Functional Principles of Oracle ERP - EBS and Saas (Fin)

Explore the evolution of enterprise resource planning from financial modules to manufacturing, human capital management, and CRM, highlighting on-premises roots and the rise of cloud SaaS.

Explore the ERP system's three-tier architecture, from hardware and software components to database, application, and web browser access, including Oracle e-Business Suite forms-based components and cloud SaaS.

Compare on-premises and cloud applications with a kitchen versus restaurant analogy, highlighting ownership, pay-as-you-go, and the roles of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS for ERP and CRM.

Explore SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS cloud service models, deployment options (public, private, community, hybrid), essential characteristics, and providers like Oracle, Salesforce, and NetSuite.

Compare on-premise and cloud SaaS ERP for small to large companies, weighing capital investment, deployment time, customization, integration, upgrades, and localization needs like GST.

Explore Oracle ERP's evolution from on-premises ERP offerings to cloud fusion and SaaS offerings, including licensing vs subscription, and the role of acquisitions like Siebel, PeopleSoft, and NetSuite.

Explore Oracle ERP environments, including on premises and cloud, production and demonstration setups, and the role of mission data and demo instances for learning and testing.

Explore an overview of Oracle E-Business Suite and map key business flows from plan to profit, including order to cash, procure to pay, and manufacturing versus retail processes.

Explore the order to cash flow in Oracle E-Business Suite, detailing order capture, configuration and pricing, order management, shipping, customer acceptance, invoicing, receivables, and collections.

Explore procure-to-pay flows in Oracle ERP, from requisitions and quotes to purchase orders, receipts, and supplier payments, plus sourcing and cash management linking to the general ledger.

Explore how business flow maps to ERP modules and feeds the general ledger, detailing payroll, payables, inventory, cost management, project accounting, revenue, assets, depreciation, and work in progress.

Explore navigation and responsibility in Oracle E-Business, seeing how users access multiple financial modules via linked responsibilities, data groups, request groups, and concurrent programs.

Explore concurrent processing in Oracle ERP using the standard request submission form to run non interactive background programs, such as auto invoice, and schedule tasks between order management and receivables.

Discover how key flex fields and descriptive flex fields use segments, values, and value sets in Oracle ERP, enabling accounting configurations, reporting, and enhanced data capture.

Explore multi org in Oracle ERP, enabling a single Oracle E-Business Suite installation to manage multiple legal entities across countries with separate ledgers, operating units, and intercompany reporting.

Explore how Oracle's trading community architecture serves as a central master data management schema, not a module, reducing duplicate customer, partner, and employee data across Oracle e-business.

Explore the general ledger as the heart of an ERP, linking sub-ledgers to journal entries, postings, and financial reports. Master period open and close, currency revaluation, translation, and consolidation.

Define the Oracle EBS accounting structure by setting up legal entities, primary currency, and accounting calendars, then configure subledger accounting methods, secondary ledgers, and journals for statutory reporting and consolidation.

Enter and post Oracle EBS GL journal entries from open periods to the general ledger, using manual or imported entries and applying correct debit and credit amounts.

Navigate Oracle EBS GL journal creation methods, including manual entries, imports from third parties or spreadsheets via wizard tools, recurring and mass allocations, and skeleton, standard, and formalized journal entries.

Explore Oracle EBS GL multi currency features, handling foreign currency journals, performing conversion and translation, and reevaluating unrealized gains or losses at period end with exchange rates.

Explore budgeting within Oracle E-Business Suite general ledger to plan, monitor, and control expenditures across cost centers, with period end close, freezing budgets, and opening the next period.

Explore Oracle receivables within the order-to-cash process, from customer profiling and order management to invoicing, collections, and cash reconciliation, including auto invoicing, returns, and credit/debit memos.

Understand the auto invoice process in Oracle E-Business Suite Receivables, loading invoice data via a flat file into interface tables, validating lines, and generating postings to receivables and general ledger.

Explore how Oracle E-Business Suite uses a trading community architecture with a central party model to unify vendors and customers across modules, reducing data duplication.

Explore how customer profile classes categorize customers by credit rating, payment terms, and dunning cycles in Oracle E-Business Suite, guiding collections and credit management.

Explore how Oracle EBS receivables auto accounting defaults the accounting flexfield for receivables transactions, based on constants or sales rep data, with ongoing profile class adjustments.

See how you invoice after goods ship, enter receipts, and apply them to outstanding balances to reconcile bank statements in Oracle EBS, with manual versus automatic receipts.

Explore the Oracle procure-to-pay process, from purchase orders and goods receipt to invoice validation and payables accounting, including sourcing, blanket orders, and matching.

Explore how Oracle EBS Payables handles supplier setup, purchase orders, goods receipts, and three-way or four-way invoice matching, validation, tolerance-based holds, and posting to the general ledger.

Explore how Oracle EBS fixed assets handles depreciation, construction in progress, capitalization, and journal entries, enabling asset tracking from purchase through transfers to fixed assets and general ledger adjustments.

Explore Oracle EBS self-service modules iReceivables and iExpenses, contrasting them with purchasing, and learn how automated, end-user driven processes reduce manual intervention from expense reporting to online approvals and payments.

Explore how Oracle E-Business Suite functionalities are inherited by Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, noting changes in look and feel, navigation, and security concepts in cloud ERP.

Explore how Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP inherits functionalities and backend tables from Oracle E-Business Suite, with similar journal entries and balances, while cloud SaaS restricts backend access.

Access Oracle E-Business online documents and practice creating transactions and journals, exploring chart of accounts and ledger setup to progress from concepts to practical implementation, whether on premise or cloud.