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Table of Contents
1. Disclaimer 9
2. Introduction 10
2.1. Purpose of Document 10
3. New and Changed Features in Procurement 11
3.1. Oracle iProcurement 11
3.1.1. Overview 11
3.1.2. Release 12.1.1 11
3.1.2.1. Change Management for Internal Requisitions 11
3.1.3. Release 12.1.2 11
3.1.3.1. Inline Commodity Classification 11
3.1.4. Release 12.1.3+ 12
3.1.4.1. Information Template Enhancements 12
3.1.4.2. Primary Favorite Charge Account Can Take Precedence over Employee Charge Account 12
3.1.4.3. Dual Budgetary Control Support 12
3.1.4.4. Attachment Support in Change Order Process 12
3.1.4.5. Account Generator Support in Requisition Import 12
3.1.4.6. Requisition Update PL/SQL API 12
3.1.4.7. Requisition Approval On the Go 12
3.1.4.8. Attachment Support in Desktop Receipts 13
3.1.4.9. Requisition Change Order Enhancements 13
3.1.4.10. Return of Selected Requisition Lines 13
3.1.4.11. Internal and External Descriptors 13
3.1.4.12. Custom Attributes for Direct Punchout 13
3.1.4.13. Search Capability for Smart Forms 13
3.1.5. Release 12.2 14
3.1.5.1. Automatic Updates to Encumbrance (General Ledger) Date 14
3.1.5.2. Visibility of Item Master Attachments in Item Search and Detail Pages 14
3.1.6. Release 12.2.4 14
3.1.6.1. One-Step Checkout 14
3.1.7. Release 12.2.5 14
3.1.7.1. Reuse of Smart Forms Across Operating Units 14
3.1.7.2. Retention of One-Time Addresses 14
3.1.7.3. Generation of Default Requisition Need-by Date 14
3.1.8. Release 12.2.6 15
3.1.8.1. Withdrawal of Requester-Initiated Change Requests 15
3.1.8.2. Support for Foreign Currency in Catalog Request 15
3.1.8.3. Spot Buy for Privileged Requesters 15
3.1.9. Release 12.2.7 15
3.1.9.1. New Supplier Onboarding for Non Catalog Request & Contractor Request 15
3.1.9.2. New Supplier Creation for Spot Buy Purchases 16
3.1.9.3. View charge account details in the requisition approval notification 16
3.1.9.4. Shopping Cart User Interface Improvements 16
3.1.9.5. New requester notifications for Purchase Order status updates 16
3.1.9.6. Web Services for Requisition creation 16
3.2. Oracle iProcurement Information Discovery Plus 17
Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12.1 and 12.2 Release Content Document ii
3.2.1. Overview 17
3.2.2. Release V3 17
3.2.2.1. Universal Catalogs Search 17
3.2.2.2. Advanced Filtering 17
3.2.2.3. Item Comparison 17
3.2.2.4. Ease of Implementation and Configuration 17
3.2.3. Release V6 17
3.2.3.1. Ratings and Reviews for Items and Services 17
3.2.3.2. Improved Homepage for Oracle iProcurement Information Discovery Plus 18
3.2.3.3. Price Break on Information Discovery Search Page 18
3.2.3.4. Multiple-Supplier Catalog Upload 18
3.2.4. Release V7 18
3.2.4.1. Home Pages for Casual and Experienced Users 18
3.2.4.2. Preferred Item Indicators 19
3.2.4.3. Requester Visibility into Procurement Operations 19
3.2.5. Release V8 19
3.2.5.1. Auto-Suggest Catalog Items 19
3.2.5.2. Show Procurement Activities to the Requesters 20
3.3. Oracle Mobile iProcurement for Oracle E-Business Suite 21
3.3.1. Version 1.1.0 21
3.3.1.1. Mobile Foundation Release 2.1 Updates 21
3.3.1.2. Accessibility Improvements 21
3.3.2. Version 1.2.0 21
3.3.2.1. Android Support 21
3.3.2.2. Mobile Foundation Release 3.0 Updates 21
3.3.3. Version 1.3.0 21
3.3.3.1. Mobile Foundation Release 4.0 Updates 21
3.3.3.2. Translation Support 22
3.3.4. Version 1.4.0 22
3.3.4.1. Mobile Foundation Release 5.0 Updates 22
3.3.5. Version 1.5.0 22
3.3.5.1. Self-Service Receiving for Eligible Requisitions 22
3.3.5.2. Enhanced Requisition Line Statuses and Icons 22
3.3.5.3. Mobile Foundation Release 6.0 Updates 22
3.4. Oracle iSupplier Portal 23
3.4.1. Overview 23
3.4.2. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 23
3.4.2.1. Forward Port of JFMIP/FSIO from 11.5.10 to R12 for Federal Customers 23
3.4.3. Release 12.1.1 23
3.4.3.1. Dispute Resolution for G-Log Invoices 23
3.4.3.2. AP/AR Netting 24
3.4.3.3. Products and Services Search 24
3.4.3.4. Business Classification Recertification 24
3.4.3.5. Third Party Payments 24
3.4.4. Release 12.1.3 25
3.4.4.1. Work Confirmation Correction 25
3.4.5. Release 12.1.3+ 25
3.4.5.1. Support for Backdated Work Confirmation 25
3.4.5.2. Simplification of the Acknowledgement and Change Request Flow 25
3.4.5.3. ASN/ASBN Support for Outsourced Manufacturing Purchase Orders 25
3.4.5.4. Prospective Suppliers Upload Attachments During Registration 25
3.4.6. Release 12.2 25
3.4.6.1. Integration with Oracle Flow Manufacturing to View and Edit E-Kanbans 25
3.4.6.2. Capture of Additional Supplier Contact Details 26
3.4.7. Release 12.2.6 26
3.4.7.1. Cancelation of ASN Shipment Line Functionality for Suppliers 26
3.4.7.2. New ASN / ASBN Barcode Report for Suppliers 26
3.4.7.3. Enhancements to Work Confirmations 26
3.5. Oracle Procurement Contracts 28
Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12.1 and 12.2 Release Content Document iii
3.5.1. Overview 28
3.5.2. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2) 28
3.5.2.1. User-Defined Variables with PL/SQL Procedures as Source 28
3.5.3. Release 12.1.1 28
3.5.3.1. Structured Terms Authoring in Contract Repository 28
3.5.3.2. Secure Enterprise Search Desupported 28
3.5.3.3. Deliverable Payment Holds 29
3.5.4. Release 12.1.2 30
3.5.4.1. Individual Clause Authoring in Microsoft Word 30
3.5.4.2. Project Manager Dashboard for Maintenance of Procurement Deliverables 30
3.5.5. Release 12.1.3+ 31
3.5.5.1. Multiple Templates for One Sourcing or Purchasing Document 31
3.5.5.2. APIs for Importing Templates, Rules, Questions and Constants 31
3.5.5.3. New Clause Descriptor Field 31
3.5.5.4. Clause Mandatory Attribute at Rule Level 31
3.5.5.5. Clause Section Placement by Contract Expert 31
3.5.5.6. Deletion of Provisional Sections from Solicitation to Award 32
3.5.5.7. Instruction Text 32
3.5.5.8. Multi-Row Variables 32
3.5.5.9. Display of and Sort by Clause Number 32
3.5.5.10. Contract Expert Performance Improvements 32
3.5.5.11. Contract Expert History 32
3.5.5.12. Contract Expert Test Workbench 33
3.5.5.13. Delete Function for Multiple Clauses, Sections and Deliverables 33
3.5.5.14. Defaulting Rules for Contract Administrator 33
3.5.5.15. Purge Process for Repository Contracts 33
3.5.5.16. Microsoft Word Certification for Clause and Document Authoring 33
3.5.5.17. Repository Contracts Printing Enhancement 34
3.5.6. Release 12.2 34
3.5.6.1. Repository Contracts Configurability Enhancements 34
3.5.6.2. User-Defined Attribute Support for Deliverables 34
3.5.7. Release 12.2.4 34
3.5.7.1. Repository Contracts Printing Enhancement 34
3.5.7.2. Print UDA with Deliverables 34
3.5.8. Release 12.2.5 34
3.5.8.1. Update of User-Defined Attributes on Approved Contracts 34
3.5.9. Release 12.2.6 35
3.5.9.1. Related Contracts in Purchasing and Contract Repository 35
3.5.9.2. Contract Hierarchy 35
3.5.9.3. Advanced Search Enhancements for Contract Hierarchy 35
3.5.10. Release 12.2.7 35
3.5.10.1. Content Search 35
Oracle Purchasing 37
3.5.11. Overview 37
3.5.12. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2) 37
3.5.12.1. Integration with Oracle Transportation Management 37
3.5.12.2. APIs for Oracle iSetup 37
3.5.13. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6) 37
3.5.13.1. Contract Commitments Integration with Oracle Self-Service Purchasing (Oracle Public Sector Financials
International) 37
3.5.14. Release 12.1.1 37
3.5.14.1. Purchase Order Mass Update 37
3.5.14.2. Contract Reference from Any Supplier Site for GCPA 38
3.5.14.3. FPDS-NG Integration 38
3.5.15. Release 12.1.2 38
3.5.15.1. Purchase Order Pricing Enhancement 38
3.5.15.2. Project Security Within Oracle Purchasing 38
3.5.15.3. Procurement Web Services for Oracle Purchasing 39
3.5.16. Release 12.1.3 39
3.5.16.1. Oracle Landed Cost Management Integration 39
Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12.1 and 12.2 Release Content Document iv
3.5.16.2. Asset Lifecycle Management Integration 39
3.5.17. Release 12.1.3+ 39
3.5.17.1. Encumbered Document Revisions Without Un-Reserving Funds 39
3.5.17.2. Approvals Management Engine for Purchase Order Approvals 40
3.5.17.3. Current and Pending Approvers in Action History Region 40
3.5.17.4. Withdrawal of Purchase Order After Submission for Approval 40
3.5.17.5. Configurable Notification in Purchase Order 40
3.5.17.6. Outside Processing Lines in Global Blanket Purchase Agreements 40
3.5.17.7. Support for Importing Complex Purchase Orders 41
3.5.17.8. New Approved Supplier List APIs 41
3.5.17.9. Buyer Work Center Session Preferences 41
3.5.17.10. Purchasing Document Open Interface Enhancements 41
3.5.17.11. Business Service Object (BSO) Web Service 41
3.5.17.12. Promised Date Calculation Based on Lead Time 41
3.5.17.13. Purchase Order Approval On the Go 42
3.5.17.14. Enabling GBPA in Supplier Scheduling 42
3.5.17.15. Support for Multiple Communication Modes in Purchasing Documents 42
3.5.18. Release 12.2 42
3.5.18.1. Automatic Updates to Encumbrance (General Ledger) Date 42
3.5.18.2. Support for Additional Extension Hooks 43
3.5.19. Release 12.2.4 43
3.5.19.1. Spreadsheet-Based Authoring of Purchase Order Lines 43
3.5.20. Release 12.2.5 43
3.5.20.1. Support for Oracle Process Manufacturing Outside Processing Items 43
3.5.20.2. Enhancements to Purchase Order Business Service Object Web Service 43
3.5.21. Release 12.2.6 43
3.5.21.1. Configurable Defaulting Rule for Acknowledgement Due Date 43
3.5.21.2. Promised Date and Shipment Date Synchronization for Drop Ship Orders 44
3.5.21.3. Purchase Order Approval Notification Enhancements 44
3.5.21.4. Notification of Purchase Order Creation 44
3.5.21.5. Related Contracts 44
3.5.22. Release 12.2.7 45
3.5.22.1. Automate Grouping of Multiple Requests to Purchase Order 45
3.5.22.2. Validate BPA Line Amount Agreed During Order/Release Submission 45
3.5.22.3. Improvements to Purchase Order Approval Notification 45
3.5.22.4. New requester notifications for Purchase Order status updates 45
3.5.22.5. Add all Lines of Requisition to the Order Document at Once 45
3.5.22.6. Content Search and Enhanced Advanced Search 46
3.6. Oracle Mobile Procurement for Oracle E-Business Suite 47
3.6.1. Version 1.1.0 47
3.6.1.1. Mobile Foundation Updates 47
3.6.1.2. Accessibility Improvements 47
3.6.2. Version 1.2.0 47
3.6.2.1. Android Support 47
3.6.2.2. Mobile Foundation Release 3.0 Updates 47
3.6.3. Version 1.3.0 47
3.6.3.1. Mobile Foundation Release 4.0 Updates 47
3.6.3.2. Translation Support 48
3.6.4. Version 1.4.0 48
3.6.4.1. Mobile Foundation Release 5.0 Updates 48
3.6.5. Version 1.5.0 48
3.6.5.1. Mobile Foundation Release 6.0 Updates 48
3.7. Oracle Services Procurement 49
3.7.1. Overview 49
3.7.2. Release 12.1.1 49
3.7.2.1. Time Reporting and Contractor Assignment Flexibility 49
3.7.3. Release 12.1.2 49
3.7.3.1. Oracle Projects Work Confirmations 49
3.7.4. Release 12.2.4 49
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3.7.4.1. Advances, Recoupment, and Retainage for Standard Purchase Orders 49
3.7.4.2. Support for Inventory Destinations in Complex Purchase Orders 50
3.7.5. Release 12.2.5 50
3.7.5.1. Job Standardization and Rate Cards for Hiring Contingent Laborers 50
3.7.6. Release 12.2.6 50
3.7.6.1. Support for Foreign Currency in Contractor Request 50
3.7.6.2. Enhancements to Work Confirmations 51
3.8. Oracle Sourcing 52
3.8.1. Overview 52
3.8.2. Release 12.1.1 52
3.8.2.1. Two Stage Evaluation of Requests for Quotation (RFQs) 52
3.8.2.2. Two-Stage RFQ and Surrogate Bids 52
3.8.2.3. Supplier Response PDF 52
3.8.2.4. Enhanced Spreadsheet Support 52
3.8.2.5. Countdown Clock 54
3.8.2.6. Price Tier Enhancements 54
3.8.2.7. Cost Factor Enhancements 54
3.8.3. Release 12.1.2 54
3.8.3.1. Earnest Money Deposit 54
3.8.4. Release 12.1.3 55
3.8.4.1. Requester Field in the Sourcing Header 55
3.8.4.2. Descriptive Flex fields in Oracle Sourcing Header 56
3.8.4.3. Landed Cost Management (LCM) Integration 56
3.8.5. Release 12.1.3+ 56
3.8.5.1. Online Discussions Attachments 56
3.8.5.2. Terms and Conditions Controls 57
3.8.5.3. Lot Price Summation 57
3.8.5.4. Remove Supervisor from Collaboration Team 57
3.8.5.5. Sort and Delete Suppliers from Invited Suppliers Page 57
3.8.6. Release 12.2 57
3.8.6.1. Add Requisition Lines to a Draft Negotiation 57
3.8.6.2. Response Withdrawal 58
3.8.6.3. Track Amendment Acknowledgements 58
3.8.7. Release 12.2.2 58
3.8.7.1. Staggered Awards 58
3.8.7.2. Import of Price Breaks 58
3.8.7.3. Negative Cost Factors 58
3.8.7.4. Sourcing APIs 58
3.8.8. Release 12.2.4 59
3.8.8.1. Mass Update of Buyers 59
3.8.8.2. Surrogate Quotes for Suppliers Without User Account 59
3.8.9. Release 12.2.5 59
3.8.9.1. Multiple Active Offers 59
3.8.9.2. Alternate Lines 59
3.8.9.3. Sourcing Initiatives 59
3.8.10. Release 12.2.6 60
3.8.10.1. Alternate Negotiation Terms 60
3.8.10.2. Enhancements to Sourcing Initiatives 60
3.8.10.3. Sourcing Collaborator Responsibility 60
3.8.11. Release 12.2.7 61
3.8.11.1. Flexible Default Outcome for Sourcing Document Builder 61
3.8.11.2. Add to existing Blanket Purchase Agreement 61
3.8.11.3. Content Search 61
3.8.11.4. Apply Templates on Draft Negotiations 61
3.9. Oracle Sourcing Optimization 62
3.9.1. Overview 62
3.9.2. Release 12.1.1 62
3.9.2.1. Oracle Sourcing Optimization Enhancements 62
3.9.2.2. Price Tier Optimization 62
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3.9.2.3. Supplier Incentives 63
3.10. Oracle Spend Classification 64
3.10.1. Overview 64
3.10.2. 65
3.10.3. Release 12.1.2 65
3.10.3.1. Integration with Oracle Procurement and Spend Analytics 7.9.6 65
3.10.3.2. Knowledge Base Creation and Incremental Updates 65
3.10.3.3. Multiple Knowledge Bases 65
3.10.3.4. Easy to Use User Interface 65
3.10.3.5. Export and Import to Excel 66
3.10.3.6. Classification of Data into Multiple Taxonomies 66
3.10.3.7. Inline Commodity Classification 66
3.10.4. Release 12.2 66
3.10.4.1. Reclassification of Historical Data 66
3.10.4.2. Asynchronous Approval Flow 66
3.10.4.3. Enhanced Training Data Upload 66
3.10.4.4. Enhanced Tracking Capabilities 67
3.10.4.5. Improvements in Analyzing Batches and Excel to Export 67
3.10.4.6. Increased Flexibility in Resetting Data 67
3.10.4.7. Deletable Classification Batches 67
3.10.4.8. Run Classification on Selected Transactions 67
3.10.4.9. Simplified User Interface 68
3.10.4.10. Reset Prevention for Transactions in Classified, Unapproved Batches 68
3.11. Oracle Supplier Hub 69
3.11.1. Overview 69
3.11.2. Release 12.1.3 69
3.12. Oracle Supplier Lifecycle Management 70
3.12.1. Overview 70
3.12.2. Release 12.1.1+ 70
3.12.2.1. 360 Supplier View 70
3.12.2.2. Supplier Search 70
3.12.2.3. Supplier Profile Management (Including Self-Service) 70
3.12.2.4. Extended Supplier Profile 71
3.12.2.5. Registration and On-Boarding of New Suppliers 71
3.12.2.6. Qualification Management 71
3.12.2.7. Compliance and Profile Audits 72
3.12.2.8. Performance Evaluation 72
3.12.2.9. Supplier Notifications 72
3.12.3. Release 12.1.3+ 73
3.12.3.1. Mandatory Internal Requirements 73
3.12.3.2. ContactAddress Association 73
3.12.3.3. Keyword Search 73
3.12.3.4. Default User Creation 73
3.12.3.5. Reinstatement of Rejected Supplier Requests 73
3.12.3.6. Registration Approval Workflow Enhancements 74
3.12.3.7. Streamlined Prospective Supplier Registration Process 74
3.12.3.8. Link to Prospective Supplier Registration Status 74
3.12.3.9. Pre-Qualification Template and Dependent Questions 74
3.12.4. Release 12.2.4 75
3.12.4.1. Registration Approval Workflow Enhancements 75
3.12.4.2. Approval History on Supplier Profile 75
3.12.5. Release 12.2.5 75
3.12.5.1. Automated Assessment Process 75
3.12.5.2. Dynamic Invitation List 75
3.12.5.3. Sequential and Parallel Routing of Scoring 75
3.12.5.4. Update Evaluation After Submission 76
3.12.6. Release 12.2.6 76
3.12.6.1. Support for Bind Variables in Products and Services Configuration 76
3.12.7. Release 12.2.7 76
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3.12.7.1. Improved Automated Recurring Assessments 76
3.12.7.2. Contact Purpose, Address Purpose and Associated Notifications 76
3.12.7.3. Execute Dynamic Supplier Lists 76
3.13. Oracle Supplier Network 77
3.13.1. Overview 77
3.13.2. Version 5.0 77
3.13.2.1. Consolidated Hub Administration 77
3.13.2.2. Production Routing Controls 77
3.13.2.3. UTF-8 Support 77
3.14. Oracle Procurement Command Center Plus 78
3.14.1. Overview 78
3.14.2. Release V6 78
3.14.2.1. Procurement Operations Dashboard 78
3.14.2.2. Indirect Procurement Dashboard 79
3.14.2.3. Action Items 79
3.14.2.4. Item Analysis 79
3.14.2.5. Supplier Analysis 79
3.14.3. Release V7 79
3.14.3.1. New Strategic Sourcing Dashboard 79
3.14.3.2. Support for Document Security 80
3.14.3.3. Support for Additional Supplier Performance Data Points 80
3.14.3.4. Web ADI Support for Bulk-Updating Purchase Orders 80
3.14.3.5. Buyer Notes (Action Items) Enhancements 80
3.14.3.6. User Experience Improvements 80
3.14.4. Release V8 81
3.14.4.1. Support for Partial Search 81
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1. Disclaimer
This Release Content Document (RCD) describes product features that are proposed for
the specified releases of the Oracle E-Business Suite. This document describes new or
changed functionality only. Existing functionality from prior releases is not described. It
is intended solely to help you assess the business benefits of upgrading to the specified
release of the Oracle E-Business Suite.
This document in any form, software or printed matter, contains proprietary information
that is the exclusive property of Oracle. Your access to and use of this confidential
material is subject to the terms and conditions of your Oracle Software License and
Service Agreement, which has been executed and with which you agree to comply. This
document and information contained herein may not be disclosed, copied, reproduced or
distributed to anyone outside Oracle without prior written consent of Oracle. This
document is not part of your license agreement nor can it be incorporated into any
contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates.
This document is for informational purposes only and is intended solely to assist you in
planning for the implementation and upgrade of the product features described. It 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 in this document remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.
Due to the nature of the product architecture, it may not be possible to safely include all
features described in this document without risking significant destabilization of the code.
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2. Introduction
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3. New and Changed Features in Procurement
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3.1.4. Release 12.1.3+
3.1.4.2. Primary Favorite Charge Account Can Take Precedence over Employee
Charge Account
Each employee can define Favorite Charge Accounts in iProcurement Preferences, and
can mark one of those accounts as the Primary Favorite. Oracle iProcurement uses a
series of rules to generate charge accounts during the checkout process. Under certain
circumstances, Oracle iProcurement gets the charge account from the employee record in
Human Resources. However, if a charge account is not specified in the employee record,
the Primary Favorite is used. If an employee needs the Primary Favorite to override the
charge account on their Human Resources record, they can now do so with the Override
Employee Charge Account preference in iProcurement.
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Users can quickly filter approval requests by sender or by subject, review header and line
details, review action history and comments, and respond with their approval or rejection
directly from their smartphone.
This feature is forward-ported to 12.2.3.
For a full description, refer to the E-Business Suite Applications Technology Release
Content Document.
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3.1.5. Release 12.2
3.1.5.2. Visibility of Item Master Attachments in Item Search and Detail Pages
When viewing the details of an item after having searched for that item in the store,
iProcurement users can now see attachments associated with the Item Master. This gives
users access to information such as design specifications, better equipping them to order
the right product.
3.1.6. Release 12.2.4
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3.1.8. Release 12.2.6
3.1.9.1. New Supplier Onboarding for Non Catalog Request & Contractor Request
The process for a requester to provide details of a suggested new supplier to their
Procurement team through a Non-Catalog Request or Contractor Request has been
enhanced, Requesters now have the option to enter the details of their suggestion for a
new supplier and then submit that supplier registration request for approval or, if they
have enabled self-service supplier registration through iSupplier Portal, send an invite to
a named contact at the supplier to provide company details before submitting as a
registration request.
The registration request will be routed for approval using the standard supplier
registration request approval workflow (AME) and, if approved, the new supplier can
then be used for the appropriate items on the requesters Non-Catalog Request or
Contractor Request.
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3.1.9.2. New Supplier Creation for Spot Buy Purchases
Requesters within the organization that have been granted Spot Buy privileges can now
create new suppliers when submitting a Spot-Buy Non Catalog Request or Contractor
Request.
This feature allows authorized users to make a quick decision to onboard a new source of
supply if they are cutting a Spot Buy order to satisfy an emergency purchase requirement.
Buyers will be able to see that the supplier was created by Spot Buy authorized user and,
if required, they can opt to further qualify the supplier for future purchases. The key
benefits of this feature include better service, accurate accounting, improved spend
analysis, and a reduction in buyers workload.
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3.2. Oracle iProcurement Information Discovery Plus
3.2.1. Overview
Employee search against catalogs is one of the most critical activities in iProcurement,
influencing adoption, user satisfaction, and the amount of buying activity that can be
automated. Oracle Information Discovery technology used in conjunction with
iProcurement provides a powerful new approach to search, while retaining the robust
policies, controls, and integrations built into iProcurement.
Expanded catalogs can be loaded to capture contract savings without adding complexity
to the shopping experience. Maverick spending is reduced and non-catalog requisitions
for catalog items are minimized, further streamlining the process and reducing
procurement involvement.
Oracle Information Discovery functionality replaces the classic iProcurement home page.
The shopping cart and subsequent checkout with integration, accounting, and approvals
remain unchanged. Key product features are described below.
3.2.2. Release V3
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tremendous value for organizations that monitor ratings and reviews and addresses any
problems that are brought up in a review.
In addition, requesters can provide feedback or suggestions to a buyer. The buyer can
review that feedback, provide comments, and take steps to address the requesters
feedback or suggestions. This improves the communication between requesters and
buyers.
The buyer feedback feature has a prerequisite of Oracle Procurement Command Center
Plus.
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3.2.4.2. Preferred Item Indicators
Requesters have improved visibility into the procurement status and progress on all
requested items or services with preference indicators denoting preferential attributes.
Preference indicator icons appear in search results.
Requesters can make better shopping decisions by noticing preference indicators
for suppliers and items, such as first source supplier, green supplier, etc.
Guided Buying, utilizing preference indicator items, helps requesters procure
items and services from the best possible suppliers.
Preferences also influence relevance ranking in search results.
With the help of a promotion factor, catalog items with higher weightage are
elevated in the catalog items hierarchy, and are shown at the top of the search
results for efficient shopping.
This feature also helps requesters to pick items from negotiated agreements with
preferred suppliers. Catalogs from preferred suppliers are highlighted at the top
of the search results.
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3.2.5.2. Show Procurement Activities to the Requesters
Requesters can view the current procurement status such as RFQ Published, Purchased
Order Approved, etc of their requisitions. The key benefits of this enhancement are
Requesters get more visibility into Procurement Operations
Proactively collaborate with buyer on requested items/services
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3.3. Oracle Mobile iProcurement for Oracle E-Business Suite
With Oracle Mobile iProcurement for Oracle E-Business Suite, employees can monitor
their requisitions and take action on the go.
Track requisitions for approval and delivery status.
View requisition, approvers, lines, and shipments.
Monitor alerts for approval rejections, returns, and shipment delays.
Collaborate in transaction context using device features such as email, phone and
text.
Oracle Mobile iProcurement for Oracle E-Business Suite is compatible with Oracle E-
Business Suite 12.1.3 and 12.2.3 and above. To use this app, you must be a user of Oracle
iProcurement, with mobile services configured on the server side by your administrator.
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3.3.3.2. Translation Support
This app is available in the following languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Canadian French,
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin American Spanish, Simplified
Chinese and Spanish.
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3.4. Oracle iSupplier Portal
3.4.1. Overview
Oracle iSupplier Portal is the enterprise application that structures all supplier
communication through a secure, internet-based portal. It is a key component of Oracle
Advanced Procurement, the integrated suite that dramatically cuts all supply management
costs.
3.4.2. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)
3.4.2.1. Forward Port of JFMIP/FSIO from 11.5.10 to R12 for Federal Customers
This feature addresses the delta between Release 11.5.10 functionality and Release 12
functionality, related to meeting the requirements given by JFMIP in the year 2004 for
iSupplier Portal. The following iSupplier Portal pages are impacted:
3.4.2.1.1. Supplier Search Page
The DUNS number is available at the supplier-site level for CCR suppliers. A user can
retrieve distinct supplier records while performing the search using the DUNS number.
3.4.2.1.2. Organization Page
A CCR Supplier indicator is provided on the Organization page. If the supplier is a CCR
supplier, then the Taxpayer ID, DUNS Number and SIC attributes, and Bank Account tab
are rendered view-only.
3.4.2.1.3. Manage Sites Page and Update Address Page
In the Update Address page for CCR suppliers, the attributes Country, Address Lines,
City, State, Postal Code, Province, DUNS Number, and Pay Site are view-only.
For Federal Financials installations, a new attribute, DUNS Number, is displayed in the
Identification tab on the Manage Sites page. If the supplier site is a CCR supplier site, the
user cannot update this field.
The new icon View CCR Supplier allows the user to access the General Information page
from the federal application to view CCR supplier-site-specific data.
3.4.2.1.4. Tax Details Page
A new indicative comment on the Tax Details page identifies the tax details of a CCR
vendor.
3.4.2.1.5. Bank Details Page
A CCR indicator appears when the assignment level is Supplier Site, and if the site is a
CCR site. For a CCR site, it is not possible to add new bank accounts, to modify any
bank, branch or account information, to change the priority of bank accounts, or to update
a bank account number.
3.4.2.1.6. Invoice Management Page
A descriptive comment, CCR Site, appears on the Invoice Management page.
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on the nature of the additional charges, the buyer and supplier may negotiate a
compromise and adjust the invoice accordingly.
When such disputes occur, it is important that the supplier be able to log and track all
activities for a particular invoice. To better help suppliers in these situations, new fields
have been added to the View Invoice page so that the supplier can see the original value
on the invoice and the reason for the discrepancy.
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3.4.4. Release 12.1.3
3.4.6.1. Integration with Oracle Flow Manufacturing to View and Edit E-Kanbans
Oracle iSupplier Portal integrates with the E-Kanban feature of Oracle Flow
Manufacturing. Suppliers can now use iSupplier Portal to view a summary of their E-
Kanbans and update the status on their E-Kanbans.
For more information, consult the Manufacturing RCD.
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3.4.6.2. Capture of Additional Supplier Contact Details
Oracle iSupplier Portal now offers the following new fields to capture supplier contact
information: URL, Alternate Contact Name, Alternate Area Code, and Alternate Phone
Extension. Prospective suppliers can use these fields during registration. Buyers can
populate and update these fields for each contact on the Supplier Profile. Suppliers can
also update these fields when they submit a profile change request.
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Comment Capture During Resubmission of Rejected Work Confirmations
The creator of a work confirmation can provide comments during resubmission of a
rejected work confirmation. The approver can view the comments during re-approval of
the work confirmation.
View Errors for Failed Work Confirmations
The buyer and project manager can now view the validation failures and errors of failed
work confirmations. This feature provides visibility into transaction failures and helps in
taking corrective action.
Errors for a failed work confirmation can be viewed through the Purchasing Professional
Buyers Work Center and the iSupplier Portal internal view.
View Attachments During Work Confirmation Creation
The buyer can associate To Receiver attachments at the pay-item level during the
authoring of Complex purchase order documents. The creators and approvers of work
confirmations can view the To Receiver attachments in the purchase order.
Viewing of To Receiver attachments during Work Confirmation creation is possible
through the Purchasing Professional Buyers Work Center and iSupplier Portal internal
view.
An Oracle Services Procurement license is required to use the Work Confirmations
functionality provided within the Advanced Procurement suite of applications.
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3.5. Oracle Procurement Contracts
3.5.1. Overview
Oracle Procurement Contracts is the enterprise application that creates and enforces
better purchasing contracts. It is a key component of Oracle Advanced Procurement, the
integrated suite that dramatically cuts supply management costs.
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Secure Enterprise Search provides flexibility to match user-entered keywords to both
structured text such as contract terms and unstructured text such as that contained in
attached documents. Additional structured contract attributes may be used to further
refine the search, and include: contract number, contract name, supplier/customer/party
name, contract status, start date, and end date.
This feature requires licensing of Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES).
Integration with search using Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES) is no longer
supported. A native Oracle Text approach is now being used for content including
Repository Contracts and Purchasing documents with contract terms. For more
information see the Release 12.2.7 Oracle Procurement Contracts feature Content
Search and Enhanced Advanced Search. This search functionality does not require
licensing of SES.
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automatically place holds on all subcontractor invoices under that subcontract until the
corresponding customer payment is received.
A new Subcontract Payment Controls workbench allows the project manager to manage
these holds, with visibility into both the customer invoices and the associated
subcontractor invoices. The project manager is alerted by workflow notifications once the
customer payment is received and can then automatically or manually release the
corresponding subcontractor invoices. The associations between the customer invoices
and the subcontractor invoices may be automatically maintained based on the billing of
project expenditures in the case of a cost-plus contract, or manually maintained for a
fixed price contract.
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subcontractor obligations. A project manager can also apply payment holds even when
the Pay when Paid attribute has not been checked.
This feature has a prerequisite of Oracle Projects.
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3.5.5.6. Deletion of Provisional Sections from Solicitation to Award
There are some clauses that are specific to a sourcing (solicitation) document and should
not move onto the final contract. These are called provisional clauses. Now, the user can
indicate that certain sections are provisional. Provisional sections and their clauses do not
flow to the award document when the award contract is created from the solicitation
document.
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simplifies audit requirements and provides details about the responses and changes in
different revisions and amendments.
This feature is forward-ported to 12.2.4.
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This feature is forward-ported to 12.2.
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can search against both Repository Contracts and Purchasing documents in a single
search.
Advanced Search now allows users to expand search criteria to include any suppliers
contracts that have one or more Related Contract with the specified supplier. For
example, a contracts user may want to list contracts belonging to a supplier and include
contracts from related companies. The user could search for all contracts belonging to
VisionCorp, check the box to include related suppliers, and see additional contracts
belonging to both Vision Supplies (which has a contract related to one belonging to
VisionCorp), and Vision Enterprises (a corporate parent)
With Content Search users can identify text matches by searching in the contract wording
itself. As an alternative to Advanced Search, Content Search allows users to search using
text or Supplier Name or Contract Name strings to locate all contracts where there is a
textual match. Each contract file with a match display a snippet, displaying words prior
and after the first instance of matched text. Contract files can be downloaded directly for
further investigation. Sample use cases:
List all contracts and negotiations involving a supplier with a name beginning
with: Vision
Find contracts with suppliers located in France
Show whether contract #73030 or any of its contract documents contains the
string network access
Scope of indexed documents make this feature useful to Procurement Buyers, Contract
Administrators, and Managers. The scope includes:
Contract Repository (All contracts, including Intent of Sell, Buy, and Other)
Purchasing documents with contract terms: Global Blanket Purchase
Agreements, Contract Purchase Agreements, and Purchase Orders.
Sourcing negotiations with contract terms
Contract Documents files
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Oracle Purchasing
3.5.11. Overview
Oracle Purchasing is the application for procurement professionals that streamlines
purchase order processing while strengthening policy compliance. It is a key component
of Oracle Advanced Procurement, the integrated suite that dramatically cuts supply
management costs.
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Users can mass close purchase documents using the new program Mass Close of
Purchase Document. The mass close functionality applies to purchase orders that have
been fully processedthat is, for which batch processing has been completedand to
purchase orders that need to be manually closed. The program is applicable to standard
purchase orders, blanket purchase agreements, planned purchase orders, and contract
agreement and blanket releases.
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3.5.15.3. Procurement Web Services for Oracle Purchasing
This feature exposes business logic contained within user forms through Java APIs.
These web services are cataloged in the Oracle Integration Repository and can be
browsed through the Oracle Integration Repository browser interface under the respective
product family node. By clicking on a business entity in the Integration Repository, you
can view a full description, a list of web services for that business entity, and a
description of the web service. The description of parameters can be viewed from the
XSD definition of the service available from the generated WSDL.
With Release 12.1.2, the following web services are provided for Oracle Purchasing:
Purchase order (PO): Cancel PO, Create PO, Delete PO, Approve PO, Query PO,
Update PO
Requisition: Create Requisition, Delete Requisition, Query Requisition, Update
Requisition.
These web services support requisitions in Oracle iProcurement as well as in Oracle
Purchasing.
3.5.16. Release 12.1.3
Oracle Landed Cost Management (LCM) gives organizations visibility into their
extended supply chain costs including transportation, handling fees, regulatory duties,
and taxes, and helps them determine the landed cost of material for transactional
purposes. This enables organizations to have better control over procurement costs, to
maximize profits, to increase competitiveness, and to ensure that complex trade activities
are compliant with regulatory mandates.
This integration allows Oracle Purchasing users to simulate landed costs at the creation of
purchase orders, enabling better procurement decisions based on the estimated landed
cost of the items.
In Release 12.1.2, the implementation of encumbrance reversal for Oracle Supply Chain
Management was limited to Inventory and Expense Receiving transactions. In Release
12.1.3, this functionality has been extended to purchase orders with a destination of Shop
Floor, for which the distributions will be created under WIP transactions. Oracle
Purchasing supports encumbering funds for purchase orders that are generated from
Oracle Enterprise Asset Management (with a shop floor destination) during the approval
process.
All public sector organizations, including municipal, state, provincial, and federal
government organizations, are required to encumber or reserve funds that have been
committed to a supply purchase order. Therefore, prior to approval of any purchasing
document, the available funds must be checked and reserved against the available budget
for the specified account code combination. This enhancement is key for budgetary
control.
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attributes. When the revision is approved, the system automatically adjusts the amount
reserved by calculating the difference between the reserved amount and the document
amount. Users may also manually reserve an increase or decrease in the document
amount as well as view encumbrance-related accounting entries for a purchase order or
GBPA document. This feature is supported in Oracle Application Framework pages only
and not in the Oracle Forms interface.
This feature is forward-ported to 12.2.4.
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3.5.17.7. Support for Importing Complex Purchase Orders
Oracle Purchasing users can now import complex purchase orders using the Purchasing
Document Open Interface (PDOI).
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3.5.17.13. Purchase Order Approval On the Go
Oracle Mobile Approvals for Oracle E-Business Suite is a smartphone application that
enables employees and managers to respond on the go to pending approval requests.
From a smartphone, anywhere and anytime, employees and managers can take quick
action on approval requests for expenses, requisitions, purchase orders, recruitment
vacancies and offers, and more.
Buyers and managers can quickly filter approval requests by sender or by subject, review
header and line details, view action history and comments, and respond with an approval
or rejection, right from a smartphone.
This feature is forward-ported to 12.2.3.
For a full description, refer to the E-Business Suite Applications Technology Release
Content Document.
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3.5.18.2. Support for Additional Extension Hooks
Oracle Purchasing provides additional extension hooks that enable usage of custom
validations for the purchase order submission process. Buyers can now make changes to
the target document during the AutoCreate flow.
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Acknowledgment Due Date offset is also supported in the Supplier Import interface and
APIs at the supplier site.
3.5.21.2. Promised Date and Shipment Date Synchronization for Drop Ship Orders
Drop shipment enables companies to optimize order fulfillment to customers, reduce
costs, and maintain a competitive advantage. In this process, a company sells products to
its customers, but does not directly stock and/or distribute the products; rather the
company serves as a sales agent and delegates the manufacturing and/or distribution of
the product to outsourced suppliers, who in turn deliver it directly to the customer.
There are scenarios in which suppliers can meet the requirements of a purchase order if
some modifications are made to the shipment schedule. Suppliers may have
circumstances, such as capacity constraints that change their required production
schedule, that allow them to meet requirements only if delivery dates are changed. The
adjustment is indicated in changes to the promised date.
Now companies and their suppliers can make changes to the promised date; the changed
promised date will be validated and if valid, the modified promised date in the purchase
order document will be defaulted as the Schedule Ship/Arrival Date in the sales order.
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3.5.22.6. Content Search and Enhanced Advanced Search
For customers using Procurement Contracts, new search features allow buyers, contract
administrators, and business users search against all contracts in Purchasing, Contract
Repository, and Sourcing in one location.
Advanced Search allows users to expand search criteria to include any suppliers
contracts that have one or more Related Contract with the specified supplier. For
example, a contracts user may want to list contracts belonging to a supplier and include
contracts from related companies. The user could search for all contracts belonging to
VisionCorp, check the box to include related suppliers, and see additional contracts
belonging to both Vision Supplies (which has a contract related to one belonging to
VisionCorp), and Vision Enterprises (a corporate parent)
With Content Search licensees of Procurement Contracts now have additional power to
locate text matches in contract wording itself. Content Search allows users to search
using text strings or Supplier Name strings to locate all contracts where there is a textual
match. Each contract file with a match display a snippet, displaying words prior and
after the first instance of matched text. Contract files can be downloaded directly for
further investigation.
For more information see Content Search and Enhanced Advanced Search under
Procurement Contracts.
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3.6. Oracle Mobile Procurement for Oracle E-Business Suite
With Oracle Mobile Procurement for Oracle E-Business Suite, buyers and Oracle
Purchasing users can monitor purchase orders and take actions on the go.
Track purchase orders requiring attention (in a status of On Hold, Rejected,
Delayed, Pending Approval) and drill into details
Search purchase orders based on key attributes (Supplier, Item, Requester, Buyer,
dates)
Monitor alerts for shipment delays
Collaborate in transaction context using device features like email, phone and
text.
Oracle Mobile Procurement for Oracle E-Business Suite is compatible with Oracle E-
Business Suite 12.1.3 and 12.2.3 and above. To use this app, you must be a user of Oracle
Purchasing, with mobile services configured on the server side by your administrator.
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Support for Web SSO authentication to delegate authentication to Oracle Access
Manager (OAM)
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3.7. Oracle Services Procurement
3.7.1. Overview
Oracle Services Procurement is the application that enables complete control and
oversight for services spending. It is a key component of Oracle Advanced Procurement,
the integrated suite that dramatically cuts all supply management costs.
Oracle Services Procurement further streamlines all aspects of the acquisition process for
complex services, including:
Negotiation of service contracts with an emphasis on terms related to contract
financing and progress payment arrangements
Tracking of work progress against the agreed-upon schedule in the contract
Processing of payment requests
By supporting real time online collaboration involving key stakeholders throughout the
lifecycle, organizations can significantly improve the acquisition process of services
spend.
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Users can also specify recoupment rates for the advances, which can be used to recoup
the advances paid while matching invoices against these purchase order lines.
The standard purchase order has also been enhanced to support the retainage
functionality. Users can specify retainage as an amount or percentage, which will be
retained for later release when invoices are matched against these shipments.
3.7.5.1. Job Standardization and Rate Cards for Hiring Contingent Laborers
Hiring managers and Oracle Purchasing users can now view the rate card that provides
the details of a job and the standard rate that they should be paying for the job. The users
will also be able to view the differential rates based on rate uplifts, offshore/onshore
rates, markup-driven rates and location-driven rates. Key benefits include:
Job standardization through support for rate card and standard rates for each job
Benchmarking of job rates for specific jobs
Ability to automatically identify preferred suppliers based on the hiring needs
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3.7.6.2. Enhancements to Work Confirmations
The pages and notifications used in work confirmation processes have been enhanced to
ensure that the supplier and the approver have access to more the information they need
to process the work-confirmations. Some of the enhancements are:
Work Confirmation Approval Workflow Enhancements
Current and Pending Approvers in the Action History Region
Comment Capture During Resubmission of Rejected Work Confirmations
View Errors for Failed Work Confirmations
View Attachments During Work Confirmation Creation
For more information on these features, refer to the iSupplier Portal section of this
document.
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3.8. Oracle Sourcing
3.8.1. Overview
Oracle Sourcing is the enterprise application that improves the effectiveness and
efficiency of strategic sourcing. It is a key component of Oracle Advanced Procurement,
the integrated suite that dramatically cuts all supply management costs.
Oracle Sourcing enables buyers to source more of the organizations spend at lower total
cost. Oracle Sourcing creates immediate savings through rapid deployment and ensures
long-term savings with consistent execution and compliance.
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supplier response creation, analysis, and award. Buyers and suppliers can download all
the information in a single spreadsheet, simplifying the loading and maintaining of
spreadsheets for a negotiation.
Response Lines
Bid Total
Calculated
Instantly
Line Filter
Predefined
List of
Link to Values
Scoring
Worksheet
Analysis Lines
Overall Savings
Calculated Instantly
Side-by-Side
Bid
Comparison
Perform
What-If
Analysis
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analysis of different award scenarios, and view side-by-side comparison of all elements
of supplier responses.
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Cash
Check (Cheque)
Demand Draft
Bank Guarantee
Corporate EMD
Corporate EMD is a practice in which a supplier deposits a large amount of money with
the buying company and the EMD is adjusted against this amount.
EMD can be received by the EMD administrator through a new responsibility made
available for EMD transactions, or can be paid online by the supplier (Corporate EMD).
The EMD administrator can exempt a supplier from paying EMD, or refund or forfeit the
EMD amount, depending on the business policies.
There is an out-of-the-box integration with Oracle Financials, so that the receipt, forfeit
and refund of EMD can leverage Oracle Receivables and Oracle Payables. For customers
not using Oracle Financials, there is a non-integrated EMD deployment process where
the company can still use the EMD feature in Oracle Sourcing. There are reports
available for the buying organization to validate the EMD status and details for different
negotiations and suppliers.
This feature in Oracle Sourcing ensures that the end-to-end sourcing process for the
buying organization can be performed using Oracle Sourcing, and customers need not
rely on processes outside the application to complete their sourcing negotiations. This
shortens the sourcing cycle, which otherwise can lead to delays in receiving and returning
the EMD amount and reduce the productivity of the buying organization due to manual
checks and coordination. Also, all EMD-related information is retained in the application
and can be leveraged for future reference and audit requirements.
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3.8.4.2. Descriptive Flex fields in Oracle Sourcing Header
Often, buyers have a need to provide additional information on the header page such as
information about the contract value or the final project approver. There are two types of
headers attributes: those visible to only to a buyer who has access to negotiation, and
those visible to both the buyer and the supplier. As shown in the figure below, there are
two descriptive flexfields in the negotiation header page that can capture these attributes:
Additional Header Attributes (Buyer Only)
Additional Header Attributes (Buyer & Supplier)
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3.8.5.2. Terms and Conditions Controls
The Terms and Conditions display can now be controlled by the sourcing administrator
with new settings. The page can be displayed to a bidder as required by the organizations
business policies:
Before creating an offer
Before accessing the negotiation document
Never
The explicit supplier acceptance of terms and conditions can be captured before allowing
the supplier to proceed further.
To accommodate specific terms and conditions across business entities, the system allows
for terms and conditions to be created for each operating unit. Finally, attachments to
terms and conditions enable the inclusion of additional information.
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3.8.6.2. Response Withdrawal
Oracle Sourcing now enables suppliers to withdraw responses submitted on an RFI or
RFQ. A new negotiation control enables the buyer to determine whether suppliers can
withdraw submitted responses for a particular negotiation. Suppliers can withdraw
submitted responses only as long as the negotiation is open for bidding. Surrogate
withdrawal, in which the sourcing buyer withdraws surrogate responses on behalf of the
supplier, is also possible.
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3.8.8. Release 12.2.4
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3.8.10. Release 12.2.6
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3.8.11. Release 12.2.7
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3.9. Oracle Sourcing Optimization
3.9.1. Overview
When allocating business to suppliers, buyers often must strive to meet multiple
purchasing goals and business policies. For example:
Award at least 10% business to minority-owned suppliers.
No single supplier should get more than 80% of the total business.
At least half of the business should go to incumbent suppliers.
It can be challenging to achieve maximum savings while meeting such business policies,
particularly if there are many line items and a large number of competitive bids.
Oracle Sourcing Optimization can help by allowing the buyer to create scenarios that are
then automatically optimized to determine the best award that adheres to the policies and
goals defined in the scenario. This results in better and faster award decisions.
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3.9.2.3. Supplier Incentives
Suppliers often provide incentives to increase the business transacted with the buying
organization. The incentives can be in the form of a fixed amount (for example, a signing
bonus), a tiered rebate structure (for example, rebates that occur when a predetermined
level of business is reached), or both. These additional savings through incentives may
directly impact the award decisions that buyers make. How much business a buyer
awards to each supplier determines whether additional rebates apply and, therefore, the
additional savings that need to be factored in the award scenario analysis.
Oracle Sourcing Optimization allows buyers to enter the incentives given by suppliers.
Buyers can enter the current total spend and rebate percentage for each supplier, and the
rebate structure for any extra award made on top of the current spend. In addition, a fixed
amount incentive can be specified to account for a signing or transition bonus. Oracle
Sourcing Optimization uses these values to calculate the additional savings yielded by the
incentives, and adds the amount to the total savings in the award scenario. Buyers can
then use the information to make more informed award decisions.
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3.10. Oracle Spend Classification
3.10.1. Overview
One of the biggest benefits from business intelligence applications that analyze spend
derives from the consolidation of spend data from multiple sources. Whether from many
sources or just one, it is generally true that spending data is inadequately categorized for
use by procurement. One reason is an emphasis on recording accounting information,
which often reveals little of the purchasing category. In most organizations, a majority of
spend data is not categorized, is categorized incorrectly, or is categorized as
miscellaneous. This leads to a skewed picture of the breakdown of spend, resulting in
poor visibility to identify saving opportunities.
Oracle Procurement and Spend Analytics (P&SA) includes adaptors that load data from
many sources, including Oracle E-Business Suite 11i9, 11i10, R12, Oracle PeopleSoft
Enterprise 8.9, 9.0, legacy, and other sources.
Spend Classification processes the data contained in P&SA and predicts appropriate
category information for each invoice line. To be able to make predictions, Spend
Classification uses existing categorized data from PS&A as a knowledge base. Features
in Spend Classification allow data stewards to test and validate the learning performance,
ensuring the knowledge base is performing classification at adequate levels. Once the
knowledge base has been built, the product can be used to classify spend data residing in
P&SA.
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3.10.3.5. Export and Import to Excel
Spend Classification integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Excel. It allows users to export
all data to Excel for offline processing. If manual updates are made in Excel, the Excel
file can be uploaded into Oracle Business Intelligence Applications. For example, this
ability might be used when a user manually reassigns categories.
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the number of errors exceeds the threshold, then the upload stops and the errors can be
viewed in a log file.
The Data Template can be downloaded directly from the application, where the format
for dates and numbers can be specified. Additionally, the Category Codes instead of the
Category IDs can be entered in the template. This saves users considerable time as they
can avoid checking database tables to determine mappings for Category IDs.
The datasets that are uploaded can be deleted on the Configuration, Manage Datasets tab.
This enables users to free up database space by purging large datasets that are no longer
in use.
Users can now delete classification batches that are no longer required for any business
function, such as a batch created after an unsuccessful classification run.
Prior to this feature, when a classification run was initiated, the application created a
single batch and picked up all eligible transactions. This sometimes created a huge
classification batch.
Now users can specify the set of transactions that need to be classified, leading to
manageable batch sizes. Smaller batches lead to improved query performance, reduced
download time, quicker batch analysis, and faster approval and reset.
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3.10.4.9. Simplified User Interface
Spend Classification now comes with a simplified user interface. Most key functions
such as creating a knowledge base, enriching a knowledge base, and initiating a
classification run are centrally organized around the Dataset entity. In addition, users can
now view the entire history of actions performed in the context of each entity.
The ability to reset dataset transactions that were part of a classified but unapproved
batch was possible in earlier releases. However, this could be confusing because once the
batch was approved, all transactions within the batch were stamped with the predicted
category codes.
Now the application ignores resetting transactions that are part of a classified,
unapproved batch.
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3.11. Oracle Supplier Hub
3.11.1. Overview
Many organizations track supplier data in multiple ways, driven by the needs of different
business units or unconnected business processes. The result is disparate supplier
definitions that make it difficult to have a complete and coherent summary of each
trading partner.
Oracle Supplier Hub is an application that provides a portfolio of Master Data
Management tools to enable organizations to better manage their supplier master records
centrally. Built on the foundational technology used to support mastering of customer
information, Supplier Hub can be used by organizations that need to aggregate supplier
data from a range of application systems and also by those running a single Oracle E-
Business Suite instance.
Supplier Hub consolidates supplier information from disparate systems and business lines
into a single repository, provides cleansing and third party enrichment tools for effective
data management, and provides the resulting single-point-of-truth supplier data as a
service to consuming applications, enterprise business processes, and decision support
systems.
Supplier Hub is a complementary solution to Oracle Supplier Lifecycle Management
(SLM). It can be implemented to extend SLM capabilities by providing comprehensive
quality management functionality to cleanse the underlying supplier identity information
that has been enriched through the SLM tools.
Deployment of Supplier Hub enables organizations to have a consistent understanding of
the trading partners that they use to procure the various goods and services required to
support their business. This clarity is essential for effective analysis of spending patterns
so that appropriate tactical and strategic decisions can be made about specific supplier
relationships and overall company procurement policies.
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3.12. Oracle Supplier Lifecycle Management
3.12.1. Overview
Oracle Supplier Lifecycle Management (SLM) provides an extensive set of features to
support the qualification, profile management, and performance assessment of suppliers,
as well as tools to track ongoing supplier compliance with corporate and legal
requirements. Utilizing these capabilities, organizations can exercise proper control over
suppliers throughout the lifecycle of their relationship with the organizationfrom initial
discovery through qualification and on-boarding, to ongoing maintenance and possible
obsolescence.
A key factor in improving the quality of an organizations supplier master file is to
establish proper processes to formally qualify different types of prospective suppliers.
Supplier Lifecycle Management enables all of the information needed to assess a
prospect to be gathered and then routed through the organization to ensure efficient
review of the suppliers credentials.
Once a supplier has been approved, SLM also enables organizations to gather feedback
from key stakeholders as part of an overall supplier performance tracking process. In
addition, Supplier Lifecycle Management also allows key stakeholders to identify and
track critical compliance documents and attributes that need to be gathered from suppliers
on a periodic basis in order for the two parties to maintain an active business relationship.
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process more efficient, Supplier Lifecycle Management extends existing iSupplier Portal
functionality to enable supplier users to be given online access to maintain a wider range
of their own profile details.
The supplier user can maintain standard company profile details including Address,
Contacts, Business Diversity Classifications, Products and Services Category, and
Banking Details. Changes they provide can then be reviewed by internal administrators
before approval.
Suppliers can also access qualification and on-going compliance information that they are
required to provide to the buying organization to maintain their status in the system.
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poorly coordinated manual process that requires tasks to be sequenced and tracked across
multiple departments as credit checks are carried out, customer references called, quality
standards reviewed, and production facilities inspected.
Supplier Lifecycle Management leverages the Approval Management Engine to enable
companies to generate customized approval flows for supplier requests and registrations.
The details for each new supplier can be passed to multiple stakeholders across many
departments within the buying organization. Approvers are notified when they are
required to review a request and can check graphically the overall approval status for a
given request.
As part of the approval routing, Supplier Lifecycle Management includes the
qualification information collected from the supplier as well as incremental feedback
provided by business users who assess the request. This allows basic supplier profile and
qualification details to be gathered, deliverables like insurance certificates and Code of
Conduct documents to be stored, and products-and-services information to be recorded
within the qualification packet.
The buying organization can apply business rules that will customize the approval flow
based on details in the request.
When a registration request is approved or rejected, the supplier is automatically notified
by email. Following approval, the qualification details provided by a supplier become
part of their profile, which can be updated at a later date.
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the buying organization to work closely and efficiently with suppliers to handle their
registration requests.
This feature is also provided for iSupplier Portal.
This feature is forward-ported to 12.2.4.
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Oracle SLM now provides the overall scoring picture for a supplier by displaying the
aggregate scores at the supplier level, whereas previously, the scores were aggregated
only at the response level.
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3.13. Oracle Supplier Network
3.13.1. Overview
The Oracle Supplier Network (OSN) enables Oracle Purchasing customers and their
suppliers to accelerate collaboration and deliver significant efficiency savings by
conducting business electronically. Buying organizations can achieve quick cost savings
by leveraging the community of enabled suppliers on OSN, where thousands of XML
transactions are exchanged daily.
An Oracle-run service utilizing an internet-based hub transaction model, OSN provides a
wide range of features that are designed to ease the challenges of electronic messaging.
Single Connection: OSN is a messaging hub, so each organization need only
setup a single connection to get access to the community of buyers and suppliers.
Multiple Document and Transformation Support: The buying organization and its
suppliers can exchange purchase orders, purchase order acknowledgments,
purchase order change requests, advanced shipment notices, and invoices that can
be automatically converted between OAG and cXML formats.
Self-Testing: Trading partners do not have to coordinate connectivity testing.
Instead, OSN allows each partner to utilize a test hub to send and receive sample
documents to validate their connection.
Supplier Punch-in access to multiple customer Oracle iSupplier Portal
applications.
3.13.2. Version 5.0
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3.14. Oracle Procurement Command Center Plus
3.14.1. Overview
Oracle Procurement Command Center Plus enables procurement professionals to align
procurement strategy with the business strategy of the organization, while enabling cross-
document actions. The Procurement Command Center Plus is a key component of Oracle
Advanced Procurement, the integrated suite that dramatically cuts supply management
costs.
Procurement teams across industries need to transform their function from being support-
focused to assuming value creation. Procurement alignment with other business functions
can be a key enabler for business success by providing the supplier expertise and
partnerships necessary to differentiate a companys offerings from the competition.
Oracle Procurement Command Center Plus equips you with tools to support this
transformation within your company. Using the power of Oracle Information Discovery,
Oracle Procurement Command Center Plus provides buyers with relevant insights to
discover, prioritize, and resolve issues before they affect business, to identify cost saving
opportunities, to improve customer satisfaction, and to improve category management.
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ordered, shipped, received, and invoiced quantities and amounts, can quickly zero in on
invoice holds and overdue payments, and can track procurement contracts deliverables.
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objectives. Buyers and procurement managers gain improved visibility into the status and
progress on all strategic objectives, initiatives that have been setup to meet strategic
objectives, and negotiations that are conducted while executing these initiatives.
The Strategic Sourcing Dashboard provides the following capabilities:
Search across negotiations, responses, initiatives and objectives. Drill-down into
the respective document, or navigate to other dashboards of the Procurement
Command Center Plus in context.
Identify a risk index based on the significance and risk-level of each open task on
an initiative.
Track negotiation cycle-times and savings achieved on each negotiation.
Measure delay on a task, initiative or objective by comparing planned progress to
actual progress reported.
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Tag clouds on the Indirect Procurement Dashboard give users better insight on
catalog reviews.
3.14.4. Release V8
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