Cloud ERP and Cloud Analytics

An interesting story I heard today.

People started using Cloud ERP and found that they are not satisfied with Oracle Cloud ERP.  The solution from Incorta helped saving the Cloud ERP implementation by providing an BICC based analytical solution.

Analytics and reporting capability is no longer a peripheral part of ERP.  It is an essential need.

EBS EAM Resource Model

EBS EAM uses "WIP job" to model the service requests.
Each job can be done with a series of tasks that are modeled in the operation table.

The resources who are assigned to work on the jobs are stored in BOM RESOURCE.

BOM RESOURCE is not necessary in capturing the individuals.

WIP model was designed for Manufacturing, and was reused in EAM later.  EAM was added to Oracle E-Business Suite much later.

BOM Resources could labor or equipment.  When a BOM resource is created for labor, it can be created as a bucket.  The key is that the resources could be a constraint resource that you need to

• Identify the needs, in term of the skill requirements
• Estimate the demands, in term of labor efforts (hours)
• Measure whether you can sufficient resources to work on the jobs in the pipeline.

To identify the individual person who is part of the resource pool.  BOM RESOURCE EMPLOYEE can be used.  It links to the people records created in HR person table (PER_ALL_PEOPLE_F)

Oracle Applications: JDE, EBS, PSFT and ERP Cloud

Oracle shares a research note from Nucleus research.

Based on the matrix, from functionality perspective:

JDE > EBS > PSFT > ERP Cloud

From usability perspective:

JDE > ERP Cloud > EBS > PeopleSoft

Here are my observations:

User Preferences

1. Locale related

• Territory
• Date Format
• Time Format
• Number Format
• Timezone
• Currency
• Language

Many of them are about displaying data.

Why are these important?  If a packaged system or software service is targeted to the global market, you need to consider users coming from different regions.

2. Accessibility

• Need to Use Screen Reader ?
• Color Contrast?
• Large Font

We call these ADA compliance.  It is required for selling software or service to the governments. 

3. Notification Preference

How do you want to interact with the system?