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1. Disclaimer 1
2. Introduction 2
2.1. Purpose of Document 2
3. New and Changed Features in Asset Lifecycle Management 3
3.1. Oracle Asset Tracking 3
3.1.1. Overview 3
3.1.2. Release 12.1.1 3
3.1.2.1. Multiple Asset Book Support 3
3.1.2.2. Graphical Display of Network Relationships 3
3.1.2.3. Google Maps Integration (Display Assets on a Map) 3
3.1.3. Release 12.1.2 4
3.1.3.1. ATG User Interface Enhancements 4
3.1.4. Release 12.1.3 5
3.1.4.1. ESRI Integration 5
3.1.5. Release 12.1.3+ 6
3.1.5.1. IPV Process Enhancements 6
3.1.6. Release 12.2 6
3.1.6.1. Capitalization on Sales Order Shipment 6
3.1.7. Release 12.2.5 7
3.1.7.1. Asset Retirement tieback from Fixed Assets to Asset Tracking 7
3.1.7.2. Self-Assessed Tax interface to Oracle Projects 7
3.2. Oracle Enterprise Asset Management 7
3.2.1. Overview 7
3.2.2. Release 12.1.1 7
3.2.2.1. Asset Move Workbench 7
3.2.2.2. Miscellaneous Usability Enhancements 8
3.2.2.3. Express Work 8
3.2.2.4. Make Item Cross Reference Search Capability 9
3.2.2.5. Specify Source Supply Subinventory for eAM Work Orders 9
3.2.2.6. Microsoft Project Integration with Work Order Scheduling 9
3.2.2.7. Graphical Display of Network Relationships 10
3.2.2.8. Google Maps Integration (Display Assets on a Map) 10
3.2.2.9. Work Request Attachments 10
3.2.2.10. Construction Units 11
3.2.3. Release 12.1.2 11
3.2.3.1. Primavera Integration 11
3.2.3.2. ATG User Interface Enhancements 11
3.2.3.3. Supply Chain Web Services 12
3.2.4. Release 12.1.3 13
3.2.4.1. Encumbrance Accounting for Purchase Orders with Shop Floor Destination 13
3.2.4.2. ESRI Integration 14
3.2.4.3. Work Permits 15
3.2.5. Release 12.1.3+ 15
3.2.5.1. Change Asset Number on Work Order 15
3.2.5.2. Delete Unused Allocation and Material Requirement at Material Return 15
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3.2.5.3. Component Pick Release Concurrent Program for Work Order Material Allocation 15
3.2.5.4. Default Actual Completion Date on Work Order: 16
3.2.5.5. Avoid Work Order Sequence Numbers Jumping Caused by Budget Forecast Run 16
3.2.5.6. Usability Enhancements in PM Schedule Definition and Search 16
3.2.5.7. Maintenance Work Order Detail Report with Summary Information 16
3.2.5.8. (MOS ID: 1502710.1 / Patch: 14634346:R12.EAM.B)Enhancement to Mass Complete Functionality in
Maintenance Workbench 17
3.2.5.9. ERES Support for Debrief work order 17
3.2.5.10. Ability to copy material lines of work order 17
3.2.5.11. Primavera 8.2 Certification 18
3.2.5.12. Provide WO Hyperlink in WO Details Relationships Tab 18
3.2.5.13. Provide Work Request Hyperlink in WO Details Requests Tab 18
3.2.5.14. Enable Work Request Details Access From Approval Notification 18
3.2.5.15. Validate Open PO Requirements During WO Update to Complete-No-Charge Status 18
3.2.5.16. Provide On-hand and Available Quantity Details in One-step Material Issue 18
3.2.5.17. Support for Multiple UOMs for One Step Material Issue to WOs 19
3.2.5.18. OTL-EAM Integration for Time Entries in Closed Accounting Period 19
3.2.5.19. Provide Asset Search Features to Self-Service Work Request User 19
3.2.5.20. Contingent Worker Support 19
3.2.5.21. Asset Hierarchy Page Improvement for Asset Node Selection 19
(Patch 17429343: R12.EAM.B) 19
3.2.5.22. Allow Duplicate Activities in Construction Estimate Creation 19
3.2.5.23. View Cost Estimate and Descriptive Flex Field in Construction Estimate Search Results 20
3.2.5.24. Work Order Operations and Material Descriptive Flex Field Support in Construction Estimate 20
3.2.5.25. Choosing Work Order Department in Construction Estimate 20
3.2.5.26. Maintain Order of Activities in Construction Estimate 20
3.2.5.27. Add Resources and Items to Existing Operations in Construction Estimate 20
3.2.6. Release 12.2 22
3.2.6.1. Work Clearances 22
3.2.6.2. PM Work Order Prefix 22
3.2.6.3. New Planner Field and Work Order Defaults 22
3.2.7. Release 12.2.4 22
3.2.7.1. Linear Asset Management 22
3.2.7.2. Asset Route and Costing Enhancements 23
3.2.7.3. User Experience 24
3.2.8. Release 12.2.5 24
3.2.8.1. Linear Asset Management Functional Enhancements 24
3.2.8.2. Map Workbench Enhancements for Improved Search & Usability 24
3.2.8.3. Express Work Order Support for Linear Assets Maintenance 24
3.2.8.4. API and Business Events support for GIS and EAM integration 25
3.2.8.5. User Experience: Asset Definition 25
3.2.9. Terminology 25
3.3. Oracle Installed Base 27
3.3.1. Overview 27
3.3.2. Release 12.2.4 28
3.3.2.1. Option to track only Customer-owned products using Oracle Installed Base 28
3.3.3. Release 12.2.5 28
3.3.3.1. Customer Install Base Enhancements 28
3.3.3.2. Install Base Transaction processing enhancements 28
3.3.3.3. Serial Tagging at Sales Order Pick support 28
3.4. Oracle Enterprise Asset Management Extensions for Oracle Endeca 29
3.4.1. Overview 29
3.4.2. Release 12.1.3.4. 29
3.4.2.1. Work Orders Area 29
3.4.2.2. Work Requests Area 29
3.4.2.3. Assets Area 29
3.4.2.4. Material Area 29
3.4.3. Release 12.1.3.5. 30
3.4.4. Release V6 30
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3.5. Oracle Installed Base Extensions for Oracle Endeca 30
3.5.1. Overview 30
3.5.2. Release 12.1.3.4. 30
3.5.2.1. Search by Extended Product Attributes 30
3.5.2.2. Execute Related Products Search 30
3.5.2.3. Improved Drill-down to Product Configuration 30
3.5.2.4. Identify Installed Base by Geography 31
3.5.2.5. Track Customer Product Metrics 31
3.5.3. Release 12.1.3.5. 31
3.6. Oracle Mobile Maintenance for Oracle E-Business Suite 31
3.6.1. Overview 31
3.6.2. V 1.1.0 31
3.6.2.1. Mobile Foundation Updates 31
3.6.2.2. Accessibility Improvements 31
3.6.3. V. 1.2.0 32
3.6.3.1. Android Support 32
3.6.3.2. Mobile Foundation Release 3.0 Updates 32
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1. Disclaimer
This Release Content Document (RCD) describes product features that are proposed for
the specified releases of the Oracle E-Business Suite. This document describes new or
changed functionality only. Existing functionality from prior releases is not described. It
is intended solely to help you assess the business benefits of upgrading to the specified
release of the Oracle E-Business Suite.
This document in any form, software or printed matter, contains proprietary information
that is the exclusive property of Oracle. Your access to and use of this confidential
material is subject to the terms and conditions of your Oracle Software License and
Service Agreement, which has been executed and with which you agree to comply. This
document and information contained herein may not be disclosed, copied, reproduced or
distributed to anyone outside Oracle without prior written consent of Oracle. This
document is not part of your license agreement nor can it be incorporated into any
contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates.
This document is for informational purposes only and is intended solely to assist you in
planning for the implementation and upgrade of the product features described. It is not a
commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon
in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or
functionality described in this document remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.
Due to the nature of the product architecture, it may not be possible to safely include all
features described in this document without risking significant destabilization of the code.
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2. Introduction
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3. New and Changed Features in Asset Lifecycle
Management
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Instance Location and Geocodes will be displayed in a pop up. Also, hyperlinks will be
provided for performing the following actions:
1. View instance details page
2. View Graphical Asset hierarchy.
From the Asset Tracking responsibility, when the user selects any Enterprise Asset
Management instance icon on the map viewer, details such as Instance Number,
Description, Item, Instance Location and Geocodes will be displayed in a pop up. Also,
hyperlinks will be provided for performing the following actions:
1. View instance details page
2. View open Work Requests
3. View open Work Orders
4. View Graphical Asset hierarchy
The ability to find and view Assets on a map is a key requirement for numerous Asset
Tracking and Enterprise Asset Management customers especially those in the Utilities
and Public Sector verticals. The prime advantage of the 3rd party mapping tool like
Google Maps is that users are familiar with the tool and it comes out with reasonable
amount of out-of-box features like map-based services that will help the users service
assets more efficiently.
Besides this out-of-the-box integration with Google Maps, customers will also have the
ability through customization to display assets on any web based map viewer which is
based on HTML technology (for example, Oracle Spatial MapViewer).
3.1.3. Release 12.1.2
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within the window, and to navigate through the results using Next/Previous links in
the LOV window result table, thereby saving a number of clicks and server-side
requests, and significantly enhancing end-user productivity.
4) Inline Attachments: ability to enter, view or delete text-type Attachments inline
Attachments have been enhanced to allow inline addition and viewing. The two
icons associated with the Attachments UI the plus icon and the paper-clip icon
will now have mouse-over events defined. On hover-over, an inline window shall
appear for rapid attachment entry or viewing of already added attachments. For this
release, this feature will support only text-mode attachments to be edited and added
inline.
These UI enhancements should be transparent to the Oracle Asset Tracking application,
therefore, eliminating or lowering uptake and upgrade costs.
The profiles for the ATG User Enhancements will be by default disabled. Customers
who would like to uptake these features can enable these features as required. The
profiles are as follows:
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Instance Number, Item Description, Item Address, and Geocodes displayed in a pop up.
Also, hyperlinks will be provided for performing the following actions:
1. View Instance details page
2. View Open Work requests (for eAM Assets)
3. View Open Work Orders (for eAM Assets)
4. View Graphical Asset hierarchy
This project has provided the framework by which users can easily build integration with
other 3rd party GIS systems and map viewers. There is a white-paper available that will
guide users interested in integrating with 3rd party map viewers.
The ability to find and view assets on a map enabling users to service assets more
efficiently is a key requirement for numerous OAT and eAM customers especially those
in the Utilities and Public Sector verticals.
3.1.5. Release 12.1.3+
During the asset procurement and capitalization process to FA through Oracle Asset
Tracking, the asset acquisition cost can have various components of Tax and Tax
Variances.
With this enhancement feature, the Asset tracking module has provided support for all
such components of asset procurement cost, while passing on the cost to capitalization
process.
The following tax related components from Invoicing have been included in the asset
cost:
- Non-Recoverable Tax
- Tax Rate Variance
- Tax Invoice Price Variance
- Tax Exchange Rate Variance
- Self-assessed tax
This feature supports the capitalization process initiated from a Sales Order for shipment
of products. The process flow is applicable for Normal Items or Capitalize on Issue
(COI) Items- for example, for equipment leases or the rental business. It includes out of
the box support for Operating Lease business flows through standard process of Fixed
Asset creation and capitalization from Asset Tracking.
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3.1.7. Release 12.2.5
This new feature enables asset retirements initiated from Fixed Assets to be tied back to
Asset Tracking and updates the Fixed Asset linkage with the OAT instance. This provides
more options for asset retirement actions like Mass Retirement from Fixed Assets and
seamless data synch-up between Fixed Assets and Oracle Asset Tracking (OAT).
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Prior to this release, the support for this process was cumbersome especially when an
asset had a complex asset hierarchy. The asset hierarchy was not respected so a user had
to perform a separate transaction for each associated child, otherwise the child asset(s)
was orphaned in the source organization. This feature will be limited to support Inter-
Org Asset Move and Sub-Inventory Asset Move with or without the child assets.
Many customers need to move assets from one organization (often a different location) to
another organization for different reasons including to replace a failed asset or to
borrow an asset for a particular job or project. This is most common in industries such as
fleet operations, asset rental environments or where organizations share assets. This
feature will enhance the transactability of assets by minimizing the dependency on the
Inventory user interface to carry out asset transfer transactions.
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Work Order and also (2) report labor, charge time, issue stocked items and complete the
work all from a single page.
While the aim of a Maintenance Department is to minimize reactive and emergency
work, in the real world, maintenance crews are often called upon to perform emergency
work that is due immediately. In such cases, no plan or definition of the work exists. The
crew completes the work first and only later do they report the work. Some of the most
transaction intensive process flows within the maintenance world are performing material
and labor transactions against a work order and completing the work order. Prior to this
release, users had to navigate to different pages to charge time or material and to
complete a work order.
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amount of out-of-box features like reports, printable format, etc that will help the
Maintenance Scheduler perform their work efficiently.
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Attachments with Work Requests. Work Requests tend to initiate the reporting of
problems and failures in a maintenance environment. As such, it is helpful to be able to
attach a photo, document, or reference a manual with that Work Request in order to better
communicate the problem.
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the usability and end-user productivity of the OA Framework-based applications
including Oracle eAM. Those features applicable to Oracle eAM include:
1) Configurable Home Page: providing a new look for the E-Business Suite Home Page
with space optimization
The Home Page has been redesigned using the Configurable Pages feature of the OA
Framework. This allows the Home Page to have a very flexible layout and
configurable content. The Applications Navigator and the Worklist regions have
been modified to have more optimal usage of screen space.
2) Slide Out Menus for Navigator and Favorites: slide-out Home and Favorite
components for easy cross-application navigation
The Home and Favorites menus are now accessible as pull-down, slide-out menu
gadgets in the global header area of every OA Framework page. This allows end-
users to rapidly choose Favorites of navigate across applications from any OA
Framework page.
3) Look Ahead List of Values (LOV): type-ahead Search capabilities in the List of
Values (LOV) fields
The LOV component has been enhanced to allow type-ahead search capabilities. As
end-users type in characters into the LOV search field, the results shall be fetched
and displayed in line to the LOV component in real-time. For the majority of users,
this will eliminate the need to launch the LOV modal window, to perform a search
within the window, and to navigate through the results using Next/Previous links in
the LOV window result table, thereby saving a number of clicks and server-side
requests, and significantly enhancing end-user productivity.
4) Inline Attachments: ability to enter, view or delete text-type Attachments inline
Attachments have been enhanced to allow inline addition and viewing. The two
icons associated with the Attachments UI the plus icon and the paper-clip icon
will now have mouse-over events defined. On hover-over, an inline window shall
appear for rapid attachment entry or viewing of already added attachments. For this
release, this feature will support only text-mode attachments to be edited and added
inline.
These UI enhancements should be transparent to the Oracle eAM application, therefore,
eliminating or lowering uptake and upgrade costs.
The profiles for the ATG User Enhancements will be by default disabled. Customers
who would like to uptake these features can enable these features as required. The
profiles are as follows:
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Repository Browser Interface under respective product family node. By Clicking on the
Business Entity in Integration repository, you can view full description, list of web
services for that business entity along with the description of the web service, whereas
description of parameters can be seen from the xsd definition of the service available via
the generated wsdl.
1) Work Order: Create Work Order, Query Work Order, Update Work Order, Add
Components, Add Operations, Add Resources
2) Asset Activity Association: Create Asset Activity Association, Query Asset Activity
Association, Update Asset Activity Association
3) Asset Number: Create Asset Number, Query Asset Number, Update Asset Number
4) Purchase Order: Cancel Purchase Order, Create Purchase Order, Delete Purchase
Order, Approve Purchase Order, Query Purchase Order
and Update Purchase Order
6) Bills of Materials : Create Bills of Material, Delete Bills of Material, Query Bills of
Material, Update Bills of Material, Copy Bills of Material
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All public sector organizations, such as municipal, state, provincial and federal
government organizations are required to encumber or reserve funds that have been
committed to a supply purchase order. Therefore, prior to approval of any purchasing
document, the available funds must be checked and reserved against the available budget
for the specified account code combination. This enhancement is key for budgetary
control in such environments.
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3.2.4.3. Work Permits
This release introduces a new entity: Permits. Permits are used to authorize the
maintenance work, which warrant safety precautions to safeguard people, equipment and
environment from various hazards. Permits can be created in a standalone mode and then
associated with work orders or created from the work order screens to initiate a permit
request flow. Permits are then approved based on the user configurable approval
hierarchy.
This feature allows users to define custom permit types like Hot Work, Confined Space
Entry, etc. and define workflows based on permit types, organization, etc. Users can print
the permits along with work orders to generate a complete work package.
Permits are often a statutory requirements related to safety in work place which are
hazardous in nature and are mandated by the regulatory authorities. As such, there are
often significant fines imposed when permits are not properly used in such environments.
This feature will help users reduce the administrative lead time required to create and
manage this aspect of safety management.
3.2.5. Release 12.1.3+
3.2.5.3. Component Pick Release Concurrent Program for Work Order Material
Allocation
This customer-driven enhancement provides the ability to perform material allocation for a
group of Work Orders with open material requirements, using the new concurrent program
'EAM Work orders Component Pick Release'. The concurrent request will select material
requirements from work orders that meet the following criteria:
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Work orders lines have Auto Request Material set to Yes (Excludes the
Auto Request Material No lines)
This customer-driven enhancement provides new sequence number logic for Budget
forecasting results (EAM_BFWO_JOB_NUMBER_S). The new sequence with the
prefix set to 'BFWO' (abbreviated for 'Budget Forecast Work Order') will be used for the
work order numbers that are generated as a result of forecast run. As per this change,
the regular work orders will not share the WIP sequence numbers with budget forecast
results. This will ensure continuous sequence of regular work order numbers, even while
using the budget forecasting feature. Prior to this change, the Work Order generated by
the Budget Forecasting feature, and the regular work orders (manual and PM Work
Orders) used the same WIP sequence for Work Order numbering. This resulted in what
appears as jumping of a large quantity of sequence numbers for regular work orders.
(MOS ID: 1485525.1 / Patch: 14323372:R12.EAM.B)
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3.2.5.8. (MOS ID: 1502710.1 / Patch: 14634346:R12.EAM.B)Enhancement to Mass
Complete Functionality in Maintenance Workbench
This customer-driven enhancement provides a provision to complete Work Orders with
Scheduled Dates in the future with a Completion Date equal to the System Date through
the Mass Complete option from the Maintenance Workbench. A new profile option,
EAM: Mass Complete work orders at system date has been introduced to set the
preferred dates for Work Orders. The profile will have the following 4 values available:
1. No: this will be the default value of the profile. The Mass Complete process will
operate as it did prior to the introduction of this enhancement.
2. Yes - for future date work orders: During the Mass Complete process, the WO
dates will be defaulted to System Date only for WOs with Scheduled Dates in the
future.
3. Yes for past date work orders: During the Mass Complete process, the WO
dates will be defaulted to System Date only for WOs with Scheduled Dates in the
past.
4. Yes for all work orders: During the Mass Complete process, the WO dates will
be defaulted to System Date for all WOs (with both past and future dates).
All the details such as Operation, Item Type, Line Type, Item Code, Quantity and
Date Required are copied from the original line to the new line.
Flex-field values are also copied to the new line.
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Material details in the show/hide region like Auto Request Material flag, Sub-
inventory, Locator and Comments are also copied to the new line.
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(MOS ID: 1579575.1 / Patch 16094026:R12.EAM.B)
3.2.5.17. Support for Multiple UOMs for One Step Material Issue to WOs
This customer driven enhancement provides support for multiple unit of measures
(UOM) for One-Step Material Issue to Work Orders process. The UOM field is an
editable field and the user can now issue parts in any unit of measure. Prior to and after
the material transaction, the quantities are shown in the primary UOM. This is also
applicable to the Work Order Debrief page.
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the flexibility of using the same CE as a template but tweaking aspects of it such
as Difficulty Code to address specific requirements of the project. The system
will automatically generate the operation sequence numbers.
(Patch 18748355:R12.EAM.B)
3.2.5.23. View Cost Estimate and Descriptive Flex Field in Construction Estimate
Search Results
This customer driven enhancement added a new column Cost Estimate in the
Construction Estimate (CE) search result and added CE Descriptive Flex Field
(DFF) columns in the View Object of the search result page. Users can
personalize to add their relevant DFF columns to the page. When comparing
various CEs, viewing the Cost Estimate is key. Viewing the additional CE DFFs
is also important as different customers want to be able to track and compare
different attributes associated with the CE.
(Patch 18748355:R12.EAM.B)
3.2.5.24. Work Order Operations and Material Descriptive Flex Field Support in
Construction Estimate
This customer driven enhancement added a Descriptive Flex Field (DFF) icon to
the Work Order Operations on the Construction Estimate (CE) page, provided the
ability to create/update/view operations/materials DFF on the CE page, and
allows the Maintenance BOM/Maintenance Routing DFF to be copied to the CE.
By improving the creation of the CE, these changes improve the usability of the
CE capability.
(Patch 18748355:R12.EAM.B)
(Patch 18748355:R12.EAM.B)
(Patch 18748355:R12.EAM.B)
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When adding new resource/material, the system will default the operation
description, department, etc. which is consistent with the behavior on the Work
Order screen. Both the ease of use and consistency with other pages, help with
overall usability.
(Patch 18748355:R12.EAM.B)
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3.2.6. Release 12.2
Oracle eAMs support for Safety continues to be enhanced with the introduction of Work
Clearances. Work Clearances provide a control document to help ensure the shutdown
and start up of isolated equipment. Work Clearances are designed for use by both
operations and maintenance. A Work Clearance can be initiated by operations or
maintenance and then associated with one or many work orders or work permits. For
additional control, users can apply an user defined approval cycle to the work clearance
using AME. Work clearances can be associated with an individual piece of equipment or
an area. Users can easily create new clearances or copy an existing clearance. There are
also configurable reports for Safety Management.
As with many safety related features that enforce regulations, it is difficult to measure the
value of preventing an injury or saving a life. But features such as Work Clearances help
save the users administrative lead time required to create and manage this aspect of safety
management.
This release enhances Oracle eAMs support for Linear Asset Management to address
requirements in industries such as Oil & Gas (pipelines), Utilities (transmission and
distribution lines), and Public Sector (roadways, rails). Significant changes have been
made in Asset Definition, Work Definition / Execution, and Spatial Integration to support
linear assets maintenance. Although these changes were made with linear assets in mind,
many of the new features may be applied to discrete assets, as well.
When creating a linear asset in eAM, a user can attach a Linear Reference Method,
optionally define a Linear Asset Segment, and map the asset / segment to the GIS route or
geometry. Linear asset attributes from GIS domain such as Properties and Elements can be
defined and associated to the assets so that they can be used as reference details while
planning and executing maintenance work on them.
Using user-defined Relationships, linear assets can be related to other linear assets and
discrete assets. Relationships can be used for modeling asset networks and for tracking the
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asset configuration changes. Asset cost roll-up has been enhanced to provide the visibility
of all related assets for a chosen relationship type such as network.
A new page, Linear Asset Workbench, has been provided to allow users to set up and
view the linear assets with all these new entities such as Linear Reference Method,
Segments, Elements, Properties and Relationships.
A map workbench has been provided for visualization of linear assets and work orders on
map. Following are some of the map actions that will help users for locating assets and
work orders on map and initiate actions on them:
During Work Order creation and execution for linear assets, the user will be able to
capture linear measure values in self-service and from dynamic asset segmentation done in
the map workbench. Support has also been provided for multiple asset work orders by
enhancing the asset route feature. Work Order completion has been enhanced to support
capturing of actual span of work carried out on linear assets.
For GIS Integration for linear assets, this release supports ESRI and Oracle Spatial
systems. This enables multiple GIS integration options including:
ESRI
Google Maps / elocation with Oracle Spatial
Custom GIS with Oracle Spatial
Rest API and Business Events are provided that can be leveraged by customers for GIS
and EAM systems data integration.
Asset route definition has been enhanced with the following features:
Flexibility in Asset Cost distribution for asset route
Sequence Numbering of member assets
Setup controls for asset route update at work order level
With the objective of supporting multiple asset work orders the following
enhancements have been added to asset route work order:
Ability to create dynamic Work Order Route
Flexibility in Asset Cost distribution at work order level
Enhanced Quality Results capture for Route Assets
Following are the Costing enhancements that have been carried out:
Update Work Order Asset Number after WO Release / Transactions
Asset Cost drill-down to include Route Work Orders
Asset Cost Roll-up based on Relationships
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3.2.7.3. User Experience
As part of our continued efforts to improve the user experience in Oracle eAM, two
types of enhancements are being addressed in this release: (1) non-intrusive changes to
the pages to insure consistency in labels and column position and (2) making specific
Forms based functions available in Oracle Applications Framework (OAF).
On the Work Order pages, naming/spelling updates to field labels and columns were
implemented. Label changes were made to Operations and Materials tabs/regions for
consistency. On applicable pages, Employee was relabeled Person to reflect the
introduction of Contingent Worker made in an earlier release.
The Generate PM Work Orders concurrent function will be available as a sub-tab off
the Work Orders tab in OAF. A new Reports tab is now available from the
Maintenance Super User responsibility enabling the submission of all eAM Reports
including the Material Issue Pick List Report from OAF.
Linear Asset Management functionality has been further enhanced in Release 12.2.5
to support the lifecycle tracking of asset segments and to allow flexibility in data
mapping for the Electrical Utility industry.
The Map Workbench has been improved with additional search options and better
navigation flow while using it seamlessly for maintenance visualization and actions.
Following are the enhancements to the Map Workbench:
The Linear Details capture has been enabled for express work orders. This allows
users to make use of express work order functionality for any unplanned and after-
the-fact work that is carried out while maintaining linear assets.
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3.2.8.4. API and Business Events support for GIS and EAM integration
The following APIs and Business events have been supported for the system
integration between EAM and GIS systems:
REST APIs for GIS to EAM integration
Create Asset
Manage Asset Status
Manage Linear Attributes (Property, Element, Relationship)
Business Events for EAM to GIS integration
Asset Status Update
Linear Attribute Changes
Work Order Linear Details changes
Work Order Status update
A new pop up has been provided to allow the Maintenance Super User to define Capital
Assets, Rebuildable Assets and Asset Routes. Linear Assets can also be identified in this
creation process.
As with Forms based Asset Definition, templates associated with the selected Asset
Group can automate the assignment of maintenance Activities, Meters and Preventive
Maintenance Schedules.
Asset members on the Asset Route can be defined from the Manage Asset Route
function, delivered in R12.2.4.
Once an Asset, Rebuildable or Asset Route is defined, edits can be performed using the
respective Forms based functions.
3.2.9. Terminology
Term Definition
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Term Definition
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Term Definition
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Oracle Installed Base uses Counters to help track usage of a product or track equipment
operational details like run hours which can be used for various purposes like Billing or
Maintenance planning.
Oracle Installed Base is a foundation product for Oracle Asset Tracking and Enterprise Asset
Management.
3.3.2.1. Option to track only Customer-owned products using Oracle Installed Base
Even though Install base tracks all transactions performed on an IB tracked item, for
some organizations it is suffice to track only customer owned item instances. To support
such customer requirement, an additional option has been provided for Install Base
tracking in this release. With this option, such customers can avoid the present default
behavior that tracks both enterprise and customer instances.
These business users can leverage this new option in Install Parameters to track "Only
Customer Owned Instances" and still be able to perform after-sales transactions such as
RMA, Field Service Return on the IB instances.
By enabling this Option the IB Tracking restricts itself from creating any internal instances
and the lifecycle of the IB tracked item starts only on Order Fulfillment to external customer.
Note: Since eAM and Asset Tracking products track internally owned assets for asset
lifecycle tracking, this new option should not be adopted by customers who are using these
products.
The customer Install Base functionality which lets organizations to track only
customer/party related transactions on products - was introduced in Release 12.2.4.
Extending that option as a setup at the Item level is added as part of Release 12.2.5. With
this enhancement, you would be able to specify the preference for Install Base tracking at
the master item level. This provides more flexibility to use this feature based on an
individual items tracking needs.
Install Base Transaction processing mechanism is moved away from the Service
Fulfillment Manager (SFM) queue to Install base interface based processing.
Inventory serial tagging functionality is being extended to the Sales Order Pick
transaction in Release 12.2.5. This is applicable for non-Serial controlled Items and
Serial control at Sales Order Shipment items. Install base changes have been incorporated
to support this feature for IB tracked items as well.
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3.4. Oracle Enterprise Asset Management Extensions for Oracle Endeca
3.4.1. Overview
By delivering targeted, user-centric experiences in a scalable way, Oracle Enterprise Asset
Management (eAM) Extensions for Oracle Endeca is a game changer. With the Endecas
Guided Navigation, Google Like Search, Tag Clouds, Range Filters, Metrics and more, Oracle
Enterprise Asset Management Extensions for Oracle Endeca lifts the user experience to a new
level. It turns raw data into accessible, usable information for discovery information that is
the basis for action. This data can be unstructured (as in Descriptive Flex Fields) and/or span
multiple eAM Organizations. Oracle eAM Extensions for Oracle Endeca also have native
application support for mobile tablets. Whether sitting at a desk or turning a wrench, access to
Oracle eAM is only a touch away.
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3.4.3. Release 12.1.3.5.
With this new release of Endeca, users will be able to search user-definable, Descriptive
Flex-Fields (DFFs). Many customers use DFFs to capture information specific to their
environment or industry that Oracle eAM does not support out-of-the-box. (This will not
support Asset Attributes.)
3.4.4. Release V6
Work Order attributes have been enhanced to include: Material Shortage, Material Shortage
as of Date and Active Warranty. Additionally, a new column set, Warranty, has been added,
displaying all Warranty related attributes in the Work Order Results Table.
Asset attributes have been enhanced to include: Operations Log and Check In Status.
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3.5.2.4. Identify Installed Base by Geography
Endeca extension for Installed Base lets users to view and lookup the customer products
that are located in a particular geography like Country/State etc., This broadened search
feature allows users to get a consolidated view of product profiles in a geographic region
and utilize that information in after-sale activities like service planning, delivery and
deployment.
View and complete assigned work, including issuing material and charging time
View and search work orders and assets
Complete operations and work orders
View asset summary including work history, failures, meter readings, and
location
Record asset meter readings
Create simple work orders and work requests
Oracle Mobile Maintenance for Oracle E-Business Suite is compatible with Oracle E-
Business Suite 12.1.3 and 12.2.3 and above. To use this app, you must be a licensed user
of Oracle Enterprise Asset Management, with mobile services configured on the server
side by your administrator.
3.6.2. V 1.1.0
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Voice over improvements.
3.6.3. V. 1.2.0
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