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DOCUMENT HISTORY 4
UPDATE 17C 4
Revision History 4
Overview 4
Purchasing 5
Override First Approver for Purchase Orders 5
Acknowledgment Controls Defaulting for Purchase Orders 5
Update Purchase Order Agreements Using File-Based Data Import 5
Descriptive Flexfield Inheritance Between Requisitions and Purchase Orders 6
Enhanced Messages for Account Generation Failures 6
Remove Budgetary Control-Related Restrictions When a Purchase Order is Not Holding Funds 6
Report Using the Procure to Pay Subject Area 6
Self Service Procurement 6
Assign All Lines on a Requisition to the Same Buyer 6
Retain Last Assigned Buyer for Returned Lines 6
Use a Purchase Agreement Across Supplier Sites 7
Sourcing 7
Track and Audit Supplier Actions 7
Ensure Supplier Communication in Preferred Language 7
Consolidate Negotiation Lines on Purchase Order 7
Supplier Qualification Management 7
Share Qualifications and Assessments with Suppliers 7
Improved Management of Automation Errors 8
UPDATE 17B 8
Revision History 8
Overview 8
Cross-Product Procurement Enhancements 9
Analytic-Driven Infolets on the Home Page and Work Area Landing Page 9
Select and Access Favorites 10
Purchasing 10
Purchase Orders Work Area Landing Page 10
Agreements Work Area Landing Page 11
Manage Supplier Acknowledgments 11
Enable Electronic Signature of Procurement Documents 12
Reporting 12
Budgetary Control - Grants Funding Sources 12
Budgetary Control - Funds Reservation 12
Period-End Processing 12
Keyword Search 13
Outside Processing 13
Outbound Integration Events 13
Provide Details for Human Workflow Issues that Cause PO Rejection 13
Self Service Procurement 14
Shopping Experience 14
Mobile Requisition Application 14
Internal Material Transfer 14
Budgetary Control 14
Multiple-Grant Support 15
Outside Processing 15
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Punchout Setup Diagnostic Tools 15
Supplier Model 15
Full Supplier Profile Change Management 15
Inbound Supplier Web Service 15
Supplier Portal Work Area Landing Page 16
Search Suppliers 16
Communicate New Supplier Documents 16
Import Supplier Profile Attachments 16
Support Batch Processing in Supplier Import 17
Create Suppliers from Existing Party Using Supplier Import 17
Sourcing 17
Team Scoring 17
Sourcing Programs 17
Negotiation Abstracts 18
Supplier Response Tabulation 18
Award Notice 18
Negotiations Work Area Landing Page 18
Question Library Scoring 19
Remove Managers from the Collaboration Team 19
Price Visibility Control 19
Supplier Lock Out 19
Outside Processing 19
Supplier Qualification Management 20
Qualification and Assessment Scoring 20
Automatic Evaluation 20
Automatic Acceptance of Responses 21
Event-Based Initiative and Qualification Creation 21
Cancellation of Future-Dated Qualifications and Assessments 21
Supplier Qualification Work Area Landing Page 21
Additional Notifications 22
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DOCUMENT HISTORY
This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates
appear in the following table:
UPDATE 17C
REVISION HISTORY
This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates
appear in the following table:
OVERVIEW
Oracle Procurement Cloud provides a complete source-to-settle solution to help you:
Oracle Procurement Cloud supports both transactional procure-to-pay flows from requisitions through purchase
orders, receipts, and invoices, as well as strategic areas around sourcing, contracting, and advanced supplier
management.
This update provides a number of new enhancements that help you gain more value from your procurement
processes.
DISCLAIMER
The Information contained in this document may include statements about Oracles product development
plans. Many factors can materially affect Oracles product development plans and the nature and timing of
future product releases. Accordingly, this Information is provided to you solely for information only, is not a
commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing
decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described remains at the sole
discretion of Oracle.
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This information may not be incorporated into any contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or
affiliates. Oracle specifically disclaims any liability with respect to this information. Refer to the Legal Notices
and Terms of Use for further information.
PURCHASING
You can now use the original overriding approver from the originating requisition on purchase orders and related
change orders to determine the approval routing of the resulting purchase order and related change orders. This
ensures that the approvers of the originating requisition are able to approve any changes introduced later in the
procurement process and maintain compliance with approval policies.
This capability provides additional approval flexibility, maintains the integrity of the approval process (change
orders have the same functionality as the original requisition), and ensures consistent business controls
throughout the purchasing process.
Additional attributes available for update through file-based data import include:
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DESCRIPTIVE FLEXFIELD INHERITANCE BETWEEN REQUISITIONS AND PURCHASE ORDERS
Descriptive flexfields offer a powerful and flexible way to capture specific information on a requisition that may
be unique to your business needs. You now have the option to copy descriptive flexfield attributes from the
requisition header to the purchase order header, and from a requisition line to the purchase order line, in
addition to the preexisting requisition distribution to purchase order distribution option.
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USE A PURCHASE AGREEMENT ACROSS SUPPLIER SITES
Customers will be able to create agreements and indicate whether the agreement should allow ordering from
any site. The self-service user will be able to select any valid supplier site in the requisitioning BU when
ordering items from smart forms and enter requisition lines pages referencing agreements that allow ordering
from any site.
SOURCING
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IMPROVED MANAGEMENT OF AUTOMATION ERRORS
As the supplier qualification process becomes increasingly automated through continued enhancements, you
must track and manage an increasing number of errors and exceptions that occur during processing. This
enhancement provides a new landing page infolet that highlights the number of recently occurring automation
errors. When an automated transaction fails to process as expected, such as during the automatic assignment
of qualifications to suppliers at the conclusion of supplier registration, the error is registered for your attention.
From the infolet, you can drill down into the new Manage Automation Errors page and take corrective action.
You can view the list of errors and see detailed information. You can then correct configuration errors, or
process the transactions manually as needed. These tools will help you identify and address configuration
issues and reduce the need to contact support, shortening the time to resolution.
UPDATE 17B
REVISION HISTORY
This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates
appear in the following table:
OVERVIEW
Oracle Procurement Cloud provides a complete source-to-settle solution to help you:
Oracle Procurement Cloud supports both transactional procure-to-pay flows from requisitions through purchase
orders, receipts, and invoices as well as strategic areas around sourcing, contracting, and advanced supplier
management.
This release provides enhancements in user experience and navigation, more flexibility with additional services,
and a large set of new product features enabling you to gain more value from your procurement processes.
DISCLAIMER
The Information contained in this document may include statements about Oracles product development
plans. Many factors can materially affect Oracles product development plans and the nature and timing of
future product releases. Accordingly, this Information is provided to you solely for information only, is not a
commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing
decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described remains at the sole
discretion of Oracle.
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This information may not be incorporated into any contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or
affiliates. Oracle specifically disclaims any liability with respect to this information. Refer to the Legal Notices
and Terms of Use for further information.
ANALYTIC-DRIVEN INFOLETS ON THE HOME PAGE AND WORK AREA LANDING PAGE
The new home experience and application work area pages provide modern user interface components called
infolets. An infolet is a self-contained, interactive container that helps you quickly visualize high-level
information, review relevant details, and proceed to action. Because infolets are role-based, you see only what
is relevant to your specific role. Progressive disclosure of details is available to you by expanding or inverting
the infolet as needed. You can also rearrange the layout of your infolets or hide the ones that you do not need.
Home experience infolet page: This page exists at the same level as your springboard page (where
you access your application icons). You can click the page controls (indicated by dots at the top-center of
the home page) to access a set of logically grouped infolets aggregated from multiple application work
areas.
If you have all the relevant roles, you are able to view infolets on the home experience infolet page that
aggregate critical information for your entire source-to-settle business process.
Infolet-based landing pages: An infolet-based work area landing page contains infolets specific to a
single product work area. You can access a work area page by clicking an icon button on the
springboard, an icon button in the springboard strip, a work area name in the Navigator, or an infolet on a
home experience infolet page.
The redesigned work area landing pages present information quickly and clearly to draw your attention to
actionable content, which is key to your productivity. Infolet-based work area landing pages have easy-to-
read analytic tiles that users can rearrange and configure to meet personalized needs. The tiles also
provide additional metrics and improved usability. This design allows all users to monitor the part of the
operation that best meets their own role or interest.
You can configure which infolets you want to display on the home experience infolet page from the following list:
Requisition Lines. View the counts of unprocessed requisitions by the number of days they are not
processed.
Open Orders. View the count of open orders that are assigned to the buyer. This information can assist
you with allocating work across your department.
Overdue Schedules. View the total number of overdue schedules. The expanded view shows the
breakdown by supplier.
Open Receipts. View the total number of expected receiving lines that are open. The expanded view
shows the aging of these lines according to the expected receipt date. You can navigate from here to
manage incoming shipments.
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Invoices on Hold. Keep track of held invoices. You can see counts of invoices on hold and drill down to
the Invoice work area to take action, if needed.
Payments. View the total amount of upcoming payments due to suppliers within one week.
Supply Base. Monitor the percentage distribution of your suppliers across several dimensions, including
supplier type, business relationship, and business classification.
Agreements. Monitor how many agreements are over-released or under-released according to
consumption exceptions you set on each agreement.
Inactive Agreements. View agreements that have had no activity for the prior six months.
Sourcing Programs. View the top five sourcing programs across your procurement business units and
drill down to program details.
Keep track of your sourcing activity across your procurement business units with a count of negotiations
by status and expand to see ongoing negotiations by category manager.
Deliverables Overdue. View the count of overdue deliverables from your sourcing negotiations and
purchasing agreements. You can drill down to the respective work areas to take action.
Negotiated Savings and Award. Monitor total awards by year and month as well as your sourcing
performance in achieving negotiated savings.
Qualified Suppliers. Track progress as you qualify your supply base. This infolet provides the
percentage of suppliers that have been through the qualification process for the top five qualification
areas. You can expand this infolet to show the results for the top ten qualification areas.
PURCHASING
With Oracle Purchasing Cloud, you can verify the accuracy of supplier agreements that ensure pricing, terms
and conditions, and policies with suppliers. Purchasing also enables you to manage purchase orders with
suppliers to ensure goods and services are delivered on time.
Orders Requiring Attention: Shows counts of purchase orders that might require a buyers attention,
such as orders rejected or invoice holds.
Recent Activity: This infolet provides visibility to recent actions taken on the buyer's orders, such as
acknowledgment and receipts.
Incomplete Orders: Shows counts of incomplete orders and change orders that are assigned to the
buyer.
Requisition Lines Requiring Action: Shows a count of requisition lines in the buyers queue.
Requisition Lines Days Unprocessed: View the counts of unprocessed requisitions by the number of
days they are not processed.
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Orders in Process: Shows the total number of orders and change orders in process. This infolet also
shows counts by order status.
Open Schedules: Shows the number of active order schedules by schedule status.
Agreements Requiring Attention: This infolet displays counts of agreements that might require a
category managers attention, such as agreements rejected or agreements with upload errors.
Recent Activity: This infolet provides visibility to recent actions taken on the category managers
agreements, such as acknowledgment and change orders.
Incomplete Agreements: This infolet displays counts of incomplete agreements and change orders that
are assigned to the category manager.
Expiring Agreements: This infolet displays counts of expiring agreements that are assigned to the
category manager.
Expired Agreements: This infolet shows counts of agreements that have expired in the last week and in
the last month.
Agreement Amount Consumed: This infolet displays agreements by consumption rate, including
agreements that are over consumed.
Agreement Consumption at Risk: This infolet shows agreements that have consumption issues based
on the predefined released amounts captured on the individual agreement.
Agreements with No Activity: This infolet displays the number of agreements that have had no activity
in the past six months.
Agreements in Process: This infolet displays the total number of agreements and change orders in
process. It also displays counts by status.
Open Agreements: This infolet displays counts of open blanket purchase agreements and open contract
purchase agreements that are assigned to the category manager.
Set up acknowledgment controls for automated processing. You can define acknowledgment
controls on the supplier site record. The system defaults the acknowledgment controls to the purchase
order from the supplier site during the requisition-to-purchase order processing.
External applications can require acknowledgment for change orders submitted through the
purchase request web service.
Enable supplier collaboration during purchase order acknowledgment activities. With supplier
collaboration:
Suppliers can now propose purchase order changes using the purchase order web service or by
way of the supplier portal.
Buyers can review and action supplier change proposals during acknowledgment.
Suppliers can download purchase orders awaiting acknowledgment from Supplier Portal to
Microsoft Excel, perform updates (such as accept, change, and reject), and upload. You can
track acknowledgment activities, including change proposals in the purchase order document
history.
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ENABLE ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE OF PROCUREMENT DOCUMENTS
You can now use electronic signatures with DocuSign to effectively capture formal acceptance of internal
users and suppliers on purchasing documents. The following capabilities can help you manage the electronic
signature process:
To use this feature, you must have procurement contracts implemented. Also, you must enable the Electronic
Signature on Purchasing Documents option in the features setup.
REPORTING
Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) reporting capabilities have been enhanced with the following:
The Procurement Purchasing Real Time and Procurement Requisition Real Time subject areas
now include a new folder called Document History, which allows users to report on approvals and
changes to purchase orders and requisitions.
Award attributes have been added to the Procurement Purchasing Real Time subject area. They
provide award-related information for purchase orders associated with sponsored projects, to ensure that
expenditures have been accumulated against the correct award and enforce compliance with the awards
provisions.
When a purchase order is needed and budget is not available, a funds override process can quickly resolve the
constraint. The following capabilities have been added to help manage the funds override process:
PERIOD-END PROCESSING
Period-end processing can be time consuming. You must carefully examine transactions to determine whether
they must be finally closed or carried over to the next period.
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You can now accomplish period-end processing more efficiently by using a simplified Microsoft Excel
spreadsheet with upload and download functions to perform mass-close operations. This enhancement makes it
easier for users to quickly update the status of open transactions that may be holding residual accruals or
obligations and that have been inactive or overdue for closure.
KEYWORD SEARCH
Find the orders, agreements, and suppliers you need faster and more easily with the new quick search tool,
which includes keyword search and autosuggest. This feature provides a more modern and easy-to-use
search capability, while still providing the ability to search for specific field values when needed.
OUTSIDE PROCESSING
Outside processing is a common business process in which one or more operations of a work order is
outsourced to a supplier. Typically, manufacturers use outside processing when they dont have the
capabilities or equipment to perform a specialized and costly service (such as plating) in-house.
Create and manage work definitions with supplier operations. You can create a work definition that
defines operations as internal or at supplier, identify the supplier, and the lead time for the supplier
operation. You are able to define back-to-back supplier operations where the material can move from one
supplier to another and then back to your facility for internal manufacturing. You can indicate whether to
generate the purchase requisition at the time of work order release or at the time of completion of the
operation (prior to the supplier operation). You can also identify shipping documents that must be
generated to facilitate shipping the processed assembly to your supplier.
Automatically create and manage purchasing documents for the service. The system will
automatically create the purchase requisitions and purchase orders to buy the outside manufacturing
service. This creation occurs either at release of the work order or when the prior operation is completed,
depending on your requirements.
Automatic demand and supply changes. In outside processing, a service purchase order is created for
every work order. Therefore, you must reflect any change in the quantity or schedule dates of the work
order in the purchase order. Similarly, you must reflect any change in the supplier delivery schedule or
quantity needs in the work order. For work order quantity or schedule date changes, Oracle Supply Chain
Orchestration Cloud attempts to automatically adjust the purchase order and logs a manufacturing
exception if the purchase order cant be changed for any reason. If the purchase order changes, Supply
Chain Orchestration automatically logs a manufacturing exception, which serves as a notification for the
production supervisor to take immediate action on the work order.
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contains additional details about the underlying errors. Failures due to rule configuration issues and
missing currency conversion rates are clearly indicated so that you can work with your administrator to resolve
the issues without additional technical research or support.
SHOPPING EXPERIENCE
As consumer shopping expectations evolve, the self-service procurement experience must also evolve. Self
Service Procurement delivers a new, simplified user experience for shopping and requisition creation. A
completely redesigned layout is now available for easier identification of important information for requesters,
such as recently viewed, recent purchases, and featured categories. Powerful new tools, such as advanced
filters in search results and one-click requisition submission, meet the expectations of a demanding user base
accustomed to consumer shopping tools. Users are able to complete tasks more quickly and easily with less
support. In a world of ever-expanding devices, the improved experience is designed to satisfy across devices,
including desktops, laptops, and tablets.
BUDGETARY CONTROL
Control and maintain budgets with greater flexibility. Oracle Budgetary Control Cloud provides several new
features that enhance the existing capabilities to enforce budget constraints and prevent users from submitting
transactions if funds are not sufficient. You can configure funds to be reserved as early as requisition
submission rather than waiting for requisition approval to reserve the funds. When a purchase is needed, even
though a budget is not available, you can apply a funds override process to make the purchase. The override
flow support consists of: a funds override request, funds override approval, and reserving funds with an
override at requisition approval. When you must release funds without being used, instead of finding and
canceling individual requisitions, you can now mass-cancel requisitions to make it easy to clean up reserved
funds that are held across multiple requisitions.
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MULTIPLE-GRANT SUPPORT
Some projects are funded by multiple grants. To enhance grants management in the procurement process,
Self Service Procurement provides the ability to charge against multiple grants for a single project. This
removes the current limitation of a single grant per project.
OUTSIDE PROCESSING
Outside processing is a common business process in which one or more operations of a work order is
outsourced to a supplier. Typically, manufacturers use outside processing when they dont have the
capabilities or equipment to perform a specialized and costly service (such as plating) in house. Self Service
Procurement supports integration to create outside processing requisitions to buy the outside manufacturing
service, either at release of the work order or when the prior operation is completed, depending on your
requirements.
Oracle Self Service Procurement Cloud provides the Catalog Administrator and Application Administrator with
inline diagnostics for errors found in punchout site configuration test requests or in returned shopping carts. This
diagnostic capability provides immediately accessible information that can be used to diagnose punchout
problems, greatly reducing the time to get a punchout supplier up and running.
SUPPLIER MODEL
Oracle Supplier Model Cloud enables you to manage your supplier data to support critical business processes
that leverage suppliers such as procure-to-pay. You can maintain external supplier profile information,
including addresses, contacts, and tax information. In addition, you can maintain internal business controls to
govern transaction processing based on the supplier relationship.
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SUPPLIER PORTAL WORK AREA LANDING PAGE
You can gain substantial savings and efficiency with an effective supplier self-service portal solution to manage
supplier transactions and communication. The success of a portal solution is dependent on the ability of
suppliers to identify and complete essential tasks quickly and easily. A re-engineered user experience for the
Supplier Portal is both simplified and more effective. Reduced information density, clearer calls to action and
improved usability means suppliers can start working quickly with actionable content. By surfacing real-time
information on the work area landing page (such as recent activity, transaction reports, and issues that require
urgent attention), the landing page provides immediate and summarized visibility of current work and business
flows. For suppliers on the go, the new landing page is designed to deliver a great experience on tablets as
well as the desktop. New infolets include:
Requiring Attention. Provides broad visibility into the most urgent matters with a high- level view of
transactions that require urgent action or review, such as agreements to acknowledge, orders to
acknowledge, negotiation responses, negotiations closing soon, and forecast commit mismatches.
Recent Activity. Provides an overview of important information about ongoing activities to keep supplier
users updated and informed, and to help them plan the workload ahead. You can filter Information to
narrow or broaden the time frame in which the transaction activities occurred.
SEARCH SUPPLIERS
Find the suppliers you need faster and more easily with the new supplier search tool, which includes keyword
search and autosuggest. Expanded search capability also provides you the flexibility to use the Manage
Suppliers page to do light reporting and analysis tasks without leaving the Suppliers work area. The new
supplier search includes the ability to search for a set of suppliers across supplier attributes, such as business
classifications, supplier types, or products and services.
NOTE: This feature was available in Release 12, but was not announced.
NOTE: This feature was available in Release 12, but was not announced.
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SUPPORT BATCH PROCESSING IN SUPPLIER IMPORT
Supplier import allows you to enter or update large volumes of supplier data in Oracle Procurement Cloud.
When the import is processed, all records in the staging or interface tables are picked up for processing, which
can occasionally affect performance and take longer than desired. Additionally, if an import process is
scheduled more than once, all instances will attempt to process all records, affecting performance.
You can now specify which records you want processed when you schedule a supplier import process. You can
organize import records into batches by assigning them a Batch ID. Batches can be processed in parallel.
NOTE: This feature was available in Release 12, but was not announced.
SOURCING
Oracle Sourcing Cloud delivers the structure, tools, and information that you require to maximize the value of
supplier negotiations. You can improve your negotiation position, drive strategic savings initiatives, and achieve
bottom-line savings results.
TEAM SCORING
Sourcing excellence requires combining the specialized skills of procurement professionals and subject matter
experts by leveraging their expertise and gathering feedback. For large or complex negotiations, it's common
to use different teams to evaluate different aspects of the supplier responses. With team scoring, you can
divide individuals into one or more teams and assign specific sections of requirements. Team members are
notified of supplier responses to be evaluated and can view their progress at any time. You can also choose
when to open and close for scoring, monitor the scoring progress of all team members, and communicate with
teams throughout the process. When you are ready to analyze supplier responses for award, the system
calculates the combined team scores, and you can drill down to see individual scores and comments. Team
scoring provides a more comprehensive evaluation of supplier responses leading to more effective award
decisions and increased transparency.
SOURCING PROGRAMS
Procurement organizations are challenged to provide tangible results based on internal goals to help measure
sourcing performance. Currently, there is limited visibility into the overall value delivered by multiple sourcing
initiatives and a lack of insight into results. With sourcing programs, organizations have a way to set
measurable goals across sourcing initiatives and proactively determine whether those goals are being met.
You can define goals with tangible objectives that are tied to negotiations and enter other data that contributes
to the objective. Teams can participate in the program and collaborate with internal stakeholders using Oracle
Social Network. You can proactively measure and monitor program progress and results with embedded
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analytics for key metrics. Being able to track and manage sourcing programs yields visibility into how the
sourcing organization is performing, improves buyer productivity, and helps identify cost-savings opportunities.
NEGOTIATION ABSTRACTS
Abstracts are negotiation summaries presented to the public on the buying organization's external web site.
Suppliers can easily discover negotiations and determine if they are interested in participating without having to
log in to the sourcing application. Abstracts are used mainly in public sector entities, such as state and local
governments, and you can enable or disable this feature according to your business needs. You can preview
the abstract content and control when the abstract is published to your external web site. To add custom
content to the abstract, you can define additional fields that are relevant to your business. When you publish
the negotiation, the external web site is updated with the negotiation details and instructions for the supplier to
log into to the Sourcing application. Publishing the abstract and negotiation information to an external web site
opens the visibility to any supplier who is interested in bidding, which ensures compliance to public sector
policy.
AWARD NOTICE
To ensure transparency for public sector entities, it is important that you publish the final award decision to the
external web site. You can tailor the award notice to your business needs using Oracle Business Intelligence
Publisher. You also have the option to withdraw the award notice, which will remove the report from the
external web site.
My Negotiations. Gain insight into the state of your negotiations by status and easily drill down to more
detailed views.
Messages. Keep track of new Sourcing communication with a count of unread messages. Switch to an
expanded view to get more information and drill down to message details to take action.
Closing Next. Be aware of the active negotiations that are scheduled to close next, keep an eye on the
top five lowest supplier responses, and drill down to monitor the negotiation.
Recent Activity. Actively monitor whats happening with recent sourcing activities and take
recommended actions.
Expiring Agreements. View a count of expiring agreements and switch to expanded view to see a list of
expiring agreements, drill down to agreement details, and initiate a new negotiation process, if needed.
Sourcing Programs. Provides a bar chart of negotiated savings for the top five sourcing programs. You
can drill down on each bar to go to the corresponding program.
My Performance. Gives you visibility into your contributions to award and savings so you can track your
performance. Displays total savings and awards from the negotiations where you are an owner or
collaboration team member.
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Responses to Score. Shows you the number of responses that are pending scoring in your queue. You
can expand the infolet to see details of negotiations and click to the negotiation to take action.
Suppliers in Active Negotiation. Displays supplier activity across all active negotiations so you can
easily keep track of suppliers that have been invited, acknowledged, and responded to a negotiation.
Completed Awards. Keep track of your recent five negotiations where the award was completed. You
can drill down for additional details.
The modern, simple-to-use Negotiations work area landing page provides flexibility to determine which infolets
are most important to you and for you to tailor the display to meet your business requirements. With the
Negotiations landing page, you have a clear view into the sourcing information that is central to your business
needs.
OUTSIDE PROCESSING
You can use the integration between Sourcing and Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud to negotiate items
that require third-party outside processing. Outside processing is a common business process in which one or
more operations of a work order is outsourced to a supplier. Typically, manufacturers use outside processing
when they dont have the capabilities or equipment to perform a specialized and costly service (such as
plating) in-house. Start the process from a planning requisition or initiate the negotiation in Sourcing directly.
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Create agreements in Purchasing with the appropriate item configuration based on the negotiation business
award. Tailor the negotiation and award approvals rules to account for special conditions when the negotiation
includes outside processing items.
The features and benefits of qualification and scoring include the following:
AUTOMATIC EVALUATION
In order to support a fully automated flow, you can extend the automatic scoring feature to include assignment
of the evaluated outcome and automatic processing of the evaluation. This allows a supplier to have a fully
processed active qualification or assessment based on the scoring model without manual intervention. You can
then focus your time addressing exception cases and the most value-added segments of your supply base
instead of reviewing satisfactory suppliers that meet pre-established criteria.
Automatically process qualifications and assessments using outcomes assigned based on the scoring
criteria.
Customize your assessment outcomes for each qualification model whether or not you use automatic
evaluation.
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AUTOMATIC ACCEPTANCE OF RESPONSES
Manually reviewing responses to a supplier or internal questionnaire can be a time-consuming effort. You can
now configure responses for automatic acceptance and allow automatic scoring and evaluation to occur
without intervention, saving time and improving accuracy. You indicate whether the solution accepts responses
automatically on the initiative and it defaults from the underlying qualification areas. Your use of automatic
acceptance of responses is optional.
The system provides a configurable rule set for you to map which qualification areas should apply to suppliers
for each event. For example, you can use a basic set of qualifications for a new supplier registration, and then a
more comprehensive set upon promotion to spend authorized, which typically occurs when you first award the
supplier a contract. Use of event-based initiative and qualification creation is optional.
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Setup Requiring Attention: Provides visibility into outdated configurations of questions, qualification
areas, and qualification models. For example, the expanded view lists qualification areas that contain
inactive questions or older revisions of questions. It also lists qualification models that contain inactive
areas or older revisions of qualification areas.
Expired Qualifications: Helps you identify expired qualifications with no activity over a period of time.
You can initiate the requalification process for these suppliers, if needed.
Expired Assessments: Helps you identify expired assessments with no activity over a period of time.
Qualified Suppliers: Lets you track progress as you qualify your supply base. This infolet identifies the
percentage of suppliers that have been through the qualification process for the top five qualification
areas. You can expand this infolet to show the results for the top ten qualification areas.
ADDITIONAL NOTIFICATIONS
In order to improve your visibility to the changes happening to the qualifications and assessments due to
various business events, Release 13 introduces some new notifications in Supplier Qualification Management.
They are:
Assessment Start Date Updated. Send a notification to the assessment owner that the start date
changed on the assessment due to a change to the start date of a qualification that is part of the
assessment.
Assessment End Date Updated. Send a notification to the assessment owner that the end date
changed on the assessment due to a change to the end date of a qualification that is part of the
assessment.
Supplier Repository Update Incomplete. Send a notification to inform the category manager that the
supplier repository update was incomplete for a particular negotiation response received during sourcing.
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