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Disable an Org with balance and re-enable

Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 12:11:13 -0700
From: "Annie Tang"annie_tang@halw.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Disable an Org with balances

Can we disable an Org which still have balance sheet and P&L balances and re-enable it at a later date?

Annie


Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 14:33:51 +1000
From: "Renzella, Vivien" RenzellaV@DNB.com
To: "'oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca'" oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: Disable an Org with balances

Annie,

Part of our flexfield combination contains an org unit, or what we call a cost centre. I assume this is what you are referring to. I went into our development system and inactivated an org unit for which there was a balance outstanding. There did not seem to be any problem doing this - it saved the record without a problem and created a concurrent request. Then I tried to enter a journal against this org unit and I got an error message telling me the org unit had been disabled and I was therefore unable to enter journals against this org.

Hope this helps.

Vivien Renzella
Ph: 61 3 9828 3280
Fax: 61 3 9828 3505
Renzellv@dnb.com mailto:Renzellv@dnb.com


Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 14:48:27 -0700
From: "Annie Tang"annie_tang@halw.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Re[2]: Disable an Org with balances

Vivien

Thanks for the information. However, When I say Org, I meant, Company, not cost center. Will that make a difference? Can I enable the Company again at a later time?

Thanks
Annie


Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 16:20:03 +1000
From: "Renzella, Vivien" RenzellaV@DNB.com
To: "'oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca'" oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: Re[2]: Disable an Org with balances

Hi Annie,

In our general ledger our flexfield is made up of several components, one of which is a company code. I went into Setup under Oracle General Ledger and accessed the values within the COMPANY flexfield. I then disabled one of those values. When I exited from this screen a concurrent request was submitted. I then tried to enter a journal and I got an error message telling me the code had been disabled. I then went back into setup and re-enabled the company code value by clicking on the enabled button. Again, a concurrent request was submitted when I exited this screen. . I then tried to enter a journal and I got the same error message telling me the code had been disabled which I found was very odd. I exited the Oracle application, then signed on again and was able to successfully enter and post a journal to the company I had previously disabled.

If you have a test environment I would strongly recommend you do what I did - it does seem to allow you to disable and re-enable various segments within the flexfield combination.

Good luck!
Vivien Renzella
Ph: 61 3 9828 3280
Fax: 61 3 9828 3505
Renzellv@dnb.com mailto:Renzellv@dnb.com



Transfers between Operating Units

Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 18:55:38 EDT
From: "Dave MacQueen" djmacqueen@hotmail.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Transfers between Operating units

Hi, we currently have 2 sobs and 2 operating units and need to transfer product between them. Is this possible? I can not put the 2 Operating unit's inventory org on an internal requistion. Can anyone help with this?

Thanks in advance,
Dave MacQueen


Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 09:24:40 +0530
From: "bharat bhaaradwaj" bharatbh@wipsys.soft.net
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Re: Transfers between Operating units

Hi Dave,

You have mentioned that you cannot put the 2 Operating unit's inventory Organisation on an Internal Requisition, so you need to treat both separately meaning one as a selling unit and the other as a receiving unit.

When you need to do a transfer make it as though it is a sale for the OU which is transferring the Product and make it as a purchase for the transferee OU. One big question that you need to answer will be the Transfer Price.

Hope this helps
Regards
Bharat


Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 10:43:28 -0400
From: kewishls@mindspring.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Cc: Multiple recipients of list oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Re: Re: Transfers between Operating units

To add to this, are you on 10.7? The internal req/internal sales order function only works within an operating unit if you are!!!

The intercompany functionality of shipping goods to a customer from an inventory in another operating unit does all the background intercompany financil transactions but doesn't actually move the inventory to the other organization, in this 10.7 release.

R11 has drop ship functionality where by you can purchase direct from a vendor and ship to the customer, I'm not sure if it has a cross-docking function where the goods can be moved to the other inventory organization in the other operating unit for consolidation of a shipment before final shipment to the customer, though!

Hope this helps
Louise Kewish
Senior Principal - Manufacturing and Distribution Apps
TSC
Dallas, TX



MultiOrg in AP and Inventory

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 17:45:36 +0500
From: fariha afreen fafreen@ora-tech.com
Subject: Multi-Organisation in AP & Inv

Hi all,

We are on release 11,implementing GL, PO,AP ,Inv & FA.

There are 4 set of books in GL each of which will have separate subledgers except Fixed assets. Now i have defined 4 operating units to attach them to 4 separate Payables responsibilities.For inventory,since average costing will be used & there are around 40-50 locations each having a separate inventory control account, we have decided to create various inventory organisations for each of the inventory control account.All 4 set of books are attached to different inventory organisations.

To avoid confusion, we have not classified the operating units as inventory organisations.They are only classified as GRE/Legal Entity & operating Unit & attched to the different payables resposibilities.. All inventory organisations are classified as GRE/Legal Entity,Operating Unit & inventory organisation.

The multi-org architecture was enabled before defining all of these organisations.(this is a demo data base which already has this feature enabled )

My questions are:
1. Are we on the right track in defining organisations for AP & Inv???
2. Should we run the ADADMIN utility again ????


Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 10:35:30 -0400
From: kewishls@mindspring.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Cc: Multiple recipients of list oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Re: Multi-Organisation in AP & Inv

I'm not sure that you should have defined your inventory orgs as Legal Entities and Operating units.

This would give a structure of many operating units, and it sounds as though you want your inventory orgs attached to one of the 4 payables operating units. By making the inventory orgs as separate operating units, you'd have to define a purchasing/payables for each of them.

You can define your inventory orgs as that only and then attach as amany as you want to the defined operating units, without them being defined as their own operating unit.

Louise Kewish
Senior Principal - Manufacturing and Distribution Apps
TSC
Dallas, TX



Purchasing and Multiorg - mixed queries

Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 16:17:17 -0700
From: James Downey jdowney@pwccanada.com
Subject: Question

We have a government client (multi ministry) on release 11 that is going to re-implement their application from multiple sets of books to either single set of books / single organization or single set of books / multiple organizations.

Can you help with the following? They would like to use multi-org, but are unsure of the answers to the following:

1. Blanket Purchase Agreement:
The purchasing group would establish a Blanket Purchase Agreement with a supplier. Can a Blanket Agreement be set up for access/draw down by each organization?

Is it easy to get a cross-organization status of the Blanket Agreement?

2. Web Requisitions:
Can central catalogues be shared and drawn down upon by all Organizations?

Can purchasing be combined across organizations?

Can approvals/workflows be routed across multi-orgs (e.g. from one org. to another org)?

3. Web Supplier Inquiries
How would suppliers get cross-organization information through web services for their invoices/payments under multi-org (without the need for multiple user IDs

4. Purchasing Analysis
How would we get cross-organization purchasing data for analysis, e.g. leveraging purchases, volume discounts, supplier performance, etc.?

5. Business Process Improvements/Best Practices:
How to implement/facilitate best practices for purchases under multi-org

Help on any of the following would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely Yours
James Downey
PricewaterhouseCoopers


Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 06:51:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Belkis Karakas belkisk@yahoo.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Re: Question

Hi James,

Purchasing is restricted at the Operating Unit (OU) level. If the organizatoins that you are talking about are Inventory organizations, yes you can share purchasing across multiple inventory orgs within one OU. If you have multiple OUs, then only the inv orgs that are defined within each OU can share the PUR information.

Therefore, within one OU, you can create POs (blanket, standard, etc) and setup approval hierarchies, and workflows that will be shared across the OU and in all the inv orgs assigned to that OU. But all these will be restricted within that specific OU and will not be shared by other OUs. So the ability to share your purchasing info depends totally on the structure of the org.

I suggest you take a look at the Multi-Org white papers at oracle's metalinks and the Multi-org manual.

I may tell you more about this if you send the multi-org structure.

Hope this helps,
Belkis Karakas



ADADMIN exited with error

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 15:42:49 -0400
From: "du Feu, Richard" RDufeu@exocom.com
To: "'Multiple recipients of list'" oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: MO: Multi-Org Problem

Hi All,

I am trying to run the multi-Org utility (ADADMIN). It has failed at some point in its running of job:

plus80 -s APPS/APPS @H:\APPLR11\ad\11.0.28\admin\sql\adorgcnv.pls 'CONVERT' 'JE_ES_MESSAGES_ALL' '1000'

Error:
Program exited with status 3

Cause: The program terminated, returning status code 3.

Action: Check your installation manual for the meaning of this code on this operating system.declare
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-20000: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
Cursor SQL statement:
SELECT ROWID FROM JE_ES_MESSAGES_ALL WHERE ORG_ID IS NULL
--
SQL statement:
UPDATE JE_ES_MESSAGES_ALL SET ORG_ID = 21 WHERE ROWID = :cursor_row
ORA-06512: at line 289.

Where does it create the list of jobs from? I found a text files that was generated with all the jobs that have to be done. I want to bypass this table as it does not exist. Can I do this, to all the multi-Org worker to continue?

I would appreciate any help that you can provide
Richard


Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 15:37:33 -0700
From: Sanjay Saini kingjai@yahoo.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: [Fwd: Re: MO: Multi-Org Problem]

Richard,

IF AND ONLY IF you are not using 'JE' then you can edit this file and go ahead.

$AD_TOP/admin/sql/admorgb.pls You should find a line like

add_list('JE_ES_MESSAGES_ALL' , 'JE_ES_MESSAGES', 'SQLAP' ,'N');

You can comment this line out. I will say check if the table exists and if there are any records in it. To me it looks like this table doesn't exist in the database.

Of course this is NOT supported by Oracle :)

Let me know if you any more details.
- Sanjay



Item Master Inventory Orgs - multiple

From: rams balasub [mailto:rames_b_99@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 1999 3:16 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Multi Org setup

Dear all,

Can we have multiple Item Master Inventory organisation for multiple operating units/inventory organisation. Oracle recommends that to create only one item master organisation, but did not say we cannot have multiple item masters.

On contrary Oracle demo application - Vision Corporation has 2 Item master Organisation for a single inventory setup(Responsibilities) Viz.. Vision Operations, Vision Project Manufacturing. If they strongly recommend one Item master inventory organisation why they have 2 in their demo, can someone kindly explain ?

Is it compulsory to have single item master organisation for a single set of books?

Can we have each inventory organisation be a master of its own ?

thanks
B.Ramesh


Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 10:09:31 -0400
From: Scott Neville ScottNeville@namfg.com
To: "'oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca'" oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: Multi Org setup

Each inventory organization *can* be it's own Item Master that is completely independent of any other organization. You can have 1 Item Master that is used by 3 inventory orgs and another that is used by 2 different inventory orgs. You can have a single Item Master for all inventory orgs. Oracle is very flexible. You have to weigh the advantages and disadvantages against what you want to accomplish. Item Masters provide visibility of Items across organizations. They also make it easier to maintain Items that are common to seperate inventory orgs.

Scott



Change in Organization Structure

Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 10:15:13 -0500 (EST)
From: liza@instructor.net
To: OraApps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Change in Org. Structure

We are in 11.02, one SOB with multiple entities. We are live on all financial applications and Project Accounting (PA).

We are soon implementing a change in our Organizational structure - has anyone ever done any change in Organization structure after going live for some time?

The change involves adding legal entity, getting rid of an old entity, moving a business unit into another legal entity that therefore affects where projects reside.

If you can point me to the right direction as to what we need to do (at least in PA), what to watch out for, what the issues that you were faced with. Also is there any documentation that can guide us when doing this change in structure.

Thank you for the help.


Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 21:12:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Krishnakumar Narasihman chnkrishna@yahoo.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Re: Reply Change in Org. Structure

hi,

Though we have not done anything of that sort, but i would suggest you to close the organizations and move the value to new organization that points to either the same or new operating units. however, i really want you to exercise caution bec in one of my implementations, i had accpted changes in inventory organization structure(though there was no change in operating units) and it really played havoc and esp some of the modules gave illogical errors and to overcome we had to struggle a lot. when we tested the same structure in a new instance, things worked fine. Therefore plan it very well and do it only on a backup test instance. all the best.

nkk