30-JUN-2015

TCA Oracle AppsR12 Overview

Prathap G

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Agenda
Trading Community Architecture (TCA)
What is TCA
TCA data model and its components
TCA in R12 and beyond
Why TCA matters
Q&A

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What Is TCA
TCA is a way to understand who our trading partners interact
with inside and outside the enterprise.
Trading Community Architecture (TCA) is a Data model for
maintaining
information about parties and customers who belong to an
enterprise'scommercial community. Parties can be people or
organizations that canenter into business relationships across
the e-Business Suite.

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TCA Data Model: Major components

1. Components
Party
Account
Contact Point
Location
Relationships

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TCA Data Model: Party Concept

A party is an entity/participant that can enter into a business
relationship
Person: A unique individual (dead or alive) of interest to the
user.
Organization: A legal entity recognized by some government
authority.
Group: A combination of two or more people, organizations or
groups.
Relationship: User-definable link between two parties,
regardless
of type.
A Party can belong to an unlimited number of relationships.
No duplication of entities

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TCA Data Model: Party Concept

Navigation-:Trading Community Manager->Trading Community>Customers->Standard

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TCA Data Model: Account Concept

The financial roll-up point to track a customers purchases and
payments.
Stores details about a customer relationship between a Party and
your business.
A Party may have one or more Customer Accounts.
Because a party and accounts are separate entities, no need to
duplicate parties
- Customer Account Sites: A Party Site that is used within the
context
of a Customer Account (e.g., for billing or shipping purposes).
- Customer Account Contacts: A Party Contact that is used
in the context of a Customer Account.

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TCA Data Model: Contact Point Concept

Contact Point - An identifier for a method of contact

(e.g., telephone, email, URL, fax, cell phone etc.)
This can be applied to:
A Party (person, organization, group or relationship)
A Site or Location
A Party at a Site or Location
An entity may have one or more Contact Points.

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TCA Data Model: Location Concept

Location - A physical place, usually with an address.

Any number of location types. (e.g., bill-to, ship-to, mail-to).
No duplication of address
Maintain Customer History per address
Maintain Important Install Base info
Party Site
Links a Party with a Location and describes the usage of that
Location (e.g., mailing address, billing address, home address,
etc.).
Parties may be associated to one or more Locations and any
one location may have one or more uses.

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TCA Data Model: Relationship Concept

Relationship Associates any two parties.

John is a customer of ABC Co.
John is a supplier to ABC Co.
Has a Role Specifies the nature of the relationship between
parties (e.g., bill to, pay to, member of, contact at, married to,
Division of, Employee of).
-- Indicates the nature of the relationship
-- Tracks relationship history

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TCA Data Model: Relationship Concept

Navigation-:Trading Community Manager->Trading Community>Relationship->Search with Party Number->Click on View Relationship

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TCA Integration

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TCA Data Model: Visualization

PARTY

Bill to

SITE

Ship to

Bill to

Bill to

Ship to

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Bill to, Ship to

Account
Site

Site

Acct

Site

Acct

Bill to, Ship to

Account

Acct

Ship to

Account

SITE

PARTY

SITE

PARTY

Division Of

Bill to, Ship to

TCA in R12

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New trading entities

Suppliers
Banks & Bank Branches
Legal Entity

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TCA in R12: Supplier Representation

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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
New supplier maintenance UI using TCA UI components

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TCA in R12: Supplier Technical Information

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 To begin with, we need to create a Supplier. Lets name it Go4Gold

[which also happens to be the name of my old company].
Simply enter name of the Supplier in organization name field and
click on Apply. This will create a Supplier.
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an double check the created Supplier, which has Supplier Number 20186.

SUPPLIER number comes from a table named AP_SUPPLIERS.

egistry id that you see is the Party_number field from hz_parties [TCA Party Table]

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Effected Tables After creating Supplier

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

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HZ_PARTIES
HZ_PARTY_USG_ASSIGNMENTS
HZ_ORGANIZATION_PROFILES
IBY_EXTERNAL_PAYEES_ALL
POS_SUPPLIER_MAPPINGS

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TCA in R12: Banks Representation

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)

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TCA in R12: Bank Account Model

Pay invoices from different OUs with 1 instruction

New Payments Module
New Bank Module
New Bank & Credit Card
Features

OU A

OU B

OU C

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Single
Payment
Instructi
on

Invoice
s

Bank

Sub
Ledger
Accoun
ting

Paymen
ts

TCA in R12: Integration with HRMS

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TCA creates the global view of person

TCA enables you to store person Information at a corporate level
Person is stored as party in TCA
Comprehensive duplicate person check when entering a new
person Across the business group
Propagate some information entered in one business group to the
record in the other business group
PER_ALL_PEOPLE_F.PARTY_ID is a foreign key to the HZ_PARTIES
table, an integral part of Oracle's "Trading Community
Architecture" (TCA).

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TCA in R12: Listed APIs

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Thank You

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