Update 21D

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Procurement Common

Common Procurement

Access Procurement Application Pages Using Quick Actions

In this update, Oracle Procurement Cloud delivers new quick actions that provide easy navigation from the home page directly to specific application pages without using the menu structure.

Integrate and Extend Procurement Using REST Services

In this update, Oracle Procurement Cloud delivers new and modified REST APIs to enable and simplify integration with external systems.

Procurement

Dual Units Of Measure

Set up your Oracle Cloud applications so you can order, price, receive, pick, pack, and ship an item that you enable with primary and secondary UOM tracking. You might need to order, transfer, outsource, or buy an item in a unit of measure that's different from the unit of measure that you use to price, invoice, and cost it.

For example, you might stock and sell meat in cases, but price it in pounds. Each case of meat has a different price because the total weight in pounds varies from one case to the next, but you need to give your buyers an estimated price for each case.

You can use the dual UOM solution to meet this requirement. It's an end-to-end, integrated solution that works across the Oracle Cloud applications and helps you:

• Simultaneously track an item in the primary UOM and secondary UOM throughout your order-to-cash process and procure-to-pay processes.
• Capture the actual weight of the item that you sell, transfer, or purchase, so you can accurately price, invoice, and cost the item.
• Provide a price estimate at the time of sale or purchase and maximize value according to the exact weight that you ship or receive.

Here are the Oracle Procurement Cloud enhancements to the dual UOM solution that are available in this update:

• Request Items That Are Priced in Their Secondary UOM from External Applications
• Purchase Items That Are Priced in Their Secondary UOM
• Create and Fulfill Sales Orders in Dual Units of Measure for Your Back-To-Back Flows
• Create and Fulfill Sales Orders in Dual Units of Measure in Your Drop Ship Flows
• Create Invoice for Items Ordered and Priced in Different Units of Measure

Request Items That Are Priced in Their Secondary UOM from External Applications

For items with dual UOMs, use requisition import to create an externally managed requisition in a UOM that matches how the item is packed and shipped, and is invoiced in the item's secondary UOM based on the actual weight of the units received.

Purchase Items That Are Priced in Their Secondary UOM

For items with dual UOMs, create a purchase order in a UOM that matches how the item is packed and shipped and get invoiced for it based on the actual weight of the units received as per the secondary UOM of the item.

Create and Fulfill Sales Orders in Dual Units of Measure for Your Back-to-Back Flows

Create a sales order in the item's primary unit of measure or in another unit of measure that's in the primary UOM class, then use the standard conversion or item conversion to automatically calculate quantity in the secondary UOM. Price the order line in the primary UOM or the secondary UOM. Use an automated flow to update the order line and invoice it according to the quantity or the secondary quantity that you ship. Use this feature to help you create the purchase order, transfer order, or work order when you use dual units of measure to fulfill demand in your back-to-back flow.

Create and Fulfill Sales Orders in Dual Units of Measure in Your Drop Ship Flows

Create a sales order in the item's primary unit of measure (UOM), then use the item's secondary quantity during fulfillment in your drop ship flow.

Create Invoice for Items Ordered and Priced in Different Units of Measure

Create purchase order matched invoices for items with dual unit of measure (UOM). Dual UOM items can be ordered in the UOM used for packing and shipping. They are invoiced based on the actual weight of the items received in the item's secondary UOM.

Purchasing

Route Approvals for Purchasing Documents Based on Supplier Type

Route approvals for purchase orders and purchase agreements based on the type of supplier.

External Purchase Prices

Create External Purchase Prices Using File-Based Import

Create large volume of external purchase prices using the external purchase prices file-based data import feature.

Manage Approvals for External Purchase Prices

Approve or reject external purchase prices and change orders using the approval workflow. Application administrators can use the External Purchase Price Approval workflow to configure appropriate approval rules based on the external purchase price attributes to notify approvers.

Search External Purchase Prices Using Item Number and Manufacturer Part

Search for external purchase prices using line level attributes such as item number and manufacturer part number.

Supplier Model

Streamline B2B Document Sharing with Intelligent Oracle Business Network Connectivity

Intelligent matching of your new suppliers with trading partners in Oracle Business Network improves business agility and reduces supplier transaction costs with automated and streamlined B2B document sharing.

Approve Internal Changes on Supplier Profile

Ensure supplier profile changes made by internal users are monitored and approved. Apply change control and approval routing when internal users change organization details, income tax, bank accounts, and now addresses.

Sourcing

View Supplier Comments in Team Scoring Spreadsheet

Evaluate requirement responses with supplier comments in the team scoring spreadsheet.

Rank Suppliers Based on the Composite Score of Pricing and Requirements

Evaluate pricing and requirements to determine a composite score for the supplier response. Derive overall rank based on the composite score.

Send Attachments to Approvers

Send attachments to negotiation and award approvers in the approval notification. Approvers can download these documents from their email to make an approval decision.

Supplier Qualification Management

Conduct Internal Surveys for Supplier Qualification

Create survey qualifications to aggregate feedback on suppliers from multiple internal responders. You can use these to build consensus on supplier performance, risk, or other criteria to improve the value of your supplier relationships. This feature was originally introduced in 21C. In this update, additional functionality is added.

Enhancements to Internal Surveys for Supplier Qualification

Leverage new enhancements to the internal survey feature launched in Update 21C. These productivity enhancements include scoring responses manually, the option to default prior response information for the same responder, and many others.

Channel Revenue Management

Supplier Channel Management

Creates and administers supplier trade programs, optimizing the execution and impact of programs and promotions across the demand chain.

Manage Supplier Annual Programs

Manage supplier annual programs through the user interface or a REST service to accrue rebates based on your cumulative purchasing volumes spanning the effectivity of the program. You can define percentage rebates based on purchase value attainment tiers, or you can define amount per unit rebates based on purchased quantity attainment tiers. Retrospective and stepped calculations are supported and you can define product eligibility by item, category, or for all items; supporting exclusions. Eligible purchases are obtained from supplier invoices, which are imported via a CSV file.

Manage Supplier Channel Programs Through the Procurement Work Area

Manage your supplier channel programs through the Procurement work area. You can quickly navigate to Channel Revenue Management to administer supplier channel programs and monitor the performance of these programs. You can manage any setup tasks through the Procurement offering in the Functional Setup Manager.

Provide Additional Subledger Accounting Sources for Supplier Channel Accounting Rules

Configure flexfields at the claim header level for supplier claims. You can use supplier claim header and supplier program header flexfields as sources for your channel accounting rules.

Approve Manual Adjustments to Accruals for Supplier Ship and Debit Programs

Approve manual adjustments to accruals for supplier ship and debit programs. You can create a manual adjustment and submit it for approval. You can approve or reject the adjustment if you have the adjustment approval privilege.

Procurement Contracts

Print Standard and Custom Attributes in Deviation Reports

You can print standard contract attributes, custom attributes, and descriptive flexfields in deviation reports. The deviation data model XML provides the list of attributes that you can use to configure these reports in Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher:

• SupplierContractDeviations.rtf
• CustomerContractDeviations.rtf

Protect System Variable Edits in Microsoft Word

You can add system variables and view the value for these variables in your contract. You can’t save edits to system variables using the Oracle Contracts Microsoft Word add-in back to the application, but you can delete them. To delete a system variable, you must delete the content control of a system variable.

The application displays an error when you try to edit a system variable using the Microsoft Word document. System variables should be updated directly in the application to reflect in the word document.

Use Problem Resolution in Contract Validation Messages

When you validate a contract, more meaningful and informative validation error and warning details are provided in the Validation Results page to help you resolve any contract validation issues. For example, additional information might include what caused the problem and how and where to fix the issue so that the validation of the contract can proceed.

Use Enterprise Contracts in Business Intelligence Cloud Connector

You can use Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Cloud Connector to extract the BI data from Enterprise Contracts. Here are the contract objects you can use in BI Cloud Connector:

• Contracts
• Contract Translations
• Contract Custom Extensions
• Contract Approval History
• Contract Signature History
• Contract Status History
• Related Contracts
• Contract Parties
• Contract Party Contacts
• Contract Sales Credits
• Contract Fulfillments
• Contract Fulfillment Notifications
• Contract Fulfillment Translations
• Contract Risks
• Contract Lines
• Contract Line Translations

Collaboration Messaging Framework

Collaboration Messaging Framework

Business-to-business (B2B) messaging is a key component of collaborative relationships and can increase the quality, quantity, and frequency of information that can be exchanged between trading partners.  However, the differences in B2B standards, technical capabilities of trading partners, and the diversity of trading partners can make this costly to establish and maintain.  Oracle Supply Chain Collaboration and Visibility Cloud manages B2B communications with trading partners by leveraging the Oracle Collaboration Messaging Framework, a next-generation B2B messaging platform that maps and routes standards-based B2B messages through a B2B solution provider, on-premise B2B application, or direct to the trading partner.  Oracle Collaboration Messaging Framework is a common infrastructure component that is included with all Oracle Cloud Applications environments at no additional charge.  It is also tightly integrated with Oracle Cloud Applications, making it easy for Oracle Supply Chain Collaboration Cloud customers to set up and manage multiple trading partner connections.

Deliver B2B Messages Via SFTP

Send messages to your trading partners using Secure File Transfer Protocol as the delivery method.

Find a Document Using a Description Instead of a Coded Value

Select a document using a description available in the collaboration document column instead of a coded value in the name column.