Oracle R12 Payables - Overview

Oracle Payables

Oracle Accounts Payables is part of Oracle Financials, which is part of Oracle's E-Business Suite.

Oracle Payables has a highly responsive, multi-window graphical user interface (GUI) with full point-and-click capability. You can use your mouse or keyboard to operate graphical controls such as pull-down menus, buttons, pop lists, check boxes, or tabbed regions.

Payables includes two fully integrated workbenches, the Invoice Workbench and the Payment Manager. You can perform most of your transactions in Payables using the Invoice Workbench or the Payment Manager. You enter, adjust, and review invoices and invoice batches in the Invoice Workbench. You create, adjust, and review payments and payment batches in the Payments Manager.

You may be restricted in the windows, buttons, and actions you can access based on your role/responsibility.

Payables workbenches let you find critical information in a flexible way. For example, in the Invoice Workbench, you can find an invoice based on supplier, purchase order number, status, or other criteria. Then, for that invoice, you can review distributions, scheduled payments, payments, holds, and other detailed invoice information. You can also perform matching, submit invoice validation, apply and releases holds, or initiate payment.

The Invoice Workbench

The Invoice Workbench is a group of windows that you use to enter, adjust, and review your invoices and invoice batches.

The Payments Manager

The Payments Manager module enables you to complete a pay run from start to finish by seamlessly navigating between Oracle Payables and Oracle Payments. A pay run is the process by which a group of invoices is selected and processed for payment.

The Payments Manager in Oracle Payables is a module comprised of the following components:

• Payments Dashboard
• Templates
• Payment Process Requests
• Payment Instructions
• Payments

The Payments Manager enables you to perform the following payment actions:

• Create payment process request templates
• Use templates to select invoices to pay that meet the payment criteria.
• Schedule pay runs.
• Automatically submit invoices via payment process requests to Oracle Payments for          processing and   payment.
• Initiate payment instructions.
• View the status of payments.

• Void or record stop payments