Introducing the EBS Period Close Process Analyzer available now for download and use.  This analyzer is different from the period close product based analyzers.  This is a business flow analyzer that will scan posting items across all EBS products and let you know which products have pending items in your subledgers that will prevent you from closing the period in General Ledger.

Currently, this analyzer will scan posting-related items across the following EBS Products:

  • Lease Management
  • Channel Revenue Management
  • Order Management
  • Cash Management
  • Payables
  • Receivables
  • Purchasing
  • Cost and Inventory
  • Projects
  • Fixed Assets
  • and finally the General Ledger

The EBS Period Close Process Analyzer 200.1 DocID 2468739.1

Many EBS products send accounting information to General Ledger (GL). However, there is no control within the GL period close process that would prevent a user from closing the GL period prematurely.

The above output shows the summary on the left and each product on the right.  If you have a warning or error you will want to click on the application to get more details.


We can make an analogy of the EBS products as being passengers on a train, and the train is General Ledger. The passengers are in the process of boarding the train, but the train starts leaving the station before all passengers have boarded. There is no conductor to alert the engineer to wait. So the train keeps going, passengers are left behind and these passengers now have to deal with how to get to their destination.

This new analyzer acts like the conductor. When you incorporate this into your business process of closing the GL period, then it will alert you to wait when there are pending items. By waiting for subledgers to complete, many issues are avoided because subledgers are not left dangling with accounting entries you can no longer get all the way into GL.

Benefits of the EBS Period Close Process Analyzer

  •     Run from General Ledger responsibility, but checks all subledgers
  •     Provides recommended actions and best practices
  •     Runs as a standalone or Concurrent Request
  •     Does not include transaction-specific data to ensure security

Download today and incorporate this into your GL period close business process.