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Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (EID) is a sophisticated data discovery platform that searches for and filters data. It is based on a patented hybrid search-analytical database, and gives IT a centralized platform to rapidly deploy interactive analytic applications, and keep pace with changing business requirements while maintaining information governance. Oracle Endeca Information Discovery provides enhanced display capabilities using metrics, graphs and charts. It provides further drill down capabilities using tag cloud, data attributes, and granular dimensions.
Oracle Endeca Information Discovery provides the following features:
Range Filters
Guided Navigation
Customized charts to represent data graphically
Collection set of results tables
Tag Clouds
Dashboard metrics
This Guide describes the following Oracle EBS Product Extensions for Oracle Endeca:
Oracle Channel Revenue Management Extensions for Oracle Endeca integrations enable you to search and filter claim and budget related information. You can use the Claims Dashboard to view and analyze Open and Closed Claims using metrics, charts, graphs, and tables. You can use the Budget Dashboard to track funds and related promotional activity transactions to forecast and execute various promotional activities to get maximum return on investments.
Oracle Cost Management Extensions for Oracle Endeca enables you to quickly search and filter transaction distribution details across organizations and related entities. Use the Period Health Check page to search for uncosted, unprocessed and material with errors. You can search for Inventory, Manufacturing, Receiving, Shipping, Landed Cost Management, and Enterprise Asset Management transactions that are preventing or delaying period close. Use the Transaction Accounting Register page to search and display all material, manufacturing, receiving, and write-off transaction accounting information. You can also use the guided navigation to identify hidden trends.
Oracle Cost Management Extensions for Oracle Endeca: Landed Cost Management enables you to search, filter and analyze the landed cost data to extract valuable insights for supply and product margin management. You can use the Monitor Daily Operations page to view details of pending activities for Landed Cost shipments. The Landed Cost Analysis page provides an in-depth understanding of the landed cost distribution across inventories, and includes supply information, item information, and purchase order information.
Note: Landed Cost Management Endeca pages are included in the Cost Management Extensions for Oracle Endeca product.
Oracle Depot Repair Extensions for Oracle Endeca enables you to search and filter the most critical service data in a single location and drill down to get more detailed information enabling you to take action using that information. Service managers and service technicians access the Repair Orders Dashboard and claims managers and claims administrators access the Supplier Warranty Claims Dashboard to view, search, and filter the information.
Oracle Discrete Manufacturing Extensions for Oracle Endeca Work Order Search enables you to search and view dashboard metrics related to job status, job delays, component and resource shortage, quantity of scraps, and rejects. You can use the Oracle Endeca Discrete Work Order Search page to view and analyze data using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), performance evaluation metrics, charts, graphs, and tables.
Oracle Enterprise Asset Management Extensions for Oracle Endeca enables you to search and filter asset, work requests, work orders, and item information. Using the eAM Endeca dashboard pages, you can review and analyze data using key Performance Indicators (KPIs), performance evaluation metrics, charts, graphs, and tables.
Oracle Field Service Extensions for Oracle Endeca enables you to search and filter Field Service Execution data and Spares Supply Chain data. You can use the Oracle Endeca Field Service Tasks Summary and Field Service Parts Summary pages to view and analyze data using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), performance evaluation metrics, charts, graphs, and tables.
Oracle Human Resources Extensions for Oracle Endeca enables you to identify, measure, prioritize and resolve your day to day HR related business processes or help in formulating strategic decisions. In addition, you benefit from an improvement in the productivity of HR administrators and line managers, reduce repetitive search actions and result in a seamless completion of business flows. You can use the Workforce Explorer page to search employees by leveraging quick search and guided navigation capabilities. HR users can analyze and interpret person data with the aid of key metrics, maps, tags, flexible charts and graphs. It also provides the ability to navigate to employee personnel actions for performing HR transactions.
You can use Oracle Installed Base Extensions for Oracle Endeca to search and filter details such as Up-Sell and Cross-Sell opportunities, search by geographical location of Installed Base, and also search for customer products such as Model/Configuration. Oracle Installed Base Extensions displays the most critical data in a single location and drill down to get more detailed information enabling you to take action using that information.
Oracle Inventory Management Extensions for Oracle Endeca Item Master Search enables you to search, filter, and compare item information. You can use the Oracle Endeca Item Search page to view and analyze data using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), performance evaluation metrics, charts, graphs, and tables.
Oracle iProcurement Extensions for Oracle Endeca integration enables you to search for and filter catalogs in a particular store, or browse through the hierarchy of categories within the catalog to locate items and services. You can use the Oracle Endeca Shopping Stores Home page to view and analyze recent requisitions and notifications graphically and in a tabular format.
Oracle iRecruitment Extensions for Oracle Endeca Vacancy Search integration enables you to search and filter available job information. You can use the Oracle Endeca iRecruitment Home page to search for jobs using Links, Advanced Search, and Keywords Search. You can use the Oracle Endeca Available Job page to filter and search for jobs based on various attributes. This page contains two tabs - Job List and Compare.
Oracle Learning Management Extensions for Oracle Endeca enables you to add filters to browse and search for new training in the Course Catalog.
Oracle Order Management Extensions for Oracle Endeca enables you to search and filter Open Orders, Closed Orders, and Returns information on a wide range of search criteria. You can view and analyze order information and order fulfillment delays using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), performance evaluation metrics, charts, graphs, and tables.
Oracle Outsourced Manufacturing Extension for Oracle Endeca enables you to search and filter open subcontract orders, delayed subcontract orders, impacted customer orders, open replenishments, delayed replenishments, on-hand and in-transit inventory values, component consumption adjustments, quality rejects, rejected value, uninvoiced assemblies, and components. You can use the Endeca Search Page to quickly assess the state of the outsourcing process by identifying where component shortages occur, identify assemblies and Manufacturing Partners (MP) with the most frequent scraps and production rejects and reasons, and identify the top exception causes and corrective actions to take. Buyers can monitor payments due to the manufacturing partners and take appropriate actions to reduce payment backlog to promote positive supplier relationships. Buyers can also monitor on-hand inventory of manufacturing partners and take appropriate actions for better inventory and working capital management.
Oracle Payables Extensions for Oracle Endeca enables you to quickly search and filter transaction details across organizations and related entities. You can use the Supplier Balance Page to utilize several different features and functionality to quickly access pertinent payables information. You can use the Holds page to view Payables invoices which are currently on hold due to several reasons. You can also use the Discounts Opportunity page to view Payables invoices along with the discounts that can be availed on these invoices.
Oracle Process Manufacturing (OPM) Extensions for Oracle Endeca enable you to quickly search and filter batch status, batch delays, ingredient and resource shortage, quantity of scraps, quality sample results, and batch yield information. You can use the Batch Search page to view Endeca content for Oracle Process Manufacturing batch processes. You can search for process batches, materials, steps, activities, resources, sales orders, and view production metrics, charts, and a results table.
Oracle Projects Extensions for Oracle Endeca integration enables you to search and filter project information. You can use the Oracle Endeca Projects Search and Overview page to search for Projects in a particular Operating Unit, and create new projects. You can also use the Oracle Endeca Workplan Overview page to view details of the Workplan. Each page enables you to view and analyze the data using metrics, charts, graphs, and tables.
Oracle Project Procurement enables your project teams to establish and measure strategic project objectives and drive project procurement planning, decision-making, and execution throughout the lifecycle of the project. It provides an integrated platform for project managers and project buyers to create, view, and update procurement plans so they have the information they need to make planning decisions without the need to alert, notify, or engage in unproductive communication to execute the plan. It breaks traditional functional silos and communication gaps between project management and procurement by ensuring your project teams are on the same page at all times in the lifecycle of the project. The product brings together project and procurement information that is critical to aligning strategy with planning and execution. Project teams can establish strategic objectives, drive down-stream decision making through these objectives, and measure compliance with these objectives throughout the lifecycle of the project. Based on the power of Oracle Endeca for Oracle eBusiness Suite, Oracle Project Procurement provides interactive, information-based tools that enable the project and procurement team to see and act on the same information. The information discovery tools allow the teams to gain insight for decision-making by transforming information through filters or selecting dimensions that can aggregate, isolate, or correlate information from traditionally disconnected sources based on common and objective criteria. Out-of-the-box charts, graphs, and metrics provide critical, timely information that help project teams to work collaboratively and coordinate execution of the project procurement plan.
See: Oracle Project Procurement Process Guide for more information.
You can use Oracle Quality Extensions for Oracle Endeca to search and filter the most collections data in a single location and drill down to get more detailed information enabling you to take action using that information. As a Product & Process Quality Engineer or an Analyst, you can use the Quality Collection Results, Nonconformance Collection Results, and Corrective Actions Collection Results pages to perform searches across quality plans and plan types, across quality plan hierarchies for quality and nonconfirmance enabling you to take early corrective actions. You use these pages, based on your role, to review and analyze data using key Performance Indicators (KPIs), performance evaluation metrics, charts, graphs, and tables.
Oracle Receivables Extensions for Oracle Endeca enables internal and external users to quickly identify potential problem areas within their area of responsibility, navigate to specific transactions requiring attention, and take necessary actions. The Endeca Overview page for internal users addresses the requirements of users who are either responsible for identifying potential problem areas in respect to outstanding receivables, or need easy access to individual customer’s receivables transactions to take specific action. The Endeca Overview page for external users addresses the requirements of customers’ personnel who are either responsible for reconciling their account receivables balance with the deploying company or vendor, or need easy access to individual transactions to take specific action. You can use the Disputes page to analyze disputes flow within the organization, identify specific dispute reasons that might require closer attention and further investigation, and identify those customers who are abusing the disputes mechanism to delay payments.
You can use Oracle Service Contracts Extensions for Oracle Endeca to search and filter the most service contracts data in a single location and drill down to get more detailed information enabling you to take action using that information. As a renewal sales manager or a renewal sales representative, you can perform searches and prioritize activities in your work queue using Sales Manager Command Center and Sales Representative Command Center pages respectively. Sales Representatives should have access to those contracts where their names are mentioned as the Vendor Contact Person, or where they have access to the Operating Units, or where they have access as per the security setup in Oracle Contracts. Sales Managers should have access to those contracts where the sales representatives reporting to them (per the Employee Supervisor Hierarchy) have their names mentioned as the Vendor Contact Person, or when the Manager's name is the same as the Supervisor Name in the Assignments tab of the employee in the Employee Definition window, or they also have the sales Representative role, or they have access to the Operating Unit, or they have access as per the existing security setup in Oracle Contracts. You use these pages, based on your role, to review and analyze data using key Performance Indicators (KPIs), charts, graphs, and tables.
You can use the Oracle TeleService Extensions for Oracle Endeca to search and filter all service requests imported into Endeca. Using the Service Operations Dashboard, you can review critical metrics, tag clouds, interact with graphs, and view service requests details. In addition to the search and filter capabilities, the Service Operations Dashboard contains action-based analytics where you can diagnose an issue and perform efficient and effective corrective actions on those service requests. Examples of corrective actions include reassigning requests to the appropriate group or owner, diagnosing issues, or contacting customers for additional information.
Oracle Warehouse Management Extensions for Oracle Endeca enables you to search and filter outbound, inventory, and labor (productivity) information from the warehouse. The Plan Fulfillment page lets you plan the fulfillment batches and waves. The Track Fulfillment page lets you track the fulfillment process and react in real-time to changes impacting the outbound activities. The Space Utilization page lets you track the fragmentation in the warehouse and suggest material movement to manage fragmentation. The Labor Utilization page lets you plan and manage labor in the warehouse. Using these Warehouse Management Endeca pages, you can review and analyze data using key Performance Indicators (KPIs), performance evaluation metrics, charts, graphs, and tables. In addition to the search and filter capabilities, each WMS page contains action-based analytics where you can diagnose an issue and take specific actions.
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