Top 10 Features in the Release 12 Credit-to-Cash Process Flow

Feature 1: Revenue Contingency Life Cycle

Feature 2: Revenue Recognition Accounting Standards
Feature 3: Flexible Billing Cycles

• Billing cycles can be selected ad-hoc during invoice creation.

• Consolidated Billing (Balance Forward Billing) can also be generated via
BPA in R12.

Feature 4: Enhanced Late Charges

Feature 5: More Accurately Apply Customer Payments

• Line level cash application. Apply cash to a invoice line or group of lines
• New Receipt Workbench

Feature 6: Attachment Printing in BPA

• This feature is enabled with a new system profile option. ‘AR: BA Print
Attachment Document%’ Set the category for printing.
• This allows you to print attachments that are associated with the invoice

Feature 7: Make better credit decisions with credit management

Feature 8: Interest calculation in the cash management module

• Interest rate schedules

• Notional cash pool (Euro)
• On-line calculator

Feature 9: Refund Automation

• Automatic refunds for Auto Invoice credit memos

• Simplified manual refund process
• Refund approval workflow (AP)

Feature 10: Credit Card Chargeback Processing

• In this process, you are responsible for sending the funds back to the bank on
behalf of the customer.
• Simplified credit card chargeback processing

Reference: Oracle OpenWorld Session: Top 10 Features in the Release 12 Credit-to-

Cash Process Flow that Can Make Your Job Easier Today
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Oracle Projects Release 12 New Features

Oracle Projects Release 12 New Features:

• Daily Business Intelligence enhanced

• Project Portfolio Analysis
• MOAC - Multi-Org Access Control
• Removal of supplier cost adjustment restrictions. (These no longer go back to AP;
they now go directly to SLA.)
• New reconciliation report between AP and Projects
• Enhanced “redesigned” expenditure inquiry with batched adjustments

Oracle Projects Release 12.1 New Features:

• MSP 2007 Certification

• Improved Services Procurement Integration
• Enhanced integration between HR and Project Resource Management
• UPK content for EBS
• BI Publisher reporting
• Setup Automation
• Project Manager Reporting Pack
• Self Service Expenditure Inquiry (You can drill down to the detailed transactions
from the PM Workbench.)
• Secure Enterprise Search

Some of the features included in the reporting pack

• Get info in a disconnected method

• Allow customers to configure the look and feel
• There are templates setup for reporting out of the box.
• Projects Analytics

Reference Oracle OpenWorld Session: Oracle E-Business Suite Projects Release 12,
What’s New in 12.1 and Beyond
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Oracle Accounts Payables R12 New Features

Major initiatives enhancing Payables in R12:

• SLA - Sub-ledger Accounting

• Enchanced TCA model
 • Multi-org Access Control - MOAC
• New Payments and Bank Model
• Ebusiness Tax

Sub-legder Accounting (SLA)

• Centralized accounting engine and data model

• Full drill down capabilities
• Draft and Final accounting from the invoice workbench. (You can accept create
post accounting from the invoice workbench.)

TCA is a centralized data model:

• TCA is now part of the supplier integration

• You can also use the geographically within TCA to validate and calculation tax
based on the hierarchy.

Oracle Payments

• Stores all of the payments related to a party

• Centralized bank model
• Centralized payment model
• Complete payment and receipt processing engine
• Supports multiple tranmission protocols
• Payment batch can pay across ou's
• Ability to configure as many payment methods as required based on rules
• Enhanced disbursement process

E-business Tax

• Tax is not longer based on tax codes

• A tax simulator we allow you to confirm the rate/setups
• Self-service for tax managers

Payables Module enhancements:

• Invoice lines table is added to join with invoice distributions

• Track complex contracts execution (used for large projects.)
• It will account for any advances when trying to Pay an invoice. (Research how
this is different from AR/AP netting.)
• Also handles any retainer amounts entered into the applications.
• Workflows are atvailable to handle hold dispues

Reference: Oracle OpenWorld 2008 Session: Accounts Payables Get a Makeover in R12
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How CMU uses Framework Personalizations

In this presentation, Carnegie Melon showed the personalization options they used with
Internet Expenses. These personalizations can be used with any SSWA.

CMU implemented OIE because of Pcards. They setup separate templates for PCards and
Expense Reports.

There were a 4 profile options that needed to be set. (Download presentation for full list)

Have to be on the page to customize the page by clicking the 'Personalization' link. The
presenter did a demonstration of the following:

• Removing a button.
• Changed the button name
• Rename column labels
• Hide columns
• Changed field column names
• You can also hide train links (You can remove steps along the process)
• Had to add plsql to manage the train link when the user navigates backward.
• Reorder the columns
• Add items

Miscellaneous items:

• CMU has users upload their receipts to the expense report. They are using the
attachment functionality in OIE.
• You can deactivate personalizations to troubleshoot issues.
• There is a report you can use to view Personalizations from the functional
administrator responsibility.