Introducing Oracle Cloud 23a
This blog will highlight the new features and required actions need to take from the users from a high-level view of all released update from Oracle 23a include Financials, Supply Planning, Procurement, and Eloqua.
Deadline to Upgrade to Release 23a: Saturday December 16, 2023
Release 23A End of Life (EOL): Saturday, Apr 20, 2024
What’s New in Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials:
Financial Common
- Oracle now allow approval email notifications to be resent for in-progress transactions. You can bulk-select multiple transactions to resend notification all at once.
- The enhanced financial workflow rules report allows administrators to align and modify any rules in BPM to an optimal practice.
Accounting and Control
- Budget control for validating available funds and account encumbrances.
- General ledge: introduced constraint for future-dated journals from posting in open periods for average daily balance ledgers.
Payables and Expenses
- Enabled rate limit enforcement for miscellaneous policies.
- Increased process efficiency by preconfigured the mapping for merchant category codes to corporate card expense types.
What’s New in Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Planning:
- Improved back-to-back flow for either whole or part of the order line in sales orders tracking.
Supply Planning
- Predict and generate a demand plan for supplies based on hybrid calendars。
- Introduced customisable attribute-based planning. Tailor your forecast demand to your unique business requirement.
What’s New in Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement:
Purchasing
- “Negotiation Award” to view negotiation details on purchase order in header section.
- “Award Distribution” through define funding patterns to distribute project costs to awards and funding source combinations.
- Able to give negotiated credits to your supplier by creating purchase order lines with negative amounts.
REST APIs
- Updated and modified REST APIs to seamlessly integrate with external systems in a simple way.
What’s New in Eloqua:
- HTML Markup to enhance customised design and functionalities within the platform.
- Improved email report to assist with campaign management and deliverability.
- Salesforce Apps integration enhancement.
Eloqua Form Application API
- All mapped and unmapped fields will be processed and updated to contact information with Form Application API 2.0. Read more about how processing steps changed in API 2.0.
Oracle Cloud Accounts
- Oracle Cloud will create accounts for all Eloqua users before 23B release. Release timeline and FAQs.
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