We’re gearing up for our upcoming webinar “A Profitability and Cost Management Strategy for Healthcare Providers” co-hosted by our own Tony Coffman, Director Oracle EPM and William Bercik, Director of Healthcare at Oracle for the Provider industry, on Wednesday, March 27, at 11 a.m. CDT. The webinar will highlight and discuss how leveraging advanced analytics to manage population health, develop risk […]
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Cross Charging Options – An Alternative Approach
In my last posting we discussed the various options for cross charging within Oracle Projects. Today I would like to focus on the options of Inter-Project Billing and Inter-Company Billing and the issues with utilizing either one. As stated in my last blog, the cross charging options were broken down as follows Cross Charge Option […]
Deciphering Cross Charging Options
Over the past several implementations we have dealt with we have encountered more than a few variations as to how customers want to handle their cross charge transactions. And as you can well imagine this always leads to numerous questions as to how the functionality works and what exactly the options are. It is often […]
How Oracle’s Acquisition Strategy Impacts the Partner Community
I recently attended an Oracle partner meeting in Denver. Upon entering I noticed how few of the partner firms I recognized. Twelve years of attending these kinds of meetings and all of sudden, not only did I not see those who usually attend, I didn’t recognize the ones who were there. Was I the only […]
11i to R12 Upgrade: Impact for Tax [Part IV-Considerations]
This is the final part of a series discussing impacts for tax processing when upgrading from 11i to R12. Part IV will identify some issues and considerations of the tax upgrade. Because of the new data structures, tax lines associated with migrated transactions need to include data values for the new data structures and are […]
11i to R12 Upgrade: Impact for Tax [Part III-Naming Logic]
This is the third part of a series discussing impacts for tax processing when upgrading from 11i to R12. Part III will identify naming characteristics and potential issues of migrated tax components. The migration programs incorporate a naming convention for 11i components to fit into the R12 structures. Regime naming is based on the Operating […]
11i to R12 Upgrade: Impact for Tax [Part II-Receivables]
This is the second part of a series discussing impacts for tax processing when upgrading from 11i to R12. Part II will address how Receivables tax components are migrated. Tax Codes and Tax Groups in 11i Receivables will be migrated in the same manner as those in 11i Payables. A Regime will be created for […]
Why are valid addresses so important to tax in R12?
In the throes of a big ERP implementation of Oracle R12 and evaluating business processes and key features, it is easy to overlook the importance of valid addresses for customer sites, supplier sites, and internal locations. Obviously, a valid address is important for physical logistics when identifying a location for delivery or shipment of goods […]
11i to R12 Upgrade: Impact for Tax [Part I-Procurement]
This is the first part of a series discussing the impacts for tax configurations and processing when upgrading from 11i to R12. Part I will address how Procurement tax components are migrated. Part II will address how Receivables tax components are migrated. Part III will identify migration challenges and issues. Tax data structures and technical […]
Why UDAs and not DFFs?
With the advent of Oracle Project Management we were introduced to the concept of the User Defined Attribute (UDA) as an alternative to the standard Descriptive FlexField (DFF). However, I’ve had many clients that were unaware of the advantages of using UDA’s rather than DFF’s. In the past the DFF has been the goto item for storing […]
To EBtax or Not to EBtax …
With Oracle R12 applications, indirect tax (sales, use, VAT) functionality has been transformed from independent and simplistic setups within a few applications to a centralized tax service or engine. Initially, that sounds great! Especially to those of us who have tried to implement tax complexities with limited features in 11i. Dig in and what you […]
What’s New from Open World 2012 Part Two
Well, Open World 2012 is officially in the books and although it was exhausting, it has been exciting. As I stated in my last blog, there has been no official release date for Oracle 12.2. However, there are some exciting developments coming in the near future. From the OAUG Engineering and Construction SIG we learned […]