Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing Configuration AP Request Integration Point Configure the AP Business Unit Characteristic Type For each CIS Division used, in Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing, the AP Business Unit to be used in Oracle E-Business Suite Revenue Accounting GL must be configured. Complete the following configuration in Customer Care and Billing to reference the AP Business Unit corresponding to the CIS Division as follows: 1. Create a Characteristic Type Admin Menu > C > Characteristic Type The value for this characteristic type stores the value of the Oracle E-Business Suite Revenue Accounting Org id. In this example it is CCBTMPLT. You will use the name of the template you have established for this purpose in Oracle E-Business Suite Revenue Accounting. 2. Set up the details on the Characteristic Type as follows: Field Value Comments Characteristic Type EBSORGID The code associated with your characteristic type. This will be used in future steps. Description EBS Org Id A description of the user for this characteristic type. Type of Char Value Predefined Value No freeform text is allowed, only a predefined set of values. Allow Search by Char Val Allowed Allow Searches Characteristic Value 204 The name of the Oracle E-Business Suite Revenue Accounting Org Id to be used. Description Oracle E-Business Suite Revenue Accounting Operating Unit 3. Select the Characteristic Entities tab to allow the Characteristic Type to be associated with the Distribution Code: Field Value Comments Characteristic Entity CIS Division This characteristic type can be inserted on a CIS Division. 4. Attach the Characteristic Type, created above, to any CIS Divisions that will be used for AP Request Adjustments. In sample data an example is provided as the CA CIS Division.Admin Menu > C > CIS Division Field Value Comments CIS Division Example: CA The CIS Division to be used. Description Example: California A description of how the CIS Division is used. Characteristic Tab Effective Date Example: 01-01-1900 The date you wish the characteristic type and value to become active and used by the system, and therefore, the integration software. Characteristic Type Oracle E-Business Suite Revenue Accounting Org ID The characteristic type you created above Characteristic Value Example: 204 The value you gave to the characteristic type created above Note: Only fields relevant to the integration are included in this table. AP Data Integration Point No Oracle Customer Care and Billing configuration is required to enable this integration point. AP payment data is extracted from Oracle Applications when an AP Request invoice is paid. This data is then translated by the BPEL service and inserted into the Customer Care and Billing AP Request that initiated the invoice in the first place. Oracle BPEL Process Manager invokes the Customer Care and Billing service, named C1AdjustmentMaintenance, when a payment is canceled and the Invoice is cancelled Oracle Applications. The service will use the cancel reason contained in its configuration when canceling the adjustment associated with an AP Request. The sample data cancel reason comes pre-configured as “APVC' (Accounts Payable Void Check) in Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing version 2.2 and later. You should verify that the cancel service C1AdjustmentMaintenance is configured and that the Cancel Reason to which it refers is also configured correctly. Admin Menu > X > XAI Inbound Service Admin Menu > X > XAI Inbound Service Field Label Value Comments XAI In Service Name AdjustmentMaintenance This service is used to change data associated with adjustment transactions Description Adjustment Maintenance for AP Cancel Long Description Adjustment Maintenance for AP Cancel Active Checked Active check box checked Request Schema C1AdjustmentMaintenance.xsd Used by BPEL to call this service Response Schema C1AdjustmentMaintenance.xsd Used by BPEL to receive the response from this service Transaction Type Update Service used to update an existing adjustment transaction You may wish to test this service using XAI Dynamic Submission as follows: Admin Menu > X > XAI Dynamic Submission Field Label Value Comments XAI In Service Name AdjustmentMaintenance This service is used to change data associated with adjustment transactions Transaction Type Update Cancel Checked Cancel check box checked Adjustment ID Example: 078644601179 The key value of the adjustment for which you wish to test the cancel service Cancel Reason Example: APVC AP Void Check cancel reason. This must be a configured cancel reason Click the Submit button and review the results.