New Features Summary

The following enhancements are included in this integration release:

• Account Payable Payment Request for Refund

• Integrations using Oracle Utilities REST CCS for CCS-ERPFIN Connection

General Ledger (GL) Integration

The objective of GL interface is to integrate the GL transactions originating in Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing with Oracle Financial Cloud - General Ledger. As Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing users take actions within Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing that necessitates sending the accounting entries to Oracle ERP Financial Cloud, this interface extracts the GL transaction data from Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing, translate it and move it to cloud as Journal voucher transactions in the GL.

This integration includes:

• Extracting the appropriate GL transactions from Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing and storing the file in the On-Premise location.

• Inserting information into an Oracle ERP Financial Cloud interface table and invoking a journal import data into Oracle ERP Financial Cloud application.

• Data imported into Oracle ERP Financial Cloud is posted by submitting the Posting Journal Program as per the business process.

Account Payable Payment Request for Refund

• Oracle ERP Financial Account Payable receives requests from Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing to disburse funds to payees that are not defined as suppliers. Payables records these requests as payment requests.

• Objective of the payees, parties, and bank accounts are created automatically when transactions are imported into the application. The transactions are validated automatically after they are imported. This eliminates the need for manual intervention.

• Refunds to customers from an external billing system which is integrated with Oracle through Accounting Hub or General Ledger, and not through Oracle Receivables.

This integration includes:

• Extracting the appropriate Adjustment transaction requests for refund from Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing and storing the file in On-Premise location.

• Inserting information into an Oracle ERP Financial Cloud interface table and invoking a journal import data into the Oracle ERP Financial Cloud application.

• Verifying data can be done in Oracle ERP Financial Cloud before making the payment.

Integrations using Oracle Utilities REST CCS for CCS-ERPFIN Connection

A technical update is provided to work with OpenAPI 3.0 and to prevent possible issues with the Oracle Utilities REST CCS for CCS-ERPFIN Connection when it is edited, endpoints are regenerated, or metadata is refreshed. The update is applicable for Oracle Utilities Customer Cloud Service 22C and higher on the following integrations:

• Oracle Utilities ERPFIN CSS AP VoidPay Info Update

• Oracle Utilities ERPFIN CCS AP Payment Info Update