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Basic Business Needs Oracle Applications provides you with the features you need to satisfy the following basic business needs: Use a single installation of any Oracle Applications product to support any number of organizations, even if those organizations use different ledgers. Support flexible organizational models. Secure access to data so that users can only access relevant information. Access one or more operating units using a single responsibility. Major Features Multiple Organizations in a Single Installation You can define multiple organizations and the relationships among them in a single installation of Oracle Applications. These organizations can be ledgers, business groups, legal entities, operating units, or inventory organizations. Secure Access You can assign operating units to a security profile and then assign the security profile to responsibilities or users. If multiple operating units are assigned to the security pro...

Its the most Important set up or term throughout the EBS, whatever be the module OU has some link to it. I have put down some definitions of what OU is and were it could be used. Operating Unit An organization that uses Oracle subledgers, such as Oracle Cash Management, Order Management and Shipping Execution, Oracle Payables, Oracle Purchasing, Oracle Receivables, and related products. It may be a sales office, a division, or a department. Operating units are not associated with legal entities. Operating units are assigned to ledgers and a default legal context. Information is secured by operating unit for these applications using responsibilities.  Each user can access, process, and report on data only for the operating units assigned to the MO: Operating Unit or MO: Security Profile profile option. The MO: Operating Unit profile option only provides access to one operating unit.( this is used when MOAC is not used). The MO: Security Profile provides access...

AIM 3.1 also known as Aim advantage  ( AIM Stands for Application Implementation Methodology ) is project management methodology used for the implementation of Oracle Ebusiness Suite. Some of the Advantages of using AIM are as follows Oracle's AIM is a proven approach for implementing packaged applications. It comprises a set of well defined processes that can be managed in several ways to guide you through an application implementation project . AIM provides the tools needed to effectively and efficiently plan, conduct, and control project steps to successfully implement business solutions . AIM defines business needs at the beginning of the project and maintains their visibility throughout the implementation. It defines internal, external, and time sensitive business events and maps each event to the responding business and system processes . Client gains an accurate understanding of the business requirements that need to be focused on during the course of...

This is intended for all audiences using the Receiving Module. Explanation of RCV: Processing Modes, Pending Transactions and Destination Types When receiving transactions are performed, data is written to the RCV_TRANSACTIONS_INTERFACE table (Status=PENDING) for subsequent processing based on the value of Profile RCV: Processing Mode (ON-LINE, IMMEDIATE or BATCH). Although this profile is typically set at the System Level, Users may change this value via Personal Profiles. Processing Mode values: On-line: This is the most commonly used processing mode. When the user saves a transaction, no other application activity can be performed until the process completes. Either the number of records saved will be indicated for a successful transaction or an error message will be displayed. Uses Receiving Transaction Manager (executable RCVOLTM, located in $PO_TOP/bin). Immediate: When the user saves a transaction, the Receiving Transaction Processor concurrent program will automatica...

Item Defining Attributes An item defining attribute identifies the nature of an item. What designates an item as an "engineering item" is the attribute Engineering Item , but what controls the functionality of the item are the collection of attributes that describe it. You can buy an engineering item if you want to; simply set Engineering Item , Purchased, and Purchasable to Yes . The item defining attributes are: Functional Area                        Item Defining Attribute                          Oracle Inventory                 Inventory Item Oracle Purchasing               Purchased, or Internal Ordered Item Oracle MRP&SCP             MRP Planning Method Oracle Cost Management    Costing Enabled Oracle Engin...

This post states different kinds of items that can be defined in Oracle APPS and used in various Implementations. For Starters lets consider three types of items that can be defined in Oracle Apps. 1)Expense items/consumables 2)Inventory Expense items 3)Inventory Asset items/Stock Keeping Units (SKUs) Now we state the attributes that defines the above mentioned attributes . 1)Expense items/Consumables Expense items have two attributes viz purchasing and purchasable checked . Note : The attribute purchasable is dependent on the attribute Purchased ie An item may not be purchasable unless it is purchased. An item may not have Purchasable set to "YES" unless Purchased is also set to "YES". 2)Inventory Expense items These five attributes define an Inventory Expense item Inventory item-Yes Stockable - Yes Transactable -Yes Inventory Asset Value- NO ( This attribute Indicate whether to value an item as an asset in inventory. Turning t...

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