Overview of Oracle Project Control Configuration

The Oracle Project Control functional area lets you manage the financial and budgeting aspects of projects.

Using Project Control, you can configure your enterprise on how you monitor project execution, budget, forecast, and track progress. You can configure period profiles, spread curves, project plan types, and financial plan types and use Business Process Engineering Language (BPEL) workflows to manage budget and forecast approvals.

The preliminary step is to use the Setup and Maintenance work area to select the features and settings that you want to implement for your enterprise.

This table describes the setup tasks for Project Control.

Task Name	Description
Manage Period Profiles	Specify how time periods are grouped and displayed when editing budgets, forecasts, and project plan costs.
Manage Spread Curves	Specify how quantity, cost, and revenue amounts are automatically distributed across a range of accounting or project accounting periods.
Manage Resource Classes: Spread Curves	Review and update resource classes to specify the spread curve to be used.
Manage Financial Plan Types	Specify options used to control planning scenarios for budget and forecast versions.
Manage Project Plan Types	Specify default planning options that cascade down to the template and project levels.