Oracle HR to AP Employee Interface for Expense Reimbursements - Duplicate Supplier Name Creation
Hi All,
With R12, Oracle locked down any ability to alter employee name formatting on employees feeding from HR to AP for the purposes of expense reimbursements to employees. In 11i, we were able to construct the name so we could make them unique, but that ability was blocked by Oracle with R12.
Today, we're seeing employee records come from HR to AP in Firstname Lastname formatting, which means any employees that share common names cannot be differentiated by supplier name.
It seems counterproductive for Oracle to require unique supplier names in Oracle AP for all supplier types except employee supplier types; when the record is an employee record, Oracle seems to only care about the employee number not being unique. The Oracle HR to AP interface also ignores middle names, which would go a long way to allow us to differentiate one Jane Smith from another Jane Smith. Why would Oracle do something this daft?
With R12, Oracle locked down any ability to alter employee name formatting on employees feeding from HR to AP for the purposes of expense reimbursements to employees. In 11i, we were able to construct the name so we could make them unique, but that ability was blocked by Oracle with R12.
Today, we're seeing employee records come from HR to AP in Firstname Lastname formatting, which means any employees that share common names cannot be differentiated by supplier name.
It seems counterproductive for Oracle to require unique supplier names in Oracle AP for all supplier types except employee supplier types; when the record is an employee record, Oracle seems to only care about the employee number not being unique. The Oracle HR to AP interface also ignores middle names, which would go a long way to allow us to differentiate one Jane Smith from another Jane Smith. Why would Oracle do something this daft?
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