10 Tips for a Successful R12 Oracle Financials Implementation

22/07/2009 by Simon Tomey.

See the link below for a useful 10 tips for a successful R12 Implementation (reproduced below). I’d add another – “get a demonstration (Vision) instance of R12 and encourage your users to get familiar with it and own the functionality”. The benefits of this were highlighted in the Croydon Council implementation

http://www.arshiyatech.com/10_things_to_consider_for_a_successfull_oracle_r12_financials_implementation.html

1. Create a realistic schedule for your R12 implementation or upgrade.
2. Conduct your implementation or upgrade on a parallel system.
3. Allow yourself sufficient time to implement and perform user acceptance testing (UAT). This will give you time to assure that your system has been designed and setup to meet your business needs.
4. Assure that as much data as possible is accounted and ALL accounting is transferred.
5. Clear up any data issues in 11i before upgrading (i.e., Run the Accounting Health Check).
6. Use the Maintenance Wizard for the upgrade.
7. Review the Oracle Financials Critical Patches Alert. Subledger Accounting, E-Business Tax, and other Financials applications. Apply the critical patches to prevent encountering issues that have already been addressed.
8. Apply the pre-upgrade patches BEFORE upgrading to R12.
9. Apply the post-upgrade patches ASAP after completing the upgrade.
10. Perform several month-end closes before considering a Go-Live date.

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