ORACLE DATA SHEET

SAUDI ARABIA
COUNTRY SPECIFIC FEATURES
As of Release 12.2. Generated on April 22, 2016

Oracle E-Business Suite helps organizations compete globally while they

manage their businesses locally. Because it's designed for global
organizations doing business worldwide, new features and upgrades for
STANDARDIZE ON A SINGLE GLOBAL
SYSTEM: Oracle E-Business Suite are delivered simultaneously to all markets, in
With Oracle E-Business Suite to manage a single code set with the standard products, allowing countries to
your business systems at a global level, you
can: benefit immediately. This document, Saudi Arabia Country Specific
• Provide corporate consistency and global Features, describes the capabilities provided by Oracle E-Business Suite
visibility with centralized business
functions to address local business and regulatory requirements in Saudi Arabia.
• Extend core business systems with a
standards-based business platform
How Oracle delivers Globalization
• Accommodate global data standards with
a native global platform
Oracle E-Business Suite addresses geographic requirements through a comprehensive
global solution set that is comprised of the following components: (See Figure 1 below.)

• Global Technology Platform provides consistent technology support for global

requirements across all applications.

• Globalization Capabilities are delivered through rules-based engines that support

globally diverse requirements in areas such as accounting, payments, payroll, taxes,
and others.

• Localizations enhance the globalization capabilities by providing support for

country specific legislative and business requirements. The following localization
delivery methods exist:
MEET THE CHALLENGES OF
• Product Localizations: Delivered in product, by Development organization
GLOBALIZATION WITH ORACLE E-

BUSINESS SUITE • Add-on Localizations: Delivered via My Oracle Support, by Development and
Regional Localization centers.
Only Oracle's global software platform

enables the rapid deployment of cost- • Partner Localizations: Delivered by Oracle's partners
efficient and compliant business processes Please note that not all these delivery methods are applicable to every country.
that lead to success in your business.

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Configurable Global Foundation Oracle’s Globalization Solution

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Figure 1: Oracle's Globalization Infrastructure

Oracle E-Business Suite has been successfully implemented by companies in more than 150 countries
worldwide.

Oracle delivers specific localizations for the following countries:

Americas Europe, Middle East & Africa Asia Pacific
Argentina Austria Netherlands Australia
Brazil Belgium Norway China
Canada Bulgaria Poland Hong Kong
Used in more than 150 countries, Chile Croatia Portugal India
Oracle E-Business Suite lets you Colombia Czech Republic Romania Japan
operate wherever your customers, Mexico Denmark Russia Korea
suppliers, or employees are Peru Egypt Saudi Arabia Malaysia
located — all on one native, global Puerto Rico Finland Slovakia New Zealand
platform.
USA France South Africa Philippines
Venezuela Germany Spain Singapore
Greece Sweden Taiwan
Hungary Switzerland Thailand
Ireland Turkey
Israel UAE
Italy Ukraine
Kazakhstan United Kingdom
Kuwait

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How to read this Document

GLOBAL SOLUTIONS FROM ORACLE:
This document starts with a high level summary of the requirements supported for Saudi
With successful implementations of Oracle
E-Business Suite around the world, only Arabia, organized by product family and functional category. The document then provides a
Oracle offers the solutions that detailed description of the requirements and the features available in E-Business Suite to
organizations need to adapt to local
support these requirements.
conditions while still managing globally.
Country specific capabilities for deep
localization, business processes that can
Overview
be adopted and used worldwide and The following tables highlight the functional categories for which Oracle E-Business Suite
centralized systems for managing your
offers country specific features in Saudi Arabia: Human Resources, Payroll.
business on a worldwide scale make
Oracle E-Business Suite the right global Functional Categories
Oracle Partner
software platform to help your business for Human Capital Management
compete and thrive in a global economy. Human Resources √
Payroll √

Saudi Arabia Requirement Maps

The following tables list the key requirements supported in Oracle E-Business Suite for Saudi
Arabia. The requirements are categorized into functional areas as shown below.

Human Capital Management

Human Resources
Human Resources
• Record details of Employees and their Employment

Payroll
Payroll
• Manage & Process Payroll to meet country's legal
requirements

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Saudi Arabia Requirement Maps - Details

This section provides a detailed description of each requirement and the corresponding features.

1. Record details of Employees and their Employment

Requirement Name Record details of Employees and their Employment

Product Family Human Capital Management
Organizations in Saudi Arabia are required to record HR data in line with legislative
requirements and general business practices. All Saudi Arabian businesses must be able to
record employee details in accordance with local formats, and be able to submit the required
Description statutory reports to the authorities. In Saudi Arabia several details regarding workforce
members need to be captured including disabilities, benefits eligibility, passport and visa details.
Personal details required include Arabic names, national identifiers and social insurance
information.
Functional Category Human Resources - Person & Employment details
Requirement Type Business Practice

Feature Name Feature Description Delivery Type

Deployment Information
With the Saudi Arabian localized features for capturing Employee Product Localization
Data you can use the E-Business Suite modules more effectively,
for example for payments, mailing and, statutory reporting purposes.
Localized HR features form a legislative basis for your country
specific Payroll management. Integration of HR and Payroll
processes is possible only by using localized data and functionality,
specific to your country and legislation.

The following Saudi Arabian specific details are captured:

• Localized screens for workforce deployment. New data fields to
capture Arabic names, alternate language names, national identifier,
and other localized personal data fields in addition to social
insurance information (GOSI).
• Full history of all deployment information, such as organization,
grade and job changes available in a single repository.
• Ability to make future-dated changes for up-to-date information.
• Operational Reports assist decision making and compliance
including Discoverer End User Layer.
Person and Employment The following Saudi Arabian specific details are captured: Product Localization
Details • Global information on all current and potential workforce members,
including applicants, employees and contingent workers.
• Documents management is supported such that users can define
passport and visa details and monitor their expiry.
• Users are allowed to capture localized work incident details,
disabilities and previous employment details.
• Users can capture specific data fields in Hirja calendar
• Information on everyone covered by, eligible for, or receiving,
benefits.
2. Manage & Process Payroll to meet country's legal requirements

Requirement Name Manage & Process Payroll to meet country's legal requirements
Product Family Human Capital Management
It is imperative for all organizations to pay their employees on-time and correctly. It is also a
legal requirement to deduct statutory taxes and deliver reports to comply with the country's
Description statutory requirements.

Functional Category Payroll - Payroll processing

Requirement Type Business Practice

Feature Name Feature Description Delivery Type

Legislative Reporting Using Oracle payroll (Saudi) users can capture social security data, Product Localization
calculate monthly contributions and report monthly to GOSI.
Payroll Payment Support is provided for the integration of Oracle Cash Management Product Localization
Recociliation (CE) with Oracle Payroll for EFT reconciliation in Saudi Arabia. This
feature enables users to reconcile the transactions from the payroll
system with the data in the bank statement. The CE system fetches
the list of reconciliation transactions from Oracle Payroll, based on

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Feature Name Feature Description Delivery Type

the payment file processes that have been run.
Payroll purge facility The Purge process provided by Oracle Payroll enables users to Product Localization
delete data that is no longer required from the payroll tables to free
up space and improve performance. A concurrent process 'Archive
Payments and Deductions for Payslip' to archive the historic pay slip
information is provided with this feature. Users must run this
concurrent process to archive historic data
Third Party Payments In Addition to the existing payment methods of cash and cheque Product Localization
payment, Oracle payroll (Saudi) introduces payment by bank
transfer method that covers the various formats used by Banks in
Saudi.

The new payment by bank transfer method can be customized and

support layouts with Combinations of Header, Details, and Trailer
sections. You can also process loan payments and recovery. You
can also generate various local payroll reports to review and validate
your payroll run results i.e. Payroll register report.

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Detailed documentation information on product localizations and global capabilities is

available here.

Additional information on localizations, internationalizations and translations is

available here.

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