eprentise COLLABORATE 2017 Presentation Schedule
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Sunday, April 2
1:45 p.m. | Room: Breakers B
Session # 10394: Managing Global Supply Chain in R12 with Oracle® Warehouse Management System
Presented by Ihtesham Uddin, Senior Director of Product Development, eprentise
The quality of an enterprise’s supply chain management can make or break a business. While minimizing costs and maximizing quality, a focus on responsiveness and reliability results in a competitive advantage. Most Oracle® E-Business Suite users turn to Oracle Shipping Execution for supply chain logistics, but few take advantage of the Warehouse Management System (WMS). Designed to support distribution and manufacturing, WMS provides a single platform across a global supply chain to improve operations. Discover how to implement WMS alongside Shipping Execution for better deployment strategies.
3:00 p.m. | Room: South Seas I
Session #10280: Chart of Accounts Transformation Master Class
Presented by Harrison Figura, Delivery QA Manager, eprentise
A useful chart of accounts (COA) provides flexibility for recording and reporting financial information, allows uniform management, and enhances communication. Five fundamental criteria for COA design in Oracle® E-Business Suite will allow your business to create a forward-thinking chart of accounts to optimize growth and flexibility, while minimizing maintenance. This master class will go through the COA basics, define COA changes, outline the COA ecosystem, and provide best practices on designing your own chart of accounts.
Monday, April 3, 2017
11:00 a.m. | Room: Islander D
Session #10561: You Gain Some, You Lose Some: Best Practices for Ledger Structures During Functional Currency Change
Presented by Brian Lewis, Vice President of Finance and Corporate Controller, eprentise
When going to a true functional currency, countries are eliminating the financial statement misstatement between Cumulative Translation Adjustment and foreign exchange gains and losses. The resulting accounting implications result in a flurry of activities. For entities with Oracle® E-Business Suite, one of the most important changes to be tackled is affecting the functional currency change within all ledgers – ledgers should be set up for each local currency. We will analyze setups and illustrate best practices.
11:00 a.m. | Room: Islander E
Session #10566: Farewell Oracle® EBS: A Smooth Exit
Presented by Helene Abrams, CEO, eprentise
So your future direction doesn’t include Oracle® E-Business Suite. Your business is moving to Oracle Cloud, migrating to another system, or undergoing an acquisition/divestiture with a company on a different ERP. Your business depends on making the transition with minimum disruption. Post-transition ERP posture must be ready instantly after the change, and key data must be aligned to the new system BEFORE the changeover to avoid a costly transition. To leave EBS, there are steps to take NOW for a smoother exit.
2:45 p.m.| Room: Breakers B
Session #10279: Why an Upgrade is Not Enough:
Presented by Harrison Figura, Delivery QA Manager, eprentise
Oracle® E-Business Suite (EBS) Release 12 brings with it significant changes and enhanced functionality that eliminates many customizations, allows companies to operate globally and streamlines major processes. But an upgrade alone is not enough; in order to make your EBS capable of handling R12 functionality with minimal hang-ups, there are a few recommended changes that you should undertake first. Find out what you can do to before upgrading to reduce complexity (all while avoiding a costly reimplementation).
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
4:15 p.m.| Room: Breakers B
Session #10184: The Upgrade Path to R12 is the Recommended Path to R12! How can you avoid a Re-Implementation?
Presented by Susan Behn, Vice President, Infosemantics
Almost every upgrade panel or Upgrade SIG meeting includes a discussion of the upgrade versus re-implementation question. In this session, we will focus primarily on the alternatives for those triggers which may drive a re-implementation. Most of the “typical” triggers do not really have to drive you down the very costly re-implementation path.
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
11:00 a.m. | Room: Islander D
Session #10560: Complexities of Separating Data in an ERP Environment (Focus on E-Business Suite)
Presented by Ihtesham Uddin, Senior Director of Product Development, eprentise
In an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) environment, multiple organizations can exist within a single instance. How does the data belonging to these organizations co-exist, and what are the challenges that companies face when they have to separate the data based on business reasons? With a focus on Oracle® E-Business Suite (EBS), this session will explore the best ways to address complexities in ERP environments to achieve success when separating data.
4:15 p.m. | Room: South Seas J
Session #10257: How Arby’s Restructured Their GL Chart Of Account Without Re-Implementing EBS: You Can Too
Presented by Kyle Lambert, Senior Director, Solutions, EiS Technologies, Inc.
To improve process efficiencies and reporting, Arby’s Restaurant Group, with EiS Technologies and eprentise, converted their legal entity fields and process within E-Business Suite. The conversion effort transformed Arby’s chart of accounts from using the cost center field and its parent-child relationships to using a company field to become legal entity. The presentation describes the stages of the conversion process lifecycle including planning, testing, and implementation as well as General Ledger configurations to consider.
