Welcome to Release 12.1 of the Oracle Advanced Collections User Guide.
This guide assumes you have a working knowledge of the following:
The principles and customary practices of your business area.
Computer desktop application usage and terminology.
If you have never used Oracle Advanced Collections, Oracle suggests you attend one or more of the Oracle Applications training classes available through Oracle University.
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This chapter discusses the key features and process flows in Oracle Advanced Collections.
This chapter provides an overview of the graphical user interface (GUI) and the major tasks you can perform in Oracle Advanced Collections.
This chapter describes the methods you can use to search for information in the application.
This chapter describes how to access information about customers, transactions, delinquencies, payments, aging, and balances.
This chapter describes how to enter payments, promises to pay, disputes, and adjustments.
This chapter explains how to manage delinquencies including later-stage collections activities such as litigation, write-offs, repossessions, and bankruptcies.
This chapter discusses how to use dunning plans.
This chapter explains how to create and use strategies to automate your collections process.
This chapter discusses how to report Oracle Lease and Finance Management cases to a credit bureau and how to transfer cases to an external agency.
This chapter describes how to administer the ongoing functions in Oracle Advanced Collections such as running concurrent programs.
This chapter describes the reports available to collectors and their managers.
This chapter describes how to use Oracle Advanced Collections functionality, defines selected terminology you will encounter, and addresses frequently asked questions for each feature.
This document is included on the Oracle Applications Document Library, which is supplied in the Release 12 DVD Pack. You can download soft-copy documentation as PDF files from the Oracle Technology Network at http://otn.oracle.com/documentation, or you can purchase hard-copy documentation from the Oracle Store at http://oraclestore.oracle.com. The Oracle E-Business Suite Documentation Library Release 12 contains the latest information, including any documents that have changed significantly between releases. If substantial changes to this book are necessary, a revised version will be made available on the online documentation CD on My Oracle Support.
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Related Guides
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 Application Framework Developer's Guide:
This guide contains the coding standards followed by the Oracle Applications development staff to produce applications built with Oracle Application Framework. This guide is available in PDF format on My Oracle Support and as online documentation in JDeveloper 10g with Oracle Application Extensions.
Oracle Application Framework Personalization Guide:
This guide describes how to personalize Oracle Application Framework-based Oracle E-Business Suite application pages as an end-user and as a personalization administrator using the Oracle Application Personalization Framework.
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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 Applications 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 Developer's Guide:
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Oracle E-Business Suite Diagnostics User's Guide:
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Oracle E-Business Suite Flexfields Guide:
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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 Applications. It provides instructions for running Rapid Install either to carry out a fresh installation of Oracle Applications 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 Integrated SOA Gateway User's Guide:
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Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway Implementation Guide:
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Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway Developer's Guide:
This guide describes how system integration developers can perform end-to-end service integration activities. These include orchestrating discrete Web services into meaningful end-to-end business processes using business process execution language (BPEL), and deploying BPEL processes at run time.
It also explains in detail how to invoke Web services using the Service Invocation Framework. This includes defining Web service invocation metadata, invoking Web services, managing errors, and testing the Web service invocation.
Oracle E-Business Suite Maintenance Procedures:
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Oracle E-Business Suite Maintenance Utilities:
This guide describes how to run utilities, such as AD Administration and AD Controller, used to maintain the Oracle Applications file system and database. Outlines the actions performed by these utilities, such as monitoring parallel processes, generating Applications files, and maintaining Applications database entities. Part of Maintaining Oracle Applications, a 3-book set that also includes Oracle E-Business Suite Patching Procedures and Oracle E-Business Suite Maintenance Procedures.
Oracle E-Business Suite Multiple Organizations Implementation Guide:
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Oracle E-Business Suite Patching Procedures:
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Oracle E-Business Suite System Administrator's Guide Documentation Set:
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Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrade Guide: Release 11i to Release 12.1.1:
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Oracle E-Business Suite User Interface Standards for Forms-Based Products:
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Oracle E-Business Suite User's Guide:
This guide explains how to navigate, enter data, query, and run reports using the user interface (UI) of Oracle Applications. This guide also includes information on setting user profiles, as well as running and reviewing concurrent requests.
Oracle Workflow Administrator's Guide:
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Oracle Workflow API Reference:
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Oracle Workflow Client Installation Guide:
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Oracle Workflow Developer's Guide:
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Oracle Workflow User's Guide:
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Oracle Financials and Oracle Procurement Functional Upgrade Guide: Release 11i to Release 12.1:
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Oracle Financials Concepts Guide:
This guide describes the fundamental concepts of Oracle Financials. The guide is intended to introduce readers to the concepts used in the applications, and help them compare their real world business, organization, and processes to those used in the applications.
Oracle Financials Glossary:
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Oracle Advanced Collections Implementation Guide:
This guide describes how to configure Oracle Advanced Collections and its integrated products. It contains the steps required to set up and verify your implementation of Oracle Advanced Collections.
Oracle Advanced Outbound User Guide:
Review this manual to understand more about outbound campaigns.
Oracle Bill Presentment Architecture User Guide:
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Oracle Customer Interaction History Implementation Guide:
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Oracle Lease and Finance Management User Guide:
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Oracle Loans User Guide:
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Oracle Marketing Online User Guide:
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Oracle Payments Implementation Guide:
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Oracle Receivables Implementation Guide:
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Oracle Receivables Reference Guide:
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Oracle Receivables User Guide:
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Oracle Sales Contracts Implementation and Administration Guide:
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Oracle Scripting User Guide:
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Oracle Service Contracts User Guide:
Use this guide to learn how to use contracts to contracts to manage warranties, extended warranties, usage, and subscription services, as well as complex service agreements.
Oracle TeleSales User Guide:
Oracle Advanced Collections is available from the eBusiness Center described in this document.
Oracle Trade Management User Guide:
Refer to this guide for information about setting up offers, such as coupons or discounts.
Oracle XML Publisher Administration and Developer's Guide:
Oracle XML Publisher is a template-based reporting solution that merges XML data with templates in RTF or PDF format to produce a variety of outputs to meet a variety of business needs. Outputs include: PDF, HTML, Excel, RTF, and eText (for EDI and EFT transactions). Oracle XML Publisher can be used to generate reports based on existing E-Business Suite report data, or you can use Oracle XML Publisher's data extraction engine to build your own queries. Oracle XML Publisher also provides a robust set of APIs to manage delivery of your reports through e-mail, fax, secure FTP, printer, WebDav, and more. This guide describes how to set up and administer Oracle XML Publisher as well as how to use the Application Programming Interface to build custom solutions.
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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.
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.