{"id":4230,"date":"2025-06-17T16:22:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T10:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-cobalt\/?p=4230"},"modified":"2025-06-17T16:22:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T10:52:23","slug":"enhancing-user-experience-with-oracle-projects-with-apex-workbench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-cobalt\/cloud-applications\/oracle\/oracle-ebs\/enhancing-user-experience-with-oracle-projects-with-apex-workbench.html","title":{"rendered":"Enhancing user experience with Oracle Projects with APEX Workbench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle Projects Manufacturing is a link that connects manufacturing and supply chain modules to finance for cost collection and billing.<\/p>\n<h2>Business Challenges:<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Projects and Manufacturing schedules are not linked:<\/strong> The linkage between manufacturing, supply chain, and projects is a \u201csoft linkage\u201d.<br \/>\nEvery manufacturing and supply chain transaction carries a project and task number \u201cstamp\u201d to enable cost collection; but project costing, billing, and management functions independently of manufacturing jobs, purchasing, and inventory.<br \/>\nThis means that project managers cannot link their shopfloor activity with the project schedules for tracking and reporting.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Projects information is distributed:<\/strong> Project Managers and controllers have to navigate to different forms and reports to get an overview of the schedule and progress.<br \/>\nProject Managers, controllers, and shopfloor coordinators often have different perspectives of data and that makes it difficult to have a common ground for reporting between teams.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Creating and maintaining projects is an overhead: <\/strong>Making sure that the projects are created correctly (following organizational standards), as well as housekeeping activities to keep them aligned can be a significant overhead in manual effort and time. Enforcing unified organizational processes is to be difficult when individuals manually create data.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Requirements:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Providing a Single Harmonized platform for end-to-end Project activities<\/li>\n<li>Keep projects and supply chain data in sync<\/li>\n<li>Minimize time spent navigating to screens across modules<\/li>\n<li>Quick access to relevant information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Our Solution<\/h2>\n<p>A \u201cproject workbench\u201d was created in Apex:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4368 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-cobalt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Picture15.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"937\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It offers:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Intuitive, guided process for project creation<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Creation of inventory items in sync with project structure<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Common platform to view manufacturing data alongside projects<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Features<\/h2>\n<h3>1. Project list<\/h3>\n<p>List that can be filtered suitably for easy search.<\/p>\n<p>Several projects can be selected together so users do not need to come back again and again to the Search screen<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4369 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-cobalt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Picture16.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"588\" height=\"241\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4370 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-cobalt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Picture17.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"206\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>2. Project Creation<\/h3>\n<p>A single screen guides user through all the steps so they do not have to navigate to different screens and do not miss any steps.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4371 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-cobalt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Picture18.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"588\" height=\"195\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Default tasks are automatically created based on Line of Business selected by the user.<\/p>\n<h3>3. Inventory Items creation<\/h3>\n<p>Inventory items are created as per project requirement and corresponding project tasks are automatically added.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4372 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-cobalt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Picture19.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Project Information<\/h3>\n<p>Data for tasks, budgets, actual cost, and billing at a single place which can be accessed by shopfloor managers as well as finance team, so that they see the same picture.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4373 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-cobalt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Picture20.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"671\" height=\"246\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Data from all the supply chain modules &#8211; purchase requisitions and orders, service requests and sales orders &#8211; all in a single table.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4374 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-cobalt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Picture21.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"142\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>5. Reports repository<\/h3>\n<p>Easy-to-use custom reports available at a single place.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4375 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-cobalt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Picture22.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An example comparison of Apex UI vs Oracle screen:<\/p>\n<p>Project Workbench \u2013 complete information about tasks on a single page.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4376 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-cobalt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Picture23.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oracle \u2013 task structure and transactions cannot be accessed together. Multi-level tasks are difficult to access.<\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>Above approach provides a complete solution for harmonizing projects structures with manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>This functioned as a structured, single source of truth for all projects. This has been one of the key solution differentiators for the overall Oracle eBS implement at our client which marked a difference from the legacy system of an old ERP plus various bolt-Ons. The result is a happy user group with a friendly user interface that also simplifies their day in a life by streamlining the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle Projects Manufacturing is a link that connects manufacturing and supply chain modules to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":824,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"coauthors":[401],"class_list":["post-4230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oracle-ebs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-cobalt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-cobalt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-cobalt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-cobalt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/824"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-cobalt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4230"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-cobalt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4403,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-cobalt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230\/revisions\/4403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-cobalt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-cobalt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-cobalt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4230"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-cobalt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}