If like me you’re a fan of the User Productivity Kit (UPK), you will be happy to learn that 14 New User Productivity Kit (UPK) Content Material Modules are now available for Oracle E-Business Suite. These new UPK pre-built contents complete the existing pre-built contents for PeopleSoft and JD Edwards.
Every organization that purchases Oracle E-Business Suite is doing so with the thought in mind of
implementing leading business practices to make their organization stronger and more effective. Content built on that premise has tremendous value to an organization that is utilizing UPK to create project and ongoing reference documentation. UPK makes it easy for organizations that do not have well developed training and documentation functions to create content, but without a solid starting point, that content may fall short in terms of quality and relevance to leading business practices. In addition, organizations have less time to do this development than ever before making the need for prebuilt content all the more important.
Organizations also use content early during an implementation or upgrade project to go into the fit-gap analysis activity, where they get educated about how the product works and discuss changes needed to get the application to support their specific business processes. Content is also useful to validate transactions and business process flows with extended project team members that may not be involved in the core project.
The following 14 UPK content material modules are now available for EBS applications:
User Productivity Kit Content Materials for Financials
- Oracle E-Business Suite UPK Payables
- Oracle E-Business Suite UPK Receivables
- Oracle E-Business Suite UPK General Ledger
- Oracle E-Business Suite UPK Financials Centralized Solution Set
- Oracle E-Business Suite UPK Assets
- Oracle E-Business Suite UPK Internet Expenses
User Productivity Kit Content Materials for Human Resources
- Oracle E-Business Suite UPK Human Resources
- Oracle E-Business Suite UPK Payroll
- Oracle E-Business Suite UPK Self-Service Human Resources
- Oracle E-Business Suite UPK Performance Management
- Oracle E-Business Suite UPK Time and Labor
User Productivity Kit Content Materials for Procurement
- Oracle E-Business Suite UPK Purchasing
- Oracle E-Business Suite UPK iSupplier Portal
- Oracle E-Business Suite UPK iProcurement
The UPK content material modules are used for developing and deploying training on specific E-Business Suite products. The content module license fee is a one-time charge and any topic updates to the module are provided as part of the customer’s Support agreement.
UPK details are available here. You will also find an Oracle White Paper titled “Accelerate UPK Results Using Prebuilt Content” on accelerating-upk-results-with-prebuilt-content-white-paper.
Hello, we are interested in attaining the UPK Purchasing and Planning modules. We are currently running Oracle 11i. Please provide us information on the modules and pricing.
Thank you,
Dennis
Hi Dennis.
UPK Content are currently only for EBS Modules R12 and EBS Modules – R12.1. A lot of partners can help you to create content on E-BS 11i.
UPK pre-built content is UPK source content created by the Applications Development Documentation teams, documenting best practices for system processes within the Oracle applications.
Used to educate project teams and line of business owners early on in the blueprinting/envisioning stage, to assist in project scoping and fit/gap, and to provide a jump start in creating system process documentation, user acceptance test scripts, job aids, training, and support materials.
The value of UPK pre-built application content starts from the premise that implementation project teams can save substantial time and labor by leveraging UPK application content as baseline reference process flows first and then iterating to capture specific business process requirements. The savings can be substantial – project team resources typically dedicated to the preparation of system test data, storyboarding, and process standardization can be greatly reduced.
Once the delivered functionality and process flows of the new application are understood, the project team can use the UPK content as an aid to do the fit-gap analysis. For this phase of the project lifecycle, the functional expert visually moves through a UPK simulation – leveraging the application specific content – while noting in the test document the configuration and/or customizations necessary to achieve the desired business outcome.
You should find some details about UPK pre-built content on http://www.oracle.com/applications/tutor/upk-pre-... and http://www.oracle.com/applications/tutor/upk-pre-...