Posts Tagged ‘EBS’
Thursday, May 10th, 2012 by Ian Boyling
A new feature within Release 12 of Oracle General Ledger is the ability to copy previously created journals. You can now copy entire journal batches with any status by using the AutoCopy button which is strategically placed on the Journals Workbench, Journal Batches and Journal forms. When copying Journals, you are prompted to create a batch name, select a period and/or the effective date.
Clicking OK will then submit a concurrent request called ‘Autocopy Journals’. Once this is complete, you can modify and update the batch, journal and lines in the normal way.
This is useful functionality and will reduce the amount of effort required to re-create common journals should the recurring journal functionality not be suitable.
I hope you find this useful.
Ian
Tags: Copy Journals, E-Business Suite, EBS, General Ledger, GL, Journals, R12, Release12
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Saturday, April 28th, 2012 by Ian Boyling
Oracle introduced new functionality in R12 called ‘Alternate Account’. This functionality is very useful when you have a need to disable and/or end date an account combination within your chart of accounts or you have a significant requirement to change mass chart of account values. There are two key uses of this functionality. Firstly, you may wish to make specific account combination(s) obsolete and replace it with new account combination(s). You may also wish to change a range of combinations that contain a specific value within a single segment (e.g. natural account XXXX) disabling all associated combinations and then add ’Alternate Accounts’ that have been changed. Alternate accounts can therefore be very useful if you have a significant account combination change requirements within your chart of accounts. The screen shot below shows the definition of an alternate account on single combination.
Secondly, the functionality is particularly helpful when you have open transactions created against the end dated/disabled account combinations. This is the interesting element to defining alternate accounts. For example, where you have a number of sub ledger transactions that have already been accounted against the end dated or disabled combinations and are transactions that are still in process, e.g. an invoice on hold, you do not need to change the accounting created on these existing transactions. When these transactions are subsequently imported into General Ledger (GL), the old combinations are automatically replaced with the alternate account combination(s) during the journal import and create accounting process. This adds value and efficiency to transaction processing and prevents the need for mass changes to ‘In Process’ transactions. It also prevents import errors and reduces the amount of manual intervention from a user.
There are some considerations that require thought when using this functionality:
- Alternate Accounts do not currently work with encumbrance accounting
- When reconciling GL and AP/AR code combinations balances at period end you will need to include the alternate account related transactions since the sub ledger balance will be based on the disabled accounts, however, the GL balance will include alternative account based balances.
I hope you find this useful.
Ian
Tags: Account Combinations, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Alternate Account, AP, AR, Chart of Accounts, Code Combinations, E-Business Suite, EBS, EBusiness Suite, General Ledger, GL, Oracle, R12, Reconciliation, Release12, Segments, Values
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Friday, February 17th, 2012 by Ian Boyling
If you are experiencing difficulties in seeing all your required Legal Entities as a List of Values (LoV) within the bank account definition form in Oracle Cash Management, following these simple steps will rectify the issue and unlock the LoV. This process will also explain how to grant permissions to a specific role or responsibility based on bank account use and maintenance.
- Login to Oracle Applications as sysadmin
- Select the User Management Responsibility
- Select the navigation path of ‘Roles and Role Inheritance’
- Within the field ‘Type‘, select Roles and Responsibilities
- Following step 4, a new field appears called ’Category‘, select ‘Miscellaneous’ as the value
- Within the ‘Application‘ field, select ‘Cash Management‘. Note: Add the name of the role or responsibility if known
- Click Go
- Search for the role or responsibility that you intend to use to create bank accounts. Note: The permissions you assign during the rest of this procedure will be aligned to the choice you make here.
- Click on the update icon against the desired role or responsibility
- A new window (update Role) will be displayed. Click the ‘Security Wizards‘ button
- Click Save and Proceed (if requested)
- Click the ‘Run Wizard‘ icon against ‘CE UMX Security‘ row
- Bank Account Security Management Window: In this window you can add all legal entities to which you wish to grant access and assign permissions based on the selected role or responsibility. Click the ‘Add Legal Entities‘ button and select any required legal entities that are not already listed.
- Choose each permission that you wish to assign to the Legal Entity for the role or responsibility relating to bank accounts and further use within the applications. Choices include Use, Maintenance and Bank account Transfers. Note: Each permission is explained at the foot of this procedure.
- Apply the changes and then verify in the Cash Management responsibility if you are now able to see the Legal Entities in bank account creation form.
Bank Account Grants: Permissions
Use: Allows the user to view the bank accounts for the selected legal entity in Cash Positioning, Cash Forecasting and Cash flows, as well as reconcile cash flows for the selected legal entity.
Bank Account Transfer: Allows the user to transfer funds from and to the bank accounts for the selected legal entity.
Maintenance: Allows the user to create and update bank accounts for the selected legal entity
Tags: Bank Account definition, Bank Accounts, Banks, Cash Management, CE, E-Business Suite, EBS, Legal Entities, Legal Entity, LoV, Oracle, Oracle Cash Management, Payables, R12, R12.1.2, Release12, Roles and Role Inheritance, User Management
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 by Ian Boyling
Oracle Internet Expenses comes seeded with three Mileage ‘Unit of Measures‘, namely Miles, Kilometers and Swedish Miles. Without trying to offend our friends from Sweden, it is often the case that an end user of Oracle i-Expenses will only want to see and use the unit of measure(s) that are relevant to the business expense policy or geographical region in which they operate. When creating an expense claim and selecting the expense type of ‘Mileage’ users often ask the questions:
Why do I see Swedish Miles?
or
Can I just have Miles?
or
Can you remove all values in the Unit of Measure list and just keep the one that is relevant for our T&S policy?
For users in other regions, the same question may well include the desire to remove Miles (e.g. regions in mainland Europe) or Kilometers (e.g. UK). The screenshot below shots the seeded view of values a user is presented with when entering a mileage claim.
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Tags: E-Business Suite, EBS, Expense Claim, Expense Report, Expense Types, i-Expenses, Internet Expenses, Kilometers, Mileage, Miles, OIE, Payables, Swedish Miles
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Thursday, April 1st, 2010 by Darren
Farr
Projected Consulting are pleased to announce the successful implementation of the integration of Oracle Primavera with Oracle Projects using the recently released Oracle® Application Integration Architecture (AIA) Release 2.5 Cross-Industry PIP.
The Project Management PIP includes:
- Oracle Primavera to Oracle E-Business Suite
- Oracle Primavera to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
providing seamless integration between the two and Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management.
This allows users to create projects in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle Project Portfolio Management (OP) or P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (P6) and synchronize project structures, activities, resource details and assignments, budgets, actual costs, progress and cost to complete.
Projected Consulting have successfully implemented the integrated Oracle Primavera – Oracle Projects PIP at its world class training centre. We are keen to share this success with customers and potential clients and would like to identify some of the key configuration requirements and benefits available for our customers. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: AIA, Application Integration Architecture, E-Business Suite, EBS, Integration, Oracle Projects, PIP, Primavera, Project Management
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