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Integrating a Custom APEX Solution with Oracle EBS
Solving the Spare Parts Business Process

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• Understand the business problem and drivers for a new solution
–Intelligrated will be used as the example
• Understand how Oracle’s APEX product can be used to build
custom solutions
• Understanding the Business Requirements to perform the task
• To model the solution approach in Oracle APEX
• To model out of the box functionality within Oracle APEX
• Identifying the Benefits of the new solution
Session Objectives

• Leading North American-owned, single-point provider of automated
material handling solutions with operations in multiple countries
• Designs, manufactures and installs complete material handling
automation solutions, including: line sortation systems, loop
sortation systems, conveyor systems, and palletizers
• Segment of the business is spare parts for the full systems that they
design and manufacture
• Spare parts can be designated as a standard spare part or critical spare part
• A list of spare parts can be requested by the customer throughout the lifecycle of a
project and after the project has concluded, including at the time of a quote, or years
after the solution was installed
Intelligrated

Problem:
• The old solution for creating Spare Parts lists utilized a legacy .net
application which was understood by a very limited number of IT and
business resources
Cumbersome Process
• Business Processes were very cumbersome and the IT
solution was not utilizing strategic software. It relied
on:
• Importing data from Oracle
• vlookups of data into Customer Facing Reports
• Manual manipulation of data into Customer Facing Reports

Solution:
• The new solution needed to be as good or better than the legacy
solution
• The legacy solution had some functionality that would be difficult to
replicate in standard Oracle Forms, such as pivot table analysis
• Oracle APEX was chosen as the solution because of its ease of use
for development activities and its out of the box functionality
New Solution

Ability Requirements:
• Change Spare Flag and Spare Type designations
• Exclude items from a Recommended Spare Parts List (RSPL)
• Create multiple versions of the same RSPL based on the
current stage of the lifecycle (As Proposed vs. As Installed)
• Edit the BOMs and Sales Order lines of what was shipped
• Pull in Customer Specific Pricing
• Perform Slicing and Dicing of data on the fly
• Import data from outside systems
Business Requirements

Starting the Process
In order to build a new RSPL a Project or Sales Order is used
as the starting point.
In order to begin the user can search by:
• Created By
• Customer
• Project Number
• RSPL Number
• Sales Order
• Spare Product Type

Part List Tab
Different sections utilized to provide different functionality on the same screen
3. Update Values for Multiple rows
4. Main Report – Change individual rows
1. Header Information
2. Change Header Information

Detail Tab
The Details Tab shows all the sales order lines, and explodes their
BOMs, so the user can edit an individual part within a sales order line’s
BOM

Detail Tab
Once you drill into an individual line, you can change the equipment
number, the component number and the quantity
• All changes cascade to the other tabs

Where Used Tabs
The Where Used tabs show all the parts that are used on an
RSPL, by equipment number
• On this screen you can change a component number or an equipment number
• All changes cascade to the other tabs

Import Tab
The Import Tab allows the user to import data that may not exist
on Sales Orders within Oracle
• The user can add it to an existing RSPL or create a brand new RSPL
• If the part numbers on the import file are not within Oracle, the user receives
an exception report so the items can be inducted

Reports Tab
There are 3 main reports used by the RSPL team to review data:
• All 3 are straight data dumps, but utilizing APEX out of the box functionality,
they can be personalized by the end user to see the data they want to see

APEX Functionality
A default view is created during development, but it can be changed
using the standard Actions button and saved as a personal view

Select Columns allows the ability to add and remove columns
from the list of columns displayed
Select Columns
• Many columns are rarely used, but may be needed in particular use
cases so this allows them to change the view that they are working in

Control Breaks, Totals & Highlighting Example
Initial Data Screen

• Added a control break for the
Created By
• Added highlighting for Jan-2017
• Add totals
Formatting Example
Control Breaks, Highlighting & Totals

Formatting Example
Control Break:
– Actions > Format > Control Break
Totals:
– Actions > Format > Aggregate
Highlighting:
– Actions > Format > Highlight

Format
Format has a lot of powerful tools that can be used to help slice and
dice data for the users:
• Sort: Changes the columns to sort and determines whether to sort in
ascending or descending order
• Control Break: Creates a break group on one or several columns. This pulls
the columns out of the interactive report and displays them as a master
record
• Highlight: Defines a filter that highlights the rows that meet the filter criteria
• Compute: Enables users to add computed columns to a report
• Aggregate: Enables users to perform mathematical computations against a
column
• Chart: Displays the report data as a chart
• Group By: Enables users to group the result set by one or more columns and
perform mathematical computations against columns

Benefits
Tool resides in Oracle, item data is real-time:
• Data & Electrical BOMs are available immediately, eliminating nightly
feed wait for the legacy system
• Spare designation is real-time and resides in the Oracle Item Master,
Oracle is now the record of truth for spare information
• Pricing can now be generated directly in the Spare List, without the
need to use an uploader
• Any process that could take a long time is run as a concurrent request
in the background so the user can continue to work
• In the Legacy Tool if you are running a long running request you can not continue to work,
sometimes you can wait over an hour.
• Creating a new RSPL
• Creating a new RSPL Report
• Generating Pricing
• Swapping out Cross References

Benefits cont.
Better Definition:
• Ability to better define RSPLs to stages of the lifecycle process
• As Proposed
• Partial
• As Engineered
• As Installed
• As Exists
• Spare Type gives the ability to add additional types of spares in the future
• Normalization of Spare Product Types presented internally and externally,
through standard drop down menus
• Some Spare Product Types are determined by the Item’s Classification,
capitalizing on the PDS project
• Intelligrated Spares
• Electrical Spares
• Scanner – Cognex
• Scanner – Sick

Benefits cont.
Data Automation: Manual Data Manipulation has been automated
• The finalized report from Legacy System had to have manual data
manipulation performed.
• Substitute Items had to be manually swapped out (ex. Driver Pad vs
Driver Pad Roll)
• Items listed on multiple sheets had to be combined to remove duplication
• Old report showed all conveyors in the “Where Used by Conveyor”
column, at times over 175 conveyors in 1 cell, which was un-readable
• New Process:
• Substitute Items are now available to be swapped out in the workbench
• Items are forced to be on 1 sheet in the new workbench
• Where Used tab now has the asset number on each line
• The “Where Used by Conveyor” column has been changed to be
“Number of Assets Used In”, which shows a count instead of listing out
every conveyor in the cell

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