R12 TCA (TRADING COMMUNITY ARCHITECTURE)

R12 TCA (Trading Community Architecture):

What is TCA?

• Oracle Trading Community Architecture (TCA) is a data model that allows you to manage complex information about the parties, or customers.
• Trading Community Architecture is the implementation of technology and applications to allow users to create and maintain relationships among entities. It is a way to understand who your customer interacts with inside and outside the enterprise.

Note: Customer, Vendor, Supplier are the terms that we come across very frequently.

For instance: We buy goods from a Shop Vendor so we are the Customer to that Vendor and the Vendor is our Supplier for that good. The Vendor gets goods from a merchant who actually produces it (Manufacturer), so now the vendor in-turn becomes a customer to the Manufacturer who is the Supplier.

The complete TCA can be related and runs around all these terms, these may be people we meet generally who might be a Supplier or Customer in our perspective.

Now moving ahead lets go in details about TCA.

How TCA Matters?

Before TCA:

•  There are multiple customer definitions across the enterprise.
•  It was very difficult to track current and historical information about the customers.
•  There was a lack of support for mixed business.
•  It was quite tough to understand relationships between customers and others (suppliers, partners, competitors)

After TCA:

•   Create a central repository for the entire E-Business Suite to store information relating to all members of a trading community versus separate tables for each member-Prospects, Customers, Contacts, Employees, Partners, Distributors, Suppliers, Banks, etc.
•   Record complex business relationships between Trading Community entities (including 3rd party relationships).
•   Support all business models, industries, and geographies.

TCA Data Model Components:
Party	Represents any entity that can enter into business relationships with your organization – Organization, Person, or Group
Party Relationship	A binary relationship between two parties such as a partnership. Example: Adam is a specific person party and Eve Inc. is an organization party. Adam at Eve Inc. is also treated as a party with the type relationship
Location	A Street Address
Party Site	Associates a party with a location, indicating that party’s usage of the location
Contact	A person related to an organization, this can be a relationship between an organization and a person as well as between two people
Contact Point	Your avenue of contacting a party i.e. a phone number ,e-mail address or fax number
Customer Account	Represents a customer relationship between your organization and a party
Customer Account Site	A party Site that you use in relation to a customer account, i.e, a bill-to or ship-to address
Customer Account Contacts	A party contact that is used as a means of contacting the customer regarding his/her account

 TCA in 11i

•   11i TCA already equipped to handle the following entities

–>Customer

–>Employee

–>Student

Here is Summarize information of the tables Pre and Post 11i:

TCA in R12 Includes:

• New trading entities

–>Suppliers

–>Banks & Bank Branches

–>Legal Entity

TCA Data Model : Supplier & Customer

TCA in R12: Supplier Representation

• Supplier organizations are in TCA
• Terms of doing business with the supplier are in Purchasing / Payables
• Supplier organization, address, contact, phone, email etc. are all in TCA
• Employees are already in TCA, Payables using the same employee records in TCA

TCA – Suppliers:

• Technical details for R12 Supplier in TCA

TCA in R12: Supplier Data Mapping

 

TCA in R12: Bank Account Model

TCA in R12: Bank Model

New Bank Account Model

• Central place to define internal bank accounts

–>Keep track of all bank accounts in one place

–>Explicitly grant account access to multiple operating units/functions and users

• Multi-Org Access

–>In the new model, bank accounts are owned by Legal Entities with the option to grant account use to Operating Unit (Payables, Receivables), Legal Entity (Treasury), Business Group (Payroll) .

R12 Multi-org access control

• MOAC is new enhancement to Multiple Organization feature of Oracle Application
• Enables Users to access the data from one or many Operating Units within a set of given responsibility
• Data Security is maintained using Multiple Organization Security Profile, Define in Oracle HRMS.

Three key CE tables now as

1. CE_BANK_ACCOUNTS

 –>Stores bank account attributes

2. CE_BANK_ACCT_USES_ALL

–>Stores the bank account use attributes specific to Operating Unit (AR, AP) and Legal Entity (Treasury).

3.CE_GL_ACCOUNTS_CCID

–>Accounting data pertaining to the bank account use

• All of the bank, branch and bank account related attributes in AP_BANK_BRANCHES and AP_BANK_ACCOUNTS_ALL tables will be upgraded to HZ_PARTIES and the new tables in Cash Management.

The Changing model for Bank in Global working model

–> Release 12, what’s New: 

TCA Bank Model in 11i and R12:

TCA in R12: Legal Entities

• Legal entity is created as a party of party type ORGANIZATION or PERSON
• An establishment is created as a party of party type ORGANIZATION.
• TCA creates a new classification category called “Business Function”.  It is used mainly to model what business functions a party can perform in E-Business Suite
• For modeling legal entities and establishments in TCA, classification code “Legal Entity” and “Establishment” are created under the “Business Function” class category.
• An establishment is created as a party and always link to a party that is classified as a legal entity through the relationship model

TCA & Enhancement:

• The Trading Community Manager Responsibility, allows users to create a setup or update data sharing and security
• Customer Standard form that has been existing till R11i is finally gone.
• Oracle Introduced a brand new HTML UI built using OA Frame works leveraging TCA that can be used to manage Customers, Accounts, etc.

TCA API’s List: