What are Business Flows?
End-to-end business transactions designed to achieve critical objectives, incorporating leading business practices Flows help show how Oracle Applications solve specific business problems Flows provide a configured, pre-tested path through integrated Oracle Applications
Why Are Business Flows Important?
Establish credibility by engaging the customers on their ground, in their terms Flows address the customers business issues Easy-to-recognize content leads to agreement more quickly
Yes, that is what our company wants to do
Reduce implementation effort and time through configured, pre-tested solutions
Components of a Business Flow
Business Flow Title Related Business Process Flows End User Role
Business Process
Business Process Identifier
Oracle Products Covered Out of Scope Business Process End User Role
Business Flow Families
Business Flows are implemented in groups of closely related business processes called Flow Families Example: Flow Family Accounting to Financial Reports includes the following business flows:
Customer Invoice to Receipt Supplier Invoice to Payment Expense Report to Invoice Receipt to Assets Assets to Depreciation Bank Statement to Cash Reconciliation Subledger Journals to Post Period End Close to Financial Reports
Preparing for Flow Implementations
To learn how to effectively use business flow content to improve your implementation:
Review these training assets
Flow models Flow videos Flow scripts Solution implementation guide Business flows testing sequence
Study the business process flow model and script while watching the flow video Work through the flow script yourself in your instance