CCR Integration

Continuing its strong relationship with DOT and USCG, GCE is developing the Vendor Management System (VMS) for USCG Finance Center in Chesapeake, VA. With the implementation of Oracle Financials as USCG’s core accounting system, it is imperative to unify the various vendor databases throughout USCG into one central repository of vendors that all field applications can share. GCE developed VMS to provide a process for populating the Oracle Financials Purchase Order (PO) module vendor tables with existing legacy system vendors. VMS eliminates vendor duplicates in the vendor repository and preserves integrity of vendors, especially payment sensitive data such as bank account and TIN data. The central Oracle Financials vendor repository must be continually updated. Many updates arrive from external systems such as the Central Contract Registry (CCR) while the payment clerks at the Finance Center perform online management of vendors. VMS automatically manages these ongoing maintenance activities.

A major innovation born from the VMS project is the development of GCE’s CCR Plug-in for Oracle Financials. GCE’s CCR Plug-in provides a process for integrating the Commercial Contract Registry (CCR) vendor listing with Oracle Financials thereby making this industry-wide standard vendor list available to any government agency using Oracle Financials.