| October 2, 2007 |
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- Session 1
October 2, 2007 9:00 AM U.S. Eastern (New York) Time
Electronic ACH Vendor Payments without Customizations
How to set up an ACH vendor payment process that keeps supplier banking information secure with our contracted banking services provider, does not customize our Oracle Financials application, provides org specific tracking and provides and ACH reconciliation of processed transactions. This effort interfaces information between our banking services provider, and extracts information from Oracle.
Available Seats: 18
Presenter, Company: Trish Donahue, City of Virginia Beach
- Session 2
October 2, 2007 12:00 PM U.S. Eastern (New York) Time
Global Procurement Solutions – Not Just an Idea Anymore
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Procurement has become an ever increasingly sought after topic of discussion in today’s environment. Many focus groups exist that offer expert opinions as to how operations should be conducted. As business has expanded, internal roles, responsibilities and expectations have changed as well. There has been a decided shift to split tactical and strategic efforts, both from a personnel and process perspective. Oracle has helped bridge the gap between business desire and software capabilities with the release of 11.5.10.
This paper will explore how and why a global manufacturing company has implemented Oracle’s Global Purchase Agreement (GPA) functionality to address their Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) operations in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific. The audience should learn detailed functionality and requirements regarding Centralized Purchasing across Multiple Operating Units, and how Oracle Purchasing integrates with other modules through utilizing this type of solution. It is not primarily intended to be an implementation guide (although setups will be covered in explicit detail), but rather a provocative thought process as to how a company has, and others could, more fully utilize existing application functionality, providing opportunities for both hard and soft-dollar savings.
Basic Objectives Include:
Understand Global Purchase Agreement functionality and integration
Learn required application setup steps for Centralized Purchasing across multiple operating units.
Review transaction examples and results
Consider implementation challenges
Available Seats: 19
Presenter, Company: Mike George, Fujitsu Group
- Session 3
October 2, 2007 5:00 PM U.S. Eastern (New York) Time
Electronic ACH Vendor Payments without Customizations
How to set up an ACH vendor payment process that keeps supplier banking information secure with our contracted banking services provider, does not customize our Oracle Financials application, provides org specific tracking and provides and ACH reconciliation of processed transactions. This effort interfaces information between our banking services provider, and extracts information from Oracle.
Available Seats: 19
Presenter, Company: Trish Donahue, City of Virginia Beach
- Session 4
October 2, 2007 8:00 PM U.S. Eastern (New York) Time
Global Procurement Solutions – Not Just an Idea Anymore
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Procurement has become an ever increasingly sought after topic of discussion in today’s environment. Many focus groups exist that offer expert opinions as to how operations should be conducted. As business has expanded, internal roles, responsibilities and expectations have changed as well. There has been a decided shift to split tactical and strategic efforts, both from a personnel and process perspective. Oracle has helped bridge the gap between business desire and software capabilities with the release of 11.5.10.
This paper will explore how and why a global manufacturing company has implemented Oracle’s Global Purchase Agreement (GPA) functionality to address their Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) operations in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific. The audience should learn detailed functionality and requirements regarding Centralized Purchasing across Multiple Operating Units, and how Oracle Purchasing integrates with other modules through utilizing this type of solution. It is not primarily intended to be an implementation guide (although setups will be covered in explicit detail), but rather a provocative thought process as to how a company has, and others could, more fully utilize existing application functionality, providing opportunities for both hard and soft-dollar savings.
Basic Objectives Include:
Understand Global Purchase Agreement functionality and integration
Learn required application setup steps for Centralized Purchasing across multiple operating units.
Review transaction examples and results
Consider implementation challenges
Available Seats: 22
Presenter, Company: Mike George, Fujitsu Group
 | | October 9, 2007 |
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- Session 1
October 9, 2007 9:00 AM U.S. Eastern (New York) Time
An “Unpresentation” On Customer Data Management, Integration and Quality
This innovative session leverages the open-discussion format and a wiki to foster a highly interactive dialogue on CDI, MDM and data quality. Participants propose and flesh out topics of interest to them in advance at http://cdisession.pbwiki.com. A rich learning experience with a twist!
The noise level on customer data integration (CDI), master data management (MDM) and customer data quality is intensifying. The range of possible topics on the subject is more than the conference can possibly address. This one-of-a-kind session offers a unique format where you, not a presenter, create the topic, dialogue, enthusiasm and excitement on CDI, MDM, and data quality. Think of it as an “unpresentation”. In this session you are more than an attendee. You are an active participant. As a participant, you are expected to bring and express your ideas, experiences, issues, technologies and projects related to CDI, MDM and customer data quality. You participate in, rather than listen to, a conversation that squarely hits on CDI, MDM and customer data quality issues that are important to you at the time you actually join the session. The presenter is transformed from a PowerPoint-powered talking head into a discussion leader. The bottom-line? People simply learn better…and learn more when the dialogue is interactive. The session will have the dynamic of a moderated online, SIG (Special Interest Group) forum but is face-to-face and far more interactive and intensive. Conference attendees planning to participate in this session use a wiki at http://cdisession.pbwiki.com to pose a question, propose a discussion topic or flesh it out in more detail with other participants. Instructions on how to do this are provided on the wiki. Once you register for the conference you can begin posting your questions or topics and start an online discussion with others who will be participating in the session. It's simple, quick and fun. Then at the session, all participants jump in to tackle the questions and issues that were raised and prioritized using the wiki in the weeks before the conference. During the session, all of the most important ideas, discussion, data, recommendations, conclusions, questions for further study, and plans for immediate action will be recorded in real-time on the wiki. The wiki remains accessible to the participants after the session and provides a forum for further, online interaction among individuals who participated in the session. The innovative format of this session affords deep discussion on complex issues related to CDI, MDM and customer data quality. Consequently, the session is geared to business, project management and IT personnel who have deep, hands-on involvement in CDI, MDM and customer data quality initiatives. You also might work for a CDI, MDM or data quality software vendor or be a consultant in this space. In any case, you already have some dirt under your fingernails and are passionate about higher quality, tightly integrated customer data. ___________________________ Note to conference/education committee members: The proposed session format is proving to be highly successful at other major conferences.
(This is Propiretary Information and Intellectual Property of The Perera Group, Inc. Copyright 2006 The Perera Group, Inc. Mount Pleasant, SC USA)
Available Seats: 22
Presenter, Company: Peter Perera, The Perera Group
- Session 2
October 9, 2007 12:00 PM U.S. Eastern (New York) Time
Oracle Approvals Management: Introduction for Functional Users
This introduction to Oracle Approvals Management, with a target audience of functional users, will give an overview of the value of Oracle Approvals Management. It will demonstrate how to activate Approvals Management in the application, and it will go through the step-by-step setups needed to create some simple approval rules. In addition, there will be an explanation of how to use some of the administrator tools, such as testing transactions in the AME module without having to create test transactions the module being used. Examples will be demonstrated from AP Invoices and AP Expense Reports.
Available Seats: 5
Presenter, Company: Bolton Carroll, Independent
- Session 3
October 9, 2007 5:00 PM U.S. Eastern (New York) Time
An “Unpresentation” On Customer Data Management, Integration and Quality
This innovative session leverages the open-discussion format and a wiki to foster a highly interactive dialogue on CDI, MDM and data quality. Participants propose and flesh out topics of interest to them in advance at http://cdisession.pbwiki.com. A rich learning experience with a twist!
The noise level on customer data integration (CDI), master data management (MDM) and customer data quality is intensifying. The range of possible topics on the subject is more than the conference can possibly address. This one-of-a-kind session offers a unique format where you, not a presenter, create the topic, dialogue, enthusiasm and excitement on CDI, MDM, and data quality. Think of it as an “unpresentation”. In this session you are more than an attendee. You are an active participant. As a participant, you are expected to bring and express your ideas, experiences, issues, technologies and projects related to CDI, MDM and customer data quality. You participate in, rather than listen to, a conversation that squarely hits on CDI, MDM and customer data quality issues that are important to you at the time you actually join the session. The presenter is transformed from a PowerPoint-powered talking head into a discussion leader. The bottom-line? People simply learn better…and learn more when the dialogue is interactive. The session will have the dynamic of a moderated online, SIG (Special Interest Group) forum but is face-to-face and far more interactive and intensive. Conference attendees planning to participate in this session use a wiki at http://cdisession.pbwiki.com to pose a question, propose a discussion topic or flesh it out in more detail with other participants. Instructions on how to do this are provided on the wiki. Once you register for the conference you can begin posting your questions or topics and start an online discussion with others who will be participating in the session. It's simple, quick and fun. Then at the session, all participants jump in to tackle the questions and issues that were raised and prioritized using the wiki in the weeks before the conference. During the session, all of the most important ideas, discussion, data, recommendations, conclusions, questions for further study, and plans for immediate action will be recorded in real-time on the wiki. The wiki remains accessible to the participants after the session and provides a forum for further, online interaction among individuals who participated in the session. The innovative format of this session affords deep discussion on complex issues related to CDI, MDM and customer data quality. Consequently, the session is geared to business, project management and IT personnel who have deep, hands-on involvement in CDI, MDM and customer data quality initiatives. You also might work for a CDI, MDM or data quality software vendor or be a consultant in this space. In any case, you already have some dirt under your fingernails and are passionate about higher quality, tightly integrated customer data. ___________________________ Note to conference/education committee members: The proposed session format is proving to be highly successful at other major conferences.
(This is Propiretary Information and Intellectual Property of The Perera Group, Inc. Copyright 2006 The Perera Group, Inc. Mount Pleasant, SC USA)
Available Seats: 24
Presenter, Company: Peter Perera, The Perera Group
- Session 4
October 9, 2007 8:00 PM U.S. Eastern (New York) Time
Oracle Approvals Management: Introduction for Functional Users
This introduction to Oracle Approvals Management, with a target audience of functional users, will give an overview of the value of Oracle Approvals Management. It will demonstrate how to activate Approvals Management in the application, and it will go through the step-by-step setups needed to create some simple approval rules. In addition, there will be an explanation of how to use some of the administrator tools, such as testing transactions in the AME module without having to create test transactions the module being used. Examples will be demonstrated from AP Invoices and AP Expense Reports.
Available Seats: 19
Presenter, Company: Bolton Carroll, Independent
| | October 16, 2007 |
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- Session 1
October 16, 2007 12:00 PM U.S. Eastern (New York) Time
Fax and Email from Oracle E-Business Suite Using XML Publisher
Are you looking for a proven solution to use Oracle’s newest publishing tool, Oracle XML Publisher? Learn how to maximize the power of Oracle Reports to automate fax and e-mail delivery of invoices, purchase orders, sales orders, checks, government forms, and other critical documents. This session provides valuable insights into document delivery, acknowledgment, and management using robust software backed by 20 years of established experience. Hear how Canada’s largest communications company, a global document company, and a major tire distributor realized immediate savings, streamlined back-office processes, increased employee productivity, and shortened procure-to-pay and order-to-cash cycles for their products and services. Executive Summary Communications between companies is critical so that commerce may occur smoothly and effectively. Any delay in the delivery of information may seriously affect the ability of a company to complete the manufacture, assembly, or shipment of its product or service. Delays impact profitability. Therefore, it is important for every organization to evaluate its communications methods, improve speed and accuracy, and most of all, reduce or eliminate costs along the way. Business documents tend to be well-defined (such as purchase orders, invoices, statements, packing slips), printed and distributed to the intended recipient. Some companies cling to the use of printing these documents on pre-printed, multi-part forms. More progressive companies have purchased “forms packages,” replacing the pre-printed form with an electronic form which distributes to several printers dispersed throughout the company infrastructure. Unfortunately, many companies overlook automating business communications by ignoring ways to improve the delivery of these critical business documents. They continue to use postal delivery, courier delivery, or manual faxing. All three of these methods include wasted material costs, human intervention, and delivery costs. Fortunately, this “pain” may be significantly reduced or completely eliminated by using an automated document delivery solution. In late 2004, Oracle Corporation introduced XML Publisher (hereafter referred to as XMLP) available on Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) 11i. XMLP effectively eliminates the purchase of other third-party tools to create electronic forms. Standard tools like Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Word may be used to create a form, and “tokens”’ place data (such as the company, address, PO number, line items, etc.) from the Oracle database directly onto the form. The tokens are defined using an XML data stream. Additionally, XMLP touts the ability to deliver documents via fax and email. By using common applications to simplify forms creation and offering a delivery mechanism, XMLP greatly improves the efficiency of the document delivery process. This paper is intended to educate users, developers, managers, and executives of companies using Oracle EBS to maintain and distribute critical business documents with a third-party automated document delivery solution.
Session Closed
Presenter, Company: Ben Bruno, STR Software
- Session 2
October 16, 2007 8:00 PM U.S. Eastern (New York) Time
Fax and Email from Oracle E-Business Suite Using XML Publisher
Are you looking for a proven solution to use Oracle’s newest publishing tool, Oracle XML Publisher? Learn how to maximize the power of Oracle Reports to automate fax and e-mail delivery of invoices, purchase orders, sales orders, checks, government forms, and other critical documents. This session provides valuable insights into document delivery, acknowledgment, and management using robust software backed by 20 years of established experience. Hear how Canada’s largest communications company, a global document company, and a major tire distributor realized immediate savings, streamlined back-office processes, increased employee productivity, and shortened procure-to-pay and order-to-cash cycles for their products and services. Executive Summary Communications between companies is critical so that commerce may occur smoothly and effectively. Any delay in the delivery of information may seriously affect the ability of a company to complete the manufacture, assembly, or shipment of its product or service. Delays impact profitability. Therefore, it is important for every organization to evaluate its communications methods, improve speed and accuracy, and most of all, reduce or eliminate costs along the way. Business documents tend to be well-defined (such as purchase orders, invoices, statements, packing slips), printed and distributed to the intended recipient. Some companies cling to the use of printing these documents on pre-printed, multi-part forms. More progressive companies have purchased “forms packages,” replacing the pre-printed form with an electronic form which distributes to several printers dispersed throughout the company infrastructure. Unfortunately, many companies overlook automating business communications by ignoring ways to improve the delivery of these critical business documents. They continue to use postal delivery, courier delivery, or manual faxing. All three of these methods include wasted material costs, human intervention, and delivery costs. Fortunately, this “pain” may be significantly reduced or completely eliminated by using an automated document delivery solution. In late 2004, Oracle Corporation introduced XML Publisher (hereafter referred to as XMLP) available on Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) 11i. XMLP effectively eliminates the purchase of other third-party tools to create electronic forms. Standard tools like Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Word may be used to create a form, and “tokens”’ place data (such as the company, address, PO number, line items, etc.) from the Oracle database directly onto the form. The tokens are defined using an XML data stream. Additionally, XMLP touts the ability to deliver documents via fax and email. By using common applications to simplify forms creation and offering a delivery mechanism, XMLP greatly improves the efficiency of the document delivery process. This paper is intended to educate users, developers, managers, and executives of companies using Oracle EBS to maintain and distribute critical business documents with a third-party automated document delivery solution.
Session Closed
Presenter, Company: Ben Bruno, STR Software
| | October 23, 2007 |
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- Session 1
October 23, 2007 9:00 AM U.S. Eastern (New York) Time
Successfully Implementing a Change Management Strategy With Your Outsourcer
It is difficult to implement a successful change management strategy when all parties involved are in the same organization. The difficulty grows significantly when your Application support is outsourced. This paper shares practical tips for implementing change management with your outsourcer.
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has had our Oracle eBusiness Suite Applications support outsourced for over 5 years with 2 different outsourcing companies. We have successfully implemented our desired change management strategies with both companies that we’ve outsourced to. This paper will share how we’ve used our belief that successfully implementing change management with our outsourcer isn’t that much different than implementing it internally if all parties involved are committed to cooperating to meet the common objective of a stable production environment. Since RIT and our outsourcer share this common goal, we view our relationship with our outsourcer as a partnership – just as we would if our Applications were supported by our internal data center.
The paper will share the major items about your outsourcer that need to be taken into account when either adjusting your current or developing a new change management strategy. It will provide detailed examples of how RIT has used our knowledge of our outsourcing partners’ policies and procedures (e.g., service level agreements for each type of change managed) to ensure that our change management objectives are met in accordance with our auditing and accountability guidelines.
The paper will also address the major items you need to know about your own organization in order to make your change management strategy successful. The paper will outline how we have blended specific business (e.g., various business cycles) and technical (e.g., mandatory patching) considerations into our change management strategy with our outsourcing partner.
As in any relationship, there are challenges. Some of our current challenges with our outsourcing partner will also be shared, along with what steps are being taken to address them.
Available Seats: 17
Presenter, Company: Kimberly A. Sowers, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Session 2
October 23, 2007 12:00 PM U.S. Eastern (New York) Time
You're Live - Now What?: Best Practice Ideas for Project Closeout
Once your ERP project is completed, many project teams spend a few days/weeks celebrating their accomplishments, putting a support structure in place, letting members move onto other projects, and catching up on lost sleep. But what happens when the next project rolls around? How will the organization learn from its achievements and mistakes?
This presentation (led by a PMP-certified professional) will lead you through the who, what, when, where, why, and how for conducting a Post-Project review. These concepts and ideas are consistent with the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) and can be used for any IT or other type of project. Tips will be offered based on real life examples, and post-project review questions and topic ideas will be offered.
Available Seats: 15
Presenter, Company: Bill Pick, Fujitsu Group
- Session 3
October 23, 2007 5:00 PM U.S. Eastern (New York) Time
Successfully Implementing a Change Management Strategy With Your Outsourcer
It is difficult to implement a successful change management strategy when all parties involved are in the same organization. The difficulty grows significantly when your Application support is outsourced. This paper shares practical tips for implementing change management with your outsourcer.
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has had our Oracle eBusiness Suite Applications support outsourced for over 5 years with 2 different outsourcing companies. We have successfully implemented our desired change management strategies with both companies that we’ve outsourced to. This paper will share how we’ve used our belief that successfully implementing change management with our outsourcer isn’t that much different than implementing it internally if all parties involved are committed to cooperating to meet the common objective of a stable production environment. Since RIT and our outsourcer share this common goal, we view our relationship with our outsourcer as a partnership – just as we would if our Applications were supported by our internal data center.
The paper will share the major items about your outsourcer that need to be taken into account when either adjusting your current or developing a new change management strategy. It will provide detailed examples of how RIT has used our knowledge of our outsourcing partners’ policies and procedures (e.g., service level agreements for each type of change managed) to ensure that our change management objectives are met in accordance with our auditing and accountability guidelines.
The paper will also address the major items you need to know about your own organization in order to make your change management strategy successful. The paper will outline how we have blended specific business (e.g., various business cycles) and technical (e.g., mandatory patching) considerations into our change management strategy with our outsourcing partner.
As in any relationship, there are challenges. Some of our current challenges with our outsourcing partner will also be shared, along with what steps are being taken to address them.
Available Seats: 21
Presenter, Company: Kimberly A. Sowers, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Session 4
October 23, 2007 8:00 PM U.S. Eastern (New York) Time
You're Live - Now What?: Best Practice Ideas for Project Closeout
Once your ERP project is completed, many project teams spend a few days/weeks celebrating their accomplishments, putting a support structure in place, letting members move onto other projects, and catching up on lost sleep. But what happens when the next project rolls around? How will the organization learn from its achievements and mistakes?
This presentation (led by a PMP-certified professional) will lead you through the who, what, when, where, why, and how for conducting a Post-Project review. These concepts and ideas are consistent with the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) and can be used for any IT or other type of project. Tips will be offered based on real life examples, and post-project review questions and topic ideas will be offered.
Available Seats: 22
Presenter, Company: Bill Pick, Fujitsu Group
| | October 30, 2007 |
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- Session 1
October 30, 2007 9:00 AM U.S. Eastern (New York) Time
Continuous Improvement Means Continuous ROI in Procurement
Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City manages an $8+ billion operations expense budget and >$21 billion in investment and debt obligations. A continuous improvement team consisting of the business process owners from across the Enterprise determines how to improve processing within the delivered software. Learn how process, function, workflow and analytics combine to provide better services, timely management data, and a continued ROI from procurement through payables and across the Enterpise.
Available Seats: 19
Presenter, Company: David Downey, CherryRoad Technologies Inc.
- Session 2
October 30, 2007 12:00 PM U.S. Eastern (New York) Time
What's New in R12 for Discrete Manufacturing, and What Does it Mean for You?
Oracle's Release 12 continues to extend the functionality of the Discrete Manufacturing arena, in addition to incorporating new offerings from recent acquisitions (G-Log for Transportation Management, and Demantra for Demand Planning). This presentation will walk through the highlights of new R12 Discrete Manufacturing and Distribution functionality, to include Order Management, Planning, Procurement, WIP, BOM, and Inventory. The new functionality will be put into the context of what it could mean to you as a user, using examples and screen shots.
In addition, we will look at Oracle's newest offerings in Transportation Management, Demand Planning, and MES.
Available Seats: 13
Presenter, Company: Bill Pick, Fujitsu Group
- Session 3
October 30, 2007 5:00 PM U.S. Eastern (New York) Time
Continuous Improvement Means Continuous ROI in Procurement
Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City manages an $8+ billion operations expense budget and >$21 billion in investment and debt obligations. A continuous improvement team consisting of the business process owners from across the Enterprise determines how to improve processing within the delivered software. Learn how process, function, workflow and analytics combine to provide better services, timely management data, and a continued ROI from procurement through payables and across the Enterpise.
Available Seats: 16
Presenter, Company: David Downey, CherryRoad Technologies Inc.
- Session 4
October 30, 2007 8:00 PM U.S. Eastern (New York) Time
What's New in R12 for Discrete Manufacturing, and What Does it Mean for You?
Oracle's Release 12 continues to extend the functionality of the Discrete Manufacturing arena, in addition to incorporating new offerings from recent acquisitions (G-Log for Transportation Management, and Demantra for Demand Planning). This presentation will walk through the highlights of new R12 Discrete Manufacturing and Distribution functionality, to include Order Management, Planning, Procurement, WIP, BOM, and Inventory. The new functionality will be put into the context of what it could mean to you as a user, using examples and screen shots.
In addition, we will look at Oracle's newest offerings in Transportation Management, Demand Planning, and MES.
Available Seats: 21
Presenter, Company: Bill Pick, Fujitsu Group
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