Minutes of the Atlanta OAUG Meeting

Date: Friday, August 18, 2000

Time Called: 9:30 a.m.

Location: Villa Christina - Hosted by AnswerThink

I. Presentation

Member Spotlight – United Parcel Service

Ed Beckett, UPS

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2000index.html

II. Presentation

R11i Upgrade Panel

Workflow/Projects Karen Gilbert, CSA Consulting, OAUG Director

Technical Chris Taylor, Chick-fil-A

GL, AP, AR, PO Dan Strain, Chick-fil-A

HR Natalie Jones, PWC

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2000index.html

 

III. Breakout Sessions

The following sessions were held on August 18

1) R11i Upgrade Panel

Karen, Chris, Dan, Natalie

2) Adding Fields to Folder Forms

Scott Mitchell, Stonebridge

3) APS - Advance Planning and Scheduling

Chris Spangler – Deloitte

Volunteers are needed to facilitate future breakout sessions. Please send an email to bcarlton@sprynet.com and volunteer in your area of expertise.

  1. Vendor Spotlight – BPA Systems

During our networking time (9:00 – 9:30) one vendor is invited to display and demo their product offering.

V. Response to Issues Forum via OAUG Meeting with Oracle Executives – Karen Gilbert, CSA Consulting

VI. General Business - Brenda Carlton, e.Solutions Consulting

Next Meeting – September 15

Host: Motorola

Location: 1700 Belle Mead Court, Building #5, Lawrenceville, 770-338-3000 (see map at www.atloaug.org)

Reservations: Manisha Patel, Manisha.Patel@motorola.com, 770-338-3654

September 15 Agenda

Presentation #1 Member Spotlight

Motorola

Presentation #2 Release 11i Functionality – Deloitte Consulting

Michael McKinney General Ledger

Tim Cronin Receivables

Amy Dofenblack Payables

Vendor Spotlight – Kintana – http://www.kintana.com/partners/technology_alliances/current_technology_alliances.htm]

Breakout Sessions, 11:00 – 12:00

1) e-Travel Oracle

2) R11i General Ledger Michael McKinney, Deloitte

3) R11i Receivables Tim Cronin, Deloitte

4) R11i Payables Amy Dofenblack, Deloitte

5) Technical Issues Migrating to R11i Kintana

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Volunteers Needed

Volunteers needed to present a topic, facilitate a breakout session, serve on a panel or present their company as the Member Spotlight Company. Send an email to bcarlton@sprynet.com.

Liaison Contact Person Needed from each Member Company

One liaison is needed from each company to forward Atl-OAUG notifications and newsletters to the other Oracle users/consultants within your company. Consultants are encouraged to invite their clients to Atl-OAUG.

Thanks!

Thanks to AnswerThink for providing us with the conference space, refreshments and audiovisual equipment. Thanks also go to AnswerThink, BPA Systems, Motorola, OAUG for providing door prizes.

125 attendees were present – a new record!!! Companies represented are as follows:

Users:

NCR (26!), Johnson Controls, GE Card Services, Greenway Medical, UPS, Equifax, Tensar, National Data Corp, BellSouth, Motorola, U.S. Dept of Energy, J.M. Huber, PurePacket Communications, Chick-fil-A, LendLease REI, Matsushita Battery, Southland ING, ChoicePoint, Advanced Glassfiber Yarns

 

Consultants:

e.Solutions, Application Technology Services, The DBA Group, Cumberland Tech, Sage Group, CSA, Oasis, PricewaterhouseCoopers, AnswerThink, Advanced Database Services, ThinkFast, Deloitte, MacQuarium

Vendors

DecisionPoint, Kintana, RPC, Kronos, OptioSoftware, Oracle, Cedar Group