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What is Trading Community Architecture (TCA)?

Trading Community Architecture is a Very flexible, very robust model which defines the components involve in trading within in E-business Suite.
The implementation of technology and applications to allow users to create and maintain relationships among entities
The universal data schema for customers, prospects, suppliers, distributors, resellers, consortiums, bank across all Oracle EBS applications

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TCA Integration with Other Oracle Products

TCA Terminologies

The concept of ‘Party’ enables the Customer Model to treat all business entities equally, regardless of type. It easily handles B2B, B2C.�Parties of type ‘Group’ allow for the grouping of any number of other parties into a single entity which enable modeling of households and buying consortiums.
Parties of type ‘Relationship’ allow for the relationship between two parties to be viewed as a party in its own right
Party - A Party is an entity that can enter into a business relationship and can be of four types.

Person - A unique individual (dead or alive) of interest to the owner of the software.
Organization - A legal entity recognized by some government authority.
Group - a combination of two or more people, organizations or groups of created for the use of the owner of the software.
Relationship - The association between an individual person and an organization. Usually a contact at an organization or group.

TCA - Suppliers

Supplier/Sites Mapping to TCA Objects

TCA – Banks

Key Tables for Banks