Managing Supplier D&B Enrichment

This chapter covers the following topics:

Overview of Supplier D&B Enrichment

Oracle Supplier Management enables administrators to review, enrich, and update the supplier master data with data from Dun and Bradstreet (D&B). D&B maintains a growing global database of more than 70 million businesses worldwide. This database provides key information such as D&B's unique identifier, the D-U-N-S Number, and executive contacts, as well as demographic, financial, and credit risk data. D&B provides information in the form of data products and Business Information Reports that contain a variety of data elements.

D&B information is integrated with the party records to maintain accurate information that you can use to evaluate credit risks. The D&B information coexists with user-entered data. You can view and use information from different data sources, such as user entered and D&B.

Supplier Management leverages Third Party Integration features provided by Oracle Trading Community Architecture to purchase information from D&B. For information about purchasing data from D&B, see Third Party Data Integration in Oracle Trading Community Architecture User Guide. The diagram describes the process flow for purchasing D&B information online.

You must have a valid Supplier Hub license for using third party integration. See Guidelines for Purchasing Required Licenses in Oracle Supplier Management Implementation and Administration Guide. Also, See Setting Up Third Party Data Integration in Oracle Trading Community Architecture Administration Guide.

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Searching for Suppliers in D&B

Prior to searching and purchasing data from D&B, ensure that you have requisite privileges to access D&B data and completed the required setup. See Setting up Supplier Data Enrichment in Oracle Supplier Management Implementation and Administration Guide.

Use the Supplier Data Librarian or Supplier Data Librarian Super User responsibility and Search D&B sub tab on the Suppliers tab. Search D&B tab is also visible from the Supplier Management User and Supplier Management Administrator responsibilities, but you must have a valid Supplier Hub license to search D&B. See Guidelines for Purchasing Required Licenses in Oracle Supplier Management Implementation and Administration Guide.

To search D&B for supplier data:

  1. Specify the search criteria on the D&B Search and Results page, for example the DUNS Number.

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  2. Click Go. The application searches the D&B database and presents the details in the Search Results region.

  3. Review the supplier data from D&B.

Enriching New and Approved Suppliers

You can enrich data for a new supplier during supplier registration. See Managing New Supplier Qualification. This mitigates the risk of approving suppliers going out of business, suppliers on any type of debarment list or involved in fraudulent, bribery or money laundering activities.

For approved suppliers, you can buy D&B information either from the Search D&B page as shown above or directly from the Supplier’s profile details page. From the supplier’s profile page, click on Enrich button to open the Review: D&B Purchase Data page. This page shows a side-by-side view of user-entered, D&B and Single Source of Truth data. See Single Source of Truth Overview in Oracle Trading Community Architecture User Guide.