Simplified Loader’s Project Budgets Template is a fully integrated Spreadsheet with Oracle Fusion, which allows download and upload of Project Budget. The main highlight of the Project Budget Template is that the periods are formatted by columns instead of by rows.
Users of the Oracle Fusion PPM module can utilize Simplified Loader’s Excel Templates to download or to upload Project Budgets from Excel to Oracle Fusion. Excel Template provides a feature-rich interface and allows management of all information required for Project Budget creation from within the Spreadsheet. Excel Template provides a list of values for the Financial Plan. The Template offers full support to download Budget Data by Financial Plan Type or Plan Name.
Project Budget Template is best suited for centralized Project Budget creation process or Data Migration. Simplified Loader Excel Templates can be distributed to users who wish to create Project Budget for organizations using a centralized Project Budget creation process. The portable nature of Simplified Loader Excel sheets makes it possible to distribute the file to any user (inside or outside your organization) who wishes to supply Project Budget details. The person providing input details can utilize the offline features of the Simplified Loader Template to enter and validate data. When a centralized Budget creation team receives data, they use the same file (without a need to copy-paste data from one Excel file to another) to upload Budgets from Excel to Oracle Fusion.
Oracle provides FBDI and ADFdi sheet to upload Budget data. Compared with ADFdi, Simplified loader Templates enable loading data for multiple projects with a single click of a button. Simplified Loader Templates are 95% more convenient in downloading ADFdi Template per Project, organizing data in Excel, steps involved in data upload, and resolving errors. Please review a detailed comparison with FBDI and ADFdi Template here.

Create Budget
Create Budget enables uploading Project Budget details by periods in a single click of a button. Budget data can be uploaded at the Project level or Tasks level. Based on the Financial plan settings, upload data in Quantity, Raw Cost, Burdened Cost, or Revenue fields.

Get using Project and Plan Type
Get data by Plan Type, allows to download Budget details by Project and Plan Type. Using this functionality is not limited to using a single Project and Plan Type. Multiple projects or Financial Plan Type’s data can be downloaded using this operation. This functionality downloads the baselined version of the Financial Plan.

Period Setup
To use Simplified Loader’s Budget Template, you first need to configure Periods in the About and DataSheet. Using Period Setup functionality, you can set up Periods in DataSheet and About sheet.
1) Roles or privileges required for Budget Template.
The user must have the following roles and privileges to upload Budget:
a. Project Integration Specialist (ORA_PJF_PROJECT_INTEGRATION_SPECIALIST_JOB)
b. Manage Project Financial Plans Service (PJO_MANAGE_PROJECT_FINANCIAL_PLANS_SERVICE_PRIV)