R12i Oracle E Business Suite Fundamentals - Advanced

Log on and log off in Oracle applications, enter and search data in forms, and learn how users, responsibilities, menus, forms, and functions relate.

Log on to Oracle applications, navigate responsibilities, approve or review purchase orders, customize preferences, and log off via the top log out link.

Learn how to enter and manage purchase orders in Oracle Applications using both GSB forms and Java-based forms, including supplier selection, item details, and order submission.

Learn how to search Oracle applications forms across GSB and jalopies forms using order numbers and customized criteria, and use shortcut keys like F11 and Ctrl+F11 to execute the query.

Explain how a user with multiple responsibilities links to menus and forms, with each form tied to a function defined in Oracle Applications systems administrator.

Explore data entry sources for Oracle applications, including forms, application desktop integrator, and data interfaces that validate and import data into production tables.

Explore how enterprise software supports a multinational company and learn Oracle E-Business Suite solutions. Examine business process flaws, solutions, and the benefits of the Oracle E-Business Suite in the enterprise.

Explore how a multinational enterprise uses ERP software and e-business suite to integrate departments including order entry, marketing, sales, finance, payroll, and manufacturing across global sites.

Explore how enterprise software and ERP systems coordinate marketing, sales, procurement, manufacturing, and delivery, with planning and blending to forecast demand and automate enterprise resources.

Explore how Oracle E-Business Suite maps end-to-end business process flows across sales and procurement, detailing order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, and manufacturing cycles with supplier management, logistics, and invoicing.

Discover Oracle E-Business Suite release 12i, a robust ERP solution that standardizes financial management, human resources, manufacturing, project management, government, demand planning, and customer relationship management.

Explore how Oracle E-Business Suite automates end-to-end procurement, logistics, and financial processes, delivering integrated workflows, audit trails, and collaboration with suppliers and customers.

Explore shared entities within Oracle E-Business Suite, including customers and suppliers, and examine how business process flows and their models integrate across the system.

Define and manage shared base setups and transactional data in Oracle E-Business Suite, including legal entities, ledgers, operating units, and key transactional entities like customers, suppliers, and items.

Explore how trading community architecture treats customers and suppliers as a single party, with party sites and uses for reuse, avoiding duplicates, and enterprise-wide consolidation.

Discover the Oracle e-business suite foundation, from financial management and product management to human resources management, with integrated supply management, procurement, manufacturing, and customer processes across procure-to-pay and order-to-cash lifecycles.

Explore the different kinds of Oracle Applications reports, learn the standard report submission (SRS) process, view report output, and add multiple reports to a single request.

Differentiate base setup from transactional reports in Oracle E-Business Suite, and learn to run them via SRS or GSB, with BI dashboards and FSG options.

Master standard report submission (SRS) in Oracle applications. Submit a report, set criteria, and view the output in the front end, using single or multiple requests.

Navigate Oracle applications to search and open report outputs by request ID or view all requests, then inspect report details, parameters, output formats, scheduling, and diagnostics.

Explore how to run reports in a request set that binds multiple reports, such as an import acquisitions program and its exceptions report, and control sequential or parallel execution.

Explore Oracle applications server nomenclature and architecture, including web services, farm services, concurrent processing servers, tiers, nodes, and clusters.

Explore Oracle applications architecture, a three-tier model with client, application, and database layers, tracing evolution from two-tier to multi-node, and examining key components.

Explore how the client tier serves as the Oracle E-Business Suite's front end, delivering browser-based access to forms-based and Java applet applications, with a unified homepage and role-based responsibilities.

Learn about the form client applet and desktop Java client for Oracle E-Business Suite, including customization support and how jar files are downloaded and cached for performance.

Explore the Oracle Applications middle tier, detailing how web services, Java-based services, and concurrent processing servers run client requests, interact with the database, and are managed by concurrent managers.

Explore the release 12.1.x application tier architecture, detailing how browser requests flow through the Apache-powered listener to the Oracle container for Java and process manager, then to the database.

Explain release 12.1.x architecture with three Oracle homes: one base Oracle home and two in the application directory, plus a Fusion Middleware Oracle Home for technology stack components.

Understand the release 12.1.x file system for oracle e-business suite, including the apps, install top, and oracle home directories and how the data structure stores system tablespaces and database files.

Analyze the application tier architecture in release 12.2.x, comparing Fusion Middleware with WebLogic server and Oracle Container for Java, new Oracle Home structures, and the UI generator.

Explore the Oracle Home architecture in release 12.2.x, emphasizing Fusion Middleware based Oracle Home, WebLogic Server, and the move from the older Application Server homes to a fusion-based top layer.

Explore the R12.2 technical architecture, including Oracle homes for Java and the Oracle container for Java, and the shift from Oracle application server to WebLogic Server.

Analyze the release 12.2 file system architecture for Oracle E-Business Suite, including instance home, fs1 and fs2, clone-based online patching, abs apps, and Fusion Middleware home.

Explore rapid install, a wizard for Oracle Applications E-Business Suite, guiding fresh installations and upgrades with options for single-machine setups and distributed configurations.

Explain how Oracle E-Business Suite uses multi-org architecture to host multiple business units in one installation, with data security, intercompany transactions, and cross-entity reporting.

Explore how a business group in Oracle e-business suite defines an enterprise and its subsidiaries, partitions data for approval workflows and hr, and manages multiple legal entities.

Explore how legal entities are defined and managed within an Oracle applications business group, including registration, tax and employer IDs, and linking entities to establishments and operations.

Define ledgers by recording accounting journal entries that capture revenue and expenses in a period and currency, and align calendar, chart of accounts, and reporting currencies into a primary ledger.

Define operating units to segregate operations and data across manufacturing and distribution sites. Each operating unit maps to one primary ledger, while a single ledger may serve multiple units.

Define multiple inventory organizations by region to segregate inventory data for planning, valuation, and reporting. Map factories and distribution centers to isolate asset valuation and shipments.

Explore how subinventories and supplementary inventories organize physical and logical items within an inventory organization, including receiving, picking, and packing areas, and how asset value updates in the ledger entries.

Understand the multi-org structure in Oracle e-Business Suite, mapping legal entities to operating units, inventory data, locations, and products through a hierarchical flow to a business group.

Plan multi-org architecture and accounting structure before Oracle E-Business Suite implementation. Align legal entities, chart of accounts, ledgers, and currencies for stable, compliant reporting and future readiness.

Explore the Oracle E-Business Suite multi-org model, including business groups, legal entities, operating units, inventory organizations, and ledgers, with flexible hierarchies and cross-entity security policies.

Learn how to secure the Oracle e-business suite by defining operating units and assigning access control security profiles to responsibilities, so users see only permitted subsidiary transactions.

Define the organization hierarchy in Oracle applications, create and attach a security profile to a responsibility, enabling cross-org access for Australia and New Zealand operating units.

Configure security profiles and system profile options to control operating unit defaults and transaction visibility, assign responsibilities, and test payables access across Australia and New Zealand.

Learn to set up multiple reporting currencies across entities in Oracle E-Business Suite, configure automatic journal conversions, and manage reporting currencies ledgers and rounding rules.

Explore an application security overview and business scenario, detailing function and data security, base access levels, role-based control, delegated administration, and self-service approvals within Oracle user management.

Understand function security, which enforces fixed authorizations for user functions and restricts forms within a responsibility without limiting data access. Exclude a function to block specific tasks.

Discover how data security, enabled by Oracle system administrator responsibilities, restricts access to data objects and forms, with two-level security demonstrated in education customers scenarios.

Discover data security terminology in Oracle applications, including object type, object, object instance, and object instance set. Grasp privileges, object function, permission set, user, role, grantee, grant, and authorization.

Set up data security in Oracle E-Business Suite by defining objects, object instances, and permissions. Assign grants to users or responsibilities and group permissions into permission sets.

Explore how Oracle user management enforces function and data security through roles and access controls. Understand how administrators and end users are organized, with self-service, approvals, and delegated supplier administration.

Learn role-based access control in Oracle E-Business Suite, building hierarchies of rules and inherited permissions across categories like purchasing and sales, with separate data security and user assignment.

Delegate administration with rule-based access control to grant predefined roles and manage users for internal and external parties, using the security wizard to set user, organization, and acquisition privilege.

Explore how Oracle E-Business Suite enables end users and suppliers to register via predefined, self-service processes with configurable approvals, notifications, and Oracle approvals management workflows.

Explore self-service registration and approvals in Oracle E-Business Suite, using predefined registration processes and the approval management engine to request and grant access.

Explore how profile options act as configurable variables that shape Oracle applications’ behavior, applied through site, application, responsibility, and user level hierarchies, with changes taking effect at their respective level.

Explore the security hierarchy for profile options in Oracle E-Business Suite, from site and application levels down to responsibility and user levels, with invoice batch controls.

Configure the profile option at the organization (operating unit) level within the site hierarchy to apply unit-specific currency defaults, with examples across New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, India, and China.

Explore how profile options work across three hierarchies—security, organization, and server—and how site level and end-user level settings affect global access and individual users.

Explore the overview of other data security and access controls in Oracle E-Business, including data access, segment value security, and cross-validation rules across ledgers, legal entities, and operating units.

Learn to auto-create data access sets in Oracle E-Business Suite when you define lectures and grant read-only or read-write access to balancing segments and legal entities.

Set up data access sets in Oracle E-Business Suite, define balancing segment values and default ledger, assign read-only or write access, and secure balancing segment access via profile options.

Learn how segment value security rules control read only and read/write access, and how to completely hide segments from specific users. Explore practical scenarios like restricting department visibility by country.

Enable segment value security in the key flexfield, define and assign rules for Mengal corporation's China entity, and test access by including all values while excluding the education department.

Cross-validation rules restrict combinations of segment values in key flex regions to prevent invalid transactions, unlike segment validation which hides segments and controls entries.

Set up cross-validation rules in Oracle e-Business Suite by enabling the cross-validation checkbox, configuring the accounting flex structure, and disabling conflicting combinations. Define rules by segment and run validation reports.

Compare data access, segment value security, and cross-validation rules in Oracle E-Business Suite accounting flexfields, showing how each controls access, hides values, and prevents invalid segment combinations.

Learn how Oracle inventory organization access uses responsibilities to restrict visibility to specific inventory organizations, enabling access such as Auckland operations while keeping Burlington or other sites protected.

Define automatic processing constraints in Oracle Order Management to restrict who can modify or cancel order lines based on responsibilities, and display a blocking message when actions aren’t allowed.

Define document security and access for purchasing documents by selecting public, private, hierarchy, or purchasing levels, and assign owner and approver roles with view, modify, or full control.

Master the basics of flexfields, including key and descriptive flexfields, value sets and validation types, and how to define unique accounting and warehouse identifiers in Oracle E-Business Suite.

Learn how value sets function as containers for flex field segments, enabling static and dynamic (table-based) values, with hierarchical, dependent structures for departments and reporting.

Explore the eight value set validation types in Oracle E-Business Suite, including independent, dependent, translatable, table, and special types, with security rules, range formats, and hierarchical dependencies.

Explore flexfield components, including segments, value sets, and structure, and learn how segments hold values from a value set, define a flexfield structure, and apply segment and flexfield qualifiers.

Advanced techniques to define and configure key flexfields in Oracle e-business suite, including building flexible structures, segments, value sets, qualifiers, and compiling.

Learn to configure descriptive flexfields on the invoice entry form by adding segments and contexts, assigning a value set, and compiling changes for testing.

Define a new descriptive flexfield via the application developer responsibility and register it. Configure its table, columns, and qualifiers, then enable it in front-end forms.