Redwood: Create Cost Accounting Distributions

The Create Cost Accounting Distributions scheduled process uses a run control to process the imported transaction data. A run control is a container that centralizes cost processing across multiple cost organizations and cost books. You can now create and manage run controls from the new Redwood page Cost Processing Run Control.

When defining a run control, you must specify:

  • Cost organizations and cost books to be processed
  • Cost processors that will execute by the scheduled process
  • Commit limit for transactions
  • Cutoff dates for processing

The new Redwood page introduces several improvements:

  • View all accessible run controls in a single interface and quickly search using cost organizations, cost books, or recent process run details.
  • Process runs that are in progress are displayed at the top, followed by those completed with errors, and lastly, those that haven’t started. This helps you to quickly focus on the most urgent tasks.
  • View the execution time before running a process, with a clickable detailed execution history and an option to download job timings for offline review.
  • Refresh and view the latest run control details with the newly added Refresh button.
  • Access error details helping you to quickly troubleshoot and resolve issues encountered during a run control job.
  • Primary cost book is automatically included when you select a cost organization, enabling you to add multiple cost organizations to a run control at once.

You can now view all accessible run controls and use filters to quickly search for a specific run control by cost book or process ID. 

Figure 1 - Cost Processing Run Control

Cost Processing Run Control

Click Run Now to immediately initiate the Create Cost Accounting Distribution process for a run control or click the Schedule button to run it at a later time or periodically.

Figure 2 - Trigger a run control immediately

Trigger a run control immediately

You can now track the process status and also click the messages to view detailed error information encountered during process run for a run control.

Figure 3 - View the Status of the Run

View the Status of the Run

Click the Add (+) icon to create a new run control. You can now choose to collect statistics of the process run for a run control.  

Figure 4 - Drawer Opens to Add Details

Drawer Opens to Add Details

Click the Refresh button to instantly view changes without reloading the entire page.

Figure 5 - Refresh Button to View Changes

Refresh Button to View Changes

The enhanced Redwood UI introduces several key advantages:

  • Unified Run Control Interface with Search Capabilities – Easily access and manage all run controls in a single interface with powerful search options using cost organizations, cost books, or recent process run details.

  • Effortless Navigation – Switch seamlessly between cost processor runs—active, completed, or in error—and quickly drill into the run summary without losing context.

  • Real-time Job Duration Preview & Execution History – View the execution time before and during running a process, view detailed execution history, and download job timing reports for offline analysis.

  • Improved Process Visibility – Enhanced tracking and issue resolution capabilities make it easier to monitor runs, identify errors, and ensure smoother cost processing operations.

Steps to Enable

  1. In the Supply Chain Execution select the Root Menu and select Cost Accounting
  2. On the Manage Administrator Profile Values page, search for and select the ORA_CST_CREATE_COST_ACCOUNTING_DISTRIBUTIONS_REDWOOD_ENABLED profile option code.
  3. In the Profile Values section, set the Site level to Yes. The default value is No.
  • Yes = enables the feature
  • No = disables the feature
  1. Click Save and Close. Changes in the profile value will take effect the next time you sign in.

After you've set the profile value correctly, the task pane under Cost Accounting would show the task menu link as Cost Processing. Using this link, you can access the Redwood page.

Tips And Considerations

  • You can provide guidance such as tutorials, company policies, and best practices in the context of the page using guided journey tasks.
  • When setting a cutoff date, use the Auto button to eliminate the need for manually creating and running a new run control each month. If the cost book is a periodic average cost book, the cutoff date is set to Auto by default.
  • Before creating a run control for periodic average cost, ensure that periodic average cost is enabled in cost organization relationships.
  • Group multiple cost organizations and cost books that might have interdependencies, such as in the case of transfer flows, or to meet the need for multiple representations of cost capability by simultaneously processing transactions with different cost methods.
  • The default value for the Maximum Number of Workers is set to 2. However, if the volume of transactions to process is high, you can increase this value to scale the processing capacity. Similarly, the Commit Limit can be adjusted based on your specific processing needs, allowing you to control the number of transactions committed per run. Increasing the number of workers or adjusting the commit limit can help optimize performance for large transaction volumes.

Key Resources

  • Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM: Implementing Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management Guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.
  • Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM: Using Cost Management Guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.

Access Requirements

Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains the following privilege can access this feature:

  • Create Cost Distributions (CST_CREATE_COST_DISTRIBUTIONS) 
  • Create Cost Distributions by Web Service (CST_CREATE_COST_DISTRIBUTIONS_WEB_SERVICE)