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Cognizant Solution Overview
Upgrade to R12 and Maximize Returns from
Your Investments in Oracle E-Business Suite
G l o b a l i za t i o n , c h a n g i n g d e m o g ra p h i c s,
virtualization and evolving cloud-enabled
collaboration technologies are causing
organizations across industries to redefine their
enterprise applications portfolio by leveraging the
existing infrastructure. Cognizant helps you
overcome the challenges of a changing business
environment. Today your enterprise portfolio
should help you unlock innovation that enables
greater operational efficiency and business
effectiveness. Cognizant helps you implement a
new system to drive efficiencies in your supply
chain, reduce administrative costs, meet
compliance mandates more accurately, increase
workforce productivity and take your legacy
applications to the next generation.
The Cognizant Difference: Commitment
to Innovation and Oracle Enterprise
Applications
Competency to Ensure Success
We continuously invest in building the highest
level of E-Business Suite competency to deliver
value to our clients. We accelerate requirements
gathering, design, development and
implementation of our Oracle E-Business Suite
(EBS) with our global team of Oracle application
consultants. Our areas of functional expertise
include:
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Human Resource
Management
Financial
Management
Customer
Relationship
Management
Supply Chain
Management
and Distribution
Oracle EBS R12 Upgrade Drivers
Cognizant’s Oracle EBS upgrade path ensures
that an upgrade for you is not a technology path
but alignment to your long-term and short-term
business goals. We help our customers
understand the following criteria for upgrading:
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Business criticality – Impact on business by
opting for standard R12 delivered
functionality.
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Operational complexity – Adoption to R12
delivered functionalities and impact on
operational efficiencies.
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Dependency – Impact on third-party
application, legacy and peripheral systems
by upgrading to R12.
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Redundancy – Eliminate redundancy in
process and functionalities.
Cognizant follows flexible delivery and
engagement models to ensure that we provide
what is ideal for your business scenarios,
as per the following:
Upgrade Expertise
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Access to large pool of trained EBS R12
consultants globally.
R12 Testing
As-Is Upgrade
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Pure technical upgrade by retrofitting,
minimizing impact of changes.
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Continue with legacy processes.
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Change Management
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Quicker go-live.
Ready-to-use test case repository that covers
key business processes for all industries.
Integral to the overall project plan.
Upgrade Plus
Representative Success Story
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Technical upgrade along with functional
enhancements.
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Minimized customizations based on fit-gap
analysis.
We upgraded the technology for a leading
bio-analytical measurement instruments
manufacturer to the R12 version of our Oracle
EBS.
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Focus on pre-identified functionality and key
features.
Business Need
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Upgrade of existing Oracle EBS 11.5.10.2 to
Oracle Release 12.1.3 with minimal impact on
business continuity.
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Implement the forced features of R12.
R12 - Enabled Transformation
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Identify business case for transformation.
Process harmonization and global design.
Oracle Cloud ERP coexistence model.
Cognizant's Value Proposition
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Best-in-Class Solution Framework
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BIC solution framework focuses on improving
business value through operational levers and
business metrics.
Value Creators
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Solution accelerators for faster and more
accurate upgrades, such as:
Automates the technical impact
analysis of 'z' objects.
Identifies the system and data
bottlenecks during a period close.
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Replacement of bolt-on application with Oracle
EBS (PTD replacement project).
Recommended planning upgrade from R12.1.2
to R12.1.3.4 without impacting existing business
functionality.
Modules Involved
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Application version: Oracle EBS R12.1.3.
Financials modules: GL, AP, AR, CM, FA, Project
Billing.
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Supply chain modules: PO, INV, BOM, WIP,
Quality, ENG, i-Supplier, WMS, MSCA, i-Proc,
OSFM, Supplier Scheduling.
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OM Modules: OM, Shipping Execution, Advance
Pricing, Oracle Quotes.
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Planning Modules: ASCP (VCP), GOP, IO, ATP.
GRC Modules: PCG, AACG.
Other features: SLA, e-Tax, AGIS.
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Cognizant Solution
! Pre-upgrade and post-upgrade steps
performed to reduce errors and deployment
time.
Cognizant provided the following services:
! Upgrade from 11i to R12.
! Automated, developed and used automation
! Workshops, CEMLI retrofit, functional analysis.
scripts to validate the migrations.
! R12 setups and profile options validations.
Benefits
! Identified new development components as an
! Enabled business decisions for upgrading
outcome of analysis phase and impact on
boundary applications.
sub-ledger accounting periods to minimize
upgrade downtime, drill down impact and
transactional capabilities.
! Readiness of test plans for scenario testing.
! Unit testing and SIT for retrofitted and newly
developed CEMLIs.
! Close listing and follow up on pre-upgrade and
post-upgrade tasks to ensure no data loss after
upgrade.
! Data cleansing requirements were identified
(e.g. items data, suppliers data, new Item
statuses, etc.) during the test cycles and data
updates/cleansing were done during last test
cycles and UAT.
! Demonstrated and recommended R12 upgrade
considerations and an effective disposition
plan for key areas such as :
! Sub-ledger accounting.
! Enabled benefits under SLA, MOAC, TCA,
Payments Workbench, AGIS.
! EBTax engine enabled to replace Sabrix in the
P2P process.
! Facilitating SOX compliance with GRC rules and
features on upgraded R12 environment.
! Recommended playbooks for defect prevention
and mitigation in all tracks to reduce the
cutover period.
! Validated ramp-up, ramp-down and cutover
activities to reduce upgrade downtime.
! Proposed the “smart retrofit” approach to R12
for the data feed to BI applications.
! Multiple test cycles (TC1, TC2 and TC3) were
performed to minimize the risk of failures.
Focused on key scenarios, key integrations and
setups.
! Revenue recognition and COGS.
! E-Business tax.
! Payment and bank model.
! This helped reduce production cutover/
blackout window (time) from 4 days to 48
hours.
! TCA impact.
! MOAC.
! Utilized
! Customer refunds.
Cupid
for
CEMLI
and
impact
analysis.
! Ledger sets.
! Migration tools like ClearCase and Kintana used
! AGIS using sub-ledger option.
! Recommended optimization parameters to
to automate migration process and eliminate
manual errors.
! Migration trackers also used.
reduce performance impact on:
! Financial reporting.
! Readiness of test plans for scenario testing.
! Period close activities.
! Migration time monitored and identified
! Training conducted using train-the-trainer
dependencies to reduce overall migration time.
approach.
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solution overview
About Oracle Solutions Practice
Cognizant's Oracle Solutions Practice (OSP) offers
a wide range of services and solutions covering
the entire Oracle enterprise applications and
technology products. OSP leverages domain
experience together with technology expertise in
Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Oracle Cloud
Applications, Fusion Middleware, EXA, Oracle
Database, Oracle Financial Applications, OBIEE,
EDGE Applications and other Oracle domains
solutions to help add significant value to clients.
leveraging our strong pool of Oracle consultants,
business experts and technical architects spread
across the globe. Our investment in Oracle Cloud
ERP proves our philosophy of investing ahead of
the curve. Our strong partnership with Oracle
helped us to execute the largest footprint
engagement as part of the Early Adopter
Program (EAP). Cognizant is involved in multiple
EAP engagements across all Oracle Cloud ERP
efforts.
Our proven methodologies and innovative
solution frameworks serve as a robust foundation
for our wide range of service offerings, including
global implementations, rollout upgrades and
application value management. We have
successfully executed projects across industries
A strong partnership with Oracle powered by our
innovation labs and our proprietary solution
accelerators enables clients to extract more
business value from their investment in
Oracle.
For more information on Cognizant's Oracle solutions, contact us: [email protected]
About Cognizant
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business
process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger
businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant combines a passion for client
satisfaction, technology innovation, deep industry and business process expertise, and a global,
collaborative workforce that embodies the future of work. With over 75 development and delivery centers
worldwide and approximately 178,600 employees as of March 31, 2014, Cognizant is a member of the
NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 2000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top
performing and fastest growing companies in the world. Visit us online at www.cognizant.com or follow us
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