Trading Community Architecture (TCA)

Oracle Trading Community Architecture (TCA) is a data model that allows you to manage complex information about the parties, or customers, who belong to your commercial community, including organizations, locations, and the network of hierarchical relationships among them.

In other words, TCA provides a single, common definition that can be used to identify customers, suppliers and organizations that provide you with goods or services and are in turn, a customer of your own products or services. The TCA repository stores the key elements that define an organization, identity, business locations, and key contacts, so that different Oracle products use a common trading partner definition.

The Following are defined in the TCA:

1.  Customer

2.  Bank and Bank Branch

3.  Supplier

4.  Student

5.  Employee

6.  Legal entity and intercompany

For example, suppliers can be set up from many different applications, but the date is stored in a single repository, i.e., TCA.

Applications that share supplier information are:

Purchasing:  Purchasing uses supplier defaults, such as freight terms and shipping details, on requisitions, purchase orders, requests for quotations, etc.

Payables:  Payables uses supplier defaults, such as method of payment and bank account information, during entry and payment processing.

Assets:  Assets maintains the supplier name and number for each asset record.

Property Manager:  Property Manager exports lease invoices for suppliers to Payables so they may be paid.

Multiple Organization Access Control (MOAC):  If you are using multiple organization feature, you cannot enter the following information at the supplier level, only at the supplier site level:

Liability Account

Prepayment Account

Distribution Set

Invoice Tax Code

Future Dated Payment Account

iSupplier Portal:  iSupplier Portal allows you to grant access to suppliers to review order, receipt, and payment details for the supplier. Suppliers can enter planned (with PO) or unplanned (without PO) invoices and update supplier information.