Oracle EBS Essentials Course (Hands on in R12.2.8)

Log in to Oracle, view the initial page, navigator, and work list, and set up your user, preferences, and vacation rules to manage notifications.

Explore how to navigate Oracle EBS, distinguish HTML-based and forms-based functions, and use the forms page to manage transactions and notifications in R12.2.8.

Navigate Oracle forms efficiently by using the navigator, understanding menus vs. functions, and employing collapse, expand, and search features to manage multiple forms and submenus.

Learn to use the top ten list in Oracle Forms to save functions like transactions, receipts, and account details for instant access after login, with the list persisting across sessions.

Explore Oracle EBS menu bar navigation, including file, edit, view, and tools; learn to export transactions, use the navigator, switch responsibilities, and customize profiles.

Discover Oracle EBS toolbar navigation and its icons, and learn to switch responsibilities, search with the flashlight, save with the floppy disk, and manage records, attachments, translations, and window help.

Master Oracle EBS keyboard shortcuts to speed daily tasks. Use f11 to enter query mode, f12 to preview results and navigate, and shift f5 or f6 to copy data.

Define a new user in Oracle EBS, named student EBS, set and verify the initial password. Log in to activate the account and note that no responsibilities are assigned yet.

Assign direct responsibilities for a new Oracle EBS user, selecting and saving R12 training modules across inventory, order management, general ledger, payables, and receivables.

Learn to create an Oracle EBS employee record using the HR responsibility, enter a new person as an employee, and assign a job within a business group.

Explore how profile options at site and responsibility levels govern data access and menus, enabling multi-org setups through gl data access set and operating unit selections across currencies.

Copy the core receivables menu to create a tailored Oracle EBS menu, compare lazy and correct methods, and associate it to a responsibility while excluding setup and interfaces.

Learn to perform menu and function exclusion at the responsibility level using the menu exclusion features, matching exact menu names and preserving a clean top-level structure.

Create a view-only/read-only responsibility in Oracle EBS to let users view transactions and menus without creating them, by using query-only functions to restrict actions for support roles.

Learn to access and submit Oracle EBS concurrent programs, run reports such as aging and customer account details, and schedule background tasks with parameter controls, language options, and output notifications.

Learn to use the view request screen in Oracle EBS, including refresh, find, submit new requests, copy, hold, cancel, view details, outputs, and basic diagnostics.

Learn to schedule Oracle EBS concurrent programs, such as aging, by submitting requests and setting daily reruns with start or completion-based triggers and date parameter increment.

Explore concurrent programs that create data in Oracle EBS, including create accounting from subledger to GL and the invoice process, and learn to submit, view outputs, and verify GL entries.

Learn to create and run request sets in Oracle EBS by pairing concurrent programs like workflow background processes with the invoicing import program, using defined stages and linked progression.

Explore key flexfields and descriptive flexfields in Oracle EBS, including the accounting flexfield for GL, global descriptive flexfields, and practical setup steps like freeze, compile, cross-validation, and dynamic inserts.

Explore the Oracle EBS accounting flexfield, including key and descriptive flexfields, code combinations, and how segments like company (balancing), department, natural account shape the chart of accounts.

Learn to add a new company to the chart of accounts by creating a new flexfield value, updating the value set, compiling the hierarchy, and validating via a concurrent program.

Explore how descriptive flexfields in Oracle EBS extend functionality without customization, identify and create a descriptive flexfield, manage segments, unfreeze and compile, and define a value set for validation.

Learn to use context values in descriptive flexfields to segregate data by country or region, avoiding global element confusion and enabling scalable, context-driven data capture.

Explore how to create a dependent value set in flexfields, linking product region to product sub code with a one-to-many validation approach and practical steps.

Learn to create a security profile in Oracle EBS R12.2.8, linking two operating units under one HR-controlled profile, selecting business groups, and running security list maintenance.

Explore how multi-org access control enables ledger-level reporting in oracle ebs r12.2.8, allowing aging reports to span multiple ledgers within a single security profile.

Learn how to create a customer from an existing supplier by copying supplier data, syncing party records, and enabling the profile option to view parties without accounts in receivables.

Explore geography hierarchy functionality in Oracle EBS, defining states, counties, cities, and postal codes with validations and mappings for customers, suppliers, and air locations.

Map address styles to the geography hierarchy across customers, suppliers, and locations, and learn exact field mappings for city, state, county, and postal code.

Apply geography hierarchy validation to customer site addresses during creation, using warnings or errors to enforce correct city, county, state, and postal code and prevent data entry mistakes.

Explore how Oracle EBS subledger accounting (SLA) unifies module-specific engines from 11i to R12, enabling payables, receivables, and projects data to map to the general ledger.

Navigate Oracle EBS to locate subledger accounting methods in each responsibility, showing SLA exists in receivables, payables, and inventory, and is accessed via methods and definitions.

Associate a subledger accounting method to a ledger by updating accounting options, and note that the standard accrual method is Oracle-owned and visible in the ledger setup.

Learn to associate a new subledger accounting method with a ledger in Oracle EBS, and activate final or draft accounting with transfer to the general ledger and journal line descriptions.