Log into Oracle Sourcing using the responsibility assigned to you. The quick links and tabs you see depend on the responsibility you use to log in.
The Oracle Sourcing Home page is the starting place for all your sourcing tasks. The tasks you can perform are organized into functional areas and are accessible from different tables and links.
Published Negotiations, in order of time left (paused negotiations are displayed with a pause icon to the right of the solicitation number).
It will display up to five entries in the table. To see all your negotiations, click Full List.
Draft Negotiations - This container lists the draft solicitations for which you are either the owner or a collaboration team member. The entries appear by preview date (if specified), then by open date. If there are no dates specified, they appear according to the negotiation number. This container lists a maximum of fifty entries. If you can edit the draft, clicking the link navigates to the Create Solicitation: Header page.
Click the Solicitation number link to access the Solicitation Summary page to view information for that negotiation.
Quick Links - The Quick Links section of the Solicitations Home page provides fast access to the most commonly performed operations in Oracle Sourcing. These are categorized as follows:
Create - Use these quick links to create solicitations, copy published negotiations, and to create events.
Manage - Use these quick links to manage draft sourcing documents, view and manage events, view the status of any Oracle Procurement Contracts deliverables associated with your solicitations, search for surrogate responses, and research supplier performance by searching the Approved Supplier List information or viewing a supplier information to determine which suppliers are appropriate for a particular solicitation you are creating.
See: Deleting a Draft Amendment
See: Submitting a Solicitation for Approval
See: Creating and Managing Events
See: Managing Deliverables Assigned to a Solicitation
Templates - Use this quick link to create templates you frequently conduct solicitations of a similar type that use many of the same attributes or suppliers. The templates you create are private and available for your use only. The Sourcing CLM Super User may have created public templates for use by all Sourcing Contracting Professionals. Once a template has been created, you can use the template when creating your new solicitation. You use the Reusable Templates links to search for existing templates or to create new ones.
Reusable Lists - Use these quick links to create reusable invitation, attribute, requirement, and cost factor lists.
See: Creating and Editing a Reusable Invitation List
See: Creating and Editing a Reusable Attribute List
Protest Tracking
A Protest is defined as an objection by an interested party to a solicitation or cancellation of the solicitation, an award or termination/cancellation of the award. The objection usually contains an allegation that there are improprieties concerning the award of the contract. The supplier who initiates the objection usually believes that the awarding of the solicitation is improper or unfair and thus logs a protest. Please note that in CLM, the buyer or contracting professional enters the protest in the system on behalf of the suppliers, because all suppliers may not have access to the CLM system Using the appropriate CLM Purchasing responsibility, navigate to Buyer Work Center menu and click the Protests link. Please note that the Protests link is available via Buyer Work Center only.
For more information on creating protests, please refer to the Buyer Work Center chapter in the Oracle Contract Lifecycle Management for Public Sector Purchasing User Guide.