In Oracle Fusion Inventory Management, the
FBDI (File-Based Data Import) method is a widely adopted approach for importing
Miscellaneous Receipt transactions. This method is particularly useful for
handling bulk data uploads in a structured and repeatable manner, making it
ideal for businesses with high-volume inventory operations or frequent data
migration needs.
The process begins with downloading the
Inventory Transactions Import FBDI template, which provides a standardized
format for entering transaction data. Once the template is obtained, users are
required to populate it with accurate and complete data, adhering strictly to
the predefined structure and validation rules. After the data is entered, the
template is used to generate a CSV file, which is then compressed into a ZIP
format and uploaded through the Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM)
system. Following the upload, the file is processed using the Load Interface
File for Import scheduled process, which initiates the integration and imports
the data into Oracle Fusion Inventory.
While this method offers a reliable way to
automate and streamline the data import process, it also comes with certain
limitations and challenges—particularly when dealing with specific transaction
types such as miscellaneous receipts. There is no real-time error validation done
for the account details entered in the FBDI template which otherwise is
systematically validated while performing the miscellaneous receipt
transactions from the UI.
This blog post provides a detailed
explanation along with a comparative analysis of both approaches.
Scenario 1: Create Miscellaneous
Transactions from UI
Account
validation happens at individual segment level
·
System does not allow the
invalid account segment while creating the miscellaneous receipt manually from
the UI.
·
This real time validation helps
in ensuring that the transactions are entered with the correct account code
combination and will then get processed successfully through cost accounting
processes.
·
Successful
Validations:
System doesn’t allow us to use invalid account code
combination as mentioned below -
Scenario 2: Create Miscellaneous
Transactions using FBDI
No
account validation happens at individual segment level
·
The FBDI transactions do not
honor the account validation at individual segment level.
·
Transaction gets completed
successfully in Inventory with the invalid account code combination entered
in the FBDI template.
·
This transaction then gets stuck
with error in cost accounting, and it needs a lot of manual efforts for
the datafix to get it processed successfully through accounting.
- This invalid
account code cannot be just replaced to fix the error in cost accounting.
- To get such
transactions processed, the invalid segment needs to be enabled for the
respective ledger and get the transactions accounted successfully,
followed by manual reclassification to the actual segment value replaced
with the expected value.
System limitations summarized:
1.
As per the
information available in Document 'FBDI Post Mass Transfers Doesn’t Check The
End Date Of Segment Values In The Depreciation Expense Account (Doc ID
2768037.1) - This behaviour is intended. Validating every segment of the
account may cause performance issues.
2.
Validating
every segment of the account may cause performance issues.
3.
Due to
this reason, development purposefully didn't add validation in API level which
will be used for bulk operations like AdFDI, FBDI etc.
4.
Segment
level End Date validation will not work for bulk operations like FBDI, AdFDI
etc.
5.
If the
account code combination itself is not present in the system, then it will not
allow to complete the transaction and it will give an error while processing
the transaction from interface tables to Inventory.
6.
In other
case, if the account code combination is present in the system, then the
transactions will not get stuck in the MTI (Inventory transactions
interface).
7.
This transaction
gets stuck in the cost accounting with the error of invalid account with
specific segment details.
Conclusions:
· There is no validation at individual segment
end-date level for bulk operations like FBDI, AdFDI etc.
· User can enter any random account code
combination in the FBDI template irrespective of whether it is valid
or not.
· System doesn't do any validation on this
account code combination in FBDI template, and it passes the same to inventory
transactions without any error even if the account code is not valid.
a.
If the
combination is not present, then the transaction gets stuck in MTI (Inventory
Transactions Interface).
b. If the account combination is present in the system, then the transaction will go through successfully from inventory.
· Later this will get stuck in the cost
accounting with invalid account combination error and then IT Support team
needs to perform the datafix.
· Therefore, it is crucial to thoroughly verify the account details
entered in the FBDI template before processing the file.
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