Use of Procurement Card w/e-Business Suite (11.5.9)

Our company has made the decision to start using P Card. The company that we get the card from provides their own web-hosted application that allows for on-line review and approval routing of charges as well as reporting.
In my mind, this approach eliminates the need for us to use the "Procurement Card Management" functionality available under the Payables module of e-Business Suite 11i.
Can anyone provide a list of pros/cons to using card company's application vs. Oracle's functionality? Successes/failures?
Upon final approval of the credit card bill, we would also download files from the card provider's application into either Payables or General Ledger to record the spend. If we decide to download to Payables, we could load the transactions at the individual supplier level (as zero dollar invoices so as not to "double-up" on liability), thereby allowing us to record the actual spend at the supplier level.
Again, pros/cons to doing this? Guidance? Good idea/bad idea?, etc.
Any responses are most welcome! Thank you!

The Workflow Status monitor diagram is loaded using Applet that runs on JInitiator in E-Business Suite. There was an issue when loading the status monitor using SSL (HTTPS) and it was resolved and a patch is available on Metalink.
Please enable Java Console and load the status monitor. This will give the complete log of loading status monitor. This could help identify what the issue is and search in Metalink for hits.
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Are Pcards only an SRM functionality?

Hi
   PCard is a visa or master card credit card that offers alternative procurement, issued to an individual and the individual is responsible for its use and may be personally liable if the card is misused.
Functional Flow
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    3. Purchase with Credit Card.
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I want to get E-business suite session in Java program.

Hi User,
TRY THIS..!!
FND_GLOBAL.APPS_INITIALIZE (Server)
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Summary
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Oracle VM with Oracle E-business suite Release 12.1.1

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We are migrating our Oracle E-business suite from IBM Power 5 AIX 6.1. to OVM Intel (x86_64) bit, we have tested the migration in our test environment. We want to know how good or bad is OVM with oracle e-business suite in production environment, and if anybody is working on production environment with the similar configuration in Production environment then please share your experience with us
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Hi Sharukh,
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Can SMS Be Sent To Mobile Phone Once Order Is Ship Confirmed? [ID 757146.1]
Mobile Field Service Auto Synchronization and Notification [ID 414838.1]
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http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/2010/01/mobile_devices_ebs.html
http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/2008/11/oracle_business_approvals_for_managers_iphone_app_now_available.html
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Try to use J2SE Version 6 with Oracle E-Business Suite 11i

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at
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Terminate.
how can i solve it .
your response will be highly appreciated
Regards ,,,
Mohamed Mahgob

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I just had in mind that within HCM many functions (for employees) are realized with WD4A...
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Hi
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Thanks

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Must not use Java 1.7 when using E-Business Suite

This notification is being posted at the request of Oracle Corporation
All E-Business Suite desktop administrators must disable the JRE Auto-Update for their end users immediately to stop it updating to Java 1.7.
URGENT BULLETIN: Disable JRE Auto-Update for All E-Business Suite End-Users.
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Hi Jerre
I hear your concern and when I heard about the issues with E-Business Suite and Java 7 I was horrified. After all, we kind of got used to this when Sun and Oracle were separate but now that Oracle own both you would think these problems would have gone away.
I'm not an insider to the problems with E-Business Suite and I urge anyone that is using it to wait for Oracle's solution and /or follow the great blog owned by Steven Chan which is dedicated to EBS. I took another look a few minutes ago and the advice is still the same - to NOT upgrade to Java 7 if you have E-Business Suite you need to roll back to Java 6 and turn off the automatic updates.
As for Discoverer, I have 10g clients whose workstations were automatically upgraded to Java 7 and had their applications fail. I have always advised my clients to turn off automatic updating of Java and keep their client Java at the same level as the server. There were serious issues here in the past but those were when Sun and Oracle were separate. We had compatibility issues when servers were on Java 5 and workstations upgraded to Java 6 and it looks like we may be having the same problems between Java 6 and Java 7.
I tend to notice far fewer problems in corporate environments when IT departments manage the versions of Java on their servers and workstations rather than let it auto upgrade.
It was me who uncovered a bug in 11.1.1.6 where the Java 7 JDK was not working. Since then Oracle issued a Discoverer patch to allow it to work with Java 7 so for users of 11.1.1.6 you should be OK now to go ahead and allow Java to upgrade. Mind you, if the same workstations need to connect to Forms or E-Business Suite the advice given earlier to not upgrade stilll applies - that is unless someone knows otherwise.
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document ID 1296491.1
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