NEW FEATURES IN ORACLE EBS 12.2.4

Main new features in Oracle EBS 12.2.4 include:

• Oracle Financials: Faster invoice approval cycles and integration with Oracle Revenue Management Cloud.

• Oracle Projects: Improved cash flow, transparency, auditing and automated billing in Oracle Project Contracts and Oracle Project Billing.

• Oracle Purchasing: Improved buyer productivity with large orders due to Web ADI-enabled spreadsheet creation and modification of purchase order line, schedules and distributions.

• Oracle iProcurement: Employees can quickly complete shopping activities and begin the requisition approval process thanks to newly streamlined single-step checkout flow.

• Oracle Channel Revenue Management: Quickly adapt to changing business conditions thanks to streamlined user interface and improved volume offer capabilities.

• Oracle Enterprise Asset Management: Improved productivity for linear assets for various industries and public sector.

• Oracle Payroll: One stop views of entire payroll cycle which allows payroll administrators to gain valuable insight into payroll processes, allowing them to avoid costly errors and improve productivity.

To further help organizations transform supply chains from a functional necessity to a competitive advantage, the latest release of Oracle E-Business Suite includes the following supply chain management (SCM) enhancements:

Oracle Order Management: A new HTML user interface provides improved usability, greater flexibility, and a more modern user experience.

Oracle Yard Management: A new solution enables manufacturing, distribution, and asset-intensive organizations to manage and track the flow of trailers and their contents into, within, and out of the yards of distribution centers, production campuses, transportation terminals, and other facilities.

Oracle Manufacturing: Significant usability improvements in the Oracle Manufacturing Execution System (MES) help improve operator productivity by simplifying time entry and quality collection. New capabilities to manage the auto-dekit (disassembly) of serialized products supports customer returns and internal reuse of component parts.

Oracle Enterprise Asset Management: Enhancements to support linear assets in industries, such as oil and gas, utilities, and public sector, help improve productivity and retire costly integrations and custom code.

Oracle Service: Enhanced spare parts planner’s dashboard provides rich user interaction to improve planner productivity.

Oracle Value Chain Planning: Numerous enhancements across multiple products include deeper industry functionality, such as minimum remaining shelf-life enhancements for the pharmaceutical and consumer goods industries, multistage production synchronization for process industries, and integration between Oracle Service Parts Planning and Oracle Enterprise Asset Management for asset-intensive industries. New promotions planning analytics in Oracle Advanced Planning Command Center improve business insight.

To help organizations further modernize Human Capital Management (HCM) practices, the latest release of Oracle E-Business Suite includes:

Oracle Payroll: Payroll dashboard provides at-a-glance readiness checks, validation, and analytical views of the entire payroll cycle to help payroll administrators gain valuable insight into payroll processes, avoid costly errors, and improve productivity.

Oracle Self-Service Human Resources: Transaction dashboard helps employees and managers monitor the approval progress of self-service transactions, and review transaction details at any point after final approval.

Oracle Learning Management: Enhanced user interface simplifies the learner’s ability to search the training catalog, engage in learning activities, and share experiences with fellow learners.

To enable improved user productivity across the applications, the latest release of Oracle E-Business Suite incorporates these current UI design trends:

Optimizations for touch screen tablets, including larger buttons and support for touch gestures.

Support for users to hide/show table columns and save changes as a user personalization.

A simplified home page with colorful icons allows users to easily access favorite functions, and a streamlined universal global header provides easy access to common functions from any page.

More fine-grained proxy access gives users greater control over delegating their Oracle E-Business Suite authority to other users.

Better UI For You
The mobile revolution has brought UI to the center stage. We spend our days critiquing the UIs that surround us; those on our devices and those on desktop screens. Oracle is aware of this and 12.2.4 includes these UI enhancements:
• Larger buttons and touch gesture support for tablets
• Ability to hide or show table columns and save changes as a user personalization
• Colorful icons added to the homepage, so you can easily access your favorites and common functions from any page.

Many Paths to 12.2.4
To get to 12.2.4 you need to first upgrade to the base version of12.2 (whether coming from 11i, 12.0 or 12.1), and from there patch your way to 12.2.4.

I leave you with the show-stopper. Thanks for the on-line patching capability introduced in release 12.2, you can also patch to EBS 12.2.4 whiel 12.2 is running without any down time requirement