Materials Management & Logistics Implementation

Overview:

By implementing the Materials Management and Logistics offering, your enterprise can configure business rules that govern materials management and logistics activities for a warehouse.

Before you begin, use the Getting Started page in the Setup and Maintenance work area to access reports for each offering, including full lists of setup tasks, descriptions of the options and features you can select when you configure the offering, and lists of business objects and enterprise applications associated with the offering.

The first implementation step is to configure the offerings in the Setup and Maintenance work area by selecting the offerings and options that you want to make available to implement. For the

Materials Management and Logistics offering, you can select the following options:

• Materials Management and Logistics (this option also has associated

 features that you can select to configure)

• Shipping

• Receiving

• Supply Chain and Order Management Business Intelligence Analytics

• Order Management Business Intelligence Analytics

• Logistics Business Intelligence Analytics

• Intrastat Reporting

Next, create one or more implementation projects for the offerings and options that you want to implement first, which generates task lists for each project. The application implementation manager can customize the task list and assign and track each task.

If you select all of the options, the generated task list for this offering contains the following groups of tasks:

• Define Common Applications Configuration for Materials Management

• Define Common SCM Configuration

• Define Warehouse Administration

• Define Transactional Business Intelligence Configuration

• Define Extensions for Materials Management and Logistics

To start an Oracle Fusion Applications implementation, you must setup one or more initial users using the super user that was created during installation and provisioning of the Oracle Fusion Applications environment. Because Oracle Fusion Applications is secure as delivered, the process of enabling the necessary setup access for initial users requires several specialized steps when getting started with an implementation.

The following high level steps are required for starting an implementation.

1. As the Oracle Identity Management Administration user, provision the IT Security Manager job

   role with roles for user and role management. This step enables the super user account,    

   which is provisioned with the IT Security Manager job role, to create implementation users.

2. As the Oracle Fusion Applications installation super user, perform the following tasks once  

   you have selected an offering to implement and generated the setup tasks needed t   

   implement the offering.

a. Synchronize users and roles in the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) store with

   HCM user management by using the Run User and Roles Synchronization Process task.

b. Create an IT security manager user by using the Create Implementation Users task.

c. Provision the IT security manager with the IT Security Manager role by using the Provision  

   Roles to Implementation Users task.

3. As the newly created IT security manager user, sign in to Oracle Fusion Applications and set

  up at least one implementation user for setting up enterprise structures.

a. Create an implementation user by using the Create Implementation Users task.

b. Provision the implementation user with the Application Implementation Manager job role or the

   Application Implementation Consultant job role by using the Provision Roles to Implementation

   users task. The Application Implementation Consultant job role inherits from all product-specific  

   application administrators and entitles the necessary View All access to all secured object.

c. Optionally, create a data role for an implementation user who needs only the limited access of

  a product-specific Application Administrator by using the Create Data Role for Implementation

  Users. Then assign the resulting data role to the implementation user by using the Provision

  Roles to Implementation Users task.

The figure shows the task flow from provisioning the IT Security Manager job role with the user and role management entitlement to creating and provisioning implementation users for enterprise setup.

Oracle Fusion Enterprise Struture

Overview:

Oracle Fusion Applications have been designed to ensure your enterprise can be modeled to meet legal and management objectives.

The decisions about your implementation of Oracle Fusion Applications are affected by your:

• Industry

• Business unit requirements for autonomy

• Business and accounting policies

• Business functions performed by business units and optionally, centralized 
   in shared service centers

• Locations of facilities

Every enterprise has three fundamental structures, legal, managerial, and functional, that are used to describe its operations and provide a basis for reporting. In Oracle Fusion, these structures are implemented using the chart of accounts and organizations. Although many alternative hierarchies can be implemented and used for reporting, you are likely to have one primary structure that organizes your business into divisions, business units, and departments aligned by your strategic objectives.

Different Structure:

1.       Legal Structure

2.       Management Structure

3.       Functional Structure

Business Process Model:

In Oracle Fusion Applications, the Enterprise Performance and Planning Business Process Model illustrates the major implementation tasks that you perform to create your enterprise structures.

This process model includes the Set Up Enterprise Structures business process, which consist of implementation activities that span many product families. Information Technology is a second Business Process Model which contains the Set Up Information Technology Management business process. Define Reference Data Sharing is one of the activities in this business process and is important in the implementation of the enterprise structures. 

This activity creates the mechanism to share reference data sets across multiple ledgers, business units, and warehouses, reducing the administrative burden and decreasing the time needed to implement. The following figure and chart describes the Business Process Model structures and activities.

Business Process Model Activities:

1.      Define Enterprise

2.      Define Enterprise Structures

3.      Define Legal Jurisdictions and Authorities

4.      Define Legal Entities

5.      Define Business Units

6.      Define Financial Reporting Structure

7.      Define Chart of Accounts

8.      Define Ledgers

9.      Define Accounting Configurations

10.  Define Facilities

11.  Define Reference Data Sharing

Organization Classifications:

Organization classifications define the purpose of the organization, whether it's a department, a division, or a legal entity. In some enterprises, organization classifications overlap, which means that the same organization can be assigned multiple classifications.

Organization With One Classification:

Define each organization in your enterprise as a separate organization with a single classification to reflect your enterprise structure and provide flexibility for growth and expansion. The advantage of setting up separate organizations is the ability to add further organizations to expand the enterprise easily.

Organization With Multiple Classifications:

Define an organization with multiple classifications if the organization has multiple purposes.

(For example, if you want to use an organization within the Oracle Fusion Customer Relationship Management applications as a department that employs sales people, you can classify it as a department and a sales organization. Or, if your enterprise operates and employs people in multiple countries, you can create a legal entity for each country using the Oracle Fusion Legal Entity Configurator and then use the Manage Departments task to classify them as a department as well.)

Configuration Workbench:

 The Oracle Fusion Enterprise Structures Configurator (ESC) is an interview based tool to help you analyze how to represent your business in the Oracle Fusion Applications. The interview process poses questions about the name of your enterprise, legal structure, management reporting structure, and primary organizing principle for your business. Based on your answers, the applications suggest the best practices to use to implement business units in your enterprise.

You can use or modify these answers to ensure that both your reporting and administrative goals are met in your Oracle Fusion deployment.

Global Enterprise Configuration:

Start your global enterprise structure configuration by discussing what your organization's reporting needs are and how to represent those needs in the Oracle Fusion Applications. Consider deployment on a single instance, or at east, on as few instances as possible, to simplify reporting and consolidations for your global enterprises.

The following are some questions and points to consider as you design your global enterprise structure in Oracle Fusion

• Enterprise Configuration

• Business Unit Management

• Security Structure

• Compliance Requirements

Thanks & Regards,

S.Grace Paul Regan

Oracle Fusion Procurement

Oracle Fusion Procurement

The New Standard for Supply Management

Using technology to improve procurements is not new. Unfortunately, conventional approaches have treated analytics as a discrete discipline, required extensive investment in end-user training, and failed to account for the real-world challenges of business interruptions.

Oracle Fusion Procurement is different. It drives results by providing unprecedented insight to all users. Its revolutionary approach to business intelligence and process automation sets the new standard and fundamentally changes the way procurement professionals work.

Practice Smart Sourcing

Procurement professionals know that they can deliver financial and performance improvements through strategic sourcing. But all too often, improvements are held hostage by information bottlenecks, lack of visibility into the high-value opportunities, and compliance gaps. And where e-sourcing promises savings, the promise is often broken by systems that fail to enforce compliance to negotiated terms.

Oracle Fusion Procurement provides the intelligence needed to help professionals uncover savings opportunities. It provides a timely understanding of spending patterns, employee expenses, and supplier performance. It uses state-of-the-art analytics to pinpoint top opportunities, monitor trends, and deliver performance metrics across an organization’s heterogeneous systems.

Oracle Fusion Procurement’s ability to drive savings doesn’t stop with analytics. It delivers role-based dashboards that prioritize procurement actions. It consolidates worklists and watchlists and makes it easy for procurement professionals to identify areas requiring attention. Oracle Fusion Procurement also makes it easier to capitalize on opportunities. It provides integrated sourcing and contract management to help negotiate enforceable agreements. By integrating e-sourcing with universal contract standards, a universal contract repository, and universal search, it provides visibility into contracts while standardizing collaboration and compliance.

Broaden End-User Self-Service

Because of the massive savings they deliver, procurement professionals are often worth their weight in gold. So it is wasteful to have them bogged down with routine transactions. Oracle Fusion Procurement dramatically broadens end-user self-service, motivates good choices among end users, drives widespread supplier enablement, and promotes end-user satisfaction.

Oracle Fusion Procurement delivers a consumer experience to promote end-user satisfaction, The interface delivers friendly and familiar Web features such as search, favorites, recent items, tagging, and embedded learning for infrequent users. This improves requisitioning efficiency, boosts utilization, and slashes training burdens. The interface also features embedded analytics within the context of self-service requisitioning to help end users make better choices. It gives users visibility into supplier lead times and performance, which expands the range of transactions suitable for self-service.

Oracle Fusion Procurement also expands the utility of self-service by delivering a user-friendly interface to suppliers, thereby promoting more-widespread enablement. With a single logon, suppliers get easy access to a secure, integrated work center that provides full visibility into their transactions, closed-loop collaboration, and complete e-invoicing. This reduces the procurement department’s workload by reducing errors, phone inquiries, fulfillment times, and accounts payable inefficiencie

Protect Business Interests

The drive to deliver more savings with fewer resources has led to increasingly complex and global operating models. But that doesn’t mean that anyone can afford to ignore policy enforcement, the unique needs of individual business units, or the risk of supply disruptions. Oracle Fusion Procurement was built to address these challenges. It protects business interests by aligning organizational needs with the right controls and approval processes.

Oracle Fusion Procurement enables organizations to balance the competing objectives of scale and specialization by enabling center-driven procurement. It offers a unique architecture for simple modeling of sophisticated organizational structure and processes. This enables more-flexible operating models for shared-service environments that centralize and standardize common processes while accommodating local or unique business requirements.

In addition to its support for center-driven procurement, Oracle Fusion Procurement was built with unique workflow and change management capabilities. Its unified workflow approval management restricts unwanted behaviors by closing compliance gaps, promoting visibility, and simplifying exception management. And its document change management enables procurement groups to adapt to business disruptions. Together they deliver process efficiency and smooth change control processes required by today’s nonlinear and increasingly unpredictable working environment.

Oracle Fusion Applications

Oracle Fusion Procurement is part of Oracle Fusion Applications, which are completely open, standards-based enterprise applications that can be easily integrated into a service-oriented architecture. Designed as a complete suite of modular applications, Oracle Fusion Applications help you improve performance, lower IT costs, and get better results. Whether you choose one module, a product family, or the entire suite, Oracle enables you to gain the benefits of Oracle Fusion Applications at a pace that matches your business needs.

Oracle Fusion Applications (OFA)

Oracle Fusion Applications (OFA)

OFA are a portfolio of software products including Financials, Human capital management, Customer relationship management, Supply chain management, Procurement, Governance, and Project portfolio management. The software suite was developed by Oracle Corporation. Oracle Fusion Applications were first announced shortly after Oracle's acquisition of Peoplesoft, JD Edwards, and Siebel Systems in 2005 and finally released in September, 2010.

Oracle Fusion Applications were envisioned and pitched as a killer Enterprise resource planning suite: a combination of the best features and functionalities taken from Oracle E-Business Suite, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and Siebel product lines. Oracle's master plan is to build a complete suite of standards-based applications for both large and small companies.

Oracle Fusion Applications also leverage the Service-oriented architecture capabilities of the underlying Oracle Fusion Middleware product. Fusion Applications will likely also contain aspects of Enterprise social software.

In addition to moving to the latest technology stack including SOA, BPEL, BAM, JSF, Ajax, ESB etc, the new product suite will also attempt to bring together the best in class underpinnings, of each of the incumbent suites, like Business Structure, Security Model, Workflow Process, Event Models.

With the birth of Fusion Applications, Oracle promises to continue to innovate the functions in its E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Siebel products while leaving the technology side of these products untouched.