Custom Extensions of Oracle E-Business Suite

Andrew Archibald/Lindsay Smith Scottish OUG 2012 Linlithgow 13th June 2012

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Custom Extensions of Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Realizing your ERP's full power.

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AGENDA

Introduction Cairn Rocela Extending E Business Suite Joint Venture Accounting Travel Form Questions

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Presenters
Lindsay Smith Oracle E-Business Senior Analyst Cairn Energy

Andrew Archibald Senior Consultant Rocela

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Cairn Energy

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Cairn Energy
FTSE 250 listed (FTSE 100 until recent return of $3.5bn to shareholders) One of Europe's largest Oil and Gas exploration and development companies Based in Edinburgh, approx 150 employees with another 30 in overseas offices Varied portfolio with interests in Greenland, North West Europe & Greater Mediterranean Currently looking to expand the portfolio
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Cairn Energy

Recently upgraded E Business Suite to R12.1.3 from 11.5.10.2 Ebusiness: Payables/Purchasing/Projects/GL/HR modules Team of 4: Oracle SDM, 3 analysts. External support provided by Rocela

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Cairn Energy

4 APEX Applications running in Production First Application in Production 15 Months ago. Implementation of Joint Venture Accounting application in progress

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Rocela

Independent Oracle Consultancy and Microsoft Consultancy Headquartered in Edinburgh with offices in Knutsford. Oracle Certified Advantage Partner

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Rocela
Provides Oracle License Optimisation Managed Services Professional services consultancy

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Extending E Business Suite

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Tools to build extensions

OAF (Oracle Applications Framework) Oracle APEX (Application Express) Oracle ADF (Application Development Framework) Oracle E-Business Suite SDK for Java Reference support.oracle.com white paper : 1435894.1 (Upgrading your Customizations to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1)

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Oracle APEX
The Tool of Choice

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Custom Extensions

Built using Oracle APEX (Application Express) Easy Integration with E business

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Custom Extensions
Cairn have 5 APEX applications extending EBS.

Joint Venture Accounting (currently under development) Travel Form Flexi Time Summary Well Cost Tracking P2P Dashboard

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Architecture
11.2.2 DB

Forms Server Web Logic APEX Listener Web Server

Discoverer
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Joint Venture Accounting (JVAcc)

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Joint Venture Accounting (JVAcc)

The Problem:
Oracle Projects/GL used to account and report for Joint Venture assets Greenland/Albania etc A need to decouple Joint Venture Accounting from Supply Chain process

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Joint Venture Accounting (JVAcc)

Proposed Solution:

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The Solution

APEX Application Search screens allow for allocation of data Validation of data Transfer to GL Interface

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The Integration Points

AP, Cost Management, Project and GL Data Pull GL Interface population and GL Import Concurrent Requests

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The Issues
End - User Data not matching Oracle Search query performance Posting to Corporate rounding

Developer Sub Ledger Accounting Split import to GL tables

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Development Time
Project started in Nov-11 Work stopped for 2 3 months during the R12 upgrade Testing now resumed Estimated go live date Sep 2012

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JV Accounting Application

Demonstration

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Travel Lookup Form

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The Problem
New Corporate Travel agency selected

Opportunity to streamline travel booking service to prevent having to raise a Requisition/PO for every individual travel request
All travel, even within policy, must be approved

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The Solution

Apex form completed by administrator Administrator to complete details of Travel On submission, email sent to Budget holder
requesting approval to travel Form to replicate iPROC coding customisation i.e. only specific Project/Task/Expenditure Types available

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Development Time
7 Days Development Time 2 Days User Testing

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Travel Lookup Form

Demonstration

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Thank You

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Questions?

Andrew.Archibald@rocela.com
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