Oracle EBS & MS Edge

Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12.2 and 12.1 have two interfaces: a web-based (OA Framework/HTML) model for modules such as iProcurement and iStore, and Oracle Forms/Java based model for modules such as Oracle Financials.

Edge can be used to access the web-based HTML products in Oracle EBS that use OA Framework (OAF).

However, MS Edge Chromium browser does not support NPAPI, so is not certified for running Java content using the JRE Plug-in.

New laptops are coming with both IE11 and Microsoft Edge Chromium browsers. Users don’t have to download IE11 separately (for now). MS Edge Chromium will be default browser and you can change that and make IE11 as the default browser. 

Chrome too has stopped support Java plug-ins and Firefox needs an extensive setup which may not be practical. So best bet is still IE11 (for now).

If you want your current R12 Java based application to work on MS Edge, you need to implement Java Web Start (JWS) for your application so that JRE plug-in are not required and it works with Edge.

Vertex & Oracle

VERTEX is a Philly based corporate tax technology company and has been the industry leader in indirect tax technology for four decades. It works closely with SAP, Oracle & Microsoft Dynamics to provide Cloud based Tax solutions.

Vertex is Oracle Platinum Partner and once you license Vertex for Oracle ERP Cloud, it will load all tax related setup files and tax automated for AR/AP. Real time link to Vertex maybe formed from the application and instant tax rates calculated. Also supports Oracle Batch processing.

We've been seeing monthly Vertex Payroll Tax Update on our Oracle Cloud.

Q&A - Oracle Purchasing

PO q&a

Q1. How to mass finally close POs?
- Not finally close. Program Mass Close of Purchase Documents to mass close (not finally close) POs.

Q2. How to uncancel / reopen cancelled POs?
- Cancel status is permanent and can't be reversed.

Q3. 

Auto Allocation

Business Intelligence (BI)

Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Application extracts, transfers and load Oracle Systems (Sales, Service, Marketing, OM etc) data to a pre-mapped data warehouse schema.

From that, we are able to interact with that data through dashboards, reports, ad hoc analysis, proactive detection and alerts, disconnected analysis, MS Office Plug-in or some of the other Web Services.

Key components:

1. Prebuilt data warehouse with conforming dimensions
2. Prebuilt extract, transform, and load (ETL) to extract data from Oracle and non-Oracle sources
3. Premapped metadata embedding best practices form metrics and KPIs
4. Best practice library of dashboard and reports

Deployment Options:

1. Stand alone dashboards
2. Portal integration
3. Embedded directly in Oracle EBS

Action links allow you to drill from an analytical report directly to the transnational detail.

Deal Management

Introduced in R12 and built to be part of the quote and order process, Oracle Deal Management provides essential decision support tools and scenario modeling to help sales people achieve maximum profit on every deal.

You get real-time access to pricing data for up-to-the-minute decision-making and a centralized repository of deal information for historical reference and "rearview" aggregated analysis. With automated movement of data, the process becomes more efficient and profitable—with less risk of mistakes.

With Oracle Deal Management you can:

• Enforce price policies
• Analyze deal profitability
• Review customer price history
• Review deal metrics and waterfall
• Perform "what-if" comparisons

Invoicing Rules

Invoicing and accounting rules let you create invoices that span several accounting periods. 

Accounting rules determine the accounting period or periods in which the revenue distributions for an invoice line are recorded. You can assign a different accounting rule to each invoice line.

Accounting rules of Fixed Duration span a predefined number of periods. Accouning rules of Variable Duration let you define the number of periods during invoice entry.

Invoicing rules determine the accounting period in which the receivable amount is recorded. You can only assign one invoicing rule to an invoice.

Receivables provides the following invoicing rules:

• Bill In Advance: Use this rule to recognize your receivable immediately 

• Bill In Arrears: Use this rule if you want to record the receivable at the end of the revenue recognition schedule.

With Cash Basis Accounting, you only recognize revenue when payment is received. Invoices with rules are therefore not applicable for this method of accounting.

You can assign invoicing and accounting rules to transactions that you import into Receivables using AutoInvoice and to invoices that you create manually in the Transactions window.