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Aclaren
Oracle Fusion Cloud & E-Business Suite advisory

Your ERP should run the business, not run you.

Aclaren is an advisory practice for Oracle Fusion Cloud and E-Business Suite. We go deep where generalist system integrators stall — supply chain, cost accounting and finance integration are our strongest ground, and we take on the wider architecture around them too.

18+ years
Inside Oracle SCM & ERP ecosystems
EBS → Fusion
Greenfield rollouts and migrations
SCM & Costing
Deepest where finance meets supply chain
SOX-aligned
Auditable flows and segregation of duties

You probably found us because of one of these.

These are the problems clients bring us most — many rooted in supply chain and cost accounting, some wider. If one sounds uncomfortably familiar, tell us about it.

Close keeps slipping

Cost accounting and receipt accounting exceptions pile up every period, and finance spends days chasing them manually instead of reviewing results.

Inventory value doesn't tie

Subledger balances drift from the general ledger, nobody can explain the variance quickly, and the audit question is getting harder to answer each quarter.

Contract manufacturing costs are opaque

Outside processing and contract manufacturing flows post in ways the cost team can't defend, so true unit cost is a spreadsheet exercise rather than a system output.

Capitalization is stuck in clearing

Project and CIP balances sit unresolved between procurement, cost management and fixed assets, so equipment capitalizes late and depreciation is restated.

The migration design smells wrong

You're mid-programme on EBS to Fusion, the costing and item master design has been signed off, and something about it is not going to survive first close.

Your SI is out of depth

The implementation partner is strong on configuration and thin on the harder accounting logic. You need someone who can tell you, independently, whether the answer you're being given is correct.

Order-to-cash or procure-to-pay is clogged

Orders, shipments or invoices stall between systems and teams, and nobody owns the end-to-end flow well enough to fix it permanently.

Reporting doesn't match reality

OTBI, BI Publisher or downstream analytics show numbers the business doesn't trust, and tracing the discrepancy back to its source takes days each time.

Scoped engagements, not open-ended advisory.

Each of these has a defined input, a defined output, and a defined end.

2–3 weeks · fixed fee

Cost Management health check

A structured diagnostic of your Fusion or EBS costing footprint: valuation structures, cost profiles, accounting rules, exception backlog and close dependencies. You get a written findings report with ranked issues, root causes, and the fix sequence — usable with or without us.

  • Exception and variance root-cause analysis
  • Subledger-to-GL reconciliation review
  • Prioritised remediation roadmap
Project

Month-end close acceleration

We take the close apart period by period: what blocks, what re-runs, what gets fixed by hand every month. Then we remove the causes rather than the symptoms — accounting rule design, exception prevention, sequencing, and the reconciliation controls that let finance sign off with confidence.

  • Receipt accounting and accrual clearing
  • Un-invoiced receipt and variance treatment
  • Repeatable close checklist and controls
Programme

EBS to Fusion migration architecture

The costing and master data decisions made in the first eight weeks of a Fusion programme determine whether close works in year one. We design those decisions: cost organisation and book structures, item and BOM governance, opening balance strategy, and cutover sequencing.

  • Cost org, book and valuation unit design
  • Master data governance and conversion strategy
  • Cutover, parallel run and opening balance plan
1–2 weeks

Independent design review

A second opinion on a solution design you've already been given. We review the proposed architecture against how Fusion actually behaves at period end, flag what will break, and tell you plainly which concerns are real and which are not. No competing bid, no agenda.

  • Design and configuration risk assessment
  • Standard versus extension trade-off analysis
  • Written position you can take to your partner
Project

Manufacturing & contract cost flows

Discrete manufacturing, outside processing, contract manufacturing and intercompany transfers are where standard costing quietly stops telling the truth. We redesign the flows so unit cost, absorption and margin come out of the system defensible.

  • WIP, BOM and routing cost integrity
  • Intercompany and transfer pricing accounting
  • CIP to fixed asset capitalization flows
Retainer

Fractional SCM solution architect

Ongoing senior architecture capacity without a permanent hire. A fixed number of days each month for design decisions, escalations, release readiness and keeping your roadmap and your subledger pointed in the same direction.

  • Design authority for SCM and costing change
  • Quarterly update and regression readiness
  • Backlog shaping and acceptance criteria

What we cover.

Our practice spans Oracle Fusion Cloud and E-Business Suite architecture end to end, built on eighteen years across product engineering, global greenfield rollouts, and multi-entity operations — with particular depth in supply chain and cost accounting.

If your problem sits outside this list, we'll say so up front and point you somewhere better.

Supply chain

  • Cost Management
  • Receipt Accounting
  • Inventory & WMS
  • Manufacturing (WIP, BOM)
  • Procurement & P2P
  • Order Management & GOP
  • Shipping & logistics
  • Contract manufacturing & OSP

Finance integration

  • Subledger Accounting
  • Inventory valuation
  • Intercompany accounting
  • Project costing & clearing
  • Fixed Assets & CIP
  • General Ledger reconciliation
  • SOX controls & segregation of duties
  • Period close design

Platform & data

  • Fusion Cloud SaaS & PaaS extensions
  • E-Business Suite R12
  • Master data governance
  • Data migration & cutover
  • OTBI, BI Publisher, OBIEE
  • SQL & PL/SQL performance tuning
  • Cloud analytics pipelines
  • Forecasting & anomaly detection

How an engagement runs.

No discovery theatre, no thirty-person pyramid. You work directly with the architect doing the work.

  1. Step 1

    Tell us the problem

    Send us a short description of what's happening. We reply within 24 hours with an initial read on what usually causes it and whether we're the right people.

  2. Step 2

    Scoped proposal

    A short written proposal with a fixed scope, a fixed fee where the work allows it, and a defined deliverable. One page, not forty slides.

  3. Step 3

    Findings and design

    We work in your system and with your team, then hand over a written position: what is wrong, why, what to change, and in what order.

  4. Step 4

    Execution or handover

    We either implement it alongside your team, or hand it to your SI in a form they can build from. Your call — we don't need to own the delivery to be useful.

Senior-only The person on the call is the person doing the work. Nothing is handed down to a bench.
Standard before custom We exhaust what the product already does before proposing an extension. Custom code is a cost, not a deliverable.
Written, not narrated Every engagement ends with a document your team can act on after we've gone.
Aclaren Advisory

Solving Your Complex ERP Challenges - From Architecture to Execution

Aclaren partners with enterprise teams to untangle complex IT architecture, streamline systems, and turn technical bottlenecks into durable advantage. Tell us where it hurts—we'll bring the blueprint.

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