Fred Friedel and Robyn DeFilippis of Lithonia Lighting will be sharing triumphs and tribulations of their recent Oracle 11.02 implementation. They have implemented General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Purchasing on Windows NT with Dell's latest server technology. They are currently implementing Inventory, Fixed Assets, Projects and OFA in a multi-server configuration. Lithonia Lighting is North America's largest manufacturer of lighting equipment for commercial, industrial, outdoor and residential applications. Headquartered in Conyers, Georgia, Lithonia operates 10 manufacturing facilities in the United States, Canada and Mexico and maintains five distribution centers and a North American network of regional warehouses.

Workflow is an Oracle tool designed to add functionality to the Oracle Applications in an easily maintainable and object oriented way. Additional business rules can be built into the applications to better fit each company's business practices. Account generator workflows have replaced Flexbuilder in Release 11, and workflows can replace Alerts too. Therefore it is important for future users of the applications to understand Workflow and its features. This presentation will explain the components of Workflow and how to alter the seeded processes to perform the Account Generator workflow. Examples of Alert applications will also be discussed.