Account refers to the details or attributes of a deploying company's selling relationship with a party. A selling relationship can include orders or negotiated prices. Account attributes do not describe a party; they only exist when a selling relationship is present between the deploying company and the party.
account number
Number designated in the Trading Community Architecture (TCA) or Accounts Receivable (AR) and used to group account information about a party.
account site
A party site that is used within the context of an account, e.g., for shipping or billing purposes.
business entity
A branch, subsidiary, division, etc. of a company.
company
The entire business, including all business entities in the organizational structure.
contact point
A means of contacting a party other than sending physical mail, e.g., a phone number, e-mail address, telex number, fax number, etc.
customer
A person or organization with whom the deploying company has a selling relationship, regardless of whether anything has actually been purchased or serviced. A selling relationship may be established by actually selling products, or it may be established by simply negotiating terms that will be used if you later sell products. In both scenarios, a selling relationship exists.
deploying company
The Oracle customer that has, or will, install, implement, and run all or part of the Oracle E-Business suite.
DUNS Number
A unique identifier used by Dun & Bradstreet, a major business data content provider. The DUNS number is an attribute in the TCA.
GUI
An acronym for Graphical User Interface.
instance, item instance
In Oracle Install Base, an instance is an occurrence of an item entity. For example, a manufacturer has a part number for a television he makes; each time he sells one television, an occurrence of this part number is recorded in Install Base
location
A point in geographical space described by a street address.
merchant
An Oracle E-business suite customers. Used to alleviate confusion with the term customers, which refers to customers of a business using Oracle products.
multiple organizations (multi org)
The ability to define multiple organizations and the relationships among them within a single installation of Oracle Applications. These organizations can be sets of books, business groups, legal entities, operating units, or inventory organizations.
party
An entity in the TCA that can enter into business relationships. A party is a real person, an organization, a branch, a subsidiary, a legal entity, a holding company, etc. In TCA, the attributes of a party are considered universal, i.e., they are independent of your selling or buying relationship with the party.
party access list
A list of parties, which a user can access.
party relationship
In TCA, a binary relationship between two parties, such as a partnership. A party relationship can be a party itself, meaning certain party relationships can enter into relationship themselves.
party site
In TCA, the link between a party and a location that indicates the location is valid for that party. A party site is not intended to represent a distinct business entity with which you can do business.
registration
Refers to the process by which any user would gain access to application functionality.
Registration Admin UI
User Interface (UI) used by merchant administrator or any person granted privileges to maintain users and accounts.
Registration Self-Service User UI
User Interface (UI) that is used by individual users or business users to register themselves.
registration template
Part of the Oracle CRM JTF User Management Framework (JUMF), registration templates are JSP pages set up by the application administrator to capture accommodate user information-gathering requirements.
responsibilities
A grouping of application menus that determine the user interface accessible to a particular user.
roles
Groupings of permissions which are page- and function-level, granular privileges used to maintain application security.
self-service registration
Refers to the process of user self-registration through a self-service UI, as opposed to being registered by an administrator. Self-service registration includes the UI and background processes used to complete the registration processes (including assigning users the appropriate data access and UI access privileges).
service request view
A saved query of service requests.
system administrator
Also called sysadmin, the system administrator is a user who performs the highest-level administrator tasks in Oracle applications.
TCA
An acronym for Trading Community Architecture, sometimes used interchangeably with the Oracle Trading Community Model.
Trading Community Model
The Oracle Trading Community Model, also known as Trading Community Architecture (TCA).
UI
An acronym for User Interface.
user
Refers to any person who needs access to any application. This includes various types of customers, partners, suppliers, and employees.
user types
Users are categorized into types based on their registration requirements and access privileges. User types can be associated with default roles, responsibilities, accounts, registration templates, and approval requirements.
user type, business
A user with a selling relationship to the deploying company.
user type, employee
A user who is an employee of the deploying company.
user type, individual
A user with no selling relationship to the deploying company.
user type, primary
A designated person of a party, business entity, or internal group (for example, sales department) who is responsible for approving other users and resetting passwords.