Managing Supplier Hierarchy
This chapter covers the following topics:
Supplier Hierarchy
A hierarchy is a collection of parties associated with a particular hierarchical relationship type at a given point in time. The hierarchy shows relationships between organizations in a tree structure. For example, you can get a visual representation of a corporate structure. See Relationships Overview in Oracle Trading Community Architecture User Guide.
Oracle Supplier Management allows consolidating supplier hierarchy details from source systems. If source systems do not have any supplier hierarchy details, then you can create hierarchies in Supplier Management.
Use the Supplier Data Librarian responsibility and the Hierarchies sub tab on the Suppliers Home menu to view and create supplier hierarchies. This page is also accessible from Supplier Management User and Supplier Management Administrator responsibilities, but you must have a valid Supplier Hub license to set up supplier hierarchies. See Guidelines for Purchasing Required Licenses in Oracle Supplier Management Implementation and Administration Guide.
See Hierarchies Overview, Creating Hierarchies, Viewing and Updating Hierarchies in Oracle Customers Online User Guide. Supplier Data Librarian Super User can create relationship types from the Relationships sub tab in the Administration tab.
See Relationships in Oracle Trading Community Architecture Administration Guide.