Customers Using Profitability and Cost Management

Profitability and Cost Management is an analytic software tool that manages the cost and revenue allocations that are necessary to compute profitability for a business segment, such as a product, customer, region, or branch. For this reason, Profitability and Cost Management is designed to integrate with key Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management business processes. You integrate data to and from Profitability and Cost Management to use in the Cloud EPM using Data Integration.

As the integration mechanism, Data Integration, enables Profitability and Cost Management customers to load data to and from the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) such as the Oracle ERP Cloud, a consolidation process, or a planning and forecasting process.

For Profitability and Cost Management customers using Data Integration, note the following:

  • An Profitability and Cost Management application can be registered as both a source and a target.

  • Using Data Integration, Profitability and Cost Management integrates with:

    • business processes within the Cloud EPM
    • Oracle ERP Cloud General Ledger and Sub-Ledger balances

    Profitability and Cost Management does not integrate with EPM Planning, Projects, and Oracle Fusion Cloud Project Management (Project Management)

  • When setting up an integration in an Profitability and Cost Management instance, register it as a local application. If pulling from a separate instance, register the application as an Cloud EPM application.

    Profitability and Cost Management supports only a single application per environment (single ASO database).

  • An Profitability and Cost Management application is registered automatically when the application is created using the Create Application Wizard.

  • Profitability and Cost Management customers need to configure a source connection to other instances in the Cloud EPM and the Oracle ERP Cloud.

  • Drill Through is available.
  • When exporting values from Profitability and Cost Management, you can round values to 2 decimal places, use the Round method.
  • Data Maps and Smart Push are available. Data Maps supports an Aggregate storage (ASO) cube as a source cube.
  • The EPM Integration Agent is available for Profitability and Cost Management customers.