Oracle E-Business Suite
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Within the overall rubric of Oracle Applications,[1] Oracle Corporation's E-Business Suite ("EB-Suite" or "EBS") consists of a collection of enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and supply-chain management (SCM) computer applications developed by Oracle. The software utilizes Oracle's core Oracle relational database management system technology. The E-Business Suite (current version: 12, released January 31, 2007), contains several product lines, including:
- Oracle CRM
- Oracle Financials
- Oracle HRMS
- Oracle Logistics
- Oracle Mobile Supply chain Applications
- Oracle Order Management
- Oracle Transportation Management
- Oracle Warehouse Management Systems
Each product comprises several modules, each separately licensed.
Significant technologies incorporated into the applications include the Oracle database technologies, (engines for RDBMS, PL/SQL, Java, HTML and XML), the "technology stack" (Oracle Forms Server, Oracle Reports Server, Apache Web Server, Oracle Discoverer, Jinitiator and Sun's Java).
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[edit] Oracle Financials
Oracle Financials includes several dozen "modules", each of them separately licensed within the E-Business Suite. The modules include:
- Assets - asset-tracking and maintenance.
- Cash Management - electronic bank statement, loading, and reconciliation features.
- Daily Business Intelligence for Financials - up-to-date graphical views of corporate performance using some of Oracle's pre-built KPIs. DBIs serve to show up-to-date snapshots of different areas of a business, such as:
- Accounts Payables - Supplier Ageing
- Accounts Receivable - Customer Ageing
- General Ledger - including a "Financial Statement Generator" to write custom reports which can span across multiple companies.
- Payments - payment facilities to pay in multiple currencies using multiple payment methods
- Payables - ability to match electronically to purchase orders generated in Oracle Purchasing.
- Receivables - raising sales-invoices, dunning letters and statements. In-built credit-control facilities to manage customer credit.
Oracle Ledger includes ERP features like inter-company transactions, consolidations , multiple currency transactions and drill-down facilities.
[edit] Oracle Logistics
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- Warehouse Management
[edit] Oracle Projects
Oracle Projects contains the following applications:
- Project Billing
- Project Collaboration
- Project Contracts
- Project Costing
- Project Foundation (not available as stand-alone)
- Project Intelligence
- Project Management
- Project Portfolio Analysis
- Project Resource Management
[edit] Oracle SCM
Oracle SCM (for supply-chain management) can include:
- Advanced Procurement
- Demantra Demand-driven planning
- Logistics
- Manufacturing
- Order management
- Supply Chain Execution
- Supply Chain Planning
[edit] Oracle HRMS
Oracle HRMS offers an integrated set of applications software products specific to the area of human resource management systems (HRMS). It belongs to the Oracle E-Business Suite of Oracle Corporation.
Oracle HRMS includes several modules, specifically:
- Core HR
- Payroll
- OTL (Oracle Time & Labour)
- Oracle Learning Management (OLM)
- Self-service HR
- Oracle Advanced Benefits
- iRecruitment
[edit] Others
Additional Oracle E-business Suite products include:
- Oracle Bills of Material
- Oracle Capacity
- Oracle CRM ( now in the process of integration with Siebel Systems)
- Oracle Advanced Planning & Scheduling
- Oracle Advanced Procurement (purchase to pay process)
- Oracle Business Intelligence
- Oracle Engineering
- Oracle Inventory
- Oracle Manufacturing (includes flow, process, and discrete)
- Oracle Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)
- Oracle Master Scheduling
- Oracle MRP
- Oracle Order Entry
- Oracle Order Fulfillment (order to cash process)
- Oracle Payroll
- Oracle Project Costing
- Oracle Project Billing
- Oracle Purchasing
- Oracle TMS (Transportation/G-Log)
- Oracle Work in Process
[edit] Documentation
Oracle Corporation brands the on-line technical documentation of E-Business Suite as eTRM — "E-Business Suite Technical Reference Manuals".[2]
