Operational Reporting for R12 with OBI EE, Cognos, and Business Objects

Mike HooverProduct SpecialistNoetix Corporation

Agenda

• Release 12 Overview

• Report Migration – Key Reporting Issues

• Noetix Solution - The Alternative

• Q & A

R12 Functional Enhancements (Part 1)

• 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

R12 Functional Enhancements (Part 2)

• 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

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

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

Reports Will Break

• Report integrity a constant, costly challenge

V11.5.10R12

Reporting from Both 11i and Rel. 12

V11.5.10

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?

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

What did it take Noetix for our Upgrade?

34

14

3

Accounts Payable

56

32

8

Accounts Receivable

58

7

6

Fixed Assets

58

48

10

General Ledger

60

9

0

Purchasing

View Count

Modified

New

Total Effort ~ 10 person years

• Validated and modified nearly 750 views– Across 24 modules

Upgrade Protection

R12

[ reports written against database tables ]

[ reports written against Noetix views ]

V11.5.10R12

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”

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

Subledger Accounting – Report Migration Needs

• How do I reconcile my AP Invoices to the GL Journal Entries and distributions?

11i and Release 12 Reports

View Changes

11i GL_Je_AP_Inv_Dist_Details Release 12 GL_Je_SLA_AP_Inv_Dist

GL_Sets_Of_Books GL_Ledgers

PO_Vendors AP_Suppliers

PO_Vendor_Sites_All AP_Supplier_Sites_All

AP_AE_Headers_All XLA_AE_Headers

AP_AE_Lines_All XLA_AE_Lines

AP_Accounting_Events_All ?????

XLA_Events

XLA_Event_Classes_TL

XLA_Event_Types_TL

XLA_Transaction_Entities

XLA_Distribution_Links

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?

MTL_SYSTEM_ITEMS

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

NoetixViews Coverage

Oracle E-Business Suite 11i & 12.0

Financials Discrete Manufacturing Asset Lifecycle Management General Ledger Bill of Materials Enterprise Asset Management Payables Work in Process Receivables Inventory Service Assets Master Scheduling/MRP TeleService

Cost Management Install BaseProcurement Quality Depot Repair

Purchasing Field ServiceProcess Manufacturing Service Contracts (LA)

Order Management Product Development Order Management Process Planning Projects

Process Execution Project CostingHuman Resources OPM Financials Project Billing

Human Resources OPM Inventory Advanced Benefits Grants Payroll (US, UK, CAN, & AUS legislations) Project Manufacturing Grants Proposal

Project Manufacturing (LA) Grants AccountingEBS Administration

Application Object Library Advanced Planning and Scheduling Industry Verticals Finanicals Interface Tables Advanced Supply Chain Planning US Federal Financials

Combine your set up with our subject matter expertise

Business Views Reports

[Configuration-specific Views]

[Configuration-specific Answers]

Object Definition

Information about your enterprise application

User Interfaces

SecurityBusiness

Rules

Financials

Business Best Practices

Supply Chain

Mfg.Human

Resources

[Interrogated] [Handcrafted]

Business Glossary

[Configuration-specific Help]

Generated data

Reporting from both 11i and Rel. 12

[ reports written against Noetix views ]

V11.5.10

R12

Some Customers want both

– Legacy data

– Validation

Noetix Provides a Reporting Application With Any Front End Tool

Noetix HelpFile

OBI EE

Cognos

Discoverer

Oracle E-Business Suite

NoetixViews

OracleBI ServerOracle

BI Server

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Questions & Answers