Oracle: Key Business Flows

Every business has some Processes, every process has some Flows to meet some
requirement or an outcome. These processes and flows can be divided to departmental
level. Every department in an organization has some Process Flows and upon execution
of these flows the department meets some desired outcome.

Number of departments involved in a process depends on the nature of the process and its
flow. Keeping in mind the process and its flow an automated application is designed,
developed and implemented to help the department(s) fasten up the flow and efficiently
execute it. If the application caters a whole process then it can be called as an ERP
application.

These departments and processes can categorize in to two stages:

1. Front Office
2. Back Office

Oracle Application or E-Business Suite is one of these automated application which cater
different processes with the help of different applications of module.

We can also call a “process” as a “cycle”. Oracle Applications caters different business
cycles with different applications or, in terms of ERP, different modules.

Here is a list of how a standard business process catered by Oracle E-Business Suite,
and each process has different Business Cycle.

1. Plan
2. Source
3. Make
4. Market
5. Sell
6. Support

Each business process has a cycle and for each cycle there are set of Oracle Application.
Here is the hierarchy of how I’ve defined the Process, Cycle and Oracle Application:

• PROCESS
o Cycle
 Oracle Application

So here’s the whole thing:

• PLAN
o Concept to Release
o Forecast to Plan
  Demand Planning,
 Order Management and
 Advanced Supply Chain Planning
o Plan to Replenish

• SOURCE
o Procure to Pay,
 Purchasing
 Inventory
 Payables
 iExpenses
 Cash Management
 General Ledger
 Assets (optional)
o Inventory to Fulfillment

• MAKE
o Demand to Build
o Inventory to Fulfillment

• MARKET
o Campaign to Order

• SELL
o Campaign to Order
o Click to Order
o Order to Cash
 Order Management
 Inventory
 Receivables
 Cash Management
 General Ledger
o Contract to Renewal

• SUPPORT
o Contract to Renewal
o Request to Resolution

Back Office Cycle in particular includes:

• Benefits to Payroll
• People to Paycheck
• Project to Profit
• Accounting to Financial Reports