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Your Excel Interface for Oracle 2020 Product Guide www.more4apps.com
Why consider More4apps?
More4apps exists to improve productivity for Organizations and
teams using Oracle’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.
The tools developed for these systems enable All More4apps tools allow mass uploads of master
significant time and cost efficiencies via their data OR transactional data via the spreadsheet
unique integration between Microsoft Excel and interface. Data is validated prior to upload,
Oracle’s public APIs and Web Services. Users and error rates are significantly lower than the
benefit from the ability to manipulate and upload results offered by alternative data ingestion
data from within a familiar spreadsheet, and IT methods. Master data can also be downloaded
owners can be assured that Oracle remains the FROM the ERP into a spreadsheet for updating or
single source of ERP data. It is quite simply the manipulation, making regular maintenance a far
ultimate solution for large Organizations who more efficient and achievable process.
need accurate and up-to-date data with which to
manage their business planning.
What More4apps’ customers say.
“More4apps fills a niche in the EBS suite space. Oracle forms aren’t
efficient for bulk loading – they fill the void via the interface in Excel.”
“Massive time saving, what was two weeks for one person plus errors, is
now just two days of validating the spreadsheet.”
Customer Update: we were able to complete 60 updates in 60 minutes
with the More4apps tool – that used to take us approximately three days.
What’s more we were able to purge, enrich and add value at the same time.
- Customer Testimonials
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How can More4apps help you?
Integrity
Most importantly, your single source of data maintains its integrity as users no longer use
desktop spreadsheets for data manipulation. Management data is reliable, and decision-making
is more robust as a result.
Efficiency
Many Oracle users are frustrated with double-handling of mundane work such as re-keying data
that’s supplied already in a spreadsheet form. Save time by pasting data from existing sheets into
the More4apps interface for Oracle, and release your skilled staff for more productive activities.
Accuracy
Less manual data entry means better accuracy - and more meaningful information for your
Organization. In addition, More4apps’ tools pre-validates data before it is sent to Oracle,
ensuring it is correct, and in some cases teaching users how to get more from the system
as they work.
Quick to Implement
More4apps tools work straight out of the box - so your implementation process starts at
testing. As they’re based on Excel, there’s no training required beyond the standard skills of
copying and pasting.
Productivity
Simple changes in business processes can deliver significant gains in productivity and capability
across myriad business functions. When data processing bottlenecks are removed, business
units can grow faster than you can imagine.
Security
More4apps tools' utilize Oracle's secure public Web ADI ( and Cloud Web Services) for all
uploads and downloads. This requires end users to authenticate with their Oracle credentials
via the standard Single Sign-On mechanisms, so your new data ingestion tools won’t
compromise your existing security protocols.
Ongoing Support
More4apps' class-leading support team solve issues and manage customization requests in
record time, and regularly report over 90% complete satisfaction amongst users.
When you need to deliver efficiencies in your data processing or IT departments, talk to the leaders in
Oracle data integration. inquiry@more4apps.com
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NEW in 2020
Why More4apps are building tools for Oracle ERP Cloud:
As our customers have started to migrate towards Oracle’s ERP Cloud, they’ve
discovered the pitfalls of Oracle’s inbuilt data loaders and realised they need
More4apps more than ever. Now, the wait is over, and our first ERP Cloud
Toolbox is available for demonstration and testing!
Our pioneering product for Oracle ERP Cloud is the Procurement Module with the highly requested
abilities to create, update and cancel purchase orders. Due to popular demand we are releasing parts
of the Procurement Modules as we build them so that our customers can start benefiting today. More
features will be released as we go on but the wait is over!
Ultimately, More4apps have 7 Modules planned with hundreds of features within them, covering the
most popular business areas our products service.
Seven modules for Oracle ERP Cloud
Procurement Projects Finance Inventory
• Purchase Orders * • Project • AP Invoices • Material Transactions
• Requisitions • Budgets • AR Invoices & Receipts • Discrete Jobs (WIP)
• Sourcing • Project Assets • Payments • Costing
• Receiving • Project Asset Assignments • Assets • Cycle Count
• Transaction Controls • General Ledger • Physical Count
• Property Maintenance • Batches
• Bank Statements
Product Definition Trading Community Sales
• Product Structures • Banks • Sales Orders
• Routings • Suppliers • Quotes
• Items • Customers • Pricing
• Recipes
• Formulas
*Features currently available
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Just like our proven Wizards for Oracle EBS, our ERP Cloud Modules allow the
use of Excel as your interface to Oracle.
Users can download, edit and upload data in a fraction of the time it takes using Oracle’s forms. The
More4apps Excel toolbox for Oracle Fusion Cloud utilizes Oracle's secure web services to communicate
with your Oracle ERP Cloud for all uploads and downloads. End users authenticate with their Oracle ERP
Cloud credentials via the standard Single Sign-On mechanisms. Because we use Oracle's web services
our Modules respect all built-in data access rules and roles.
Pre-release testing results
A pre-release customer of the Procurement Module investigated differences in purchase order
processing times between Oracle Cloud manual data entry forms and the More4apps Procurement
Module.
The end-user found they could save up to 55 minutes processing a 100 line
purchase order. That’s a 91% time saving!
Previously, it took them 60 minutes to process a 100 line purchase order manually using Oracle Cloud
forms, but with More4apps Procurement Modules it took only 5 minutes to process the same data using
the familiar Excel interface.
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Oracle Manual More4apps
Data Entry Forms Procurement Module
Are you using Oracle ERP Cloud?
More4apps’ ability to develop the ERP Cloud Toolbox depends on the opportunities we have to work
with customers already using Oracle ERP Cloud, as we aim to solve real-life problems experienced by
our customers. If you are facing challenges with your ERP Cloud instance, and would like to work with
our development team to develop a solution, please contact us on inquiry@more4apps.com.
Additionally we are actively building our voice on Oracle’s enhancement forums. If you are willing to
lend your voice to our issues, please let us know.
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Wizards and Loaders
Data handling tools that work “right out of the box”.
Streamline data entry tasks in Oracle EBS with a simple yet powerful Excel-based Wizard, and not only
will you save time; you’ll also reduce error rates.
Over 20 years, we have created EBS Toolbox - a range of software tools that integrate with Oracle’s
E-Business Suite, with the sole objective of releasing talented staff from repetitive data entry tasks for
more productive work. The software tools we build do just that: reducing keystrokes, integrating with
other areas of EBS, and slicing data entry time by significant factors.
More4apps spreadsheets are highly effective end-user products which improve your data entry
processing time within Oracle E-Business Suite.
EBS Toolbox Products are designed to allow you to:
• Prepare and validate the information in Excel
• Load it into Oracle via the public Web ADIs
• Download existing information into a spreadsheet for maintenance or analysis
Nine key functional areas covered
Projects Procure to Pay Order to Cash Inventory Product Definition
Finance Human Resources System Development
Administration Platform
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Projects
Create and maintain Projects, Budgets, Financial Plans, Events, Agreement &
Funding lines and Pre-Approved Transactions easily with the help of Excel and
More4apps.
Project Wizard Labor Cost Rate Loader
The one stop shop for keeping all Project and Task level Easily maintain labor cost rates against projects for data
master data up to date. maintenance or migration.
• Project headers • Planning resources
• Tasks (Financial and • Task progress Unassigned Asset Lines Loader
Workplan) • Actions
Unassigned asset lines can be allocated easily from a
• Key members • Billing assignments
spreadsheet.
• Classifications • Cost codes
• Transaction controls • Deliverables
• Program links • Deliverable assignments
Resource List Members Loader
• Billing overrides • Task physical percent Maintain resource lists easily in the projects module.
• Project assets complete
• Asset assignments • Attachments
“Our staff were frustrated with the highly manual
Project Transaction Wizard
process of managing our contractor payments.
Make your pre-approved transaction data entry a breeze. With the More4apps AP Wizard and Project
Supports all types of project transactions. Wizard we streamlined the whole process. Key
• Timesheets wins included improved staff engagement, a
• Usages cleaner budgeting process and no more accruals.”
• Inventory and WIP
- Shaun Begley, City West Water
• Miscellaneous transactions
• Vendor invoice transactions
• Project journals
• Attachments “The seamless two-way interface More4apps
Budget Wizard Budget Wizard delivers for PJT budgets and
forecasts proved to be a bright spot in a
Upload budgets or financial plans, modify existing challenging implementation. More4apps Budget
budgets, and incorporate actuals for forecasting.
Wizard enabled the client to leverage PJT
• Multiple budget entry method forecasting functionality while allowing project
• Plan types
users to maintain budget spreadsheets. Enterprise
• Draft budgets
reporting could finally include budgets and
Event Wizard forecasts.”
- Project Implementation Specialist
Create and update Revenue and Billing events straight
from an Excel worksheet.
• Revenue events
• Billing events
Agreement & Funding Wizard
Efficiently create and update large numbers of agreements
and fundings from Excel.
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Procure to Pay
Use the power and flexibility of Excel and More4apps to easily validate, create and
update your Procurement data in Oracle.
AP Invoice Wizard Sourcing Wizard
Simplifies payables document management. Create Maintaining Approved Supplier Lists (ASL) and sourcing
invoices, credit-memos, debit-memos, prepayments data is convoluted and time-consuming. Speed ASL,
and more. sourcing rule and assignment creation.
• Multiple invoices and distributions • Approved supplier lists
• Project, Receipt, PO and GL account matching • Vendor managed inventory and consignment
• Batch controls • Create and update sourcing rules
• Additional custom validation • Source at global, Organization, item and category levels
• Attachments
Supplier Wizard
Purchase Order Wizard
Oracle Supplier Entry HTML forms are complex and
Create, control and maintain your Purchase Orders all from difficult to navigate. It’s so much easier to maintain this
within one spreadsheet. information from a spreadsheet.
• Blanket purchase • Quotations • Sites and addresses
agreements • Contracts • Banking details
• Standard POs • Cancel and close • Contacts
• Autocreate POs • Modify shipments • Business classifications
• Complex POs • Attachments
• Approvals process logic available
PO Receiving Wizard
Create, return and correct receipts against Purchase
Banks and Branches Loader
Orders and customer returns. Download data from Consolidate banking maintenance functions in one simple
Oracle to create your receiving transactions from to use tool.
Purchase Orders, Sales Orders, ASN shipment or receiving
• Banks, branches and accounts
transactions.
• Assign accounts to suppliers and customers
• Download approved POs and releases
• Delivery transactions iSupplier User Loader
• Returns and corrections
• Advanced shipments The iSupplier User Loader is an essential when setting
• Return material Authorizations up a large number of Supplier Users. Providing a fast and
reliable way to create users, assign responsibilities and
Requisition Wizard restrictions and send notifications all in one load.
• Create iSupplier User (generate password)
Manage requisitions from Excel. Use requisition templates,
• Assign responsibilities
existing requisitions, quotations and purchase orders in
• Assign supplier site restriction
Oracle as a basis for new requisitions.
• Send a notification to the external user
• Works with Sourcing Rules • Reset user password, deactivate user
• Uses Oracle Account Generator workflow • Add more responsibilities or site restrictions (or revoke them)
• Create Project based distributions
• Search by iProcurement catalog
• Attachments “We were able to complete updates to Supplier
records that would have taken an estimated 60
Price List Wizard See page 9 hours manually - in a single hour”
- Andy, Global Energy Extraction Company
Pricing Modifiers Wizard See page 9
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Order to Cash
Use the power and flexibility of Excel and More4apps to create and update, while
validating your data before it is uploaded into Oracle.
AR Invoice API Wizard Pricing Modifiers Wizard
A power tool for Finance/ Accounting teams coping with Modifier creation gets messy quickly. This tool lays the
month-end transaction volumes. Load invoices, debit data out so modifiers can be easily understood and
memos, credit memos and all receivables commitments updated.
directly from one user-friendly spreadsheet. • Pricing modifiers • Pricing limits
• Invoices • Qualifiers • Price breaks
• Applied and unapplied credit memos • Attributes
• Workflow approvals
• Respects auto-accounting rules Sales Order Wizard
• Attachments
Reduce order entry workload with this tool that processes
Customer Wizard many types of orders including returns with serials, service
orders and configured item orders.
Manage customer data and avoid the cumbersome • Copy and replicate existing orders and quotes
Oracle HTML forms. Perfect for migrations and on-going • Order-date, price and quantity changes
maintenance. • Assemble-to-order Items
• Sites and site uses • Return material Authorizations
• Classifications • Blanket sales agreements
• Profiles • Price book reports
• Contacts • Quote future-dated discounts and promotions
• Communication methods
• Banking details CE Bank Statement Loader
• Credit and debit cards
Loading bank statements can be time consuming and
• Attachments
energy-sapping. Validate and reconcile your statements
AR Receipt Wizard quickly and efficiently from Excel.
Automate the process of creating and allocating receipts. AR Notes Loader
Eliminate the time spent manually checking a remittance
against the allocation. Avoid the labor-intensive task of navigating through
screen after screen to enter notes against customers using
• Invoice allocation to existing receipts
a spreadsheet to load via Oracle’s public APIs.
• Adjustments and unapplied receipts
• Calculated discounts based on discount rules
• Multiple GL distributions for Misc. receipts
“We had several cumbersome processes in order
Price List Wizard to get and maintain data in Oracle. We have been
able to utilize a third-party tool by More4apps in
Easily perform hundreds of price list updates in Excel.
order to easily cleanse data, make data changes
Create and update Price Lists at the click of a button.
and create new customers in our system, and are
• One step price changes
now in the process of creating a new customer
• Qualifiers
creation form that will streamline our customer
• Attributes
• Secondary price lists creation process. All of these tools have, or will,
• Item updates for multiple price lists make our system much more user friendly”
• Download by date range, item and qualifier - Matt Lechner, Centric Group
• Pricing agreements
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Inventory
Stay on top of your inventory, stock costing and manufacturing processes by
enabling your team to create and update data quickly and efficiently.
Item Cost Wizard Stocktake Loader
Effortlessly create and update cost information for Supports all the key physical stocktake tasks, all count
Discrete Standard and Process Manufacturing. options and approvals.
• OPM Actual cost adjustments • Counts
• OPM Standard costs • New tags
• Discrete standard costs • Count approvals
• Rollup and lot multipliers
• Upgrade Header Level EAM Work Management Loader
• Resource rates
Manage your work orders and prepare your maintenance
• Overheads
schedules with a completely integrated set of templates
• Overhead assignments for your maintenance processes.
Material Transaction Wizard • Create and Update Work Orders including Operations,
Resources and Materials
Download transaction history, on hand quantities and • Attach additional work order information
more to build your material transactions. Use the custom • Create and maintain preventive maintenance schedules
package to default subinventories, locators and accounts
to really speed up your data entry. WIP Loader
• Pre-defined and user-defined inventory transactions Control Discrete Work in Process from one place.
• Discrete Manufacturing Average Cost updates
• Project borrow/payback and transfers • Discrete jobs
• Lot and Serial Numbers • Material requirements
• LPN’s • Move, completion and return transactions
• Secondary quantities and units of measure • Over-complete transactions
• Inter-Organization transfers (Issues Only)
• LPN transactions
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Accurate and effective tools for document controllers, product owners and
production staff that help ensure your supply chain is moving.
Bill of Materials Wizard (BOM) Routing Wizard
Mass update component data including supply types and Time critical changes and improvements to the
sub-inventories all from Excel. Consolidate data from manufacturing process can be implemented quickly.
multiple engineering systems to create and update BOM Create and modify Routings, Operations, Resources and
data easily. Resource usage.
• Manufacturing BOMs • Alternate and common routings
• Engineering BOMs • Routing revisions
• EAM Assets and activity BOMs • Alternate resources
• Alternative and common BOMs • Assign to delete-groups
• Component details • Engineering change orders
• Substitute components • Attachments
• Reference designators
• Assigned operations OPM Master Data Loader
• Delete groups
Process manufacturing data creation and maintenance can
• Assembly and component costing
be time consuming tasks, but not any more! Easily create
• BOM Cost rollups and update the following formulas and recipe elements.
• Attachments
• Products
Item Wizard • By-products
• Ingredients
Take the pain and frustration out of item creation, • Plant/Laboratory
maintenance and data conversion with this indispensable • Customers
tool. • Steps
• Item Master • Validity Rules
• Categories
• Catalogs
• ABC Assignment “The uptake of the Wizards by my team has been
• Container items amazing. They are simple to use and we are using
• Cross references them on a daily basis. Issues such as updating
• Customer item XRefs the WIP supply type on Bills of Materials are
• Pending item statuses handled in minutes rather than hours. Ultimately
• Quality specifications
updating item categories is now a simple process.
• Related item
Data improvements are that great, that other
• Safety stock
• Sourcing assignment improvement programs such as Cycle Counting
• Sub-inventory assignment and min/max levels have been introduced to our 70 retail stores.“
• Transaction default -Joseph Reif, Production Scheduler, James Avery
• Intra and Interclass UOMs
• Attachments
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This collection of useful tools are designed to reduce the workload caused by a few
common data entry tasks in the Finance area.
Asset Wizard General Ledger Wizard
Avoid Oracle’s complex forms. Perform mass additions in a Use Excel to create multiple journals across various
single worksheet with full visibility of the asset. ledgers, periods, categories, sources and batches all at
• Additions and mass • Retirements once within the same spreadsheet. No WebADI objects or
additions • Reinstatements
patches required.
• Tax additions • Revaluations • One spreadsheet for multiple ledgers periods categories and
• Adjustments • Transfers sources
• Capitalizations • Units of Production • Actuals journals
• Depreciation • Categories • Encumbrance journals
• Reclassifications • Budget journals
• Budget amounts
GL Daily Rates Loader • Attachments
The GL Daily Rates Loader allows you to update daily rates
quickly into one simple spreadsheet.
• Create and Update daily currency exchange rates
• Maintain consistency of your data and re-evaluations
Human Resources
More4apps tools enable the loading and maintenance of core HR information,
increasing confidence in the accuracy of your employee information.
Employee Wizard Special Information Wizard
Employee on-boarding, maintenance and terminations Reduce data-entry time maintaining Employee Special
are a breeze. Reduce processing time per employee from Information quickly and easily from a spreadsheet.
minutes to seconds.
• Employees, applicants and non-payroll workers Job and Position Loader
• Address, phone and contact details
Manage your Organizations Jobs and Positions from one
• Terminations and absences
simple to use tool.
• Salary, costing, payment and budget information
• Qualifications, performance and reviews
• Grade steps
“Our HR/Payroll department used one of your
• Extra information
Wizards to update employee data (labor rates,
• US federal and state tax
etc.) this Spring. What normally took 5 hours per
Element Entry Wizard employee (their estimate, not mine), took 5 hours
Significantly reduce data-entry time keying-in element
to do the entire company! Now that more people
entries in one place from a single spreadsheet. Supports have succeeded using More4apps, maybe we can
recurring and non-recurring elements. expand the use of your excellent tools.“
- Lamar, IT and Manufacturing Systems Support
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More4apps enables your system administrators to create and maintain the key
parts of Oracle Foundation.
System Administration Loader
• Create and update users, maintain passwords
• Assign or deactivate responsibilities against users
• Assign roles to users
• Enter, activate or deactivate justifications
• Set up user’s responsibility and access
• Set up and maintain Oracle menus and menu structuring
• Assign profiles or remove them from users, sites, or
responsibility levels.
• Update and maintain Flex values
Custom Queries
Design and implement your own download logic and selection filters using More4apps’ powerful Custom-Query
functionality. There’s no need to rely on your end users’ knowledge to ensure the right records are brought down for
updates; you can define your own selection rules and filter logic right from within your More4apps Wizard.
Create simple or complex download queries including parent/child dependent sub-queries, and build your own validation
or look up translations directly into the query logic. You can also build hard-coded restrictions to filter data sets or allow
the end user the power to filter by any column in the worksheet. All queries are stored on the database and are assigned to
responsibilities, making them available to multiple users.
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With such a range of products it’s tempting to think there’s an off-the-shelf
solution for every type of data element - and for core functionality that’s accurate.
However, every Organization has specific needs, so Application Interface Wizard
provides you with a platform to build the solutions you need, when you need them.
Application Interface Wizard
• Basic SQL knowledge is all that’s required • Multi-language enabled
• Automatically generated end user forms • Pre/Post PL/SQL calls to reduce API wrappers and provide
• Control your data quality with LOV’s, datatypes and low level data validation
additional rules • Column Level PL/SQL
• Descriptive and Key Flexfield support • All PL/SQL called in validation mode
• Parent-child data upload and download functionality • User friendly configuration and debugging
• Works with any EBS table or PL/SQL package • Concurrent program submission support
• Secure loader templates to responsibilities • Refresh Interface table results
• Download data using your own predefined queries
With a few mouse-clicks and “copy and pastes” a developer can be up and running, building your Organization specific
loaders with very little training and just some basic SQL knowledge. Once built they can be imported and exported
between your instances, so there’s never a need to reinvent the wheel. As always, More4apps’ highly regarded support
team are on-hand to provide guidance and expert advice to help you through the process and get you going as quickly and
easily as possible.
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Gabriel Stern - Experian
In terms of enhancements and support, More4apps has been a strategic partner for Experian as we
operate in several countries, each with its own features. We no longer spend development time in many
of these business areas.
Support also has been a good experience for us. More4apps acknowledges the incidents within the
hour, and the average resolution time tends not to exceed one week. The DBAs install the wizards
quickly in minutes. Named users assignments sit with a key user.
More4apps has been a significant contributor to reducing costs at Experian. It has had a very positive
impact on implementation cycles, on data entry standardization and data processing errors.
Tony Maschinot - Toyota Boshoku
At Toyota Boshoku, the manufacturing landscape is a complex web of interactions. We have
commenced production at our first plant using the BOM Wizard and it has proven to be well worth the
small expense. With the introduction of the More4apps BOM Wizard, our users reported that we could
reduce the amount of time required to enter these BOMs manually, from 3-4 weeks down to 3-4 days!
The success we are already seeing has led us to evaluating other Wizards from More4apps.
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Agreement & Funding Wizard AR Invoice-API Wizard Asset Wizard
Budget Wizard AR Receipt Wizard General Ledger Wizard
Event Wizard Customer Wizard GL Daily Rates Loader
Project Wizard Price List Wizard
Project Transaction Wizard Pricing Modifiers Wizard
Labor Cost Rate Loader Sales Order Wizard
Human Resources
Unassigned Asset Lines Loader AR Notes Loader Element Entry Wizard
Resource List Members Loader CE Bank Statement Loader Employee Wizard
Special Information Wizard
Job and Position Loader
Procure to Pay Inventory
AP Invoice Wizard Item Cost Wizard
Purchase Order Wizard Material Transaction Wizard
System Administration
PO Receiving Wizard EAM Work Management Loader System Administration Loader
Price List Wizard Stocktake Loader
Pricing Modifiers Wizard WIP Loader Development Platform
Requisition Wizard
Sourcing Wizard Application Interface Wizard
Supplier Wizard
Product Definition
Banks and Branches Loader Routing Wizard
iSupplier User Loader Bill of Materials Wizard
Item Wizard
OPM Master Data Loader
NEW in 2020
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