Functional principles of Oracle ERP - EBS and Saas(SCM)

Explore the evolution of ERP from financial modules to supply chain, manufacturing, and human capital management, alongside CRM, cloud adoption, and on-premises versus SaaS and PaaS trends.

Explore the evolution of Oracle ERP architecture, detailing the database layer, the application layer, and web interactions, and the shift from on-premises architectures to Oracle Cloud SaaS.

Compare on premises to owning and managing every kitchen gadget, while cloud resembles pay as a service where ERP and CRM run as software as a service accessible via browser.

Explore SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS, their on-demand, scalable, and networked characteristics, and cloud deployment models; examine Oracle and Salesforce cloud ERP and on-premises trade-offs.

Choose between on-premises and cloud ERP by company size, investment, and integrations; cloud suits small to mid-size firms, on-premises fits large enterprises and GST compliance.

Explore Oracle ERP product variants, from on-premises Oracle E-Business Suite to cloud SaaS Fusion and NetSuite, noting licensing versus subscription pricing and acquisitions that shaped the platform.

The lecture explains Oracle ERP environments, including on premises and cloud production environments, demonstration instances with mission data, and test environments created by cloning production for safe testing.

Learn how Oracle e-business suite supports key business flows—plan, source, make, market, sell, and support—through order to cash, procure to pay, and inventory to fulfillment across ERP modules.

Explore how Oracle E-Business Suite and SaaS ERP model business process flows across modules, linking order management, inventory, and accounts receivable through procure-to-pay and order-to-cash cycles.

explains the order to cash flow in Oracle ERP, covering order management, pricing, credit checks, customer acceptance, pre-billing, billing, invoicing, and returns with receivables and cash management.

Explore the procure-to-pay flow in Oracle ERP (EBS and SaaS SCM), from requisition through purchasing, receiving, invoicing, and payables to cash management, with supplier collaboration and strategic sourcing.

learn how accounting flows into financial reporting from procure-to-pay and order-to-cash, detailing general ledger entries, journal posting, budget vs actuals, revaluation, translation, and consolidation for comprehensive financial statements.

Explore Oracle E-Business navigation and responsibility concepts from a business flow perspective, linking users to responsibilities, data groups, request groups, and concurrent programs across financial modules.

Explore concurrent processing as non interactive background tasks, using the standard request submission form to schedule programs like auto invoice and move data between order management and receivables.

Explore key and descriptive flex fields in Oracle ERP, including segments, value sets, and validation, and learn how accounting flex fields enable reporting and require careful implementation planning.

Explore how MultiOrg in Oracle ERP enables a single installation to manage multiple legal entities, operating units, and intercompany transactions across countries, with unified reporting and security.

Explore how trading community architecture, a master data management approach, centralizes customer, partner, and employee data in Oracle e-business suite to prevent duplication across modules.

Explore the order management process within Oracle E-Business Suite, from entering and releasing orders to shipping, invoicing, receivables, and cash management, highlighting the order-to-cash cycle and pricing and collections.

Explore the main order fulfillment types in Oracle ERP: standard sales orders, dropship, and internal acquisitions, detailing how inventory, purchase orders, picking, packing, shipping, invoicing, and payment drive order completion.

Learn how to enter sales orders in Oracle E-Business Suite, from customer purchase orders to line items, price lists, availability checks, booking, and related workflows.

Link inventory data to available to promise to compute delivery dates and generate an availability-based promise. Enable auto or manual scheduling of orders and shipping to meet promised dates.

Shipping execution, part of the order management module, triggers ship confirm and release, moves goods to staging and transport, and handles commercial documents and carriage, insurance and freight terms.

Explore how drop shipment orders are handled in Oracle E-Business, with supplier-to-customer delivery that bypasses company inventory and links requisitions, purchase orders, shipment notices, and invoicing.

Explore return material authorization (RMA) workflows, including issuing credits or credit memos, processing replacements, honoring warranties, and updating accounts receivable and inventory through purchasing and item management.

Explore assemble-to-order and configure-to-order workflows that integrate with bill of materials, pricing, and inventory, including order import and external interfaces in Oracle E-Business Suite.

Explore Oracle pricing fundamentals, including basic and advanced pricing, modifiers, qualifiers, and pricing formulas, and see how the pricing engine updates order management with discounts and promotions.

Trading community architecture centralizes data via a party model across Oracle E-Business Suite modules, unifying vendors and customers and reducing cross module data duplication.

Explore how Oracle E-Business uses the customer profile class to classify customers by creditworthiness, define payment terms, and manage dunning and the collection module to optimize working capital.

Explore the purchasing cycle in Oracle ERP, from requisitions to purchase orders and goods received from suppliers, and learn how users, employees, and jobs relate to buyers in purchasing.

Master the procure-to-pay flow in Oracle erp ebs and saas, from requisitions and supplier selection to catalog, sourcing, quotes, purchase orders, order management, and supplier performance analytics.

Explore how suppliers drive the procure-to-pay cycle—from RFQ and quotation to purchase order creation—using catalog and non-catalog items and defined price terms.

Explore how a purchase order, tied to a finalized quotation and a company’s request for quotation, legally binds the supplier and buyer through standard, blanket, global, or country-specific contract agreements.

Learn how purchase item receipts in Oracle ERP tie supplier deliveries to inventory, with optional or mandatory inspections, line-item and batch receiving, and the procurement cycle moving toward payables.

Explore how Oracle inventory manages raw materials, components, and finished goods from assembly to shipment, with item attributes, locators, subinventories, and ATP-based replenishment.

Define and maintain items in Oracle inventory by creating master items, attributes, and templates, linking item costs to the cost of goods sold and general ledger.

Explore lot numbering and serial control in Oracle inventory, distinguishing when bulk lot tracing vs serial tracking applies, and define primary and secondary unit of measure for sales and inventory.

Explore how inventory transactions in Oracle ERP automate corresponding general ledger entries, from receipts and issues to inter- and intra-organizational transfers, using transaction managers.

Learn how Oracle E-Business Suite manages inventory replenishment using order point, min-max, replenishment counting, and safety stock, accounting for lead times, demand, and cost.

Explore Oracle e-business suite self-service modules for supply chain management, including employee requisitions, expense reports, catalog-based purchasing, approvals, purchase orders, supplier portal, and supplier validation to streamline procurement and payments.

Analyze how Oracle E-Business Suite R12.x sourcing automates procurement from requirements to award. See how clear specifications, supplier qualification, online negotiations, and audit-ready contracts drive transparency and control.

Compare the look and feel of Oracle cloud SaaS with the E-Business suite, noting security changes and the absence of responsibilities, and explore interactive containers like inflect and infertile.

Explore the functional similarities between Oracle EBS and SaaS Cloud ERP, including order to cash, procurement, and inventory, and note navigation differences impacting adoption.