Procurement and Spend Analytics Integration with Projects in OBIA 7964

Oracle Analytical Application

As you know Oracle is continuously acquiring additional applications, one thing remains the same – pre-built analytics on Oracle’s BI Foundation. Oracle analytics apps family which Siebel started back in 2000/2001 has grown into 80+ analytical applications. The latest inclusion of Taleo and Right now analytics are the latest in the strong list. I still remember working on one of the first analytics application with big telecom company in London back in 2001.

Now we got number of Analytical Application, there is growing need on how to integrate these different analytics to maximize the cross field benefits. The most common request is around project analytics where customer would like to integrate project information with financial and spend/procurement data. Oracle has responded back by providing an option to integrate the Project Analytics with Procurement and Spend Analytics for Oracle EBS and Financial Analytics for Oracle EBS with OBIA 7964. Customer would have to pay some additional license fee J

This blog is an attempt to discuss the option of integrating Procurement and Spend Analytics of Oracle EBS with the Project Analytics data.

Oracle Offering - Integration with Procurement and Spend Analytics

Oracle Project Analytics comes with an out-of-the box integration with Oracle Procurement and Spend Analytics. User can analyze the Project Commitments and historical procurement transactions (such as Requisitions from Projects and Purchase Orders associated with that) for a project. Additional configuration is required for integration for Procurement and Spend Analytics and Project Analytics modules for Oracle EBS.

Configuration Steps

Developer can enable Oracle Procurement and Spend Analytics for EBS to use dimension tables in Oracle Project Analytics. The following are the configuration steps for enabling the integration of spend & procurement with project data.

In DAC, select the Oracle EBS source system container, depending on the version of the OLTP that you are using.

Display the Subject Areas tab.

For each Subject Area that you want to deploy, do the following:

Select the Subject Area

Display the Configuration Tags tab in the upper pane

Select the Enable Project Dimensions tag

Clear the Inactive check box

Assemble the Subject Areas

Click the Execute button and build the Execution Plan for the Subject Areas that you updated

End User Reports – Projects to Spend and Procurement Analytics

Requisition, Purchase Order and Invoices by Project

 

Drill to Purchase Order Requisition, Open Purchase Order and Open Invoice 

I hope this information is useful.