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Shared Entities and Integration

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 Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to recognize

the following:
Shared entities within R12 E-Business Suite
The key integration points and business flows between
products in E-Business Suite (EBS)

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 What Are Shared Entities?

Shared entities in R12 E-Business Suite enable one-time

definition of an object and the use of that object across
several products.
Shared entities are owned by a single product for table
purposes only.

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 Shared Entities in E-Business: Examples

Entity Description
AOL Application administration
Ledger Accounting information records
Unit of Measure Method of quantifying items
Items Raw materials, finished goods, or services
Suppliers Vendors we buy from
Customers Buyers of the end product
Sales Force Individuals credited with sales revenue
Employees Personnel who perform assigned tasks
Locations Business sites (addresses)
Organizations Logical unit entities

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 Application Object Library (AOL)

AOL

Currencies Languages Users Menus

Site profile options Responsibilities

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 Ledger

Chart of Accounts Calendar Currency

Owned by General Ledger

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 Units of Measure

Length
Base Unit = 1 cm
1 m = 100 cm
1 km = 100,000 cm

Units of Measure are used by a variety of functions and

transactions to express the quantity and measurement of
items.

Units of Measure
Responsibility - Inventory, Vision Operations (USA)
(N) Setup > Units of Measure

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 Items

You can define and control all items in an inventory. After the
items have been defined, they are assigned to organization.

Responsibility - Inventory, Vision Operations (USA)

(N) Items > Master Items

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 Suppliers

Suppliers are the individuals or companies from which you

procure goods and/or services.

Responsibility - Payables, Vision Operations (USA)

(N) Suppliers > Entry

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 Customers

Customers are buyers of the end products and/or services.

Responsibility - Receivables, Vision Operations (USA)

(N) Customers > Customers

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 Sales Force

Sales Force comprises individuals credited with sales revenue.

Responsibility - CRM Resource Manager, Vision Enterprises

(N) Maintain Resources > Resources
Responsibility - Order Management Super User, Vision Operations
(USA)
(N) Setup > Sales > Sales persons

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 Employees

Employees are individuals employed by the company to

perform certain tasks.

Responsibility - Human Resources, Vision Enterprises

(N) People > Enter and Maintain

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 Locations

Locations are physical addresses that may represent your

companys addresses or your customers addresses.

Responsibility - Human Resources, Vision Enterprises

(N) Work Structures > Location

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 Organizations

Organization is an entity designation used to partition data into

logical units.

Responsibility Human Resources, Vision Enterprises

(N) Work Structures > Organization > Description

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 Key Business Flows

Plan Source Make Market Sell Support

Concept to Campaign to Contract to

Release Order Renewal

Forecast to Procure to Demand to Click to

Plan Pay Build Order

Plan to Inventory to Order to Request to

Replenish Fulfillment Cash Resolution

Back Office
Accounting to
Benefits to People to Project to Financial
Payroll Paycheck Profit Reports

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 Forecast to Plan

Demand planning

Order management Forecasts

Constraint-based
Sales Order Info
optimization

ASCP

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 Procure to Pay

Inventory
Activity
Inventory
Cash
Management Requisitions

Accruals
Purchasing/iProcurement
Suppliers
Accounting

Ledger
Banks
Payables/
iExpenses Payables/ Expenses/ Payments General Ledger

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 Demand to Build

Requisitions Cost info

Purchasing/ ASCP/MRP Cost

iProcurement Management

Planned Order info Material/Resource info

Requisitions

Supply/Demand
info

BOM
Capacity
Inventory UOMs
WIP Engineering BOM info

Items

Order Management Engineering

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 Campaign to Order

Marketing Phone call

communication placed

Marketing Advanced Inbound

Audience Call Routed

Script launched

Discoverer Scripting Sales

Quote submitted

Order Fulfillment
cycle (Order to Cash)

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 Click to Order

User Management

Inventory JTA Marketing

In-Store
Items Mkt Qualifiers
and
Discounts

Leads Get price

iStore
Shopping cart/
Sales quote Pricing
Get price

Quoting

Book order
Order Fulfillment
(Order to Cash)

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 Order to Cash

Inventory
Set of books activity

General Ledger
Inventory

Cash UOMs
Management
Banks
Inter org/
Receivables/ Shipments
Revenue/ Purchasing/
Receipts iProcurement Inventory
Transactions
Reqs
Invoices
Items
Receivables Customers Order
/iReceivables Management

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 Contract to Renewal

Standard sales
contract

Sales Contracts iStore

Standard sales
contract Service Contracts

Quoting No item
warranty
Quote to booked Service contract for only
order item with warranty

Invoice

Order Fulfillment Accounts

Order to Cash Receivable

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 Request to Resolution

Solutions

Customers Knowledge
Management

Create SR Merchant assistance

iSupport
Customer Teleservice

Products
Create RMA Create return
owned
order
Items
Order Capture Order
Items Foundation Fulfillment
APIs (Order to Cash)
Inventory Installed Base

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 Project to Profit

Ledger

Payables/ General Ledger Receivables

iExpenses /iReceivables
Burden

Invoices/ Adjusts Billings/ Credits

Suppliers
Commits Labor
Projects Customers
Projects UOMs
Assets

Purchasing/ Payroll
iProcurement Assets

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 People to Paycheck

HRMS

HR Information

Accounting

General Ledger Payroll Cash

Management

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 Plan to Replenish

Perform Min-Max Planning

Establish Inventory Plan Min-Max Material

Planning Policies

Purchasing Inventory Purchasing

Generate
Enterprise Roles Requisitions

Requisition to Receipt
Inventory System Inventory
Manager Automated planner
Purchasing

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 Benefits to Payroll

Strategic Total Compensation

Staffing
to Hire Administer Determine Manage
Employee Participant Benefits
Benefits Eligibility Enrollment

Administer 3rd
Workforce and
Party Vendor
Sourcing
Relationships
Deployment
Compensation and Benefits
Post to Administer
Payroll to Payroll Flex
Payment Spending
Accounts

Payroll Payroll Compensation and Benefits

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 Summary

In this lesson, you should have learned about:

The shared entities within R12 E-Business Suite
The key integration points and business flows between
products in R12 E-Business Suite

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