Functional Setup Manager
What is Functional Setup Manager (FSM) ?
Functional Setup Manager (FSM) is a fully integrated setup tool in Oracle Fusion Applications which provides end-to-end guidance on processes to manage implementation and maintenance of the applications thru its life cycle. It can be accessed from the Setup and Maintenance work area in the application.
FSM Components -Â Offerings, functional areas and features go hand in hand for FSM.
What's an offering?
It is the highest-level grouping of business functionality.Â
It typically is a starting point of application configuration.Â
Its the core driver of implementing Oracle Fusion Applications.
It groups one or more business processes and activities as a unit.Â
It includes optional business processes and rules known as options and features.
What's an option?
It is a specific functionality chosen for implementation from the offering. Â
It can be either included or excluded from it’s parent offering.
It is hierarchical in nature and can be subordinate to another option.
What's a feature?
It is alternative business method or rule used to fine-tune business processes and activities supported by an offering or an option.
FSMÂ specific terms -Â Â
Implementation Project - After the offering and functional area selection, the first step is to create an implementation project.
Task List - A setup task list is a hierarchical and logical grouping of related setup tasks which will be performed together.
Task - Task provide the navigation to the setup pages for initial configuration. A setup task allows to enter setup data and make it readily available for transaction processing.
Configuration Package - Completely packaged unit of an implementation project, its related business objects and data for moving from one instance to another.
Roles with Access to FSM -Â
Application Implementation Consultant
Application Implementation Administrator
Why FSM?
Oracle Application life cycle includes phases of Planning, Configuration, Implementation, Deployment, and Maintenance.Â
Self-sufficient admin tool – Fully guided process to handle each phase of implementation, can also be effectively used as project managerial tool to monitor progress of assigned tasks completed by team members.Â
Complete transparency – Automatically generated task lists include prerequisites and dependent task ensuring full visibility
Configurable and extensible – Easy to configure and extend pre-packaged list of tasks to fit with the business requirements.
Comprehensive reporting - A set of built-in reports help to analyse, validate, and audit configurations, implementations and setup data of Oracle Fusion applications.
