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3.1.3 Generic Functionality - Customising the Default Output View ................................... 12
3.2 The Group Financial Reporting & Control – AP Invoices Report ...................................... 16
4.1 The Expenditure by Supplier and Cost Centre Report ..................................................... 19
5.3 The Group Financial Reporting & Control – AR Invoices Report...................................... 29
6.1 The Account Analysis with Line Detail Report .................................................................. 32
Legend
These recognised abbreviations tell you what action to take in the practical exercises. They will not
appear as options on the Oracle system, but are our instructions to you:
(N) – Navigate
(T) – Tab
Action Note:
This is to draw your attention to an action you MUST take in order to effectively use the
system.
Learning Note:
This is to draw your attention to useful additional information that you may find
interesting.
Caution Note:
This is to give you forewarning about an action that is NOT advisable or may have
consequences that could impact on your effective use of the system.
2 Overview of OBIEE
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (simply referred to as OBIEE) provides a full range
of business intelligence capabilities that allow you to:
2. The Extract Transform Load (ETL), updates the Data Warehouse with data from Oracle
overnight
3. Subject Areas are the data sets that are accessed via OBIEE from the data held in the
Warehouse
4. Data Warehouse then works out what information should fit into which subject area –
hence why it is an overnight process
1. Dashboard
2. Answers/Analysis
Learning Note:
Your User Responsibility will determine whether you have Dashboard (read only)
access or the full access to Dashboard and Analysis (where you can write your own
reports).
The Dashboard allows you to view reports that are pre-programmed to meet the needs of your
business. The Dashboard is split in to 2 sections:
Financials
Procurement & Spend
Caution Note:
Which sections you can view in the live system will be determined by your User
Responsibility
For example BIS Users will only be able to view BIS data.
This chapter covers the most commonly used Procurement & Spend (PO) reports:
Learning Note:
A Purchase Order Line is classed as open when:
Learning Note:
The reports listed under Procurement and Spend are standard generic OBIEE
reports.
The Custom Dashboard Index is a folder containing a suite of reports that have been
specifically written to meet the needs of UK SBS’ clients.
4. Select the Custom Dashboard Index link under Procurement and Spend, a screen to
show the available reports is displayed:
Learning Note:
The page is organised into relevant sections, for example Employee Expenses,
Procurement Performance, Spend Analyzer & Supplier Performance
5. Click the open link next to the report that you wish to run, for example Open
Purchase Order Report
6. The report parameters screen is displayed together with the report data determined by the
default parameter settings:
Learning Note:
A sample report based on the default parameters contained in the Dashboard enables
you to see an example of the selected report contents.
Caution Note:
Data is updated overnight to the OBIEE function. When you run a report it will reflect
the previous days position, it is not a real time function.
Action Note:
You can change the parameters shown on the report by using the drop down arrows.
You can alter the parameters as often as you like however, the changes are not saved
so next time you go back to the report it will show the standard defaulted parameters.
Caution Note:
Note that the Purchase Cycle Status parameter selected will return all Purchase
Orders that do NOT have the selected status.
7. To remove the defaulted parameters click on the Reset button, and select Clear
All from the displayed list:
9. You can now set the required parameters for your report by clicking the drop down arrows
next to each segment and selecting the required criteria from the displayed lists
Caution Note:
Dashboard parameters prefixed with an asterisk * are mandatory fields and must be
completed to enable the report to run.
Learning Note:
If the data elements in a drop-down list and preceded by a tick box allows the selection
of multiple values for the parameter.
For the Open Purchase Order report both parameter fields can contain multiple values.
11. Once you are happy with the selected parameters click the Apply button
Action Note:
With all OBIEE Dashboards you can customise the output view. See Chapter 3.1.3 for
more details.
13. If you want to print or export the report to Excel click on the Page Option icon and select
the required function form the displayed list:
Options Description
Options Description
Action Note:
If you are going to be using a set of parameters regularly you can save the
customization. See Chapter 3.1.4 for more details.
15. The next time you go to your OBIEE home page you will see your most recent reports. You
can open a report from the home page:
Action Note:
You can also add reports to your favourites using the Favourites tab on the toolbar at
the top of the screen. See Chapter 3.1.5 for more details.
Learning Note:
Alternatively to sort by ascending/descending values, you can also place your cursor
into a report column heading field to display the sort function arrows :
3. The Exclude column option allows you to ‘hide’ any columns that are surplus to your
requirements
4. The Move column option allows you to rearrange the columns to suit your requirements:
Move
Description
Option
4. By selecting Make this my default for this page, your customizations will automatically be
applied as the default whenever you run this report in the future
Caution Note:
OBIEE will save the exact parameters that have been entered, therefore any report that
has a Date, Month, Budget and/or Forecast parameter will need to be updated each
month to ensure the correct Date, Month, Budget, Forecast is selected.
5. If you do not select the Make this my default for this page, to apply your customization
the next time you run the report:
2. Click back onto the Favourites link at the top of the screen and you can now see that the
report has been added into your Favourites list:
3. To remove a report from your favourites list, select the required report from the displayed
list and click on Remove from Favourites:
Matched or Unmatched to a PO
Payment Status
Hold Status
Corresponding Supplier/Supplier Site
Group or Directorate responsible for the invoice
2. (N) Dashboards > Procurement & Spend > Custom Dashboards Index
3. Click the open link next to the Group Financial Reporting & Control – AP Invoices
3. The following parameters are available for the Group Financial Reporting & Control – AP
Invoices Report:
Caution Note:
Dashboard parameters prefixed with an asterisk * are mandatory fields and must be
completed to enable the report to run.
This chapter covers the most commonly used Financials (AP) reports:
3. Click the open link next to the Expenditure by Supplier and Cost Centre report
3. The following parameters are available for the Expenditure by Supplier and Cost Centre
Report:
Caution Note:
Dashboard parameters prefixed with an asterisk * are mandatory fields and must be
completed to enable the report to run.
Caution Note:
Dashboard parameters prefixed with an asterisk * are mandatory fields and must be
completed to enable the report to run.
This chapter covers the most commonly used Financials (AR) reports:
AR Open Invoices
AR Process Performance Report
Group Financial Reporting and Control – AR Invoices
It also allows users to search for raised invoices with a particular Customer and/or a
specific Invoice Number.
3. The following parameters are available for the AR Open Invoices report:
Caution Note:
Dashboard parameters prefixed with an asterisk * are mandatory fields and must be
completed to enable the report to run.
It also allows users to search for invoices raised by a particular individual within their
organisation.
3. The following parameters are available for the AR Process Performance report:
Caution Note:
Dashboard parameters prefixed with an asterisk * are mandatory fields and must be
completed to enable the report to run.
It also allows users to search for invoices raised for a particular customer/customer site.
3. Click the open link next to the Group Financial Reporting & Control – AR Invoices
report
3. The following parameters are available for the Group Financial Reporting & Control –
AR Invoices Report:
Caution Note:
Dashboard parameters prefixed with an asterisk * are mandatory fields and must be
completed to enable the report to run.
This chapter covers the most commonly used Financials (GL) reports:
The journal entries are given as appropriate for each line which can include details of:
3. Click the open link next to the Account Analysis with Line Detail report
3. The following parameters are available for the Account Analysis with Line Detail Report:
Caution Note:
Dashboard parameters prefixed with an asterisk * are mandatory fields and must be
completed to enable the report to run.
3. Click the open link next to the Programme YTD Monitoring Report
3. The following parameters are available for the Programme YTD Monitoring Report:
Caution Note:
Dashboard parameters prefixed with an asterisk * are mandatory fields and must be
completed to enable the report to run.
Actual expenditure month by month to the period in which the report is being run
Monthly forecast expenditure thereafter against budgets and forecasts
o The report is for Administration Costs
3. Click the open link next to the Administration Costs Monthly Profiles Report
3. The following parameters are available for the Administration Costs Monthly Profiles
Report:
Caution Note:
Dashboard parameters prefixed with an asterisk * are mandatory fields and must be
completed to enable the report to run.
3. The following parameters are available for the Administration Cost YTD Monitoring
Report:
Caution Note:
Dashboard parameters prefixed with an asterisk * are mandatory fields and must be
completed to enable the report to run.
3. Click the open link next to the Cost Expenditure Analysis report
3. The following parameters are available for the Cost Expenditure Analysis Report:
Caution Note:
Dashboard parameters prefixed with an asterisk * are mandatory fields and must be
completed to enable the report to run.
Month End Reports contains 7 drill down levels; these are represented by 7 tabs at the top of the
report:
Entity Summary
Business Unit Summary
Cost Centre Summary
Account Summary
Programme Summary
Analysis Summary
Transaction Level
Learning Note:
The outline below demonstrates information using the Cost Centre Summary tab.
3. The following parameters are available for the Month End Reports – Cost Centre
Summary:
Caution Note:
Dashboard parameters prefixed with an asterisk * are mandatory fields and must be
completed to enable the report to run.
Purchase Order
The number of the Purchase Order for the Transaction
Number
Purchase Requisition
The number of the Purchase Requisition for the Transaction
Number
Line Number The Purchase Order Line number for the Transaction
Transaction Number The number of the Transaction
Product Category Category of the Goods, Services or Grant activity
Purchasing Category
Expenditure Type
Line Description The description of the Goods, Services or Grant activity
Justification The Justification for the purchase
Creator The name of the individual who created the Requisition/Purchase Order
The name of the individual who has requested the Goods, Services or
Requester
Grant activity
The name of the Approver (Budget Holder) who has approved the
Approver
purchase
The date the receipt was recorded for the Goods, Services or Grant
Purchase Receipt Date
activity
Invoice Date The date of the invoice
Payment Due Date Date payment is due
3. The following parameters are available for the Management Reporting on Balances
Report:
Caution Note:
Dashboard parameters prefixed with an asterisk * are mandatory fields and must be
completed to enable the report to run.
The Account Analysis with Line Detail Report prints the full
detail for all accounting lines in the General Ledger for
single and multiple account combinations.
The journal entries are given as appropriate for each line
Account Analysis with which can include details of:
Line Detail Invoices paid with invoice numbers and amount
Receipts against Purchase Orders with PO
numbers shown
I.e. all the details that can be viewed by using the
‘Drilldown’ facility in GL Account Inquiry
General Administration Cost The Administration Cost YTD Report shows Year to Date
Ledger YTD Monitoring (YTD) actual expenditure against Budgets and Forecast
Expenditure for Administration Costs.
Cost Expenditure The Cost Expenditure Analysis Report provides Budget,
Analysis Actual and Forecast Account Code Analysis for the
specified Cost Centre and/or Programme parameters.
This Month End Reports display income & expenditure
based on budgets and actuals and a further comparison
showing the variance between the two on a monthly (as
selected) and year to date basis.
Month End Reports contains 7 drill down levels; these are
represented by 7 tabs at the top of the report:
Entity Summary
Month End Reports
Business Unit Summary
Cost Centre Summary
Account Summary
Programme Summary
Analysis Summary
Transaction Level