Oracle: Key Business Flows
Every business has some
Processes, every process has some Flows to meet some requirement or an outcome.
These processes and flows can be divided to departmental level. Every
department in an organization has some Process Flows and upon execution of
these flows the department meets some desired outcome.
Number of departments involved in a process depends on the nature
of the process and its flow. Keeping in mind the process and its flow an
automated application is designed, developed and implemented to help the
department(s) fasten up the flow and efficiently execute it. If the application
caters a whole process then it can be called as an ERP application.
These departments and processes can categorize in to two stages:
1. Front Office 2. Back Office
Oracle Application or
E-Business Suite is one of these automated application which cater different
processes with the help of different applications of module.
We can also call a “process” as
a “cycle”. Oracle Applications caters different business cycles with different
applications or, in terms of ERP, different modules.
Here is a list of how a
standard business process catered by Oracle E-Business Suite, and each process
has different Business Cycle.
1. Plan 2. Source 3. Make 4.
Market 5. Sell 6. Support
Each business process has a
cycle and for each cycle there are set of Oracle Application. Here is the
hierarchy of how
I’ve defined the Process, Cycle and Oracle
Application:
• PROCESS
o Cycle
§ Oracle
Application
So here’s the whole thing:
• PLAN
o Concept to Release
o Forecast to Plan
Modules Involved
§ Demand Planning, § Order Management and §
Advanced Supply Chain Planning
o Plan to Replenish
• SOURCE
o Procure to Pay
Modules Involved
§
Purchasing
§
Inventory
§
Payables
§
iExpenses
§
Cash Management
§
General Ledger
§
Assets (optional)
Cycle:
o
Inventory to Fulfillment
• MAKE
Cycle:
o Demand to Build
o Inventory to Fulfillment
• MARKET
Cycle:
o Campaign
to Order
• SELL
Cycle
o Campaign to Order
o Click to Order
o Order to Cash
Modules
§
Order Management
§
Inventory
§
Receivables
§
Cash Management
§
General Ledger
Cycle:
o
Contract to Renewal
• SUPPORT
Cycle:
o Contract to Renewal
o Request to Resolution
Back Office Cycle in
particular includes:
Cycle
• Benefits to Payroll
• People to Paycheck
• Project to Profit
• Accounting to Financial
Reports
