Transferring Project Costs
The Cost Collector collects all project related costs and inserts them into Oracle Project's Transaction Import Interface Table. Each of these records includes the project, task (if applicable), and expenditure type reference required by Oracle Projects.
Records in the Transaction Import Interface Table can then be imported into Oracle Projects using Transaction Import in Oracle Projects. See: Using Transaction Import.
Prerequisites
To collect project related costs:
1. Navigate to the Cost Collection Manager window. The Parameters window appears.
2. Specify the project cost collection time fence, the Number of Days to Leave Costs Uncollected, by entering a whole number of days
Costs are collected from the day you last collected project costs from to the end of the number of days specified. For example, suppose today is Thursday and that project costs were collected up through Friday of the previous week. If you enter 3 as the Number of Days, costs will be collected for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.
If there are uncosted transaction records in the MTL_MATERIAL_TRANSACTIONS table within the specified time fence, project costs for these transactions are not collected. You can check to see if transactions are uncosted, the costed indicator is off, using the Material Transactions window. See: Viewing Material Transactions and Oracle Inventory Technical Reference Manual, Release 11.
Uncosted transactions and transactions that lack complete information are flagged Error.
See Also
Overview of Transaction Import
Transaction Import Interface
Set the Project Cost Collection Enabled parameter in the Organization Parameters window in Oracle Inventory. See: Defining Project Information and Organization Parameters Window.