Oracle TCA uptakes in Oracle Release 12

TCA update in R12 to additional entities:

• Banks & Bank Branches
• Suppliers
• Legal Entity

TCA in R12 - 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)

TCA in R12 - Bank model benefits:

• Reduce number of access points to manage bank accounts - Centralized user interface
• Improve visibility and control of bank accounts - Multi-org access control
• Simplify bank reconciliation - Single bank statement can be reconciled across multiple Operating Units
• Increase percentage of automatically reconciled transactions - Bank account level reconciliation parameters add flexibility

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
• New supplier maintenance UI using TCA UI components

TCA in R12 - Benefits of Supplier representation:

• Single repository for suppliers data
• AR/AP netting
• Oracle Payments serves as a payment data repository on top of the Trading Community Architecture (TCA) data model. The TCA model holds the party information. Oracle Payments then stores all of the party’s payment information and its payment instruments (including credit cards, debit cards, customer bank accounts, and supplier bank accounts).

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 in R12 - Integration with HRMS:

• TCA creates the global view of person
• TCA enables you to store person Information at a corporate level
• Person is stored as party in TCA
• Comprehensive duplicate person check when entering a new person – Across the business group
• Propagate some information entered in one business group to the record in the other business group
• PER_ALL_PEOPLE_F.PARTY_ID is a foreign key to the HZ_PARTIES table, an integral part of Oracle's "Trading Community Architecture" (TCA).