Predictive Cash Forecasting with Subledger Transaction Traceability

Predictive Cash Forecasting integration with Oracle Cloud ERP is now generally available. The solution leverages Oracle Cloud ERP financial data to generate cash predictions within Cloud EPM using multiple forecasting methods, including Smart Drivers, Statistical, Driver, and Trend-based methods. It offers automated, ready-to-use integration with Fusion Cloud ERP sources for Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and Cash Management to seed cash flows. Users can continuously plan cash inflows and outflows for daily, weekly, or monthly rolling forecasts and benefit from interactive visualizations, what-if scenario planning, and variance analysis to support informed decision-making.

Along with the existing Predictive Cash Forecasting features, the solution now offers the ability to drill through from forecasts to Cloud ERP aggregate analytical views and detailed transaction data to understand the actuals and forecast in detail and for deeper analysis.

The drill-through capability allows cash and treasury users to understand the forecast amount in detail in the context of additional business attributes. Users can drill to web-based aggregate and transactional views for Receivables, Payables, and Cash Management cash flow sources. These transaction listings and their business attributes will help users understand, analyze to make decisions for actions, and gain confidence in the forecast outcomes.

Drill through to Receivables Overdue Invoice Summary

Overall, Predictive Cash Forecasting offers a comprehensive solution for cash forecasting that can help businesses make better decisions for their liquidity planning and working capital management strategies. Automated integration of Fusion Cloud ERP provides the power to use real-time transactional data from Receivables, Payables and Cash Management sources for the most detailed forecasts. Users can gain actionable insight in advance, make informed decisions, and take appropriate actions to better manage working capital. With its advanced features and flexibility, it is a valuable tool for any organization looking to improve its cash forecasting capabilities.

These are the business benefits:

• Optimize cash by finding problems and opportunities earlier with increased automation and more frequent cash forecast updates.
• Act faster by aligning stakeholders and unifying scenario planning with corrective actions.
• Enable deeper insights to improve liquidity.

Steps to enable and configure

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Financials

1. Log a Service Request (SR) and request to enable Analytical Views.
2. Perform the following setup tasks in Cloud ERP:
   • Enable the Predictive Cash Forecasting feature using the Change Feature Opt In option for Financials offering in Cloud ERP Setup and Maintenance.
   • Perform configuration tasks as described in the Implementation Checklist for Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP Administrators.
3. Perform the following setup tasks in Cloud EPM:
   • Create a new Planning application of type Cash Forecasting in Cloud EPM.
   • At the end of the Application Creation wizard, click Configure. Or, from the Home page, click Application and then click Configure.
   • Click Enable Features, select the features you want to enable, and then click Enable. When you click Enable, the Predictive Cash Forecasting artifacts are populated, including dimensions, forms, line items, rules, navigation flows, and so on.
   • Perform additional configuration tasks as described in the Implementation Checklist for Administrators.

Tips and considerations

This release provides integration between the existing Predictive Cash Forecasting capabilities and Fusion Cloud ERP (Receivable, Payables, and Cash Management).

• Prepare for operational readiness the ERP business processes that have a data impact on cash flows, and make them available in the most current and complete state possible for cash forecasting.
• Requires an EPM Enterprise subscription to enable the Predictive Cash Forecasting application in Cloud EPM.
• Requires a separate instance to enable the Predictive Cash Forecasting application in Cloud EPM.
• Predictive Cash Forecasting applications are multi-currency only.
• Predictive Cash Forecasting applications are Hybrid Essbase enabled in EPM.
• Predictive Cash Forecasting applications provide Redwood Experience.

Key resources

• Administering Predictive Cash Forecasting
• Working with Predictive Cash Forecasting
• Implementation Checklist for Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP Administrators

Access requirements

• Set up access to both Cloud ERP and Cloud EPM applications using one set of credentials by defining the single sign-on. This allows you to seamlessly access both applications with a single login.
• Set up Cloud EPM connections to Cloud ERP using the Manage Enterprise Application option in the topology definition.
• Use the Cloud ERP Manage Job Roles task in the Users and Security functional area to create user-defined roles, in addition to the predefined roles with the required roles and privileges for assignment to users.
• Use the Cloud ERP Manage Data Access for Users task in the Users and Security functional area to assign users access to appropriate data based on their job roles.
• Define entity-level security in Cloud EPM that matches the Cloud ERP entity level access. To support web drill-through to data in Cloud ERP, security must match in Cloud  EPM and Cloud ERP.