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Oracle Business Accelerators

Tom Ferrero

Director of Consulting

Abaris, Inc.abaris-inc.com


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What Are Accelerators?

Oracle Business Accelerators for Oracle E-Business Suite are powerful, easy to use and rapid

implementation solutions for new E-Business Suitecustomers. They make initial configuration of E-Business Suite simple, fast, and predictable. Oracle

Business Accelerators for Oracle E-Business Suitefeature an automated setup tool that configuresend-to-end business flows with customer setupsand data.

15 Verticals Solutions

18 Countries Supported

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What Do Accelerators Do?

Accelerators help you: Decrease the cost, risk, and time of an implementation

while improving ROI

Deliver predictable, high quality and reliable results Built-in integration and best practices within standardized

business processes

The solution includes: Business FlowsThese enable you to relate your

business requirements to the E-Business Suitefunctionality. Flow models, videos, demo scripts and othermaterial are provided to increase end-user awareness and

understanding. Setup ToolThis tool captures responses to simplequestions about your business requirements. The SetupTool automatically applies your business information intothe E-Business Suite rapidly and accurately, thereby

significantly increasing the productivity of implementationteams.

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Start Fast!

By using the Accelerator Assets, the timeneeded to get to CRP1 with a baselineinstance configured with the customers set-ups is reduced from months to as little as a

couple of weeks. With Oracle Business Accelerators for

Oracle E-Business Suite, you can begin

testing business transactions using yourown data in hours.

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How Do Accelerators Do It?

Accelerators supplement the requirement-gathering phase of the implementation witha plain-business-language questionnaire,

Do you want to disable any KPIs?

The answers to the questionnaire areprocessed to create a Configurator that isspecific to the customer, which is run on the

customers instance.

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Who Can Use Accelerators?

New Oracle Customers

Accelerators are not designed to not supportupgrades or the addition of individual modules

Accelerator Certified Oracle Partners

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How Can These Accelerator Assets

Help an Existing Oracle Customer? Process Validation or Re-engineering

Compare your processes to the Best Practicesrepresented in the Accelerator Flows

Adding a New Module?

Test drive functionality and fit with the FlowModels and Flow Videos

Preparing for an upgrade?

Get a preview of R12s new look and navigationthrough the Accelerator Videos

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US Accelerator Solutions R12

Automotive

Business Services Chemicals

Consumer Products

(2)

General Business

General BusinessPlus HR

High Technology(3)

Life Sciences (2)

Local Government

Natural Resource

ProfessionalServices

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Other Countries Supported R12

Argentina

Brazil

Canada (multiple)

Columbia

Denmark Finland

India

Indonesia

United Kingdom

Republic of Korea

Malaysia

Mexico

Philippines

Singapore Sweden

Thailand

United Kingdom(multiple)

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Accelerator Assets

Flow Models

The General Business Accelerator configures upto 41 business flows, such as Customer Returnto Settlement.

The Flow Models graphically illustrate the

business process supported by an Acceleratorconfigured instance.

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Update Balances

Customer Returns

Oracle Business Flow: Customer Return to Settlement

OF1027

GenerateCustomer

Invoices fromSales Orders

Generate salesinvoices and forwardto the customers.

OF1035

MaintainCredit

Memos

Enter customer creditmemos for returnedmaterials.

OF1057

ProcessCredit

Balancesand Refunds

Prepare and submitcheck requests andadjustments for refundsrequested by thecustomer.

OF1079

Issue ReturnedMaterial

Authorizations

Enter return ordersubmitted bycustomers or salesreps.

MM1138

ReceiveMaterial Customer

Receive materials fromcustomers, either intoinventory or into aninspection area.

MM1135

Accept orReject

Deliveries

Accept or reject goodsfrom the customer atthe receiving dock.

Order to ShipmentOrder to Drop ShipmentCustomer Invoice to Receipt

SendReplace-

ment?

Yes

No

Order to ShipmentOrder to Drop Shipment

EnterpriseRoles

Customer ServiceRepresentative

Accounts

Receivable Clerk

Receiving Clerk

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Accelerator Assets

Flow Videos

To help users understand step-by-step how theirprocesses are executed in Oracle, the FlowVideos illustrate by screen and mouse click, theAccelerator configured functionality.

Users gain buy-in for the Oracle process and/oridentify gaps that can be addressed with processmodification or post-Accelerator configuration.


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Accelerator Assets

Test Scripts

User validation is an important step in anyimplementation.

The Accelerators include detailed andcustomizable test scripts for each supported

process flow.



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Questions?

Answers



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Implementation Considerations



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Plan Scope

Key Assumptions Document

Accelerators are built on accepted Best

Practices. With these Best Practices areassumptions about the customers business,their business processes, and how they will use

Oracle. The Key Assumptions Document details items

such as the inventory costing method used, the

number of Legal Entities supported, etc.



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Questions

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