The
Professional Buyer’s Work Center speeds up daily purchasing tasks by
providing buyers with a central launch pad from where they can efficiently
perform their daily tasks, such as:
o Viewing
and acting upon requisition demand
o Creating
and managing orders and agreements
o Managing
contract deliverables
o Running
negotiation events, including auctions and RFxs
o Managing
supplier information
The
Professional Buyer’s Work Center tightly weaves Oracle Purchasing with
other products in the procurement family, such as Oracle Sourcing, Oracle
Procurement Contracts, and Oracle Services Procurement. Buyers can now easily
navigate from purchasing to sourcing documents, and vice-versa, using a single,
friendly user interface.
From
the Demand Workbench, buyers can access the catalog and favorites to
find negotiated alternatives to non-catalog requests. While authoring orders
and agreements, buyers can use the catalog or favorites to quickly add items,
thereby accelerating the document creation process. The enhanced catalog access
provides easy access to pre-negotiated items. This reduces spending by
leveraging negotiated pricing.
Document
Styles is a new feature in R12. It allows buying organizations to control
the look and feel of the application to match the needs of different purchasing
documents. Through reusable document styles, deploying organizations can enable
or disable various Oracle Purchasing features, thereby simplifying the user
interface. This helps people to use familiar name to Purchasing documents.
o When a
purchasing document is created using a style, disabled features are hidden to
simplify the user interface. For example, organizations can create a document
style for a specific commodity, such as temporary labor. This document style
optimizes field labels and display for that commodity, simplifying purchase
order entry by hiding regions/attributes that are only relevant for goods
purchases.
Procurement
of Complex Services is an integrated solution for Oracle Services
Procurement used to model complex work contracts that involve advanced payment
terms. These contracts tend to have high dollar values, often running into
several millions of dollars. They also tend to be long lead time contracts,
sometimes extending over multiple years. These contracts are characterized by
progress payments that are governed by the complex payment terms, and which are
released based on completion of work.
o The
business flow can originate with a services request which the buying
organization determines needs complex payment terms to manage and fulfill. The
sourcing process allows negotiation of the complex payment terms and these are
carried forward to the Contract after the award.
o The
Contract, once approved and signed off by the involved parties is now in a
state ready for execution. The Supplier can report progress on the work
specified on the Contract, which the buying organization can certify as
complete. Subsequently, payments can be processed for the progress made on the
contract. The payment terms specified on the contract are used to compute the
payment due to the supplier.
Public
APIs are modified to support Multi-Org Access Controls (MOAC).
Public APIs take Operating Unit as a parameter. Operating Unit is an optional
parameter. If it is not provided, the default operating unit from setup is used
to set the desired context.
o PO
Change API – POXCHN1B.pls
o Cancel
PO API – POXPDCOB.pls
o Price
Control API – POXPCPRB.pls
Oracle
E-Business Tax is a new infrastructure for tax knowledge management and
delivery using a global system architecture that is configurable and scalable
for adding country specific tax content.
o As the
single point solution for managing transaction-based tax, Oracle E-Business Tax
delivers tax services uniformly to Oracle E-Business Suite business flows
through one application interface.
o Oracle
E-Business Tax provides a comprehensive solution to configure, maintain,
manage, and access transaction-based taxes. Organizations will have the ability
to effectively address multiple tax needs, from global tax requirements to
local compliance.
o
Previously, only basic tax code and tax group based tax computation
capabilities were supported. By integrating with Oracle E-Business Tax, the
Procure to Pay business flow will be able to address complex tax requirements.
Another benefit of the integration is the ability to utilize a single point tax
solution across the E-Business Suite, which greatly simplifies maintenance and
tax management.
o Tax is
calculated for the following purchase documents:
Purchase and Internal Requisitions, at the requisition line level
Standard and Planned Purchase Orders, at the PO shipment level
Blanket
and Scheduled Releases, at the Release shipment level
o Tax is
calculated whenever a purchase transaction is created and tax is recalculated
when any tax determination attributes on the transaction is updated. So any
saved purchase document should have its applicable tax already calculated.
o In case
of upgrading to R12 client may opt to keep using Pre-R12 tax setup or can do
some additional setups for using new functionalities.
In
release 11i, Oracle Advanced Procurement Suite supported XSL-FO stylesheet
based layout templates. In release 12, you can use layout templates created in
Microsoft RTF and Adobe PDF formats. With Release 12, buyers can print
purchasing documents on demand using any of the pre-defined layout templates.
It also allows buyers to print a purchasing document in multiple formats
o
Attachment type supported
Notes
to Supplier (R12, 11i)
Long
Short text (R12, 11i)
Files
(R12)
URL
(R12)
Maintain
Sourcing Rules/ASLs for Agreement Items: Prior to this release,
system-generated sourcing rules and ASLs were only created at the time of
blanket agreement approval. These rules were enabled for all organizations,
which might not have mirrored actual business processes.
In this
release, you create sourcing rules and ASL entries for a specific inventory
organization. You can create these rules for agreements that you manually
create, or for agreements that you import through the open interface.
In
addition, the dependency of rules creation with the approval process has been
removed. As a result, you can create rules for existing agreements that have
already been approved. This concurrent program allows you to automatically
create rules for all of the operating units in which a blanket agreement is
enabled.
Support
for Contract Purchasing Users: In this release, contingent workers can
perform the same actions as requesters and buyers who are employees. These
actions include creating requisitions, purchase orders, and receipts. In
addition, contingent workers can approve both requisitions and purchase orders.
Now the
question is what the benefit of this:
•
Companies can outsource their procurement functions to third parties, allowing
them to focus on their core competencies.
• For the
many companies that utilize the services of contingent workers, these workers
can raise requisitions on their own behalf.
•
Companies can meet compliance requirements because they no longer have to
define contingent workers as employees for contingent workers to perform their
jobs.
Auto-Approval
Tolerances for Change Orders: (Purchasing : Tolerances and Routing >
Change Order) Auto-Approval Tolerances are defined on Setup screen or in
Workflow Attributes. Once a Purchasing Document is submitted for approval, in
the Approval Workflow a check is done to ensure that all changes are within
tolerance. If they are then main approval is bypassed otherwise the document is
routed through main approval process in workflow.
Model
Complex Pricing for Blanket Line Items: R12, Oracle Purchasing provides an
additional option to model complex pricing for Blanket line items. In this
release Oracle Purchasing has built an integration with the Oracle Advanced
Pricing product. Oracle Advanced Pricing provides a set of tools in the form of
price lists, formulas and modifiers to model complex pricing scenarios. This
integration may eliminate the need for existing Oracle Purchasing customers to
incorporate custom code into the product in the form of the custom pricing
hook.
The
integration with advanced pricing allows dynamic calculation of prices
providing significant additional flexibility to complement the existing blanket
agreement functionality. Companies can now accurately price all requests and
purchases, thus reducing their dependence on the supplier’s billing
capabilities.
Pricing
Hierarchy
• If the
transaction references an item from the item master, the list price of
the item in the item master is first defaulted into the transaction.
• If the
transaction references an approved and active blanket agreement, the pricing
engine then determines the price from the applicable agreement price breaks
if there’s any.
• If
there isn’t any price break defined, it picks up the price from the agreement
line.
• If
there’s pricing information available in Oracle Advanced Pricing in the
form of price list lines and/or modifiers, these pricing rules are then applied
to arrive at the net price.
• It is
important to note that if you have defined custom pricing rules in the custom
hook provided, those rules override any other pricing that the system may
have derived.
Mass
Re-pricing of Purchasing Documents was availabel from 11i9, in R12 it is
improved a lot. You can now be able to re-price orders in batch using the
existing “Retroactive Price Update” concurrent program even if the orders were
not sourced from Blankets.
This
Concurrent Program is now capable of re-pricing transactions based on pricing
rules defined:
o On
Oracle Advanced Pricing Price Lists/Modifiers
o And on
Custom Pricing Hooks
Advanced
Approval Support for Requisitions:
o Parallel
Approvals
o Support
for Viewers
o Position
Hierarchy Support
