Manage Labor Costs

Labor distribution accountants can search and manage labor costs and their distributions using the Manage Labor Costs page. Labor costs generated from labor distributions are available in the Adjustment Controls work area once they're successfully distributed.

You can use the Manage Labor Costs page to:

• Filter costs that have distributions by using a combination of batch name, status, pay period, project number, business unit, person name, pay element, or award number.

  Note:

  • You can retrieve all project and nonproject based distributions using a combination of the award number and person name filters.
  • You can use the Shift key to select multiple payroll costs from the search results.
• Analyze errors resulting from the Import Payroll Costs process and delete payroll costs that are in a status of Error, if required.

• View a static analytical graph for a quick reference to the latest 3 pay periods that have errors in distributions, and the total amount and count of errors.

• Find the root cause of one ore more errors by using the search filters.

• Resolve the root cause and reprocess one or more labor costs using the Process Costs option. You can also delete payroll cost that are in a status of Error.

  Note:

  • When you update and successfully reprocess a payroll cost distribution that contained errors, the application deletes the original erroneous records, because they're no longer needed.
  • You must have the Delete Project Labor Distributions in Error privilege to be able to delete payroll costs that have not been successfully distributed to projects.
• Adjust a successfully processed distribution using the Process Costs option if the distribution rules associated with the payroll costs have changed.

  Note: You must have the Process Costs with Unchanged Project Labor Distributions privilege to be able to process even those payroll costs whose distribution rules haven’t changed.

Here's a table that lists the actions you can perform on labor costs in different scenarios across multiple pages.

Labor Cost (Status)	Manage Labor Costs page	Manage Project Costs page	Period Close Exceptions report
Project Cost (Error)	View errors Delete payroll costs in a status of Error Process costs	Not available	Not available
Non-Project Cost (Error)	View errors Delete payroll costs in status of Error Process costs	Not available	Not available
Project Cost (Success)	View results Process costs (reversal and re-import of parent labor cost)	View project cost details Perform adjustments except for: Split Transfer Split and transfer Reversal	View pending transactions until the Create Accounting process is completed for these project costs
Non-Project Cost (Success)	View results Process costs (reversal and re-import of parent labor cost)	Not available	Not available

View and Report on Labor Costs

Use Labor Distribution Cost Analysis Real Time to view and report on labor costs created from the Oracle Fusion Payroll transaction source using Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence, or OTBI. For guidance on how you can use OTBI to create analyses, see the Create Your First Analysis and Add Actions to Analyses topics in the Creating Analyses and Dashboards in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence guide.