AR:

1. What is TCA? Tables?

A) Trading Community Architecture. It is a centralized repository of business entities such as

Partners, Customers, and Organizations etc. It is a new framework developed in Oracle 11i.

HZ_PARTIES: The HZ_PARTIES table stores basic information about parties that can be shared
with any relationship that the party might establish with another party. Although a record in the
HZ_PARTIES table represents a unique party, multiple parties can have the same name. The
parties can be one of four types:
Organization for example, Oracle Corporation
Person for example, Jane Doe
Group for example, World Wide Web Consortium
Relationship for example, Jane Doe at Oracle Corporation.

HZ_LOCATIONS: The HZ_LOCATIONS table stores information about a delivery or postal

address such as building number, street address, postal code, and directions to a location. This
table provides physical location information about parties (organizations and people) and
customer accounts.

HZ_PARTY_SITES: The HZ_PARTY_SITES table links a party (see HZ_PARTIES) and a

location (see HZ_LOCATIONS) and stores location-specific party information. One party can
optionally have one or more party sites. One location can optionally be used by one or more
parties. This party site can then be used for multiple customer accounts within the same party.
HZ_CUST_ACCT_SITES_ALL

HZ_CUST_SITE_USES_ALL

HZ_CUST_CONTACT_POINTS etc.

2. What are Base Tables or Interface Tables for Customer Conversions, Autolockbox, Auto
Invoice?

A) Customer Conversion:

Interface Tables : RA_CUSTOMERS_INTERFACE_ALL,

RA_CUSTOMER_PROFILES_INT_ALL,

RA_CONTACT_PHONES_INT_ALL,

RA_CUSTOMER_BANKS_INT_ALL,

RA_CUST_PAY_METHOD_INT_ALL

Base Tables : RA_CUSTOMERS, RA_ADDRESSES, RA_SITE_USES_ALL,

RA_CUSTOMER_PROFILES_ALL, RA_PHONES etc

B) Auto Invoice:

Interface Tables : RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL, RA_INTERFACE_DISTRIBUTIONS_ALL

 RA_INTERFACE_SALESCREDITS_ALL,
RA_INTERFACE_ERRORS_ALL

Base Tables : RA_CUSTOMER_TRX_ALL, RA_CUSTOMER_TRX_LINES_ALL,

RA_CUST_TRX_LINE_GL_DIST_ALL,
RA_CUST_TRX_LINE_SALESREPS_ALL,
RA_CUST_TRX_TYPES_ALL

C) AutoLockBox:

Interface Tables : AR_PAYMENTS_INTERFACE_ALL (POPULATED BY IMPORT PROCESS)

Interim tables : AR_INTERIM_CASH_RECEIPTS_ALL (All Populated by Submit Validation)

: AR_INTERIM_CASH_RCPT_LINES_ALL,

AR_INTERIM_POSTING

Base Tables : AR_CASH_RECEIPTS_ALL, AR_RECEIVABLE_APPLICATIONS_ALL,

AR_PAYMENT_SCHEDULES_ALL ( All Populated by post quick cash)

3. What are the tables in which Invoices/transactions information is stored?

A) RA_CUSTOMER_TRX_ALL, The RA_CUSTOMER_TRX_ALL table stores invoice, debit

memo, commitment, bills receivable, and credit memo header information. Each row in this table
includes general invoice information such as customer, transaction type, and printing instructions.

RA_CUSTOMER_TRX_LINES_ALL, The RA_CUSTOMER_TRX_LINES_ALL table stores

information about invoice, debit memo, credit memo, bills receivable, and commitment lines
(LINE, FREIGHT and TAX).

RA_CUST_TRX_LINE_SALESREPS_ALL, The RA_CUST_TRX_LINE_SALESREPS_ALL table

stores sales credit assignments for invoice lines. If Receivables bases your invoice distributions
on sales credits, a mapping exists between the sales credit assignments in this table with the
RA_CUST_TRX_LINE_GL_DIST_ALL table.

The RA_CUST_TRX_LINE_GL_DIST_ALL table stores the accounting records for revenue,

unearned revenue, and unbilled receivables for each invoice or credit memo line. Oracle
Receivables creates one row for each accounting distribution, and at least one accounting
distribution must exist for each invoice or credit memo line. Each row in this table includes the
General Ledger account and the amount of the accounting entry.

The RA_CUST_TRX_LINE_SALESREPS_ALL table stores sales credit assignments for invoice

lines. If Receivables bases your invoice distributions on sales credits, a mapping exists between
the sales credit assignments in this table with the RA_CUST_TRX_LINE_GL_DIST_ALL table.
4. What are the tables In which Receipt information is stored?

A)

AR_PAYMENT_SCHEDULES_ALL, The AR_PAYMENT_SCHEDULES_ALL table stores all

transactions except adjustments and miscellaneous cash receipts. Oracle Receivables updates
this table when activity occurs against an invoice, debit memo, chargeback, credit memo, on-
account credit, or receipt.
Transaction classes determine if a transaction relates to either the RA_CUSTOMER_TRX_ALL
table or the AR_CASH_RECEIPTS_ALL table. Using the CUSTOMER_TRX_ID foreign key
column, the AR_PAYMENT_SCHEDULES_ALL table joins to the RA_CUSTOMER_TRX_ALL
table for non-payment transaction entries, such as the creation of credit memos, debit memos,
invoices, chargebacks, or deposits. Using the CASH_RECEIPT_ID foreign key column, the
AR_PAYMENT_SCHEDULES_ALL table joins to the AR_CASH_RECEIPTS_ALL table for
invoice-related payment transactions.

AR_CASH_RECEIPTS_ALL, The AR_CASH_RECEIPTS_ALL table stores one record for each

receipt that you enter. Oracle Receivables concurrently creates records in the
AR_CASH_RECEIPT_HISTORY_ALL, AR_PAYMENT_SCHEDULES_ALL, and
AR_RECEIVABLE_APPLICATIONS_ALL tables for invoice-related receipts. For receipts that are
not related to invoices, such as miscellaneous receipts, Receivables creates records in the
AR_MISC_CASH_DISTRIBUTIONS_ALL table instead of the
AR_RECEIVABLE_APPLICATIONS_ALL table.

AR_RECEIVABLE_APPLICATIONS_ALL, The AR_CASH_RECEIPTS_ALL table stores one

record for each receipt that you enter. Oracle Receivables concurrently creates records in the
AR_CASH_RECEIPT_HISTORY_ALL, AR_PAYMENT_SCHEDULES_ALL, and
AR_RECEIVABLE_APPLICATIONS_ALL tables for invoice-related receipts. For receipts that are
not related to invoices, such as miscellaneous receipts, Receivables creates records in the
AR_MISC_CASH_DISTRIBUTIONS_ALL table instead of the
AR_RECEIVABLE_APPLICATIONS_ALL table. Cash receipts proceed through the confirmation,
remittance, and clearance steps. Each step creates rows in the AR_CASH_RECEIPT_HISTORY
table.
5. What are the tables in which Accounts information is stored?

RA_CUST_TRX_LINE_GL_DIST_ALL

6. What are the different statuses for Receipts?

A) Unidentified – Lack of Customer Information

Unapplied – Lack of Transaction/Invoice specific information (Ex- Invoice Number)

Applied – When all the required information is provided.

On-Account, Non-Sufficient Funds, Stop Payment, and Reversed receipt.

7. What Customization that you have done for Autolockbox?

8. What is Autolockbox?

A) Auto lockbox is a service that commercial banks offer corporate customers to enable them to
out source their account receivable payment processing. Auto lockbox can also be used to
transfer receivables from previous accounting systems into current receivables. It eliminates
manual data entry by automatically processing receipts that are sent directly to banks. It involves
three steps
 • Import (Formats data from bank file and populates the Interface Table),

• Validation(Validates the data and then Populates data into Interim Tables),

• Post Quick Cash(Applies Receipts and updates Balances in BaseTables).

9. What is Transmission Format?

A) Transmission Format specifies how data in the lockbox bank file should be organized such that
it can be successfully imported into receivables interface tables. Example, Default, Convert,
Cross Currency, Zengen are some of the standard formats provided by oracle.

10. What is Auto Invoice?

A) Autoinvoice is a tool used to import and validate transaction data from other financial systems
and create invoices, debit-memos, credit memos, and on account credits in Oracle receivables.
Using Custom Feeder programs transaction data is imported into the autoinvoice interface tables.

Autoinvoice interface program then selects data from interface tables and creates transactions in
receivables (Populates receivable base tables) . Transactions with invalid information are rejected
by receivables and are stored in RA_INTERFACE_ERRORS_ALL interface table.

11. What are the Mandatory Interface Tables in Auto Invoice?

RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL, RA_INTERFACE_DISTRIBUTIONS_ALL

RA_INTERFACE_SALESCREDITS_ALL.

12. What are the Set up required for Custom Conversion, Autolockbox and Auto Invoice?

A) Autoinvoice program Needs AutoAccounting to be defined prior to its execution.

13. What is AutoAccounting?

A) By defining AutoAccounting we specify how the receivables should determine the general
ledger accounts for transactions manually entered or imported using Autoinvoice. Receivables
automatically creates default accounts(Accounting Flex field values) for revenue, tax, freight,
financial charge, unbilled receivable, and unearned revenue accounts using the AutoAccounting
information.

14. What are Autocash rules?

A) Autocash rules are used to determine how to apply the receipts to the customers outstanding
debit items. Autocash Rule Sets are used to determine the sequence of Autocash rules that Post
Quickcash uses to update the customers account balances.

15. What are Grouping Rules? (Used by Autoinvoice)

A) Grouping rules specify the attributes that must be identical for lines to appear on the same
transaction. After the grouping rules are defined autoinvoice uses them to group revenues and
credit transactions into invoices debit memos, and credit memos.

16. What are Line Ordering Rules? (Used by Autoinvoice)

A) Line ordering rules are used to order transaction lines when grouping the transactions into
invoices, debit memos and credit memos by autoinvoice program. For instance if transactions are
being imported from oracle order management , and an invoice line ordering rule for sales_order
_line is created then the invoice lists the lines in the same order of lines in sales order.

17. In which table you can see the amount due of a customer?

A) AR_PAYMENT_SCHEDULES_ALL

18. How do you tie Credit Memo to the Invoice?

At table level, In RA_CUSTOMER_TRX_ALL, If you entered a credit memo, the

PREVIOUS_CUSTOMER_TRX_ID column stores the customer transaction ID of the invoice that
you credited. In the case of on-account credits, which are not related to any invoice when the
credits are created, the PREVIOUS_CUSTOMER_TRX_ID column is null.

19. What are the available Key Flex Fields in Oracle Receivables?
A) Sales Tax Location Flex field, It’s used for sales tax calculations.
Territory Flex field is used for capturing address information.

20. What are Transaction types? Types of Transactions in AR?

A) Transaction types are used to define accounting for different transactions such as Debit
Memo, Credit Memo, On-Account Credits, Charge Backs, Commitments and invoices.

21. What is AutoAssociating?

22. What are the issues you faced in AutoInvoice and Autolockbox?

1. HOW CAN We define bY Product in Discrete mfg

Answer
1. By Product can be defined as item in the item master and the same is assiged to the
respective BOM with negative quantity.
and we do negative component issue of that material from WIP

Q2. what are reference designators and how they are used practically .Please site few
examples.
1. Refernc designators are attached to BOM components when more than one peice of
same components is used. This can be used for referncing the multiple use of that
component in the BOM
2. Reference designators are sequenced comments and instructions that pertain to a
component.
Example : We can have eng drawings that clarify the assembly process for certain
components or further instructions for the use of a large quantity of the same
component.
You can also specify whether to assign one reference designator for every usage of the
component or assign any number of the reference designator to the componentts.

Q3. If i want to map a organization structure, where i hv 1 operating unit that is looking
after only purchasing and payables activities, whereas another operating unit is looking
after OM as well as receivables. I hv one more warehouse or say plant, where i am
manufacturing & despatching the goods. Wiil it be solved by setting up purchasing at one
OU and OM at another OU. Do I need to perform any additional setups? Please Suggest.
Ans: I could not get the reason for having diff OU for Purchasing and OM seperately.
Anyway if this what is required, then this can be created as seperate OUs e.g A
for PO,AP and B for OM,AR respectively. Also MFG & dispatching warehouse can be
setup as inventory organization in B OU (OM,AR) and internal sales order setup
has to be done between OU A and OU B to transfer the raw material required for
manufacturing . Then dispatchign can be done from B OU (mfg warehouse)

Q4. What you about ‘Mutually Exclusive’ in BOM?

Ans: Mutually Exclusive is applied to the Option Class. This means that only one option
under the option class can be selected.
Cumulative Manufacturing Lead Time:
The total time required to make an item if you had all raw materials in stock but had to
make all subassemblies level by level.
Cumulative Total Lead Time
The total time required to make an item if no inventory existed and you had to order all
the raw materials and make all subassemblies level by level.

Q5. What is difference between Sub inventory Transfer and Move order Transfer?
Moveorder Transfer : In thier you need to Approve. & also you will get move order no,
from there you can query whenever you want. From that you can also move material
based on that move order no.You can trace material transfered based on move order no.

Sub-inventory Transfer : Simply a transfer from one location to another. No records is

generated during transfer. You can't trace material transfered
sub inventory transfer:

->we can transfer material between sub inventories

->we can't cancell the SI transfer
->we can't track the transaction

move order transfer:

->we can cancell move order
->we can track the M O
->we can set approval process

Q6. Types of Calendar? where we are define it?

Ans:
Prorate calendar in FA
Acounting cal in GL
Transaction cal in GL
Worday cal in INV

Q7. If any person ask what you know about AIM? How briefly we can explain b'coz we
cont expalin AIM in short time.
AIM is an Application Implementation Methodology which is being followed for Oracle
Apps Implementation project(ERP).
It consists different phases and processes. They are
Phases :
1. Definition
2. Operation Analysis
3. Solution Design
4. Build
5. Transition, And
6. Production
Processes :
Project Management
Business Process Mapping
APplication and Technical Architecture
Module Design and Build
Data Conversion
Documentation
Business System Testing
performance Testing
Adoption and Learning
Production Migration

Each process has it's own standard templates(RD 20, RD 50,

MD50,MD60,MD70,TE40,etc) to caputre various business scenarios,etc.

If we follow these processes, phases and using standard (important) templates then we
won't be missing out any of the implementation steps while implementing our ERP
system.

hat is difference between Sub inventory Transfer and Move order Transfer?
27. what are reference designators and how they are used practically .Please site few
examples.
28. how to give an decimal and fraction quantity in transaction like 1.25,3.5,1.999.
29. What to mean by Multi Org? what are all the multi org setups?
30. What do you mean by Planning Item?
31. How do you identify model Type and Option Type BOM in Bill of Material Pages?
32. What are steps included to make a final assembly?
33. What is Reorder point and Reorder quantity? and what is its significance?
34. If any person ask what you know about AIM? How briefly we can explain b'coz we
cont expalin AIM in short time.
35. what are the Nine mandatory Flexi fields in Inventory set up
36. What Do you mean by API
37. In osp cycyle i have one finished goods -FG1 Raw material - RM1 Osp Item - OSP1
Resource -Ospres01 Charge Type -PO Move I assign dept, then i created routing and
bom. then i realsed job the PO requestion Generated But when i replace on another OSP
ITEM - OSP2 for OSP1 having same attributes i am not getting Po requestion CAn any
one help me?