This chapter covers the following topics:
Oracle Sales depends on other Oracle applications to provide additional functionality. Some of these are mandatory dependencies that are required for Oracle Sales to function properly.
Oracle Sales requires that the following applications be completely installed and implemented:
Oracle Applications Framework: Provides the framework and user interface for Oracle Sales. Enables personalization of the Oracle Sales user interface. To learn more about the Oracle Applications Framework, see the guides available through the Oracle Application Framework Documentation Resources.
Oracle General Ledger: Provides daily conversion rates for currency conversion. Refer to the Oracle General Ledger User Guide for complete setup information.
Oracle Inventory: Provides all product information. Refer to the Oracle Inventory User's Guide for complete setup information.
Oracle Product Hub: Provides product category and product hierarchy information. Refer to the Oracle Product Hub User's Guide for complete setup information.
Oracle Trading Community Architecture: Provides customer and contact information. Refer to the Oracle Trading Community Architecture Administration Guide.
Oracle CRM Application Foundation: Refer to the Oracle Applications CRM System Administration Guide.
Oracle Common Application Calendar: Provides calendar, notes, and tasks information. Refer to the Oracle Common Application Calendar Implementation Guide.
Conditional dependencies are modules or applications that you must set up if you want to expose a particular feature of Oracle Sales. For example, for your users to see partner information, you must implement Oracle Partners.
Oracle Marketing: Provides marketing campaign data and competitor information. Refer to the Oracle Marketing Implementation Guide for complete setup information.
Oracle Order Management:
Total Ordered Amount for the Top Customers bin is dependent on Oracle Order Management.
Revenue amounts for the account plan revenue objectives are dependent on Oracle Order Management.
Oracle Proposals: Allows sales representatives to create customized proposals to distribute to customers. Refer to the Oracle Proposals Implementation Guide for setup information.
Oracle Quoting: Allows sales representatives to create quotes from opportunities and enables sales supplement creation for sales coach, account plan, and contact strategic information. Refer to the Oracle Quoting Implementation Guide for setup information.
Oracle Partners: Provides sales representatives with the capability to determine the sales channel for a lead or opportunity and customer external sales team. Refer to the Oracle Partner Management Implementation Guide for setup information.
Oracle Projects: Provides visibility of projects related to specific opportunities. Refer to the Oracle Projects Implementation Guide for setup information.
Oracle Incentive Compensation: Provides information on sales commissions, year to date summaries, earnings statements, and attainment summaries. Refer to the Oracle Incentive Compensation Implementation Guide for setup information.
Oracle Service: Provides a list of all customer's service requests. Refer to the Oracle Field Service Implementation Guide for setup information.
Oracle Service Contracts: Provides service contract details for service items. Refer to the Oracle Service Contracts Implementation Guide for complete setup information.
Oracle Territory Manager: Assigns sales teams to leads, opportunities, and customers based on sales territory definitions. Refer to the Oracle Territory Manager Implementation Guide for complete setup information.
Oracle Sales Offline: Provides sales representatives with mobile sales information management functionality. Refer to the Oracle Sales Offline Implementation Guide for complete setup information.
Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator: On the Forecast page (through the Export Opportunities button), you can download opportunities into a Web Applications Desktop Integrator (Web ADI) driven spreadsheet with download capability. Refer to the Web Applications Desktop Integrator Implementation Guide for details.
Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher: Used for the printing of sales coach and account plan output. Refer to the Business Intelligence Publisher User Guide for details.
Oracle Sales for Handhelds: Provides e-mail interactions for customers that are organizations and also for contacts. It also synchronizes Oracle Sales calender with external calenders. Refer to the Oracle Sales for Handhelds Implementation Guide for details.