Basic Of E-Business suite

As discussed in our earlier section that there are three different tracks in which you can get experts to get a good job in the ERP market they are:

• Functional Consultant
• Technical Expert
• Apps DBA  

Functional Consultants: Functional Consultants are the bridge between the client/ customer who is implementing Oracle applications and the technical team. Functional consultants role is very critical in implementing ERP. He has to correctly understand the requirement and then map to the functionalities to Oracle applications.

Oracle E-Business Suite is easy to implement and easy to adapt. In a survey it is found that the Total Cost of ownership of Oracle E-Biz the the lowest. It is also found that the average time to market is the least for the implementation of Oracle application.

Oracle E-Biz provides a variety of features and business processes that can improve the oraganizations productivity and effeciency.Success of any ERP implementation depends upon the involvement of Top management in the driving the implementation. The sucess also depends upon the decision taken during the requirement gathering sessions by the functional consultants. so it becomes responsibility from the functional consultant's part to make the customer unsderstand what the functional consultant wants to get from the customer. All the functional consutant should remember the golden rule "Input Grabage and the output will also be Grabage".

Some of the points to be kept in mind during the implementations are as follows:

1) first you should have a workshop for the customer to understand the concepts of implementation of Oracle E-Biz.

2) As a consultant you should fecilitate the customer in taking the decision( please bear in mind that you should not influence the customer in decision making.)

3) for each decisions made it would be advisable to debate on the pros and cons of the decision.

4) Try to involve all the stakeholders into decision making. this will avoid resentment in the users once Oracle E-Biz is implemented.

5) Avoid taking shortsighted implementation decisions which may loose the essence of implementing Oracle E-Biz.

6) As far as possible customizations should be discouraged. this will help in better maintanace of Oracle E-Biz after the implementation.