How the Question Library Is Used

The Question Library is a collection of existing questions. You can use the entries in the question library when you are defining qualification areas in Oracle Supplier Qualification Management.

You can also use the existing questions as the basis for requirements in Oracle Sourcing negotiations.

Question Library

You can create questions in the question library which can be reused in sourcing negotiations. The questions are version controlled and support similar attributes as requirements. When category managers build the requirements during negotiation creation, they have the ability to search and add questions directly to negotiations. When they add the predefined questions, all the relevant attributes of the questions are copied over to requirements as read only. You can use questions from the Question Library without implementing Oracle Supplier Qualification Management. To implement the Question Library, in the Setup and Maintenance work area, use the Manage Supplier Questions task in the Procurement offering and Sourcing functional Area.

In addition to questions, if Oracle Supplier Qualification Management is implemented, you can add qualification areas during negotiation creation. Qualification areas are collections of related questions that are used to qualify a specific aspect of suppliers. When you add predefined qualification areas, the qualification area names are copied as requirement section names. Also all the questions within the qualification areas are copied as requirements within the requirement sections. If necessary, you can change the scoring information.

You can include questions that are mapped to a fixed set of supplier profile attributes. You can add these questions as negotiation requirements. Suppliers' responses to these requirements will now update the profile values when the response repository is updated.