The Oracle E-Business Suite ( EBS) is a collection of different software that belongs to the category known as ERP(Enterprise Resource Planning) or modules, that have been integrated in order to interact with each other and is known as E-Business suite. The main modules in this EBS can be grouped under four main categories-

• Oracle Inventory Module- this enables you to keep track of the items that are placed in the warehouse or stocks.
• Oracle Order Management- This module is designed to enable you to keep track of orders placed by customers and the amount collected for each order.
• Oracle General Ledger- designed to receive information derived from transactions and helps to create statements of profit and loss, taxes etc.
• Oracle Cost Management- helps in maintaining a list of the cost of different items in the inventory.

The EBS R12 is the latest release of the EBS by Oracle.?

One of the most important business process cycles in the EBS structure is the P2P cycle or the Procure to Pay cycle. Implemented by a number of different modules like Purchasing, payables, iSupplier, iExpenses, iProcurement and others, the process is used to cover the entire process of order placement, payment, receiving the payment, paying and accounting for goods and services.

Order to Cash (O2C), of the Oracle R12 EBS is a process that takes care of the processing of the orders or the requests placed by the customer and obtaining the payment for the goods sold. Considered to be the backbone of any business in a supply chain, and comprises of the processes of order creation, booking the order, releasing of the order, shipping the order, creating an invoice for the order and receiving the process. The information is then sent to the General Inventory.

One of the exclusive features of Oracle is the Oracle Discoverer, used for analyzing data from different areas like Finance, HR and Manufacturing. There are two different types of discoverer, with the standalone version offering no support for the Oracle SSO, Discoverer Connection Management or Portlet Provider and the Discoverer with the OracleAS Infrastructure (OID/SSO).

The Oracle Data Integrator is one of the most comprehensive platforms for data integration covering all types of data integration requirements ranging from high-volume data loads, to event driven and trickle feed processes to SOA enabled services.

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