To simplify the idea community experience for our EBS customers and to now follow the same structure format of the Support communities, the EBS Development team will be changing the structure of the EBS Ideas Labs in E-Business Suite (EBS) – Ideas Lab. The new structure should be intuitive to users, based on how the EBS products are categorized. We are also announcing a new Ideation community for “EBS on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure” and are looking forward to your ideas for EBS on OCI.
With the structure change, after choosing the top-level E-Business Suite (EBS) – Ideas Lab option, community members will see a short list of 10 EBS Ideas categories that represent the EBS product families. When you drill into a category, you will then see a list of communities that represents Products within that category. For example, when you click into Manufacturing – EBS Ideas category, you will see these options to choose from to post your idea:
- Cost Management
- Discrete Manufacturing
- Process Manufacturing
Below is a representation of the categories (on the left) and the child categories that will be within them (on the right):
| NEW Category (~EBS Product Family) | Child Category (~EBS Product) | 
| Applications Technology- EBS Ideas | Core Concurrent Processing – EBS Ideas | 
| Core Workflow – EBS Ideas | |
| EBS on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – EBS Ideas {NEW!!} | |
| Enterprise Command Center Framework – EBS Ideas | |
| Mobile Foundation – Mobile Approvals – EBS Ideas | |
| Technology Stack – EBS Ideas | |
| Asset Lifecycle Management – EBS Ideas | Enterprise Asset Management – EBS Ideas | 
| Install Base and Asset Tracking – EBS Ideas | |
| Financial Management – EBS Ideas | Advanced Collections – EBS Ideas | 
| General Ledger – EBS Ideas | |
| Lease and Finance Management – EBS Ideas | |
| Payables and Cash Management – EBS Ideas | |
| Property Manager – EBS Ideas | |
| Receivables – EBS Ideas | |
| Human Capital Management – EBS Ideas | Compensation and Benefits – EBS Ideas | 
| Human Capital Management – EBS Ideas | |
| Payroll and OTL – EBS Ideas | |
| Logistics – EBS Ideas | Inventory Items (APC/PLM/PIM) – EBS Ideas | 
| Inventory Management – EBS Ideas | |
| Manufacturing – EBS Ideas | Cost Management – EBS Ideas | 
| Discrete Manufacturing – EBS Ideas | |
| Process Manufacturing – EBS Ideas | |
| Order Management – EBS Ideas | Advanced Pricing – EBS Ideas | 
| Channel Revenue Management – EBS Ideas | |
| Configurator – EBS Ideas | |
| Incentive Compensation – EBS Ideas | |
| iStore – EBS Ideas | |
| Order Management – EBS Ideas | |
| Quoting – EBS Ideas | |
| Shipping Execution – EBS Ideas | |
| Procurement – EBS Ideas | G-Invoicing for Requesting Agencies – EBS Ideas | 
| Procurement – EBS Ideas | |
| Projects – EBS Ideas | G-Invoicing for Servicing Agencies – EBS Ideas | 
| Projects – EBS Ideas | |
| Service – EBS Ideas | Complex Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul – EBS Ideas | 
| Field Service – EBS Ideas | |
| Teleservice – EBS Ideas | 
We hope this categorization will make it easier for you to find the community you need when engaging with the Development team and your community peers. This new structure is planned to go-live on Thursday February 17, 2022.
