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Statement Cycles Setup

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 14:54:13 -0500
From: Nupur Sanghal nusanghal@trans-tech.com
Subject: AR Statement Cycles Setup

Hi

I am doing an AR Rel 10.7 Implementation for a client which is in the newspaper industry.

The client book orders for Advertisements to be published in newspaper from customer. The order might conatin an Ad to be run in the newspaper for x number of weeks. The invoice is generated for a particular Ad run as soon as the ad has ran. Thus there would be an invoice every week for x number of weeks.

Statement is send to customer when the order expires i.e. when the ad has ran for x number of weeks.

How can I set a Statement Cycle for the Client in this scenario specifically what would be the interval for the Statement cycle I tried to set with interval of weekly but the problem is then i generate a statement every week with only one invoice per customer. what i need is that a statement be sent to customer after the order expires for x number of weeks with detail of x number of invoices

If anyone could help..
Thanx Nupur


Date: 29 Jun 99 16:41:23 -0400
From: "Edward Pitula" EPITULA@ca.oracle.com
Subject: Re: AR Statement Cycles Setup

One way I can see to do this is to set up separate statement cycle specific for each multi-week order. I.e. customer which orders ad to run 5 weeks, wld be set up with its own specific statement cycle to run at the end of week 5. When setting up the statement cycle you wld have to enter the statement date.

This looks like labour-intensive appraoch. You wld have to run a multiplicity of statement cycles -- one for each customer. Can't they run statements monthly, showing the customer activity for the prior month?

Ed Pitula, CMA MBA
Applications Practice
Oracle Consulting
Federal / Atlantic Region
Ottawa, Canada
Tel.: 613-569-0001 ext. 4258
Fax: 613-238-2818
Internet: epitula@ca.oracle.com


Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 16:22:17 -0500
From: Nupur Sanghal nusanghal@trans-tech.com
Subject: AR Statement Cycles Setup

Thanks Edward

The problem is there are over 1500 customers in the customers master to whom this type of "expiry statement" might have to be sent.

Apart from them there are another 2500 customers to whom the normal "monthly statements" are sent.
The Distinction is due to the type of customer.

EXPIRY Statement are send to Private Individual Customers MONTHLY Statement are send to Commercial Customers

i have defined the normal monthly statement cycle but am not able to work around a way to define an expiry statement cycle. Client won't accept to do that manually because of the voluminous work required.

Can this problem be solved with some kind of customization???
Nupur



Adjustments on historical invoices

Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 16:10:14 -0700
From: "Orth, Tom (torth)" torth@sequent.com
Subject: Converting AR adjustments?

Hello all,

Is there a Macro or something that can be used to apply adjustments to transactions for the purposes of a conversion project? We need to convert historical invoices and so on (i.e. closed) and we need to somehow apply the adjustments. One suggestion was to create a credit memo type for the purpose of bringing in the adjustments, but if the user's don't like this idea, I'd like perhaps the option of taking an input file, such as a spreadsheet or something, and run a macro on it to manually make the adjustments.

Thanks for your help! Tom-


Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 16:17:43 -0700
From: christopher.am.kennan@us.arthurandersen.com
Subject: Re: Converting AR adjustments?

Can you give any more information on what your process is?
What software are you using?
What stage are you in?
Is the data already in Oracle or still in data downloads?


Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 16:26:27 -0700
From: "Orth, Tom (torth)" torth@sequent.com
Subject: RE: Converting AR adjustments?

Hello Christopher,

Of course, yes, my apologies. We are converting from Rel. 10.7 to Rel 11.0.4 and simultaneously merging multiple 10.7 instances into a single 11.0.4 instance using multi-org. So, I would be pulling adjustments from the rel 10.7 ar_adjustments_all tables in order to populate the rel 11 instance (somehow...someway). I know it is unusual to be doing a full conversion for an upgrade, but that is what we must do in order to continue to be supported by Oracle.

Again, your help is greatly appreciated.
Tom-



Accounting behind Invoices

Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:18:22 -0500
From: Divya_Gupta@Dell.com
Subject: AR: Accounting behind Invoices

All,

We currently use 10.7 NCA OE, Inventory, AR, GL.

We have our Invoicing Rule set to 'In Advance' and our accounting Rules are Immediate, or 12 Months for our deferred Warranty Items. We have a problem with the accounting behind some of our invoices, where items which have an Accounting Rule of Immediate are going into our Unearned Revenue account (which is correct with Bill In Advance), but are then not releasing into our Revenue account until one month later. Subsequently, we have multiple GL dates on our accounting screen behind the invoice.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this might be happening?? There does not seem to be any consistency about when this does and does not happen.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Divya.


Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 15:20:00 GMT
From: "Sunny Sunny" sunn999@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: AR: Accounting behind Invoices

Hi,
Can u tell me as to the frequency between the dates which are being displayed in the accounting region Since the rule used is Bill in Advance u r right u will get the Unearned revenue account but if the Accounting rule is immediate u should get only one GL date.Any other inputs on this issue will be welcomed.

Regards, Sunil



Update AR Inv Sources and Receivables Activity

Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 14:25:03 -0500 (EST)
From: "Chen,Minyi [NCR]" Minyi.Chen@EC.GC.CA
Subject: Unable to update AR Invoice Sources & Receivables Activity

Hi All,

We need to deactivate some of the records in RA_BATCH_SOURCES_ALL and AR_RECEIVABLES_TRX_ALL via Define Invoice Sources Form and Define Receivables Activity Form. We are unable to update Oracle defaulted records, i.e., we cannot change the Status from Active to Inactive or enter End Date. Could somebody give me some hint and help on this issue?

Thanks in advance. Minyi


Sales Tax

Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 07:22:30 -0500 (EST)
From: Mark Cymerman MCymerman@DOMINOAMJET.com
Subject: Sales Tax

We are implementing version 11.0 and are having difficulty working through a sales tax issue. We have some customers who are exempt from tax on certain products.

To illustrate, we have three product lines: printers, spare parts and ink. Some, but not all, of our customers are exempt from paying sales tax on the ink products. Within any taxing authority we may have a customer who pays sales tax on ink and another who doesn't. Our goal is to handle this without customer service intervention at the time of order placement.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.



Multiple payment terms for a customer

Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 13:48:55 -0500
From: KBaber@micro.honeywell.com (Baber, Kim)
Subject: Payment Terms - Set Up

Hi,

Was hoping someone may have similar payment terms and can assist with this set up step? We currently have discount terms for a set of customers which allows them to have a different discount level based on form of payment., but they also have to pay invoices by the 20th of the month ( postmark must show the 20th) to earn this discount.

We believe we may have to set up these payment terms as two different payment terms. We know payment terms are associated with a profile class and this particular profile class of customers could earn either discount level depending on date and method of payment. They could pay us by one method in August and a different method in September. This is why we are not completely sure we would set these terms up on two different terms of payment.

Any suggestions would be really helpful,
Thanks,
Kim Baber
Honeywell, Micro Switch Div.


Handling NSF checks

Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 16:08:05 -0400
From: "John Langenfelder" John_Langenfelder@norstanconsult.com
Subject: AR: Handling NSF checks

I have a question about how other companies are handling NSF checks. Currently, our Oracle process would be to reverse the payment to all the invoices that the bad check paid. If it only paid 1 invoice, we would simply adjust the bad check fee onto the invoice i.e. orig invoice amount is $1000 and bad check fee is $100 thus the new balance is $1100. But if it were multiple invoices we would have to issue a debit memo on the customers account for the bad check fee. Is this the common practice? Does anyone have a better suggestion?


Setting up web Customer

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 20:44:57 PDT
From: "Basanta Kumar Dash" dashbk@hotmail.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Web Customer

Hi All,

We are setting up web Customer on Rel 11.0.2. We are using "Customer option" resposibility to create sales order through Web. After all the necessary set up we found following problem:

1. When the order is created in the system the Web Reference number displayed on the screen is 'xx' (example). But, actually the reference number is stored as 'xx.1' and the order source is "Sales & Marketing". Now , if the customer wants to query the order he/she has to query by 'xx.1' which is unknown to him/her. Is there any set up that creates this number?

Your feedback will help us in a bog way.

Thanks in advance.
Regards, Basanta.



Printing Customer statements - problems

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 13:45:43 -0600
From: slarkin@es.com
Subject: RE: Recall: GL question

Hi,

Have any of you had trouble printing AR Statements in 10.7, 16.1, GUI? When we try to print Customer statements we only get concurrent rows of repeating letters and numbers. If you have experienced this anomaly were you able to resolve it? What was the fix? Is there a patch out there that can resolve this issue that any of you are aware of?

Scott Larkin
Evans and Sutherland, IT
Oracle Help Desk
801.588.1838
slarkin@es.com
Oracle Applications Consultant
(Panurgy Corporation)