Oracle® Fusion
Applications Order Orchestration Implementation Guide 11g Release 1 (11.1.3) Part Number E20386-03 |
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abstract role
A description of a person's function in the enterprise that is unrelated to the person's job (position), such as employee, contingent worker, or line manager. A type of enterprise role.
accounting flexfield
The chart of accounts that determines the structure, such as the number and order of individual segments, as well as the corresponding values per segment.
action
The kind of access named in a security policy, such as view or edit.
activity
User task that needs to be assigned and completed as part of the order fulfillment process.
ADF
Acronym for Application Developer Framework. A set of programming principles and rules for developing software applications.
application identity
Predefined application level user with elevated privileges. An application identity authorizes jobs and transactions for which other users are not authorized, such as a payroll run authorized to access a taxpayer ID while the user who initiated the job is not authorized to access such personally identifiable information.
application role
A role specific to applications and stored in the policy store.
Applications Core
Abbreviation for Oracle Fusion Middleware Extensions for Applications. The technical product code is FND.
assignment
A set of information, including job, position, pay, compensation, managers, working hours, and work location, that defines a worker's or nonworker's role in a legal employer.
assignment set
A group of sourcing rules, bills of distribution, or both, in which each rule or bill is assigned to an assignment level, and to attribute values for the attributes applicable to that assignment level. An assignment set defines a supply chain.
automatic assignment catalog
A non-hierarchical catalog to which categories that match the catalog's Catalog Structure value are automatically added. Add categories and share categories actions are disabled for this catalog configuration.
balancing segment
A chart of accounts segment used to automatically balance all journal entries for each value of this segment.
beneficiary
A person or organization designated to receive benefits from a compensation plan on the death of the plan participant.
bill of distribution
A multilevel specification of the means by which several, specific organizations can replenish items.
BPEL
Business Process Execution Language; a standard language for defining how to send XML messages to remote services, manipulate XML data structures, receive XML messages asynchronously from remote services, manage events and exceptions, define parallel sequences of execution, and undo parts of processes when exceptions occur.
browsing category
Parent or intermediate category that is associated with other categories in the catalog hierarchy, but has no assigned items.
business function
A business process, or an activity that can be performed by people working within a business unit and describes how a business unit is used.
business object
A resource in an enterprise database, such as an invoice or purchase order.
business unit
A unit of an enterprise that performs one or many business functions that can be rolled up in a management hierarchy.
calendar event
A period that signifies an event, such as a public holiday or a training course, that impacts worker availability.
catalog
A collection of categories used to classify items which can be organized into a hierarchy that represents a taxonomy.
category
Catalog component that is associated to a catalog to classify items.
chart of accounts
The account structure your organization uses to record transactions and maintain account balances.
condition
An XML filter or SQL predicate WHERE clause in a data security policy that specifies what portions of a database resource are secured.
context
A grouping of flexfield segments to store related information.
context segment
The flexfield segment used to store the context value. Each context value can have a different set of context-sensitive segments.
context-sensitive segment
A flexfield segment that may or may not appear depending upon a context such as other information that has been captured. Context-sensitive segments are custom attributes that apply to certain entity rows based on the value of the context segment.
contingent worker
A self-employed or agency-supplied worker. Contingent worker work relationships with legal employers are typically of a specified duration. Any person who has a contingent worker work relationship with a legal employer is a contingent worker.
continuous collection
An incremental, entity-specific method of collecting data from the Oracle Fusion source system into the order orchestration and planning data repository.
cost center
A unit of activity or group of employees used to assign costs for accounting purposes.
cost organization
A grouping of inventory organizations that indicates legal and financial ownership of inventory, and which establishes common costing and accounting policies.
country holding company
A legal entity that acts on behalf of several divisions within an enterprise, and is the legal employer in a country.
cumulative manufacturing lead time
The total amount of time needed to manufacture an item, assuming there is no availability of any raw material or components. The manufacturing time is added up from the primary routing of the item and all the subassemblies beneath it.
cumulative total lead time
The total lead time of an assembly plus the largest adjusted cumulative total lead time of its components.
data dimension
A stripe of data accessed by a data role, such as the data controlled by a business unit.
data instance set
The set of human capital management (HCM) data, such as one or more persons, organizations, or payrolls, identified by an HCM security profile.
data role
A role for a defined set of data describing the job a user does within that defined set of data. A data role inherits job or abstract roles and grants entitlement to access data within a specific dimension of data based on data security policies. A type of enterprise role.
data role template
A template used to generate data roles by specifying which base roles to combine with which dimension values for a set of data security policies.
data security
The control of access to data. Data security controls what action a user can taken against which data.
data security policy
A grant of entitlement to a role on an object or attribute group for a given condition.
database resource
An applications data object at the instance, instance set, or global level, which is secured by data security policies.
department
A division of a business enterprise dealing with a particular area of activity.
descriptive flexfield
Customizable expansion space, such as fields used to capture additional descriptive information or attributes about an entity, such as customer cases. Information collection and storage may be configured to vary based on conditions or context.
determinant
A value that determines which reference data set will be used in a specific business context.
determinant type
Designates the field within transactional columns that controls how data is shared across organizations such as business unit, asset book, cost organization or project unit. The type determines the reference data sets that would be used in a transaction.
determinant type
An additional and optional field within transactional columns (besides category and application) that is used to assign document sequences. The available determinant types are Business Unit, Ledger, Legal Entity, and Tax Registration.
determinant value
A value specific to the determinant type dimension of a document sequence. The determinant value is relevant in a document sequence assignment only if the document sequence has a determinant type. If Ledger is the determinant type for a document sequence, the determinant value is the specific ledger number whose documents are numbered by the document sequence.
division
A business-oriented subdivision within an enterprise. Each division is organized to deliver products and services or address different markets.
document sequence
A unique number that is automatically or manually assigned to a created and saved document.
document type
A categorization of person documents that provides a set of options to control what document information to retain, who can access the documents, whether the documents require approval, and whether the documents are subject to expiry. A document type exists for a combination of document category and subcategory.
duty role
A group of function and data privileges representing one duty of a job. Duty roles are specific to applications, stored in the policy store, and shared within an Oracle Fusion Applications instance.
enterprise
An organization with one or more legal entities under common control.
enterprise role
Abstract, job, and data roles are shared across the enterprise. An enterprise role is an LDAP group. An enterprise role is propagated and synchronized across Oracle Fusion Middleware, where it is considered to be an external role or role not specifically defined within applications.
entitlement
Grants of access to functions and data. Oracle Fusion Middleware term for privilege.
ESS
Acronym for Enterprise Storage Server. An application that optimizes data storage.
extensible flexfield
Customizable expansion space, as with descriptive flexfields, but able to capture multiple sets of information within a context and multiple contexts grouped to appear in a named region of a user interface page. Some extensible flexfields allow grouping contexts into categories.
feature choice
A selection you make when configuring offerings that modifies a setup task list, or a setup page, or both.
flexfield
Grouping of extensible data fields called segments, where each segment is an attribute added to an entity for capturing additional information.
flexfield segment
An extensible data field that represents an attribute on an entity and captures a single atomic value corresponding to a predefined, single extension column in the Oracle Fusion Applications database. A segment appears globally or based on a context of other captured information.
function security
The control of access to a page or a specific widget or functionality within a page. Function security controls what a user can do.
global area
The region across the top of the user interface. It provides access to features and tools that are relevant to any page you are on.
global entity
An entity for which a single value is stored for all source systems when instances of the entity are collected and stored in the order orchestration and planning data repository.
global sourcing rule
A sourcing rule that is applicable to every organization.
grade
A component of the employment model that defines the level of compensation for a worker.
HCM
Abbreviation for Human Capital Management.
HCM data role
A job role, such as benefits administrator, associated with specified instances of Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management (HCM) data, such as one or more positions or all persons in a department.
HCM securing object
An HCM object that secures access to both its own data and data in other, related objects. For example, access to a specified set of person records can allow access to data secured by person records, such as goal plans and evaluations.
identity
A person representing a worker, supplier, or customer.
inventory organization
An organization that tracks inventory transactions and balances, and can manufacture or distribute products.
item master
A collection of data that describes items and their attributes recorded in a database file.
item organization
Item definition where inventory balances are not stored and movement of inventory is not tracked in the applications. Item attributes that carry financial and accounting information are hidden.
Items
Entries within the Product master database. For example, items for a manufacturing company can include nuts, bolts, and screws.
JAR
Abbreviation for JAVA archive.
job
A generic role that is independent of any single department or location. For example, the jobs Manager and Consultant can occur in many departments.
job role
A role for a specific job consisting of duties, such as an accounts payable manager or application implementation consultant. A type of enterprise role.
key flexfield
Configurable key consisting of multiple parts or segments, each of which may be meaningful individually or in combination with the others. Key flexfields are commonly implemented to represent part numbers and account numbers.
key flexfield segment instance
A single occurrence of a key flexfield segment in a key flexfield structure instance.
key flexfield structure
The arrangement of segments in a key flexfield. In some cases, multiple structures can be defined for a single key flexfield.
key flexfield structure instance
A single occurrence of a key flexfield structure that shares the same order of segments as every other instance of the key flexfield structure, but uses different value sets to validate the segments.
legal employer
A legal entity that employs people.
legal entity
An entity is identified and given rights and responsibilities under commercial law, through the registration with the country's appropriate authority.
legal reporting unit
The lowest level component of a legal structure that requires registrations. Used to group workers for the purpose of tax and social insurance reporting or represent a part of your enterprise with a specific statutory or tax reporting obligation.
legislative data group
A means of partitioning payroll and related data. At least one legislative data group is required for each country where the enterprise operates. Each legislative data group is associated with one or more payroll statutory units.
line of business
Set of one or more highly related products which service a particular customer transaction or business need. Refers to an internal corporate business unit.
local sourcing rule
A sourcing rule that is applicable to one, and only one, specific organization.
lookup code
A value available for lookup within a lookup type such as the code BLUE within the lookup type COLORS.
lookup type
A set of lookup codes to be used together as a list of values on a field in the user interface.
mainline
A branch of data that serves as a single source of truth.
managed person
In Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management security, a person for whom the user can maintain some information. For example, line managers can maintain information about their direct and indirect reports, and workers can maintain information about themselves, their dependents, and their beneficiaries.
native catalog
A catalog that a user is managing.
offering
A comprehensive grouping of business functions, such as Sales or Product Management, that is delivered as a unit to support one or more business processes.
orchestration order
Fulfillment-oriented representation of a source sales order. When a sales order enters Oracle Fusion Distributed Order Orchestration it is transformed to an orchestration order.
orchestration process
A sequence of steps that takes one or more fulfillment lines through the fulfillment process.
order orchestration and planning data repository
The set of data collected from source systems and stored for use by order orchestration and order promising processes.
OWLCS
Abbreviation for Oracle WebLogic Communication Services. Offers the TPCC service to Fusion applications and sets up the calls via SIP integration with the telephony network.
payroll statutory unit
A legal entity registered to report payroll tax and social insurance. A legal employer can also be a payroll statutory unit, but a payroll statutory unit can represent multiple legal employers.
pending worker
A person who will be hired or start a contingent worker placement and for whom you create a person record that is effective before the hire or start date.
person type
A subcategory of a system person type, which the enterprise can define. Person type is specified for a person at the employment-terms or assignment level.
personally identifiable information
Any piece of information that can potentially be used to uniquely identify, contact, or locate a single person. Within the context of an enterprise, some PII data can be considered public, such as a person's name and work phone number, while other PII data is confidential, such as national identifier or passport number.
PL/SQL
Abbreviation for procedural structured queried language.
position
A specific occurrence of one job, fixed within one department, also often one location. For example, the position Finance Manager is an instance of the job Manager in the Finance Department.
primary ledger
Main record-keeping ledger.
privilege
A grant or entitlement of access to functions and data. A privilege is a single, real world action on a single business object.
processing constraints
Rule that controls which changes can be made to an orchestration order, by whom, and when.
profile option
User preferences and system configuration options consisting of a name and a value, that can be set at hierarchical levels of an enterprise. Also called a profile or user option.
profile option level
A level at which profile option values are defined. Site, product, and user are predefined levels.
profile option level hierarchy
The ordering of profile option levels. The order of the levels in the hierarchy determines which levels take precedence.
profile option value
The value portion of a profile option's name and value. A profile option may have multiple values set at different levels, such as site or user.
PSTN
Abbreviation for public switched telephone network which is the network of the world's public circuit-switched telephone networks.
public person
In Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management security, a person for whom some basic information is publicly available. For example, users typically access the contact details of public persons, such as phone numbers and locations, using the person gallery.
reference data
Data in application tables that is not transactional and not high-volume such as sales methods, transaction types, or payment terms, and can be shared and used across organizational boundaries.
reference data set
Contains reference data that can be shared across a number of business units or other determinant types. A set supports common administration of that reference data.
reference group
A logical grouping of tables that correspond to logical entities such as payment terms defined across multiple tables or views. Grouping establishes common partitioning requirements across the entities causing them to share the same set assignments.
referenced category
A category within the native catalog that is shared from a designated source catalog. A reference category is not editable.
role
Controls access to application functions and data.
role hierarchy
Structure of roles to reflect an organization's lines of authority and responsibility. In a role hierarchy, a parent role inherits all the entitlement of one or more child roles.
role mapping
A relationship between one or more job roles, abstract roles, and data roles and one or more conditions. Depending on role-mapping options, the role can be provisioned to or by users with at least one assignment that matches the conditions in the role mapping.
role provisioning
The automatic or manual allocation of an abstract role, a job role, or a data role to a user.
sandbox
A runtime session that commits changes out of reach of mainline users.
security profile
A set of criteria that identifies one or more human capital management (HCM) objects of a single type for the purposes of securing access to those objects. Security profiles can be defined for persons, organizations, positions, countries, LDGs, document types, payrolls, payroll flows, and workforce business processes.
security reference implementation
Predefined function and data security in Oracle Fusion Applications, including role based access control, and policies that protect functions, data, and segregation of duties. The reference implementation supports identity management, access provisioning, and security enforcement across the tools, data transformations, access methods, and the information life cycle of an enterprise.
segregation of duties
An internal control to prevent a single individual from performing two or more phases of a business transaction or operation that could result in fraud.
set
Reference data that is organized into groups appropriate to organizational entities, to enable reference data sharing.
set enabled
An entity, such as a lookup, customer, location, organization, or document attachment, that is allowed to participate in reference data sharing by drawing on the data of a reference data set.
shared category
A category within a source catalog that has been added to a native catalog as a referenced category. The category can be shared with one or more catalogs.
SOA
Abbreviation for service-oriented architecture.
source system
Any point of origin with integrated, cohesive business application data from which fulfillment data, or planning data, or both, can be extracted into data files.
source-specific entity
An entity for which a record is stored for each instance in each source system when data is collected and stored in the order orchestration and planning data repository. The stored data includes which source system the record was collected from.
sourcing assignment level
The scope, or level of granularity, for which a sourcing rule or bill of distribution is applicable when assigned within a specific assignment set.
sourcing rule
A specification of the means by which organizations can replenish items.
SQL predicate
A type of condition using SQL to constrain the data secured by a data security policy.
staging tables upload
The final step in the extract, store in staging tables, and upload from staging tables, method of collecting data from an external source system into the order orchestration and planning data repository. The upload can be performed as a targeted or net change upload.
step
Building block of an orchestration process definition that specifies which task layer service to call or which subprocess to launch. Each step contains definitions of the task type, task, and service. Branching is also specified in the step. Tasks are made up of one or more steps.
system person type
A fixed name that the application uses to identify a group of people.
targeted collection
A periodic, full-refresh, entity-specific method of collecting data from an Oracle Fusion source system into the order orchestration and planning data repository. A targeted collection completely replaces all data in the data repository for each entity included in the collection cycle.
task
Representation of a fulfillment task that Oracle Fusion Distributed Order Orchestration requests in a fulfillment system, for example, Invoice or Reservation. A task can have multiple orchestration process steps.
territory
A legally distinct region that is used in the country field of an address.
total lead time
The time required to procure or manufacture an item. For manufactured assemblies, total lead time equals the time required to manufacture the item from its components on the primary routing, assuming infinite availability of components.
tree
Information or data organized for display into a hierarchy with one or more root nodes connected to branches of nodes. Each node corresponds to data from one or more data sources. A tree must have a structure.
tree structure
Characteristics applied to trees, such as what data to include or how the tree is versioned and accessed.
tree version
An instance of a tree. If a tree is associated with a reference data set, all versions belong to one set. Includes life cycle elements such as start and end date and a status indicator whether the tree is active or not.
value set
A set of valid values against which values entered by an end user are validated. The set may be tree structured (hierarchical).
Web service upload
An incremental, entity-specific method of collecting data from an external source system into the order orchestration and planning data repository.
work relationship
An association between a person and a legal employer, where the worker type determines whether the relationship is a nonworker, contingent worker, or employee work relationship.
workforce business process
A defined sequence of tasks, registered for the enterprise, that delivers a major business goal. The tasks may be allocated to multiple roles across multiple products.
XML filter
A type of condition using XML to constrain the data secured by a data security policy.