The following is intended to outline our general

product direction. It is intended for information

purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any
contract. 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 for Oracle’s
products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.
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iSupplier Portal: Your Passport to Global Procurement

Mark Peachey, Jeff Glanville
Oracle Supplier Collaboration Applications
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"iSupplier Portal has brought us to a new level of

capability and communication with our suppliers. All the
interaction with suppliers is real-time. The speed and
accuracy of information is amazing."

- Major High Tech Manufacturer

 Agenda

• Supplier Collaboration Overview <Insert Picture Here>

• R12 Review
• Managing Orders
• Invoicing, Catalogs and Performance
• Supplier Profile Management
• Demonstration
Supplier Collaboration At-a-Glance
Your Company Suppliers

Discovery, RFx
Sourcing Sales
Bids, Contracts

Orders, Agreements
Purchasing Fulfillment
Changes

Receiving & Settlement

Receivables
Payment & Status

Production & Plans, Schedules

Manufacturing
Distribution Commitments

Product Design Specs

Engineering
Design Estimates/Prototypes

Supplier Profiles, Performance Administration

Management Updates Acct Mgmt
Release Priorities
R12 Market Drivers
1• Expanded supplier collaboration processes
• More powerful change order processing capabilities
• Complex services support
• Catalog Management: supplier catalog authoring/upload
• Supplier performance visibility
2• Improved supplier enablement capabilities
• Prospective supplier registration
• Ease of use: continue to improve self service experience
• Supplier User Administrator
3• Buyer tools – manage suppliers
• Improved supplier profile management visibility and flexibility
• Integration of supplier contacts and supplier users
• User friendly configuration: Tolerance rules, supplier survey, etc.
 Release 12.0
Order Management

• Supplier Change Order Management

• Multi-order change request
• Tolerance based approval
• Route change requests to requester

• PO Status Tracking
 Supplier Change Orders
New Process Tools

System assess changes…

Supplier can create

single change request • Tolerances for auto-approval
across multiple POs + %,x
- • Percentage
• Absolute

• Does requester need to approve?

• Quantity, Promise Date, Price

• Route up approval hierarchy

• Based on user authorization limits
Multi-Order Change Request Process
Submit change requests

Supplier can apply

changes across PO
lines or shipments

Search shipments
using views or
advanced search

Default changes across

all lines:
- Promise Date
- Quantity Ordered
- Price

• Higher volume suppliers will benefit significantly with

improved change order request efficiency
Change Request Setup
Tolerance & Requester Routing
Define tolerances by
Operating Unit for global
deployment

Specify auto-approval
tolerances for attributes
- % and amount values
- More restrictive used if both set
up

Select attributes for which

change requests need to go
to requester for approval

Eliminate off-line requester

approvals
PO Status Tracking

• Redesigned PO page for one stop order lifecycle

view
• Invoice and receipt totals displayed on PO Header
• Drill down into all related transaction detail: receipts,
ASN/ASBN, invoice, payments

Benefits
• Transparency further reduces off-line supplier inquiries
• Improved user experience reduces supplier training
PO Status Tracking
View Details
The Actions list shows available
actions based on order status

Summary of amount
received and invoiced along
with the payment status

Quantity and amount

ordered, received, and
invoiced are displayed at
each shipment
 Release 12.0
Invoicing, Catalogs & Performance

• Supplier Self Service Invoice Entry

• Supplier / Buyer Invoice Dispute Resolution
• Supplier Self-Service Catalog Authoring
• Item authoring
• Bulk upload
• Supplier Performance
• Redesigned Inquiries
• Receipt, Invoice, Payment
 Invoice Management

• Expanded Self Service Invoice Entry

• Workflows for easier Collaboration
 Invoice Management
Expanded Self Service Invoice Entry

 Matched and Unmatched

Invoices
 Contracted Advances and
Financing Requests
 Automated Retainage and
Financing Recoupment on
Progress Invoices
 Matched Invoice Entry
Controls: Purchase Order or
Receipt
 Invoice Attachments
 Invoice Management
Expanded Self Service Invoice Entry
 Tax Compliance
Enhancements
• Visible VAT / Tax
Registration Numbers
• Real time Tax
Calculation, Controlled
Overrides
 Invoice Management
Workflows for Easier Collaboration
Unmatched Invoice Request
entered in iSupplier Portal:

Approvers can:
 View Invoice
Attachments
 Enter accounting
distributions and Oracle
Projects information
 Approve, Reject, or
Negotiate with the
iSupplier supplier
 Invoice Management
Workflows for Easier Collaboration
Matching Holds Dispute
Resolution:

 Buyer is notified when a hold

is placed
 Buyers can take internal,
release the hold, or negotiate
with the iSupplier supplier
 Suppliers are Notified when an
Invoice requires their action
 Supplier Driven Catalog Management
• Suppliers can upload and create on-line catalogs
• Supplier edits blanket agreement to add items
• Difference summaries to buyer
• Buyers only need to approve the uploaded or modified
catalog
Supplier Scorecard

• Quantitative performance views from DBI based on

aggregated transactional data
• Data is reported in near real-time
• Supplier and Buyer have single source of truth to
evaluate performance
• KPIs can be weighted to derive overall supplier score

Provide suppliers objective performance visibility

 Supplier Scorecard
Details

View trend data over various

time periods

• Customize dashboard view to add/remove reports, KPIs, or portlets

Invoice and Payment Inquiry
View Details

Invoice
breakdown
summary

Subtabs to view invoice line

details, scheduled payments Related payment
and Hold details information
 Release 12.0
Supplier Management

• Supplier Requests
• Flexible prospective supplier registration
• Sourcing invitees
• Supplier Profile Management
• New OAF UI replacing Supplier Form
• TCA Uptake
• Supplier Profile Change Requests
• Supplier User Administration
 Supplier Request Process
Reducing Administration Overhead

Review & Approval

- Configurable approval flow (AME)
Supplier Self-
- Approver has option to update details
Service Registration
Supplier
Requests

Supplier
Supplier

Buyer

 Configurable Upon approval,

 Registration Form
supplier record
 automatically created


Supplier Requests
Configurable Registration Flow

• New engine to manage and disposition new supplier

requests
• Purchasing able to define qualification details to be
captured (by Operating Unit)
• Select sections from Profile
• Custom surveys
• Support for Draft requests
• AME provides configurable approval chain
• Approvers can update details
• Final approval creates supplier record
 Supplier Profile Management

• A new HTML UI for supplier management, replacing Forms

• One-stop supplier workbench for internal profile updates and iSP
supplier requests
• Oracle Survey enabled to extend supplier profile
• SOx Support: Separation of setup & banking duties
• Suppliers represented in Trading Community Architecture (TCA)
• Normalization of address and contact details
• Convergence of contact and user
New HTML Supplier Management UI
Before R12
In R12

One place for creating

supplier, updating supplier
information, and managing
supplier profile
New HTML Supplier Management UI
• Combines internal and external supplier profile management

Create supplier

To Do List for
requests

Search, or drill
down to
supplier details
Supplier Profile Change Requests

• Revised alerts for profile change requests

• Administrators subscribe to receive notifications
• New cross-supplier view of all change requests

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Supplier Records Represented in TCA
Eliminates duplicate supplier data

• Single supplier address and contact can be leveraged by

multiple sites, for each OU
• A single change to an address can be seen instantly by all OUs
• No longer need to manually ‘push’ updates across OUs
• Contact record and iSP User Account are combined
• Can auto-create iSP User Account when creating Contact

OU1 Contact1
Contact1
OU2 Contact1
OU1
OU3 Contact1 OU2
OU3
OU4 Contact1 OU4
Supplier Managed User Maintenance
• New self-maintenance privilege for suppliers to maintain iSP
supplier user accounts:
• Create user accounts when creating Contact
• Obsolete user accounts
• Manage access rights for their users
• Buyer admin retains ability to manage all delegated
accounts

Benefits
• Eliminates large administrative task for Buyer org
• Improved supplier user satisfaction
 For More Information

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iSupplier Portal

Or
http://www.oracle.com/applications/procurement/iSupplier.html
The preceding is intended to outline our general
product direction. It is intended for information
purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any
contract. 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 for Oracle’s
products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.