Company

Post Implementation Release Testing on Procurement

Post Implementation Release Testing on Procurement
Client

Client

A large consumer products manufacturing company undertook a multi-year Oracle ERP program to streamline its operations. Phase 1 focused on implementing Oracle E-Business Suite Financials, followed by Phase 2, which introduced centralized purchasing and partial deployment of self-service procurement tools like iProcurement, SLM, and iSupplier Portal.

Challenge

Challenge

As the company expanded procurement capabilities to more vendors, it faced time-consuming and repetitive testing cycles for each release. Regression testing was largely manual, except for Financials, which had some automation. Additionally, closing financial periods for each business unit and module was resource-intensive. The company wanted to reduce testing effort and cycle time using automation.

Solution

Solution

To address this, OATS (Oracle Application Testing Suite) was extended to automate testing for Procurement modules such as iProcurement, Purchasing, iSupplier, SLM, SDH, PDH, EB-Tax, and OPM. Over 250 scripts were developed, including those for automating the financial period close process. This covered tasks like period open/close, reconciliation reports, and related validations.