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Overview

APPS.CE_FORECAST_HEADERS_PKG is a PL/SQL package in the Oracle E-Business Suite Cash Management (CE) module that encapsulates the core data manipulation logic for forecast header records. Forecasts in Oracle Cash Management are used to project cash inflows and outflows across definable time periods, supporting liquidity analysis and cash positioning. The forecast header is the top-level container that defines a forecast instance — its name, currency context, and the set of rows, columns, and cells that constitute the forecast grid. This package serves as the low-level persistence layer that creates, maintains, and removes those header records, and it is the dependency that the higher-level CE_FORECASTS_PKG builds upon to deliver the forecast management API surface.

Key Procedures and Functions

The package exposes eight documented procedures and functions, which together cover the full lifecycle of a forecast header row:

  • SPEC_REVISION — Returns the revision identifier of the package specification, supporting version tracking and dependency verification across callers.
  • BODY_REVISION — Returns the revision identifier of the package body, used to confirm that the installed implementation matches the expected version.
  • CHECK_UNIQUE — Validates that a forecast header being created or renamed does not conflict with an existing header. This enforces uniqueness of the identifying attributes of a forecast before a write is attempted.
  • INSERT_ROW — Inserts a new forecast header record, establishing the top-level definition against which forecast rows, columns, and cells are subsequently populated.
  • LOCK_ROW — Acquires a row-level lock on an existing forecast header, protecting the header and its dependent forecast structures from concurrent modification during an update or delete operation.
  • UPDATE_ROW — Modifies an existing forecast header record, typically to change descriptive attributes while preserving the header's identity and its associated detail data.
  • DELETE_ROW — Removes a single forecast header record, used when a specific header must be eliminated as part of a controlled operation.
  • DELETE_FORECASTS — Performs a broader deletion across forecast data, invoked when an entire forecast definition, rather than an isolated header, must be purged.

Tables Accessed

The package operates against the core Cash Management forecast schema through APPS synonyms. The primary target is CE_FORECAST_HEADERS, with CE_FORECAST_HEADERS_S providing the corresponding sequence for primary key generation during INSERT_ROW. Deletion operations extend into CE_FORECASTS, CE_FORECAST_ROWS, CE_FORECAST_COLUMNS, and CE_FORECAST_CELLS, since removing a forecast header requires removing the rows, columns, and intersection cells that depend on it. This referential cascade explains why DELETE_FORECASTS exists as a distinct procedure from DELETE_ROW: the former manages the full dependent hierarchy, while the latter targets the header record itself.

Usage Notes

CE_FORECAST_HEADERS_PKG is an internal persistence package rather than a public, developer-facing API. ETRM classifies it as API classification OTHER, indicating it is not part of the supported open interface set. It is referenced by CE_FORECASTS_PKG, which is the package most commonly invoked by the Cash Management forecast forms and by custom extensions. Direct invocation of CE_FORECAST_HEADERS_PKG is therefore discouraged; callers should route forecast creation, maintenance, and deletion through the higher-level forecast package so that validation, security, and dependent-table handling remain consistent. In practice the package executes in the context of the Oracle Forms transactions that maintain the Forecast workbench, and its DELETE_FORECASTS procedure may be exercised during forecast cleanup or purge operations. Because it locks headers before mutation, it is safe under concurrent forecast edits within a single database session scope, but any custom code calling it directly must observe the standard EBS conventions for WHO columns, locking, and commit control.