r12 tca architecture details

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R12 TCA (Trading Community Architecture):

What is TCA?

Oracle Trading Community Architecture (TCA) is a data model that allows you to manage complex information about

the parties, or customers.

Trading Community Architecture is the implementation of technology and applications to allow users to create and

maintain relationships among entities. It is a way to understand who your customer interacts with inside and outside

the enterprise.

Note: Customer, Vendor, Supplier are the terms that we come across very frequently.

For instance:We buy goods from a Shop Vendor so we are the Customer to that Vendor and the Vendor is our

Supplier for that good. The Vendor gets goods from a merchant who actually produces it (Manufacturer), so now the

vendor in-turn becomes a customer to the Manufacturer who is the Supplier.

The complete TCA can be related and runs around all these terms, these may be people we meet generally who might

be a Supplier or Customer in our perspective.

Now moving ahead lets go in details about TCA.

How TCA Matters?

Before TCA:

There are multiple customer definitions across the enterprise.

It was very difficult to track current and historical information about the customers.

There was a lack of support for mixed business.

It was quite tough to understand relationships between customers and others (suppliers, partners, competitors)

After TCA:

Create a central repository for the entire E-Business Suite to store information relating to all members of a trading

community versus separate tables for each member-Prospects, Customers, Contacts, Employees, Partners,

Distributors, Suppliers, Banks, etc.

Record complex business relationships between Trading Community entities (including 3rd party relationships).

Support all business models, industries, and geographies.
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TCA Data Model Components:

Party

Represents any entity that can enter into business relationships with your

organization Organization, Person, or Group

Party

Relationship

A binary relationship between two parties such as a partnership. Example: Adam is a

specific person party and Eve Inc. is an organization party. Adam at Eve Inc. is also

treated as a party with the type relationship

Location A Street Address

Party Site Associates a party with a location, indicating that partys usage of the location

Contact

A person related to an organization, this can be a relationship between an

organization and a person as well as between two people

Contact Point Your avenue of contacting a party i.e. a phone number ,e-mail address or fax number

Customer

Account Represents a customer relationship between your organization and a party

Customer

Account Site

A party Site that you use in relation to a customer account, i.e, a bill-to or ship-to

address

Customer

Account

A party contact that is used as a means of contacting the customer regarding his/her

account


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Contacts

TCA in 11i

11i TCA already equipped to handle the following entities

>Customer

>Employee

>Student

Here is Summarize information of the tables Pre and Post 11i:
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TCA in R12 Includes:

New trading entities

>Suppliers

>Banks & Bank Branches

>Legal Entity

TCA Data Model : Supplier & Customer
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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

TCA Suppliers:

Technical details for R12 Supplier in TCA
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TCA in R12: Supplier Data Mapping
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TCA in R12: Bank Account Model

TCA in R12: Bank Model

New Bank Account Model

Central place to define internal bank accounts

>Keep track of all bank accounts in one place

>Explicitly grant account access to multiple operating units/functions and users

Multi-Org Access

>In the new model, bank accounts are owned by Legal Entities with the option to grant account use to Operating

Unit (Payables, Receivables), Legal Entity (Treasury), Business Group (Payroll) .

R12 Multi-org access control

MOAC is new enhancement to Multiple Organization feature of Oracle Application

Enables Users to access the data from one or many Operating Units within a set of given responsibility

Data Security is maintained using Multiple Organization Security Profile, Define in Oracle HRMS.

Three key CE tables now as

1. CE_BANK_ACCOUNTS

>Stores bank account attributes

2. CE_BANK_ACCT_USES_ALL

>Stores the bank account use attributes specific to Operating Unit (AR, AP) and Legal Entity (Treasury).

3.CE_GL_ACCOUNTS_CCID

>Accounting data pertaining to the bank account use

All of the bank, branch and bank account related attributes in AP_BANK_BRANCHES and

AP_BANK_ACCOUNTS_ALL tables will be upgraded to HZ_PARTIES and the new tables in Cash Management.

The Changing model for Bank in Global working model


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>Release 12, whats New:

TCA Bank Model in 11i and R12:

TCA in R12: Legal Entities

Legal entity is created as a party of party type ORGANIZATION or PERSON

An establishment is created as a party of party type ORGANIZATION.

TCA creates a new classification category called Business Function. It is used mainly to model what business

functions a party can perform in E-Business Suite

For modeling legal entities and establishments in TCA, classification code Legal Entity and Establishment are

created under the Business Function class category.

An establishment is created as a party and always link to a party that is classified as a legal entity through the

relationship model

TCA & Enhancement:

The Trading Community Manager Responsibility, allows users to create a setup or update data sharing and security

Customer Standard form that has been existing till R11i is finally gone.
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Oracle Introduced a brand new HTML UI built using OA Frame works leveraging TCA that can be used to manage

Customers, Accounts, etc.

TCA APIs List:
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