After you upgrade to R12, you will notice a new operating unit field on some forms and a new operating unit parameter on reports and concurrent programs. This field allows you to enter or view data and run concurrent programs from multiple operating units without changing responsibilities. To access this field you will need to [...]
If you are using any of the Purchasing, Payables, or Order Management and don’t like the accounting, you can modify the Account Generator workflow to achieve your desired results. Unfortunately modifying a workflow is not a common skill set amongst Oracle developers. To overcome this, I have put together a simple way to modify the [...]
When reconciling Inventory to the General Ledger, we need to know how Inventory is integrated with the General Ledger and how Inventory calculates inventory value. Inventory integrates with GL using cost elements and material distributions. WIP integrates with GL using cost elements and WIP distributions. Cost elements define the elemental level that Oracle tracks and [...]
The Invoice to Payment process takes you from entering an invoice to paying the vendor. This process includes 6 steps: Entering or Importing the Supplier Invoice Optionally, matching the invoice to a Purchase Order or Receipt Validating the invoice Resolving automatic invoice holds Running the invoice approval process and approving invoices Creating and approving payment [...]
In this post, I will how cost groups are used in the Oracle Inventory, Warehouse Management (WMS), and Project Manufacturing modules. When you setup an inventory organization, Oracle will assign a default cost group to your organization. This cost group holds the inventory valuation accounts and for actual costing methods (like average, FIFO, and LIFO) [...]
In my last post (Oracle Apps Tutorial: How to Allow Other Operating Units to Charge Your Project), I enabled an operating unit from a different legal entity to charge my project . In this post, I will now enable intercompany billing so that we can generate an intercompany AR invoice (from the charging or providing [...]
There are two different scenarios for cross charging across operating units. The first scenario is when the new operating unit is associated with the same legal entity has your project’s operating unit (see figure 1). The second scenario is when the new operating unit is associated with a different legal entity than your project’s operating [...]
One of the new features you will find after you upgrade to R12 is the addition of operating unit to forms and concurrent programs. This allows you to enter and process data for different operating units without having to switch responsibilities. In order to use this field, you will need to enable Multi Org Access [...]
The first thing you will notice in the latest release of Oracle’s E-Business Suite (12.1.3) is the new home page. This page now contains a hierarchical menu that mimics the one used in the Java application. The menu expands to display sub-menus and functions when clicked. This will save you having to scroll the entire [...]
