1. What is order cycle? Order cycles describe the processing or routing, through which orders progress.

Order cycles contain cycle actions such as Enter, Pick Release or Ship Confirm. Each cycle action has at least one result. For example, results for the action Enter include Booked, Partial and Entered. You can customize your order cycle by defining prerequisites for each action so that Oracle Order Entry performs these actions in the sequence you define. For example, the prerequisite for the action Pick Release could be the action Legal Review and the result Pass. You would not be able to pick release the order until it meets this prerequisite. You can define as many order cycles as you want so you can handle different processing requirements for different types of orders or for orders from different sales channels. For example, you may have one order cycle that requires legal approval that you use for international orders and one without legal approval for domestic orders. If you make any changes to cycle actions in an order cycle you can determine when those changes take effect by setting the profile option OE: Cycle Action Changes Affect Existing Orders Tables used are SO_CYCLES, SO_CYCLE_ACTIONS, SO_ACTION_PRE_REQS, SO_ACTIONS, SO_RESULTS, SO_ACTION_RESULTS. 2. List the various actions of a typical order cycle? Order cycles contain cycle actions such as Enter, Pick Release or Ship Confirm, Backorder Release, Receivable Interface, Inventory Interface, Complete Line, Complete order. Enetered -> Book -> Demand/ATP (Available to Promise) -> Pick Release -> Shipping -> Inventory Interface -> Receivable Interface -> Close order 3. What is the relation between an order type and an order cycle? Order Cycle can differ depending on the type of an order For example you may have one order cycle that requires legal approval that you use for international orders and one without legal approval for domestic orders Order cycle is attached to the order type. 4. What does Inventory Interface do? Inventory Interface Program populates the interface tables with transactions submitted through Confirm shipment forms. It updates order lines with shipped quantities and updates inventory. 5. What are ATO and PTO?

ATO - Assemble to Order - A configuration you make in response to customer order which includes optional items. PTO - Pick to Order - A configure to order environment where the option and included items in a model appear on pick slips and order pickers gather the options when they ship the order. Alternative to manufacturing the parent item on a work order and then shipping it. 6. What is RMA? RMA is permission for a customer to return items. OE allows you to authorize the return of your sales orders as well as sales made by other dealers as long as the item are part of your item master and price list. Receipt of goods previously sold to customer, credit to a customer or replace with identical item. 7. What is Hold? A feature that prevents an order or order line from processing through the order cycle. You can place hold on any order or order line. 8. What are various types of holds? Credit check hold, Legal Review hold, Sales Review Hold, Customer request Hold. (so_holds.type_code) Few of logitechs hold types: CREDIT This hold is automatically placed on an order invoiced to a customer who fails credit check GSA This hold is automatically placed on an order which is in violation of GSA CONFIGURATOR This hold is automatically placed on a Sales Order Line that fails Configurator Validation Order Management Product on Short Supply Order Management Product on Quality Stop Shipment Order Management Awaiting clarification on Order Detail Order Management Incomplete Ship To Credit Management Customer/Order on Credit Hold Order Management EDI order with incorrect pricing - hold until pricing issue resolved Order Management EDI order with incorrect QTY (Case Pack) - hold until QTY issue resolved Order Management Customer Requested Hold Credit Management Manual Credit Hold on Backorder Order Management EDI order waiting for information Document Services Pre Release Hold to applied to Prevent Pick Release Document Services Pre Release Hold to applied to Prevent Backorder Release Order Management RMA Order Waiting For Information Credit Management Overdue Payment Hold by Credit Managment

Order Management Product on Short Supply

9. What is a hold Parameter? A criterion you use to place a hold on an order or order line. Valid hold parameters are customer, customer site, order, and item. (so_order_holds_view_hold.hold_level) Logitech HOLD_LEVEL ------------------------------Customer Item Order Site Use

10. What are various types of discounts? Discount is a reduction of list price for an item. Fixed price discounts - Final price is contractually fixed regardless of fluctuations in list price. For example: item A has a list price of 100, a fixed price discount specifies a selling price of 90, results in a selling price of 90 even if the list price changes to 110. Price adjustments - The difference between list price of an item and its selling price. Price difference can have positive or negative impact on price list. Price adjustments which lower the list price are called as price adjustment discounts. It can be for order or order line. Earned discounts 11. What is scheduling of orders? Order scheduling includes assigning demand or reservations, warehouses, shipment dates, lots and sub-inventories to order line, it can be dont on booked or un-booked orders. 12. How do you calculate value of an order (from tables)? select sum((sol.ordered_quantity - nvl(sol.cancelled_quantity,0)) * sol.selling_price) from so_headers_all sh, so_lines_all sol where sh.order_number = &order_number and sol.header_id = sh.header_id 13. What is underlying table for discounts?

SO_DISCOUNTS, SO_DISCOUNT_CUSTOMERS, SO_DISCOUNT_LINES, SO_PRICE_ADJUSTMENTS 14. What is auto-accounting? An Receivable feature that lets you determine how the Accounting Flex-field for your revenue, receivable, freight, tax, unbilled receivables, and unearned revenue account types are created. 15. What is Auto-invoicing? A program that imports invoices, credit memos, and on account credits from other system into oracle receivables. 16. What does the table ra_cust_trx_line_gl_dist store? Stores the accounting records for revenue, unearned revenue, and unbilled receivables for each invoice or credit memo line. This table must have one row for each accounting distribution. 17. What are the underlying tables in various transactions in receivables? RA_CUSTOMER_TRX, RA_CUST_TRX_LINE_SALESREPS, RA_CUSTOMER_TRX_LINE_GL_DIST, RA_CUSTOMER_TRX_LINES, AR_PAYMENT_SCHEDULES AR_PAYMENT_SCHEDULES, AR_CASH_RECEIPTS, AR_MISC_CASH_DISTRIBUTIONS, AR_CASH_RECEIPT_HISTORY, AR_RECEIVABLE_APPLICATION 18. What are interface tables used during autoinvoicing interface? RA_INTERFACE_LINES, RA_INTERFACE_SALESCREDITS, RA_INTERFACE_DISTRIBUTIONS 19. If invoice, credit memos and debit memos all get stored in the same table then, how do you come to know which transaction is it? RA_CUSTOMER_TRX table stores cust_trx_type_id, which identifies the user defined transaction type. Which in turn is stored in RA_CUST_TRX_TYPES. The field TYPE defines the type of transaction, which is linked to LOOKUP_CODE of AR_LOOKUPS table. Basic 6 transaction types are hard coded in AR_LOOKUPS table and are not user maintainable. 20. What is a credit memo? Credit memo is a document, which partially or fully, reverses an original invoice. You can create

credit memos through the Oracle Receivables Enter Credit Memos form or through AutoInvoice. 21. What is a debit memo? Debits that you assign to your customer for additional charges that you want to collect. You may want to charge your customers for unearned discounts taken, additional freight charges, taxes, and finance charges. 22. What are the underlying tables for credit memos and debit memos? RA_CUSTOMER_TRX_ALL 23. What is an accounting Rule? Accounting rule is a rule that Oracle receivables Auto-invoice uses to specify revenue recognition schedules for your transactions. You can define your accounting rule where revenue is recognized over a fixed or variable period of time. For example, you can define a fixed duration accounting rule with monthly revenue recognition for a period of 12 months. 24. What is the difference between an accounting rule and an invoicing rule? Invoicing Rule: Rules the Oracle receivables uses, to determine when you bill your invoices. You can bill in advance or in arrears.