Concurrent Programs

This chapter covers the following topics:

Running Concurrent Programs
Concurrent Programs for Channel Rebate
Concurrent Programs for Point-of-Sale Management
Executing Concurrent Programs
Scheduling Sequence for Concurrent Programs

Running Concurrent Programs

Use the following high level procedure for running any Oracle Applications concurrent program or program set. You can use these procedures to run or schedule any of the Oracle Channel Rebate and Point-of-Sale Management concurrent programs.

See Oracle E-Business Suite System Administrator's Guide - Maintenance for complete details on Oracle E-Business Suite concurrent programs.

Select the Oracle Trade Management Administrator responsibility.

Choose Single Request (if running a single concurrent program) or Request Set (if running a set of concurrent programs).
Query for the appropriate concurrent program, if necessary.
You can run the program immediately or schedule batch jobs. If scheduling, select the time frame.

You can check the status of the program you submitted using the Find Request window. To navigate to this window, go to Requests from the View menu and click on the Find Requests button. Use the Refresh Data button to update the request status.

Concurrent Programs for Channel Rebate

The following table provides a summary of the concurrent programs used for budgets, quotas, and offers.

Concurrent Programs for Channel Rebate
Program/Name	Required	Description
Funds Accrual Engine	Yes	This is an engine that extracts all accrual and discount information from sales orders executed at all ordering channels. The following are the categories of Events handled by this engine: Calculates budget utilization and earnings based on ship confirmed orders. Handles a return orders' impact on budget utilization and earnings. For fully accrued type of budgets with accrue to is 'customer', it updates Budget and Utilized columns with the accrued amount. For budgets with accrue to 'Sales', it updates the Budget column but does not update the Committed and Utilized columns. For Volume offer adjustments, it calculates the accruals for each sales order and makes accrual adjustments that are necessary as a result of volume offers. For accrual rates that are adjusted retroactively, it creates the adjustments based on sales order information in the past. Warning: If a child process fails, you must restart the concurrent program. Parameters: Operating Unit - This parameter determines the operating units for processing accruals and adjustments. It has the values All, Global, and all operating units for which the user has access. If you select Global, active adjustments or volume tier adjustments for global offers are processed. If you select an operating unit or set any of the adjustment processing parameter to Yes, you must run the Update Budget from Interface Table concurrent program to update the offer checkbook. Run Exception Messages - Set this parameter to Yes to run the Order Management Except Queue Run in Debug Mode Run Budget Utilization for Adjusted Offer - This parameter initiates backdated adjustment processing of offers belonging to the selected operating unit. If worker profile is set, it spawns the child programs to process adjustments in parallel. Run Budget Utilization for Volume Offer - This parameter initiates volume tier adjustment processing for applicable volume offers belonging to the selected operating unit. If worker profile is set, it spawns the child programs to process tier adjustments in parallel. Repost Failed GL Posting Process Message Count Run in Debug Mode
Generate Party List for Market Qualifiers	Yes	Generates the party list for Channel Revenue Management territories and Buying Groups. Customers are qualified for Offers, Quota, and Target allocations only when this program is run after creation or modification of a Channel Revenue Management Territory or a Buying Group.
Import Territory Hierarchy	Yes	This concurrent program uploads the hierarchy data from jtf_territories to OZF schema used for budget allocation to that territory hierarchy. It is also used for defining budget hierarchy for a fully accrued budget. The concurrent program expects a hierarchy id meaning which particular hierarchy the user wants to import. Parameters: Hierarchy Id These are represented by all the root territories under Oracle Channel Revenue Management in the Territory Manager module.
Offer Backdated Adjustments	Yes	This program processes all active offer adjustments and then it processes the volume tier adjustments of processed volume offers. This program is similar to running the Funds Accrual Engine concurrent program with the Run Budget Utilization for Adjusted Offer parameter. The program uses the OZF: Number of workers for Offer Adjustment profile option to spawn child programs to process adjustments in parallel. If the number of active adjustments to be processed is less than the worker profile, then the number of child programs that are spawned is the same as the number of active adjustments. If number of active adjustments to be processed is one, then there are no child programs. Run the Update Budget from Interface Table concurrent program to update offer checkbook. Parameters: Operating Unit - This parameter determines the operating units for processing adjustments. It has the values All, Global, and all operating units for which the user has access. If you select Global, offer adjustments for global offers are processed. Offer Name Debug Mode
Net Accrual Engine	Yes	Calculates the net accruals for all offers of type "Net Accrual" only.
Perform Recalculated Commitment For Offers	No	Re-Calculated Committed is an option to re-calculate the necessary funding level based on the actual sales performance of a promotion. Funds can be increased or decreased. If the promotion performs well, funding can be automatically increased, and vice versa. This program performs the re-calculation.
Refresh Account Manager Dashboard	Yes	Refresh Account Manager Dashboard program refreshes the data on the Account Manager Dashboard.
Refresh Materialized Views for Order Sales	Yes	Refresh Materialized Views for Order Sales must be run at least once. It refreshes the materialized view (OZF_ORDER_SALES_SUMRY_MV) that summarizes the Orders data from Order Management. This materialized view is the source for all Order sales information used across Channel Revenue Management.
Refresh Materialized Views for Promotional Payment	Yes	For refresh for promotional payments to occur, run with the parameter "earnings". Updated the materialized view for promotional payments with the most recent earnings information. This profile options collects the data as follows: Utilized Order related utilizations (positive), such as those for accrual and off-invoice offers, are utilizations for orders booked but not shipped, invoiced or closed. These utilizations are not the same as “earned” balances. Return related utilizations (negative), are utilizations for return orders booked but not invoiced (credited) or closed. Non-order related utilizations, such as those for lump sum and scan data offers, as well as utilizations created by net accrual offers, partner activities or indirect sales purposes, do not distinguish between utilized and earned. Adjustments are made to the utilized amount, whether manually created, created by public API or system generated. Earned Order related utilizations (positive), are utilizations for orders shipped, invoiced or closed. Return related utilizations (negative), are utilizations for return orders invoiced (credited) or closed. Non-order related utilizations as well as utilizations created by net accrual offers, partner activities or indirect sales purposes, are the same as utilized. Adjustments are made to the utilized amount, whether manually created, created by public API or system generated. Paid For off-invoice types of utilizations such as off-invoice, order value and promotional good offers, the paid amounts are the same as earned amounts. For accrual types of utilizations such as accrual, lump sum and scan data offers, the paid amounts are claim amounts associated to the accruals. Adjustments are made to the utilized amount, whether manually created, created by public API or system generated. Unpaid Earnings (Earned minus paid) The Budget Materialized View does not contain an Unpaid earnings column because these values are essentially a calculation. Storing a calculated column on the Budget Materialized View may result in performance issues.
Refresh Trade Management Activities (Offers and Schedules)	Yes	When you run Refresh Trade Management Activities (Offers and Schedules), Offers and Schedules are denormalized into OZF tables for faster performance in the application. Offers are searched across Channel Revenue Management based on this denormalized data. These three programs (Refresh Materialized Views for Order Sales, Refresh Account Manager Dashboard, and Refresh Trade Management Activities) must be run in the order listed for account planning functions to work properly. The frequency that they are run is set by the user and can be different for each program. For example, the first program can be run frequently during the day, the second can be run daily, and the third program can be run less often.
Release Committed Budget Amount After Grace Period	Yes	Reconciliation is a way to return the following money at the end of an offer: Adjusts previously committed, but un-utilized funds, transferring them from the Committed column to the Available column (“Reconcile Unutilized”). Adjusts previously utilized, but unpaid funds, thus adjusting the Utilized column accordingly as well as transferring it from the Committed column to the Available column (“Reconcile Unutilized and Unpaid Earnings”). Budget reconciliation may be performed manually on each object such as an offer, or automatically via this concurrent process. Parameters: Object code Object end date Object status, for example, active, draft Object Type, for example, CAMP, OFFR, EVEH Reconcile both utilized and paid
Resale Batches Purge	No	Purges processed reslae order record. This program purges the entries in the OZF_RESALE_LINES_INT_ALL interface table.
Transfer to General Ledger	No	This program is run to transfer the accounting entries created by claims/accruals into Oracle General Ledger accounting tables. The accounting entries are transferred from Channel Revenue Management's interface tables to Oracle General Ledger's interface tables. There is an option to automatically create the entries as Journals using Journal Import upon arriving at Oracle General Ledger. After the entries are turned into Journals, they need to be "Posted" to complete the Oracle General Ledger process. Parameters: Ledger Name: Primary set of books Batch Name: Name of batch for transfer. This is optional. From Date: Transfer entries created starting from this date. To Date: Transfers entries created ending this date. Journal Category: All, fixed budgets (for promotional accruals created for offers funded by fixed budgets), Accrual budgets (for promotional accruals created by a fully accrued budget) and Settlement (for promotional claims). Validate Accounts: Yes/No. Determines whether Oracle General Ledger accounts will be validated during transfer. Transfer to GL Interface: In Detail (each accrual record on its own), Summarize by Accounting Date (grouping accrual records by accounting date during transfer), Summarize by Accounting Period (grouping accrual records by Accounting Period during transfer). Submit Journal Import: Yes/No. Determines whether Journal Import will be run when the entry gets transferred to Oracle General Ledger; if Yes, a journal will be created for an entry; if No, the entries sit in Oracle General Ledger's interface tables until a Oracle General Ledger user runs the Journal Import program in Oracle General Ledger.
Update Budgets from Interface Tables	Yes	This program extracts all the amounts from the OZF_FUNDS_ALL_B_INT and OZF_ACT_BUDGETS_INT interface tables and adds them to the OZF_OBJECT_FUND_SUMMARY, OZF_ACT_BUDGETS, and OZF_FUNDS_ALL_B main tables. Parameters: Batch Type: Chargeback, Third Party Accruals, and Funds Accrual Engine. This is a mandatory parameter. Chargeback processes the Pending Close batches locked during the chargeback batch upload. Third Party Accruals processes the Pending Accruals batches locked during the Third Party Accrual concurrent programs. Batch Number (Optional) - If Batch Number is not specified, all batches are processed based on Batch Type. Funds Accrual Engine extracts all the amounts from the OZF_FUNDS_ALL_B_INT and OZF_ACT_BUDGETS_INT interface tables and adds them to the OZF_OBJECT_FUND_SUMMARY, OZF_ACT_BUDGETS, and OZF_FUNDS_ALL_B main tables. Batch Number (Optional) - This is not required if the Batch Type is Funds Accrual Engine. This program is executed every time the Funds Accrual Engine is run with these parameters set to Yes: Run Budget Utilization for Adjusted Offer and Run Budget Utilization for Volume Offer.
Update Time Structure	Yes	Must be run the first time these system profiles are set, and any time thereafter one of these profiles is changed: AMS: Marketing Calendar; OZF: Start Day of Week; OZF: Period Type; OZF: Global Start Date (mm/dd/yyyy); OZF: Degree of Parallelism-Src; OZF: Debug Mode. See trade planning profile options for details. Must be run for every new calendar setup to automatically display values in the OZF_FUNDS_UTILIZED_ALL_B table for the YEAR_ID column.
Unutilized Commitment Mass Transfer	No	Evaluates to see if the end dates of the selected budgets have passed, and if true, performs transfers to new linked budgets, if any.
Utilize Lumpsum Offers	Yes	If a lump sum offer's start date is in the future, the offer has already been approved for budgets, and is active, this program is run to update the budget's Utilized volume. In the case when the Offer is active on the date when Offer was created, then the budget utilization will be updated immediately not by this program.
Validate Budget and Quota Thresholds	Yes	Threshold alerts are designed to help users monitor their budgets' activities. Different rules can be established to send out alert notifications to inform users of fund usage, depletion levels, and monitoring over spending or under spending. A threshold contains a set of rules. After being set up, it is assigned to a budget. Alerting budget owners to the danger of spending exceeding budget norms can help avoid over-spending. This concurrent process is run to monitor the different budgets and see if they meet the rules and definitions of their budget thresholds. If it does, it automatically sends a workflow notification to the budget owner. Parameters: None
Validate Market and Product Eligibility for Budget	No	An offer that is executed in Oracle Marketing is sourced by budgets approved for that offer. This concurrent program validates which budgets are eligible to fund an executed offer based on product and market eligibility. Various business scenarios cause offers to need funding from multiple budgets. In previous releases, each budget's product and market eligibility had to be a superset of that of the offer for validation to succeed. Now, the restriction can be relaxed to support the following scenarios: No validation for customers and products Validate customers and products by each budget Validate customer by each budget, products by all budgets (relax product) Validate products by each budget, customers by all budgets (relax customer) Parameters: p_actbudget_id: Budget request ID p_object_id: Offer ID p_object_type: OFFR
Volume Offer Tier Adjustments	Yes	This program processes volume offer tier adjustments and volume offer utilization adjustments for eligible volume offers. The program uses the OZF: Number of workers for Offer Adjustment profile option to spawn child programs to process tier adjustments in parallel. If the number of volume offers to be processed is less than the worker profile, then the number of child programs that are spawned is the same as the number of volume offers. If number of volume offers to be processed is one, then there are no child programs. Parameters: Operating Unit - This parameter determines the operating units for processing tier adjustments. It has the values All, Global, and all operating units for which the user has access. If you select Global, volume offer tier adjustments for global offers are processed. Offer Name Debug Mode

Concurrent Programs for Point-of-Sale Management

The following table provides a summary of the concurrent programs used for chargebacks, soft funds, special pricing requests, third party accruals, and inventory tracking.

Run the following concurrent programs for Point of Sales.

Concurrent Program for Point-of-Sale
Program/ Name	Required	Description
Refresh Materialized Views	Yes	This program is used to refresh various materialized views. Choose inventory mv to refresh the inventory materialized view. Run this program for manual inventory adjustments to be reflected on the UI.
Refresh Materialized Views for Order Sales	Yes	See Description in Concurrent Programs for Channel Rebate.
Release Committed Budget Amount After Grace Period	Yes	This program closes a soft fund request after the grace period. It can be scheduled to run periodically.
Resale Batches Purge	No	This program purges the entries in the OZF_RESALE_LINES_INT_ALL interface table based upon Date Source/Patch Number and an IDSM parameter. No parameter.
Third Party Accrual From Interface table	No	This program is used to create a third party accrual based on the resale data in the OZF_RESALE_LINES_INT_ALL table. This replaces the Chargeback Accrual concurrent program used in 11.5.9. The parameters are Operating Unit, Data Source, and Run Mode.
Third Party Accrual From Resale Table	Yes	This program is used to create a third party accrual based on the resale data in the OZF_RESALE_LINES_ALL table. The parameters are Batch Number, Start Date, End Date, Partner Account, and Run Mode. Run Mode has two values: Draft, and Final. Final is the default value. If you select Draft, no accruals are created and the history tables that are used to review the accruals data are populated. If you select Final, the third party accrual is run and accruals are created.

Executing Concurrent Programs

For accrual processing you can execute the following concurrent programs in parallel using different parameter values:

Funds Accrual Engine
Offer Backdated Adjustments
Volume Offer Tier Adjustments
Third Party Accrual From Resale Table
Third Party Accrual From Interface Table
Update Budgets from Interface Tables

The below table explains which concurrent programs can be executed in parallel with each other and lists the required conditions, if any.

Concurrent Program Name	Funds Accrual Engine	Offer Backdated Adjustments	Volume Offer Tier Adjustments	Third Party Accrual From Resale Table	Third Party Accrual From Interface Table	Update Budgets from Interface Tables
Funds Accrual Engine (FAE)	Yes Select different operating units.	Yes Ensure that each program processes a different set of offer adjustments.	Yes Ensure that each program processes a different set of offer adjustments.	Yes	Yes	No
Offer Backdated Adjustments	Yes Ensure that each program processes a different set of offer adjustments.	Yes Specify different parameters for each program.	No	Yes	Yes	No
Volume Offer Tier Adjustments	Yes Ensure that each program processes a different set of volume offer adjustments.	No	Yes Specify different parameters for each program.	Yes	Yes	No
Update Budgets from Interface Tables	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No

Scheduling Sequence for Concurrent Programs

To generate accruals for direct and indirect sales orders for accrual and volume offers, it is best to schedule the concurrent programs in the sequences described below.

Concurrent Program Sequence for Direct Order Processing

Funds Accrual Engine with the default Operating Unit parameter, All. This concurrent program processes direct orders from Oracle Order Management and creates accruals in the eligible offers.
Offer Backdated Adjustments with any Operating Unit parameter
Volume Offer Tier Adjustments with any Operating Unit parameter. You must schedule this concurrent program only if the concurrent program Offer Backdated Adjustments is not run and there are volume offers that are applied to the sales orders.
Update Budgets from Interface Tables with the Funds Accrual Engine parameter. This concurrent program updates offer and budget checkbooks.

Concurrent Program Sequence for Indirect Order Processing

Third Party Accrual From Resale Table without the Batch Number parameter. This concurrent program processes all uploaded tracing batches and applies eligible offers to the sales orders.

or

Third Party Accrual From Interface Table without the Data Source parameter. This concurrent program processes interface lines data and applies eligible offers to the sales orders.
Update Budgets from Interface Tables with Batch Type set to Third Party Accruals and without Batch Number. This concurrent program updates accrual details in the eligible offers checkbook and changes the batch to closed status.
Volume Offer Tier Adjustments with any Operating Unit parameter. This concurrent program is required only if a volume offer is configured in the system and is expected to accrue during Third Party Accruals order processing.
Update Budgets from Interface Tables with the Funds Accrual Engine parameter. This concurrent program updates offer and budget checkbooks.

Concurrent Program Sequence for Direct and Indirect Order Processing

Funds Accrual Engine with no parameters
Offer Backdated Adjustment with any Operating Unit parameter
Third Party Accrual From Resale Table with no Batch Number parameter

or

Third Party Accrual From Interface Table without any Data Source parameter
Update Budgets from Interface Tables with Batch Type set to Third Party Accruals and with no Batch Number
Volume Offer Tier Adjustments with any Operating Unit parameter
Update Budgets from Interface Tables with Funds Accrual Engine parameter