What’s New in EBS R12 Mfg, Supply

Chain and Distribution

Michael Barrette
Solution Consulting Manager – Supply Chain / Distribution, West Area
 Introducing E-Business Suite Release 12

11 New Modules / Products

“MOAC”
Over 2350 New Capabilities
• 50% Cross-Industry Capabilities
– Sales & Marketing – Planning
– Finance – Procurement
– Human Resources – Manufacturing
– Projects – Logistics
– Contracts – Service
– Order Management – Maintenance
– Configurator – Product Lifecycle Mgmt

• 50% Industry Specific Capabilities

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 Deliver Best-Practices Across Industries

Manufacturing
• High Technology
• Industrial Manufacturing
• Automotive Public Services
• Life Sciences
• Public Sector
• Consumer Products
• Healthcare
• Chemicals
• Education & Research
• Aerospace & Defense
Service
• Financial Services
Asset Intensive
• Communications • Professional Services
• Travel & Transportation • Retail / Wholesale Distribution
• Utilities • Eng & Construction
• Oil & Gas
• Natural Resources

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 Plus, a New User Experience for R12
Accelerate Adoption via Simplified User Interfaces and Business Flows
• Reduced pop-ups and
duplicate screens
• Re-designed and streamlined
entire workflows
• Reduced the number of steps
to complete key tasks
• Improved overall look & feel
and visual style
• Increased personalization
capabilities

Improved Workflow in Targeted Areas

• Self-Service Purchasing • Campaign Management • Financial Consolidation
• Sourcing • Customer Support • Online Candidate Registration
• Supplier Collaboration • Collections & Payments • Absence Management
• Business Intelligence • Loan Management • Salary Administration

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Role-Based Intelligence Dashboards
Reduce Risk via Smarter, Faster Decision Making

• Get rapid results

with an out-of-the-box
mgmt reporting system
• Get the right information
with role-based
dashboards
• Get complete information
with seamless drilldowns
• New in R12:
- 6 dashboards, 49 KPIs, 90 rpts
- A focus on global sourcing,
purchases, and supplier mgmt
 MOAC Multi-Org Access
Control

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 MOAC Process – Enter Transactions

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 MOAC Process – View Transactions

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 Order Management

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R12 Order Management New Features
• MOAC Multi-Organization Access Control
• Enhanced Inventory Reservations
• Customer Acceptance, Deferred Revenue and Costing,
Order Information Enhancements
• Credit Card Security Code, Credit Card Encryption
• Payment Due With Order, Recurring Charges/TSO with
Equipment
• Mass Scheduling, Scheduling ATO Items without BOM
• Exception Management Enhancements, Workflow Validation
Tool, Workflow Context Change
• Customer Credit Check Hold Source Support across
Operating Units
• Header Attribute Cascading
• Create Orders in Contact Center

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Adaptable User Interface
Adaptable User Interface
 Serial Number or Lot Level Reservations

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 Recurring Charges

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 Credit Card Security Code

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 OIP Page with acceptance information

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 Supply To Order Workbench

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 Sales Contracts

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 New Features in Sales Contracts R12

• Contract Authoring and Collaboration

• Microsoft Word Synchronization
• Contract Policy Deviations
• iStore integration with Contract Expert
• Contract Administration & Visibility
• Sales Contract Workbench
• Multi-org Access Control (MOAC)
• Contract Access from Customer 360 view
• Contract Analytics and Reporting
• Sales Agreements DBI
• Contract Clause Analysis

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 Download Contract

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 Upload Contract

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 Accept and Review Changes

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 Advanced Pricing

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 R12 Advanced Pricing New Features

• MOAC for Pricing Security

• Recurring Charges
• Continuous Price Breaks
• Advanced Pricing Support for Purchasing
Global Blanket Agreements
• Price Books
• Support TCA Party Hierarchy
• Support Hierarchical Product Categories

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 Configurator

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 R12 Configurator New Features

Business R12 New

Benefit
Requirement Features
x Extensible Product PLM User- 9 PLM Attributes can be utilized in
Data attributes
Defined Configurator
disconnected from
Configurator Attributes 9 Leverages customers’
development Import investments in both products

9 Improved Configurator instance

x No way to copy
Model management flexibility
Models between
instances Migration 9 Reduced manual maintenance
and time-to-market
9 Increased UI creation flexibility
x Cumbersome Java Server 9 Adherence to look-and-feel
custom UI Pages (JSP) guidelines
development Tag Library 9 Allowance for 3rd-party UI
development tools

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 PLM User-Defined Attributes Import
Define Attribute Group

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 PLM User-Defined Attributes Import
Process – Create Rules

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 APS Advanced Planning
and Scheduling

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 New APS R12 Features - ASCP
• Distribution planning
• Item attribute simulation sets
• Process manufacturing enhancement: support for complex
routings
• Process manufacturing enhancement: contiguous operations
• Process manufacturing enhancement: shelf life
• Process manufacturing enhancement: OPM planning
convergence
• Sequence-dependent setups
• Gantt chart enhancements
• Order queries
• Reports
• Discrete Manufacturing integration enhancements
• Chargeable subcontracting
• Forecast spreading for Gregorian calendars

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 New APS R12 Features – IO Inventory
Optimization
• Demand fulfillment lead time
• Service agreement simulation sets
• Lead time variability
• Plan level overrides of planning parameters
• Visibility to forecast variability
• Enhanced horizontal plan
• Item attribute simulation sets
• Order queries

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 New APS R12 Features – Demand
Planning
• Forecasting enhancements
• Shared objects
• Selective forecasting
• Planner productivity enhancements
• Performance enhancements
• View-only access
• Administration enhancements
• Collections enhancements
• Enhanced support for forecast priorities
• Demand history from internal sales orders
• Archiving process for Oracle demand plans

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 New APS R12 Features – GOP Global
Order Promising

• OPM-Inventory convergence
• Lot-based component usage
• Distribution planning

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 R12 ASCP: Gantt Chart Enhancements

• Highlight
• Critical path
• Late and early activities

• Link
• Peg up, down, partial
• Orders and related resource
activities
• Primary and simultaneous
resources

• Manipulate
• Drag and drop rescheduling
• Offload

• Use all screen space

• Single row for resource
• Zoom

• Personalize
• Filter, sort, color, label
• Layout

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 Advanced Procurement

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 Adv. Procurement for Materials & Services
Achieve Best Cost, Quality & Delivery via Real-Time Supplier Collaboration

Supplier Management Expanded Supplier

Management
and Enablement

Unified Work-Center for

All Procurement
Responsibilities
New Support for Complex
Goods & Services

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Supplier Management

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 Inventory and BOMs

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 Item Enhancements

• RFID, EPC, & GTIN compliance

• Telco: Recurring charges
• Configurator: Item attributes visible to
configurator rules engine
• MLS: Enable Item Status and Item templates

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 RFID, EPC & GTIN Compliance

• New item cross-reference type: GTIN*

• Tools > Cross-references
• Wal-Mart mandate
• All pallets and cases must include RFID encoding
of GTIN and serial number

GTIN: Global Trade Item Number

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 Telco: Recurring Charges

• New item attribute: Charge Periodicity

• Time unit by which a persistent/recurring service or
product is priced
• Define as UOM in the “Charge Per” UOM Class
• Order Management group

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 Bill of Material Enhancements

• Fixed component usage support

• Inverse component usage
• Material control updates for common BOMs

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 Fixed Component Usage

• Models fixed usage

• E.g. data sheet, marker,
• Model fixed + variable usage
• E.g. Setup/startup usage (leader, fixed test or scrap quantity)
• Plus per-unit usage
• Workaround for tooling, drawing, etc.
• Analogous to lot-based resource
• Backflush once at first use
• Reverse only when entire quantity is reversed
• Used by WIP, Flow, OSFM, Cost, Planning

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 Inverse Component Usage

• Enter inverse quantity

• 1 component per x assemblies
• Result is stored un-rounded

• Benefits:
• Can be more intuitive
• More accurately determine required quantity
• Avoid undesirable usage variances

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 Update Material Control in Common Bills

• While retaining a common BOM relationship, users

can update the following attributes at the org level:
• Operation Sequence
• WIP Supply Type
• Sub-Inventory
• Locator
• Include in cost roll-up
• Benefits:
• Facilitates standardization by deploying common bills
• While enabling typical organization overrides

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 WIP and MES

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 R12 Work In Process – New Features

• MES for Discrete Manufacturing

• Manufacturing Execution Workstation
• Manufacturing Supervisor Workbench
• Component Usage Enhancements
• Report Fixed Component Usage
• Optionally factor Component Yield in Material
Transactions
• Specify Inverse Component Usage

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 R12 Work In Process – New Features

• Scheduling Workbench New Features

• Print Gantt Charts
• Restore last-worked customized views
• Additional tool tip for Job and Resource Workbenches
• Schedule over long time ranges in the Resource
Workbench
• Other Enhancements
• Mobile Return of Assembly Reserved to a Sales Order
• Reserving Discrete Jobs against Sources of Demand
• Reservation of Completed Serialized Assemblies through
Inventory Reservation Form
• Combined Lot & Serial Genealogy Views

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 Job Operation Actions
• View Work Content
• View Exceptions
• Expedite
New or enhanced • Report Time
actions introduced in • Job On
R12 for Discrete • Job Off
Execution Workstation • Express Move
• Report Exception
• Clock In
• Clock Out
• Undo Clock In
• Un-Expedite
• Update Note

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 OPM and Discrete

• Convergence of OPM and Discrete inventory

models
• Component yield in material transactions

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 Convergence of OPM &
Discrete Inventory Models
• More robust inventory model for OPM
• Facilitates adoption of old and new capabilities by
OPM
• Cycle count
• Physical inventory
• WMS
• Still requires separate organizations for OPM/Discrete
• Organization parameter
• Prevents use of model/option BOMS in a process org

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 Service Contracts

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 New Features in Service Contracts R12
• Contract Authoring Enhancements
• Standard Coverage
• Multi-Org Access Control
• Publish Contract for Online Acceptance
• Line Level Cancellation
• Oracle ETax uptake
• Contract Renewal Enhancements
• Renewal Negotiation Lifecycle Management
• New Defaulting Rules for Renewal Management
• Administrator Workbench
• Improvements to Online Renewal Portal
• New Defaulting Rules for Renewal Management
• Enhanced Communication Templates
• Flexible Approval Rules

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 New Features in Service Contracts R12
• Contract Billing and Revenue Enhancements
• Partial Period Billing
• Partial Period Revenue Recognition
• Deferred Revenue Management
• Credit Card Encryption
• Enhanced Installed Base Integration
• View Impacted Contracts
• IB Mass Updates – specify impact to service
• Streamlined Item Instance Creation
• Terminate Usage when Item Instance terminates
• New Search and Inquiry Capabilities
• HTML Contract Search
• View Service Contract Details in HTML

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 Warehouse Management

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 Oracle Warehouse
Management R12
• OPM Support • Locator Alias
• Consolidation • Require RF users to scan the
locator’s alias instead of the
• Crossdocking name to force scanning
• Labor Management instead of typing
• EAM/CMRO Support • Locator Inquiry
• RFID Enhancements • Mobile UI to query on hand by
• Labeling Enhancements locator instead of by item
• Task Prioritization • LPN Visibility in Shipping
• View LPN configurations in
Shipping transactions form
after picking
• previously this visibility
was only there after ship
confirm

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 Labor Management
• Track the time taken by each person to
complete work
• Time is recorded for specific tasks performed
• Used for employee performance evaluation
and resource planning
Labor Task Times Performance
Tasks Captured Reporting

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 Labor Metrics
• New Features
• Employee Evaluation: Evaluating individual
employees performance based on standards
• Resource Planning: Predicting expected time or
amount of staff needed to complete a set of tasks

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Labor Management Workbench

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 Manage Labor Productivity

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 Evaluate Labor Productivity

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 Oracle’s Information-Driven Supply Chain
Management Offering Enables You to…

9 Drive Operational Excellence

9 Deliver Enterprise Innovation
9 Manage Supply Chain Risk

Get Richer Information. Make Faster Decisions. Deliver Better Results.

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Thank You