Welcome to Release 12.1 of the Oracle Complex Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul Implementation Guide.
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Oracle Complex Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul shares business and setup information with other Oracle Applications products.
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). 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.
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 Bill of Materials User’s Guide
This guide describes how to create various bills of material to maximize efficiency, improve quality, and lower costs for the most sophisticated manufacturing and/or maintenance environments. By detailing integrated product structure and processes, flexible product and process definition, and configuration management, this guide enables you to manage product details within and across multiple sites.
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.
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 Enterprise Asset Management User’s Guide
This guide discusses maintenance work orders, how to manage them, and eAM’s preventive maintenance solution. eAM’s integration points and how to use them are described in detail.
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 Supply Chain Planning User’s Guide
This guide describes how to anticipate and manage both supply and demand for your items. Using a variety of tools and techniques, you can create forecasts, load these forecasts into master production schedules, and plan your end-items and their component requirements. You can also execute the plan, releasing and rescheduling planning suggestions for discrete jobs and repetitive schedules.
Oracle Projects User’s Guide
This guide provides instruction on how to set up and use Oracle Projects. If you install Oracle Projects, use this user guide to learn how to enter expense reports in Projects that you import into Payables to create invoices. You can also use this manual to see how to create Project information in Projects which you can then record for an invoice or invoice distribution.
Oracle Install Base Concepts and Procedures Guide
This guide provides an introduction to the concepts, and explains how to navigate the system, enter data, and query information in the Oracle Installed Base interface that forms part of Oracle Complex Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul.
Oracle Warehouse Management User’s Guide
This manual provides information about warehouse resource management, warehouse configuration, and advanced pick methodologies for material handling for warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and distribution centers. This product is one of the components of Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications.
Oracle Install Base Implementation Guide
This guide provides information for setting up the contents of many of the lists of values (LOV) that you see in Oracle Install Base.
Oracle Quality User’s Guide
This guide describes how Oracle Quality can be used to meet your quality data collection and analysis needs. This guide also explains how Oracle Quality interfaces with other Oracle Manufacturing applications to provide a closed loop quality control system.
Oracle Contracts Core Concepts and Procedures Guide
This guide describes how Oracle Contract can be used to enable companies to author, execute, and manage virtually all business-to-business contracts required by complex global enterprises.
Oracle Customer Support Implementation Guide
This guide describes how to set up the list of values that you see in Oracle Customer Support. Oracle's service solution provides everyone in the organization - with a complete, real-time customer view that allows for immediate access to information on past interactions with the customer and also provides agents with knowledge of possible solutions to speed issue resolution. Additionally, the solution empowers customers to solve their own issues via a self-service portal with access to the same knowledge base that agents utilize for quick resolution.
Oracle Service Implementation Guide
This guide describes how to set up Oracle Service.
Oracle Self–Service Web Applications Implementation Guide
This manual contains detailed information about the overview and architecture and setup of Oracle Self–Service Web Applications. It also contains an overview of and procedures for using the Web Applications Dictionary.
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.
Oracle E-Business Suite Concepts
This guide provides an introduction to the concepts, features, technology stack, architecture, and terminology for Oracle Applications. It provides a useful first book to read before an installation of Oracle Applications. This guide also introduces the concepts behind Applications-wide features such as Business Intelligence (BIS), languages and character sets, and Self-Service Web Applications.
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 12.1.1
Refer to this guide if you are upgrading your Oracle E-Business Suite Release 10.7 or Release 11.0 products to Release 12.1.1. This guide describes the upgrade process and lists database and product-specific upgrade tasks. The instructions in this book apply only to upgrading from Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i (11.5.9 or later) to Release 12.1.1. If your system is earlier than 11.5.9, then you must upgrade to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11.5.10 CU2 before you can upgrade to Release 12.1.1.
Maintaining Oracle E-Business Suite
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 applications file system and database.
Oracle E-Business Suite System Administrator's Guide
This guide provides planning and reference information for the Oracle Applications System Administrator. It contains information on how to define security, customize menus and online help, and manage concurrent processing.
Oracle E-Business Suite Developer'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 Applications development staff and describes the Oracle Application Object Library components that are needed to implement the Oracle Applications user interface described in the Oracle Applications User Interface Standards for Forms-Based Products. This manual also provides information to help you build your custom Oracle Forms Developer forms so that the forms integrate with Oracle Applications.
Oracle E-Business Suite User Interface Standards for Forms-Based Products
This guide contains the user interface (UI) standards followed by the Oracle Applications development staff. It describes the UI for the Oracle Applications products and how to apply this UI to the design of an application built by using Oracle Forms.
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 APIs 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 Complex Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul implementation team, as well as for users responsible for the ongoing maintenance of Oracle Applications 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, 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 Applications Message Manual
This manual describes all Oracle Applications messages. This manual is available in HTML format on the documentation CD-ROM for Release 12.
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.