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EBS - 12.2.10 - Release Content Document - ALM
1. Disclaimer 1
2. Introduction 2
2.1. Purpose of Document 2
3. New and Changed Features in Asset Lifecycle Management 3
3.1. Oracle Asset Tracking 3
3.1.1. Overview 3
3.1.2. Release 12.1.1 3
3.1.2.1. Multiple Asset Book Support 3
3.1.2.2. Graphical Display of Network Relationships 3
3.1.2.3. Google Maps Integration (Display Assets on a Map) 3
3.1.3. Release 12.1.2 4
3.1.3.1. ATG User Interface Enhancements 4
3.1.4. Release 12.1.3 5
3.1.4.1. ESRI Integration 5
3.1.5. Release 12.1.3+ 6
3.1.5.1. IPV Process Enhancements 6
3.1.6. Release 12.2 6
3.1.6.1. Capitalization on Sales Order Shipment 6
3.1.7. Release 12.2.5 7
3.1.7.1. Asset Retirement tieback from Fixed Assets to Asset Tracking 7
3.1.7.2. Self-Assessed Tax interface to Oracle Projects 7
3.1.8. Release 12.2.6 7
3.1.8.1. Asset Deployment Enhancements 7
3.1.8.2. Include Landed Cost for Asset Capitalization Value 7
3.1.9. Release 12.2.8 7
3.1.9.1. Capitalization on Issue from Project Inventory 7
3.2. Oracle Asset Tracking Command Center 8
3.2.1. Overview 8
3.2.2. Release 12.2.9++ 8
3.2.2.1. Capitalization Dashboard 8
3.2.3. Release 12.2.10 8
3.2.3.1. Capitalization Dashboard with Extended Attributes 8
3.2.4. Release 12.2.10+ 8
3.2.4.1. Assets Dashboard 8
3.2.4.2. Capitalization Dashboard Enhancements 9
3.3. Oracle Enterprise Asset Management 9
3.3.1. Overview 9
3.3.2. Release 12.1.1 9
3.3.2.1. Asset Move Workbench 9
3.3.2.2. Miscellaneous Usability Enhancements 10
3.3.2.3. Express Work 10
3.3.2.4. Make Item Cross Reference Search Capability 11
3.3.2.5. Specify Source Supply Subinventory for eAM Work Orders 11
3.3.2.6. Microsoft Project Integration with Work Order Scheduling 11
3.3.2.7. Graphical Display of Network Relationships 11
3.3.2.8. Google Maps Integration (Display Assets on a Map) 12
3.3.2.9. Work Request Attachments 12
3.3.2.10. Construction Units 13
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3.3.3. Release 12.1.2 13
3.3.3.1. Primavera Integration 13
3.3.3.2. ATG User Interface Enhancements 13
3.3.3.3. Supply Chain Web Services 14
3.3.4. Release 12.1.3 15
3.3.4.1. Encumbrance Accounting for Purchase Orders with ‘Shop Floor’ Destination 15
3.3.4.2. ESRI Integration 16
3.3.4.3. Work Permits 16
3.3.5. Release 12.1.3+ 17
3.3.5.1. Change Asset Number on Work Order 17
3.3.5.2. Delete Unused Allocation and Material Requirement at Material Return 17
3.3.5.3. Component Pick Release Concurrent Program for Work Order Material Allocation 17
3.3.5.4. Default Actual Completion Date on Work Order: 17
3.3.5.5. Avoid Work Order Sequence Numbers Jumping Caused by Budget Forecast Run 18
3.3.5.6. Usability Enhancements in PM Schedule Definition and Search 18
3.3.5.7. Maintenance Work Order Detail Report with Summary Information 18
3.3.5.8. Enhancement to Mass Complete Functionality in Maintenance Workbench 18
3.3.5.9. ERES Support for ‘Debrief work order’ 19
3.3.5.10. Ability to copy material lines of work order 19
3.3.5.11. Primavera 8.2 Certification 19
3.3.5.12. Provide WO Hyperlink in WO Details Relationships Tab 19
3.3.5.13. Provide Work Request Hyperlink in WO Details Requests Tab 19
3.3.5.14. Enable Work Request Details Access from Approval Notification 20
3.3.5.15. Validate Open PO Reqs During WO Update to Complete-No-Charge Status 20
3.3.5.16. Provide On-hand and Available Quantity Details in One-step Material Issue 20
3.3.5.17. Support for Multiple UOMs for One Step Material Issue to WOs 20
3.3.5.18. OTL-EAM Integration for Time Entries in Closed Accounting Period 20
3.3.5.19. Provide Asset Search Features to Self-Service Work Request User 20
3.3.5.20. Contingent Worker Support 20
3.3.5.21. Asset Hierarchy Page Improvement for Asset Node Selection 21
3.3.5.22. Allow Duplicate Activities in Construction Estimate Creation 21
3.3.5.23. View Cost Estimate and Descriptive Flex Field in Construction Estimate Search Results 21
3.3.5.24. Work Order Operations and Material Descriptive Flex Field Support in Construction Estimate 21
3.3.5.25. Choosing Work Order Department in Construction Estimate 21
3.3.5.26. Maintain Order of Activities in Construction Estimate 21
3.3.5.27. Add Resources and Items to Existing Operations in Construction Estimate 22
3.3.6. Release 12.2 23
3.3.6.1. Work Clearances 23
3.3.6.2. Preventative Maintenance (PM) Work Order Prefix 23
3.3.6.3. New Planner Field and Work Order Defaults 23
3.3.7. Release 12.2.4 23
3.3.7.1. Linear Asset Management 23
3.3.7.2. Asset Route and Costing Enhancements 24
3.3.7.3. User Experience Improvements 25
3.3.8. Release 12.2.5 25
3.3.8.1. Linear Asset Management Functional Enhancements 25
3.3.8.2. Map Workbench Enhancements for Improved Search & Usability 25
3.3.8.3. API and Business Events support for GIS and EAM integration 25
3.3.8.4. User Experience: HTML Asset Definition 26
3.3.9. Release 12.2.6 26
3.3.9.1. Work Order Package Printing using AutoVue 26
3.3.9.2. Calendar based Preventive Maintenance (PM) Scheduling 26
3.3.9.3. Linear Asset Management Enhancements 26
3.3.9.4. Move Order Approval for Maintenance Material Requests 27
3.3.9.5. Interface Operation Attachments to Purchase Requisitions 27
3.3.9.6. Change of Asset Group for Asset Numbers 27
3.3.9.7. Enable Work Order Target Dates 27
3.3.9.8. WebADI Support for Create/Update Assets, Asset Attributes 27
3.3.9.9. Apply Setup Templates on Existing Assets 27
3.3.9.10. User Experience: HTML Asset Update 28
3.3.10. Release 12.2.7 28
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3.3.10.1. Work Order Mass Management 28
3.3.10.2. Generate Preventive Maintenance Work Order Report 28
3.3.10.3. Option to define Operation Completion as Mandatory 28
3.3.10.4. Add Supplier Details for Work Order Direct Items 28
3.3.1. Release 12.2.8 29
3.3.1.1. Asset Criticality Information for Work Order and Work Request 29
3.3.1.2. Add Work Order Completion Comments 29
3.3.1.3. Display Shutdown details in Work Order Self-Service pages 29
3.3.1.4. Multi Language Support for Failure Data 29
3.3.1.5. Multi Language Support for Asset Status 29
3.3.1.6. Cancel Work Request upon Work Order Cancellation 29
3.3.1.7. Open Work Orders Dashboard 30
3.3.1. Release 12.2.9 30
3.3.1.1. AME Approval for Work Requests 30
3.3.1.2. Multiple rebuildable quantities at material issue 30
3.3.1.3. Additional Description in Work Order 30
3.3.1.4. Parent Asset Association through WebADI Update 30
3.3.1.5. Asset Status in Self-Service Pages 31
3.3.1.6. Work Request Expected Resolution Date option 31
3.3.1.7. Instance Status Filtering for EAM Asset Numbers 31
3.3.1.8. GIS Integration and Map Workbench enhancements 31
3.3.2. Release 12.2.10 31
3.3.2.1. Asset Search enhancements for Express Work Order and Asset Route 31
3.3.2.2. Asset Hierarchy Search and Access Enhancements 31
3.3.2.3. Work order search by Operation Completion Status 32
3.3.2.4. Work order search with purchasing information 32
3.3.2.5. Work Order Hierarchy Search and Quality Integration Enhancements 32
3.3.2.6. Organization Specific Work Order Status 32
3.3.2.7. Employee Assignment for Work Orders 32
3.3.2.8. Notification for Employee Assignment 33
3.3.2.9. Operation Completion Metric for Work Orders 33
3.3.2.10. Work order completion comments 33
3.3.2.11. Map Workbench enhancements 33
3.3.2.12. Update Work Order Material Requirement during Material Issue 33
3.3.3. Terminology 34
3.4. Oracle Enterprise Asset Management Command Center 36
3.4.1. Overview 36
3.4.2. Release 12.2.8 36
3.4.2.1. Open Work Orders Dashboard 36
3.4.3. Release 12.2.8+ 36
3.4.3.1. Open Work Orders Dashboard with Approved Work Requests 36
3.4.3.2. Assets Dashboard 36
3.4.3.3. Materials Dashboard 36
3.4.4. Release 12.2.9+ 37
3.4.4.1. Open Work Orders Dashboard with flexfields for refinement 37
3.4.4.2. Assets Dashboard with flexfields and asset attributes for refinement 37
3.4.4.3. Materials Dashboard with Work Order attributes for refinement 37
3.4.5. Release 12.2.10 37
3.4.5.1. Operations Data set for extension support 37
3.4.6. Release 12.2.10+ 37
3.4.6.1. Asset Dashboard Performance Improvements 37
3.4.6.2. Open Work Orders Dashboard Usability Improvements 37
3.4.6.3. Materials Dashboard Usability Improvements 37
3.5. Oracle Enterprise Asset Management Information Discovery 38
3.5.1. Overview 38
3.5.2. Support Update 38
3.5.3. Release V4 38
3.5.3.1. Work Orders Area 38
3.5.3.2. Work Requests Area 38
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3.5.3.3. Assets Area 38
3.5.3.4. Material Area 39
3.5.4. Release V5 39
3.5.4.1. User-Definable DFF Search 39
3.5.5. Release V6 39
3.5.5.1. Enhanced Work Order and Asset attributes 39
3.5.6. Release V8 39
3.5.6.1. Cost Analysis based on Failure Information 39
3.5.6.2. Advanced Search 39
3.5.6.3. Asset Number flex fields support in Refinements 40
3.5.7. Release V9 40
3.5.7.1. Operation Attachment in Result Table 40
3.6. Oracle Mobile Maintenance for Oracle E-Business Suite 40
3.6.1. Overview 40
3.6.2. Mobile Release 1.0 – Client Version 1.0.0 40
3.6.2.1. View and Execute Maintenance Work 40
3.6.3. Mobile Release 2.0– Client Version 1.1.0 41
3.6.3.1. Mobile Foundation Updates 41
3.6.3.2. Accessibility Improvements 41
3.6.4. Mobile Release 3.0 – Client Version 1.2.0 41
3.6.4.1. Android Support 41
3.6.4.2. Mobile Foundation Release 3.0 Updates 41
3.6.5. Mobile Release 4.0 – Client Version 1.3.0 41
3.6.5.1. Mobile Functional Release 4.0 Updates 41
3.6.5.2. Mobile Foundation Release 4.0 Updates 41
3.6.5.3. Mobile Translation Release 4.0 Updates 41
3.6.6. Mobile Release 5.0 – Client Version 1.4.0 41
3.6.6.1. Mobile Functional Release 5.0 Updates 41
3.6.6.2. Mobile Foundation Release 5.0 Updates 42
3.6.7. Mobile Release 6.0 – Client Version 1.5.0 42
3.6.7.1. Quick Complete Operations 42
3.6.7.2. Self-Assign Operations during Work Order Creation 42
3.6.7.3. Other Functional enhancements 42
3.6.7.4. Mobile Foundation Release 6.0 Updates 42
3.6.8. Mobile Release 7.0 – Client Version 1.6.0 43
3.6.8.1. Self-Assign My Department’s Work 43
3.6.8.2. Calendar view for operations 43
3.6.8.3. Serialized item scan and enhanced material issue screen 43
3.6.8.4. Enforce Operation completion 43
3.6.8.5. Sort Operation list by priority 43
3.6.8.6. Offline / Disconnected mode 43
3.6.8.7. Mobile Foundation Release 7.0 Updates 44
3.6.9. Mobile Release 8.0 – Client Version 1.7.0 44
3.6.9.1. Charge Time Automation 44
3.6.9.2. Sort by Work Order Type 44
3.6.9.3. Work Order Completion Comments 44
3.6.9.4. Edit Failed Offline Transactions 44
3.6.9.5. Express Work Order 44
3.6.9.6. Operations Push Notifications 45
3.6.9.7. Self-Assign Work Order Alert Message 45
3.6.9.8. Mobile Foundation Release 8.0 Updates 45
3.6.10. Mobile Release 9.0 – Client Version 1.8.0 45
3.6.10.1. Supervisory Actions 45
3.6.10.2. Technician Overview 45
3.6.10.3. Multiple Rebuild Items Issue 46
3.6.10.4. Mobile Foundation Release 9.0 Updates 46
3.6.11. Mobile Release 9.1 – Client Version 1.8.1 46
3.6.11.1. Uptake of Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF) 2.6.3 46
3.7. Oracle Installed Base 46
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3.7.1. Overview 46
3.7.2. Release 12.2.4 46
3.7.2.1. Option to track only Customer-owned products using Oracle Installed Base 46
3.7.3. Release 12.2.5 47
3.7.3.1. Tracking of Customer Install Base items 47
3.7.3.2. Install Base Transaction performance improvements 47
3.7.3.3. Serial Tagging at Sales Order Pick/ISO Pick support 47
3.7.4. Release 12.2.6 47
3.7.4.1. Installation Details HTML Page 47
3.7.4.2. Advanced Search Option for Item Instances using WebADI 47
3.7.5. Release 12.2.7 47
3.7.5.1. Web ADI support for extended attributes 47
3.7.6. Release 12.2.8 48
3.7.6.1. Additional Instance Search Options 48
3.7.7. Release 12.2.9 48
3.7.7.1. Purge Program for CSI Transaction Interface 48
3.7.7.2. User Record Update Based on Transaction 48
3.7.7.3. Manual Reading Entry for Time Based Counters 48
3.7.8. Release 12.2.10 48
3.7.8.1. Item Instance Management Enhancements 48
3.7.8.2. Web ADI and Mass Update Enhancements 48
3.7.8.3. Install Base Transaction Processing Usability Enhancements 49
3.8. Oracle Installed Base Information Discovery 49
3.8.1. Overview 49
3.8.2. Support Update 49
3.8.3. Release V4 49
3.8.3.1. Search by Extended Product Attributes 49
3.8.3.2. Execute ‘Related Products’ Search 49
3.8.3.3. Improved Drill-down to Product Configuration 50
3.8.3.4. Identify Installed Base by Geography 50
3.8.3.5. Track Customer Product Metrics 50
3.8.4. Release V5 50
3.8.4.1. User-Definable DFF Search 50
3.8.5. Release V7 50
3.8.5.1. Boolean Search Support 50
3.8.6. Release V8 50
3.8.6.1. Advanced Search 50
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1. Disclaimer
This Release Content Document (RCD) describes product features that are proposed for
the specified releases of the Oracle E-Business Suite. This document describes new or
changed functionality only. Existing functionality from prior releases is not described. It
is intended solely to help you assess the business benefits of upgrading to the specified
release of the Oracle E-Business Suite.
This document in any form, software or printed matter, contains proprietary information
that is the exclusive property of Oracle. Your access to and use of this confidential
material is subject to the terms and conditions of your Oracle Software License and
Service Agreement, which has been executed and with which you agree to comply. This
document and information contained herein may not be disclosed, copied, reproduced or
distributed to anyone outside Oracle without prior written consent of Oracle. This
document is not part of your license agreement nor can it be incorporated into any
contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates.
This document is for informational purposes only and is intended solely to assist you in
planning for the implementation and upgrade of the product features described. It is not a
commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon
in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or
functionality described in this document remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.
Due to the nature of the product architecture, it may not be possible to safely include all
features described in this document without risking significant destabilization of the code.
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2. Introduction
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3. New and Changed Features in Asset Lifecycle
Management
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Instance Location and Geocodes will be displayed in a pop up. Also, hyperlinks will be
provided for performing the following actions:
1. View instance details page
2. View Graphical Asset hierarchy.
From the Asset Tracking responsibility, when the user selects any Enterprise Asset
Management instance icon on the map viewer, details such as Instance Number,
Description, Item, Instance Location and Geocodes will be displayed in a pop up. Also,
hyperlinks will be provided for performing the following actions:
1. View instance details page
2. View open Work Requests
3. View open Work Orders
4. View Graphical Asset hierarchy
The ability to find and view Assets on a map is a key requirement for numerous Asset
Tracking and Enterprise Asset Management customers especially those in the Utilities
and Public Sector verticals. The prime advantage of the 3rd party mapping tool like
Google Maps is that users are familiar with the tool and it comes out with reasonable
amount of out-of-box features like map-based services that will help the users service
assets more efficiently.
Besides this out-of-the-box integration with Google Maps, customers will also have the
ability through customization to display assets on any web based map viewer which is
based on HTML technology (for example, Oracle Spatial MapViewer).
3.1.3. Release 12.1.2
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within the window, and to navigate through the results using Next/Previous links in
the LOV window result table, thereby saving a number of clicks and server-side
requests, and significantly enhancing end-user productivity.
4) Inline Attachments: ability to enter, view or delete text-type Attachments inline
Attachments have been enhanced to allow inline addition and viewing. The two
icons associated with the Attachments UI – the ‘plus’ icon and the ‘paper-clip’ icon
will now have mouse-over events defined. On hover-over, an inline window shall
appear for rapid attachment entry or viewing of already added attachments. For this
release, this feature will support only text-mode attachments to be edited and added
inline.
These UI enhancements should be transparent to the Oracle Asset Tracking application,
therefore, eliminating or lowering uptake and upgrade costs.
The profiles for the ATG User Enhancements will be by default disabled. Customers
who would like to uptake these features can enable these features as required. The
profiles are as follows:
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Instance Number, Item Description, Item Address, and Geocodes displayed in a pop up.
Also, hyperlinks will be provided for performing the following actions:
1. View Instance details page
2. View Open Work requests (for eAM Assets)
3. View Open Work Orders (for eAM Assets)
4. View Graphical Asset hierarchy
This project has provided the framework by which users can easily build integration with
other 3rd party GIS systems and map viewers. There is a Technical Brief available that
will guide users interested in integrating with 3rd party map viewers.
The ability to find and view assets on a map enabling users to service assets more
efficiently is a key requirement for numerous OAT and eAM customers especially those
in the Utilities and Public Sector verticals.
3.1.5. Release 12.1.3+
During the asset procurement and capitalization process to FA through Oracle Asset
Tracking, the asset acquisition cost can have various components of Tax and Tax
Variances.
With this enhancement feature, the Asset tracking module has provided support for all
such components of asset procurement cost, while passing on the cost to capitalization
process.
The following tax related components from Invoicing have been included in the asset
cost:
- Non-Recoverable Tax
- Tax Rate Variance
- Tax Invoice Price Variance
- Tax Exchange Rate Variance
- Self-assessed tax
This feature supports the capitalization process initiated from a Sales Order for shipment
of products. The process flow is applicable for ‘Normal Items’ or ‘Capitalize on Issue
(COI)’ Items- for example, for equipment leases or the rental business. It includes out of
the box support for Operating Lease business flows through standard process of Fixed
Asset creation and capitalization from Asset Tracking.
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3.1.7. Release 12.2.5
This new feature enables asset retirements initiated from Fixed Assets to be tied back to
Asset Tracking and updates the Fixed Asset linkage with the OAT instance. This provides
more options for asset retirement actions like Mass Retirement from Fixed Assets and
seamless data synch-up between Fixed Assets and Oracle Asset Tracking (OAT).
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3.2. Oracle Asset Tracking Command Center
3.2.1. Overview
The Asset Tracking Command Center enables dashboard capabilities to asset tracking
users from Self-service pages. The ‘Assets Dashboard’ and ‘Capitalization Dashboard’
has been added to Asset Tracking Super User responsibility.
The Asset Tracking Command Center feature is available at no additional cost to licensed
users of Oracle Asset Tracking. It can be applied to Release 12.2.4 and above.
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ii) Interface pending move transactions to Oracle Assets and Run Post Mass
Retirals, Calculate gain or loss programs for asset retirement process etc.,
iii) Asset Update actions – Cost update, Employee update, Asset update and link
to Enterprise Asset Management to view maintenance related information
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Many customers need to move assets from one organization (often a different location) to
another organization for different reasons – including to replace a failed asset or to
borrow an asset for a particular job or project. This is most common in industries such as
fleet operations, asset rental environments or where organizations share assets. This
feature will enhance the transactability of assets by minimizing the dependency on the
Inventory user interface to carry out asset transfer transactions.
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transaction intensive process flows within the maintenance world are performing material
and labor transactions against a work order and completing the work order. Prior to this
release, users had to navigate to different pages to charge time or material and to
complete a work order.
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by providing graphical representation of instance relationships, contacts, accounts, etc.
Oracle Asset Tracking supports various types of relationships by way of configuration
built across instances. Prior to this release, the configurations were displayed in Oracle
Asset Tracking in table form, which is filtered based on relationship types. This supports
configuration with an alternate view option, which gives a graphical representation of
instance configuration.
Organizations have complex data stored in databases or web sites, related to organization
structure, processes, and other complex relationships. It is important to support
visualization and navigation of this complex data, including organizational hierarchies,
partner and sales relationships, workflow modeling, and even web site access in order to
improve the user experience. Often in maintenance there is a need to establish an
‘alternate’ hierarchy of the organization’s assets to see potential ‘upstream’ and
‘downstream’ implications of an asset failure.
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3.3.2.10. Construction Units
This release introduces support for Construction Estimating via the introduction of the
Construction Units (often referred to as Compatible Units). Construction Units are
standardized, repetitive units of work, which involve labor, material, and equipment that
are used to plan different types of jobs, specifically in Utility Transmission and
Distribution (T&D) environments. Through this feature users can create templates to be
used for estimation and generating Work Orders, with modifications that a particular
project might require.
This group of new programs will provide a foundation for estimating work, work order
creation and asset accounting. Construction units are comprised of multiple Activities,
which define both material and labor components. The “Construction Unit Search Page”
will allow user to search for Construction Units, create a Construction Unit, copy a
Construction Unit and create a Construction Estimate. The “Estimation Workbench” will
allow the user to build an estimate by referencing multiple Construction Units,
automatically exploding the Construction Units into the component material and labor
requirements, providing multiple methods of grouping the components (by Project,
Accounting Class, and Activity) prior to the creation of Work Orders. The Construction
Estimate will provide an audit trail of source transactions and changes during the
estimating process, which then can be used as the basis for new Fixed Asset creation.
Asset Lifecycle Management customers identified this enhancement as a gap in the
Oracle eAM solution. Although this feature appeals most to Utility customers in
Transmission & Distribution, similar functionality can be used in other industries such as
Gas, Water, and/or Construction and can also be modeled to perform shutdown planning.
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The Home Page has been redesigned using the Configurable Pages feature of the OA
Framework. This allows the Home Page to have a very flexible layout and
configurable content. The Applications Navigator and the Worklist regions have
been modified to have more optimal usage of screen space.
2) Slide Out Menus for Navigator and Favorites: slide-out Home and Favorite
components for easy cross-application navigation
The Home and Favorites menus are now accessible as pull-down, slide-out menu
gadgets in the global header area of every OA Framework page. This allows end-
users to rapidly choose Favorites of navigate across applications from any OA
Framework page.
3) Look Ahead List of Values (LOV): type-ahead Search capabilities in the List of
Values (LOV) fields
The LOV component has been enhanced to allow type-ahead search capabilities. As
end-users type in characters into the LOV search field, the results shall be fetched
and displayed in line to the LOV component in real-time. For the majority of users,
this will eliminate the need to launch the LOV modal window, to perform a search
within the window, and to navigate through the results using Next/Previous links in
the LOV window result table, thereby saving a number of clicks and server-side
requests, and significantly enhancing end-user productivity.
4) Inline Attachments: ability to enter, view or delete text-type Attachments inline
Attachments have been enhanced to allow inline addition and viewing. The two
icons associated with the Attachments UI – the ‘plus’ icon and the ‘paper-clip’ icon
will now have mouse-over events defined. On hover-over, an inline window shall
appear for rapid attachment entry or viewing of already added attachments. For this
release, this feature will support only text-mode attachments to be edited and added
inline.
These UI enhancements should be transparent to the Oracle eAM application, therefore,
eliminating or lowering uptake and upgrade costs.
The profiles for the ATG User Enhancements will be by default disabled. Customers
who would like to uptake these features can enable these features as required. The
profiles are as follows:
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The following web services are provided for Oracle eAM:
1) Work Order: Create Work Order, Query Work Order, Update Work Order, Add
Components, Add Operations, Add Resources
2) Asset Activity Association: Create Asset Activity Association, Query Asset Activity
Association, Update Asset Activity Association
3) Asset Number: Create Asset Number, Query Asset Number, Update Asset Number
4) Purchase Order: Cancel Purchase Order, Create Purchase Order, Delete Purchase
Order, Approve Purchase Order, Query Purchase Order
and Update Purchase Order
6) Bills of Materials : Create Bills of Material, Delete Bills of Material, Query Bills of
Material, Update Bills of Material, Copy Bills of Material
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for the specified account code combination. This enhancement is key for budgetary
control in such environments.
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environment from various hazards. Permits can be created in a standalone mode and then
associated with work orders or created from the work order screens to initiate a permit
request flow. Permits are then approved based on the user configurable approval
hierarchy.
This feature allows users to define custom permit types like Hot Work, Confined Space
Entry, etc. and define workflows based on permit types, organization, etc. Users can print
the permits along with work orders to generate a complete work package.
Permits are often a statutory requirement related to safety in work place which are
hazardous in nature and are mandated by the regulatory authorities. As such, there are
often significant fines imposed when permits are not properly used in such environments.
This feature will help users reduce the administrative lead time required to create and
manage this aspect of safety management.
3.3.5. Release 12.1.3+
This customer-driven enhancement provides the ability to perform material allocation for a
group of Work Orders with open material requirements, using the new concurrent program
'EAM Work Orders Component Pick Release'. The concurrent request will select material
requirements from work orders that meet the following criteria:
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date during Work Order completion process. The current behavior is such that when
completing a Work Order that has planned dates in the past, the system defaults the actual
completion date to the planned date. By default, the new profile will be set with value
‘Scheduled Completion Date’ and behave as described above as ‘current behavior’. If the
users want the Work Order completion date to be defaulted to system date, then they will
be required to set this profile value as ‘System Date’.
This customer-driven enhancement provides new sequence number logic for Budget
forecasting results (EAM_BFWO_JOB_NUMBER_S). The new sequence with the
prefix set to 'BFWO' (abbreviated for 'Budget Forecast Work Order') will be used for the
work order numbers that are generated as a result of forecast run. As per this change,
the regular work orders will not share the WIP sequence numbers with budget forecast
results. This will ensure continuous sequence of regular work order numbers, even while
using the budget forecasting feature. Prior to this change, the Work Order generated by
the Budget Forecasting feature, and the regular work orders (manual and PM Work
Orders) used the same WIP sequence for Work Order numbering. This resulted in what
appears as ‘jumping’ of a large quantity of sequence numbers for regular work orders.
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3.3.5.9. ERES Support for ‘Debrief work order’
This customer-driven enhancement enables E-Record and E-Signature process for Work
Orders that are completed in debrief mode. Prior to this, the E-Record and E-Sign process
was initiated only from the Work Order Completion page in Maintenance Super User
responsibility. The ERES process during Work Order debrief works as follows:
• All the details such as Operation, Item Type, Line Type, Item Code, Quantity and
Date Required are copied from the original line to the new line.
• Flex-field values are also copied to the new line.
• Material details in the show/hide region like Auto Request Material flag, Sub-
inventory, Locator and Comments are also copied to the new line.
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3.3.5.14. Enable Work Request Details Access from Approval Notification
This customer driven enhancement enables access of Work Request Details including
DFF, Work Request Priority, and Request Details - to the department approver during the
approval cycle of the Work Request. By streamlining the workflow process and
providing more information, more easily – the user is more efficient.
3.3.5.17. Support for Multiple UOMs for One Step Material Issue to WOs
This customer driven enhancement provides support for multiple units of measures
(UOM) for One-Step Material Issue to Work Orders process. The UOM field is an
editable field and the user can now issue parts in any unit of measure. Prior to and after
the material transaction, the quantities are shown in the primary UOM. This is also
applicable to the ‘Work Order Debrief’ page.
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companies on a non-permanent basis and can include consultants or outside contractors.
This is a very common practice in maintenance.
3.3.5.23. View Cost Estimate and Descriptive Flex Field in Construction Estimate
Search Results
This customer driven enhancement added a new column ‘Cost Estimate’ in the
Construction Estimate (CE) search result and added CE Descriptive Flex Field
(DFF) columns in the View Object of the search result page. Users can
personalize to add their relevant DFF columns to the page. When comparing
various CEs, viewing the Cost Estimate is key. Viewing the additional CE DFFs
is also important as different customers want to be able to track and compare
different attributes associated with the CE.
3.3.5.24. Work Order Operations and Material Descriptive Flex Field Support in
Construction Estimate
This customer driven enhancement added a Descriptive Flex Field (DFF) icon to
the Work Order Operations on the Construction Estimate (CE) page, provided the
ability to create/update/view operations/materials DFF on the CE page, and
allows the Maintenance BOM/Maintenance Routing DFF to be copied to the CE.
By improving the creation of the CE, these changes improve the usability of the
CE capability.
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3.3.5.27. Add Resources and Items to Existing Operations in Construction
Estimate
This customer driven enhancement provides the ability to add new
resources/materials to existing operations in a Construction Estimate (CE) page.
When adding new resource/material, the system will default the operation
description, department, etc. which is consistent with the behavior on the Work
Order screen. Both the ease of use and consistency with other pages, help with
overall usability.
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3.3.6. Release 12.2
This release enhances Oracle eAM’s support for Linear Asset Management to address
requirements in industries such as Oil & Gas (pipelines), Utilities (transmission and
distribution lines), and Public Sector (roadways, rails). Significant changes have been
made in Asset Definition, Work Definition / Execution, and Spatial Integration to support
linear assets maintenance. Although these changes were made with linear assets in mind,
many of the new features may be applied to discrete assets, as well.
When creating a linear asset in eAM, a user can attach a Linear Reference Method,
optionally define a Linear Asset Segment, and map the asset / segment to the GIS route or
geometry. Linear asset attributes from GIS domain such as Properties and Elements can be
defined and associated to the assets so that they can be used as reference details while
planning and executing maintenance work on them.
Using user-defined ‘Relationships’, linear assets can be related to other linear assets and
discrete assets. Relationships can be used for modeling asset networks and for tracking the
asset configuration changes. Asset cost roll-up has been enhanced to provide the visibility
of all related assets for a chosen relationship type such as network.
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A new page, ‘Linear Asset Workbench’, has been provided to allow users to set up and
view the linear assets with all these new entities such as Linear Reference Method,
Segments, Elements, Properties and Relationships.
A map workbench has been provided for visualization of linear assets and work orders on
map. Following are some of the map actions that will help users for locating assets and
work orders on map and initiate actions on them:
During Work Order creation and execution for linear assets, the user will be able to
capture linear measure values in self-service and from dynamic asset segmentation done in
the map workbench. Support has also been provided for multiple asset work orders by
enhancing the asset route feature. Work Order completion has been enhanced to support
capturing of actual span of work carried out on linear assets.
For GIS Integration for linear assets, this release supports ESRI and Oracle Spatial
systems. This enables multiple GIS integration options including:
• ESRI
• Google Maps / elocation with Oracle Spatial
• Custom GIS with Oracle Spatial
Rest API and Business Events are provided that can be leveraged by customers for GIS
and EAM systems’ data integration.
Asset route definition has been enhanced with the following features:
• Flexibility in Asset Cost distribution for asset route
• Sequence Numbering of member assets
• Setup controls for asset route update at work order level
With the objective of supporting multiple asset work orders the following
enhancements have been added to asset route work order:
• Ability to create dynamic Work Order Route
• Flexibility in Asset Cost distribution at work order level
• Enhanced Quality Results capture for Route Assets
Following are the Costing enhancements that have been carried out:
• Update Work Order Asset Number after WO Release / Transactions
• Asset Cost drill-down to include Route Work Orders
• Asset Cost Roll-up based on Relationships
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3.3.7.3. User Experience Improvements
As part of our continued efforts to improve the user experience in Oracle eAM, two
types of enhancements are being addressed in this release: (1) non-intrusive changes to
the pages to insure consistency in labels and column position and (2) making specific
Forms based functions available in Oracle Applications Framework (OAF).
On the Work Order pages, naming/spelling updates to field labels and columns were
implemented. Label changes were made to Operations and Materials tabs/regions for
consistency. On applicable pages, Employee was relabeled ‘Person’ to reflect the
introduction of Contingent Worker made in an earlier release.
The ‘Generate PM Work Orders’ concurrent function will be available as a sub-tab off
the Work Orders tab in OAF. A new ‘Reports’ tab is now available from the
Maintenance Super User responsibility enabling the submission of all eAM Reports
including the Material Issue Pick List Report from OAF.
Linear Asset Management functionality has been further enhanced in Release 12.2.5
to support the lifecycle tracking of asset segments and to allow flexibility in data
mapping for the Electrical Utility industry.
3.3.8.3. API and Business Events support for GIS and EAM integration
The following APIs and Business events have been supported for the system
integration between EAM and GIS systems:
• REST APIs for GIS to EAM integration
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– Create Asset
– Manage Asset Status
– Manage Linear Attributes (Property, Element, Relationship)
• Business Events for EAM to GIS integration
– Asset Status Update
– Linear Attribute Changes
– Work Order Linear Details changes
– Work Order Status update
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can enter the common attributes for all the work orders such as Status,
Priority, Work Order Type from the Map Workbench.
- Dynamic Asset Route and Work Order Creation from Map Work bench
o This feature supports selecting a number of assets from the Map
Workbench and assigning them to a pre-defined asset route to create a
dynamic asset route for work order creation. This will help users to
create a work order route from the Map Workbench and use them for
executing work on multiple assets.
- ESRI Integration Enhancement for Feature Class Access Control
o ESRI Integration has been enhanced by the addition of Feature Class
Access Control at the Map Manager setup. This functionality provides
the option to specify the responsibilities, users who can access the
Feature Class at Map Workbench. This will help to improve the
segregation of functional areas and also to optimize the Map
Workbench performance.
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3.3.9.10. User Experience: HTML Asset Update
In R12.2.5 – users were provided with an option to create Assets using an HTML pop-
up page and any updates needed after creation of the asset were be done using the Asset
Definition Form.
In this release, R12.2.6 – in addition to being able to create an Asset, users can view
and update any of the Asset’s attributes using HTML pages. The following asset details
can be viewed and updated from the HTML page:
• Asset Details like Owning Department, WIP Accounting Class, Area etc.,
• Activity Association
• Asset Attributes
• Meter Association
• Fixed Asset, Production Equipment Associations
• Property Management Association (View Only)
• Safety Management Setups
Notes:
• The ‘Define Asset Number’ form is still available for Customer to create, view,
and update Assets.
• This HTML Asset Update feature is applicable for Rebuildable Assets and Asset
Routes also.
3.3.10. Release 12.2.7
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items (Description based and Non-Stock items) will be interfaced with the purchase
requisition.
3.3.1. Release 12.2.8
3.3.1.1. Asset Criticality Information for Work Order and Work Request
A new field, asset criticality has been added to the work order and work request
flows in self-service pages and in the work order detail report. This field defaults
from the asset setup and it is available in create, update, view pages and search
results table. With this option, users can prioritize and plan the work based on asset
criticality code.
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Note: Default value for the profile option is ‘Null’, for automatic update of work request
status the profile option value should be setup as ‘Cancelled’ or ‘Awaiting Work Order’.
This feature allows the user to enter up to 2000 characters in the Work Order
description field. To achieve this functionality, a new field ‘Additional Description’ has
been added in the Work Order create, update and view modes. Work Requests that
have a description more than 240 characters will be copied to the new description field
while creating a Work Order from a Work Request. The new ‘Additional Description’
field will be printed on related Work Order documents.
Prior to this release, users could enter up to 2000 characters in the description field on
Work Requests. When the Work Request was copied to a Work Order the description
was truncated to 240 characters.
This enhancement updates the Asset Number Web ADI template to support
associations to parent asset numbers. Uploading new assets using the Asset Number
Web ADI template allows the creation of a new asset number and its association to its
parent asset number. It also allows the creation of a new parent asset number during the
asset creation/parent association process.
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3.3.1.5. Asset Status in Self-Service Pages
This new feature adds the ‘Asset Status’ field into the Self-Service pages that display
Assets and Work Orders. By adding the ‘Asset Status’ field on the Asset Page, users
can now search for assets by asset status, see the asset status in the search results of the
assets screens and view the asset status in Asset View Page. By adding the ‘Asset
Status’ field into the Work Order Flow, users can now view the asset status while
creating, viewing and updating a work order.
This enhancement will help users to search for assets by status and know the current
status of assets from work order pages to plan work more efficiently.
3.3.2.1. Asset Search enhancements for Express Work Order and Asset Route
A new action ‘Create Express Work Order’ is available using the asset search results
to provide easier access to express work order creation functionality.
A new field ‘Attached Asset Route’ is added to the Asset Details page. This field is
added with a pop-up as ‘Asset Route Details’ which shows the asset routes to which the
asset is attached.
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level parent asset details page, which improves the access to the complete asset
hierarchy.
An asset advanced search has been added with new criteria ‘Parent Asset Number’ to
fetch immediate child assets for any given parent asset. The parent asset number field
in the search criteria will fetch only assets that have at least one child asset.
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Search attributes with Preventive Maintenance criteria like PM Set and PM Schedule
allow to search for all work orders pending employee assignment and assign employees
to them. Mass Assignment of employees can be done for multiple work order –
operations through the results table level action of ‘Assign Employee’.
The Employee Assignment page provides a Work Order Operation based view -
allowing direct access to the resource start/end dates to proceed with employee
assignment for individual work order operation or through multiple rows selected for
mass assignment.
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This feature at two step material issue process allows to synchronize the work order
material requirement to the net issued quantity of item. This simplifies the work order
update, initiated from material transaction itself.
3.3.3. Terminology
Term Definition
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Term Definition
Linear Reference Method Linear Reference Method is used representing linear assets in
terms of their measure unit, references for different axes and
their off-set measure units.
Lockout The placement of a lockout device on an energy-isolating
device, in accordance with an established procedure, ensuring
that the energy isolating device and the equipment being
controlled cannot be operated until the lockout device is
removed.
Longitude Longitude is the east-west geographic coordinate
measurement. Longitude is given as an angular measurement
ranging from 0° at the prime meridian to +180° eastward and
−180° westward.
An example of a longitude in DMS (Degrees Minutes
Seconds) format is ##°##'##"W
Properties Properties for linear assets are used to pre-define the asset
attributes and to store their values with reference to the
measure values of occurrence.
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3.4. Oracle Enterprise Asset Management Command Center
3.4.1. Overview
The Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Command Center feature provides dashboards
that are part of the EAM self-service pages. The EAM Command Center consists of three
dashboards currently: Open Work Orders Dashboard, Assets Dashboard and Materials
Dashboard. They contain actionable insights highlighted through different metrics, charts
and results tables.
The Oracle Enterprise Asset Management Command Center feature is available at no
additional cost to licensed users of Oracle Enterprise Asset Management. It can be
applied to Release 12.2.4 and above.
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conditions related to Work Order materials like Shortage, Unplanned Usage are highlighted
for material planners to review and resolve them.
Actions like Delete material allocations and Update BOM are enabled to manage allocations
across work orders and to optimize requirements based on work trend.
3.4.4.2. Assets Dashboard with flexfields and asset attributes for refinement
The Assets Dashboard is enhanced with additional refinement capabilities. Item
instance Flex Fields have been added as part of available refinements and Asset
Attributes have been added to asset search criteria as part of multiple data set support.
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3.5. Oracle Enterprise Asset Management Information Discovery
3.5.1. Overview
By delivering targeted, user-centric experiences in a scalable way, Oracle Enterprise Asset
Management (eAM) Information Discovery is a game changer. With the Information
Discovery’s Guided Navigation, Google Like Search, Tag Clouds, Range Filters, Metrics and
more, Oracle Enterprise Asset Management Information Discovery lifts the user experience to a
new level. It turns raw data into accessible, usable information for discovery – information that
is the basis for action. This data can be unstructured (as in Descriptive Flex Fields) and/or span
multiple eAM Organizations. Oracle eAM Information Discovery also has native application
support for mobile tablets.
• Oracle Premier Support for Oracle E-Business Suite Information Discovery Plus products
will end on December 31, 2021.
• Effective January 1, 2022, both 12.1 and 12.2 versions of the Oracle E-Business Suite
Information Discovery Plus products will move into Sustaining Support.
• Similar capabilities are available at no additional cost in Oracle Enterprise Command Centers
and other standard Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 functionality.
• For more information, see the Oracle Lifetime Support Policy: Oracle Applications
3.5.3. Release V4
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3.5.3.4. Material Area
With the new Oracle Enterprise Asset Management Information Discovery, users can view
spare parts availability across organizations and use the information to effectively plan
work based on material availability and reduce costs by making sourcing decisions to
prevent excess inventory. Knowing where to find the right part for a particular repair or
job, saves maintenance time and money and increases customer satisfaction.
3.5.4. Release V5
Asset attributes have been enhanced to include: Operations Log and Check in Status.
3.5.6. Release V8
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3.5.6.3. Asset Number flex fields support in Refinements
Asset Number / Item Instance flex fields have been added to available refinements. This
allows users to refine the information discovery content based on Asset Number flexfield
values in Maintenance Home, Assets, Work Requests and Work Orders Information
Discovery pages.
3.5.7. Release V9
Oracle Mobile Maintenance for Oracle E-Business Suite is compatible with Oracle E-
Business Suite 12.1.3 and 12.2.3 and above. To use this app, you must be a user of Oracle
Enterprise Asset Management, with mobile services configured on the server side by your
administrator. For information on how to configure mobile services on the server and for
app-specific information, see My Oracle Support Note 1641772.1.
Note: Oracle Mobile Maintenance for Oracle E-Business Suite is available in the
following languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Canadian French, Dutch, English, French,
German, Italian, Japanese, Latin American Spanish, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish.
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3.6.3. Mobile Release 2.0– Client Version 1.1.0
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• New capability added to display existing attachments, and upload pictures for
existing work orders, operations, work requests, assets and quality results
• Ability to upload of asset-related pictures from mobile phone library
When users select the Work Order view from the spring board – they can view the list of
Operations for that Work Order. By swiping left on an Operation, a Quick Complete
icon is presented which the user can use to complete the Operation. In prior releases –
users could only view the list of Operations and could not take any actions on them.
When creating a Work Orders an option is presented to the user to be able to select ‘Self
Assign Operations’ to ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. A value of ‘Yes’ would automatically assign the
Operations that get created as a result of creating that Work Order to the user creating
the Work Order. A value of ‘No’ would create the Operations with the default
assignment rules.
• Ability to open links to external websites within the app on Android devices
• Updated look and feel, including native look and feel for action sheets on iOS
devices
• Ability to easily clear user credential fields in the Sign In page
• Technical updates with uptake of Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF)
2.3.1
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3.6.8. Mobile Release 7.0 – Client Version 1.6.0
The Operations screen has been enhanced to show a user’s entire work for their
department (called My Department’s Work) along with their existing work. A
maintenance user can view their department’s work queue and self-assign work by
swiping the operation. While self-assigning the operation, the Mobile Maintenance app
prompts the user with an alert if it overlaps with the maintenance user’s existing work
schedule. After successful completion of self- assignment, the operation appears under
the user’s My Work queue and allows them to begin work.
A new function called ‘My Calendar’ has been added under the spring board and allows
the user to view the operations assigned in a calendar view. My Calendar has three
views: List View, Day View and Month View, each of which shows the operations
information and improves user productivity. Maintenance users can easily navigate to
the operation details by clicking on the operation and perform the actions available.
The manual selection of serial numbers while issuing material is enhanced with a scan
option. This new feature allows the user to either select the serial numbers manually or
scan the item. In addition, some material issue screen fields have been rearranged for
better usability.
A new validation has been added to enforce that all mandatory operations are complete
when completing a work order. If any of the mandatory operations are not completed,
the Mobile Maintenance app will display an error message.
NOTE: This feature in mobile app has dependency with EBS release 12.2.7, so there is
no change to the work order completion validation for the mobile apps of EBS versions
prior to 12.2.7.
A new sorting option has been added to the operation screen for ‘My Work’ and ‘My
Department work’ to allow sorting by priority. When a user chooses to sort with
priority, the operations queue will reorder with the priority of the work order associated
to the operation to give visibility to the highest priority work.
The Mobile Maintenance app can now work in a disconnected mode that allows users
enabled with offline mode to choose to work in either online or offline mode.
When offline mode is turned on, the Mobile Maintenance app will perform a one-time
full data download into mobile from the server and allow user to work offline as normal
with the data that has been downloaded.
In order for the offline mobile app to work efficiently, it will initially download only the
work related to the user. However, by selecting the offline preference option it can be
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extended to download the user’s department work and additional assets details as
needed. The Maintenance user can manually synchronize the data between the mobile
and the server to get the updated data into server and mobile. Synchronization is also
enabled with the data log summary for easy tracking of transactions.
Calculation of charge time is automated to ease the technician from manual work, with
new actions of – Clock-in and Clock-out, to automatically calculate the chargeable hours
and to keep it ready for resource transaction for an operation. There are additional
actions with indications for Pause, Resume & Reset of charging time.
In work order ‘My Work’ queue, new sort option is added to enable users to sort the
work order based on type of work order.
A new field ‘Completion Comments’ is added in work order completion screen. This is
an optional field and allows to enter free text up to 120 characters.
NOTE: This feature in mobile app has dependency with EBS release 12.2.8, so it is
applicable for the mobile app EBS version of 12.2.8.
In offline mobile app, transactions in failed status can be edited from the transaction
details screen, edit action will lead the user to actual transaction screen in edit mode.
Error message is carried over to the transaction screen to help user in correcting the
error. After errors are corrected and saved, transaction will be queued for next
synchronization process.
Express work order feature is extended to the mobile app, user can create new work
order and perform resource reporting, add and issue materials transactions in addition to
the charge time, adding quality plans, complete operation and complete work order as
supported currently. In debrief mode, operations against the selected work order are
shown in one view to the user, this helps to perform charge time, add and issue materials
all from one place.
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3.6.9.6. Operations Push Notifications
New operation assignment to the mobile user will get notified in mobile notification
center. Clicking on the notification card will open the operations details screen for
further actions. This feature is supported when using Oracle Mobile Cloud Service and
enterprise distribution.
New alert message is added in create work order screen when self-assign is selected.
Alert will be shown when fields are not meeting the self-assign conditions. This is a soft
alert, user can override and create the work order.
• For apps installed through an Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solution's app
catalog, support for having the EBS Server URL preconfigured by an administrator
rather than requiring users to enter it after launching the app
• Enhancement to prevent attachments viewed within the app from being shared
elsewhere on iOS devices
• Technical updates with uptake of Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF)
2.5.0
• New landing page Technician overview is introduced with a quick view of operations
metrics. It consists of Operations key indicators including - Overdue, Today’s Work,
Open Work and My Department Work
• Each of the metric is actionable that leads to the operations screen and allows
performing transactions and improves usability
• Offline data synchronization metric is enabled for the offline app users to show the
last synchronization date, time and failed transactions count
• Search or scan on Asset or work order number will navigate the user to Asset or work
order details page
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3.6.10.3. Multiple Rebuild Items Issue
• Material issue for rebuild items is enhanced to issue more than one quantity if replace
rebuild work order is not required
Oracle Installed Base uses ‘Counters’ to help track usage of a product or track equipment
operational details like run hours which can be used for various purposes like Billing or
Maintenance planning.
Oracle Installed Base is a foundation product for Oracle Asset Tracking and Enterprise Asset
Management.
Even though Install base tracks all transactions performed on an IB tracked item, for
some organizations it is suffice to track only customer owned item instances. To support
such customer requirement, an additional option has been provided for Install Base
tracking in this release. With this option, such customers can avoid the present default
behavior that tracks both enterprise and customer instances.
These business users can leverage this new option in Install Parameters to track "Only
Customer Owned Instances" and still be able to perform after-sales transactions such as
RMA, Field Service Return on the IB instances.
By enabling this Option, the IB Tracking restricts itself from creating any internal instances
and the lifecycle of the IB tracked item starts only on Order Fulfillment to external customer.
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Note: Since eAM and Asset Tracking products track internally owned assets for asset
lifecycle tracking, this new option should not be adopted by customers who are using these
products.
The customer Install Base functionality – which lets organizations to track only
customer/party related transactions on products - was introduced in Release 12.2.4.
Extending that option as a setup at the Item level is added as part of Release 12.2.5. With
this enhancement, you would be able to specify the preference for Install Base tracking at
the master item level. This provides more flexibility to use this feature based on an
individual item’s tracking needs.
Inventory serial tagging functionality is being extended to the Sales Order Pick and ISO
Pick transactions in Release 12.2.5. This is applicable for non-Serial controlled Items
and Serial control at Sales Order Shipment items. Install base changes have been
incorporated to support this feature for IB tracked items as well.
The WebADI Mass Update for Item Instances feature has been enhanced by adding an
Advanced Search option. With this feature, users can look up item instances using
additional search criteria and efficiently download item instances that need updates of
attributes.
A new WebADI template has been added for supporting the extended attribute values.
This gives users the ability to download the attributes at the item instance level and
allows them to add or modify the attribute values and upload them into the system.
Attributes downloaded against the item instance can be from different access levels like,
Global, Item, Category, Inventory Item and Instance level.
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3.7.6. Release 12.2.8
Search capability in item instance advanced search is enhanced with three new
parameters ‘Currently in Country’, ‘Installed in Country’ and ‘FA location’. Users can
now use these additional search parameters to filter the desired data as they need.
The Item Instance search results using the Install Base Agent User responsibility has
added two new columns: ‘DFF Update’ and ‘Extended Attribute Update’. This feature
allows the update to Descriptive Flex Fields and Extended attributes for instances from
Instance Search page itself without navigating to Instance Update page. These updates
can be done for instances with errored transactions as well.
Two new criteria - ‘Installed at Party Name’ and ‘Currently at Party Name’ are added
to Item Instances Advanced Search. It allows search of instances which have current
location different than the install location.
To support multi-product feature of Field Service, Service Request page for Item
Instances is enhanced to show the service request details for primary and non-primary
instances as well. Earlier the service request details were not shown for non-primary
instances.
A new check-box ‘Show Root Item Instances Only’ has been added in WebADI and
Mass Update pages. This allows a search for only root/parent item instances for the
given search criteria and perform updates that can be cascaded to all child instances.
In case of the General Mass update, this functionality also relaxes the requirement to
add the parent item Instance for mass update of child item instances.
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3.7.8.3. Install Base Transaction Processing Usability Enhancements
This feature enhances the current ‘Transaction Interface page’ of Install Base Agent
User responsibility. It provides better search capability for errored transactions and
provides details related to errored Instances like Item, quantity, Instance Number etc.
This is a list search view with infotile metrics providing counts for Instances in error
for Serial Items, Non serial items, Lot serial items and Lot non serial items. The infotile
allows to filter the error transactions and view the error details.
• Oracle Premier Support for Oracle E-Business Suite Information Discovery Plus products
will end on December 31, 2021.
• Effective January 1, 2022, both 12.1 and 12.2 versions of the Oracle E-Business Suite
Information Discovery Plus products will move into Sustaining Support.
• Similar capabilities are available at no additional cost in Oracle Enterprise Command Centers
and other standard Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 functionality.
• For more information, see the Oracle Lifetime Support Policy: Oracle Applications
3.8.3. Release V4
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3.8.3.3. Improved Drill-down to Product Configuration
Model-Components relationship between Item Instances or product hierarchy can be
identified easier with Information Discovery search parameter ‘Top Model’. This will
allow users to quickly find out all components in a hierarchy and to identify impacted
products effectively in a re-call/replacement scenario.
3.8.5. Release V7
3.8.6. Release V8
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Part of the standard product, we enabled wildcard search for around 12 attributes,
Example: Customer, item description, serial number and more.
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