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SOS on operating Units

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 10:04:28 -800
From: "qq"
Message-ID: <36f291ac.103.0@flashmail.com>

Please let me know if multiple operating unit can share an inventory org (warehouse/stocking location).

Also let me know about possible problems with having many operating units under one set of books (like each inventory organization can be defined as an operating unit also).

Thanks in advance. Sushi


INV:Multi org

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 13:35:48 EDT
From: "Venkatraman Gopalakrishnan"
Message-ID: <199903191335.AA14287436@oracleassist.com>

Hi all 1. In a multi org setup can I attach one Inventory Organization to multiple operating units. I understand that conceptually this is what multi-org is ? But we are unable to do so in the system. Any help. thanks venkat


Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 14:56:54 EST
From: Dkasper1@aol.com
Message-ID: <59fcff1a.36f2ac06@aol.com>

Why would you want to attach one inventory organizations to multiple organiazations. This is not what multi-org is intending to accomplish. Please explain why you are doing this. It sounds like the two operating units are really one operating unit. Thanks, David



ORG_ID

From: DINESH CHANDRA [SMTP:dchandra@usa.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 5:15 PM
Subject: Field ORG_ID Hi Gurus, How is field ORG_ID in all the _ALL tables is populated under Multi Org S= etup?
Thanks Dinesh Chandra


Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 01:18:50 -0500
From: "Agiwal, Yogesh"
Subject: RE: Field ORG_ID

Through profile option "MO : Operating Unit "
Yogesh Agiwal, CPIM Oracle Applications Consultant yogesh_agiwal@unforgettable.com



Setup

Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:50:27 +0800
From: "2200 Hsieh, Patrick" patrickh@ctxopto.com.tw
Subject: Multi-org set up

Many literature stated that the following profile options should be appropriately set at the responsibility level for each responsibility in a Multi-org environment. Like many other sites, we have more than 80 responsibilities (and keep growing). It is a tremendous work to set every of them.

Is there any short cut? For example, with General Ledger responsibility just set "GL: Set of books" profile and ignore the others.

HR: Business Group
GL: Set of Books
MO: Operating Units
OE: Set of Books
OE: Item Validation Org
INV: Intercompany Currency Conversion
AR: Receipt Batch Source
AR: Transaction Batch Source
TAX: Allow Override of Tax code
TAX: Invoice Freight as Revenue
TAX: Inventory Item for Freight
We are on 10.7SC16.1
Thanks, Patrick


Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 11:40:14 +0530
From: amareesh amareesha@sohm.soft.net
Subject: RE: Multi-org set up

Hi Patrick, You cannot avoid this route. The MO profile option determines which organization your responsibility is attached to & where the transactions should go to. The MO & GL profile options are a must in your Multi-Org set up.

Hope it helps. Srini & Amareesh


Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 07:45:30 -0600
From: JVales@darc.com
Subject: RE: Multi-org set up

Profile options can be set at higher levels than the responsibility (Site or Application) and then ONLY when a responsibility has a requirement to be set different than the default do you have to apply a value to the responsibility. Choose the Site and Application profile options to be the ones that apply to the most of your responsibilities.

Judy


Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:58:02 -0500
From: Steve Bradley sbradley@sprynet.com
Subject: RE: Multi-org set up

Additional comments:
You only need to set the GL Set of Books profile option for the GL responsibilities, not for AP, AR, etc. The other modules get the SOB from the financials setup within the Org.

You do not need to set the MO: Operating Unit in the GL responsibilities since it has no affect.

The HR: Business Group only needs to be assigned to the Inventory responsibilities used for the Define Organization and Organization Relationships. It is not needed for the end user responsibilities.

Respectfully, Steve Bradley, CPA OASIS Consulting Group, Inc. Office 404-352-8387 Fax 404-609-9856 Pager 888-912-2569


Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 16:18:00 -0000
From: "Thornton, Steve (UK01)" Steve.Thornton@UK.Honeywell.com
Subject: RE: Multi-org set up

You do need to setup the MO:Operating Unit within GL if you intend to use the 'Zoom' functionality, to drill back into the sub-ledgers.
Regards



GL shifting to MultiOrg

From: DIPANKAR BASU [mailto:dipankar_99@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, March 26, 1999 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: GL - Shifting to Multiorg

Hi all, We are currently on three different production instances, two on Oracle Apps and the third non-Oracle. We are now planning for a fourth Consolidation instance in which we will consolidate the three Sets of Books through Oracle MultiOrg.

Each of the instance have different Chart of Accounts and Functional Currency.

Can anyone help? Any suggestion is welcome. Any references to on-line information regarding the above topic available to the net is welcome too.
Thanks in advance Dipankar


Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 17:38:27 -0500 (EST)
From: gangadhar andru gangaa@yahoo.com
Subject: RE: GL - Shifting to Multiorg

Hi Deepankar, There are a couple of approaches that you can consider depending upon the requirement that the organization has. However, you need to have a custom program that picks up the data from the gl Balances table at source DB and inserts into the GL Interface of Destination DB.

1. You can have an identical source set of books on the Destination DB and transfer the gl balances into it. Perform the standard consolidation process from there.

2. Have an identical paernt set of books on the Source DB and perform the consolidation process there. Use the custom code to transfer the gl balances from the Source (Parent) DB to GL Interface of Destination (Parent) DB. Import the journals into Parent Set of Books and run reports.

There can be other approaches depending on the need.
Best wishes Gangadhar


--- "Logan, Ernie" Ernie_Logan@bmc.com wrote:
Dipankar: Multi-Org has nothing to do with GL. GL is multi set of books, not multi-org. Neither will do anything for you if you are truly running multiple DB instances, or multiple installs in the same instance. In either of those cases, you will need to write custom code to do your consolidations.



Timestamp for Multi-Org

From: Ismert, Michael K. [SMTP:mismert@ecs-its.com]
Sent: 07 April 1999 18:47
Subject: Timestamp for Multi-Org

Does anyone know if R11 supports a local timestamp for multi-org setup when only one instance of the database is being used? i.e.: Production is setup in LA with a org in Belgium. Is there a way to get Belgium's transactions to generate a local (Belgium)timestamp instead of the PST timestamp?

Michael K. Ismert Oracle Applications Consultant ECS Integrated Technology Solutions (503) 226-2558 (503) 202-5233 (Pager) mismert@ecs-its.com http://www.ecs-its.com


Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 08:33:56 +0100
From: Graham Duggan gjduggan@mail.com
Subject: RE: Timestamp for Multi-Org

I did a fair amount of research into this on my current site which covered France to West Coast US.

The end result was there is no supported method with Oracle applications to do this at this time. The functionality is rumored to be either

* in release 12
* with a change to the rdbms to give the time entered a context relating to time zone thereby allowing all times to be stored in one timezone and translated to the users local time zone (ultimate!)

Most sites who run across multiple time zones either use multiple instances or run in GMT worldwide.

Graham.



Access issues

Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 13:27:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Monica Tat monica_tat@yahoo.com
Subject: Multi-org

Hi,
in the multi-org set-up, we have one set of books with 3 operating units. Will users of one operating unit be seeing the purchase orders and sale orders of the other operating units? If yes, is there any way we can stop that. All operating units have more or less same items.

Your help is appreciated. Monica.


Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 13:41:51 PDT
From: "Ananth Swaminath" ananth999@hotmail.com
Subject: Reply: Multi-org

Hi Monica
Tie a responsibility to the Operating Unit. And link users to the responsibilty when you define them. You could take this further by restricting access to certain Inv. Orgs by responsibility too (in the ORg. Access form).

Hope this helped. In case you do have any further queries I'll be glad to pitch in.

Ananth Senior Functional Consultant Financials/Supply Chain


Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 16:14:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: siddhartha nandi sid_nandi@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Reply: Multi-org

Monica,
Ananth is right. Access security for OE and Purchasing is at the Operating unit level. Regarding items, Oracle recommends to have one item master org for all the inventory orgs. So create responsibility at Operating unit level and that should do the job for you.

Good luck!!! Sid.



No. of SOBs

Ahmed Abd El Sattar asattar@oratech-eg.com on 27-04-99 03:05:01 PM

cc: (bcc: Sudhir Kumar/Erp/DFI)
Subject: MO: Do we need Multiple set of Books

Dear All,
Do we need to define a set of books per Operating unit in Multi-org, or can all operating units share the same SOB (with different balancing segment per operating unit).

Appreciate your earliest feedback.
Thanks, Ahmed.


Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:45:06 +0530
From: skkumar@dfuture.com
Subject: Re: MO: Do we need Multiple set of Books

Yes you have to define seprate SOB in feeder modules for diffrent Operating Units .


Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:55:26 +0530
From: Appanaboyina_Kishore Appanaboyina_Kishore@hts.satyam.com
Subject: RE: Do we need Multiple set of Books

Hi,
Can have the same SOB for many operating units. But you may have to explore on the business needs and accounting needs to decide on whether you need the same SOB or a different SOB for a operating unit.

Kishore


Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 13:11:37 +0100
From: Peter Wolyniec pwolyniec@edenconsulting.co.uk
Subject: RE: Do we need Multiple set of Books

Ahmed,
You do not need to define an SOB per Operating Unit as long as you have no issues with using the same Calendar, Currency and Chart of Accounts across your organisations. Assuming this situation, you can have one SOB (and Legal Entity) with multiple Operating Units underneath it using one product installation. You information is secured by Operating Unit and accessible to only those with priveleges for that OU.

For centralised processing across Legal Companies, tax reporting by each Legal Company can be maintained seperately for GL reports and 1099 purposes by using Balancing Segments on your CoA.

Hope this helps, Peter Wolyniec Eden Consulting


Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 10:18:55 PDT
From: "Ananth Swaminath" ananth999@hotmail.com
Subject: Reply: Do we need Multiple set of Books

Hi Ahmed
The primary reason for having multiple sets of books arises from your legal financials reporting needs which usually occur since you may be operating in different currency zones. Yes the main issue is your need to have atleast one of the 3C's different from the others.

What occurs is this:

- The Legal Entity reports on the financial state of affairs of the business.
- The transactions which cause these financial implications on which the LEgal Entity reports occurs at the Operating Unit level
- What the Operating Unit transacts in (sells, purchases, manufactures etc.,) are determined by the inventory organisation which is attached to the Operating Unit.

It therefore becomes imperative that the Inv. Org and the Optg. Unit speak the same language and hence they MUST share a common Set of Books. Briefly this is the issue involved.

In case you need any clarifications on the matter, do get in touch.

Ananth Senior Functional Consultant Financials/Supply Chain



OE Item Master Validation

Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 17:58:16 -0400
From: "Tom D'Amico-273" TDAMICO@amtrol.com
cc: (bcc: Funda Bekar/Darica/Tr/Cement/Lafarge)
Subject: Multi-org setup - OE Item Master Validation

When I try to setup the Profile Option 'OE Item Master Validation' for a new Operating Unit and Responsibility, it seems that it can only be set at the site level. Is this a constraint of Oracle? Can I have only one 'OE Item Master Validation' organization for the enterprise??

I expected to be able to setup a second Item Master Validation organization for the second Operating Unit.

Tom D'Amico


From: Kimberly Bell [mailto:KMilios@specgrp.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 6:08 PM
Subject: RE: Multi-org setup - OE Item Master Validation

Tom,
There is a way via the System Admin responsibility that you can change that profile option to be updateable a lower level; however, I am not sure how it is done. I do believe there has been information on this subject before, so trying searching the archives of this list server. You should have detailed instructions there.

Hope this information is useful to you! Kim Bell


Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 18:18:56 -0400
From: "Tom D'Amico-273" TDAMICO@amtrol.com
Subject: RE: Multi-org setup - OE Item Master Validation

Thanks. I'll keep looking. I've been using the System Admin responsibility but can't get the Profile Option to accept a value at the Responsibility level. I'll try the archives.

Thanks again. Tom D.


Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 08:11:24 +0300
From: Funda.Bekar@Lafarge-Turkey.lafarge.com
Subject: Re: Multi-org setup - OE Item Master Validation

hi,
the application level of profile options can be changed by standard "Application Devoloper" responsibility. on the menu of AD responsibility, you'll navigate to "Profiles", and call for "OE: Item Validation Organization" profile option. hope this helps.


Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 09:15:17 -0400
From: "Tom D'Amico-273" TDAMICO@amtrol.com
Subject: RE: Multi-org setup - OE Item Master Validation

Thanks. Archives helped. I used the 'Application Developer Responsibility' to set the Profile Option to updateable at the Responsibility level. Tom D.


Retrieving multi org info

From: sredrova@es.com [mailto:sredrova@es.com]
Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 10:17 AM
Subject: FND: retrieving multi org info

Hi,

We are upgrading to R11 and turning on multi org for future use. Some of our custom processes are build as follow: concurent program calling a shell script Shell script call a sqlplus session and call procedures.

we are running into some problems with wiews using the CLIENT_INFO variable, they run fine within the apps but not in the sqlplus session. I was wondering what was the best way to retieve the variables of the apps environment so that they can be set in the sqlplus session where the procedures are called from.

I hope this is clear....

Thanks for any help you could provide me.

Stephanie Redrovan
Information Technologies
Evans & Sutherland Inc. (http://www.es.com)
sredrova@es.com =B7 801.588.1825


Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 15:05:51 -0700
From: "Walker, Cary" Cary.Walker@fluke.com
Cc: "'sredrova@es.com'" sredrova@es.com
Subject: RE: retrieving multi org info

use the dbms_application_info package to set client_info in sql*plus. use the following:

begin
dbms_application_info.set_client_info('xxx');
end;

where xxx is the org_id of the operation unit you want to see. then run your select statement or procedure.

Regards,
Cary Walker


Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:15:13 +0100
From: "Grist, Fergal" Fergal.Grist@ncp.co.uk
Subject: RE: retrieving multi org info

Hi Stephanie

What you need to do is pass down the current ORG_ID to the shell script, then pass it into your SQL script and finally perform the "exec dbms_application_info.set_client_info($ORG_ID)" command.

To pass the org_id down to the shell script, create a parameter against your concurrent program with the following characteristics:

DEFAULT TYPE: profile
DEFAULT VALUE: ORG_ID

Let me know if you require any further help.

Regards
Fergal Grist.


Validate Seed Data Replication

Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:29:07 +0100
From: peter.van_zaalen@nllum.mail.abb.com
Subject: Validate Seed Data Replication

We run apps rel 11.02/03 in Multi-org.

After creation of a new Operating Unit we run the Replicate Seed Data request and it ends succesful.

1. This request should run automatically after creation of the OU but it does not. Anybody knows why?

2. On some Operating Units not all seed data is there, we get No data found errors in some setup screens.

Does any of you have a script that validates presence of seed data on Operating Units?

Peter van Zaalen/ABB


Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 09:44:20 -0500
From: "Hendrix, Deborah A." HendrixDA@bvsg.com
Subject: RE: Validate Seed Data Replication

To my knowledge it has never automatically run after the creation of an operating unit, even though the documentation has stated that it does since 10.7.

Debbie Hendrix
BV Solutions Group, A Black & Veatch Company
913-458-8519
hendrixda@bvsg.com


Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:45:51 PDT
From: dave parker watsui@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: Validate Seed Data Replication

I don't have a script that validates, but there is a Sys Admin standard report entitled "Multi-Org Setup Validation Report" that might be of some (maybe, limited) help.