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About APPSFROMRAJIV

Oracle Application Consultant and Project manager. The views expressed on this blog are my own and do not reflect the position of Oracle or any other corporation.

Oracle Advance Pricing – Cascading Discounts

Cascading discount is used when the discount need to be applied on subtotal. As a standard functionality of Oracle pricing the discount is always applied on the Total of the price. The interesting cases of cascade discount is always seen … Continue reading

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Sourcing against the Contract PO in Oracle Procurement

Sourcing is the key feature of Oracle procurement which provides the flexibility to organization for automating the buying process so that buyers could put efforts towards more value added activities. Most of the organization does regular business with standard suppliers … Continue reading

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Oracle Advance Pricing: Multi Dimensional Pricing

Multi Dimensional pricing is very interesting feature of Oracle pricing. With the help of this feature, pricing of any product could be decided on the basis of two or more variables. E.g If width between 2-4 and thickness between 1-3 … Continue reading

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Phases of Oracle Implementation

Oracle implementation project is always considered as big project and involve considerable amount of time and efforts from higher management also. It requires business process analysis, critical decision making for business processes. In this post we will try to explore … Continue reading

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Oracle Advance Pricing – Promotional Goods

Promotional goods feature adds a new item with a price adjustment or benefit when the customer orders one or more other items on the same order.  If an order line qualifies for a promotional goods modifier (PRG), the pricing engine … Continue reading

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Oracle Advance Pricing: Pricing Security

Price is the fee companies charge customer for the goods/services they sell/provide. Price would cover the cost incurred in manufacturing the finished item or in purchasing the item plus associated overhead costs and profit margin. Generally a price list would be … Continue reading

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Dual Unit of Measure : New functionality of R12 for discrete Inventory

Dual UOM or Catch Weight management is used primarily in the meat and metal Industries. In these industries due to variability of each piece logistic unit of measure will generally differ from the valuation unit of measure. Shipping and receiving … Continue reading

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Oracle Application Implementation: How to Measure the Success?

Business Metrics for Oracle Application Implementation Oracle Application implementation is always seen as an opportunity to reengineer the existing business Processes as well as to define and analyze the metrics for its success. These operational metrics are business driven and … Continue reading

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Deferred COGS: How to use this feature of Oracle Apps R12

Finally a relief for all the accounting users who had problems working with oracle apps due to period mismatch of revenue and cost recognition. Generally the orders which are shipped on the last day of month have this issue. As … Continue reading

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Oracle FIXED_DATE Parameter: Helpful during Testing?

While doing implementation of oracle application in one of my project we came across a requirement for testing ahead a year and a quarter. The requirements were to process transactions in future/past and complete the year end closing. As we … Continue reading

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