Welcome to Release 12.1 of the Oracle Outsourced Manufacturing for Discrete Industries User's Guide.
This guide contains the information needed to implement and use Oracle Outsourced Manufacturing for Discrete Industries.
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You can choose from many sources of information, including online documentation, training, and support services, to increase your knowledge and understanding of Oracle Outsourced Manufacturing for Discrete Industries.
If this guide refers you to other Oracle Applications documentation, use only the Release 12 versions of those guides.
Online Documentation
All Oracle Applications documentation is available online (HTML or PDF).
Online Help - Online help patches (HTML) are available on My Oracle Support.
About Documents - Refer to the About Document for the mini-pack or family pack that you have installed to learn about new documentation or documentation patches that you can download. About Documents are available on My Oracle Support.
Guides Related to All Products
Financials Glossary: The glossary includes definitions of common terms that are shared by all Oracle Financials products. In some cases, there may be different definitions of the same term for different Financials products. If you are unsure of the meaning of a term you see in an Oracle Financials guide, please refer to the glossary for clarification. You can find the glossary in the online help or in the Oracle General Ledger User's Guide.
Oracle E-Business Suite User's Guide: This guide explains how to enter data, query, run reports, and navigate using the graphical user interface (GUI) available with this release of Receivables (and any other Oracle Applications products). This guide also includes information on setting user profiles, as well as running and reviewing reports and concurrent processes.
You can access this user's guide online by choosing "Getting Started with Oracle Applications" from any Oracle Applications help file.
User Guides Related to This Product
Receivables shares data and setup information with other Oracle Applications products. Even if you have not installed them as separate products, your Receivables application includes some forms and functionality from other Oracle Applications. Therefore, you may want to refer to other user guides when you set up and use Receivables.
Oracle Public Sector Financials Documentation
Information regarding public sector functionality in Receivables is documented in this guide. For information regarding public sector functionality in other Public Sector Financial's products, refer to the following documentation:
Oracle General Ledger User Guide
Oracle Purchasing User's Guide
Oracle Payables User Guide
Oracle Projects Documentation Set
Oracle Projects Implementation Guide: Use this manual as a guide for implementing Oracle Projects. This manual also includes appendixes covering function security, menus and responsibilities, and profile options.
Oracle Projects Fundamentals User Guide: This guide provides the common foundation shared across the Oracle Projects products. Use this guide to learn fundamental information about the Oracle Projects solution. This guide includes a Navigation Paths appendix. Use this appendix to find out how to access each window in the Oracle Projects solution.
Oracle Project Costing User Guide: Use this guide to learn detailed information about Oracle Project Costing. Oracle Project Costing provides the tools for processing project expenditures, including calculating their cost to each project and determining the General Ledger accounts to which the costs are posted.
Oracle Project Billing User Guide: Use this guide to learn how to use Oracle Project Billing to process client invoicing and measure the profitability of your contract projects.
Oracle Project Management User Guide: This guide shows you how to use Oracle Project Management to manage projects through their lifecycles - from planning, through execution, to completion.
Oracle Project Resource Management User Guide: This guide provides you with information on how to use Oracle Project Resource Management. It includes information about staffing, scheduling, and reporting on project resources.
Oracle Projects API's, Client Extensions, and Open Interfaces Reference: This manual gives detailed information about all public application programming interfaces (API's) that you can use to extend Oracle Projects functionality.
Oracle General Ledger User's Guide
Use this manual when you plan and define your chart of accounts, accounting period types and accounting calendar, functional currency, and set of books. It also describes how to define journal entry sources and categories so you can create journal entries for your general ledger. If you use multiple currencies, use this manual when you define additional rate types, and enter daily rates. This manual also includes complete information on implementing Budgetary Control.
Oracle Receivables Tax Manual
This manual provides everything you need to know about calculating tax within Oracle Receivables, Oracle Order Management, Oracle Sales, and Oracle Web Customers. It includes information about implementation procedures, setup forms and windows, the Oracle Receivables Tax calculation process, tax reports and listings, and open interfaces.
Oracle Cash Management User Guide
This guide provides information about using Oracle Cash Management to clear your receipts, as well as reconciling bank statements with your outstanding balances, transactions, and receipts.
Oracle HRMS Documentation Set
This set of guides explains how to define your employees, so you can give them operating unit and job assignments. It also explains how to set up an organization (operating unit). Even if you do not install Oracle HRMS, you can set up employees and organizations using Oracle HRMS windows. Specifically, the following manuals will help you set up employees and operating units:
Using Oracle HRMS - The Fundamentals: This user guide explains how to set up and use enterprise modeling, organization management, and cost analysis.
Managing People Using Oracle HRMS: Use this guide to find out about entering employees.
Oracle Payables User's Guide
Refer to this manual to learn how to use Invoice Import to create invoices in Oracle Payables. This manual also explains how to define suppliers, and how to specify supplier and employee numbering schemes for invoices. The guide also describes how accounts payable transactions are posted to General Ledger from the payables subledger.
Oracle Inventory User's Guide
If you install Oracle Inventory, refer to this manual to learn how to define your items, units of measure classes, units of measure, and unit of measure conversions for use in measuring amounts for your units of production items, as well as other information about setting up and using Oracle Inventory.
Country-Specific Manuals
Use these manuals to meet statutory requirements and common business practices in your country or region. They also describe additional features added to Receivables to meet those requirements. Look for a user guide appropriate to your country; for example, see the Oracle Financial's for the Czech Republic User's Guide for more information about using this software in the Czech Republic.
Oracle Applications Character Mode to GUI Menu Path Changes
This is a quick reference guide for experienced Oracle Applications end users migrating from character mode to a graphical user interface (GUI). This guide lists each character mode form and describes which GUI windows or functions replace it.
Oracle Financial's Open Interfaces Guide
This guide contains a brief summary of each Oracle Financial Applications open interface. You can also read about the Receivables open interface tables in the appropriate sections of the Oracle Receivables User's Guide.
Installation and System Administration
Oracle E-Business Suite Concepts
This book is intended for all those planning to deploy Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, or contemplating significant changes to a configuration. After describing the Oracle E-Business Suite architecture and technology stack, it focuses on strategic topics, giving a broad outline of the actions needed to achieve a particular goal, plus the installation and configuration choices that may be available.
Oracle E-Business Suite Installation Guide: Using Rapid Install
This book is intended for use by anyone who is responsible for installing or upgrading Oracle E-Business Suite. It provides instructions for running Rapid Install either to carry out a fresh installation of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, or as part of an upgrade from Release 11i to Release 12. The book also describes the steps needed to install the technology stack components only, for the special situations where this is applicable
Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrade Guide: Release 11i to Release 12.1.1
Refer to this guide if you are upgrading your Oracle Applications. This guide describes the upgrade process and lists database and product-specific upgrade tasks.
Maintaining Oracle E-Business Suite Documentation Set
This documentation set provides maintenance and patching information for the Oracle E-Business Suite DBA. Oracle E-Business Suite Maintenance Procedures provides a description of the strategies, related tasks, and troubleshooting activities that will help ensure the continued smooth running of an Oracle E-Business Suite system. Oracle E-Business Suite Maintenance Utilities describes the Oracle E-Business Suite utilities that are supplied with Oracle E-Business Suite and used to maintain the application file system and database. It also provides a detailed description of the numerous options available to meet specific operational requirements. Oracle E-Business Suite Patching Procedures explains how to patch an Oracle E-Business Suite system, covering the key concepts and strategies. Also included are recommendations for optimizing typical patching operations and reducing downtime.
Oracle E-Business Suite System Administrator's Guide Documentation Set
This documentation set provides planning and reference information for the Oracle E-Business Suite System Administrator. Oracle E-Business Suite Set Up Guide contains information on system configuration steps, including defining concurrent programs and managers, enabling Oracle Applications Manager features, and setting up printers and online help. Oracle E-Business Suite Maintenance Guide provides information for frequent tasks such as monitoring your system with Oracle Applications Manager, administering Oracle E-Business Suite Secure Enterprise Search, managing concurrent managers and reports, using diagnostic utilities including logging, managing profile options, and using alerts. Oracle E-Business Suite Security Guide describes User Management, data security, function security, auditing, and security configurations.
Oracle Alert User's Guide
This guide explains how to define periodic and event alerts to monitor the status of your Oracle Applications data.
Oracle E-Business Suite Developer's Guide
This guide contains the coding standards followed by the Oracle E-Business Suite development staff. It describes the Oracle Application Object Library components needed to implement the Oracle E-Business Suite user interface described in the Oracle E-Business Suite User Interface Standards for Forms-Based Products. It provides information to help you build your custom Oracle Forms Developer forms so that they integrate with Oracle E-Business Suite. In addition, this guide has information for customizations in features such as concurrent programs, flexfields, messages, and logging.
Other Implementation Documentation
Oracle Applications Product Update Notes
Use this guide as a reference for upgrading an installation of Oracle Applications. It provides a history of the changes to individual Oracle Applications products between Release 11.0 and Release 12. It includes new features, enhancements, and changes made to database objects, profile options, and seed data for this interval.
Multiple Reporting Currencies in Oracle Applications
If you use the Multiple Reporting Currencies feature to record transactions in more than one currency, use this manual before you implement Oracle Receivables. This manual details additional steps and setup considerations for implementing Oracle Receivables with Multiple Reporting Currencies.
Multiple Organizations in Oracle Applications
This guide describes how to set up and use Oracle Receivables with Oracle Applications' Multiple Organization support feature, so you can define and support different organization structures when running a single installation of Oracle Receivables.
Oracle Workflow Administrator's Guide
This guide explains how to complete the setup steps necessary for any Oracle Applications product that includes workflow-enabled processes, as well as how to monitor the progress of runtime workflow processes.
Oracle Workflow Developer's Guide
This guide explains how to define new workflow business processes and customize existing Oracle Applications-embedded workflow processes. It also describes how to define and customize business events and event subscriptions.
Oracle Workflow User's Guide
This guide describes how Oracle Applications users can view and respond to workflow notifications and monitor the progress of their workflow processes.
Oracle Workflow API Reference
This guide describes the API's provided for developers and administrators to access Oracle Workflow.
Oracle E-Business Suite Flexfields Guide
This guide provides flexfields planning, setup, and reference information for the Oracle E-Business Suite implementation team, as well as for users responsible for the ongoing maintenance of Oracle E-Business Suite product data. This guide also provides information on creating custom reports on flexfields data.
Oracle eTechnical Reference Manuals
Each eTechnical Reference Manual (eTRM) contains database diagrams and a detailed description of database tables, forms, reports, and programs for a specific Oracle Applications product. This information helps you convert data from your existing applications and integrate Oracle Applications data with non-Oracle applications, and write custom reports for Oracle Applications products. Oracle eTRM is available on My Oracle Support.
Oracle E-Business Suite User Interface Standards for Forms-Based Products
This guide contains the user interface (UI) standards followed by the Oracle E-Business Suite development staff. It describes the UI for the Oracle E-Business Suite products and how to apply this UI to the design of an application built by using Oracle Forms.
Oracle Manufacturing API's and Open Interfaces Manual
This manual contains up-to-date information about integrating with other Oracle Manufacturing applications and with your other systems. This documentation includes API's and open interfaces found in Oracle Manufacturing.
Oracle Order Management Suite API's and Open Interfaces Manual
This manual contains up-to-date information about integrating with other Oracle Manufacturing applications and with your other systems. This documentation includes API's and open interfaces found in Oracle Order Management Suite.
Oracle Applications Message Reference Manual
This manual describes all Oracle Applications messages. This manual is available in HTML format on the documentation CD-ROM for Release 12.
The Oracle Integration Repository is a compilation of information about the service endpoints exposed by the Oracle E-Business Suite of applications. It provides a complete catalog of Oracle E-Business Suite's business service interfaces. The tool lets users easily discover and deploy the appropriate business service interface for integration with any system, application, or business partner.
The Oracle Integration Repository is shipped as part of the E-Business Suite. As your instance is patched, the repository is automatically updated with content appropriate for the precise revisions of interfaces in your environment.
Users who are granted the Integration Analyst role can navigate to the Oracle Integration Repository through the Integration Repository responsibility. Users who have the Integration Developer role or the Integration Administrator role can access the Oracle Integration Repository through the Integrated SOA Gateway responsibility.
Oracle STRONGLY RECOMMENDS that you never use SQL*Plus, Oracle Data Browser, database triggers, or any other tool to modify Oracle E-Business Suite data unless otherwise instructed.
Oracle provides powerful tools you can use to create, store, change, retrieve, and maintain information in an Oracle database. But if you use Oracle tools such as SQL*Plus to modify Oracle E-Business Suite data, you risk destroying the integrity of your data and you lose the ability to audit changes to your data.
Because Oracle E-Business Suite tables are interrelated, any change you make using an Oracle E-Business Suite form can update many tables at once. But when you modify Oracle E-Business Suite data using anything other than Oracle E-Business Suite, you may change a row in one table without making corresponding changes in related tables. If your tables get out of synchronization with each other, you risk retrieving erroneous information and you risk unpredictable results throughout Oracle E-Business Suite.
When you use Oracle E-Business Suite to modify your data, Oracle E-Business Suite automatically checks that your changes are valid. Oracle E-Business Suite also keeps track of who changes information. If you enter information into database tables using database tools, you may store invalid information. You also lose the ability to track who has changed your information because SQL*Plus and other database tools do not keep a record of changes.