Fresh off OOW16: What’s new in Oracle EBS Release 12.2.6?

Oracle EBS R12.2.6
By Richard Hooper
September 27, 2016

Just in time for Open World 2016, Oracle has announced the release of 12.2.6 for E-Business Suite.

Oracle continues to improve on their vastly popular R12.2 version, with 12.2.6 highlighting enhancements developed around customer feedback that are directly relevant to end users. This release comes packed with new functional features across multiple business areas, and provides better EBS information discovery. It also offers new UX enhancements for both HTML and Tablet, as well as greater operational efficiency related to seed data and file handling.

Please see below for a more detailed list of functional enhancements by process area:

  • Order Management
    • Order Management: Recurring Billing
    • Quoting: Document Approvals using Electronic Signatures
  • Logistics
    • WMS: Inbound Task Management & Interleaving
    • Invoice: Material Classification
    • Yard: Distributed Yard
  • Procurement
    • iProcurement: Spot Buy, Preferred Items
    • Contract Relationships
    • PCC: Sourcing
    • Project Procurement: Revisions
  • Projects
    • Accounting Adjustment Options
    • SOV & ARR Effort Coefficient
    • Consolidated Invoice UI
    • Grants Enhancements
  • Manufacturing
    • Process Manufacturing: Yield Management
    • Project Manufacturing: LCM Support
    • MES: Serialized Manufacturing Enhancements
  • Value Chain Planning
    • Inventory Policy Planning
    • Enhanced UIs
  • Asset Management
    • Linear Assets Enhancement WO Creation
    • Calendar Based Preventive Maintenance
    • WO Package Printing
  • Service
    • Multiple Products on SR
    • Task Status by Task Type
    • GPS Based Emergency Scheduling
    • Depot: Claims
  • Financials
    • Adv Collections: Related Accounts, Actionable Work Items
    • CHRM: Period Management, Enhancements in AutoPay
  • Human Capital Management
    • Pay: Enhanced Retropay Analysis
    • OTL: Overtime as Absence Accrual, Calendar UI

For more information on the latest release, check out the Oracle EBS Blog.

As always, we are more than happy to share our expertise and advice to customers who are already on R12.2 (a simple patch will bring you to this latest point release which is not too invasive) and customers on prior versions who are now planning their next major upgrade, re-implementation, or global rollout.

Email us at release12@itcovergence.com to talk to our experts.

 

Richard Hooper

Written by Richard Hooper

Richard Hooper is a Business Development Director at IT Convergence. He has an accomplished and progressive background in client relationship building and management, specializing in identifying business needs and providing enterprise solutions. He currently manages ITC's accounts in the North East, North Carolina, and Ohio, focusing on the manufacturing, services, and IT sectors. Contact him at rhooper@itconvergence.com.

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