NEW FEATURES IN
ORACLE EBS 12.2.4
Main
new features in Oracle EBS 12.2.4 include:
• Oracle
Financials: Faster invoice approval cycles and integration with Oracle
Revenue Management Cloud.
• Oracle Projects: Improved cash flow, transparency, auditing and automated billing in Oracle Project Contracts and Oracle Project Billing.
• Oracle Purchasing: Improved buyer productivity with large orders due to Web ADI-enabled spreadsheet creation and modification of purchase order line, schedules and distributions.
• Oracle iProcurement: Employees can quickly complete shopping activities and begin the requisition approval process thanks to newly streamlined single-step checkout flow.
• Oracle Channel Revenue Management: Quickly adapt to changing business conditions thanks to streamlined user interface and improved volume offer capabilities.
• Oracle Enterprise Asset Management: Improved productivity for linear assets for various industries and public sector.
• Oracle
Payroll: One stop views of entire payroll cycle which allows payroll
administrators to gain valuable insight into payroll processes, allowing them
to avoid costly errors and improve productivity.
To further help
organizations transform supply chains from a functional necessity to a
competitive advantage, the latest release of Oracle E-Business Suite includes
the following supply chain management (SCM) enhancements:
Oracle Order Management: A new
HTML user interface provides improved usability, greater flexibility, and a
more modern user experience.
Oracle Yard Management: A new
solution enables manufacturing, distribution, and asset-intensive organizations
to manage and track the flow of trailers and their contents into, within, and
out of the yards of distribution centers, production campuses, transportation
terminals, and other facilities.
Oracle Manufacturing:
Significant usability improvements in the Oracle Manufacturing Execution System
(MES) help improve operator productivity by simplifying time entry and quality
collection. New capabilities to manage the auto-dekit (disassembly) of
serialized products supports customer returns and internal reuse of component
parts.
Oracle Enterprise Asset
Management: Enhancements to support
linear assets in industries, such as oil and gas, utilities, and public sector,
help improve productivity and retire costly integrations and custom code.
Oracle Service:
Enhanced spare parts planner’s dashboard provides rich user interaction to
improve planner productivity.
Oracle Value Chain Planning: Numerous enhancements across multiple products include deeper
industry functionality, such as minimum remaining shelf-life enhancements for
the pharmaceutical and consumer goods industries, multistage production
synchronization for process industries, and integration between Oracle Service
Parts Planning and Oracle Enterprise Asset Management for asset-intensive
industries. New promotions planning analytics in Oracle Advanced Planning
Command Center improve business insight.
To help organizations
further modernize Human Capital Management (HCM) practices, the latest release
of Oracle E-Business Suite includes:
Oracle Payroll:
Payroll dashboard provides at-a-glance readiness checks, validation, and
analytical views of the entire payroll cycle to help payroll administrators
gain valuable insight into payroll processes, avoid costly errors, and improve
productivity.
Oracle Self-Service Human Resources: Transaction dashboard helps employees and managers monitor the
approval progress of self-service transactions, and review transaction details
at any point after final approval.
Oracle Learning Management: Enhanced user interface simplifies the learner’s ability to
search the training catalog, engage in learning activities, and share
experiences with fellow learners.
To enable improved user
productivity across the applications, the latest release of Oracle E-Business
Suite incorporates these current UI design trends:
Optimizations for touch
screen tablets, including larger buttons and support for touch gestures.
A simplified home page
with colorful icons allows users to easily access favorite functions, and a
streamlined universal global header provides easy access to common functions
from any page.
More fine-grained proxy
access gives users greater control over delegating their Oracle E-Business
Suite authority to other users.
Better
UI For You
The mobile revolution has brought UI to the center stage. We spend our days critiquing the UIs that surround us; those on our devices and those on desktop screens. Oracle is aware of this and 12.2.4 includes these UI enhancements:
• Larger buttons and touch gesture support for tablets
• Ability to hide or show table columns and save changes as a user personalization
• Colorful icons added to the homepage, so you can easily access your favorites and common functions from any page.
The mobile revolution has brought UI to the center stage. We spend our days critiquing the UIs that surround us; those on our devices and those on desktop screens. Oracle is aware of this and 12.2.4 includes these UI enhancements:
• Larger buttons and touch gesture support for tablets
• Ability to hide or show table columns and save changes as a user personalization
• Colorful icons added to the homepage, so you can easily access your favorites and common functions from any page.
Many
Paths to 12.2.4
To get to 12.2.4 you need to first upgrade to the base version of12.2 (whether coming from 11i, 12.0 or 12.1), and from there patch your way to 12.2.4.
To get to 12.2.4 you need to first upgrade to the base version of12.2 (whether coming from 11i, 12.0 or 12.1), and from there patch your way to 12.2.4.
I leave
you with the show-stopper. Thanks for the on-line patching capability
introduced in release 12.2, you can also patch to EBS 12.2.4 whiel 12.2 is
running without any down time requirement
