OATUG eLearning

Improving Accounts Payable Process for Oracle E-Business Suite

Abstract:
Join this webinar if your organization is using Oracle E-Business Suite and looking to streamline your manual process and improve efficiency to benefit from automating your Accounts Payable invoice process. Accounts Payable invoice flow, from receiving invoices to approval and payment is a crucial component in your organization. By converting from manual to automated processes, you can save time and reduce manual errors, leading to improved accuracy and cost savings.

In this webinar we would like to showcase the benefits of converting your process from a manual to a more efficient and automated process. We have designed this session to be a hands-on experience where you can learn about AP invoice processing through practical scenarios and real-life examples. We will be covering various scenarios related to invoice processing and the approval workflow in detail and showing you how to handle these situations in combination with Oracle E-Business Suite. In addition to the practical examples, we also want to reflect on the implementation of this process.

Learning Objectives:

1. Becoming familiar with the features and functions of AP invoice processing in combination with Oracle E-Business Suite.
2. Learning how to handle various approval scenarios, including 2- and 3-way match and multi-level approval.
3. Gaining insights in which areas a workflow offers advantages.
4. Clarification on the implementation efforts.
5. How integration is key towards successful implementation.

Educational Tracks:

#E-BusinessSuite

Presenter:
Peter Jaap de Graaf, APRO Software Solutions
@Wijnand Heinen, APRO Software Solutions

Get a 360 Degree View of Your Financial Reporting with Oracle Cloud or EBS!

Abstract:

Financial reporting is crucial to organizing and managing your company’s accounting and finance agnostic to your data source like Oracle Cloud or EBS to make informed business decisions. However, it is easier said than done.

Although financial reporting in excel is common, it can be tedious and time intensive. However, with the right set of tools and technologies, enterprises can experience seamless financial reporting with access to detailed insights in real-time.

In this session, we will present ideas that give you and your C-level leaders a 360-degree view of your financials which can be drillable to details.

Learning Objectives:

Get to learn all the ABCs of financial reporting, because in this webinar you will get to understand how you can:  

1. Get a deep dive into financial analytics.
2. Quickly build financial, operational, and ad hoc reports.
3. Retrieve and refresh the data quickly and easily through Excel.
4. Distribute reports to your team, other departments, and key stakeholders.
5. Easily check account balances live and in Excel (with drill-down details).
6. Easily access a live, drillable financial statement reports directly in Excel.

Educational Tracks:

#Analytics/BI
#E-BusinessSuite
#CloudEPM
#CloudERP
#PaaS

Presenter:

Rafael Torres, Director of Finance Reporting, SplashBI

No More Bottlenecks: How Automation is Key to Making the Most of Your Oracle Apps

Abstract:
It’s no secret that the need for efficient Oracle testing is growing, with updates & upgrades occurring more frequently--and with more significant changes--than ever before.

These frequent changes, along with the rise of more complex, composable Oracle environments, have made testing a major struggle for customers. 

Enter Opkey, the highest rated testing app on the Oracle Cloud marketplace, with scripts that work across both EBS and Fusion.

This 30 minute session will show you how customers are leveraging Opkey’s test automation platform to save time, money, and effort on their Oracle testing.

So they can make the most out of their Oracle apps. 

Whether they’re on EBS or Fusion, or anywhere in between.

Learning Objectives:

1. Attendees will learn the common struggles of Oracle testing, and how Oracle-aware test automation helps alleviate those struggles.
2. Attendees will learn best practices for efficiently testing Oracle EBS & Fusion apps.
3. Attendees will learn how multiple Fortune-500 companies have implemented Oracle test automation in months.

Educational Tracks:
#CloudMigration 
#E-BusinessSuite 
#EBSSCM 
#EBSonOCI 
#CloudEPM 
#CloudERP 
#CloudHCM 
#CloudSCM 

Presenters: 

Dimpy Sharma, VP of Product Solutions, Opkey
@Pankaj GoelCEO, Opkey

Smart Data Protection for OCI Virtual Machines

Abstract: 

Today’s IT professionals need a fully featured, yet simple solution to manage OCI workloads along with their full data estate, in line with their cloud strategy. And the need to modernize apps and further cloud development initiatives makes protecting that data even more paramount.

Join us for an informative webinar with Brad Kirby, Senior Director, Product Management where we’ll demonstrate how Metallic’s SaaS-delivered data protection and management can protect numerous OCI workloads - no matter where they reside.

Learning Objectives:

1. Protect against ransomware.
2. Meet compliance and data residency requirements.
3. Protect and manage data in hybrid and multi-cloud environments, with optimal performance.

Educational Tracks:

#CloudMigration 
#Database 
#PaaS 

Presenter:

Brad Kirby, Senior Director, Product Management for Metallic, a Commvault Venture

Automate Lockbox Processing in Oracle Fusion Financials

Abstract: 
Join this webinar to learn how you can improve your lockbox processing for ACH, WIRE and CHECKS when using Oracle (Fusion) Financials Cloud. 

We will show how we automatically connect with your banks to download your lockbox files. Flows coming directly from your customers, e.g. remittance advices via e-mail, are also covered and loaded automatically.
 
With the files loaded we start an OCR process to scrape the data from the scanned checks or remittance advices. This process eliminates the need for your banks to key-in information from the checks. The data retrieved from the lockbox files/checks or remittance advices is validated against Oracle Receivables. With that data we suggest the customer and invoices to close for the received check, payment or remittance.

A dashboard will make that the users can validate and approve the suggestions from APRO. Via autolearning the system optimizes customer recognitions and per customer how to apply the found transactions.

When all suggested matches are approved the receipts are created in Oracle Receivables. With setup you can arrange a connection of the lockbox files with your bank statement (BAI2, CAMT.053, etc.) files.

Learning Objectives:
1. Automate bank connections without custom developments.
2. Automate the loading of Lockbox files.
3. Minimize bank keying costs for lockbox files.
4. A practical and easy to use workbench for your users.
5.    Improve automatic matching rates.
6.    No custom development and custom interfaces.

Educational Tracks:
#CloudERP     

Presenter:
@John Nagel, Managing Director. APRO Software Solutions

Get the Most Out of Your Oracle Cloud ERP Investment

Abstract:

Finance teams who struggle to meet the demand for recurring operational reports are increasingly adopting Oracle ERP Cloud for ease of access to real-time data. While Oracle ERP Cloud offers a multitude of features that will accelerate your reporting efforts, you should consider additional support to ensure that you are getting the most out of your investment. 

Angles Professional for Oracle accelerates the distribution of actionable, operational data. Working with a broad library of extensible content covering common reporting needs and connecting directly to source data, finance teams can create and share rich, interactive reports and dashboards without depending on IT. You’ll benefit from fast, self-service access to up-to-date operational information to aid your day-to-day decision making.

Learning Objectives:

1. Complete. Ready to go with a comprehensive library of extensible, interactive business views.
2. Connected. Get direct answers to operational questions.
3. Intuitive. Present operational data in a way anyone can understand without the need for a third-party BI tool.

Educational Tracks:

#Analytics/BI 
#CloudMigration 
#CloudERP 

Presenters:

Calen Keene, insightsoftware
@Sue Maloney, insightsoftware

Struggling with Data Entry Bottlenecks in Oracle EBS and Cloud ERP?

Abstract:

Are your Oracle business users and IT staff spending valuable time with daily data entry, updates and validations? Are you struggling to manage mass changes to Master Data? Are you having a difficult time finding the best approach to handle your data standardization, cleansing and migration solutions? 

Oracle customers are tired of using multiple tools and spending so much time and effort to get business data in and out of Oracle E-Business Suite and Cloud Apps (Fusion). The typical data entry options business users are often presented with are slow and time consuming, prone to manual data entry errors, require babysitting and often require IT assistance.

In this presentation we will discuss your data entry options in Oracle E-Business Suite and Cloud Apps (Fusion), how they compare and demonstrate a better way to manage all of your data processing tasks more efficiently and accurately.

Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss your options for Oracle EBS and Cloud Apps Data Entry and the challenges they present.
2. Learn how you can save tremendous time and resources by uploading data into Oracle EBS and Cloud Apps more efficiently and accurately.

Educational Tracks:

#CloudMigration 
#E-BusinessSuite
#EBSSCM 
#EBSonOCI 
#CloudERP 

Presenter:
@Rob Lepanto, Director Customer Support and Service, API Wizard

Best Practices for Automated 3-way Matching, GL Coding and Vouchering in EBS

Abstract:
One of the biggest challenges in AP, is not just managing the sheer volume of invoices received daily but validating the line-item detail on each invoice, GL coding the information and vouchering it for payment to avoid late payments and take advantage of early pay discounts.  But the devil is in the detail on how best to accomplish the tedious task of 3-way matching – matching the line-item detail on an AP invoice against the detail on PO’s and warehouse receivers.  The magic of AP Automation solutions is to automatically perform 3-way matching without manual intervention, but how exactly do you achieve the highest rate of straight-through-processing (STP) and processing efficiency when exceptions are encountered?  This is particularly difficult when the invoices you receive are overly complicated with multiple line detail or they are missing information to do the matching/validation.  Or even worse, when the AP invoices contain special charges (like freight surcharges) that are allocated differently depending on the vendor/supplier.  

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn how a productized integration for EBS impacts your invoice processing.
2. Learn a proven methodology to handle matching challenges in Accounts Payable.
3. Understand the best practices for AP Managers and Financial Executives to gain visibility into the AP process to review efficiency metrics and forecast future cash flow.

Educational Tracks:
#E-BusinessSuite 
#EmergingTechnologies 
#JDEdwards 
#MiddlewareandIntegrationTools 

Presenters:
@Leif Peters, Intellichief, Senior Account Executive

Ascend 2023: Speaker Orientation

The Speaker Orientation will cover the expectations for presenting at Ascend 2023. We will discuss the conference app, presentation template, accessing your individual session(s) as a presenter, sharing your slides with attendees, and the format. Additionally, we will discuss the event, the room set, how to practice for your session, and how to get the most out of presenting and the conference . Please bring your questions and we will help you get ready to present!