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Supply Chain Orchestration

Supply Chain Orchestration

Improve Supply Tracking for Sales Orders in Your Back-to-Back Flows

Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration no longer closes the supply order when the first shipment happens for a partial shipment in a back-to-back flow. The supply order remains open until shipping ships all of the supply or until Oracle Order Management cancels the request. Orchestration will also continue to orchestrate changes in demand and supply as long as the supply order remains open.

Collaboration Messaging Framework

Collaboration Messaging Framework

Receive a Brazil Electronic Freight Other Services Invoice

Use the new SEFAZ Brazil Electronic Freight Other Services Invoice V3.00 message to receive electronic freight invoices for other transportation related services.

Send and Receive UBL PEPPOL Electronic Invoices

Send and receive Pan-European Public Procurement Online (PEPPOL) Business Interoperability Specifications 3.0 invoices to and from PEPPOL access points using the new Universal Business Language (UBL) PEPPOL outbound and inbound invoice messages.

Procurement Common

Common Procurement

Integrate and Extend Procurement Using REST Services

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

Get News Feed Suggestions On Your Next Likely Actions

Get suggestions on your next likely actions in your news feed layout. This feature is currently in Controlled Availability and is available in Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement. Artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms predict and suggest the actions each user is most likely to take during a session. The algorithms use historic navigation behavior and patterns of each user and users like them to determine which navigation target they’re most likely to visit.

Procurement

Purchasing

Classify Master Item Purchases Based on the Most Current Purchasing Category Association

Classify your master item purchases based on the most current purchasing category association as per the item definition. Such purchases will no longer be classified as per the purchasing category on the source agreement line, which could have been from an older item definition.

Correct the Supplier Item Number on Purchase Orders

Correct the supplier item number on purchase orders via the Edit Change Order page. As a supplier, you can update the supplier item number even if the line is sourced from a blanket purchase agreement. Using the feature, buyers can also update the supplier item number on behalf of their suppliers.

Copy Requisition Header Attachments to the Purchase Order Header

Copy requisition header attachments to the purchase order header. Before this update, the application copied the requisition header attachments onto each purchase order line that fulfilled the requisition. This resulted in duplicate attachments for the purchase order. In this update, the application can now copy the requisition header attachments to the purchase order header.

Specify a Contract Purchase Agreement When Processing Requisition Lines Using the Document Builder

Specify a contract purchase agreement as the source document when processing requisition lines into a purchase order using the document builder. Before this update, you could specify only blanket purchase agreements as the source document in the document builder.

Apply Discount to All Purchase Order Lines

Apply discounts to all purchase order lines with a single action. For percentage-based discounts, the same discount percentage is applied to all the lines. For amount-based discounts, the discount amount gets prorated to all the lines.

Search for Purchase Orders by Project Numbers and Task Numbers as a Buyer

Search for your project-related purchase orders and purchase order schedules by using project number and task number as search parameters.

Import Purchase Orders with U.S. Federal Attributes

Include U.S. Federal attributes when you import purchase orders using file-based data import.

Create Purchase Order Lines with Negative Amounts

Create purchase order lines with negative amounts to record credits to the ordered amount that you have negotiated with your supplier. For example, you can use a negative amount line to represent credit for an equipment trade in.

View Negotiation Details for Purchase Orders and Purchase Agreements Created as Negotiation Award Outcomes

View the negotiation number for purchase orders and agreements created as negotiation award outcomes as either the buyer or the supplier. Use the negotiation number link to view negotiation details.

Project Cost Distribution Using Award Funding Patterns

Define funding patterns to distribute project costs to awards and funding source combinations. Specify an expenditure item date range and task level to apply distribution rules that automatically split sponsored project costs. Automating the distribution throughout the procure-to-pay lifecycle ensures charging accuracy and removes the need to manually enter the award charging instructions. Grants administrators manage the funding patterns to ensure proper cost distribution throughout the duration of the sponsored project.

Resend Approval Email Notifications

Leverage the ability to resend email notifications for any in-progress transactions in the Transaction Console.

Archive Reminder in Transaction Console

The Transaction Console work area now displays a yellow banner that reminds users to archive completed transactions. The banner displays when the archive process hasn't been run in the past 3 months.

Diagnostic Log Availability and Attachments in Transaction Console

Take advantage of these enhancements to diagnostic logs in the Transaction Console work area:

• Transaction Console administrators can now download the diagnostic log for healthy pending transactions as well.
• The diagnostic log now also includes details of all the attachments added at any stage of the transaction.

External Purchase Prices

Remove Requisitioning Business Units from Mappings

Delete requisitioning business units (BUs) mapped to a source organization from an existing requisitioning business unit mapping. You can delete those requisitioning BUs where there are no purchase agreements created for the external purchase prices tied to those requisitioning BUs.

Bypass Approval for Agreements Created from External Purchase Prices

Use the External Purchase Prices Options lookup to configure new options for purchase agreements that are created from external purchase prices. Choose to bypass approval, or to enable purchase agreements to allow ordering from unassigned supplier sites.

Supplier Model

Create Supplier Sites with Longer Names

Create supplier sites with a name up to 240 characters to better identify them.

Sourcing

Extend a Closed Negotiation

You can extend a negotiation after it has reached the close date, so suppliers can continue to submit responses.

Control Defaulting of Supplier Responses to Predefined Questions

Control whether prior supplier responses to predefined questions are automatically populated when suppliers respond to negotiation requirements.

Invite All Contacts to a Large Negotiation

Send invitation to all contacts of a supplier to participate in a large negotiation. All contacts will receive the large negotiation PDF and lines spreadsheet to prepare their response.

Use Parameters to Validate Negotiation Descriptive Flexfield Values

Negotiation parameters can now be used to derive and validate descriptive flexfield values during negotiation creation.

Spend Classification

Add or Modify Categories in Existing Taxonomies

Add new categories to an existing taxonomy or edit categories in that same taxonomy by changing category names at any level. You can now use the Upload Taxonomy action to revise an active taxonomy, modify existing category names, or add new categories to extend the taxonomy. With this capability, you no longer need to delete or rebuild a taxonomy you'd like to modify, and then rebuild any impacted knowledge base.

Define Rules Using Additional Classification Attributes

Improve classification results by allowing rules to be defined using any additional attributes that have been included in a data set. This enhances the likelihood of key information stored in extended attributes being used to improve the accuracy of the spend classification results. Furthermore, improve defining business rules with the new comparison operators that can be used to check for blank values.

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.

Define Ship and Debit Program Eligibility based on Warehouse and Ship-to Address

Create ship and debit program qualifier rules based on ship-from warehouse and ship-to address. For example, create a ship and debit program for a warehouse to move excess inventory, or manage freight costs specific to that location. Use a ship-to address qualifier to restrict program eligibility to a specific customer location.