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This document provides an overview of features and enhancements included in Oracle Fusion Applications 11gR1 Release 11.1.1.5.0
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Oracle Fusion Payments


Implementation and Configuration Considerations
Agenda
1. Key Feature: Disbursements
Prerequisites
Feature Summary
Deltas with EBS
Key Decisions and Best Practices
Relevant Setup Tasks
2. Key Feature: Funds Capture
Prerequisites
Feature Summary
Deltas with EBS
Key Decisions and Best Practices
Relevant Setup Tasks

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DISBURSEMENTS

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Prerequisites
The concepts covered in the following Fusion Version
1 TOIs are prerequisites for understanding this
implementation document:
Manage Payments L3: Prepare and Record Payments
Manage Payments L3: Process Payment Files
Set Up Procurement L3: Define Disbursements and
Configure Payment System Connectivity

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Feature Summary
Key Terminology

Payment Process Profile

Payment Payment Transmit


Payables Payment
Process File Payments
User 1 Build
Request 1

Payment
File Creation
Pool of Built
Select Documents Payments
Payable
Payment Print
Payables Payment Payment File Payments
User 2 Process Build
Request 2

Select Documents
Payable

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Deltas with EBS

Terminology Change: Payment Instruction changed to


Payment File

New setup entity Payment Code combines three EBS


setup entities:
Delivery Channel Code
Bank Instruction Code
Payment Reason Code

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Key Decisions and Best Practices

What is your business process?


Decide how much to automate
What is your organizational structure?
Support for decentralized, centralized, payment factory
models
What are your processing goals?
Targeted invoice selection or least effort
What payment methods do you need?
Broad, or granular with validations

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Key Decisions and Best Practices

What validations do you need?


Payment method or format
User defined or predefined
Document payable, payment, or payment file
What formats can you use?
Configuring or customizing for your needs
Security (Encryption and Masking)

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Key Decisions and Best Practices
What is your business process?

Straight Through Processing


Advantages:
Fewer touch points means less effort
Exceptions handled outside the payment process, good
payments not held up by the few exceptions
Tight Manual Control
Advantages:
Allows manual review and confirmation of payments in
process
Allows step to be initiated manually to fit specific timing needs
Note: Any combination of manual and automated steps can be used. It is not necessary to be
completely automated or completely manual. The best practice is to automate everything
except manual review of either selected invoices or proposed payments. See following slides
for further options and best practices.

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Key Decisions and Best Practices
What is your business process?

The following settings control automation of steps


throughout the payment process:
Page Options Details
Manage Validation error Validation error handling setting defaults to
Disbursement handling payment process request (PPR) templates
System Options PPR Status report or directly to Submit PPRs page if no
submission template is used
Create Payment Printing Set for automatic initiation or manual
Process Profile Transmission initiation. Reporting includes payment file
Reporting register, positive pay, and separate
remittance advice
Submit Payment Validation error Choose to automatically remove any
Process Request handling documents or payments with errors and
progress valid items, or stop the process
and review errors

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Key Decisions and Best Practices
What is your business process?

Optional stopping points for review during the


payment process:
Page Options Details
Manage Review proposed Setting defaults to payment process request
Disbursement payments (PPR) templates or directly to Submit PPRs
System Options page if no template is used
Submit Payment Review selected Best practice: While you can stop at both
Process Request installments points, it is recommended to stop for review
Review proposed at most once. The stopping points offer
payments different values, so pick the one that suits
your needs best

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Key Decisions and Best Practices
What is your business process?

Best practices for process submission


Object Best Practice
Payment Process Create one template for each unique combination of submission
Requests attributes. Ensure your templates cover all normal cases avoid
off-cycle payments and the associated costs.

Do not enable Create Payment Files Immediately, as this will limit


payment file creation to within a single PPR.

Create a scheduled process for each template to create PPRs


automatically. This should be run frequently enough to meet due
dates, as well as to take advantage of early payment discounts.

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Key Decisions and Best Practices
What is your business process?

Best practices for process submission


Object Best Practice
Payment Files Create one or more scheduled processes that will run after all
PPR processes complete. The payment file will pick up any
waiting payments with the proper attributes, regardless of which
PPR they originated in, allowing for the fewest number of
payment files possible.

Fewer payment files result in lower transaction processing


costs.

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Key Decisions and Best Practices
What is your organizational structure?

Decentralized
Invoice Invoice Payment
Entry BU A Selection BU A Processing BU A

BU B BU B BU B

Centralized
Centralized Centralized Invoice Centralized Payment
Invoice BU A Selection Processing
Entry BU A & B
BU A & B
BU B BU A & B

Payment Factory
Invoice Invoice Centralized Payment
Entry BU A Selection BU A Processing
BU A & B

BU B BU B BU A & B

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Key Decisions and Best Practices
What is your organizational structure?

Decentralized Processing
Enable each BU to create its own payment process
Enable each BU to decide who and when to pay
Centralized Processing
Reduce manpower costs by centralizing payment process decisions and
exception handling
Reduce payment processing costs by pooling payments together into
fewer payment files
Efficiencies of scale allow some users to specialize in payment
processing
Payment Factory
Enable each BU to decide who and when to pay
Reduce payment processing costs by pooling payments together into
fewer payment files

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Key Decisions and Best Practices
What are your processing goals?

Select invoices to be paid with a broad selection


criteria, thus creating as few payment process
requests as possible
Recommended for a Centralized Processing model
Payment process templates can be more generic, and fewer of
them
Best practice for supporting broad selection is to ensure that
only one payment process profile (PPP) is active per unique
set of transactional attributes (business unit, payment method,
disbursement bank account, and currency)
System can derive PPP automatically per payment, instead
of forcing all payments in a payment process request to
have the same PPP

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Key Decisions and Best Practices
What are your processing goals?

Select invoices to be paid with targeted selection


criteria, thus allowing precise control over time
Recommended for Decentralized or Payment Factory models
Allows different types of payments to be managed in separate
processes, for example expense reports Monday, domestic
supplier payments Tuesday, and so on
Best practice to support targeted selection is to create
specific payment process templates for each type, using pay
groups, payment priorities, or other targeted selection criteria

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Key Decisions and Best Practices
What payment methods do you need?

Choose broad payment methods like the seeded


Check and Electronic, or choose to create your own
more granular payment methods, optionally with
targeted validations
Use laser printed checks rather than numbered checks when
possible.
For a detailed discussion of the costs and benefits of
more granular payment methods, see topic Payment
Methods: Explained in the Define Disbursements
chapter of the Implementation Guide

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Key Decisions and Best Practices
What formats can you use?
Favor standards-based formats that can be used with multiple
banks
EDIFACT formats (PAYMUL, MT100, MT103, etc)
NACHA formats (Generic, CCD, PPD, etc)
Find out what your processing bank supports
Modify seeded formats using BI Publisher
An XML extract provides Payments data
Use RTF templates to create or modify human-readable layouts, for
checks and reports
Use ETEXT files to create fixed-position layouts, for transmission and
automated payment processing
For a more detailed discussion of tailoring formats to your needs, see
the white paper Format Customization In Oracle Payments at
support.oracle.com

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Key Decisions and Best Practices
What validations do you need?

You can use prepackaged validations designed to


match specific formats
You can create your own validations for almost all
transaction attributes
Layer them on top of prepackaged validations when formats
or regulations change
Or use them to create entirely new validations for your own
formats

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Key Decisions and Best Practices
What validations do you need?

Validations can be associated with payment methods or


formats
Validations can be performed at the following levels:
Document payable
Payment
Payment File
Documents payable are validated during invoice entry if
the validation is associated with a payment method
Immediate feedback
Fastest way to resolve errors and make payments
Requires knowledgeable invoice entry personnel and a larger
number of payment methods with different validations associated

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Key Decisions and Best Practices
What validations do you need?

Or after payment process request submission if the


validation is associated with a format
Allows a specialized payment process manager to queue up
and resolve errors
Allows fewer payment methods and requires less knowledge
for invoice entry personnel
For a detailed discussion of the costs and benefits of
validations, see topic Validations: Critical Choices in
the Configure Payment System Connectivity chapter
of the Implementation Guide

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Key Decisions and Best Practices
Security

Use the Positive Pay File to reduce fraud


Encrypt and mask supplier bank account numbers
before importing or entering any data in the system
Use Oracle Wallet Manager to create a wallet
Store wallet in a very secure, limited access file system
location
Obtain encryption keys externally, or have Payments
generate them
Rotate encryption keys periodically
See System Security Options: Critical Choices in the
Implementation Guide

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Relevant Setup Tasks

Payment Methods
Payment Process Profiles
Validations
Formats
Transmission Configurations
System Security Options

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FUNDS CAPTURE

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Prerequisites
The concepts covered in the following Fusion Version
1 TOIs are prerequisites for understanding this
implementation document:
Process Customer Payments L3: Manage Funds Capture
Set Up Order Fulfillment L3: Define Funds Capture and
Configure Payment System Connectivity

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Feature Summary
Key Terminology

Receivables Internal Payment


Authorization
User Payee System
Routing

Funds Capture Process Profile

Receipt
Creation
Receivables Settlement Payment
Settlement
User Batch Creation System

Remittance
Payment Settlement Batch
Receivables
System Acknowledgment

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Deltas with EBS

Improved Transaction Exception handling, through


Accounts Receivable

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Key Decisions and Best Practices

What Payment Methods to Accept


What Payment Systems to Use
What Formats to Use
What Transmission Protocols to Use
Security Setup: Encryption and Masking
Tying It All Together: Internal Payee

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Key Decisions and Best Practices
What payment methods to accept

Credit Cards
Implement additional features to reduce processing fees
Company card support
Address verification
Card verification code
Bank Account Transfers
Payer-initiated payment methods (such as checks
and cash) are recorded directly in Oracle Fusion
Receivables

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Key Decisions and Best Practices
What payment systems to use

Leverage existing banking or processing relationship


Your bank may process transactions, or have a partnership
with a processor
Leverage processors with existing integrations with
Oracle Payments EBS
Chase Paymentech (Certification Pending)
First Data Global Gateway (formerly Concord EFSnet)
(Certification Pending)
PayPal PayFlow Pro (Certification Pending)
Other existing integrations have been built by gateways or
consulting firms

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Key Decisions and Best Practices
What formats to use

Find out what your processing partner supports


For a detailed discussion of tailoring formats to your
needs, see the white paper Format Customization for
In Oracle Payments at support.oracle.com

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Key Decisions and Best Practices
What formats can you use?

Modify seeded formats using BI Publisher


An XML extract provides Payments data
Use RTF templates to create or modify human-readable
layouts, for checks and reports
Use ETEXT files to create fixed-position layouts, for
transmission and automated payment processing
For a more detailed discussion of tailoring formats to your
needs, see the white paper Format Customization In Oracle
Payments at support.oracle.com

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Key Decisions and Best Practices
What transmission protocols to use

Find out what your processing bank supports


Favor transmission protocols seeded in Oracle Fusion
Payments
Use Funds Capture Process Profile for greater
configurability in transmission and formatting
Avoid name-value pair approach

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Deployment Architecture
External Connectivity

End Users Router over Leased Line

DMZ Public Zone

OR
HTTP Load
Balancing Payments
Transmission Servlet Internet
DMZ Secure Zone Payment System

Application Tier

Intranet

Database Tier

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Key Decisions and Best Practices
Security

Comply with PA-DSS Security Standards


Hard requirement for accepting credit card payments
Minimize risk of exposing sensitive customer data
Work with an PA-DSS auditor to ensure compliance and
avoid potential violations
Encrypt and mask customer credit card and bank
account numbers before importing or entering data
into the system

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Key Decisions and Best Practices
Security

Use Oracle Wallet Manager to create a wallet


Store wallet in a very secure, limited access file
system location
Obtain encryption keys externally, or have Payments
generate them
Rotate encryption keys periodically
See System Security Options: Critical Choices in the
Implementation Guide

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Key Decisions and Best Practices
Security Gotchas

Bank account numbers are not encrypted immediately


upon entry
Configure the Encrypt Bank Account Data program to run
frequently
Credit Card Numbers that are entered through PLSQL
(via migration or import) are not encrypted
immediately
Run the Encrypt Credit Card Data program after imports

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Key Decisions and Best Practices
Tying It All Together: Internal Payee

Transactions are identified by Business Unit, but are


processed by Internal Payee
If all Business Units require identical processing, create one
internal payee to serve them all
If Business Units require different processing, create one
internal payee per business unit
In a mixed model, use Routing Rules to determine how to
process each transaction

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Relevant Setup Tasks

Payment Methods
Funds Capture Process Profiles
Internal Payees
Formats
Transmission Configurations
System Security Options

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Implementation and Configuration Considerations

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