Oracle Apps Tutorial: Changes in R12.2 for Supply Chain Management (Part 1)
On December 5, 2013, in Oracle Cost Management, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Inventory, Oracle R12, Oracle R12 Upgrade, Oracle Supply Chain Management, by ssutphin
Unlike the other product families (Financials, Projects, HR), Supply Chain Management has been busy with enhancements in the R12.2 release. Because Order Management has a lot of changes, I’m dividing my discussion into two posts. This first post will cover the changes to Advance Pricing, Electronic Kanban (new product), Inventory, Sales Contracts, and Service Contracts. In a later post I will talk about the changes in Order Management.
In addition to the R12.2 changes, Oracle integrated the Supply Chain Management modules into its E-Commerce Product Endeca. Inventory, Cost Management, Install Base, Discrete Manufacturing, and Process Manufacturing can use Endeca’s in memory database for quicker searches.
Changes to Advance Pricing Module in R12.2 Service Item Support in Promotional Modifiers
To support the automatic bundling of services with a product (such as 1 year free support with your purchase of a specific product), Oracle Advance Pricing can now (in R12.2) add a service item automatically. This feature will increase your order accuracy because the person entering the order will not have to remember that the service is bundled with the product. This is especially helpful it the inclusive of the service is part of a specific promotion.
To use this feature, you need to use the service item as a get product in the promotional modifier setup.
Non-Continuous Price Breaks
Companies use non-continuous price breaks to incentivize customers to purchase products in quantities that are economically advantageous to you. Before R12.2 the “Value From” field in the Price Breaks form must start with 0 and there can not be gaps between breaks. In R12.2, you can start your price