Overview of information flow between Oracle Application

Before we get into the basics of Essential setups and implementation steps it is necessary to know how information flows between different modules of Oracle Applications.

In Oracle application there are different modules. The modules can be considered as different departments of an organization. So, If we take an bird's eye view of an organization it would look like as shown in the picture below:

Oracle General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables etc. these modules have effect on each other. This means that when any transaction is entered in accounts payable, there would be accounting entries generated for this. And these accounting entries are then posted to Oracle general ledger. Below is the high level schematic diagram of the application.

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If we see the above diagram we can see that there are many modules between which the information flows. Here only some of the flows are shown due to complexity of flows.

Now, these modules can be grouped for ease of understanding the way oracle applications works. This grouping can be called as Business Process Flows or Business Flows. The different flows are as follows:

• Recruit to Retire
• Purchase to Pay
• Order to Make to Cash
• Record to report

We will see each of these business flows in detail.