https://fusionappsoer.oracle.com/

What Is OER?

Very simply this is a standalone catalog of technical information about Oracle’s Application products.  For E-Business Suite users it equates to the iRepository tool (http://irep.oracle.com/index.html), or for PeopleSoft its similar to the PeopleSoft Interactive Services Repository.

It contains a wealth of information, with the primary purpose of facilitating the creation of Application to Application integrations, and creating extensions and customizations. With this detailed technical knowledge of the inner workings and API’s available for Oracle Applications a better level of code reuse and overall accuracy can be achieved.

Accessing OER

Access is available either from Oracle’s globally shared public OER instance, or as part of your local Fusion Application instance deployment. Detail on creating a local OER installation is found in Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation Guide for Oracle Enterprise Repository (E15745-07). The URL’s for OER will be:

• Your local instance URL: http://%5BFusionInstance%5D:%5Bport%5D/oer
• Oracle’s public instance URL: https://fusionappsoer.oracle.com

An OER login may be required, although Oracle’s public instance also supports guest access at this time.

OER catalogs technical components by various attributes, with the key ones being Name, Type, and Logical Business Area (LBA).  LBA is the lower level of the Fusion Applications Taxonomy and is used to tag each technical object with the feature and product that it is owned by and associated with.

The general keyword search actually uses indexes of all the fields/attributes associated with a entry.

Whilst the basic Asset Search should suffice in most cases, and is a simpler UI, the Browse feature (IE required) provides many powerful features and graphical views, including an object hierarchy and the Navigator to display objects related to each other

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Oracle Enterprise Repository

How To Get The Most From Oracle Enterprise Repository For Troubleshooting Fusion Applications [ID 1399910.1]

There are many useful features that can be used with Fusion Procurement. Here are just some of the more significant examples:

• Both Serial and Parallel Approval for all document types.
• Various ways to configure responses, including features like first responder wins to help avoid lengthy processing times.
• Notification by email as well as several rich dashboard components (e.g. worklist) to show items currently awaiting action.
• Expiration, reminder and escalation features on pending actions.
• Delegation and vacation rules to forward actions to dedicated proxies as needed
• Rich notification content including clickable links to go directly to document details.
• Wide range of attribute values to use in the creation of custom approval processing rules.

What hierarchies can be used to generate approval lists?

Fusion Applications provides standard support for the following methods to derive the list of approvers

• Supervisor Hierarchy. This uses the HCM employee definition, leveraging the specific assignment of a supervisor person to each employee. AMX engine calls HCM to request the users that are in the hierarchy and passes in a starting position (normally the person submitting the purchasing document) and the maximum number of levels in the hierarchy to climb up.
• Position Hierarchy. This uses the Job definitions in HCM and selects all employees tied to the position that gets included in the selected hierarchy. Again this accepts the starting position (person) and the top job level to climb to before completing.
• Approval Group is simple a group of predefined people. This can be a static list or may be custom to generate at run-time based on approval document attribute data.
• Job Level. This works very similarly to the Position Hierarchy whereby it uses start and end Job definitions to traverse the hierarchy and select approvers.

What is Approvals Management (AMX)

Approvals Management (AMX) is an independent product that comes from the Fusion Middleware SOA Server, and provides general approval services to any product in Fusion Applications. AMX can be considered the meeting point between the powerful and flexible Oracle Business Rules capability and the advanced process control capabilities of Oracle Human Workflow.
The BPEL process that controls approvals has points at which it invokes the AMX services to initiate the approval process. The BPEL process controls the procurement process around approvals, however AMX and Human Workflow are responsible for the entire approval process.

AMX features include:

• The execution of rules that govern the selection and generation of approver lists.
• The sending of notifications to the participants on the generated list.
• The processing of responses from those approvers, and selection of appropriate next approval action.
• The return of the completion status back to the Procurement BPEL process for actioning.

Still eRecords and eSignatures are not supported by AMX in version 1.0.

For Complete Details Please refer to Document Approval in Fusion Procurement Products [ID 1319614.1]

OBIA: How to Find Software Versions and Patches in an Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Environment? [ID 1519745.1]

Highlights of the Oracle BI Applications 7.9.6.4 Release:

• New Application – Oracle Manufacturing Analytics with pre-built adapters for EBS Process Manufacturing R12.x and EBS Discrete Manufacturing R12.x and 11.5.10
• New Application – Oracle Enterprise Asset Management Analytics with pre-built adapters for EBS R12.x, EBS 11.5.10 and IBM Maximo 7.5
• Universal Adapter to extend the capability to other source systems
• Certified for OBIEE 11g
• Certified for Exalytics
• Certified for DAC 11g including support for Exalytics / Times Ten, Patching Framework, Dual ETL Support and many other performance enhancements
• Native support for mobile and tablet devices
• Localized in 28 languages
• Supported on Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 and Teradata DB
• Rollup patch resolving 122 BI Applications bugs

Good thing so many bugs are fixed. To get solution / work around,  me and my team spent days on Severity 1 Service Requests with Oracle.

OBIA 7.9.6.4: Bugs Fixed in 7.9.6.4 [ID 1528774.1]

Link to Download Software and Documentations

https://blogs.oracle.com/proactivesupportEPM/entry/oracle_bi_applications_obia_7

Extract from the Log

**********************************************************************************************************************

CREATE INDEX:W_PARTY_D:W_PARTY_D_U1 has started.

ANOMALY INFO::: Error while executing : CREATE INDEX:W_PARTY_D:W_PARTY_D_U1
MESSAGE:::java.lang.Exception: Error while execution : CREATE UNIQUE INDEX
W_PARTY_D_U1
ON
W_PARTY_D
(
INTEGRATION_ID Asc
,DATASOURCE_NUM_ID Asc
,EFFECTIVE_FROM_DT Asc
)
NOLOGGING
with error DataWarehouse:CREATE UNIQUE INDEX
W_PARTY_D_U1
ON
W_PARTY_D
(
INTEGRATION_ID Asc
,DATASOURCE_NUM_ID Asc
,EFFECTIVE_FROM_DT Asc
)
NOLOGGING
ORA-01452: cannot CREATE UNIQUE INDEX; duplicate keys found
EXCEPTION CLASS::: java.lang.Exception

**********************************************************************************************************************

For Resolution:- Download and review the readme and pre-requisites for Patch.14085106.

In Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence for Oracle Fusion applications a very good feature is to use DFF to make any analysis. It used to be very painful for any organization to make analysis based on DFF using BIAPPS. Now it’s just matter of few clicks and you are done.

What Oracle says “If a descriptive Flexfield is enabled for Oracle Business Intelligence, the Manage Descriptive Flexfields task displays a BI Enabled checkbox for each global, context, and context-sensitive segment. Select a segment’s BI Enabled checkbox to specify that the segment is available for use in Oracle Business Intelligence.”

a list of all the predefined “BI Enabled”  DFFs available in Oracle Metalink Note Fusion Applications Business Intelligence – List of Descriptive Flex Field Mappings [ID 1509316.1]

In the current era the customers are not interested to wait for months and years for BI project implementation. The customers are keen on quick wins rather than implementing the BI solution from scratch by following traditional BI approach. The Oracle BI Apps solution provides head start for the organisation to reach the to-be state quicker with reduced time and effort, and reduced risk.Read Details

You may be asking (as you should really) “That’s all well and good for the consumer, but for me at my company, what’s your point? Beyond the fact that I can check and post updates, that is.”

Good question, kind sir.

Read Details on

https://blogs.oracle.com/applications/entry/the_future_of_project_management

The Live Console gives user a single location from which he/she can generate many in-depth graphic displays. user can use these graphs to assist in analyzing  negotiation responses during and after a negotiation.

Live Console is not available for:

1. RFIs
2. Contract Purchase Agreement negotiations that do not have lines.
3. Sealed negotiation (once the negotiation is unsealed, Live Console is available).
4. Draft negotiations (since the negotiation has no responses).
5. Additionally, line-level information and displays are not available for large or very large negotiations.
6. Also, information is not available for Two-Stage RFQs until the technical evaluation is completed and the commercial stage is unlocked.

Graphs Area

The Graph Area can display four types of graphs.

Best Bids by Time (XY Chart)

1. The graph shows bids for the top five suppliers. If the supplier has multiple bids, all bids for that supplier are shown.
2. The Y axis shows the best bid offered for the negotiation. This is calculated as the sum of (price * quantity) for all lines on the negotiation. The X axis shows the time range over which the bids have been submitted.
3. The vertical line indicates the close date

All Bids By Time (XY chart)

1. This chart graphs all the bids for the negotiation.
2. The Y axis shows the best bid offered for the negotiation. This is calculated as the sum of (price * quantity) for all lines on the negotiation. The X axis shows the time range over which the bids have been submitted.
3. The vertical line indicates the close date.

Savings by Supplier (Bar chart)

1. The graph shows bids for the top five suppliers. If the supplier has multiple bids, all bids for that supplier are shown.
2. The Y axis shows the best bid offered for the negotiation. This is calculated as the sum of (quantity * (bid price – current price)) for all lines on the negotiation. The X axis shows the bid number.

Best Bids by Supplier (Bar chart)

1. The graph shows bids for the top five suppliers. If the supplier has multiple bids, all bids for that supplier are shown.

Graphs are not available for

1. Contract Purchase Agreement negotiations that have no lines.
2. Blanket Purchase Agreements or Contract Purchase Agreement negotiations that have lines but no Estimated Quantity value.
3. Negotiations for which there are no responses (for example, a negotiation that is in Preview status.
4. Quotes that are not shortlisted from the technical evaluation stage of a Two-Stage RFQ.

Supplier submitted request to register himself with organization. Once approver goes to approve the registration request and click on review button. Application is giving following error

“One or more transformations used by the match rule have not been staged. Please confirm that all required transformations have been staged”

 

Solution :-

Assign responsibility “Trading Community Manager”

Submit Request “DQM Staging Program” with Staging Command Parameter as “STAGE_ALL_DATA”

After completion of “DQM Staging Program” submit another request “DQM Compile All Rules” without any parameter (no parameters are applicable)