anil

• Oct 4th, 2006

 

Trading Community Architecture (TCA) is a structure designed to support complex trading relationships within an organization. The TCA model revolves around the party concept and the relationships associated with it.

gajendra_nath

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• Sep 11th, 2008

 

TCA API's brought a fresh approach to standardise DML's in Oracle Apps. I think this is one of Oracle's best written modules in APPS, but the flaws that exist are primarily because Oracle developed TCA a bit too late, after the other modules like Payables, Receivables etc. What is TCA TCA stands for trading community architecture. As the name suggests, any business with which a company does or did trading or can potentially do trading in future can be in Oracle TCA. With whom can we possibly trade with in Oracle Applications? To name a few....

1. Customers - We sell our products/services & bill customers using Order Management & Receivables

2. Suppliers - They sell us their goods (PO & iProc) and we pay their
Payables invoices in Oracle

3. Employees - These can be special customers, or pseudo vendor if they even
sue you, as you make them payment.

4. Banks Banks - can be paying us interest, or charging penalties, or selling
us products.

5. Insurance Company - This is Interesting. When you buy their policy, you become their customer. However when you make a claim,
they become your customer (as you get paid).

6. Students - Even more interesting than 5 above. They are your customers, as you would bill them. They can become your staff latter. Or they can become your vendor if they become independent contractor latter by selling their services to you. Even more, they can become your student again (for post-grad), after resigning as an employee.