1. Administering Predictive Cash Forecasting
  2. Enabling and Configuring Predictive Cash Forecasting
  3. Enabling Predictive Cash Forecasting

Enabling Predictive Cash Forecasting

After creating a Predictive Cash Forecasting application, enable features.

Before users can start performing cash forecasting, you must enable Predictive Cash Forecasting features. Based on your selections, dimensions, drivers, forms, and accounts are created.

To enable Predictive Cash Forecasting features:

  1. At the end of the Application Creation wizard, click Configure. Or, from the Home page, click Application and then click Configure.

    Note:

    Use the Admin navigation flow to enable and configure Predictive Cash Forecasting.
  2. Click Enable Features.
  3. Select the features you want to enable, and then click Enable.

    Table 4-1 Enabling Predictive Cash Forecasting Features

    Enable Description
    Time Granularity

    Select the time granularity for your cash forecasting process. You can select Daily, Periodic, or both.

    If you select Periodic, you can select Monthly or Weekly. If you select Weekly, you can select 53 Weeks for 53-week planning. If you select Daily, there will be a two-year rolling forecast.

    Select whether to include Quarters and Months in the hierarchy.

    You can also enable 53-week planning.

    Forms always show level 0 members for rolling forecasts. But for reporting, you show can show quarters or months if you select that.

    Oracle recommends that you enable both daily and periodic cash forecast.

    Driver Based Forecasting

    Select the driver-based forecasting methods to use to forecast cash inflows and outflows. This enables you to forecast cash using different calculation methods for different cash line items. Based on the methods you select, Predictive Cash Forecasting creates sample line items (accounts) for you to use.

    You can add your own additional line items in each category. Forms and calculations are added based on methods you select.

    For information about the methods, see About Driver-Based Forecasting Methods.

    Trend Based Forecasting

    Select Trend Based Forecasting if you want to plan any of your periodic cash using different trend-based methods. You can use trend-based methods for any line items where the cash forecast can be calculated based on historical trends. Trend-based methods can be used only for Periodic forecasts.

    For information about the methods, see About Trend-Based Forecasting Methods.

    Predictive Forecasting Select the predictive methods to use for cash forecasting:
    • Statistical Time Series—Use Auto Predict and Predictive Planning to predict future performance based on historical data.
    • Machine Learning Summary—Use Machine Learning to predict the cash forecast using provided ML models.

      Note:

      Although Machine Learning is not yet available, select this option if you want to use it in the future when the feature is available.
    Fusion ERP Integration and Actions Enable integration with Fusion ERP, and select the ERP integrations to use. If you want to enable this feature, it must be selected the first time you enable features. Enabling this option creates required dimensions, which can't be created later with incremental enablement. When selected, appropriate line items are created to support the integration. It also creates the Party and Business Unit dimensions, which are mandatory with Fusion ERP integration.

    Note:

    Although integration with Fusion ERP is not yet available, select this option if you want to use it in the future when the feature is available.
    Other Features Default features included for application; they are always enabled automatically.
    Map/Rename Dimensions

    Map existing dimensions to Predictive Cash Forecasting dimensions, rename dimensions, and enable custom dimensions (Business Unit, Party, Category, and one additional custom dimension). The Business Unit and Party dimensions are mandatory if you select Fusion ERP Integration and Actions. You can also associate custom dimensions with features. You must perform this configuration task the first time you enable features, although you can incrementally associate the Category or Custom dimensions with additional features at any time.

    See Map/Rename Dimensions.

    When you click Enable, the Predictive Cash Forecasting artifacts are populated, including dimensions, forms, line items, rules, navigation flows, and so on, based on the features you selected. For details about some of the artifacts, see Cubes, Dimensions, Rules, and Other Artifacts.

  4. Sign out and sign in back to start using Predictive Cash Forecasting.