Oracle Fusion Apps – Functional Setup Manager

Oracle Fusion Application provides a task oriented, easy to navigate framework to assist with module selection and configurations required for ERP implementation and roll-outs.


Functional Set up Manager (FSM) facilitates clubbing of related set up tasks. Tasks can be assigned to various fusion users. Status of task completion is reported at parent task and project level.


Main Feature are:
1) Fusion provides an inline overview of the various offerings.

2) Each offering can be further explored to view the functionality available along with easy access to related documentation.

3) A Project created under FSM is a collection of tasks and sub-tasks. These could be assigned to users.

4) FSM can thus create (from a catalog), assign and track project implementation task offering basic project management and task/resource tracking capabilities.

5) Fusion provides ease of porting project implementation setups from one instance to other by using the Configuration Export/Import feature.

Oracle Fusion thus provides very rich functionality to enhance
-project implementation
-management
-migration of configuration to successive instances.



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Oracle Fusion Apps – Whats with the Bell?

Oracle Fusion Application offers an enhanced usability experience. Fusion attempts to present all inputs required to analyse a business transaction and helps user make a well informed ‘Next action’ without the need to perform additional navigational steps to retrieve attributes of the transaction.


A typical screen for Fusion Apps is as depicted.

Listed here are elements of UI that are typically available for most Fusion forms.


1) Top Menu: Provides role based access to tasks. Has enhanced navigational features like – Recent Items, Favourites, Tags etc.

2) The main screen is divided into 3 sections:

• Task bar – Provides access to transaction tasks based on roles allocated to a user.

• Main transactional area.

• Contextual area – Provides additional contextual information required to progress the business transaction.

3) Saved Search: Fusion offers productivity improvement flexibility by allowing a user to set up and save a custom search page.

4) Mapping Integration: Fusion offers seamless integration with geographic mapping tools to display maps/locations views inline.

5) Train Stops: Fusion offers details ‘train stop’  steps for relatively long drawn processes to notify user of the current stop and planned ‘route’

Here is the Invoice Entry screen with most of the above elements depicted.

But then, whats with the bell!!!?  

The bell at top left provides immediate task notification alerts to the user. A user does not need to refresh the page. If there is any FYI, actionable, task oriented info, the Bell throws a pop-up.

Did it ding for you yet?



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Oracle Fusion Apps – First Look

Oracle Fusion Applications is the next generation of ERP solution from Oracle. The product is now available for general use and Oracle has released documentation around it. As they say, First Impression is last impression. A cursory look at screens has often proved useful to jump start on new applications. Without getting into much details in this post, here are quick screen grabs of Oracle Fusion Applications screens.


1) Self Service Procurement: User Shopping Screen

2) Account Payables: Invoice Creation Screen

3) General Ledger: Journal Screen

Watch this space for more details on Fusion.

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