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Jagan Vidyala Freelance Consultant and Corporate Trainer ORACLE SCM/MFG/ASCP/EAM Suites 10 Yrs of experience in IT consulting in addition to 18 Yrs of domain experience in Manufacturing, Inventory, Global procurement, Sales & Marketing and Turnkey Project execution.

jvidyala@gmail.com

Enterprise Resource Planning

 ERP is a software system that is often referred as the backbone for the entire business.  These systems have lots of brains (process logic), muscle (business transactions), and heart (business policy).  The software communicates (as a nervous system) across business functions.

Enterprise Resource Planning

 ERP systems attempts to replicate business structure, processes, policies, and procedures.  You cant just install the program on a computer and start business operation immediately.  Determine the basic nature of the business and compare with the software functionality, by carefully setting configuration parameters achieve a system that meets 90-100% of business needs.

Enterprise Resource Planning

 Configuration of an ERP system is tricky because many of the parameters interact with each other, one need to understand how the software works before actually have a chance to use it.

Enterprise Resource Planning

 The Oracle ERP systems have functionality to support industry standard and best practices. The recommendations of American Productions and Inventory Control Society (APICS) is well supported by Oracle software.  Oracle Applications Release 10.7 was the first version of Oracle ERP to be accepted as Y2K-compliant.

Enterprise Resource Planning

 ERP systems are implemented by companies for many tangible, intangible, and strategic reasons.  Companies dont even try to calculate ROI on ERP systems because there are so many intangible and strategic benefits.

Enterprise Business Suites (EBS)

 Supply Chain  Manufacturing  Financial  CRM  HRMS

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Supply Chain - Modules

 Inventory (INV)  Purchasing (PO)  Order Mgmt (OM)

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Supply Chain - Modules

Inventory (INV):
 Inventory is a physical resource that a

firm holds in stock with the intent of selling it or transforming it into a more valuable state.

Purchasing (PO):

 Purchasing is to buy and receive goods and services to meet the needs of business and customers.

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Supply Chain - Modules

Order Mgmt (OM):

 Order management is cornerstone of the customer fulfillment and customer service process. OM is the primary source of demand for goods and services.

Oracle Apps Manufacturing & Distribution ERP Implementation

Major Cycles

 P2P: Procure To Pay Cycle  O2C: Order to Cash Cycle

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Integration between Modules

RECEIVABLE CUSTOMER

SUPPLIER

PAYABLES

ORDER MGMT

PURCHASING

GENERAL LEDGER

INVENTORY

WARE HOUSE MGMT

MS / MRP

BILL OF MATERIAL

WORK IN PROGRESS

QUALITY MGMT

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Oracle Application Features

In addition to applications, four major topics adds many features and capabilities to the Oracle ERP system

   

Workflow Multi-Org System Administration Applications of the vendor in the Co-operative Applications Initiative (CAI)

Oracle Apps Manufacturing & Distribution Workflow

A workflow is a set of business rules that can:

 Create accounting based on your requirements  Route business documents internally for approval  Initiate an outbound and inbound messages  Generate and send notifications to home page  Generate and send email to an email client

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Multi-Organization

 Support multiple business units even if they use different ledgers  Secure access to data on a single instance by line of business  Define different organization model  Sell and ship from different legal entities  Procure and receive from different legal entities  Produce reports across entities/within a single entity

Oracle Apps Manufacturing & Distribution System Administration

 Describe the layers of access control in Security  Define Function Security  Use Menu and Function Security to modify responsibility  Define Data Security  Set Profile Options  Define Standard Request Submission

Oracle AppsBusiness Intelligence Daily Manufacturing & Distribution

Daily Business Intelligence is an integrated reporting and analysis application that enables senior managers and executives to see relevant, accurate, and timely information using self-service dashboards.

Multi-Org Concept
BUSINESS GROUP

OPERATING UNIT

INVENTORY ORG

Multi-Org Concept
BUSINESS GROUP

OPERATING UNIT

OPERATING UNIT

OPERATING UNIT

INVENTORY ORG

INVENTORY ORG

INVENTORY ORG

Multi-Org
US Business Group
US Operations Ledger UK Business Group UK Operations Ledger

Western Division Legal Entity

Eastern Operations Legal Entity Operating Unit Inventory Org Southwest Region Operating Unit

UK Division Legal Entity

Northwest Region Operation Unit

UK Sales Office Operating Unit

Plant 1 Inventory Org

Plant 2 Inventory Org

Plant 3 Inventory Org

UK Plant Inventory Org

ERP Advantages & Benefits

 Reduce the amount invested in inventory.  Improve worker productivity.  Reduce processing cost per business transaction.  Reduce the time to perform a financial close and prepare statements.  Reduce procurement costs.  Install systems with vendor-supported maintenance.  Improve the scalability of business systems to support future growth.  Upgrade systems to support globalized transactions.

ERP Advantages & Benefits

 Accuracy in reporting business Info.  Replace legacy systems and install new or improved business processes.  Integrate and standardize processes among business units and trading partners in supply chain.  Improve system performance, reliability, and fault tolerance.  Improve Order management,
customer service and on-time delivery.