Welcome to Release 12.2 of the Oracle Procurement Contracts Implementation and Administration Guide.
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This chapter describes the overview and key features of Oracle Procurement Contracts.
In this chapter you will learn about the mandatory and conditional dependencies for Oracle Procurement Contracts to function properly.
This chapter contains the order in which the Oracle Procurement Contracts implementation tasks must be performed.
This chapter contains all the steps required to use the Oracle Procurement Contracts application.
This chapter contains specific considerations for the phases of the contracts life cycle.
This chapter describes all the functions of the Contract Terms Library feature.
This chapter describes the Contract Expert feature.
This appendix lists all the contract template, contract expert, business documents, and repository validations.
This appendix lists the approval workflow functions.
This appendix lists the concurrent programs for contract terms library.
This appendix lists all the information that is predefined in Oracle Procurement Contracts.
This appendix describes the contract terms XML reference.
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The Oracle Integration Repository is shipped as part of the Oracle E-Business Suite. As your instance is patched, the repository is automatically updated with content appropriate for the precise revisions of interfaces in your environment.
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Oracle provides powerful tools you can use to create, store, change, retrieve, and maintain information in an Oracle database. But if you use Oracle tools such as SQL*Plus to modify Oracle E-Business Suite data, you risk destroying the integrity of your data and you lose the ability to audit changes to your data.
Because Oracle E-Business Suite tables are interrelated, any change you make using an Oracle E-Business Suite form can update many tables at once. But when you modify Oracle E-Business Suite data using anything other than Oracle E-Business Suite, you may change a row in one table without making corresponding changes in related tables. If your tables get out of synchronization with each other, you risk retrieving erroneous information and you risk unpredictable results throughout Oracle E-Business Suite.
When you use Oracle E-Business Suite to modify your data, Oracle E-Business Suite automatically checks that your changes are valid. Oracle E-Business Suite also keeps track of who changes information. If you enter information into database tables using database tools, you may store invalid information. You also lose the ability to track who has changed your information because SQL*Plus and other database tools do not keep a record of changes.