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Overview

The APPS.PA_FORECAST_DTLS_PKG package is a VALID PL/SQL package in the Oracle E-Business Suite Applications schema and forms part of the Project Manufacturing and Project Billing forecasting infrastructure. Its business purpose is to persist and maintain the detailed forecast lines that underpin Oracle Projects forecasting functionality, specifically the forecast item detail records used to store quantities, amounts, and period-by-period projections associated with forecast items. The package operates as a low-level data maintenance utility rather than as a public application programming interface; the ETRM metadata classifies its API type as OTHER, indicating that it is an internal implementation package consumed by higher-level forecast logic rather than being published for direct customer invocation. The package depends directly on the PA_FORECAST_GLOB package, which supplies shared global constants, record type definitions, and common forecast declarations. This dependency is significant because PA_FORECAST_GLOB was the object matched by the search term, and PA_FORECAST_DTLS_PKG is a principal downstream consumer of the global specification package within the forecast subsystem.

Key Procedures and Functions

The ETRM documentation records two procedures for this package:

  • INSERT_ROWS — Creates new forecast detail records. It is the entry point used when forecast item detail lines must be added to the forecast tables, typically during forecast generation, forecast copying, or manual forecast maintenance.
  • UPDATE_ROWS — Modifies existing forecast detail records. It supports the adjustment and recalculation of forecast detail data after initial insertion.

The documented procedure list is limited, and no parameter signatures are provided in the metadata. The package body is compiled and its subprograms are marked for dependent code display, confirming that these procedures are implemented and callable from within the database. No parameter lists are reproduced here because the ETRM metadata does not expose them; they should be verified directly against the package specification before use.

Tables Accessed

Per the documented metadata, the package accesses three tables through APPS synonyms:

  • PA_FORECAST_ITEMS — the forecast item header table, holding the forecast and resource-identification context to which detail rows belong.
  • PA_FORECAST_ITEM_DETAILS — the detailed periodic forecast table that stores the amounts and quantities inserted or updated by the package procedures.
  • PLITBLM — a PL/SQL index-by table type used for bulk processing, indicating that INSERT_ROWS and UPDATE_ROWS perform set-based or array-based DML rather than single-row operations.

Usage Notes

PA_FORECAST_DTLS_PKG is referenced by PA_FORECASTITEM_PVT, the private forecast item API, which is the normal caller within the forecast processing stack. Invocation therefore occurs indirectly through forecast item maintenance flows, concurrent forecast generation and regeneration programs, and Oracle Projects forms that manage forecast items rather than through direct user calls. Because the package is classified as OTHER and is not a documented public API, custom development should avoid calling it directly; extensions should instead use the supported forecast item private API. Developers investigating PA_FORECAST_GLOB should note that this package is among its confirmed references, and any modification to the global package's specification may require recompilation of PA_FORECAST_DTLS_PKG. Behavior is consistent across Oracle EBS 12.1.1 and 12.2.2, as the package depends only on STANDARD and the forecast globals.