Oracle Business Accelerators

Tom Ferrero
Director of Consulting
Abaris, Inc.
abaris-inc.com
 What Are Accelerators?
• “Oracle Business Accelerators for Oracle E-
Business Suite are powerful, easy to use and rapid
implementation solutions for new E-Business Suite
customers. They make initial configuration of E-
Business Suite simple, fast, and predictable. Oracle
Business Accelerators for Oracle E-Business Suite
feature an automated setup tool that configures
end-to-end business flows with customer setups
and data.”
• 15 Verticals Solutions
• 18 Countries Supported

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 What Do Accelerators Do?
• Accelerators help you:
– Decrease the cost, risk, and time of an implementation
while improving ROI
– Deliver predictable, high quality and reliable results
– Built-in integration and best practices within standardized
business processes
• The solution includes:
– Business Flows—These enable you to relate your
business requirements to the E-Business Suite
functionality. Flow models, videos, demo scripts and other
material are provided to increase end-user awareness and
understanding.
– Setup Tool—This tool captures responses to simple
questions about your business requirements. The Setup
Tool automatically applies your business information into
the E-Business Suite rapidly and accurately, thereby
significantly increasing the productivity of implementation
teams.
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 Start Fast!
• By using the Accelerator Assets, the time
needed to get to CRP1 with a baseline
instance configured with the customer’s set-
ups is reduced from months to as little as a
couple of weeks.
• “With Oracle Business Accelerators for
Oracle E-Business Suite, you can begin
testing business transactions using your
own data in hours.”

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 How Do Accelerators Do It?
• Accelerators supplement the requirement-
gathering phase of the implementation with
a plain-business-language questionnaire,
“Do you want to disable any KPI’s?”
• The answers to the questionnaire are
processed to create a Configurator that is
specific to the customer, which is run on the
customer’s instance.

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 Who Can Use Accelerators?
• New Oracle Customers
– Accelerators are not designed to not support
upgrades or the addition of individual modules
• Accelerator Certified Oracle Partners

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 How Can These Accelerator Assets
Help an Existing Oracle Customer?
• Process Validation or Re-engineering
– Compare your processes to the Best Practices
represented in the Accelerator Flows
• Adding a New Module?
– Test drive functionality and fit with the Flow
Models and Flow Videos
• Preparing for an upgrade?
– Get a preview of R12’s new look and navigation
through the Accelerator Videos

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US Accelerator Solutions – R12
• Automotive • High Technology
• Business Services (3)
• Chemicals • Life Sciences (2)
• Consumer Products • Local Government
(2) • Natural Resource
• General Business • Professional
• General Business Services
Plus HR

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 Other Countries Supported – R12
• Argentina • Republic of Korea
• Brazil • Malaysia
• Canada (multiple) • Mexico
• Columbia • Philippines
• Denmark • Singapore
• Finland • Sweden
• India • Thailand
• Indonesia • United Kingdom
• United Kingdom (multiple)

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 Accelerator Assets
• Flow Models
– The General Business Accelerator configures up
to 41 business flows, such as “Customer Return
to Settlement”.
– The Flow Models graphically illustrate the
business process supported by an Accelerator
configured instance.

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Oracle Business Flow: Customer Return to Settlement

Customer Returns
OF1079 MM1135 MM1138
Order to Shipment Issue Returned Accept or Receive
Order to Drop Shipment Material Reject Material –
Customer Invoice to Receipt Authorizations Deliveries Customer

• Enter return order • Accept or reject goods • Receive materials from

submitted by from the customer at customers, either into
customers or sales the receiving dock. inventory or into an
reps. inspection area.

Update Balances
OF1027 OF1035 OF1057
Send Yes Generate Maintain Process
Order to Shipment
Replace- Customer Credit Credit
Order to Drop Shipment
ment? Invoices from Memos Balances
Sales Orders and Refunds
No
• Generate sales • Enter customer credit • Prepare and submit
invoices and forward memos for returned check requests and
to the customers. materials. adjustments for refunds
requested by the
customer.

Enterprise
Roles

Customer Service
Representative
Accounts
Receivable Clerk

Receiving Clerk

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 Accelerator Assets
• Flow Videos
– To help users understand step-by-step how their
processes are executed in Oracle, the Flow
Videos illustrate by screen and mouse click, the
Accelerator configured functionality.
– Users gain buy-in for the Oracle process and/or
identify gaps that can be addressed with process
modification or post-Accelerator configuration.

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 Accelerator Assets
• Test Scripts
– User validation is an important step in any
implementation.
– The Accelerators include detailed and
customizable test scripts for each supported
process flow.

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 Questions?
• Answers

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 More Information
• Access to Accelerator Flows
• Contact: Tom Ferrero
– tferrero@abaris-inc.com
– abaris-inc.com
• http://www.oracle.com/solutions/mid/acceler
ator-business.html
• http://www.oracle.com/solutions/mid/index.h
tml

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 Implementation Considerations

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 Plan Scope
• Key Assumptions Document
– Accelerators are built on accepted Best
Practices. With these Best Practices are
assumptions about the customer’s business,
their business processes, and how they will use
Oracle.
– The Key Assumptions Document details items
such as the inventory costing method used, the
number of Legal Entities supported, etc.

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 Questions
• Learn more
– Accelerators.oracle.com

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