Capture Expenditure Information in Project Costing for Miscellaneous Inventory Transactions

You can capture the information for miscellaneous inventory transactions in Project Costing. The miscellaneous inventory transactions are processed and accounted in Costing and then interfaced to Oracle Project Portfolio Management (PPM).

For miscellaneous inventory transactions, the accounting line type Offset is sent to projects.

This table lists the accounting events and the corresponding conditions when they're interfaced to PPM.

Event Type

Flow

Project Striped Inventory

Capture Project Details on Transactions

Project Expenditure

Miscellaneous Receipt

Receipt into common inventory from project

Yes

No

Yes (Credit)

Miscellaneous Receipt

Receipt into project from common inventory

No

Yes

Yes (Debit)

Miscellaneous Issue

Issue from common inventory to project

No

Yes

Yes (Debit)

Miscellaneous Issue

Issue from project to common inventory

Yes

No

Yes (Credit)

Let's consider a simple example to see how the project cost changes as the transactions are costed and sent to PPM. The values for Project Striped Inventory and Capture Project Details on Transactions are same as listed in the previous table.

Transaction #

Event Type

Flow

Project Expenditure

Project Cost

Transaction Cost

Updated Project Cost

1

Miscellaneous Receipt

Receipt into common inventory from project

Yes (Credit)

$10

($10)

$0

2

Miscellaneous Receipt

Receipt into project from common inventory

Yes (Debit)

$0

$10

$10

3

Miscellaneous Issue

Issue from common inventory to project

Yes (Debit)

$10

$10

$20

4

Miscellaneous Issue

Issue from project to common inventory

Yes (Credit)

$20

($10)

$10