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Supply Chain Orchestration

Supply Chain Orchestration

Extend the View Manual Reservations for Your Back-to-Back Sales Orders Feature

Extend the View Manual Reservations for Your Back-to-Back Sales Orders feature so you can view all of the reservations that you create manually in a back-to-back flow. Before this release, you could view manual reservations only for lines that aren't assigned on the supply order. Now you can view the supply orders, transfer orders, purchase orders, and work orders that fulfill all of your manual reservations even while Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration is still processing that supply. Also, before this release, you couldn't cancel a manual reservation when you cancel the order line. Now you can.

Hold Changes from Manufacturing Until Purchase Orders Are Ready in Outside Processing Flows

Use Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration to temporarily hold the changes that you receive from Oracle Manufacturing. Use this feature in your outside processing flow when a work order or an operation undergoes change, but Oracle Purchasing hasn't created the purchase order or is revising it.

Use Redesigned Pages to Create Transfer Supply Requests

Use a redesigned page to help you create a transfer supply request on your desktop, tablet, or mobile device. Supply Chain Orchestration will display the supply source that provides the optimal fulfillment for your request, by default. You can accept the default supply source or pick another one from a list of sources when you create the request. You can create the request for a standard item or for an item that's part of a project.

Collaboration Messaging Framework

Collaboration Messaging Framework

Exchange B2B Messages with Your Trading Partners Using Avalara

Use the predefined service provider Avalara as your electronic invoicing solution.

Receive Streamlined Error Message Reporting for B2B Messages Sent Using Web Services

Receive fewer and more relevant errors for your B2B messages sent using web services. As a result of the updated validation process, the sender receives error messages only for setup issues, such as authorization, authentication, sender party, external message definitions, and invalid order numbers. Other B2B setup errors continue to be logged and managed in the Collaboration Messaging work area.

Simplify the Exchange of Purchase Orders with Other Oracle Cloud Enterprises

Use the new Oracle B2B purchase order message definitions to enable the direct exchange of purchase orders with other Oracle cloud enterprises and B2B service providers.

Procurement Common

Common Procurement

Integrate and Extend Procurement Using REST Resources

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

Position Hierarchy Routing Delegates to Other Users Based on Vacation Rules

When users go on vacation, they can define vacation rules so that when they’re out of office, tasks can be reassigned or delegated. If you’re using a Position list builder to route workflow tasks, when a user with a position that’s been assigned a task has an active vacation rule, the rule takes effect as long as there are five or less users in that position, and the task is reassigned or delegated.

Procurement

Purchasing

Require Buyers to Process Requester-Initiated Changes

Require buyers to process requester-initiated changes to open purchase orders. To process the requester-initiated change, the buyer of the purchase order must review it. The buyer on review may either decide to reject the requester-initiated change or process it into a new buyer-initiated change order, make further edits, and then submit it for approval.

View Purchase Orders as a Requester Using a Deep Link

View purchase orders associated with requisitions where you are the requester or preparer using a deep link. You can use the link to directly access these purchase orders from business intelligence reports or external applications.

Create Purchase Order Lines with Negative Amounts Using the Standard Document Style

Add purchase order lines with negative amounts for recording credit to your existing or new purchase orders that use the standard document style.

Prevent Communication of Purchase Order Changes When Only Promised and Requested Dates Are Updated

Prevent communication of purchase order changes to suppliers when only promised and requested dates are updated. You can now configure a change order template to specify whether a purchase order needs to be revised if these attributes are updated.

Upload Buyer Assignment Rules Based on the Cost Center Using a Spreadsheet

Use the ADFdi spreadsheet to create and update buyer assignment rules based on the cost center of the requisition distribution.

View the Rejection Reason for Autorejected Purchasing Documents

View the rejection reason for purchase orders and agreements automatically rejected during the approval process in the rejected FYI notification and document history.

Item Replacement

Capture Additional Information While Defining Item Replacement Tasks

Capture the reason for supply disruption while creating item replacement tasks. In temporary replacements, you can also capture the expected end date for replacement of the disrupted item.

Supplier Model

Require Bank Account to Promote Supplier to Spend Authorized

Require that the supplier's profile has a valid bank account before a supplier spend authorization request can be submitted.

Attach Documents to Supplier Bank Accounts

Securely collect and store documents as attachments for the supplier bank account that you require to verify the bank account.

Sourcing

Default Supplier Site and Contact When Inviting Suppliers

Automatically default the supplier site and contact when you add a supplier, if there's only one defined.

Cancel a Closed Negotiation

Cancel a negotiation even after it's closed and award is in progress.

Email a Confirmation When Supplier Submits a Response

Send a confirmation notification email to suppliers when they submit a negotiation response. Use an Oracle Analytics Publisher template to configure the layout and content of the notification according to your business needs.

Include Attachments in Online Message Notifications

Send online message attachments in email and in-app notifications to suppliers and internal recipients.

Invite More Than 500 Suppliers to a Negotiation

You can now add and view more than 500 suppliers in the negotiation UI when inviting suppliers.

Require Bank Account When Awarding Prospective Suppliers

If you attempt to award a prospective supplier with no bank account, then the supplier spend authorization request is prevented until the supplier provides their bank account.

Spend Classification

Enhance your Classification Results with New Conditions for Rules

Increase the efficiency of your classification with the help of enhancements to rules. Add new conditions that will check for keywords across the entirety of each transaction rather than within individual attributes. If a category prediction is based on low keyword confidence or the absence of any matching keywords, set up a rule to assign a default category. Use the new advanced search function to find and add categories to actions in rules.

Procurement Contracts

Attach Documents When Emailing Contract

When you use the Email action to send a contract, you can use the Attachments section to attach other documents and send them along with the contract. You can add attachments by either dragging files to this window or by browsing for the files you'd like to attach. Sending everything together in a single email helps the recipient get the full context they need to review the contract plus its associated documents, and respond to your email.

Display Approval History from Contract Search

You can check the approval progress of contracts in Pending approval status directly from the contract search results. A link from the status column opens the Review Approvers page where you can see the approval hierarchy for the contract. This feature is available on the contracts landing page, Search Contracts by Text, or from the Manage Contracts task. You can enter search criteria to focus on the right contracts and see where they're stuck and help move them forward.

Configure Contract Approval Notifications

You can configure contract approval notifications to set the content and layout according to your business needs. You can modify the Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Publisher report using RTF templates for layout changes, and the BI data model for content changes. Here's the list of some of the components that can be configured in the default report:

• Logo: Modify the brand logo in the header.

• Title: Configure the workflow notification title.  

• Body: Add or remove existing attributes or add new tables. This includes standard attributes from any table, Descriptive Flexfields and Application Composer attributes.

• Footer Links: Hide the approve or reject links.

• Style: Change the formatting including font size, color, table borders and so on.