary Report no longer includes values from the previous pay period when running against a positive offset payroll. This occurred when the payment date of the previous period fell into the current period.

7.20.1.5. Accurately Employ Adjustments Against Court Order Elements

Oracle Payroll now correctly applies “Replace” type adjustments made against COURT ORDER elements for the first month’s payroll process and all subsequent payroll runs.

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7.20.1.6. Specify Average Earning Amounts for Maternity Pay

You can now manually specify average earnings in the Average Earning block on the Statutory Payments form for rehired employees whose qualifying week fell into the previous period of employment.

7.20.1.7. Display the Correct Week in the Pay Advice Report

For positive offset payrolls, the Pay Advice report now correctly displays the correct week. For example, “49” for week number 49, rather than “50.”

7.20.1.8. Use the Date Worked Payment Method to Pay Non-Recurring Claims

Use the Date Worked Payment method to easily pay ad-hoc hires and to support non-recurring claims. This feature enables you to pay part-time salary and OSLA claims. If you want to enable the Date Worked Payment Mode, you must ensure that all Claims (Normal Claims and Retro Claims) elements have the Date Worked Input Value added.

7.20.2. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5)

7.20.2.1. Use the New NUVOS Pension Scheme to Comply with Recent Statutory Updates

A new legislation has come into effect from 31 July 2007 that introduces a new pension scheme called NUVOS. All new entrants, employed within the public sector, who enroll in a pension scheme on or after 31 July 2007, are eligible to join this new pension scheme. Oracle HRMS supports changes to implement this new Penserver Scheme.

7.20.2.2. Use the New Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) to Comply with Statutory Changes

To support the statutory changes coming into effect from April 1, 2008, Oracle HRMS for UK delivers a new method to calculate employees' pensionable pay and process pensionable contribution for the local government pension scheme (LGPS).

With this release, Oracle HRMS calculates contractual pensionable pay for each assignment using the applicable historic rates and other applicable calculations. The application uses the contractual pensionable pay to process pension contribution.

7.20.2.3. Comply with Statutory Changes to P46 Car EDI

Employers are required to submit details of all company cars to the HMRC on a quarterly basis. You can do this either on paper, using form P46 (Car) or electronically. Oracle HRMS provides functionality to allow customers to submit the P46 (Car) information through EDI, using the message type P46CAR.

7.20.2.4. Comply with Statutory Updates to P14 EDI

Oracle Payroll now supports changes to the P14 EDI process to comply with the HMRC Implementation guideline document. The document requires these changes to validate the data and output in GFF File format.

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7.20.2.5. Comply with Pre-Budget Statutory Updates

On 9 October 2007, the Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered the pre-budget report. The new figures affect certain calculations within UK payroll systems, national insurance, and statutory payments. Oracle Payroll implements these changes with effect from 6 April 2008.

Oracle Payroll also supports changes to the calculation of PAYE, announced in the budget statement in April 2007, with effect from 6 April 2008 to ensure continued compliance with the UK legislation for 2008/ 2009 tax year. All UK Payroll customers require these changes, which are as follows:

Changes to National Insurance Thresholds

Timing LEL ET UEL

Weekly 90.00 105.00 770.00

Monthly 390.00 453.00 3337.00

Yearly 4680.00 5435.00 40040.00

Changes to Basic rate- Basic Rate - 20%

Changes to Statutory Payments Rates

� SSP rate - 75.40

� SMP standard rate - 117.18

� SAP standard rate - 117.18

� SPP standard rate - 117.18

7.20.2.6. Comply with Start of Year Statutory Updates

Oracle Payroll now supports an enhanced Start of Year process to provide improved performance and reporting.

7.20.2.7. Comply with NI Rollup Statutory Updates

Oracle Payroll supports changes to the conditions for contribution rollup and LEL rollup to comply with statutory requirements and ensure correct reporting of NI figures.

7.20.2.8. Comply with Statutory Updates to In Year Filing Reports

From 6 April 2008 there are certain changes to the business rules surrounding the completion and issue of In-year forms. Previously, the mode of transmission for all EDI In-year messages used the MOVDED Version 3.0 message type. This year, EDI In-year messages use the MOVDED Version 5.0 message type. According to legislative requirements, after 05-Apr-2008, the HMRC will reject existing processes and their associated MOVDED 3.0 files. To support these changes, Oracle Payroll includes the following changes:

Renamed the existing processes as follows:

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� P45(3) EDI Process to P45(3) EDI Process - pre 06-Apr-2008

� P46 EDI Process to P46 EDI Process - pre 06-Apr-2008

� Pension Notification EDI Process to Pension Notification EDI Process - pre 06-Apr-2008

� P45(1) EDI Process to P45(1) EDI Process - pre 06-Apr-2008

Oracle Payroll now supports the following new processes and their associated 5.0 message file types to support HMRC requirements effective 06-Apr-2008:

� P45PT3 EDI Process

� P46 EDI Process

� PENNOT EDI Process

� P45PT1 EDI Process

Additionally, there are updates to the current application to generate EDI reports in line with the HMRC specifications.

7.21. Oracle HRMS for United States

7.21.1. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)

7.21.1.1. Use Ethnic Categories Recognized by Agencies for EEO-1, EEO4, EEO5, and IPEDS Reports

EEOC introduced the Ethnic Origin category ‘Two or More Races’ for 2007 EEO-1 reporting. The agency reports for EE04, EEO5, and IPEDS do not recognize this category and use the previous ethnic categories. To ensure that your reports cover all employees, you can now run exception reports to identify and correct invalid entries. The EEO4, EEO5, and IPEDs exception reports list the names of employees and their assignment numbers. The exception report also cites the reason for the invalidating employee records. After completing any missing information, you can run the final reports.

7.21.1.2. Obtain VETS-100 Reports Based on the Previous Year

When you produce the VETS-100 reports, you must create a report that covers the previous 12 month period. To ensure that the report covers the appropriate time span, this release replaces the date fields (Report From Date and Report To Date) with the date on which the 12 months conclude: 12 Month Period End Date. The field change affects the following reports:

� VETS-100 Suite Of Reports

� VETS-100 Veterans Employment Report

� VETS-100 Consolidated Veterans Employment Report

� VETS-100 Veterans Employment Report - all estabs

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� VETS-100 Employment Listing

� Electronic VETS-100 Report

7.21.1.3. Statutory Changes to EEO-1 Paper and Magnetic Reports

EEO-1 paper and magnetic reports now include the 2007 statutory changes for Job Category descriptions (US_EEO1_JOB_CATEGORIES) and Ethnic Categories (US_ETHNIC_GROUP).

7.21.1.4. Control Resident Wage Accumulation and Tax Calculation

Oracle Payroll calculates tax withholding and accumulates wages based on rules provided through the tax interface with Vertex. Changes within the Vertex tax engine significantly improve the handling of multiple work jurisdictions and enhance the processing of reciprocity rules at state and local levels. Using the Standard or Enhanced Tax Interface, your employees accumulate wages even when state and local taxes are not withheld. After enabling the Enhanced Tax Interface plus Wage Accumulation, you can override the standard behavior by setting options at the GRE and employee levels to control how your employee’s work taxes affect their taxes at residence locations as well as determine whether wages should be accumulated at their residence location.

See: Wage Accumulation using the Enhanced Tax Interface

7.21.1.5. Use Open Plan Solution Formats for TIAA-CREF Files

In response to the adoption of Open Plan Solution (OPS) TIAA-CREFF transmission format, you can now produce the TIAA-CREFF files using the appropriate format. The TIAA-CREF OPS Layout report replaces the previous TIAA-CREF Transmission Report Set.

7.21.1.6. Capture Make-up Amounts for Roth Contributions on W-2s

Under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA), employees who served in the military can make up retirement plan contributions. Employees can designate after-tax investment amounts for prior years for Roth 401k and 403b. Previously, the W-2 form reported the current year amounts only for Roth 401k and Roth 403b. Now, the W-2 displays the make-up amounts taken for prior years, including the amount, the appropriate code (AA for Roth 401k or BB for Roth 403b), and the designated year of the make-up amount.

This release adds two options for Roth 401k and Roth 403b to the concurrent program Create USERRA Balances and modifies the Year End Pre-Process to archive USERRA balances. For the generated Roth 401k and 403b elements, the Year End Pre-Process archives the date of designated Roth contributions using the element’s input value Year of Prior Deferrals. Elements feeding the Roth USERRA 401k and 403b balances automatically feed the standard Roth 401k and 403b balances (W2 Roth 401k and W2 Roth 403b).

7.21.1.7. Identify Initial and Subsequent Corrections on W-2Cs

When you correct a W-2, Box A, the printed form should display W-2 for the first correction, and W-2C for all subsequent corrections. You can now choose a print instruction when producing the correction W-2s, so that the resulting form displays W-2 in

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in Box A for an initial correction, and ‘C’ for all subsequent corrections.

7.21.1.8. Submit the Florida State Quarterly Wage Listings File in XML Format

The Florida Department of Revenue (FDOR) accepts UCT-6 Florida unemployment compensation returns electronically using the Extensible Markup Language (XML) format. Using Oracle HRMS, you can submit the State Quarterly Wage Listings (SQWL) file in XML format. You can generate the Florida SQWL file by running the SQWL concurrent manager process for Florida and send the resulting XML file (.mf file) to FDOR. Before generating XML output, you must first complete information for the GRE/Legal Entity in the SQWL Employer Rules (1) and SQWL States Transmission Rules.

7.21.2. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5)

7.21.2.1. Comply with State of Maryland - W-2 Magnetic Media Updates

Updates have been applied to comply with the State of Maryland (MD) revised RE record specification for the State W2 magnetic media.

7.21.2.2. Comply with Social Security Administration Changes

Magnetic Media Reporting and Electronic Filing (MMREF) publications have been renamed to Specifications for Filing Forms W-2 Electronically (EFW2), formerly MMREF-1. All references to MMREF have been replaced with EFW2.

7.21.2.3. Comply with JIT and School District Updates

JIT (Jurisdiction Information Tables) and School District tables have been updated to comply with Vertex tax changes.

7.22. Oracle Labor Distribution

7.22.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

7.22.1.1. Use Employee Work Schedules to Distribute and Encumber Labor Costs

In Oracle Labor Distribution, Monday to Friday are considered business days and the labor cost is distributed only on these days even if an employee works during a Saturday or a Sunday. Employees in an organization may work on varying schedules; for example, an employee may work Saturday through Wednesday, and another may work Monday through Friday. With this new functionality customers can have Oracle Labor Distribution distribute and encumber labor costs based on the work schedules of the employees.

Customers can also configure Oracle Labor Distribution to distribute and encumber the hours an employee worked during a payroll time period. They can import any element containing hours and costed in Oracle Payroll into Oracle Labor Distribution to distribute the costs using this new feature.

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7.22.1.2. Set Up Clearing Accounts for Multiple Payrolls

Labor Distribution administrators can now set up clearing accounts for multiple payrolls in Oracle Labor Distribution. This feature is useful if, for example, your organization has business units or operating companies with a need to maintain separate transactions. You can now set up those clearing accounts at the payroll level in Oracle Labor Distribution to accurately identify the transactions of each payroll. With this enhancement, each payroll can have a dedicated clearing account for use with Oracle Labor Distribution thus enabling you to reconcile the clearing accounts with ease.

7.22.1.3. Process Payroll Reversals, Balance Adjustments, and Retroactive Payments More Easily

Oracle Labor Distribution imports reversals, balance adjustments, and retroactive payments when you import a regular payroll run. As a Labor Distribution administrator, you only need to run the PSP: Import Payroll Transactions once to import a regular payroll along with other payroll actions for reversals, balance adjustments and retroactive payments that you costed in Oracle Payroll. In addition, you only need to run the PSP: Create Distribution Lines process and PSP: Summarize and Transfer Payroll Distribution process once to distribute and transfer all the imported transactions.

7.22.1.4. Specify Accounting Dates When Transferring Distribution Lines to Oracle General Ledger, Oracle Projects, and Oracle Grants Accounting

As an implementer, you now have the flexibility to specify the accounting date that Oracle Labor Distribution must use when transferring distribution lines into Oracle General Ledger.

7.22.1.5. Use Parameter Sets to Run Scheduling and Distribution Reports More Easily

To simplify the process of generating reports, Oracle Labor Distribution now enables you to use parameter sets in all the scheduling and distribution reports. For example, if you frequently run the Distribution History by Organization report where you need to select one or more organizations, then you can create a parameter set to store the organizations. You can use the parameter set in the process to quickly run the report.

7.22.2. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5)

7.22.2.1. Rollback Create Distribution Lines Process for All Periods by Providing the Highest Time Period Name

When you import multiple periods together, the Create Distribution Lines process runs only on the maximum time period among them and automatically pulls in all the other periods. However, the Rollback CDL process needed the periods separately to do a rollback. With this release, you can enter the higher time period name to rollback CDL for all other periods as well. This is useful to rollback CDL for multiple periods that you imported together. To accommodate this change, the application now uses the rollback based on the maximum time period value in the Rollback Concurrent Program, which in turns rolls back the child periods as well.

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7.22.2.2. Use New Predefined Salary Cap Rates

You can now use new predefined salary cap rates for 2008. You use salary caps for sponsors to enable the Create Distribution Lines process to determine excess funds.

7.22.2.3. Control the Behavior of the Import Process

With this release, you can use the Ignore Date Earned in element entries configuration option to control the behavior of the Import Process to Labor Distribution. To enable distribution to happen based on pay period start and end dates, you can set the configuration option to Yes. To enable distributions based on element entry date earned values, you can set the configuration option to No.

7.23. Oracle Learning Management

7.23.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2)

7.23.1.1. Check Duplicate Contacts for External Learners

In Learning Management Release 12, if a learner’s name is manually entered in the Enrollment Details Form, as opposed to being selected from a list of values (LOV), there is a possibility that a duplicate contact entry will be created due to a missing validation check on manual entries. With RUP2, a validation has been added to check for matching names. When a duplicate entry is identified, the administrator will receive a warning message and the new contact will only be created if approved by the administrator.

7.23.2. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5)

7.23.2.1. Use Keywords to Search for Courses in OLM

In addition to the course name, the basic search and advanced search features now use keywords to search for courses. A new 'Keyword' search field is available on the Advanced Search page.

7.24. Oracle iRecruitment

7.24.1. Release 12.0.3

7.24.1.1. Automatically Enroll New Hires into Compensation Plans Included in their Jobs Offers

Until now, when HR professionals hired iRecruitment applicants as employees, they manually enrolled the new hires in the compensation plans offered to them. In this release, HR professionals can automatically enroll new hires in the compensation plans included in their offer letters by running the new iRecruitment Create Enrollment Process. This program processes the compensation plans associated with an offer and creates the enrollment records for the employee.

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7.25. Oracle Self-Service Human Resources

7.25.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2)

7.25.1.1. Allow Transition Initiator to Delete “Pending for Approval” Transactions

In Release 12, when a manager or employee submits a transaction for approval in Self-Service Human Resources, no further action is allowed by the initiator while the transaction is pending approval, preventing users from deleting inaccurate transactions. RUP2 introduces a new system profile that, when enabled, allows the initiator of a transaction to delete a transaction at any level in the approval chain while it is pending approval.

This feature can be enabled using the new system profile HR:Enable Initiator to Delete a Pending-Approval Transaction. When the profile is set to “Yes,” the initiator of a transaction will be allowed to delete “Pending for Approval” transactions. When the profile is set to "No," the initiator will not be allowed to delete “Pending for Approval” transactions.

7.25.1.2. Self-Service Change Pay Rate Functionality

Self-Service Human Resources (SSHR) Release 12 does not provide the ability to alter a future salary adjustment, nor does it support multiple future salary adjustments. These limitations are especially problematic in cases of guaranteed salaries where a manager must obtain approval for multiple salary adjustments on future dates. (For example, a company may guarantee an employee a 5% salary increase every 6 months for the next 2 years).

In RUP2, Change Pay Rate functionality has been enhanced to:

� Allow multiple pay actions (Create/Update/Delete) as part of one transaction

� Support Salary Basis change (with option to restrict)

� Display Employee Pay Change History

� Propose future base salary changes

� Update future base salary (where payroll has not been processed)

� Delete one or more future base salary changes (where payroll has not been processed)

� Support Quintile, Quartile, Percentile, and Comparatio

� Display Annual Equivalent, Annual Full Time Equivalent, and Annualization Multiple

� Display Part time factor, Work Hours, Employee Local Currency, Last Payroll Run

� Display Peer Averages and Peer History (using secure view)

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� Display amounts in user preferred currency

This enhancement is an optional upgrade for existing customers. Customers who do not wish to upgrade can continue to use the current Self-Service Change Pay Rate functionality.

7.26. Oracle Talent Management

7.26.1. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)

7.26.1.1. Manage Offline Appraisals

Main appraisers, appraisees, and other participants can download in-progress appraisals in Microsoft Excel format, to update the appraisals without connecting to the application (for example, away from the workplace), and upload them later. This feature gives them the time and privacy to complete either their own or other workers’ appraisals.

7.26.1.2. Web ADI Support for Succession Planning Data Update

Oracle HRMS delivers a new Maintain Succession Plans function with the predefined Manager Self-Service responsibility. This new function supports a Web Applications Desktop Integrator (Web ADI) spreadsheet that managers can use to retrieve and update the succession information that is stored in the succession planning tables.

7.27. Oracle Time and Labor

7.27.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2)

7.27.1.1. Automatic Days-to-Hours Conversion

In Time and Labor Release 12, users are restricted to entering their time in Hours because Oracle Projects does not support time entered in Days. In RUP2, Time and Labor introduces automatic days-to-hours conversion, so that users can enter Hours and Days within a single timecard and the system will convert the Days into Hours for Oracle Projects.

To utilize this feature, a user creates a Time Category including all elements requiring conversion from Days to Hours. The conversion factor (from Days to Hours) will be calculated by retrieving Normal Hours from Employee’s Assignment and Number of Days in Assignment Frequency from OTL Preferences.

7.27.1.2. Mixed Format Entries

In Time and Labor Release 12, when the Self Service Preference to Allow Rules Evaluation preference is set to “Yes,” the application will not allow mixed time format entries. With RUP2, Time and Labor introduces an enhancement that allows users to enter mixed format entries for certain time elements, based on specific conditions. For example: Users can enter "Regular" as Start time and End time format (09:00 - 12:00) and "Lunch" as Number of hours (2 hrs) in the same time card.

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This feature also allows users to define whether or not a particular element should be included in "OTLR - Oracle Time and Labor Rules" explosion. When users mark a particular element as Exclude from Explosion, Time and Labor will allow entry of mixed time format for that element while excluding that element from timecard explosion.

7.28. Oracle US Federal Human Resources

7.28.1. Releases 12.0.5 (RUP5)

7.28.1.1. Process Pay for Employees Based on the Title 38 Public Law

HR specialists can now process pay banding programs for employees who are physicians and dentists according to the Title 38 Code of Federal Regulations.

For employees who are physicians and dentists, you can now:

• Record specific position details such as the specialty code and the tier information. The tier information determines the pay range that the application uses to process pay calculations.

• Process pay components such as the basic pay and market pay.

• Process GP and GR type of pay plans.

7.28.1.2. Use Multiple Legal Authority Descriptions When Processing AFHR Employees

In response to the OPM statutory requirements, you can now select more than one description for a Legal Authority Code (LAC) when processing RPAs for AFHR employees. The application maintains a history of description changes to the LACs.

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8. New and Changed Features in Logistics

8.1. Oracle Warehouse Management

8.1.1. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6)

8.1.1.1. API to enable LPN Reuse

It is common for a customer’s containers to be returned after delivering their contents to a customer/RMA These containers are reused physically. This new API enables LPN reusability and provides LPN history.

8.1.1.2. Over-allocation Support for Pick Release

The allocations logic considers over-pick and under-pick quantities, honoring tolerances in completion quantities. The Strategy Definition window now has new fields that are enabled, only if the Strategy Type is Picking. These two new fields, Over Allocation Mode and Tolerance Value, determine if the Over Allocation is applied during the Allocation phase. There are three values available for the Over Allocation Mode field:

• None: No Over Tolerance (default)

• Using Order Line Tolerance: The Over Ship Tolerance set is used at the Order Line.

• Using Constant Tolerance: The % is entered in the Tolerance Value field on the Strategy window.

This setting applies to only those Picking Rules in the Strategy window that have Allocate Entry LPN Only or No LPN Allocation, Prioritize Pick UOM allocation modes. If there are Picking Rules with other allocation modes in the Strategy window, the over tolerance is not used for determining the quantity that is allocated.

8.1.1.3. Transacting Reserved LPNs

A user can now perform a subinventory transfer (move order) for a hard reservation of a Lot packed within an LPN.

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9. New and Changed Features in Manufacturing

9.1. Oracle Discrete Manufacturing

9.1.1. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)

9.1.1.1. Iterative Periodic Average Costing (IPAC) for Brazil

This enhancement supports a legal mandate for Brazilian customers. Under Brazilian Law, the cost of inter-organization transactions must include the actual absorption cost of the items that have been transacted. Periodic costing has been enhanced to calculate the cost of these transactions, including all input costs. This was available in 11.5.10 as PACP.

9.2. Oracle Process Manufacturing

9.2.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2)

9.2.1.1. Manufacturing Execution System Enhancements

To further the capabilities of the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for Process Manufacturing, Oracle has introduced the following new features in RUP2:

9.2.1.1.1. Touch Screen User Interface

Oracle MES for Process Manufacturing brings shop floor execution closer to the operators with the introduction of touch screen user interface in areas such as, Operator Workbench (Material Transactions, Resource Transactions, Process Parameters), Dispensing, and Reverse Dispensing. Each screen has been updated with an intuitive, easy-to-use user interface, providing near real-time data capture at the shop floor to facilitate compliance and improve productivity.

9.2.1.1.2. Dispensing Area

Dispensing Area is a new entity that represents the physical area in a warehouse where the Dispensing activity is carried out. Dispensing Area is linked to Subinventory which helps in tracking inventory movement for Dispensing, Resource Usage, and Operator Access in a specific area. Additionally, the Dispensing Area can be divided into smaller rooms called Dispensing Booths which are the specific locations for Dispensing activity. Each Dispensing Booth can be monitored for environmental conditions such as humidity and air quality.

9.2.1.1.3. Dispense Planning

Dispense Planning is a new workbench for supervisors to plan all dispensing activities. Similar activities can be grouped together for planning a Dispense Campaign, as well as assigning priority and resources for Dispensing. The Gantt chart user interface displays resource overload, helping supervisors to better manage their resources.

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9.2.1.1.4. Operator Certification

Operator Certification satisfies the regulatory requirement of FDA 21 CFR Part 211.25 for Personnel Qualification. It enables a corporation to identify the required skills and training needs, as well as certification approvals, for an operator to perform production activities. Operator Certification is seamlessly integrated with Oracle HRMS for all needs related to skills definition, training needs, and certification.

9.2.1.1.5. Least Cost Formulation Batches

This feature was introduced in the New Product Development module in Process Manufacturing R12 and is now supported by MES for Process Manufacturing. A user can now formulate to target product specifications and leverage this formula in MES.

9.2.2. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

9.2.2.1. OPM Process Execution: Lot UOM Conversion Batch Update

The Lot UOM Conversion Batch update allows the entry of a lot-specific UOM conversion to trigger the update of the batch that yielded the lot even if the lot was yielded as a phantom and consumed in a parent batch. The Esignature page displays the batch number when the update is for a batch transaction.

9.2.2.2. OPM Financials: Detailed Subsidiary Ledger Report

The Detailed Subsidiary Ledger Report provides a comprehensive online inquiry based on accounting events and journal entries and the user can drill down to the exact transaction that resulted in the event or journal.

9.2.2.3. OPM Financials: Non-Recoverable Taxes Support in Actual Costing

Actual Costing now correctly picks up non-recoverable taxes and all accounting entries reported by OPM Financials are correct.

9.2.2.4. OPM Financials: Reconciliation Enhancements in Actual Costing

Previously, Actual Cost only considered closed production batches in a month which resulted in production yield quantities under reported in cost calculations as well as double counting of yield quantities of open batches in a specific costing period. Actual Cost, in certain scenarios, included the invoice price override but did not take the invoice quantity into consideration. As a result of these two issues, the inventory value reported at month end did not tie in with the inventory account balances as reported in the Subledger and GL. Actual Costing now considers all production yield quantities in cost calculations, and considers the IPV amounts in invoices as additions to the PO Receipt value in cost calculations.

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9.2.3. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6)

9.2.3.1. OPM Process Execution and OPM Product Development: Fixed Process Loss

You can define the fixed process loss for all the batches using the Routing or Recipe windows. You can define the priority for applying the fixed process loss at various levels similar to variable process loss.· You can apply the fixed process loss in addition to the variable loss. The fixed process loss is applied after calculating the variable loss and it is added to the ingredient quantity or reduced from the product quantity based on how the batch is created. You can select ‘Apply Fixed Process Loss’ check box, if the parameter Apply Fixed Process Loss is set to Manually. It is by default un-checked on the Create Batch/Firm Planned Order window.

9.2.3.2. OPM Process Execution and OPM Product Development: DFF for Step Material Associations

Before Release 12.0.6, within the Recipe window and Step quantity tab, the DFF flexfield was not available, even though it was set up. A descriptive flex field (DFF) is a field that is comprised of segments. A flex field appears in a pop up window when you click on the flex field icon. Each segment has a name and a set of valid values. Using Descriptive flex fields you can store additional information about each step depending on the values you enter in the Step Materials window. In Release 12.0.6, DFF for step materials provides additional information like the registration of the sequence in which the ingredients need to be consumed. The Descriptive Flex Field window displays the flex field segments based on the Recipe Step Material associations flex field defined in the Applications Developer responsibility.

9.2.3.3. OPM Process Execution: LPN Support in OPM Desktop Forms

Food processing businesses, where they produce liquid products for their business-to-business customers, use containers. They often use containers that are substantial and protect the product on its journey to the customer. Therefore, these containers are likely owned and considered important to receive back from the customer when that customer is finished moving the product from the container into their own local storage.

This creates not only a flow of product (married to a container) and a back flow of a container to the source company.

Before 12.0.6, the normal process of completing an OPM production batch, filling containers, associating the specific container with a specific product/product lot, inducting the specific filled container into the Warehouse management system, and then assigning an LPN consisted of several transactions.

In 12.0.6, to increase productivity and to facilitate the implementation of the needed portions of the desired Container Management subsystem, users can accomplish the following transactions within the context of a single scan:

1. Association of product/product lot with specific container id (by scanning container id

2. Marking that portion of the product batch as complete

3. Creating an LPN

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4. Inducting it into WMS

9.2.3.4. OPM Regulatory Management: European Regulatory Compliance

Three Field Name APIs were added to support the European Regulatory Compliance feature.Currently, you can view, edit, and delete field names, field name classes, field name properties, risk phrases, and safety phrases, the standard codes and descriptions for which are seeded in the OPM Regulatory Management application. With this enhancement, you can now create new field names, field name classes, field name properties, risk phrases, and safety phrases. This enables you to enter organization specific values for the new field name properties for a regulatory item. You can also create risk and safety phrases that are text –based only and associate them to organization specific regulatory items. The enhancement also lets you create and maintain hazard classes and their descriptions in multiple languages without the installation of the languages in the application, and associate them to regulatory items.

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10. New and Changed Features in Marketing and Sales

10.1. Oracle Quoting

10.1.1. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6)

10.1.1.1. Deal Management Integration

Oracle Quoting is integrated with Oracle Deal Management. The integration provides essential decision support tools integrated into the quote negotiation process for achieving maximum profit. This integration will provide pricing guidelines to the Quoting user to ensure compliance.

10.2. Oracle Sales

10.2.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

10.2.1.1. Item Update

A new icon ‘Select’ is provided within the Update Opportunity and Update Lead pages. The user can change the product information on any line, by clicking the Select Product button and selecting a new product.

The following information is retained when changing the product / product category for an opportunity: Forecast (best, forecast, worst), amount, quantity, close date, revenue forecast, non-revenue forecast, and additional information. The following information is lost when changing the product / product category for an opportunity: UOM, Competitor Information.

The following information is retained when changing the product / product category for a lead: Amount, quantity, and additional information. The following information is lost when changing the product / product category for lead: UOM.

10.2.1.2. CAC Notes Region Uptake

Both Note regions are available to users where the user makes a choice to enable one kind and then disable another kind via OA personalization. This new notes region is available for Lead, Opportunity, Customer, Contact, and Forecast, both in summary and details modes. This new region provides the following new capabilities:

� Notes categorization: Users can categorize notes at the time of creation by using the ‘types’ field.

� Update Notes: A user, who has permissions to update the lead, opportunity, customer, contact or forecast, can update key note attributes.

� Adding External Documents: Users can add external text, files, or URLs as attachments to the notes.

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� Accessing Note History: Users can access notes, created previously in a convenient way, via notes history. In cases where the length of the note is large, the first few lines is visible on the main page with the full text displayed upon navigation to a detail page.

� Tasks: There is a new region to enter additional information for tasks. This region can be enabled within the task create and/or task update pages. Users can define their own attributes by utilizing the flex fields.

10.2.1.3. Address Location Sharing between Organization and Contact

Create Contact Flow: A user can choose an existing address from the parent organization, while creating the contact. A new region ‘Select Customer Address’ was added to the Create Contact page, to provide address selection.

Update Contact Flow: A user can select an existing address to add to the contact’s address book, while updating the contact. A new button ‘Select Customer Address’ was added to the Addresses table on the Update Contact page.

Warning Message upon Update Address: Users receive a warning message, while attempting to update a shared address. Users can either go ahead with the changes by clicking the ‘Yes’ button or discontinue the changes by clicking the ‘No’ button in that message.

10.2.2. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6)

10.2.2.1. Sales Representative Dashboard Enhancements

Before 12.0.6, there was a gap in Oracle Sales, compared to Oracle Sales Online. Users could not create personalized views for their customers.This enhancement bridges this gap between these two products, by adding two new regions in the Sales Representative's dashboard. These two regions display personalized views of People and Organizations, via OA Personalization.

Sales representatives can now save time while searching for their customers, as they can create the pre-defined views and view those qualified customers directly in these regions.

10.3. Oracle Sales for Handhelds

10.3.1. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6)

10.3.1.1. Outlook 2007 Certification

The newly released Microsoft Windows Vista operating system has Outlook 2007 installed on it. Microsoft announced that they will be de-supporting the previous office release within next year. Therefore, we certified ASP with Outlook 2007 so that customers can use it on their new machines.

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10.4. Oracle Sales Contracts

10.4.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2)

10.4.1.1. User-Defined Variables with PL/SQL Procedures as Source

Sales Contracts supports the concept of system and user-defined variables that can be embedded in clause text or used in contract expert rules. System variables are defined by the application and the values are sourced from attributes on the Sales Agreement, Sales Order, and Sales Quote (e.g. payment terms). User-defined variables are defined in Contract Terms Library and the values are provided by users when they author contract terms and conditions.

Contracts customers have requested the ability to create user-defined variables whose values can be sourced from descriptive flex fields, custom tables, or even a Sales Agreement or Quote that are not supported as system variables. With RUP2, user-defined variable values can now be sourced from any data source. The data source is encapsulated as a custom PL/SQL procedure that is associated to the user-defined variable definition. As a user authors contract terms and conditions, the system will automatically obtain the values from the data source eliminating the need for users to manually enter them.

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11. New and Changed Features in Order Management

11.1. Oracle Order Management

11.1.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2)

11.1.1.1. Integration between Oracle Order Management (including Oracle Shipping Execution) and Oracle Transportation Management

Oracle E-Business Suite now integrates with Oracle Transportation Management to enable transportation features and functionality in existing Oracle E-Business Suite products, including Oracle Order Management, Oracle Shipping Execution, Oracle Payables, Oracle Warehouse Management, and Oracle Purchasing. Oracle Transportation Management combines transportation planning and execution with freight payment, inbound freight logistics, and freight rating and routing. Oracle Transportation Management adds the following features and enhancements to Oracle Order Management:

� Carrier selection and tender

� Freight rating and routing

� Actual ship quantities update and re-rate

� Freight payment, freight payment audit, and approval

� Visible in-transit statuses

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12. New and Changed Features in Procurement

12.1. Oracle iSupplier Portal

12.1.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

12.1.1.1. Forward Port of JFMIP/FSIO from 11.5.10 to R12 for Federal Customers

This feature addresses the gaps between 11.5.10 functionality and R12 functionality, related to meeting the requirements given by JFMIP in 2004 for ISP. The following iSupplier Portal pages are impacted:

12.1.1.1.1. Supplier Search Page

The DUNS number is available at the Supplier Site Level for CCR Suppliers. A user can retrieve Distinct Supplier records while performing the search using the DUNS number.

12.1.1.1.2. Organization Page

A CCR Supplier indicator was provided on the Organization page. If the supplier is a CCR Supplier, then the Taxpayer ID, DUNS Number and SIC attributes, and Bank account tab are rendered view-only.

12.1.1.1.3. Manage Sites Page / Update Address Page

In the Update Address page for CCR Suppliers, the attributes Country, Address Lines, City, State, Postal Code, Province, DUNS Number, and Pay Site are view-only.

A new attribute, DUNS Number, was added and displayed in the Identification tab within the Manage Sites page, for Federal Financials installations. If the supplier site is a CCR supplier site, then the user cannot update this field.

The newly added icon “View CCR Supplier” allows the user to access the General Information page from the federal application, to view CCR supplier site-specific data.

12.1.1.1.4. Tax Details Page

An indicative comment was provided on the tax details page; it identifies the Tax Details of a CCR vendor.

12.1.1.1.5. Bank Details Page

A CCR indicator appears when the assignment level is Supplier Site, and if the site is a CCR site. For a CCR Site, adding new bank accounts, modifying any bank, branch or account information, changing the priority of bank accounts and update bank account number is not possible.

12.1.1.1.6. Invoice Management page

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A suggestive comment ‘CCR Site’ was added to the Invoice Management page.

12.2. Oracle Procurement Contracts

12.2.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2)

12.2.1.1. User-Defined Variables with PL/SQL Procedures as Source

Procurement Contracts supports the concept of system and user-defined variables that can be embedded in clause text or used in contract expert rules. System variables are defined by the application and the values are sourced from attributes on the Oracle Purchasing and Sourcing documents (e.g. payment terms). User-defined variables are defined in Contract Terms Library and the values are provided by users when they author contract terms and conditions.

Contracts customers have requested the ability to create user-defined variables whose values can be sourced from descriptive flex fields, custom tables, or even a Purchase Agreement or RFQ that are not supported as system variables. With RUP2, user-defined variable values can now be sourced from any data source. The data source is encapsulated as a custom PL/SQL procedure that is associated to the user-defined variable definition. As a user authors contract terms and conditions, the system will automatically obtain the values from the data source eliminating the need for users to manually enter them.

12.3. Oracle Purchasing

12.3.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2)

12.3.1.1. Integration between Oracle Purchasing and Oracle Transportation Management

Oracle E-Business Suite now integrates with Oracle Transportation Management to enable transportation features and functionality in existing Oracle E-Business Suite products, including Oracle Order Management, Oracle Shipping Execution, Oracle Payables, Oracle Warehouse Management, and Oracle Purchasing. Oracle Transportation Management combines transportation planning and execution with freight payment, inbound freight logistics, and freight rating and routing. Oracle Transportation Management adds the following features and enhancements to Oracle Purchasing:

� Carrier selection and tender

� Freight rating and routing

� Actual ship quantities update and re-rate

� Freight payment, freight payment audit, and approval

� Visible in-transit statuses

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� Inbound carrier selection

� Inbound in-transit statuses

12.3.1.2. iSetup APIs

This feature makes it easier for customers to move Setup data between EBS instances. iSetup automates the setup and management of setup data for Oracle EBS. The iSetup migrator moves setup data across multiple EBS instances. Each business entity supported by iSetup requires an API created by the owning product team to handle export and import of setup data.

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13. New and Changed Features in Projects

13.1. Oracle Grants Accounting

13.1.1. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6)

13.1.1.1. Marking Encumbrance Items for Burden Recalculation

Encumbrance items are marked for burden recalculation if either the indirect cost schedule on the Compliances tab is updated or records are updated, inserted or deleted in the Override Schedules window.

13.2. Oracle Project Resource Management

13.2.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

13.2.1.1. Viewing At-Completion Amounts

This enhancement enables users to view both the Total budget amounts and At Completion budget amounts on the Project Home page and the Project Performance reporting pages. Users can also view the effort in the Financial region.

13.2.1.2. Choosing Displayed Currency

Users can now select the desired calendar and currency in which to view project information on the project list, Project Home page, and the performance tracking and reporting pages.

13.2.1.3. Reporting Plan Type Data in Context

Users can now view the plan type data using a new Plan Summary region in the Budgeting and Forecasting pages. The region provides the plan type data in the context of the page it is being viewed.

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14. New and Changed Features in Service

14.1. Depot Repair

14.1.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2)

14.1.1.1. Pricing Formula Support

In RUP2, Depot Repair introduces pricing formula support, enabling customers to set up price lists such that services, parts, and labor are priced differently based on formulas. For example, using this new functionality, the price of a service part can be based on a percentage of the new-item sales price.

14.1.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)

14.1.2.1. Display Service Request DFF on Depot Repair Workbench

This enhancement provides view/edit capability for the Service Request DFF, from the Depot Repair Workbench. This field is hidden and disabled, and must be enabled using a profile option.

Many customers use the Depot Repair Workbench to create and view Service Requests. Often, a service representative captures trouble and symptom-related information via phone or Scripting that is populated in a DFF. However, Depot Repair previously could not display the DFF information in the Depot Repair Workbench, and technicians had to open up the Service Request application to check if any information was populated in the DFF.

Depot Repair added the Service Request DFF to the Depot Repair Workbench in 11.5.10. This enabled repair technicians to view information that was captured by service representatives in the Service Request DFFs, without opening the Service Request application.

14.2. Oracle Field Service

14.2.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

14.2.1.1. Google Maps Integration

The Oracle Field Service application enables customers, with or without spatial data information, to have a pictorial view of the tasks, task status, and technicians’ location details on the Google Map. Google Maps provide a high performance, visually appealing, and interactive map viewing experience, with all capabilities built-in, such as zooming in and out, panning and scrolling, and printing maps. Google maps can be invoked in several situations from within Dispatch Center, including viewing the location of specific tasks, route for a technician, and tasks assigned to all technicians. It can also be invoked from the Field Service Technician Portal. Color Coding to reflect the Task Status and Informative Tool Tips provided on the map further enhances the value of interactive maps. Customers have to procure a secured key from Google on a subscription basis, in order to use this feature.

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14.3. Oracle Mobile Field Service

14.3.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

14.3.1.1. Scheduled Task Notification

The Oracle Field Service leverages Oracle Workflow to send task related notifications to technicians. Using Workflow, you can send notifications to technicians when an activity has occurred against high priority tasks that are associated to those technicians. Oracle provides three seeded task notifications; you can define additional notifications to meet your business requirements. The notifications that are provided are:

� New task assignment

� Task assignment deletion or cancellation

� Task rescheduling

14.4. Oracle Service Contracts

14.4.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2)

14.4.1.1. Mass Update Functionality

When renewing or negotiating contracts sales representatives may need to update information across multiple contracts. With the Mass Update Functionality introduced in RUP2, users can quickly update status, follow-up action, follow-up due date, and forecast information across multiple contracts. Customers can also use personalization to configure the specific attributes that are available for mass update.

14.5. Oracle Teleservice

14.5.1. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6)

14.5.1.1. User Hook for Charges Pricing API

The new user hook for the Charges Pricing API allows customers to execute custom logic for the retrieval of prices for Charge line items. The user hook is invoked from the Charges UI as well as the public Charges Create and Update APIs.

Users can embed custom logic to calculate the price of an item based on pricing rules defined in Advanced Pricing for Charges submission.

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15. New and Changed Features in Supply Chain Planning

15.1. Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning

15.1.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

15.1.1.1. Strategic Network Optimization - Integration to EBS R12

The 11i10 integration functionality will be a forward port for R12. This integration enables the data necessary (Organizations, Suppliers, Manufacturing, Inventory, Distribution, and Costs) to build a base SNO Model which can be used to support strategic planning decisions.

15.1.1.2. Production Scheduling - Integration to EBS R12

The 11i10 integration functionality will be a forward port for R12. This integration enables Production Scheduler to take supply order inputs from Advanced Supply Chain Planning and create a detailed production schedule.

15.2. Oracle Demantra Demand Management

15.2.1. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)

15.2.1.1. Demand Management and Real-Time Sales and Operations Planning Integration

Demand Management (DM) and Real-Time Sales and Operations Planning (RT S&OP) now pass forecast information into downstream Release 12 Advanced Planning applications: Advanced Supply Chain Planning (ASCP), Strategic Network Optimization (SNO), Inventory Optimization and Production Scheduling. In addition, RT S&OP pulls supply-side information, such as constrained forecasts, production plans and resource loadings, in from ASCP and SNO, so that it can present an integrated picture of how well the sales and operations plans match. RT S&OP boasts many seeded worksheets and workflows to facilitate and automate the demand review, supply review and executive review processes within an S&OP cycle. The Demand Management integration portion of this feature is a straight forward port to Release 12 of the existing DM to E-Business Suite 11i10 integration.

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16. New and Changed Features for Aerospace, Defense, and Transportation

16.1. Oracle Complex Maintenance, Repair, & Overhaul (CMRO)

16.1.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)

16.1.1.1. Item Number and Serial Number Change

Ability to update Item Number and/or Serial Number on an Install Base instance when it undergoes a modification via a CMRO workorder or through external maintenance via a CMRO Outside Processing Order. Enhancement will enable tracking maintenance and lifecycle history across item number and serial number changes.

16.1.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)

16.1.2.1. Associate Access Panels to Routes and Operations

You can associate multiple access panels to Engineering routes and operations.

This enhancement enables you to build various custom reports/views:

� Maintenance planners can sort/group tasks by access panels, enabling all related work to be planned and executed as a set.

� Planners are ensured that the correct panels have been removed, prior to starting work, and all applicable maintenance is complete, prior to closing the access panels.

� A status is provided for ongoing maintenance, to mechanics, inspectors and planners.

16.1.2.2. Search Unit Maintenance Plan based on Visit and Department

You can search the Unit Maintenance Plan, based on the Visit number, Visit Organization and Department.

Previously, you needed to navigate to the Visit Work Package window (to retrieve Visit related information) and execute customized reports to retrieve details on the Unit Maintenance Plan. This enhancement improves the planner’s productivity.

16.1.2.3. Add Planned End Date to Visit Search Results

You can view the Planned End Date, within the Visit search results, on the Visit Work Package page.

Within the Visit search results, the Planned End Date of the visit was not previously visible. It was necessary to drill down into the details to see this information. The visibility of this information, within the search results, improves the planner’s productivity.

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16.1.2.4. Add Item Description to Material Requirement Search Results

You can view the description of the item required for a visit task, on the CMRO LTP Scheduled Materials page.

16.1.2.5. Add Unit and Serial Number to Workorder Search Results

You can view Unit, Item and Serial Number attributes on the Work Order Search Results pages.

Previously, after performing the Work Order search, you were required to navigate to the Update Work Order page to view these details. Displaying the Unit, Item and Serial reduces the steps necessary to identify the work order. This is often used in cases where the same work is performed on different serial numbers within the same visit.

16.1.2.6. Add Maintenance Requirements to a Non-Routine on the Shopfloor

You can add Maintenance Requirements to non-routine work orders that are created on the shopfloor. Additionally, the non-routine work order displays the originating work order details, linking the routine to the non-routine work.

Non-routine maintenance that is required is often only identified after the Disassembly/Cleaning/Inspect/Evaluation phase. After identified, you can add predefined solutions, additional inspections, and operational checks from the CMRO Engineering repository, to resolve the problem to return the applicable units to service. Currently, this is achieved by executing multiple steps of deferring the non-routine work, re-planning the visit, and later creating the work orders. This enhancement improves productivity by saving time for the planner, ensuring all the required work is added promptly to the maintenance visit, and avoiding scheduling bottlenecks.

For traceability purposes, the non-routine work order displays the originating work order information, if it was created based on planned or unplanned work.

16.1.2.7. Ability to Perform a Maintenance Requirement Multiple Times in a Visit

This enhancement provides support for performing the same maintenance requirements multiple times, for a given instance in the same visit.

In the Airline Industry, a maintenance requirement may be performed multiple times in a single maintenance visit, due to non-routine maintenance that was discovered during the inspection or testing processes. A maintenance requirement might also be required multiple times at various stages within the visit, related to the type of maintenance, inspection, or operation check.

16.1.2.8. Option to Automate the Parts Return Process

This enhancement improves the production process by providing the option to automate the parts return process for serviceable parts. For example, a technician might disassemble an engine and place parts into inventory or repair, in the course of a job.

The steps are as follows:

� Removed parts are returned to a common ‘rack’ to be used in a future job.

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� The job is closed.

� The technician performs a re-assembly in the course of a job.

� Parts can be selected from the common ‘rack’ for installation.

Users can view a subinventory and its stock locator from the Parts Change page, set up a default subinventory for parts change use, and automate background transactions for issue and return to a subinventory.

16.1.2.9. Option to Create a Non-Routine Workorder When Removing a Part from Unit Configuration

You can add an option on the Part Removal and Disposition page, to either create or not create a non-routine work order. The default option is to create a non-routine work order, the current application behavior.

During aircraft maintenance, often a defective part is removed and put in an unserviceable inventory; this part is meant to be repaired at a later date. Currently, you cannot remove a part as unserviceable, without creating a non-routine workorder. You must first defer the non-routine work order, and then cancel it. This requires you to navigate to multiple pages.

16.1.2.10. Access to Cancel Workorder Functionality Optionally Restricted to Super Users

You can restrict the cancellation of work orders to Super Users only.

Currently, any user can cancel unreleased work orders. This functionality, for airworthiness reasons, needs to be tightly controlled. Unauthorized canceling of workorders could lead to critical aircraft maintenance not being performed. Non-routine work orders start their life cycle at an Unreleased status, and a minor aircraft visit is estimated at 342 non-routine workorders. A loophole currently exists in the system where 342 aircraft maintenance tasks could be inadvertently cancelled by any number of users who have access to the system.

16.1.2.11. Public API for Issuing and Returning Material to a Workorder

This enhancement provides a public API to perform material issues and returns to a CMRO work order.

This open interface enables customers to support local business processes through customization, and are not enforced to transact material from CMRO user interfaces.

16.1.2.12. Visit Link within the Unit Maintenance Plan Search Results

This enhancement provides a link to the visit number in the Unit Maintenance Search Results, enabling you to navigate to the Visit Details page if the maintenance is already planned. You can view the visit details and the actual status of the maintenance requirement.

Currently, the Unit Maintenance Plan (UMP) page does not display the maintenance requirement status from the Visit Work Package. This status enables the planner to quickly identify the maintenance requirements that are executed. You must navigate to the Visit

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the Visit Work Package and drill into the Visit details. This enhancement improves productivity.

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17. New and Changed Features for Public Sector/University

17.1. Oracle Grants Accounting

17.1.1. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6)

17.1.1.1. Marking Encumbrance Items for Burden Recalculation

Encumbrance items are marked for burden recalculation if the indirect cost schedule on the Compliances tab in the Award Management window is updated, or, records are updated, inserted or deleted in the Override Schedules window.