Oracle

There are essentially two types of cash flow statements – Direct and Indirect. In the indirect method, Cash flow is derived from Net Income plus changes in balance sheet accounts that are categorized as Operating Cash flow account, Investing account and Financing accounts. In the direct method only true cash activities are accounted for whereas […]

Not yet ready to move to the public cloud due to data sovereignty, security and latency concerns, but tired of infrastructure maintenance and costs?  More infrastructure is being demanded daily and looking for a solution to keep the costs under control without compromising or trimming initiatives for IT or business? Then here is the solution […]

HR leaders are now looking forward after facing one of the most challenging years in 2020, between transitioning to remote work overnight and supporting employees through the COVID-19 pandemic. As we wrap up Q1 for 2021, HR has a new set of priorities to tackle Current and Future Workforce Talent war has been an ongoing […]

Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) has long been the application used by organizations all over the globe to streamline and automate their financial consolidation and close processes. However, those days are coming to an end. With the onset of the cloud, now is the time to adopt best practices and streamline your consolidation process. Oracle’s Financial […]

Oracle EBS Applications utilize a sophisticated batch scheduling and processing mechanism known as the Concurrent Managers. This batch processing system performs many vital functions within the EBS Applications system environment including reporting, managing data processing and Workflow activity plus several other critical business and system tasks. Many of these processes have a voracious appetite for […]

Oracle’s Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solution has been heavily focused on several areas over the past couple of years; data governance, data integrity, and out-of-box integrations, just to name a few. However, the latest updates have included enhancements geared towards user experience (in addition to a continued focus on the previously mentioned areas). One such […]

Cycle Counting is an organized division of a warehouse into manageable chunks. Regular counts are required for each “chunk.”  These “chunks” can be a range of items and/or warehouse locations. To inspire an optimal use of Cycle Counts, you must employ several strategies. We will explore opportunistic and scheduled counts. We will also go into […]

Payments REST API and its dependence on Supplier Site setup: Payments REST API is a useful automated way to create payments (partial or full) against open Payables Invoices. Sample REST API Payload to achieve this is shown below. API Name: fscmRestApi/resources/latest/payablesPayments PayeeSite field on the payload corresponds to the supplier site name that the Payables […]

A recently released feature of Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) is Private Access Channel (PAC). PAC allows us to connect OAC to private data sources. This means it allows us to connect OAC to databases hosted in private networks, such as on-premises within a corporate network, or on other Clouds, both Oracle and non-Oracle. PAC connects […]

How do Ingredient Changes occur in Oracle OPM? Oracle Process Manufacturing (OPM) jobs have 3 parts; batch jobs, process operations, and recipe. The Recipe is a list of ingredients for the batch job(s).  The warehouse compiles the ingredient materials on the recipe to complete the batch job. The quantities cannot be easily revised once they […]

Oracle Cloud offers the concept of Functional Area catalogs that can be leveraged in many areas such as Inventory, Manufacturing, Sales, Purchasing and others for a variety of purposes. Catalogs can also be shared where a single catalog is assigned to multiple functional areas. For this discussion, we will assess only Purchase Categories and possible […]

One of the biggest challenges companies face with their SCM applications footprint is moving part or all of it to a cloud-based SaaS/PaaS platform. This decision is sometimes complicated by the fact that on-premise license renewals, de-support notices for earlier versions of EBS, ‘true ups’ for user license fees (especially when there has been significant […]