Tuesday, June 29, 2010

[Oracle Applications] Critical Success Factors for Implementation projects

Leaned out process 

Ownership by business process owners

Effort estimation - Schedule, Resources




Clear ownership on requirements & in detailed description of each requirement

Understand the impact of Customizations
 
No change requests after requirement gathering freeze; unless absolute show stoppers

Data migration - Start very early in the game - Volume, data cleansing, Minimum 4 loads

Infrastructure support - Software, Hardware, Network


List down any parallel projects that need to be scheduled / worked-out with

Imagine, Plan, Discuss, Think, Brainstorm, Fine tune the go-live strategy to the operational level on the what, when, how, who, where and why of each small data creation & update


Don't change your business process owners in the midst. Have long term visibility before you enroll them on board


Have a good mix of Old timers, Medium experienced and recently joined process owners from each process. Inducting new hires with good experience in processes and best practices  into the business at least one year before the planned start of the implementation project is a good option to consider

Consider training as an important task to connect to users and plan it ahead of time. Process owners need to drive this supported by project team


Don't overkill; don't try to achieve something from a business application that can be easily done in a different application. For example, BI is good for graphical reporting 


Have a good mix in Project team - Business application experts with insight in Business processes & well informed of trends, best practices and innovation


Look at the broader plan where the implementation projects fits into. Implementation project should look seamless and clearly as a part of the long term initiative

Don't overwork, overstress your project team. Work hard, party harder !

Make your team understand that Internal selling is fatal

Right job to right person. Camel delivers best in desert !

No city council work. Two working, Twelve monitoring !


Lead the team from front. Catch the bull by the horns.






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Posted By OracleOnDemand to Oracle Applications at 6/29/2010 07:16:00 PM

Friday, June 25, 2010

[Oracle Applications] How to automatically populate unique ship set on Sales ...

If the profile option "OM: Assign new set for each line" is set as "Yes", then

1. Enter value as "Ship" for the field "Line Set" in Sales Order form (Tab: Others)
2. Enter Sales Order line information (ordered item, quantity)
3. Unique Ship set numbers would be auto-populated in the "Ship set" field at SO line level

Use the above if,
a. Multiple shipments are allowed per order
b. Each SO line needs to be shipped completely


If the profile option "OM: Assign new set for each line" is set as "No", then


1. Enter value as "Ship" for the field "Line Set" in Sales Order form (Tab: Others)
2. Enter Sales Order line information (ordered item, quantity)
3. One Ship set number would be auto-populated in the "Ship set" field for all the SO lines

Use the above if,

a. Multiple shipments are NOT allowed per order

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Posted By OracleOnDemand to Oracle Applications at 6/26/2010 02:07:00 AM

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

[Oracle Applications] FREE training sessions in Oracle Applications - Univers...

Hi Friends,

We are poised to start with our online training volunteered by professionals with rich implementation and support experience in Oracle Applications (ERP & CRM)
 
In our effort to provide an opportunity to University students, we plan to include few selected students as well for  basic walk-through sessions. Please forward this to whoever you might think would be interested. Interested may send an email to "applearn@gmail.com"
 
We would be soon sending out the planned session details to the trainer and attendees selected for the first round of online free training sessions.

Thanks for your participation !

Happy Learning,

applearn team


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Posted By OracleOnDemand to Oracle Applications at 5/27/2010 08:44:00 AM

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

[Oracle Applications] WIP Accounting in Oracle Applications




Please send in your comments on applearn@gmail.com

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Posted By OracleOnDemand to Oracle Applications at 5/19/2010 10:08:00 AM

Sunday, April 25, 2010

[Oracle Applications] FREE training sessions in Oracle Applications ...TL @ a...

Hi Friends,

We, at applearn as a team, continuously endeavor to device ways to reach out to professionals & beginners to share knowledge and learn. In line with the same, we have initiated a drive that might help us share and learn more, extend our knowledge base to fellow applearners and in turn learn new areas which we always wished. TL @ applearn is an effort in that direction.

*TL = Teach and Learn


We plan to bucket a TL group of 5, where-in each member would take up few training sessions on the Oracle Module of his/her expertise and choice. If you wish to be a part of the TL @ applearn group, you need to send the following details to "applearn@gmail.com" at your earliest.

Your Name
:
Telephone Contacts:
Currently Located in (Timezone): (please provide City/Country with Time zone details)
Oracle Module name(s)
:
*If you wish to cover more than one Oracle Module, please list them

Please note that you need to cover at least ONE module to qualify to be part of TL @ applearn. Please be rest assured that applearn team is here to help you to prepare for the session. Training sessions would be online and dialed by members into call coordinates

Happy Learning,

applearn team 


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Posted By OracleOnDemand to Oracle Applications at 4/26/2010 08:09:00 AM

Sunday, November 22, 2009

[Oracle Applications] Specifications in Oracle Quality


Specifications define the requirements to which the product must conform. You can define specifications for the key characteristics of the products that you produce or for the materials that you receive from suppliers. You can attach illustrative or explanatory files to specifications, such as text, images, word processing documents, spreadsheets, video, and so on. Attachments can be used to document processing instructions as well as inspection and disposition procedures.

Quality Menu > Setup > Specifications

Some typical examples of using specifications are:

1) Warn or trigger a specific action when collected data lies outside the reasonable range of a specifications

2) Assist data entry by displaying the specification limits

Three types of specifications available in Oracle Quality are Item, Supplier and Customer

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Posted By OracleOnDemand to Oracle Applications at 11/23/2009 05:51:00 AM

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

[Oracle Applications] Quotes

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
-- Charles Darwin

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
-- Henry Ellis

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
-- Anton Chekhov

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
-- William James

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
-- Mark Twain

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
-- William Wallace

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
-- Garrison Keillor

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
-- Richard Bach

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings

Life is half spent before we know what it is.
-- George Herbert

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
-- Karen Horney

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
-- Cary Grant

Only a few things are really important.
-- Marie Dressler

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
-- Robert Byrne

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
-- Lauryn Hill

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me".
-- Erma Bombeck

Your life is what your thoughts make it.
-- Marcus Aurelius

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
-- Napoleon Hill

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
-- Victor Hugo

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
-- Bil Keane

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
-- George Jean Nathan

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
-- Honore de Balzac

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
-- George Eliot

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
-- A. A. Milne

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
-- Michel de Montaigne

Love is a game that two can play and both win.
-- Eva Gabor

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
-- Zora Neale Hurston

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
-- Gracie Allen

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
-- Alexander Chase

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
-- William Blake

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
-- Mohandas Gandhi

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
-- Paul Sweeney

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
-- Joey Adams

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Posted By OracleOnDemand to Oracle Applications at 11/12/2009 09:23:00 AM