In a global marketplace where speed, change, and the demand for innovation are accelerating challenges, the expectations of ERP have changed. ERP is no longer simply about cutting costs, but rather about enabling businesses to grow and take advantage of new opportunities (and avoid unexpected risks) as they emerge. Competition may come from anywhere, often from unfamiliar players; disruptive technologies (e.g., additive manufacturing, social networks) may also change the game radically in a short time. Companies now need ERP systems that can adapt to unique and dynamic business environments and that can drive growth as well as control costs.
This document discusses Oracle's Transaction Account Builder (TAB) which is used to derive accounting flexfields for subledger transactions in Oracle Fusion Applications. TAB replaces prior account generator solutions and provides a more flexible and configurable way to default transaction accounts. The key building blocks of TAB include Transaction Account Definitions, Transaction Account Types, Account Rules, Mapping Sets, and Sources. Seeded TAB setup and custom TAB setup options are also described.
The document discusses strategies for on-demand MIS reporting. It recommends using the 1KEY MIS reporting tool, which offers a flexible platform to integrate different data sources and provide precise insights. It describes five strategies: taking into account all business user needs; educating users to rely on a single data source; establishing a data quality center; unlocking from transaction systems for reporting; and developing reporting in-house. 1KEY is said to address these strategies by delivering comprehensive reporting, moving users from spreadsheets, managing data quality, and ensuring the truth of internal reporting.
This document provides an overview of configuring an Oracle 11i ERP system, including:
1. Preparing the Oracle application structure and defining accounting flexfields like value sets, segments, currency, and calendar.
2. Configuring the general ledger, including setting up books, responsibilities, users, and posting journals.
3. Defining reports using row sets, column sets, and report definitions, and submitting and viewing reports.
This document provides an overview of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems from Oracle and SAP, the leading ERP vendors. It defines ERP and discusses top trends like mobile and social ERP. It profiles Oracle and SAP as major ERP vendors and describes their cloud-based ERP solutions, including Oracle Financials Cloud, Oracle's Procurement Cloud, and Oracle Project Portfolio Management Cloud. The document outlines the qualifications and experience of the author in implementing Oracle and SAP ERP systems.
Customers want powerful reporting capabilities from Oracle Fusion Financials. Several customers commented that the embedded business intelligence and reporting capabilities were key factors for selecting Fusion Financials. To set up effective reporting, companies need to understand who needs access to what information and how to present the data. This involves defining chart of accounts, hierarchies, ledgers, and security roles to control data access for different user roles.
The document discusses the need for businesses to have agile and adaptive business processes supported by flexible IT systems. It introduces the concept of a Business Process Platform (BPP) as an overarching IT architecture that allows businesses to dynamically change and optimize their business processes. The document then analyzes how Oracle Fusion provides a complete framework and layered approach for a BPP, mapping its various products like WebCenter, BPA, BPEL, ADF, ESB and IDM to the participant management, analytics, process management, application framework, connectivity and security layers of a BPP.
Oracle has been working hard for several years in building Oracle Fusion Applications which are slated to be released sometime during 2010. In this session, you will learn basic concepts of Fusion Applications, User Experience/UI Shell, features and functionality of Applciations. Present information about the Oracle Fusion Applications Present key concepts and ideas behind Fusion Applications Discuss the key technologies used by Oracle for Fusion Applications
Learn how intuitive enterprise resource planning (ERP) can drive productivity, improve ROI and enhance collaboration.
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This document discusses Oracle's Transaction Account Builder (TAB) which is used to derive accounting flexfields for subledger transactions in Oracle Fusion Applications. TAB replaces prior account generator solutions and provides a more flexible and configurable way to default transaction accounts. The key building blocks of TAB include Transaction Account Definitions, Transaction Account Types, Account Rules, Mapping Sets, and Sources. Seeded TAB setup and custom TAB setup options are also described.
The document discusses strategies for on-demand MIS reporting. It recommends using the 1KEY MIS reporting tool, which offers a flexible platform to integrate different data sources and provide precise insights. It describes five strategies: taking into account all business user needs; educating users to rely on a single data source; establishing a data quality center; unlocking from transaction systems for reporting; and developing reporting in-house. 1KEY is said to address these strategies by delivering comprehensive reporting, moving users from spreadsheets, managing data quality, and ensuring the truth of internal reporting.
This document provides an overview of configuring an Oracle 11i ERP system, including:
1. Preparing the Oracle application structure and defining accounting flexfields like value sets, segments, currency, and calendar.
2. Configuring the general ledger, including setting up books, responsibilities, users, and posting journals.
3. Defining reports using row sets, column sets, and report definitions, and submitting and viewing reports.
This document provides an overview of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems from Oracle and SAP, the leading ERP vendors. It defines ERP and discusses top trends like mobile and social ERP. It profiles Oracle and SAP as major ERP vendors and describes their cloud-based ERP solutions, including Oracle Financials Cloud, Oracle's Procurement Cloud, and Oracle Project Portfolio Management Cloud. The document outlines the qualifications and experience of the author in implementing Oracle and SAP ERP systems.
Customers want powerful reporting capabilities from Oracle Fusion Financials. Several customers commented that the embedded business intelligence and reporting capabilities were key factors for selecting Fusion Financials. To set up effective reporting, companies need to understand who needs access to what information and how to present the data. This involves defining chart of accounts, hierarchies, ledgers, and security roles to control data access for different user roles.
The document discusses the need for businesses to have agile and adaptive business processes supported by flexible IT systems. It introduces the concept of a Business Process Platform (BPP) as an overarching IT architecture that allows businesses to dynamically change and optimize their business processes. The document then analyzes how Oracle Fusion provides a complete framework and layered approach for a BPP, mapping its various products like WebCenter, BPA, BPEL, ADF, ESB and IDM to the participant management, analytics, process management, application framework, connectivity and security layers of a BPP.
Oracle has been working hard for several years in building Oracle Fusion Applications which are slated to be released sometime during 2010. In this session, you will learn basic concepts of Fusion Applications, User Experience/UI Shell, features and functionality of Applciations. Present information about the Oracle Fusion Applications Present key concepts and ideas behind Fusion Applications Discuss the key technologies used by Oracle for Fusion Applications
Learn how intuitive enterprise resource planning (ERP) can drive productivity, improve ROI and enhance collaboration.
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This document summarizes a white paper on improving performance of Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) and Business Intelligence Cloud Connector (BICC). It provides recommendations on monitoring tools, report and dashboard design best practices, and query optimization techniques. These include using Usage Tracking to analyze queries, limiting data volumes retrieved from the database, employing filters and indexes, and optimizing cross-subject area and cross-report queries. The document also discusses diagnostic logs, temporary tablespace sizing, and issues to consider for specific functional areas like payroll.
Pampered Chef snacks company was facing challenge maintaining their ERP application due to double digital annual growth rate. Rolta was selected to sort the problem. After conducting a deep analysis, Rolta TUSC implemented Oracle EBS upgrading 26 key modules. After deployment Pampered Chef reported numerous problems were eliminated.
ERP system provides an end-to-end solution that organizes and
controls every aspect of business from order management,
operations, supply-chain and logistics, to documentation,
accounting and business intelligence reporting. It enables your
back-office to work more effectively, helps improve customer
service, empowers your sales team to monitor trends, and
manage true order profitability. All while providing the best
financial control that you can expect from a web-based
application.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems integrate data and processes across an organization into a unified system using a shared database. ERP aims to standardize, streamline, and integrate diverse operations and information flows. Key benefits include improved productivity, quality, and competitiveness through optimization of resources and processes. However, ERP also faces limitations such as high costs, risk of loss of competitive advantage from process re-engineering, and dependence on proper training and use of staff.
Enterprises across the world rely on SAP software for ERP and data management functions, making SAP backup a mission-critical task. However, increasing factors such as compliance requirements, heterogeneity of environments, increased virtualization platforms, business-critical applications, and different deployment scenarios for cloud-to-cloud applications are putting immense pressure on SAP service/solution providers. Along with this, threat situations like the rising of viruses and ransomware attacks are causing further explosiveness in addition to human error, natural disasters, etc. This demand for a comprehensive, modular, broadly based, and reliable backup/recovery solution.
Established in 1992, SEP is the backup and recovery software vendor for virtual and physical environments, for on-premise and cloud, who reliably takes care of thousands of customers from small to large enterprises. Since its establishment, the company’s sole mission is to protect what you have achieved to free your mind and focus on your future. To fulfill this mission, it offers SAP solutions accompanied by the complete IT environment to have a reliable, comprehensive and powerful enterprise data protection. These solutions cover various categories such as heterogeneous environments, central management, easy to handle and fast to implement, and flexible and customized for what the customers are hunting for.
This document provides an overview and index of study material on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). It discusses Vel Tech engineering colleges and their partnerships. It also outlines the benefits of ERP systems in integrating business functions and processes. The index lists 5 units that will be covered: Introduction to ERP, ERP Implementation, Business Modules, The ERP Market, and the Future of ERP.
This document provides an overview of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). It defines ERP as a fully integrated business management software system that combines several business processes, including logistics, production, finance, accounting, and human resources, into a single system. The document outlines the evolution of ERP from earlier systems like MRP and MRPII. It discusses the key benefits of ERP systems, such as improved integration across business functions, standardized processes, reduced inventory costs, and improved data accuracy. The document also explains that implementing an ERP system often requires reengineering business processes through Business Process Reengineering to fully realize the benefits of ERP.
Fusion applications gl and ar suresh c-mishraSuresh Mishra
Fusion Applications is Oracle's next-generation suite of integrated applications currently in development. It combines capabilities from Oracle's existing product portfolio with a new rich user interface and embedded analytics. Key areas covered in version 1.0 include financial management, human capital management, sales and marketing management, supply chain management, and project portfolio management. The document provides details on the new user interface, functionality in various modules like general ledger and accounts receivable, and enhanced setup and transaction processes in Fusion Applications.
This document provides guidance on best practices for implementing Oracle Accounting Hub Cloud. It covers key considerations for requirements gathering, architecture, testing, historical conversion, go-live, and post go-live operations. It also provides recommendations for functional design aspects like enterprise structures, source systems, accounting rules, journal line rules, mapping sets, and supporting references. Implementation teams are advised to thoroughly plan requirements, use a phased approach, engage system integrators, and focus on streamlining the design. Thorough testing of all flows and performance benchmarking is also emphasized.
This document provides an overview of configuring an Oracle 11i Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. It discusses key ERP concepts like functional areas, advantages, and implementation strategies. It also outlines the configuration steps for Oracle Financials modules, including setting up general ledger, accounting flexfields, sets of books, responsibilities, users, and reports. The document provides details on tasks like defining journals, entering transactions, and submitting and viewing reports. Overall, it serves as a guide for setting up and utilizing the financial management components of an Oracle 11i ERP system.
This document outlines topics to be covered in an Oracle ERP Advanced Cloud Experts webinar on Record to Report, including chart of accounts, account hierarchies, legal entities, journal sequences, allocations and consolidations. It provides an agenda and discusses considerations for various enterprise structures in Oracle Cloud applications. The document is intended for informational purposes only and does not constitute a product commitment from Oracle.
Oracle Fusion Applications Accounts PayablesBerry Clemens
This document outlines the terms and conditions for use of Oracle's online training materials. It states that Oracle allows its business partners to download and copy the materials for internal training purposes only, and that the materials cannot be resold, redistributed, or used to create derivative works. The document also disclaims any warranties regarding the accuracy or completeness of the materials and states that Oracle will not be liable for any loss or damage resulting from use of the materials. Partners must agree to indemnify Oracle from any actions or claims arising from their use of the materials.
The document discusses Oracle Fusion Applications' technical architecture. It describes a 3-tier logical architecture with client, application, and database tiers. The application tier is built on Oracle Fusion Middleware infrastructure services including identity management, business intelligence, and content management. It also utilizes components like the Applications Core for user experience and extensibility.
The document discusses enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and their key components and benefits. It provides an overview of common ERP modules like finance, manufacturing, sales and distribution. It also summarizes several major ERP vendors like SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft and describes some of their flagship ERP products.
Mohammed Firoz is an experienced Oracle SCM consultant seeking a challenging role. He has over 4 years of expertise in Oracle E-Business Suite Supply Chain Management modules. He has experience in requirement analysis, design, testing, implementation, maintenance and support of Oracle SCM applications. He is skilled in inventory, purchasing, order management and other Oracle modules.
The document provides release notes for Oracle Application Integration Architecture for Communications version 2.4. Key highlights include certifying the integration packs on the latest application releases of Siebel, BRM, and the Communications Foundation Pack. Enhancements to the integration packs focus on order to bill, agent-assisted billing care, and revenue accounting processes. New features support order to activation, collections integration between BRM and Siebel, and displaying promotions on invoices.
An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system integrates core business processes like finance, supply chain, production and human resources into a single system. ERP has evolved from earlier systems like MRP and MRPII. Key reasons for companies to implement ERP include integrating financial and customer order information, standardizing processes, and reducing inventory levels. ERP provides benefits such as improved cost control, faster response to customers, and standardized HR processes. Successful ERP implementation requires careful planning including deciding whether to customize the system or follow its standard processes and whether to use an in-house or outsourced team.
Coexist: Your current purchasing solution together with Oracle Fusion Procure...Infosys
Oracle Fusion Procurement can be implemented in coexistence mode with a company's existing purchasing solution to provide additional functionality while avoiding risks. This allows sourcing, contracting, and analytics capabilities from Oracle Fusion Procurement to be used alongside the existing requisitioning and purchasing system. Benefits include improved visibility, sourcing capabilities, contract management, compliance, and analytics. The coexistence approach is a lower risk and cost option for beginning to leverage Oracle Fusion Procurement capabilities incrementally. Key considerations for implementation include integration points, data mapping, and approvals configuration between the new and existing systems.
ERP software is good for reconciling financials, creating sales forecasts, maintaining order volumes and increasing customer satisfaction. Yes, it can be done using 4-5 different platforms, but managing the data in one place is easier than in several places.
Hitting the Reset Button for R12 - The Upgrade vs Reimplement Decisioneprentise
There are two paths for moving to a new release of an enterprise software package. The first is to use the vendor-supplied patches to upgrade the existing instance. The second is to start from scratch and reimplement. This paper explores the factors that influence whether an upgrade or a reimplementation is the customer’s preferred choice.
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Release 12 of Oracle E-Business Suite allows companies to streamline their global operations through new functionality. It introduces Subledger Accounting and Multi-Org Access Controls which allow businesses to consolidate sets of books into a single ledger and instance. This provides automated financial reporting and enhances controls across operating units. Release 12 reduces the complexity of global financial operations through a common accounting engine and standardized rules.
The document discusses new functionality in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 that allows companies to streamline operations and financial reporting. Key features highlighted include the use of ledgers and ledger sets to consolidate sets of books into a single instance and chart of accounts, enabling automated cross-ledger transaction posting and consolidated financial reporting. Additionally, multi-org access controls allow centralized management of customers, suppliers, and processes across operating units from a single global instance.
This document summarizes a white paper on improving performance of Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) and Business Intelligence Cloud Connector (BICC). It provides recommendations on monitoring tools, report and dashboard design best practices, and query optimization techniques. These include using Usage Tracking to analyze queries, limiting data volumes retrieved from the database, employing filters and indexes, and optimizing cross-subject area and cross-report queries. The document also discusses diagnostic logs, temporary tablespace sizing, and issues to consider for specific functional areas like payroll.
Pampered Chef snacks company was facing challenge maintaining their ERP application due to double digital annual growth rate. Rolta was selected to sort the problem. After conducting a deep analysis, Rolta TUSC implemented Oracle EBS upgrading 26 key modules. After deployment Pampered Chef reported numerous problems were eliminated.
ERP system provides an end-to-end solution that organizes and
controls every aspect of business from order management,
operations, supply-chain and logistics, to documentation,
accounting and business intelligence reporting. It enables your
back-office to work more effectively, helps improve customer
service, empowers your sales team to monitor trends, and
manage true order profitability. All while providing the best
financial control that you can expect from a web-based
application.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems integrate data and processes across an organization into a unified system using a shared database. ERP aims to standardize, streamline, and integrate diverse operations and information flows. Key benefits include improved productivity, quality, and competitiveness through optimization of resources and processes. However, ERP also faces limitations such as high costs, risk of loss of competitive advantage from process re-engineering, and dependence on proper training and use of staff.
Enterprises across the world rely on SAP software for ERP and data management functions, making SAP backup a mission-critical task. However, increasing factors such as compliance requirements, heterogeneity of environments, increased virtualization platforms, business-critical applications, and different deployment scenarios for cloud-to-cloud applications are putting immense pressure on SAP service/solution providers. Along with this, threat situations like the rising of viruses and ransomware attacks are causing further explosiveness in addition to human error, natural disasters, etc. This demand for a comprehensive, modular, broadly based, and reliable backup/recovery solution.
Established in 1992, SEP is the backup and recovery software vendor for virtual and physical environments, for on-premise and cloud, who reliably takes care of thousands of customers from small to large enterprises. Since its establishment, the company’s sole mission is to protect what you have achieved to free your mind and focus on your future. To fulfill this mission, it offers SAP solutions accompanied by the complete IT environment to have a reliable, comprehensive and powerful enterprise data protection. These solutions cover various categories such as heterogeneous environments, central management, easy to handle and fast to implement, and flexible and customized for what the customers are hunting for.
This document provides an overview and index of study material on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). It discusses Vel Tech engineering colleges and their partnerships. It also outlines the benefits of ERP systems in integrating business functions and processes. The index lists 5 units that will be covered: Introduction to ERP, ERP Implementation, Business Modules, The ERP Market, and the Future of ERP.
This document provides an overview of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). It defines ERP as a fully integrated business management software system that combines several business processes, including logistics, production, finance, accounting, and human resources, into a single system. The document outlines the evolution of ERP from earlier systems like MRP and MRPII. It discusses the key benefits of ERP systems, such as improved integration across business functions, standardized processes, reduced inventory costs, and improved data accuracy. The document also explains that implementing an ERP system often requires reengineering business processes through Business Process Reengineering to fully realize the benefits of ERP.
Fusion applications gl and ar suresh c-mishraSuresh Mishra
Fusion Applications is Oracle's next-generation suite of integrated applications currently in development. It combines capabilities from Oracle's existing product portfolio with a new rich user interface and embedded analytics. Key areas covered in version 1.0 include financial management, human capital management, sales and marketing management, supply chain management, and project portfolio management. The document provides details on the new user interface, functionality in various modules like general ledger and accounts receivable, and enhanced setup and transaction processes in Fusion Applications.
This document provides guidance on best practices for implementing Oracle Accounting Hub Cloud. It covers key considerations for requirements gathering, architecture, testing, historical conversion, go-live, and post go-live operations. It also provides recommendations for functional design aspects like enterprise structures, source systems, accounting rules, journal line rules, mapping sets, and supporting references. Implementation teams are advised to thoroughly plan requirements, use a phased approach, engage system integrators, and focus on streamlining the design. Thorough testing of all flows and performance benchmarking is also emphasized.
This document provides an overview of configuring an Oracle 11i Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. It discusses key ERP concepts like functional areas, advantages, and implementation strategies. It also outlines the configuration steps for Oracle Financials modules, including setting up general ledger, accounting flexfields, sets of books, responsibilities, users, and reports. The document provides details on tasks like defining journals, entering transactions, and submitting and viewing reports. Overall, it serves as a guide for setting up and utilizing the financial management components of an Oracle 11i ERP system.
This document outlines topics to be covered in an Oracle ERP Advanced Cloud Experts webinar on Record to Report, including chart of accounts, account hierarchies, legal entities, journal sequences, allocations and consolidations. It provides an agenda and discusses considerations for various enterprise structures in Oracle Cloud applications. The document is intended for informational purposes only and does not constitute a product commitment from Oracle.
Oracle Fusion Applications Accounts PayablesBerry Clemens
This document outlines the terms and conditions for use of Oracle's online training materials. It states that Oracle allows its business partners to download and copy the materials for internal training purposes only, and that the materials cannot be resold, redistributed, or used to create derivative works. The document also disclaims any warranties regarding the accuracy or completeness of the materials and states that Oracle will not be liable for any loss or damage resulting from use of the materials. Partners must agree to indemnify Oracle from any actions or claims arising from their use of the materials.
The document discusses Oracle Fusion Applications' technical architecture. It describes a 3-tier logical architecture with client, application, and database tiers. The application tier is built on Oracle Fusion Middleware infrastructure services including identity management, business intelligence, and content management. It also utilizes components like the Applications Core for user experience and extensibility.
The document discusses enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and their key components and benefits. It provides an overview of common ERP modules like finance, manufacturing, sales and distribution. It also summarizes several major ERP vendors like SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft and describes some of their flagship ERP products.
Mohammed Firoz is an experienced Oracle SCM consultant seeking a challenging role. He has over 4 years of expertise in Oracle E-Business Suite Supply Chain Management modules. He has experience in requirement analysis, design, testing, implementation, maintenance and support of Oracle SCM applications. He is skilled in inventory, purchasing, order management and other Oracle modules.
The document provides release notes for Oracle Application Integration Architecture for Communications version 2.4. Key highlights include certifying the integration packs on the latest application releases of Siebel, BRM, and the Communications Foundation Pack. Enhancements to the integration packs focus on order to bill, agent-assisted billing care, and revenue accounting processes. New features support order to activation, collections integration between BRM and Siebel, and displaying promotions on invoices.
An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system integrates core business processes like finance, supply chain, production and human resources into a single system. ERP has evolved from earlier systems like MRP and MRPII. Key reasons for companies to implement ERP include integrating financial and customer order information, standardizing processes, and reducing inventory levels. ERP provides benefits such as improved cost control, faster response to customers, and standardized HR processes. Successful ERP implementation requires careful planning including deciding whether to customize the system or follow its standard processes and whether to use an in-house or outsourced team.
Coexist: Your current purchasing solution together with Oracle Fusion Procure...Infosys
Oracle Fusion Procurement can be implemented in coexistence mode with a company's existing purchasing solution to provide additional functionality while avoiding risks. This allows sourcing, contracting, and analytics capabilities from Oracle Fusion Procurement to be used alongside the existing requisitioning and purchasing system. Benefits include improved visibility, sourcing capabilities, contract management, compliance, and analytics. The coexistence approach is a lower risk and cost option for beginning to leverage Oracle Fusion Procurement capabilities incrementally. Key considerations for implementation include integration points, data mapping, and approvals configuration between the new and existing systems.
ERP software is good for reconciling financials, creating sales forecasts, maintaining order volumes and increasing customer satisfaction. Yes, it can be done using 4-5 different platforms, but managing the data in one place is easier than in several places.
Hitting the Reset Button for R12 - The Upgrade vs Reimplement Decisioneprentise
There are two paths for moving to a new release of an enterprise software package. The first is to use the vendor-supplied patches to upgrade the existing instance. The second is to start from scratch and reimplement. This paper explores the factors that influence whether an upgrade or a reimplementation is the customer’s preferred choice.
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Release 12 of Oracle E-Business Suite allows companies to streamline their global operations through new functionality. It introduces Subledger Accounting and Multi-Org Access Controls which allow businesses to consolidate sets of books into a single ledger and instance. This provides automated financial reporting and enhances controls across operating units. Release 12 reduces the complexity of global financial operations through a common accounting engine and standardized rules.
The document discusses new functionality in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 that allows companies to streamline operations and financial reporting. Key features highlighted include the use of ledgers and ledger sets to consolidate sets of books into a single instance and chart of accounts, enabling automated cross-ledger transaction posting and consolidated financial reporting. Additionally, multi-org access controls allow centralized management of customers, suppliers, and processes across operating units from a single global instance.
For businesses whose operations increasingly span the globe, connectivity is not an option but a strategic imperative. One of the reasons for this is the accelerating pace of change and innovation driving market demand. Markets are inherently dynamic, often volatile, and supply networks that are widely dispersed and highly nuanced need to access information as it emerges, when it emerges, accurately, anywhere. This is necessary for operational efficiency, but also for effective
collaboration, meaningful analysis, and supported decision making.
This document provides a literature review on ERP systems and implementation. It discusses the evolution of ERP from earlier systems like MRP and MRPII. Key benefits of ERP include integrated data and processes across departments, improved decision making with real-time data, increased efficiency, and flexibility. However, ERP implementation also carries risks such as high costs and delays. The document reviews factors related to successful ERP implementation from an organizational and project management perspective.
Introduction to Enterprise Resource PlanningSean Badiru
Welcome to our course on Introduction to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), where we will explore the evolution, key features, benefits, popular software vendors, implementation challenges, and the future of ERP. In today's rapidly changing business landscape, ERP serves as an innovative solution that optimizes business operations, enhances organizational efficiency, and empowers companies to make informed, data-driven decisions. By integrating various functional areas such as finance, human resources, supply chain management, and customer relationship management, ERP fosters seamless collaboration, real-time visibility, and streamlined processes within an organization. Throughout this course, we will delve into the fundamental concepts of ERP, uncover its transformative capabilities, and highlight why ERP is indispensable in today's dynamic business environment.
White papers why and how to achieve global erpKaizenlogcom
Global ERP aims to integrate a company's operations onto a single ERP system and database. This allows standardization of processes, consolidation of IT costs, and improved management visibility. However, achieving true global ERP faces impediments including disagreement on standards, resistance to change, and implementation challenges. Selecting software flexible enough to support global needs and using a phased approach can help overcome barriers to achieving the benefits of global ERP.
White papers why and how to achieve global erpKaizenlogcom
Global ERP aims to integrate a company's operations onto a single ERP system and database. This allows standardization of processes, consolidation of IT costs, and improved management visibility. However, achieving true global ERP faces impediments including disagreement on standards, resistance to change, and implementation challenges. Selecting software flexible enough to support global needs and using a phased approach can help overcome barriers to achieving the benefits of global ERP.
This document discusses the need for ERP systems to move from tightly coupled architectures to more loosely coupled, agile architectures. It outlines several trends driving this change, including demands from business units for more flexible, domain-specific solutions. The challenges of integrating these new systems into the existing ERP core are also examined. Finally, the document provides recommendations for organizations to develop a more agile ERP approach through defining objectives, roadmapping transformations, adopting mature technologies, standardizing integration patterns, simplifying processes, and prototyping emerging technologies.
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This document discusses the benefits of using Spreadsheet Server to provide real-time integration of Excel spreadsheets with SAP data. Key benefits include time savings from reducing dependency on IT for reporting, quicker business decisions through real-time analytics, increased accuracy, and streamlined implementation. Spreadsheet Server allows users to leverage familiar Excel tools to access and report on SAP data in real-time, which improves productivity, decision making, and compliance.
Inventory plus oracle inventory zero_issuesGeorge Faur
Implementing Oracle Inventory, users are clamming various situations when system process is not related to the real one.
Inventory Plus is working as an interface for Oracle Inventory, solving all the standard Oracle Application issues.
TechoERP, which is hosted in the cloud, is especially beneficial to businesses since it gives them access to full-featured apps at a low cost without requiring a large initial investment in hardware and software. A company can rapidly scale their business productivity software using the right cloud provider as their business grows or a new company is added.
A Comparison of Cloud based ERP SystemsNakul Patel
This document provides a comparison of 7 major cloud-based ERP software packages (Plex Online, NetSuite, Epicor, Infor, SAP Business ByDesign, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle) by describing their features, pricing, support, and modules. It analyzes the advantages of cloud-based ERP systems like reduced costs, improved scalability, and faster implementation compared to on-site ERP. Common ERP modules discussed include finance, supply chain, manufacturing, materials management, sales, project management, CRM, and HRM.
ERP is an enterprise resource planning system that integrates departments and functions across a company into a single computer system and database. This allows information to be shared between departments and improves processes like order fulfillment. While ERP packages can standardize processes, they sometimes require customization or changes to existing business processes. ERP implementation is a complex, expensive, and risky project but can make a company more efficient, competitive, and responsive to changes.
How To Choose & Plan Smart ERP Designed For PerformanceWGS HUB
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has become a must-have software for businesses that want to leverage their resources for performance through simplified and enriched business interactions.
Implementing or upgrading an ERP system is a resource-intensive investment and its efforts begin with strategic planning and extend to implementation and well beyond.
An ERP system is a valuable and important part of any company. It can help keep track of and show up-to-date information for trends, forecasting, taxes, cost, profit margins, financing, sales, purchasing, CRM, HRM, inventory, & WMS.
If you need an ERP system for your business, you can surely trust us to handle it. We can even help you to connect with official BCA API for transaction purposes right from your system. Click https://www.wgshub.com/solutions to consult with us.
Product Analysis Oracle BI Applications IntroductionAcevedoApps
This document provides an overview and summary of Oracle Business Intelligence Applications version 1.0 from June 2013. It describes Oracle BI Applications as complete prebuilt BI solutions that deliver role-based intelligence across various data sources. It outlines the product's features such as new visualizations, interfaces, and mobile enhancements. It also describes the product components, including pre-mapped metadata, ETL processes, and pre-built metrics, dashboards and reports. The document discusses data access capabilities such as leveraging Oracle Data Integrator for ETL and various configuration and validation tools. It highlights new capabilities in Oracle Data Integrator and contrasts building a custom BI solution versus using Oracle BI Applications.
ATC joined the Epicor Inspired Partner Network in 2001 with services in Greece and Cyprus and has achieved 15 certifications based on successful implementations.
Epicor minimizes the complexities of traditional ERP to deliver a solution that emphasizes ease of use, collaboration, and responsiveness. With the flexibility to run on premise or in the cloud, Epicor delivers a comprehensive set of global functionality—enabling you to drive profitability, inspire innovation, and respond quickly to an evolving business environment.
At the core of Epicor is an agile business architecture designed to give you the flexibility to adapt to the varying requirements of different countries, industries, and devices. Epicor fulfills the demand for immediate access to business information, delivering rapid time to value, and driving greater collaboration through real-time access. With Epicor ERP, you have the platform to ensure you stay
ahead in a fast-changing world.
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Table of Contents
Introduction...............................................................................................1
Why adaptive ERP is important..................................................................2
How Epicor ERP 10 supports adaptive ERP................................................2
Adaptive data and services.........................................................................3
Entity Documents.......................................................................................3
1600 Individually Addressable Services.......................................................3
Business process management...................................................................4
Agile customization....................................................................................6
BAQs and dashboards................................................................................8
Unleashing the power of the personal dashboard.....................................9
Customization solution workbench.........................................................10
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Introduction
From their inception, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have been deployed with an
overarching purpose: reduce costs by managing processes and materials. Until the middle 1980s,
enterprise systems were built for narrowly defined business needs such as order management,
account payables, and inventory control. The first real ERP systems integrated the data and
processes once handled by individual programs into a single system capable of managing almost
every aspect of running a sizable business. They transformed how modern businesses work.
The principal benefit of a consolidated ERP strategy was ensuring that data wasn’t duplicated
across departments, eliminating “islands of information.” Processes once separated could now be
linked, enabling enterprise-wide planning and optimization. For years, the focus of ERP was top-
down implementation of this strategy: the imposition of processes and measurements from an
executive perspective. As the marketplace has evolved into a global competition, where facilities,
suppliers, and partners are dispersed geographically and supply and demand signals occur over
increasingly complex and nuanced value networks, the top-down orientation of traditional ERP
is proving to be less than adequate on its own. In this new business environment, change and
innovation are accelerating; risk and opportunity are dynamic elements across networks, and
business practices and processes are evolving at a pace heretofore unimagined. Response to this
changed competitive landscape demands that ERP not only support the executive agenda but
also the needs of individuals, regardless of where are they are in an organization’s value network.
Only then can companies mobilize quickly and respond effectively to events as they occur at
breakneck speed, whether in Singapore or Stuttgart or the Silicon Valley. So ERP has had to evolve
into adaptive ERP.
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Why adaptive ERP is important
In a global marketplace where speed, change, and the demand for innovation are accelerating
challenges, the expectations of ERP have changed. ERP is no longer simply about cutting costs,
but rather about enabling businesses to grow and take advantage of new opportunities (and
avoid unexpected risks) as they emerge. Competition may come from anywhere, often from
unfamiliar players; disruptive technologies (e.g., additive manufacturing, social networks) may also
change the game radically in a short time. Companies now need ERP systems that can adapt to
unique and dynamic business environments and that can drive growth as well as control costs.
A large part of business innovation involves trying new things with less risk, modeling ideas and
outcomes, or simply changing how people work with information. Today, ERP systems have to be
approachable by all employees, changeable to waste less time, and readily integrated with other
systems. Consequently, ERP needs to adapt at the same speed as business—or get out of the way.
As discussed, enterprises today have to deal with complexity and levels of competition
unimaginable a few years ago. New product introduction cycles have shortened dramatically as
customer demands for innovation reach unprecedented heights. (For example, go into your cell
phone store today. Go back in six weeks. Note the difference in products on display.) Even small
and mid-sized companies face multi-national concerns; as such, they must be capable of managing
volatile economic situations and new compliance regimes. Increasingly, companies are moving to
achieve necessary velocity by collapsing processes and partnering to expand ecosystems.
How Epicor ERP 10 supports adaptive ERP
One way Epicor ERP 10 helps meet these challenges is through flexibility. Processes can be defined
and changed easily, and the system can be deployed as a single instance or in loosely coupled
peer instances, on-premise or in the cloud. Epicor ERP 10 has been designed with the knowledge
that a company’s ability to innovate is at least partly coupled to business process strategy;
specifically, agility is realized when processes are easily and inexpensively changed.
ERP 10 delivers the deep global functionality of earlier versions, with dramatically simplified
architecture and system management. Committed to a true services architecture, surrounded by
strong extensibility, orchestration, and customization capabilities, Epicor ERP 10 is a platform for
adaptive ERP as much as it is an application.
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Adaptive data and services
Epicor ERP 10 services include more than 1,300 independent services and nearly 20,000
operations. All access to the application logic—whether from an Epicor client application or any
other enterprise system—is managed by calling one or more of these services. Each application
service has a number of standard operations for retrieving or updating entities such as customers,
parts, and manufacturing orders. Depending on the specific needs of the user, there are also
other utility operations. There are no proprietary APIs, application logic, or data unavailable for
use by implementers or integrators to solve problems.
The ERP 10 database is well normalized and easy to understand after a bit of study. Baseline
tables and columns are documented in an online data dictionary. The system includes metadata
defining relationships and data typing information that makes the information schema readily
accessible. Baseline tables by convention belong to Epicor-defined schemas, which means user-
defined tables can be added to the physical database without creating naming conflicts.
User-defined (UD) fields can be logically added to any baseline table. The system transparently
stores user-defined fields in a child table linked to the baseline table via an alternate key. ERP 10
also maintains an SQL view in the “dbo” namespace that joins the baseline and user-defined
fields into a consolidated object that users can conveniently bind to custom reports or data
management processes.
• Entity/document-oriented
• Extensible data and behavior
• All provide “standard” operations plus any number of
service-specific operations
1600 Individually Addressable Services
• Hierarchical data containers for
non-scalar results
• Extensible for custom data
Entity Documents
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Business process management
A powerful and unique feature in Epicor ERP 10 is Epicor Business Process Management (BPM)
that allows administrators to augment or replace service behavior with custom rules or managed
code. Any of the nearly 20,000 service operations that comprise ERP 10 can be intercepted and
incorporated into a rules-based workflow. BPM workflows can be triggered to run before, instead
of, or after the baseline processing. For updates to application data, these rules can be executed
within the overall transaction or asynchronously after changes are committed to the database.
BPM has two kinds of directives: those bound to service operations and those bound to physical
operations (methods) or from a database intrinsic (CRUD) point of view. BPM also includes
“business holds” that are user-defined artifacts used to constrain or route processing logic. Similar
to how a credit hold might restrict receiving new orders for a customer, a business hold can be
defined between a user-defined concept (e.g., Nuclear Materials) and an entity such as a part
class. Business holds are bound to processes using BPM to restrict actions on the entity when the
hold is in effect.
BPM directives and business holds work together to build complex business processes. Directives
can even interrupt the normal processing sequence to query the user for an approval or for more
information. Other directive activities include attaching and removing data tags and business
holds, evaluating static or data-driven conditions, and invoking service orchestration workflows
for integrations.
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Most BPM directives are configured using easy rules wizards, similar to rules editing in Microsoft®
Outlook®
. Developers can add custom programming code in C# to any BPM workflow. The BPM
AwPI provides all necessary access to original and changed values present in the relevant entity
document. All rules are stored as metadata resources, which means there is no impact when
servicing ERP 10 with fix releases.
Together, user-defined fields and BPM provide the means to manage server behavior. Epicor ERP
10 also has a powerful and easy-to-use customization stack for defining rich and productive user
experiences. The ERP 10 Client includes an embedded, integrated development environment (IDE)
that allows controls to be moved, dropped, or added.
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Agile customization
Developers can declare dynamic “row rules” to create data-driven behaviors such as changing
color or style. Moreover, form logic can be created in C# or VB.NET and assigned to form, panel,
or control events. All customizations are managed and stored as metadata that is propagated to
deployments automatically and on demand. More importantly, the metadata-based approach for
customizing Epicor ERP 10 is “non-invasive” to Epicor-supplied application resources. This means
customizations do not touch baseline code, keeping the deployment of service packs an easy
process, regardless of how much customization has been done. This approach enables Epicor ERP
10 users to realize the agility they need today without creating barriers to future agility. So in ERP
10, it is remarkably easy to modify workflows as business practices evolve—a critical advantage in
today’s accelerating and rapidly changing marketplace.
The Epicor ERP 10 customization architecture supports seven levels of customization and
personalization. This allows collections of base forms to be repurposed for specialized products to
fit industry-specific requirements. Other customization levels support localization requirements for
world-ready ERP and extensions created by Epicor partners and developers.
Finally, a personalization layer is reserved to allow individuals control of the colors, look, and feel
of their ERP system. Users (with sufficient permission) can launch the ERP 10 Runtime Styling Tool
(RST) at any time when running the ERP 10 Client Application. With the RST active, users can
hover the cursor over form and menu areas to see what resources are present and how they can
be modified. Individual style choices can be collected and shared with other individuals or across
the enterprise.
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Epicor Web Access (EWA) allows users access to ERP 10 forms using a browser. EWA renders the
client application content using pure HTML, without dependencies on browser plug-ins. HTML
forms are derived directly from the same metadata that defines ERP Client Application forms.
Many constructs supported by the Client Application customization tools are also supported by
EWA. That means it is possible to customize Epicor ERP using the embedded IDE tools and for
those changes to appear in the browser versions of the form.
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BAQs and dashboards
Two foundational capabilities of the Epicor ERP architecture are the Business Activity Query
(BAQ) and the ICE Dashboard. As their names imply, a BAQ defines a data query and the ICE
Dashboard renders that query on any number of easily accessible devices. It is hard to overstate
the usefulness of these two technologies. Many ERP 10 system implementations rely on BAQs for
defining relevant data for searching, monitoring, or for use in integrations.
A BAQ is essentially a T-SQL query definition that can be defined once and then run safely by
others. BAQs bridge security automatically, meaning when executed they only expose data the
current user is allowed to see. ERP 10 secures all tables and columns by assigning access rights
to users and groups. However, ERP 10 also has a number of other global security partitions (e.g.,
company, plant, department, territories) that the BAQ system also enforces.
Epicor ICE Dashboards render BAQ data either as a basic grid or as a chart or graph. Dashboards
are usually combined into portal pages aligned along a role-based or functional area such as
sales analysis. All ICE Dashboards have publish/subscribe capabilities that allow users to interact
with one ICE Dashboard while another changes views in reaction. A typical scenario has a portal
page with an orders list dashboard, a details dashboard, and a graph showing sales relative to
plan. Clicking between orders in the first dashboard causes the other dashboards to update
automatically with the order in scope.
Dashboards are also available on mobile and tablet devices through Internet browsers. On tablet
devices, ICE Dashboards are usable in the browser or as live tiles on the ERP Home Screen. For
phone form factors, the ICE Dashboard system provides easy touch-based navigation optimized
for smart phone screens.
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Unleashing the power of the personal dashboard
For users anywhere in the enterprise network, mobile dashboards are updatable in real time if the
organization desires, a feature often used for actionable queries or expedited approval processes.
This feature enables Epicor ERP 10 customers to create their own “My ERP” with precise control
over what can and cannot be updated and deployed to mobile devices. Users are not dependent
on Epicor making the solution mobile; the tools enable them to build out from the Epicor
framework to deliver any part of Epicor ERP 10 to any mobile device.
Contrast this feature with other ERP solutions, where organizations are bound to wait for the
software provider to develop specific mobile applications for parts of their ERP functionality.
Instead, it empowers the user to be truly adaptive and in control of the organization’s ability to
respond and deliver the necessary support across the network when and where needed.
BAQs can be updateable, which means that any BAQ can become an instance data-driven API to
the ERP system. Updatable BAQs accept data in the defined BAQ format and then automatically
call the relevant update operations on one or more ERP services. This capability is extremely
powerful in that it provides administrators with a way to create a view from data perspective and
then make updates to the ERP system through the services logic (including BPM directives). An
updatable BAQ can be coupled to an updatable ICE Dashboard, which together form an easily
defined data entry form.
BAQs drive many other important ERP 10 subsystems besides ICE Dashboards. For example,
BAQs define the indexes managed by Epicor Enterprise Search, along with added information
to drive how search results are ranked, presented, and linked to forms and other resources.
Search functions in almost every ERP 10 form can be extended with BAQs. Users can create
queries—subject to limitations established by administrators—for use as personal search dialogs.
Full-featured reports can be defined from a BAQ. Epicor Social Enterprise allows administrators to
design BAQ-based entities that users can “follow” and converse about. Finally, any BAQ can drive
an ERP Home screen live tile view.
Any updatable BAQ can be a two-way integration API and a first-class resource for Epicor’s service
orchestration engine, Epicor Service Connect. New in Epicor ERP 10: BAQs can be defined for
non-Epicor data sources via ODBC. Administrators can now add metadata that provides useful
definitions, documentation, and linkage hints for users defining External BAQs.
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Customization solution workbench
Most projects that require ERP customization involve many artifact types (e.g., form
customizations, special menu options, BAQs, dashboard definitions). To help administrators stay
organized, Epicor ERP 10 includes the Solution Workbench. The Solution Workbench defines
projects where items can be added and versioned. Solutions are then packaged and can be
exported to share with other ERP instances or simply shelved until needed.
The ERP 10 Solution Workbench is a great improvement over the Solution Manager included in
earlier versions of Epicor ERP. Almost anything can be added to a solution, be it an ERP 10 object
or an external resource. Usability and performance have improved, especially for managing larger,
more complex projects.
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