What is new in Procurement Sourcing in version 24B?

Aytan Vahidova
7 min readOct 11, 2024

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Table of Contents

  • Create Negotiation Cover Page with Generative AI
  • View Previous Round Scores During Award
  • Refresh Auction in Real Time for Suppliers
  • Allow Zero Response Price in Large Negotiations
  • Add Requisitions to Large Negotiations
  • Export Search Results to Excel in Supplier Portal
  • Export Online Messages to Excel
  • Default Team Member Scores from Previous Round

1. Create Negotiation Cover Page with Generative AI

Leverage generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) to author the cover page text for your negotiation. Enter the key details like the title, synopsis, item categories, and significant dates, and then use the AI Assist to generate the cover page text.
AI will use the information from the draft negotiation and suggest content to include for you to get started. If you like a suggestion, you can review and accept it. If not, you can always edit it before or after accepting it. You also have to option to regenerate and explore different contents and formats until you find the one that fits your needs.

How to enable this feature?

On the Manage Negotiation Styles page, select and edit one of your existing negotiation styles, or create a new negotiation style. (You can’t edit a predefined negotiation style.)

In the Controls section, under the Cover Page, select the AI Assist check box.

2. View Previous Round Scores During Award

When executing multiple-round negotiations it’s important to have access to past scoring information throughout the entire process.

For example, in 2-stage negotiation suppliers are typically evaluated for technical and commercial requirements and then shortlisted for a new pricing only commercial round to provide a best and final offer. It’s important for evaluators, and approvers to have access to scores from the prior round when finalizing award.

With this feature, you can:

  • View the previous round’s requirement scores of the suppliers during award analysis and approval
  • Make an informed award decision based on scores and new round pricing.

It was not visible in previous versions:

How to enable this feature?

Login to Fusion:
Setup and Maintenance:
Procurement offering:
Change Feature Opt In

Navigate to Sourcing and Edit:

Tick the feature <View Previous Round Scores During Award>:

3. Refresh Auction in Real Time for Suppliers

The Monitor Auction page for suppliers is now automatically refreshed during the last hour of the auction when new bids are submitted, or existing bids are revised, disqualified, or both. On refresh, suppliers will see the count of lines they are trailing on to help them decide whether to revise their bid.

Suppliers have an improved opportunity to win the bid as they can see their rank in real time.

How to enable this feature?

You don’t need to do anything to enable this feature.Users with relevant role can access this feature.

4. Allow Zero Response Price in Large Negotiations

Large negotiations are negotiations with very high volumes. With this update, suppliers can enter a zero price when responding to large negotiations. This allows suppliers to offer items for free or offer services for products that are still under warranty.

How to enable this feature?

Login to Fusion:
Setup and Maintenance:
Procurement offering:
Change Feature Opt In:

Navigate to Sourcing and Edit:

Tick the feature <Allow Suppliers to Enter Zero Response Price>:

5. Add Requisitions to Large Negotiations

Using the Large Negotiation feature, you can now process requisitions with thousands of lines. The awarded lines are automatically allocated to purchasing documents and requisitions fulfilled using background processing.

To use the feature:

  • Provide the requisition number and requisition line number backing each negotiation line in the lines import template (.XLSM) and import using the file-based data import process (FBDI).
  • Supplier responses are captured, analyzed, and awarded using the background processes.
  • Make an award decision, the award quantity is then automatically allocated to satisfy the requisition demand when the Create Purchasing Documents background process is run.
  • Review the requisition line quantity allocations in the view line allocations UI, before creating purchasing documents in Purchasing. (Line allocations page is now enhanced to support lines search across the 3 tab views.)
  • Submit the Purchasing Documents background process, this creates the purchasing documents, which fulfills the requisition demand. Any unallocated requisition line quantity is returned back to the process requisitions pool.

Instead of conducting multiple negotiations, you can now process a large volume of requisition lines in a single negotiation, saving considerable time and effort. Download and review the latest PONNegotiationLinesImportTemplate.xlsm import template in the File-Based Data Import for Oracle Procurement Cloud guide

Two new columns added for capturing Requisition and Requisition Line Number to LinesOrderOutcome sheet to process high volume of requisition lines using large negotiation feature:

Three new columns added for capturing Requisitioning BU, Requisition, Requisition Line numbers to LinesAgreementOutcome sheet:

How to enable this feature?

To enable Large Negotiation feature, in the Setup and Maintenance work area, go to the Manage Negotiation Styles task.

Offering: Procurement
Functional area: Sourcing
Task: Manage Negotiation Styles

On the Manage Negotiation Styles page, select and edit one of your existing negotiation styles, or create a new negotiation style. (You can’t edit a predefined negotiation style.)

In the Controls section, under the Overview group, select the Large negotiation check box.

6. Export Search Results to Excel in Supplier Portal

Suppliers can now export their negotiation search results and response data to the Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Software from Supplier Portal.

· Export Active Negotiations to Excel

· Export Negotiation Responses to Excel

How to enable this feature?

You don’t need to do anything to enable this feature.Users with relevant role can access this feature.

7. Export Online Messages to Excel

You can now export all online messages in a negotiation into Microsoft Excel to review them offline, or add as an attachment when submitting the negotiation or award for approval.

How to enable this feature?

You don’t need to do anything to enable this feature.Users with relevant role can access this feature.

8. Default Team Member Scores from Previous Round

When a new round is created, all team member scores from the previous round are now copied over if the requirement remains unchanged. The scores are editable and can be updated in the current round if required.

How to enable this feature?

You don’t need to do anything to enable this feature.Users with relevant role can access this feature.

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