Configuring Customer and Product Cost lines

Question

Hi Gurus,
We are configuring Oracle Financial Analytics (7.9.6.3) on Oracle R12 as our source system. Some of our reports are not showing up with data as there is no data loaded in fact tables W_CUSTOMER_COST_LINE_F and W_PRODUCT_COST_LINE_F. The corresponding staging tables are also null.
In the Oracle Configuration Document (E19039) section 5.3.1.4, few steps are mentioned to configure these tables. The information is insuffient. We need to know how to load the two csv files (file_customer_cost_line.csv and file_product_cost_line.csv) with the right data. How should we go about querying the data for those coulumns mentioned in the csv files from the source system? Any quick help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks
Joni

Answer 1

The Costing tables W_CUSTOMER_COST_LINE_F and W_PRODUCT_COST_LINE_F allow customers to include any additional costs other than COGS that customers may want to include as part of their Profitability calculations. Customer cost line table mainly tracks miscellaneous costs spend on customers.
This information is not available in any of the applications table, that's why we are providing the files to populate the costing tables. Customers need to create an Informatica map with csv files as target or use any other method to populate those csv files. Customers need to find the source for the expense facts and create an Informatica map to populate the csv files.The data will be loaded via Universal adaptor.
After that we have the OOB mappings to populate the Facts.
There are several dimensions which are involved in the data file configuration. You will be able to make out the dimension by looking at the Fact WID's. Also need to configure data in the csv files, file_chnl_type.csv and file_xact_type.csv to resolve WID's like COST_LINE_XACT_TYPE_WID, ALLOC_TYPE_WID and CHNL_TYPE_WID"
To identify the columns in the CSV file with the source, you should check Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse Data Model Reference Version 7.9.6.3 (Doc ID 1325948.1 on MOS) along with the CSV files and the Oracle Business Intelligence Applications ETL Data Lineage Guide Release 7.9.6.2 and 7.9.6.3 (Document 1274680.1 on MOS)
For example, for file_costumer_cost_line.csv following columns are available:
SALES_GROUP_ORG_ID
CNTCT_REP_ORG_ID
COST_LINE_XACT_TYPE_ID
ALLOC_TYPE_ID
SRC_COST_CENTER_ID
COST_CENTER_ID
And on the DRM, page 912+ we can see following description:
SALES_GROUP_ORG_WID : Sales Group Organization Surrogate Key
Identify the sales group incurring this cost. The column is populated by W_INT_ORG_D with class type as 'SALES_GROUP'.
DataType, NUMBER(10) , Lookup_table W_INT_ORG_D
Descriptions are available for each column of the example.
As per the INTEGRATION_ID, this is a unique source record identifier of the fact.
In the product csv, you can just fill in a unique value for each record you entered
Now, if need to check which source table loads table w_int_org_d for example, should check the data lineage document mentioned before.
Hope it helps!
Monica Navarro
Oracle OBIA Support
Edited by: Monike on Jun 13, 2012 11:56 AM