Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.15 – What’s New

A Technical Overview of the 2025 EBS Innovation Release

Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) 12.2.15 delivers a significant wave of enhancements across ERP, SCM, HCM, Service, and Applications Technology. The release continues Oracle’s long-term commitment to EBS, backed by Premier Support through at least 2036, ensuring a stable and strategically supported platform.

This article highlights the major technical and functional enhancements introduced in EBS 12.2.15 and provides a clear, modernized view for architects, functional consultants, and technical teams.




 1. Strategic Themes of the Release

Customer-Driven Enhancements

Oracle has prioritized features voted in the Ideas Lab and improvements requested through SRs and customer engagements.

Sustained Investment in EBS

  • Annual EBS 12.2 updates continue
  • Semi-annual updates for Enterprise Command Centers (ECC)
  • Ongoing modernization with REST services, Redwood UX, mobile apps, and JET-based pages

Long-Term Support Commitment

EBS remains on Oracle's rolling 10+ years of Premier Support, now extending availability through 2036 and beyond.

2. Key Enhancements Across ERP Modules

Receivables

  • New reconciliation dashboard to analyze discrepancies between AR subledger and GL.
  • Enhanced visibility using ECC components.

General Ledger

  • Account Analysis dashboard now supports descriptive flexfields (DFFs).
  • Improved reporting performance and usability enhancements.

Payables

  • Open Liabilities dashboard updated with:
    • Multi-Org Access Control (MOAC)
    • Subledger Validation Services (SVS)

Lease Accounting

  • Better mid-life lease modification support
  • Improved payment processing
  • Full compliance support for IFRS16, ASC842, GASB87, SFFAS54

Lease & Finance Management

  • Enhancements to cash flows, contracts, investor management, and asset lifecycle.

Procurement

  • Tighter supplier security
  • Notification-based workflows for sensitive changes
  • Built-in fraud-detection triggers for supplier updates

iSupplier Portal

  • Enables supplier brokers to actively participate in negotiation processes.

Projects

  • Extended AME approval workflows
  • Major updates for U.S. Federal G-Invoicing, including REST endpoints

3. Supply Chain Management (SCM) Enhancements

Order Management & Logistics

  • Ability to cancel/transact lost in-transit items
  • Intercompany invoicing for multi-node internal transfers
  • Inspection enhancements including skip-lot and sample-based inspections

Channel Revenue Management

  • Back-dated adjustment repricing
  • Improved SLA performance with grouped accruals

Warehouse Management (WMS)

  • New mobile dashboards for:
    • Cycle counting
    • Outbound operations
  • Machine-learning-based priority recommendations
  • Enhanced configurable rules for inspections and picking
  • Pallet-based picking improvements

Manufacturing

  • Cost Planning & Margin Analysis:
    • New analytical tools for cost drivers, sourcing strategies, and tariff impacts

  • MES and Process Manufacturing:
    • New HTML UI enhancements
    • Improved resource load charts and Gantt views

  • Quality Management:
    • Enhanced control charts and analytics

  • Product Hub:
    • Modern HTML interfaces for product structures

  • Outsourced Manufacturing:
    • Full support for actual costing

  • Scrap Management:
    • Track and account for different scrap types

4. Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM)

  • AI-generated maintenance work order summaries
  • Modernized Scheduler Workbench UI (JET)
  • Mobile app enhancements:
    • Follow-up work orders
    • Offline attachment support
    • Quality capture via mobile workflows

5. Service & Field Operations Enhancements

Field Service

  • AI-generated service activity summaries
  • Modern Windows laptop application
  • New JET-based Dispatch Center HTML UI

Service Contracts

  • Performance improvements
  • Better billing and renewals workflow support

6. Human Capital Management (HCM)

  • Unified Mobile Home Page integrating multiple EBS mobile apps
  • Rebuilt Mobile Learning App using Oracle JET
  • New, modern JET-based Organization Chart
  • Updates across Learning, Self-Service HR, and Core HR workflows

7. Applications Technology & User Experience

Redwood UX Expansion

  • More EBS components transitioning to Redwood styling
  • Modern login page and shared UI components

Enterprise Command Centers (ECC)

  • Personalization merge tool for seamless ECC updates
  • New ECC dashboards across ERP, SCM, and HCM

REST, OAF, and ADF Improvements

  • Expanded REST API coverage for integration and automation
  • Performance enhancements for OAF-based pages

Documentation & Lifecycle Tools

  • New “EBS What’s New” Portal for cross-release visibility
  • Clearer upgrade path documentation
  • Compatibility updates for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) deployment

8. Availability & Patching

  • EBS 12.2.15 is available via MOS as Patch 37182900
  • Fully cumulative across all previous 12.2 releases
  • ECC, Mobile Apps, and HRMS RUP19 require separate patching

Summary

Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.15 delivers a comprehensive set of functional, technical, and UX improvements designed to modernize





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