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Friday, June 25, 2004

Oracle Advanced Pricing Module

This post contains details of a new author who has joined OracleAppsBlog and will be blogging under the Advanced Pricing Category

Suvabrata Biswas, an Oracle Applications Consultant who runs a consulting company based out of Houston Texas, is joining OracleAppsBlog and will be blogging under the Advanced Pricing Category. This category didn’t exist before so I have added it.

Suv has broad functional experience in Advanced Pricing, Bills of Materials, Assemble to Order, Quality, Engineering, Inventory, Work in Process, Procurement, Cost Management, Enterprise Asset Management, Order Management, Planning and MultiOrg. He also has broad technical experience with Oracle Application’s technical architecture, Oracle tools and operating systems such as Unix and NT. You should also check out his companies site. You can read Suv’s membership profile here or if you’re a member you can e-mail Suv via the profile e-mail console.

Welcome to OracleAppsBlog and we look forward to your contributions

Is your pricing data secure?

This post contains information about the new pricing security feature available in Release 11.5.9

For a long time, the pricing user community had been waiting for this functionality. Unlike all the financials modules, it was not possible to partition pricing data by operating unit. This was a serious issue in a multi-org environment. A sales order supported multi-org functionality but a price list or modifiers did not. This meant that pricing data was wide open to all the responsibilities that access price lists. There was also no function security available to make the price list ‘read only’ for a specific group of users.

A new HTML form has been introduced in Release 11.5.9 that can be configured using the Pricing Administrator responsibility (also a new responsibility in 11.5.9) to partition pricing data by responsibility, user or operating unit. It is also now possible to grant ‘read only’ access to a pricing user group (responsibility or operating unit) on a specific pricing object. This is really a powerful feature. The good news is that this security feature is available both in advanced pricing and in basic pricing. The bad news is that the new pricing security only works for the HTML interface. Moreover, the HTML interface does not show any of the descriptive flexfields defined in the pricing form. We hope that this gap will soon be taken care of by Oracle.

Conversions, Interfaces and Oracle Applications

This post contains information about data conversion and interfaces throughout the life cycle of an Oracle Implementation project.

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Thursday, June 24, 2004

Oracle Apps Implementation Documentation for a University

This post contains details of implementation documentation for an Oracle Applications Implementation at the Queensland University of Technology. In particular, I will discuss the Chart of Accounts documentation available at the Universities web site.

The Queensland University of Technology has some very useful Business Forms, Procedure Manuals and Training Documentation at the Division of Finance and Resource Plannings site. In particular the Chart of Accounts documentation clearly illustrates the accounting flexfield structure and associated values that should be used in such types of organization as a University.

Another sample Chart of Accounts can also be downloaded from my personal site.

Oracle Applications Documentation - Business Forms, Procedures and Training Manuals

This post contains information on some Oracle Documentation I came across at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

According to their site, “the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) implemented Oracle Financials in October 1998. Over 350 users campus wide access the on-line system to prepare journal entries, inquire about account transactions and run custom and standard reports”.

I found some useful documentation on their site and thought I should mention it to readers of the blog. The Finance and Administration section of the Institutes site has some very useful Business Forms, Procedures and Training Manuals which they used in their implementation and which I believe would be useful to other Apps implementors. Make sure you look under the Training Material section where you will find the Accounting Practices, Procedures and Protocol Manual.