Easy Operational Reporting for R12 with OBI EE, Cognos, and Business Objects Joe Dahl Product Specialist Noetix Corporation

© Noetix Corporation. All rights reserved. Agenda Release 12 Overview Report Migration – Key Reporting Issues Noetix Solution - The Alternative Q & A

© Noetix Corporation. All rights reserved. R12 Functional Enhancements Enhanced User Interface – Release 12 still relies heavily on Oracle Forms, but the interface has been streamlined and given a cleaner look Single Accounting Engine – Shared subledger accounting engine stores accounting entries in subledger tables that are standard across all products creating a single version of the truth Global Financial Management – Users can be assigned to multiple operating units and processes, and transactions can span operating units

© Noetix Corporation. All rights reserved. R12 Functional Enhancements (Cont) Converged Inventory Module – The data model for process manufacturing and discrete manufacturing has been converged in a single model Infrastructure Upgrade – Most Release 12 users will upgrade at least to Oracle Database 10g and some components of Oracle Fusion Middleware Accelerated Implementation – Oracle accelerators can significantly reduce Release 12 implementation time

© Noetix Corporation. All rights reserved. Overall Goal of Enhancements The Goal – Real time, role-based information with a common data model as a foundation for a single source of truth across the enterprise The Implications – Changes in the underlying data management infrastructure can have a significant impact on reporting

© Noetix Corporation. All rights reserved. Key Reporting Issues More than a dozen changes have an impact on reporting – The conversion from “sets of books” to “ledgers” – Funds disbursement processing moving from Payables to the new Payments application – Tax calculations centralized in the new E-Business Tax application – Check and letter processing information now in Oracle BI Publisher tables – Bank and supplier information now in the Trading Community Architecture (TCA) – Bank setup moving from Receivables to the Cash Management application

© Noetix Corporation. All rights reserved. Reports Will Break Report integrity a constant, costly challenge V R12

© Noetix Corporation. All rights reserved. Reporting from Both 11i and Rel. 12 V R12 Re-implementing to address configuration imperfections – Some data may not migrate Global consolidation – Multi-instance environments no longer needed

How big is the problem?

© Noetix Corporation. All rights reserved. What did it take for Noetix to Upgrade? Analyze the Oracle R12 documentation per module to identify any significant changes. Functionally test all views in R12 to identify all affected views. Design and implement required functional updates – Create new views – Obsolete views – add/modify columns – add/modify profile options

© Noetix Corporation. All rights reserved Accounts Payable Accounts Receivable Fixed Assets General Ledger Purchasing View Count Modified New What did it take for Noetix to Upgrade?

© Noetix Corporation. All rights reserved. Total Effort ~ 10 person years Validated and modified nearly 750 views – Across 24 modules

© Noetix Corporation. All rights reserved. R12 V Upgrade Protection [ reports written against database tables ] [ reports written against Noetix views ] V

© Noetix Corporation. All rights reserved. Upgrade Protection R12 [ reports written against database tables ] [ reports written against Noetix views ] V R12

© Noetix Corporation. All rights reserved. Subledger Accounting All accounting performed before transfer to the GL User-definable accounting rules At the data level, it’s a big change for all the subledgers, though there is a first generation in 11i Payables “Accounting Events”

© Noetix Corporation. All rights reserved. Tie It All Together Data flows from distributions, thru distribution links and SLA tables, to GL Three key stages – Distributions (before accounting applied) – SLA (in draft or final form) – GL Three key views of the data – Distributions only – Tie distributions to SLA to GL – Tie GL back to distributions

© Noetix Corporation. All rights reserved. Subledger Accounting – Report Migration Example How do I reconcile my AP Invoices to the GL Journal Entries and distributions?

© Noetix Corporation. All rights reserved. View Changes 11i GL_Je_AP_Inv_Dist_DetailsRelease 12 GL_Je_SLA_AP_Inv_Dist GL_Sets_Of_BooksGL_Ledgers PO_VendorsAP_Suppliers PO_Vendor_Sites_AllAP_Supplier_Sites_All AP_AE_Headers_AllXLA_AE_Headers AP_AE_Lines_AllXLA_AE_Lines AP_Accounting_Events_AllVarious shown below: XLA_Events XLA_Event_Classes_TL XLA_Event_Types_TL XLA_Transaction_Entities XLA_Distribution_Links

© Noetix Corporation. All rights reserved. The Impact? Some 11i queries will easily migrate to Rel. 12 – Some with no changes at all – Some will need table name changes Some 11i queries will need moderate attention – Data moved to TCA will require query re-writes – Customer correspondence will require re-writes – Basic reports can remain the same Some 11i queries won’t migrate 1:1 to Rel. 12 – SLA may require new reports, queries & ETL routines

How does Noetix address the problem?

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© Noetix Corporation. All rights reserved. MTL_SYSTEM_ITEMS_B HZ_CUSTOMERS OE_ORDER_LINES_ALL OE_ORDER_HEADERS_ALL MTL_SYSTEM_ITEMS_TL PA_PROJECTS_ALL PA_TASKS What is a Noetix view? Oracle database tables Noetix view of the database Order Lines ATO Flag Booked Date Customer Customer No. Item Item Desc. Line Status Open Quant. Order No. Order Quant. Project Quantity Organization [remaps view] [doesn’t break] [Oracle EBS upgrade] Cust. Status ATTRIBUTE1 : “Customer Status” Flexfield column in the table Your report Customer Selling Org. Cust. Status Open Quant. Order Quant. Booked Date Order No. Orders Customer No. Flexfield column in the view HZ_CUST_ACCOUNTS OE_ORDER_LINES_ALL HZ_PARTIES PA_TASKS

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