Configure Invoice Classification Rules

If you're using Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials for managing supplier invoices, then you can create invoice classification rules to automatically generate activities corresponding to the goods and services procured from suppliers. For any invoice distributions that can't be classified using these rules, Oracle Fusion Cloud Sustainability provides optional AI capabilities to classify them automatically.

Invoice classification rules use fields that are present on the Payables invoice to tell Oracle Sustainability what kind of activity must be created for each invoice distribution. When you run the Generate Sustainability Activities from Payables Invoices scheduled process, Oracle Sustainability fetches eligible invoice distributions and applies rules to create corresponding activities for each invoice distribution. Then, it automatically runs emission calculations and validations whose results you can review on the Sustainability Activities page.

You can either create rules directly in Oracle Sustainability or upload them from the published Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel spreadsheet that Oracle provides. However, to improve coverage by rules overtime, you can use the optional AI capabilities of Oracle Sustainability to suggest rules for you.