Coexist: Your current Purchasing solution together
with Oracle Fusion Procurement delivers real value
- Sirish Newlay, Subir Ghosh
Contents
1. Background
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2.
Oracle Fusion Procurement
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2.1
Product Family Level
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2.2
Oracle Fusion Purchasing
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2.3
Oracle Fusion Self Service Procurement
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2.4
Oracle Fusion Sourcing
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2.5
Oracle Fusion Procurement Contracts
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2.6
Oracle Fusion Procurement and Spend Analytics
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2.7
Oracle Fusion Supplier Portal
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3.
Considerations in implementing Oracle Fusion
Procurement in Coexistence mode
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3.1
Customer Situation (As Is Scenario):
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3.2
Benefits and Drivers for moving to Oracle Fusion
Procurement in coexistence model
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3.3
To Be Architecture and Design Considerations
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3.4
Future choices and options
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4. Conclusion
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5.
Oracle Fusion Applications Practice at Infosys
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1. Background
Over the last decade Oracle Corporation has made a significant investment in their Procurement products. The products have benefitted in
several aspects, but it might be useful to group the key developments into the following categories:
Go upstream: Two major areas of development have been in Sourcing and Procurement Contracts. These areas enabled the organization
to improve vendor negotiation and contract management and execution
Usability: Considerable focus was given to align the application to how a buyer uses it.
Flexible Organization Structure: Oracle introduced functionality that made it easier to implement it for shared services procurement
organization. An integrated imaging product and a product to facilitate self-service requisitioning also facilitated the way how
procurement function was evolving in most organization
Analytics: From simple reporting to full-fledged analytics Oracle has made it easier for organizations to get the relevant information
from its procurement applications
Best practices from other acquired products and fill in their offerings: Oracle continues to invest in Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle
PeopleSoft and Oracle JD Edwards
The same thought process worked behind the Oracle Fusion Procurement application as well. Best practices from the 3 product lines have
been assimilated, sourcing and contracts have been significantly strengthened and usability has seen a huge improvement. Analytics has
become core to the application rather than an add-on.
In this paper we will look at the new functionality in Oracle Fusion Procurement and explore situations where customers could derive
benefits that justify a movement from other products to Oracle Fusion Applications.
2. Oracle Fusion Procurement
This section will highlight the major changes in Oracle Fusion Procurement. The changes are described at a product family level and for each
module.
Below is a snapshot of Procurement Features and Functionalities
Source
Contracts
Catalogs
Requisition
Supplier
Receive
SCM Logistics
Steps
Define Requirements
Negotiation Type
Evaluation Criteria
Create Benefits
Invite Suppliers
Steps
Steps
Steps
Steps
Steps
Negotiate Terms
Manage Catalogs
Shop
Register
Order Confirm
Check Library
Create Catalogs
Analyze
Classify
Receive-Goods
Check Deliverable
Upload Catalogs
Approve
Approve
Receive-Service
Upload Terms
Access Catalogs
Generate Orders
Preference
Inspection/ Quality
Raise PO/RFx/Auction
Self Service
Handle Exception
Analyze Terms
Publish Negotiation
Manage Responses
Negotiate
Award
Publish & Share
Features/New Functionality
Entry/Upload
Entry/Upload
Upload Catalog
Shop
Offline Evaluation
Single Point Approval
External Mapping
Req. Creation Clarity
Manage Response
Standard Approach
Effective Control
Oracle Exchange Ease
One Time Items
Self Service Admin
Contract Compliance
One Window Concept
Ease of Setup
Procurement Cards
Supplier Preference
Supplier Preference
Org. Wise Compliance
Registration Process
Adhoc Approvals
Flow Flexibility
Lead Time Visibility
Complete Document
Creation
Preference Capture
Legends
Steps Impacted in Fusion
New Functionality in
Fusion
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2.1 Product Family Level
Some of the key features in Oracle Fusion Procurement are:
a) BU Uptake Concept of Business Unit (BU) has been introduced in Oracle Fusion Applications. The idea revolves around separating
the procurement and requisitioning functions an organization may have and mapping them to the Business Units. The BUs may have
service/client BU relationships defined amongst them. The new feature helps gain more flexibility via establishment of relationships
amongst various business functions which are mapped to various BUs. In sum, this new functionality helps us look forward to a
flexible structure when centralized or center led procurement business models are concerned.
b) Document Change Management (DCM) A key feature which makes sure that a base document is always available with a
user (Buyer/Catalog Manager/Requestor) for disposal. This inturn makes sure that the base copy of a reference document is always
available for transaction.. Also the versioning/changes which a document goes through can be easily tracked via change history
available at Users disposal. A major advantage of Document Change Management is the template that defines whether the change is
administrative in nature or needs to be communicated to the supplier.
c) Security RBAC (Role Based Access Control) has been made broadened when security of Oracle Fusion Applications is concerned
with a clear distinction on Who does What. The Functional and data security has been brought upstream as in the previous release
but with a new dimension to it.
d) Order Life Cycle Management This feature has been enhanced for user convinience. Now a user would have much greater
visibility into the financial and procurement documents which are related to the him/her as the owner of a purchasing document.
The major advantage here is the hyperlinked access to documents from a single point.
e) Approvals Fusion Applications Management Engine (FAMX) is new in Oracle Fusion Applications. From the usual workflow based
approval we have come to rules based Approval Management Engine. And to add to it we have Worklists and Watchlists which are
like some of the most interactive features a user may be surprised looking at.
f) Enriched/Enhanced User Interface Oracle Fusion Applications gives users a Web2.0 experience; this feature is available across
the product and is not limited to just Oracle Fusion Procurement. Oracle Fusion Applications comes loaded with user friendly work
areas, tab based approach to open multiple works in the single screen. To add to that for user convinience we have a consolidated
view called watchlist which is customizable. Flexibility of pinging a team mate through messenger, tagging of important data and the
list of features just goes on. And not to forget a user friendly interface for users with proper navigations, error pop-ups upon wrong
entry etc.
g) Connection with Microsoft Office Oracle Fusion Applications has the potential to begin breaking down the barriers between
the formal (Processes in an Enterprise Resource Planner) and the informal domains (Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word) in a more
profound way than has been possible before. It will allow deeper integration of components of Oracle Fusion Applications into
desktop productivity tools, allowing information workers to access the important components of transactional applications directly
within Outlook, Word, Excel and the like.
2.2 Oracle Fusion Purchasing
Oracle Fusion Purchasing has been made richer with a host of features. Improved security, flexibility are some of the key changes. And to top
it up are the enhanced User Interfaces.
INFOSYS
Infosys is building the competency with Oracle Fusion Procurement.
To highlight a few features
a) Security Oracle Fusion Procurement provides granular security.Its a Role based security model adopted in this application with
clear distinction on the functional security and data security. Only a buyer with negotiator role will have access to negotiations for
her organization. The administrator may also restrict access to only to specific functionalities and to specific data.
b) Enriched User Interface Its more of an RBAC (Role Based Access Control) based concept depending on the job role a user has he/
she would see the tabs, pages and access functionalities in the procurement products.
c) Document Change Management Would expedite complete Procure-to-Pay cycle since show stoppers like Pending Approval are
addressed by this feature.
d) Life Cycle Management A one stop access to all related documents, giving users the perfect visibility as required.
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2.3 Oracle Fusion Self Service Procurement
Going ahead requisitions in Oracle Fusion Applications can be created/ imported through Oracle Fusion Self Service
Procurement (SSP). SSP is a completely new packaged solution for your organizations request placing department. Its a bundle
of convenience, integrated solutions and better visibility for the organization. Like the generic approach to Oracle Fusion
Applications this has two major roles defining its major functioning. The Requester and the Catalog Manager. Below is a
sketch of functionalities the product has to offer.
a) Security - The Security aspect has become more prominent here since the access to a particular catalog/Information
Template and even a Public Shopping list is defined either based on the Business Unit mapping or the Worker (Requester).
b) Catalog Creation - The way we used to define catalogs has been changed too. It has become more interactive with a rich
User Interface.
c) Product Advantage Product offers a simplified process for requestors. Also Requestors are more informed of their
decisions since line level analytics have been introduced. Hence, Self Service Procurement makes requestors more
of power users than knowledge users for the organization. Also embedded learning is part of the package, which
ultimately leads to a lower cost of training.
2.4 Oracle Fusion Sourcing
Oracle Fusion Sourcing has undergone a tremendous makeover and is one of the most interactive products for the users and
an offering, which Organizations can depend upon when thinking of any type of negotiation, let it be Request for Quotation
(RFQ), or Information (RFI) or an Auction.
Some key features are
a) Enriched/Enhanced User Interface Sourcing users have been provided with a simplified guided navigation for creation
of negotiation documents. This is beneficial since it captures real world procedure to create a document.
b) Real Time Monitors This is something similar to you working on a say stock exchange User Interface. So whenever
there is a change you can notice it. Something similar is with the Sourcing Buyers dashboard where he/she keeps on
getting icons as the responses to a particular document are updated.
c) Negotiation Work center The Sourcing Buyer would have access to an area which would capture all negotiations
requiring attention.
d) Graphical Award Screen This is one of the striking features. We have analytics which are real time and help the
sourcing buyer get a good view of which supplier is offering what. You get a breakup of savings also so that you know
how your decision is going to affect your organization.
2.5 Oracle Fusion Procurement Contracts
Oracle Fusion Procurement Contracts is one of the most sought after modules in the recent times with international compliance
a case of concern for most of the organizations, contracts need to be more visible and comprehensive. With the central
repository approach that E-Business Suite established, Oracle Fusion Applications has built on it with a much more enriched
functionality.
a) Approvals There is FAMX (Fusion Approvals Management Engine) for Contracts now.
b) Security RBAC (Role Based Access Control) is again one of the features here.
c) Clause Analysis this is allows you to narrow down to Suppliers who have used it, the documents related to it.
d) Enterprise Wide Contract Search
e) Microsoft Word Support
f) Better revision control To add to it we also have a rich User Interface, which helps a user exactly gather on what
changes a clause has undergone.
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2.6 Oracle Fusion Procurement and Spend Analytics
With inbuilt reporting and close integration with Oracle Business Intelligence Applications the performance analytics play a
key role for the organization. In Oracle Fusion Applications with the introduction of Who sees What through a role based
approach. The real time reporting has become a major player in keeping a check on the supplier and various stakeholders
performance in a Procure to Pay cycle. With real time data and functionality to narrow down on the attributes reflecting that
data, it becomes easier for users to cut down on cost and increase on revenue by addressing issues at a relatively higher pace.
2.7 Oracle Fusion Supplier Portal
Supplier portal is a platform for exchange of transactional information with suppliers. With a web-based approach here the
supplier even has the flexibility to register himself on own and then wait a clarification/rejection or approval mail from the
Supplier administrator of your organization.
Some key features of Supplier portal
a) Security Supplier Identity Uptake (SIU) which will mask confidential data from the roles not allowed to look at it.
b) Drill Down With Access to ASNs (Advanced Shipping Notices), POs (Purchase Orders) the supplier has the access to
all related documents from one page.
c) Enriched User Interface A train based approach for new suppliers to self register so that they do not miss out on
important information.
3. Considerations in implementing Oracle Fusion Procurement in Coexistence mode
In coexistence model the customer gets the benefit of Oracle Fusion Sourcing, Contracting and Analytics functionality in a low
cost, low risk model without discarding their investment in their current Requisitioning and Purchasing system.
Oracle Fusion Procurement (Sourcing, Contracts and Business Intelligence Applications) can coexist with your Oracle E-Business
Suite, PeopleSoft or JD Edwards requisitioning and purchasing system. It is expected that the customer is on any of the current
suites of Oracle line of Products. Oracle Fusion Procurement can coexist with an older version or non-Oracle requisitioning
and purchasing system. For Oracle products we recommend moving to any of the current product lines like E-Business Suite
Release 12.x, and PeopleSoft 8.x, etc. New features would make it worth the effort and will make the integration to Oracle
Fusion Procurement easier. Infosys Upgrade pack can reduce the cost, complexity and risk in upgrading. Also if Oracle releases
any pre-built interfaces between Oracle Fusion Applications and other requisitioning/ purchasing systems, these will be for the
latest releases of the current application product lines. (E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, etc.)
3.1 Customer Situation (As Is Scenario):
Customer has implemented Oracle E-Business Suite Procure to Pay. All payments are made through Accounts Payable and
Purchase Orders are also entered into the system. However, the sourcing and contracting processes are mostly manual. Use of
Analytics is also very limited.
Data Acquisition
Subject Areas
Reports
Dashboards
Legends
Oracle EBS R12.x, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards
Oracle Fusion Applications
Steps
Steps
Steps
Analytics
Create
Maintain
Evaluate
Map Organization
Map Approvals
Allocate Work
Plan Workday
Manual / Non Oracle
Suppliers
Org. & Work Plan
Source
Contracts
Steps
Steps
Steps
Steps
Negotiate Terms
Acquire Catalog
Create Catalog
Define Requirements
Evaluate Criteria
Target Suppliers
RFx
Evaluate Responses
Auction
Negotiation
Award
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Catalog
Requisition
Receive
Invoice
Steps
Steps
Requisition
Order Confirm
Invoice
Approve
Receive - Goods
Match
Use Catalog
RFx
Receive - Service
Approve
Maintain Catalog
Raise PO
Place Order
Inspection / Quality
Pay
Handle Exception
3.2 Benefits and Drivers for moving to Oracle Fusion Procurement in coexistence model
a) Visibility across heterogeneous procurement environment
b) Better understanding organization of organization spend allows creation of a proactive sourcing plan
c) Better tools and processes to manage negotiation process.
d) Use Contracts to create Purchase Orders (PO), Contract Purchase Agreements (CPS) or
Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPA)
e) Ensure Contract Compliance and realize savings by tracking Contract Deliverables to completion
f) An improved Analytics application including adapter to Oracle Fusion Procurement and a new Sourcing subject area
g) Improved productivity due to better usability. A work-center approach helps people in purchasing manage all their tasks
in one place
h) Better visibility for employees of the organization
Moreover it is a low risk, low cost option of beginning to use the latest Oracle Fusion Applications in an incremental manner.
3.3 To Be Architecture and Design Considerations
The first step in moving to Oracle Fusion Applications is to determine your high level architecture. A convenient way is to
use the following Infosys Procurement Flow. We use different colors to depict the application where the steps are being
functioned. A simplified To-Be Procurement Flow might looks like the one below:
Legends
Data Acquisition
Map Organization
Create
Subject Areas
Map Approvals
Maintain
Oracle EBS R12.x, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards
Reports
Allocate Work
Evaluate
Oracle Fusion Applications
Dashboards
Plan Workday
Steps
Steps
Analytics
Org. & Work Plan
Manual / Non Oracle
Steps
Suppliers
Org. & Work Plan
Source
Steps
Define Requirements
Contracts
Catalog
Requisition
Suppliers
Receive
Invoice
Steps
Steps
Steps
Steps
Steps
Negotiate Terms
Acquire Catalog
Requisition
Order Confirm
Invoice
Evaluate Criteria
Create Catalog
Approve
Receive - Goods
Match
Target Suppliers
Use Catalog
RFx
Receive - Service
Approve
RFx
Maintain Catalog
Raise PO
Inspection / Quality
Pay
Place Order
Handle Exception
Evaluate Responses
Auction
Negotiation
Award
New features and functionality that you get from implementing Oracle Fusion Sourcing and Oracle Fusion Procurement Contracts
are given in section 2. In this section we will focus on the design decisions and issues, which come up in the heterogeneous
environment involving Oracle Fusion Applications, Oracle Procurement and may be other procurement applications.
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Supplier Master:
One obvious decision area is which one of the two supplier masters should be considered as primary. The obvious choice is to
continue to use Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards as the primary Supplier Master. In E-Business Suite
Release 12 the Trading Community Architecture allows us to define relationship between Suppliers, Customers and Banks.
Hence it might make sense to leave the whole Trading Community Architecture (TCA) unchanged.
On the other hand, the supplier master should actually be owned by the Sourcing/ contracting group of Procurement. Since
Sourcing and Contracting are already on Oracle Fusion Procurement, it might make sense to use Oracle Fusion Procurement
as the Primary Supplier Master. In either case, one needs to build an interface to keep two supplier masters in sync. Use the
Supplier interfaces to insert, update and deactivate the secondary supplier master.
INFOSYS
Infosys has leveraged its knowledgebase to build a tool for keeping supplier masters of different applications in sync. This tool is being modified to include the Oracle Fusion Applications supplier master
design and will soon be available to simplify this aspect in Oracle Fusion Applications coexistence
implementations.
Link Fusion Contract Deliverables to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, PeopleSoft or JD Edwards
Purchasing Operations:
The Deliverables functionality is a useful tool to connect Contracts to PO (Purchase Orders), BPA (Blanket Purchase Agreement)
or CPA (Contract Purchase Agreement). The main benefits include:
Create Purchase Orders, Blanket Purchase Agreement or Contract Purchase Agreement from one or many deliverables.
Use this functionality to create above mentioned documents on a subset of deliverables identified in a Contract
Deliverables might include an item or it can be free form. Deliverables may be linked to quantity, pricing, payment terms,
limited to specific business units and contain start and end-dates. These can be propagated to any of the documents
mentioned above.
Tracking: A deliverable can be tracked to completion or delivery and will be a useful tool to ensure contract compliance
Integration:
Oracle Fusion Applications provides out-of-the-box Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) based integration to Initiate
Purchase Orders, Blanket Purchase Agreement and Contract Purchase Agreement from Oracle Fusion Procurement Contracts
to Oracle Purchasing Application
INFOSYS
Infosys can help you integrate Purchase Orders, Blanket Purchase Agreement and Contract Purchase
Agreement in other purchasing applications. Oracle Infosys can help you configure and integrate Deliverables application to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, PeopleSoft or JD Edwardss applications.
Oracle Fusion Analytics:
Oracle Fusion Analytics has connectors to both Oracle Fusion Applications and Legacy Oracle Applications. Oracle Fusion
Analytics also has a new subject area for Sourcing.
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Oracle Fusion Analytics may need to connect with other applications in your heterogeneous procurement environment. Infosys can help you connect with non-Oracle purchasing applications, extend the
schemas to capture organization specific fields and leverage our procurement competency to extend
dashboards and build new reports to meet the needs of your organization.
Organization Structure
In Oracle Fusion Applications, Oracle has adopted a new and flexible Business Unit (BU) Structure. A key aspect of that
structure in Procurement is Requisition BU, Procurement BU and Sold-To BU. We recommend a proper thought process to
defining this BU structure.
However the benefits of such structure are limited in Coexistence model because the operational procurement processes would
still be in E-Business Suite R12.
Steps in moving to Coexistence Application
Sourcing
Implement Fusion Application
modules in coexistence model
Contracts
Analytics
Integrating with BPEL
SOA/AIA
Adopt Standards based
technology stack
ADF / Webcenter
Content Management
OBIEE
Identity Management
EBS R12.1
Upgrade to latest Apps
Unlimited Release
Peoplesoft 9.1
JDE E1 9.0
JDE World 9.0
High level applications
Create high level
Architecture and Roadmap
Integration touchpoints
Master information
Integration technology
JDE JD Edwards, EBS E-Business Suite, SOA Service Oriented Architecture, AIA Application Integration Architecture, ADF Application
Development Framework, OBIEE Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition, BPEL Business Process Execution Language
Oracle Fusion Procurement will coexist with any version of Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards requisition
and procurement modules. However upgrading to the latest release of the application has benefits in its own right due to the
additional functionality in the newer releases
INFOSYS
Infosys can help you integrate Purchase Orders, Blanket Purchase Agreement and Contract Purchase
Agreement in other purchasing applications. Oracle Infosys can help you configure and integrate Deliverables application to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, PeopleSoft or JD Edwardss applications.
INFOSYS
Based on this discussion your application may need an upgrade to the latest application version.
Infosys has a set of toolkits, which have been repeatedly used and fine-tuned over several upgrade
assignments. This can significantly reduce the timelines and risks associated with an upgrade. The
upgrade will also provide you with additional functionality of the latest release.
Where Oracle has not provided the interfaces, they may be built with Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) standards
based integration pack. That is why the adoption of a standards based technology stack is very important and will make future
work much simpler.
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Since we are right now looking at two modules both from a different product family
and having bases of their own it becomes important that integration points are perfectly
designed and evaluated.
PeopleSoft
Purchasing
Ultimately what you would see would be an automated, more secure system in place for
AIA
your organization. Which would refer a single source as identified by you say for example
Oracle Fusion
Contracts Terms library from Oracle Fusion Procurement Contracts is being used by
Purchasing in PeopleSoft to create Purchase Orders which have Terms and Conditions
Sourcing
applicable to Suppliers. Post the Procure-to-Pay cycle the deliverables and supplier
performance is captured in a more exhaustive fashion and reported to users of PeopleSoft through Analytics in Oracle Fusion
Applications.
Infosys The implementation of Oracle Fusion Applications Coexistence follows the same steps of a
regular implementation. Here, a company with investment and experience in Oracle Fusion Applications would be able to assist you in doing the Upgrade. Infosys has invested a huge amount of effort in
assisting Oracle build and test Oracle Fusion Applications. In the process, we have built a pool of
resources experienced in same as well as a growing set of artifacts including sample configuration
documents, test scripts and high level design documents.
INFOSYS
3.4 Future choices and options
Coexistence gives a low risk, low cost entry to Oracle Fusion Applications and gets the benefits of its new functionality. Oracle
will continue to invest in the Oracle Applications (E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and others). Over time both
applications (Oracle Fusion Applications and E-Business Suite/ PeopleSoft/ JD Edwards) would get future releases. With Oracle
certified interfaces both the upgraded applications will continue to work together. When it makes business sense, you may
finally move all your applications to Oracle Fusion Applications.
The following diagram summarizes a sample the road forward.
Others
Others
Others
Financials
Financials
Financials
iProcurement
iProcurement
iProcurement
Purchasing
Purchasing
Purchasing
R12.1
R12.2
(Newer Releases)
R12.n
(Newer Releases)
Single Fusion
Application Instance
All Procurement
All Financials
Analytics
Others
Fusion Procurement
Fusion Applications
(Add new modules)
Fusion Applications
(New Releases)
Sourcing
Sourcing
Sourcing
Contracts
Contracts
Contracts
Analytics
Analytics
Analytics
Integrate with BPEL
Integrate with BPEL
Integrate with BPEL
Fusion ACC Hub
Fusion ACC Hub
Fusion Projects
Fusion Projects
R12.x Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12
Fusion Oracle Fusion Applications
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A few observations on this topic:
1. Moving to Oracle Fusion Applications in Coexistence mode does not limit your choices or force you to move even the
existing application to Oracle Fusion Applications within a given date. Oracle will continue to support the certified
interfaces for future releases. Also custom built interfaces built on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business
Process Execution Language (BPEL) should be relatively easy to modify. New modules are likely to be added in the
future. It makes sense to add these modules in Oracle Fusion Applications. However, there is nothing preventing
implementing additional modules on your Applications release of the application
2. On a future date, it is expected that the organization will see business value in moving all the applications to Oracle
Fusion Applications. When that happens, there would be a number of choices:
a. Upgrade the Applications version to Oracle Fusion Applications. Configure the existing modules in the new
instance and migrate the data. If most of the data and modules were in previous application versions, this might
be the way to go
b. Implement the new modules in the existing Oracle Fusion Applications and migrate the old data from the
previous application version. If sufficient thought were put in the initial design this might be recommended
option
c. Re-implement on new instance of Oracle Fusion Applications. If business environment has changed significantly
in the last few years, this might turn out to be the preferred option.
In any case, this situation is probably several years down the road.
In the meantime, the organization will have to manage the coexisting applications and probably face several new business
challenges. In the last section we will cover some points relating to the cost of ownership of these applications.
1. Implementation considerations:
a) Oracle Fusion Middleware (FMW) is a standards based middleware with phenomenal flexibility and adaptable
plug n play support with minimal code change. Since all interactions are web-services based, integration is
easier
b)
INFOSYS
Key flows for Integration in Co-Existence are already identified and coded. Infosys will have artifacts to significantly
reduce effort and cost in building these interfaces
2. Organizations Point of view
a) User Productivity Kit is inbuilt in Oracle Fusion Applications for help
b) Minimal investments for customization/personalization/RICE (Reports Interfaces Customizations and Extensions)
owing to user-friendly features like drag and drop.
c) Reporting costs are down with features like XML (Extensible Markup Language) designer inbuilt in the system.
3. End Users Point of View
a) Higher Returns - Cut down on Time and an increased efficiency with a onetime investment in Oracle Business
Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) or other pluggable apps.
b) User Flexibility - User preferences are user handled, no third party required to handle the same. Hence saving on
extra cost involved.
c) Ease of use - Minimal support required by user owing to futuristic flow indicators. Hence users become more
acquainted with the system.
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Coexistence model, by definition, would add Oracle Fusion Applications to the applications inventory. The cost of support is
likely to increase due to its addition. However the benefits derived will likely be far higher.
4. Conclusion
In Oracle Fusion Procurement, Oracle has delivered a compelling set of functionality by combining the best features from
Procurement modules in E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards, as well as much superior usability and new ways of
doing things. Oracle Fusion Procurement makes a compelling case for new implementations.
At the same time, even customers who already have an investment in the procurement modules of Oracles E-Business Suite,
PeopleSoft and JD Edwards are likely to get significant benefits from implementing Oracle Fusion Applications. Each customer
situation is different. We believe that for many of our customers, especially those who can identify with a business situation
described in this paper, it makes sense to explore the cost versus benefits of implementing Oracle Fusion Procurement.
5. Oracle Fusion Applications Practice at Infosys
Infosys combines technical and industry leading practices to deliver successful business solutions and enables you to maximize
returns on your Oracle investments.
The Oracle Fusion Applications Practice at Infosys has significant experience in Oracle Fusion Applications co-development
with Oracle and vast consulting experience with Oracle products. Customers get robust implementations, faster rollouts, derisked upgrades, best quality development and deployment processes.
Oracle Fusion Applications Center Of Excellence (COE) at Infosys
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Kits
Oracle Fusion
Applications Red-Papers
Tools and accelerators for Oracle
Fusion Applications adoption
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Fusion Applications adoption
Accelerators,
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Solutions &
Thought
Leadership
Oracle Fusion
Applications COE
Continuous
Co-development actives
with Oracle
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Competency
Building
Oracle
Partnership
Technology
Expertise
Training Oracle
consultants on Oracle
Fusion Applications
Expertise on Oracle Fusion
Middleware Technologies
Oracle Fusion Applications Credentials at Infosys
Over 2000 man months of experience on Oracle Fusion Applications co -development with the Oracle product teams across
Financials, CRM, SCM, HCM, Procurement, and Projects including:
- Oracle Fusion Applications Beta Validation
- Oracle Fusion Applications Functional and BPM Testing
- Oracle Fusion Applications Migration Tools development
- Oracle Fusion Applications Localizations and Industry Solutions Enhancements
Joint Presentations and Co- Speaking Sessions with Oracle on Oracle Fusion Applications at public forums
Red papers and Joint Business Solutions with Oracle on CRM, HCM, SCM, Fin, & Technology
Infosys is an Oracle worldwide Diamond level partner.
This is the highest level of partnership under Oracle
PartnerNetwork (OPN).
Oracle
Alliance
Early access to new product releases and trainings
including beta versions.
Early adopters of new Oracle technology such as Oracle
Fusion Applications V1, Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g,
E-Business Suite R12 etc.
Infosys Service Capabilities for Oracle Fusion Applications
Oracle Fusion
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Readiness
Assessment with
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Methodology
Implementation
and Consulting
services with
Infosys proprietary
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Methodology
Upgrade to Oracle
Fusion Applications
with Infosys
proprietary InTune
Methodologyune
Co-existence
solutions to adopt
Oracle Fusion
Applications with
legacy / non-Oracle
and Oracle
Migration Toolkits
to adopt Oracle
Fusion Applications
with legacy /
non-Oracle and
Oracle
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Infosys Competency of Oracle Fusion Applications
Global presence with several large
full cycle Oracle Applications
engagements
Expertise across the range of
Oracle applications product family,
including Financials, Procurement,
SCM, HCM, HCM, and Projects
Large pool of OPN certified
Oracle application consultants in
E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel
CRM and Technology Solutions
About the authors
Sirish Newlay is a Senior Associate Consultant having rich experience in implementation and
support of Oracle E-Business Suite across domains. He is a key member of Oracle Fusion
Competency at Infosys and is a Subject Matter Expert for Procurement Product family
Subir Ghosh is a Practice Engagement Manager specializing in Enterprise Performance Management
and Finance and Procurement modernization for Banking and Capital Market customers
