Book Image

Oracle E-Business Suite Financials R12: A Functionality Guide

By : Mohan Iyer
Book Image

Oracle E-Business Suite Financials R12: A Functionality Guide

By: Mohan Iyer

Overview of this book

<p>Oracle EBS Financials provide organizations with solutions to a wide range of long- and short-term accounting system issues. Oracle E-Business Suite is the most comprehensive suite of integrated, global business applications that provides the most complete, integrated business intelligence portfolio<br /><br />Oracle E-Business Suite: A Functionality Guide – helps in binding the two skill sets together – knowledge of the software and the business knowledge of the user.<br /><br />This guide contains everything you need to know to maximize your implementation payback or return on investment.<br /><br />This book starts with an overview of Oracle E-Business Suite R12 where we cover the foundation features of Oracle Financial Management modules which include Navigation within Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, Multiple Organization Access Control (MOAC), key aspects of Application Security and much more. The book then covers in detail General Ledger, Sub Ledger Accounting, Assets, Cash Management, Treasury, E-Business Tax, and much more.</p>
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Oracle E-Business Suite Financials R12: A Functionality Guide
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we discussed the various components that make up the workflow product in E-Business Suite. The product enables process tasks, approval mechanisms, and notifications in such a way that assists you in appropriately managing your transaction processes with relevant business rules and routings.

Workflow can also be a used instead of alerts, but it is not completely a replacement for the old Oracle Alerts product. This is one case where there may be a need to review and add a business event if needed.

In the next chapter, we will learn more about Approval Management Engine (AME), which is an improvement to creating approval hierarchies on the fly. This is slowly replacing the current approval hierarchy mechanism in Oracle Purchasing for requisitions.

In keeping with the focus of this book I have mainly stayed within the realm of the functional side of the Oracle Workflow product. This chapter does not purport to do justice to the technical capability of Oracle Workflow.

There...