Update 22B

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Overview

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Collaboration Messaging Framework

Collaboration Messaging Framework

Retrieve Large Purchase Order Payloads for B2B Messaging

Configure Oracle Collaboration Messaging to process very large outbound purchase orders when B2B communication is initiated. The payload for a very large purchase order is retrieved in smaller parts from Oracle Purchasing and then combined and delivered as one purchase order, resulting in improved performance. This feature is available in the May monthly maintenance pack for update 22B.

Procurement Common

Common Procurement

Integrate and Extend Procurement Using REST Services

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

Employee Vacation and Delegation Rules Report

Use the Employee Vacation and Delegation Rules Report to view the vacation and delegation rules set by your employees in BPM Worklist. Administrators can use this report to review details of the rules defined by employees to delegate or reassign their workflow tasks. To submit the report and see the output, use the Scheduled Processes work area.

Procurement

Complex Work Procurement

Complex Work Procurement is an end-to-end integrated solution across the Oracle Procurement Cloud, Oracle Financials Cloud, and Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud applications. This solution is designed to model procurement of complex contracts in industries such as construction, consulting, and professional services. Complex work contracts tend to have high dollar values and long lead times, and are governed by complex payment terms. You can use Complex Work Procurement to manage various aspects of the acquisition processes involved in procuring complex work.

In this update, you can manage work confirmation for purchase orders with progress payment schedules for complex services procurement.

Create Work Confirmations for Purchase Orders with Progress Payment Schedules

Create work confirmations for complex work purchase orders as a supplier and seek approval for the completed work against the progress payment schedule items. Buyers and Requesters can also submit work confirmation requests on behalf of the suppliers.

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.

After you opt in to the feature named Purchase Items That Are Priced in Their Secondary UOM, you can use the features described in this section.

Allow Invoice Match to Receipt for Items Priced in Their Secondary UOM

Allow invoice match to receipt for a purchase order line that's priced in the secondary UOM.

View the Life Cycle for Items Priced in Their Secondary UOM

Review the purchase order schedule life cycle quantities in primary and secondary UOMs, and their invoiced quantity in the pricing UOM for items priced in their secondary UOM.

Project-Driven Supply Chain

Project-Driven Supply Chain is an end-to-end, integrated solution across the Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Management and Oracle Fusion Cloud Project Management applications. This solution is designed to support various business processes of manufacturing and asset-intensive companies.

You can use the Project-Driven Supply Chain solution to manage your supply chain processes in the context of projects without creating separate organizations for each project. You can also capture supply chain costs as project expenditures.

After you opt in to the feature named Project-Driven Supply Chain, you can use the feature described in this section.

Release Recommendations for Transfers of Project Supplies

Reduce excess inventory in your project supplies by releasing recommendations from a plan to change the project attribution on purchase orders, transfer orders, work orders, and on-hand inventory. Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Planning generates recommendations by recognizing excess supply and shortages in your enterprise's projects based on your rules.

Purchasing

Include Additional Attributes on Purchasing Document Approval Notification Titles

Include additional contextual information such as supplier name, document totals, and document descriptions in your purchasing document approval notification titles.

Route Purchase Orders for Approval Using the Accrue at Receipt Attribute

Route purchase orders for approval using the accrue at receipt attribute.

Prevent Purchase Order Releases When Amounts or Quantities Exceed the Limits on the Referenced Blanket Agreement Line

Configure the application to prevent purchase order submission if agreement lines would be overreleased. As a buyer, now you don't need to search for overreleased cases and manually handle them.

Release Recommendations for Purchase Orders That Don't Originate from Oracle Supply Planning

Release recommendations to Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement for rescheduling or canceling purchase orders that didn't originate from Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Planning's buy recommendations. Prior to this update, such purchase orders couldn't be rescheduled or canceled.

Keep the Dates for Your Sales Orders and Purchase Orders Synchronized

Use this feature to keep dates on your sales order synchronized with dates on your purchase order. If your supplier changes shipment or delivery dates on the purchase order for a pick-to-order item or a kit, then this feature updates these dates and adds a reason for the change on the corresponding order line.

External Purchase Prices

Import Purchase Prices Without an Item or a Category

Import external purchase prices for manufacturer part numbers with neither a trading partner relationship nor a purchasing category assignment. These lines will be imported as disabled for procurement. You can choose to manually or automatically enable these lines for purchasing once an item or purchasing category is assigned to the manufacturer part numbers.

Improvements to Purchase Agreements Created from External Purchase Prices

Review manufacturer part number for all the purchase agreement lines created from external purchase prices, irrespective of whether they are based on item number or not. Additionally, lines with price changes are now directly updated on the purchase agreement lines thereby avoiding needless end-dated lines.

Item Replacement

Create Item Replacements by Choosing an Alternate Item or Alternate Supplier

Create replacements for items that have supply disruptions, such as back orders or recalls. You can choose an alternate item or an alternate supplier to address your supply disruption. You can also perform mass updates on purchase orders to replace the item, or even cancel the existing orders to create new orders for the alternate source.

Supplier Model

Streamline B2B Document Sharing with Intelligent Oracle Business Network Connectivity in Supplier Self-Service Registration

Supplier self-service registration now supports intelligent matching of your new suppliers with trading partners in Oracle Business Network to streamline B2B document sharing.

Remove Mandatory Check on D-U-N-S Number, Taxpayer ID, or Tax Registration Number in Supplier Registration

Allow suppliers to register without providing D-U-N-S number, taxpayer ID, or tax registration number by using an option to bypass the check.

Use DataFox Supplier Intelligence Signals in Internal Registration and Registration Approvals

Use DataFox risk signals to review detailed supplier risk information when requesting a new supplier or approving a supplier registration.

Include DataFox Supplier Intelligence Score Criteria for Reporting

Deliver more complete reporting on suppliers at risk with DataFox risk indicator score criteria.

Sourcing

Search and Add Unique Suppliers

When searching and adding suppliers in the negotiation, ensure only unique suppliers are added to the invitation list. Eliminate the manual work of removing duplicate suppliers.

Supplier Qualification Management

Review DataFox Supplier Intelligence When Adding Suppliers to an Initiative

When searching for suppliers to add to an initiative, you can now review the supplier's DataFox risk indicator score and access signals in the search results.

Automatically Requalify Survey Qualifications on Expiration

Automatically requalify survey qualifications when they approach expiration and send questionnaires to all the internal responders.

Spend Classification

Improve Classification Results Using Training Exclusions

Use training exclusions to build and manage a list of words that will be ignored in any training set that is used for creating or improving a knowledge base. Spend data often includes common words that appear in a variety of spend records, making them poor category predictors. Training exclusions ensures that these words don't interfere with category predictions and improves knowledge base performance.

Estimate the Size of a Sample Training Set

Assess the size of a sample training data set before it is created. The sample training set creation process now displays an estimate for the number of records that will be generated based on the sample volume percentage that you've specified.

Improvements to Download Data Set

Use additional filter parameters that have been added to the Data Set download. Filter transactions by business unit and transaction dates to get a more granular set of transaction data that can be used when preparing training data or to help with classification iteration when improving a knowledge base.

Use Spend Classification Analysis Dashboard to Enhance Your Analytics

Enhance the insights into your organization's operations with a new dashboard in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence: Spend Classification Analysis. This dashboard shows you the difference in the procure to pay reports before and after you've classified your spend data.

Procurement Contracts

View Supplier Sites in Fulfillment Lines

View all active sites for a supplier address in the fulfillment lines. The selected site is used in the agreement or purchase order created from the contract. The existing supplier address fields are renamed accordingly in the contract header, lines, and fulfillment lines to distinguish between the supplier address and the supplier site.

Differentiate Base Contracts Created from Sourcing Negotiations

Search for base contracts in Enterprise Contracts. To negotiate terms with several invited suppliers, a base contract is created without any primary parties in a sourcing negotiation flow. You can visibly differentiate a base contract from other contracts in the search results, contracts overview, and Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) reports.

Use Deep Links to Access a Contract

You can use deep links to navigate directly to a contract, for example, from a BI report.

You can copy and save direct links to a contract. You can share the deep link that opens a contract with someone else, or you can manually add the link to any page, such as a report or user interface page.

Support Additional Parameters in Contracts Descriptive Flexfields for Setting Contexts and Filtering Value Sets

You can use the additional parameter Intent in the Contract Header Descriptive flexfield to automatically set the context to Buy or Sell. Based on the context, you can view the corresponding segments. Also, the additional parameters, ContractId and LineId, in the Contract Header and Contract Line descriptive flexfields, respectively, can be used to filter the values in the value set dynamically. For example, you can filter and display only the bill-to accounts of the contract's customer in a descriptive flexfield segment.

Channel Revenue Management

Use the Legal Entity Time Zone in Channel Revenue Management

Use the legal entity time zone when creating programs, accruals, adjustments, claims, and posting transactions. If the setting on the legal entity profile indicates that the legal entity time zone should be used, then all channel programs, claims, and other transactions will be displayed and processed for this time zone.

Supplier Channel Management

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

Import Additional Information from a Supplier Invoice Line Descriptive Flexfield Via a CSV File

Import any additional information captured in a Supplier Invoice line descriptive flexfield via a CSV File. Use these details in eligibility rules to further qualify a supplier invoice for a rebate.

Use a Different Catalog for Alternate Supplier Sites in Supplier Annual Programs

Alternate supplier sites are used to capture other supplier sites to ensure that purchases from distributor sites are eligible for a supplier annual program rebate. Use different catalogs for the supplier and the alternate suppliers specified in supplier annual programs.

Extend Supplier Rebate Program Eligibility

The supplier rebate program eligibility checks to see if an accrual can be recorded for each receiving transaction or supplier invoice in a channel batch. You can extend the predefined program eligibility rule to support your business requirements.

Specify Exchange Rate Date for Manual Adjustments to Supplier Programs

Specify an exchange rate date when the adjustment currency is not the same as the ledger currency. If an exchange rate date is not provided, then the adjustment approval date is used as the exchange rate date. Reverse an available supplier rebate accrual by creating a manual adjustment.