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Table of Contents
1.
Disclaimer
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Introduction
2.1.
Purpose of document
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3.1.
3.2.
3.3.
3.1.1. Overview
3.1.2. V.4
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Initial Release
3.1.3. V.6
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Advanced Project Planning and Controls to Manage Inevitable Change
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3.2.2. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6)
3.2.2.1.
Marking encumbrance items for burden recalculation
3.2.3. Release 12.1.1
3.2.3.1.
Award budgeting enhancements
3.2.3.1.1. Budget period validations
3.2.3.1.2. Automatic summarization of project budgets
3.2.3.1.3. Budget Line Sorting Option
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Award status inquiry enhancements
3.2.3.2.1. View by budget period
3.2.3.2.2. GL and PA date parameters on find expenditure items window
3.2.3.2.3. GL date parameters on find commitments window
3.2.4. Release 12.1.2
3.2.4.1.
Federal Financial Report (FFR)
3.2.5. Release 12.2
3.2.5.1.
Payables Integration Enhancement Support for Self Assessed Tax
3.2.6. Release 12.2.4
3.2.6.1.
Burden Rounding for Sponsored Projects
3.2.7. Release 12.2.5
3.2.7.1.
Burden Rounding
3.2.7.2.
Award Number Display for Grants Reporting
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3.3.2. Release 12.1.1
3.3.2.1.
Cascading Billing Schedule Overrides
3.3.2.2.
Agreement Definition Enhancements
3.3.2.3.
Prepayment Receipt Applications
3.3.2.4.
Federal Budgetary Accounting for Project Revenue
3.3.2.5.
Date Effective Funds Consumption
3.3.2.6.
MGT: Invoice Review Performance Improvements
3.3.2.7.
MGT: Unbilled Receivables Aging
3.3.3. Release 12.2
3.3.3.1.
Standard Invoicing for Adjusted Transactions
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3.3.3.2.
UBR/UER as Control Accounts
3.3.4. Release 12.2.4
3.3.4.1.
Enhanced Projects Intercompany Processing
3.3.4.2.
Invoice by Bill Group
3.3.4.3.
Contract Based Project Billing
3.3.4.3.1. Cost Plus Fixed Fee Contracts
3.3.4.3.2. Fixed Price Progress Payment Contracts
3.3.4.4.
Invoice Consolidation
3.3.4.5.
HTML Based Project Agreements
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Revenue Hold
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On Account Credits for Intercompany Invoicing
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3.4.2. Release 12.1.3+
3.4.2.1.
Copy Status when Creating a Contract from Template
3.4.2.2.
User Attributes Validation
3.4.2.3.
Provide Contract Access to Contingent Workers
3.4.2.4.
Project Contracts Public APIs
3.4.3. Release 12.2.4
3.4.3.1.
Federal Contract Billing
3.4.4. Release 12.2.5
3.4.4.1.
Project Contracts Validation Framework
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Schedule of Values
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3.5.2. Release 12.1.1
3.5.2.1.
Federal Budgetary Accounting for Project Expenditures
3.5.2.2.
Contingency Worker Clearing Projects
3.5.2.3.
Additional Project Information in Oracle Time and Labor
3.5.3. Release 12.1.3+
3.5.3.1.
Improved Usability and Audit of Funds Check
3.5.4. Release 12.2
3.5.4.1.
Labor Costing Enhancements
3.5.4.1.1. Costing with HR Rates with Support for Multiple Rates per Employee
3.5.4.1.2. New OTL Timecard Layout to Support Rate by Criteria
3.5.4.1.3. Total Time Reporting for Exempt Employees
3.5.4.1.4. Labor Costing using Payroll Actuals
3.5.4.1.5. Labor Cost Accruals
3.5.4.1.6. Expenditure Batch Reversal Program
3.5.4.2.
CMRO Integration Enhancements
3.5.4.3.
Payables Integration Enhancement Support for Self Assessed Tax
3.5.4.4.
Enhanced Cost Collection by Cost Code
3.5.4.5.
Period Close
3.5.5. Release 12.2.5
3.5.5.1.
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3.6.2. V.1.1.0
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Mobile Application Foundation Updates
3.6.2.2.
Accessibility Improvements
3.6.3. V.1.2.0
3.6.3.1.
Android Support
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Mobile Foundation Release 3.0 Updates
3.6.4. V.1.3.0
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Mobile Foundation Release 4.0 Updates
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Translation Support
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3.7.1. Overview
3.7.2. Release 12.1.1
3.7.2.1.
New Purge Process for Obsolete Project Data
3.7.2.2.
iSetup
3.7.2.3.
Improved Diagnostics
3.7.3. Release 12.1.2
3.7.3.1.
Enhanced Project List Page
3.7.3.1.1. Main Project List Region
3.7.3.1.2. Worklist and Notification Regions
3.7.3.1.3. Report Views Region
3.7.3.1.4. Bookmarks Region
3.7.3.2.
Streamlined Searches
3.7.3.3.
New Hover Pop Up Windows
3.7.4. Release 12.1.3
3.7.4.1.
Enhanced Project List Page
3.7.4.2.
Enhanced Diagnostics
3.7.4.3.
Delete/Correct PA Periods
3.7.4.4.
Transaction Control Public API
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3.8.2. Release 12.1.1
3.8.2.1.
New Audit Process for Project Performance Reporting Setup
3.8.2.2.
New Parameters for Refresh Project Performance Data Process
3.8.2.3.
Workplan Enhancements
3.8.2.3.1. Ability to Delete Published Workplan Versions
3.8.2.3.2. Usability Enhancements
3.8.2.3.3. New Public API for Creating, Maintaining, and Deleting Programs
3.8.2.4.
Budgeting and Forecasting Enhancements
3.8.2.4.1. Enhanced Automatic Calculation and Derivation Logic
3.8.2.4.2. Enhanced Handling of Override Rates on Budget / Forecast Lines
3.8.2.4.3. Simplified Addition of Planning Elements and Resources
3.8.2.5.
Self Service Expenditure Inquiry
3.8.2.6.
Reporting Pack for Generation and Distribution of XML Publisher Reports
3.8.2.7.
Budget Integration with Federal Budget Execution and/or 3rd Party Budget
3.8.2.8.
Microsoft Project 2007 Certification
3.8.2.9.
Project Performance Reporting: Additional Measures
3.8.2.10.
Project Performance Reporting: Inter-Project Revenue / Billing Amounts
3.8.2.11.
Supplier Cost Dashboard
3.8.2.12.
Subcontractor Payment Controls
3.8.2.12.1. Support for Pay when Paid Scenarios
3.8.2.12.2. Payment Controls for Subcontract Deliverables
3.8.3. Release 12.1.2
3.8.3.1.
Reporting Performance Improvements
3.8.3.2.
MSP Integration Enhancements
3.8.3.2.1. Download Baseline Cost
3.8.3.2.2. Download Period to Date/Year to Date Cost
3.8.3.3.
Enhanced Change Management
3.8.3.3.1. Streamlined Control Item Definition
3.8.3.3.2. New Supplier Impact Region
3.8.3.3.3. Document Versioning
3.8.3.3.4. Potential Change Order Report for Customer Approval
3.8.3.3.5. Task Creation to Track Change Order Work and Costs
3.8.3.3.6. New Search Capabilities
3.8.3.4.
Project Manager Dashboard for Maintenance of Procurement Deliverables
3.8.3.5.
Improved Supplier Invoice Payment Controls
3.8.3.6.
Deductions to Subcontractor Invoices
3.8.3.7.
Project Security within Oracle Purchasing
3.8.3.8.
Planning by Fiscal Calendars
3.8.3.9.
Planning by Manual Entry
3.8.3.10.
Spread Curve Updates via Task Assignment API
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Default Option to Allow Assignment Same As Task Duration
3.8.4. Release 12.1.3
3.8.4.1.
Reporting Performance Improvements
3.8.4.2.
MSP Integration Enhancements
3.8.4.2.1. Support for Non-Shared Task Based Mapping structures
3.8.4.2.2. Support for Partially Shared structure
3.8.4.3.
Enhanced Change Management
3.8.4.3.1. Enhanced Cost & Revenue Planning for Change Documents
3.8.4.4.
Enhanced Retention Invoice Processing for Outstanding Project Deductions
3.8.5. Release 12.2
3.8.5.1.
Planning with HR Rates
3.8.5.2.
Updated Rates when Generating Forecast from the Workplan
3.8.5.3.
Planning without Resource Classes
3.8.5.4.
Planning by Cost Breakdown Structure
3.8.6. Release 12.2.4
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Usability: Project Creation and Control Enhancements
3.8.6.1.1. Enhanced Options when Creating New Projects
3.8.6.1.2. Improved Budgeting and Forecasting Page Navigation
3.8.6.1.3. Workplan and Financial Plan Summary
3.8.6.2.
Update Financial Attributes
3.8.6.3.
Move Tasks across Top Tasks
3.8.7. Release 12.2.5
3.8.7.1.
Planning by Cost Breakdown Structure for Intercompany and Interproject Billing
3.8.7.2.
Project Performance Reporting
3.8.7.3.
Plan, Execute, Monitor & Control Unit Rate Based Projects
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Budgetary Controls for Financial Plans
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Enable Projects for Procurement Planning
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Create and Manage Project Procurement Plans
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Project Management Command Center View
3.9.2.4.
Project Buyer Command Center View
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Item Analysis
3.9.2.6.
Supplier Analysis
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Viewing At-Completion Amounts
3.10.2.2.
Choosing Displayed Currency
3.10.2.3.
Reporting Plan Type Data in Context
3.10.3. Release 12.1.1
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Resource Search by eMail Address
3.10.3.2.
Resource Search by Person Type
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Streamlined Navigation on Staffing Home
3.10.3.4.
Cross Validation of Project and Assignment Dates
3.10.3.5.
Defaulting of Work Patterns From and To Dates
3.10.3.6.
Improved Exception Handling of Maintain Project Resources Process
3.10.3.7.
New Public APIs for Resource Management
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Organization Authority: Obsolete Forecast Authority
3.10.4. Release 12.1.2
3.10.4.1.
Update of Start and End Dates for Multiple Requirements
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Select Multiple Roll Ups in a Personalized View
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Support for Schedule Shifts while Maintaining Work Patterns
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Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12.1 and 12.2 Release Content Document
1.
Disclaimer
This Release Content Document (RCD) describes product features that are proposed for
the specified release of the Oracle E-Business Suite. This document describes new or
changed functionality only. Existing functionality from prior releases is not described. It
is intended solely to help you assess the business benefits of upgrading to the specified
release of the Oracle E-Business Suite.
This document in any form, software or printed matter, contains proprietary information
that is the exclusive property of Oracle. Your access to and use of this confidential
material is subject to the terms and conditions of your Oracle Software License and
Service Agreement, which has been executed and with which you agree to comply. This
document and information contained herein may not be disclosed, copied, reproduced or
distributed to anyone outside Oracle without prior written consent of Oracle. This
document is not part of your license agreement nor can it be incorporated into any
contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates.
This document is for informational purposes only and is intended solely to assist you in
planning for the implementation and upgrade of the product features described. It is not a
commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon
in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or
functionality described in this document remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.
Due to the nature of the product architecture, it may not be possible to safely include all
features described in this document without risking significant destabilization of the code.
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Purpose of document
2.
Introduction
2.1.
Purpose of document
This Release Content Document (RCD) communicates information about new or changed
functionality introduced in Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12.1 and 12.2, and in
subsequent Release Update Packs (RUPs) and off-cycle patches. For your convenience,
it also includes new or changed functionality introduced in the RUPs for Release 12,
including 12.0.2 through 12.0.7.
The features and enhancements described in this document are grouped by product, and
then by the release in which they first became available, for example, Release 12.1.1.
Features released in an off-cycle patch have a special designation for example, a feature
released after 12.1.1, but before 12.1.2, is designated as Release 12.1.1+.
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Purpose of document
3.
Overview
Oracle Advanced Project Planning and Control, formerly known as Oracle Project
Management Extensions for Oracle Endeca, provides Project Managers and their teams
with clear insight into their project status and results to identify potential issues early so
they can proactively take quick, corrective action. This need is even greater for large
projects with complex workplans or project structures with numerous resources to
manage.
3.1.2.
V.4
3.1.2.1. Initial Release
Project Managers and their teams need clearer insight into their project status and results
to identify potential issues early so they can take proactive, corrective actions quickly.
This need is even greater for large projects with complex workplans or project structures
and numerous resources to manage. Endeca Extension help Project Managers avoid
schedule delays by warning them of late tasks before they affect project deadlines and
budgets, and allowing them to act on tasks that are behind schedule to keep projects on
track. Endeca Extensions can help Project Managers improve their productivity by
identifying and updating required progress and schedule changes quickly, making
progress or schedule changes consistently across tasks and providing the ability to update
multiple financial plans at the same time. The extensions can also help reduce project risk
by identifying tasks with financial risk and enabling efficient investigation and update
plans to avoid financial impacts.
The extensions include new overview pages for projects, workplans, financial plans and
expenditures. The new overview pages use Endeca technology to provide flexible and
robust searching and guided navigation, intelligent information about the project status or
results such as charts and graphs and configurable table layouts to make finding
information quick and easy. New Oracle Project Planning and Control pages are
seamlessly integrated to allow you to select information from the Endeca overview pages
and make efficient updates to workplan tasks and financial plans.
3.1.3.
V.6
Starting with Release 12.2.5, Oracle Project Management Extensions for Oracle Endeca
is renamed as Oracle Advanced Project Planning and Control.
3.1.3.1. Advanced Project Planning and Controls to Manage Inevitable Change
The project management team requires a flexible collaboration across the entire project to
plan, execute, inform and manage the delivery of optimal results. Change is inevitable
through the life of a contract. A big challenge for managers responsible for project plans
and control is not being able to access project performance measurements in a single
place with the appropriate tools to view and monitor project performance.
The project team is expected plan for project resources, time, and costs. Then, as the team
deploys resources, to execute the plan, the team is expected to track, monitor and control
progress and actual results across diverse project data generated by multiple systems
throughout their organization.
Advanced Project Planning and Control provides 360o view of the project and presents
key project performance indicators in an integrated command center. This enables Project
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managers to compile data, measure results, and analyze critical variables to monitor
metrics and identify deviations or alerts and drill down to source transactions to address
core issues. Once core issues are identified, Project Managers can inform the team,
enabling them to collaborate, communicate and adjust the plan to take corrective action to
resolve issues and mitigate risk.
The Advanced Project Planning and Control tool generates key performance indicators
(KPIs) that reduce the time and effort to monitor and control the project by providing
earned value metrics, project performance indicators, and resource performance
indicators. These KPIs and associated project data is generated through a structured
process to 1) ensure commitments are delivered in accordance to plan, 2) maintain cash
flow as planned, and 3) meet project objectives to deliver customer commitments with
expected value.
3.2.
Overview
Oracle Grants Accounting provides your organization with the ability to completely track
grants and funded projects from inception to final reporting. Oracle Grants Accounting
provides a fully integrated system that supports multi-funded projects and the required
compliance terms and conditions by award. Oracle Grants Accounting supports
validation of allowable costs as well as flexible budgetary controls to ensure fiscal
responsibility.
3.2.2.
Encumbrance items are marked for burden recalculation if either the indirect cost
schedule on the Compliances tab is updated or records are updated, inserted or deleted in
the Override Schedules window.
3.2.3.
Release 12.1.1
3.2.3.1. Award budgeting enhancements
3.2.3.1.1. Budget period validations
Budget periods will not be validated across award budgets when those awards fund a
single project. This provides the flexibility to establish award budgets based on the
actual duration of the award, while not being confined based on the existing budgets
already established for the project.
3.2.3.1.2. Automatic summarization of project budgets
that you can establish award budgets with any entry method and period definitions,
regardless of the previously created budgets for a project, the award budgets will still
automatically summarize to a project budget viewable in Project Status Inquiry. Two
profile options have been added to identify the budget entry methods that will be
used to summarize the project budgets.
3.2.3.1.3. Budget Line Sorting Option
For a budget that is established with date range periods, a sorting option is available
on the budget lines window. You can choose to sort the lines by Resource name, or
by effective dates. This provides the flexibility to view the budget lines by period or
by budgeted resource.
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3.2.4.
Release 12.1.2
3.2.4.1. Federal Financial Report (FFR)
Most federal grants require recipients to periodically submit reports on their grants
financial progress. In the United States, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
have consolidated the two most common financial reports, the Financial Status Report
(FSR or SF269/SF269A) and the Federal Cash Transaction Report (FCTR or SF
272/SF272A), into a single form. OMB is requiring that federal agencies transition to
the FFR by September 30, 2009.
To comply with this change, Oracle Grants Accounting has introduced a new FFR report.
To allow for easy transition, the Financial Status Report and the Federal Cash
Transaction Report are still available for use or for data verification.
3.2.5.
Release 12.2
3.2.5.1. Payables Integration Enhancement Support for Self Assessed Tax
Self assessed tax amounts are taxes for which a purchaser is liable. While the self
assessed tax amount is computed on the supplier invoice, it is not payable to the supplier.
In Release 12, E-Business Tax and Oracle Payables introduced new functionality to
calculate and store self-assessed tax amounts. These tax amounts are interfaced to Oracle
Grants Accounting and recorded as a project expense.
3.2.6.
Release 12.2.4
3.2.6.1. Burden Rounding for Sponsored Projects
Organizations may receive awards for various projects. To claim funds, the award
recipient needs to bill the sponsor for cost and overheads incurred. Any variation between
overheads calculated on cost and billing could result in audit objections. To meet these
regulatory and accounting reporting requirements easily, the revenue and invoice process
is enhanced to eliminate rounding differences and match invoice awards with actual
expenditures to the penny.
3.2.7.
Release 12.2.5
3.2.7.1. Burden Rounding
Standard accounting practices and regulations to comply with federal and nonfederal
sponsored projects require invoices to match award amounts. Burden and rounding
calculations can cause differences between the invoice amounts and the supporting
documentation for revenue and expenditures
The draft revenue and invoice processes (GMS: Generate Draft Revenue and GMS:
Generate Draft Invoice) have been enhanced to calculate the difference between the
burden transaction cost and the burden amount on the invoice to resolve any differences
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between the invoice and revenue amounts, existing . The differential rounding amount is
included in the revenue and invoice amounts to reconcile the award invoice amount with
the cost amount.
THIS FEATURE IS BACK-PORTED TO 12.1.3.
3.2.7.2. Award Number Display for Grants Reporting
Displaying the award number in transaction exception, costing and funds check reports
enables users to identify the appropriate award transaction for further processing.
Additional award information is displayed in the following reports:
GMS: Costing and Funds Check on Straight Time Labor for a Range of Projects
GMS: Distribute Supplier Cost Adjustments and Funds Check for a Range of
Projects
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3.3.
Overview
Oracle Project Billing helps improve cash flow and project profitability by streamlining
and managing your billing process. You can easily review and manage invoices, revenue,
and funding for all your projects.
This release focuses on key requirements of the U.S. Federal government, including
tracking and handling of reimbursable agreements, advance payments, and revenue
accounting. However, a majority of the features are available and will be beneficial to all
industries.
3.3.2.
Release 12.1.1
3.3.2.1. Cascading Billing Schedule Overrides
You can streamline the process of updating billing schedules information either for all
tasks in a project or for all subtasks of a task. To support this enhancement, two new
Tools menu options are available in the Billing Schedules window. When you update bill
rate or burden schedule information at a project level, you can choose to copy the updates
to the project tasks. When you update the billing schedules information for a summary
task, you can choose to copy the updates to all subtasks. In addition, when you choose a
copy option, you can select whether to apply the updates to all tasks, or to exclude tasks.
THIS FEATURE WAS ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 11.5.10 FP.M RUP3
3.3.2.2. Agreement Definition Enhancements
To better control billing against agreements and provide more information on
agreements, the following new agreement fields are available:
Billing sequence number: to control the order in which agreements are used for
billing purposes
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Project Status
Project Closed After Date
Project Range
3.3.3.
Project Status
Project Closed After Date
Project Range
Release 12.2
3.3.3.1. Standard Invoicing for Adjusted Transactions
Prior to this release when an expenditure item is adjusted after it has been billed, the
invoicing process will generate a credit memo to reverse the billing of the original item
and will then include the adjusted transaction on the next standard invoice. With this
release, the reversal transaction and the adjusted transaction can both be included on the
next standard invoice eliminating the creation of the credit memo.
To control processing behavior, a new attribute has been added to the billing set up form
at the project and task level. The valid values for the new attribute are as follows:
None (Default): Retain existing functionality. Create credit memos when any
expenditure item is adjusted after it has been billed.
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3.3.4.
Release 12.2.4
3.3.4.1. Enhanced Projects Intercompany Processing
Global organizations that execute projects across the world typically generate
intercompany transactions across legal entities. In EBS, multiple legal entities may be
defined within the same operating unit. Each entity is required to generate legal
documents and accounting to meet statutory requirements. For instance, the intercompany
transactions may be generated when a project managed by one legal entity requires the
goods or services to that belong to a second legal entity; or resources owned by the first
legal entity are used on a project that is owned by second legal entity.
Using enhanced projects intercompany processing you can borrow resources without risk
of statutory non-compliance, automate end to end flow, improve cash flow by billing
customers accurately, and minimize manual effort and cost of reconciling intercompany
transactions. The enhanced intercompany processing provides a method to generate legal
documentation for transactions spanning legal entities within the same operating unit.
The provider legal entity creates a Receivables invoice, which is interfaced as a Payables
invoice to the receiver legal entity.
3.3.4.2. Invoice by Bill Group
Customers may specify complex billing requirements for large projects or project
providers could break out bills to speed up collections. Some examples are
Invoicing is not based on financial plan (does not map to top tasks) e.g. project is
structured by building but bills are required separately for material and labor.
Travel expenses need to be billed separately from labor cost as they are
scrutinized in detail to speed up cash flow
Labor is billed weekly and material cost is billed monthly aligned to project
providers payment cycles
With the billing group enhancement you have flexibility to generate billing by user
criteria, bill to meet customer specific requirements, and improve cash flow, For instance,
when multiple billing clerks are assigned to a project they can create draft invoices
simultaneously, approve draft invoices in any order, release approved Invoices in the
order they are approved, and delete a single approved invoice. They can also process
invoice billing cycles at desired frequencies appropriate for the types of cost.
3.3.4.3. Contract Based Project Billing
For many companies, both commercial and government, the ability to invoice your
customer based on complex contract requirements is mandated. Oracle Project Contracts
provides the ability to enter detailed contract details and terms based on various
government and non-government regulations. For example, invoicing and payments for
federal contractors in the Aerospace and Defense industries are governed
by the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). Contracts defined by federal contractors
require detailed commercial payments terms that specify how invoices can be sent, how
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3.3.5.
Release 12.2.5
3.3.5.1. Revenue Hold
As circumstances change, users may require the flexibility to hold invoices until certain
expenditure items or events are resolved. Users can use the revenue hold option to place
selected transactions on hold to provide time for issues to be resolved. Since invoice
generation is dependent on revenue generation, revenue holds also prevent the generation
of invoices for the held expenditures.
THIS FEATURE IS BACK-PORTED TO 12.1.3.
3.3.5.2. On Account Credits for Intercompany Invoicing
Companies that utilize Projects throughout their global operations may be required to
process thousands of adjustments and credits to their intercompany billing on a monthly
basis. Processing credit memos for each adjustment and associating each credit memo to
the original invoice can be clerically intensive, causing inaccuracy and an inefficient use
of resources. This is particularly difficult when adjustments are made to expenditure bills
processed in a prior period and the original intercompany invoice has been paid.
With on-account credits, users are able to choose the optimal method to process
intercompany credit adjustments; they can either apply credit memos to the original
invoice or generate an on account credit. When the adjustment applies to prior periods,
using on account credits greatly reduces manual effort by eliminating the need to unapply each credit memo before netting the credit memo against the current billing period.
THIS FEATURE IS BACK-PORTED TO 12.1.3.
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3.4.
Overview
Oracle Project Contracts supports the contract management needs of project driven
organizations, including commercial and government contractors, agencies, and
subcontractors. These organizations operate in a project centric environment
characterized by:
Oracle Project Contracts addresses budgetary constraints, contract margins, flow down of
contract information to subcontractors, and prioritization of deliverables. The Contract
Organizer window provides a single entry point to access and define contract documents.
Through the Contract Organizer window, you can access different functional regions
including authoring, deliverable tracking, funding, hold management, contract revisions,
and other contract related activities.
3.4.2.
Release 12.1.3+
3.4.2.1. Copy Status when Creating a Contract from Template
Oracle Project Contracts allows users to copy the status specified on a Template while
creating a new contract from it. System provides the user with an option to achieve this.
This feature is forward-ported to 12.2.4.
3.4.2.2. User Attributes Validation
Oracle Project Contracts provides the capability for one to explicitly check the existence
of values for all mandatory User Attributes and their validity. This validation is carried
out across the entire contract document.
3.4.2.3. Provide Contract Access to Contingent Workers
Prior to this release, contingent workers were not provided direct access to contracts
within the application. Hence, organizations had to use workarounds in order to
effectively utilize their contingent work force, such as using regular employees access
information. This posed a big security threat for project based organizations.
Contingent workers can now be provided access to the contracts through the use of a
profile option OKE: Allow Contingent Workers. If this profile is set to Yes,
organizations would be able to provide access to contracts for the contingent workers.
THIS FEATURE IS FORWARD-PORTED TO 12.2.4.
3.4.2.4. Project Contracts Public APIs
Oracle Project Contracts offers a wide range of public APIs to carry out Create, Update
and Delete operations at various levels in the entire contract document, in addition to the
already existing APIs. With this release, users can update and delete contract header,
lines and deliverables. The APIs enable users to create, update and delete billing events
and user defined attributes. Users can also create and update contract parties and roles, as
well as update project status. These APIs will help in increasing the usability of the
application and productivity of the users.
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3.4.3.
Release 12.2.4
3.4.3.1. Federal Contract Billing
Federal contractors in the Defense and Aerospace sectors are governed by Federal
Acquisition Regulations, or FAR. Federal Contracts include the commercial terms
specifying how the contractors will receive payment, such as fixed price with progress
payments, cost plus fixed fee etc. Contractors need to generate bills and maintain the
required audit trail specified by FAR, in order to receive payments on time.
Oracle Project Contracts allows the storage of information related to Accounting Code
Reference Numbers (ACRNs), payment instructions etc., as well as enables users to
perform fund allocations using ACRNs. This information is then interfaced to Oracle
Project Billing in order to maintain the required audit trail.
In addition to this, Oracle Project Contracts supports the automatic fee percent
calculation as well as the ability to bill a contract using a project hierarchy. In this
release, Bill Group has been renamed to Consolidated Bill Group and provides
available data for contracts and for the purpose of invoicing. A consolidated bill group is
defined in Oracle Project Billing and can be used to group contract lines based on your
federal billing contract.
Federal Contract Billing uses an extension of the validation framework introduced within
Project Contracts. The validation framework, as detailed in the next section, uses a
seeded quality assurance check list and process specified for Federal Contracts, along
with the option to include additional validations related to Federal Contract Billing as
required. In addition to contract approval and modification, the validate document
action is automatically executed prior to agreement creation or funding update
completion.
3.4.4.
Release 12.2.5
3.4.4.1. Project Contracts Validation Framework
Oracle Project Contracts provides a Validation Framework for quality assurance of all
Project Contracts by the following two key entities:
The Quality Assurance Process includes validation rules defined by the user, while the
Quality Assurance Check List consists of either one Process or a combination of multiple
Processes as per the business requirements. Oracle Project Contracts provides a seeded
Quality Assurance Check List Default Project Contracts Quality Assurance Check
List which includes a seeded Quality Assurance Process Check User Attributes for
Project Contracts. With the help of this seeded Check List, users can easily find any
invalid values in the User Defined Attributes of a contract at both Contract Header and
Contract Line levels.
The Validation Framework provides the validation results to the user when its executed
against a Project Contract. This is initiated thru the Validate Document action in the
Authoring Workbench allowing the user to validate current contract. Besides, this
validation for quality assurance is also automatically executed before the start of the
approval of the contract and before the completion of a change request.
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Display of SOV type of the project associated with the current contract.
Validations have been added for project association, tasks selection and line
quantity changes.
Extended Validation Framework with the Seeded Quality Assurance Check List
and Processes specified for SOV related contracts, including the validation for
single customer association and inapplicable data.
A Project Contract or Contract Lines can only be terminated after due checks for
their availability for termination has been made with the related Project.
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3.5.
Overview
Oracle Project Costing helps you improve the bottom line of your projects by integrating
and controlling all project costs. You can effectively manager project budgets, streamline
processing, automate resource sharing administration and capitalize assets more
efficiently.
3.5.2.
Release 12.1.1
3.5.2.1. Federal Budgetary Accounting for Project Expenditures
Additional journal entry definitions are available in Oracle Subledger Accounting for the
Federal Budgetary entries required for cost accounting. Budgetary accounting entries can
be created for all expenditures imported, entered or adjusted in Oracle Projects.
3.5.2.2. Contingency Worker Clearing Projects
A new flag is available to identify a project as a contingency worker clearing project.
When this project is referenced on a Purchase Order, Oracle Time and Labor allows
contingency workers consuming that purchase order to charge time to any approved
project. This new functionality provides improved support for contingent workers who
are hired to work on multiple projects over the life of their engagement.
3.5.2.3. Additional Project Information in Oracle Time and Labor
The project views that control the display of project data in Oracle Time and Labor,
PA_ONLINE_PROJECTS_V and PA_ONLINE_TASKS_V, have been enhanced to
display the Project and Task Names as well as the Project and Task Numbers. Because
new columns have been added to the views, any customer who has customized the views
will need to ensure their customizations are updated to accommodate the new attributes.
3.5.3.
Release 12.1.3+
3.5.3.1. Improved Usability and Audit of Funds Check
Users can easily correct errors and speed up resolution of issues identified by the funds
check flow. Users can view balances in the enhanced Funds Check Balances screen that
displays summary balances for the project, and then drill down into the details of
commitments and actual expenses. The enhanced Funds Check Transaction Results
screen then provides the required corrective action to resolve the identified issue.
3.5.4.
Release 12.2
3.5.4.1. Labor Costing Enhancements
The following new features are provided to increase flexibility and reduce maintenance
overhead.
3.5.4.1.1. Costing with HR Rates with Support for Multiple Rates per Employee
A new rate source option of HR has been added to labor costing rules. When this
option is selected, labor rates will be derived from HR Rate by Criteria matrices.
Rate by Criteria is a feature within Oracle Human Resources (HR) that allows
multiple rates to be defined for an employee based on criteria such as the assigned
project or the type of work performed or the location where work occurred.
Rate by Criteria matrices can also be used to define prevailing rate tables in order to
comply with the Davis-Bacon Act. The Davis-Bacon and Related Acts apply to
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Task
1
1
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2
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Expend Type
Regular Pay
1-1/2 Pay
Regular Pay
Regular Pay
Regular Pay
Regular Pay
Total
SLF*
ST
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ST
ST
ST
ST
Date
07-Feb-05
07-Feb-05
08-Feb-05
09-Feb-05
10-Feb-05
11-Feb-05
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Expend Type
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BTC
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11-Feb-05
07-Feb-05
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3.5.5.
Release 12.2.5
3.5.5.1. Uncosted Expenditure Batch Correction Options
When expenditure batches are created or imported through custom transaction sources,
errors may be detected at any of several points in the expenditure entry process. Errors
may even be detected after a batch has been released. The option to Update Released
Expenditures enable users to update and/or correct uncosted and released expenditures
imported through custom transaction sources allows users to update and make data entry
corrections to pre-approved expenditure batches.
THIS FEATURE HAS BEEN BACK-PORTED TO 12.1.3
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3.6.
Overview
With Oracle Mobile Project Manager for Oracle E-Business Suite, project managers and
staff can monitor project status and take action on the go.
Collaborate in transaction context using device features like email, phone, and
text
Oracle Mobile Project Manager for Oracle E-Business Suite is compatible with Oracle EBusiness Suite 12.1.3 and 12.2.3 and above. To use this app, you must be a user of Oracle
Project Costing, with mobile services configured on the server side by your administrator.
Users of Oracle Project Billing and Oracle Project Planning and Control get additional
capability for customer billing, issues, and change orders.
3.6.2.
V.1.1.0
3.6.2.1. Mobile Application Foundation Updates
Diagnostics improvements.
3.6.3.
V.1.2.0
3.6.3.1. Android Support
In previous versions, Oracle Mobile Approvals for Oracle E-Business Suite was available
only for iOS devices. Starting with version 1.2.0, the app is available for Android devices
as well.
3.6.3.2. Mobile Foundation Release 3.0 Updates
Changes to support both iOS and Android with the same client code
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3.6.4.
V.1.3.0
3.6.4.1. Mobile Foundation Release 4.0 Updates
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3.7.
Overview
Oracle Project Foundation provides the common foundation (functionality) shared across
the products in the Oracle Enterprise Project Management Solution. The purpose of
Oracle Project Foundation is to package all the common elements of Oracle Projects into
a single place.
Oracle Project Foundation accompanies all of the Oracle Projects applications providing
you with a rich set of features, including:
Period Definition
Calendar Definition
Organization Definition
Resource Definition and Reporting
Project and Organization Security
Project and Task Definition
Organization Forecasting
Utilization
Archive and Purge
Oracle Project Foundation also facilitates the integration of Oracle Projects suite with
other Oracle Applications including Oracle HRMS, Oracle Financials, Oracle CRM, and
Oracle Supply Chain applications.
3.7.2.
Release 12.1.1
3.7.2.1. New Purge Process for Obsolete Project Data
This release includes a new concurrent process, ADM: Purge Obsolete Projects Data.
You can use this new process to purge forecast items associated with requirements,
assignments, and unassigned time. You can also purge obsolete project workflow
information, and exception data generated for project resource exception reporting.
THIS FEATURE WAS ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 11.5.10 FP.M RUP3
3.7.2.2. iSetup
This is the introduction of an API to enable migration of setup entities across instances
are available for all Oracle Project modules. iSetup also handles standard and
comparison reporting of master entities in addition to data migration.
3.7.2.3. Improved Diagnostics
All R11i diagnostics scripts are available for R12.1. In addition, some new scripts have
been added to support new R12.1 functionality and architecture changes.
3.7.3.
Release 12.1.2
3.7.3.1. Enhanced Project List Page
The Project List page is often the main hub that users interact with when accessing
Oracle Projects. In an effort to make this page more informative and streamline access to
common functions, several enhancements have been added to the Project List page.
3.7.3.1.1. Main Project List Region
The following enhancements apply to the main region of the project list page:
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Simple and Advanced Search results are displayed in the main region of the project
list page. This allows users to view the results of their queries and still have access to
other information and links provided on the page.
New criteria values such as Contains and Greater Than, Less Than along with
new filter attributes enhance the users ability to create personalized views.
3.7.3.3. New Hover Pop Up Windows
An exciting new feature, called hover pop-up windows, allow users to obtain additional
information simply by hovering their cursor over selected fields on the Project List, Edit
Budget and Edit Forecast pages. A small window will pop up on the screen providing
additional information that was previously only available via drill downs.
3.7.4.
Release 12.1.3
3.7.4.1. Enhanced Project List Page
In this release we continue to build on past enhancements to the Project List page by
making the page more informative, streamline access to common functions and make the
page configurable. The enhancements are:
The project list page includes a report region which was introduced in 12.1.2.
With this release we are further improving the usability of this feature by
allowing users to delete report views that they have created and to k the
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criteria and format that went into the creation of a report. The benefits of
these enhancements will allow users to have better visibility into their reports
and be able to manage the volume of reports over time.
In Alternate Search page, the user can select and save the combination of
search criteria and report format as a report and then run the report from
Project List page.
Easily navigate between project list, simple search, advanced search and
alternate search.
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3.8.
Overview
In release 12.2.5, the product name, Oracle Project Management is changed to Oracle
Project Planning and Control which better reflects the ability to provide project managers
the visibility and control they need to deliver their projects successfully, improve
profitability, and operate more efficiently. The application consolidates project
information into one repository: work plans, progress, issues, changes, documents,
costing information, budgets, actuals and forecasts, performance, and status reports. The
solution empowers project managers to plan the work, assign resources, forecast to
completion, and communicate to stakeholders, while streamlining the collaborative
execution of project work.
Oracle Project Planning and Control is an integrated part of Oracle Projects, a
comprehensive set of solutions that can help you predictably and successfully deliver
global projects by integrating, managing and providing insight into enterprise project
information.
3.8.2.
Release 12.1.1
3.8.2.1. New Audit Process for Project Performance Reporting Setup
Oracle Projects includes a new concurrent audit process, AUD: Project Performance
Reporting Setup. You can run this process to generate a report that enables you to review
setup information for Oracle Projects project performance reporting features. This
capability enables you to quickly determine if all mandatory and optional setup
parameters are defined correctly. The increased visibility that this report provides helps
you to ensure that your project performance reporting summarization processes function
correctly and do not generate reporting errors because of improper or incomplete setup.
3.8.2.2. New Parameters for Refresh Project Performance Data Process
The process PRC: Refresh Project Performance Data enables you to refresh all actual
and plan amount data for a group of projects. Depending on factors such as the number of
projects that you specify and the number of workplan and financial plan versions that
exist on each project, the refresh process can take substantial time to complete. To help
minimize processing time and provide you with greater flexibility in selecting the actual
and plan amount data you want to refresh, this process includes additional selection
parameters. You can choose whether to refresh only actual amounts or all amounts (plan
and actual). In addition, you can optionally select the workplan and financial plan
versions that you want to refresh.
3.8.2.3. Workplan Enhancements
This release provides several enhancements for Oracle Projects workplan functionality.
3.8.2.3.1. Ability to Delete Published Workplan Versions
You can delete published workplan versions. You can delete all published workplan
versions except the latest published version, baseline version, and workplan versions
included in a program hierarchy.
3.8.2.3.2. Usability Enhancements
The following enhancements streamline the flows for accessing and maintaining
workplans:
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With this release, you can view, maintain, and update a workplan structure
from the Update Tasks page. The Update Work Breakdown Structure page is
obsolete.
During setup and maintenance of workplan tasks, Oracle Projects enables you
to indent or outdent multiple workplan tasks in a single step.
3.8.2.3.3. New Public API for Creating, Maintaining, and Deleting Programs
With this release, Oracle Projects is introducing a new set of public API procedures
that perform the following tasks:
You can track cost and revenue amounts only, or revenue amounts only
(without quantities and rates) in your budgets and forecasts. When you enter
an amount for a plan line and do not specify a quantity, Oracle Projects no
longer automatically copies the amount to the quantity field and sets the rate
value to 1.
Rate has a lower precedence than quantity and amount in calculations. For
example, if you enter quantity, rate, and amount for a plan line at the same
time, then Oracle Projects holds the quantity and amount constant and rederives the rate.
If you indirectly override the burden multiplier for a plan line by updating one
of the plan line component amounts that are used to derive burdened cost (for
example, the raw cost or burden cost rate), then Oracle Projects uses the
override burden multiplier in subsequent calculations of burdened cost that are
caused by changes to the raw cost. Similarly, if you indirectly override a
markup percent by updating a plan line component amount that is used to
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derive the revenue amount, then Oracle Projects uses the override markup
percent in subsequent revenue calculations.
3.8.2.4.2. Enhanced Handling of Override Rates on Budget / Forecast Lines
With this release, you can directly enter override rates for a planning transaction on
Edit Budget and Edit Forecast pages. In addition, the average rates fields on these
pages are disabled for entry and are used for display only.
A planning transaction is a budget or forecast line that is identified by a combination
of project and task, planning resource, and transaction currency. The override rates
that you enter on Edit Budget and Edit Forecast pages are retained with the planning
transaction for as long as the planning transaction is retained.
You can enter override rates for raw cost rate, burdened cost rate, and bill rate. When
you enter override rates for a planning transaction, Oracle Projects automatically
applies the override rates to all existing periodic lines and to any new periodic lines
that you subsequently add.
3.8.2.4.3. Simplified Addition of Planning Elements and Resources
You can add all new, but unbudgeted tasks and resources to a budget or forecast
version. New options are available on the Planning Elements: Select Tasks page to
add either all new tasks and planning resources or new tasks only to the current plan
version.
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3.8.2.5. Self Service Expenditure Inquiry
Customers have had the ability in the Forms application to inquire on their expenditures
but did not have the same access in the self service application. With this release we
offer the ability to drill into expenditure details from the Financials tab.
3.8.2.6. Reporting Pack for Generation and Distribution of XML Publisher Reports
The ability to monitor project performance without accessing the application and archive
the reports you receive for future reference is the key business driver for the reporting
pack.
A reporting pack consists of a set of report templates and named recipients by project
role. The Generate Reporting Pack concurrent program uses the report templates to
generate reports and distribute these reports to the recipients via e-mail. Your system
administrator defines the intervals for the generation and distribution of the reports.
The report template controls the content and layout of each report. Using XML Publisher
tools, your system administrator can create new report templates to configure the content
and output to meet your business needs. Any new or modified report can be added to an
existing reporting pack or used to create an entirely new report set.
Oracle Projects provides a predefined data definition file that contains XML tags for
performance measures and project data. In addition, Oracle Projects provides the
following predefined reports:
Project Change Document Report - displays all change orders for a project that
are not in cancelled or closed status. The change orders are grouped by type such
as customer initiated or internal. The report displays the impact of the change
orders on budget amounts for the period, quarter, year, and since project
inception.
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Project Cost Labor Report - displays labor information for employees and
contingent workers. Data includes planned and actual hours as well as cost and
cost per hour for a range of periods. Cost can be grouped by task and person type,
or task and project roles/employees, or by job and expenditure type.
Project Earned Value Report - displays data and trends for key earned value
metrics by tasks, and also aggregated for the project as a whole. The metrics are
based on ANSI 748 standards and earned value calculation is performed on data
that is available since the inception of the project.
3.8.2.7. Budget Integration with Federal Budget Execution and/or 3rd Party
Budget
The budget integration workflow supports integration with the Federal Budget Execution
module also known as FedAdmin. In addition the workflow can be customized to
interface budget lines to external budgeting applications.
3.8.2.8. Microsoft Project 2007 Certification
Many of our customers are upgrading to Microsoft Project 2007. Others plan to upgrade
in the coming year.
Oracle Project Planning and Control supports integration with Microsoft Project 2007.
This will allow our customers to continue using the convenient, out-of-the-box
integration with Microsoft Project to handle all of their scheduling needs.
3.8.2.9. Project Performance Reporting: Additional Measures
Year to Date, Quarter to Date and At Completion calculated measures, previously
available within Project Status Inquiry are available on the following pages:
Performance Overview
Period-to-Date
Summary/Analysis
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YTD, QTD and At Completion figures are sometimes used by customers who fund
projects on an annual basis. Project managers leverage this metric to determine the
performance of their actuals against plans. The YTD metric also highlights a projects
burn rate and can be an early indicator which if monitored and acted upon reduces
downstream budgeting issues. Lastly, this metric is also widely used within government
agencies and is expected to be visible on many standard government reports.
3.8.2.10. Project Performance Reporting: Inter-Project Revenue / Billing
Amounts
Inter project revenue / billing amounts previously available within Project Status Inquiry
are available on the following pages:
Project List
View Workplan Cost
Exception Reporting
Performance Overview
Task Summary/Analysis
Resource Summary/Analysis
Period-to-Date Summary/Analysis
3.8.2.11. Supplier Cost Dashboard
Release 12.1.1 provides a new dashboard for viewing and monitoring the status of
supplier invoices for a given project. Seeded views allow the user to view all invoices for
a project or all outstanding invoices for the project. Search options are also available to
allow the user to select invoices of interest.
3.8.2.12. Subcontractor Payment Controls
Release 12.1.1 provides new capabilities to support the management and control of
subcontractor payments in Engineering & Construction companies. New capabilities
within Oracle Projects, Oracle Procurement and Oracle Financials allow the end-to-end
management of the following common construction industry scenarios:
3.8.2.12.1. Support for Pay when Paid Scenarios
Many construction firms adhere to a Pay when Paid policy for subcontract
agreements, in order to manage cash flow for a project. Specifically, construction
companies will hold the payment of subcontractor bills until the construction firm has
been paid by the owner.
With Release 12.1.1 a new Pay when Paid payment term may be specified for a
subcontract to automatically result in the placing of holds on all subcontractor
invoices under that subcontract, until the corresponding customer payment is
received.
A new Subcontract Payment Controls workbench allows the project manager to
manage these holds, with visibility into both the customer invoices and the associated
subcontractor invoices. Alerted by workflow notifications once the customer
payment is received, the project manager can then choose to automatically or
manually release the corresponding subcontractor invoices. The associations
between the customer invoices and the subcontractor invoices may be automatically
maintained based on the billing of project expenditures in the case of a cost-plus
contract, or may be manually maintained for fixed price contract scenarios.
3.8.2.12.2. Payment Controls for Subcontract Deliverables
Release 12.1.1 also provides support for the tracking and monitoring of subcontract
deliverables that place automatic holds on subcontractor invoices in the case of noncompliance. Enhancements to Oracle Procurement Contracts allow a subcontract
administrator for a construction project to optionally specify payment impact controls
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that will take effect when a particular subcontract deliverable is not met. For
example, if a subcontractor fails to provide their insurance certificate in a timely
fashion per the subcontract terms, holds will be automatically placed on their
incoming invoices based on the contractual dates of the deliverable. These holds
will also be automatically released once the subcontract deliverable compliance is
reinstated.
From the Subcontractor Payment Controls workbench, the project manager can view
a checklist of the all the current subcontract deliverables, to assist in evaluating the
subcontractor status prior to releasing monthly progress payments.
3.8.3.
Release 12.1.2
3.8.3.1. Reporting Performance Improvements
With Release 12.1.2, project users will greatly benefit from a dedicated effort to improve the
overall performance of the Project Performance Reporting feature.
Enhancements include:
New configuration options allow users to control the data volume generated by the
summarization processes. The options provide the ability to turn off summarization
for unused currencies and calendars.
A new concurrent process allows users to purge old financial and workplan versions
that are no longer needed. This again reduces the volume of data to be summarized.
To help improve the performance of the PRC: Update Project Performance Data
(UPPD) process, a new concurrent program, PRC: Launch Update Project
Performance has been introduced. This new concurrent program divides and groups
the projects into manageable batches. It sends the batch name as a parameter to the
UPPD process and launches the process automatically for each batch. The UPPD
process will process the project performance data for only those projects that are part
of the batch. The UPPD process can still be run as before, but when launched by the
new program, UPPD processes the daily load of projects more efficiently.
A new client extension works in conjunction with the new launch process described
able to allow customers to select projects for processing. This gives system
administrators more control to schedule project updates in accordance with business
needs and priorities.
Technical changes were made to improve load balancing and increase the degree of
parallelism.
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3.8.4.
Release 12.1.3
3.8.4.1. Reporting Performance Improvements
With Release 12.1.3, project users will greatly benefit from improved performance of the
Project Performance Reporting feature.
The enhancements include a new parameter that has been added to the Launch Update
Project Performance Data and the Update Project Performance Data concurrent programs
to filter on project status. Customers will be able to choose a specific project status from
an LOV before running the program. This will improve the performance of the programs
by allowing customers to streamline the processing.
3.8.4.2. MSP Integration Enhancements
In Release 12.1.3 there was a couple of significant enhancement to fully extend the
coverage of integration with Microsoft Projects.
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3.8.5.
Release 12.2
3.8.5.1. Planning with HR Rates
When labor costing is performed using rates defined in HR, an option is available to
enable the same rates for planning purposes. This ensures that planned amounts on the
work plan and financial plans accurately reflect the anticipated actual cost. See above:
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or task name including partial values for cost codes attributes. You can also enter preapproved batches by defining the task and cost code combination to assign to each
imported transaction. The task and cost code values are used to match the expenditures to
the project plans for reporting actuals. You can view the cost code number and
description on each expenditure item.
When you view your workplans, budgets and forecasts, the hierarchy you define as CBS
cost code segments is used to summarize plan values based on your defined cost
attributes. New viewing options provide an overall plan summary by cost codes and as
well as a cost code summary for a specific task.
3.8.6.
Release 12.2.4
3.8.6.1. Usability: Project Creation and Control Enhancements
3.8.6.1.1. Enhanced Options when Creating New Projects
When creating a new project, users can copy values from a template or from an
existing project using a single page instead of multiple pages. This simplifies
navigation and enables users to view the values for options to be copied. Users are
also able to copy additional options from the template or source project after the
initial project is created. These additional options include Team Members,
Attachments, User-Define Attributes, and Transaction Controls.
3.8.6.1.2. Improved Budgeting and Forecasting Page Navigation
New navigation options on financial plan editing pages make updates to budgets and
forecasts easier and more efficient. Users can use arrow keys to navigate across rows
and columns, adjust column widths, freeze rows and columns, hide and show
columns and sort columns of the financial plan tables easily. Column alignment,
currency precision and definable number of rows are also displayed to make table
values easier to read.
3.8.6.1.3. Workplan and Financial Plan Summary
A new reporting page displays earned value measures in a single report view. The
report is available for all fully shared structure projects and integrates work plan and
financial plan information to calculate new measures.
3.8.6.2. Update Financial Attributes
3.8.7.
Release 12.2.5
3.8.7.1. Planning by Cost Breakdown Structure for Intercompany and
Interproject Billing
Cost breakdown structures can be used for all types of projects, including projects
enabled for cross charge, intercompany, and interproject billing
3.8.7.2. Project Performance Reporting
For very large and complex projects, the size of the data sets required to report and track
project performance can be extremely large and require complex processing to
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summarize data on the required dimensions, including dates, task structures, currencies,
program structures. The project performance reporting (PPR) feature in Oracle Project
Planning and Control includes several enhanced programs and program stages that must
be executed and finish successfully to prepare the required project performance data.
With the enhanced project performance reporting, core data processing relies on indatabase features (OLAP Cubes) to streamline the programs and phases. New
reconciliation reports will insure you have the information about each processing stage
that ensures the project data is reliable.
In addition, use of the programs or program stages is no longer required to view data for
specific plans. The views of plan data are derived directly from the transactional data and
have been improved and simplified to make it more performant and still provide the
required visibility of summarized data for project performance tracking and monitoring.
With improved project performance reporting data processing your data will be more
reliable, easier to reconcile and you can spend less time preparing data for performance
reporting.
3.8.7.3. Plan, Execute, Monitor & Control Unit Rate Based Projects
To effectively manage profitability for complex unit rate based contracts, project
management teams require the ability to 1) measure progress based on the delivery units
that generate revenue, and 2) monitor earned value against expenditures and costs to
control internal efficiency. The project management team can plan, execute, monitor and
control unit-rate based contract projects for greater profitability using Schedule of Values
(SOV) and Activity Resource Requirement (ARR).
For unit rate based contracts, payments are based on the product of units delivered at a
unit price. SOV quantify the value of contractual project delivery lines that yield the
overall cost, scope, schedule and quality (CSSQ). Project managers use SOV to measure
and manage progress based on the delivery units that drive billing. Using of SOV avoids
multiple structures to provide a single source of truth for all aspects of the project Work
plan, Revenue Budget, Cost Budget Progress and Billing. SOV aligns these project
entities to drive efficient project monitoring and control towards excellence.
Activity Resource Requirement (ARR) defines the resources required to complete tasks
and how the related expenditures are allocated to the delivery lines that generate revenue.
This enables project managers to monitor earned value against expenditures and costs to
control internal efficiency.
3.8.7.4. Budgetary Controls for Financial Plans
Project Managers use financial plans to plan and manage the financial performance of
their projects throughout the project life cycle. As various costs (requisitions, purchase
orders, and supplier invoices) are coming into the project, project managers need the
ability to verify funds for these types of transactions. For budgetary control purposes,
and real time control of project costs, the purchase to pay transactions must be checked
against the project budget in order to ensure adequate funding is available. For example,
funds to approve a purchase order would need to be checked against the project budget
financial plan as part of the purchase order approval process.
The Budgetary Control integration available for use with budgets in Project Costing has
been extended for use with financial plans in Project Management. Project managers
have the visibility to limit commitments and actual expenses within the projects
approved cost budget, view the actual and commitment funds check results, and monitor
the failed transactions in order to take corrective action. For both top down and bottom
up GL Budget Integrations, project managers can view drill down to the budget
accounting details for each transaction.
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Budgetary control for financial plans provides product managers real time control at both
the project and task level over the following types of expenses:
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3.9.
Overview
Oracle Project Procurement enables project managers and project buyers to collaborate
and align their activities when planning, tracking and managing the acquisition of
products, materials and services needed to complete a project. Built using the power of
Endeca for EBS, the application integrates project management information from Oracle
Project Planning and Control, project cost information from Oracle Project Costing and
procurement documents, supplier and buyer information from Oracle Sourcing and
Procurement. This combined information provides key insights, metrics and access to
common actions necessary to support decisions and ensure strategic alignment of
procurement activities with the projects objectives.
Use Project Procurements project procurement plan to plan and track acquisitions
needed to complete your projects. Use specialized analysis tools to explore your plans
and your procurement history with suppliers and items and ensure selection of the best
options. With command centers for both project management and project buyer users
built on the same, integrated information, you can make decisions using up-to-date and
common measures that enhance project execution and minimize project wastage.
3.9.2.
Release 12.2.4
3.9.2.1. Enable Projects for Procurement Planning
To use Project Procurement, you enable procurement planning in the project setup page.
Once enabled, the project is displayed in the command centers and project managers can
upload new or updated procurement plans.
3.9.2.2. Create and Manage Project Procurement Plans
Once you enable a project for procurement planning, you can upload a project
procurement plan. The plan specifies the materials or services needed for a project task
and location, including a monthly schedule of the required items to insure project buyers
k how much of the item is needed, when it is required and where to have it delivered.
You can also enter a budget amount and suggest a supplier.
3.9.2.3. Project Management Command Center View
From the EBS Endeca Extension for Project Management Project Overview page, you
can access the Endeca-based project management command center. This page is specially
designed to provide integrated project and procurement information for the project
manager. From the command center, project managers can view project financial and
schedule information, determine if materials are available to start scheduled tasks, update
procurement plan line statuses, replace items for a procurement plan lines, initiate new
requisitions using the integrated shopping cart and see the status of procurement
activities, including orders and deliveries.
When the project plans need to be updated, the project manager has access to update task
dates or other information to insure the project schedule and plan information is aligned
to the procurement schedule. Managers can also access specialized Endeca-based Item
and Supplier analysis pages for researching procurement history.
3.9.2.4. Project Buyer Command Center View
The buyer command center view is specially designed to provide integrated project and
procurement information for project buyers. From the Endeca-based command center
view, buyers can view the status of procurement plan lines and initiate sourcing or
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procurement activities to insure the needed materials or services are delivered in time to
meet the project schedule and meet the quality and reliability standards required. Buyers
can identify sources of supply, initiate and track negotiations with suppliers using the
integrated document builder, compare bids from suppliers and view the current state or
details of existing procurement agreements and orders.
Alerts, charts, graphs and metrics insure that from the command center, buyers can
identify and resolve procurement issues, insure a balanced workload and track the
performance of the project procurement process so that the project schedule and budget
stay on-track.
3.9.2.5. Item Analysis
Use the Item Analysis pages to explore the history of items used in your projects. Past
performance, including on-time delivery, quality and item suitability, can be evaluated or
compared to the items requested in the procurement plan to ensure the right items are
selected.
3.9.2.6. Supplier Analysis
Use the Supplier Analysis pages to explore the history of suppliers who have provided
materials or services used in your projects. Past performance, including on-time delivery,
quality or supplier capabilities, can be evaluated or compared to the items requested in
the procurement plan to ensure the best suppliers are selected.
3.9.3.
Release 12.2.5
3.9.3.1. Manage Procurement of Complex Services
With the introduction of managing procurement services, a project procurement plan can
be uploaded for procurement of Engineered Equipment and Subcontracted Services. The
plan specifies the services needed for a project task including progress payments for the
service to insure project buyers k when the service is to be rendered by the supplier and
the possible cash outflow for the services performed. The project manager can also link
the progress payments to receipt of materials to help the buyers insure payments are made
only after receipt of linked materials. The project manager can also enter a budget
amount and suggest a supplier for these services lines.
From the Project Manager Command Center View, project managers can view the
progress payment related information for the services requested, create new requisitions
for the plan lines using the integrated shopping cart and track the status of procurement
activities including deliverables defined in the purchase order document
From the Project Buyer Command Center View, project buyers can view the progress
payment related information for the services, identify source of supply for services, create
new negotiations for the requisitions created by the project manager using the integrated
document builder, compare bids and track the status of procurement activities including
deliverables defined in the purchase order document.
Alerts in the command center insure that both buyer and project manager can identify and
resolve project and procurement issues so that the project schedule and budget stay ontrack.
Item Analysis page is used to view the history of services used in the projects. Past
performance, including on-time delivery, quality and service suitability can be evaluated
or compared to the services requested in the procurement plan to ensure the right services
are selected.
Supplier Analysis page is used to view the history of suppliers who have provided
services used in the projects. Past performance, including on-time delivery, quality or
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Overview
Oracle Project Resource Management enables companies to manage human resource
deployment and capacity for project work. Built using Oracles proven self-service
model, Oracle Project Resource Management empowers key project stakeholders, such as
project managers, resource managers, and staffing managers, to make better use of their
single most critical asset: their people.
With this application, you can manage project resource needs; profitability and
organization utilization by locating and deploying qualified people to your projects across
your enterprise. As a result, you can improve customer and employee satisfaction,
maximize resource utilization and profitability, and increase your competitive advantage.
3.10.2.
3.10.3.
Release 12.1.1
3.10.3.1. Resource Search by eMail Address
The My Resources screen (Projects: Resources > Resources) enables users to search
through the resource pool by name, person number, email address, or organization:
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This enhancement makes searching easier for global users accessing people in countries
such as Taiwan, China, Japan, etc. who do not maintain person information in the English
language but do record email addresses in English.
3.10.3.2. Resource Search by Person Type
For some customers, much of their resource pool includes partners and contingent
workers (subcontractors). When searching for resources to assign to requirements, these
customers may wish to first limit the search scope to their employee population and then
if no suitable match is found, to search amongst partners and contingent workers.
By providing the ability to search for resources by person type, users can quickly narrow
their search to their desired population. This provides the added benefit of maximizing
revenue by first assigning employees before resorting to outside workers.
3.10.3.3. Streamlined Navigation on Staffing Home
To allow for quick navigation to commonly accessed pages, a new link is added to
Project List on the Staffing Home for My Projects.
3.10.3.4. Cross Validation of Project and Assignment Dates
Insufficient validation of start and end dates for requirements and assignments against
respective dates for the project results in poor record keeping and inaccurate resource
availability information.
Enhancements to validate dates populated by users for requirements, assignments, and
project team roles at the time of entry will help to ensure precision and accuracy in all
associated analytics and reporting subsequently used by staffing, resource, and project
managers.
The following new validations are added in this release:
Project Resource Management ensures that requirement start dates are equal to
or greater than the project start date and less than the project end date and that
finish dates are equal to or less than the project end date but greater than the
project start date.
A project team role end date cannot be beyond the project end date. If the roles
are created before the project end dates are entered, users will receive an error if
they later try to enter an end date that is earlier than the end date for existing
roles.
When project transaction dates are moved corresponding assignment dates are
validated against the new project dates. If the new project transaction dates fall
outside the dates for existing assignments, users are given an option to shift the
assignment dates or cancel the date adjustment.
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Requirement Public APIs: These APIs enable you to add, update, or delete a
requirement, and to partially or fully staff an open requirement.
Assignment Public APIs: These APIs enable you to add, update, or delete an
assignment, and to submit an assignment for approval.
Candidate Public APIs: These APIs enable you to add, update, or delete a
candidate, and to add a review comment for a candidate.
Competence Public APIs: These APIs enable you to add, update, or delete
competence elements for a project role or open assignment.
3.10.4.
Release 12.1.2
3.10.4.1. Update of Start and End Dates for Multiple Requirements
Resource Managers are often required to make updates to the requirements they manage.
Commonly updated attributes include team role, staffing priority and requirement start
and end dates. The Update Requirements page provides users with a single page to
update multiple assignments. However, prior to this release, the requirement start and
end dates could not be updated from this page. Users were required to navigate to the
Update Duration page for each requirement to update the dates. As Resource Managers
frequently manage a large number of requirements, this process was very inefficient.
Therefore, the Update Requirement page has been enhanced to support the update of
requirement dates.
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