Introduction

Oracle E-Business Suite Development announced in August 2016, availability of E-Business Suite Mobile Release 6.0. The new release includes following updates.

Functional Updates to Existing Apps

  1. Mobile iProcurement: Self-service receiving for better 3-way match compliance for supplier payment
  2. Mobile Self-Service Human Resources:  Ability for managers to initiate employee assignment updates, view work history and pending transactions for their team; Ability for employees in United States to update tax forms; Ability to configure menus; Ability to view payslips for 9 additional localizations
  3. Mobile Approvals:  Support for approval types for Human Resources, Projects, and Service Contracts; enhanced Quoting approval to support customization
  4. Mobile Maintenance: Customer driven enhancements, including completion of operation from work order flow, enhanced work order creation and completion, and more
  5. Mobile Product Information: Ability to upload image for item
  6. All Mobile Apps: Ability to easily clear sign in; Ability to open links to external websites within app

New App

Mobile Yard: Yard personnel to quickly view and manage yard activity on the go, including the ability to track appointments, view equipment, verify yard capacity, and process check-in and check-out transactions

Deployment and Development

Technical Updates with uptake of Oracle Mobile Application Framework 2.3.1

Mobile Approvals

E-Business Suite Mobile Release 6.0 includes mobile app Approvals for EBS 1.5.0 with following features:

  1. Existing approval type Human Resources was updated to include person status change
  2. Introduced new approval types for Projects and Service Contracts
  3. Existing approval type Quoting was enhanced to support customization

Seeded Approval Types

Approvals for EBS mobile app supports following approval types in E-Business Suite Mobile Release 6.0.

 

Custom Approval Types

Apart from leveraging seeded approval types that are shipped by Oracle E-Business Suite applications, Customers can create custom approval types to include custom workflow approvals into the mobile app. In order to manage custom approval types and customize seeded approval types as allowed, Oracle E-Business Suite provides Approvals Data Services Framework.

Refer to chapter Configuring Messages for Oracle Mobile Approvals for Oracle E-Business Suite
in Oracle Workflow Developer Guide. Although this link points to Oracle
E-Business Suite 12.2, the same instructions apply for Oracle
E-Business Suite 12.1 with Mobile Release 5.0.

Summary

  1. Deploy smartphone apps with EBS 12.1.3 or 12.2
  2. Realize the benefits of going mobile
    1. Faster business execution
    2. Faster decision making
    3. Increased user satisfaction
  3. Provide feedback about Oracle E-Business Suite mobile apps from My Oracle Support Community spaces.
    1. Mobile Foundation – Mobile Approvals – EBS (MOSC)

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