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Oracle Purchasing 11i Enhancements. -Jay Oliphant -Satyakanth Abbaraju [Satya]. BOSS Corporation. Oracle Applications Experts Atlanta HQ, Dallas & Raleigh offices Leader in Oracle HRMS Fin Apps, Mfg, DBA’s (remote or on-site) 11i Upgrades & New Implementations
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Oracle Purchasing 11i Enhancements -Jay Oliphant -Satyakanth Abbaraju [Satya]
BOSS Corporation • Oracle Applications Experts • Atlanta HQ, Dallas & Raleigh offices • Leader in Oracle HRMS • Fin Apps, Mfg, DBA’s (remote or on-site) • 11i Upgrades & New Implementations • Published “Using Oracle Applications” • Frequent OAUG Speakers, Writers
11i Project at Ithaca College • Public Sector HR / Payroll • Public Sector Financials: • General Ledger • Accounts Receivable • Accounts Payable • Purchasing • Public Sector Budgeting • Self Service Applications
11i Purchasing • New Features and Enhancements… • Global Features • Approved Supplier List Functionality • Workflow Enhancements • Other Enhancements • Customizations and Third Party Bolt-ons
Receipt-based Exchange Rate • Captures and stores the exchange rate at the time of receipt • Uses this to calculate the exchange rate variance and purchase price variance, at the time of invoicing
Partially Recoverable Tax • Account for taxes paid that are recoverable, only partially recoverable, or not recoverable • You can compute and encumber partial and non-recoverable taxes on requisitions and purchase orders
Intrastat/Country of Origin • Intrastat Movement Statistics Enhancements for the EU • Track Country of Origin by entering information in Approved Supplier List or Supplier Site window, on standard, planned purchase orders and releases, and receipts • New Reports: • Country of Origin Report (by Item) • Country of Origin Report (by Supplier)
MRC Enhancements • MRC Transactions Upgrade Utilities • View Receiving Accounting window • MRC Setup -Purchasing Transactions Upgrade (new program)
Multi-lingual Reports • Purchasing reports that can be set up for printing in another language • Printed Purchase Order Report (Portrait and Landscape) • Printed RFQ Report (Portrait and Landscape) • Printed Change Orders Report (Portrait and Landscape)
Approved Supplier List • Enhancements in “Planning Constraints” • Allocate planned orders w/cap. constraints • Flexible tolerance fences • Ordering restrictions for specific suppliers • Lead times for suppliers; Delivery calendars • Disabling of Approved Supplier List entries • Allocation of demand based on historical allocations • Enhanced Setup Documentation
Automatic Sourcing • More Automatic Sourcing Options... • Automatic defaulting of source document information • Commodity level control of supplier statuses • Commodity level control for one-time and inventory items
Price/Sales Catalog Updates • Updates blanket purchase agreements and quotations • Imports updates to existing documents • Price tolerance feature flags items • Add or expire individual lines to documents
Other Enhancements • Customer returns against Sales Orders is now done in Purchasing • Expiration Date for specific items on Blanket Orders • Material Shortage Alerts on receiving • MRP Integration Enhancements • Model/Unit Effectivity • RightFAX support
Optio Solutions • Document and Message Distribution • Distributed Output Management: DCS, Fax • e.ComPresent • e.ComEngine
Match Invoice-to-Receipt • You can now match an invoice to one or more receipt transactions
Payment on Receipt • New aging period profile option (PO: ERS aging period, default = 0) • Aging Period field in the Payment on Receipt AutoInvoice process • New field in the Terms and Conditions of a Purchase Order / Blanket Order • Profile option PO: ERS Invoice Number Prefix
Copy Documents • Examples: • Copy to repeat a purchase order • Copy a blanket order to renew • Copy a previous agreement and change the effective dates
General Ledger Drill Down • View Receiving Accounting from Receipt Transaction Summary window • Purchasing Receiving Accounting window
New Programs • Purge Purchasing Open Interface Processed Data • MRC Setup -Purchasing Transactions Upgrade
New Lookups / Codes • View Accounting (new): RCV Transaction • Vendor Type: Public Sector Companies (new value) • Shipment Source Type: Customer (new value) • Shipment Source Document Type: RMA (new value) • RCV Transaction Type: Return to Customer (new value)
Workflow Enhancements • Easier to install, set up • New Workflows: • PO Catalog Price Tolerance Exceeded Notifications • Procurement Processes
Workflow Enhancements…2 • Improvements to existing workflows: • PO Account Generator and PO Requisition Account Generator • Redundant workflows deleted from database • PO Create Documents • PO Requisition Approval • PO Approval • PO Confirm Receipts workflow
At Ithaca College • Workflow customizations • STAPLES integration • Q-Track integration
War Stories… • Typical Oracle Apps bugs • Improved but inadequate support with I-TAR • Performance Issues (Cost Based Optimizer: Note:35934.1 on Metalink) • Improved interface
Questions & Answers BOSS Corporation Atlanta HQ: 770-622-5500 Jay Oliphant <jay.oliphant@bosscorporation.com> Satya <satyakanth@bosscorporation.com>