TCA Data Model between 11.x and 12.x

Question

Hi,
Just wanted to check whether there is significant change in Customer Data Model (TCA) between 11.5.10.2 and R12.
I am looking whether there is any change in Table Structure/ APIs etc between these two versions.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Dinesh

Answer 1

Hello,
11i TCA already equipped to handle the following entities
1. Customer
2. Employee
3. Student
However, R12 brings a change to the above by adding several new trading entities to it, viz.
*1. Suppiler*
* Supplier, supplier site, & supplier contact information migrated to TCA tables
* Three new AP tables are introduced to store the supplier information, viz.
AP_SUPPLIERS AP_SUPPLIER_SITES_ALL AP_SUPPLIER_CONTACTS
* The old PO_VENDORS table is obsolete now, but exists as a view to provide the backward compatibility
*2. Bank & Branches*
* Bank is now centralized model as part of R12 architecture and Cash Management owns it
* The three key Cash Management tables to store Bank information are:
1. CE_BANK_ACCOUNTS - Stores bank accounts
2. CE_BANK_ACCT_USES_ALL - Stores account uses by Operating Units & Legal Entities
3. CE_GL_ACCOUNTS_CCID - Stores bank account use accounting data
* The TCA party model is being used to model banks and bank branches as parties with the associated attributes of Relationships, Address, Contact and Locations
*3. LE & Intercompany*
Regards,
ND