Enable Contingent Workers to Enter Expense Reports

Contingent workers are workers who don't have a direct employment relationship with your company. They're typically supplied by an employment agency or self-employed contractors.

Before you can enable and reimburse contingent workers for incurred business expenses, you must perform the high-level steps listed in the following table.

Note: The first two steps are prerequisites for the last step.

High-Level Step

Application

Selected Action Steps

1

In your human resource application, create a person as a contingent worker.

Ensure that you set up the contingent worker with a Worker Type of Contingent Worker.

2

In your procurement application, set up a:

  • Supplier

  • Supplier site

  • Supplier bank account at the supplier or supplier site level

You must set up a default payment method at the supplier or supplier site level.

Tip: When you create an invoice, a payment method is required. If you don't specify a default payment method at the supplier site level, the payment method automatically populates from the supplier setup.
Note: Bank account information is used to pay supplier invoices by EFT.

3

In Oracle Fusion Expenses, associate the contingent worker with the supplier.

In the Auditing Tasks pane, click the Manage Contingent Workers link and select the applicable supplier and supplier site.