1. Using Procurement
  2. Overview of Procurement Business Process Model

Overview of Procurement Business Process Model

The business process model (BPM) is one of the foundations in the design of Oracle Fusion Applications, one of the important elements of business process management used by business analysts. It enables organizations to either optimize their business processes or adapt them to new organizational needs.

Oracle Fusion analyzes the processes at five levels:

  1. Industry: A specific industry organized around raising capital, executing a business model, and reporting the resultant income to shareholders or investors. For example, Automotive, Communications, Education, Healthcare, and Utilities, to name a few of the approximately 30 identified industries

  2. Business Process Area: A specific business process area designated for a collection of related business processes that take on the complete processing of the Industry.

  3. Business Process: A specific business process to more clearly identify a collection of activities designed to produce a specific business outcome and serves to bridge the hierarchy between Business Process Area and Activity.

  4. Activity: A specific activity that's designated for a collection of tasks or units of work that a company or organization performs

  5. Task: Specific tasks or units of work involved in an activity

The first four conceptual layers are implementation agnostic and the last level is implementation-specific. For example, all business organizations have an industry business area defined as Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, and within that a business process area for managing purchase orders. One process of that business process area is a BPM activity, Create Purchase Order. The specific actions in creating a purchase order are the BPM tasks. These tasks correspond to application tasks and roles in Procurement, while the Business Process Area through Activity levels provide a navigation structure for all areas of Oracle Fusion, including tasks, support, documentation, and online help. Oracle Fusion Applications reflect the business processes with which you're familiar, and our publication of knowledge about the application is designed to be navigated using a BPM approach.

Oracle Fusion Applications comprises 22 business process areas, many impacting Procurement. Tools used to model these business process areas include the Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite, and the results are published in the Oracle Business Process Publisher using standard HTML. The BPM content was prepared from industry-wide competitive analysis, research, and vision. Customer research workshops intensely reviewed the models so customers can adapt the BPMs to suit their circumstances and business processes.

Business Process Modeling carries through to almost every aspect of Procurement:

  • Manages the deployment, upgrade, integration, and configuration of the product

  • Provides outlines for Oracle Fusion documentation

  • Structures role-based access security so that tasks and activities are assigned appropriately

  • Arranges messaging and online help

  • Organizes field support efforts to examine and resolve issues

  • Provides guidance for Oracle Fusion Sales and Consulting in the Oracle Unified Method and in presales solutions and setup