Human Resource Management

Financials Management

Customer Relationship Management

Supply Chain Management and Distribution

Oracle EBS R12 Upgrade Drivers

Cognizant’s Oracle EBS upgrade path goes beyond core technology to ensure functional alignment with long and short-term business goals. We help our customers understand the following upgrade:

Business criticality – Impact on business in choosing standard R12 functionality.

Operational complexity – Adoption of R12 functionalities and impact on operational efficiencies.

Dependency – Impact on third-party applications, legacy and peripheral systems by upgrading to R12.

Redundancy – Eliminate redundancy in process and functionalities.

Cognizant follows flexible delivery and engagement models to ensure that the final upgrade matches defined business scenarios, as per the following:

As-Is Upgrade

Pure technical upgrade by retrofitting, minimizing impact of changes.

Continue with legacy processes.

Quicker go-live.

Arrive at a Solution Faster with Cognizant

Global izat ion, changing demographics, virtualization and evolving cloud-enabled col laboration technologies are causing organizations across industries to redefine their enterprise applications portfolio by leveraging their existing infrastructure. Cognizant helps organizations overcome the challenges of a changing business environment, by deploying enhanced enterprise portfolios to unlock innovation and enable greater operational efficiency and business effectiveness. With a new system implemented and refined to meet organizational objectives, companies are creating more efficient supply chains, reducing administrative costs, meeting compliance mandates more accurately, increasing workforce productivity and taking legacy applications to the next generation.

The Cognizant Difference: Commitment to Innovation and Oracle Enterprise Applications

Competency to Ensure Success

At Cognizant, we continually invest in building the highest level of E-Business Suite competency to deliver value to our clients. We accelerate requirements gathering, design, development and implementation of our Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) with our global team of Oracle application consultants. Our areas of functional expertise include:

Maximize Return on Investment with an Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Upgrade

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Upgrade Plus

Technical upgrade along with functional enhancements.

Minimized customizations based on fit-gap analysis.

Focus on pre-identified functionality and key features.

R12 - Enabled Transformation

Identify business case for transformation.

Process harmonization and global design.

Oracle Cloud ERP coexistence model.

New advanced features in R12.2

To help in improving performance and efficiency to the way ERP is managed.

New UX strategy in R12.2

To enhance user experience from no-frills to improved usability.

Cognizant's Value Proposition

Best-in-Class Solution Framework

BIC solution framework focuses on improving business value through operational levers and business metrics.

Business benefits-centric approach.

Value Creators

Solution accelerators for faster and more accurate upgrades, such as:

Value Extraction Framework

Upgrade Expertise

Access to large pool of experienced, certified EBS R12 consultants globally.

Minimized business disruption.

Reduced time-to-market.

Experience in Fusion co-existence.

R12 Testing

Ready-to-use test case repository that covers key business processes for all industries.

Change Management

Integral to the overall project plan.

Upgrade Success Story

We upgraded the technology for a leading bio-ana lyt ica l measurement instruments manufacturer to the R12 version of Oracle EBS.

Business Need

Upgrade existing Oracle EBS 11.5.10.2 to Oracle Release 12.1.3 with minimal impact on business continuity.

Implement the forced features of R12.

Replace bolt-on application with Oracle EBS (PTD replacement project).

Recommended planning upgrade from R12.1.2 to R12.1.3.4 without impacting existing business functionality.

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High Impact Areas

Online Patching

Co-Existence

Data Discover Adoption

Application Tier

Memory

Usability Enhancem

ents

Mobility Adoption

OAF Enhancmeents

Mobile Applications

EBS Extensions for Endeca

Simplified User Interfaces

Automates the technical impact analysis of 'CEMLI' objects

Identifies the system and data bottlenecks during a period close

Modules Involved

Application version: Oracle EBS R12.1.3

Financials modules: GL, AP, AR, CM, FA, Project Accounting

Supply chain modules: PO, INV, BOM, WIP, Quality, ENG, i-Supplier, WMS, MSCA, i-Proc, OSFM, Supplier Scheduling

OM modules: OM, Shipping Execution, Advance Pricing, Oracle Quotes

Planning modules: ASCP (VCP), GOP, IO, ATP

GRC modules: PCG, AACG

Other features: SLA, eBTax, AGIS

Cognizant Solution

Cognizant provided the following services during upgrade from 11i to R12:

Conduct upgrade readiness workshops, CEMLI retrofit, functional analysis.

Identify development of new components based on analysis and impact on boundary applications.

Validate readiness of test plans.

Unit and Integrated Testing for retrofitted and newly developed CEMLIs.

Master data management by identifying data cleansing requirements and standardizing data quality.

Recommend and demonstrate R12 upgrade considerations with an effective disposition plan for key areas such as:

Sub-ledger accounting

Revenue recognition and COGS

E-Business tax

Payment and bank model

TCA impact

MOAC

Customer refunds

Ledger sets

AGIS using sub-ledger option

Recommend optimization parameters to reduce performance impact during:

Financial reporting.

Period close activities.

Clearly identify and perform pre/post-upgrade steps to reduce errors and ensure BAU post-upgrade.

Develop/leverage automation scripts to validate the data migrations.

Guide business decisions for upgrading sub-ledger accounting periods to minimize upgrade downtime, drill-down impact and transactional capabilities.

Enable EBTax engine to replace Sabrix in the P2P process.

Ensure SOX compliance with GRC rules and features.

Propose the “smart retrofit” approach to R12 for the data feed to BI applications.

About Cognizant's Oracle Solutions Practice

Cognizant's Oracle Solutions Practice (OSP) offers a wide range of services and solutions for all Oracle enterprise applications and technology products. OSP leverages domain experience with technology expertise in Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Oracle Cloud Applications, Fusion Middleware, EXA, Oracle Database, Oracle Financial Applications, OBIEE, EDGE Applications and other Oracle domains solutions to add value to clients. Our proven methodologies and innovative solution frameworks serve as a foundation for a wide range of service offerings, including global implementations, rollout upgrades and application value management. We have successfully executed projects across industries leveraging our strong pool of Oracle consultants, business experts and technical architects worldwide. Our investment in Oracle Cloud Applications proves our philosophy of remaining ahead of the curve. Our strong partnership with Oracle helped us execute the largest footprint engagement as part of the Early Adopter Program (EAP). Cognizant is involved in multiple EAP engagements across all Oracle Cloud application efforts.

A strong partnership with Oracle, powered by our innovation labs and proprietary solution accelerators, enables clients to extract more business value from their investment in Oracle.

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