Operational Oracle Apps Interview Questions & Answers:

1. Is UOM maintained at master level or organization level or both?

both, master and org. Google it.

2. Differentiate between intra & inter UOM class conversion with examples?

In UOM Two Conversions One Is
Inter UOM
Intra UOM
Inter:
The Conversion Rate will Be Changed To An item With in
Different UOM Class..
Eg:Gn oil Kg=0.961 Lt..
Intra :
The Conversion Rate Will Be Changed To The Different
Items With in the Same UOM Class.
Eg:1 Case Bottles=12 Each
1 Case Bottles=24 Each

3. Name of the reports in oracle inventory related to transaction?

Transaction Register
Material Distribution Detail Report
Material Distribution Summary Report

4. What is the difference between workday calendar and accounting calendar?

Workday calendar is simply use for transactional purposes.
For example in treasury in counting of money placements with
the define workday calendar you define working days is 5
days only excluding week ends, and this is the same AP
wherein you defined in aging of payables it will count due
date after you have set terms date, and so fourth in for AR.

While, the accounting calendar this is the financial period.
In defining it we will just simply refer to calendar 12
month and or 13 month including the adjustment period. This
is where the start and end of every financial periods and
cut off of reporting period in the financial statements.

5. How to define an expense type or asset type item?

Under Costing tab, if u unchecked "inventory asset value"
attribute it becomes expense item and if checked it becomes
asset type item.

6. How to change an items UOM?

We can change item's UOM in Item master responsibility..

if the Item Code is already transacted then we can't change the UOM .
if the item code is not transacted then we can chaenge the UOM.

7. What characters can i use in an item name(including special characters)?

Its all depends upon the item kff and the value sets.
Dont use special char like #,@,%,&
Some char like %,_,# have special meaning while perfoming query by form

8. How to increase the number of invoices at the time of
payment. Actualty in my setup it will not take more than 300 invoices?

Keep it balnk for the same. It will allow to select all
invoices

9. WHAT IS ACCOUNTING CONVENTION, WHY WILL WE USE IT?

Accounting Convention which is nothing but subledger
accounting. It is the additional feature introduced in R12

For Eg. If the company in India is primary company and it
has branch at US which we can treat as secondary or subsidary,

1) In us its functional currency is USD which differs with
Primary country functional currency,
2) In US Calander is from 01-jan to 31-dec and in Primary
company Calander is 01-APR TO 31-MAR
3)BASED ON PRIMARY COMPANY REQUIREMENT ACCOUNTS ARE CREATED
AND SAME WAY SECONDARY COMPANY ALSO HAVING ITS OWN ACCOUNTS
KEY FLEXI FIELDS

10. What is global tempory table?

Global temporary tables are temporary table for perticular session.
Global temporary tables are two types,
1.Transaction wise temporary table
2.Session wise temporary tables.
In transaction wise temporary tables we will use on commit delete rows keyword, which delete the data whenever we do commit.
In session wise temporary table we will use on commit preserve rows keyword, which preserve the data till the end of that session.