Oracle R12 Upgrade

Prepared for

Customer X
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Agenda
R12 Overview
Technical Upgrade Functional Upgrade

R12 Upgrade Requirements Uponor Current State Our Upgrade Approach

Best Practices Tools and Templates Deliverables

References Next Steps

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R12 Overview
Technical Upgrade
Upgrade Paths
11.5.9 12.1.2

< 11.5.8

11.5.10

Fusion

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R12 Overview
Technical Upgrade
Technical Architecture Oracle Application Tablespace Model New Instance Home (INST_TOP) JRE replaces Jinitiator Forms 10g/OAF Discoverer 10.1.2 Apps Server 10.1.2 BI Publisher Reports 400+ Templates

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Functional Upgrade
New Features
Role Based Access (MOAC): Allows an application responsibility to access multiple operating units, if needed. Centralized Accounting (SLA): centralize accounting rules and entries, data quality improvements, Global Accounting: process worldwide business and address compliance in every nation, standardize transaction tax compliance, improve access to subledger data, facilitate subledger shares services

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Functional Upgrade
New Features (continued)
Centralized Bank Setup Centralized Tax Engine: tax knowledge base captures fiscal and tax rule for multiple nations in a single repository. one application interface for managing transaction-based tax for all operating units Centralized Customer/Supplier Setup (TCA) Payments Module Advanced Collections Improved Intercompany Accounting
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Oracle Apps at Customer X

Modules Installed
Financials (AP, AR, GL, FA, CM) Supply Chain (PO, INV, SCP) Order Management (OE, ONT, WSH) Manufacturing (BOM, WIP, MRP, Quality) HR (PER, BEN, iRecruitment, Self Service)

Custom Applications

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Third Party Applications Integrated with Oracle Apps
Highjump WMS Meridian IQ and ShippersEdge (TMS) ADP Payroll Salesforce CRM MS Projects Server MS Sharepoint

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Planned Enhancements
iStore Demantra

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Our Approach
Upgrade Best Practices
Pilot upgrade Pre-upgrade tasks Thorough Custom Code Analysis Complete End-to-End Testing Reduce downtime
Use TUMS Use Upgrade by Request Obsolete functionality clean-up

Business user involvement at every stage Use maintenance wizard

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Our Approach
Tools and Templates
Project Management Documents 11i R12 gap analysis Table/Column change matrix Pre-upgrade preparation tasks Upgrade steps Post-upgrade validation scripts R12 test scripts

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Our Approach
Deliverables
Project management plans (communication, risk, schedule, cost, resource) Strategy documents (tech arch., reporting, testing, development) Functional design documents Technical specifications for custom objects Detail test scripts and results

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References
Oracle Applications Release Notes, Release 12.1.1 [ID 798258.1] Oracle E-Business Suite Readme, Release 12.1.2 [ID 949406.1] Preparing Custom Development for Next Oracle E-Business Suite Release [ID 374398.1] Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 Release Content Documents [ID 561580.1] Planning Your Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrade from Release 11i to Release 12.1 [ID 987516.1] Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrade Center - Home [ID 461705.1] Oracle Applications Release Notes, Release 12.1.1 [ID 798258.1] Maintenance Wizard Overview [ID 215527.1] Oracle Applications Upgrade Guide: Release 11i to Release 12.1.1 Oracle Applications Installation Guide: Using Rapid Install

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Next Steps
Analyze Custom Objects Project Planning Document Pre-upgrade steps Pilot Upgrade

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Thank you
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