R12: Master GDF for Payables Information

Want to know how we proactively identify problems in Payables before they actually become problems for our business?  Download the file found in My Oracle Support document "R12: Master GDF Diagnostic (MGD) to Validate Data Related to Invoices, Payments, Accounting, Suppliers and EBTax [VIDEO]" from note ID 1360390.1 and make this part of your routine during the month so that at Month End you do not run into a surprise problem!

Weekend Learning: GDF - R12 stuck invoices

A few days ago I shared another GDF for Purchasing and tonight the MOS article "R12: Generic Data Fix (GDF) patch for "stuck" invoices after PPR is terminated or completed" from note ID 874862.1 gives you a GDF for Payables that might be even more useful!  When a Payment Process Request (PPR) does not complete successfully invoices can be stuck and this GDF will allow you to run the datafix script to fix them, and also find bugs behind the root causes so you can patch your system in order to prevent them on a go forward basis.

R12: GDF - Mismatch between PO_DISTRIBUTIONS_ALL and PO_LINE_LOCATIONS_ALL

Have you ever used the Generic Data Fixes provided by My Oracle Support?  Tonight I introduce the article "R12: Generic Data Fix (GDF) patch - Mismatch in Values Between PO_DISTRIBUTIONS_ALL and PO_LINE_LOCATIONS_ALL related to Invoice Matching" from document ID 1322280.1 so you can learn what it does, what bug it is in relation to, why it is needed, and also more importantly when to use it.  You can even run a Diagnostic with an included note to find out if you are suffering from this data corruption!