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This session is ideal for organizations thinking about upgrading to Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2. This session covers recommended practices for executing the Release 12.2 technical upgrade. It covers the fundamentals of upgrading to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2, including the technology stack components and supported upgrade paths. Hear from Oracle Development about the recommended best practices for executing the Release 12.2 technical upgrade, with special considerations for minimizing your downtime. Also get to know about relatively recent upgrade resources. EBS upgrade is one of key area for Oracle Apps DBAs and DBA Managers. This session gives details about Upgrade Path, Best Practices to reduce downtime and also tips for successful EBS upgrade.

This session would talk about the importance of Enterprise Performance Management system in an organization and will talk about ever-growing needs of timely and accurate financial reporting, visibility of timely data for senior leadership like CEO and CFOs for enabling effective decision making and transparency in raising the right RED flags as early as possible to control company's financial position in this VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex,Ambiguous) environment.  It would also discuss the importance and adoption of the latest technology trends like Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation to the ever-increasing demand of companies on reliable financial data.

In this session learn about Oracle's continued investment in Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Enterprise Asset Management. Discover what's new in Oracle Enterprise Asset Management 12.2 including new capabilities in all the major functional areas such as asset master definition, work order planning and execution, performance monitoring, material management, and more. See how you can improve your organization's maturity and agility by leveraging the latest functionality available with Oracle Enterprise Asset Management

In this session learn how various flavors of outsourced manufacturing business processes can be modeled within Oracle E-Business Suite to provide both discrete and process manufacturers, with complete visibility into the health of their outsourced manufacturing operations, such as subcontracting order status, inventory balances, financial positions, and quality management. See how to use actionable command centers to review any bottlenecks and issues that need your attention. Many customers have heavily customized their Oracle E-Business Suite applications to model these outsourcing flows. Learn how these customizations can be effectively retired and replaced with out-of-the-box capabilities.

The objective of the session is to provide the user community a deep dive understanding of the EBS - Analyzer offerings in general and the EBS - Period Close Process Analyzer in particular.

EBS Period Close Process Analyzer is a brand new business flow process analyzer now available for our customers and is one of the highly acclaimed product offerings which provide excellent proactive help to the Business in Month and Year End closure activities.

How do you run an EPM operation that requires timely processing and accuracy of financial data for one of the world's largest industrial conglomerate while at the same keeping lower TCO, a stable highly performing platform and levels of service? A look at the breadth and journey from current to ongoing future state evolution story of EPM Shared Services operations.

With the never-ending demand for upgrades of Oracle EBS, there is a need for automation in the upgrade process that will result in reduced timelines and savings in terms of cost. The session discusses in detail how the Impact Analyzer tool helps EBS customers identify the impact on the custom components when upgrading from one version of EBS to the other. It provides the complete list of customizations along with their impact. This helps in considerably bringing down the total cost of the reimplementation in the new version. It also provides a full-fledged dashboard with all the relevant reports with additional features for estimation, task management, and project management to make the life of the project manager easy.

The need to access data anytime-anywhere has fueled the development of mobile apps at an extremely rapid pace, in turn, providing a medium to follow business processes in real-time.

The Oracle Transportation Mobile app for Android and iOS allows Oracle Transportation Management customers to extend their use cases to their mobile workforce, drivers, and service providers.

The session demonstrates the operational ease brought about by this Mobile App to enhance the use of existing Transportation Management to help with

- View, accept, and decline shipment tenders
- Provide current shipment status information, including GPS position
- Upload photos
- Collect signatures for proof of delivery
- Mark shipments as favorites for easy look-up
- View rich detail of shipment, stop, and order detail
- View shipments on a map

The Recurring Billing feature was initially introduced in EBS Order Management R12.2.6 with two flavors of Recurring Billing i.e. Fixed Period Billing and Indefinite Period Billing. In R12.2.7 additional flavor Milestone Based Billing was introduced, which is typically used by high tech manufacturing customers having long lead times for custom-designed equipment, who typically bill in milestones e.g. Booking, Fulfillment, Customer Acceptance, etc. In the latest EBS release, this was further extended by introducing an additional flavor of Usage Based Billing. Several rental and subscription contracts are billed based on a fixed and/or variable usage component. This paper provides an insight into the overall framework, business requirements, Solution overview, Key features of Millstone and Usage-Based Billings, capabilities to terminate the billing with options to refund via RMAs or without refund, Key Setups, Process Flow, Data Flow.

Come and learn EBS 12.2.9 new options and features in back order
-    Support for automatic movement of back ordered material out of staging area to its source area
-    Enable to cancel unshipped lines instead of back order through Kill or Fill feature
-    Support for either backorder or stage the remaining lines of a ship set, while some lines are marked for replenishment
-    Ability to backorder delivery line without delivery assignment
-    Public API to backorder delivery line which is released to the warehouse
- Ability to Backorder from Mobile

This session provides an overview of how the Oracle Quality Assurance team tests Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS). It covers the main areas that you should consider during functional testing, approaches for new feature and regression testing, how to optimize test generation, test scoping and test execution, and more. The session also illustrates the application of best practices for testing EBS upgrade and testing EBS new feature uptakes. Objective 1: Understand the main areas that you should consider during testing Objective 2: Understand approaches and methods for optimizing testing Objective 3: Apply the testing best practices to optimize testing for major programs such as EBS upgrades and new feature uptakes

This Presentation will cover the following areas

• E-Business Suite Investments 
• Testing Challenges 
• Strategies for Testing 
• Testing Best Practices 
• Use Cases 

Software testing and validation is a critical activity, pervasive in every phase of software development, deployment, and usage. Testing complex ERP applications like Oracle E-Business Suite is intense and challenging. The presenters will share their experiences around testing Oracle E-Business Suite and the new breed of emerging analytical SaaS applications. They will present best practices with which the testing practice can be optimized. The session should provide good take-aways that the attendees can leverage and implement to optimize their testing projects and initiatives.

This session is a case study presentation on the automation of unreconciled Receipt in EBS R12. Bank statements received from Banks by the customer for receipts transactions are missing with a common identifier with summary line information lead to mismatching with receipts transactions, the customer process was manual reconciliation. We implemented a custom program to populate unique identifiers in Bank file and leveraged the auto reconciliation program to match the Lockbox, Wire receipts, GL Journals by using a unique identifier, the solution supported the different Bank statement formats BAI2, SWIFT940. It benefited the customer by alleviating the manual reconciliation, reduces overall corporate operational costs, time, the streamlined reconciliation process  

The biggest challenge in today's businesses is managing complex and evolving business requirements particularly when managing projects.

EBS Release 12.2 offers impactful features primarily in the areas of Project Management, Financial Planning and user self-service offering that not only aims at organizing & simplifying project management but also providing users the power directly to control & rectify.

Let's understand the nuances of the Topmost powerful offerings of the EBS Project Release 12.2.

Oracle Enterprise Command Centers (ECC) is a 360 View Dashboard with Charts and information drill-downs aimed at solving the problem of what users should work on next.

Oracle Enterprise Command Center dashboards enable information-driven navigation to help users discover and act on your most important business challenges and focus on the right information, at the right time, to make the right decisions.

They are fully integrated with Oracle EBusiness Suite to enable the company to optimize operational decisions and Improve process efficiency with real-time access to operational data, driving better cost and revenue decisions.

Using a simple all-in-one installer, we can rapidly deploy ECC in a few steps, out-of-the-box integration with EBS can be achieved seamlessly.

Oracle Enterprise Command Centers are available at no additional cost to licensed Users of the owning Oracle E-Business Suite applications Release 12.2.4 and higher.

The following command centers are currently available:
Financials: Receivables, iReceivables, Channel Revenue Management, Payables, Assets, Incentive Compensation, Lease and Finance Management.
- Procurement & Projects: iProcurement: Consumer-Like Shopping, Projects, Contract Lifecycle Management for Public Sector.
- Order Management & Logistics: Order Management, Inventory Management.
- Manufacturing: Discrete Manufacturing, Process Manufacturing, Outsourced Manufacturing, Cost Management.
- Asset Lifecycle & Service: Enterprise Asset Management, Service Contracts, Service.

Discuss the Key Features and Benefits with Live Demo on Procurement Command Center

Closing the EBS period on a planned date is a critical business requirement.

A delay in period close can cause serious operational and management issues and at times can be a show stopper for the business. A failing program, a performance issue, an event error on a period close date can put the business in trouble. Not to forget, significant failures in one EBS module can impact the period closure of other modules.

"Is there any way to minimize these last-minute unpleasant surprises? Is there a possibility for a hassle-free period close? YES. Join us to Strategise your EBS Financial Period Close".

We are here to share:

1.The tools and techniques to strategise your EBS period close.
2. Provide a simple monthly tracker to proactively monitor and close the critical actions that impact the period close.
3.Present code fixes that prevent known corruption.
4. Suggest methods to streamline application performance.
5. Discuss Oracle's Proactive Offerings.
6.Top 10 things NOT to do in General Ledger

Result:
1.Majority of period critical actions completed in advance.
2. Comparatively reduces the data volumes on the period close date.
3. Assists regularly in proactive diagnosis and fix of the key issues.
4.Provides less scope for a panic situation on the period closure date

This is intended for all audiences who are familiar with Oracle Financials for India(GST) and seeking insight on the Integration that OFI GST Solution has with Modules like Fixed Assets, Cost Management, Project Costing / Billing, Tax Interfacing in AP and AR Modules.