R12.x Oracle Sourcing Fundamentals

In this course, participants learn how to set up and use Oracle Sourcing to manage and use the Buyer and Supplier home pages, navigation techniques, and to understand the functions of the three types of Oracle Sourcing users. Participants learn how to create negotiations utilizing various document types, as well as the process for responding, monitoring, and awarding negotiations. Additionally, participants will learn how to use negotiation attributes and line attributes, and to define and use reusable supplier price factors and price factor lists. Finally, participants learn how to create and modify forms and abstracts, and how to use transformational bidding.

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Course Objective

Use the buyer and supplier home pages
Determine the functions of the three types of Sourcing users
Understand how to create negotiations utilizing various document types
Understand how to respond, monitor, and award negotiations
Understand the process to invite suppliers to a negotiation
Understand the usage of the negotiation attributes
Understand subjective scoring
Define and use reusable supplier price factors and price factor lists
Understand the Sourcing process flow within the Advanced Procurement product family
Identify the key areas and benefits of Sourcing
Understand the new Sourcing Optimization product
Create and modify forms and abstracts
Understand how to use transformational bidding
Analyze the required set-up and implementation steps
Introduce how to use price factor lists
Understand and navigate the Sourcing user interface

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Target Audience

End User
Implementer

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Oracle Sourcing Functionality Overview

Understanding Key Business Flows of Oracle Sourcing
Contrasting Manual and Automatic Sourcing Systems
Identifying Key Productivity Benefits of Oracle Sourcing
Understanding the Oracle Sourcing Position Within the Oracle Advanced Procurement Product Family

Oracle Sourcing Product Overview

Navigating Oracle Sourcing User Interface
Using the Buyer and Supplier Home Pages
Conducting Searches
Understanding the Functions of the Three Types of Sourcing Users

Creating Negotiations

Outlining the Negotiation Process
Defining Header Information
Defining Negotiation Lines
Defining Negotiations Response Controls
Using Contract Terms
Inviting Suppliers to a Negotiation
Publishing a Negotiation
Identifying Additional Creation Methods

Using Negotiation Attributes

Explaining the Usage of Negotiation Attributes
Defining and Using Requirements
Explaining Subjective Scoring
Defining and Using Line Attributes
Explaining Weighting and Scoring
Explaining How Price-to-Total-Score is Calculated and Used to Evaluate Responses

Additional Creation Tools

Defining and Using Reusable Supplier Price Factors and Price Factor Lists
Performing Supplier Searches
Defining and Using Reusable Invitation Lists
Defining and Using Price Breaks and Price Tiers
Using Spreadsheet Upload for Header Attributes and Lines
Defining and Using Negotiation Document Templates
Defining and Using Negotiation Events
Defining Two-Stage RFQs

Responding to Negotiations

Understanding the Differences Between Suppliers and Supplier Users
Explaining the Process for Registering Supplier Users
Outlining the Response Process
Searching for Negotiations
Entering and Submitting a Negotiation Response
Explaining Power and Proxy Bidding
Explaining Surrogate Bidding and Earnest Money Deposit while Bidding
Explaining How to Print Supplier's View of Negotiation

Monitoring Negotiations

Understanding the Process To Monitor a Negotiation
Explaining Best Response and How Calculated
Explaining How to Use Live Console to Monitor Negotiation
Using the Count-Down Clock
Understanding How to Use Negotiation Amendments
Understanding the Multi Round Process

Awarding Negotiations

Outlining the Award Process
Explaining How to Score Header Attributes
Explaining Different Award Methods
Explaining How to Use Award Optimization
Understanding How to Generate a Purchase Order
Explaining How to Allocate Requisitions Across Selected Suppliers

Using Collaborative Messaging and Notifications

Explaining notifications used by Oracle Sourcing
Describing the use of Collaborative Messaging

Using Forms and Abstracts

Understanding the Purpose for the System Abstract
Explaining How to Modify the Abstract
Describing Forms Usage
Implementing New Forms

Using Transformational Bidding
Processing Large Negotiations
Setting Up and Implementing Oracle Sourcing

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R12.x Oracle Sourcing Fundamentals

R12.x Oracle Sourcing Fundamentals

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