30 Working with Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management Applications

You use Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management to manage the cost and revenue allocations that are necessary to compute profitability for a business segment, such as a product, customer, region, or branch.

Note:

The Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management application adapter should be used for Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management external applications only. If you are integrating with a Profitability and Cost Management external application you must use the Universal application adapter. See Working with Universal Applications.

Managing data for Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management involves:

• Registering Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management Applications
• Importing Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management Dimensions
• Modifying Registered Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management Applications
• Exporting Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management Dimensions

When you create an Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management application, the following objects get created:

• An application is created with settings, such as alias tables, multi-currency codes, and optional connection settings.
• One default view is created for each application.
• One dimension is created for each registered dimension.
• For each dimension, these objects are created and bound to the dimension:
  • One node type with all of the application specific properties.
  • One hierarchy set using the node type for both parent and child.
  • One node set that points to the hierarchy set.
  • One viewpoint that points to the node set.

  Note:

  Binding rules ensure that the registered dimension conforms to the external application dimension requirements, see Understanding Binding Rules.

In addition to registering dimensions, you can also register attributes. See Understanding Attributes.

After you register an application, you can import data into the dimensions to populate the nodes, properties and hierarchy sets. Optionally, you can modify the registration. When you are done working, you can export the dimension back to the external application.

Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management Predefined Members

Predefined members must be imported from the external application, and they cannot be edited in Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud. Any changes to the predefined members must be performed in the external application. After the changes are made, you must perform a merge import (see Working with Merge Imports) to update the predefined members in Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud.