I always love this time of year. The leaves on the trees all turn orange, you can see your breath in the air as winter descends. There is a sense of change in the air.
This sense of change in the air can be felt at many of our Oracle E-Business Suite Payroll customers, whose thoughts will be focused on User Acceptance Testing (UAT) as we enter the sweet spot for Roll Up Patching (RUP).
Early Adopters will have identified any known issues, leaving enough time for patches to be UAT’ed with confidence and deployed before the Christmas rush.
For anyone having recently moved to Oracle EBS R12.2, RUP may be their first sight on the new Online Patching approach which promises less downtime from a controlled and predictable Online Patching cycle.
This years’ RUP (RUP15) delivers little to get too excited about functionality-wise…
Oracle Human Resources Introduces:
- Calculate Accruals Using Element functionality, allows you to calculate PTO Accrual either by Absence Start Date or Element Start Date. This should help even out Absence spanning multiple Pay or Accrual periods.
- A Collective Agreement Entitlement Evaluation process, supporting employees with multiple entitlements
Advanced Benefits provides for PDF output options of both the Eligibility and Enrollment List (XML) and Default Enrollment Audit Log (XML) reports.
You can define a maximum number of Learners for a Class Waitlist in Learning Management and in Oracle Time and Labor, the Rollback programs have been enhanced to process rollbacks even if the corresponding batches have been purged from BEE and/or from the Element Entries themselves. You can also set the default period(s) of focus for the Timecard Dashboard via a profile option.
It’s all small stuff, but useful nonetheless.
If you’d like to know more about RUP or about maximising your investment in Oracle E-Business Suite HCM, do not hesitate to get in touch with our HCM Managed Services Team. Our HCM Team collectively has 80 years of experience and makes sure the small stuff counts!
Information & Sources:
The Oracle HRMS R12.1 Release Update Pack 14 (R12.HR_PF.B.DELTA.14), patch 32105001, and R12.2 Release Update Pack 15 (R12.HR_PF.C.DELTA.15), patch 31800665, have been made available.
All UK customers using R12 Oracle Payroll are required to apply these patches prior to the Tax Year ending April 2022, and prior to January 2022 for IE (Ireland) Payroll customers.
Patches 32105001 and 31800665 are specifically for HRMS and Payroll and they consolidate any legislative changes along with various bug fixes for the Oracle HRMS suite of products.
- HRMS Rollup/Delta Patch Release Information (Doc ID 2291967.1)
- R12.1.3 - Applying the R12.HR_PF.B.Delta.14 Release Update Pack (Doc ID 2750077.1)
- R12.1.3 - Known Issues on Top of Patch 32105001 - R12.HR_PF.B.DELTA.14 (Doc ID 2750078.1)
- R12.2.x - Applying the R12.HR_PF.C.Delta.15 Release Update Pack (Doc ID 2750056.1)
- R12.2.x - Known Issues on Top of Patch 31800665 - R12.HR_PF.C.DELTA.15 (Doc ID 2750035.1)
Choosing the right Managed Services Provider
If you are looking for an Oracle Managed Services Provider who can help you with your Oracle HCM, goes about it the right way, and can back up the talk, then contact us.
And if you would like to find out more about RUP Patches or have a question, you can email us at info@claremont.co.uk or phone us on +44 (0) 1483 549004.
Martin O’Rourke Head of Oracle HCM at Claremont has over 20 years of industry experience across Oracle HCM and Oracle Payroll.
Martin has expert knowledge of the Oracle E-Business HCM product set, including UK localisations, local government specifics, key customisations, data migrations, and upgrades.