Oracle E-Business Suite also known as Oracle EBS, it is an integrated set of business

applications for automating customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise

resource planning (ERP) and supply chain management (SCM),Human Resource
processes (HRMS) within organizations. Oracle e-Business Suite is an end-to-end
integrated as well as flexible solution and it provides various benefits due to its integration
and in-built flexibility.
Overview

The Oracle E-Business Suite is a complete set of business applications that enables corporations
to efficiently track detailed business transaction data and turn it into decision making information
using a system built on a unified information architecture.

Oracle Financials applications are a subset of this suite and are a family of products designed to
capture and analyze your financial data on a worldwide basis. Use Oracle Financials applications
to better manage business to the targets that are announced to investors. Management can better
report to investors and colleagues. Oracle Financials applications also help you to meet your
obligations in key areas surrounding the numbers, such as:

• Compliance
• Financial Control
• Regulatory Reporting
• Cost Containment
• Risk Management

The Oracle Financials Concepts Guide introduces you to the fundamental concepts involved in
setting up and using Oracle Financials applications.

Single Source Of Truth

Financials

Oracle solution is an integrated suite of industry leading financial management and accounting
applications that enable an enterprise to support a global business, drive efficiencies, establish
appropriate controls and track key financial drivers. Oracle Financials is at the hub of Oracle's
E-Business Suite, the only complete and simple way to automate your entire enterprise.

It would allow the or ganizat ion to automate and streamline the customer invoice to
collection flow and supplier invoice to payment flow. It would help it manage the asset life cycle,
cost and history. It would help in monitoring foreign currency exposures. Oracle Financials
through its flexible chart of accounts and integrated business intelligence enable your
organization to track financial performance across upto 30 parameters and 150+ KPIs. It would
also enable what-if analysis on user defined parameters and flexible budgeting.
It would allow Organization to close its books faster, drive operational efficiencies and make better
decisions, faster.

Some of the Functions Covered

▪ Capture and analyze financial performance across upto 30 parameters
▪ Budget at corporate, divisional, unit and department levels. Budgets can be created from
prior year actuals or be zero based.
▪ Analyze company, unit, region (or any user defined parameter) performance and drill
down to the root causes of any variance.
▪ Perform what-if analysis and get results instantaneously.
 ▪ Select users can create reports as per their requirements whether they be statutory
reports or internal. Reports on departmental or product profitability can be easily created
and published if required.
▪ User defined allocation rules can be defined for allocation of overheads and other
common costs for more accurate product costing.
▪ Track assets, drill into asset history, depreciate assets as per company and tax
requirements, transfer, revalue and retire assets
▪ Streamline the supplier invoice to payment process. Define multiple flows for different
types of purchases while providing strong financial controls. Analyze creditors balances
and aging. Check on funds availability before creating payments
▪ Streamline the customer invoice to collection process. Maintain history of collection
efforts. Analyze customer payment performance and perform aging analysis
▪ Monitor foreign currency exposures
▪ Get a global cash forecast (inflows and outflows) across the enterprise.
▪ Automatic reconciliation of bank statements
▪ Set up Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and monitor performance against the KPIs. Get
automatic alerts on deviations and drill down to the cause of the deviations.

Projects
Oracle Project Costing helps you improve the bottom line of your projects by integrating
and controlling global project costs. ... Oracle Projects is part of the Oracle E-Business
Suite, an integrated set of applications that are engineered to work together.

• Oracle Projects suite of products offers the following solution:

• Create and maintain cost code structures for all jobs

• Establish budgets for jobs
• Set up time schedules for the tasks
• Track and manage the costs and revenues associated with the jobs and projects
• Review and revise additional information associated with the projects and jobs
• Generate various reports showing the cost, revenues, and other details of the projects and
jobs.
• Calculate job progress at any time during the stage of the project
• Calculate estimated final values associated with the projects and job.
• Recognize and record profit or loss at any point in a job.
• Create draw reports on the costs that are eligible to be borrowed against a loan
agreement.

Project Planning and Control

• Oracle Project Planning and Control provides project managers a solution for maintaining
control and visibility of all aspects of their projects.
• As a project manager, you can view project information at a single source point enabling
you to track and manage a project through the project lifecycle, from creating and
 planning, through to completion. Using Oracle Project Planning and Control, you can
perform the following tasks:
• Manage unit rate based contracts
• Create, manage, version, and view workplans
• Track progress against the workplan
• Link Microsoft Project with Oracle Projects enabling you to work with a project using both
applications
• Create budgets and forecasts to plan and manage the financial performance of projects
throughout the project lifecycle
• Track and monitor the performance of a project, and analyze financial and effort
information by task, resource, and time
• View exceptions for key financial and schedule metrics, and send automated status report
notifications to key project stakeholders
• Provide a timely and consistent view of project status information to all audience members
and project stakeholders

• Periodically receive and review a pack of predefined project performance reports by e-

mail
• Manage issues such as concerns, problems, and outstanding questions for projects and
tasks
• Manage actions or changes that affect the scope, value, or duration of projects and
tasks
• Attach and manage documents for projects and tasks
• Search and review the current financial status of projects and review detailed financial
performance for projects and tasks

Procurement :
Oracle solution addresses Procure to Pay cycle for both Inventory and Non-inventory purchases.
It is integrated with Supply Chain Planning and Inventory for automatic generation of Requisition
from Planned Order and automatic generation of Requisition from Reorder Point / Min-Max
Planning respectively. The sourcing rules in oracle determine for which supplier the PO is to be
raised based on ranking and allocation percentage. The added feature of Supplier Collaboration
ensures that purchasing process status is visible to supplier on the portal. Collaboration is also
done for Subcontracting operations, Quality check, supplier schedules and company forecasts.
Self-service purchasing enables users to create their own requisitions, track status, monitor
spending etc. Collaboration and self service ensures lower procurement costs, lower cycle time
for purchasing and reliable relationship.
▪ Supplier Collaboration on the portal for Raw material Supplier and Subcontractor
▪ Workflow driven supplier account registration on the portal
▪ Automatic notification to the proper authorities when supplier submits a transaction on
the portal
▪ Incorporate minimum order quantity and lot quantity restrictions on the portal
▪ Supplier can view Request for Quotation (RFQ) on the portal
 ▪ Supplier can see on-hand inventory balance and company forecast for the components
on the portal.
▪ You team can view Supplier Planning and Shipping Schedules on the portal
▪ PO status and open delivery schedules can be seen by supplier on the portal.
▪ Supplier can enter Advance Shipment Notifications (ASN) on the portal.
▪ Overdue receipts and on time delivery can be viewed on the portal.
▪ Billing information can be entered on the portal like invoices sent and payment received.
▪ Quality results can be entered by supplier for subcontracting operations for self-certified
supplier on the portal.
▪ Subcontracting orders can be tracked and quantity lying at subcontractors’ premises can
be identified on the portal.
▪ Various attachments can be created for any transactions like terms and conditions,
billing instructions, receipt instructions, quality document etc.
▪ Self service requisitioning process to reduce co-ordination between users and
purchasing department and reduce admin cost.
▪ Supplier catalog and content can be created for non-inventory self service purchases.
▪ See status of requisition and route to the authorities through workflow.
▪ Purchasing cycle can be changed, if required by the company, by using workflow
processes.
▪ Requisition can be clubbed for multiple users, multiple items and multiple shipments and
can be auto released to RFQ or PO based on requirements.
▪ Quote can be compared for Price, Schedule, terms etc and multiple quotes can be
released to single PO based on best offer obtained.
▪ Standard PO, Agreement, Open Order, Scheduled Release Order can be created.
▪ Receive items into receiving/inspection, directly to inventory, or the shop floor and
receive substitute items
▪ View, modify, approve, and forward documents from the Workflow Notification Viewer
▪ Control approvals by amount, cost center, budget, account, item, category, and location
▪ Control document access and route documents for approval according to your
management structure
▪ Use budgetary control for expense or inventory purchases
▪ Check funds availability before approving documents
▪ Oracle Inventory Management allows you to consolidate your disparate inventory
tracking and control systems into a single, global inventory management solution for
material in every stage of the product lifecycle across all of your types of business.
▪ Item attributes are the collection of information about an item. ... You can enter and
update the values of Master-level attributes only by using the Master Item window.
Oracle Inventory reflects your changes in all organizations that carry the item.
iSupplier Portal
▪ Oracle iSupplier Portal enables secure, self-service business transactions between
companies and their suppliers. It provides suppliers with the ability to use a standard
Web browser to directly manage business transactions and access secure information
▪ Oracle iSupplier Portal provides a collaborative platform for a buyer to manage
relationships with their global supply base. With Oracle iSupplier Portal, suppliers can
receive immediate notifications and respond to events in the purchasing and planning
process. Oracle iSupplier Portal provides the framework that enables buyers and
suppliers to communicate key business transactions while enabling the ability to search,
monitor, revise, and review.
Oracle Marketing

Oracle Marketing drives profit, not just responses, by intelligently marketing to the total
customer/prospect base. By leveraging a single repository of customer information, you can
better target and personalize your campaigns, and refine them in real time with powerful
analytical tools.

With tools necessary to automate the planning, budgeting, execution, and tracking of your
marketing initiatives, Oracle Marketing provides you with:

• Customer Insight - With sophisticated customer management and list generation,

Oracle Marketing enables you to quickly generate target lists and segments using an
intuitive user interface. The easy to use Natural Query Language Builder (NLQB) lets
you query for customers or prospects using a natural language while hiding data
complexity; fatigue management ensures that you do not over-contact the same
customers with marketing messages; and predictive analytics helps you predict
customer behavior that you can leverage to produce significant increases in marketing
return on investments (ROI).
• Sales Alignment - Oracle Marketing's leads management helps you compile and
distribute viable leads so that sales professionals can follow up valuable opportunities
and not just contact interactions. Additionally, support for distributing proposals and
marketing material drive speedy and consistent setups and collaboration of best
practices.
• Marketing Insight - While Oracle Marketing Home page reports for Marketing and Sales
provide aggregated management level information in almost real time, operational
metrics help in tracking the effectiveness of individual marketing activities.

Oracle Sales
Streamlined creation and management of customers, contacts, leads and opportunities:
Oracle Sales supports management of customers of type Organization for B2B and type Person
for B2C scenarios. You can create new leads manually, import leads from Oracle Marketing
using the sales campaign tool, or use leads entered by TeleSales agents. Oracle Sales assists in
tracking these leads and routing them to the appropriate sales representative, enabling the
conversion of leads to opportunities. After conversion, you can update opportunity details and
track opportunity progress.

• Ability to track interactions with customers: Oracle Sales employs notes functionality
to track customer interactions. You can enter notes for leads, opportunities, customers,
contacts, and forecasts. E-mail interactions are tracked using integration with Oracle
Sales for Handhelds.
• Competitor tracking: Within each opportunity, at the product level, you can include
competitor information such as name, product, and win/loss status. Additionally, Oracle
Sales has defaulting capabilities that match products in the opportunity to potential
competitor products.
• Convenient customer analysis: Important customer information is integrated into the
leads and opportunities pages in Oracle Sales. While working on leads or opportunities,
you can view information such as a list of all products that a customer has currently
 purchased that have service contracts, a list of current and past opportunities, and a list of
existing service requests
• 360 Degree View in Oracle Sales: The application offers you a view of:
o Orders and returns
o Opportunities
o Leads
o Proposals
o Quotes
o Campaigns
o Sales Contracts
o Sales Agreements
o Service Contracts
o Service Requests Backlog

Core HR:
• Employee availability brings scheduling and calendar events together
• Ability to re-hire an employee before final process date
• Automated and flexible checklists
• Global people management provides the ability to manage records across
business groups
• Global deployment allows people to be permanently or temporarily transferred
across business groups
• Static user security makes performance improvements to security
• Discoverer End User Layer made available
• Documents of record store regulatory and other work-related documents
• Definition of global person names
• Flexibility to support your business
• Highly automated people management processes
• Highly automated compensation processes
• Workforce planning
• Comprehensive benefits management
• People information for all your needs
• Extensive integration with other applications in the E-Business Suite
• Security options to meet your needs
• Rapid implementation tools to support set up of organizations, jobs, positions,
grades and steps
• Operational Reports assist decision making and compliance including Discoverer
End User Layer
• Global information on all current and potential workforce members, including
applicants, employees and contingent workers
• Single repository of employee data
• Workflow to increase productivity and improve governance and control
Self Service HR:

• Improved UI for competency profiles and third party profile integration

• Responsibility Ownership function provides administrators with a list of owned
responsibilities
• Confidential job applications available to employees on-line
• Verification of employment can be made available to outside sources through
employee self-service reducing maintenance for HR professionals
• Current and historical contract information is displayed in manager and employee
views
• Improves your talent management processes and enables you to optimize your
human capital through E-Business HRMS.
• Self-service applications empower employees that can lead to improved morale
and increased retention.
• Self-service applications can significantly improve productivity and lower labor
and operational costs.

Payrolls in Oracle HRMS

• A payroll is a set of employees whose pay you process with a single frequency,
for example, weekly or monthly. You can define as many payrolls as you require
to meet the pay policies of your enterprise. You put an employee on a payroll by
making an assignment to the payroll.
• You can also assign employees to other employee groups: for example, groups to
indicate membership of a union or employment based sports club.

Oracle Enterprise Asset Management

Oracle Enterprise Asset Management (eAM) is a part of Oracle's E-Business Suite,

providing organizations with the tools to create and implement maintenance procedures
for both assets and rebuildable inventory items.

Oracle E-Business Suite Enterprise Asset management solutions enable companies to

drive maintenance best practices; empower all workers with easy-to-use self-service
applications; and manage the full asset lifecycle with a complete view of all types of
assets and equipment, while supporting compliance and corporate governance initiatives
throughout the global organization.

Perhaps one of the biggest challenges for companies especially asset- intensive
organizations is how to effectively manage all their different types of assets, without
creating a huge management workload that adversely impacts the bottom line
Oracle eAM provides a complete maintenance solution that enables be best practices for
maintenance management. It supports preventive, condition-based, reactive and
emergency maintenance to all types of assets.
Seamless out-of-the-box integration to Oracle E-Business Suite supports an uninterrupted,
real-time function and information flow for asset management. A complete work
management solution, including forecasting, planning, scheduling, Execution and
completion, provides the necessary tools to increase maintenance efficiency and
maximize asset availability.

The Database Tier

Oracle Database is the world's most popular database. Available on cloud and on-
premises platforms, Oracle Database 19c is the most recent long term release, with an
extended support window. Oracle Database 21c is the latest innovation release, initially
available on Oracle cloud through Autonomous Database Free Tier and Database Cloud
Service.

The database tier contains the Oracle database server that stores and manages all the
data maintained by Oracle E-Business Suite. This includes the various types of file in
which the tables, indexes, and other database objects for your system physically reside,
as well as the database executables. The database also stores the Oracle E-Business
Suite online help information.

The database server communicates with the services and servers on the application tier,
which mediate the communications between the database and the clients: there is no
direct communication between the database and clients.
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