CEMLI And Reports Migration From 11i to R12

24 October 2011 Worcester MA

11i CEMLI and Reports

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AboutthePresenters
PallaviKumar PrincipalConsultantatAppsAssociatesLLC Over10yearsofOracleEBSexperienceasaproject managerandtechnofunctionalconsultant PavanVonkayalapati PrincipalConsultantatAppsAssociatesLLC Over8yearsofOracleEBusinesssuiteexperience implementing/upgradingandmaintainingdifferent versionsof11iandR12.
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SessionAgenda
Case studies CEMLI and Reports Cataloging Process flow

Planning Assessment Remediation

Testing Cycles Some New Key Features in R12 Post Production issues Lessons learned Best Practices Documentation Q&A
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CEMLIandReportsCataloging
CEMLI Configurations,Extensions,Modifications,Localizations, IntegrationsFramework
CaseStudyA CaseStudyB

Planning
Plan,Plan,Plan,Plan.. Keyforsuccessfulupgrade Setrealisticdeadline
PreCRP1

DecideTeamstructure
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1ProjectManagerforEntireProject 1PMforCEMLI/1PMforReports FunctionalBAs(2perprocessflow OrdertoCash,P2Petc) Developers technologyspecific(OAFramework,Reports, PL/SQLetc.) KeyBusinessUsers DBAs ifpossible,dedicatedteam
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Planning(Contd.)
ForeveryCEMLI,assigna

BA Developer BusinessUserfortesting

Considerthatteamisalsosupporting11i IntegrateCEMLIwithBusinessProcessFlowTestscripts

Thiswillhelpidentifyredundantobjectsandalsoneedfor newobjectstofillgaps LinkwithIDsinbothfiles,helpedalot

PreCRP1processtakesabout3weeks Notify3rdpartyVendorsandstartworktoupgradethe interfacessooner(170MarkviewSystems,Antenna,Banks etc.)

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Assessment
AllCEMLIobjectswillnotbemigrated

Someredundant AddnewonesforgapsinR12

Assessment(Contd.)
CategorizebyLOE,howmanywill 1)Migrateeasilywithminor/moderatedatamodelchanges
Ledger insteadofSetofBooks CustomerCorrespondence(InvoicePrint) Suppliers/BanksmovedtoTCA FormPersonalizationtoCustomer/Supplierformsetc. inR12 allOApages

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Assessment(Contd.)
CategorizebyLOE,contd.. 2)Completerewrites
NewSLAmodule

RewriteGLreconciliationreports(nowusingXLAtables) o AccountAnalysis CreationandvalidationofPayments FormatandTransmissionofFiles

IntroductionofnewPaymentmodule(IBY)

ReportsinMFSapplicationaredeprecatedand applicationisdevelopedinUIX(userinterfacexml). Developedcustomreportsusinghooksprovidedby Oracle

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CEMLIRemediation
o CustomForms/Reports6i
OpenandRecompile6iForms/Reportsin10gBuilder Modifyfordatamodelchanges Set'OperatingUnit'modetoSingle forallConcurrentPrograms Settingorg_contextchangedtomo_global.set_policy_context ('S',org_id) RewritecustomreportsbasedonobsoleteseededRDFs

SalesJournalbyGLAccountReport(RAXGLRreplacedbyARSJGLARPT) UninvoicedReceiptsReport(POXPORRAreplacedbyCSTACREP) U.S.SalesTaxReport(ARXSTRreplacedbyZXXSTR) PostedInvoiceRegister(APXINPIR)replacedbyR12PayablesPosted InvoiceRegisterAPXPOINV).

APchecks,PositivePayreportaredevelopedinJavainsteadofRDF

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CEMLIRemediation
Menu/Responsibility

Thesehadtobedonemanually. Fixtheminfirsttwotestcycles,extractthemusingFnd loadutility reimportthemforthefinalupgrade,tosavethecutovertime.

WorkflowCustomizations

UsedWFLoadutilitytoDownloadandUploadWFCustomizations OnsomeWFshadtoreimplementcustomizationontheR12version

OACustomPages

Reimplementedfromscratch,budgetlotoftime
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OLM,iRecruitmentwerecustomizedin11.5.10.Hadtoreimplementall customizations

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CEMLIRemediation
Alerts/ValueSets/DFFs

Modifyfordatamodelchanges InR12,Valueset'GL_SRS_COA_ID_BYSOB'isreplacedby 'GL_SRS_COA_UNVALIDATED'.ConcurrentprogramsthatusethisValue Sethavetobemodified.

FormsPersonalizations

GUIformsmigratewell. Remediatefordatamodelchanges FormsthatmovedtoOAframework(HTMLpages),e.g.Customer Standard,Suppliersetc.allFormPersonalizationswerereimplemented withOAPersonalizationsandExtensions

UpgradingFormPersonalizationsandOAFrameworkPersonalizations fromOracleEBusinessSuiteRelease11ito12.1[ID1292611.1]
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DiscovererReportsRemediation
Upgradeto10gorhigher EULautomaticallyrelinkedduring Upgrade Replaceviews/folderswherechanges weremade Modifyjoinsoraddnewjoinswhere needed
FoldersinCustomBusinessAreas

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TestingCycle

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TestingCycle
Test,Test,Test,Test. Thoroughlyvalidatetheupgradeplan CaseStudyA Did3testruns CaseStudyB Did4testruns

RunreportsinR11ipreupgradeandcomparewithequivalentR12 reportspostupgrade Ex.ReconcileyourTrialBalancetotalstoGLbefore theupgrade. ComparetheR12andR11iTrialBalancetotalsafter theupgrade

TestDrilldownfromGLtoold/upgradedandnewsubledger accountingdata.

Testtheperiodcloseprocessesforseveralmonths

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NewFeatures
FundsDisbursementtobankviaNewfunctionalityinR12.
TransmissionConfigurations:PriortoR12therewerecustomhostprograms written to do the Transfer of files to the banks which were usually sftp calls totheBankservers.InR12.1.3replacedwiththeseededfunctionality. PaymentsSetupAdministrator TransmissionConfiguration
ServerHostName: Port#: AccountUserName: AccountPwd: ClientPrivateKey: ClientPrivatekeyPwd: RemoteFileDirectory: SentfileName: KeepLocalFile:

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NewFeatures
AccrualandReconciliationReportsmovedfromPOtoCSTSchema. In11.5.9:
1)AccrualReconciliationRebuild(ShortName:POXACRCR) 2)AccrualReconciliationReport(ShortName:POXACREC)

InR12:(ShiftingfromPOtoCSTSchema)
1)AccrualReconciliationLoadRun 2)AccrualReconciliationReport(APandPOAccrualReconciliationReport) 3)MiscellaneousAccrualReconciliationReport 4)SummaryAccrualReconciliationReport

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NewFeatures
Leverageformspersonalization'sifcomingfrom11.5.9 ExportingPersonalization importingthemtonewinstance
Profileoption:FND:PersonalizationDocumentRootPath Createdirectory:/tmp/custdocs NavigatetoFunctionalAdministratorandclickonPersonalization. Import/Export Youcanexportcorrespondingpersonalizationunder /tmp/custdocs Oncedone,allpersonalizationsarecreatedwithsubdirectories underneaththis Dosamestepsininstancewhereyouwanttodoupload Makesurethesamedirectoriesarecreatedunderneath/tmp/custdocs sothatyoucanImportthemtothisinstance.
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PostProductionIssues/LessonsLearned
Donotapplypatchesclosetogolive,unlessitisabsolutelycritical.We appliedanATGpatchduringUATanditimpactediRecruitmentApprovalWFs forgolive Complete allWFbeforeyoustarttheupgradeprocess

ClearInterfacesandAnyProcessingExceptions Testallofyourbusinessscenarioswithupgradedaswellasnew data

SLAlinksdidnotcomeoverforsometransactions.Oracleprovidedscripts CheckLogfilesfortheSeededProgramsforUpdateSubledger Accounting, thiswillbuildtherecordsforthehistoricaltransactionsinsubledger tables andestablishtheDrilldowns PerformanceissueswithARforms/Serviceforms WFSynchronizationprocessnotworking,sonewcontactsarenotcreated

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PostProductionIssues/LessonsLearned

CustomerContactsnowcreatedwithemailoptionasText insteadofHTML. CustomWFnotabletosendformattedemails InvoiceValidationProgramnotvalidatinginvoices Fundsdisbursementinformationaboutexpensereportscreatedpriorto upgradeandafterupgradehasvariations. CreditCardNumbersarenowencrypted,sincetheyhavesecuritypatch. CausingissueswithT&ERemittanceprogram.Workingwithbankforthat Forongoingmaintenance,Oraclenowtypicallyprovidingrollup patches. Leveragebackup folder,containthefilesthataremodified.

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BestPractices

Realisticplans,realisticexpectations Reducenewcustomizationsin11i TestnewdevelopmentinparallelonR12instancetoensure compatibility Freeze11icustomizationsatleast23monthspriortocutover Testallofyourbusinessscenarioswithupgradedaswellasnew data GiveyourselfplentyoftimetoTrainandprepareyourendusers UseTUMSutility,filteroutupgradestepsnotneededforyoursystem InstallOracleConfigurationManagertoleveragehealthchecksand priorityhandlingofSRs UseMaintenanceWizard Collectsdatafrom11iandfiltersR12upgradesteps Recordstasktimes,assignstasks UtilizetheUpgradeAdvisorviaOracleSupport
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DocumentationandMetalinkNotes
MetalinkNote:OracleEBusinessSuiteUpgradeCenter Home[ID 461705.1]

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DocumentationandMetalinkNotes

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QuestionsandAnswers

Contact: Pallavi.Kumar@AppsAssociates.com Pavan.Vvr@AppsAssociates.com

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