ORACLE APPLICATION S

CHART OF ACCOUN TS CHAN GE SERVICE

Oracle A pplications customers today have benefitted tremendously after implementing Oracle
A pplications as a system to provide them with quick information to aid decision making and
staying ahead of competition in their core line of business.

For various business reasons, there comes a time when a customer has a need to change the
structure of their Chart of A ccounts (COA ). Under normal conditions, the possible approach
is to enter into a re-implementation exercise, either within the same release or a higher release of
Oracle A pplications. This option often is cost ineffective and time consuming. The other option
is to have the COA changed programmatically.

Leveraging on the speed, convenience and value advantage of its offshore model of consulting,
Oracle Solution Services India (SSI) offers a Chart of A ccounts Change Service to perform a
trial COA change within Oracle facilities, leaving only testing and production run to be
performed on-site at the customer facilities.

BUSINESS DRIVERS
Chart of Accounts Change can be opted for, by customers for the following reasons:
x Implementing Oracle Process Manufacturing (OPM), which expects a
predefined sequence in the structure of the COA.
x Business growth, takeovers and realignment with parent COA structure.
x Business Process Redefinition.

TARGET CUSTOMERS

x Customers running Oracle Applications and having a business scenario of a

takeover.
x Customers running Oracle Applications and with a need to address a new
business process that affects the COA.
x Customers in the Process Manufacturing industry, running Oracle
Applications and implementing OPM.

APPROACH
Oracle Solution Services India offers a low risk, convenient and rapid offshore re-
implementation service. To enable this, customers are required to provide the
following:
x Copy of existing Applications environment
x Completed Questionnaire (Questionnaire will be provided by SSI to
understand customers existing setup and process and the expected changes in
the new release)

The offshore COA Change work is carried out within Oracle facilities at a fixed price
for a fixed scope of work. The service is optimized to be both cost and time effective
by best utilizing the expertise of readily available skilled consultants, use of automated
techniques and well-established methods. Internally developed tools are used to
programmatically alter the structure (add, delete, re-sequence, merge, split and extend
segments) of the COA within the entire database.

The project is executed in phases as follows:

Phase 1: Customer provides the inputs specified above.

 Phase 2: Oracle SSI works offshore to perform a test COA using tools and methods as
described above. At the end of this phase, the complete deployment strategy is defined
and documented.

Phase 3: A copy of the changed environment is shipped back to the customer for on-
site testing. Optionally, access to the environment can be provided to customer, to test
the environment.

Phase 4: Consulting engagement is executed at the customer site to support the user
testing and to identify any potential issues, which are resolved during this phase.

Phase 5: Optionally, a trial run is performed at the customer site prior to live run.

Phase 6: This phase includes the transition to the new COA over a weekend only. Post
implementation support is provided as required.

OUR COMMITMENT
Within three working days of receipt of specified inputs from customers running
Financials, Projects, HRMS and Manufacturing modules, we can provide a proposal
detailing:
x A strategy to perform the re-implementation
x Cost to the Customer for performing the trial COA change offsite
x Elapsed time and date of delivery with a proposed start date

CONTACTS
For further information contact:
Oracle SSI (ssi_rfp_ww@oracle.com)
Oracle Corporation
World Headquarters
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Redwood Shores, CA 94065
USA

Worldwide Inquiries:
Phone +1.650.506.7000
Fax +1.650.506.7200
http://www.oracle.com

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