AST - Release 12 - New Features in R12

•	Increased capabilities of Profitability Manager to analyze and report on any segment of your business operations
•	Optimization of supply chain operations with Oracle Strategic Network Optimization (SNO)
•	Project Portfolio Analysis helps align projects at any location to your global business objectives
•	Project Portfolio Management for project-oriented or IT-oriented organizations with investments that must be balanced in a portfolio
•	Advanced dashboard and reporting capabilities to give your managers and staff the information they need to make informed decisions regardless of location
•	Centralized functions for accounting, sales/use tax, and banking
•	Streamlined processing and reporting across multiple ledgers
•	Simplified procurement processes and efficient management of suppliers with the consolidated work center in Oracle Advanced Procurement
•	Centralized maintenance of accounting and setup to make accounting practices more consistent and more flexible to comply with regulations
•	Centralized compliance management to manage assets and processes, thereby lowering risk and the cost of managing compliance
•	Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) Business Process Manager to allows easier and lower cost of integration of R12 with different processes and third-party applications.
•	Updated Web Services Repository adapts business processes and integrates R12 with third-party applications to create cross-business and cross-product flows.
•	Certified on Oracle Fusion Middleware to manage processes spanning different applications.
•	Pre-built, adaptable flows for industry-specific processes
•	Business Intelligence Publisher leverages the inherent XML in Microsoft Word and Excel and Adobe Acrobat, allowing both publishing and editing reports in a customer-ready format