Shared Entities and Integration

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Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to do the following: Recognize shared entities within the 11i E-Business Suite Recognize the key business flows and integration points between products in the 11i E-Business Suite

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Agenda

Recognize shared entities Identify E-Business Suite business flows and integration

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What Are Shared Entities?

Shared entities in the 11i 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. It does not designate the primary user or decision maker.

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e-Business Shared Entity: Examples

Entity AOL Description Application Object Library

Set of Books
Unit of Measure Items Suppliers

Accounting information records

Method of quantifying items Raw Materials, finished goods or services Vendors we buy from

Customers
Sales Force Employees Locations Organizations

Buyers of the end product

Individuals credited with sales revenue Personnel who perform assigned tasks Business sites (addresses) Logical unit entities

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Application Object Library (AOL)

AOL

Currencies

Languages

Users

Menus

Site profile options

Responsibilities

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Set of Books

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 of items.

Owned by Inventory

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Items

You can define and control all items in inventory. After the items have been defined, you assign them to organizations.

Owned by Inventory

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Suppliers

Suppliers are the individuals or companies from which you procure goods and/or services.

Owned by Purchasing

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Customers

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

Owned by Receivables
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Sales Force

Sales force comprises individuals credited with sales revenue.

Owned by Sales
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Employees

Employees are individuals employed by the company who perform certain tasks.

Owned by Human Resources

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Locations

Locations are physical addresses that may represent our companys addresses or our customers addresses.

Owned by Human Resources

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Organizations

Organization is an entity designation that is used to partition data into logical units.

Owned by Human Resources

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CRM Application Foundation (JTA)

Resource Manager

Notes

1to1 Fulfillment

Escalation Manager

Territory Manager

JTA
Interaction History

Task Manager

User Management

Calendar

Assignment Manager

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Agenda

Recognize shared entities Identify E-Business Suite business flows and integration

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Key Business Flows

Plan Source Make Market Sell Support

Concept to Release Forecast to Plan Procure to Pay Demand to Build

Campaign to Order

Contract to Renewal

Click to Order Order to Cash Request to Resolution

Inventory to Fulfillment

Back Office
People to Paycheck Project to Profit Acctg to Fin Reports

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Forecast to Plan

Demand planning Forecasts

Order management

Sales Order info

ASCP

Constraint-based optimization

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Procure to Pay
Inventory Activity Inventory UOMs

Cash management

Requisitions Purchasing/ iProcurement Suppliers Accruals

Accounting

Set of books Payables/ iExpenses Banks Payables/ Expenses/ Payments

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General ledger

Demand to Build
Requisitions Cost info

Purchasing/ iProcurement
Requisitions

ASCP/MRP
Planned Order info

Cost management
Material/Resource info

Supply/Demand info

Inventory

UOMs WIP Items

Capacity

BOM

Engineering BOM info Change orders

Order management
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Engineering

Campaign to Order
Marketing communication Phone call placed

Marketing
Audience

Advanced inbound
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 Items

JTA
In-Store Mkt

Marketing

Qualifiers and discounts

Leads

iStore

Get price

Sales

Shopping cart/ quote Get price

Pricing

Quoting
Book order

Order fulfillment (Order to cash)

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Order to Cash
Inventory activity

Set of books General ledger

Inventory UOMs

Cash management
Banks
Receivables/ Revenue/ Receipts

Purchasing/ iProcurement
Reqs

Interorg/ Shipments Inventory transactions

Invoices

Receivables /iReceivables

Customers

Order management

Items

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Contract to Renewal
Standard sales contract

Sales contracts
Standard sales contract

Sales Order

iStore
Service contracts
No item warranty only

Quoting
Quote to booked order Service contract for item with warranty Invoice

Order fulfillment Order to cash

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Accounts receivable

Request to Resolution
Solutions

Customers

Knowledge management
Merchant assistance

Create SR

Customer

iSupport
Products owned Create RMA

TeleService
Create return order

Items
Order capture foundation Items APIs Installed base Order fulfillment (Order to cash)

Inventory

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Project to Profit
Set of Books

Payables/ iExpenses

General Ledger
Burden

Receivables /iReceivables

Invoices/ Adjusts

Billings/ Credits

Suppliers Projects

Commits

Labor

Projects UOMs
Assets

Customers

Purchasing/ iProcurement

Payroll

Assets

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People to Paycheck

HRMS

HR Information

Accounting General Ledger Cash Management

Payroll

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Summary

In this lesson, you should have learned how to: Recognize shared entities within the 11i E-Business Suite Recognize the key business flows and integration points between products in the 11i E-Business Suite

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