Oracle Projects

Release 12 Oracle Projects Overview
Angela Chen, PMP

Principal Sales Consultant
• Purpose:
This document provides an overview of features and enhancements included in
Release 12. It is intended solely to help you assess the business benefits of
upgrading to Release 12.
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Oracle Projects Suite
Project Integration to
Initiatives E-Business Suite
Sales Portfolio Management Financials
Delivery
Project Resource
Research Management Management HR
Construction Global Supply Chain

Project
Information Repository
Sales
Technology
Product Accounting & Time & Labor
Development Collaboration Operations
Marketing Documents
Enterprise and Project Insight
Personalized
Integration to
Role-Based Views Desktop Tools
MS Project
& Excel

Major New Release
Projects Family Pack M (FP.M) released in May 2005
Project Selection • Project Categorization

• Project Prioritization
• Selection
• Reallocation
Project Reporting Project Planning

• Project • Integrated Work &
Performance Resource Planning
• Exception mgt. • Project Budgeting
• Program mgt
Work • Enhanced workplan
Resources •
definition
Financial and work
Finances structures
• Multiple resource
• Enhanced Progress types and
Collection hierarchies
• Earned Value Project Control Project Execution
• Budget vs. Actual • Team Member Work Space
• Streamlined • Deliverables
Forecasting • Contingent workers
• Change Impact • Progress Reporting
• Charge Backs
• Enhanced Billing

“Everything is a Project”
E&C
Communications
Utilities
Professional/Business Vertical Applicability “In the future, all work will be
Services
project work”
Public Sector
Manufacturing -Tom Peters
Staffing
Life Sciences
Home Building
Horizontal Applicability
R&D Facilities Mgt. Finance

Internal IT Capital Projects New Products

Proof Points
“Future killer applications for the enterprise are projected to be around
1 business activity monitoring, in helping to manage projects, for asset
management, contract management and for managing vendors and
suppliers.” Gartner [is] seeing a trend in its customers whereby almost
everything today [is] a project with a beginning and an end.”
- Bob Hayward, Gartner August 2005
“In the first 17 years of PMP certifications through 2000, about 25,000 PMP
2 certifications were awarded. In the five years since more than 100,000 were
awarded; 25,000 in just the first 5 months of 2005.”
- The Project Management Institute, November 2005
3 “Ultimately, project based software solutions focus on managing an

supporting project based business processes.”
- Ray Wang, Forrester, 2006
4 “Project management will increasingly be recognized as an enterprise core

competence in its own right, in a wider range of companies and industries.”
- Capgemini Les Fontaines Future Trends Event , October 2005

Project Management Revenue Soars!
FY05 – FY06
38% Increase!
How Efficient Are You?
APM 2005 Gartner 2005

Biggest Management Challenges of
2006
Managing Budget
Projects Constraints
33% 27%
Regulatory
Other Compliance
5% 13%
Outsourcing Managing Dealing with
5% Personnel Mergers or
6% Acquisitions
11%
Source: Computerworld, 1/9/06, “What’s Next: Project Management”, Mary Brandel; Survey of 338 IT Executives

Disconnected Information, Processes, and
Systems
Strategy
Risks Project
Plans
Project Centric Contractors
Dept
Resources Budgets &
Forecasts
Business
Units Management
Invoices Deliverables
& Actuals Standards
& Processes

Project Management Continuum
The Evolution of Project Management
PMI Estimates*:
• 16.5M Potential Global Practitioners
• US $10 Trillion spent globally on projects each year
Focus of R12
Project Team Size
Team of On Site National Global

One Teams Teams Teams
Project Complexity
Source: Project Management Institute, Presentation to Oracle February, 2006

Business Complexity Increasing
Extent to which value creating activities

increase complexity
Expansion into New

Territories
29 42 23 Some Extent
Large Extent
M&A 26 33 32
Very Large Extent
New Product Launches 33 35 23
Strategic Alliances 36 36 16
77% of global CEOs
Offshoring 34 33 16 say the level of
Business Process
complexity in their
39 29 11
Localization
organizations is higher
Outsourcing 39 26 10 than 3 years ago
0 20 40 60 80 100
Percent
Source: PWC, 9th Annual Global CEO Survey

Globalization
Key to Competitiveness
• The World is Flat
• R&D: Proctor & Gamble to source 50% of new product
ideas from global partners by 2010.
• Design: Boeing designing navigation and landing gear
systems offshore in India.
• Custom Application Development: Virtually everyone -
Oracle
“Our strategy is to work with global networks to leverage the best
technologies on the planet.” – HP SVP Dick Conrad
Globalization is unstoppable. Regardless of geography, industry or income,

companies are globalizing to gain new customers and access new markets. Is
this a good thing? Nearly two-thirds of the CEOs we surveyed are positive
about the impact that globalization will have on their organizations over the
next three years.
Source: 9th Annual Global CEO Survey – Globalization and Complexity; PwC 2006

Managing Complexity
It’s About Simplification & Standardization
Major
50% of senior Standardizing operating practices

Focus
69%
executives say and controls
simplification is driving Standardizing policies and 66%

business rules
the Finance agenda. Standardizing and integrating 59%
finance systems
Adopting best practices 58%
Optimizing the finance organization 52%

and its reporting structure
Reducing reliance on spreadsheets 33%
Source: PWC Management Barometer

R12 Goals
The Global Business Release
• Think Globally to make the right decisions

•“I can make more informed decisions with a global view of
customer / supplier / partner / operations”
• Work Globally to be more competitive

•“My business will be more competitive with better support
for work that crosses applications, divisions, and regions”
• Manage Globally to lower cost and increase

performance
•“R12 makes it easier and less expensive for me to
implement, manage, and scale global applications”
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How Release 12 Contributes
The Global Business Release
WORK GLOBALLY THINK GLOBALLY MANAGE GLOBALLY

To Be More Competitive To Make the Right Decisions To Lower Cost & Increase
Performance
Subledger Accounting Portfolio Management XML Publisher
Multi-Org Access Control Performance Management Fusion Middleware

(MOAC)
Standardized Data Model Program Management
for MRC BPEL
Supplier Cost
Management
Subcontractor Payment Oracle Projects Specific
Management Uptake
Revenue in a Foreign
Currency

Release 12 Financial Initiatives
(Projects Uptake)
• Subledger Accounting Uptake
• Multi-Org Access Control (MOAC)
• Legal Entity / Ledger Architecture
• Standard Data Model for Multiple Reporting Currencies –
MRC Migration
• Budget Controls and Public Sector Accounting – Funds
Management
• TCA Uptake
• eTax Uptake

Release 12 Projects Initiatives
• Supplier Cost Management

• Improved Project Costing with Cash Basis Accounting
• Removal of Supplier Cost Adjustment Restrictions
• Mass Adjust Concurrent Processing
• Aids for Oracle Payables and Project Costing Reconciliation
• Flexible Derivation of Expenditure Item Date
• Subcontractor Payment Management Uptake

• Revenue in a Foreign Currency


• Standard Data Model for Multiple Reporting Currencies
– MRC Migration
Management
• TCA Uptake
• eTax Uptake

Subledger Accounting
• What is Subledger Accounting?
• SLA is an intermediate step between subledger products and

the Oracle General Ledger
• Journal entries are created in Subledger Accounting and

then transferred to Oracle General Ledger
• Each subledger transaction that requires accounting is

represented by a complete and balanced subledger journal
entry stored in a common data model

Subledger Accounting Upgrade / Setup
Release 11i Release 12.0

Accounting model and Accounting model is separated
transaction model are tightly from the transaction model
integrated
Subledger Subledger Subledger

Products Products Accounting
PA Rules &
Projects Projects
journal entries
General General
Ledger AP Rules & Ledger
Payables Payables
journal entries
Receivables AR Rules &

Receivables
journal entries

• Infrastructure to centralize accounting setup
• Subledger Accounting is the engine used to store the rules
for accounting transactions from various applications across
the Oracle E-Business Suite
• Infrastructure to standardize accounting policies

• Business users can extend predefined accounting rules or
create their own rules allowing organizations to react
immediately to change.
• Extensible list of sources to derive accounts

• Projects will be seeding over 300 sources to help customers
derive accounts and account descriptions

• Upgrade process seeds SLA with rules to

automatically accept the accounts that Projects
sends (derived from AutoAccounting)
• Existing Customers:
• If the accounting provided in Release 11i is satisfactory, then
it is recommended that customers leave their
AutoAccounting and SLA setups untouched.
• May utilize SLA setups if AutoAccounting did not fully meet

their needs.

Flow Comparison for Expenditures
Release 11i Release 12
Enter or import expenditures Enter or import expenditures
Distribute costs Distribute costs
Interface Costs to GL Generate Cost Accounting Events
Journal Import (Oracle GL) Create Accounting
Tieback Cost Distributions from GL Journal Import (Oracle GL)

Flow Comparison for Revenue
Release 11i Release 12

Generate Revenue for a Single/ Range of Generate Revenue for a Single/ Range of
Projects Projects
Review Revenue Review Revenue
Release Revenue Release Revenue
Interface Revenue to GL Generate Revenue Accounting Events
Journal Import (Oracle GL) Create Accounting
Journal Import (Oracle GL)


– MRC Migration
Management
• TCA Uptake
• eTax Uptake

Multi-Org Access Control
• Business Need
• Companies are redesigning their support functions with the
intent of pulling out non-strategic overlapping tasks from
their individual business units, enabling them to concentrate
on core business
• These functions (previously non-strategic) now become

strategic and the core functions of a shared service center
• Multi-Org Access Control provides the foundation for

meeting the shared service requirements by allowing
the access to data across operating units from a
single responsibility.

Structure Prior to Share Service Center
N. America
UK
Germany
9Data Entry
9Data Processing 9Data Entry
9Reporting 9Data Processing
France 9Data Entry
9Reporting Japan
9Data Entry
9Data Processing
S. America 9Reporting
9Data Entry
9Data Processing
9Reporting
9Data Entry
9Data Processing
9Reporting

Shared Service Center
9Data Entry
9Data Processing
9Reporting
N. America
UK
Germany
9Data Entry
9Data Processing 9Data Entry
France 9Data Entry
9Reporting Japan
9Data Entry
9Data Processing
S. America 9Reporting
9Data Entry
9Data Processing
9Reporting
9Data Entry
9Data Processing
9Reporting

Multi-Org Access Control
• Data Entry - Enter data for multiple operating units
from a single responsibility
• Inquiry and Adjustments - Inquire and adjust data
from multiple operating units from a single
responsibility
• Processing and Reporting - Run concurrent programs
and reports for multiple operating units from a single
responsibility


– MRC Migration
Management
• TCA Uptake
• eTax Uptake

Legal Entity Uptake
• Provides a clear and consistent legal entity model.

• Strengthen the role of Legal Entity in Oracle
Applications
w Separate Legal Structure and Operations Structure
• Projects Uptake -
• Legal entity context derived from
operating unit – no change from 11i

Ledger Architecture
wDifference between SOB and Ledger

SOB - A Set of Books was a general ledger with its associated
subledger books (AR. AP, etc.) and was self contained as to
management, calendaring and reporting
• Ledger - general data - transactions and balances - for a particular

accounting entity
• Benefits
• Explicit Accounting Modeling for Legal Entities
• Cross/Multiple-Ledger Processing and Reporting
• Management Reporting Efficiency
• Rapid Close
• Single Data Source: Minimum Data Replication and
Reconciliation
• Streamlined and Scalable High Volume Processes


– MRC Migration
Management
• TCA Uptake
• eTax Uptake

Multiple Reporting Currency Migration
• Oracle Projects has eliminated

• Set of Books Currency Selection during the Inquiry
• MRC Columns in folders
• Switching currency for the Project Functional Amount
• Concurrent Programs for interfacing the MRC amounts to the Reporting Set
of Books/Ledger
• You can view the Multiple Reporting Currency (MRC) amounts in

Projects by choosing the Alternate Ledger Currency from View
Accounting
• Release 12 onwards, MRC amounts for new transactions in Projects

will be displayed from Sub-Ledger Accounting Module
Key Benefits Consistent approach in Alternate Ledger Currency amount calculation
MRC calculation centrally managed


– MRC Migration
Management
• TCA Uptake
• eTax Uptake

Funds Management Uptake
• Budgetary Control API (commonly known as GL Funds
Check API) is enhanced to provide better integration
with other sub-ledger applications :
• Projects Impact:
• Uptake SLA for Encumbrance Accounting
• Uptake new budgetary control API
• Streamlined funds check data flow to minimize dependencies


– MRC Migration
Management
• TCA Uptake
• eTax Uptake

TCA Uptake
• TCA a.k.a Oracle Trading Community Architecture

is a model that includes:
• A global registry of organizations, people, addresses, and

the relationships among them
• Public API’s for custom development
• Support for Integration with 3rd party content providers
• Projects Impact:
• Migrate for RA_Views to HZ_Tables


– MRC Migration
Management
• TCA Uptake
• eTax Uptake

eTax Uptake
• eTax a.k.a E-Business Tax is a tax engine includes:

• Content Repository which contains rules and definitions
required to calculate tax
• Record Repository which is the actual transaction tax data
required for auditing and reporting purposes
• Services such as tax content, tax determination & tax
administration services
• Business Need:
• Requirement to calculate taxes consistently for inter-
company transactions
• Requirement to show taxes on Draft Invoices within Projects
• Maintain consistency across e-Business Suite

eTax Uptake
• Setup via eTax (at the project level, expenditure type

level, event level)
• Customer Invoicing
• Pass eTax tax code to AR on invoices/credit memos so that
eTax can generate the appropriate tax lines.
• InterCompany Invoicing
• Tax line generation through eTax supported on
Intercompany Invoicing.
• Integration with Payables and Receivables

E-Business Tax Integration


• Flexible Derivation of Expenditure Item Date


Supplier Cost Management
• Since its inception, Oracle Payables modeled invoices with

headers and distributions. Disadvantages …
• Line item info on the physical document is not available in the
system.
• Calculation of item charges is cumbersome because the item itself is
split across multiple distributions.
• Approval and payment processing requires accounting and tax
creation.
• In Release 12, Payables is introducing a new entity called

“Invoice Lines”. Advantages …
• Line item info can be captured and accurately reflected in the
system.
• Transaction processing is separate from accounting (SLA) and tax
(eTax) processing.
• Variances will now be separate lines and distributions.

Oracle Payables Invoice Lines Entity
Invoice
Supplier: Advanced Networks
Invoice Num: 11111
Date: 13-JUN-2001
Line # Item Qty Unit Price

1 Computer 1 $1000
2 Printer 1 $500
3 Tax (10%) $150
_______________________________
Total $1650
Oracle Payables Invoice Workbench

Supplier Cost Management
Projects Uptake
• Improved Project Costing with Cash Basis
Accounting
• Supplier Cost Adjustment Accounting Performed by
Oracle Projects
• New Mass Adjust Concurrent Process
• New Aids for Reconciling Supplier Cost with Other
Products
• Removal of Pre-approved Batch Entry
for Expense Report Entry in Projects

New Supplier Cost Audit Report

Supplier Cost Audit Report
Runtime Parameters
Parameters available:
All, Supplier Invoices,
Expense Reports, Receipts,
Payments

Expenditure Inquiry Find Window

Expenditure Inquiry
New columns available:

Document Type PO Number
Doc Distribution Type PO Line Number
Invoice Number PO Distribution Number
Invoice Line Number PO Price Type
Payment Number PO Receipt Number
Invoice Distribution Line Number

Invoice Workbench


• Flexible Derivation of Expenditure Date from Purchasing


Subcontractor Payment Management
• An integrated solution for services procurement used to

model complex work contracts where advanced payment
terms need to be considered during execution
• Commodities / Industries of Interest

• Professional Services
• Engineering and Construction
• Aerospace and Defense
• Public Sector

Subcontractor Payment Mgmt
Business Flow
Supplier
Supplier Reports Progress Invoice

Award Contract Submit SOV
Request to
Source Author Contract
Subcontract Certify Progress/ Stage of Apply Retainage
Work Completion Release Retainage
Pay Advances
Liquidate Advances

Subcontractor Payment Management
Projects Impact
• Commitment Reporting
- Financing pay items, Retainage not shown as
commitments
- Unmatched prepayments are displayed as
commitments
• Budgetary controls – Retainage distributions
are not funds checked against the project
budget.


• Flexible Derivation of Expenditure Date from Purchasing


Revenue in a Foreign Currency
• Support Revenue Revaluation in GL

• Calculate revenue including unbilled
receivables and unearned revenue in
revenue transaction currency
• Interface project revenue to Subledger
Accounting for posting to General Ledger
in project functional currency and in
revenue transaction currency

Revenue in Foreign Currency
Setup – Project Billing Currency
Invoice by Bill
Transaction Currency
Box Unchecked
Enable Multi
Currency Billing <Enter
Option to Select
Box Checked slide note>
Revenue Transaction
Currency

Setup – Project Customers
Invoice Transaction
Currency = CAD
(Project Functional
Currency = USD in
this example)

Revenue Event Creation
Event Currency =
Invoice Transaction
Currency = 150,000 CAD
in this example

Revenue Review
New columns added

For More Information…
yMetalink Information:
–http://metalink.oracle.com/
yOracle Product Documentation:

–http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/applications.html
–All Projects Books republished!
–Oracle Projects Fundamentals (B25617-02)
–Oracle Projects Implementation Guide (B25623-02)
–Oracle Project Costing User Guide (B25618-02)
–Oracle Project Billing User Guide (B25619-02)
–Oracle Project Resource Management User Guide (B25620-02)
–Oracle Project Management User Guide (B25621-02)
–Oracle Project Portfolio Analysis User Guide (B25622-02)
–Oracle Project Contracts Implementation Guide (B25715-01)
–Oracle Project Contracts User's Guide (B25716-01)
–Oracle Projects APIs, Client Extensions, and Open Interfaces Reference
(B25624-02)
– Projects Collateral & Whitepapers:
http://www.oracle.com/applications/projects/intro.html

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Release 12 Oracle Projects Overview

Angela Chen, PMP

Oracle Proprietary and Confidential Information

Construction Global Supply Chain

Oracle Proprietary and Confidential Information

Project Selection • Project Categorization

Project Reporting Project Planning

Oracle Proprietary and Confidential Information

R&D Facilities Mgt. Finance

Oracle Proprietary and Confidential Information

3 “Ultimately, project based software solutions focus on managing an

4 “Project management will increasingly be recognized as an enterprise core

Oracle Proprietary and Confidential Information

Oracle Proprietary and Confidential Information

Oracle Proprietary and Confidential Information

Oracle Proprietary and Confidential Information

Team of On Site National Global

Source: Project Management Institute, Presentation to Oracle February, 2006

Extent to which value creating activities

Expansion into New

Source: PWC, 9th Annual Global CEO Survey

Oracle Proprietary and Confidential Information

Globalization is unstoppable. Regardless of geography, industry or income,

Oracle Proprietary and Confidential Information

50% of senior Standardizing operating practices

simplification is driving Standardizing policies and 66%

Optimizing the finance organization 52%

Source: PWC Management Barometer

Oracle Proprietary and Confidential Information

• Think Globally to make the right decisions

• Work Globally to be more competitive

• Manage Globally to lower cost and increase

Oracle Proprietary and Confidential Information 3

WORK GLOBALLY THINK GLOBALLY MANAGE GLOBALLY

Subledger Accounting Portfolio Management XML Publisher

Multi-Org Access Control Performance Management Fusion Middleware

Oracle Proprietary and Confidential Information

Oracle Proprietary and Confidential Information

• Supplier Cost Management

• Subcontractor Payment Management Uptake

Oracle Proprietary and Confidential Information

• Subledger Accounting Uptake

Oracle Proprietary and Confidential Information

• What is Subledger Accounting?

• SLA is an intermediate step between subledger products and

• Journal entries are created in Subledger Accounting and

• Each subledger transaction that requires accounting is

Oracle Proprietary and Confidential Information

Release 11i Release 12.0

Subledger Subledger Subledger

Receivables AR Rules &

Oracle Proprietary and Confidential Information

• Infrastructure to standardize accounting policies

• Extensible list of sources to derive accounts

Oracle Proprietary and Confidential Information

• Upgrade process seeds SLA with rules to

• May utilize SLA setups if AutoAccounting did not fully meet

Oracle Proprietary and Confidential Information

Release 11i Release 12

Enter or import expenditures Enter or import expenditures

Distribute costs Distribute costs

Interface Costs to GL Generate Cost Accounting Events

Journal Import (Oracle GL) Create Accounting