Press Summary
Sneak Peek at Oracle EBS Release 12.2 Features, Online Patching
April 25th, 2013
Written by Paresh Patel
Online Patching is one of the cornerstone, new features in our upcoming Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 release. Referred to as the “Edition-Based Redefinition,” it is a new 11gR2 Database feature that was built to allow the E-Business Suite's database tier to be patched while the environment is running. Online Patching combines the use of Edition-Based Redefinition and new E-Business Suite technologies to allow patching to the E-Business Suite's database and application tier servers...
Oracle EBS Period Close Advisor
July 30th, 2012
Written by Paresh Patel
The Oracle Period Close Advisor provides guidance on recommended period-end procedures for E-Business Release 12.x. It is intended to be generic and does not relate to a specific organization or industry. Step-by-step best practices with tips and troubleshooting references are provided to assist you through each phase. Period Close Advisors are a series of checklists and documents that detail the steps involved in closing the month-end books and show how the tools in Oracle...
R12 Payments - Payments Administrator (Part 1 of 2)
April 16th, 2012
Written by Jeff Kloster
The Payment Administrator is a collection of settings to define the various components used to create payables documents using the Payment Process Request. There is a wide variety of processing options available and the Payment Administrator groups these together in a single place. This article will focus on two of the more common elements, the Payment Process Profile and Payment Formats.Payment Formats are, just as the name implies, the XML Publisher templates used to format the Payment...
How to Customize R12 Payments Output (checks, ACH, positive pay, seperate remittance advice)
April 27th, 2010
Written by Centroid
In R12 the formatting of payments (Checks, ACH, wires) and the output of related documents (positive pay, Separate Remittance Advice) is done by a Java concurrent programs that generate XML output which is then formatted by BI Publisher.
Oracle Payments provides the IBY_FD_EXTRACT_EXT_PUB extensibility package to construct custom XML element structure that can be added to the payment XML extract generated by Oracle Payments. The package specification and body definition can be found in files...
Receivable Commitments: Guarantee vs. Deposit
April 27th, 2010
Written by Centroid
I recently received a requirement to account for the entire deferred revenue amount of a sale, then recognize the revenue over time, based on consumption or clicks from a customer. Oracle Receivables has two "commitment" transaction classes to support this type of requirement.
The two commitment transaction classes are:
Guarantees: as you associate invoice transactions the amount due "moves" from the guarantee to the invoice associated to it.
Deposits: as you associate invoice transactions...
