Purchasing Portal Developed in Oracle ADF

Presented By: Siva Puthurkattil (Oracle Database Administrator)

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Lake County, Illinois
Located in northeastern Illinois, bordered by Lake Michigan, Wisconsin, and the greater Chicago area. One of the fastest-growing counties in Illinois and in the nation, with 713,000+ people. Promoting a sustainable environment is a strategic goal for the Lake County Board.

Integrate and optimize the purchasing business processes in Lake County by providing a unified web-based application.
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Purpose deliver a solution that meets the major business needs of the purchasing domain.
Currently these are scattered around in EBS and the custom application - Bid Interface. Bid Interface (written in ASP)- Allows vendors to register with the Lake County for various service areas. Whenever there is a bid published on the Lake County website, the registered vendors would get an automatic notification about the bid. Vendors need to register in order to download the Bid documents. Leveraging EBS SDK for Role/Responsibility based security solution for the purchasing portal. Unified reporting solution.
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EBS Environment Oracle R12.1.3 (Oracle Financials, HR & Payroll), Oracle DB 11g, RHEL 5.7 on VMWare ESX 5 JDeveloper 11.2.1.0, WebLogic 10.3.6, Oracle E-Business Suite SDK for Java. EBS - UMX Roles to Responsibilities Mapping:
UMX|BOSS_BID_ACCESS_REPORTS -> BOSS Inquiry UMX|BOSS_BID_ADMIN -> Purchasing Super User
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Login Page

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Reports Tab Users need BOSS Inquiry Responsibility

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Administration Tab
Users need Purchasing Super User Responsibility.

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EBS Security
User who doesnt have the access to the Reports Tab.

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Legacy application drawbacks.
Information retrieval was cumbersome for users as it is from multiple application sources. Multiple applications with its own access credentials made application access tiring to user community . Everybody had access to every screen.
No role based access.
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Benefits of the new portal with ADF and EBS SDK
Unified web application interface to support the purchasing functionality. Leveraging EBS credentials, users need not remember additional passwords. Admin tasks of role based access controls are hassle free. Ability to show a map of geographical distribution of the Lake county vendor base in the new system.
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Phase 1 Status: Live
Went live in Aug 2012.

Challenges
Page not authorized message due to deployment issues.
System-jazn.xml was not updated with the Resource grants after deployment. Solution: Check the resource permissions in application policies from EM. Navigation in EM Application ->Security -> Policies

Mapping UMX roles to Responsibilities.

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Next Phase
Phase 2 of the project would replace all the legacy and custom applications with the unified web-based purchasing portal and make it available to the public.

References:
MyOracle Support Id: 974949.1 https://blogs.oracle.com/jruiz/entry/securing_adf_applications_using _the

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