Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12: The global business release (page 1 of 2)

Organizations in the new global economy face unique challenges in managing compliance mandates, competitors, customers, employees, and suppliers. For example, more regulatory and security requirements exert additional compliance burdens; employee and customer management across geographical and cultural boundaries strains resources; and margin
pressures force companies to search for goods and services anywhere in the world, resulting in complex and dynamic supply networks. Oracle E-Business Suite 12 has been designed to support businesses in today's global economy.

Think Globally

Informed business decisions come as a result of having a single, comprehensive view of customers, suppliers, partners, and operations.
To make the right investments in the business, you must have a global view across systems and divisions. Oracle E-Business Suite 12 helps you make decisions based on complete information—even when your systems cross regions and divisions.

• End-to-end business intelligence and reporting - Oracle's market-leading business intelligence platform, comprised of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Oracle E-Business Suite, delivers pervasive, role-based intelligence across your organization. Empower users at all levels and all locations—from front-line operational users to senior management—with the key information they need to make better decisions.

• Profitability analysis and reporting - Oracle Profitability Manager helps you perform profitability analysis and reporting along any dimension of global operations, including products, channels, segments, and individual customers.

• Advanced network-visualization tools - Oracle Strategic Network Optimization helps you optimize a complex global supply chain network. You can continuously evaluate the cost and revenue implications of decisions that affect your global supply chain by using advanced analytics and geographical visualization tools to optimize the mix and location of facilities and equipment.

• Project analysis and alignment - Oracle Project Portfolio Analysis helps you select geographically or organizationally dispersed projects and align them to global business objectives. You can choose, fund, and prioritize global projects based on what-if-scenario analyses of portfolios.

Work Globally

Working in a global economy adds a new level of complexity to running a business—organizations with multiple divisions must manage processes that span different operating units or global regions. Oracle E-Business Suite 12 enables you to stay competitive by giving you the ability to operate globally while meeting local compliance requirements. For example, Release 12 offers:

• Consistent financial reporting - Oracle Financials allows for a single transaction to create multiple accounting entries based on corporate or local Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). This provides large, multinational companies with a consistent method of financial reporting that also meets local requirements.

• Expanded country support - Oracle Human Resources' expanded country support allows organizations to manage all employees within a single system, while adhering to local, in-country regulations.

• Centralized accounting functions - Oracle Financials centralizes accounting, tax, payment, and banking functions to provide greater efficiencies and control with unparalleled flexibility.