Welcome to Release 12.1 of the Oracle Cost Management User's Guide.
This guide assumes you have a working knowledge of the following:
The principles and customary practices of your business area.
Oracle Cost Management.
If you have never used Oracle Cost Management, then Oracle suggests you attend one or more of the Oracle Cost Management training classes available through Oracle University.
Oracle E-Business Suite graphical user interface.
To learn more about the Oracle E-Business Suite graphical user interface, read the Oracle E-Business Suite User’s Guide.
You can choose from many sources of information including training, online documentation, and support services to increase your knowledge and understanding of Oracle Cost Management. If this guide refers you to other Oracle E-Business Suite documentation, then use only the Release 12 versions of those guides.
For a full list of documentation resources for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, see Oracle Applications Documentation Resources, Release 12 , Oracle MetaLink Document 394692.1.
Training
Oracle offers a complete set of training courses to help you and your staff master Oracle Cost Management and reach full productivity quickly. These courses are organized into functional learning paths, so you take only those courses appropriate to your job or area of responsibility.
You have a choice of educational environments. You can attend courses offered by Oracle University at any of our many Education Centers, you can arrange for our trainers to teach at your facility, or you can use Oracle Learning Network (OLN), Oracle University’s online education utility. In addition, Oracle training professionals can tailor standard courses or develop custom courses to meet your needs. For example, you may want to use your organization structure, terminology, and data as examples in a customized training session delivered at your own facility.
See Related Information Sources for more Oracle E-Business Suite product information.
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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 Cost Management (and any other Oracle E-Business Suite product). 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 E-Business Suite” from any Oracle E-Business Suite help file.
Oracle E-Business Suite Flexfields Guide
This guide provides flexfields planning, setup and reference information. This manual also provides information on creating custom reports on flexfields data.
Oracle Bills of Material User’s Guide
This guide describes how to create various bills of materials to maximize efficiency, improve quality and lower cost for the most sophisticated manufacturing environments. By detailing integrated product structures and processes, flexible product and process definition, and configuration management, this guide enables you to manage product details within and across multiple manufacturing sites.
Oracle Financials Global Accounting Engine User's Guide
Use the Global Accounting Engine to replace the transfer to General Ledger and create subledger accounting entries that meet additional statutory standards within some countries. The Accounting Engine provides subledger balances, legal reports, and bi-directional drilldown from General Ledger to the subledger transaction.
Oracle Flow Manufacturing User’s Guide
This guide describes how to use Oracle’s Flow Manufacturing functionality to support the processes of flow manufacturing. It describes design features of demand management, line design and balancing, and kanban planning. It also describes production features of line scheduling, production, and kanban execution.
Oracle General Ledger User’s Guide
This guide explains how to plan and define your chart of accounts, accounting period types and accounting calendar, functional currency, and ledger. 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 Inventory User’s Guide
This guide describes how to define items and item information, perform receiving and inventory transactions, maintain cost control, plan items, perform cycle counting and physical inventories, and set up Oracle Inventory.
Oracle Order Management User’s Guide
This guide describes how to enter sales orders and returns, copy existing sales orders, schedule orders, release orders, create price lists and discounts for orders, run processes, and create reports.
Oracle Payables User’s Guide
This guide describes how accounts payable transactions are created and entered in Oracle Payables. This guide also contains detailed setup information for Oracle Payables.
Oracle Project Manufacturing User’s Guide
This guide describes the unique set of features Oracle Project Manufacturing provides for a project-based manufacturing environment. Oracle Project Manufacturing can be tightly integrated with Oracle Projects.
Oracle Purchasing User’s Guide
This guide describes how to create and approve purchasing documents, including requisitions, different types of purchase orders, quotations, RFQs, and receipts. This guide also describes how to manage your supply base through agreements, sourcing rules and approved supplier lists. In addition, this guide explains how you can automatically create purchasing documents based on business rules through integration with Oracle Workflow technology, which automates many of the key procurement processes.
Oracle Receivables User’s Guide
Use this manual to learn how to implement flexible address formats for different countries. You can use flexible address formats in the suppliers, banks, invoices, and payments windows.
Oracle Workflow User’s Guide
This guide describes how Oracle E-Business Suite users can view and respond to workflow notifications and monitor the progress of their workflow processes.
Oracle Work in Process User’s Guide
This guide describes how Oracle Work in Process provides a complete production management system. Specifically this guide describes how discrete, repetitive, assemble-to-order, project, flow, and mixed manufacturing environments are supported.
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.
Installing Oracle E-Business Suite Products
This guide provides instructions for managing the installation of Oracle E-Business Suite products. In Release 12, much of the installation process is handled using Oracle Rapid Install, which minimizes the time to install Oracle E-Business Suite products and the technology stack by automating many of the required steps. This guide contains instructions for using Oracle Rapid Install and lists the tasks you need to perform to finish your installation. You should use this guide in conjunction with individual product user’s guides and implementation guides.
Maintaining Oracle E-Business Suite Products
Use this guide to help you run the various AD utilities, such as AutoUpgrade, AutoPatch, AD Administration, AD Controller, AD Relink, License Manager, and others. It contains how-to steps, screenshots, and other information that you need to run the AD utilities. This guide also provides information on maintaining the Oracle E-Business Suite file system and database.
Oracle Alert User’s Guide
This guide explains how to define periodic and event alerts to monitor the status of your Oracle E-Business Suite 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 also provides information to help you build your custom Oracle Forms Developer forms so that they integrate with Oracle E-Business Suite.
Oracle E-Business Suite System Administrator’s Guide
This guide provides planning and reference information for the Oracle E-Business Suite System Administrator. It contains information on how to define security, customize menus and online help, and manage concurrent processing.
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 E-Business Suite product. This information helps you convert data from your existing applications and integrate Oracle E-Business Suite data with non-Oracle applications, and write custom reports for Oracle E-Business Suite products. Oracle eTRM is available on Oracle MetaLink.
Oracle Workflow Administrator’s Guide
This guide explains how to complete the setup steps necessary for any Oracle E-Business Suite 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 E-Business Suite-embedded workflow processes. It also describes how to define and customize business events and event subscriptions.
Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrade Guide
Refer to this guide if you are upgrading your Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i products to Release 12. This guide describes the upgrade process and lists database and product-specific upgrade tasks.
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.