FUNCTIONAL SET-UP MANAGER IN ORACLE FUSION HCM Details

Oracle Fusion Functional Setup Manager is the application used to perform the setup tasks required to complete the implementation of Oracle Fusion Applications. The application implementation process includes both manual activities and activities executed within the Setup and Maintenance work area within Oracle Fusion Applications.
– Plan
– Install
– Configure
– Implement
– Export

Roles required to access FSM are:
• Application Implementation Manager
• Application Implementation Consultant

It utilizes some specific terminology to refer to its own functionality:

• Offering: Offering is the highest level grouping of Oracle Fusion Applications functionality and is typically the starting point for configuration decisions. You create your implementation project by selecting offerings, options and features. An offering contains all of the tasks required to implement the top level business process.
• Option: Within an offering, there may be one or more options that represent optional business processes possible within that offering.
• Feature: Features are used to define the business rules for the implementation and how the transactions of the corresponding business process work. Features can be available for offerings, options or even other features. Implementation Project: Defines the scope of what to implement. It includes one or more offerings.

• Task List: By selecting the combination of offerings, options and features, the list of appropriate setup tasks list is dynamically generated by Functional Setup Manager
• Scope: Scope, as used in Oracle Fusion Functional Setup Manager, refers to an object that allows a task list to be executed repeatedly
• Configuration Package: The implementation project structure plus the setup data. This can be exported then imported into another instance. 

Getting Start Page

The Getting Started page presents information about the Offerings available for implementation, allowing the implementer to compare the business requirements to the available functionality of Oracle Fusion Applications.

Standard Reports

The various reports provide more detailed information about what type of transactions and functionality are available within each of the offerings. Reports related to each offering are available as HTML, PDF and Excel documents.

Viewing FSM Provided Reports and Documents

Offering Content Guide describes the detailed contents of the Offering for the current version of the application.It also provides a functional description of the components of the Offering. Reviewing this document provides an understanding of what functionality the Offering provides.

Associated Features Report: Displays the Options and Features for the Offering used for detailed application configuration decisions.  It displays a list of features available with the Offering, including what level the feature is associated with, as well as the choices available are also displayed.

Setup Task Lists and Tasks Report: It Lists the Tasks and Task Lists for an Offering, related to application configuration and displays the setup tasks required to implement the functionality available in the Offering.

Related Enterprise Applications Report:  Lists the Enterprise Applications the Offering requires for functional setup and transactional tasks. For the selected offering, specifies the application required based on transaction type.

Related Business Objects Report: Lists the Business Objects that the Offering uses. All Business Objects for the Offering are listed, along with the applicable web service used for the export and import process.