Forecasting Open Interface
The Cash Management Forecasting Open Interface allows you to utilize the following external sources of data as cash inflow and outflow data for flexible cash forecasting:
- Non-Oracle applications on a local database
- Non-Oracle Applications on a remote database
- Oracle Applications on a remote database
Providing an Open Interface to Forecast from External Applications
Two cash forecast source transaction types, Open Interface Inflow and Open Interface Outflow, allow you to include external application transaction sources for cash forecasting. Having two separate source transaction types for external source transactions gives you an easy way to indicate whether the transaction source consists of cash receipts (inflow) or disbursements (outflow).
For each external source transaction type, you define its name, such as AP Invoices, AR Invoices, AP Payments, etc., and its valid selection criteria. Using a special descriptive flexfield (the Forecast Selection Criteria Descriptive Flexfield) and database views, you can define the external forecast source, expected cash activity date, amounts, and other selection criteria values. The Forecasting Open Interface collects cash flow amounts from your external systems, and the Cash Forecasting module summarizes and calculates the data to include in your cash forecasts along with other Oracle Applications data.
Forecasting in a Distributed Environment
You can include transactions located on a remote database in your cash forecasts. For each Oracle Application or non-Oracle application source type on a distributed database, you need to specify a database link.
See Also
About Cash Forecasting
Cash Forecasting
Creating Cash Forecast Templates
Generating Cash Forecasts from Templates
