Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Competitor of Partner of
Competitor Partner
Customer /
Organization
Employee of Supplier of
Employee Supplier
What is TCA and its
Background
• TCA = Trading Community Architecture
• Provides a single, universal definition of trading
partners across applications and job function
• TCA is an Data Model – it is not a Module
Oracle E-Business Suite Application Families*
3rd Party
Systems
Sales ServiceMarketing
Financials HR
Organization
AR s AP/PO
Old Model (Customer) (Organizatio (Supplier)
n)
John, XYZ Inc ABC Co. John, XYZ Inc
Customer Party:
Party: of
TCA Model John, XYZ
ABC Co. Supplier
of * Inc.
Old Model
for
Customers TCA Model
TCA Data Model: Implications
SITE Ship to
Division Of
PARTY
PARTY
SITE
SITE
Bill to Bill to
Ship to Ship to
Acct
Site
Acct
Site
Site
Global Payment
Payable Tax s Cash
Purchasi s Governments, Party Manageme
ng “Geographies”, Informatio nt and
Suppliers Banks
Authorities, etc n
Branches
Trading
Community
Architecture
Bank Payables
Receivables
Bank Branch Bank Account
Payroll
Treasury
TCA in R12
OU B
Payments
OU C Single Bank
Payment
Instruction
Sub
Ledger
Invoices
Accounti
ng
TCA in R12: Bank Account
Model Benefits
• Reduce number of access points to manage bank accounts
– Centralized user interface
• Improve visibility and control of bank accounts
– Multi-org access control
• Simplify bank reconciliation
– Single bank statement can be reconciled across multiple
Operating Units
• Increase percentage of automatically reconciled transactions
– Bank account level reconciliation parameters add flexibility
TCA in R12: Supplier
Representation
• Supplier organizations are in TCA
• Terms of doing business with the supplier are
in Purchasing / Payables
• Supplier organization, address, contact, phone,
email
etc. are all in TCA
• Employees are already in TCA, Payables using the
same employee records in TCA
• New supplier maintenance UI using TCA UI
components
TCA in R12: Benefits of
Supplier Representation
• Single repository for suppliers data
• AR/AP netting
• Oracle Payments serves as a payment data
repository on top of the Trading Community
Architecture (TCA) data model. The TCA model
holds the party information. Oracle Payments
then stores all of the party’s payment information
and its payment instruments (including credit
cards, debit cards, customer bank accounts, and
supplier bank accounts).
TCA in R12: Supplier Data
Mapping
TCA in R12: Legal Entities
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